OHMYGOSSIP — Clive Myrie is jetting off to Italy for a brand-new BBC show.
The ‘Mastermind’ host will swap the BBC studios for sun-drenched Italian countryside, and the news presenter, 58, couldn’t contain his excitement as he launched an Instagram account to give fans details about his new show ‘Clive Myrie’s Italian Road Trip’.
In a short reel, Clive said: “I want to go on holiday” while sitting inside the studios, and he was then transported to Italy.
He announced: “I’m In Italy … beautiful”.
The 15-part series, which will debut on May 1, will follow Clive as he embarks on his captivating journey around the country.
The presenter will immerse himself in culture as he learns about the rich history while sampling local cuisine across the nation, including the slopes of Sicily’s Mount Etna and the eternal city of Rome.
He will also divulge the secrets of what makes a Neapolitan pizza so unique and famous, as well the secret ingredients of Italy’s iconic dishes.
Clive said: “I hope viewers enjoy this road trip as much as I have and fall in love with Italy – a place that captured my heart many years ago. It really is one of my favourite holiday destinations, and even after several years of visiting, I always have something new to learn and explore.
“This trip helped me discover places, communities and traditions I’d never come across before and the series is packed with beautiful locations, delicious food and the friendliest people, I hope BBC viewers enjoy the Italian sunshine with me this May.”
Emma Parkins, Executive Producer at Alleycats TV, added: “Clive holidays in Italy every year, but he wanted to go deeper and really threw himself into this adventure – from competing in the Tiramisu World Cup to navigating in a vintage car rally through Prosecco country.
“It was great to travel with him, and we hope that the programme doesn’t only inspire people to visit, but to search for lesser-known locations and get curious about how Italians live too.”
Clive Myrie’s Italian Road Trip starts 1 May, 6.30pm on BBC Two. All episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Waterloo Road’ is to return for a new series.
The BBC has confirmed the school drama show will be back for a new term, consisting of seven episodes, with the likes of Angela Griffin (Kim Campbell), Adam Thomas (Donte Charles), and Kym Marsh (Nicky Walters) all returning to the show.
Jamie Glover will reprise his role as former deputy head Andrew Treneman – an ex of Angela’s character Kim – who was last seen in the series in 2009.
Angela said: “It’s great to be back on BBC One and to be able to offer iPlayer fans some great new episodes.
“We have such a wonderful and talented cast, all of whom bring so much to ‘Waterloo Road’. This series holds a fair few surprises for Kim and everyone around her and I can’t wait for people to catch up with all the action inside and outside the school.”
Jamie added: “I am so excited to be returning to ‘Waterloo Road’.
“The school has been such an important part of my life and it’s wonderful to be able to rekindle the old flame.
“Not to mention the joy of getting to work with the incomparable Angela Griffin once more.
“I hope that people will enjoy seeing Andrew and Kim together in the school again. Older? Certainly, there’s the grey hair to prove it! Wiser? Who knows?”
Vincent Jerome (Lindon King), James Baxter (Joe Casey), Jo Coffey (Wendy Whitwell), Shauna Shim (Valerie Chambers), Neil Fitzmaurice (Neil Guthrie), Rachel Leskovac (Coral Walker), Katherine Pearce (Amy Spratt), Ryan Clayton (Mike Rutherford) and Sonia Ibrahim (Jamilah Omar) will also reprise their roles for another term.
They will be joined by Paul Bazely and Jenny Platt as parents of pupils, while Olwen May and James Quinn will make appearances at the school.
New student Myles Massey, played by Osian Morgan, joins established pupils including Adam Abbou (Danny Lewis), Priyasasha Kumari (Samia Choudhry), Noah Valentine (Preston Walters), Adam Ali (Kai Sharif), Alicia Forde (Kelly-Jo Rafferty), Francesco Piacentini-Smith (Dean Weever), Liam Scholes (Noel McManus) and Lucy Eleanor Begg (Caz Williams).
Scarlett Thomas plays Izzy Charles and fellow junior student casting includes Summer Violet Bird (Tonya Walters), Ava Flannery (Verity King), Thapelo Ray (Dwanye Jackson), Inathi Rozani (Zayne Jackson), Chiamaka (ChiChi) Ulebor (Shola Aku) and Sahil Ismailkhil (Norrulah Ashimi).
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, added: “We are thrilled that ‘Waterloo Road’ is returning following its successful run earlier this year.
“To have Jamie Glover reprise his role as Andrew Treneman alongside our fantastic returning and new cast members is a real treat and we can’t wait to share more stories from the school.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Coronation Street’ stars Ryan Prescott and Sair Khan have confirmed Alya Nazir and Ryan Connor’s romance is over.
Alya – played by Sair – has vowed to stand by her ex-boyfriend Ryan, portrayed by Prescott, as he goes through recovery in hospital following an horrific acid attack, but she no longer has romantic feelings for him.
On Monday’s episode (17.04.23), Ryan confessed he was still in love with Alya, but was crushed following her rejection.
Sair said: “It’s been incredibly difficult for Alya to see Ryan this way and the shock of the event has really hit her.
