OHMYGOSSIP — Emily Atack has given birth to a baby boy.
The 34-year-old actress has taken to social media to announce the arrival of her first child.
Alongside a photo of herself, her boyfriend Alistair Garner and their baby boy, Emily wrote on Instagram: “We have a beautiful son. Barney James Garner. All my dreams have come true.”
Emily and her partner have already been inundated with congratulatory messages from some of her showbiz pals.
Pussycat Dolls star Ashley Roberts wrote: “Aww congrats Ems! (sic)”
Elsewhere, TV presenter Stacey Dooley simply said: “Yesyesyesyesyesyes (sic)”
Chloe Madeley has also offered her congratulations to the loved-up couple.
The 36-year-old star – who is the daughter of Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan – wrote: “Congratulations guys we love you so much (sic)”
Emily first announced her pregnancy in December.
The actress – who rose to fame as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in ‘The Inbetweeners’ – shared the news via an Instagram post.
Emily wrote: “I’ve never been so happy and utterly terrified at the same time.
“Every day is mixed with thrill, fear, joy, hysteria, topped off with a lot of vomiting – a bit like when you’ve just stepped off of the Oblivion at Alton Towers on a hangover.
“I’ve got to know my body on such an insane level. It’s made me appreciate the one I’ve been given so much, I’m doing my absolute best to make it a home for the little squid I’m growing.
“We can already sense the baby is reclined on a mattress of peanut butter and jam sandwiches in there, demanding more chocolate buttons. I’m so happy to be writing all of this to you all. You’ve always stuck by me through the years – do stick around to watch me enter my mum era.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Adam Thomas has confirmed that he and his brother Ryan will host a game show for ITV.
The 35-year-old actor is best known for playing Donte Charles on BBC One school drama ‘Waterloo Road’ whilst his brother Adam, 40, has carved out a career as a television personality since quitting his long-running role as Jason Grimshaw on ‘Coronation Street’ in 2016 and now the pair will be working together for the very first time by hosting ’99 To Beat’.
Adam told the Daily Mirror: “It’s our first gig together. I don’t think we’ve ever worked together before so to be doing a show like this called ’99 To Beat’ and to be hosting, is definitely a dream come true. We just can’t believe it, it’s been a long time coming and it’s finally.
“And we get to present a new family gameshow for ITV and yeah, it just doesn’t get bigger and better than that. It’s a brand new concept, it’s not been done before over in the UK and we’re just so happy we get to front it.
“It’s going to be a fun one. It’s one of those gameshows that anyone can do. Even people at home can get involved, it’s that good.”
Outside of acting, former ‘Emmerdale’ star Adam competed on ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ in 2016 and then ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in 2023, whilst Ryan won ‘Dancing On Ice’ for ITV earlier this year and won the last edition ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ during its Channel 5 run.
The game show is already a hit format in seven countries and sees 100 contestants go head-to-head in a series of challenges, all attempting to not finish last in order to make it through to the next round.
Adam said: “They [ITV] presented it to us to be honest with you. They just said we’ve got this brand new game show, this amazing concept we’d like to bring to ITV and would we like to do it. And yeah, the rest is history really.
“I’m sure it’s going to be a fun one. Me and Ryan are brothers we know each other inside out. We always have that brotherly banter and there’s always that bit of brotherly rivalry as well.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rob Brydon admits it was “horrible” lying to people when the ‘Gavin and Stacey’ finale news was leaked.
James Corden and Ruth Jones are yet to share the script for the final Christmas episode of the hit BBC sitcom, and Rob, who portrays the iconic Bryn West, has admitted it’s been a “confusing” time as they aren’t even due to film for a few months yet.
Appearing on ‘The One Show’, he said of the leak: “[That was] horrible. That’s because you had to lie when people would ask you about it.
“And it’s confusing because we haven’t filmed it yet. We’re not filming it until after the summer.”
He and the rest of the cast had no idea creators James and Ruth – who also play Smithy and Nessa – had penned a script for it.
