OHMYGOSSIP — Kevin Kennedy thinks it would be “brilliant” to return to ‘Coronation Street.’
The 61-year-old actor starred as Curly Watts on the long-running ITV soap for 20 years and would like to know what his character – who famously married and divorced barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme during his time on the cobbles – has been up to since quitting the role back in 2003.
He said: “A return to ‘Corrie’ would be quite brilliant, actually. Where Curly has been, what he is doing. People are interested to know that sort of thing. They like to know what has happened to old characters. I have a very good relationship with ITV so we’ll just have to wait and see.”
Meanwhile, Kevin had a well-documented battle with alcoholism during his time on the show and explained that ITV bosses stook an American approach to the situation by sending him to a rehabilitation clinic and he has since set up a charity called Kennedy Street to help others battling addiction.
He told the Metro newspaper’s SixtySeconds column: “ITV took the American route of rehabilitation for their employees. This was 1998 and if you had an addiction problem, a lot of companies would just get rid of you. But they went with this new fad – as it was at the time – and sent me to rehab. That was a massive boost because it gave me a sense of self-worth.
” Kennedy Street has been going for 20-odd years. We set it up as a place you could ring and we would try to point you in the right direction. We now have a hub in Brighton, which we’re setting up so people can come and go to meetings and have one-to-one advice on what to do next.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Alison Hammond felt “nervous” sitting next to Dermot O’Leary on ‘This Morning.’
The 47-year-old TV star joined forces with former ‘X Factor’ host Dermot,49, to front the Friday edition of the morning show in place of regular presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield back in 2021 when COVID-19 restrictions were in place on-set and admitted it was strange to rehearse “normally” now that social distancing rules no longer apply following their summer break.
She said: “We had never done it ‘normally’ before. I was actually a bit nervous sitting next to him because I was so used to working and hosting with that [two-metre] distance between us.”
The former ‘Big Brother’ contestant – who first joined the ITV daytime show back in 2003 as a competition segment host and, along with Dermot, replaced longstanding hosts Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes for the Friday slot back in November – was replaced with a with a rotation of other famous faces such as Rylan Clark, Josie Gibson, Vernon Kay, and Rochelle Humes over the course of the summer but Dermot admitted that he “still forgets” that social distancing rules have changed upon his return to the programme.
In the joint interview, he told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz Column: “I sometimes still forget because I automatically go to sit two metres apart and Alsion often says ‘Get closer!'”
The TV duo are set to return to their regular slot on the show on Friday (09.09.22), while Holly and Phil will be fronting the show from Mondays until Thursdays once again from September 5.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Fatima Whitbread would walk around the ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’ campsite completely nude.
The Olympic javelin star – who at 61 is the oldest ever contestant on the Channel 4 show – encouraged everyone to embrace themselves as she would roam around completely starkers.
Dwain Chambers, an Olympian said: “Day one or two, Fatima would just walk past us naked.”
The 44-year-old sprinter continued: “I was like, what?”
Fellow contestant and ex-‘TOWIE’ star Ferne McCann said: “I really respected her. You’re totally exposed and you have to get over it. I think that the older you are, the more comfortable you are in your own skin and body, and she just stripped off. She encouraged me to just wash. You’ve got to find these comforts in that environment.”
Meanwhile, ex- ‘EastEnders’ star Maisie Smith – who has also signed up to appear on the survival show – says she wanted to grow up to be like the ‘I’m A Celebrity’ contestant Fatima.
The 21-year-old actress said: “If anything like Fatima when I’m 60, I’ll have won in life. But she does fart all the time!”
Meanwhile, on Sunday’s episode (04.09.2022), Fatima – who broke the world record at the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart with a throw of 77.44 metres – revealed she was “abandoned as a baby and left to die”.
After impressing them with the much-dreaded gassing challenging, she told Directing Staff Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham and Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox: “Yeah it’s hard, I didn’t expect it not to be, but you dig deep and see what you’ve got.
Foxy responded: “I’ve known you since a young age, and you’re like an inspiration to me.”
Fatima replied: “I was abandoned as a baby, and some would say left to die, in a flat in London, and a neighbour heard that baby crying for a couple of days and didn’t see anyone coming or going, so she reported it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Coronation Street’ is using “cinematic” green-screen technology for upcoming scenes.
The long-running ITV soap opera has filmed an “explosive week” of scenes for the departure of established character Kelly Neelan – played by Millie Gibson – and producer Iain MacLeod has teased that the cast and crew have used “impressive” technology normally used in cinematic blockbusters.
