OHMYGOSSIP — BBC bosses have been looking for Sir David Attenborough’s replacement for over 30 years.
The legendary broadcaster and naturalist is returning to the small screen for new series ‘Prehistoric Planet 2’ for streaming giant Apple TV+, and the show’s co-producer Mike Gunton has reflected on the longevity of the 97-year-old star.
He told the Radio Times magazine: “When I arrived at the BBC, the head of department said, ‘It’s lovely this project is under way, and it’s really important because this is David’s last series. We now need to be thinking about who’s going to take over from him.’
“That was in 1987. If I had a pound for every time somebody said, ‘This is probably going to be David’s last series’, I’d be a very rich man.”
Meanwhile, Mike heaped praise on the presenter and his continued passion for “performing” on screen.
He added: “He’s still the great voice. He looks and sounds 30 years younger. He’s so on it. He still loves performing, being in front of the camera.”
His latest series is produced by the BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, and takes viewers back in time thanks to incredible technology.
The show will treat viewers to sights of triceratops, velociraptors, pterosaurs and more to treat viewers to a look at the creatures roaming the Earth 66 million years ago.
Reflecting on the use of technology, Sir David said: “The extraordinary expertise that there is in Hollywood enables you to get answers to questions, but also to propose questions which you never even thought of.”
The TV icon previously vowed to continue informing and entertaining the masses with his fun facts for years to come.
He told The Sun newspaper: “How long do I plan to keep going? As long as I’m vertical and people ask me to do it.
“It’s a marvellous time, why would I suddenly say, ‘Don’t bother’?”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gary Lineker insisted he tries to use his platform “for good” as he clashed with Richard Madeley while being quizzed about his controversial, political tweets from earlier this year.
The ‘Match of the Day’ presenter was asked to step back from the show in a row over impartiality in March – prompting a mass walk out of BBC pundits and presenters who stood by him – after he tweeted criticism of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s policy on refugees in March.
On Tuesday’s (23.05.23) ‘Good Morning Britain’, Richard asked him how he now felt about one particular tweet in hindsight, but Gary hit back claiming Richard had “misrepresented” what he had said.
Speaking on ‘GMB’, he told the former ‘This Morning’ presenter: “I didn’t compare the government to the Nazis. I was talking about some of the language that is not dissimilar.
“All I was trying to say is, we can use kinder language.
“People who are fleeing persecution awful circumstances all I was saying was that we could use kinder language.”
The controversial tweet on March 7th came in response to a video message by home secretary Suella Braverman announcing her new Illegal Migration Bill, and in the video, she spoke about stopping people making “illegal journeys” crossing the Channel in boats.
Gary’s tweet read: “There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?”
What’s more, during Tuesday’s ‘GMB interview, Gary insisted he tries to use his platform “for good”.
He said: “I think I can, and I am, and I think it’s really important if you’ve got a big platform to use it for good that’s what I’ve always done and try to do. People who complain about this are often campaigners of free speech, you can’t have it both ways.”
In April, Gary told how he thought he had hosted his last ‘Match of the Day’ after the BBC decided he would “step back” from presenting the show until they had “an agreed and clear position on his use of social media”.
Asked whether he thought he’d presented his last ‘Match of the Day’ at the time, he told Men’s Health UK: “I guess I must have, because when they said I had ‘stepped back’ and the row was raging, it was hard to see how it got resolved unless they backed down.”
But Gary also insisted last month that his view was “factually accurate”.
He added: “When I sent that tweet, it honestly never even crossed my mind that it would lead to where it went. I’ve worked with refugees’ charities for years.
“So, when I saw the Suella Braverman film, I said I thought it was pretty awful. Then the ‘stick to football’ people weighed in and I replied to one of them, just saying there was no massive influx, the UK takes far fewer refugees than other European countries, this is a cruel policy, and the language used in the debate reminds us of the debate in Germany in the 1930s. I think that is factually accurate.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Naga Munchetty suffers from “terrible pain” due to adenomyosis.
The ‘BBC Breakfast’ host detailed how she once “screamed non-stop” for nearly an hour due to the womb condition – which causes the womb lining to grow in the muscles of the womb and leads to severe cramping and heavy periods – back in September last year.
The 48-year-old broadcaster told her BBC Radio 5 Live listeners : “The pain was so terrible I couldn’t move, turn over, sit up. I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes.”
