OHMYGOSSIP — Louis Walsh has questioned Olly Murs’ credentials as a singer.
The ‘X Factor’ judge has taken a swipe at Olly – who starred on the ITV series in 2009 – after he was recently announced as a coach on ‘The Voice UK’, saying his appointment is further proof that the singer is a “great hustler”.
In response to the news, Louis said: “It’s a job, it’s a gig. Good for him. He’s a great hustler. He’s done very well for himself.”
Olly also co-hosted ‘The X Factor’ for one series alongside his good friend Caroline Flack in 2015.
However, his presenting skills were called into question during his time on the talent show, and Louis has insisted Olly’s appointment on ‘The Voice’ won’t impact the popularity of ‘The X Factor’.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, Louis said: “It won’t be as good as ‘The X Factor’ and it never will be. They’ve never had a hit.”
Of Olly, he also asked: “Has he got a voice?”
Despite this, Olly recently insisted he’s delighted to have become a judge on the show and is already looking forward to competing against the likes of Sir Tom Jones, Jennifer Hudson and will.i.am on the programme.
The British star – who has sold more than 17 million records around the world – shared: “I’m absolutely buzzing about being a coach on ‘The Voice UK’ and can’t wait to sit alongside Will, Jennifer and Tom. I’m excited to mentor new artists and I’m in it to win.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joel Dommett has confirmed Ant McPartlin will return to ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’
The 41-year-old presenter’s admittance to rehab earlier this year for drugs and alcohol addiction left the future of the creepy-crawly show up in the air as bosses didn’t know whether he would be well enough to film the forthcoming series alongside his long-time co-star Declan Donnelly.
But the 31-year-old comedian – who finished second in last year’s show and will now present the spin-off ‘Extra Camp’ alongside winner Scarlett Moffatt – has hinted that the loveable host is much better and will head to Australia with him and the team at the beginning of next month.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, Joel teased: “They’re [Ant and Dec] good guys and it’ll be fun to be with them and not eating something disgusting.
“It’ll be nice to hang out with them and not be eating a goat’s d**k. We head there on November 12th and then we’re there for the whole thing which will be weird from the other side.”
Speculation about who would take Ant’s place on the show if he decided not to go Down Under has been rife for months, but it’s believed his friend Dec would also walk away from the show.
A source said recently: “He has said the last thing he would do is go to Australia without him.”
Ant – who has presented the show since 2002 – spent two months in rehab for painkiller addiction earlier this year but is said to be making good progress and will be ready to host the new series.
However, filming for the promotional advert is currently behind schedule as he decided to jet off to the US with his manager last month in order to get some more chill time before his return.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Megan McKenna has reportedly rekindled her romance with her ex-boyfriend Harry Eden – just days after she dumped her on/off partner Pete Wicks.
The ‘Only Way is Essex’ star started meeting her former flame – who she dated before she found fame – after her relationship with her hunky co-star started to hit the rocks again, but it looks like their secret meet ups have reignited the feelings they once had for one another as they have decided to give their romance another go.
A source said: “Megan has always had this bond with Harry. It’s no surprise she turned to him when things got hard with Pete and now she’s single they’re seeing how things go before deciding whether to go for a full on relationship.”
However, the 25-year-old beauty’s reunion will no doubt wreak havoc between her and Pete – who she had dated on and off since the beginning of last year – as he’s reportedly “always been wary” of actor Harry and believed they weren’t in contact.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper, an insider explained: “Pete will be absolutely distraught to find out they’ve been speaking and meeting up.
“He’s always been wary of Harry and always believed Megan’s words that they were no longer in touch. This will make him doubt whether this was the case.”
Megan and Pete decided to call time on their relationship last week following a series of blazing rows since the brunette beauty’s country music career has taken off.
A source said previously: “Megan and Pete have given their relationship everything – but it still hasn’t been enough. After an amazing start they have been arguing a lot again and neither of them can handle the stress and pressure of constant rows. They are constantly falling out – there’s no guarantee that they won’t rekindle again.”
Their split came just weeks after the ‘Far Cry From Love’ hitmaker confessed that she was worried about returning to ‘The Only Way is Essex’ with the hunk because their relationship starts to crumble every time they appear back on screen together.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gemma Collins and James ‘Arg’ Argent are set to get back together.
