OHMYGOSSIP — Lord Alan Sugar has vowed never to have cosmetic surgery because he doesn’t want to end up looking like Simon Cowell.
‘The Apprentice’ boss has declared he’s happy to “grow old gracefully” and confessed he’s turned down offers of injectable treatments from former show winner Dr Leah Totton, who runs a number of skin clinics offering non-surgical procedures.
Lord Sugar told The Sun newspaper: “Leah has been ­absolutely dying to inject me with loads of bloody things, and while my wife and daughter go to her for these things, I’ve told her, ‘No, thanks’, and haven’t let her do a thing.”
He added of his pal Simon: “I mean, what has Simon done to himself? He’s a really nice chap, but he’s been looking a bit strange lately — God forbid I were to ever go down that road.”
Lord Sugar – who previously underwent an operation on the skin around his eyes to help his vision – went on to conclude: “If you looked at a picture of me 20 years ago and one now, there would be a dramatic difference in the two.
“But then again I am 77 — and growing old gracefully doesn’t bother me at all.”
Lord Sugar’s 18th series of ‘The Apprentice’ is currently airing on the BBC and it reaches its conclusion on Thursday (18.04.24) when he will choose either gym owner Rachel Woolford or pie-maker Phil Turner as his new business partner.
The businessman-turned-TV star previously offered winning candidates a £100,000-a-year job at one of his companies, but he recently admitted he needed to make a change because that idea wasn’t “working out too well” in the long run.
He told Metro.co.uk: “The regrets were effectively after series seven, that the giving a person a job was not working out too well.
“That’s when I said I can’t do that anymore, it’s causing too much embarrassment amongst my workers and I want to change the format to going into business with somebody. And from then on, it’s taken off like a rocket!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sam Thompson has clarified he and Zara McDermott are not parents after causing confusion with an aunt card from their fur babies.
The former ‘Made in Chelsea’, 31, star sparked speculation he and the former ‘Love Island’ star, 27, had become mum and dad with the card to his sister Louise Thompson, 34, addressed to “Aunite Louise”, but it turned out to be from their cats, Albus and Cedric.
Sam told MailOnline: “In terms of the auntie card, as embarrassing as it is, that was from the cats!
“We did a little cat paw as a signature.”
When it comes to starting a family and getting hitched, Sam insisted: “A lot of people think, rightly or wrongly, that you’ve got to get married as soon as possible, and have kids, whatever. You know, everyone’s different, everyone’s on their own sort of timelines.”
The pair might be in “no rush” to walk down the aisle, but Sam knows he’ll be with the former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star for ever.
He explained: “I know I want to be with her for the rest of my life, so there’s no rush. If you know that someone is the one… you know, it’s more so a time thing.
“Zara is as busy or more busy than I am, she’s absolutely flying and she doesn’t have time to plan a wedding and I don’t either at the moment. I know I want to be with her, and she wants to be with me so that’s good enough at the moment.”
Sam, who has ADHD, previously revealed he wanted to get his diagnosis before starting a family.
He told OK! magazine: “When I first started doing TV, I’d have producers say it to me.
“But I was like, ‘I’m in my early twenties, shut up!’ Then I did ‘SAS: Who Dares Wins’ [in 2019] with [former politician and author] Louise Mensch and she has ADHD, and she was like, ‘I’m convinced you’ve got it,’ and she went, ‘I take medication for it and it’s changed my life.’”
He went on: “A big thing for me was kids.
“I do want kids and I want to know I can look after a child. I want to know I’m the provider and I’m the carer and that I can be the security that child needs to grow up.”
He admitted: “I was like, ‘I don’t feel like I can even look after myself a lot of the time.’ The older I was getting, the more I was thinking about that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Katie McGlynn didn’t think she would get on with Ricky Rayment at first.
The 30-year-old actress met former ‘TOWIE’ star Ricky, 33, when they worked together on a cruise ship and even though they are now happily coupled up, she recalled blanking him when they initially met.
She told OK! Magazine: “I thought he was very good looking but to be honest I did judge him a bit prematurely. I recognised his face and just assumed he wasn’t going to be my type of person – you know, Jack, the lad from Essex – and I took it for granted we wouldn’t get on; happy to say I got that one wrong!
