OHMYGOSSIP — Pete Wicks is reportedly considering quitting ‘The Only Way Is Essex’.
The reality TV star recently split from Megan McKenna and their public break-up has strained his relationships with fellow cast members on the programme, including his good friend Chloe Sims.
A source said: “The situation with Megan is beginning to take its toll.
“He loves being a part of the show but hasn’t enjoyed watching his break-up play out in front of the nation. Not to mention the constant arguments that followed and fallouts with pals.”
In light of his split from Megan, Pete has questioned whether he wishes to continue with the ITV show.
However, he is hopeful that a break in filming will improve his mood and help renew his enthusiasm for the programme.
The source told The Sun newspaper: “Sometimes he’s wondered whether it’s all worth it and is currently at odds whether or not to return.
“But with a long break coming up, he hopes he’ll be able to take stock, repair those damaged relationships and return a happier, more positive man.”
Earlier this month, Megan insisted she was “100 per cent faithful” to Pete when they were dating.
The 24-year-old star ended her romance with Pete after one year of dating, but the brunette beauty clarified the circumstances surrounding their split after rumours began circulating that she had been unfaithful.
Speaking to Pete, she said: “I just wanted to say when I was with you I was 100 percent faithful.”
And Pete responded: “You’re single, you don’t need to explain anything to me.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Hollyoaks’ bosses are set to send characters to Ibiza in a bid to “spice up” the soap.
Bosses of the Channel 4 soap are reportedly looking to send characters Holly and Tom Cunningham – played by Amanda Clapham and Ellis Hollins respectively – as well as Ellie Nightingale, played by Sophie Porley, out to the party island next month for scenes which will air in July.
A source said: “Trips abroad always result in the best storylines as the sun and booze are the perfect backdrop for explosive drama and new romances.
“They want more from the show – and bringing back ‘Hollyoaks’ to Ibiza seems like the perfect fit.”
The move comes as bosses reportedly want the soap to rival hit reality show ‘The Only Way Is Essex’, despite being purely fictional.
The insider added to The Sun newspaper: “Bosses are hoping for the scenes to have a similar feel to ‘TOWIE’ – but with the plot being purely fictional.
“There’s set to be lots of drinking, swearing and sexual activity in the plot as producers really plan to spice things up.”
The cast of the soap could even bump into ‘Made In Chelsea’ stars such as Jamie Laing and Louise Thompson, as it was recently revealed the cast of the E4 show would also be heading off to the party island for filming.
A source said recently: “‘Made In Chelsea’ is going to get rough and ready this summer. Expect lots of drunk reality stars and big nights out.
“Producers have decided to take things down and notch and let the cast properly enjoy themselves. Expect the usual drama from the cast who can’t wait to explore the white isle in Chelsea style.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Amy Childs feels like a “fat moose.”
The former ‘The Only Way is Essex’ star is set to give birth to her first child, whom she’s expecting with her boyfriend Bradley Wright, any day now and has admitted she can’t wait to meet her little one but also so she can start feeling better about herself again.
Writing in her column for new! magazine, she said: “I’ve hit the 39-week mark now and I feel like a fat moose! Everyone keeps telling me my face is swollen – at least they’re speaking the truth. I don’t want people lying, telling me I look beautiful, because I don’t. I feel like I’ve really blown up in my face and feet this week. I’ve also been getting what I think are the first signs of my show – sorry I know it’s a bit bleurgh but I’m sure a lot of girls out there will understand! At first I got really excited and started googling: How long until my baby comes?’ but after speaking with my mum, my aunt and my friends, I now know that everyone’s different and she’ll come when she wants to.”
However, the 26-year-old reality TV beauty has been trying to remain relaxed and treated herself to a pamper day last week in preparation for her little girl’s arrival.
She explained: “I treated myself to a pamper day last week and got my hair, feet and nails done. Yes, I know I own a salon, but I never have time to have any treatments done as I’m always too busy. Honestly, I felt like a new woman afterwards. I’ve noticed that my hair and nails have been lovely and strong since I’ve been pregnant. I also treated myself to a reflexology session – I’m having one weekly now until she arrives. The therapist picked up that I’ve been getting lots of back pain and tried to relieve it for me. It’s been really bad over the last few weeks and I’m worried I’m having a back to back baby. I really hope not as Mum says the pain is a million times worse.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sinitta is set to get her own panel show.
