OHMYGOSSIP — Jodie Marsh doesn’t care about showbiz anymore.
The 44-year-old former model was a mainstay on reality TV in the 2000s but in recent years has quit the limelight altogether to run her Fripps Farm animal sanctuary in Essex and admitted she has been left amazed by the support of some of fellow famous faces amid the new venture.
She told Heat magazine: “I don’t give a s*** about showbiz, or how I look, or about my weight or anything. I genuinely would rather be here than at some premiere, and I feel like a lot of celebs would rather be at the premiere than doing anything meaningful in life. I’m good friends with Jessie Wallace and Linda Henry from ‘EastEnders’. They’re both wonderful, and Linda is amassive animal lover and just adores what we do here. What’s been interesting is seeing what celebs have gone back in touch and which ones, some I didn’t even know in the first place, are now supporting the farm. So, for example, Nicole and Natalie Appleton, who I don’t know, just phone up my local food shop and order food for the animals and have it sent to me.
“I don’t ask them to do that, they just do it. It’s blown me away, but the public blow me away as much as the celebrities. I regularly end up in tears from messages of support from the public.”
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star went on to add she is the “happiest” she has ever been since setting up Fripps Farm and noted that is what she should have been doing all along.
She said: “This is the happiest I’ve ever, ever f***** been. Ever. This is not just what I wanted to do, but this is what I should’ve been doing. This is all I’ve ever wanted and more.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Neil Jones is “not bothered” about having a partner on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 41-year-old dancer has not been paired with a celebrity for the current series of the BBC Latin and ballroom show but insisted that even though it is “great” when he does get the chance to compete with a star, he is still just happy to be a part of the show in any capacity.
He told OK! Magazine: “I always say that everything happens for a reason. Every year when I get the call from ‘Strictly’, I say, ‘I don’t mind whether I have a partner or not, honestly, I’m not bothered at all’. If I do have a partner then, great, I take them aside and ask what they want from this process. And if I don’t, also great, I still turn up, cheer everyone on and give them advice. I love the show either way.”
The TV star – who has danced with sports presenter Alex Scott and former ‘EastEnders’ actress during his time on the show – has just welcomed a baby girl with fiance Chyna Mills, 24, and revealed that the former ‘Love Island’ contestant hadn’t even watched the competition when they first met.
He said: “When I was on tour with Strictly last time, Chyna would come and visit all the time. She hangs out with the other dancers and just immediately became part of the family, they all love her,” Neil told us.Chyna had never watched ‘Strictly’ when we met, her family liked it but she wasn’t a fan. She will kill me for saying that, but she’s definitely coming around now. I’ll catch her watching it and sometimes she’ll even say if someone danced well, so I know she likes it.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Christopher Biggins has quit acting because it’s difficult to remember lines now he’s in his 70s.
The 74-year-old showbiz legend is best known for his roles in the ’70s TV classics ‘Porridge’, ‘Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?’ and ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em’, but transitioned into children’s television, pantomime, presenting and reality shows.
And the former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star insists his acting days are behind him as it’s a “strain” to learn lines at his age.
He told the Daily Star newspaper’s HOT TV column: “My acting days are done. I don’t want to do it anymore.
“I can’t learn all the lines. It’s a strain as you get older.
“It’s a lot of effort being an actor. It’s boring.”
The ‘Poldark’ actor is proudest of his roles as Lukewarm in the situation comedy ‘Porridge’ and Nero in the BBC’s version of ‘I, Claudius’ and the lasting legacy of both shows.
He said: “It’s fantastic to have done so much. Things I’ve done like ‘Porridge’ and ‘I, Claudius’ are still being shown on TV now. That’s great.”
The former ‘Surprise Surprise’ co-host will still dip his toe into the acting world at Christmas as he plans to continue doing panto.
He added: “I love doing panto… you don’t really have to learn the lines!”
The veteran entertainer was just 24 years old when he was approached to star in his first panto as the “dame” – a role typically played by older men – and he was rather “insulted” and took some convincing before he agreed to the career departure.
He told the Sunday Post newspaper in 2019: “I remember when I was asked to do my first pantomime, I was absolutely amazed. Funnily enough, I was quite insulted! The reason for that was because every pantomime dame I had seen was in their 60s.
“They were much older but suddenly here they were, asking a 24-year-old to do pantomime, and I thought, ‘No, I’m not going to do that.’ These people kept asking and asking and asking, until eventually they mentioned money.
