OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ bosses are said to be nearing a new £100 million deal which would see the show extended to three months next year.
The ITV talent show – which features judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli – tends to run for seven weeks from mid-April to early June, but ‘BGT’ producers are said to be in talks with ITV about expanding the series to a three-month run, from February to May.
A TV insider told The Sun newspaper: “‘BGT’ has been on since 2007 and viewing numbers are higher than ever – it’s just fans are watching it differently.
“Having over seven million viewers makes it the most watched entertainment show after ‘I’m A Celebrity’.
“Stretching BGT over three months could make it even more of a presence.”
It is thought a three-month run of ‘BGT’ would feature around six Saturdays of audition episodes, six Saturdays of semi-finals and a final.
Britain’s Got Talent’s online advertising is said to have become a big draw, with the show’s YouTube channel boasting more than 20 million subscribers.
The insider added: “Online is where advertisers are now pumping in their money, but to get the clips they need the show.
“So BGT’s creators have the upper hand as they strike a new deal.”
‘BGT’ wannabe Sydnie Christmas’ audition has been viewed 54 million times on YouTube in just six weeks.
The show’s current five-year deal is due to expire in 2025, but the ‘BGT’ hierarchy are thought to be in discussions with ITV about a new three or five-year contract.
This year’s final auditions episodes take place on Saturday (25.05.24) and Sunday (26.05.24), before the semi-finals air all next week, and the final takes place on June 2nd.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gemma Collins has received death threats from “scary people” who used to regularly turn up at her shop.
The ‘Only Way Is Essex’ alum, 43, revealed she stepped away from her front-of-house work at her Gemma Collins Boutique in Brentwood, Essex, after some “weird” people showed up.
During an appearance on the ‘Everything I Know About Me’ podcast, she said: “You know, people would wish me dead. I’d get all sorts turn up at the shop. Weird. People are weird. And that’s why in a way I came away from my shop in the end.”
Gemma recalled she also received a menacing letter in which the writer said they “wanted to kill [her]”.
She explained: “No one would believe the b***** crap I’ve had to deal with.
“I’ve had a woman stalker that wrote me a letter in white gloves and wanted to kill me.”
The TV star revealed she contacted the police about some of the incidents, though conceded she didn’t feel truly safe until she increased her personal security.
As well as her safety struggles, Gemma recently opened up about the mental toll her appearance and exit from ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ took on her.
The reality star felt like she “wanted to die” after leaving the jungle in 2014, because she was met with horrible comments about her appearance.
She told the MailOnline’s podcast: “All the embarrassment of like, you know what the TV programmes were saying, ‘Gemma Collins left the jungle, she was hungry, she was this’, and it wasn’t my fault.
“I can remember laying in my flat where I lived and just thinking, ‘I just want to die.’
“I haven’t done nothing wrong. I’ve left the jungle because of something that happened to me.
“No one was even honest about what happened to me, so I had to walk around with this shame that I’d something wrong.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Attwood Dack has landed a job as the host of a new ITV show.
The 33-year-old TV star, who shot to fame after appearing in the third series of ‘Love Island’ in 2017, has confirmed she will be presenting an as-yet untitled programme on the channel, which is rumoured to be a dating series.
Taking to Instagram, the ‘Loose Women’ panellist shared some behind-the-scenes photos of her at work in Greece, and added the caption: “Guys …….. i have been keeping a secret. BTS from my brand new @itv reality show … you’re not ready (I don’t actually think I am) (sic).”
The series will apparently follow a group of couples who are having relationship difficulties due to the bad behaviour of men, while Olivia attempts to change them for the better.
In November 2023, it was reported the TV personality had been offered a six-figure salary to host the show.
An industry insider told the MailOnline: “Olivia is over the moon, she could have never predicted after starring on ‘Love Island’ as a contestant to one day be presenting her own dating series.
“She is working with a full ensemble cast and filming has already started in Greece, she is loving every second of it so far.
“It’s a dream come true for her, and she can’t wait for viewers to fall in love with the format and hopefully enjoy watching the show as much as she has shooting it.”
Last August, Olivia joined ‘Loose Women’ as the programme’s new panellist after making several guest appearances on the show, but admitted she felt like the job offer “was a joke”.
Speaking to OK! magazine, she said: “It wasn’t something that was on the mood board. It all happened really organically.
“I was a guest on the show a couple of times, and I always loved it when I was.
“I joked to my agent saying, ’Imagine me as a Loose Woman’, and she said she really could. Then one of the show’s bosses got in touch and we went out for lunch, she asked me how I would feel about trying it out, and I said, ‘Oh my God, are you serious?’ I almost thought it was a joke.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Former England captain John Terry is in talks for a tell-all TV documentary about his life.
The ex-Chelsea defender is said to have received “multiple offers” about putting his life on the small screen, like fellow former Three Lions skippers David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “John is one of football’s most recognisable and popular figures.
