OHMYGOSSIP — TV illusionist Derren Brown has admitted he was near burnout after his last tour.
The 52-year-old ‘mentalist’ doesn’t appear on stage in his new theatre show ‘Unbelievable’, and instead uses a cast of non-magician.
He told The Sun about how it came about after he decided he need to give himself some rest: “I needed a bit of a break after the last tour which was like a year and a half and also crossed over with doing this show.
“It got a bit burnouty.”
But he reassured fans: “I’m not going to stop any time soon, but it’s nice to explore this different way of approaching it.”
The show, at London’s Criterion Theatre, uses entertainers with no magic backgrounds to explore how tricks can be performed without the “learned behaviours and instincts” of professionally illusionists.
Derren added: “That’s been a fun part of it – some have a background in magic but some don’t – and it’s great to see what they bring to it, all the baggage.”
The trickster’s controversial telly shows have included the 2018 Netflix special ‘Sacrifice’.
It featured an unsuspecting participant taking part in a faked medical experiment to increase his bravery and empathy before he is put in a situation where he must decide whether to take a bullet for a stranger or save his own life.
Derren has said about his new show, which was three years in the making and which is running in London until 7 April 2024: “We have reimagined what a night of illusion could be.
“We have taken the love and experience we’ve put into my own stage work over twenty years and created, from the ground up, a proper, original, theatrical experience.
“I think we have liberated the magic show. It’s going to be a glorious thing.”
The show features a New York Subway band and a company of performers, plus, an updated version of a one act play not seen on the London stage in over 100 years – ‘Will, The Witch and The Wolfman’.
Derren co-wrote and directed the production with long-time collaborators Andy Nyman, 57, and 60-year-old Andrew O’Connor, and it’s a career first in his shows that he isn’t personally appear on stage.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Melinda Messenger believes her relationship is “promising” because she was “dirty and smelly” and had “rotten feet” when she met her fiance.
The 52-year-old former model has recently opened up about meeting Dr Raj Joshi, 47, while she was filming ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ and he was the show medic, and she now believes it is the ideal grounding for a long relationship because their friendship started based on “more important things than how [she] looked or smelt.”
Speaking on ‘Lorraine’, she said: “It was very unromantic circumstances. We were, essentially, both at work.
“Raj is the doctor on the show. When I came out, we get checked out by the psychologist and the doctor to make sure we were OK.
“I was fine, I just had bruises and rotten fee.
“I then went into meet Raj and we ended up chatting about everything.
“I was dirty, smelly, sweaty, stinky, I had rotten feet, was in cycling shorts.
“I think that’s probably quite promising because a friendship started based on more important things than how I look or smell.”
Melinda and Raj got engaged in August, and they are planning to marry in 2024.
She wrote on Instagram: “We’ve got some very happy news to share. @raj.joshi.expedition and I got engaged in beautiful New Zealand at Matariki, the Maori New year, and we are getting married next year.”
Melinda was previously married to therapist Wayne Roberts – the father of her three children Morgan, 22, Flynn, 20, and Evie, 18 – from 1998⁠ until ⁠2012.
‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ continues on Channel 4 on Sunday (01.10.23).

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OHMYGOSSIP — Coleen Rooney is weeks away from revealing the “real” story of her epic legal battle with Rebekah Vardy in a new TV series.
Disney+ has confirmed it will be releasing the highly-anticipated documentary ‘Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story’ on Friday 18 October – with the streamer saying the show will give “exclusive access” to the wife of former footballer Wayne Rooney’s legal battle to prove her fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy leaked stories about her to the press.
Disney said about the upcoming three-part show: “The incredible story will be told through exclusive access to the woman at the heart of it all, Coleen Rooney finally speaks alongside interviews with her family, legal team and key players involved in the resulting trial.
“Uncovering one of the biggest tabloid news stories in Britain for the last decade, it reveals how Coleen turned amateur online sleuth to find an explanation for why private stories concerning herself and her family continued to appear in the media.
