OHMYGOSSIP — Ant and Dec’s ‘Limitless Win’ has been commissioned for two more series.
ITV bosses are delighted with the Geordie duo’s game show – which sees contestants try to climb a never-ending money ladder to claim the world’s first unlimited jackpot – and now it’s set to stay on air until at least 2025.
Ant McPartlin said: “We’re so happy that ‘Limitless Win’ has been such a hit with the viewers, we love making it.
“It’s such a thrilling and emotional roller coaster of a show.”
His co-star Dec Donnelly revealed the duo are looking forward to seeing how people’s tactics change now they’re “more familiar” with the format.
He added: “We’re bracing ourselves for another two series of high tension and nail-biting drama as more contestants take on the Limitless ladder.
“We’re excited to see how high they can climb now they’re so much more familiar with the show. Bring it on.”
And Katie Rawcliffe, ITV’s head of entertainment commissioning, commented: “Limitless Win has very quickly accrued a loyal family audience and become one of our most unique and nail biting game shows.
“We look forward to more fun on the money ladder in 2024.”
Filming for the next series of ‘Limitless Win’ is due to start later this year, with the next series expected to air in 2024.
The second season saw producers shake things up with a new lifeline that allowed Ant and Dec to help the contestants with the answer to one question, and Dec previously admitted the duo thought it would be too much pressure.
He said: “As soon as it came to the first record and that lifeline popped up, honestly my heart sank. I thought, ‘Oh God. Oh no. What have we done here? The pressure, the pressure.’ ”
Ant and Dec are in for a busy 2024, with ‘Limitless Win’ coming alongside ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’ – which is being shelved after next year’s 20th anniversary run – ‘I’m A Celebrity’ and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, while they are also a driving force behind the upcoming ‘Byker Grove’ revival.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Denise van Outen is to present consumer programming for Channel 4.
The 49-year-old star is known for presenting ‘The Big Breakfast’ in the 1990s but has since made a career out of starring on the West End stage and in the BBC soap opera ‘EastEnders’ but after fronting ‘Air Fryers: Are They Worth It?’ for the broadcaster earlier this year, is now “on a mission” to help others with two more episodes of consumer-based programming.
She is quoted by The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz Column: “Everyone wants to know the difference between brands and own-label — and I’m on a mission to reveal the secrets that could save you a small fortune!”
An insider explained that the former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant – who regularly appears as a panellist on Channel 4’s ‘Steph’s Packed Lunch’ – has carved out a “real niche” at the broadcaster and hinted that more could be on the cards if the episodes are received well.
A source said: “Denise has carved out a real niche at Channel 4 with her consumer-focused programming. And she has been a big hit with viewers. She’s warm, entertaining and strikes the perfect balance between being relatable and reliable. If the next two shows go well, there’s hope to continue in the same vein.”
In ‘Secrets Of Supermarket Own Brands’, the former ‘Loose Women’ star will be putting the value of supermarket offers to the test, and later in the year, she will reportedly examine the cost of Christmas and find a a way to cut the cost of the festive season.
Deborah Dunnett from Channel 4 said: “As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, viewers can celebrate how savvy spending doesn’t have to mean compromising on quality

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gillian Taylforth gets recognised in “weird places”.
The 67-year-old actress is known to millions of television viewers for her role as Kathy Beale in the BBC soap opera ‘EastEnders’ and insisted that while she “doesn’t mind” at all when fans call her by her character’s name, she finds it “weird” to be asked for a photo in the toilet.
She told The Daily Mirror newspaper: “I’ve been recognised in some weird places. It’s happened in the toilet. Someone asked me for a picture with the lovely ­backdrop of the sink. I said, ‘Can we move away from the bogs?’ People call me Kathy all the time but I don’t mind it.
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star – who has Jessica, 31, and 24-year-old Harrison with partner Geoff Knights – went on to explain that her children used to get “so fed up” when she was spotted in public because she would have to spend hours signing autographs but she herself has “never minded” the attention because the fans are the people who keep the show on the air.
