OHMYGOSSIP — Holly Willoughby has dismissed claims that ‘This Morning’ is toxic.
The 42-year-old star has fronted the ITV1 daytime show since 2009 and since her regular co-host Phillip Schofield quit the series earlier this year after admitting he had an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague, the show has been hit with accusations of being set within a “toxic” environment.
However, Holly has now dismissed the reports and admitted that while she “cannot speak for others”, she “does not recognise” such claims when she arrives at work.
She told The Daily Star newspaper: “I know there’s been lots of reports and I don’t want to speak on behalf of others, but it’s a world I honestly don’t recognise.
“So for me, I look around – I saw the team all getting ready in make-up everybody’s giddy knickers. I just want to come to work and have more of that.”
Holly – who now fronts the show alongside a rotation of presenters including Alison Hammond, Josie Gibson, Dermot O’Leary and Craig Doyle – enjoyed a glitzy night at the ceremony on Tuesday (05.09.23) night at London’s O2, and while she loved her gown, it wasn’t very practical when it came to bathroom breaks during the hours-long event.
Speaking on the ITV show the morning after the NTAs, she said: “So, I loved my dress last night, I love getting dressed up, all glammed and done. The problem with that dress was, it was a bit wiggly, so it was really tight round the old thighs.
“So, I had to go for a pee in the hotel – I’m sharing too much right now, but I’m going to tell you the truth!
“I couldn’t pull it up to go for a pee, and I also was so tied in tightly so nothing fell out the top that I also couldn’t pull it down. So I had to go in the hotel, and then that was it!
“That was it until I knew I was getting home from the O2 at whatever time!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Anton Du Beke wants the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestants to “love every second” of the show.
The 57-year-old dancer serves as a judge on the BBC Latin and ballroom competition and as a host of new stars prepare to take to the dancefloor when it returns to screens later this month, he has teased that the coupling is “perfect” and has urged the lineup to embrace the “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, he said: “It’s so exciting, so brilliant. It’s such a lovely bunch and when they’re in the room, the excitement is through the roof. They’ve done a brilliant job of partnering everybody up. It’s perfect, and it’s really, really exciting. I want them to enjoy the whole thing, and embrace it. Take it all on and love every second, even when it’s really hard, your feet hurt and your brain is exploding and you might have had a weekend but it’s fine because on Monday morning we always start again, There’s a new dance and we start again. It’ll be over in a flash and you don’t want any thoughts of ‘Oh I wish I’d done that.’. It is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and it is the most wonderful experience. They’re gonna love it.”
The TV star – who served as a professional dancer for a number of years before joining Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse and Craig Revel Horwood on the judging panel – still loves being on the show and feels great when he can see that a contestant has taken his advice.
He added: “I love doing it, and I love talking about what I’ve just seen. If I can say something that I know everyone at home can see, and also if I say something and see they’ve come back the following week and they’ve adjusted and listened…it makes you feel good!”
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ returns to BBC One on September 23, with a lineup including ‘Family Fortunes’ legend Les Dennis, ‘Casualty’ star Nigel Harman and former ‘Coronation Street’ actress Ellie Leach, amongst a host of others.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Carol Vorderman had to keep a “straight face” when risque words appeared on ‘Countdown.’
The 62-year-old star served as a presenter on the Channel 4 letters and numbers game from 1982 until 2008 and explained that in the early days, “rude words” that appeared by chance sometimes required a new take on set but admitted the whole trick to getting through it was trying not to laugh.
Speaking on the ‘Off the Menu’ podcast, she said: “Some [rude words] come up, and we would have to keep straight face. It’s all about keeping a straight face. In the early days they would go, ‘No, cut, cut, cut, and we would have to do it again. If it was allowed, we would have to re-record it and give [them] a different seven.”
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ contestant was replaced as the letters and numbers girl on the series by current presenter Rachel Riley and she has previously admitted that she has come up with some “really weird” combinations of letters during her time on the show.
She told The Sun: I get to chose what I put on the board on ‘Countdown’, the whole idea is to pull a straight face. There are some really weird stuff that comes out but that’s the fun of it. Kids can watch but anyone with my kind of dirty sense of humour can watch.”
During the letters round of the long-running game show – which sees contestants ask Rachel to select vowels and consonants at random so they can form the longest-possible word in 30 seconds – the presenter has been confronted with a string of potentially smutty words, including the likes of “bumh****”, “perverts”, “p***”, “sugar t***” and “no panties.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Linda Robson broke down in tears as she revealed how her ‘Loose Women’ co-stars helped her through hard times.
The 65-year-old star is a long-serving panellist on the ITV1 lunchtime chat show but had to take a year-long break in 2019 for the sake of her mental health and explained that all of her colleagues were there for her during such a dark period.
