OHMYGOSSIP — Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards is aiming to do well on ‘Dancing on Ice’ for his former pro partner Tippy Packard, after she was forced to pull out of the series.
The 60-year-old ski jumper was a late replacement for ‘Gogglebox star’ Stephen Lustig-Webb, after he had to withdraw from the show in October after breaking his ankle in training, and now Eddie’s original partner Tippy has had to withdraw.
Eddie revealed Tippy sustained a knee injury after their skates “clashed” in training, and Vicky Ogden has now replaced her as his pro skating partner.
Speaking on ‘Good Morning Britain’, he said: “We’ve got a slight miscommunication and our skates clashed and we fell over and she damaged her knee.
“We thought it was a couple of days off the ice, but it turned out to be a month off the ice, and they brought in a replacement and we carried on with Vicky Ogden.
“She’s lovely, but we’re kind of doing this for Tippy as well and Stephen, who broke his ankle.”
But Eddie admitted taking part in the series is “a bit daunting”, because he hasn’t been able to train as much as his fellow stars due to being a late replacement.
He added: “So it’s a bit daunting because everyone has been doing it for three months and I have been doing it for three weeks.”
Amber Davies, Greg Rutherford, Hannah Spearritt, Roxy Shahidi, Ryan Thomas, and Ricky Hatton will skate on Sunday, while the other six stars, Eddie, Adele Roberts, Claire Sweeney, Lou Sanders, Miles Nazaire, and Ricky Norwood, will have to wait until Sunday January 21st for their first skate.
‘Dancing on Ice’ starts Sunday at 6:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Georgina Hale has died aged 80.
The veteran soap actress – best known for her parts in ‘Emmerdale’ and ‘Hollyoaks’ – passed away on 4 January, but her death only came to light on Wednesday (10.01.24) night when fans took to social media to mourn her passing.
Many said they “loved” the actress, while others filled social media with memories of seeing her act and said her death had left them “devastated”.
Away from soaps, Georgina was also renowned for her work in the films of Ken Russell.
Her performance in 1974’s ‘Mahler’ earned her a Bafta film award as most promising newcomer and she received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her role in the original London production of ‘Steaming’.
Georgina’s other TV parts included an appearance in ‘Doctor Who – The Happiness Patrol’ in 1988.
In 2010, the actress was listed as one of 10 great British character actors by The Guardian.
Born in Ilford, Essex, in 1943 to publicans Elsie (née Fordham) and George Robert Hole, Georgina married John Forgeham in 1964, but they later divorced.
Her film debut came in the historical drama ‘Eagle in a Cage’ in 1971, in which she played Betsy Balcombe alongside Kenneth Haigh as Napoleon Bonaparte.
Georgina admitted she grew up overweight and shy, and kept changing school as her parents moved around different pubs, which she believed devastated her education.
She told the Glasgow Herald in 2002: “I couldn’t write, spell or read.
“There was a real shame in it, and you were the dunce of the class, always getting whacked around the head.”
Georgina’s mum died when she was 18, followed by her father four years later and at the age of 19 she was given tickets to see ‘West Side Story’, which she said “blew my mind” as she’d never stepped foot in a theatre before seeing the show.
She went on to train at Rada and graduated in 1965, and made her stage name Hale.
The actress had parts in Royal Shakespeare Company productions and her West End debut came in Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ in London’s Duke of York’s theatre in 1976.
Georgina also succeeded Elizabeth Estensen in the eponymous role of T-Bag, the villainous, tea-drinking sorceress in a succession of children’s adventure shows made by Thames Television.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chloe Brockett is in talks for ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.
The ‘Only Way is Essex’ star is keen to make a name for herself in the fly-on-the-wall show because her future is currently uncertain after she was suspended from ‘TOWIE’ following an alleged “glass-throwing” incident, while ITV producers think her fiery temper will make for “great TV”.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “Chloe Brockett is in talks to appear on the show – nothing is signed yet but she’s really excited and can’t stop telling people.
“She grew up watching the show and her return to ‘TOWIE’ is still uncertain so it would be a good show to do while she’s waiting to see if she’ll go back to it.
“ITV already know Chloe is great TV.”
Show bosses are believed to be spending £2 million to secure a strong line-up of housemates, with their eyes on “intriguing” people, rather than just big-name stars.
It has been speculated the likes of former ‘X Factor’ judge Louis Walsh, controversial WAG Rebekah Vardy, and ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ head panellist Shirley Ballas could appear.
A source previously said: “The team behind the programme are being clever about the kind of celebs they’re considering.
“They don’t just want big names in there — they want stars who will bring something truly intriguing.