She added: “My children used to get so fed up because it took me two-and-a-half hours to go shopping because people would stop me and ask me to sign this and sign that. But I don’t mind. It is part and parcel of being on a soap. So long as people are nice and pleasant, then it’s fine. I’ve never minded because they’re the people who watch the show and keep us going.”
The former ‘Loose Women’ panellist initially played Kathy from 1985 until 2000 but returned to the part in 2015 and explained that she never divulges any gossip from upcoming storylines and has to “get out” of revealing all to friends.
She said: “I don’t say anything to anybody. It’s more exciting for the public if they don’t know what’s going on. Some of my friends will say, ‘What’s going to happen?’ And I go, ‘Oh I can’t tell you otherwise I will have to kill you’. That’s the easiest way to get out of it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Simon Minty was ridiculed for his dwarfism by a group of tweens.
The 55-year-old TV star – who has appeared on the Channel 4 show ‘Gogglebox’ since 2021 alongside his sister Jane and is known for his witty quips about the week’s most talked about telly – swiftly told the pack of preteen boys to “grow up” when they laughed at him for stature outside the supermarket and found some solidarity with the shop’s security and a “special pal”.
He wrote on Twitter: “Today, some 12yo boys came up to me to point and laugh. I said ‘grow up’.
“I carried on shopping, which took some courage as they followed me.
“Nearly spoke with shop security, it was that horrible. Left for the safety of Waitrose, bumped in to a special friend and rallied.”(sic)
Simon noticed a few of the gobby kids were being cajoled by “peer pressure” to bully him and urged everyone to not follow along with the crowd and “stand up for what you believe” in similar situations.
He added: “There was some peer pressure going on too. I was going to tell them ‘one or more of you isn’t comfortable with what you’re doing right now, stand up for what you believe and you will have a better life than the others’.”
Simon has also used social media to share times when he’s been feeling himself like during last year’s festive period he posted on social media: “Caught myself in the lift mirror and advocated the importance of loving yourself after getting his “Christmas hair”.
Not long finished at the gym, glasses slightly dark, Christmas hair and stubble as it’s been a non-work week.
“For a moment, I felt like I looked like a rock star. Involuntary I then pouted #caughtoncamera #loveyourselffirst.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chelsee Healey is “so excited” to be pregnant again.
The 34-year-old actress called it a “shock” to be expecting her second child after welcoming her daughter Coco five years ago with her ex-boyfriend Jack Molloy but has “missed” the feeling of expecting and actually thinks that the timing is “just right.”
She told Closer magazine: “I’m so excited to be pregnant again. I feel like the timing is just right. I adored my bump last time with Coco, I’ve actually missed it.”
She added that she has always longed for a “little team of babies” and hasn’t ruled out having another wee one with her new man – whose identity she has opted to keep secret – in the near future.
She said: “After this one, I’ll be very happy, but I said to my partner ‘Maybe we can squeeze another one in.”
The ‘Hollyoaks’ star – shot to fame as a teenager when she took on the role of gobby schoolgirl Janeece Bryant on BBC drama ‘Waterloo Road’ and later returned to the show for another stint as the school’s secretary before making a guest appearance in the reboot earlier this year alongside Angela Griffin and Adam Thomas – first announced her pregnancy on social media.
The former ‘Casualty’ actress wrote on Instagram: “Baby Number 2. I am Not Sure me Or the world Is Ready For Another Coco! But WE are more than Ready.
“For as long as coco could talk she has asked for a Baby sister or Brother. Feel beyond blessed to be giving her her wish and being a mummy of 2 and I can’t wait to have another baba to Love unconditionally. We cannot wait to meet you Our Baby Love”(sic)

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OHMYGOSSIP — Samantha Fox never thought about finding love again after the “traumatic loss” of her first wife.
