OHMYGOSSIP — June Brown had “a lot of love affairs” when she was younger.
The ‘EastEnders’ actress has claimed she’s nothing like her on-screen character Dot Cotton – a role she has played in the long-running soap for 32 years – because she has enjoyed a number of flings during her 89 years of life.
Speaking in her documentary ‘June Brown At 90: A Walford Legend’, which will air on BBC on Thursday (16.02.17), she said: “In my life – and Dot certainly wasn’t like this – I did have a lot of love affairs.”
And the popular British television legend – who married Robert Arnold in 1958 after her former partner John Garley committed suicide – has thanked her good looks for helping her achieve success in her romantic life and acting career.
She said: “I’ve been thinking lately and just wondering – you do when you get older. You look back at what you’ve done and how you’ve behaved. I remember playing Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, I really loved that role. I was very fortunate in my looks.”
However, she shares the same outlook on spirituality as chain-smoking gossiper Dot.
She explained: “The only way I am like Dot is in my feelings about spirituality.”
And June has praised the longstanding television series for giving her the “confidence” to strip off on stage for the theatre production of ‘Calendar Girls’ in 2009.
Speaking about the stage play, she said: “When I started in ‘EastEnders’ it was already huge. We used to go out together, the cast, and go to nightclubs and we could go anywhere. It was lovely.
“‘EastEnders’ gave me a huge amount of confidence to do other things. I got the opportunity to be in ‘Calendar Girls’ in the West End.
“I was the only one who took all my clothes off for the photoshoot.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rylan Clark-Neal and Alison Hammond could become permanent stand-in hosts on ‘This Morning’.
The ‘Big Brother’s Bit on the Side’ presenter will join forces with the 42-year-old television personality this Friday (17.02.17) when they front the brunchtime programme in place of Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford – who are currently presenting during the week while regulars Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are on holiday – and it looks like a permanent job role could be up for grabs afterwards.
A source told The Daily Mirror newspaper: “Alison and Rylan went down a storm with viewers when they hosted, albeit very briefly, last October. There is no danger of them usurping Phil and Holly – or Eamonn and Ruth – but bosses are looking at giving them one-off stints if Friday goes just as well.”
However, bosses are adamant the potential signing won’t mean that Holly and Phillip and Eamonn and Ruth will be replaced, as Rylan and Alison will just step in when one or the other pair are away.
The funny duo went down a storm with viewers last October when they filled in for Holly and Phillip during the Halloween special and were heavily praised for their on-screen chemistry and natural ability.
A spokesperson for the programme after it was announced they would fill in later this week: “We have listened to fans views and are pairing them again. There is no question they spark off each other.”
Alison has been a regular fixture on ‘This Morning’ since 2003 and has interviewed many high-flying celebrities during her time as a showbiz reporter.
Rylan, on the other hand, presents the showbiz segment on the programme every day and has even fronted the main show in the past with his husband Dan Neal – a move that made television history as they became the first gay couple to ever front the show.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Amy Childs is planning to eat her placenta once she’s given birth.
The 26-year-old reality star has been doing extensive research on motherhood since she found out she was expecting her first child with her partner Bradley Wright last year and, after reading that it has many health benefits to both baby and mother, is thinking about turning the organ that is attached to the lining of the womb during pregnancy into pills once the tiny tot arrives in March.
Writing in her column for new! magazine, she said: “So, call me mad, but I’m thinking of turning my placenta into pills! Apparently it’s all rage and celebs like Coleen Rooney and Kim Kardashian took them after they gave birth. It’s all very clever – they take all the nutrients out of your placenta once it’s out, turn it into pills, and then make you just take them with water like a vitamin!”
But the former ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ star – who announced she was “shocked” by her pregnancy in October after she had been trying to conceive with her beau for eight months – revealed there was “no way” she would cook her placenta and then eat it, and would only consider digesting it via pills.
She explained: “It’s better than cooking and eating it! Urgh, no way would I do that! I still need to properly look into how it all works – like, where do they take the placenta and when do they they make the pills? But I think I’m going to try it!”
The red-head beauty – who hasn’t disclosed the sex of her unborn child – doesn’t have long before the little one arrives and is thinking about having a short break away with Bradley this month to have some last minute quality time as a duo.
She explained: “We have been thinking of having a babymoon.
“It’d be so nice to have a few days away, just the two of us. I wouldn’t want to go too far, but a little trip away in the sunshine would be perfect.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Prue Leith believes there is “one other person” who could potentially swipe the ‘Great British Bake Off’ judging job away from her.
