OHMYGOSSIP — Luke Littler has reportedly signed up for the ‘Bullseye’ revival.
The 17-year-old World Championship runner-up is said to joining new host Freddie Flintoff on ITV’s upcoming Christmas reboot of the iconic quiz show, and he’ll be throwing for charity as the guest player.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column: “Luke wasn’t even born when Bullseye was on our screens with original host, Jim Bowen. But Luke knows this is a plum role to have landed.
“As he steps up to the Bullseye oche he knows he’s following in the footsteps of legends including Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson who all threw darts on the programme in its 1980s heyday.”
Landing Luke for the festive episode has been described as a real “coup” for the producers, who are said to have acted fast to get him on board.
The insider added: “It’s also a coup for the makers of the new Bullseye as Luke is now one of Britain’s best-known players.
“Producers moved swiftly to sign him shortly after the programme was recommissioned by ITV.
“It all adds to the huge sense of excitement for the programme to return.”
A date has yet to be set for the Christmas special, but it’s hoped the return will be a big enough hit to prompt a full series in 2025.
The original show – which became infamous for its less-than-stellar prizes – first aired on ITV between 1981 and 1995 with host Bowen at the helm.
Professional dart players regularly appeared and tried to get as many points as possible to earn money for charities which were picked by teams of amateur players.
The revival is being made by 12 Yard Productions with former ‘Top Gear’ host Flintoff presenting.
He previously said: “‘Bullseye was one of my favourite shows as a kid. I can’t quite believe I’ll get to host this.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Danny Dyer keeps toilet rolls in a wine cooler to dab his derriere after a spicy curry.
The former ‘EastEnders’ actor is particularly partial to a vindaloo, but due to the meal’s spice level it can give him some pain in the behind region afterwards, so he likes to cool down with some chilled pieces of toilet paper.
Speaking on the ‘Off Menu’ podcast, he said: “I do love hot food. When I was brought up me mother used to always get an Indian, a Madras, and she’d save me a bit on a plate.
“So I got used to having hot food as a youngster. I’ve moved up now and I’m a vindaloo man. I do love a vindaloo. There’s just something about it.”
“There’s a myth it gives you the runs. It doesn’t give you the runs, Indian food, it just makes your a******* sting.
“I get a naughty vindaloo near me. Some are really
spicy, some not so bad.
“Sometimes you put the khazi roll in the fridge and just have it ready, just to get that first pony out the way.
“You know it’s coming, you gotta get it out the way.
“I like to have it on a Saturday cos it feels like a Saturday for me and especially after a few beers.
“When it’s a naughty one and I know it’s coming, I will just….and I’ve got a lot of fridges in my gaffe cos I’m caked. I’ve got a few wine coolers and so on, so I can stash me khazi roll somewhere without anyone seeing it.”
Danny joked he wouldn’t chance putting his toilet rolls in the fridge next to any food, because it wouldn’t be very “appetising”.
He added: “You don’t wanna leave your toilet roll next to the potato salad in the fridge, it’s not very appetising is it. So just pop it downstairs in me little wine cooler and dab away.”
Danny previously admitted he used to struggle to fit into his ‘EastEnders’ costumes on Mondays after over-indulging in a Chinese takeaway on a Friday, an Indian meal on a Saturday, and a Sunday roast to top off the weekend.
Speaking on his ‘Sored with the Dyers’ podcast, he said: “I have a Chinese on a Friday, and an Indian on a Saturday, and a roast on a Sunday.
“Honestly, when I go to work on Monday, I’ve swelled up so much … when I try to put my costume on all my neck is really fat. What I usually do is have a detox.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Simon Cowell has postponed Thursday’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ auditions as a mark of respect following Liam Payne’s death.
The ‘BGT’ boss, who is also a judge on the ITV talent show, made the last-minute decision to postpone auditions on Thursday (17.10.24), after the former One Direction singer tragically fell to his death in Buenos Aires on Wednesday (16.10.24), aged 31.
Applause store, who organise tickets for the filming of the series, announced: “Due to the tragic passing of Liam Payne, BGT has decided to postpone today’s auditions in Blackpool.
“We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Simon and fellow ‘BGT’ judges Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and KSI – who is temporarily standing in for regular panellist Bruno Tonioli – were due to shoot auditions in Blackpool on Thursday, just two days after filming for the new series got underway.
Liam shot to fame on ‘The X Factor’ in 2010 when judges Simon and Nicole Scherzinger formed boy band One Direction, comprising of the late star, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik.
It came two years after Liam first auditioned for ‘The X Factor’ in 2008, aged 14.