“She saw him earlier in the day, before the acid attack, and everything was fine and then so quickly, his life changed. A lot of the residents on Coronation Street have been through life-changing events but Ryan’s is one that is so physical and so painful and Alya has never seen or experienced something like this before.
“She is trying to be sensitive but she’s in shock, seeing someone she cares about so deeply in so much pain. It’s been really difficult for her and it’s been quite hard for her to hide her reaction.”
Ryan Prescott added: “Ryan was gutted.
“It’s the icing on the cake and when Alya shoots him down, even though it’s in a really nice way, it’s the reconfirmation of, ‘No one is going to love me. No one is going to accept me.’ Having someone to love is a huge driving factor in Ryan’s life and he now starts to think that he is never going to have that again. He is so vulnerable and so alone in this state.”
But Sair insisted her character isn’t up for “receiving any kind of love” for now.
She added: “I don’t think she has the capacity to love in the way that she would want to love him, and she isn’t open to receiving any kind of love at the moment herself.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Idris Elba will compete against Lewis Hamilton in a new show.
The ‘Luther’ star will take on the Formula One driver in a race across the Saudi Arabian desert in a new two-part series, titled ‘Idris And Hamilton Race The Desert’, which is set to air on Channel 4.
It will see Idris, 50 and Lewis, 38, take on the Dakar Rally – a long-distance rally that takes places over a course of a few days – in electric 4×4 vehicles.
A TV source told The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column: “Idris is a self-confessed speed freak and was determined to make this a tough race for Lewis.
“The course is one of the toughest in sport, with the rough terrain a constant hazard for drivers.
“But that didn’t put either Idris or Lewis off as they were desperate to out-do each other, and their rivalry was captured brilliantly on camera.”
Lewis and Idris have been pals for years and it seems their friendship has rubbed off on one another, with the actor expressing his interest in fast cars.
In 2013, Idris filmed a two-part documentary series for the BBC titled ‘Idris Elba: King Of Speed’, which followed the actor on his pursuit of fulfilling his life-long ambition in becoming a rally driver.
In July last year, the ‘American Gangster’ star announced an initiative to find future racing talents for underrepresented communities in motorsports.
Speaking to the Standard, he said: “I’ve always had this soft spot for cars, engines, motorsports – anything with a steering wheel basically, and sort of married the idea that I’m someone who has always wanted to put an opportunity on the table. I stood in parliament, spoke about diversity and talked about talent being everywhere, but opportunity not.
“I was an inner-city kid, immigrant working-class parents, opportunities for me were really through what I could get at school, maybe a youth club here and there, but other than that if I wanted to be in motorsports there was almost zero opportunity.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Richard Wilson was relieved when it was suggested his comic alter ego Victor Meldrew be killed off.
The 86-year-old comedian had grown “wearisome” of playing the angry old man in ‘One Foot in the Grave’ – which ran from 1990 to 2000 – and was sick of fans shouting his catchphrase, “I don’t believe it”, while out in the street, so he was pleased when showrunner David Renwick came up with an idea to end the show for good.
Speaking in upcoming documentary ‘One Foot in the Grave: 30 Years of Laughs’ – which will air on Channel 5 on Friday (21.04.23) – Richard said: “I’d been doing it for quite a long while and I was getting a bit wearisome of being angry all the time.
“David said, ‘I’m thinking of killing Victor. What do you think?’ I said, ‘Kill him. Do it’.”
“I got the catchphrase shouted at me everywhere. In foreign countries, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s got here as well’.”
But while Richard was aware the show was ending and Victor would be killed in a hit-and-run, it came as a shock to the rest of the cast when they received their scripts.
Angus Deayton, who played neighbour Patrick, said: “I had no idea that it was going to be the final series until I saw the script for the last show and saw that Victor was going to die.”
And Doreen Mantle, who starred as Jean Warboys, added: “I was very sad. I didn’t want the series to end. But it was time that it ended.”
Richard praised his co-star Annette Crosbie, 89, who played Victor’s long-suffering wife Margaret, for her comedic work.
He said: “She had never done a sitcom. But she was a very good comedian. She was quite straight, in many ways. But her comedy was very well done.”
Angus added: “Richard’s character is obviously the sort of serious one and Annette is a slightly lighter, jollier one. Annette was actually the more serious of the two and Richard was always playing jokes, keeping everything light and jolly.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Binky Felstead “couldn’t be happier” after giving birth to her third child.
The former ‘Made in Chelsea’ star and her husband Max Darnton welcomed a son into the world on Saturday evening (15.04.23), and she described the little one as “perfect”.
Binky shared a video montage on Instagram of her labour journey, complete with several pre and post-birth pictures and footage, and she wrote in the caption: “15.04.23. 10:45pm!
“Couldn’t be happier he’s just perfect. We now have three musketeers.”
The images included Max holding his baby boy, and some of the video footage featured intimate moments from the birth.
She began the montage by sharing a clip of herself setting up her baby boy’s crib ahead of his birth.
Binky said on the clip: “Today’s the day. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to meet this little one.”
