OHMYGOSSIP — Rylan Clark and Rob Rinder will travel to India for a new TV series.
The pair’s BBC travelogue show ‘Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour’ – in which they followed in the footsteps of 17th to 19th century society Brits who visited Italy to broaden their minds – was a huge hit with viewers and now a second series has been commissioned.
After Greece, Spain and France were considered as destinations, show bosses ultimately decided to send the two stars east for a trip titled ‘A Passage To India’ in honour of E. M. Forster’s 1924 novel.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “It took a long time to decide where to send Rob and Rylan after their first series — a hard act to follow. But series two will see them travelling across India to experience its unique culture, architecture and art.
“It’s going to be as action- pack as the first series, if not more, and being so far away from home will no doubt see Rob and Rylan experience plenty of firsts.”
Bosses didn’t take long to sign up the pair for a second series.
A source said: “The team behind the show didn’t want to take a gap year before starting work again, and Rob and Rylan wanted to hit the road.”
Rylan previously admitted the “best thing” about making the first show was the “genuine” friendship he built up with Rob.
He told ‘This Morning’: “Watching it back, the narrative, the arc throughout the three episodes even something as stupid as in Venice, we were in separate accommodation. In Florence, we were in the same accommodation in different rooms and by Rome I’m waking up with him underneath me.
“But that’s the narrative of the arc, we started this process as mates and we have finished it as actual genuine friends. That’s been probably the best thing to come out of it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Pete Wicks had to be airlifted to safety after he collapsed on a mountain doing ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
The former ‘The Only Way is Essex’ star signed up to the reality quasi-military training show for a second time after he knocked himself unconscious jumping out of a helicopter and broke his ribs on the 2022 series – forcing him to withdraw from the competition.
And on the current series of the Channel 4 programme, the 36-year-old reality star – who is also competing on BBC One’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ – runs into trouble again.
His co-star Rachel Johnson, 59, the sister of former prime minister Boris Johnson, 60, told Metro.co.uk: “Pete Wicks was medevacked off the mountain. He collapsed.”
‘Geordie Shore’ star Marnie Simpson, 32, added: “I felt bad for Pete because coming back the second time, there was so much pressure on him to do even better than the first time, so he pushed himself way too far.”
Pete recently admitted he is still suffering with his ribs.
Speaking on his and Sam Thompson’s ‘Staying Relevant’ podcast, he said: “I’m 36, I haven’t been to the gym in ages.
“My ribs are still broken, which is going to be a pain.”
Channel 4 bosses were said to be “furious” to learn Pete signed up to ‘Strictly’ at the same time as ‘SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
A source told The Sun’s TV Biz column: “Channel 4 were fuming when Pete was revealed as part of this year’s ‘Strictly’ cast.
“After Pete was knocked unconscious and broke his ribs in 2022’s series, his return to try and pass selection was a big deal and the first time [ex-Special Forces lead instructor] Billy Billingham and the directing staff have allowed a celeb to try out twice.
“Bosses wanted his to be one of the main storylines on the show, a real redemption arc, but now they’ve been trumped by ‘Strictly’.
“All plans for Pete to give interviews for ‘SAS: WDW’ will be overtaken by ‘Strictly’ and bosses are furious — but there’s nothing they can do about it.”
‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ airs on Channel 4 every Sunday and Monday.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chris McCausland’s daughter is concerned that he will injure himself doing ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’
The 47-year-old comedian is the first blind contestant to appear on the hit BBC dance show and has revealed that his 10-year-old daughter Sophie is worried that he will fall on the dancefloor.
He wrote in his ‘Strictly’ diary for The Telegraph: “I showed my 10-year-old daughter a clip of the show and asked her if I should do it. ‘No, Daddy,’ she said. ‘You’ll fall off the stage and break your leg.’ She’s a joker at heart, but she’s got a point.”
Chris continued: “Not quite the ringing endorsement other celebrities get. But I’ve checked and there is no stage so the joke’s on her…”
He quipped: “I sincerely hope they will have wrapped the cameras in layers of foam just in case.
“I can see myself taking out three of them in a single foxtrot.”
The presenter – who began losing his sight in his teenage years due to a condition called retinitis pigmentosa – also shared that he is “terrified” to take part.
