OHMYGOSSIP — Jonnie Irwin kept his terminal cancer diagnosis a secret over fears he might lose work if TV bosses discovered he was dying.
The 49-year-old TV presenter insisted he needs to put “food on the table” for his wife Jess, three-year-old son Rex and two-year-old twins Cormac and Rafa, but says producers are quick to “write you off” when they find out about his diagnosis.
He said: “As soon as people find out you’ve got cancer they write you off. Yes, I have stage four and it’s terminal – but not yet, so let me live my life while I can.
“Yes, I’m a family man and I need to put a roof over our heads and food on the table but work is something that’s really important to me. It also stops me thinking about cancer.”
Jonnie also claims ‘A Place in the Sun’ didn’t renew his contract after finding out about his diagnosis, despite him wanting to carry on with the show,.
He told The Sun newspaper: “As soon as I told ‘A Place in the Sun’ about my diagnosis they paid me for the rest of the season but didn’t renew my contract. They knew I wanted to carry on.
“That hurt. That broke my heart. I feel hugely let down. I can’t even watch the show now.”
However, Channel 4 have claimed production company Freeform were not able to “secure adequate insurance” to cover Jonnie.
A statement from Channel 4 and production company Freeform said: “No stone was left unturned in trying to enable Jonnie to continue his international filming with us during COVID but the production company were unable to secure adequate insurance cover for him.
“We, of course, understand how frustrating this must be for him at this incredibly difficult time.”
While Jonnie has been “impressed” with Escape to the Country and A Place In The Sun Ltd for employing him, the star insists he “didn’t get that support” from ‘A Place in the Sun’.
He said: “Even though I look thinner and I’m without hair, Escape to the Country and A Place In The Sun Ltd, which runs the show’s exhibitions, have employed me and I’ve been so impressed by them.
“But I didn’t get that support from ‘A Place in the Sun’. I told them I wanted to work. When I said I can get you doctor notes and assurances from my oncologist that I am fit to work, I was told, verbatim, ‘Oh, you really don’t want to go down that route, do you?’
“They said, ‘We don’t think we can get the insurance’, not ‘We can’t get the insurance’, but, ‘We don’t think . . . ’ That broke my heart and affected my mental health.”
‘Escape to the Country’ host Jonnie opened up about his cancer diagnosis last week, revealing he was told he had six months to live two years ago.
He said: “Within a week of flying back from filming, I was being given six months to live.
“I had to go home and tell my wife, who was looking after our babies, that she was on her own pretty much. That was devastating. All I could do was apologise to her. I felt so responsible.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Peter Kay’s company has raked in more than £22 million.
The 49-year-old star confirmed earlier this month he is to hit the road again, after not performing a live tour since 2010, but even before his run of shows begins, the accounts for his main firm, Hussein Traders Ltd, show he has £22.6 million in investments and is £10.5 million in profit.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column: “The accounts just prove what a huge success Peter is.
“His royalties and merchandise still tick along every year, despite his recent inactivity.
“He’s also very savvy with his cash, as he’s made lots of wise investments.”
But Peter recently revealed he saved some cash on his comeback advert, by filming it on a mobile phone.
He said: “I put an iPhone down my shorts and put it on Voice Memo so I recorded my sound.
“Tesco spent £12 million on their Christmas advert, but I’ve done it in 10 minutes on two iPhones.”
In the ad, the comedian delivers a roll of carpet to his mum and he is heckled for his love of garlic bread by a couple of fans.
The star revealed it only took 20 minutes to shoot.
He added: “It was hilarious. We were back home in 20 minutes.”
The ‘Phoenix Nights’ star will begin his tour on 2 December at the Manchester AO Arena before visiting arenas in Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Dublin, before wrapping up in August.
Peter explained that because of the cost-of-living crisis, he has managed to keep ticket prices the same as they were when he last went on tour more than a decade ago.
In a statement, he said: “It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy, and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now.
“And with the cost of living at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35 – the same price they were on my previous tour in 2010.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Craig Revel Horwood was once Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec’s landlord.
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ professional dancers – who got married in 2017 – used to live in the 57-year-old show judge’s flat, and admit he was the “coolest landlord” they will ever have.
