OHMYGOSSIP — Emma Willis had “major withdrawal and anxiety” after giving up her smartphone for 21 days.
The ‘Love Is Blind UK’ host, 48, took part in an experiment for the upcoming Channel 4 programme ‘Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones’, which saw her trade in her smartphone in return for a brick phone, which did not have access to apps or the internet, alongside her husband, Busted star Matt Willis, 41, and a group of year 8 students at The Stanway School in Colchester, Essex.
Speaking on ‘Good Morning Britain’ this week, Emma said: “I was very naive going into it, we handed our phones in, and we obviously needed some form of communication so we had a brick phone for three weeks.
“The first four days, genuinely, I had such major withdrawal and anxiety because I felt so out of control, because everything is on your phone.”
She added: “After I got over that period, it was liberating, and when we did finally get our phones back, I stayed off it.
“I kept my brick phone for another couple of days because I didn’t want to go back to how I had a relationship with it before.”
Earlier this year, Emma shared that her and Matt had therapy to save their marriage.
The couple wed in 2008 but the pair sought professional help after realising there were a couple of “sticking points” they couldn’t see eye-to-eye on, and Emma reluctantly agreed to Matt’s therapy suggestion.
Speaking on the ‘NewlyWeds’ podcast, she said: “That was a big switch for us, actually, and we didn’t go because we were in trouble, we didn’t go because we were like, this is a sinking ship.
“We were like, there’s a couple of sticking points here that we can’t understand each other’s viewpoints on. So let’s get a third party to try and figure out why we can’t see where each other’s coming on.
“Matt was the one that suggested, actually, I’d never had therapy. I was like, ‘I’m all right, nothing wrong with me.’ Another example of when Matt was right.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Former ‘Hollyoaks’ star Ali Bastian has admitted it’s hard to feel like a “fighter” all the time amid her battle with breast cancer.
The 42-year-old actress – who is best known for playing Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap from 2001 to 2007 – was left in “total shock” when she found out the devastating diagnosis at the end of June.
Ali – who now lives in Ireland with her husband and two young daughters – has been having weekly chemotherapy sessions before she undergoes a mastectomy and radiotherapy next year.
And the soap star, who has stage two breast cancer, admits some days it’s impossible to hold back the tears.
Sharing a selfie with her headscarf on, she wrote on her Instagram Story: “Some days you don my feel like the fighter people tell you you are, and that’s ok too.
“This is not an easy path. There is cortisol in tears and they are better out than in. (sic)”
Speaking to OK! last month about her diagnosis, she said: “It was a total shock.
“I have mornings when I wake up and I’ve forgotten… and then suddenly I remember. I’m still trying to process it.”
Ali was breastfeeding her and husband David O’Mahony’s youngest daughter Isabella when she came across a lump.
The mother-of-two – who also has four-year-old daughter Isla with her spouse – shared: “I hadn’t been breastfeeding Izzy at night but then David flew back to London for work and suddenly she was feeding like crazy. I was thinking, ‘Maybe she’s having a growth spurt or something.’ And because of that, my boobs felt sore. The next morning, I woke up and thought, ‘Ouch, this really hurts.’ And that’s when I felt a lump.”
Ali assumed she had a “blocked duct” and was given a course of antibiotics, but it wasn’t clearing up, so on her doctor’s advice, she headed to a breast clinic.
She continued: “It was a bank holiday in Ireland, so I went straight to the emergency doctor.
“It really seemed like I had mastitis, especially as I had been night-weaning Izzy before that. We thought I probably had a blocked duct. The doctor gave me antibiotics and said that if it didn’t clear up in a few days I should go to the breast clinic.
“But it wasn’t clearing up and the more I felt it, the more it felt like this wasn’t just a blocked duct. I went to my GP and I said, ‘Actually, can I go to the clinic now?’ and she was very supportive of that.”
Ali received the shock news via telephone but was reassured that they said they have “intent to cure” her.
Explaining that the clinic was too far to go for the diagnosis, she said: “We agreed that I would text her and that she would then call me back. I could hear it in the tone of her voice, but she told me in the kindest way possible. She was very reassuring. She said the words that I’m holding on to, that they have ‘intent to cure me.’”
The doctors are convinced her cancer is “hormone-driven” and are doing more research to establish if it’s genetic, however, her maternal aunt and grandmother also had breast cancer.
She is set to undergo a single mastectomy and was still waiting to hear if doing double is a good idea as a “preventative measure”.
The former ‘Doctors’ actress is also being seen by a psychologist who specialises in oncology and has been given a mentor who has had cancer.