Speaking on stage during ‘Loose Women Live’ on Wednesday (06.08.23), she said: “A few years ago, I used to drink a bottle of wine every night. Then it was two. So I stopped drinking the wine and started eating more sugar. I knew things weren’t right and I ended up in the Priory. I’ve always been the strong one in my family but this time they had to look after me and I felt guilty. I ruined Christmas, I got so drunk. It was horrific.
“We used to go to Ibiza, me, Jane, Stacey, Nadia, and Kaye. And I had a breakdown. I was drinking, I had OCD.
“Anyway, Stacey [Solomon] came home early with me, and took me straight to the Priory. Someone started taking pictures of me and she said ‘I’m not leaving you here’. So we went home and eventually, they found somewhere for me to go.
“But, for that year I was off, every one of the Loose Women rang to make sure I was okay. Janet Street-Porter rang every day. I’m gonna start crying. I said I didn’t need the bloody tissues on the table! So that was three years ago and since then I’ve been able to come back and I’m doing really well.”
After being handed a tissue from a member of the audience, the ‘Birds of a Feather’ actress went on to hail Janet – who is known for displaying a tough demeanor on screen – as a “lovely woman” with whom she has been friends for decades.
She added: “Janet is actually the most lovely woman. I’ve known her since 1976, she rang me every day. She lives round the corner from me, she frightens the life out of me sometimes. She hates Halloween so I go round with a mask on and she goes ‘F*** of!’”
Elsewhere during Wednesday’s show at the O2 City Hall in Newcastle, Sun columnist Jane Moore emotionally recalled working as a reporter when Princess Diana died, former ‘Coronation Street’ actress Denise Welch spoke of her childhood memories in the North East, and anchor Charlene White kept things in check by running the order of the show.
As part of the tour, the television stars were able to delve into raunchier topics not normally permitted on daytime TV and competed in risqué games like Never Have I Ever.
A rotation of panellists from ‘Loose Women’ are currently making their way across the country for their live stage show, which will see other regular stars like Christine Lampard, Frankie Bridge and Dame Kelly Holmes reveal never-before heard stories and secrets.
‘Loose Women Live’ is touring until the end of September.
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OHMYGOSSIP — Richard Madeley has slammed TV stars who allow their success to “go to their heads”.
The 67-year-old presenter has hit out at the attitudes of some people within the TV industry, insisting that reading from an autocue is “nothing special”.
During an appearance on the ‘How to be 60’ podcast, Richard shared: “There are a lot of people in television on screen who it goes to their heads.
“We all know them. And you can see that they think because they have access to people’s living rooms through the TV, it makes them somehow better. And I just think that actually makes them look ridiculous.”
Richard – who has hosted ‘This Morning’ and ‘Good Morning Britain’ during his TV career – is baffled by the attitudes of some presenters.
He shared: “Quite quickly I formed a contempt for people on television who thinks that it makes them in any way, shape or form special, because it doesn’t.
“Just because you can read the autocue or learn a short piece to camera out in the field. Why would you think that would make you any better than anyone else?”
Meanwhile, Richard previously admitted that he rarely prepares questions for his TV interviews.
He told the Guardian newspaper: “Being conversational is the secret to a good interview. I rarely prepare questions, and think: ‘What would I ask if we’d just met on a train?'”
Richard also insisted that he’s not bothered by any criticism of him.
The veteran presenter said: “Taking yourself seriously is daft. I do the best I can, so please say what you like about me. Be nice, nasty or take the p***. It doesn’t bother me at all.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Bobby Brazier has reportedly been urged to avoid distractions during his stint on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 20-year-old model/actor – who is the son of the late Jade Goody and TV presenter Jeff Brazier – is one of the famous faces taking part in the new series of the hit BBC One talent show but a new report suggests he’s been encouraged to focus on his dancing and not get distracted so he can make the most of the career-boosting opportunity.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “He is a very determined young man with a naturally competitive spirit – both qualities which he’ll need to progress on ‘Strictly’.
“But he has to remain focused because, as Strictly has proved in the past, it’s very easy for competitors to have their head turned. His nearest and dearest just don’t want to see him unintentionally waste the chance of a lifetime by temptations on the show.”
As well as enjoying a successful modelling career, Bobby also branched out into acting with a role in BBC soap ‘EastEnders’ and his dad Jeff has insisted he is very proud of his son’s achievements.
He told The Mirror newspaper: “I’m really proud of Bobby and the attitude he has had since he’s been on ‘EastEnders’. He’s wanted to absorb as much from all the incredibly experienced actors around him. He’s made a really good start to his career, and I can see he’s proud of himself, too. I can see every time I switch it on that he’s got better. Every time I watch it I can see he’s better in the terms of the layers. I’m no acting expert, I can’t say how good he is, but I’m really proud of my son. He’s had an opportunity and he’s taken it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Pete Wicks is joining Gemma Collins on ‘The Full Monty’.