“It examines the circumstances that led to her infamous Instagram post that ‘broke the internet’ all the way to Coleen successfully defending herself in one of the UK’s highest-profile High Court defamation cases of recent years.
“As well as the case itself, it will explore how Coleen has had her life played out in public for the last 20 years. We know her as one of Britain’s most famous celebrities and wife of England’s record-scoring footballer Wayne Rooney.”
The real-life drama between Coleen and Rebekah, 41 – wife of footballer Jamie Vardy, 36 – first erupted in 2019.
Coleen said in a social media post she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and fingered Rebekah as the person leaking “false stories” about her private life to the tabloids.
The WAG’s amateur detective work – which saw her dubbed Wagatha Christie in reference to crime writer Agatha Christie – prompted Rebekah to sue her for libel, with the case coming to a head in 2022 as the claim was heard at the High Court.
Rebekah lost the case, with the judge finding Coleen’s infamous “It’s ……………. Rebekah Vardy’s account” Instagram post, which named her old friend as the source of the leaks, as “substantially true”.
The Disney+ documentary, directed by Lucy Bowden, will also explore how Coleen’s life has played out in public for the last 20 years, as the childhood sweetheart and then wife of former England footballer Wayne, with whom she has four children.
‘Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story’ will be available on Hulu in the US, Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nicola Thorp is pregnant.
The 35-year-old actress and her actor fiance Nikesh Patel have revealed that they are expecting their first child together.
The couple made the announcement on Instagram with pictures from a professional photoshoot, which Nikesh captioned: “Some news”. Nicola reshared his post.
Nicola, who played Nicola Rubinstein in Corrie until 2018 and again briefly in 2019, announced her engagement to Nikesh, 38, in January.
Nikesh has starred in ‘Indian Summers’, ‘Starstruck’ and the mini-series ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’.
He and Nicola have been dating since 2021, and they appeared together in the fifth series of Channel 4 show reality show ‘Celebrity Hunted’ earlier this year.
Meanwhile, it was recently revealed Nicola was terrorised for two years by a stalker known as “the Grim Reaper”.
The ‘Coronation Street’ actress and activist told a court about how Ravinderjit Dhillon used 25 aliases to torment her online and threatened to sexually abuse her in front of her parents.
The star took to the stand in court in June as she opened up on an 89-page document she handed to the Met Police about his campaign of terror, which started with an obscene image he sent of himself in October 2018.
She told the court: “He became an army of men all wanting to do me harm, threats to rape me.
“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting for the rights of women and doing so in the public eye has come with some personal cost.
“I became the target of the exact behaviour I was standing up against.”
She recalled messages sent by Dhillon describing himself as her “grim reaper”, adding: “He sent messages saying, ‘I’m going to be with you forever’, ‘I’m your grim reaper’. In one message he said 28 times he wasn’t going to leave me.”
She noted that he also claimed to be ‘Helena’ and said a friend followed her onto a train, apparently getting “so close he could smell her”.
He was convicted in April and had been remanded in custody before sentencing at Isleworth Crown Court.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ben Shephard is set to replace Phillip Schofield on ‘This Morning’.
The 48-year-old TV presenter – who was previously a stand-in host on ‘This Morning’, covering for Phillip between 2005 and 2011 – has impressed show bosses after returning to the sofa this week.
While show bosses were originally planning to have Holly Willoughby as the main presenter with a series of rotating co-hosts, they are now considering having Ben as a permanent co-host.
An insider told the Daily Mail: “Ben did really well and the bosses loved his partnership with Holly and there was great feedback from many avenues.
“Ben is known throughout ITV as being very popular with the audiences of whatever shows he hosts. He is also trusted by the public and is much loved within ITV. He has hosted so many shows for the channel.
“He and Holly go back years too – he presented on This Morning some years ago and they have a great rapport.”
Ben currently works on ‘Good Morning Britain’, ‘Tipping Point’ and the Saturday game show ‘Ninja Warrior UK’.
ITV said: “Ben is a much loved and popular presenter on ITV but no such decisions have been made.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Peter Kay has defended David Walliams and Matt Lucas’ controversial ‘Little Britain’ sketches.