“This was in Darlington, at the Civic Theatre, and they told me it would be a thousand pounds a week. I couldn’t believe it. Tickets were one-and-six! So I thought, well, I’d better do it. Of course, once I did it I loved it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Catherine Tate has an “open mind” when it comes to believing in the paranormal.
The ‘Doctor Who’ star is playing Peggy Hodgson, a single mother who attempts to save her three children from a poltergeist, in a West End adaptation of the supernatural drama ‘The Enfield Haunting’.
The play – which will have a limited London run before transferring to Brighton – is based on a real-life testimony from ghost hunters, heard by the writer Paul Unwin about the paranormal occurrence that took place in the North London suburb in 1977 which saw sisters Janet, 11, and Margaret, 13, tormented by a malevolent presence.
Catherine would not rule the existence of poltergeists, demons and ghosts.
Asked if she believes the 1970s haunting was real on this week’s ‘The Graham Norton Show’, she replied: “How do any of us know anything? It is more interesting keeping an open mind.”
And quizzed on whether theatre-goers will jump out of their skin, she said: “We haven’t started rehearsing yet but I believe there will be some really scary moments.”
The Enfield Haunting was investigated by Society for Psychical Research (SPR) members Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair as well as famous American demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, who visited the property and concluded that events were being caused by a supernatural entity.
Their investigation was turned in the 2016 horror movie ‘The Conjuring 2’.
Tate is “thrilled” to be treading the boards in the production – which is directed by Angus Jackson at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
Catherine will appear alongside David Threlfall, 69, who is playing Grosse, an out-of-his-depth ghosthunter.
The 53-year-old actress said: “I’m thrilled to be part of ‘The Enfield Haunting’ and can’t wait to start working with the first-class creative team and the brilliant David Threlfall.”
The 65-year-old playwright said: “Before Guy Lyon Playfair, the poltergeist expert, died in 2018, I spent a long afternoon with him in his basement flat in Earls Court.
“He and Maurice Grosse had spent months with the Hodgson family trying to protect them, but also make sense of what was going on. What Guy told me was terrifying. So much of what appears to have happened was impossible to fake and yet at the centre of the whole thing were real people trying to make sense of their lives.”
‘The Graham Norton Show’ airs on BBC One on Friday, October 6 from 10.40pm and is also available on BBC iPlayer.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lorraine Stanley won’t watch ‘EastEnders’ again if her character is killed off.
The 47-year-old actress is set to bow out from her role as Karen Taylor after seven years on the soap but she refused to reveal details of her exit storyline after fans online speculated she’d die in the upcoming fire at Kathy’s Cafe, though she admitted she hopes there will be a chance to return one day.
She told The Sun newspaper: “I hope the door will be left open for Karen. I can’t say too much, but if they kill me then I would never watch ‘EastEnders’ again.”
Lorraine was “sad” when she was axed from the soap but she’s now looking forward to being able to try new things.
She said: “I was sad, it was a mix of emotions, it’s sad but it’s exciting as now I can go and do what I want.
“You can get a bit relaxed there and a bit comfortable. So I want to be out of my comfort zone.”
One job the ‘Chasing Shadows’ actress hopes will come up is a role on rival soap ‘Coronation Street’ and she even knows what part she’d like to play.
She said: “Would I consider a rival soap? If I did, I think it would have to be ‘Corrie’ and I would have to be the new landlady. I’d be Gemma’s [Winter] auntie, Bernie’s sister. I’d be in their family and I’d take over The Rovers.”
When it comes to saying goodbye to Karen, Lorraine hopes fans will remember her alter ego for her kind and generous nature.
She said: “I just want people to remember her as the best mum on the Square, a heart of gold, she’d give you her last fiver and would do anything for her kids – a bit like myself.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jody Cundy may miss this week’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ after contracting an infection.
The Paralympian has been unable to rehearse with his professional partner Jowita Przystał for most of this week because he is unable to attach his prosthetic leg due to his amputated limb being painful and swollen.
Speaking on ‘Strictly: It Takes Two’ on Thursday (05.10.23), he revealed: “Really confident that we could just perfect everything for Saturday, I got home on Tuesday night, took my leg off, and was like, ‘Ooh, that’s quite sore,’ and didn’t really think too much of it. Cleaned it, bathed it, made sure it was all OK.
“Then I got up around 4am, looked at my leg, and it was warm, swollen, and I was like, ‘That’s getting infected, I need to see somebody about it’.”
Jody was prescribed antibotics at the hospital, but has still been unable to wear the prosthetic.
