OHMYGOSSIP — Rosie Marcel is “really grateful” that she was axed from ‘Holby City’.
The 46-year-old actress – who has nine-year-old daughter Beau with her husband Ben Stacey – had played consultant Jac Naylor in the BBC medical drama for 17 years when her character was killed off during the series’ last ever episode in March 2022 and admitted that she has since got to know her family so much better than before.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I don’t think I became a mother until I left ‘Holby City’. I don’t think I really knew who I was, and I don’t think I really knew who my daughter was, until I was axed. My husband Ben [Stacey] did it all. I left the house first thing and was back really late. My character was incredibly popular so I was there all the time. It was very rare that I got time off.
“[So] I’m actually really grateful for it, because I probably would have stayed and I would have missed more.
“I really love my daughter and I love her company and I realise what I’ve missed out on. Motherhood is far more rewarding than acting, so it would have to be something incredibly worthy to take me away from this.”
At Christmas, Ben collapsed and suffered a pulmonary embolism which forced Rosie into becoming a real-life medic in the fight to save his life but is now “very grateful” that he pulled through and is still with her.
“It settled in the bottom of his lung and he got very sick. We went to hospital and they gave him blood thinners and sent him home. In the night his lung collapsed. And we had to call an ambulance, because it was putting enormous strain on his heart. We’re lucky to have him. 70% of people die from what he had, so I’m very grateful that he’s still with us. I’m so glad that I wasn’t working, as it meant I was able to look after him. It was a good six weeks before he was able to go back to work.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Freddie Flintoff has reportedly signed up for a third series of ‘Field of Dreams’.
The 46-year-old actor has already announced a second innings of his BBC cricket documentary, which will mark his first TV project since suffering horrific injuries in a terrifying car crash while filming ‘Top Gear’ in 2022.
As reported by The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column, Freddie has already agreed to front another series.
An insider said: “This shows that Freddie isn’t just happy to return to the show, which is very close to his heart, but also that he’s quite happy to continue working long-term on programmes for the Beeb.”
Meanwhile, it’s believed that the former cricketer is open to “other projects” being pitched by the broadcaster, although he’s not rushing into any decisions.
The source added: “It’s understood that, in addition to making the third series, he’s also considering a string of other projects they have offered him, but he’s taking his time and considering them all carefully.”
‘Field of Dreams’ sees the former England captain attempting to turn a group of teenagers from his hometown of Preston into a competitive cricket team.
Freddie stepped away from the spotlight after sustaining facial injuries and broken ribs in the crash which ultimately led to ‘Top Gear’ being shelved.
It was reported last month that Freddie was taking “nervous first steps” back into TV as he filmed for ‘Field of Dreams’.
Meanwhile, his former ‘Top Gear’ co-hosts Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris are set to reunite for the new series ‘Chris + Paddy: Roadtrip’ , that will see the pair travelling around Europe.
However, BBC bosses don’t see the programme as a continuation of the iconic car show.
An insider told The Sun: “This is a brand new travelogue show for Paddy and Chris. The duo will travel across Europe, using various modes of transport, visiting people to find the secrets to wellness and happiness — no stunts, no car reviews.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gabby Logan never gets tired of talking about sport.
The 50-year-old TV star – who is married to retired Scottish rugby union player Kenny Logan and has 18-year-old twins Reuben and Lois with him – has made a career out of hosting shows like ‘Match of the Day’ and has covered various high-profile sporting matches for the main broadcasters but as she launches new podcast ‘The Sports Agents’ admits that there are “other things” in her life.
Asked if she ever gets bored of it, she told Metro newspaper’s SixtySeconds column: “Not really. Luckily, I live in a house where everybody else wants to talk about it as well. But I do have other things I’m interested in.
“I want my friends who like sport but don’t talk about it as much as I do to get something from the podcast, whether it’s the stories or gossip. There are lots of people we’d like to get on T’he Sports Agents’… Jürgen Klopp when he leaves Liverpool, Andy Murray to tell us when he’s going to hang up his racket, Harry Kane at the end of his first season in Germany to tell us what it’s been like.”
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant also admitted that she “cannot believe” she has been in broadcast for more than 30 years and admitted that everything has “whizzed by” since she covered the London 2012 Olympics as she reflected on the huge “changes” within the television industry.
She said: “No, I can’t [believe it!]. Since the 2012 Olympics, it has whizzed by. I can still remember my first week at Sky Sports like it was yesterday, coming from the North-East working in local radio. It’s been fun working for various different TV stations, the way the industry has changed and all the different platforms
and ways of broadcasting.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Laura Anderson doesn’t think she will ever “conquer” mum guilt.
The 34-year-old reality star has seven-month-old Bonnie with her ex-boyfriend Gary Lucy and with her new job as a host on Capital FM, she is trying to “find a balance” between her motherhood and her career.
