OHMYGOSSIP — Christopher Biggings tried to stop Paul O’Grady from smoking.
The TV legend died suddenly at the age of 67 towards the end of March and whilst no cause of death has been revealed yet, he endured three heart attacks in his life, and now pantomime icon Christopher Biggins, 74, has told of how he once tried to stop him from smoking cigarettes whilst they were on holiday together with the late Cilla Black.
Speaking on ‘Good Morning Britain’, he said: “It’s such a tragedy. We were on holiday in a villa with Cilla many, many years ago in Spain and he’d been told not to smoke by the doctor. I was downstairs with Cilla having a coffee and she said ‘Can you smell smoke?’ So I went up to tell him, I went up like a matron and knocked on the door. I said ‘Paul, you’re smoking!’ He said ‘I’m not’, so I said ‘Paul, do you think we’re idiots? We can smell it!’ But within five minutes we were on the floor laughing hysterically.”
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here’ winner went on to add that Paul – who shot to fame as drag queen Lily Savage in the 1980s before eventually launching a television career in his own right – was such a “funny man” who was “just brilliant” but wrongly thought when he first saw him that he would never make it in show business.
He added: “He was such a funny man. We will never see the like of him again, he was so quick-witted, he never used autocue. Everything was live and he was just brilliant. I used to watch him years ago in all those gay pubs in the East End and people would say ‘Oh, one day he’s going to be a huge star’ and I used to say ‘Oh, no way!’ because you just couldn’t believe that [could happen]. He was so clever, witty, and that was what was so wonderful about him. He was witty, quick-witted and he could have everybody laughing hysterically.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ortise Williams is making plans for his own TV show with the help of Simon Cowell.
The 36-year-old singer met music mogul Simon, 63, when he auditioned for his ITV1 talent competition ‘The X Factor’ in 2008 as part of boy band JLS and has hailed the TV judge as an “inspiration” as he teased that the pair of them had spoken “many times” about the idea of making a show together.
He told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “I’ve always thought of different ideas of making my own show. Simon and I have a good relationship. We talk every year pretty much and obviously he was an inspiration to our whole music world. So to be able to create something that has such an impact and such a movement will be unbelievable. We have spoken about many ideas, that’s all I’ll say.”
During the original run of ‘The X Factor’, Simon discovered acts such as JLS – who placed second to ‘Hallelujah’ songstress Alexandra Burke – as well as ‘Starstruck’ host Olly Murs, West End star Diana Vickers and put together the billion dollar boyband One Direction before returning the format in 2018 after 14 years on air.
However, just weeks ago, it was reported that Channel 5 were “keen” to secure a big-money deal with him in the hopes of starting a “new chapter” in the talent show genre.
An insider said: “This would be a huge move for Simon, who carved out a TV career based on ‘BGT’ and ‘X Factor’ on Channel 5’s rival station. It would effectively see him turn his back on ITV after two decades which have seen him deliver them two of their biggest hits. There’s a strong sense that one chapter is ending and another beginning and Channel 5 are keen to be a part of that. But they’d need to nail down a seven-figure contract to seal the deal to bring him across.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — All Elite Wrestling (AEW) will be making its UK debut at Wembley Stadium on August 27.
AEW CEO Tony Khan, star Adam Cole and host Nigel McGuinness announced on Wednesday’s (05.04.23) episode of ‘AEW: Dynamite’ will be coming to Britain this summer.
‘AEW: All In London at Wembley Stadium’ marks AEW’s first shows outside of North America and is the first time that professional wrestling will take centre-stage at Wembley Stadium for over 30 years.
Khan said: “The UK is one of the most important markets in professional wrestling, and AEW is coming in hot as the number one wrestling company in the UK on television.
“We want our debut in London to be epic in scale, and there’s no better venue than Wembley Stadium to deliver what I know will be one of the greatest events in AEW’s history. This April also marks 100 years of Warner Bros. and 100 years of Wembley Stadium – it’s a fitting time to come together for ‘AEW: All In London at Wembley Stadium.’”
AEW has proved popular with television viewers in the UK – where it airs on ITV – and the event will be a homecoming for several top stars, including AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter, Nigel McGuinness and Anthony Ogogo.
Tickets for the event go on sale to the general public at 9 am on May 5 and fans in the UK can pre-register for early access to event tickets at ticketmaster.co.uk/AEWWembley

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OHMYGOSSIP — Millie Court is dating again after her split from Liam Reardon.