He continued: “That was Wednesday’s training out. So, I tried again this morning [Thursday] to get my leg on, not been able to get my leg on today, but it is healing, it is getting better but at the moment I’m still not able to get my leg on.
“The hope is that tomorrow the swelling’s gone down a little bit more and we’re in a situation where I can do a little bit of practice and pick up where we left off on Tuesday.”
If he is able to make the live show, the sportsman is confident he knows their Movie Week routine.
He added: “Fortunately, I’m in a position where I actually know the routine and we’ve gone all the way through.”
Jody later took to Instagram to express his hope he will be fit to perform at the weekend.
He wrote on his Instagram Story: “You may have seen on It Takes Two, that I’ve picked up a minor niggle this week that’s meant I’ve missed a few days training.
“Everything seems to be settling down and I hope to be back on the dancefloor this Saturday evening.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Coleen Nolan “kept splitting up from Michael Jones because he was “so different” from her previous husbands.
The 58-year-old TV star – who was initially married to ‘EastEnders’ actor Shane Richie from 1990 until 1999 and then to musician Ray Fensome from 2007 until 2018 – met supermarket logistics worker Michael, 57, on Tinder in 2022 and she is “so happy” with him but admitted that it was her fault that they split up a couple of times.
She told Yours magazine: “I’m so happy. I’m a real romantic. It was my fault we kept splitting up. I think it was because he was very different to my ex-husbands and people I’ve been out with. He was very attentive and romantic and, at first, I just didn’t know what to do with it. It kind of freaked me out a bit. I thought, I don’t know why he loves me as much – it was just me. And then every time I kind of finished it, I’d miss him so much, and then sort my head out and accept that I deserve to be, and can. ”
The long-serving ‘Loose Women’ panellist – who has sons Shane Jr, 34, and Jake, 31, with her first husband and daughter Ciara, 22, with her second – went on to add that she would recommend online dating to anyone but remains unsure whether she will walk down the aisle for a third time.
She said: “It’s like when you used to meet someone in a club in the old days. You’d go out on a date and, if it didn’t work, you’d go back to the club again and see if you could meet someone else, or whatever. I had a lot of online dates, and you know kind of instantly whether they’re right, and then luckily, I met the one that was right.
“Third time lucky… Oh, who knows? I never thought I’d meet anyone again… I’m not totally against [marriage], but it’s not happening yet.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Claire Richards had “overwhelming anxiety” during her time on ‘The Masked Singer’.
The 46-year-old pop star – who is best known as a member of Steps alongside Faye Tozer, Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee and Ian ‘H’ Watkins – took part in the 2023 series of the ITV competition as Knitting but explained that she experienced symptoms of the perimenopause whilst on the show.
She told Woman’s Own: “It started last summer but the symptoms started slowly so I didn’t notice it at first. Then when I did ‘The Masked Singer’ I started to get this overwhelming anxiety that was so bad I found it hard to breathe. I thought it was nerves but it started ramping up and I was having palpitations and nothing seemed to help calm me down.
The ‘One For Sorrow’ singer went on to add that she was constantly tired during her time on the show but eventually found light at the end of the tunnel when she read the book ‘Menopausing’ by ‘Masked Singer’ judge Davina McCall.
She added: “I was tired all the time, I didn’t want to go out or see anyone and I started to feel angry for no reason, which isn’t like me at all. I read Davina McCall’s menopause book and that was a game changer for me.”
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ stars recently admitted that she felt “quite lucky” to be going through the health change at a time when it is being spoken about by her fellow famous faces.
She told The Mirror: “I feel quite lucky that I’m going through it at a time where it’s being spoken about by other female celebrities who’ve really brought it to the forefront. It’s amazing how little anybody really knows about it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ruth Langsford has no plans to retire yet but she won’t “work till I drop”.
The 63-year-old presenter has been on our television screens since the late 1980s when she presented the local news on ITV franchise Television South West (TSW) and has achieved popularity thanks to her work on ‘This Morning’, ‘Loose Women’ and ‘Celebrity Googlebox’.
Ruth – who is married to TV newsreader Eamonn Holmes, 63 – is aware she is getting older but she wants to continue working on television for years to come because she loves what she does for a living.
When asked if she would “work till she dropped” on the ‘How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams’ podcast, Ruth replied: “I don’t think I’ll work till I drop, but, while I’m capable of working … well, more importantly, while I’m enjoying working, and I really do.
“I love what I do and I have done for years and years and years, which makes it much easier, doesn’t it? I think if I hated my job, I would definitely be looking to retire, if I was financially able to retire. But, I enjoy what I do, so I’m not looking to retire.”