The former couple – who have dated briefly on and off for years – are keen to give things another go between them now that the 29-year-old reality TV star, who spent a few months in rehab in Thailand this year, has rejoined ‘The Only Way is Essex’.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “The entire cast want Gemma and Arg to give their romance another go. There’s a lot more opportunity for them to officially reunite now that James has re-joined the cast. Speculation is rife that something between them has already gone on – with them both filming together in Ireland.”
And it looks like the pair may even be under pressure to talk about their feelings as, in scenes yet to be aired on the ITVBe show, Chloe Sims questions Gemma on her bond with Arg, while Dan Edgar and Diags grill their pal on the Irish “shenanigans.”
The insider added: “Chloe, Dan and Diags are first to question them over their shenanigans. They still mean a lot to each other, that is clear to everyone.”
However, the pair haven’t spoken properly since Gemma, 36, revealed she used Arg to get pregnant by not taking the contraceptive pill when they slept together last year.
She said recently: “It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I really wanted a baby. What I did was a bit much, but it was because I knew him. It sounds a bit crazy but I’m out of that stage now, it’s not the right thing to do to trap someone to fulfill your own desire.
“He didn’t know at the time! But he does now. I apologised afterwards. We met in Marbella and I said, ‘Arg, can we talk over paella for two?’ The way to chill him out is with food. He was like ‘Gemma, you’re absolutely mad.’ But we hugged it out.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — A biopic about late MMA fighter Kimbo Slice is being made.
The intriguing story about Slice’s life is being brought to the big screen by producers Steve Lee Jones and Andy and Michael Weiss
through their Bee Holder Productions and WeBros Entertainment companies respectively and will be directed by Simon Brand from a script by Andy Weiss.
The film will focus on Slice’s rise from a street fighter who gained a huge following on YouTube to becoming a professional mixed martial artist who fought in the UFC, Bellator and Elite XC and a pro boxer.
It will also show how Slice – who was born in the Bahamas but moved to the US to Cutler Ridge, Florida, as a child – used his fists to drag himself and his family out of poverty and how his determination to care for his loved ones drove him on to compete until his death at the age of 42 in June 2016.
Speaking about the project, Brand said: “Those who only knew Kimbo by viewing his brawls saw him as fierce and frightening beast of a man, but those close to him experienced his heart of gold, and that he used his fists and instruments to raise his family out of poverty, he was a loyal friend and devoted father. Kimbo’s story transcends the ring, it is a story about the power of the internet, the lengths one will go to break out of desperation and it is a success story shared with his long-time friend-turned-manager and adult entertainment magnate Michael Imber as they both emerge from the slums of Miami.”
Slice – whose real name was Kevin Ferguson – died suddenly last year from heart failure and a liver mass.
Even though he was taking blood pressure medication for years , Slice didn’t want to stop fighting and boxed just months before his passing, winning a three-round heavyweight match against Dhafir ‘Dada 5000’ Harris at Bellator 149 in Houston.
He had even accepted a bout against James Thompson in the main event at Bellator 158 which was scheduled to take place in July 2016 in London just weeks after his death.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Mark Ruffalo has confirmed the Hulk will be getting his own story arc within the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The 49-year-old actor has portrayed Bruce Banner and his giant rage-filled green alter ego in three movies so far in the MCU – ‘Avengers Assemble’, ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ and the upcoming third movie in the Thor franchise ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ – but has always been a part of the assembled superhero squad without ever getting his own standalone adventure.
Ruffalo has previously blamed Universal for his lack of solo action, because the studio owns distribution rights to the character and has not been willing or able to make a deal with Marvel.
But now he has teased that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has decided to make the Hulk the main focus of the next three MCU movies, negating the need for his own standalone story.
Speaking to CinemaBlend, Ruffalo said: “So basically, Kevin Feige pulled me aside this and said, ‘If you were gonna do a … if we were going to do a standalone Hulk movie, what would it be?’ And I said, ‘I think it should be this, this, and this and this, and ends up like this.’ And he’s like, ‘I love that. Why don’t we do that in the next three movies, starting with ‘Thor 3’ and then we go into ‘Avengers 3 and 4.’
“And I was like, ‘That sounds great!’ And so we are at the beginning of this arc.”