Speaking on podcast ‘Dish with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett’, Janette, 39, told hosts radio personality Nick Grimshaw and celebrity chef Angela Hartnett: “You know, he was our landlord for a second? Aljaz and I were on tour with ‘Strictly Come Dancing Live!’ and we were trying to move into one of these flats, and we had to do it quick, and Craig was like, ‘Well I’ve got my house free at the moment, no one’s living in it, it’s in a beautiful area, do you guys want to move in? You can be my tenants’. And we were like, ‘yeah!’ ”
Aljaz, 32, added: “Coolest landlord we’re ever going to have.”
Janette – whose last season on the star-studded Latin and ballroom contest was in 2020 – was a fan of the interiors in Craig’s pad.
She said: “We had red carpet staircase, we had velvet walls, chandeliers, I mean you can imagine what Craig’s house would look like.”
The ‘Strictly: It Takes Two’ host admitted she and Aljaz are “really considering” getting a dog now they have more stability in their lives after leaving ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ as pro dancers.
Janette said: “We love animals. We do, we’re big animal lovers. But with our career and what we do for our line of work, we’re constantly away from home and touring the country, and away, and abroad, so it never felt fair to have a little friend at home that didn’t have us and have the love that it really deserved.
“But you know, now we’ve got a little bit more time, we’re not on ‘Strictly’ together anymore so it gives us a bit more of a base for a few months in the year, and even if we do tour it’s not as crazy as it has been in the past. So, life has just kind of slowed down in that being away from home sense, so we’re really considering it now.”
‘Dish’, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett, is available on all podcast providers now.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ekin-Su Culculoglu wants to move to Italy with Davide Sanclimenti – when they are older and have had kids.
The ‘Love Island’ winners want to settle down in the “romantic” country when they have crossed off several milestones, after they visited his home nation in their new ITV2 two-part series, ‘Ekin-Su Davide: Homecomings’.
The 28-year-old actress told new! magazine: “I just loved how romantic Italy was, especially where Davide’s from. If I was older, retired, had kids and they’d all grown up, I’d go to his hometown.
“It was beautiful. Italian culture is exactly the same as Turkish – family means everything. All the family are very loving, they love Davide, they love to see me. I really felt a part of the family and I miss them. I felt very looked after.”
Davide admitted to having “felt the same” in Ekin-Su’s homeland, Turkey.
He said: “I felt the same when I was in Turkey.”
The ‘Dancing on Ice’ star spilled that her family “love” her man – unlike her other boyfriends – and see him as a “good guy”.
Ekin-Su said: “My family love him so much. My mum never approved of any boyfriend until now, she said, ‘Davide’s a lovely, good guy.’ My mum can see through people.
“We know we’re good for each other, we’re well-suited, so if he sees me as wife material, that’s good. I can definitely see him as a husband guy, so if it’s going to happen, it’ll happen.”
Davide agreed, admitting his girlfriend is “wife material”.
The loved-up couple revealed their ITV2 two-part series will show them being “more understanding”.
Davide said: “You’ll probably see us close to each other, more understanding also. I understand her more since I’ve been to her country and met her family.”
Ekin-Su said: “We’ve actually improved on communication recently. If something was bothering him, he’ll say and I’ll listen, and vice versa. Then we meet in the middle and solve the problem.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Michelle Dockery and Nicholas Pinnock are to star in ‘The Town’.
The ‘Downton Abbey’ actress and the ‘Marcella’ star are among the actors who have signed up for ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight’s major new six-part drama for the BBC.
Steven, writer, creator and executive producer, said: “This is a project very close to my heart.
“It’s about an era I lived through and know well and it involves characters who I feel I grew up with.
“It’s a love letter to Birmingham and Coventry but I hope people from all over the world will relate to it.”
‘The Town’ tells the story of four young people and an extended family who are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths.
Levi Brown, Jordan Bolger, Ben Rose, and Eve Austin will portray the four young lead characters.
David Dawson, Geraldine James, Peter McDonald, Freya Parks, Shyvonne Ahmmad, John Heffernan, Stefan Asante-Boateng, Séainín Brennan, George Somner and Brendan Gibson will also appear in the series.