Ali vowed to beat the disease and has every intention of returning to acting.
She added: “I will get through this and come out the other side.
“After my diagnosis, I went on Instagram and saw a post by my friend Dominic Power, my former co-star in The Bill, and I could see he was on set in Hollyoaks. I suddenly had a real pang of, ‘I want to look into an actor’s eyes and do a scene.’
“I really miss it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gail Porter had to ask for a job in a shop at the height of her fame.
The 53-year-old star – who lost all of her hair after being diagnosed with alopecia almost 20 years ago – shot to fame as a presenter and model in the 1990s but ended up homeless for six months when work dried up in the years that followed and shocked staff in the menial job when she asked for employment.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she said: “I was just going through a difficult time, I’d lost my hair, work wasn’t really coming in, bills were going out. It’s just one of those things, it’s weird, now that I get to talk about it. It can happen to anybody.
“Magazines, they usually didn’t pay us but they’d say ‘You’re on the tellybox, you’ll be on ‘Top of the Pops’. Promotional work. You didn’t get paid for these things.
“I saved as much as I could and, I’ve got an amazing daughter who is 22 now, but when my hair fell out and work wasn’t really coming in, they said ‘Oh come on, you’re Gail Porter, you’re all right’ and I had to say ‘No, genuinely’.”
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ housemate has teamed up with Prince William on his mission to combat homelessness with his ‘We Can End Homelessness’ documentary and explained that it is quite strange to be talking about it all now because of how “embarrassed” she was at the time but is keen to raise awareness of the issue.
“I felt a bit like a hidden homeless person. My friends were helping me so I’d stay on a sofa or stay in a spare room, I was a bit too embarrassed to talk about it all. It kind of caught up with me. When I got asked to do this, I thought it was unusual. The postman was buzzing the buzzer, and I wasn’t expecting a parcel. And he said ‘No, you’ve got a letter…I think it’s a royal letter.”
“The postman was excited! And I thought…what a great thing to do!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Will Best “would love” to do ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 39-year-old presenter is best known for fronting the ITV2 revival of ‘Big Brother’ alongside AJ Odudu and revealed that while he would have to turn down both ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ and ‘Love Island’, he would jump at the chance to take part in the BBC Latin and ballroom show.
He told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column: “‘I’m A Celeb’ . . .  I’m just so scared of insects.I would have to be hypnotised before going into the jungle. ‘Love Island’, I’m too old. And I’m in a relationship. But mainly I’m too old.“But ‘Strictly’, I would love to do that.
“I’ve always fancied myself as a dancer.
“When I was 18, the first time I went to Ibiza, I came back and I told all my friends and my parents I was going to spend every summer there as a professional dancer. I’m that good.“So, yeah, rave week in ‘Strictly!'”
The civilian series of ‘Big Brother’ is currently at its midpoint on ITV2, but at the launch of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ earlier this year, Will memorably recreated Barry Keoghan’s nude scene from ‘Saltburn’ in which he danced round to Sophie Ellis Bextor hit ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ without a stitch of clothing on.
Will – who has been in a relationship with Tobi Rose for more than a decade – said: “It wasn’t my idea, but I didn’t need to be persuaded particularly . . .  look, AJ has her amazing clothes, right? I can’t compete with that.
“So I’ve got to go all the way the other way and wear no clothes.
“The thing I like about those kind of messages is that they’re always funny. Like, there’s a wit and hilarity to them.
“After the first series, my friends printed out some of the best comments. And as a surprise on the day of the final, they printed out all the thirstiest and plastered them all over my dressing room.
“The beauty of Big Brother is people love it and if they want to show that by messaging absolute filth to the host, great!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — James May has blasted “miserable” TV executives for the scrapping of his Amazon TV show after three series.
The 61-year-old presenter had , fronted his ‘Old Man In …’ travel series on the company’s Prime Video platform since 2020, but he claimed it has been canned because they “don’t want any more” of it.
He told Yahoo UK: “Well, ‘Our Man In …’ is actually finished, they don’t want any more of that, so I won’t be doing that … they just didn’t want it anymore, miserable b*******
“But that does take you away from home for a long time, which I wasn’t so keen on these days anyway.”
After driving off from ‘The Grand Tour’ with his ‘Top Gear’ co-star Richard Hammond, 54, last month, he is back in the driving seat as he fronts ‘James May and The Dull Men’s Club’ on the TV channel Quest.
The show sees him come up with creative gadgets and items, including an easy pothole fixer, as well as he and his ‘Dull Men’ answer questions on some of “the essential conundrums you didn’t know you had” when it airs on Tuesday, November 5 at 9pm.