He said: “Have I mentioned that I was terrified? I mean, how can I possibly have confidence in my ability to do something when I can’t see the entirely visual thing that I’m being asked to do?
“On top of that, stick it on live TV where failures are there for everybody to see and where the chance of a generous edit is absolute zero, and what could possibly go wrong? Well, too many things, and that was my problem.”
Chris – who is partnered with Dianne Buswell – previously said that he plans to “make it up as [he] goes along” on ‘Strictly’.
He told the newspaper: “We’ll make it up as we go along and figure it out. Sometimes I think it might be better for me to feel where my partner’s legs are going, and sometimes it would be better for her to just pick up my leg and put it where it’s supposed to be.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Annie Wallace has no idea what has happened to her character in the ‘Hollyoaks’ time jump after she was axed from the show.
The 59-year-old actress has played the role of Sally St. Claire on the Channel 4 soap opera since 2015 but was told earlier this year that her time was up and was “very upset” by the way it all happened.
Several other cast members were axed in a major culling and the episodes have been cut right back as the programme has been forced to make cutbacks.
As part of the budget cuts, the producers decided to move time forward by a whole year, and this week, Annie admitted she is non-the-wiser as to what Sally is doing in Alicante.
Responding to a viewer on X, she said: “I’m as interested as you are as to what Sally’s doing in Alicante. I wonder if we’ll find out why? I really don’t know #hollyoaks.”
She added: “I wonder if we’ll find out why? I really don’t know.”
Annie admitted the final days of filming were “really quite intense”.
She told Metro.co.uk: “We were told at the end of March. There was a big day when the cast were told [if they were staying or going]. Some people came out and said it and others kept it to themselves so I decided to keep it to myself – to let people find out in the fullness of time. I just carried on.
“It’s been mostly ignoring that it’s going to happen and carrying on with work.
“It was when it was headed to the last few weeks that I started to get a bit emotional. I started thinking what costumes I was going to take home with me and things like that.
“The last filming days were really quite intense. My last day was July 31, so I’ve had a month to decompress – and I have decompressed. I was very upset. There is no lying about it. It’s my career and I love the show.”
The soap star was sure her sudden exit would come as a “shock” to fans and regrets that her alter ego never managed to find love during her time in the village.
She said: “It will be a shock. There’s been no hints about Sally. There’s certain people on forums that think Sally has outlived her usefulness but I disagree. The one thing I would’ve loved is for her to find love.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Denise Welch has admitted to wetting herself live on air.
The ‘Loose Women’ star – who has been a panellist on the talk show for nearly 20 years – opened up about how she regularly experiences incontinence while filming the ITV show.
In a promo for ‘Loose Women’ and incontinence pad brand TENA Silhouette, Denise is joined by fellow ‘Loose Women’ panellists Nadia Sawalha and Kéllé Bryan to discuss their personal experiences with the issue.
Denise, 66, said: “I have wet myself for as long as I can remember. Whether I cough, whether I sneeze, whether I laugh – I’ve always got through it by humour, but some women are mortified by it.
“Have I wet myself live on air? Yes Regularly!’”
Her co-star Nadia, 59, admitted to feeling “embarrassed” by her experiences with bladder weakness in her thirties.
She said: “When bladder weakness hit in my late 30s after having the kids, I did feel embarrassed about it.”
Fellow panellist Kéllé Bryan, 49, added: “Post-baby it’s really common like if I’m in the gym bouncing around, I mean why don’t I just wear TENA!”
Meanwhile, former ‘Coronation Street’ star Denise previously praised ‘Loose Women’ – which has seen a number of household names including Ruth Langsford, Janet Street-Porter and Kaye Adams debate topical issues since its inception in 1999 – for the way it “reveres older women” and insisted she and her co-stars and their target audience “do not care” what others think anymore.
She told The Sunday Times Style magazine: “It’s a show that not only employs older women, it reveres older women. It listens to older women, it supports the views of older women. You don’t get that on any other television show — that the older you are, the more you bring to the show, the more valuable you are to the show. Because you’ve had every T-shirt, you’ve worn it, washed it, thrown it away, got another one, you’re not so bothered. All us older ones, we’ve all had a past, and we don’t care so much about what people think any more.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Tamzin Outhwaite has insisted she is “happy being single” – as she speaks out on the end of her relationship with Tom Child.