The ‘Love Island’ star, 26, won the 2021 edition of the ITV2 dating show with Liam, 23, however, they went their separate ways last July.
And now, the former fashion buyer’s administrator has confirmed she has a new secret boyfriend.
In a YouTube Q+A, she spilled: “‘Am I dating?’ is the next question. There have been a lot of rumours and a lot in the press. I am going to confirm that I am dating someone.”
However, it’s early days yet, and she isn’t ready to share who her lover is.
She added: “But I’m not ready to tell you guys, yet. I love you guys, and I love your support. But it’s early doors, and you experienced a whole full-blown meeting someone, relationship on TV, the whole thing, and then everything afterwards.”
Millie also admitted that part of the reason for her split from Liam was having their relationship constantly scrutinised in the public eye after she was inundated with comments saying he had cheated on her.
On her time on the show, she said: “That was the best experience ever of my life, genuinely. But it is a lot when you have all eyes on you and everything in your relationship.”
However, she added: “I struggled with that a lot because it just wasn’t nice.
“I don’t really want people to be involved in my personal relationship, it ruined things.
“That was a big part why my last relationship ended.”
Millie recently revealed she has been having therapy after keeping all of her feelings bottled up.
She said on Instagram: “I had my first session before Christmas and just that one hour opened up so much to me.
“Cliche as it might sounds but I’m solely focusing on my career as we’ve entered a new year and I can’t wait to treat my body and mind the way it deserves.
“Loving myself comes first.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Debbie McGee is “embracing every minute of life” following the death of her husband Paul Daniels.
The 64-year-old TV star was famously married to the legendary magician – who passed away less than a month after being diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 77 in 2016 – and explained that whilst life after loss is “never the same”, has learned to “accept” things and now tries to take every day as it comes.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’, she said: “Life is never the same again when you lose somebody, there is that hole, you can’t fill that gap but what you can do is accept they’ve gone, that’s the biggest thing. And then just take every day as it comes. I’m so lucky, I have fantastic family, and wonderful friends.
“Everywhere I go, people are lovely to me. I haven’t been on here for a little whille but even the security guard said ‘Oh, Debbie, it’s great to have you back.’ Or the makeup girls, you have to shut us all up! I just embrace every minute of my life now and accept that it’s different to when it was with Paul but it doesn’t mean it can’t be as good. I’m just lucky that I had this amazing life and I’ve still got an amazing life. Every day is different.”
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant – who is set to explore Irish culture as part of an upcoming episode of BBC Two series ‘B and B By the Sea’ – also revealed that while she may not be completely “ready” to find love again, she will is open to the idea of it happening but will not go searching for it.
She said: “I never said I’m ready for love but if it happens, it happens. If you go looking for it you look desperate and you never find it. All the people I know who say ‘Oh, if only I could meet somebody’ – men or women – don’t seem to find it or find the right person.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘All Star Musicals’ will not return to ITV.
The theatrical competition – which was hosted by John Barrowman and featured a judging panel made up of industry legends Elaine Paige, Samantha Barks, and Trevor Dion-Nicholas – has aired as a series of one-off specials around Christmas and Easter since 2017 and seen the likes of ‘Coronation Street’ star Lucy Fallon and TV judge Rob Rinder crowned champion of the show after belting out classic musical numbers but ITV has now confirmed that there are no plans for further specials at present.
A spokesperson told The Sun newspaper’s TVBIz Column: “There are no current plans for new ‘All Star Musicals’ specials at present but we wouldn’t rule out further shows in the future.”
John was a regular face on TV in the late 2000s when he helped Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber find an actress to play Maria in ‘The Sound of Music’ on BBC reality search ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’ before judging on its follow-ups ‘Any Dream Will Do’ and ‘I’d Do Anything’ and also had a starring role as Captain Jack Harkness on ‘Doctor Who’.
Now, a TV insider has described the cancellation of ‘All Star Musicals’ as a “blow” for since John, especially since he left his long-running role as a judge on ‘Dancing On Ice’ in 2021.
