OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Detectorists’ is to return for a new special episode.
The BBC comedy – which stars Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones as metal detecting enthusiasts Andy and Lance, who are part of the The Danebury Metal Detecting Club (DMDC) – will be back for a 75-minute episode, which will air on BBC Two and iPlayer, five years after the end of the third series.
The show’s return will see the DMDC in trouble, with developers sniffing around their scout hall HQ.
But Lance looks set to save the day after securing 10 actress of prime, undetected land, only for him to break protocol, which threatens his friendship with Andy.
Mackenzie, who also executive produced the festive special, recently said: “It was 2017 when we were last in Danebury and I miss my old friends in the DMDC [Danebury Metal Detecting Club].
“I’ve had a story percolating for a while and I thought it was worth getting Lance, Andy and the rest of the band back together for.
“The affection expressed for ‘Detectorists’ over the years has been incredible and I hope fans of the show will enjoy this new, extended episode.”
What’s more, BBC Two sitcom ‘Motherland’ – written by Sharon Horgan – is heading to BBC One for a festive special, ‘Motherland: Last Christmas’.
Anna Maxwell Martin will reprise her role as busy mum Julia, who has a full house for Christmas, including her divorcee dad pal Kevin (Paul Ready).
Liz (Diane Morgan) also turns up to Julia’s when her ex cancels following a massive Christmas Eve bender, letting her down on his first ever offer to host.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Adam Henson has undergone a hip operation.
The ‘Countryfile’ presenter has gone under the knife to have damaged surfaces of the bones inside his hip joint removed and replaced, and it has made him feel for those who have gone through “an awful lot worse”.
Speaking in a pre-recorded clip which aired on ‘Countryfile’, he said: “It’s now been pretty much 12 hours since I had my hip resurfacing operation.
“The feeling in my legs and waist have all come back now, pretty much my right leg, which is the leg I had done, is still a bit tingly and a bit weird.
“I’ve never really had surgery quite like this before, it does make me feel for all those people that have gone through things an awful lot worse.”
The 56-year-old star – who runs the Cotswold Farm Park in Gloucestershire, which his father started – admitted he is fortunate to have a “strong team” who can do the work in his absence, as he recovers from his operation.
He added: “I’m very lucky to have a strong team on the farm who can do all the work. In three or four weeks’ time, hopefully, I’ll be back out and about.
“It’s made me think and reflect, how do farmers get over injury or illness?”
Adam recently admitted he made a royal faux pas during a lunch with the late Queen Elizabeth – who passed away in September aged 96 – at Buckingham Palace.
He explained: “What I didn’t know, and what hadn’t been explained, is when you sit down with the royals, if they turn to the right or the left they have that conversation with that person, usually for one course. Then they will turn the other way.
“Whichever way the queen turns, everyone else turns the opposite and then everyone is having a conversation with everyone. And so to start off with she was speaking to the person to my right and I went through the whole course not speaking to her at all.
“I just didn’t know the etiquette so I wasn’t quite sure if she was ever going to talk to me. So then when we got to the next course I blurted out a question to her.
“She said, ‘Adam, like you, I love my farm animals, and I love my dogs and I love the countryside.’ And I think that came from the heart.
“We then had a very easy, comfortable conversation about all the things that I love, and she seemed to love too.
“We talked about the dogs, we talked about the farms and the cattle. I had recently bought a Highland Bull from Balmoral and she said to me, ‘How’s Archie, the bull?’ -I was just astounded, really.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Derry Girls’ Creator Lisa McGee has joked she nearly “dropped dead” at discovering Martin Scorsese is a big fan of the show.
The Oscar-winning director – who’s behind big motion pictures such as ‘Goodfellas’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ – let it slip that he has watched the Channel 4 sitcom.
The Irish screenwriter, 42, took to Twitter to share a clip of Scorsese talking about the show at the Economic Club of Chicago’s annual black-tie dinner.