Ruth is keen to keep working because it gives her a “focus” and “structure” as she continues to grieve over the death of her beloved sister.
Ruth and her younger sibling Julia were very close in their younger years, having attended boarding school together. Tragically, Julia was found dead in 2019 at the age of 62 after taking her own life due to her mental health issues.
Opening up about how she copes with the loss to her ‘Loose Women’ co-star Kaye, Ruth said: “I do a lot of crying, and I do it in the shower mostly. I think for me, Eamonn was amazing during that time, amazing. And then work, to me, it was like I needed to focus. It was get up, I would cry in the shower … have a big old bawl, and then I’d almost cut it off and go, ‘Right, come on, time for work.’
“I needed that. I could sit and cry all day about my sister. I needed that focus. I needed that structure back in my life. Certain times things hit you. My sister always liked funny cards, and then it jolts you where you think, ‘I don’t need to get her a card anymore.’ I think it’s important that you don’t lock it away in a box.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Vanessa Feltz would try online dating if she wasn’t famous.
The 61-year-old TV star endured a public breakup earlier this year when she discovered that her fiancé Ben Ofoedu had been unfaithful several times throughout their 16-year relationship and explained that she would like to try meeting someone online but is unable to do so because of her fame as she jokingly revealed her plans to wait outside a prison for a potential suitor.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, she said: “It’s not that I don’t like online dating, I just don’t really think I can do it. Imagine if I suddenly showed up, people would get the shock of their lives and then it would end up in the papers. If I could, I probably would because I just think it’s the best way to meet the most people.
“Somebody said I just had to hang round the cheese counter in Waitrose. How much cheese can I possibly buy? I was thinking maybe I’d wait outside a prison with a cake and hope someone would come out and marry me. I don’t quite know what to do, quite frankly, I’m quite desperate!”
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant recently revealed that despite her messy public split, she is determined to keep going in all aspects of her life.
Asked if she ever felt tempted to give up on love, she told Metro newspaper’s Sixty Seconds column: “Oh my God, no. I wish to move on. I’m not saying whether I have or haven’t, but I definitely want to. I’m not tempted to give up anything while I’m alive – not work, love, fun, excitement, adventure or affection.”
The broadcast legend – who appeared on ‘Celebs Go Dating’ in June – was then asked to describe her “ideal man” and explained that she would have to find him physically attractive, but would love him to be “dynamic”.
She said: “Obviously [I want] someone honest and trustworthy! I’d have to find him attractive, so there’d have to be something to him – he’d have to have a bit of swagger and dynamism. I’d like him to be kind and entertaining, interested in things, and full. Whether I’m going to meet someone like that, God only knows, but that’s what I want.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lorraine Kelly says the late Sarah Harding’s memory “will save lives”.
The 63-year-old presenter praised the advocacy work being done to raise awareness about the importance of getting checked for lumps after the Girls Aloud star passed away after being diagnosed late with breast cancer aged 39 in 2021.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I’m really glad that’s happening for her family, because that’s her legacy. The work being done in Sarah’s name will save lives, which is tremendous.
Lorraine gushed about the late singer and her ability to be “glamorous” even when she was being silly.
She said: “She’s the only person in the world I know who dressed as a jobby and still looked glamorous.”
The former ‘GMTV’ host acknowledged the importance of “talking” about it on platforms such as her ITV daytime chat show.
Lorraine said: “But the great thing is we’re actually talking about it. When I was first on TV, we’re talking almost 40 years ago now, we didn’t even say the word ‘cancer’. That’s why I think shows like ours, the daytime shows, we’ve been pioneers in many ways when it comes to health issues and talking about everything.
“We’ve shown live breast exams on camera, experts like Dr Hilary [Jones] have talked us through them, and it’s helped take all the embarrassment and silliness out of it. That’s really important as well, it’s just another part of your body, of course we shouldn’t be embarrassed of it.”
Lorraine – who has her 29-year-old daughter Rosie with her husband Steve Smith, 63 – shared that people who deal with the disease like her late Granny Mac and her colleague Helen hate being labelled “warriors or brave” after diagnosis.
She said: “What I learned is that people don’t want to be called warriors or brave, they’re just trying to deal with a really difficult situation. “What I learned is that people don’t want to be called warriors or brave, they’re just trying to deal with a really difficult situation.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sylvester McCoy jumped at the chance to return to ‘Doctor Who.’
