OHMYGOSSIP — Michael Sheen has co-created a new BBC drama.
The 54-year-old actor has co-created ‘The Way’ – which takes inspiration from the “social and political chaos” of the modern world – with writers James Graham and Adam Curtis, and Michael is thrilled to be part of the project.
He said: “I’m such an admirer of Adam and James’ work, so to create this project with them in these extraordinary times has been thrilling.
“I’m so excited to be telling this global story through the prism of my hometown and its community as we dig into the rollercoaster ride of our recent past and the mysterious depths that lay beneath.”
The show tells the story from the point of view of the Driscolls, a family who are swept up in a series of extraordinary events.
James relished the experience of working with Michael and Adam on the BBC drama, describing it as a “pinch-me” moment in his career.
He said: “Working with Michael Sheen and Adam Curtis on building this story has been one of those ‘pinch-me’ moments in the life of a writer.
“To tell a story set in Michael’s home community, and tapping into all the political and social themes of the moment – strikes, division, chaos and a loss of control – all while infusing it, we hope, with humour, magic and imagination has been the most creatively satisfying experience.”
Similarly, Adam has hailed James and Michael as “amazing people”.
He said: “This is a really timely way to examine one of the great puzzles of this moment – why is it so hard to imagine a better, or even just different, kind of future for this country? What is holding us back?
“I can’t think of two more amazing people to do that with than James and Michael.”
The show will film in and around Port Talbot later this year. However, casting details have not yet been announced.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chris Packham was left “scarred for life” after being bullied at school.
The 61-year-old naturalist has been a regular face on the BBC for almost 40 years and has fronted ‘Springwatch’ since 2009 but explained that he still has a “visual memory” of being tormented by his classmates.
He said: “It was devastating. It leaves a scar that lasts for a lifetime. I have a visual memory of some of the most horrific things that other young people said to me when I was a kid and they still hurt me now. They’ve tattooed something unpleasant in my psyche.”
The ‘Winterwatch’ star went on to add that he sought refuge in his childhood refuge from one classmate in particular and will “never forget” the way he was treated at school but has learned to “manage” the pain.
He told The Daily Mirror newspaper: “I am so pleased a particular child in my early life could never get to me in my bedroom. He made my life absolute hell. We never forget, we just remember less often. So you get past the damaging stage and learn to manage it so you don’t bear grudges – life’s too short. You want to be making progress, not just entertaining hate. At the same time, the damage is done.
“He didn’t understand me. I wasn’t able to put up any defence or give him any point of access to any understanding of why I might have been behaving, looking, sounding how I did. The classic gang mentality of kids meant he just built a series of acolytes around him and the ­persecution became quite intense.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Alan Davies has no plans to quit ‘QI.’
The 56-year-old comedian – who is married to Katie Maskell and has Suzie, 13, Robert, 10 and six-year-old Francis with her – has served as a panellist on the hit BBC quiz show since its inception in 2003 and explained that even though he is tempted to step down after every series, he keeps going because being a dad is “so expensive.”
He said: “Having three kids? Things are so expensive. My daughter’s just turned 13 and had an escape-room party. So that’s episode one of QI paying for that! Every year there comes a point during this series where I go home to my wife, Katie, and I say this has to be the last year, I just feel ridiculous now sitting there clowning about. But when it’s fun, it’s really, really fun. But I don’t think any television is as much fun as it used to be – all the budgets got contracted after the first global financial crash.”
The ‘Jonathan Creek’ star went on to add that after so many lost their security during the COVID-19 pandemic, he does not want to appear as an “idiot” to fans amid the cost-of-living crisis.
He told the Metro newspaper’s Sixty Seconds column: “And now we’ve come out of Covid, we’re in a cost-of-living crisis. Everyone’s going to think you’re an idiot if you say you’re tired and want to go home. You just have to count your blessings. The ambition has always been to get to Z in the alphabet, which means we’ve got six years to go. Sorry, readers!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Atwood cried for 24 hours after she was forced to quit ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ over medical and insurance reasons.
