Former TV presenter and 80s icon Anneka Rice turned down becoming a Bond girl because she didn’t want to play a mere love interest to the main character.
The Challenge Anneka star, 60, was on Lorraine earlier today where she spoke about bowing out of the spotlight at the height of her career.
‘I didn’t know it was to be a Bond girl,’ she said of the audition.
‘When they said the word “Bond girl”, I just went “I don’t really want to be a Bond girl”.
She added: ‘I was such a feminist, I don’t want to have sex with James Bond, sorry. I’m very happy to hang out of a helicopter and kill some people, have a gun, abseil down…’
Sounds like a great movie.
Although the Treasure Hunt presenter did admit to some regrets, adding: ‘Now I look back and think, “For god sake, you could have been a Bond girl.”’
Lorraine suggested she could still be one and Anneka called herself ‘Bond granny’ which has a certain ring to it.
Anneka stepped out of the spotlight in 1995 to focus raising her three young children and she joked about being her own agent – her alter-ego, Clemmy.
Lorraine explained: ‘For years and years, you didn’t have an agent but you did. It was you. Clemmy Hart was your agent, but you were Clemmy.’
Anneka added: ‘It was a way of keeping in touch with the world but not wanting to do the work because I was busy painting at that stage.’
Lorraine airs weekdays on ITV2 at 8.30am.
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Ryan Seacrest has recalled the time he blocked Kris Jenner’s toilet – and it sounds like all kinds of stress.
The 44-year-old is an executive producer of the famous families show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and once found himself in a spot of bother when using the momager’s loo.
While chatting on his talk show, Live with Kelly and Ryan, the star opened up on the incident and how he struggled to use his A-lister friend’s high-tech bathroom.
Explaining what went down, or didn’t in this case, Ryan laughed: ‘She’s got a bathroom in the entryway. It’s dark, there’s a black toilet.
‘So, I’m in there and the toilet, it’s like one of those electronic toilets, but it’s black, so you can’t see any of the buttons, and it’s dimly lit, and I can’t find the light switch, and there’s one candle lit.
‘I go to the bathroom and I use the toilet paper and put it in the thing and try to find the flush, and I can’t find the flush.’
Oh no!
Ryan described what was going through his mind at the time, adding: ‘Now what do I do? I can’t find the flush and someone is going to come in and use the toilet.’
Joking about how he thought the software the ‘messed up’ the star managed to activate the flush – but things only got worse.
‘So I flush it, and the water just builds – so I am watching the water level rise,’ he revealed.
‘I’m thinking to myself, “What do I do?’ Do I stick my hand in there? Do I tell, ‘Hey Khloe, don’t tell Kim and Kourtney, don’t tell Scott, but can you help me out over here?’ Or do I just tell Kris, ‘I think your toilet has got a problem?”‘
But, instead of fixing the problem, Ryan was ‘too embarrassed’ to tell anyone, and so he ‘just left it there.’
He smirked: ‘It could still be there. Keep this between us!’
Sharing a picture of herself and her BFF Ryan, Kris wished the star luck ahead of the event.
The 63-year-old wrote on Twitter: ‘Oscar Sunday wouldn’t be the same without you @ryanseacrest @giulianarancic!! Can’t WAIT to watch you on the Red Carpet tonight!!
‘I look forward to this night every year! I’m so proud of you!! #BFF #beautifulheart #E! #TheOscars #Oscars2018 #AcademyAwards #AcademyAwards2018.’
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Her husband of 13 years Dog, real name Duane Chapman, has spoken out following Beth’s passing, and said that he hopes there is a God so he can see his ‘honey’ again.
The 66-year-old told Hawaii News Now: ‘As Lazarus lay, Jesus said he’s not dead, he’s sleepeth. My final words are Beth isn’t dead, she’s sleeping.
‘I hope to god there is a God. I trained myself [to think] “What would Jesus do?” and I hope I’m not just talking to myself. I hope there is a God and if there is, I’m gonna see my honey again. That’s all we can do is hope.’
Dog said: ‘One of the last things she said [was] “It’s a test of my faith”. She had faith and that was it. There’s things you go through when you’re dying, like steps like you do when you lose someone, right? You get mad at them, and then you go through all these steps.
‘Well, the last step when you’re dying is to accept it. And she said to me the other day, “Honey, that last step, I ain’t taking…” So go Bethy.’
Dog The Bounty Hunter star Beth revealed in September 2017 that she had stage two cancer in September 2017, with A&E airing a two-hour special called Dog and Beth: Fight Of Their Lives documenting her health scare.