The 50-year-old comedian previously worked with the pair and believes it is a “shame” they have been subject to so much criticism.
The Mirror reports that Kay writes in his new book ‘TV: Big Adventures on the Small Screen’: “”I started to get invites from my peers to play characters in their shows, which was really lovely. Matt Lucas and David Walliams asked me if I’d like to appear in a Little Britain special they were filming called ‘Little Britain Abroad’.
“I was to play the younger brother of Dudley Punt (David Walliams). He’s just married his Thai bride, Ting Tong Macadangdang (Matt Lucas), in order to make an honest man/ woman of her. They go on their honeymoon to Belgium, where they meet up with my character. I live in a caravan park with my new 18-year-old virgin wife Ivanka (Julia Davis), ‘who’s set me back two hundred quid’.
“It was all very far from being politically correct but that’s what made it funny. It probably wouldn’t get made now.
“Sadly, Matt and David have taken a lot of flak in the past few years for the work they did. I think that’s a shame.”
He also believes social media and the media are to blame for the issues in comedy.
He writes: “Comedy is such a minefield, with political correctness changing it all the time. Sometimes for the greater good, most of the time not.
“Everybody’s a critic on social media. Something or somebody gets ‘slammed on Twitter’ (which might only be by a handful of people) and the press jump all over it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Stacey Solomon has made her first ever business investment.
The 33-year-old reality TV star is thrilled about the “huge moment” in her life after she invested in independent hair care brand REHAB.
She wrote on Instagram: “A huge Moment In My Life. So… I have decided for the first time in my entire career to invest my own money into a small business and become a third of @rehabyourhair. It doesn’t feel real. Growing up investing in a small business is never something in my life I thought I’d have the chance to be able to do! I feel like I’m writing this about someone else.”
Stacey posted a picture of herself signing a contract and explained she has been a fan of the business for a while and wants to see them grow.
She wrote: “A long while ago now I used a small business’ haircare product, I just loved everything about it. I then brought more from the business and realised just how clever incredible this business was. When I shared them on my instagram the women who started the business got in touch told me what an impact it made on them, and how they have been working so hard to get their products out there but it’s so hard as a small business to be seen. And when they are seen it’s difficult to fulfil orders etc. I started chatting to them, then met up with them and fell in love. I fell in love with their haircare collection, work ethic, company values morals their ideas for the future. There’s obviously only so far you can go without the right support financially audience reach so although it felt scary for me as it’s something I’ve never done before obviously I knew little about I decided to ask them if I could invest in Rehab. And become a part of the brand myself. And see if I can build and grow Rehab with them because I just believe in it so much. So I am incredibly excited to say, that as of today I am 1/3 owner of @rehabyourhair. I can’t put into words how incredible it feels to say that I am going to start a whole new chapter in my life championing incredible women in business. I see so many talented people day in day out working so hard to achieve their dreams it’s not easy out there. I can’t wait to give my absolute all to Rehab take it to the places it deserves to be.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ellie Leach has vowed to “put her all” into ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ after her boyfriend cheated on her.
The 22-year-old actress split from dancer Reagan Pettman in July after five years of dating and while she admitted it was “upsetting” that he had been unfaithful, she now sees it as the “perfect time” to concentrate on her new challenge.
She told The Sunday Mirror newspaper: “Being cheated on was upsetting, but now’s the perfect time to put my all into ‘Strictly’ and give that 500 percent.”
The former ‘Coronation Street’ star – who left her long-running role as Faye Windass on the ITV1 soap opera earlier this year after more than a decade on the cobbles – is competing alongside professional Vito Coppola, 31, on the BBC Latin and ballroom competition and went on to add that she hopes that taking part in the show will help improve her self-esteem.
She said: “Self-confidence is something I’ve always struggled with. As an actor, people don’t see that – they think you’re this confident person and you can do anything. I’m hoping Strictly will bring that for me, push me and make me realise I’m capable of things.”
Ellie also noted that despite being just two weeks into the competition, she has already “learned so much” from her professional partner and is trying to remember to “praise” herself no matter how tough rehearsals get.