Jo McClellan, BBC Drama Commissioning Editor, said: “Steven’s scripts are absolutely brilliant – they capture the wild energy of youth and a pivotal moment in time, all set to a fantastic soundtrack, and we can’t wait to see this incredibly talented cast bring it all to life.”
Karen Wilson, exec producer and MD of Kudos, added: “We cannot wait for this incredible cast to help bring the world that Steven has created in ‘This Town’ to life.
“The combination of powerful storytelling, gripping drama and brilliant music will make it a must-watch – audiences are in for a real treat!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Helen Flanagan gets “really, really annoyed” when people judge her as a mother.
The ex ‘Coronation Street’ star – who is mum to Matilda, seven, Delilah, four, and Charlie, 20 months – admitted she becomes irritated when “people are just mean to mums”.
The 32-year-old actress – who recently split from her former footballer fiance Scott Sinclair, 33 – told her followers via her Instagram Story: “I’m probably babbling but yeah that really irritates me, when people are just mean to mums.
“I won’t go into the conversation too much because it’s just too long, I just get really really annoyed when people aren’t nice to mums.”
Helen began her message with the admission that she has “emotional outbursts” sometimes, before sharing that she loathes feeling “uncomfortable” due to judgement from strangers.
She said: “I’m quite good I think at controlling my emotions, I’m quite busy, but I always have emotional outbursts when I’m due on …
“This is like a long story short, but I get, I was really annoyed last week because I won’t go into too much detail but basically I hate it when mums are made to feel uncomfortable in kind of like, I don’t know …
“I didn’t have Matilda young but youngish and I’ve always gone everywhere with my kids, like flown with them, trains, hotels and I’ve just literally always gone where I want to go.
“I just don’t like it when you get people who basically are being rubbish towards you because you’ve got kids and you’re a mum, basically giving you the evils.”
Last month, the former ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ star and her ex Celtic FC footballer fiance Scott went their separate ways after 13 years together.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chloe Ferry has been left “devastated” after a doctor recommended she get a skin graft to fix a “botched” eye lift.
The former ‘Geordie Shore’ star is reluctant to have more surgery after she was left with a “dint” in her face following a ‘fox eye lift’ that went wrong.
The 27-year-old television personality told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I’ve seen a consultant who says I need to have a skin graft – devastated.
“I didn’t want to have more surgery. I’m staying away from that. I was young when I had my boobs done. I’m getting older now.
“I wanted to start finding a husband – this is not what I wanted to be doing. It’s scary to think, ‘F****** hell, I have to go under the knife again?’ ”
Despite her despair, Chloe finds solace in things not being as bad as they could be.
She said: “I’m still devastated but I always think, to make myself feel better, how there is so much worse going on in the world.
“I always say about myself – I never big myself up – but I have lovely, nice skin. I had always been confident having nothing on my face but now I feel [self conscious].
“People will say it’s not that bad but when I’m sitting there and looking at it, it’s always a million times worse – it’s not just a scar, it’s a dint.”
In August, the ex ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star – who has spent more than £50,000 on cosmetic surgery and procedures – said the eye lift was one of the “biggest mistakes” of her life.
Chloe said: “It’s probably one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. I really regret it. I’ve had a traumatic seven months and it could’ve been avoided.
“I’ve been going through hell since I had it done. I’ve always had really good skin, I never get spots and now I have this dent on my face. It’s permanent.
“It has actually ruined my life and made me so insecure. I can’t leave the house without make-up.”
“I don’t know why I got it done in the first place, because people kept telling me I didn’t need it – it just made me want to get it done more.
“Now I keep thinking, ‘Why have I done this to myself?’ It’s made me so self-conscious, and really affected me mentally. I’ve been botched.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jennifer Metcalfe has looked into freezing her eggs because she would “absolutely love” more children.
The ‘Hollyoaks’ star already has five-year-old son Daye with her ‘Geordie Shore’ star ex Greg Lake, 38, but would be keen to extend her brood to “five or six” if the conditions were “right”.