Speaking previously about the future of the Hulk – who was created writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in the debut issue of ‘The Incredible Hulk’ back in 1962 – Ruffalo admitted he couldn’t understand why Universal was so reluctant to play ball with Marvel over his alter ego.
In July, he said: “I want to just make thing perfectly clear today. A standalone ‘Hulk’ movie will never happen. Universal has the rights, and for some reason, they don’t know how to play well with Marvel. And they don’t want to make money.”
Universal has owned the distribution rights to the gamma powered wrecking machine since 2003 movie ‘Hulk’ starring Eric Bana and the last Hulk solo movie was 2008’s First Wave film ‘The Incredible Hulk’, which starred Edward Norton in the lead role.
Universal is believed to be unwilling to sell back the distribution rights to the character to Marvel because the Hulk and several of their other comic book characters, such as Captain America and The X-Men, feature at their theme parks and they are aware that Marvel’s parent company Disney want the properties for their own family attractions.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Martin Scorsese has bemoaned the obsession with box office figures in the movie business.
The Academy Award-winning director has penned an essay in The Hollywood Reporter in which he’s hit out at “research firms like Cinemascore” and “aggregators” like Rotten Tomatoes, claiming they have clouded the thinking of movie fans.
He wrote: “Box office is the undercurrent in almost all discussions of cinema, and frequently it’s more than just an undercurrent.
“The brutal judgmentalism that has made opening weekend grosses into a bloodthirsty spectator sport seems to have encouraged an even more brutal approach to film reviewing.
“I’m talking about market research firms like Cinemascore, which started in the late ’70s, and online ‘aggregators’ like Rotten Tomatoes, which have absolutely nothing to do with real film criticism.”
Scorsese, 74, said that these organisations are guilty of reducing the role of a moviemaker to that of “a content manufacturer”.
The Hollywood icon’s essay continued: “They rate a picture the way you’d rate a horse at the racetrack, a restaurant in a Zagat’s guide, or a household appliance in Consumer Reports.
“They have everything to do with the movie business and absolutely nothing to do with either the creation or the intelligent viewing of film. The filmmaker is reduced to a content manufacturer and the viewer to an unadventurous consumer.
“These firms and aggregators have set a tone that is hostile to serious filmmakers – even the actual name Rotten Tomatoes is insulting.
“And as film criticism written by passionately engaged people with actual knowledge of film history has gradually faded from the scene, it seems like there are more and more voices out there engaged in pure judgmentalism, people who seem to take pleasure in seeing films and filmmakers rejected, dismissed and in some cases ripped to shreds.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Disney have shelved ‘Gigantic’.
The animated movie was due to be released in 2020 with ‘Inside Out’ writer Meg LeFauve and Nathan Greno set to direct, and while the corporation admitted it was a “difficult decision” to shut down the project, there were creative issues which couldn’t be overcome.
Ed Catmull, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios president, said: “It’s impossible to know when we begin a project how the creative process will unfold, and sometimes, no matter how much we love an idea or how much heart goes into it, we find that it just isn’t working.
“With ‘Gigantic’, we’ve come to that point, and although it’s a difficult decision, we are ending active development for now. We are focusing our energies on another project that has been in the works, which we’ll be sharing more about soon, now set for Thanksgiving 2020.”
Insiders told The Hollywood Report that the new movie Catmull mentioned will be an original feature, but there are no other details at the moment.
‘Frozen’ songwriters Robert Lopez and Kirsten Anderson-Lopez were due to pen tracks for ‘Gigantic’, which was first revealed in August 2015 when Disney’s chief creative officer John Lasseter announced the project at the studio’s D23 Expo.
The motion picture was due to be an animated adaptation of classic fairy tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, in which the titular character befriends a female giant.
Co-director Greno previously said: “We hope this will be the definitive version of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ … with comedy and deep emotion.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sinitta thinks the ‘X Factor’ is “bad mannered” for dropping her during the Judges’ Houses round.
The 53-year-old singer is still bitter about being axed from the ITV talent competition after bosses decided to recruit former judge Cheryl Tweedy to help Simon Cowell whittle down the Groups category ready for the live shows instead of her, and she couldn’t resist slamming their behaviour.
The X Factor Live 2017 Twitter account announced the news that the former Girls Aloud band member would be accompanying the 58-year-old music mogul in the next stage of the show.