He said: “We’ve done something really special and certainly among the most impressive things that I’ve worked on in my varied career and so, I’m very excited by it. We’ve decided to go full on. The centrepiece of the week is a sequence that we’ve shot using technology that’s more commonly found in things like ‘The Mandalorian’, or they use a slightly larger version of this in a lot of the ‘Avengers’ movies.
“In this full volume wall which is relatively new to me, essentially it’s like a very new fandangled version of what they would have called green screen, or back projection back in the early days of the talkies.”
The ‘Corrie’ boss – who was previously at the helm of fellow ITV soap opera ‘Emmerdale’ – went on to explain that the technology has allowed him to create a “three-dimensional world” as part of a rooftop sequence.
He told The Mirror: “But basically, it means you can put your actors anywhere that you can imagine so you can essentially design a 3D world. So what we’ve done is create this incredible rooftop sequence with a source of twinkling Mancunian cityscape behind it, so that we can do things that you could never normally do in a location shoot. You can put real actors in what appears to be very real danger without using stunt performance. You can have the camera behave in a way that it can’t do in the real world.”
“The gist of the week is, we all know, and it leaves me with a heavy heart to say, but we all know Kelly’s leaving the show. So we thought well, actually, the fact that Millie is going and that therefore Kelly is going allows us to go really big and do something incredibly high stakes, to maybe have some characters step on all these landmines that we’ve buried for them over the years and have them go off in one cataclysmic explosion.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Max George says Maisie Smith is “already” the winner of ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
The 33-year-old pop star is currently dating former ‘EastEnders’ actress Maisie,21, and took to social media to show his support as she made her debut on the Channel 4 survival show.
On his Instagram Story on Sunday evening (04.09.2022), he wrote: “You’re already my winner,” on the promotional photograph of the actress looking determined for the military endurance show presented by Rudy Reyes.
Maisie- who met the ‘Glad You Came’ hitmaker in 2020 when they both competed on ‘Strictly Come Dancing – reposted it to her own account, adding the emoji of two hands forming a heart.
Recently, Max – while getting inked at a tattoo parlour in Fulham – explained that his rumoured girlfriend “likes tattoos”.
He wrote: “She will just have to wait and see. I have shown a few designs and that but nothing, not that big. She likes tattoos, I’ve got a few already so it should be a nice surprise.”
“I have wanted this for years, it’s not about anyone in particular, it’s not overly meaningful. It’s just the mix of the lion, I love lions and the rose, which matches the first tattoo I ever got.
“A guy showed me a design which I loved about ten years ago and I’ve just come down to London to spend a bit of time here and I thought you know what, change of scenery, get a new tat, new me, innit? Got my nails done.”
The post comes soon after a insider alleged that the pair were “all over each other” and that Max was “falling in love” with the former soap star.
They said: “They were all over each other. This isn’t a flash in the pan. Max has told people that he is falling in love with Maisie.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Holly Jackson’s novel ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ is to be adapted into a drama series by BBC Three.
The 30-year-old author first published the bestseller – which tells the story of a girl determined to prove that a man had been wrongly convicted of murdering a schoolgirl – back in 2019 and is “beyond thrilled” that the thriller is now making its way to the small screen.
She said: “I am beyond thrilled that ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ has found its perfect home with Moonage Pictures and the BBC. It is a privilege to be working alongside such a talented and creative team who are as invested in the characters and story as I am. I can’t wait to introduce Pip and Ravi to a whole new audience and to welcome back readers who have missed our partners in crime.”
The six-part series – which will be made by Moonage Pictures and filmed in 2023 for broadcast the same year – will be written by Poppy Cogan, who explained that she is aiming to “take audiences on a thrilling ride” as she adapts the novel for broadcast.
She said: “I’m so honoured that Holly Jackson has entrusted me with the adaptation of her hugely popular and brilliant novel. With a relentlessly twisty plot and a cast of funny and idiosyncratic characters, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will take audiences on a thrilling ride into the dark heart of a quintessentially English town. Together with the excellent Moonage Pictures and our team of writers – Zia Ahmed, Ajoke Ibironke and Ruby Thomas – I’ve had so much fun bringing the world of the book to life. I can’t wait to see it on BBC Three.”
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will air on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in 2023, with casting to be announced at a later date.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jake Quickeden has married Sophie Church in Ibiza.
The 34-year-old TV star started dating Sophie, 29, back in 2018 and has son Leo, 19 months with her, but the pair tied the knot on the Spanish island on Sunday (04.09.22) following a year-long engagement.
In a video posted to Instagram, Jake gushed: “Just married, just married!”
