OHMYGOSSIP — James Argent thinks it is “hilarious” that Joey Essex has gone on ‘Love Island’.
The 36-year-old reality star thought his fellow ‘TOWIE’ castmate and best friend, 33, would have exhausted himself with appearances on shows like ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’, ‘Celebs Go Dating’, and ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ over the years but had no idea he was about to enter the Mallorca villa on the ITV2 dating show as a bombshell arrival.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’, he said: “I’m really, really…I find it all hilarious. Just when you think there’s no many reality shows left for Joey Essex and he goes to ‘Love Island’.
“He’s committed to this show, and you’ve gotta go for it, ain’t ya?
“I was speaking to Joey right before he went in and I could tell he wasn’t really himself. He’d taken a bit of a step away from himself and I think he was maybe focusing on getting himself in shape and getting organised.
“But it wasn’t until the second he came out as the bombshell that literally I was like…I didn’t know…and then I got a message from him via his manager that said ‘Arg, I’m so sorry if I haven’t been myself, blah, blah, blah.’ Yep. Understood!”
James also insisted that his friend has entered the villa in search for love and doesn’t see an issue with it given he he has already taken part in a spate of other reality dating shows.
He said: “Well, why not? He’s done a lot of other reality dating shows so he might as well give it a go on this one. He is looking for love, that’s the truth. The truth of the matter is, he is looking for love.”
Joey – who entered the programme at the end of Monday (03.06.24) night’s episode – told The Sun about how series bosses launched a “military operation” to keep his arrival in the series secret: “I feel like Joey Bond, ‘the names Essex, Joey Essex. It felt like a military operation, not even the journey itself but the process of even getting through the application process and to this point.
“I got on the plane to Ibiza, I made sure I still wore my mask when I went out for dinner, and then we got the boat over to Majorca to a villa hidden in the mountains in the middle of nowhere.
“I’m extremely single right now, so I’m praying that I’m going to walk out of the villa hand in hand with the love of my life, that’s my main aim and all I care about.
“It’s difficult for me to meet girls on the outside as they judge me based on a persona so I think this experience will allow for people to see the real me.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Troy Deeney will appear on the next season of ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
The ex-Watford footballer, 35, is joining other sports stars like Wayne Bridge, 43, John Fashanu, 61, Jermaine Pennant, 41, and Ashley Cain, 33, on the star-studded edition of the Channel 4 military endurance competition later this year.
A secret source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: “Footballers’ competitive streak seems to lend itself to taking part. Troy is likely to discuss some of the most upsetting elements of his life in the interrogation room with the instructors.
“Often the celebrities taking part reveal deep-rooted problems that only manifest themselves fully when they’re pushed to the limit in the competition.”
Troy – who this year moved into coaching teams like Forest Green Rovers FC after playing for a num – has previously been honest about his personal demons with issues like alcohol and anger.
He told Talk Sport in 2012: “I genuinely used to love a drink. I lived for the weekends, and if that ended up in a scrap, so be it.
“Now I look back and think, ‘What an idiot’ — but I’d never change my past because it genuinely made me who I am.
“I am still working on being completely teetotal, and the anger issues are a work in progress.”
Ex-contestants have revealed that the series is notoriously tough. For example, Danielle Lloyd recently recounted how she was telling one of the show’s hosts, Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox—who works alongside Matthew ‘Ollie’ Ollerton and Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham—that giving birth to her five kids, Archie, 13, Harry, 12, George, 10, Ronnie, 6, and Autumn, 22 months, was preferable.
The 39-year-old former beauty queen – who was on the edition won by ‘Pop Idol’ victor Gareth Gates – told Yahoo! News: “I actually said to Foxy when we were doing that wire one where we had to drop. I was like, ‘I would rather give birth five more times than do this.’ And he was like, ‘Oh you’re f***ing crazy then!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Bobby Brazier will “definitely utilise training” with his dad Jeff Brazier for Soccer Aid.
The ‘EastEnders’ star is the son of TV presenter Jeff, 45, and the late ‘Big Brother’ icon Jade Goody – who passed away aged 27 in 2009 from cervical cancer – and as he gears up to take part in Soccer Aid, admitted that his dad had had a huge influence on his pitch skills.
The 21-year-old actor – who also has 19-year-old brother Freddie – told the Daily Star’s Hot TV column: “My dad is a good footballer.
“He’s always coached my teams growing up, and we always developed as a team.
“I will definitely utilise training with him.
