OHMYGOSSIP — Rochelle Humes was “in a bad way” after her ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ stint.
The Saturdays star’s close friend JB Gill – who was in JLS with her husband Marvin Humes – is taking part in the BBC show this year, but Rochelle would “never” join the main show after struggling with the Christmas special in 2013.
She told Closer magazine: “I basically got dragged around the dance floor by the lovely Ian Waite, and I was the most nervous I could be.
“I was in a bad way, I don’t know how anybody does that, week in, week out.
“I could never… and the respect that I have for the people that do ‘Strictly’, it’s just beyond!”
Despite not wanting to sign up for the full ‘Strictly’ experience, Rochelle did turn up to watch JB and his pro partner Amy Dowden strut their stuff.
She added: “We went to watch JB last week, and he was so brilliant – he didn’t look nervous at all!”
Rochelle – who has kids Alaia, 11, Valentine, seven, and Blake, four, with Marvin – is still keeping busy, and the couple have worked on shows like ‘The Hit List’ together in the past.
The 35-year-old singer explained that they both make sure to keep a healthy balance betwene their work and home life.
She said: “We try to set boundaries, and we make sure that we don’t talk shop at home once we’re all done for the day.
“We let that roll into tomorrow. I think it’s important to protect it. If it all rolls into one, then we’ll be up working on something all the time.
“At least by five o’clock, by the time kids are having dinner, we’ll make sure that work questions are done.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — TV bosses are working on the “antithesis” of dating shows to return to “old-fashioned values”.
Producers are reportedly set to turn its back on raunchy formats for a new show called ‘Recipe For Love’ – which is in development, and will see modern men jet out to Italy where a grandmother will teach them how to win over a girl.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz Column: “’Recipe For Love’ is the antithesis of the flood of raunchy dating shows, and encourages a return to old-fashioned values the modern world has forgotten
“The show is in development now, and talks are under way with a number of channels interested in airing the series.
“No talent is attached, but up-and-coming ‘Strictly’ hunk Vito Coppola is considered the perfect fit. He embodies all those values plus is very close to his own Nonna.”
The no-nonsense pensioner will reportedly also lecture the guys on how to “make delicious meals, host a lady and create a cosy home”.
Aside from the synopsis and the name of the show, it has also been claimed it will be a creation of the production company Expectation, which credits including Amazon Prime’s ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ and the recent ‘Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out’ documentary on UKTV.
It is believed to be a success, given it will follow the same format as the commissioned ITV show ‘Date My Nan’, which is hosted by Davina McCall, 57, and will follow a string of mature romantics on a rendezvous, in the hope they will find a lover.
Casting agents are also seeking loved ones, such as grandchildren, friends or neighbours – to help the older contestants in their bid for love.
An insider previously told The Sun: “The dates and possible love matches are brilliant but they’re just part of ‘Date My Nan’.
“Producers know the gentle, emotional scenes as the older daters get ready with their loved one will lead to genuinely lovely, heartwarming content.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Giovanni Pernice has insisted he and Amanda Abbington “never had an argument” during their time on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and he is “upset” they didn’t get a chance to make it to the show’s final.
The 34-year-old professional dancer made his first TV appearance on Tuesday (22.10.24) since a ‘Strictly’ investigation into his conduct, which upheld six of 17 complaints Amanda made against him after they competed in the BBC Latin and ballroom competition together last year.
Giovanni admitted he would have a “nice cup of tea” with the 50-year-old actress if he was in the same room with her now.
When asked on ‘Lorraine’, which was hosted by Christine Lampard on Tuesday (22.10.24), if he would want to say sorry to Amanda if he was in a room with her now, Giovanni said: “I think we would have a nice cup of tea, we’ll have a chat and talk about what happened in that room.
“It’s very difficult, because at that time everything was perfect.
“Me and Amanda Abbington never had an argument.”
The pro dancer also admitted he was “upset” that he and Amanda didn’t get the chance to make the final of the 2023 series, after she quit the show last October ahead of Halloween Week.
He said on the ITV morning show: “When you have somebody in your hands, like Amanda, she was brilliant and unbelievable at dancing.
