OHMYGOSSIP — James May’s gin will be celebrated with a week-long food festival.
The ‘Grand Tour’ presenter has teamed up with Market Place to celebrate two years of its site in London’s Vauxhall, with vendors using the star’s James Gin to create limited-edition special dishes including a gin + zest pizza at Made in Puglia, gin and tonic fish and chips at Wicked Fish, and Yorkshire Burrito’s gin-infused chicken roast wrap.
Blake Henderson, Managing Director at Market Place said: “We couldn’t be-gin to explain how excited we are to be celebrating Market Place Vauxhall’s second birthday this year with the one and only James May, allowing our customers to get an exclusive taste of the superb James Gin.
“We couldn’t think of a better way to mark the success we have had at Market Place over the last two years; a story that began with one venue in Peckham, now expanded into four sites across the city with more on the way. We look forward to what the future has in store for us!”
Kicking off the celebrations on Monday (23.09.24), James himself will take part in an exclusive Q+A session at Market Place Vauxhall at 7pm, where he will discuss how James Gin came to life and offer some funny anecdotes about his venture into alcohol.
Tickets are £21.60 and include a James Gin + Double Dutch Tonic on entry along with a £10 food voucher which can be redeemed at one of Market Place’s 12 street food traders. Book at https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/6695c7a9b6190c28cbf82934/e/66ba091355737158d964d1c4?lang=en