“He’s on me to get training and get into peak fitness for the match.
“We went to the gym recently and he put me through a tough session.
Bobby – who is playing alongside Usain Bolt, Maisie Adam, Roman Kemp and Lee Mack at Stamford Bridge – admitted that Jeff is probably “more excited” for him to hit the pitch with
He said: “I think my dad is more excited than I am.
“He’ll be in the stands on the day and wouldn’t miss it! I think he’s living through me when it comes to Soccer Aid.”
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant recently revealed that he wanted to be turfed off the BBC One Latin and ballroom competition as the loss of his mum made him “shy” and how much he struggled with fame., even though he ended up in the final.
Bobby told the Sunday Times: “I don’t want to be famous. Maybe I did when I was younger, now I just want to act. I went on Strictly because dancing makes me happy.
‘The more I learn about fame, the less I’m interested in it. A couple of weeks during Strictly, it got too much. I only felt peace when I came home. I wanted to get voted off.
‘What happened to me was very public. It made me shy as a kid. I was more interested in observing the world than engaging in it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Joanna Lumley had to stop Jennifer Saunders from killing off their ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ characters.
The 78-year-old actress starred as boozy fashion editor Patsy Stone in the classic BBC sitcom alongside writer Jennifer – who played hapless PR guru Edina Monsoon – and had to put her foot down when her co-star suggested “destroying” their alter-egos.
She told My Weekly: “I utterly adore Patsy and the thing is, she can’t be destroyed. I hope I’m not saying anything out of turn, but Jennifer said at one time, ‘Shall we just kill them off and bury them?’
“I wrote back the fastest email return I’ve ever written. I said, No, we’vepromised the world we will never die! And to be honest if all that vodka and champagne they’ve necked over the years hasn’t done the job, then why on earth would their creator be able to do it?”
The travel documentary presenter also recalled some of her moments from the series – which ran sporadically from 1992 until 2012 and officially ended with a 2016 film – and remembered being spotted by surprised members of the public when they filmed on location.
She said: “I loved it when we saw them as very old people in one episode. We had all kinds of prosthetics made to make us look really old. Scraggly necks and bald caps under very thinning hair, awful hands, badly fitting false teeth, little humps on our backs and our bosoms looked like empty sandbags! We could hardly walk because we werre laughing so much. We went out on location dressed like that.
“We drove there in a bus with the crew and the make-up people. Jennifer and I were sat near the front and I was by the window. We stopped at a traffic light and an open-topped car pulled up next to us.
“I grinned at the man who was driving and I heard him say to the woman who was sitting next to him, ‘Oh look, it’s Joanna Lumley!’ It was so funny.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Alexandra Burke is “pinching” herself after being cast in a TV show.
The ‘Bad Boys’ hitmaker – who shot to fame when she won the ITV singing competition ‘The X Factor’ in 2008 and went on to star in many a West End show like ‘Sister Act’ – is “beside” herself after getting the chance to star in the Paramount+ crime drama ‘Curfew’ as acting is something she has wanted to do since childhood
The 35-year-old singer told New! magazine: “I’m so beside myself that I got picked for such a moment on camera. I was like, ‘Sorry, me?’. I’m counting my lucky stars and pinching myself. Acting is the one thing that my mum said to me when I was younger to cut out and focus on the singing and now its come back around. So, she was right – it always comes back, it’s just taken a long time. I’ve done theatre, obviously but this is a different level when it’s television. It’s a whole different way of working. It’s getting up at five in the morning and finishing at 3am the next day – and still being a mum.”
Alexandra gushed about how “lucky” she was to have her nine-month-old and a 23-month-old children – whose names and genders she has not revealed publicly – with her footballer husband Darren Randolph, 37, and how they have improved their lives.
She said: “Becoming a mum has made me even more aware of enjoying each moment and still being present. I’ve achieved so much already which I’m grateful for in my career, which is a short career really. Since having children, I’m enjoying everything 10 times more. The early starts are wonderful with them, family time with Darren and the kids. I couldn’t ask for anything more and I don’t remember my life without them. It’s unbelievable and I feel very lucky to have been given birth to two amazing human beings – and I get to call them ours. It’s so special.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Death in Paradise’ has inspired another spin-off, say reports.
The BBC crime procedural, set on the fictional Caribbean island of St Marie, has already spawned ‘Beyond Paradise’ starring the original show’s alum Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman, one of the newest members of a Devon police force – which began in February 2023 – and now reality documentary series ‘Policing Paradise’ is said to be on the way.