“I decided I probably wasn’t going to get on with him, wouldn’t talk to him and anyway, I was there with a friend and wasn’t interested in boys, so off I went to have a shower.”
But the Manchester-born star – who is best known for playing Sinead Tinker on ‘Coronation Street’ from 2013 until 2020 – eventually found that when she did start speaking to Ricky, they “clicked” as they found that they had a lot of shared interests and realised by the end of the cruise that there was “something more” there when she missed her flight and Ricky changed his own plans so they could spend more time together.
She added: “When I finally started to talk to him we just clicked. It sounds cringey, but when we chatted, I felt like I was at home. It was so comfortable. We couldn’t stop laughing and we found we had a lot of shared interests and views; we understood each other. At first I thought he must be lying – I couldn’t believe we had that much in common – but the proof is in the pudding!
“I ended up missing my flight home, so Ricky also reorganised his so we could stay abroad a little longer and enjoy some time together. That was when I realised that this was more than just a holiday romance.”
The former ‘Waterloo Road’ actress confirmed her relationship with Ricky earlier this year, when she uploaded a post to Instagram on Valentine’s Day.
Alongside various snaps of themselves together, she wrote: “Every day is like Valentine’s Day with you!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Alison Hammond kissed Ant McPartlin during the finale of ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’.
The 49-year-old presenter was one of the many famous faces who made an appearance at the final episode of Ant and Dec’s long-running ITV1 variety show on Saturday evening (13.04.24) and was so overcome with emotion that she decided to plant one on one half of the Geordie duo.
Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine, she said: “I had such fun. It was so, so good.
“Something overtook me and I saw Ant and thought I just wanted to kiss him because I felt like they were going away forever and they’re totally not going away forever! But I just wanted to kiss him and next thing I know I’ve left half my face on his face! I was just taking in the moment, it was so lovely.”
Meanwhile, the ‘This Morning’ host has taken over from the late Paul O’Grady – who died in March 2023 at the age of 67 – as the presenter of ‘For the Love Of Dogs’ and admitted that she feels like the “luckiest girl in the world” to be able to document the goings on at the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home but will only get her own canine companion when the time is right for her;
She said: “I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. It was like therapy going in and seeing those dogs. It was just lovely. It’s so so hard but what I’ve realised by doing the show is that you have to be responsible. Obviously, my life is so busy at the moment and I wanna be there for my dog. But what I’ve realised is that if I ever do have a dog, when I have a dog, I’m having it from Battersea. Why would you go to a breeder? Just go to Battersea, there’s so many lovely dogs!”
“It’s unbelievable how many dogs come in there, so many abandoned dogs and honestly, the team at Battersea are just wonderful. I think I’ve got a natural affinity for dogs. They really warm to me. And it’s always been like that. I’ve never had a dog. Growing up, I always wanted one and I would go to friends’ houses and [their dogs] always wanted to have a little bit of the Hammond!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Fleur East returned to work just three weeks after giving birth.
The 36-year-old star – who is married to Marcel Badiane – revealed over Easter that she had welcomed a little girl called Nova a week earlier but took to social media on Sunday (14.04.24) to explain that while it was “touch and go” whether she would be able to perform so soon after giving birth, she decided to go for it despite her own anxiety.
She wrote on Instagram: “While I was still pregnant, I received a booking to perform at a gig. It was touch and go as to whether or not I would do it because it would be so soon after giving birth. But this weekend, three weeks after having Nova, I decided I was ready to get back on stage and see how I get on.
“I was anxious being without our baby girl for a bit and my body definitely doesn’t feel the same, but surprisingly the energy took over.
“It felt amazing to perform with these incredible ladies who gave me good, positive vibes on stage. I was able to get out there, move my body, sing and do what I love and then get back to the little person I love with all my heart.”
The ‘Sax’ hitmaker – who shot to fame on ‘The X Factor’ and later competed in ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ – has interacted with her fans via social media and realised that she is “not alone” in her experiences.
She said: “I spoke to lots of you on my stories about Mum guilt and feeling anxious and it’s nice to know I’m not alone, we all experience it in some way, I’m told that it will get easier and a happy Mama means a happy bubba.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Katherine Ryan is “ashamed” of her appetite for luxury things.
