OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Helen Skelton has struck up a friendship with her dance partner Gorka Marquez’s financée Gemma Atkinson.
The ‘Countryfile’ presenter, 39, counts her lucky stars she’s forged a close friendship with the former ‘Hollyoaks’ star, because Gemma understands what it’s like being in Helen’s shoes, having competed on the BBC dance show herself.
Helen told Closer magazine: “I’m so lucky because Gemma’s also done the show and she gets it.
“She understands what it’s like when you’re in my shoes, so I feel like I get the benefit of that support [as well as Gorka’s].”
Gemma – who was a runner-up in the 15th series of the BBC Latin and ballroom show – previously took to social media to show her support for the pair, uploading a selfie of the two on Instagram.
She wrote in the caption: “C’mon!!! Go out there and shine Helen! You’re gonna have the most Amazing time on Strictly! Will be rooting for you both. (sic)”
Helen also recently remarked on her friendship with professional dancer Gorka, admitting she begins each day “in the best possible frame of mind”.
She recently wrote: “I’ve had many supportive messages, too, not least from Angela Rippon, who, of course, witnessed many a Foxtrot in her ‘Come Dancing’ presenting days. You need all these little boosts along the way.
“Gorka brings me a coffee at the start of our training sessions and writes on the paper cup. ‘You’ve got this!’, so I begin each day in the best possible frame of mind. We also eat a lot of pastries. Pastries help immeasurably.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gemma Owen has split from Luca Bish.
The ‘Love Island’ runners up have called time on their romance after three months together but admitted it “wasn’t an easy decision” for them to go their separate ways as she thanked fans for their support.
She wrote on Instagram: “To all my followers, I wanted to let you know that Luca and I are no longer in a relationship. It wasn’t an easy decision but ultimately this is what is best for us both right now.
“Many of you have been on this journey with us from the beginning, and I wanted to thank you for your continued support as we start our new chapters.”
Meanwhile, Luca suggested he hadn’t wanted the news to be made public yet.
He wrote on his own Instagram Story on Wednesday (16.11.22) evening: “Switched my phone back on after taking some time out to clear my head after an emotional afternoon to thousands of messages and news articles about my breakup.
“I would have liked some time to process this privately but as you all already now know, sadly Gemma and I made the mutual decision earlier today to go our separate ways.
“We have been on such a journey together and have made some amazing memories which I will treasure.
“I can’t thank everyone enough for their support for us as a couple during and after ‘Love Island’.
“We will remain good friends and I wish nothing but the best for her.”
Last month, Gemma, 19, admitted she and 23-year-old Luca were making no plans to move in together and were happy with their long-distance romance.
She said: “We don’t have any plans to move into together just yet.
“I’m a home girl – it’s where everything is, I’m family orientated and I’m still young.
“In the immediate future I’m happy with where I am, and the setup Luca and I have.
“We are everywhere right now, when I’m down in London working, we spend time with each other and when we have a free weekend, he’ll join me in Cheshire and be with the horses. We’re making it work around our busy schedules.
“We’re seeing how it goes, we’ll go on a few nice holidays – no pressure.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chris Moyles managed to win just one star on Wednesday’s (16.11.22) ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’.
The Radio X DJ felt “awkward” when he returned to camp after taking part in the latest Bushtucker Trial, which saw him forced to face his fear of confined spaces to crawl through a series of pipes to retrieve the stars.
Not only was the 48-year-old broadcaster struggling with his surroundings, things got worse when he dropped his bag, losing the spanners he was using to unscrew the stars, and also the tokens themselves, leading him to have to use the final few minutes of the challenge to retrieve the items – but he was only able to rescue one of the two stars he’d collected.
He said: “I’m going, to be honest with you, it all went t*** up, couldn’t even get through the membrane, this is pathetic. I’ve lost a star…
“I can’t go back to camp, they’ll all say really nice things and every single one of them will be lying… I think I’m going to go back and tell them I got none.”
Chris’ campmates took it well when he broke the news to them.
He told the group: “It’s really not good news and I’m really sorry, this is so awkward, I didn’t and I’m not joking, I got one star, to make it worse I got two and it fell out of my bag.
“It was enclosed spaces everybody.”
Despite the DJ’s prediction, the rest of the contestants were just as supportive in the Bush Telegraph as they were to his face.
Charlene White said: “He’s just crestfallen, you can see it in his little face.”
And Boy George said: “I wanted him to come back with more for him, not for me, I thought it would be good for his self-esteem.”
Chris apologised again when dinner, a bony fish, was delivered into camp.
He admitted: “I feel like s**** because one star has resulted in the smallest fish you’ve seen in your life.”
But Owen Warner said: “It’s literally better than nothing.”
Meanwhile, Thursday’s (17.11.22) trial, The Scareground, will see the celebrities decide themselves which three contestants take part.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Susannah Constantine says ‘What Not to Wear’ wouldn’t be made today.