She told OK!: “Absolutely. I’m trying to find a balance between switching off when I’m at work and then being fully ‘mum Laura’ when I get home, but it’s all still new. Bonnie has just turned seven months and I don’t think anyone ever truly conquers ‘mum guilt. ‘ We’re only human after all.”
The former ‘Love Island’ star added that finding childcare can be “tough” but admitted that ultimately she does her job in the interest of her daughter and even though she thought she was “organsied” before becoming a mother, that is nothing compared to how she is now.
She said: “It can be tough but at the end of the day, my life revolves around Bonnie. I’m doing this job for her – to provide for her. I’m sure she’ll be a topic of conversation on the radio all the time [laughs] and I’ll be checking in on her during ad breaks. But the early starts mean that I get to spend every afternoon with her, give her dinner and put her to bed. Plus, I’m such an organised person, so that helps. I thought I was organised before but since having Bonnie, there’s nothing more than having good time management.
Laura also noted that upon becoming six months old, Bonnie seemed to transform into a “completely different person” and that she is finding this stage of motherhood more difficult than the pregnancy in some respects.
She said: “She’s starting to wean now, which is a big step. I always strive for excellence in everything I do and tried to be well-prepared. I read all the books before Bonnie arrived, but as soon as she hit six months, she transformed into a completely different baby!
“It’s astonishing how rapidly she’s developing. She’s nearly crawling and I suspect her first word isn’t far off. Previously, I could put her in a bouncer when I needed to do chores like washing up, but she no longer wants to sit still. Before we know it, we’ll be potty training!
“It’s amusing because during pregnancy you assume the toughest part will be lack of sleep, but I’ve found this stage more challenging.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Lenny Henry is to star in a new audio drama executive produced by Idris Elba.
The 65-year-old comedian will appear alongside Patricia Allison, George MacKay and Arinzé Kene in the sci-fi thriller – which examines a world in which AI is used to recreate the personalities of deceased loved ones for profit – and the project was overseen by Hollywood couple Idris and Sabrina Elba.
In a joint statement, they said: ““We’re both incredibly passionate about elevating the voices of underrepresented talent, which was at the core of what we wanted to do with this project and Audible. Imeldha Eloni and Michael Honnah have created an incredible story which was an absolute joy for us to Executive Produce.
“At S’ABLE Labs, partnership is one of our core pillars, which was at the root of everything the team did with Halfway. With music from Axel Kacoutié, direction from Holly Reddaway and all brought to life with an incredible acting performance from the cast, Halfway is a truly collaborative project and we can’t wait for people to hear it.”
The Audible drama – which marks the first time Idris and Sabrina have worked on such a project – has been described by writers Imeldha Eloni and Michael Honnah as an “incredibly rich” concept that will draw on “real-world” issues throughout as they thanked the celebrity duo for their support.
They said: “Audible and S’ABLE Labs supported and championed us to adventure with all of our original ideas. We were encouraged to push the boat out and make something that was cinematic for the ears. As a result, Halfway is an incredibly rich, grounded sci-fi from a particular black British perspective. It draws on real-world issues and we are excited to have created a story that discusses the social consumption of tech and how human relationships have become reliant on technology as it evolves into more advanced forms like AI.”
‘Halfway’ is available for download from 18 April exclusively on Audible.
Audible membership may be required.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Zara McDermott was left “petrified” when she witnessed a drug deal while filming her new documentary.
The 27-year-old TV star opted to join local police on a drug bust for her BBC Three doc ‘Ibiza: Secrets of the Party Island’ – which is set to air on Sunday (21.04.24) – and struggled to control her nerves whilst driving to the scene so had to pull over.
She told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column : “The biggest thing I was petrified of was in that drug dealer scene. I was driving and I pulled into the kerb about five metres away because I was so scared of hitting it.”
The former ‘Strictly’ Come Dancing’ contestant has hosted a string of hard-hitting documentaries since finding fame on ‘Love Island’ in 2018 and recently explained that she wanted to look into the party island because she wanted to look at the “changing culture” of the party island.
She said : “Over the years, I’ve always been really interested by documentaries that have been made on party islands but I wanted to make something that was current and looked into some of the issues that the party islands are facing today.
“Ibiza particularly drew me in as I love the island and I’ve been going there for years.
“Nearly a million Brits a year head to Ibiza, and it’s been a go to destination for generations of holiday makers looking for a particular combination of sunshine, great beaches and all night partying.
“I’ve been able to watch it change and elevate over time and I realised that this would be a really exciting place to start looking into the effects of its changing culture and how it’s evolving going forward.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Idris Elba is to narrate a new series that will honour the black heroes of World War II.