The former ‘X Factor’ star was joined by friend and ex-‘Love Island’ contestant Chris Hughes for the big day, who posted a now-deleted video onto his social media which saw Jake looking nervous as he prepared for the ceremony.
Just as he was waiting for the cue to enter the ceremony, Jake stood in the Spanish heat and joked: “I just need a few more minutes in the air con!”
The former ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here’ contestant was seen wearing a three-piece suit decorated with medals which paid tribute to his dad and brother, who both lost battles with bone cancer.
The medals read: “I know you would be here today if you weren’t in heaven so far away.”
Following the nuptials, Jake was quick to label the service as the “best day” of his life and was seen to be relaxing with Leo as he reflected on the celebrations.
On Monday (05.09.22), he said: “Best day of my life yesterday! Having a day today enjoying this one and spending time with my mates!”
The day before the ceremony, Jake celebrated his 34th birthday and explained to his 1m followers that he felt the “most blessed” he had ever been as he prepared to say ‘I do.’
He said: “34 years young today and the most blessed I have ever been…. Get to marry my best friend tomorrow, with family and friends surrounding us!! Missing a couple of special people but they will be watching down!!”(sic)

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu “forgot” ‘Love Island’ was a TV show .
The 28-year-old actress won the hit ITV2 dating show alongside now-boyfriend Davide Sanclimenti back in August and admitted that she and Davide were so embroiled in their own romance they were “rooting” for another couple to win the £50,000 cash prize.
She said: “We at some point forgot it was a TV show so I was like ‘Davide, we’ve got mics on and there are cameras!’ and we were like ‘Oh no, this is a show’. And I think when it hit us was when they told us the finals were coming up. I was like ‘What do you mean the finals are coming up?’ We were happy and thought ‘We’ve got each other’ That’s all that mattered so we were actually rooting for other people to win and we didn’t really mind.”
Ekin-Su went on to quash rumours of infidelity on Davide’s part and noted that while it is “nice” of fans to “stick up for her”, insisted that the inner workings of the relationship are always private, even for those who are not in the public eye.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, she told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: “I was on a shoot actually and I had the fans saying ‘Ekin, your man’s been seen with two girls’ and I immediately text Davide asking what was going on. I called him and we spoke and I know from the club that he went to there was a bunch of people there too but there was only a limited number of cabs. You’re in the public eye but it wasn’t just Davide and these two girls. There was a group of them and it’s nice the fans are sticking up but the relationship is always private and only you know the truth. That’s it. You just have to block it out. Even in real life, if you’re not in the public eye. Like ‘Oh she’s flirting with her boss.’ You just have to cut it all out and be you.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chloe Madeley is “happier than she has ever been” after becoming a mother.
The 35-year-old star – who is the daughter of former ‘This Morning’ stars Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan – welcomed daughter Bodhi with husband James Haskell, 37, towards the end of August and feels as if she has “hit the jackpot” with the new arrival.
She said: “I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my whole life. I don’t feel like I’m swimming through a sea of exhaustion yet, although I hear that hits in week two. I just feel like we’ve hit the jackpot. As soon as I saw her, she just looked like this beautiful, healthy baby girl, and that’s all I cared about. I get a bit emotional!”
The former ‘Dancing on Ice’ contestant went on to explain that she is staying with her parents at the moment and that the daytime TV legends have been enjoying “hour-long cuddles” with their new granddaughter.
She said: “Dad’s been scooping Bodhi up and taking her upstairs in the mornings to my mum so she can have an hour-long cuddle, just them two, which I think is the sweetest thing in the world. They’re really besotted and I’m so grateful we’re staying with my parents during this time, it’s just been so lovely.”
Meanwhile, former rugby union player James – who tied the knot with Chloe back in 2018 – explained that he is “besotted” with the little one and wants to “protect” his daughter at all costs as he heaped praise upon his wife for dealing with childbirth.
In the joint interview, he told OK! Magazine: “I cried like a baby when she came out. Obviously, I love my wife very much but I didn’t know love like this. I just want to protect her at all costs and make sure she’s OK, and make sure Chloe’s OK, too. Chloe’s been through a pretty traumatic thing – you know, getting her body cut open – but she’s taken to it like an absolute pro, which is unbelievable really.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Mary Berry says her husband falls asleep whilst watching her series.
The former ‘Great British Bake Off’ star, 87 – who’s been married to Paul Hunnings for over five decades, since tying the knot in 1966, says being a household name doesn’t matter to her partner who tends to doze off whenever she appears on the telly.