She added: “Vito has taught me so much already. He tells me, ‘It’s a competition with yourself. If you’re tired, fight it, if you’re stressed, fight it’. I also don’t praise myself enough, I just focus on the wrong. But then he’ll say to me, ‘Yeah, but you just did that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jacqueline Jossa is returning to ‘EastEnders’.
The 30-year-old actress played Lauren Branning on the BBC One soap opera from 2010 until 2018 and made a brief guest appearance earlier this year but is now “really excited” to be making a full-time return to the show.
She told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “I’m really excited. It’s such an amazing time to be back as there is so much buzz around ‘EastEnders’ at the moment. I’ve been watching and loving it like a fan.
Walford holds a special place in my heart, so it really does feel like coming home!”
Producer Chris Clenshaw is “delighted” that Jacqueline is returning to the show as he teased tat there is “plenty of unfinished business” for her character.
He said: “I’m delighted to welcome Jacqueline back to the role of Lauren Branning. We only saw Lauren on-screen a few of months ago, but her return left plenty of unfinished business between her and the Beales. The Branning family have a long history of being at the heart of the drama in Walford, and we’re thrilled to have Jacqueline back in the Square as she continues that family tradition.”
According to the outlet, Jacqueline will be back filming in the coming weeks but an insider claimed that bosses are trying to keep quiet about any details of her return storyline.
An insider said: “Jacqueline’s return as Lauren Branning is going to spell lots of drama in Albert Square.
“The character has a lot of history and scores to settle, she is definitely going to bring the drama. Bosses are staying tight-lipped about when fans will see her return on-screen. But it’s set to be around the end of the year and likely to coincide with the soap’s legendary festive storylines.
“Her old castmates can’t wait to start filming with her too as she’s such a pro and has a great sense of humour.”
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ winner – who also returned to ‘EastEnders’ in December 2022 for the funeral of Dot Cotton (June Brown) – recently admitted that it was the “best day of [her] life” when she got the job and found herself working with famed actors Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater) and Jake Wood (Max Branning).
Speaking on the ‘Soap from the Box’ podcast, she said: “It was the best day of my life when I went and saw The Vic for the first time.
“Jake Wood took me around. I was buzzing to meet him, I loved the Brannings, I loved Bradley. I was Lacey Turner’s biggest fan. I still am, I bloody love her. ‘EastEnders’ would have been my ideal job and I thought in my head ‘That is the job for me!’ because I am East End through and through, I didn’t have to change my voice. I thought Lacey was so good and natural and then I was working with her! I had huge parts in all of the ‘Who Killed Archie?’ storyline. It was crazy!

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OHMYGOSSIP — Shirley Ballas hasn’t seen her boyfriend since August.
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing judge, 63, has been dating Danny Taylor, 50, – who has a 13-year-old son from a previous relationship – for more than three years but admitted just weeks after the BBC Latin and ballroom show returned to screens in mid-September that she is “always busy” and hasn’t actually seen him in over a month.
She told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “I think Danny and I have a very nice relationship and he is, by far, the kindest and nicest man that I have met. But we went up to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh last year and we were all ready to go and then he didn’t seem ready. I didn’t get a good feeling from it, so I thought, ‘Nah, it’s not for me’. It’s nice if I can come and go. Danny is always busy, just like I am, and has a 13-year-old son. I think the last time I saw him was August, when he joined me on my week-long Skyathlon challenge for mental health charity CALM — so it has been a long time.”
However, the dance champion went on to insist that she is satisfied with their “unconventional” arrangement and she is not looking for anyone else.
She said: “We have a unique, unconventional relationship. It’s built on trust. I don’t want anybody else and, as far as I know, he doesn’t want anybody else and we talk most days on FaceTime. It is what it is, and I’m happy with the way it is. My best friend says that when Danny and I are together, I light up like bulbs. We had a lovely holiday at the beginning of the year, and the time we do have is precious and is focused on us two.
“There is no point in being under each other’s feet when you haven’t got time for each other. At our age, it works.”

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