He impressed then-judges Simon, Cheryl, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh with a version of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, but he exited the competition at the Judges’ Houses stage.
Liam was told by Simon to “come back in two years”, and he did to huge success after becoming part of 1D.
Years later, Liam embarked on a relationship with former ‘X Factor’ judge and pop star Cheryl, and the pair had son Bear, seven, together.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dermot O’Leary says Liam Payne was “both wise and a young soul at exactly the same time”, and had a “huge amount of pressure” on him after finding fame on ‘The X Factor’.
The 51-year-old star, who hosted the ITV talent show from 2007 to 2018 – with the exception of 2015 – has paid tribute to the late One Direction star after he fell to his death on Wednesday (16.10.24), aged 31, in Buenos Aires.
Dermot was hosting ‘X Factor’ when Liam first auditioned for the show as a 14 year old in 2008, and again in 2010 when Liam returned to the programme and became part of 1D.
Speaking on ‘This Morning’, he said: “I haven’t seen him for a while, but he was both wise and a young soul at exactly the same time.
“He had these old bones about him, like his musical tastes and so forth, and yet he was always beautifully wide-eyed about the world and his place in it and fame.”
Dermot admitted the One Direction members – who also included Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, who later quit the band in 2015 – were under “huge amounts of pressure”, due to the group’s worldwide fame, but insisted they didn’t ever feel like a “manufactured boy band”.
He added: “It’s such a huge amount of pressure to be put on young shoulders.
“He’s been not just famous, but he’s had worldwide fame for, basically, half of his life.
“It’s an incredible amount of time for that level of pressure.
“The most amazing thing about One Direction is they were the least manufactured manufactured boy band you could ever imagine.
“They got chucked together and they went away and worked really hard before Judges’ Houses.
“But from the get-go, they were, ‘We can’t dance, we’re not going to wear the same clothes, we have similar taste in music.’
“I went to see them live in concert a couple of times and you realise that’s their beauty.
“They kind of just ambled around the stage, but they knew each other so well.
“They were such a brilliant band and they evolved so well together, and they meant so much to so many people. And Liam was central to that.
“He did have and always had this unbelievable, soulful voice that belied his age group.”
Dermot admitted many who worked on ‘The X Factor’ felt a “real sense of protectiveness” over the 1D band members.
He added: “The amount of people I’ve spoken to or text over the last 12 hours who worked on the show and felt a real sense of protectiveness over that band … in many ways we grew up with them.
“Sending all our love to Liam’s friends and family.”
Liam had seven-year-old son Bear with former ‘X Factor’ judge Cheryl.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘The X Factor’ have praised Liam Payne as an “immensely talented” star who will “leave a lasting legacy on the music industry”, following his death aged 31.
Liam shot to fame on the ITV talent show in 2008, when he first auditioned for the programme as a 14 year old, and again in 2010 when he finished third on the programme as part of One Direction.
A post on the official ‘X Factor’ X account has paid tribute to Liam, after he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday (16.10.24).
It reads: “We are heartbroken by the sad passing of Liam Payne.
He was immensely talented and, as part of One Direction, Liam will leave a lasting legacy on the music industry and fans around the world.
Our thoughts are with his friends, family and all who loved him.”
‘X Factor’ judges Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger put One Direction together during series seven of the talent show.
Liam was joined in the group by Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik.
The boy band went on to achieve global fame and release five albums – ‘Up All Night’, ‘Take Me Home’, ‘Midnight Memories’, ‘Four’, and ‘Made in the A.M’ – during their time together, but Zayn quit the band in 2015, and One Direction went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
The group are remembered for several hit songs, including ‘What Makes You Beautiful’, ‘Steal My Girl’, ‘Best Song Ever’, and ‘Drag Me Down’.
Several ‘X Factor’ stars have paid tribute to Liam, including Olly Murs, Rylan Clark, Josh Cuthbert and host Dermot O’Leary.
What’s more, Harry’s mother Anne Twist took to social media to share a broken-hearted emoji.
She wrote on Instagram: “Just a boy … ”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Christopher Biggins has hit out at the BBC for selling the rights to ‘Porridge’, after receiving royalty cheques “for 15 pence”.
The 75-year-old actor portrayed Lukewarm in the sitcom from 1974 to 1977, opposite Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale and Sir David Jason, and he used to receive royalty cheques for £1,500 when repeats aired on terrestrial TV, but now he doesn’t get nearly as much when the episodes air again on satellite channels.
Speaking on ‘The Lewis Nicholls Show’, he said: “When it was repeated on BBC One or BBC Two I used to get something like £1,500. But then unfortunately the BBC, in their own judgement, sold all the comedy shows to Gold, which we earn no money at all for.