The 40-year-old comedienne has teamed up with fellow TV star Joe Wilkinson for a new travel show on Channel 4 titled ‘Joe and Katherine’s Bargain Holidays’ which will see the duo visit various locations in the UK on a shoestring.
She said: “I agreed to become Joe’s travel buddy and bargain student as I’m ashamed of my luxury taste and need to learn how to budget – but he takes the p***.
“I hate being hot, and travel delays, so was livid when Joe made us fly on a budget airline which was 12 hours late on the sweltering Tarmac.
“A passenger soiled himself and everyone rushed to the front of the plane to get away from the smell.”
The former ‘Masked Singer’ contestant will also visit countries such as Bulgaria and Latvia with Joe as part of the series and the first episode – which will air on April 25 – will see the pair camping in a church before taking part in a paddleboard yoga class.
The news comes just days after it was revealed that Katherine will join ‘The Weakest Link’ host Romesh Ranganathan to star in new Sky Original comedy drama ‘Romantic Getaway’.
The pair will team up for the modern six-part Bonnie and Clyde story, which will see couple Alison (Katherine) and Deacon (Romesh) resort to stealing because they are desperate to have a child but are unable to afford any more rounds of IVF.
‘Romantic Getaway’ begins directly after Deacon and Alison have defrauded their dodgy boss, Alfie (Johnny Vegas) of £500,000.
However, their illegal antics later draw them into the criminal underworld of Reading.
Romesh has written and created the series alongside Benjamin Green, with Sarah Morgan and Elaine Gracie providing additional writing.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Helen Lederer was once paid £70,000 for a day and a half’s work.
The 69-year-old actress – who is best known for starring alongside Jennifer Saunders and Dame Joanna Lumley in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ – was the face of Finish dishwasher tablets some years ago and claimed she was paid the five-figure some to simply say her lines and then insert the tablet into the machine.
She told The Telegraph: “By the 80s, I was working a lot on TV and then I landed two adverts: one for Advocaat, the other for Finish dishwasher tablets – and they paid ridiculously well. I was paid £70,000 for a day- and-a-half’s work and that was 20 years ago – one day to say the lines, half-a-day to show my hand inserting the tablet. ”
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ contestant immediately started to splash the cash on luxury items as she declared that she is a “spender” and thinks that if money is there, it should be used.
She said: “I went to Donna Karan – the proper posh shop, not DKNY – in Bond Street and bought a coat for £300. So yes, I’m a spender. I hate meanness. “My attitude is that, if the money’s there, spend it.”
Helen recently joined ‘Coronation Street’ in the guest role of Elspeth – who meets Ken Barlow (William Roache) at a speed dating night – and recalled that she “dropped everything” to be able to appear the long-running ITV1 soap opera.
She said: “When you get the call for Coronation Street you drop everything. And to be offered a part playing a role opposite William Roache is even more exciting. Bill was such a charming, lovely man.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dawn French didn’t want to do ‘French and Saunders’ anymore when she realised she had “lost control” of the joke.
The 66-year-old TV star had appeared alongside her fellow comedienne Jennifer Saunders, 65, in their self-titled BBC sketch series on and off for nearly 20 years when they filmed a skit with pop singer Anastacia in 2004 and she recalled that being the butt of the joke made her want to quit.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she said: “It was the moment, and it’s not Anastacia’s fault, it’s not Jennifer’s fault – it’s no one’s fault – it was just a moment where instead of me being in control of the joke, it was sort of in control of me. I felt awful. It looked wrong, the joke had gone a little bit wrong.
“When I left the studio, I thought ‘Oh, I don’t want to do this anymore…’ I had lost the joy of it, I lost the delight in my stomach which was a hard thing to say to Jennifer.”
In the sketch, Dawn is in a toilet and has a fantasy of performing ‘I’m Outta Love’ live on ‘Top of the Pops’ but after the sequence is over, she exits the bathroom stall to find that Anastacia has overheard the whole thing, and the pop star compares her singing to a bowel movement.
Dawn returned to screens with ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ star Jennifer for a Christmas special in 2005 and the duo has reunited for various Comic Relief specials since but there was just one more regular episode of ‘French and Saunders’ following her uncomfortable moment with Anastacia.