The ‘So Macho’ hitmaker is reportedly in talks to front a project called ‘The Raw Deal’ that will supposedly rival popular lunchtime series ‘Loose Women’ but rather than focusing on topics affecting the nation, it will shine a light on ethnic diversity and issues affecting black women.
A source told The Sun Online: “Sinitta has had several big meetings with channel execs. The idea is a very fresh one and the ladies have already recorded a pilot show. It could help to change the face of British TV.”
Not much else is known about the new show but it’s believed singer Shaznay Lewis, Sarah-Jane Crawford and model Talulah-Eve have been confirmed for the panel.
And it looks like this year could be a busy one for the 53-year-old singer as she admitted last year that she’s desperate to claim a spot on the ‘X Factor’ panel alongside Simon Cowell – who she previously dated – when the show returns to screens.
She said at the time: “I do think it’s time for me to be on the panel! I have to admit that no contracts have been sent to me yet, so sadly I have a feeling it’s not going to happen this year.”
And the brunette beauty is certainly no stranger to the singing competition as she regularly sits alongside Simon in the Judges’ Houses round on the show – except last year.
The 57-year-old show boss said previously: “I know she’s not happy [about being dropped at the last minute] but there’s always next year.”
But it’s hardly surprising Sinitta was angry about the outcome as she’s assisted the judges – either Simon or Louis Walsh – on the programme since it began in 2004. She’s also featured heavily on the spin-off show ‘The Xtra Factor’ over the years and dished her opinions on acts.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ore Oduba discussed having children with his now-wife “two weeks” into their relationship.
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ winner – who lifted the glitterball trophy last year after he pipped Danny Mac and Louise Redknapp to the post – has admitted he can’t wait to start a family with his spouse Portia, who he married in 2015, as they’ve been discussing it for over six years.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “Portia and I can’t wait to have kids. I want three, she says two. We had only been dating two weeks when the subject of kids came up!”
The pair were forced to spend time apart at the end of last year because of the 31-year-old sports presenter’s dancing stint on the ballroom and latin show and he admitted at the time that he found it difficult to be away from one another for such a long period of time.
He said: “It’s been incredibly difficult not being together day to day. With her living up North, we’ve had to spend a lot of time apart. It has been stressful and strenuous. I’d imagine it’s not easy to be a ‘Strictly’ partner. She had her own work, family and friends in Manchester but then you’ve got the 24/7 support role that is being my wife. She had it full-on but she loved it.”
But lifting the famous dance gong has always been a dream of his and he’s thrilled he’s managed to achieve that and marry the love of his life within a space of 12 months.
He said: “The thought of getting married and being on ‘Strictly’ were from a very young age. I dreamt of being a sports broadcaster but it was more of an ambition. However, it’s out of my hands finding someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. And being on ‘Strictly’ is out of control. It’s a dream, I can’t believe I’ve done two of those things in a year.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rylan Clark-Neal has quit Twitter.
The 28-year-old television presenter has decided to leave the social media site because he has been bombarded with hurtful messages from fellow users after it became known this his new game show ‘Babushka’ would air in the time slot usually filled by ‘The Chase’ while the latter programme takes a one-month break.
The ‘This Morning’ celebs reporter said: “Getting a bit ridiculous now. Just doing my job. Enjoy the show. Coming off here for a while @Babushka starts Monday (sic).”
And it looks like he’s stuck to his word as when you try to search for the dark-haired former ‘The X Factor’ competitor – who is married to Dan Neal – it redirects people to a generic page, which reads: “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist.”
Fans of the ITV British series, which is helmed by Bradley Walsh, believe Rylan is replacing the popular game show with his new programme, but he’s adamant his series is only being screened at the time because of a scheduling reshuffle.