“I get cheques for 15 pence. What do you do with a cheque for 15 pence?”
“It’s very rarely now repeated on BBC One or BBC Two. It’s always constantly on those satellite channels and we get nothing.”
Biggins insisted it is “very unfair”, and the star believes he isn’t the only one who is disgruntled by the move, insisting it has “really angered” others, too.
He added: “It really angers all of us.
“It is bizarre and it is very unfair. It’s ridiculous.”
While Biggins – who won the seventh series of ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ in 2007 – has become best known for appearing in pantomimes and reality TV of late, he also starred in BBC sitcoms ‘Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?’ and ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em’, as well as the BBC’s version of ‘I, Claudius’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir David Jason felt everything from “wonder” to “outright panic” when he received a letter from a daughter he never knew he had.
In 2022, the ‘Only Fools And Horses’ legend found out he may have a child he never knew existed for 52 years, which gave him a whole range of emotions as he tried to come to terms with the revelation.
Writing in his new memoir ‘This Time Next Year’, he recalling feeling everything from “wonder and amazement, through anxiety and heartache, to fear and outright panic”.
He said: “I’ve never experienced such a jumble of competing emotions. We were both feeling them. There was a lot of elation kind of, ‘Can you believe it?’ and, ‘What an amazing thing!’
“But there was an inevitable sense of distance too, and a pang of sadness for those missing years, all that lost time.
“So strange to feel this instant intimacy between the two of you, this obvious bond, and, at the same time, to be aware of this gap between you: so much common ground, and yet all that ground uncovered.”
The 84-year-old actor – who has daughter Sophie, 24, with his wife Lady Gill White – found out that he is the father of actress Abi Harris and grandfather to young Charlie.
Abi, 54, had an inkling David might be her biological father after hearing about her time with Jennifer – who starred in ‘Doctor Who’ and 1983 James Bond film ‘Octopussy’ – and she noticed she had a similar shaped nose to ‘The Darling Buds of May’ star.
She decided to write David a letter, quoting a line from Dylan Thomas’ play ‘Under Milk Wood’, and asked if would take a paternity test, which he agreed to.
In his book, Sir David has revealed the letter, which reads: “To begin at the beginning, well actually, at my beginning. I wonder whether it has ever crossed your mind, as it has done with Mum and more recently with me, that you might be my biological father?”
She insisted she wasn’t looking for financial support, but asked if the actor would “take an anonymous paternity test so that I can finally know the truth and let the matter rest”.
Sir David continued: “You will be unsurprised to learn that my hands were shaking by now. What had I just read? I had to go back and read the whole thing again. And then I had to read it again. And then again after that.
“I have to say it really hadn’t crossed my mind that Abi Harris was my daughter – that my relationship with Jennifer Hill while we were in that production of Under Milk Wood in 1970 could have produced a child without me knowing about it.
“At no point in the nearly fifty years that had gone by since then had that thought had cause to enter my head.”
His wife was stunned by the news, but they both felt sympathetic towards Abi and her situation.
He added: “So naturally I should agree to do the test. And if the test came back positive, then we should meet Abi and open our arms to her. I am so grateful that Gill was so supportive and understanding about it all.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — KSI has promised to be a “villain” in his stint as a guest judge on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
The 31-year-old social media star will stand in for Bruno Tonioli during the next series of the ITV show as the Italian takes time away due to his ‘Dancing with the Stars’ commitments and has joked that he will be the nasty one on the panel.
KSI told ‘Capital’: “I’ve kicked Bruno out, and I’m taking his place! Actually, he’s coming back, but I’m there for a little bit. Yeah, it’s going to be fun, man. I’m going to judge some talent.
“Everyone thinks I’m going to be an evil judge, I’m going to be a villain – I’m going to just press the red button as soon as they walk out. I might do that every now and then, but I’m just going to have fun with it and we’ll just see what happens.”
The YouTuber explained that he has a “high threshold” for acts as he has seen some crazy antics as an online star.
KSI said: “I doubt it! But sure. Because I’ve seen a lot online, I have a high threshold. Like, the bar is very high for me.”
He also revealed that he is unlikely to be able to maintain a “straight face” when he watches some of the acts.
The influencer said: “I’m going to be laughing in their face repeatedly! But it will be a good laugh anyway, so we’ll see.”
KSI will join regular judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon on the panel and recently spoke of his excitement at the opportunity.