The ‘Vicar of Dibley’ star insisted that she has “never had any shame” about using her body for comedy before but something had “gone wrong” in that sketch even though she is still very close with her former co-star.
She said: “It’s about being inside the joke and knowing what it is.
“I’ve always thought ‘Oh well I’ve got this body, I’ll show my bum and wear a swimming costume’ because I’ve never had any shame or anything but something just went a bit wrong. And I thought that before something went properly wrong, let’s just step away. But we still obviously work together all the time, I couldn’t be without her.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at “underdogs” who challenge the establishment after protestors targeted his Hawkstone lager brewery.
The 64-year-old former ‘Top Gear’ host saw campaigners descend onto his Gloucestershire brewery after he let The Heythrop Hunt – a group who have been accused of using dogs to capture and kill wild animals – onto his estate. Now, Jeremy has bashed those who are determined to undermine the status quo.
In his column for The Sunday Times, he wrote: “If you are rich and powerful, you are wrong. And if you are a lollipop lady, you are right. Politicians are all wrong. International businessmen too. But hard-working families in the community are all right.
“This is how we now sort out neighbourly hedge disputes. The one with the c*** car on the drive wins. The one with the Audi loses.
“I hear the same sort of thing is happening in the workplace. You have the boss. Well educated, well travelled and well read. He started the company and, through hard work and long hours, he made it successful. So in every meeting he knows what he wants to do and when and where. But current thinking dictates that first of all he must waste half an hour listening to some drooling teenage halfwit with blue hair and a bone in its nose, and then actively praise him/them for its insight.”
The ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ star then reflected on the protesters, and how they will likely receive public-backing for their actions.
He said: “All of this brings me on to half a dozen angry young ladies who decided to stage a protest at my farm last week. God knows what they were complaining about. Their beavers, I think. Or was it badgers? Whatever, they used their extensive knowledge of the countryside and how it works to arrive at my … brewery. Where they stood in the rain for a little while, shouting and waving placards, before realising that the manufacture of lager doesn’t affect the beaver one way or the other, really. Or the badger.
“This tiny group of young ladies will receive a huge tidal wave of public support because they are the underdog, and I will have my trousers taken down because I’m Farmer Palmer.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Richard Hammond’s friends are terrified to get into a car with him when he is driving.
The 54-year-old TV star gained a reputation for being accident-prone after having several big crashes on ‘Top Gear’ and ‘The Grand Tour’, and has now revealed his pals are put on edge when he gets behind the wheel.
During an appearance on ‘The Paul Chowdhry PudCast’, he told the host: “Some of them get anxious.
“What’s worse is when somebody else [is] driving and I’m in the car … because it tends to go one of two ways.
“Either they demonstrate I’m going to driving normally, or ‘Wahey, here we go’, and they overcook it. That can get alarming.”
Famously, Richard was involved in a near-fatal crash in 2006 when his jet-powered dragster travelling at 319 miles-per-hour spun off and toppled over while filming for ‘Top Gear’.
The accident left the presenter in a coma two weeks, though he luckily made a full recovery.
Even so, Richard admitted he is triggered by certain sounds that remind him of the incident.
Speaking to his daughter Izzy during their ‘Who We Are Now’ podcast, he said: “The only thing that really sticks in my mind was the noise because of the impact of a car hitting concrete and that’s the thing that actually like rattled my brain.
“I fly helicopters but I don’t like flying jet rangers, because the way they start sounds exactly the same way that the jet car started.”
The TV star then recounted how he tried to hit his teammate instead of the concrete, because he knew he “was going to die” if he landed on the ground while going at such a high speed.
He explained: “It was real time and it was me panicking to understand what I could do, I tried to hit my teammate, missed him, because I knew that hitting the concrete at that speed I was going to die.
“I hit the concrete, bent the wheel in half, like all the crazy things you hear about, kids picking up cars because their parents are trapped underneath.
“But actually, it was the split moment of numbers up. I was completely calm, I’d done everything I could do.
“I’ve pulled the parachute, I’d steered, braked, it was going upside down, there’s no roof and I thought, ‘Oh, checking out now.’ No panic at that point, panic had gone, I’d done everything.”

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