Mary, 87, told the Mirror: “My family watch my series but my husband usually falls asleep during them.
“Interestingly, he doesn’t when it’s rugby or cricket.”
She added: “But I do have tremendous support from Paul. I’ll say, ‘I’ve got another series’ and he’ll say, ‘You enjoy what you do, so off you go and I’ll be here when you get back.’
“When I’m away, I leave things for him to eat, though, because he’s not a cook and he’ll end up just opening the cornflake packet,” she adds with a laugh. “When I come back, he’ll say ‘I’ve missed you’, which of course is very comforting, and he always has a nice glass of chilled wine ready for me.”
Mary, who began her career in 1960s after being appointed cookery editor of Housewife magazine, has over 70 cookbooks under her name and numerous TV shows including ‘Mary Berry Everyday’, ‘Classic Mary Berry’ and ‘Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts’.
Despite breaking her hip over a year ago and taking a break, Mary shows no signs of slowing down as she returns to the screens this week with a new series called ‘Mary Berry – Cook Share’.
The six part series, which is set to return on Wednesday (07.09.22) at 8pm on BBC Two, will see Mary sharing her fuss free recipes that can be used on any occasion.
She added: “We are much more informal than we used to be – is everybody having smart dinner parties? Not really. We’re more casual these days and it’s all about sharing platters, so I thought that focusing on food you can eat together would be perfect,”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lord Alan Sugar is no longer working with an ‘The Apprentice’ winner, according to a source.
The 75-year-old tycoon is no longer working with Sarah Lynn – who became the BBC show’s first joint winner alongside James White in 2017 – after he invested in her candy store idea, Sarah’s Chic Sweets.
An insider told the Sun newspaper: This will have come as a huge blow for Sarah, though it shouldn’t have been too big a surprise for her.
“She joins a long line of entrepreneurs who won ‘The Apprentice’ only to find themselves splitting with Lord Sugar some time later.
“The situation is obviously likely to attract greater attention because she was the first joint winner on the Beeb show.”
Sarah is not the first partner that Alan has walked away from as according to documents, he no longer has “significant control” in Sian Gabbidon’s clothing business, Sian Marie Fashion’ after she won the 2018 series, securing a £250,000 slice of his pie.
Earlier this year, Harpreet Kaur became the latest winner of the show – following “an all-female final” after it took a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After her victory for her burgeoning bakery empire, the 30-year-old entrepreneur said: “I absolutely loved that it was an all-female final because I love empowering women. I hope that I can inspire many women that you need to follow your dreams, go and smash your goals, go and get them.
“But I also do feel that we need to sort of delete these titles out there in business, it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female.
“If you can set your eyes on something, and you’re going to make a success of yourself, go for it. It doesn’t really matter what gender you are.
“And I think, again, through the process, that’s what Lord Sugar is about, I don’t think it matters if you’re male or female, if he recognises that someone’s worth an investment, he will do that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gemma Atkinson wants to “help people reset” their health after summer.
The former ‘Hollyoaks’ star is teaming up with high street wellness store Holland and Barrett – who are launching Resetember, a month of deals – to help people get back into better habits after she herself as struggled “to get motivated” after an indulgent summer.
The 37-year-old star said: “In the past I have found myself stuck in a rut and struggling to get motivated, but I was fortunate to be able to take a step back to prioritise and reset my wellness, which has had an all-round positive impact. Knowing how great this can leave you feeling, I want to help people reset and find healthy habits that work for them this Resetember. Simply follow me and Holland and Barrett for daily tips, advice and motivation.”
The initiative with Gemma – who has three-year-old daughter Mia with her fiance Gorka Marquez – comes after research found 88 per cent of British people want to prioritise their wellbeing after “perhaps over-doing the summer celebrations” post the COVID-19 restrictions.
Dr Subashini M, the brand’s director of Science, Health Wellness said: “It’s been a particularly special last few months with Jubilee festivities, the return of live events and festivals, not to mention holiday fun, so we can be forgiven for perhaps over-doing the summer celebrations! We know people are going to be using September as a time to reset their health and wellness, and with our understanding of the resolutions people are making we have designed a month of nutritional advice, motivation and deals to help people get their wellness on track.”
The survey found that 37 per cent of people found creating routines helpful while 32 per cent of people relied on consistency to ensure they reach their goals. Relying on a support system was also a top method, with 28 per cent of people saying their family was the best and eight per cent opting for co-workers.
Holland and Barrett is offering deals throughout Resetember on select items as well as a daily tips to support people looking to reset their wellness this September: https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/healthy-lifestyle/

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