The reality TV regular, 31, was forced off the show a day into the 2022 series and her team said at the time that to say she was “heartbroken was an understatement”.
She has now revealed being forced off the ITV as she had low blood pressure and other alarming measurements – which led to insurers refusing to cover her stint on the show – and it left her in tears and fearing people would think she quit as she was a “d***head” who “didn’t fancy” the grimmer aspects of the show.
Olivia told the latest episode of Jamie Laing’s ‘Private Parts’ podcast, released on Friday (10.02.23): “It was basically a massive f*** up really. I was in there, I was fine, and they do routine medicals every few das.
“They do them on site with the paramedics, and big hospitals would say (their measurements are) a guideline.
“We’d had a really long day and I’m always on the lower end of blood pressure because I’m tall and slim, and they just did all these tests late one evening, and they were just like, they were worried about these tests.
“They were like, ‘Everything is really low.’”
She went on about getting the all-clear from a hospital: “They took me to a private hospital and they tested me, and they were like, ‘We’re happy.’ So we had an overnight debate because the insurers were like, ‘The tests dropped this low.’
“The hospitals sometime say, ‘Take it with a pinch of salt,’ and the insurance said no because if she collapses… .
“So it was basically red tape.”
She added about weeping all the way back from the jungle: “I don’t cry… and I cried the whole way back from Australia – the whole flight.
“I spent 24 hours crying. The producers were all my ‘Love Island’ producers and they were awake all night to see if there was anything, but then I’d broken the Covid bubble, so there were so many issues.
“It was like that thing where it didn’t feel real – I wanted to do the show for so many years.. I kind of built it up into this massive thing. I definitely made it bigger in my mind… then you’re in… then you jump out of a f****** helicopter, then it’s a crash.
“I could process it, but it was very hard to process. I was like, if I heard it I’d be like, ‘Shut up, people are dying,’ and of course they are, but it’s tough.”
Former motorsport grid girl Olivia, who came third on the third series of ITV2’s ‘Love Island’, said she wanted to go on ‘I’m A Celebrity…’ to show people she wasn’t an “airhead” and that she could “get my hands dirty”.
She added when news broke she had left the series she feared people would “think I came and had a look around and thought, ‘F*** this,’” and she would “look like a d***head”.
She said the rumours she heard about why she left the show included that she “just didn’t fancy it” and that she was pregnant.
Olivia previously said the tests a day into the 2022 series had showed worryingly low sodium and potassium levels, which prompted ITV staff to take her to A and E despite her feeling “absolutely fine”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joanna Lumley still writes love letters to her husband after nearly 40 years of marriage.
The 76-year-old ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ actress was briefly married to actor Jeremy Lloyd and has son James, 55, from her relationship with the photographer Michael Claydon, but is set to celebrate her 37th wedding anniversary to her conductor husband Stephen Barlow, 68, later this year and says the love notes they exchange is one of the keys to their long relationship.
She told the new issue of Yours magazine: “Stephen and I are forever writing notes.
“When I’m the other side of the world, in faraway lands, we write to each other. People say, ‘Who writes letters anymore?’ and I say, ‘I do!’ I think that’s been really important for our marriage.”
She added about the importance of respect and being friends in a relationship: “They say the secret to a long marriage is not to get divorced – a perfect answer.
“But the real secret is starting off with respect. Don’t marry someone if you don’t respect them – know that you admire them for what they do and who they are.
“Have courtesy and be kind to your partner. Stephen and I love and respect each other, and I think that’s what you need.
“The second most important thing is that they must be your best friend. Your real go-to and trusted friend.”
Joanna also admitted about being starstruck by the prospect of working with Leonardo DiCaprio, 48, with whom she starred on ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: “My heart did beat a little faster at the thought of working with him.
“And he couldn’t have been sweeter or more courteous. I was afraid he may be a bit of a Hollywood brat, but he turned out to be the sweetest, most modest, kind-hearted, good natured, humble, adorable man.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kristina Rihanoff is “looking forward” to her engagement party after being overloaded with work commitments.