The 76-year-old restaurateur is said to the frontrunner to replace cooking legend Mary Berry on the baking show this year but, although she has admitted she is “close” to landing her “dream job”, she still has competition from someone else.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, she said: “I’m certainly one of the runners. I can wish. I can dream. I’ve had two auditions with them and lots of meetings. So I mean I think I’m close but I know there are two people in the running. One other person. Of course I’d love to do it. Who wouldn’t want to do it? I’ve known Mary for years and she loved it.”
Although she’s not yet bagged the role, producers are said to be keen to snap up Prue for the show because she carries similarities to 81-year-old Mary and they’re hoping her laid back personality will allow viewers to warm to her.
A source said recently: “Both are from similar backgrounds, so hopefully viewers will be accepting and give Prue a chance to win them over.
“Following in Mary’s footsteps is a big challenge. But the producers are confident that Prue has all the attributes.”
And she’s not the only potential new face to grace screens when the popular show, which first aired on BBC Two in 2010 and remained with the broadcaster for six years, shifts to Channel 4 in a few months’ time as bosses are also looking for a replacement for previous hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.
The ‘Great British Bake Off’ hit the headlines in September when it was announced that Love Productions – the makers of the series – had chosen to accept a three-year deal from Channel 4 after negotiations between them and the BBC broke down because they weren’t willing to offer a large enough sum.
Within hours of the news breaking, Mel and Sue – who have fronted the programme since it first hit screens six years ago – revealed they had quit their roles as hosts in order to explore other ventures.
A few days later, Mary decided she too would step down as a judge on the show out of “loyalty” to the BBC, while her co-judge Paul Hollywood, 50, caused a storm when he accepted Channel 4’s offer to remain with the series.

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OHMYGOSSIP — June Brown “doesn’t know” what will happen to her ‘EastEnders’ character Dot Branning.
The 89-year-old actress has played the iconic Walford personality on the BBC soap since 1985 – just a few months after the show’s inception – but after the character recently lost her job at the laundrette, June is unsure what is in store for her in the future.
She told The Sun newspaper: “I don’t know what is going to happen to her now. She’s lost her job, she’s lost her raison d’etre.
“You would find that very difficult. You have to have a house, you have to have a position, a place, a job.
“You should really have a job in ‘EastEnders’. That’s the point. It is very difficult to go against the writing. If they decide to change you or the writers change — not deliberately — that’s just what happens. But I’m a great fighter.
“I’ve tried to twist them round a little. There is a way of twisting. It’s the way you say it.”
The news comes after June recently admitted she wouldn’t be able to afford to leave the long-running soap, as she doesn’t have enough savings.
She said: “I can’t afford to retire. I never had the money to start a pension – I didn’t start to make any real money until I was 58 – and now it’s not worth much.
“I’ve always been afraid of being poor when I’m old. It’s a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It’s awful when you’re young, too, but you always have hope.”
However, she has another reason for remaining in the show, as June admitted she would be bored if she quit working.
She said: “As long as I am capable of ¬working, and can learn lines and move around, I will carry on. I’d be utterly bored if I stopped.
“I don’t think I look nearly 90 but because I can’t see these days I don’t know.
“You don’t think about your age – you just knock it down.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes has been named the world’s favourite BBC TV character.
The 40-year-old actor has starred as the iconic detective since 2010 and has revealed his pride at the “sociopath” beating the likes of Basil Fawlty and the Doctor in ‘Doctor Who’ to the prestigious title after a poll by BBC Worldwide.
He said: “I’m honoured to hear that my portrayal of Sherlock has been internationally recognised as viewers’ favourite BBC TV character.
“Who would have thought a high-functioning sociopath could be so popular with people all over the world?”
Benedict has also topped the list of the most memorable scenes on the BBC, with viewers voting Sherlock’s apparent death at the end of the show’s second series as their all-time favourite moment.
The scene garnered an impressive 26 percent of the overall vote, finishing ahead of the famous Dead Parrot sketch from ‘Monty Python’.
Other memorable moments to make the top ten list included Mr Darcy emerging topless from the lake in ‘Pride And Prejudice’ and David Brent’s cringe-inducing dancing in ‘The Office’.
Paul Dempsey, BBC Worldwide president of global markets, said: “This survey demonstrates the love and affection audiences have for our shows around the world and those defining TV moments that get viewers talking, wherever they are.”
Back in December, meanwhile, Benedict suggested he may soon walk away from ‘Sherlock’ following the birth of his son Christopher in 2015.
The actor – who is currently expecting a second child with his wife Sophie Hunter – said: “This new series goes to a place where it will be hard to follow on immediately.
“We never say never on the show, but in the immediate future we all have things we want to crack on with, and we’ve made something very complete as it its. So I think we’ll just have to wait and see.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lydia Bright insists there’ll never be romance between herself and Spencer Matthews.