The 57-year-old star had relationships with the likes of Kiss rocker Paul Stanley before realising she was “definitely gay” and married manager Myra Stratton but after she died following a battle with cancer in 2015, Sam admitted that she hadn’t even thought about looking for somebody new until she met fan Linda Olsen, and the pair tied the knot in 2022.
She told new! magazine: “I guess growing up, I wasn’t sure and thought maybe I was just having ‘a moment’. But then you’d have a few of those and think, ‘Oh, I might be gay.’ The more experiences I had with women, the more I definitely knew that I was. Linda was in a relationship, and I was looking after Myra, who was terminally ill. It was traumatic, knowing I was going to lose Myra. I couldn’t think about anything else during those times. The last thing I thought about was finding someone new. But Linda and I met when she came along to a meet-and-greet event in Oslo. I realised she was absolutely gorgeous, inside” and out. We had an instant connection.”
“I love being married.
Since her heyday as a Page 3 girl for The Sun and 1990s pop singer, the ‘Touch Me (I Want Your Body)’ hitmaker has carved out a successful career in television with appearances on ‘ I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’ and ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, and will soon be seen on ‘Celebrity Masterchef’ but is excited to see how her “rollercoaster life” will be depicted on-screen in a new TV drama.
She added: “It’s going to be amazing. It’ll be big, fast, colourful… with plenty of ups and downs. It’ll be emotional and funny. I’ve had an exciting life – it’s been a roller coaster!”
Samantha is keen for BAFTA Award-winning actress Sheridan Smith – who famously portrayed late TV legend Cilla Black in ITV drama series ‘Cilla’ and played comedienne Fanny Brice in a West End production of ‘Funny Girl’ – to play an older version of herself, but wants to find a newcomer to play the younger version.
She told the Daily Star: “I would love for Sheridan to just say yes. I’m working on it. She would be perfect. I want to find a rising star to play my younger self and Sheridan Smith in my 30s.”
Around the same time, an insider claimed that the “wheels are in motion” for the upcoming drama, and it is hoped that it could be filmed before the year is out.
A source said: “There have been a lot of meetings and there are wheels in motion. A date for filming has been set, but it’s hoped it could be before the end of the year.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nicola Thorp was left terrified after realising she had a stalker.
Over a period of two years, the 34-year-old actress – who is best known for her stint as Nicola Rubinstein on ‘Coronation Street’ – was stalked by Ravinderjit Dhillon and after he was found guilty in April, she has now opened up about the ordeal and explained that not being informed of his identity amid the investigation led her to believe that he could be any man she saw in public.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’, she told hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls: “You want to know if you’re going to be able to take care of yourself if he was to approach you in the street. That was the big thing. My main question was, ‘Would he be able to carry me?’ and that’s devastating. Because with these kinds of crimes, when he’s kept anonymous, they become every single person that you meet. He was every guy at a bus stop. He was the person at work who looked at me funny.
“He was the guy in the supermarket. He just became everybody. When I got the phone call, saying that he’d been arrested, I was so relieved. I thought, ‘Fantastic, who is he?’ and they said, ‘We can’t tell you’”
“I asked, ‘But where does he live, roughly?’ They said, ‘We can’t tell you.’ I said, ‘Do I know him? Is he an ex-partner?’. ‘We can’t tell you anything,’ they said.
Dhillon had used more than 25 online aliases to contact Nicola – who since her time on ‘Coronation Street’ has carved out a career as a broadcaster with regular appearances on ‘This Morning’ and TalkTV – and she went on to explain that after finding his name outside of court, she tried looking for him on Facebook and “begged” officers to show her a picture of him.
She added: “For months, I kept begging them, ‘Please, can I just see a photograph of him or [know] his name?’ It was only when I saw his name on the piece of paper outside court, that I saw his name for the first time. I begged them [police], ‘Please can you just show me a photograph of him?’ because he had quite a common name.
“I tried to find him on Facebook.
“They eventually showed me a photograph and said we can only show you here in the police station.”