The 60-year-old TV presenter co-hosted the series alongside Trinny Woodall from 2001 to 2005, but Susannah doesn’t think it would be able to return nowadays because people are “fed up of being told what to do”.
She said: “It was of its time and came along at the right moment, but it wouldn’t work today and I can understand why.
“People are fed up of being told what to do.”
Susannah still feels “really ashamed” that she once plucked a hair from Jo Brand’s chin when the comedian appeared on the BBC show, which saw Trinny and Susannah give members of the public their opinions about their fashion choices, before giving them a makeover.
She added to the Radio Times magazine: “Both Trinny and I say this – there’s not one person who regretted coming on our show, not one.
“The one thing I do regret was when Jo Brand did our show. I’m really ashamed, looking back. I have little whiskers on my chin, which I pluck, and she had a little whisker on her chin, which I plucked and it really offended her. I felt terrible about that.”
In December last year, Susannah admitted she thought viewers were “crying out” for the show to return.
She said: “I do think the format would still work now. People are crying out for something that is honest and not watered down and homogenised, which a lot of TV these days is.
“Trinny and I had an ability to connect with people and I think that by being straight talking, women trusted us.
“It was never gratuitous – we never criticised the woman’s body, we only criticised what the clothes were doing for them.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — EastEnders’ online quiz show is to return.
James Bye – who plays Martin Fowler in the BBC One soap – will return to host a second series of ‘Albert Squared’, which will stream over nine weeks on YouTube and Facebook from Friday (18.11.22).
As well as two new games, ‘You Ain’t My Buzzer’ and ‘Prop-a Ballers’, there will also be a special ex-‘EastEnders’ episode where the show welcomes home Ricky Norwood (Fatboy), Davood Ghadami (Kush) and Bonnie Langford (Carmel), plus a Christmas special on Friday December 23rd.
James said: “We’ve had so much fun filming this series of ‘Albert Squared’ – we’ve got new games, a new set and there’s a lot of laughs!
“Everyone really got involved and some even got quite competitive.
“It was great to welcome Davood, Ricky and Bonnie back for the special ex-‘EastEnders’ episode. I really hope everyone enjoys watching this series as much as we enjoyed doing it!”
Chris Clenshaw, EastEnders’ Executive Producer, said: “Following a brilliant response to the first series, we’re delighted to be bringing ‘Albert Squared’ back for round two this Christmas/festive season, as a mix of new and returning EastEnders cast go head to head in our very own gameshow that will put their E20 knowledge to the ultimate test.
“It’s the perfect tonic for this time of year and is definitely one all Albert Square experts at home can get involved in – let the games begin.”
‘Albert Squared’ can be seen on the official ‘EastEnders’ YouTube and Facebook pages from 6pm on November 18, 2022. Viewers can watch the show live or catch up at any time.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Spencer Matthews is to climb Mount Everest to search for the missing body of his brother Michael.
The former ‘Made In Chelsea’ star has teamed up with Disney Plus to make a documentary about his expedition to the world’s highest peak looking for the remains of his late sibling who died during a descent down the mountain back in 1999 when he was just 22.
Spencer underwent therapy before taking on the ordeal, and said on his ‘Big Fish’ podcast: “It was important for me to get my head around the fact I might come face to face with my brother’s frozen body. I knew it was going to be a gut-wrenching and emotional journey.”
Michael died shortly after becoming the youngest British climber to summit Mount Everest following in the footsteps of TV adventurer Bear Grylls who previously completed the challenge at the age of 23.
Bear later led an exhibition back up the mountain in a bid to recover Michael’s body, but it was not successful.
Speaking at the Oxford Union, Bear explained: “We actually had an expedition on Everest to try to recover the body of the brother of a good friend, who climbed it the year after I was there but was never found.
“We really tried. We had the best team in the world.”
Spencer previously opened up about the effect the tragedy had on his family in his 2013 book ‘Confessions of a Chelsea Boy: The Autobiography’.
The TV star explained they had struggled to find peace and it was particularly hard on his elder brother James.
Spencer wrote: “His loss was devastating for the family and over time this became worse because the circumstances surrounding Michael’s death have never been fully explained.
“James took the news badly. With just a year and a half between them, he and Mike were the closest of friends. The loss was heartbreaking for James.”
He added: “We have not been able to say goodbye in person. We have nowhere to go to sit with him. He lives on with us in our minds only. On Mike’s birthday James and I send mum and dad red roses for the age he would have been. I guess our family’s way of dealing with losing Mike is to believe that he goes on with us.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Attwood’s appearance on ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!’ had been planned for five years and she fears she won’t get another chance to go back into the jungle.
The ‘Love Island’ star entered the show for the 2023 series but was later removed on medical grounds after a routine blood test showed signs of anaemia leaving her devastated – and she’s now revealed her stint on the show had been in the works ever since she left the villa back in 2017.