The 80year-old actor played the titular Time Lord in the BBC sci-fi series in the late 1980s but made a cameo appearance in the 2022 episode ‘The Power of the Doctor’ as then-star Jodie Whittaker bowed out of the role and thought it was “wonderful” that he ended up reuniting with fellow former Doctor Colin Baker.
He told RadioTimes.com: “When we were asked to do it, I said yes. Immediately. I said I’d go and do Jodie’s last show I also longed to work with Jodie, who is the most delightful, wonderful lady. Joyful, energetic. Full of bounce and vitality and talent. Great actress. And so it was wonderful to do it. And it was great that all of us did it. We eventually got there too late, actually for the 50th, but I’m glad the way we are now. “We didn’t do the 50th because out of it came the five Doctors reboot and we are all so proud of that. In fact, Colin said it was the happiest job he’d ever done in his acting life.”
Sylvester also reunited with his on-screen companion Sophie Aldred – who played Ace on the show during the late 1980s -as part of the episode and explained it was an “emotional moment” to be back together with his former co-star.
He added: “Sophie had the hardest job because she was up a mountain in a cave talking to a brick wall. I mean, she almost didn’t notice the difference between acting with me and talking to this brick wall. Anyway, she had to imagine I was there, but I was in the studio later, and as luck would have it, Sophie was around and she came. She fed me the lines off while so I had an easier job because I was actually looking into Sophie’s eyes while I was acting with her. And it was, you know, easy to and one became very nostalgic. It became emotional. It was, you know, it was an emotional moment.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Michael Palin doesn’t think there will be a reboot of ‘Monty Python’.
The 80year-old actor joined the comedy group in the late 1960s and went on to star in a series of sketch comedy series and films alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman but insisted that their arena shows almost a decade ago were their “last hurrah” and the success probably couldn’t be recreated these days.
He told Metro newspaper’s SixtySeconds column: “The O2 arena shows in 2014 were our final hurrah. We got all the Pythons together, apart, of course, from Graham [Chapman, who died in 1989]. For all of us, that was a remarkable series of shows.
“The great thing about ‘Python’ was we were always keen to do something new and different. Taking a long run of shows around the world wouldn’t have worked – we’d have got bored stiff. We were going to do four shows at The O2, and bookings were so good that we did ten. It was just terrific. The feeling from the audience was incredible. I don’t think you could ever recreate that.”
Meanwhile, the TV star went on to add that he is proud of the comedy group’s legacy and explained that they “broke barriers” at the time because ‘Monty Python’ was so different that to anything else that was on the small screen at the time.
He said: “I am. We broke through some sort of barrier with ‘Python’. Comedy shows were either ‘Dad’s Army’ or sitcoms, and easy to categorise. ‘Python’ was scattergun – you didn’t know what you were going to get when you sat down and watched Python. So many people liked that. People don’t always quote things, but they’ll try to retell a sketch and don’t get it right. The Lumberjack Song and the Spanish Inquisition are the ones people tend to do most.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ricky Norwood is the ninth celebrity confirmed for ‘Dancing on Ice’.
The 40-year-old actor is best known for playing the role of Fatboy on BBC soap opera ‘EastEnders’ from 2010 until 2015 but will take to the rink in early 2024 to compete in the ITV1 skating competition and explained that he chose to sign up for the show because he sees it as a chance to learn and grow.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’, he said: “I’m very excited, very scared. Very scared! But very excited. It’s come at such a great time in life. I can’t skate at all! No rehearsals as yet, I’ve just had some physiotherapy to strengthen the body. It was something that scared me and it’s a massive challenge.
“I think we all grow when we do something that really scares us. Once you jump into it and throw away into the fear, then you can get into it and learn something. When I leave this show, this is going to be with me forever. Rehearsals start for me on October 12. It will be very intense.”
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star will join S Club 7 signer Hannah Spearritt, former pro boxer Ricky Hatton, ‘Coronation Street’ actress Claire Sweeney, former ‘Love Island’ contestant Amber Davies, Olympic champion Greg Rutherford ‘Made in Chelsea” star Miles Nazaire, Stephen Lustig-Webb of ‘Gogglebox’ fame and comedienne Lou Sanders in the lineup.
Speaking on BBC Radio Five, Lou explained: “I’m nervous about cracking my head open, or just bashing the old head. I can’t afford to lose any more brain cells. I’m also worried about my partner picking me up, he’s going to have to be very strong and very brave.”
‘Dancing on Ice’ returns to ITV and ITVX in 2024

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