The account tweeted: “Cheryl Tweedy will help Simon pick the best three groups at Judges’ Houses this year! @sinittaofficial missed out on being there this year around.”
Sinitta has asked the programme to “stop telling [her] 1000 times” she has been snubbed from the serie and have some respect because she’s still angry about the way things have been handled.
She retweeted the post and replied: “Yes! Ok!! Got It!! Why dont you add #NurNurNurNurNur! Stick it Up your Nose! Stop telling me 1000 times .Stupid Bad Mannered Boring Annoying (sic).”
However, the ‘Fight For this Love’ singer’s return to the programme was not easy, and Cheryl – who has six-month-old son Bear with her partner Liam Payne – felt she had to “break the ice” between her and Simon before she boarded a flight with him to Nice in France.
Speaking previously about Cheryl’s comeback, a source said: “She curtsied for him when she first got onto the plane – it was her way of breaking the ice.”
However, Cheryl – who last appeared on ‘The X Factor’ two years ago after being recruited as a judge in 2008 – and Simon, who has three-year-old son Eric with his partner Lauren Silverman, swiftly picked up where they left off as they “bonded” over parenting during the journey.
The insider explained: “Simon and Cheryl bonded over parenting during a private jet and helicopter flight to the house.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Cara De La Hoyde is set to return to ‘The Only Way is Essex’ to throw a baby shower.
The brunette beauty is pregnant with her and her on/off beau Nathan Massey’s baby and, just a few weeks before the former ‘Love Island’ winner is due to give birth, she has decided to throw a glamorous bash for her unborn child, which will be aired on the ITVBe reality show.
A source told The Sun Online: “Cara and Nathan remain popular with fans so there’s a big demand to have them back. They’ve kept a low profile recently so it’s a great way to update everyone on their situation and whether or not they’ll get back together. They’ll continue to film cameos but there’s no reason why they won’t at some stage join the show full time.”
Although not much is known about the party, it has been reported Cara and Nathan were recently spotted with a film crew at the Essex hot spot La Sala Chigwell, where they were believed to have held the gathering, which was attended by Georgia Kousoulou and her boyfriend Tommy Mallet, Chloe Meadows, Courtney Green and Amber Dowding.
The 26-year-old beauty and Nathan, 25, previously made a cameo appearance on the popular reality show, which saw them enjoy a dinner with Georgia and her businessman beau, and Cara has more recently returned to discuss her break up with Nathan on the programme.
Although the pair have not confirmed whether they are officially dating again, Cara has admitted the reality star does visit her and has been helping her prepare for the baby’s arrival.
Speaking previously, she said: “He comes round and helps me sort out stuff with the nursery.
“He’ll stay for a takeaway and a film, but it’s not at the sleepover stage.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Faye Brookes will unleash her “sexy and feisty side” in her character’s upcoming lesbian romance on ‘Coronation Street’.
The 30-year-old actress – who portrays Kate Connor in the longstanding soap – is set to spark up a romance with her best friend Rana Nazir (Bhavna Limbachia) in the programme’s upcoming episodes, and the brunette beauty has revealed her character will prove she is not the “nice girl” everyone has perceived her to be.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper about the plot line, she said: “Finally it’s time to unleash Kate’s sexy and feisty side. She’s always been the nice girl in the background but now she’s getting ready to do something for herself.”
Faye has hinted her character was surprised by the turn of events on the cobbles because Kate believed Rana to be “homophobic”, and she didn’t realise her 33-year-old co-star’s alter-ego was off hand with her because she had feelings for her.
Faye said: “Kate genuinely thought that Rana was being homophobic and she could see that she was struggling being around her and Imogen. But it wasn’t that at all.”
But it isn’t until Rana enjoys a night out with Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent) and her on-screen sister Rosie (Helen Flanagan) that she decides to open up about her sexuality.
Faye said: “Rana goes and gets really drunk with Rosie and Sophie Webster and there’s something about the way they speak about life and relationships that makes Rana get this fire in her belly to come over and just tell Kate what’s going on and how she feels. What’s coming up is that Kate needs to be a friend more than anything, so they go to the Rovers and talk about it and Rana admits that she has feelings for her. And because that moment comes from nowhere, you don’t know what else will come from nowhere.”