“He has had multiple offers to make a series like Beckham and Rooney and is mulling them over.
“It’s a big decision to lay your life open to the public.”
It is thought the documentary will be a “hit”, partly because of former Aston Villa star John’s chemistry with his wife of 17 years, Toni Terry.
The source added: “She and JT have incredible chemistry, which they think viewers will love.
“Given John’s popularity at Chelsea and Aston Villa, as well as England, production companies know a documentary or series would be a hit.”
John captained Chelsea to five Premier League titles and five FA Cup wins.
He also won the Champions League and Europa League with the Blues, as well as three League Cups.
Off the pitch, John was accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand – the brother of former England star Rio Ferdinand – in 2011, but he was found not guilty by Westminster magistrates.
However, following a hearing, he was fined £220,000 by the Football Association and received a four-match ban.
Talk of a film about John’s life comes after David and Wayne’s respective documentaries ‘Beckham’ and ‘Rooney’ were, this week, placed on the National Television Awards long list for the Authored Documentary prize.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jo-Anne and Will were crowned the first-ever winners of ‘The Fortune Hotel’ on Thursday night (23.05.24), taking home £210,000.
The mother, 55, and son, 20, duo beat off competition from best pals Jae and Cherish and married couple Aysha and Samm to end up with £200,000 in their briefcase, which was added to the £10,000 they won earlier in the series.
Jae and Cherish took home £30,000 between them after banking the cash earlier in the series, but Aysha and Samm were set to leave with nothing – until an incredible gesture from Jo-Anne and Will.
Will told the pair: “We want to give you five grand out of ours, so you can do what you want to do with your kids.
“You deserve it just as much as the rest of us.”
Samm told the pair: “Thank you so much.”
Aysha replied: “God bless you.”
Samm later admitted it was “amazing” to see Jo-Anne and Will scoop the money, while Jae praised Jo-Anne, who was diagnosed with skin cancer nine years ago.
She said: “I’m very, very happy for Will and Jo-Anne, because they don’t build people like Jo-Anne anymore. They don’t. That woman is a fighter. She is supposed to be here.”
Cherish added: “She’s an inspiring person, and she loves her son. We can see the love and the light in them.”
Hosted by Stephen Mangan, the series – which was filmed at a hotel in the Caribbean – began with 10 pairings each given a briefcase.
In one of the cases there was £250,000, in another there was the dreaded Early Checkout card – with the holders at the end of each night going home – and the other eight cases were empty.
Throughout the series, some pairings managed to bank £10,000 for being the Fortune Holders – the ones with the money in their case – at the end of an episode, but the main aim of the game was to end it with the cash in their case, which Jo-Anne and Will did.
Earlier this week, it was reported ITV are already planning to bring the show back for a second run.
An insider told The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column: “Launching new formats is a gamble these days and an uncommonly large number have fallen by the wayside despite them showing some promise.
“Channel 4 poured huge budgets into reality shows ‘Scared Of The Dark’ and ‘Rise And Fall’, for example, but couldn’t justify taking them to a second series.
“That won’t be the case for ‘The Fortune Hotel’, though. Despite a considerable spend, ITV is working on plans for round two.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dominic West would “love” to take part in this year’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 54-year-old actor has issued a come-and-get-me plea to the BBC Latin and ballroom show’s bosses, admitting he would be up for taking to the dancefloor and has some dance experience from 2014 movie ‘Pride’.
When quizzed by ‘This Morning’ hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary whether he would take part in the show, he said: “I would love to, yeah I would do it. Did you see ‘Pride’? I did a two-minute dance.”
Asked why ‘Strictly’ bosses haven’t asked him to appear in the show, he said: “I don’t know, maybe they didn’t like that [this dancing in ‘Pride’].”
Dominic would love pro dancer-turned-show judge Anton Du Beke to come out of retirement to partner him on the programme.
Asked who he wants as his pro partner, he said: “I don’t know … Anton?”
Dermot suggested: “Get him out of retirement!”
Several stars have been linked to this year’s ‘Strictly’, including professional boxer Tommy Fury and pop star Will Young, who took part in the show in 2016, but he pulled out “for personal reasons”.
Last month, Will said withdrawing from ‘Strictly’ was the “hardest point” of his career, because he was “in the middle of a protracted breakdown” and experiencing PTSD at the time.
The ‘Jealously’ hitmaker said on the ‘How To Fail with Elizabeth Day’ podcast: “I wish I had experienced it when I wasn’t ill because I would’ve loved it.
“I love dancing, I trained in ballet and contemporary.
“I was actually really excited about doing the show but just leaving the house going 20 yards to the corner shop was hard.
“I was in the middle of a protracted breakdown and PTSD, and I learned very quickly I wasn’t able to do this.
“It was a heightened agoraphobia. Imagine having panic attacks 24 hours a day. I don’t know how I managed it, to be honest.
“I don’t see it as a failure, but I see it as probably the hardest point of my career.”