In the footage, the 80-year-old filmmaker says: “I watched, the other night, Derry Girls? Those nuns!”
Lisa captioned the clip: “Excuse me while I drop dead and actually die a death.”
Siobhan McSweeney, who plays Sister Michael in the series, also shared her disbelief.
She tweeted: “Good morning. I’m ded (sic)”
Comedian Dara O Briain wrote: “And that’s it, you win. Shut it down, people, we have a winner.”
Author David Nicholls added: “Oh my God! The dream. Congratulations, Lisa!”
The teen sitcom, which aired for three seasons from 2018 to 2022, follows the life of four Catholic school girls during the mid 90s, as they attend Our Lady Immaculate College run by a set of nuns in Derry.
It was inspired by Lisa’s own experience growing up in Northern Ireland during the final years of The Troubles.
The show, which is now available on Netflix, grew in popularity over the three series and was praised for offering new perspective of The Troubles, a period of violent conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted from late 1960s to 1998.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Claudia Winkleman says her life changed for the better when she started to say “yes” more.
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ co-host turned 50 years old in January, and after hitting the milestone the star realised she wanted to work more and be “less risk-averse”.
She said: “I turned 50 and thought I’d start saying yes to things.
“I mean, it’s 50, and we’re only here for two minutes, so I felt like I wanted to work a bit more and be less risk-averse.
“I love it, I love being 50. Everything’s falling apart physically, it is like my skin is completely made of crepe paper now, who knew?”
Claudia is concerned nobody will like her new BBC psychological reality show ‘The Traitors’ – which begins on Tuesday night (29.11.22) at 9.30pm – but admits she became “really obsessed” with the programme.
She added to The Sun newspaper: “I’ve always just really liked playing bridge, and a heavy tog duvet. And at 50 you can do all of that and you don’t have to make any excuses. You’re no longer the odd one out.
“But then my eldest left home for university and I was asked to do this show and I just thought, ‘I just can’t say no’.
“I got in way too deep on that show. I’m really obsessed, but also worried nobody’s going to like it. It’s like giving birth again.”
In May, it was confirmed Claudia would be heading to the Scottish Highlands to present ‘The Traitors’, a new show based on a Dutch format which will see players complete physical and mental missions for a chance to win up to £120,000.
In the show, she will choose a small number of contestants to become ‘The Traitors’, who will “murder” a teammate every night but face eviction if caught out the next day.
In a statement, Claudia said: “I’m obsessed by psychological games and I couldn’t stop watching the Dutch version of the show. The fact that the BBC version is set in a castle in Scotland and the producers want me to wear tweed meant I was all in.”
At the end of the game the cash prize will only be won if the remaining contestants are all on team Faithful, but if a Traitor has managed to reach the final of the game, they alone will win the cash and the others will leave with nothing.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Owen Warner has told how Boy George and Babatunde Aleshe helped him get out of a “low place” on ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’.
The ‘Hollyoaks’ actor almost ended up “in a bit of a pit” on the ITV show, but he felt able to talk about his feelings when he heard his campmate Babatunde saying similar things to George in the jungle.
He said: “To be told you have got to stay in one place, you can only eat a certain amount of food and you can’t talk to anyone but the people around you – it hits you.
“If you are in a low place and you don’t share that with people and you don’t tell people that you are feeling that way, so that they can help you, you could end up in a bit of a pit – and that is what I almost did.
“It was only when I heard Baba talking to George saying that he had been feeling like that, I was like, ‘Mate, I have been feeling like that as well.’
“The fact that he had spoken to George helped me and I hadn’t even spoken about how I felt.
“But I knew that he was going through that as well and instantly I was up and it was like: ‘Right, sound, I am not on my own.’ That moment alone, that taught me so much.”
Despite having low moments, Owen – who lost 15lbs during his time in camp – had an “amazing” time in the jungle, but he hadn’t thought about how much he might miss food and his family before he took part in the show.