The two reality stars are competing on ‘The Jump’ and though they have grown close while training for the winter sports competition, the blonde beauty insists they have a bond more like siblings and he’s slept with far too many women for her to ever want to date him.
She said: “I love Spencer to bits but we have more of a brother-sister relationship. There’s nothing romantic between us whatsoever. Not at all. So far from it! Newsflash – he’s slept with three quarters of London. I don’t get it. I don’t know how he does it.”
However, Spencer has been knocking on the 27-year-old star’s hotel room door in the evenings, but she insists that’s just for deep chats.
She said: “He’ll knock on my door but it’s more to say, ‘We need to talk.’ I can’t ever tell you what the talk is about.
“He knows I’m one of the few girls that won’t sleep with him and he can just be honest.”
Despite being subjected to the ‘Made in Chelsea’ star’s advances in the past, fellow contestant Amy Willerton thinks she’s “safe” while they’re in Austria.
She said: “Lydia and I are next door to each other, so if Spencer comes knocking, we just shout, ‘Help help’. I’ve had my boyfriend here most nights though, so I’m safe.
“At the National TV Awards in 2014, he tried it on with me for the first time. He literally tried to get into my apartment. It didn’t happen – especially as he’d already hit on my sister.”
Comedian and fellow ‘The Jump’ star Mark Dolan is in awe of Spencer’s charm and joked he’ll be fathering a lot of children while in Austria.
He told Closer magazine: “I think in a year’s time there’s going to be a lot of Austrian children with strangely posh English accents, gilets and big hair.
“When a thief leaves the room, you have to count the spoons. When Spencer leaves the room, you’ve got to count the women.
“The man is a babe magnet. He has an effect on women I’ve never seen before.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Robbie Williams will rejoin Take That for the final of ‘Let It Shine’ next weekend.
The ‘Candy’ hitmaker has agreed to take to the stage with his former bandmates Mark Owen, Gary Barlow and Howard Donald on the popular BBC talent show on February 25 to give the nation a special performance of one of their biggest hits.
The 43-year-old singer will also take on the role of guest judge alongside Gary, Dannii Minogue and Martin Kemp as they decide, along with the public, which band will be crowned the winners of the series following weeks of performing on stage.
Robbie said: “I’m looking forward to being back with Gary, Mark and Howard on ‘Let It Shine’ and am excited to be a guest judge for the very special final.”
Robbie’s decision to rejoin his band, which he left in 2014, comes soon after Gary revealed that he would like the ‘Could It Be Magic’ hitmakers to celebrate 25 years together in 2017.
And Robbie’s return won’t be permanent as he’s got solo ventures to push through with including trying to crack America.
He said recently: “Nobody knows who I am. I can look at them and they can look at me. I get to stare at them and they get to stare at me, but they don’t stare because they don’t know who I am. I don’t like this. I want this to change.
“Back in the 1990s when I went out there to promote my album I was not really dealing with fame very well at all – if I am honest I was not really dealing with much very well. It was when I realised that the more fame I got, the more insane I became. So I just stopped as I needed a place where I was not famous, because that would be the most sane thing to do. So I just lived over there and nobody knows me. Now I have changed my mind and I really regret it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Holly Willoughby has been named the new brand ambassador for Diet Coke.
The ‘This Morning’ host has teamed up with the makers of the sugar-free soft drink and will lend her voice to an exciting programme for the popular drinks brand.
Speaking about the partnership, Holly said: “I’ve always been a big Diet Coke fan, right from the original ‘Break’ ads we all remember with great fondness.
“The brand is well known for celebrating friendship, fashion and fun, which are all very important to me. I’m excited to be involved!”
Whilst Aedamar Howlett, marketing director for Coca-Cola Great Britain, added: “We’re proud to be working with Holly to bring some extra sparkle to Diet Coke activity this year.
“She’s the perfect partner for us. We’re looking forward to sharing what we have planned with Holly – watch this space!”
And whilst presenting now comes naturally to the 36-year-old television presenter, Holly previously admitted she was a “c**p” TV presenter when she first started out.
She said: “I’ve been really c**p at my job. In the beginning I was terrible, although I enjoyed doing it, which was kind of more upsetting. I spoke in a posh telephone voice, and I was so unnatural: I fixated on remembering lines rather than just speaking. It took me two years working away from the camera in a TV studio until I went back to presenting.”
And Holly also confessed she never used to be confident speaking in front of others.
She revealed: “My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school – I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.
“In a group of people I knew you couldn’t shut me up, but it took quite a long time until I was comfortable enough to speak openly.”

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