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rachel Johnson broke a rib during her stint on ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
The journalist – sister of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson – was among the famous faces competing in the latest series of the gruelling reality show in New Zealand and she was offered the chance to bow out early after sustaining the injury but she decided “power on through”.
Speaking to journalists, Rachel explained: “I broke a rib. It was a lose-lose situation cos you’re in terrible pain and you go to the doctor and you say, ‘I can’t walk or I definitely can’t run. And I definitely can’t carry my pack.’
“And the doctor says, ‘Well, you know, there’s nothing I can do about a broken rib. I’m not an X-ray machine. Do you want to leave?’ So you just have to power on through.”
Rachel kept going despite the injury while one of her castmates – John Barrowman – bowed out on day one after throwing up his lunch on the way to the first task.
John admitted he wasn’t happy with the vegetarian sandwich and it soon came back up again.
He told The Sun newspaper: “I’m not a vegan or a vegetarian, but they made everybody eat vile tofu. “I would never eat tofu in my life, but you’re so hungry, you just eat it … Then it was projectile vomit everywhere and the tofu came up. I thought, ‘I’m not going to make myself ill or hurt myself in order to try to prove something that I don’t need to prove’. ”
He added of his decision to leave the show: It was seriously me going: ‘I am completely comfortable with who I am. I’m completely a happy person. We’ve all got our issues and problems, but I’ve made a mistake’.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘That’s Life!’ star Chris Serle has died aged 81.
The passing of the former BBC radio and TV presenter, who rose to fame on the show alongside TV presenters including Dame Esther Rantzen, 84, was confirmed by his family on Monday (23.09.24) – sparking a flood of tributes from BBC figures and television hosts.
Bristol-born Chris was described by his loved ones in a tribute as a “familiar and cherished figure on British television screens throughout the 1970s and 1980s”.
Dame Esther said she was “very sad” to hear that he had died, adding in a statement: “He was as nice off camera as he was in the studio on camera – funny, clever, charming, a very versatile presenter.
“When I first met him he was a producer, but it was clear that he had all the attributes of the best reporters.
“Viewers and listeners of ‘That’s Life!’ and the many other radio and television programmes he presented will be equally sad.”
Actress Judy Matheson, 79, said online: “This is so sad. He was in my first theatre company, travelling all over US; when I first went to rehearse in Bristol he and his family put me up. He was such a terrific guy.”
She added in another caption on X alongside a photo of her smiling up at Chris: “Further to my last post, a memory with the brilliant Chris Serle, with me in my first job with the Bristol Old Vic, on our US tour in the ‘Garden of the Gods’ in Denver in 1967.
“He never seemed to age. We were both novices in professional theatre, but Chris became a polymath. R.I.P.”
The BBC News first reported Chris’ death, hailing him for his work on popular programmes throughout the 1970s and 1980s including ‘In at the Deep End’ and as the long-time host of ‘Points of View’.
He also chaired Radio 4’s ‘Pick of the Week’ between 1981 and 1988 and was the host of a long-running afternoon show on BBC Radio Bristol.
Chris is survived by his wife Ali and their three children, as well as two kids from a previous marriage.
The BBC reported: “His family said funeral and memorial service details are being arranged and will be shared in due course.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sue Cleaver had an abortion in her teenage years.
The 60-year-old actress has opened up about her life and career in the new memoir ‘Work in Progress’ and spent her younger days in search of “validation and acceptance” but ended up pregnant after falling for an older man, choosing only to inform her mother.
She said: “There were boyfriends, one-night stands. I convinced myself that ‘Oh, if I do this, they will love me’. I was always searching for a way to belong. “It was tragic really and it breaks my heart to think about it now. There’s so much shame wrapped up in my teenage years. I was just searching and searching for someone to make me feel okay.
“Because I didn’t know how to be okay myself. So, I became really promiscuous.
“I was in absolute turmoil. I eventually told my mum – I said: ‘This has happened, I’m going to the hospital on this date, can I have a lift and can we not tell Dad’. I don’t think we ever spoke about it again, but that was my choice.
“I don’t think we knew how to. My dad never knew. I look back and think I was so resilient. I just got on and I dealt with stuff.”
Meanwhile, the ‘Loose Women’ panellist – who is now married to lighting technician Brian Owen but has son Elliot, 26, with ex-husband James Quinn – is known for her long-running role as matriarch Eileen Grimshaw in the ITV soap opera ‘Coronation Street’, and up until getting the role in 2000 had played small parts in Kay Mellor’s ‘Band of Gold’ and ‘dinnerladies’ opposite Victoria Wood.