Rob said: “They did it in total secrecy. None of us had a clue that they’d been together and working away at it.”
Smithy and Nessa left viewers shocked with an unanswered proposal at the end of the 2019 Christmas special – and are in the dark about the storyline for the programme’s finale.
The BBC’s Director of Comedy, Jon Petrie, admitted the script is being kept within a “very, very tight circle”.
He was recently quoted by the Daily Mail newspaper as saying: “I genuinely still haven’t seen the script, James and Ruth won’t let us look at it yet.
“Which I think is great, they are really keeping it under wraps and don’t want people to see it outside of their very, very tight circle until they’re 100 per cent certain of it.”
Jon admitted the top-secret element might be hard to maintain during filming.
He said: “I think it will be hard when they are filming it because it’s such a huge show and everyone will want to watch, everyone in all the locations where it’s shot, it will be obvious what’s being shot.
“I suppose you have to take it as a compliment that it means so much to so many people.”
The pair agreed to make a final episode of the show – which debuted in 2007 and ended in 2010 but came back for the festive edition nine years later – after James returned to the UK from the US after hosting ‘The Late, Late Show’ on CBS.
Most of the cast are said to have signed up to return, including the titular characters – who are played by Mathew Horne and Joanna Page – along with the fan favourites Rob, Alison Steadman, and Larry Lamb.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Anne Hegerty has no interest in doing any more reality shows.
The 65-year-old quizzer – who is best known as The Governess on ITV’s teatime favourite ‘The Chase’ – took part in ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ in 2018 but doesn’t think anything will ever really top the experience she had in the Australian jungle.
She is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s HotTV column as saying: “The jungle is about as big as you can get. Everything else is a bit of a step down. I don’t want to do another reality show unless it involves something I want to get better at. I think I’m done.”
Anne appears on the show on rotation alongside Jenny Ryan – who has attempted a career as a singer following her stint on ‘The X Factor: Celebrity’ – as well as Paul Sinha, Darragh Ennis, Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace.
Outside of the series, she is a regular during pantomime season and also hosts ‘Britain’s Brightest Family’ for ITV but previously explained that the success of ‘The Chase’ – which has been on air since 2009 – is likely down to host Bradley Walsh.
Asked why the shows work so well, she told Best magazine: “Great formats and a brilliant host!
“You can tune into ‘The Chase’ at any point during the hour, catch up with it very quickly and be absorbed by it.
“But our secret weapon is Bradley Walsh – everybody loves Bradley.
“He was made to do these programmes – they just suit him down to the ground.
“I love being able to throw out a bizarre fact and he will run with it and make a joke out of it.
“I love the way he latches on to the things I say.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Claire Sweeney had “ticked a lot of boxes” before becoming a mother.
The 53-year-old actress started her career in the 1990s when she was cast as Lindsey Corkhill in the now-defunct soap opera ‘Brookside’ and later carved out a successful theatre career by starring in West End musicals like ‘Chicago’ but admitted that when Jaxon – whom she has with her ex-partner Daniel Reilly – arrived in late 2014, he “filled a void” she didn’t even know was there.
She told Woman’s Weekly: “I’d done a lot and had a fantastic career, and by the time he came along, there were a lot of boxes ticked. He filled a void that I didn’t know I had; he’s just completed my life. Everything I do is for him. The first person I think of in the morning when I wake up is him. The last person I think of at night is him. He brings me so much joy and laughter and love, I just adore him.”
Meanwhile, the former ‘Dancing On Ice’ contestant joined the cast of ITV’s ‘Coronation Street’ as Cassie Plummer just under a year ago and revealed that she had to confess to co-star William Roache – who has played Ken Barlow since the soap opera’s very first episode in December 1960 – that she was feeling “nervous” standing alongside him on set.
She said: “He’s iconic. ‘I filmed a scene with him on his 92nd birthday and he’s amazing. His eyes are twinkling and he never forgets a line – he makes everything look so easy. He’s just the elixir of youth!’
” said to him, ‘Look, I’m nervous, I’m sorry, but I’m in the Barlows’ house doing a big scene with you’.