He added to The Sun newspaper: “It was amazing there but it was very, very, hard. I went into it with a mentality that I am going to breeze it.
“I thought, ‘I am an athletic geezer, I can do the challenges,’ I didn’t think about the food that much, I didn’t think about the missing the family aspect.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Anne Robinson regrets unveiling her facelift on TV too early.
The 78-year-old TV presenter was trolled online after going under the knife while hosting hit BBC game show ‘The Weakest Link’ from 2000 to 2012.
Anne, who was 60 at the time, confessed her plastic surgery regret was not allowing it to rest and going back on TV shortly after.
She said: “When you have cosmetic surgery it is a bit like taking a leg of lamb out of the oven. You have to let it rest for a bit.
“I went on television quite quickly afterwards and it was a famous headline which said ‘This face is the Weakest Link’ as it was quite blown up.”
But Anne was glad she didn’t deny the plastic surgery rumours in 2004.
She added: “I think you are only as sick as your secrets. It is very hard to be pretending you have not had a facelift.
“When I was first on television there were quite a few presenters who were the same age as me and now they are all younger. It seems easier to just be open about it.”
Last year, Anne joined Channel 4’s ‘Countdown’ as the new host but stepped down in July after a year.
Speaking to Angela Scanlon on TV show ‘Ask Me Anything’, she said: “I tried to be nice on ‘Countdown’.
“I loved it but nothing was ever going to be as wonderful as ‘The Weakest Link’ or being a newspaper journalist. I probably made a mistake thinking I could replicate it on another game show.
“[‘Countdown’] is a brilliant show but it does not really require a smart-a*** presenter.
“Viewers see one show a day but I used to do five Countdowns a day. That is quite a lot to get through.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Georgia Kousoulou and Tommy Mallett are hoping to add to their brood next year.
The couple nearly split up over Tommy’s undiagnosed ADHD, which he finally got help for, and now they are stronger than ever and their wedding is back on, with the ‘TOWIE’ stars hoping to tie the knot abroad in 2024 or 2025.
Georgia, 31, admits she’d like to have her second child before she gets hitched.
Speaking to OK!, she said: “I would like another. I need to get a bit of a plan in action if I want to get married in 2024 or 2025. Ideally, I’d have the baby before that. I don’t want a massive gap [in age after Brody]. Please God, I’ll get pregnant within the next year. That would be great.”
And she’s hoping their 18-month-old son Brody will get a big sister, and even has their roles planned out for the couple’s big day.
She said: “I would love a girl. I keep saying, ‘My next baby is a girl.’ Everyone’s like, ‘You can’t say that.’ I’m like, ‘I can.’ You have to talk it into existence – ‘I know I’m going to have a girl, I know I’m having a girl.’ It’ll be really cute to have Brody as the little pageboy and her as a flower girl.”
And though she has set her heart on a Majorca wedding, Georgia won’t rule out a UK ceremony if a venue takes her fancy.
She said: “I don’t see myself getting married here [in the UK]. I think Majorca will be the place. We’ve got a house there and it’s stunning. I need to look at venues over here as well. I can’t 100 per cent rule out a UK wedding. I could see one and be like, ‘Wow!’ but I need that feeling. I’m going by my gut.”
The pair’s show ‘Georgia And Tommy: Baby Steps’ returns to ITVBe this week for a new series, and viewers will see Tommy get his ADHD diagnosis.
He said: “This is going to be a big series and it’s going to help a lot of people so I’m over the moon about it. When I first got the diagnosis I thought, ‘Well, I’m not just mad.'”
Georgia added: “I’m so happy we filmed it all. When we got offered the series, we were deep in it. We all thought we’d be talking about wedding stuff as we got offered a new series around that, but we had to be honest. We could have filmed this series like, ‘Here’s all our wedding stuff,’ but that would’ve been a lie. You’d see the cracks. When we agreed to do this series it was real life and I’m not here to show a perfect life. It’s our reality. Life is hard at times.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kim Woodburn believes Matt Hancock’s political career is “finished” after his ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ stint.