However, Faye is apprehensive about getting too close with Rana in case it impacts on her job.
She added: “Kate doesn’t want to push her [Rana] away because she sees that she’s struggling and there’s no one else that knows apart from me.
“When they do become closer, it will change. Plus, Kate is really good friends with Zee [Zeedan Nazir] and they work together, so keeping it a secret from him is tough.
“These next few months are all about [empowerment] for Kate.”
Although Kate tries to be a supportive friend to Rana, she also starts to show a “backbone” in the intense scenes.
She said:”There’s a lot of emotion going on for both of them but they finally see Kate with a bit of a backbone. She has passion and she cares about this. She’s not always the sweet girl”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olly Murs, Jennifer Hudson, will.i.am and Sir Tom Jones have been confirmed as the new judges for the forthcoming series of ‘The Voice’ on ITV.
The former ‘X Factor’ runner-up was one of the names thrown around when Gavin Rossdale was dropped from the panel earlier this year, but speculation over who will take his place in the new instalment has finally been shut down as Olly has revealed he will be joining the fellow coaches when the singing show returns to screens in January.
He said: “I’m absolutely buzzing about being a coach on ‘The Voice UK’ and can’t wait to sit in the big red chair alongside will, Jennifer and Tom.”
But, although he can’t wait to work with his new co-stars, the 33-year-old singer is determined that one of his acts will win the show as he won’t give up without a fight.
He added: “I’m excited to mentor new artists and without doubt, I’m in it to WIN!”
Olly’s new gig comes two years after he was dropped from his presenting position on ‘The X Factor’, which he hosted with Caroline Flack, following a number of gaffes.
But, despite leaving the show, Simon Cowell – who is the boss of ‘The X Factor’ – is reportedly upset that Olly has decided to jump ship and work on the rival series.
A source said recently: “Simon isn’t happy Olly’s swapped allegiances, especially as he left the ‘The X Factor’ to concentrate on his music.”
Gavin – who has Kingston, 11, Zuma, nine, and Apollo, three, with his former partner Gwen Stefani, as well as 28-year-old Daisy Lowe with Pearl Lowe – was axed from ‘The Voice’ earlier this year as bosses didn’t feel like he had the right energy.
Jennifer, will.i.am and Sir Tom were also involved in last year’s series.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Coronation Street’s executive producer Kieran Roberts has quit.
The soap boss – who has worked on the programme for 11 years – had been toying with the idea of walking away from the show since the beginning of the year, but decided to extend his stay because he didn’t want to leave the cast and crew in the lurch when producers decided to extend the schedule to six episodes a week at end of last month.
He said: “This has been a huge and very difficult decision and it’s one I have been thinking about for more than a year. When the move to six episodes was announced, I knew I should stay to help make that happen.
“I’ve been incredibly lucky to have worked on so many wonderful programmes and with so many brilliant colleagues during my time at ITV.
“‘Coronation Street’ is a special place and it’s been a huge privilege working on such an amazing programme with the greatest team in television.”
And it looks like the feeling is mutual as the team are devastated to see Kieran – who also worked on ITV’s ‘Emmerdale’ during the 90s – turn his back on the channel.
John Whiston, ITV Studios’ managing director for continuing drama, explained: “Kieran has brought to both ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Emmerdale’ his unrivalled eye for story and character and his own particular humour and humanity.
“You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in ITV who doesn’t deeply respect and admire Kieran. He’s one of the most conscientious, hard-working, clever and humane colleagues one could ever hope to have. Ally this to one of the keenest editorial eyes in the business and you have the consummate television executive.
“ITV has been fortunate to have him devoting his incredible energy, talent and his working life to the company for as long as he has.”
It’s not known what Kieran will be doing once he leaves at the end of the year.

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OHMYGOSSIP — James Redmond has returned to ‘Hollyoaks’.
The 45-year-old actor has agreed to reprise his role as Rory ‘Finn’ Finnigan – a part he played solidly between 1997 and 2002 before making a brief return in 2013 and 2015 –
for another guest stint and will be seen on screens towards the end of the year.
The soap’s boss Bryan Kirkwood said: “We’ll be seeing a bit of James Redmond over Christmas and New Year. James will be coming and going as the much-loved Finn.”