‘Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour’ will uncover the long-lost legacies of soldiers of colour who served during the conflict between 1939 and 1945 and will “shed light” on the stories of some eight million veterans, with Hollywood star Idris, 51 providing the voiceover and serving as producer.
The first episode will focus on Peal Harbour and explore the story of three black sailors who survived Japan’s surprise military strike on United States and also saved countless lives.
The second episode will uncover the story of the only all-black combat unit to fight on the D-Day beaches, and the third will take a look at little-known Indian regiment of mule handlers in WW2, with one unit destined to be pivotal in evacuating Allied forces at Dunkirk.
The fourth and final installment will tell the untold story of the Black Panthers, an elite African American tank battalion, complete with unseen diaries and rare interviews that chart the unit’s action through France.
‘Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour’ is produced by October Films and 22Summers. For October Films, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Jos Cushing, Matt Robins and Chris Muckle are executive producers. Sam Pollard is consulting exec producer; Annabel Hobley is co-executive producer. For 22Summers, Idris Elba, Jamilla Dumbuya and Khaled Gad are executive producers.
For National Geographic, Sean D. Johnson and Simon Raikes are executive producers. Charlie Parsons is senior vice president, Development, and Tom McDonald is executive vice president, Global Factual and Unscripted Content.
‘Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour’ will premiere on Monday 27 May at 8:00pm on National Geographic.

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OHMYGOSSIP — The BBC has acquired two Swedish crime dramas for broadcast.
‘End of Summer’ is based on former police officer Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name and will air a six-part psychological thriller starring Julia Ragnarsson that follows a woman who is trying to unravel the truth behind her brother’s disappearance.
Meanwhile, ‘Jana – Marked for Life’ – which is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Emelie Schepp – follows a public prosecutor and former child soldier and features an ensemble cast of Madeleine Martin Pernilla August August Wittgenstein Zlatko Buric , Thure Lindhardt Sigrid Johnson , Johan Ulveson Fredrik Hallgren and Moa Gammel.
The six-part series has been created for television and directed by Felix Herngren (‘The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’) and Henrik Björn (‘Jordskott’).
The series has been written by Maria Karlsson (‘Easy Money Trilogy’) and Daniel Sawka (Icebox) and has been produced by FLX in collaboration with Wild Sheep and Reaz, produced by Sussan Treschow, and executive produced by Elin Kvist at FLX, Erik Barmack at Wild Sheep, and Martin Rea at Reaz.
Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition, says: “’End of Summer’ is a complex and absorbing mystery drama in a beautiful setting.
‘Jana – Marked for Life’ is an intriguing and suspenseful thriller. We are so pleased to be adding these two compelling series to our rich catalogue of Nordic Noir.”
‘End of Summer’ is set in rural southern Sweden whilst ‘Jana – Marked For Life’ was shot in Norrköping and Stockholm in early 2023, with both series having already premiered on streaming services in Europe.
Both series will air on BBC iPlayer and TV channels having been acquired from Viaplay Content Distribution.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Katie Price found it “hard” to be on ‘Loose Women’.
The 45-year-old ex-glamour model served as a regular panellist on the ITV1 lunchtime chat show from 2015 until 2018 and appeared alongside the likes of long-serving stars like Linda Robson, Coleen Nolan, and Janet Street-Porter but admitted it was quite tricky because she had to be “directed” by producers via an earpiece.
Speaking on her ‘The Katie Price Show’ podcast, she said: “You have an earpiece in. So like I used to have to get up about half five, six in the morning to get to the studio and then you all go through the headlines, what guests you’ve got on, what questions you’re gonna ask and you’ve got a little earpiece in your ear.
“But it’s quite hard to do ‘Loose Women’ because you’ve got four women who wanna ask questions and then sometimes with my brain, should I say, when I sometimes don’t know or I wanna say a question, they’d be like ‘No Kate, no Kate’ or ‘Ask this question, Kate’.
“You’re quite directed in it.”
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here’ contestant also revealed she would “love” to do her own late-night chat show where she could ask her own questions as she admitted she gets “bored” in her own interviews as she knows how it feels to be asked the same thigns over and over again.
She said: “I’d love to do a chat show, I would love to do my own late-night questions because I would like to ask questions that people don’t want to but being nice and making it natural.
“It’s like if someone interviews me, I just know it’s gonna be the same old questions.
“If I get interviewed, I want people to know things about me that aren’t already out there like my favourite chocolate or my favourite dinners.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chelcee Grimes would never do a dating reality TV show.
The footballer and songwriter has previously taken part in ‘The Games’ and ‘Freeze The Fear with Wim Hoff’ but says she has no plans to take part in other programmes any time soon, especially shows which focus on her love life.
Speaking at the shoot of ‘Getting Lippy’, presented by Slingo, Chelcee revealed, “I feel like I’ve done an awful lot of reality TV for the moment. I loved doing the Wim show, as I don’t really class that as reality. We all did it for our own individual reasons and we weren’t against each other. It was a really beautiful show to do.