Nicola explained that she ended up stood behind her stalker when they queued to get into the court day and found herself “frozen” to the spot as she finally laid eyes on the main who had “harassed and stalked” her for a number of years.
She said: “It was a few weeks ago at his sentencing that I turned up to court. You have to queue before you go inside and you go through security. You give your name to the security guard as you’re going through. I was actually stood behind him in the queue. He gave his name to the security guard at which point I just completely froze because that was him. That’s the man who had harassed and stalked me since 2018. And he was right there in front of me.”
The police told ‘Good Morning Britain’ that the investigation was hampered by the “complex and protracted” process of obtaining information from social media companies in order to prove Ravinderjit was the man behind dozens of chilling messages
However, Nicola went on to claim that the onus lies with men to “change their behaviour” and wants the police to “help the victim” throughout the process.
She said: “It is on men to change their behaviour and also for the police and the authorities to give us the tools to be able to protect ourselves. He had all the power.
“When he had this stalking Protection Order taken out against him, the conditions, his bail conditions were that he wasn’t allowed to contact me. And the only person who would know if he had contacted me, was him. How is that right? I just wish the focus wasn’t just on punishing the perpetrator but helping the victim through the process as well.”
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OHMYGOSSIP — Nigella Lawson hosts fewer dinner parties nowadays.
The 63-year-old TV star – who published her first cookbook ‘How To Eat’ 25 years ago – has taught the nation a lot about hosting through her various culinary TV series but has recently fallen “out of the habit” of getting loads of her loved ones around for a fancy meal.
She told The Times newspaper: “I’ve got out of the habit of it. I’ll have a person or a couple of people over quite often and I keep planning to have people round in a proper, grown-up way but I haven’t yet. I must! I feel a bit guilty because people have had me for dinner and I haven’t had them back.”
Nigella loves a causal vibe at the table and is “happy” for people to rock up in their sleepwear and sharing British junk food with her friends from across the pond like Twiglets.
She said: “I’m very happy for a friend to come over in their pyjamas to have supper.”
“I recently served Twiglets as a starter. There were some Americans there and I felt it my duty to introduce them.”
The former ‘Nigella Feasts’ star prefers “abundance” over lots of little dishes.
Nigella said: “I like to do a big plate of food, taking it out and seeing everyone eat. I like abundance and I feel that’s easier to do with one course.
The ‘Masterchef’ judge called her pals “an extension of” her family but loves getting new faces around the table who love food including vegans.
Nigella said: “I’ve had my friends for so long that they’re an extension of my family. It’s helpful to know what everyone’s favourite foods are but really I like cooking for eaters the most and I sort of don’t care who.”
“I cook a lot more vegan food than I used to simply because I have more vegans coming to the house. That always interests me and I never find it annoying. It’s a good way of cooking a bit differently because it’s not an empty exercise — you’re creating something for a particular person and I like that.”a

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OHMYGOSSIP — Stephanie Davis will restrict what her son sees of her on ‘Coronation Street’.
The 30-year-old actress has landed the part of seductress Courtney Vance on the long-running ITV1 soap opera but is planning on not letting her six-year-old son Caben see all of her scenes with Aadi Alahan (Adam Hussain) on the ITV1 soap when her character arrives on screen later this month.
She told Daily Star’s Hot TV column: “I’m going to let him watch the first few episodes, and then after that we’ll have to wait and see. It will depend on what episodes they are.
“She’s doing a lot of kissing with Aadi, so probably not those bits”.
Stephanie – who has her little boy with her ex Jeremy McConnell, 33 – admitted that returning to telly following a hiatus after playing Sinead O’Connor in the Channel 4 soap ‘Hollyoaks’ on and off from 2010 to 2019 was “too good to be true”.
She said: “You know when you have that feeling, ‘This is too good to be true, everything is happening too quick’? This was my first audition back after three years.“
“As soon as I read the brief for the character, I was like, ‘This is mine. This is mine’. I did the audition then went through this wave of emotions. I do believe everything happens for a reason, but my first audition back? No one gets that.”