The production team decided to bring back some more fan favourites after being inspired by the return of Luke Morgan (Gary Lucy) and Mandy Richardson (Sarah Jayne Dunn) over the summer because the scenes received such good reviews.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Bryan said: “We are so thrilled with where we are at the moment, with celebrating our heritage and bringing back legacy characters.
“I think there was a feeling up until our 20th birthday that we should always be looking forward – they were certainly conversations that we had with Channel 4.
“But now that we’ve reached the ripe old age of 22, it’s fantastic to be able to celebrate the loyalty of our audience. Some of the people who started watching us as teenagers are now mums themselves, who are maybe watching ‘Hollyoaks’ with their own teenagers. It’s fantastic to have Luke and Mandy back in the show.
“We’ve got to strike the right balance. We need to move forward with our new, brilliant cast while also having a healthy dose of nostalgia.”
And there will be more dramatic scenes on the horizon as Luke’s rapist Mark Gibbs (played by Colin Parry) will also be making a shock return over the coming months.
Bryan explained: “When one of our writers pitched the return of Mark Gibbs, you could cut the atmosphere with a knife. Everyone almost burst into tears with the idea of what that would mean to Luke.
“We will be seeing the return of Mark later this year. He was punished at the time, but he now looks like he’s got a lovely, charmed life. To Luke, who is still devastated and drinking himself into a stupor every night, that’s a bitter pill to swallow.
“They’re really heavyweight performances and episodes. It’s thrilling to be able to revisit the past in order to motivate Luke’s future.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Love Island’s Sam Gowland has signed up for the new series of ‘Celebs Go Dating’.
The 21-year-old self-confessed cheater has only been single for two months after his girlfriend Georgia Harrison – who he met on the reality TV show over the summer –
dumped him because he was reportedly unfaithful, but he’s not wasting any time getting back out there as he’s hoping to find love again on the dating series.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “He’s gagging to meet some new girls, he’s always had an eye for the ladies. His split from Georgia wasn’t great after she hinted he’d cheated on her but he’s always been honest about being a serial dater. This new show couldn’t be more perfect for him right now.”
The hunk announced that he and Georgia had gone their separate ways in September – just weeks after the pair were booted of ‘Love Island’ – but claimed they were friends.
He said: “I can confirm that me and Georgia aren’t together anymore, we haven’t been for a while now! Wish her all the best in the future x. (sic)”
However, the feelings weren’t mutual for Georgia as she hinted that he’d cheated.
She wrote at the time: “Would like to confirm that myself and Sam are no longer together. Unfortunately for some men one girl isn’t always enough.”
But, although it didn’t work out between them, she thinks 2017 will be her year for love.
She explained: “I think you have to try and be positive, I feel good things are coming. I’m sure this is going to be my year for love.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lord Sugar branded his rival Piers Morgan a “beached whale” during a huge television showdown on ‘Good Morning Britain’ on Wednesday (11.10.17).
The ‘Apprentice’ boss – who regularly locks horns with the journalist on social media – couldn’t resist calling out “blubber boy” Piers after he was “fat shamed” by the 52-year-old presenter during his appearance on the breakfast show this morning.
Speaking to the co-host, Lord Sugar – who said he’d put on 18lbs recently – said: “On social media, you were prancing around in the summer, looking like a beached whale.”
Piers’ co-star Susanna Reid watched the men go head-to-head from the side and appeared to be enjoying the epic scrap as she happily munched on a slice of toast.
Despite their cruel words, the pair managed to settle their differences to some degree towards the end of the show as they shook hands on a £5,000 bet to see who could lose the most weight by the ‘Apprentice’ final in December – with the proceeds going to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Sugar said: “Is there a set of scales here? You weigh in, I weight in, I’ll come back for the Apprentice final in December, and we’ll see who’s lost the most amount of weight.”
Their epic row wasn’t just limited to weight jibes as the pair also argued about who launched whose career after Lord Sugar claimed he brought Piers into the public eye through the Comic Relief edition of ‘The Apprentice’ in 2007.
Piers said: “You’ve done nothing for my TV career apart from being a complete irritant before, during and after it.
“I did give you a business column in the Daily Mirror which got you the Apprentice gig. So you owe it to me for launching your miserable TV career.
“No one in America knows who you are, no one in the biggest country in world entertainment has any idea who you are.”

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