“But I’m not on the lookout for another show, and I definitely wouldn’t do a dating show.
“How can you go on camera and date at the same time. I would literally fall apart.
“Maybe one day, ‘I’m A Celeb…’ could be fun and ‘Strictly’, but not right now.”
Chelcee also revealed that she is currently on a “dating detox” as she’s done with drama in her life and just wants to concentrate on her career, buying her dream home and her little dog, Santiago.
She said, “I feel like my life is in a really good place right now, I’ve got everything I could have wished for genuinely and more in abundance. So I’m just on a bit of a dating detox right now. I’ve just not met the right person yet. But I don’t know when I’m going to meet them because I just work and I come home to the dog.
“I never go out and I’m not on any dating apps. I’m 31, I’m just about to move into my dream home, and I’ve still got time.
“I don’t know. It’s just like, where am I gonna meet them? Because I just work and I come home to the dog.
“You’re never gonna see me going out anymore. Like, I’m not on dating sites. It will happen when it happens.
“I said when I was younger that I wanted to be a footballer and a songwriter and I’ve done that. Plus all my friends are single at the moment so I’m just having fun.”
Chelcee was speaking at the shoot of entertainment show ‘Getting Lippy’, presented by Slingo. Follow @GettingLippyTV on Instagram and Facebook to view the episode with Chelcee.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rachel Woolford has been crowned winner of ‘The Apprentice’.
The 28-year-old fitness entrepreneur from Leeds is the fifth female contestant in a row to win the BBC reality show, judged by 77-year-old Lord Alan Sugar.
She revealed after her victory was announced on Thursday (18.04.24) she has two goals – signing TV host Alison Hammond as the first client for her gum business, and getting married.
She told Mail Online after beating 37-year-old pie shop owner Phil Turner to Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment prize: “It’s an honour to have been chosen by Lord Sugar and for him to invest in my business which at the end of the day is my baby and something I have been working on for almost five years now.
“For him to see something in me and think my business is investable is just an incredible and overwhelming feeling.
“I am really looking forward to working with Lord Sugar for a number of reasons. He is investing a lot of money into me to enable my business to grow to open a third site and potentially a fourth.
“We don’t have a lot of big celebrities in Leeds and Harrogate but I would love Alison Hammond to come in, she’s hysterical. I met her last week when I went on ‘This Morning’ and she is so great and funny. I know Lord Sugar cycles too… I would love to get him on a spin bike.”
Rachel set up her boutique North Studio fitness business aged 23 and added she misses out on “socialising” like her other friends in her 20s due to grafting on her firm.
She paid tribute to her fellow business owner partner Benjy for understanding the sacrifices she has made.
Rachel added: “I am so lucky to have a fiancé who also has a business so knows what it takes. If I’m working late or missing something, he knows it’s business especially in the first few years… it’s not an easy ride and I’m so grateful from an early age I got stuck in and I was never put off by things going wrong. I will continue to work like that but now all the blood, sweat and tears were worth it.
“I got engaged in December last year so a month before ‘The Apprentice’ started airing. We haven’t actually set a date yet because I have been a little busy, but we plan on getting married next summer.” 

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rachel Woolford has revealed the secret strategy which helped her win ‘The Apprentice’.
The 28-year-old gym-owner bagged Lord Alan Sugar’s £250,000 investment prize on the BBC reality competition after a showdown with pie-maker Phil Turner in the final episode and she has now explained her plan to ensure victory involved keeping her “head down” for much of the series – insisting she wanted to prove that you don’t have to be loud and brash to succeed in business.
She told The Sun newspaper: “I went into The Apprentice promising I would just be myself, and not turn it on in any way in front of the cameras, throw anyone else under the bus or be bitchy. I wanted to prove you don’t need to be the loudest voice and screaming at the others.
“For that, people saw me as a bit of an underdog. But my main value in business, and in life, is that you don’t have to shout to get your point across.
“I wasn’t getting any airtime in the beginning because I wasn’t talking over people. But it worked out, as I was instead busy making little actions here and there to show up in the task and impress Lord Sugar.”
Rachel added: “You can’t be a wallflower – you do have to know how to speak up and defend yourself. But keeping your head down and working hard is the key.”
She is now hoping to use Lord Sugar’s money to expand her gyms across the north of England. Rachel previously told Mail Online: “It’s an honour to have been chosen by Lord Sugar and for him to invest in my business which at the end of the day is my baby and something I have been working on for almost five years now.
“For him to see something in me and think my business is investable is just an incredible and overwhelming feeling. “I am really looking forward to working with Lord Sugar for a number of reasons.
“He is investing a lot of money into me to enable my business to grow to open a third site and potentially a fourth. ”

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