OHMYGOSSIP — Simon Cowell is said to be in talks with Netflix about a new talent show, as he aims to find the next One Direction.
The 64-year-old entertainment mogul has taken plenty of acts under his wing and turned them into superstars, like the beloved boy band, who shot to fame on ‘The X Factor’ in 2010.
Now, Simon is attempting to make a new talent programme with the streamer, alongside the production company Box To Box Films, who are behind ‘Formula 1: Drive To Survive’.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “Simon is preparing to sign a huge deal with Netflix to find the world’s next biggest boy band.
“He is working with the team behind ‘Drive To Survive’ on the show and wanted to get it on a streamer because it fits the audience better.
“Simon knew ‘The X Factor’ had grown tired so he wanted to do something that looked completely fresh and new.
“He is renowned for spotting talent and One Direction’s success came off the back of him putting them together. Simon wants to replicate this and find a group who can reach the heights One Direction did.
“Filming for the show has already started in the UK and he is so excited about what’s to come.”
The show has been dubbed “X Factor 2.0”.
An insider told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Previously Simon has looked to ITV for his projects, but he now feels global streaming platforms are the way forward. He wants to find the next 1D and use one of these platforms and launch them to the world.
“This is effectively ‘X Factor’ 2.0. Simon has the biggest songwriters in the world on standby holding massive hits, and is in talks to try to find the right partner to stream the project.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Greg Rutherford has opened about his “horribly painful” ‘Dancing on Ice’ injury, which saw him tear his abdominal muscles and herniate, ahead of undergoing surgery on Thursday (21.03.24).
The former Olympian was forced to withdraw from the ‘Dancing On Ice’ final on the morning of the spectacle after he suffered an injury in rehearsals, and he has now revealed he “effectively gave [himself] a C-section” when he attempted to leap through the legs of pro ice-skaters Brendyn Hatfield and Colin Grafton.
Speaking on his Instagram Story, he said: “Today is surgery day. Loads of people have been asking, ‘What happened?’
“I’ve been a bit busy and obviously just recovering from the initial injury before I had the surgery that I hadn’t got round to really talking about it.
“Long story short, I leapt through the legs of Brendyn and Colin and managed to tear all of my abs as well as herniate. So I effectively gave myself a C-section.
“So yes, it was horribly painful. It needs to be operated on today and then I’ll be properly on the mend. It was very painful, pretty horrible.”
A couple of days after missing out on the final – which was won by Ryan Thomas – due to the injury, the 37-year-old admitted he was still feeling “very sore and very tired” as he continued his recovery.
In an Instagram post, Greg said: “Seen a specialist today, I’ve got some scans tomorrow, and then I will know more about what’s going on, and what’s happening.
“I’m very sore and very tired so I’m going to get an early night tonight. But again I cannot believe the amount of lovely messages I’ve had so thanks very much. I’ll update everybody once I know what the next step is. This is grim.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Scarlette Douglas was in tears during a hospital visit, as she updated fans on her ongoing fertility journey.
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ star went into hospital this week for an egg-retrieval procedure, which she was “scared and nervous” about beforehand.
She wrote on Instagram, she said: “Well, I’m going to be honest, I was very uncomfortable going in today ladies.
“The trigger injection really did exacerbate the bloating and lower abdominal pain and the closer it was getting to my egg retrieval the more uncomfortable I was becoming.
“I had to sit on my left side for most of the day!
“Anyway, eventually I was called in and the nurse, anaesthetist and doctor were all present, super caring and very friendly. Everything was explained thoroughly and I felt in good hands. I did shed a little tear just before the sedation went in, mainly because I was scared and nervous, but also because you have to do it all on your own; no one can come in with you. (sic)”
But Scarlette was “over the moon” with the results, because 19 of her 24 eggs collected were found to be “viable for freezing”.
She said: “Anyway, best sleep I’ve ever had, came out, was in pain so they gave me some more pain relief, hung around for roughly an hour and a half afterwards and just as I was ready to leave the recovery room, I was told of my 24 eggs that were collected, 19 were viable for freezing!!!!! I was over the moon! That was more than I could have ever imagined and so I was and am so so happy that, to this point, it has all been worth it.
Off for my second nap since so catch you all tomorrow! (sic)”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Celebrity Big Brother’s Lauren Simon believes Fern Britton is “playing a game” on the show.
The ‘Real Housewives of Cheshire’ star, 51, was the second housemate evicted from the current series of the ITV1 reality TV show, and she firmly believes former ‘This Morning’ presenter Fern is determined to taste victory on the show.
Lauren told Metro.co.uk: “I think Fern is playing a game if you want the truth, I don’t think she knows who she is or what she’s doing, she just wants to win.”
One of either Fern, Louis Walsh, David Potts, Nikita Kuzmin, Colson Smith or Bradley Riches have already been evicted from the house in a backdoor dumping on Wednesday (20.03.24), with that person’s identity set to be revealed on Thursday night’s (21.03.24) episode.