“Louis is just the kind of figure they want in the house — someone with serious life experience who not only has something to say, but isn’t afraid to say it.
“These characters have delivered some of the most outstanding moments of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ in the past and they’ll want to produce those again. That means they may need to splash some cash to secure the people they have their eye on — but it’s a worthwhile investment.”
A spokesperson for the show insisted nothing has yet been finalised.
They said: “Any names for ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ are purely speculation.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Bradley Walsh has claimed some celebrities are scared of ‘The Chase’.
The 63-year-old host is returning with some famous faces on Friday (12.01.24) but he admitted he struggled to get some stars to sign up when he did some recruiting at the Royal Variety Performance last month.
He told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column: “I want Rick Astley to come on the show… Hannah Waddingham, Danny Jones, I was recruiting them all.
“It was the weirdest Chase recruitment drive ever. But you know what happens? As soon as you mention the Chasers, they freeze.
“They panic, they want to be able to get it right.”
Bradley explained how plenty of “clever celebrities” have fallen to the super quizzers, and the upcoming ITV series has seen them struggle too.
He added: “I’ve had a lot of clever celebrities come on who have failed at the first hurdle.
“That happened this series too — out on the first question, gutting. And it’s gutting for the Chasers too because they want to play them.”
One star who had enough confidence to take on the challenge is ‘Pointless’ presenter Alexander Armstrong, who was recently unveiled on ‘The Masked Singer’ over the weekend.
The two old friends had a great time reuniting, as their studios are right next to each other.
Bradley said: “To have him come on and have a go was great for me. I loved it. When we do ‘Beat The Chasers’, ‘Pointless’ is in the next studio.
“I’d always go past the make-up room, ‘Morning lads, how are you?’. It was great to have Xander on.
“He took it really seriously. He’s a very clever dude, I mean, seriously clever.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joseph Brown is to be diagnosed with Lyme’s disease on ‘Coronation Street’.
The 12-year-old – who is played by William Flanagan on the ITV1 soap opera – has worried his dad Chesney Brown (Sam Aston) and stepmother Gemma Winter (Dolly-Rose Campbell) in recent weeks as he exhibited signs of a mystery illness but in upcoming scenes, the schoolboy will receive the news that he is suffering from the bacterial infection that is caused by the bite of an infected tick.
In the last few weeks, viewers have seen Gemma removed from the home after being wrongly accused of poisoning her stepson but when Joseph collapses at home in front of his dad and grandmother Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove), he is rushed to hospital where medics explain that it is likely he had been bitten on a recent camping holiday.
The family is relieved to hear that Joseph – whose biological mother Katy Armstrong (Georgia May Foote) died off-screen in a car crash in 2017 – is expected to make a full recovery.
To develop the storyline, ‘Coronation Street’ has been working closely with Lyme Disease UK who have been consulted on scripts regarding symptoms and treatment.
Julia Knight is a retired Specialist Practitioner Paediatric Nurse in Community Nursing, who has experienced Lyme disease herself.
She volunteers for the charity Lyme Disease UK as their Press and Community Outreach Manager, giving talks, interviews and writing articles to raise awareness of Lyme disease and how to prevent it.
She said: “It has been my great pleasure to work with the Coronation Street scriptwriters to give them advice and pointers so that they could produce a storyline that is both realistic and engaging. Lyme disease can easily be overlooked if a person only shows viral-type symptoms initially, as in the storyline.
“Raising awareness of the disease and giving people the information about how to prevent it is essential.
“With knowledge, bites can be prevented, and awareness of possible symptoms means that people who do contract the disease can seek medical advice promptly.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Tony Maudsley has been left “devastated” at the sudden death of his colleague.
The 55-year-old actor played hairdresser Kenneth Du Beke on the ITV1 sitcom ‘Benidorm’ and took to social media on Sunday (08.01.24) to run a campaign to raise awareness for his missing friend Michael McGarrigle – who had worked as a costume supervisor on the series – before revealing the next day that his friend had passed away.
Alongside a picture of himself and Michael, he wrote on Instagram: “Thank you so much to everyone for all your efforts in reposting our appeal to find Michael yesterday. I’m so sad to say that we found out late last night that we’ve lost our beautiful friend. Our whole Benidorm family is devastated and we’ll miss him hugely. RIP Michael. ”
Tony – who now plays George Shuttleworth in the ITV1 soap opera ‘Coronation Street’ – was comforted by a number of famous faces in the comments section of his post.
Samia – who has played the role of Maria Connor on ‘Corrie’ since 2000 – wrote: “So sorry to hear this Tony”, whilst former ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ star Andy Whyment, known for his role as Samia’s on-screen brother Kirk Sutherland on the soap, said: “Sorry to hear this Tony.”