But she admitted that joining the soap left her “absolutely terrified” of being recognised in public and wouldn’t know what to say to any fans if they approached her.
She said: “For quite a few years, if somebody came up to me in the street, the inside of my stomach muscles would tense up and I’d be thinking: ‘Oh God, don’t come over. Don’t come over. Don’t come over.’
“It absolutely terrified me when people did. I’d be thinking: ‘I’ve got nothing to offer you. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do.’ It was fear, pure and simple. I don’t think I handled it well at all. My confident exterior was paper-thin.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris did a lot of “soul searching” on their new travel show.
The former ‘Top Gear’ hosts – who presented the show with Freddie Flintoff before his horror crash and the BBC’s subsequent decision to shelve the long running programme – are returning this weekend with ‘Road Tripping’ as they drive across Sweden, Greece and Switzerland.
Paddy said: “There are some moments where we both really do some soul searching and think about how we can make the most of the years ahead of us.”
His friend and co-star Chris added: “Paddy and I have been good friends for many years and we have spent a lot of time together, so I thought I knew him pretty well.
“But this soul-searching mission has definitely changed us; we’ve learnt a lot about each other and ourselves. It’s been great to experience that with Paddy.”
While the former ‘Take Me Out’ host admitted the series was “eye-opening”, he joked that he also came to an unfortunate realisation about his pal.
Paddy quipped: “I have also learnt, however, that Chris has terrible taste in music and should never be given control of the car radio again!
As well as learning more about each other, the pair also discovered things about themselves while filming the three part series.
Chris said: “By the end of the series I come to some quite big conclusions based on the experiences we’ve had, which the audience will get to see.
“I’ve learnt that there are certainly things I can change about lifestyle to improve my health.”
The series will consist of three one-hour episodes, and is set to air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
BBC Studios Creative Director Factual Entertainment Kat Lennox previously teased viewers what was in store, promising “more of an insight” into Paddy and Chris’ friendship.
She said: “Paddy and Chris’ on screen chemistry has always been a favourite amongst audiences and we’re so excited to be bringing more of an insight into their friendship through this adventure of a lifetime. With plenty of bants along the way, of course, it’s certainly going to be entertaining!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Peter Ash has been nominated for Best Actor at the Inside Soap Awards.
The 39-year-old actor played the tragic Paul Foreman in ‘Coronation Street’ from 2018 until earlier this month when he was killed off following a long battle with motor neurone disease and now he will go head-to-head with ‘EastEnders’ actor Colin Salmon, ‘Emmerdale’ star Jeff Hordley and long-running ‘Hollyoaks’ cast member Ste Hay for the coveted accolade at the magazine’s annual ceremony.
Meanwhile, Peter’s former co-star Channique Sterling-Brown – who plays lawyer Dee-Dee Bailey on the ITV1 soap – is up for Best Actress, alongside Angela Wynter from the BBC’s ‘EastEnders’, Eden Taylor-Draper of ‘Emmerdale’ fame and Kirsty-Leigh Porter from Channel 4’s ‘Hollyoaks’.
Gary Gillatt, executive editor of Inside Soap magazine, said: “Some of 2024’s most challenging and thought-provoking television dominates the storyline and acting categories this year: the bittersweet journey from Paul’s MND diagnosis in Coronation Street; the horror of coercive control in a marriage in Emmerdale and abuse within a family in ‘Hollyoaks’. Meanwhile, ‘EastEnders’’ tale of the conspiracy of ‘The Six’ has won many fans. But who’ll take home the trophies on the night? All will soon be revealed!”
All four of the UK’s major soap operas have received a nod in the Best Storyline category, with ‘EastEnders’ lastest whodunnit, Paul’s MND in ‘Coronation Street’, Tom and Belle’s coercive control in ‘Emmerdale’ and the sibling abuse plot in ‘Hollyoaks’ all under consideration.
All four of the nominees for Best Comic Performance are long-running actresses in their respective soaps, with ‘Emmerdale’ legend Lisa Riley – who first starred as Mandy Dingle almost 30 years ago – going up against Dame Maureen Lipman from ‘Coronation Street’, Jorgie Porter from ‘Hollyoaks’ and Tameka Empson, who has played Kim Fox in ‘EastEnders’ for 15 years.
Meanwhile, ‘Casualty’ stars Elinor Lawless and Neet Mohan have been nominated for Best Drama Star, but will face competition from ‘Waterloo Road’ actors Adam Thomas and Alicia Forde after they impressed as Donte Charles and Kelly-Jo Rafferty in the school-based serial.

