OHMYGOSSIP — Toyah Willcox is the second celebrity to be voted off ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 66-year-old singer and her professional partner Neil Jones left the competition on Sunday (06.10.24) after finding themselves in the dance off against Paul Merson and Karen Hauer, with all four judges voting to save the latter couple.
Toyah and Neil performed their Samba to ‘Poor Unfortunate Souls’ from ‘Little Mermaid’ before Paul and Karen did their Cha Cha to the ‘Magnificent Seven’s title track once more, and Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all opted to keep the former footballer in the competition.
Head judge Shirley Ballas confirmed she would have voted the same way.
Speaking to Tess Daly after the verdict was delivered, Toyah admitted she had had a “fantastic” time on the show and praised her “great” partner Neil.
She said: “It’s been the best two months of my life, it has been fantastic. I have enjoyed every second. And you (Neil) have been phenomenal, thank you so much.
“It was immediate, it had to be Neil. I felt so comfortable and safe. You’re a great teacher, you’re a great friend as well. You’ve just given me a new zest for life, that’s the most valuable thing I’ve come away with.”
Meanwhile, Neil praised the ‘Quadrophenia’ star for her strong work ethic.
He said: “She has made me laugh so much, I have never seen someone work so hard – I’m the one asking for breaks every now and then! She just kept going, she wanted to learn so much.
“If you saw her in the hallway she’s been practicing. Everyone’s been telling me, ‘Have you seen Toyah practicing?’, she’s brilliant and she’s what ‘Strictly’ is all about, and I’ve loved every moment”
Neil took centre stage in a rom-com inspired routine for the show’s professionals earlier in the programme, while the audience was also entertained by Alexis Ffrench’s performance of ‘The Heart Asks Pleasure First’.
The remaining 13 couples will take do the dancefloor next Saturday (12.10.24).

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OHMYGOSSIP — King Charles’ ex-butler, a former Page 3 Girl, and an eco-activist are among the contestants on this year’s ‘Big Brother’.
The beloved reality show returned to screens on Sunday (06.10.24) night with 16 hopefuls moving into the iconic house during the live launch show, which was hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best.
Nathan, 24, is now a meat salesman but stunned viewers by revealing he used to work for the monarch at one of his Scottish homes, Dumfries House, landing the job when he was just 17 years old.
After admitting he admires controversial politician Nigel Farage, he also said: “I was [King] Charles’ butler. I think that’s one thing that will definitely surprise people.”
Meanwhile, ex-glamour model and soap actress Emma, 53, is excited to have been chosen for the programme.
She said: “To get this opportunity at my age, I wasn’t expecting it. I was getting ready to put my feet up and do a bit of knitting.”
Climate activist Daze, 24, would use the prize money to support other campaigners.
She said: “It’s been a difficult financial period for me – climate activism is quite often something you do in debt.”
“It would be nice to have money to do the work. I’d also help my family, and other activists as well.”
Dental assistant Rosie, 29, was the first contestant into the house this year, followed quickly by Emma and Segun, a 29-year-old charity videographer who plans to donate some of his winnings to his workplace, Cancer Research UK, if he comes out on top.
Similarly, Ryan would use the money to help others.
He said: “I’d probably donate some to the Brian House Hospice.
“I ran a marathon last year for the Children’s Leukaemia Group. I’d like to give back especially to those types of causes.
“And then probably take my friends and family on holiday.”
Khaled, 29, claimed he “didn’t know” what the show was.
The 23-year-old sales manager said: “I didn’t actually know what ‘Big Brother’ was.
“I thought it was a show about being a carer – because I worked at a kids’ camp.”
Lily also had no idea what to expect and confessed to a “savage” reason for taking part.
The 20-year-old takeaway worker explained: “I originally applied because it was my ex’s favourite TV show because we broke up.
I thought, ‘I’m going to go on his favourite TV show’. I’’d never heard of it.”
“I thought it’s a new opportunity in life. I have no interest in being famous.”
Martha, 26, warned she could be a “little in your face and dramatic”, while forensic psychologist Ali, 38, was concerned her strong opinions could cause a problem.
Thomas, a 20-year-old amputee footballer is in it to win it.
He said: “Everyone is going to go on to the show thinking they’re just here for the experience but I feel like that’s a lie.