The 45-year-old dancer – who is known as a former professional on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ – is set to tie the knot with rugby star Ben Cohen, 44, and explained that she is excited to have a celebratory get together with family and friends following his “mindblowing” proposal in The Maldives.
She said: “Over the last nine years we’ve been through the wringer. Our working days are always full throttle and for so long we’ve been in our own bubble. Now I’m looking forward to having a get-together with loved ones. When we met he told me, ‘I don’t really do chocolates and flowers. But his proposal in The Maldives was beyond my imagination. My friends keep saying, ‘He’s so romantic! When he asked you to marry him it was like a scene from a movie. He needs to show other men how to do it.’ “They’re right. The way he proposed was amazing and where he did it is now my favourite place in the world. I can’t wait to go back one day.”
The TV star – who met Ben when she was paired up with him on the BBC Latin and ballroom competition in 2013 – went on to add that there are plans for an Italian wedding or could hold the nuptials closer to home in Oxfordshire and that although she hasn’t chosen a dress yet, she is inspired by the likes of late Hollywood icons Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor and noted that their five-year-old daughter Mila is “so excited” for the big day.
She told HELLO! magazine: “I’m so excited! Although I haven’t chosen my dress yet, I know which style I want. My favourite fashion eras are the 1950s and 1960s and I adore the designs worn by Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. I love classic simplicity and an hourglass shape that suits my body. “I’ll probably opt for a shade of white, perhaps one with a golden glow. It would be beautiful in both [Italy or Oxfordshire].
One thing’s for sure, though, our little girl Mila can;t wait to be a flower girl!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kai Widdrington wants children with Nadiya Bychkova.
The 27-year-old dancer has been in a relationship with fellow ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ professional Nadiya, 33, since 2022 and the pair revealed in a joint interview together that tying the knot and expanding their family is something they both want to do.
Nadiya said: “Marriage is important to me. One day I would like to be a wife, and extend my family.”
Kai added: “It’s a future I want too, absolutely. I would love to be a dad and one day be a husband and have a family. Ultimately, we’re not trying to start a family right now, but we are trying to create that family feeling among us and that’s important.”
The former ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ star – who previously dated fellow ‘Dancing with the Stars’ professional Giulia Dotta between 2016 and 2021 – went on to reflect on how they had to “stick together” when they received some negative press as Ukrainian-born Nadiya admitted that while being in the public eye can be “tough”, she remembers that there are people from her war-torn home country who cannot be together because of the ongoing conflict with Russia.
Kai told OK! Magazine: “It wasn’t nice and we had some not nice headlines written about us. We just stuck together and said, ‘I want to be with you and we’re going to make it work.”
Nadiya added: “Being in the public eye is though. But some people can’t be together because there’s actually a war going on so I always say, no matter how difficult things get, there are worse things happening to other people. We’re very lucky to have what we have.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Seann Walsh “passed out” while his partner was giving birth.
The 37-year-old comedian has been in a relationship with Grace Adderley since 2019 and took to social media on Sunday (13.02.23) to announce that the pair had welcomed their first child together but admitted he blacked out during the birthing process.
He wrote on Instagram: “Grace has had our baby and I’m sat here in the very relaxing postnatal department, and the nurses have been coming up to me all morning and congratulating me Oh btw. I passed out during the birth. Of course I did. The nurse’s response… ‘Men’. Fair.”
The couple were inundated with congratulations from friends and fans as they rushed to Instagram with messages of support.
One wrote: “Wonderful news! The best news! Many, many Congratulations to you and Grace. Welcome to the world little baby Walsh x.”
Another said: “Oh Sean you are amazing – so many congrats to you both – I hope ur child is as funny as you are – humour is a wonderful thing.”
The ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here’ star revealed he was going to be a father for the first time during an Instagram Live Q and A just before he entered the Australian jungle alongside Matt Hancock towards the end of last year.
Speaking to his friend, he said: “I’m having a child”
His friend asked: “So you’re gonna be a dad?”