Several stars congratulated the couple on their newborn.
Michelle Keegan wrote: “Congratulations, sending you all lots of love xxx (sic)”
Binky’s former ‘Made in Chelsea’ co-star Louise Thompson commented: “Yayyyyyyyy (sic)”
Ex-‘TOWIE’ star Lydia Bright wrote: “Congrats darling girl”
In December, Binky took to Instagram to share a video of her gender reveal, in which her five-year-old daughter India – who she shares with ex Joshua Patterson – popped a balloon to reveal blue confetti, meaning she and Max were expecting a boy, a sibling for their 22-month-old boy Wolfie.
But India was less than impressed with the result, saying: “I don’t want a brother.”
Binky later revealed India was “beyond happy” to be having another sibling after realising she will be the only girl.
She wrote in the caption: “We now have a great family video for her 18th birthday #SiblingLove … needless to say she is beyond happy now we’ve sat her down and she has realised she is the only princess still (sic)”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lauren Harries is in recovery after undergoing emergency brain surgery.
The 45-year-old star’s mum Katy has told fans her daughter still has “memory issues and confusion”, and she asked supporters to pray for Lauren.
On Tuesday night (18.04.23), Katy wrote on Lauren’s official Twitter account: “Yesterday they moved Lauren back to recovery, she is under close watch. She still has memory issues and confusion. The doctors say that she does not need another operation atm they are taking it day by day. Please pray for her and send her your love. Thank you for your kindness (sic)”
On Saturday (15.04.23), Katy revealed Lauren would’ve died if she hadn’t gone under the knife.
She tweeted: “Lauren has woken up after her brain surgery. They had to shave her hair. As you know this is Laurens worst nightmare but she would have died if not. The amazing staff in the Heath Hospital have been wonderful. Thank you for your kind words, her recovery ahead. Update to follow. (sic)”
On her own Twitter account, Katy wrote: “Please pray or send good thoughts to my precious daughter Lauren @LaurenHarries. Who is recovering from emergency brain surgery today.”
In August 2019, Lauren told how she was “retiring from public life” after being rejected on ‘Naked Attraction’ for being “too old”.
She stripped off for the Channel 4 show – on which hopeful singletons get to see their potential dates nude bodies before they see their faces – but was ditched by hunky suitor Rigby who, after seeing her figure, decided he wanted someone younger.
Lauren – who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2003 – was not happy with the snub and later vowed to give up the fame game.
In an interview with the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column, Lauren said at the time: “I am retiring from public life and leaving social media. I won’t be on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. I am giving it all up. It’s because I cannot take all the negativity towards me. After ‘Naked Attraction’ there was loads. Over the years the trolls have been quite horrendous. I’ve posted videos of myself singing and dancing and had such cruel comments. I am now thinking, ‘Why am I putting these videos out for people hiding behind their computers to come out and abuse me? I am just giving them an excuse to write horrible things about me.’ It has to stop now. ‘Naked Attraction’ is really like my swansong.”
Lauren went into the ‘CBB’ house in 2013, finishing third, and has also appeared on ‘Trust Me – I’m A Beauty Therapist’ and ‘Celebrity Juice’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Natalie Cassidy says the morale on ‘EastEnders’ is “fantastic” at the moment, and she believes the soap is “on the up”.
The 39-year-old actress has portrayed Sonia Fowler on the BBC One soap since 1993, and she is still “really happy” working on the programme.
She is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: “I drive into work, I go to ‘EastEnders’ and I think I’m really happy at the moment.
“The place is great, the morale is fantastic, all the people are great, the writing’s great.
“Of course, you have the dips and the ups and it’s on an up and it’s lovely.”
Natalie’s comments come after her former co-star Danny Dyer recently hinted at a potential feud on the BBC One soap, after admitting he didn’t “love” all of his fellow Albert Square residents.
The 45-year-old actor – who played Mick Carter for nine years – admitted there are “a few” of the show’s stars he won’t miss much.
When asked on ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’ who he will miss the least, he said: “There’s a few of them actually, I ain’t going to lie. I won’t say [who], you know. Most of them I love dearly. Not all.”
Jonathan asked: “So they know who they are, though?”
Danny said: “I would have thought so.”
The star admitted it was “very emotional” departing the soap, but he stank while shooting his final scenes, in which his landlord alter-ego got lost at sea.
He added: “I tell you what it is, I’m lazy. It’s f****** hard. Thirty pages you’ve got to learn a day. It’s like a film a week. My final scenes were in the sea, in Ramsgate at 2am. We did the exteriors in the sea and the interiors you go to a water tank. But EastEnders couldn’t get Pinewood, so we had to go to Basildon.
“It’s all warm and lovely but to make it look like the sea they put broccoli juice in it. You smell of a***. It’s f***ing broccoli juice. Warm broccoli juice. It was very emotional, but I stunk.
“If it goes t*** up I can go back. I can turn up in three years’ time, walk in the Queen Vic smothered in seaweed…
“They wanted to keep it open. I’m very privileged and grateful for that job. It really did change my career and my life.”

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