An insider told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It’ll look at what the real life police get up to as opposed to the fictional ones in Death in Paradise – and there’s quite a difference.
The source added that the crimes do not get as cleanly wrapped up within the hour-long episode as they do in the fictional version.
They continued: “Viewers who are used to the crime being solved every week might find that reality is not quite so neat. Just like the show’s plots, there is a lot of murder but unlike them far fewer murders are actually solved – and certainly not within a few days.
“There aren’t as many love stories either! Real life is a bit more gritty.”
When approached for comment, the BBC declined to comment.
The news broke that former ‘EastEnders’ star Don Gilet, 57, would be stepping into the job vacancy left by star Ralf Little – who took over from Ardal O’Hanlon – when he quit the series in May.
The 44-year-old actor said of his departure on X: “Well, as of an hour ago on the Death in Paradise official social media, the news is out. I have actually known for a couple of weeks but obviously couldn’t say anything.
“The new detective is the wonderful Don Gilet and I just want to say, from me to you Don, I hope you have the most wonderful time. It’s the most magical experience and I hope you get everything out of it and wish you the best of luck. I’m absolutely sure you’re going to be magnificent.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rachel Adedeji learned “what the industry was like” when she competed on ‘The X Factor’.
The 32-year-old singer and actress competed on the sixth series of the ITV1 talent show in 2009 and while there were some questionable backstage moments, she admitted that the whole experience was a positive one, especially because she had previously been unsure if fame was for her.
She told Metro newspaper’s SixtySeconds column: “It was an interesting time and I loved my experience. I’m sure there were moments that were a bit ‘mmm!’
“Little things the producers might encourage you to say, certain things you didn’t want to talk about, or you might not want to wear a certain outfit or sing a certain song, but they’d make out it was your choice.
“I’m very fortunate because it gave me an insight into what the industry was like. I was very much ‘I don’t know if this level of stardom is for me, but it’s given me the tools to know where I want to go.”
The former ‘Hollyoaks’ star – who is now starring in the musical ‘Passing Strange’ at the Young Vic in London – memorably had her name read out each week in a dramatic fashion by Peter Dickson, and while she used to struggle with her surname, the viral moment has gone on to be remembered time and time again by social media sites like Hunsnet.
She said: “It’s so funny because on day one or two of rehearsals, someone said, ‘Do you mind people saying your name in that dramatic way?’ and I said, ‘I love it, go ahead!!. It became a running joke.
“When I was growing up, I was so embarrassed about my surname, because it wasn’t a common one. When the teacher would say the register, they’d never know how to pronounce it and everyone would laugh. So going on The X Factor and having Peter say my name. exactly how it should be pronounced means that people now know how to say it. It’s a beautiful thing.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Doctor Who’ actor William Russell has died aged 99.
Best known for playing school teacher Ian Chesterton in the long-running BBC sci-fi series, he passed away on Monday (03.06.24), with his death confirmed by The Guardian on Tuesday (04.06.24).
A cause of death for the actor is yet to be confirmed.
The father-of-four is survived by his wife, Etheline, and appeared in the first ‘Doctor Who’ story, ‘An Unearthly Child’, alongside William Hartnell who played the initial Time Lord, as well as Carole Ann Ford, who played companion Susan, and Jacqueline Hill who was Ian’s fellow teacher Barbara Wright.
William was in nearly every episode of the first two ‘Doctor Who’ seasons, and after leaving the show in 1965 went on to narrate audio stories in the franchise.
He was awarded a Guinness World Record for the longest gap between TV appearances when he reprised his role as Ian 57 years after he first finished playing the teacher, in Time Lord actress Jodie Whittaker’s final episode as the Doctor, titled ‘The Power of the Doctor’.
William’s film roles include parts in 1956’s ‘The Man Who Never Was’, war favourite ‘The Great Escape’ from 1963 and ‘Superman’ in 1978.
He also played Ted Sullivan on ITV’s ‘Coronation Street’ in 1992.
Along with his second wife Etheline Lewis, who he married in 1984 – 31 years after he got hitched to his first wife Balbina Guiterrez – William is survived by his and Etheline’s son Alfred.
He has followed in his dad’s acting footsteps and starred as Dean Thomas in the ‘Harry Potter’ films.
William also had children Vanessa, Laetitia and Robert from his first marriage, and had four grandchildren.