He said: “I’m so excited to be a guest judge for ‘BGT’. When I got the call up, I couldn’t believe it. I remember watching old ‘BGT’ episodes and going from being amazed to laughing my a*** off. I’m buzzing to see all the fresh new talent, and I’ll be sure to leave a mark.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Peter Capaldi loved the “affection” he got starring in ‘Doctor Who’.
The 66-year-old star portrayed the Twelfth Doctor in the long-running BBC sci-fi series and explained that being the Time Lord was more “fun” than any other acting role because of the love fans have for the character.
Peter told RadioTimes.com: “It was just an incredible experience. Suddenly, you’re in the middle of this fantastical world, surrounded by people who love ‘Doctor Who’.
“I was watching Tom Baker (who played the Fourth Doctor) talking about something, and he said that when he was Doctor Who, he would do tons and tons of publicity and stuff, because being Doctor Who was much more fun than being Tom Baker, and I would say the same, probably, being Doctor Who is much more fun than being me.
“Certainly, you’re in a very privileged position, because you receive the affection for that character. It is a character, it’s not me, and it’s a delightful place to be. It would be a hard part to sustain. I think, forever, but you do see the best of people, which is lovely.”
Peter is currently starring in the Amazon Prime Video series ‘The Devil’s Hour’ as a criminal capable of ‘remembering’ the future but explained that he doesn’t seek out characters that have unique relationships with time.
The ‘Thick of It’ actor said: “Obviously, I seem to have some facility for impersonating these characters who have this weird relationship with time. It’s just being the kind of actor – you bring yourself to everything, really.
“There are little overlaps (with ‘Doctor Who’), which is fine, but (as an actor), you learn a certain skill about how you look angry or look sad or whatever.
“But actually, actors really are an accumulation of their life and their life’s experiences and also their roles.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dianne Buswell burns sage to banish negative energy during ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ training sessions.
The 35-year-old star has revealed she tries to “cleanse the room” at the beginning of each rehearsal with her celebrity dance partner Chris McCausland, 47.
As quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column, she said: “When I come in, I go, ‘How are you feeling Chris?’
“And he goes, ‘Urgh’. I take that as not very good. So I get out the sage stick and I cleanse the room.
“It works for about an hour and Chris feels good and then he goes back to, ‘Urgh’. And then we get the stick out.”
Chris – who has made history this year as the BBC Latin and ballroom competition’s first ever blind contestant – insisted he isn’t a fan of the practice.
He added: “She likes her stinky stick and the whole room stinks. All the negative energy has left, but I think everything else is left.”
Chris recently admitted he was “falling apart” before last weekend’s live show after being struck down with a bad cold.
In a joint Instagram video with Dianne, Chris said: “I’ve had a cold. I’m falling apart, but I’m motoring on because I’m a soldier. But we’re getting through the dance with the song, all the way through, occasionally better than where it was yesterday.”
Dianne quipped: “Before I even arrived here [for training] you messaged me: ‘Oh Di. My throat, my nose, my wrist, my big toe…’”
And Chris – who is the show’s first blind contestant – replied: “I was being considerate. I was just to let you know I’ve got a bug. My throat’s a bit sore, my nose is bunged up, just letting you know in case you want to wear a helmet.”
The duo took on the salsa on Saturday (12.10.24), getting a standing ovation from the audience and a score of 30 from the judges.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Taskmaster’ creator Alex Horne has ideas for car, dog and food-based spin-offs.
The 46-year-old comedian – who started the game show as an Edinburgh Fringe performance before bringing it to television – is expanding the franchise with ‘Junior Taskmaster’ on Channel 4, and he admitted there have been other suggestions discussed over the years.
He told Radio Times magazine: “We did a pilot for ‘Foodmaster’. We’ve talked about ‘Dogmaster’ and ‘Carmaster’ and so on.
“But I think we’re pretty happy with where we are. There’s obviously a danger of diluting the product. I think, currently, junior and senior are our lot.”
The show sees a group of comedians competing in wacky tasks, which they can try to complete however they see fit.
The new kids version – which will see Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak replace Greg Davies and Alex respectively – will see children take on silly challenges in a format that builds on the Taskmaster Education programme, which lets schools use elements of the show to aid the curriculum.
The main ‘Taskmaster’ has expanded and spread around the world, with the likes of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Norway, Sweden and Portugal among those to have their own local versions currently on air.
Alex and Greg tried to break the United States, but the creator would like to have another go after making “a few mistakes” in the adaptation.
He explained: “We sort of did everything the channel told us to do, so we halved the length of the show. It was 22 minutes in total.
“And all the tasks were tasks we’d already done, because we thought we’d play it safe.
“We made a few compromises, which we regret. Greg and I would jump at the chance at doing it in America again, but on our own terms.”

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