According to Gambling.com, Tommy is the 4/6 favourite to swap boxing for the ballroom this year, while Will is Evens to take part in the programme, and darts legend Phil Taylor is 11/8.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Comedian Lloyd Griffith used to receive “a lot of abuse” when he appeared on ‘Soccer AM’.
The 40-year-old TV presenter and actor has admitted he “really loved” taking part in the programme, but the online abuse he used to receive “really affected” him and has “changed” how he was.
He told the ‘RHLSTP’ podcast: “I was on ‘Soccer AM’ on Sky Sports every Saturday morning, which I really loved, but I did get a lot of abuse and it did affect me.
“Not to get too deep, but it’s changed me how I was.
“The amount of s*** I used to get on a Saturday morning, and a Sunday morning, when the repeats were, was horrific and I hated it.”
Lloyd admitted he once “cried [his] eyes out” when he received a particularly horrific tweet.
He said: “But I loved the show and I loved the people who were really nice about it.
“But there is this horrible cluster of football fans that are very opinionated and will just say anything. It doesn’t matter.
“The day I got it I still remember one of the tweets I got said, ‘I’d rather send my children on holiday with the McCanns than watch this fat p**** for two hours.’ I cried my eyes out when I read that.
“But then an opportunity came up for another job and it was a big job.”
He has gone on to star in Apple TV+ show ‘Ted Lasso’, as a reporter called Lloyd.
The star recently said of the programme: “As a step into filming, it was just the perfect job.
“It’s a heartfelt, warm show and that’s exactly what it was like.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Anthea Turner and Janet Ellis have vowed to “save” ‘Blue Peter’.
The former children’s TV presenters have voiced their concerns over the BBC’s plans to experiment with the show’s format, including potential plans to pre-record the show instead of broadcasting it live.
Anthea, 63, who presented the series from 1992 to 1994, told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “We’ve got all the credentials, we’ve got our badges – of course we’d go back.”
Janet, 68 – who fronted the programme from 1983 until 1987 – added: “We could save ‘Blue Peter’.”
Anthea admitted it would be “a shame” if the show was pre-recorded, because the programme would not be able to offer viewers and presenters “that edge” live broadcasts have.
She said: “It will be a shame if it’s not live. ‘Blue Peter’ needs presenters who can work live.
“It needs that edge – live will always give you that edge.”
Janet joked her five grandchildren – her pop star daughter Sophie-Ellis Bextor’s kids Sonny, 20, Kit, 14, Ray, 12, Jesse, eight and Micky, five – refused to believe she ever hosted the programme due to her age.
She laughed: “My grandsons don’t believe I was on it.
“They can’t believe I ever did it, because they think, ‘Why would they let old people on?’”
While the BBC are “open” to changing the format of ‘Blue Peter’, the network insisted there are “categorically” no plans to cancel the show, which has been running since 1958.
In a statement made in October 2023, a spokesperson said: “The future for ‘Blue Peter’ is bright.
“‘Blue Peter’ still inspires children, as seen with the popularity of the new ‘Blue Peter’ book badge launched last month, and it continues to be a much-loved part of the CBBC line up, celebrating its 65th birthday just this week.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gemma Collins was previously due to star in a joint reality show with her ex-boyfriend James ‘Arg’ Argent, but it was canned after he failed to turn up for filming.
The 43-year-old reality star dated her fellow ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ alum, 36, briefly in 2012, before they got back together five years later, only for the couple to split for good in 2019.
Now, Gemma has claimed she and James were signed up to front their own reality programme, but it was ultimately shelved as he was battling addiction at the time.
During an appearance on the ‘Everything I Know About Me’ podcast, the former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star recalled bursting into tears after James didn’t show up to film the show, but has emphasised it “wasn’t his fault” because he was “very unwell”.
Previously, Gemma admitted she “felt suicidal” once her relationship with James broke down, and added their romance turned “very sour” when “drugs changed him as a person”.
Speaking on ‘Piers Morgan’s Life Stories’, she said: “For anyone who ever thinks about taking drugs, or just trying it for one night, you can end up getting addicted.
“I was really happy with James. We did get on, but the drugs changed him as a person. I fought every day for three years to get him well.
“I have felt suicidal … I think when my relationship broke down with Arg, that affected me. I just thought, ‘I don’t wanna be here anymore. I can’t take it.’
“Christmas was an all-time low. I saved his life three times, I had this insatiable love for him – I never wanted to give up on him.
“It was hard, there was a lot of love there – the relationship turned very, very sour because of the drugs.”
Before his relationship with Gemma ended, James was rushed to hospital twice in 2019 after friends and family feared he had overdosed.
Despite his substance hardships, the ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ contestant insisted he has now turned his life around and has been sober “for years”.
He told GB News: “I battled with that for a number of years. But I’ve got through it and I’m doing alright. I’m doing well. I’m clean, sober, and I have been for a long time now.”

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