“I’m upset because we could have made it all the way to the final. My job is to take everything out of my partner.”
Giovanni admitted he can be a “strict teacher”, but was “relieved” that the “most serious allegations” in the investigation were “thrown out”.
He said: “It’s in the public domain, the fact I’m a strict teacher.
“If you want to achieve greatness, I think this is the right way to do.
“Teaching the way I teach is the successful way to approach this.
“If you come to the room with me and go ‘you really want to win this’, I will do everything in my power to win this.
“If you suddenly change this and don’t tell me that, there’s nothing I can do. I don’t read minds.”
Giovanni insisted the investigation didn’t find him “a bully”, and claimed he has been called an “amazing teacher” on several occasions.
He said: “The investigation didn’t find me a bully.
“Bully is a big word, there’s a big difference between bullying and caring about what you do.
“All I had was ‘Giovanni you’re an amazing teacher, Giovanni you’re great’.”
But Giovanni hit out at trolls who attacked Amanda with “disgusting” messages.
Asked if there is anything he feels sorry for and would fix, he said: “I think the trolling thing and the messages was disgusting.
“All these messages she received shouldn’t happen at all.”
Giovanni admitted he would “never say never” about a return to ‘Strictly’ in the future.
A spokesperson for Amanda has said: “Mr Pernice’s claim that ‘everything in the rehearsal room worked perfectly’ is false and delusional, and underlines the toxic culture Ms Abbington endured on Strictly Come Dancing.
“The BBC’s own investigation concluded that Mr Pernice was in breach of multiple BBC Policies, including repeated breaches of the Anti-Bullying and Harassment Policy.
“Mr Pernice was spoken to by the BBC on several occasions about his misconduct – but his behaviour only continued. At no time did Ms Abbington regard his verbal abuse or inappropriate sexual behaviour as banter.
“This is precisely the kind of gaslighting behaviour which victims of bullying and harassment often have to endure: it’s these people Ms Abbington will continue to speak up for.”
The BBC apologised to Amanda over her ‘Strictly’ experience after upholding six of the 17 complaints she made against Giovanni.
In a statement last month, the BBC said: “We have assessed the complaints and we have upheld some, but not all, of the complaints made.
“We want to apologise to Amanda Abbington and to thank her for coming forward and taking part. We know this would not have been an easy thing to do.”
The report found that some of the language used by Giovanni towards Amanda could be “belittling” and agreed with the ‘Sherlock’ actress that his feedback was, at times, “overly negative” and that he had used profanity during rehearsals.
The report noted after reviewing several hours of rehearsal footage as part of an official investigation that there were two moments of “inappropriate behaviour of sexual banter in the workplace”, which were found to simply have been “made and received as jokes” between the pair.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Bianca Gascoigne has claimed Mohamed Al Fayed sexually assaulted and groomed her when she worked at Harrods as a teenager.
The 37-year-old model – who is the daughter of former England footballer Paul Gascoigne – told how Egyptian businessman Al Fayed used to be “charming” when she met him at the luxury London department store during visits with her parents, Paul and her mother Sheryl Gascoigne, and afterwards she initially felt “safe” in his presence when she worked at Harrods aged 16.
However, Bianca has claimed Al Fayed – who died in August 2023 aged 94 – used to grope her, forced her to kiss him during weekly meetings, and she recalled an “horrific” incident when Al Fayed once lent her Harrods’ Park Lane apartment to stay in the night before a flight, but she was left “shell-shocked” when he allegedly turned up at the flat and sexually assaulted her.
Speaking on Sky News’ The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee, she said: “[Al Fayed] turned up at the apartment to my shock, I was just gobsmacked, I was kind of very shell-shocked.
“I just didn’t really know what to do, he came in and then he sat me down on the sofa… he got his privates out and got my hands and was trying to manoeuvre them on his parts.
“When that didn’t work he was trying to force my head on to his lap.
“And I don’t know how but I managed to wiggle away.
“And I think possibly you know, that him knowing my parents… I don’t know, that might have saved me at that moment. But it was horrific.”
The ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ star’s claims come after several women have come forward to make allegations against the self-made billionaire following his passing last year.
Following the release of last month’s BBC documentary, ‘Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods’ – in which five women claimed they were raped by the entrepreneur – the Metropolitan Police revealed it had recorded 60 allegations against Al Fayed, some including rape and sexual assault claims.
It has since been revealed 21 women made sex crime allegations against him between 2005 and 2023.
Harrods are now in the process of speaking to more than 250 people about compensation claims over alleged sexual misconduct by Al Fayed.
The department store said in a statement: “Since 2023, Harrods settled a number of claims with women who alleged historic sexual misconduct by Fayed.
“Since the airing of the documentary, so far there are over 250 individuals who are now in Harrods’ process to settle claims directly with the business.”
Scotland Yard has insisted a “detailed and thorough” review of allegations against Al Fayed is underway.
A support group, Justice for Harrods Survivors, has said their lawyers are working with 147 women.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sara Davies had to work “twice as hard” for her success due to people’s prejudices about her.
The ‘Dragons’ Den’ star, 40, is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the UK – with her arts and crafts company Crafter’s Companion estimated to have brought in £37 million – though the Yorkshire star has now admitted her gender and social background worked against her in her early days.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Quite often I was the only woman in the room, I was the only young person in the room, and I was the only person who sounded like this in the room.
“It used to frustrate me that people had a preconceived idea of me. They assumed that, because I had an accent and sounded like this, clearly I wasn’t as capable, or wasn’t as well educated, or I wasn’t going to be as good as my counterparts who had been through a private education, or who had grown up in a much more well-to-do-town or whatever it is.”
Despite the hardship she faced, Sara turned these hurdles into “fuel” that ultimately propelled her to success.
She continued: “I had to work twice as hard as the other people because I was always under-estimated. I started everything on the back front. I felt it first hand.
“For me, I turned that into fuel whereas a lot of people have been put in a box and they’ll sit in that box, whereas I was ‘You’re not putting me in a god damn box, I’ll show you’.
“It really drove me and that is what has inspired me to make a difference.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Aidan Turner could relate to the “ruthless” themes of ‘Rivals’.
The 41-year-old star plays TV presenter Declan O’Hara in the Disney+ reworking of Jilly Cooper’s novel of the same name and noticed parallels between the “cut-throat” themes of the story and his rise to acting success.
Aidan told Metro.co.uk: “It’s in every profession at a certain level too. It does get a bit ruthless. I do remember in my 20s it was pretty cut-throat – even from friends.
“It was those horrible moments that I’m sure the characters in the show experience, where you really, really want to be happy for your friend – and thankfully all that’s gone now – but I do remember those moments when you’d be up for the same castings (and it was cut-throat).
“It’s similar in this world: there are a lot of transactional dynamics with these relationships, everyone’s after something and wants something, so everyone’s kind of on the make anyway. There’s a certain ruthlessness in this show that mirrors (the experience of rising up the ranks).”
Aidan’s character Declan is at the centre of the rivalry between TV executives Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant) in the show and even revealed took inspiration from his father in terms of his alter ego’s mannerisms.
The ‘Poldark’ star said: “I sprinkled a bit of my own father in there the way he talks, his tone and the way he holds himself.
“He also rocked a ‘tache in the 80s and 90s. I’ve been dying to play him for years.”
Aidan’s co-star Nafessa Williams also used her relatives as inspiration for her role as career-driven producer Cameron Cook.
She said: “I had very vivid memories of how they looked and how they dressed, and just how they carried themselves. So I did that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Emily Atack thought she was destined to be “unlucky in love” forever.
The 34-year-old comedienne is now in a relationship with nuclear scientist Dr Alistair Garner and the pair have four-month-old son Barney together but she admitted that just before it all happened for her, she had suffered from “very low self-esteem” and had resigned herself to the idea that it probably never would.
She told HELLO! magazine: “I thought I was always going to be that person who was unlucky in love, and I think once that narrative is painted, it’s hard to break. I’m a very confident person, but I’ve had very low self-esteem in the past, forming bad patterns and habits. And then I got to a point where I was just like, maybe that’s never going to happen for me. And then it just did.”