Naga explained she is still in “constant” and “nagging pain”, but she has opted to not have a hysterectomy for now.
She said: “Right now as I sit here talking to you: I am in pain. Constant, nagging pain.
“In my uterus. Around my pelvis. Sometimes it runs down my thighs.
“And I’ll have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep.”
Naga also shared how the pain “changes”, and it can take her breath away at times.
She said: “Every so often the pain changes. It becomes a stabbing pain, a pain that takes my breath away and I can do nothing but sit with it for a minute or curl up to cope.”
Naga admitted she was “just unlucky” to have the condition – which is not life-threatening and tends to impact women over the age of 40, and is only found via routine screenings so diagnosis rates are low – and she invited other women onto her show to discuss the toll it was taking on their lives.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Denise Welch is taking a break from ‘Loose Women’.
The 65-year-old star thanked everyone for her well-wishes on her birthday and revealed she is stepping back from the ITV1 daytime show – which she regularly appears on alongside the likes of Ruth Langsford, Charlene White and Coleen Nolan – to go “on a little adventure”.
She said in a video posted to Instagram: “Well… on today, on my 65th birthday, I want to say thank you in advance for all the lovely messages and comments that I’ve received.
“I’m going off on a little adventure for a couple of weeks so I’m going to be off here and off my phone. I don’t quite know how I’m going to cope, but I’m going to give it a try, so don’t think I have disappeared.”
Denise paid tribute to those mourning their mothers as her birthday marks the day she lost her own mum Ann, but called the day “a celebration of life”.
She continued: “It’s just a temporary little holiday. For those missing their mums, I’m thinking of you. It’s a full circle. She brought me into the world on the 22nd of May and she left the world holding mine and my sister’s hand on the 22nd of May, so it’s a celebration of life as well.”
Denise – who is mother to the 1975 frontman Matt Healy, 34, and his brother Louis, 22, with her second husband, actor Tim Healy – captioned the clip: “Thank you and au revoir for a couple of weeks!!! (sic)”
The former ‘Coronation Street’ star – who has been married to Lincoln Townley since 2013 – recently admitted she didn’t feel like a “little doddery old person”.
She told OK! magazine: “When I say 65, I think of some little doddery old person, whereas I certainly don’t feel like that now.
“When I was 60, I decided to flip the narrative in my head. You can either say, ‘Oh my God, I’m 60, I qualify for a bus pass,’ or you can say, ‘I’m only 60. I might have 30 good years ahead of me!’
“My dad, up until the week he died, was pretty much partying and I want to have that love of life and be as fit as I can be until I pop my clogs.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rochelle Humes has thanked Phillip Schofield for being a “fountain of knowledge and laughter” on ‘This Morning’.
The 34-year-old TV presenter has paid tribute to her former co-star after he confirmed over the weekend he has departed the ITV brunch-time show with immediate effect after 21 years.
Rochelle wrote on Instagram: “I’ve proudly been a part of the This Morning family for almost 10 years and over the last few, it has been an absolutely pleasure learning so much from you
“Thanks for all the lessons – you’re a fountain of knowledge and laughter.. Big love @schofe (sic)”
Rochelle regularly guest co-hosted ‘This Morning’ alongside Phillip, including between November and December 2018 when his usual co-presenter Holly Willoughby was in Australia guest co-hosting ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’.
Her tribute came after Phillip confirmed last weekend that he had left ‘This Morning’.
He wrote on Instagram at the time: “I have always been proud to cover fascinating stories on This Morning. But recently, This Morning itself has become the story. Throughout my career in TV – including the very difficult last few days – I have always done my best to be honourable and kind. I understand that ITV has decided the current situation can’t go on, and I want to do what I can to protect the show that I love.
“So I have agreed to step down from This Morning with immediate effect, in the hope that the show can move forward to a bright future. I’d like to thank everyone who has supported me – especially This Morning’s amazing viewers – and I’ll see you all for the Soap Awards next month.”
Just minutes after his announcement, Holly released a statement thanking her former co-star for his “knowledge, experience and humour” on the show’s famous sofa.
She wrote: “Hi everyone. It’s been over 13 great years presenting ‘This Morning’ with Phil and I want to take this opportunity to thank him for all of his knowledge, his experience, and his humour. The sofa won’t feel the same without him.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘This Morning’s Alison Hammond has hailed Phillip Schofield as “one of the best live television broadcasters” Britain has ever produced.