As well as a flood of tributes that have filled social media in the wake of the news of his passing, stars including ‘Doctor Who’ actress Nicola Bryant, 63, have paid tribute to William.
The actress, who played ‘Doctor Who’ companion Peri Brown from 1984 to 1986, said online: “What sad news to say farewell to William Russell.
“What a wonderful man with a delightful family an extraordinary life and career.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sam Taylor is the first contestant to be dumped from this summer’s ‘Love Island’.
The Chesterfield-born hairdresser, 23, was ditched on Tuesday (05.06.24) night’s episode of the ITV show after newcomer Joey Essex, 33, decided to couple with 26 year old Samantha Kenny.
After the new romance left Sam single in the villa, he was kicked off to the shock of his fellow castmates.
Sam said in his exit interview he was “disappointed to be leaving so soon” as he wanted to work his “magic and get to know everyone a bit better”.
He added: “When Joey walked in I had a feeling I might be in trouble. Samantha is a stunning girl and I knew that they would get on.”
When asked how his fellow islanders reacted when former ‘The Only Way is Essex’ regular Joey entered the villa as its first famous ‘bombshell’, Sam said: “We were all buzzing – it was so nice to meet him, he’s such a big character, it was great getting to know him.
“Ultimately, he had to do what he had to do which didn’t work in my favour but no hard feelings.”
He went on about the girls he met: “First impressions, Nicole was up there, she’s super bubbly and chatty like me.
“Nicole is stunning, but so is Samantha although she wasn’t who I was initially drawn to.
“I’d have loved to have spent more time with Nicole and Harriett. Jess is also lovely. We got on because we’re both Northern.”
Sam said about his other male competition on the show aside from Joey: “All the lads were amazing, we got on so well from the get go. The friendship was strong straight away, all the girls were lovely too.”
He revealed in an interview before he entered ‘Love Island’ about how he thought it was the perfect time to find his romantic match: “At this point in my life I just want the opportunity to find a real connection with someone.
“I’ve been looking for that connection for quite some time but I’ve never really found it. I’m hoping I find that spark in the Villa.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joey Essex didn’t tell his sister Frankie Essex he was entering the ‘Love Island’ villa.
The former ‘TOWIE’ star left his sibling guessing whether he was joining the ITV2 reality series, as she suspected that was the case because when he went MIA.
Frankie – who has twin babies, Luella and Logan, with partner Luke – told The Sun: “I didn’t have a clue, but I did guess it because I just couldn’t get hold of him. I just couldn’t fathom it out.
“I was thinking this is so weird. And it was only because his agent said, ‘I’ll ring you tomorrow’ that suddenly I just thought ‘he must be going on Love Island’. But then as the episode was going on I just thought ‘no, it can’t be’, and then I forgot about it.”
This week, Joey was the first celebrity bombshell of the current series, and his sister insists he has good intentions.
She said: “Joey is proper single at the moment. But he’s seen me with the babies, and they just love him, they sit on his lap, and he just looks at them and goes ‘they’re unreal. I just feel like it’s his time now to settle down.”
Joey himself explained he has become so desperate to find love.
The reality star – who entered the programme at the end of Monday (03.06.24) night’s episode – shared how bosses launched a “military operation” to keep his arrival in the series secret, telling the newspaper: “I feel like Joey Bond, ‘the names Essex, Joey Essex. It felt like a military operation, not even the journey itself but the process of even getting through the application process and to this point.
“I got on the plane to Ibiza, I made sure I still wore my mask when I went out for dinner, and then we got the boat over to Majorca to a villa hidden in the mountains in the middle of nowhere.
“I’m extremely single right now, so I’m praying that I’m going to walk out of the villa hand in hand with the love of my life, that’s my main aim and all I care about.
“It’s difficult for me to meet girls on the outside as they judge me based on a persona so I think this experience will allow for people to see the real me.”
He added about his quest for love: “I just want someone to like me for me and now from what they see on TV.
“This is exactly why I’m going into the villa because you’re disconnected from the rest of the world and can focus on what actually matters on a far deeper level.”
He was previously engaged to Sam Faiers, 33, on ‘TOWIE’ before he quit the show after they split.
Joey has also dated ‘The Hills’ regular Stephanie Pratt, 38, with his most recent romance with his ‘Dancing on Ice’ skating partner Vanessa Bauer, 28, in 2023.
A day after Vanessa confirmed that they were dating, MailOnline confirmed that they had gone their separate ways.

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