Musical theatre star Hayley Tammadon – who played Andrea Beckett on ‘Coronation Street’ in the years prior to Tony’s arrival on the show – said: “I’m so so sorry Tony.”
Julie Graham – who played Sheron Dawson in ‘Benidorm’ – simply posted a broken heart emoji, as did ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ star Harriet Thorpe.
On Sunday Tony explained to his followers that Michael had gone missing and his loved ones were all “concerned” for his safety.
He wrote: “This is our friend Michael McGarrigle. Michael is a valued member of our Benidorm family having worked on the show as our costume supervisor for many years. He has been missing for several days, last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning in the Glasgow area.”
‘We, his friends and family are extremely concerned for his safety and would appeal to anyone who may have seen him in the last 48 hours to contact Glasgow Police.’
Throughout his career in television, Michael had also worked on other hit shows like ‘Shameless’, and ‘DCI Banks’ and most recently worked on the acclaimed BBC One prison drama ‘Time’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola are joining ‘This Morning’.
The 22-year-old actress won the most recent series of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ with professional partner Vito, 31, and now the pair are teaming up with the ITV1 daytime programme to show to instruct three couples how to dance at celebratory events.
Speaking on Wednesday’s (10.01.24) edition of ‘This Morning’, she said: “We are so, so excited! I’m apparently gonna be turning into a teacher and we are going to basically give three couples some dancing lessons. When couples kind of go to an event, a wedding, a birthday, or something like and you’re always trying to get one of them up? We’re gonna kind of show them the moves.”
The former ‘Coronation Street’ star – who left her long-running role as Faye Windass on the ITV1 soap opera just months before taking to the dance floor – added that dancing has become a “huge part” of her life and admitted before joining the live arena tour of ‘Strictly’ that she still “cannot believe” that she won.
She said: “Dancing helps me in a lot of ways and it has become a huge part of my life. It’s something that I really, really fell in love with, and if we can kind of help people feel the same way then that is amazing.
“I don’t think it will ever sink in, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I still cannot believe that we won. I have watched that video over and over and over again and I still can not believe it. It was such an emotional time and it kind of feels like a dream. It kind of feels like it didn’t happen but it was the best dream ever.”
For the chance to take part in Ellie and Vito’s dance lessons, viewers can email thismorning@itv.com with the subject line Ellie and Vito and must include their contact number in the message.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Toby Jones took a pay cut to make ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’.
The 57-year-old actor, who has appeared in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies, stars in the new ITV drama as former subpostmaster Alan Bates, and documents his campaign for justice during the Post Office scandal, which saw innocent people receive prison sentences because of the faulty computer system Horizon.
Explaining to The Times why he took a reduced fee for the programme, 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.”
The ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ star also appeared on ‘The Graham Norton Show’, and explained that he wanted to make the show in order to bring more attention to the victims of the scandal.
He said: “Some of them went to prison, some of them lost their minds and some of them committed suicide and this huge tragedy still goes on because they haven’t been paid compensation or anything.
“The really cynical thing was that people were told they were on their own and no one else was experiencing problems with the IT system.
“I hope that this drama and the documentary that goes with it will also mobilise the general population again and make people feel like this has got to be sorted. Maybe even turning into an election issue.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sophie Rundle is “scared” of her own ‘Peaky Blinders’ character.
The 35-year-old actress played Ada Shelby in the acclaimed BBC One drama series that focused on career criminals in Birmingham just after the end of World War I and admitted it is only once she puts her blonde tresses under the dark wig that she feels she “becomes” the daughter of the gangster family.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, she said: “She scares me, and I am her! I put the wig on and I become Ada Shelby I guess.”
Sophie – who played the role over the course of the entire series from 2013 until its finale in 2022 – reflected that the success of the series is probably owed to the advent of streaming platforms as she recalled the initial response as being favourable but quite small before it exploded in popularity.
She said: “It’s mad…but when we did the first series, 10 years ago now, it just kind of came out and people liked it. But then streaming platforms kind of emerged over that time and I think it’s because of them that this huge fanbase grew and grew. It grew with it, it became this huge thing which was kind of nice. We didn’t have that thing of doing the first series and then it was this big splash. It kind of became its own beast and we didn’t really notice it happening.
“At one point I went to Italy and I was walking around in this little town and there was a ‘Peaky Blinders’ bar. I thought ‘Hmm, that’s strange’ and then I noticed it was getting bigger and bigger.”
The Buckinghamshire-born star has played a number of roles on TV that have requried her to use a Northern accent and is now appearing as PC Joanna Marshall in the Manchester-based ITV1 thriller ‘After the Flood’ and admitted that she now feels like an honorary Northerner.