Speaking of the show, which he worked alongside BBC series ‘James May’s Man Lab’’s Creative Director, Simeon Oakley on, he told The Telegraph: “It’s a bit farty to say this, but what used to be considered the attributes of basic manliness are being mocked.
“The idea of being thorough, or being able to make things or use tools: it’s all considered a bit dad, a bit dull.
“So in the show we decided to headbutt it by being interesting about being dull while acknowledging that everyone thinks the things we do are dull.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Charlie Lawson doesn’t think he will ever be invited back to ‘Coronation Street’.
The 65-year-old actor made his name starring as Jim McDonald in the ITV1 soap opera and initially appeared throughout the 1990s before returning sporadically in the years that followed but claimed that he doesn’t understand the “crazy woke” nature of the programme these days.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It wouldn’t shock me if he dies in Australia. I think it would be a terrible waste of a character, and I would stand up and have a pint and salute to him. But I wouldn’t be broken-hearted because I’ve been back seven or eight times, for Christ’s sake, since 2001 that’s pretty damn good as it’s 2024.
“”Now I haven’t been back since 2018 but the whole world has changed since then into a crazy woke sort of… it’s all changed. I’m not quite sure how Jim would react to 24 genders in Weatherfield. I suspect he would probably – if the writers had the courage – I suspect he would probably say that that was nonsense.”
During his time on the soap, Charlie’s character was famously married to former Rovers Return landlady Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard) but their relationship was tested by alcoholism and infidelity.
They divorced in 1997 after Liz had been unfaithful to him, and they remarried in 2000 but Jim was later imprisoned for the manslaughter of drug dealer Jez Quigley (Lee Boardman), who had previously beaten his son Steve (Simon Gregson) up over a job.
Liz divorced Jim for a second time during his prison sentence, and in 2011, he tried to win her back by robbing a bank but he was put behind bars again.
In 2018, Jim returned to the series with a young woman called Hannah Gilmore (Hannah Ellis Ryan), who he falsely claims is the daughter they thought they had lost in a miscarriage years earlier and the pair were later arrested for the scam when the truth emerged.
But Charlie knew that his time on the serial was likely up for good when his on-screen ex-wife decided that she was quitting the role in 2020.
He said: “The thing was, Bev had gone and they were writers who I’d been thrilled with for years and years and years. They were struggling to know what to do with the character like Jim McDonald and consequently I was struggling with what they were writing. You know, this girl, Gwen came along and started ripping him off and he was burning furniture in the street and all that sort of stuff.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Paloma Faith has reportedly signed up for ‘Celebrity Traitors’.
The 43-year-old pop star is said to be gearing up to take part in the upcoming celebrity edition of Claudia Winkleman’s hit BBC game show, which sees contestants known as the Faithfuls try to eliminate the titular Traitors in a bid to win a cash prize.
A source told The Sun: “Paloma is a fascinating character with plenty of stories to tell of life in the public eye, and great fun to be around.
“She’ll be an incredible player and will bring some glam to the castle – Claudia will have competition .”
The ‘New York’ singer enjoyed massive success in the late 2000s as she launched a music career after making her screen debut in the 2007 comedy ‘St. Trinian’s’ and in the years leading up to her recent comeback, she has been no stranger to television.
In 2020, she appeared as a mentor on ‘The Voice Kids UK’ for ITV1, and in March 2024, she appeared as a contestant on Channel5’s ‘Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C’ around the same time she released her album ‘The Glorification of Sadness’.
The news comes just days after it was claimed that ‘This Country’ stars Daisy May and Charlie Cooper are also set for ‘The Traitors’, with insiders claiming that the brother-and-sister will be “great players” on the programme.
The pair were said to have acted as replacements for tennis player Andy Murray and his mother Judy, who reportedly turned down the chance to participate.
The comics are expected to join TV presenter Clare Balding, 53, Olympic diving sensation Tom Daley, 30, actor Stephen Fry, 67, and ITV News’ political editor Robert Peston, 64.
No release date has been confirmed by the BBC, but filming is set to get underway next year.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Celeb Cooking School’ has been axed by Channel 4.
The culinary programme first aired in 2022 and saw the likes of ‘How Clean Is Your House’ star Kim Woodburn and ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! winner Sam Thompson put their cooking skills to the test for Michelin-starred chef Giorgio Locatelli but it will not return for a new series.
A source told The Sun: “A source said: “The crew were a bit surprised Channel 4 decided not to proceed with a third series, which would have been filmed in Spring this year.