The insider said: “This will obviously be a blow for John, particularly as it was a job he relished keeping after he left ‘Dancing On Ice’. Barring any announcement of a secret, new TV venture, this represents his last role on a British TV show, which is a far cry from the days when he was on a variety of shows on various channels.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Deborah James’s Bowlebabe fund has reached £11.3 million,
The former headteacher-turned-cancer campaigner – who was known as Bowelbabe – lost her bowel cancer battle in June last year aged 40 but set up the campaign just one month before her death and now her mum Heather has thanked the hundreds of thousands of people who donated as she vowed to keep going with the fundraising.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she told stand-in host Ranvir Singh: “She’d set a target of £250,000 and I think within a day it had hit £1 million and she was just overwhelmed, as we all were. And, I just wish she was here to see that it was £ 11.3 million, but we’re not going to stop there, we’re gonna make it even bigger! Besides the money, that’s amazing, I just want to thank every supporter. There was over 333,000 individual supporters to raise that and to me, that is overwhelming, the amount of people she touched. And it’s a big thank you to them as well.”
After being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016, Deborah – who is survived by her husband Sebastien Bowen and their teenage children Hugo and Elise – began documenting her journey through a newspaper column and as a co-host of BBC podcast ‘You, Me and the Big C’ alongside fellow cancer patients Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland, the latter of whom passed away in 2018.
More projects for the Bowelbabe campaign are set to be announced later this year but so far the family has decided to give some money to a project led by Centre for Evolution and Cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research, London that will examine the beginnings of a new precision treatment as well as one that will look at targeting microbes that might cause cancer.
Sebastien said: “I’m immensely proud and humbled to continue the work that Deborah started.
“As a family, we’ve been overwhelmed by all the support the fund has received, and to raise £11.3 million is just incredible. We’ve taken some time to select the first round of funded projects, and are pleased to announce them today. There is some fantastic, cutting-edge bowel cancer research and brilliant awareness activity taking place, and we know that Deborah would be behind this every step of the way.”
Donate at https://www.bowelbabe.org/.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Christine McGuiness has launched an “inclusive playground” for autistic children.
The 35-year-old TV star – who was diagnosed with the developmental disability that affects social interaction – has twins Penelope and Leo, nine, and daughter Felicity, seven, all of whom also have autism, with estranged husband Paddy McGuinness and has now teamed up with seaside resort Butlins to launch a £2.5million playground for “all children” to play together.
She said: “It’s fantastic to be involved in the launch of Butlin’s SKYPARK. I know first-hand just how important play is for all children, but to have an environment where kids of all abilities can play together is really special.”
National Autistic Society ambassador Christine went on to add that the SKYPARK – which is equipped with a wheelchair-accessible trampoline and roundabout, sit-up swings for support and sociability, and wheelchair-friendly walkways and ramps, and also has climbing towers reaching a height of 14 metres – will allow everyone to “facilitate a better understanding” of autism all round, after the results of a survey showed that 70% of 1400 parents would be “open to learning more” about the disorder.
She said: “Children with additional needs such as autism can often lack confidence and need that extra support when it comes to communication. It’s really encouraging to hear that nearly 70% of UK parents are open to learning more about the additional needs some children have.
“By allowing kids to play and learn from each other, we’re helping to facilitate a better understanding for everyone.
To find out more about Butlin’s SKYPARK, including full information on the different zones and key features, please head to: www.butlins.com/discover-butlins/things-to-do/skypark

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir David Attenborough has been voted UK’s favourite presenter of all time.
The 96-year-old TV veteran has graced the screens since the 1950s and enjoyed a glistening career that has spanned eight decades.
The naturist, broadcaster and historian won the nation’s hearts as a documentary narrator inspiring the modern format of nature documentaries.
The media personality came out on top according to a recent poll which revealed he won 28 percent of the vote out of the 30 household names that made up the list.
David has written, produced and narrated hundreds of natural history documentaries throughout his life including ‘Life on Earth’, ‘The Private life of Plants’ and ‘Planet Earth’ and those who took part in the survey explained that the quality of being “genuine” is what makes a “great” TV host, while just over half of them claimed that presenting has become a “dying art.”
Hot on the heels of David was the late radio legend Sir Terry Wogan – who died in 2016 at the age of 77 following a battle with cancer – whilst the late Sir Bruce Forsyth came in third, almost six years after the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ host passed at the age of 89.
The rest of the Top 10 was made up of the likes of Eurovision host Graham Norton, ‘Blind Date’ legend Cilla Black, eight years on from when she was found dead in her Spanish holiday home aged 72, as well as multi-NTA award-winning duo Ant and Dec, and ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’ star Jimmy Carr.
1. Sir David Attenborough
2. Sir Terry Wogan
3. Sir Bruce Forsyth
4. Graham Norton
5 . Jon Snow
6. Cilla Black
7. Claudia Winkleman
8. Ant and Dec
9. Les Dawson
10. Jimmy Carr

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