The 61-year-old presenter recently announced that he was stepping down from ‘This Morning’ “with immediate effect” after more than 20 years on the show, and co-hosts Alison and Dermot O’Leary have both acknowledged that he’s played a huge part in the programme’s success.
Alison said: “Now, we can’t start today’s show without paying tribute to the man who spent the last two decades sitting on the ‘This Morning’ sofa, Phillip Schofield.”
Dermot continued: “So, as a show, everyone on and off screen at ITV and ‘This Morning’ wants to say a huge thank you to Phil for what he’s done to make the show such a success over the last 21 years.”
Alison also wished the veteran TV presenter well for the future.
She said: “Quite simply, we all know he is one of the best live television broadcasters this country has ever had. And we and all the team wish him all the best for the future.”
Dermot subsequently confirmed that Holly Willoughby – Phillip’s former co-host – will return to the show in June.
He said: “Holly has now taken a break over half-term. She’ll be back in the studio two weeks on Monday, on the fifth of June.”
Phillip announced his departure from ‘This Morning’ over the weekend.
He said in a statement: “Throughout my career in TV – including in the very difficult last few days – I have always done my best to be honourable and kind.
“I understand that ITV has decided the current situation can’t go on, and I want to do what I can to protect the show that I love.
“So I have agreed to step down from ‘This Morning’ with immediate effect, in the hope that the show can move forward to a bright future.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Denise Welch hasn’t fallen out with any of her ‘Loose Women’ co-stars in “20 years”.
The 65-year-old actress has starred on the show alongside the likes of Ruth Langsford, Kay Adams, and Colleen Nolan since 2005, and Denise insists she has a great relationship with her co-stars.
She told OK! Magazine: “It’s great for me – it fits into my lifestyle, I love the girls. I know that every single day I seem to be ‘in a feud’, but I’ve never had a fall out in 20 years with any of the women on that show.
“I’ve never had an argument with any of them.
“Yes, we’ve had arguments on the set – that’s part of the show.
“Put it this way, I’m a woman’s woman. So, believe you me, I’d be out like a shot, and if ‘Loose Women’ was b***** backstage, I wouldn’t be there.”
Meanwhile, Denise’s son Matt Healy is the frontman of the band The 1975 and she considers him to be a “creative genius”.
She said: “My son is a creative genius and I say that not just because he is my son. I’m privy to so much of the work he’s done before he hits the stage, what comes out of his mouth and out of his brain.
“I just think, ‘Sometimes I can’t believe I gave birth to you. Where are you from?’ Louis and him are so supportive of each other. Their dad [Tim Healy] is a brilliant actor, so he has come from two very creative people.”
Denise also revealed she’s been swarmed by fans at some of her son’s shows.
The actress said: “It makes me laugh. I’ve always been very lucky that I’ve had quite a young fanbase.
“Obviously, now it’s become a thing that when I go to one of Matthew’s shows and there’s like 15,000 people there, a pocket of them spot me and then the ripple goes around and they all start screaming and waving.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Will Young would “love” to host ‘For the Love of Dogs’.
The hit TV show was previously presented by Paul O’Grady – who died in March, aged 67 – and Will has revealed that he’d jump at the opportunity to host the programme.
Asked about the possibility during an appearance on ‘Lorraine’, Will replied: “Oh my god, I’d love to do that.
“That’s so weird that you just said that because literally, Paul – who is doing my hair and make-up today – said: ‘You should do Paul O’Grady … that show, ‘For the Love of Dogs’.'”
The show celebrates the work of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, and Will revealed that he actually lives very close by.
The 44-year-old singer – who won ‘Pop Idol’ in 2002 – said: “You know, I live in Battersea as well. Yeah. There we go – there’s our pitch. I’d love to do it.”
On the other hand, Amanda Holden is reportedly being lined up to host ‘For the Love of Dogs’.
The 52-year-old star is supposedly seen by TV bosses as the ideal successor to Paul.
An insider told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: “Execs just feel like it’s too soon to make firm plans about the series, as it’s barely been two months since he died. But the feeling at the home is that it’s what Paul would have wanted.
“After all, he cared deeply about the animals in Battersea.
“Amanda is the natural choice to take over the job, not just because she’s a seasoned presenter but because she also cares about the home and would do anything for them.”

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