OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Only Fools and Horses’ actress Sue Holderness feels a complete “plonker” after thinking UBER in Spain had charged her credit card €5,999.
The 72-year-old actress – who played Boycie’s wife Marlene Boyce in the beloved sitcom opposite Sir David Jason as Del Boy and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter – was left shocked after checking her account and seeing ‘thousands’ being debited from her MasterCard.
But after contacting UBER to complain, Marlene was left feeling like a 42-carat plonker when a representative for the taxi company told her the fee was actually the equivalent of £6.
She posted on Twitter: “#UBER. I have just received an email from UBER in Spain telling me that €5,999 has been taken out of my account (using my Mastercard details). I’ve stopped that card (nightmare!) and have no help from Uber in getting this money back.
“Confession. I’m a prat. Spanish Uber are taking CLP 5,990 out of my account not €5,990! That seems to be less than £6. I’m mean they shouldn’t have taken anything but that’s rather less alarming than €5,990. So sorry-very grateful for all your help.
“I think ‘plonker’ describes me perfectly … Mind you I still don’t know why SPANISH UBER are taking ANY money from my account!”
Sue will forever be associated with her alter ego Marlene and her on-screen husband Boycie, played by John Challis.
Sadly, John passed away in September 2021 at the age of 79 from cancer, and Sue recently admitted that she is still struggling to accept that he is gone.
She said: “Double acts you often hear hate each other, John and I became very good friends from the very beginning.
“His wife and my husband, the four of us would go on holiday together, we saw each other regularly. I still speak to Carol every day.
“It’s very difficult for me to say that I have really gone through the grieving process because I haven’t, I still don’t believe he is gone.
“He feels very much that he is still with us and of course he will be with us, he will be in our lives forever because of the wonderful Boycie that he created.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — AJ Odudu is to present four new TV shows following her stint on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 34-year-old presenter was one of the most popular contestants on last year’s ‘Strictly’ and she got to the final of the BBC ballroom competition with her professional partner Kai Widdrington but she had to pull out the day before due to an injury to her right ankle.
Her popularity on the show has led to her landing a host of top jobs.
AJ, who is already presenting Channel 4 reality series ‘The Bridge’, will also be fronting ‘The Big Blow Out’ on E4 and Channel 4’s ‘Married At First Sight’, with both set to air later this year. She will also be appearing in BBC’s ‘Picture Slam’ which is currently in production.
An insider told The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column: “She was always going to go on to bigger things after her profile soared on ‘Strictly’, but nobody would have expected her to get so much work so quickly.
“It seems there was something of a scramble to sign AJ up for shows after she became a viewer favourite on the last series of ‘Strictly’.
“As is often the case with the show, it isn’t always the person who takes home the glitterball trophy who gets the most job offers afterwards.”
AJ has also appeared on shows such as ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’, ‘Cooking With The Stars’ and ‘The Chase’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nancy Dell’Olio has signed up for ‘Celebrity MasterChef’.
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ contestant – and ex-girlfriend of former England football manager Sven Goran-Eriksson – is said to have joined the line-up for the star-studded BBC cooking competition, according to the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column.
That is despite the 60-year-old lawyer once admitting she “doesn’t enjoy cooking much”.
She previously said: “I’m not a great cook. I don’t enjoy cooking too much.
“Every time I go on a date men assume I can cook, being Italian. I love food, but it doesn’t mean I enjoy cooking.”
Nancy has also previously claimed that culinary pursuits are “a very good way to entertain” a potential lover, but insisted people can’t rely on it totally.
She said: “Food is a very good way to entertain a man but you cannot use only this.”
Other rumoured contestants who look set to cook for hosts John Torode and Gregg Wallace include Chuckle Brother Paul Chuckle, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ pro Katya Jones, TV presenter Lisa Snowdon, ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ contestant Kitty Scott-Claus, McFly’s Danny Jones, former ‘Coronation Street’ star Ryan Thomas, and ex-footballer Jimmy Bullard.
A ‘MasterChef’ spokeswoman told the publication: “We do not comment on speculation over the ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ line-up.”
Last year, Nancy she made a dig at the wives and girlfriends of the England team at the 2006 World Cup for “distracting the players”.
She said: “The press were not talking about the wives and girlfriends of any other of the teams. I suggested they have to be more careful but they just did whatever they wanted.
“I tried to warn some of them about their behaviour because they were distracting the players. The wives and girlfriends at Baden-Baden went too far and I think the federation changed some rules so it wouldn’t happen again.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Daisy May Cooper bought a ghostbusters kit after her cleaner claimed her house was haunted.
The ‘This Country’ star was told she had a head “highwayman” taking up residency in her house, so she went out to purchase a “spirit-detection” kit alongside an electromagnetic field detector.
Daisy, 35, revealed how her cleaner Debs sent her a text that claimed there was a “spirit” floating around in her bedroom.
According to her maid, Daisy lived on haunted grounds, as apparently there is a hangman’s tree in the area where hundreds of people have died, explaining why lots of spirits remain in the area.