“He said, ‘Don’t be silly’. He listened and made me feel so at ease.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Adele Roberts will feel “safer” if she can make it to five years cancer-free.
The 45-year-old radio host was diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer in October 2021 but was declared cancer-free just under a year later and thinks there is a possibility she could eventually live without her stoma bag, which she famously named Audrey.
She told Bella magazine: “I’m having blood tests every three months. I also have regular scans every six months, because the cancer is most likely to come back within the first two years of finishing treatment.
“I’m just hoping I get to five years cancer free, and then I’ll feel a little bit safer. As for the stoma, they can potentially reverse it in the future, which would be amazing, but at the same time – I think it would still feel like a loss to me because I feel like Audrey’s helped me so much mentally. I would mourn that, but I also understand it’s better to have your intestines inside your body.”
The former ‘Dancing On Ice’ contestant has realised that mental health goes hand-in-hand with physical health and is not sure she would have made it through her cancer battle had she not adopted a positive attitude.
She said: “I’ve realised that the mind leads the body. That’s why I think running a marathon is the perfect metaphor for life. You’ve got to believe that you can do it. You have to keep yourself going when you’re out there on the course, and the only way you can do that is mentally and that’s how I tried to tackle cancer, too.
“I tried to lead with the mind first and not let it diminish who I was on the inside, and I think that being able to focus on that helped my body get through the chemo and all the treatment. I had to stay positive up here if I’d gone to that negative place, I don’t think I’d be speaking to you today.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joey Essex “wants to settle down”, according to his nan.
The 33-year-old reality star is currently coupled up with Grace Jackson, 25, on ‘Love Island’ after arriving in the Mallorca villa early on in the series as the first-ever celebrity bombshell and now his grandmother Linda has admitted that he is just hoping to find someone “normal” with his stint on the ITV2 dating show.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she told stand-in host Christine Lampard: “He’s looking for a normal person. He’s been with many girls. He’s had many girlfriends but they never last and he’s done everything in his short life, he’s met a lot of girlfriends as I say but none of them ever last and I think he does want to settle down.”
Meanwhile, Joey’s cousin and former ‘TOWIE’ co-star Chloe Sims, 42, also echoed Linda’s comments and believes that if things work out with model Grace, he will “settle down”.
She said: “He has said to us a lot recently that he would like to settle down and meet somebody. He’s quite a homely person as well, he likes that family feeling so I think if it works with Grace then he would settle down.”
Linda would be “happy” to see her grandson stick to a relationship and reflected that things were “easier” in her day when it came to dating because there were no mobile phones.
She said: “It would make me happy, anyway. It wasn’t like that in my day. It was easier and although I used to go quite a lot, in the West End, my mum didn’t know and my dad didn’t know and then it’d be ‘Oh, if I go to a party, if I’m not home, don’t worry’ because there were no phones.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Cooke doesn’t want sex banned from ‘House of the Dragon’ as it’s a “massive” part of life.
The 30-year-old actress plays Alicent Hightower in the ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off, which saw her character married off in series one aged 14 to Paddy Considine’s King Viserys.
Olivia told The Times about the plot and her character’s sex scenes: “She’s finding her sexuality. But she’s being pleasured.
“Also, I wouldn’t ever want there to be no sex because it’s a massive part of life.
“If you’re going to have bloody violence, then you need the opposite, which is life-affirming pleasure.
“It’s almost been fun.”
‘Game of Thrones’ was launched before the #MeToo movement in 2011 and has been criticised for its sexual violence and gratuitous nudity.
But Olivia said its hit follow-up ‘House of the Dragon’ contains deep themes.
It sees Alicent’s family at war with her childhood friend Rhaenyra, played by Emma D’Arcy, 31, and Daemon, portrayed by 41-year-old Matt Smith – who Olivia calls Rhaenyra’s “sexy uncle”.
Olivia said: “Paranoia is a big theme in this series, and it’s running amok in both castles.”