The remaining five will be in Friday’s (22.03.24) finale.
Lauren admitted it was “interesting” to see Fern gravitate towards some of the younger stars in the house.
She added: “The truth is that there became groups quite quickly, and everyone is playing a game and wants to win – some more than others – there was jealousy a little bit.
“The younger ones had their own group too and Fern interestingly enough preferred to play drama games with all the kids, because I don’t think that her and Louis and Sharon had a bond at all which was quite interesting to see, she gravitated more to the young kids.”
‘Celebrity Big Brother’ continues tonight at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX and is available in Ireland on Virgin Media Two and Virgin Media Player.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Louis Walsh, Fern Britton, David Potts, Nikita Kuzmin, Colson Smith have made it through as the five finalists of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.
Thursday (21.03.24) night’s edition of the ITV show saw Bradley Riches become the seventh celebrity to be evicted from the ‘CBB’ house after 12 famous faces entered when the series kicked off at the beginning of March.
Bookies have declared the show is now a two horse race between former ‘X Factor’ judge Louis and David.
So far, Zeze Millz, Marisha Wallace, Lauren Simon, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, Gary Goldsmith and Levi Roots have all left the house, with Sharon Osbourne also leaving after serving her time as ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ lodger.
TV presenter AJ Odudu announced the news to Bradley he was leaving on Thursday’s show while he sat waiting for a family member or friend to greet him for a rendezvous.
She told him during the episode – which saw family and friends drop in on all the other housemates: “Surprised to see me? As you can see neither a friend or family member is here for you.
“That is because the public have been voting.
“I can now reveal that the seventh housemate to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house is you.”
Speaking in the diary room, actor Bradley – who opened up about his diagnosis with autism while on the show – said he had the “best time”.
He added: “I feel like I had the absolute best time, I’m so grateful I made so many amazing friends and for me to do this, I felt like I was scared to do it and I’ve done it and I’m so happy and I’m so grateful and I’ve just had the best time so thankyou Big Brother.”
Louis was visited on Thursday by ‘So Macho’ singer Sinitta Malone, who told him: “I need to tell you a few home truths quickly baby ’cause you know when I first met you, you said, ‘It’s always good to be nice’ – but Louis everybody in the house is nice but you.
“Louis you’re hilarious, but you’re not nice.”
Louis has caused storms on the show by having digs at his former ‘X Factor’ boss Simon Cowell and his former act Jedward, who he branded “vile” while boasting he’d made £5 million from the twins.
Voting for Friday’s (22.03.24) ‘CBB: Live Final’ has now reopened exclusively via the Big Brother app, with viewers being asked to vote for the housemate they want to win.
The vote will close during tomorrow night’s show.
Viewers will see hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best crown the winner of ‘CBB 2024’ and speak to the finalists in their first live interview since leaving the Big Brother house.
‘Celebrity Big Brother: Live Final’ airs tomorrow night at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
Fans can also tune into ‘Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live’ to watch the winner’s first live interview at 10.30pm on ITV2 and ITVX.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Tina O’Brien has reportedly been given a week off work to recover after being caught up in a brawl with a group of teenage girls.
The 40-year-old actress – who plays Sarah Barlow in ‘Coronation Street’ – became involved n the showdown outside her £1 million house in Bramhall, Stockport, on March 15 after she stepped in to break up the fight and defend a 15-year-old girl – and a new report suggests she’s being fully supported by her bosses at ITV.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “Tina went straight to meet her ‘Corrie’ bosses this morning. She told them she was the victim here, and they have accepted that.
“They also think the incident has traumatised her so have been very sympathetic. Tina has been left really shaken and they told her to take a week off.”
Video footage of the incident shows Tina attempting to break the fight up before being caught in the middle of it and she’s heard saying: “Let go of her … stop. Let go of her, I just said stop. Let go of her.”
The mother of the girl defended by Tina has since praised the actress for stepping in to help after the group reportedly turned on the youngster in a fall-out over a boy.
The woman told The Sun: “Tina has been pretty brave in stepping in. Tina is only little herself and she was defending my daughter, so I am extremely grateful to her …
“I have thanked her and would have done the same if it was my house.”
The matter has since been reported to the police and an investigation has been launched. Greater Manchester Police said: “Officers are investigating reports of an assault in Stockport between 8pm and 9pm on 15 March.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kris Marshall got “sick” of filming ‘Beyond Paradise’ on a steam train after just a week.
The 50-year-old actor – who reprises his ‘Death in Paradise’ role as DI Humphrey Goodman in the spin-off show – was initially “excited” to learn the Shipton Abbott police department would be investigating a murder on a train and though it was initially a “wonderful” experience at first, the novelty soon wore off.