The former ‘Only Way is Essex’ stars will strip off on the latest season of the ITV star-studded cancer charity appeal show alongside other famous faces like broadcaster Julia Bradbury, 53, drag queen Ella Vaday, 34, former ‘Coronation Street’ actress Victoria Ekanoyealso, 41, and ‘Dancing on Ice’ professional Vanessa Bauer, 27.
The 34-year-old reality hunk is reportedly “nervous” about baring all on the show but is keen to get involved for “a good cause”.
A source told the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column: “Pete is nervous about doing the show but he is taking the plunge because it’s for such a good cause.”
The show – which is fronted by ‘Loose Women’ legend Coleen Nolan, 58, and ‘Diversity’ star Ashley Banjo, 34, – hopes to spread “the crucial importance” of getting screened for tumours.
A description reads: “As well as following the celebs as they overcome their fears and insecurities about performing and baring all, the show will reveal the deeply personal and significant reasons why each person has decided to take part in raising awareness of cancers in intimate areas of the body and the crucial importance of early self-checks to help save lives.”
Gemma, 42, recently she had “no real interest” in getting hitched to her finance Rami Hawash, 48, so she was calling off her wedding.
She told her Instagram followers in July: “I am going to be really honest, I have no real interest…that is what I want to do.
“I am going to do a J-Lo. She got married at 50. I’ll do a J-Lo and I’ll get married at 50.”
“There is no rush, and I am living life. There is still so much I want to do.
“Me and Rami are both free spirits; he has been married before and funnily enough we were looking at pictures of us and we have known each other for so long.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Penny Lancaster has quit ‘Loose Women’.
The 52-year-old model – who is married to rock star Rod Stewart and has sons Alastair, 17, and 12-year-old Aiden with him – made her first appearance on the panel of the ITV lunchtime chat show in 2014 but has not appeared at the desk since autumn of last year and now an insider has claimed that her time on the programme as a full-time panellist is officially up but noted that she could potentially return as a guest at some point.
The source told The Sun newspaper: “Penny enjoyed doing the show but it requires a lengthy commitment from regular panel members and this is something Penny cannot do. She’s touring with Rod and also has family commitments both in the UK and abroad. She could still make a guest appearance.”
Penny joins a long list of stars from the panel to quit the series in recent years, including former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Saira Khan – who left in 2021 after a six-year stint on the programme to focus on her business ventures – whilst longtime anchor Andrea McLean stepped down in late 2020 after 13 years of hosting the show to concentrate on a new career as a self-help author.
Earlier this year, former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star Carol McGiffin – who holds the record for most appearances on the panel with more than 1,500 under her belt – decided to make a sudden exit from the show as she claimed that she had been “censored” on what she could say on air.
Speaking on GB News, she said: “Well, that’s a tricky one, I can say that over the last three years especially I’ve been…I wouldn’t say censored, but I have been restricted in what I could say.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Miquita Oliver had an “intense” relationship with her mum growing up.
The 39-year-old presenter is the daughter of TV chef Andi Oliver, 60, and explained that because she was brought up in a single-parent family, they have always been part of a “team”.
Speaking on ITV1’s ‘Lorraine’, she told stand-in host Ranvir Singh: “We’ve always been a team, it’s a single mum family. When it’s a mum and a daughter and it’s just the mum bringing the daughter up – or a son – it’s an intense way to grow up so you are already a team.
“We have a kind of strange thing because I became a broadcaster first as a teenager on ‘Popworld’ when I was 15. My mum was always doing bits of TV but she only came into this stratospheric part of her career in the last five years. She was always cooking, I don’t think we use the word chef. ”
The podcast host went on to add that she would not take any advice from her mother during her adolescent years when she entered the public eye but feels “very lucky” to have been best friends with ‘Smile’ hitmaker Lily Allen all her life as she explained that it “really helped” that they found fame together.
She added: “I wasn’t interested in any advice, I was like ‘I’ve got this!’ I think having my best friend Lily, her becoming a big pop star really helped. We’ve known each other since we were born. Having a best friend go through it in an even more intense way was really amazing. Now we’re both in our late thirties – which is an age that we never thought we’d get to – and we’re still holding each other’s hands through having careers and having public lives. I feel very lucky that I have that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Claudia Winkleman ignored her children’s pleas to quit “embarrassing” ‘Strictly Come Dancing’;
The 51-year-old television presenter shot back at her son Jake, now 21, -who along with daughter Matilda, 17, and Arthur, 12, she has with her film producer husband Kris Thykier, 51 – when he asked her to “stop doing” the star-studded BBC One Latin and ballroom dancing competition that it paid for everything he did.