“You would not be going on the show if you didn’t think about the prize pot and about being the winner of ‘Big Brother’.”
Hanah promised to bring “pure vibes” to the house, while Izaaz, 29, promised not to be afraid to speak his mind.
Barber Dean, 35, has wanted to go on the show “since the age of 11” and is well aware that it’s “a game”.
Marcello, 34, is hoping to find “a romance [or] a bromance” with a housemate, while Sarah, 27, warned she could be “annoying and messy”.
As the housemates entered the house, they were asked to take their place on the red side or blue side.
At the end of the show, AJ and Will revealed the blue side – just five housemates – were housemates and had the run of the building, while the remainder were placed “in storage” and automatically put up for the first eviction.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Tommy Fury “knows what to do” to fix his relationship with Molly-Mae Hague.
The reality TV stars – who met during their stint on ‘Love Island’ together – split in August after five years together and Tommy has since denied rumours he cheated on Molly-Mae – and he’s now determined to repair their romance for the sake of their young daughter Bambi.
He told Mail Plus: ” We were together for five and a half years. You don’t stay with someone, have a child with them, get engaged, if it is only a bit of a fling … “It is proper love. Do I still love Molly? 100 per cent. I will love her until my final breath. The minute I saw her, I thought, ‘Yes, she’s the woman of my dreams …”
Tommy went on to add: “I know what I have to do in order to resolve things. And that’s down to me. Nobody else can do that other than me.
“I do think things will work themselves out. Do I love my family very much? Yes. Do I want me and my family to be back together? Yes, 100 per cent. I will always love my family.”
The former couple welcomed their daughter last year and went on to get engaged before their shock split this summer.
Molly-Mae announced the break-up on Instagram, but neither has given the reason for the split. Tommy added to Mail Plus: “It’s a thing that was there previously to all this happening, but the only people who know what is going on in our relationship is me and Molly.”
In a video posted on her YouTube channel, Molly-Mae previously insisted she doesn’t feel “comfortable” discussing the details of the break-up.
She told her followers: “My coping mechanism for the last couple of weeks is talking to the people that I love and [who] are so close to me and that has been so incredible through this time.
“I don’t really ever plan on talking about the last couple of weeks. It’s just not something that I feel comfortable with … Out of respect to Tommy as well, because it’s just not nice and I feel like everything over the last couple of weeks has really been a lot.
“For me, the best way to deal with this is just to move forward.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Janette Manrara is “so happy” to see her husband Aljaž Škorjanec back on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 40-year-old TV star – who tied the knot with Aljaž, 34, in 2017 and has Lyra, 15 months, with him – is thrilled that her husband is back to his duties as a professional on the BBC Latin and ballroom show after five years away and even “got emotional” when she saw him dance with ‘Love Island’ star Tasha Ghouri.
Speaking on the ‘Monday Mile’ podcast, she told host Aimee Fuller: “I’m so happy he’s back, I think the whole country is. He’s back where he belongs. He shines on that dance floor. He loves to teach.
“It was amazing to watch him, and I was there at the live show.
“After he finished his dance with Tasha, I got teary-eyed, I got emotional, it was just so beautiful to see him back doing what he loves.”
Janette – who also served as a professional on the competition but now hosts the show’s spin-off series ‘Strictly: It Takes Two’ – admitted that she struggled in her first year as a professional, especially because her husband went on to win with model Abbey Clancey in 2013 while she ended up thinking she was a “complete failure” at the job.
She said: “It was hard, because obviously it was my first year ever on Strictly, and Aljaž’s first year on ‘Strictly’, he was dancing with Abbey Clancy, and I was dancing with Julien MacDonald. Julien MacDonald and I were in the dance off every single week for four weeks until we got eliminated.
“And then Aljaž went on to win it with Abby and it was so hard for me emotionally, because I obviously wanted to do a good job and impress a new country, a new audience of people, new co-workers that I had never really worked with before. I just felt like I was a complete failure, like I didn’t do a good job, I didn’t belong there, I thought I don’t deserve this job.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Emily Atack feels “confused” about her early days of fame.
The 34-year-old comedienne first became known when she was cast as Charlotte Hincliffe on E4 sitcom ‘The Inbetweeners’ in 2008 and initially used her sudden notoriety to her advantage as she “celebrated” her youth and her body in the media.