The Inside Soap Awards 2024 ceremony will be held on Monday 30 September, with names of the winners announced at 6pm GMT.

The final nominations for each of the Inside Soap Awards are as follows:
BEST ACTRESS
Channique Sterling-Brown (Dee-Dee Bailey, ‘Coronation Street’)
Angela Wynter (Yolande Trueman, ‘EastEnders’)
Eden Taylor-Draper (Belle King, ‘Emmerdale’)
Kirsty-Leigh Porter (Leela Dexter, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST ACTOR
Peter Ash (Paul Foreman, ‘Coronation Street’)
Colin Salmon (George Knight, ‘EastEnders’)
Jeff Hordley (Cain Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)
Kieron Richardson (Ste Hay, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST VILLAIN
Calum Lill (Joel Deering, ‘Coronation Street’)
Navin Chowdhry (Nish Panesar, ‘EastEnders’)
James Chase (Tom King, ‘Emmerdale’)
Jamie Lomas (Warren Fox, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST COMIC PERFORMANCE
Maureen Lipman (Evelyn Plummer, ‘Coronation Street’)
Tameka Empson (Kim Fox, ‘EastEnders’)
Lisa Riley (Mandy Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)
Jorgie Porter (Theresa McQueen, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST NEWCOMER
Vicky Myers (DS Lisa Swain, ‘Coronation Street’)
Sophie Khan Levy (Priya Nandra-Hart, ‘EastEnders’)
Beth Cordingly (Ruby Fox-Miligan, ‘Emmerdale’)
Isabelle Smith (Frankie Osborne, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST PARTNERSHIP
Daniel Brocklebank and Peter Ash (Billy Mayhew and Paul Foreman, ‘Coronation Street’)
Balvinder Sopal and Heather Peace (Suki Panesar and Eve Unwin, ‘EastEnders’)
Dominic Brunt and Mark Charnock (Paddy Dingle and Marlon Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)
Nathaniel Dass and Oscar Curtis (Dillon Ray and Lucas Hay, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST YOUNG PERFORMER
Age 21 or under on the day of voting launch
Charlie Wrenshall (Liam Connor, ‘Coronation Street’)
Ellie Dadd (Amy Mitchell, ‚EastEnders’)
Amelia Flanagan (April Windsor, ‘Emmerdale’)
Oscar Curtis (Lucas Hay, ‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST PET
Freddie (‘Coronation Street’)
Tyson (‘EastEnders’)
Piper (‘Emmerdale’)

BEST FAMILY
The Platts (‘Coronation Street’)
The Mitchells (‘EastEnders’)
The Dingles (‘Emmerdale’)
The McQueens (‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST STORYLINE
Paul’s MND (‘Coronation Street’)
The Six: Killer cover-up (‘EastEnders’)
Tom and Belle: Coercive control (‘Emmerdale’)
Sibling sexual abuse (‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST SHOWSTOPPER
Awarded to a special soap event that had the audience on the edge of their seats
Joel is Lauren’s mystery boyfriend (‘Coronation Street’)
The Six: Linda kills Keanu (‘EastEnders’)
Cliffhanger: Mackenzie’s choice (‘Emmerdale’)
Frankie is being abused by JJ (‘Hollyoaks’)