She said while appearing at the Edinburgh TV Festival: “He said to me, ‘Mum, you have got to stop doing ‘Strictly, it’s so embarrassing and my teacher has mentioned it’. I just went ‘See those trainers, Jake?’ He was like ‘OK, sorry’.
“My only job is to make sure [the celebs] are OK and to stop speaking on time. I know I’m not allowed to say I just paint myself orange and I read out loud but really that is what I do most of the time. So, that’s the gig but it’s really, really thrilling.”
Claudia played modest with her presenting style as she believes the string of programmes she currently hosts are “so strong” they would be hits without her.
She said: “‘The Traitors’ and ‘Strictly’ and ‘The Piano’ are so strong anybody could host them. We all know it. But I’m lucky enough that I’m there. That is the truth. It doesn’t mean I’m not unbelievably grateful, but it’s just as luck would have it I’ve fallen into them.”
The BBC Radio 2 DJ shared the advice her parents, the publishing giant Barry Winkleman, 84, and ex-Daily Mirror editor Eve Pollard, 79, gave her when it came to the world of work.
Claudia said: “My dad worked in publishing and he always said you had to be the first one there and the last one to leave. And you always have to make the tea, whoever you are. He just said to work incredibly hard and don’t be a turd, basically. It’s not bad advice.
“My mum didn’t want me to do what she did. She said it was really hard for a woman. She used to come home and put us to bed on a Saturday and then go back to the paper. She’d tell [me and my brother Oliver], ‘If you need me, any time, you’ll get through [on the phone]. It doesn’t matter who I’m with, which proprietor or politician or whatever, you will find me’. But it was hard for her.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jane McDonald is “so excited” to be returning to ‘Loose Women’.
The 60-year-old star – who first found fame when she appeared as a singer onthe BBC docusoap ‘The Cruise’ in the late 1990s – was a mainstay on the ITV1 lunchtime panel show from 2004 until 2014 but is set to make a guest appearance on Tuesday (05.09.23) to discuss her latest travel programme.
She wrote on Instagram: “I’m so excited!! I’ll be on @loosewomen next Tuesday 5th September chatting about my new travel series ‘Jane McDonald: Lost in Japan’ and lots more! Tune in Tuesday at 12.30pm on @itvxofficial.”
Since leaving the panel, Jane has hosted a slew of travel documentaries for Channel 5 including ‘Cruising with Jane McDonald’ and ‘Jane McDonald: My Yorkshire’ and has toured the UK with her concerts but is currently taking a break from the stage.
The ‘You’re My World’ songstress – who was in a relationship with The Searchers drummer Eddie Rothe for 13 years before he died of lung cancer in March 2021 – last returned to ‘Loose Women’ towards the end of last year, where she revealed that she asked her best friend and ‘Celebrity Gogglebox’ co-star Sue Ravey to move in with her following the death of her partner.
She said: “Sue has moved in with me, thank God, because she’s a really good cook and she’s really tidy.
“It was a no-brainer for me and Sue because Sue and I have been friends for 30 years now. We’ve got the same humour, we like the same food. I have a house, she had a house. We don’t really have cross words. We both like our own space, and a lot of people thought we were a couple. There’s nothing wrong with that, but we’re not together together. I love her, but not that much!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Guy Pearce had to keep his return to ‘Neighbours’ “really quiet”.
The ‘LA Confidential’ star, 55, began his career on the Aussie soap as hunky Mike Young- which Amazon Freevee is rebooting after Channel 5 axed the show earlier this year – and left in 1989 to pursue his meteoric rise in Hollywood but wanted to “do right” by the character, the dedicated fans and make an appearance in the new episodes, according to his on-screen love Jane Harris, played by Annie Jones.
The 56-year-old actress told the Sun newspaper: “We had to keep it all really quiet but Guy was in London and we were able to film some bits.
“We just threw up a couple of ideas, possibilities of what could have happened. And then we shared those with the writers and the producers and came up with a solution.
“Guy wants to do right by Mike and by all the fans that seemed to have loved the Mike and Jane story in the last episode so much, and I’m very happy how it’s playing out.
“Mike’s fitted into the neighbourhood, he’s great friends with Karl, he and Karl jam together a lot. They’ve got a bit of a Ramsay Street Band kind of thing going on.
“He really loves living here.”
Annie – whose character is affectionately dubbed “plain Jane super brain” – spilled about the plans for their on-screen nuptials after they rekindled their love and it was confirmed her daughter Sam (Henrietta Graham) was Mike’s in what they thought was the last ever episode in the new series, which is set two years on and will begin airing on September 18.
In the trailer, she says: “Well, we found a date on the calendar and went for it.”
Jane also can be heard saying: “I have been keeping something from you.”

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