During an appearance on ‘This Morning’ on Monday (14.11.22), she explained: “I’ve been a big fan of the show all my life … and those conversations about ‘I’m A Celebrity’ started the year I left ‘Love Island’ so it’s been five years in the making leading up to that moment … ”
Olivia became the first ever former ‘Love Island’ star to join ‘I’m A Celebrity’ and it’s made it even more difficult for her to deal with leaving early.
She went on: “There was that thing will they ever put someone from ‘Love Island’ in there. I know it sounds self-indulgent but yeah I think you come off the show [Love Island] and get huge opportunities but you can get put in a box I was looking forward to showing a different side of myself … I was loving it.”
Since flying back to the UK, Olivia has undergone more tests and found she’s perfectly healthy but she explained show bosses just couldn’t risk putting her back into the jungle.
She said: “I was like ‘shall we go back?’ and I knew there would be Covid tests and things like that but there was a pause in proceedings there, and it was late at night and taking me back into camp doesn’t work logistically so I went to a hotel and basically as I now know the conversations went on all through the night with production obviously desperate to have me back in, but the medical team … I think it’s an insurance thing. Because they had those readings, they had to seek other party opinions and it’s a collective decision.”
She went on: “Their opinion was well they [the blood test results] went that low before, what if we put her back in and they drop back down again and we wouldn’t be covered [by the insurance] because it had already been flagged up …
“Thank God [I’m healthy]. Being healthy … I’m grateful I’m healthy but it makes it harder I think to accept because I’m fine but it is what it is. There are worse things happening in the world. I’m very lucky to be in the position I’m in but gutted.”
Olivia also fears she may never get the chance to do the show again because her diary is completely full for the next year.
She added: “The problem we had this year is like luckily which I feel so grateful for is I’ve got my other shows, I’ve got the documentary which are all scheduled up until this point next year.
“So we’ve already moved everything once and I daren’t even approach that question yet so I think it will just be a logistical thing … would we be able to make it work? … I would love to [go back next year]. I was loving it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Brenda Edwards returned to her previous job in accounts throughout the coronavirus pandemic as she “had a mortgage to pay like everyone else”.
The ‘Loose Women’ panellist, 53, – who found fame after reaching fourth place in second series of ‘The X Factor’ back in 2005 – worked as an accounts payable manager for 25 years before moving to showbiz.
Brenda also returned to her old job in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer as she wasn’t too proud and “needed to work”.
Speaking to Hayley Palmer during an appearance on ‘Saturday Night’, she said: “I was an accounts payable manager for 25 years, very successful, and I will go back and do it again if my career…”
A dumbfounded Hayley asked: “Would you?”
Brenda answered: “Yes, I have done. I did it in the pandemic and I did it when I was going through my breast cancer because I needed to work.
“Yeah, I’m not proud. I’ve got a mortgage to pay like everybody else.
“It just takes someone savvy. An accounts payable manager, basically if we’re staying in a hotel for example, you’ve got a beautiful hotel, but you’ve got to pay for the fixtures, the utilities, the people delivering this and that.
“It was my job to pay and keep them in check and I was very good at it, yeah, and I will go back into it tomorrow. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.”
Last year, the musical theatre star – who played Motormouth Maybelle in ‘Hairspray’ – opened up about her struggle after learning she had breast cancer and revealed she and her co-stars all broke down on stage whilst singing ‘I Know Where I’ve Been One Night’.
During an appearance on ‘Martin and Roman’s Weekend Best’, she told the presenters: “When I was doing the show in 2016 that’s when I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer and I did the show and I sang that song.
“’It’s like ‘There’s a road we’ve been travelling, lost so many on the way’ and those words came up and the cast all started crying.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Georgia Toffolo is making a documentary about her quest for perfect skin after spending years battling acne.
The former ‘Made In Chelsea’ star has been commissioned by ITV to work on a new film titled ‘Georgia Toffolo: In Search of Perfect Skin’ for ITV2 which will take a look at the multi-billion-pound industry which provides products to treat spots.
ITV’s Commissioning Editor, Factual Entertainment Satmohan Panesar said: “Huge numbers of young people and beyond suffer from acne, which can have a significant impact on their well-being and they rely on treatment they can trust. As someone who has had to deal with this condition, Toff is the perfect guide through the industry that profits from selling products to sufferers and she is determined to find out what is really going on.”
In the documentary, Georgia looks into a prescription acne medication called Roaccutane after previously taking a course of the treatment and she is seen debating whether to try it again after suffering another flare-up.
The drug has been linked to serious side-effects such as depression and the 28-year-old TV star investigates whether it is being properly prescribed in the UK and whether users are aware of the potential risks.
She also looks into the science behind claims being made by skincare brands about the effectiveness of their products and even works with a cosmetic chemist to create a fake spot cream which is sent off to a testing company with dramatic results.
‘Georgia Toffolo: In Search of Perfect Skin’ is due to air on ITV2 on 28 November at 9pm.

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