She told The Guardian: “All of a sudden, I was getting recognised in the street; when I went to clubs and bars with my fake ID, because I was on TV, they’d let me in, bring over a big bottle with a firework in it, because you’re the girl from ‘The Inbetweeners’. I really enjoyed that people were really fun and nice to me. This is where I I get confused.
“And I was confused then. I didn’t have a clue. I was told, ‘You’ve got a photoshoot today’ and it would be for Loaded magazine, or for FHM to promote series two of The Inbetweeners. So I was all, ‘Yep, clothes off, bikini on. Whatever.’ Genuinely, I had no problems with that – I enjoyed those shoots. I was celebrating my youth and my sexuality in beautiful locations, wearing gorgeous underwear, with lovely crews of people and photographers, and I f****** loved it. It was great. I naively didn’t think what narrative was being painted for me.”
But the former ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! contestant insisted that when she did undertake racy photoshoots, she wasn’t trying to be “overly sexual” and was just trying to promote whatever project she was working on at the time.
She said: “People go, ‘How can you not expect it? You’re stood up there in your pants, going, ‘Look at me!’ But in my head, I wasn’t doing that. I wasn’t putting myself out there in an overtly sexual way. Genuinely, I was just doing a photoshoot to promote my work!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Sarah Storey has been revealed as the final celebrity for ‘Dancing On Ice’ 2025.
The 46-year-old cyclist and swimmer – who is the most decorated British Paralympian of all time with 30 medals to her name – will be taking to the rink on the next series of ITV’s skating competition when it returns to screens early next year.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she said: “Being able to do something different during the first winter after a games is a really healthy thing to do. It gives you headspace, it keeps you fit and healthy. It’s 20 years since I did any cross training thought it was about time that I extended my skill base.”
Sarah – who was born with a disability that affected the development of her left hand – is “not an expert” in skating but is looking forward to learning a new skill before the sport makes it back into the mainstream as part of the Winter Olympics in 2026.
She said: “I’ve never danced and skated. I’ve skated at birthday parties as a child, and I’ve proved I can go from one side of the rink to the other without falling over but I’m not an expert by any stretch. I’ve never been twirled, I can’t go backwards, yet!
“Learning a new skill, having a new opportunity to put yourself out there again, but also in a sport, because this is a sport that we will see at the Winter Olympics in less than 18 months’ time this is the opportunity to learn that sport. Everything can follow along with us in a very short space of time.”
The sports star has completed the lineup for the upcoming edition of the competition series, and will join footballer Anton Ferdinand, former ‘EastEnders’ actress Charlie Brooks, and Chelsee Healey – who is known for her roles in ‘Waterloo Road’ and ‘Hollyoaks’ – in the rink.
Other stars to have signed up for the series include ‘TOWIE’ legends Ferne McCann and Dan Edgar, as well as former ‘Love Island’ contestant Chris Taylor, comedian Josh Jones, and ‘Springwatch’ presenter Michaela Strachan.
Actor Sam Aston – who has played Chesney Brown on ‘Coronation Street’ for more than 20 years – will also be competing, alongside ‘The Traitors’ star Mollie Pearce and Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Simon Cowell has no plans on reducing his workload.
The entertainment mogul turned 65 on Monday (07.10.24) and it has now been claimed that he has the same “drive and interest” that led him to becoming one of the most powerful names in the television with shows such as ‘The X Factor’ and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
An insider told the Daily Star newspaper: “Simon is not thinking about the significance of turning 65 as any kind of sign to slow down or retire.
“That is the last thing on his mind as he tells his co-workers, ‘It is what I do.'”
Meanwhile, Simon previously explained that he believes social media is killing the quality of the music industry after years of discovering famous faces such as Alexandra Burke, Stacey Solomon, and Susan Boyle through his television programs.
The talent show judge is currently searching for the next One Direction as a part of his new Netflix documentary ‘The Midas Touch’, though has reportedly been left disappointed with the less-than-stellar turnout of contestants.
Reflecting on the state of the music industry, Simon hit out at social media for allowing wannabe artists to by-pass traditional records labels and make it big.