Daisy, 35, said: “She says she’s a medium and gets possessed all the time. When she’s reaching for the Mr Muscle, she says things like: ‘Daisy, I don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a highwayman next to your door, he’s right behind you. He’s in my peripheral, and he’s doffing his cap to you.”
Following the advice, the comedian bought motion and heat sensors to try to find some hard evidence.
According to the Daily Star newspaper, Daisy wrote in her book ‘Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her’: “I have bought a s*** load of paraphernalia just in case – movement sensor, heat sensor, voice recorder, electromagnetic field detector.
“I definitely get this from my mum. I don’t know if it’s a curse or a blessing.”
Daisy is to star in a new six-part comedy thriller for the BBC, titled ‘Am I Being Unreasonable?’, which she has penned with Grantchester’s Seline Hizli.
She will also be appearing in BBC comedy ‘The Witchfinder’ alongside Tim Key.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ruth Langsford took home more than £2 million in 2021, according to financial records.
The ‘Loose Women’ anchor earnt £2,092,863 in 2021, according to tax records for her personal limited company Hey Ho Ltd, despite the 62-year-old star and her husband Eamonn Holmes, also 62, being replaced as the Friday presenters on ‘This Morning’, with Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond stepping into the couple’s shoes.
Ruth and Eamonn also used to co-host the show during school holidays in place of main presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column: “Ruth has had the last laugh here. She’s proven the talk wrong that she and Eamonn were pale and stale. Her pay from ITV might not be as high as Holly and Phil’s but her earning power outside of the show is vast.
“She has her gig on shopping channel QVC which is huge, plus her work on ‘Loose Women’.”
Ruth is also said to be in demand for commercial work.
The source added: “Now she is free to make even more shows for other channels. Plus she is always asked to sign up for commercial work and has appeared in adverts for everything from blood circulation boosters to bingo games.”
Ruth – who has competed on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ – was supportive of her husband Eamonn, the father of their son Jack, 19, recently relocating to the GB News, saying that he “can turn his hand to anything”.
On his ‘This Morning’ departure, Eamonn recently labelled ITV as “sly”.
Last weekend, he said: “They’re sly. They didn’t want to announce that I’d been dropped because it would adversely affect audience figures, so they made it look as if I’d walked away from them rather than the other way round.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Garraway says her good friend Ben Shephard was “concerned about [her] sanity” when she revealed plans to fly her husband Derek Draper to Mexico for a long COVID clinical trial.
The ‘Good Morning Britain’ presenter admitted it sounds “bonkers” because Derek – who still requires 24/7 care at home after his body was ravaged by coronavirus in 2020 – “flags” after 20 minutes in a wheelchair, and her co-host was worried about her.
She said: “That came at a really low point when I thought, ‘Oh god, this is not sustainable’. The system … I mean, I don’t believe that we can have 24-hour care forever, you know.
“There’s a point where money runs out and I was thinking, ‘This isn’t sustainable, there isn’t the structure there to help long-term, what are we actually going to do?’
“I can’t give up, I can’t give up on him, and I’ve been doing a lot of research on the following documentary of wonderful people who’ve contacted me and this particular doctor had dealt with people not as severe as Derek, but in the area. [He] offered us the chance to be a kind of test case.
“But [Derek] can sustain sitting in a wheelchair for maybe 20 minutes before he flags, so the thought of going 5,000 miles seemed properly bonkers. I think Ben Shephard was a little bit concerned about my sanity.”
However, Kate believes the trip has given Derek – who is due to return to Mexico next month – some “possibility of hope”.
Speaking on ‘This Morning’, she added: “But he [Ben] then got it. We sort of worked hard and funnily enough, I sort of thought that at the end of the journey, if nothing else comes from this, the fact that he’s [Derek’s] done this, I can already see has said something to himself about the possibility of hope.”
Kate spoke about Derek’s trip to Mexico this week on ITV documentary ‘Caring For Derek’, a follow-up to the couple’s National Television Award-winning film ‘Finding Derek’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Johannes Radebe wants to be Strictly Come Dancing’s “next Anton Du Beke”.
The pro dancer – who made history on the BBC show as half of the first-ever all-male pairing alongside ‘The Great British Bake Off’ winner John Whaite last year – wants to become part of the furniture on the programme, just like 55-year-old dancer-turned-judge Anton, who has appeared in every season of the show.
The 34-year-old dancer told the Metro newspaper he is “planning on being the next Anton”, adding that he will be on the show “for as long as they will have me”.
Being on ‘Strictly’ was Johannes’ dream for a while as during his first gig – dancing on cruises – he dreamt about how “wonderful” it would be to star on the show.
He said: “I watched ‘Strictly’ from a distance, and looking at the prospects of all these incredible professional dancers that were on the show.
“I just kept thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be that well-known and be able to to put on a show in a theatre where people would come and watch?’ ”
Dancing became something he wanted to do when he was a seven-year-old boy.
Johannes said: “I saw a couple demonstrate the waltz in [full] beautiful attire.