The actress also said she had twice met ‘Game of Thrones’ writer George RR Martin, 75, who wrote the books on which the series is based.
She added when asked to say what is he like: “He is sweet. He’s kindly, but then you think, ‘Your mind is f*****.’”
Despite her support of sex scenes in ‘House of the Dragon’, Olivia said she hates the objectification of actresses on the promotional circuit.
She added: “The public-facing aspect of this job where you have to promote and wear a nice dress and get all glammed-up is a bit confronting.
“There’s an expectation for you to be a f****** model. I want to mitigate that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Donna Air can’t “figure out” how her TV career was predicted by a ouija board.
The actress, 44, is set to make her West End debut in London in the paranormal thriller ‘2:22 A Ghost Story’ after years on TV on MTV and ‘Byker Grove’ alongside the young Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, both 48.
She told the Daily Mail: “Have I ever seen a ghost? No. But I did go through a spell when I was younger of doing the ouija board.
“That kind of blew my mind.”
Donna’s Mail profile said she and her friends would “put their hands on the upturned glass in the middle of the board” and ask the spirits to “make it spell out a word”.
The former presenter added: “The first time I did it I was quite young and it spelled out ‘Beelzebub’.
“I didn’t even know that was another name for the Devil, let alone how to spell it.
“(Then someone told me) so I was like, ‘Oh s***!’
Donna said she and her pals went on to tease the spirit they thought they had raised by placing a glass on the ouija board and asking poltergeists to use it to spell out the answers to highly personal questions.
She added: “The ouija board once spelt out M-T-V, which was really freaky.”
Donna presented for the music video channel until two years after she left ‘Byker Grove’ in 1995.
She added: “Yeah, I swear. I can’t figure it all out. I’ve just got to learn my lines!”
Donna said about appearing on London’s West End: “I certainly am not as nervous as I would have been ten or 20 years ago. Everything’s in perspective. I take my job seriously, but it’s a show.
“Nobody’s dying – we’re not saving lives. I don’t see the point of getting stressed. I forgot how much I love acting.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Adrian Dunbar says all of the ‘Line of Duty’ cast want to see the show make a comeback.
The 65-year-old Northern Irish actor is now probably best known for playing straight-talking Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC police corruption series, the sixth season of which aired from March to May in 2021 and revealed the identity of the mysterious dirty officer H.
Adrian told BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme when asked if there could be another series of the drama: “I have to be very careful, because you know, we burn up the internet, if we say anything, but I mean the point is that we all want it to happen.
“So if it were to happen, we’d be really happy.”
And when quizzed on whether “all” included ‘Line of Duty’ writer Jed Mercurio, 58, he added: “Of course it includes Dr Mercurio himself, who knows he might be beavering away somewhere with an idea, who knows?”
Adrian also talked about what it was like to shoot the show in his native Northern Ireland.
He said: “It was fantastic to go back to Belfast to work, because that’s where I got my start, I got my start at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
“The uplift has been amazing.
“It’s just the positivity that exists in the place at the minute, but it was great going back and it was great bringing Vicky (McClure) and Martin (Compston) over there to show them around.”
In another hint ‘Line of Duty’ may make a return to screens, Adrian added: “We had some great times in the city, and we will hopefully, who knows, maybe have some great times again.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — A probe into allegations against Russell Brand has found informally raised concerns about the comedian’s behaviour while he worked on a string of Channel 4 programmes were “not properly escalated” or “adequately addressed”.
The 49-year-old ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ actor was last year accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse as part of a joint investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, The Times and Sunday Times – all claims he has strongly denied.
His alleged behaviour is said to have taken place during the height of his fame between 2006 and 2013, and in the wake of the allegations an investigation was launched by Banijay UK – which bought Endemol, the company commissioned by Channel 4 to produce Big Brother spin-off shows ‘EFourum’, ‘Big Brother’s Big Mouth’, and ‘Big Brother’s Celebrity Hijack’, on which Russell worked between 2004 to 2006 and in 2008.