Rylan recently admitted his show, which has been commissioned for 20 episodes and will use traditional Russian dolls – also known as matryoshka dolls, wooden toys that contain smaller dolls inside – to determine the prizes, is going to be the new ‘Deal or No Deal’.
Speaking previously about the project, he said: “All I’d compare it to in a similar sense is ‘Deal or No Deal’, because it’s extremely simple. All you have to do is find the money and hold onto it.
“And it’s the same as ‘Deal or No Deal’ because if I was trying to explain to you the rules of ‘Deal or No Deal’, it sounds really complicated. ‘Someone’s ringing you every five minutes, there’s 22 boxes …’ But when you watch it you completely understand what’s going on. It’s exactly the same with ‘Babushka’. It’s like a ‘Deal or No Deal’ for the modern times, I think.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Perry Fenwick is convinced he’s going to be sacked from ‘EastEnders’.
The 54-year-old actor has portrayed unlucky-in-life funeral director Billy Mitchell for 19 years but doesn’t know if he’ll make the big milestone of two decades in 2018 because he’s yet to be offered another contract and is concerned he’s about to be axed.
Speaking to Woman’s Own magazine, he said: “I joined in 1998 so I’ve been on ‘EastEnders’ for 19 years. But I’m not sure if I’ll still be there for my 20th year. It’s up to the bosses. They’ve got to offer me another contract.”
Billy first arrived in Walford at the end of 1998 and has been involved in a number of major storylines over the years. Most recently he was riddled with grief after his cousins Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell (Samantha Womack and Rita Simons) drowned in a pool.
Although it’s highly unlikely he’ll be given the chop anytime soon as he plays one of the most-loved characters in the programme, Perry is no doubt concerned after Samantha and Rita revealed they didn’t actually want to be written out of the show – but were.
Samantha, 44, said: “I didn’t want her to die in the first place. You don’t expect that after nine years. It was a shock. I’d love her to come back but when you’ve seen a corpse in a coffin, I’m not sure how likely that is. I was so sad when they killed her.
“I liked the character and the relationship between her and her sister. I liked the early days, when Larry Lamb was playing our father – that was when I enjoyed it the most.
“When it go a bit fantastical, it was harder to believe the character as much. She was threatening to kill people but she was a mother which I found harder to play.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Line of Duty’ creator Jed Mercurio is planning to explore the past of Superintendent Ted Hastings.
The British television writer and producer has worked on the drama – based on the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit – scripts for the last six years and has teased he has some exciting things up his sleeve for the future that he thinks will keep viewers hooked.
In an interview with the Radio Times magazine, Jed spilled: “Yeah. That’s an area of interest and will be explored. The fact is that ‘Line of Duty’ has a very big story arc across all the series and one of the things that we haven’t done is to delve into Hasting’s past. That will happen in a future series.”
As head of the police unit, Hastings stands accused of discriminatory management and unethical behaviour, and his back story is going to be explored in more depth as the show goes on.
But with future series still hanging in the balance, as the BBC has not yet commissioned a sixth instalment in addition to the confirmed fifth, Jed has a back-up plan to prevent a cliff hanger.
He explained: “We haven’t had that meeting with the BBC. But if there’s not another commission, I would have to approach series five as the last.”
And he’s already planned out which characters will make it through but revealed that they don’t know who will be saved and who will be axed.
He added: “We all talk to each other, but everyone understands that we want to make the best possible piece of drama. So it may happen that, as with Craig Parkinson, who had been a mainstay of three series [as Matthew “Dot” Cottan], there comes a point when the best thing that can happen to the character is to exit and create a launch point for new stories.”
And he’s not afraid to go back to the drawing board when something unexpected happens as Jed revealed that the character of Ted Hastings didn’t originally “fit” Adrian Dunbar, who plays him.
He said: “Even though Adrian didn’t fit the character I’d sketched, he did something very vivid and interesting with the lines, and so I reconceived the character to fit him. I regard that as one of my great pieces of luck, to the extent that I now see auditions as being part of the writing process.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Andi Oliver is convinced she only nabbed the judging job on the ‘Great British Menu’ because she’s a “middle-aged black woman.”