The 53-year-old former ‘EastEnders’ actress – who was previously married to ‘Miranda’ star Tom Ellis, 45, between 2006 and 2014, and has daughters Flo, 16, and Marnie, 12, with the Welsh actor – split from her partner of six years, Tom, 33, this summer, and she insists there is no bad blood between the pair and she has actually been enjoying her own company.
She told The Mirror: “There has been no acrimonious ending; we’ve moved on to a friend zone. We are still really great mates, which is nice.”
She added: “Maybe before now, I’ve been single but not happy.
“But I’m quite happy. And being single and happy is a really lovely place to be. And that can only happen with life experience.”
Many women fear being on their own as they get older, but Tamzin has embraced being single.
She said: “There is a lot said about people not wanting to be on their own as they get older.
“I really like being on my own. Especially now, at this age, I really like my own company.”
Comparing herself to her character Sylvie in Channel 5’s mystery drama ‘The Wives’, the ‘New Tricks’ star insists she has no bitterness or “pain” about her breakups and is in a “really good” place.
She said: “Sylvie’s only been freshly divorced. Deep down, she’s probably got some pain that she needs to deal with. I’m not like her in that way. I feel pretty clear and happy – I’m at a place where I’ve come through the other end. Life feels really good.”
Tamzin and ex-spouse Tom’s marriage is said to have broken down over his alleged infidelity, and he now resides in the US with his wife Meaghan, 38, and their 10-month-old daughter Dolly.
In a since-deleted post on X/Twitter, the actress addressed the circumstances surrounding the end of her marriage a decade on.
Tamzin wrote last year: “Ten years since the father of my kids walked out on us for the final time. I still meet new people on jobs who reveal more infidelities and lies that he committed.
“But thankfully my heart and soul are clear and clean and I could not be happier right now.”
Explaining why she removed the post, she later added: “Thank you all for your messages re my now deleted tweet.
“I was marking the 10 year anniversary with pride, a feeling of triumph and genuine gratitude.
“I understand it has triggered some people. For anyone struggling, the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Thornton is making her return to TV with a new royal show – 12 years after her last hosting gig.
The 51-year-old TV presenter is best known for being the original host of ‘The X Factor’ but she was controversially replaced by Dermot O’Leary after the third series in 2006 with her reason for being axed not being clear.
She then went onto appear as a presenter on ‘This Morning’ and ‘Lorraine’ after this, and in recent years, has been a host on BBC Radio 2 and Greatest Hits Radio.
Now, Kate is returning to TV screens with her new show ‘The Royal Beat with Kate Thornton’, which will see her talk to royal experts about the current issues surrounding the monarchy.
The series will run for 10 episodes and the hour-long episodes will see Kate will talk to all those in the know about the Royal Family.
She said in a statement: “I’m thrilled to be bringing The Royal Beat to ITV and ITVX at a time of incredible change for our Monarchy.
“On every episode, we’ll be joined by those that work closest with the royal family to bring you genuine insight on the work they do and explore what really happens behind closed doors in the House of Windsor.”
She added: “I think viewers will come away with a deeper understanding of the family and the machine that sits behind it to better understand why the Royals mean so much to us as a nation.”
Kate previously admitted that being sacked from ‘The X Factor’ by music mogul Simon Cowell was really humiliating and it hurt her.
Appearing on the ‘In The Pink podcast with Natalie Pinkham’, she said: “It hurt more that somebody that I considered to be a friend hadn’t been up front with me.
“It was very public. It was on the News at Ten. It was embarrassing, it was humiliating and it kind of burnt for a bit. Then you process it, and you go ‘I’m not letting this define me’.”
‘The Royal Beat with Kate Thornton’ is coming to ITV and ITVX in October.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Industry’ has been renewed for a fourth series.
The hit drama series – which airs on the BBC in the UK and HBO in the US – will be back for another instalment, it has been confirmed.
Creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay said: “We are beyond thrilled and grateful to HBO, the incredible team at Bad Wolf and our phenomenal cast and crew for their continued belief in Industry and for allowing us to grow as creators, writers and now directors whilst taking the show to new heights.
“We can’t wait to dive deeper and deliver the best season yet in season four.”