To which he replied: “Yeah”
His friend joked: “That’s worrying.”
Turning to the camera, Seann said: “Unbelievable. Everyone else has been really nice, that’s the worst response yet.”
His friend joked: “You’re going to have a lot more worries”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Laura Main is still “excited” by her role on ‘Call the Midwife.’
The 45-year-old actress – who is currently appearing in a UK stage adaptation of the 1989 drama ‘Steel Magnolias’ – has starred as Shelagh Turner in the BBC medical period drama since it began in 2012 and explained that she still loves being in the series as plans have been made for it to air until at least 2026.
She said: “When I finish this tour, I go into series 13. We’d known about that for a while and that had been lovely having that knowledge but as we got closer I thought ‘Oh gosh, what’s going to happen?’ But we’ve just found out there will be a series 14 and a series 15, which means that it is going to be on television until 2026 and it means that we will go into the 1970s.
The musical theatre star went on to explain the show has been kept “fresh” because it moves forward with time as it enters the 1970s and explores various changes in fashion and society with every new block of episodes.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she told stand-in host Christine Lampard: “We started the show, it was 1957 and I think that’s one of the things that keeps it fresh. Every series you move forward a year in time, the fashions change and society changes. It’s always reinvented slightly and it’s still exciting for me. I love making it. I think part of that is the reception that it gets.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rick Edwards has become a father for the first time.
The 43-year-old TV presenter and his wife Emer Kenny have welcomed a baby boy into the world, and Emer, 33, announced the happy news on her Instagram account.
Along with a beautiful photo of Rick holding his son, she wrote: “Some news! Rick and I have had a beautiful baby boy. He is just magic.”
‘EastEnders’ actress Emer also shared an image of herself in bed cradling holding her newborn and sweetly kissing his cheek.
Rick also shared his baby news with his listeners on BBC Radio 5 Live.
He said on air: “I’m not just work shy, I haven’t just been off filming an exciting new television show – it’s actually better than that. Emer and I have had our first baby!’ he told his colleagues and listeners.
“He’s a beautiful, beautiful baby boy – it’s amazing. I’m really biased, but this guy is fantastic – hungry, and fantastic – and the three of us are just hanging out and getting to know each other.
Following Emer’s post some of the couple’s celebrity friends congratulated them on their baby news.
Comedian Katherine Ryan wrote: “That’s a long baby! CONGRATULATIONS.”
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Ellie Taylor said: “Oh Emer!!! Huge congratulations dolly!!! Hope you’re feeling OK xxx.”
‘Bridgerton’ actress Nicola Coughlan simply wrote: “Congratulations!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Love Island’s Tanya Manhenga has cast doubt on her relationship with Shaq Muhammad.
The 23-year-old beauty has been flirting with new bombshell Martin Akinola in Casa Amor, with Tanya admitting that she wasn’t sure whether she has a future with Shaq.
During a cosy chat with Martin, Tanya explained: “I’m coupled up with Shaq, me and him have been like this from the beginning [crosses fingers] … In the last few days we have had arguments, and they have been like, hmm.”
Tanya and Martin continued to flirt during the episode, and Martin suggested that he could be her first real “test” on the show.
He told her: “You’ve not really had a proper test.”
Tanya then replied: “Do you think you’re my proper test?”
Martin subsequently suggested that his arrival could put pressure on Tanya’s romance with Shaq.
The 27-year-old software engineer said: “I’m the exam, the main event and I feel like you know it, too.”
Prior to entering ‘Love Island’, Martin insisted he would approach the show with an open mind.
Asked if he had his eye on any girl in particular, he replied: “I don’t just have one person – I’ve got options.”
Meanwhile, some of the boys vented their frustrations as they overheard the girls having fun in Casa Amor.
At one point, Ron said: “I hate this more than anything! This is a proper test on your feelings and everything, isn’t it?”
Will echoed the thoughts of Ron, describing the situation as “torture”.
He said: “Are they having fun without us? This is torture, isn’t it?”

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