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star was discovered as an actress in 2010 when Andrew Lloyd Webber was searching for a girl to play Dorothy in his London production of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ through the BBC talent show ‘Over the Rainbow’ – which was eventually won by Danielle Hope – and recently explained that in the years before she found fame, she had even written a poem about joining the famous cobbles of ‘Coronation Street’ so the career move is a “dream come true” for her.
She added: “I wrote a poem when I was about 13 or 14, which read, ‘One day I will be on the cobbles of ‘Coronation Street”, My mum had put it in her bedside drawer and got it out the other day. She said, ‘How amazing is that? You wrote that as a child as one of your dreams and now you’re doing it’. It really is a dream come true.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Queens For The Night’ will reportedly not be returning this year.
The ITV1 show – which aired as a special last autumn – was hosted by Lorraine Kelly and saw the likes of ‘EastEnders’ star Adam Woodyatt and ‘Coronation Street’ actor Simon Gregson get transformed into drag queens.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column: “The show was always thought of as a bit of a ‘special’ for ITV but there was always the hope it might take off and become a series.
“That hasn’t happened but it’s the kind of programme channel bosses could bring back sporadically.
“It was a bold choice for ITV1 on a Saturday, but a worthy one.”
THe programme featured pros and mentors Myra Dubois and Kitty Scott-Claus, while Adam and Simon were joined by fitness guru Mr Motivator, rugby ace Joe Marler and ‘Love Island’ star Chris Hughes.
The contestants had to perform as their own glamorous alter ego for a panel of famous judges including Spice Girls legend Mel C, comedian Rob Beckett and Austarlian drag queen Courtney Act.
‘Corrie’ star Simon previously admitted it was daunting stepping out in front of the judges as his drag counterpart Bidet Bardot.
Speaking before the show aired, he told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It’s very, very nerve-wracking. First time on stage, the first time I’m going to be doing what I’m going to be doing.
“The nerves are riding high. It’s a new territory for me, so we will see how I get on.”
Simon – who has played taxi driver Steve McDonald on the cobbles for over 30 years – went on to joke that he is a “really ugly woman” and thinks he looks like an evil creation straight from the mind of George Lucas.
He said: “I’m a really ugly woman! I look like a Star Wars baddie. And the rigmarole I had to go through to get there was a huge process and not comfortable.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ncuti Gatwa says his Doctor “dresses like [a] s***”.
The 30-year-old actor takes on the lead role in ‘Doctor Who’ later this year and he’s had a great time working with the show’s “incredible” hair and make-up department on creative distinctive looks for his new alter ego.
He told Rolling Stone UK: “The day Russell [T. Davies, showrunner] invited me to meet everybody, they asked me what sort of costume I wanted. I showed them this Ralph Lauren collection that was in partnership with Historically Black Colleges in America.
“I love those pieces, they’re so preppy and so Black. But then they asked what else, because they’d been thinking about lots of outfits, almost a different one each week. Which is new! I love it.
“The Doctor has travelled all of time and space; they’re going to have a sick wardrobe…
“I love Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor’s, outfits. Lovely velvet jackets and frilly shirts. I feel a connection to him, our Doctors are the only two who dress like s****.
“The hair and make-up department have been incredible. Claire Williams and my own makeup artist, Bella, who is an old friend, worked so well together in creating my looks.”
Of the Afro he was seen sporting a recent 60s-inspired photoshoot as The Doctor, he added: “Originally, we weren’t going to have the Afro, but Bella convinced me and I’m very glad she did. It’s such a shot into the bloodstream. It’s a statement — the Doctor is f****** Black.”
Ncuti teased his Doctor is “emotionally vulnerable” and “lonely”, but hides his feelings with humour and vast swathes of energy.
He said: “My Doctor is emotionally vulnerable. He hides it with humour, but he’s lonely.
“I can’t say much more than that; I don’t want to spoil anything. But he’s also energetic! The poor cameramen struggled to keep up.”

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