BEST DAYTIME STAR
Kia Pegg (Scarlett Kiernan, ‘Doctors’)
Ada Nicodemou (Leah Patterson, ‘Home and Away’)
Ryan Moloney (Jarrod ‘Toadfish’ Rebecchi, ‘Neighbours’)

BEST DRAMA STAR
Elinor Lawless (Stevie Nash, ‘Casualty’)
Neet Mohan (Rash Masum, ‘Casualty’)
Adam Thomas (Donte Charles, ‘Waterloo Road’)
Alicia Forde (Kelly-Jo Rafferty, ‘Waterloo Road’)

BEST SOAP
‘Coronation Street’
‘EastEnders’
‘Emmerdale’
‘Hollyoaks’

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jane McDonald will “never get over” the death of her fiance Eddie Rothe.
The 61-year-old singer – who was initially married to Henrik Brixen from 1998 until 2003 – struck up a relationship with The Searchers drummer Eddie in 2008 but he passed away in 2021 at the age of 67 following a battle with lung cancer and she often finds herself at a loss now.
She told Best magazine: “You never get over it – I’m not going to lie and say ‘Oh yes I’m fine,’ because I’m not. You go through stages – you’re angry. All your plans are gone. You thought you were going to grow old together but… And remember I had Ed and my mother gone within two years – and you think –‘what do I do now?’”
But the ‘Loose Women’ legend – who previously announced that she had got her best friend and backing singer Sue Ravey to move in with her – is not looking for love right now because she is enjoying the “freedom” she now has.
She said: “Why on earth would I want to do that? Let’s say it’s not top of my list! I have a freedom which I’ve never known before now. I think a lot of women who are widowed find this. You think, I’m going shopping, I’m going to stay in bed and read until four. I’m enjoying being on my own. I’m not saying I’m never going to date again – you don’t know what’s round the corner – that’s the exciting part of life isn’t it?”
Jane – who first found fame as a singer on the BBC docusoap ‘The Cruise’ and has remained a regular face on British television since – is grateful that she could “throw herself” back into work with her ‘With All My Love’ tour and new book ‘Let The Light In’.
She said: “I was blessed in a way that I had my career – I could say I’m going to throw myself into this, I’m off to Japan! I was lucky. But what I want to put across is there’s no rule book.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Shirley Ballas has got her confidence back after undergoing a non-surgical facelift.
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ head judge, who celebrated her 64th birthday earlier this month, has been seeing one of the top cosmetic doctors in the UK for the latest in a series of non-invasive procedures that have rejuvenated both her face and neck.
Shirley said: “I have to say that I think these treatments have shaved 30 years off me. It has made me feel so confident and comfortable in my own skin.
“There’s a famous Beatles song that goes, ‘will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64’, well I turned 64 last week, and I feel like I’ve got a new lease of life.”
The non-surgical procedures have given Shirley a confidence boost as she previously confessed to feeling insecure about her appearance and had considered having cosmetic surgery.
Shirley said: “When I went into my 60s I was very much considering having a face lift. Back then when I looked in the mirror, I saw dull lifeless sagging skin, I had a lot of pigmentation with sun-spots and I had a little spider veins on my nose.”
The former world champion dancer continued: “The whole thing about my face made me feel anxious especially because I’m in the public eye more and more these days.
“Just like anybody, I just want to look the best that I can at my age, but the problem is that when you reach mid 60s and older, it gets so much harder to keep your skin looking in great shape, and I was keen to find a non-surgical way to revitalise my skin.”
Ballas has been having appointments over the past year with leading aesthetic practitioner Dr. Johanna Ward at her clinic near Harley Street for monthly skin-boosting NeoGen nitrogen plasma sessions.
The non-invasive procedure uses super-heated nitrogen gas to rejuvenate the skin from within and achieves a completely natural look.
Dr. Ward said: “The NeoGen treatment effectively tricks your skin into boosting levels of collagen and elastin, two of the main structural proteins in your connective tissues that stop our skin from sagging and gives us that plump, youthful look.
“Collagen level start to decline in late 20s and early 30s, and then drop significantly after 40 and especially during menopause. But levels of collagen can be boosted with NeoGen treatments which create relatively pain-free trauma within the dermis which triggers your body to repair itself with high concentrations of collagen and elastin.
“We have provided six monthly low-energy NeoGen treatments for Shirley this year to continue to boost her collagen levels, and will now do quarterly top up sessions.”
Shirley revealed that she is delighted at the positive changes to her face as a result of the sessions.
She said: “Even I’m quite shocked, and I’m hard to please.
“I would say the biggest improvement for me is the tightening on the jawline and the reduction of the loose skin on the neck and jowls, but also the general skin quality is improved and the NeoGen treatments have got rid of all the sunspots, red marks and spider veins that I had on my cheeks and nose.
“But generally the skin looks fresh and dewy, before I had the treatments it was looking grey and tired but now my whole face glows. It’s just remarkable to see the difference in such a short space of time.”
Shirley also uses Tenplus electrolyte sachets and G Herbal SKIN supplements Centella Asiatica and turmeric before and after her NeoGen treatments in order to boost results from the procedures.
Dr. Johanna Ward runs clinics in London and Kent. Go to neogenplasma.co.uk/neogen-clinics/ for full details of your closest NeoGen clinic.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Paul Whitehouse “looked after” Bob Mortimer during his health crisis.
The 65-year-old comedian – who presents ‘Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing’ with his TV pal, 66 – had been left unable to walk due to a six-month battle with shingles in his muscles, and has now praised his co-star for all of the support he gave him during the making of the upcoming seventh series of the BBC programme.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I wasn’t very well and it made it a bit of a struggle but, as always, Paul looked after me and pulled me through.
“For half of the season, I couldn’t walk so it was very challenging at times. When we were in Trent, I was being taken from a wheelchair to the top of the bank. You never see that but you never see me on my feet either.”
Despite his struggles, Bob insisted he was getting better, and was “reasonably sprightly” by the end of the series.
He said: “I just tried to get some muscle back, or get some to grow a bit stronger. I’m 80 per cent back and, by the end of the series, I was reasonably sprightly.”
Looking at the series itself – which returns on Sunday (29.09.24) at 9pm on BBC2 – the ‘Taskmaster’ star teased that “the first two episodes are the greatest of ‘Gone Fishing’ that have ever been made”.
He said: “I think they’re magnificent.
“Paul and I are just getting better and better at it, which sounds boastful. I think we know what the show is now and what people like. I love this series.”
Just like in previous series, the ‘Would I Lie To You?’ star oversees the food and accommodation for the duo’s travels, and revealed his favourite meal from their recent expedition was some hotdogs in a flask that the pair had in Norfolk.
He said: “It’s a lovely and nostalgic thing – two old men having hotdogs by the lake. They were absolutely delicious. It was a genius idea.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nicholas Lyndhurst isn’t moving to Hollywood for good.
The 63-year-old actor is best known for his role as Rodney Trotter in the classic British sitcom ‘Only Fools and Horses’ and has now swapped the UK for the US to appear as Alan Cornwall in ‘Frasier’ opposite Kelsey Grammar but has insisted that he will only be there for the single project.
He told Radio Times.com: “I’m just here for the duration of the show. I’ll go home to the UK afterwards, but it’s absolutely wonderful to be here for now. I’m in my mid-60s – at this stage of my career, I wasn’t expecting to be walking through the gates of Paramount Pictures every morning. I probably pinch myself every 20 minutes in this job, because working with Kelsey and working in this building is heartstoppingly wonderful.”
The ‘Goodnight Sweetheart’ star also noted how different it is working on a US sitcom as opposed to one that goes into production in Britain, as he noted that “daily changes” can take place right up until the moment the studio audience arrives to take their seats.
He said: “The writing team is big here, and the rewrites happen every day. In the UK, if we were shooting in front of an audience on a Sunday, we’d lock in the script on a Friday, at the latest. At that point, you’d have at least a day to figure out what you’re doing!”
His comments come after his ‘Frasier’ co-star Kelsey, 69, heaped praise on the sitcom legend over their time working together.
He told Deadline: “Nick Lyndhurst. He’s stealth warfare. He is just the sneakiest most talented actor I’ve ever worked with.
“We worked together in ­London on the musical, Man of La Mancha [in 2019].
“We made plans to get [our partners] together and we became best friends. So when the idea of Frasier having a best friend came into the mix, it was always Nicholas.
“I asked him when we were back in England if he’d like to be in the new Frasier. He said, ‘Are you kidding? I would do anything to work with you again every day for the rest of my life.’ The feeling is mutual.”

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