She said: “I’ve spent so long being a Northerner. Do you think I could actually get a membership now? It’s just been so long and so much of British telly is filmed up there and it’s become my other personality, along with Ada Shelby.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jenny Agutter worries fans will think she is actually a midwife.
The 71-year-old actress has played Sister Julienne on the BBC One period drama ‘Call The Midwife’ since its inception more than a decade ago and admitted she worries viewers would believe she would be able to deliver a baby even though she is not really a medical professional.
She told Metro newspaper’s Sixty Seconds column: “My fear is that I’ll be somewhere and see someone who’s heavily pregnant going into labour and people will expect me to bring into action.
“The most useful thing I could do is hold their hand and say soothing things or maybe even cut the umbilical cord.”
Just days after the launch of the 13th series of ‘Call the Midwife’, Jenny admitted that she never believed it would last more than a year on screen despite its “beautiful” writing as she mused that the show’s chronological timeline is perhaps what helps make the show a success.
She explained: “I never thought we were going to go beyond the first year, despite how beautifully written it was by Heidi Thomas, with a really good cast and director. And now 13 years on, here we are.
“I think what helps make it a hit is that we go chronologically year by year with each series, starting in 1958. We reflect changes in society, including recovery from the war, communities working together, the economy and immigration.”
The actress was also asked about her role in the 1970 classic ‘The Railway Children’, and why it has become a beloved piece of British filmmaking history.
Jenny explained that she believed it was the movie’s core issues of discovery, love and family that had given the picture its legendary status.
She said: “It’s about children discovering the adult work. And because it’s in simpler Edwardian times, there’s an innocence, and it looks towards a better future.
“They’re encountering peculiar new people, and recognising the differences in class and society.
“But at the core is just this family wanting to be together, facing adversity and finding a way through it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Attwood Dack wants to move away from reality TV.
The 32-year-old TV star has carved out a career as a documentary presenter since appearing on the ITV2 dating show ‘Love Island’ in 2017 and recently documented her wedding to Sunderland footballer Bradley Dack on ‘Olivia Marries Her Match’, but wants to continue focusing on things with a “heavier” theme.
She is quoted by The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column as saying: “We’ve turned down a lot [of reality shows] because the documentaries are very time-consuming, and right now this is my focus.
“I want to cover a lot more topics.
“I’d like to take myself into a different environment, maybe abroad – something with a heavier tone.”
Despite wanting to wind down her focus on reality TV, Olivia revealed she and Bradley still hoping to find time to produce another series of their show because of its popularity.
She said: “It’s still in popular demand, so we’re hoping to find some time for another series next year.”
In recent years, Olivia has tacked topics such as online sex work and cyberbullying for her ITVX documentaries and is now examining the perils of cosmetic surgery in ‘The Price of Perfection’.
Ahead of its release on 18 January, Olivia – who has also started appearing as a panellist on ‘Loose Women’ – revealed that she regretted getting her breasts augmented when she was 20.
She told The Times newspaper: “I was fixated and it was cheap and quick.
“These bloody boobs were so heavy. I was happy for a year, then I realised they didn’t look right for my frame. The weight of the implants started to stretch my skin and they got lower and lower. I started to think, ‘This isn’t what I signed up for at all.’”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rylan Clark has been attacked by a bat.
The 35-year-old TV presenter took to social media on Monday (08.01.24) to express his shock that he had just opened his door to have a bat swoop down and land straight on his hand and begged his followers for advice.
Speaking in a voice note posted to X, he said: “I opened my front door and something flew toward me and a bat landed on my hand. An actual bat. Like a real bat. It is five to five, I have not had a drink. This is not normal behaviour. Is it the snow? Can someone please tell me? Because bats do not come and land on your hand.”
In a further update posted to the microblogging platform, the ‘This Morning’ host assured fans that he had not been “bitten or scratched” by the flying mammal but was keen to sanitize his hand as he questioned what was “wrong” with the animal.
He said: “I’ve not been bitten or scratched I don’t think but google is giving it- go to hospital. I’m just gonna dip my hand in alcohol gel. Like seriously what are the chances. What is wrong with all these animals.”(sic)
The former ‘X Factor’ star posted another update to X – formerly known as Twitter – where he wrote in all capitals as he vented his frustration at the situation once again.
He wrote: “A F****** BAT JUST LANDED ON MY HAND WHAT THE F WHAT IS THIS.
“This ain’t normal surely WHY ME
“It’s snowing.”
Rylan – who has become known for sporting a set of gleaming white teeth since having veneers fitted following his rise to fame – added: “Maybe this explains the teeth”

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