The former Health Secretary came third on the ITV reality show and surprised viewers with how well he did in the trials, despite his partaking in the celebrity competition being met with controversy over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And the reality TV legend – who was a runner-up on the 2009 series – has no doubt the MP will earn lots of money from showbiz, but she doesn’t think he’ll have a political career to fall back on if work dries up.
Writing for Metro, she said: “I do think he’s going to be offered a lot of work on television and at speakers’ agencies. He’ll make a few bob for a few years. But I hope he can make it quite a good career, because politically, I think he’s finished.
“You do feel torn though because, surprisingly, as I say, he did well in the challenges and you’ve got to give him credit. He did every single star and never complained. He had some vile things to do, but it won’t make up for what he’s done. And I think he honestly thought he had a chance of winning.”
The cleaner insisted Hancock, 44, would never have been crowned King of the Jungle because of how “disgraceful” he has acted.
She said: “I said at the beginning and I say now, he had no hope of winning. I’m sorry, the public would never let him win because of what he’s done. He’s done the dirty on his public. He’s done the dirty on his family. No lovey, too much horrible history for him to have ever won that.
“Had he not had the history and had he not been sitting, I think he would have had a good chance of winning because he was darn good. But I’m afraid what he’s done to his constituents and what he’s done as a politician has been so disgraceful that there was no chance the public would forgive that, my love. There was no chance.”
Hancock was suspended by the Conservative party earlier this month after it was announced that he would be appearing on the programme.
Adulterous Hancock was forced to resign as Health Secretary in June 2021 for breaking his own social distancing guidelines after he was caught kissing aide and now-girlfriend Gina.
Former Lioness Jill Scott, 35, was crowned Queen of the Jungle.
‘Hollyoaks’ star Owen Warner, 23, came second.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Hamza Yassin is to land his own nature show.
The 32-year-old wildlife cameraman has proven a hit with viewers on this year’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ so BBC bosses are keen to offer him his own mainstream series in order to take advantage of his popularity.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: “He’s been nothing short of a sensation on Strictly this year, coming from being a virtual unknown to becoming a huge favourite among viewers and judges alike.
“That’s why he’s invariably been near the top of the scoreboard every week and has never been in the dance-off.
“But his popularity is as much to do with his personality and humility as anything else — and that’s what bosses are keen to develop further.”
The CBeebies star has previously worked on nature shows for the BBC and Channel 4 including ‘Animal Park’ and ‘Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness’, but ‘Strictly’ host Claudia Winkleman recently revealed she didn’t know who he was when he signed up for the Latin and ballroom contest.
Asked if she knows who all the celebrities on the show are, she said: “It doesn’t matter. I mean, I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know Hamza. Hamza, by the way, I am going to steal.”
Asked if she really wants to have an affair with Hamza, she exclaimed: “No, of course not! No, no! It’s leaving a pan in the sink for somebody else to wash. It’s the same level. Not fine. Entitlement on any level is wrong.”
Hamza – who is partnered by Jowita Przystal on the show – recently revealed he has lost a lot of weight while training for the show.
He said: “I’ve lost a lot of weight already, around 6.5kg [1.02-stone], which is unheard of really.
“But if you’re training nine hours a day you kind of get that. It’s hard.
“Everything just aches and aches. With the foxtrot my knees ached, then it was my knees and my lower back for the jive, and this week it’s a hard dance.”
“These guys [the professional dancers] have been doing it for 12 to 15 years and we have to come to their standards in four days.
“We [the celebrities] are never going to get to their standards, but we still have to learn the basics and do a show and perform and deliver it on a Saturday.
“It’s kind of crazy, but I’m absolutely enjoying it.”

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