He told Greatest Hits Radio: “The reality is that every day something like 200,000 songs are uploaded [to social media] so weirdly less people are getting signed, and less people are breaking worldwide.
“It’s the worst I’ve ever known it since I’ve been in the music business.”
Simon – who formed One Direction in 2010 after the five aspiring singers Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Liam Payne appeared on ‘The X Factor’ – emphasised there was still a hunger for boybands, and argued the group would have “the biggest ticket sale in history” if they ever reformed.
He explained: “Those records have really stood the test of time they still really, really sound great.
“Imagine if they did reform and their tickets went on sale? They would have the biggest ticket sale in history, I genuinely believe that.
“I don’t know whether that’s going to happen or not so I’m going to find the next generation.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Amanda Holden’s husband is concerned about her cycling 250 miles over the next five days to raise money for charity.
The ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judge is taking on the challenge of cycling from her mum’s house in Cornwall to the Heart radio studio in London in five days this week to raise money for Global’s Make Some Noise appeal and Amanda -who is married to Chris Hughes- has shared that her husband is “losing sleep” about her taking part in the challenge.
Amanda, 53, told The Sun newspaper: “Chris hasn’t been able to sleep.
“He woke me up the other day and said, ‘Do you know what you’re wearing?’ And then he’s like, ‘I don’t think we’ve thought this through. I’m really worried about you.'”
Amanda also shared that Chris – who she has been married to for nearly 16 years – will be meeting her at the end point.
She added: “He’s even promised to meet me at the end.
“Chris hates attention and he hates being on camera but he wants to meet me at the end. He never worries about me but I think he really is.
“He told me, ‘Normally I look forward to it when you’re not in the house but now I am really worried about you.’”
The annual appeal raises money for small charities across the UK, including those supporting mental health and domestic abuse helplines and community projects.
Amanda said: “With Global Make Some Noise, 100 per cent of your donation goes to the actual charity and it supports all of the tiny, community charities that really struggle for money. That why it’s so special to me.
“I’ve always said we put our arms around these charities and make them feel wanted and just support them.
“Some of these charities are so new and young and often they are born from people experiencing real tragedy in their lives.
“They make a positive impact and a difference. I’m all for that.
“You know, if everyone who was listening to Heart Breakfast donated a pound we would make millions.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sue Barker will reunite with Phil Tufnell and Matt Dawson for ‘A Question Of…Live’.
The 68-year-old star presented ‘A Question of Sport’ for the BBC from 1997 until 2021 and is now set to get back together with her former co-stars for a stage show that will visit theatres up and down the UK throughout March 2025.
Sue said: “‘I am thrilled to be reuniting with Matt and Phil. We love a quiz. We love a laugh. Can’t wait!!
The live show will feature rounds and challenges familiar to everyone, along with exciting new elements created just for the tour.”
Matt said: “I am delighted to be going on tour with Sue and Tuffers and welcoming back some of our favourite sporting guests from over the years.’
Each show will feature a panel of special guest sporting superstars, with line-up announcements coming closer to the event. Audience members will get a chance to test their sporting knowledge against Matt, Phil, and their teams right from their seats.
Phil added: “‘I can’t wait to get back on the road with the dream team of Sue, Matt and me! Good luck Sue in looking after Matt and me and all our great guests.”
Sue announced her departure the BBC quiz show in 2020 after almost quarter of a century, and was replaced by former ‘Take Me Out’ host Paddy McGuinness, but the broadcaster pulled the series altogether in 2023.
At the time, Sue said: “Hopefully they’ll bring it back because they haven’t said they’re going to bin it forever. So bring it back and have fun again, it’ll be great.
“I think that a lot of people miss it. I used to get people coming up to me and say, how can I get on ‘A Question of Sport’? And I had to say, look, it’s not my decision, but you have to keep winning, you have to keep putting yourself out there.”

Tour Dates

1 March Brighton Centre
2 March London Eventim Apollo
5 March Bath Forum
6 March Leicester De Montfort Hall
7 March BIC Bournemouth
10 March Ipswich Regent Theatre
11 March Basingstoke Anvil
12 March Torquay Princess Theatre
21 March Oxford New Theatre
22 March Manchester Palace Theatre
23 March Nottingham Royal Concert Hall

Tickets available at www.myticket.co.uk

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