Findings released by Karen Baxter, head of investigations at law firm Lewis Silkin LLP, which was appointed to the case, said: “No formal complaints were made about Brand during the programmes.
“There were, however, concerns regarding Brand’s behaviour which were raised informally with senior staff, particularly in relation to him asking runners to obtain phone numbers of audience and female crew members feeling uncomfortable or intimidated by his behaviour while working in Bristol in 2004/2005.
“These concerns were not properly escalated or adequately addressed.”
Patrick Holland, chief executive of Banijay UK, has apologised to “anyone who was impacted” and felt “unable” to speak up about Russell’s alleged behaviour.
The new findings also state the comic was employed at a time when Channel 4 and Endemol knew he was a recovering drug addict with a “reputation for being ‘edgy’”.
They add despite his condition, “no particular safeguards were put in place to protect Brand” or those who worked with him and “those who otherwise came into contact with him” – including the audience.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Cooke dumped her Northern English accent to achieve acting fame.
The ‘Slow Horses‘ and ‘House of the Dragon’ actress, 30, who plays Alicent Hightower in the ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off, has admitted her working class roots in Oldham left her feeling stupider than middle class actors.
Olivia – whose mother was a sales representative and her father a policeman – told The Times about her “really sad” decision to get rid of her native brogue: “I put on a voice when speaking to someone with a different upbringing. I’m proud of where I come from but it was a source of embarrassment because I didn’t feel as intelligent as others.
“I speak about that to my therapist and try not to do it, but I do have a chip on my shoulder about being working class.”
Olivia starred as Becky Sharp in ITV’s adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s high-society epic ‘Vanity Fair’ before she landed the role of Alicent in ‘House of the Dragon’.
She also told The Times that acting was becoming harder for people from less well-off backgrounds to break into.
Olivia went on: “It is a really exclusive industry. It’s not equitable, the arts are not funded in state schools.
“But drama class is not just about getting into this industry – it can help kids to grow in confidence and feel accepted.”
Despite being youthful, Olivia’s ‘House of the Dragon’ character is a grandmother in the HBO show – with the actors portraying her on-screen sons Ewan Mitchell and Tom Glynn-Carney aged 27 and 29.
She also told The Times she thought her casting could reflect how hard it can be for older actresses to get roles, adding: “If they can create dragons, they could have made me look younger and then older.
“I’m grateful for the role but I’ve just turned 30 and I’m playing a grandma. “There is a real reticence to see women age on screen.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ash Atalla was nicknamed “IRA” when his family moved to England from Northern Ireland.
The Egyptian-born British TV producer, 51 – who uses a wheelchair after contracting polio as a child and has been behind hit shows including ‘The Office’, ‘The IT Crowd’, ‘Man Stroke Woman’ and ‘People Just Do Nothing’ –picked up a Northern Irish accent when he was moved to the province aged two due to his parents’ work as doctors.
He told The Observer: “I was born in Cairo and moved to Northern Ireland when I was two for my parents’ work – they’re both doctors.
“I’d open my mouth and this really manic Northern Irish accent would come out, which was even more incongruous for a little brown boy in a wheelchair.
“When my family moved to England, my nickname at school was ‘IRA’.”
Ash added about how his early career aspirations had nothing to do with television: “I was really interested in becoming a stockbroker. I’m a product of the ’80s, with the stock market booms and red striped shirts.
“I thought, ‘They’re just sitting down, shouting into a telephone. I could do that!’
“That’s what I trained to do, but when I got there, I wasn’t very good at it.
“I got fired or resigned – depending on who you ask.”
Ash went on about how he finally broke into making some of TV’s funniest shows after coming to hater his City job: “I can’t tell you that I grew up wanting to work in comedy. It’s something that occurred to me quite late.
“I got my midlife crisis out of the way when I was 23, a realisation that I was at the bottom of a ladder I didn’t want to climb.
“There’s something melancholy about trading in the City. As the new guy, I’d sit seven down from the man who’d been there 25 years.
“I thought, ‘I don’t want to be him.’”

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