But the ‘Rivals’ actress – who shot to fame as Charlotte Hinchcliffe on ‘The Inbetweeners’ and later came runner up on ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ – joked that it is “quite funny” when she and her significant other compare their days at work, although she is pleased that she has found someone who “understands” the way her career works.
She said: “So, comparing our days is quite funny. I’m like, ‘What did you do today? How are the nuclear reactors?’ And he’s like, ‘yeah, good, how about you?’ And I say, ‘I tried to fit into some Spanx, and I couldn’t.’ So, in that way, we couldn’t be more polar opposite, but we are so similar. We have the same sense of humour and find the same things hilarious. I’m glad I’ve ended up with somebody who knows me so well and understands me completely and understands my life and my world.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Stephen Merchant and Josh Widdicombe have signed up for ‘Celebrity Gogglebox’.
The 49-year-old comedian will join his fellow funnyman Josh, 41, on the celebrity version of the Channel 4 reality show that films reactions to current television in aid of Stand Up to Cancer, and explains that it is a “privilege” to be given a spot on the show.
Stephen said: “I don’t usually allow talking when the TV is on, because I know how much hard work goes into making shows, so I try to give them my full attention. But I’m happy to break my own rule for Stand Up to Cancer and join the Gogglebox special this year with my pal Josh Widdicombe. The charity does fantastic work, raising money for life-saving research, and it’s a privilege to be involved.”
Josh is also “honoured” to be involved in the special, and joked that he is looking forward to working with Stephen when they both get the chance to sit down, considering that his co-star stands at 6ft 7.
He said: “Stand Up to Cancer is an incredible cause so I am honoured to be involved. I love Stephen and particularly like working with him when we are sitting down so I don’t look like a hobbit next to him.”
Over the past decade Stand Up To Cancer has raised over £113 million for lifesaving cancer research. We want to smash that target to turn even more trials into treatments. In the past decade, the money raised has gone toward funding 73 clinical trials and research projects involving more than 13,000 cancer patients and has led to breakthroughs in treatment. From trials into kinder testing for breast cancer to a new treatment for advanced bile duct cancer now available on the NHS, cash raised by Stand Up To Cancer is literally saving lives.
Almost one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime*. Stand Up To Cancer is helping us all fight back. To donate whatever you can call 0300 123 4444* or text £40 £30 £20 or £10 text FORTY, THIRTY, TWENTY or TEN to 70404. For more information and to donate online visit Channel4.com/SU2C
‘Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer’ is available to watch and stream on Channel 4 at 9pm, Friday 25 October

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OHMYGOSSIP — Max Bowden says starring in ‘EastEnders’ has made him “fearless”.
The 29-year-old actor played Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap for five years until his departure in March and believes it is one of the “hardest gigs” in TV as he was always reliant on “impulse” during frequent scenes on the show.
Max is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s HotTV column as saying: “‘EastEnders’ is one of the hardest gigs, if not the hardest gig, in acting because a lot of the time you have to strip away your technique and rely on impulse.
“I carry quite a lot of ‘the method’ in my approach to my acting, and it’s easy to get a bit lost in the work as a result.
“So it’s shaped me in that I no longer approach anything with fear.
“It’s a brilliant place to hone your skills, so I’m very grateful for my time there.”
Max left Albert Square after his alter ego Ben was extradited to the United States for credit card fraud but he felt it was the right time to leave the soap as he was suffering from burnout after “nearly six hundred episodes” of emotionally demanding stories.
He told YouTube series ‘The Lewis Nicholls Show’: “The important thing was my time was ready. I was very tired, and like I said, I wasn’t me, I wasn’t.
“The Max sat in front of you today was kind of a ghost, and they recognised that – I recognised that.
“I did nearly six hundred episodes in five years, which is a hell of a lot, and it was time for a rest. The character was tired, I was tired, they [the producers] were probably tired of me being tired.
“From an honest perspective, I think yeah, a lot of it was that I needed to go for a bit. I needed to go work on me, get myself back to a place of really good mental health, focus on healing and also be a dad.”

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