The 53-year-old singer – who used to front ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ on the airwaves – has made the jump from radio to TV to join the team on the cookery show and she thinks one of the reasons why she was chosen for the gig was because of her skin colour.
Speaking to the Radio Times magazine, she said: “Well, one of the reasons is because I’m a black woman, and not only that, I’m a middle-aged black woman. So hooray for being a middle-aged woman on TV for a start. But a middle-aged black woman on TV, double hooray!”
Andi’s beliefs aside, she admits she has found a new lease of life.
She said: “I’m 53 and on a whole new route in my life. I feel like a newborn thing and I think at this age, a lot of people expect the opposite. I think its luck, but also its passion. If you give everything you have got, you will find a way through. I have never trained for anything.”
And this revelation might spark some to criticise her expertise in cookery but she stressed: “I know what I’m talking about. I’m passionate about my subject, so I don’t think it is tokenism. I’m there for a real reason and there for the whole picture. And I’m really happy about that.”
But in taking over from Prue Leith on the prime-time BBC two show, where she joins food critic Matthew Fort and restaurateur Oliver Peyton, Andi admits it’s left her feeling both delighted and nervous.
She said: “I was over the moon to be asked. I felt nervous, but when I walked in and sat down with Oliver and Matthew, it was like a dream. They are so lovely! Matthew is so posh! Oliver is so kind too, and they have both really gone above and beyond.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Karen Gillan is backing Dame Helen Mirren to be the new Doctor Who.
The 29-year-old actress starred as Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith’s companion Amy Pond in three seasons of the BBC sci-fi show and now Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi is departing the TARDIS at the end of this year she thinks it’s time for the first-ever female Doctor.
And Karen believes Helen, 71, would be the perfect choice to play the Time Traveller.
When asked by hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on daytime TV show ‘This Morning’ who the next Doctor should be, she replied: “Helen Mirren, a woman. I really would like it to be a woman just because so many people have questioned whether a woman can play the role, I think that’s completely ridiculous, of course an actress can play the role, it’s not really bound by gender.”
When some other names in the frame were listed by Phillip, Karen also backed ‘Fleabag’ actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a candidate.
She said: “Phoebe Waller-Bridge would be great.”
Karen’s breakout role on ‘Doctor Who’ came back in 2010 and she admits her performances in the series helped her land her part as Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Franchise ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ because director James Gunn is a fan of the programme.
She revealed: “I believe the director watched my screen test because he was like, ‘Oh, it’s the girl from ‘Doctor Who’.’ So I think it helped me in some way.”
Karen is not the only ‘Doctor Who’ alumni who has backed a woman in the TARDIS following Tenth Doctor David Tennant, Eighth Doctor Paul McGann and Capaldi’s comments the right actress easily take on the iconic role.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joel Dommett is set to front his own television show.
The 31-year-old comedian won over the hearts of the nation late last year when he took part in ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’, in which he came second, and now small screen executives have now starting approaching him about projects.
Speaking to the Metro newspaper, he said: “It feels like it’s happened at the right time. If it had been three years ago I would have been a bit green and maybe not have dealt with it quite as well. I can put projects I’ve been working on into action now.
“I’d taken ideas to channels which would knock them back because someone with a bigger profile would come along. Now people are saying ‘let’s make it’ and I’m working on ideas for TV shows, chat shows, panel shows, scripted projects, books – I love being busy and I write as much as I can every day.”
Joel, who has been performing for 10 years, is currently on a UK stand up tour and said he’s throwing everything into the shows as he doesn’t want to waste the experience.
He said: “It’s the longest tour I’ve done by far – it’s the last three shows I’ve done all melded together. I’m doing the Hammersmith Apollo for the first time. It’s bizarre. It feels like I’ve robbed a bank and got away with it.
“I don’t want to waste this experience and I’m throwing everything at these dates.”
The comedian also has been to Mongolia for his new TV show ‘Tribal Bootcamp’ and said the country is “beautiful” and “full of nothing”.
Joel said: “It’s such a beautiful, massive country full of nothing. It’s so empty and the people are so lovely.”

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