He told reporters: “When I first heard about it, I was like ‘well that’s quite meta and quite interesting’, and I really liked that idea.
“We started filming sort of mid-summer, and it was very hot. And it’s delightful being on a steam train and you think ‘this is just so bucolic and wonderful.’
“And then after about a week on a steam train, you’re like ‘I’m sick of this train now, I’m sick of this train’…
“I had the most fun… on the footplate of the train”.
But Kris did enjoy the night time shoots, particularly filming inside a blacked out hangar.
He said: “It was such a fun place to be.
“It’s kind of like being in your airing cupboard under your stairs during an earthquake, I’d imagine. You basically spend most of the day shaking around, staring at pipes. But it was wonderful.
“And I got to drive it as well, and they’re quite intricate things. I know they’re Victorian but they’re a feat of engineering still, they’re just beautiful things, like sort of living breathing beasts.”
The actor relishes getting to do anything “action-y” as part of the role.
He said: “Anything I get to do action-y, like jumping off things or falling out of windows or driving trains or jumping off boats. I love it. So sign me up for all of that.”
The show is filmed in Devon and Cornwall, which Kris thinks is a visual treat for viewers because it is “the most beautiful part of the UK”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Stephen Fry vomited up to five times a day when he was on Ozempic.
The former ‘QI’ host, 66, said he was an “early adopter” of the weight loss drug, which is being taken by a glut of Hollywood celebrities after it was first released in the US in 2018 as a treatment for people with type 2 diabetes.
He told ‘Ruthie’s Table 4’ podcast: “I tried Ozempic years ago. I’m an early adopter of these things.
“I happened to be in America, and I’d read about it, and I asked my doctor in America, my physician as they like to call them, and he said, ‘I think I can get you some.’
“He tried me on it, and the first week or so, I was thinking, ‘This is astonishing: not only do I not want to eat, I don’t want any alcohol of any kind. This is going to be brilliant.’”
But turning the to adverse effects of the injected drug: “I started feeling sick, and I started getting sicker and sicker and sicker.
“I was literally throwing up four, five times a day and I thought, ‘I can’t do this.’
“So that’s it. The new variant – tirzepatide, Mounjaro, it’s called, makes it even worse, apparently.”
Stephen said in 2019 he had lost nearly six stone after doing a fast eight mile walk every morning,
Ozempic is administered via a weekly injection to manage blood glucose levels, can only be prescribed by GPs or pharmacists for people with type 2 diabetes.
Shortagrs of the drug have been reported after famous faces such as Sharon Osbourne, 71, started to talk about how it had slashed their weight, with rich patients buying doses for thousands of pounds online.
Stephen also told in 2019 he hit 21 stone, and told the ‘Table 4’ podcast his love of food came from his childhood.
He added: “My parents did have a cook, and we had gardeners and we had an old-fashioned Victorian kitchen garden.
“She was what used to be called a good English plain cook. She didn’t do anything terribly fancy, but everything she did was just right – pies and tarts and things like that she was very good at.”
He also said as a child he would spend “whatever money he had” on buying sweets.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Mr Bates Vs The Post Office’ has won the Jury Prize at the Broadcasting Press Guild’s award ceremony.
The ITV drama, which stars 57-year-old Toby Jones as sub postmaster Alan Bates, and follows the story of the Post Office Scandal – which saw hundreds of sub postmasters be wrongly accused of theft due to the faulty IT system Horizon – was awarded the prestigious honour at the 50th anniversary of the ceremony on Thursday (21.03.24.)
BPG Chair Manori Ravindran said: “As an organisation of journalists, the BPG members wanted to be the first to pay tribute to a truly unique story and a piece of landmark television that created massive headlines, gripped a huge TV audience and helped clear the names of the victims of a gross miscarriage of justice.”
Despite the success of the Post Office scandal drama, its writer Gwyneth Hughes admitted she believed the show would flop.
She told Sky News: “We’ve all been blown away by it [the reception.]
“On the eve of transmission, our boss sent us all a comforting email warning us that it probably wouldn’t do that well, and probably not many would watch it.
“So we woke up [the] next morning and he literally thought he had misheard the ratings, and it just has got bigger and bigger.
“The whole thing is unbelievable, the story of the postmasters, and what happened to them was completely unbelievable from beginning to end and this is just the latest unbelievable chapter in the unfolding, ongoing story.”
Tobey Jones was also blown away by the reception to the programme, and revealed he took a pay cut to ensure ‘Mr Bates Vs The Post Office’ could be made.
In an interview with The Times, he said: “There is a huge possibility that shows like ‘Mr Bates’ will not be made in the future. Not because TV commissioners don’t want them, but because they can’t afford them. The financial pressures are too great.
“These kinds of four-part, very British, thoughtful dramas are massively at threat because distributors worry that it is less likely that they will recoup their investment than they would from an international thriller with lots of episodes.”

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