“The show was a hit with fans and produced some really good TV moments filled with hilarious innuendos and attracted high-profile stars for E4.
“Off camera there were plenty of fiery moments too given the diverse lineup.”
The first series was won by ‘First Dates’ waitress Laura Tott, with ‘Love Island’ contestant Toby Aromolaran finishing as runner-up and former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona in third place.
The second series featured dancer Louie Spence, ‘Geordie Shore’ star Scotty T and MP Ann Widdecombe amongst others, but it was won by ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ contestant Blu Hydrangea, with ‘TOWIE’ legend James ‘Arg’ Argent as runner-up.
As the second batch of episodes went into production, it was reported that former glamour model Katie Price was due to take part as well, but she pulled out at the last minute and caused a “major headache” for bosses.
A source said: “Katie was a big signing for ‘Celebrity Cooking School’ so it was hugely disappointing when she dropped out.
“It had all been given the green light for filming but at the last moment Katie said she would not commit.
“Her decision to pull out has caused a major headache for the show’s production team as they have been tasked with pulling in a replacement at the last moment.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ben Fogle has to “pinch himself” over his television success.
The 50-year-old broadcaster rose to fame as a contestant on the BBC reality show ‘Castaway 2000’ and nearly quarter of a century later still cannot always believe that he is still in the industry.
Asked if he is “surprised” by his longevity, he told The Daily Express newspaper: “Well…yes. Especially as my career started in reality TV.
“Somehow I’ve managed to eke out my career for longer than my allotted ‘reality star’ 15 minutes and it’s now been a quarter of a century.
“I do have to pinch myself sometimes. I’ve always been very respectful of the fact that personalities have a shelf life. I’d be the same if I ran a TV channel. If you eat too much vanilla ice cream, eventually it’s going to become a bit tasteless and you crave a bit of chocolate chip!”
The former ‘Countryfile’ host has fronted a variety of shows over the years that focus on nature and geography and explained that fame has “never been” important to him but suggested that the key to his success is in his versatilty.
He said: “But I’ve survived in the industry because I’m like Ben and Jerry’s and I keep adding different flavours! By luck, I’ve not focused on one thing.
“Every couple of years I’ll do an animal or a travel show, or I’ll climb a mountain or do a rural affairs programme. Also fame and celeb- rity has never been a priority for me so that takes a lot of the pressure off, and I don’t do projects out of desperation.
“I spend as much time outdoors as I possibly can; I enjoy going for a run, a jog, a plod, call it what you want. I really love walking the dogs in the countryside. And I make a point of not taking my phone with me. I’m happy again and I’ve found balance. I’m the most content I have ever been.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Aston Merrygold wants JB Gill to show “more personality” on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 36-year-old pop star shot to fame alongside JB, 37, as part of JLS and competed in the BBC Latin and ballroom show himself with professional Janette Manrara in 2017 but now that his bandmate is taking part in the series, admitted his fellow singer has only just “scratched the surface” of what he can actually do.
“It’s a different skill set. Ballroom and Latin is different skillset to dancing, and Janette’s famous words to me in the rehearsal room were ‘I wish you’d done nothing before this because it’s harder to pull you back from what you’re so used to and how your body moves’. I think JB is doing amazing, he should just continue what he’s doing. I think for J now, he jus needs to bring out the personality a bit more. I think we’ve just scratched the surface of JB and what he can actually do so I’m looking forward to these next few weeks.”
“In that show, everyone goes into it – whether you’re a performer or not – no one is a Ballroom and Latin dancer so JB can go ‘Okay, I can have some fun with this’.”
The ‘Beat Again’ hitmaker has been paired up with Amy Dowden – who has made a return to the show after taking time out for breast cancer treatment last year – for the competition but after last Saturday’s (26.10.24) recording, she took ill and Lauren Oakley will be dancing will him in the next round.
Aston said: “I think having to switch partners at the last minute, that whole thing is obviously gonna play a massive part and pressure so I”m sending lots of love to Amy as well.”
Amy collapsed backstage last weekend, and even though she was said to be “doing much better” shortly afterwards, representatives for the show decided that Lauren would take her place.
A ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ spokesperson said: “Amy Dowden MBE is doing much better and the ‘Strictly’ family send her love and wish her well.
“She is delighted that fellow professional dancer, Lauren Oakley, is able to step in for rehearsals and to perform in Saturday’s show for JB Gill’s couple’s choice dance.
“We are all hopeful that Amy will be back to dance with JB next week.”

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