The 39-year-old actress told The Sun newspaper: “I’d absolutely love to have more kids. I’d like to have five or six, but the time and person I’m with would have to be right.”
Jennifer detailed how she got a check on her fertility and is considering getting her eggs frozen.
She said: “I know I want to have more children, so I had my eggs tested about three or four years ago.
“I was so young then and I had a lot of eggs, which was great. But apparently the number can drop at any point — and quite dramatically.
“I’m reaching 40 next year so maybe I will have them frozen. Judging by the logistics I really should, because I’d love a massive family.
“Daye always asks me, ‘Mummy, can you have a baby boy or a baby girl?’, and I reply, ‘I don’t know darling, hopefully I can’.
“I’m in no rush to meet a partner to have kids with, so I would consider adoption, or any other ways of having a child.”
Jennifer – who has played Hollyoaks’ Mercedes McQueen since 2006 – admitted her co-parenting agreement with ex Greg is “as perfect as it can be”, and says she and Daye “have such a lovely life in Manchester”.
She said: “Greg lives in Newcastle, so Daye visits him every other weekend. We both have our child’s best interests at heart ultimately, so whatever that brings, it brings.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — The ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’ camp has been hit by two COVID-19 cases.
The ITV reality show has tightened its COVID-19 safety measures after two members of the production team tested positive for the virus, just days ahead of the final on Sunday (27.11.22).
A spokesperson for ITV told OK!: “We can confirm a couple of production team members have tested positive for coronavirus. The protocols we have in place for such an eventuality have been implemented and filming has continued as we adhere to all covid guidelines.”
They added: “We have stringent measures in place across site, safety is paramount on the show.”
Fortunately, the final will still go ahead.
Chris Moyles became the sixth contestant to be eliminated from the camp on Thursday’s (24.11.22) episode.
Upon his exit from the Aussie jungle, the former BBC Radio 1 DJ quipped that he can’t believe former Health Secretary Matt Hancock is more popular with viewers than he was.
He said: “I’m gutted that Matt Hancock is more popular than me. What the bejeezus is going on?”
However, it’s an experience he’ll never forget.
He laughed: “I’m the only person leaving camp with more fear than when they went in!”
Chris, 48, added: “I’d often be the last one to bed and I’d walk back into camp after going to the dunny and I’d just stare at it like, this is amazing, but it is a massive privilege to do it. I can’t tell you the feeling of it.”
When asked who he’d like to see crowned King or Queen of the Jungle, he said either ‘Hollyoaks’ star Owen Warner, Lioness Jill Scott or former rugby star Mike Tindall.

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OHMYGOSSIP — David Walliams’ future on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ is “up in the air”.
The 51-year-old comedian is rumoured to be stepping away from the judging panel of the next series of the talent show – on which he has appeared since 2012 – but
programme bosses have insisted no decisions on the line-up have been made yet.
A spokesperson said: “The judging panel for Britain’s Got Talent 2023 will be announced in due course.
“It’s still very much up in the air at the moment on whether David is going to take part in next year’s show. No decision, though, has been made as yet.”
Auditions are not due to begin for another two months so it is believed none of the judging panel, which also includes Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, and Alesha Dixon, are currently officially contracted to the show.
Questions were raised about David’s future on the show after “disrespectful comments” he made about ‘BGT’ contestants in a recording of an audition show at the London Palladium in January 2020 were leaked, prompting him to apologise.
According to a leaked transcript, he called one contestant a “****”.
Of another, he said: “She’s like the slightly boring girl you meet in the pub that thinks you want to f*** them, but you don’t.”
He reiterated: “She thinks you want to f*** her, but you don’t.”
The ‘Little Britain’ star then added: “I know, she’s just like, ‘Oh, f*** off!’ I was saying, she thinks you want to f*** her, but you don’t. It’s the last thing on your mind, but she’s like, ‘Yep, I bet you do!’ ‘No I don’t!’ ”
David insisted the conversations were “never intended to be shared”, but said sorry.
He said in a statement: “I would like to apologise to the people I made disrespectful comments about during breaks in filming for ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ in 2020. These were private conversations and – like most conversations with friends – were never intended to be shared. Nevertheless, I am sorry.”

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