Executive producer Jane Tranter added: “HBO’s unswerving belief in Mickey, Konrad, the cast and the whole creative team at Bad Wolf is a huge vote of confidence in uncertain times.
“This commitment to nurturing new talent and investment in quality programming has resulted in a show we are all exceptionally proud of. Bad Wolf cannot wait to get everyone back to Wolf Studios Wales to take Industry to even greater heights.”
The third season will premiere on BBC iPlayer from 6am and BBC One at 10.40pm on October 1.
Former ‘Game of Thrones’ star Kit Harrington, 37, joined the show for series three as green tech firm Lumi’s CEO Henry Muck.
A description read: “In season three, as Pierpoint looks to the future and takes a big bet on ethical investing, the desk find themselves front and centre in the splashy IPO of Lumi in a story that runs all the way to the very top of finance, media and government.”
Returning cast members include Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, Ken Leung, Conor MacNeill, Sagar Radia, Indy Lewis, Adam Levy, Sarah Parish, Trevor White, Elena Saurel and Irfan Shamji.
Joining newcomer Kit are Sarah Goldberg as Petra Koenig, Miriam Petche as Sweetpea Golightly, Andrew Havill as Lord Norton, Roger Barclay as Otto Mostyn, Fady Elsayed as Ali El Mansour, and Fiona Button as Denise Oldroyd.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Tom Dean hopes that taking part in ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ will make him “hungry” for more Olympic wins.
The professional swimmer walked away with a gold medal at this summer’s Paris Olympics, and he admits he wanted to challenge himself by taking part in the BBC One Latin and ballroom show.
He told Radio Times magazine: “I always knew I was going to have a long break after the Paris Olympics. An Olympics cycle is always quite long, and it’s a lot of sacrifice. You’re in one place six days a week.
“I want to go to LA and represent Team GB there and hopefully win medals again. But to keep longevity within the sport, I need to do something different, because I want to get back to being really hungry for it. And this is about as far away from the pool you can get!”
The 24-year-old Olympian – who is partnered with Nadiya Bychkova on the contest – went on to share how dancing has made his “shins sore” as he is using a different set of muscles to dance.
He added: “I said if the opportunity for Strictly came up, I’d 100 per cent love to do it. I’ve been using a whole different group of muscles for it. My shins are sore, and I’ve never been sore in my shins in my life.
“Swimming and dancing are both sports, but with dancing, you obviously have to add a bit more flair. When you’re working hard in the pool, you can be grimacing, and no one will know! I’m going to bring the same training and work ethic, but instead of doing 5,000 metres in a pool, it’s 5,000 steps instead.
“I was actually at Olympic training camp when I found out, and I called my mum. She was absolutely over the moon. Half of Maidenhead [where Tom grew up] is going to come along to watch a show.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Prue Leith’s husband wishes he’d have married Dame Mary Berry instead.
The 84-year-old TV cook has revealed how her husband John Playfair is so exasperated by their home being a “cake-free zone” due to the pair needing to lose weight that he jokes about starting a relationship with her judging predecessor on ‘The Great British Bake Off’.
Prue is quoted by The Sun newspaper as saying: “I so seldom make cakes. The fact is, we’re both too fat. So, I don’t make cakes because it’s not good for us.
“My husband constantly says, ‘I wish I’d married Mary Berry’.”
The South African star explained that her baking is not as good as people would think despite her role on the Channel 4 show and that she is a better “cook”.
Prue said: “I am far more a cook than a baker. I make a good cake, but I would not be winning ‘Bake Off’.”
The cook took over from Berry on ‘The Great British Bake Off’ when the show moved to Channel 4 in 2017 and revealed that she only eats morsels of cake and avoids breakfast and lunch when filming episodes of the programme to ensure she doesn’t put on the pounds.
Speaking on the ‘Crazy Sexy Food’ podcast, she said: “It’s not a problem, because if you think about it even if there are 12 bakers in there and we’re judging the showstopper if I’m clever and I can get a teaspoon that gets a bit of icing, a bit of filling and a bit of cake, it’s only a teaspoon, so it’s 12 teaspoons.
“If you do that twice in the first day when we do the first two challenges and then once on the next day it’s not that much. But I don’t eat breakfast and I don’t eat lunch so basically I get my calories from the cake.”

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