“But I think it’s when I saw this sequined jacket on the man, I just thought, ‘I want to wear those sparkles and I’ll do whatever it takes.’ ”
Johannes believes dance brought him “a lot of comfort and peace” after being a victim of homophobic bullying in his native South Africa.
He said: “I say that because you can imagine [what it’s like] growing up in a township as a gay boy. So dance felt like my refuge. That’s where I went to go and hide and that’s where I thrived.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Brendan O’Carroll thinks it’s a comedian’s “job” to “offend”.
The ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys creator believes people should switch off TV programmes or leave the cinema if they get upset by things comedians have said.
The 66-year-old star told the Daily Star newspaper: “It’s easy to understand that some people do get offended by things.
“But that is why there is a remote control for the TV and that is why the cinema door swings both ways. Personally, I feel if you are not offending somebody we are not doing our job.”
Tyler Perry – who has collaborated with Brendan on the Netflix special ‘A Madea Homecoming’ – wanted the meeting of their two characters, Agnes Brown and Madea, to make jokes at their differences.
Tyler said: “I wanted to make something that will make us laugh but also address serious subjects.”
Comedian Brendan has joked he feels “left out” about not getting “cancelled” yet.
He said: “I must admit I almost want to get cancelled because with all these other things going, I feel a bit left out.
“But if the BBC write their policy on what goes on TV based on what’s said on social media then the BBC have lost a sense of their own being.
“It’s the audience that makes the call – and the best device for cancelling something is the remote control.”
On Monday (21.02.22), Brendan came under fire on social media for comments made while the pair appeared on BBC One’s ‘The One Show’.
After being asked if the ‘Don’t Look Up’ star might feature on his sitcom, Brendan joked: “So far we haven’t had anyone of his colour in there so I don’t know if we could have him in.
“But you know what, I’d love that, but I think more importantly I’d love to do another movie with him.”
The 52-year-old comic laughed and responded: “Nobody my colour,” as Brendan pointed to his face.
Tyler added: “Time to change the world. Diversity rules, here we go.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Denise Van Outen has landed a role as a sexy nurse in an upcoming action comedy, alongside Ed Sheeran.
The 47-year-old actress – who split from her former fiance Eddie Boxshall in January – looks set to star in film ‘Sumotherhood’, which has been written by Adam Deacon.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “Denise has made sure she’s keeping busy since the split and is totally focused on the future.
“It’s been a tough few weeks but this role is just what she needs. Denise loves dressing up and being provocative, so in many ways it is the perfect role for her.”
Filming for ‘Sumotherhood’ is already underway in East London and is expected to wrap up by end of March.
The plot for the British action comedy is being kept under wraps, but it is also expected to feature Jennifer Saunders, ‘Shaun of the Dead’ star Peter Serafinowicz and Penny Dreadful’s Danny Sapani.
Other stars included in the line-up are global superstar Ed, comedian Kevin Bishop, model Leomie Anderson and ‘Four Lives’ actress Jaime Winstone.
Denise took to social media in January to announce she and Eddie had split.
She wrote: “Over the past couple of months, there has been much speculation regarding my relationship with Eddie.
“It saddens me to confirm that we are no longer a couple. I had to make the difficult decision not to continue in our relationship.
“I will always treasure the good times we spent together, and the memories made. We ask that you please respect our privacy at this time, especially for our children.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Death in Paradise’ will return for a new Christmas special this year.
The BBC have confirmed the show will be back for its second ever festive special, after the first – which aired last year – attracted an audience of more than 8.8 million.
Executive Producer Tim Key said: “We were overwhelmed with the fantastic response to our first Christmas special and delighted that we’ve been asked to take the viewers back to Saint Marie this Christmas.
“We can promise something very different this year, but still with all the ‘Death in Paradise’ fun, sparkle and intrigue that the viewers will expect.”
The feature-length special will go into production in spring this year with returning cast members Ralf Little – who plays DI Neville Parker in the drama series – Don Warrington, Elizabeth Bourgine, Tahj Miles, Shantol Jackson and Ginny Holder.
The show is filmed on the French Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe, and Ralf recently raised more than £25,000 to help stray dogs in the area to give back to the animal rescue charity SXM Paws.
It came after the death of his own pooch, Suzy, who he adopted along with another stray called Dora while filming the programme.
In an update on the fundraising page, the 42-year-old actor said: “Since joining the series in 2019, I’ve spent enough time in the Caribbean for it to feel like a second home.
“However, as animal lovers, it has been hard for us to turn a blind eye to the countless stray dogs on the islands’ streets.
“Of course, as we were about to take Dora and Suzy back to the US with us, we found out that there were hoops to jump through.
“With no clear guidelines available, it was through connecting with SXM Paws, an animal rescue group in St Maarten, that we ultimately were able to figure how to bring Dora and then Suzy home.
“Not only did the members of SXM Paws explain the steps we needed to take, but they actually executed many of the steps alongside us, readily helping with everything from driving Dora to her flight to the US and advising on how to get Suzy on a plane.
“When our little Suzy tragically passed away this year, we wanted to give back to this organisation.”
£25,734 has now been raised on the page at the time of writing.

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