Months later, she announced she was cancer-free, but unfortunately, the cancer returned last year, leading her to have an emergency operation to remove a mass in her throat. Her health deteriorated after the surgery, and Beth later learned the cancer had spread to her lungs and was incurable.
In May, Beth told a congregation at The Source Church in Bradenton, Florida, that she had stopped her chemotherapy treatment and was putting her faith in God.
She said: ‘I don’t go to God and go, “Why did I get cancer?” He’ll roll his eyes at me again, because I know why — because this is the ultimate test of faith. It is the evidence of things hoped for and it is the substance of things not known.’
Saying chemo is ‘not my bag’, Beth continued: ‘So for me, this is the ultimate test of faith. This is my ultimate lesson. And it will either be taught to me or to you. And I am fine with taking the hit for everyone else. Because I think I know another guy who did the same thing.’
Dog met his wife in 1986 when Beth was 19 years old, and dated on and off for a decade, despite marrying others within that period.
They settled down together in 1995 and tied the knot on 20 May 2006, at a Hilton hotel in Waikoloa Village in Hawaii.
The couple have two children together, Bonnie and Garry, while Beth is also mum to Dominic and Cecily (the latter from her marriage to her first husband, a friend from high school) and Dog has 10 other children (two deceased) from previous relationships.
Beth was Dog’s fifth wife, after his marriages to La Fonda Sue Honeycutt, Anne M Tegnell, Lyssa Rae Brittain and Tawny Marie.
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The 29-year-old singer explained: ‘It absolutely kills me to say this – especially given what has happened in the past few weeks – but on the advice of my throat surgeon, I am going to have to cancel my next shows through until July 14th and I hope to be back as soon as possible after that.
‘I know many of my fans feel I let them down so badly when I pulled out of the Isle of Wight festival but the reason I knew I just wasn’t going to be able to make that performance has now been made clear to be by my doctor, Dr Zeitels.’
Jess went on to address the reports that she partied until around 7am with Spice Girls Mel B, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Mel C.
The Brit award-winning singer continued: ‘It is true that I went out and celebrated the end of the Spice tour. That was a massive high for me and I wanted to mark it with the women who’d become friends and mentors to me.
‘But I had also been suffering on and off for weeks with anxiety about my voice. It wasn’t right. I wasn’t sounding my best and I felt there was something wrong.’
Jess travelled to Boston this week to visit a surgeon who said that she needed to ‘urgently take a break’ if she ever wanted to perform again.
She is now expected to rest her voice for the next 10 days and will remain in ‘total silence’ to give her vocal chords a chance to recover.
The Rather Be singer continued: ‘Basically he told me I have been completely overdoing everything.
‘In the last six months I’ve performed almost 100 shows, I’ve pushed through at times when I know I’ve been tired and overstretched and I got to breaking point, my voice literally got to breaking point. The thing is I am my voice. If my voice goes, I go.
‘I am so privileged to do what I do, I am so privileged to have fans out there who come and see me. But I never want to be less than 100 percent. I never want to give you less than 100 percent.
‘I am so devastated to be letting anyone down but I want you to know the full truth of my situation so you understand why I have to do this.
‘All I know is I have to go away, look after my voice and come back stronger, better and be the performer my fans truly deserve.’
TRNSMT festival Director Geoff Ellis said: ‘We are very sorry to hear about Jess’ health issue which means she can no longer play at this year’s TRNSMT Festival.
‘She’s such a hard working artist and we fully understand why she’s had to make this regrettable decision. We wish Jess all the best and look forward to seeing her back in Scotland soon. We hope to announce her replacement at TRNSMT in the next few days.’
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Love Island’s Tom Walker clearly hasn’t learned not to mess with Maura Higgins as she unleashes hell on him for slating her behind her back.
The Irish lass takes no prisoners after finding out that despite sharing night time snogs and coupling up with her, Tom has been slating her behaviour to the boys.
After discovering the truth, Maura’s had enough, and in a preview clip for tonight’s show we see her confront him.
‘I’m an attention seeker and I’m cringey, and I’m OTT?,’ she quizzed him in the middle of the garden, right in front of everyone else.
‘How dare you say those things about me!,’ Maura slams him, despite his protests. ‘You’re a bare-faced liar and a coward.
‘You know what else? You’re playing a game.’
She then walks away victorious and honestly we cannot love her more if we tried.
Maura and Tom’s relationship has never really got off the ground after Tom has been caught repeatedly talking down about her to the boys.
Most famously, she told him to ‘go f*** himself’ after winning a chance for a romantic and ‘frisky’ night away from the others in the Hideaway.
Choosing Tom, she immediately changed her mind after overhearing him brag to the boys about their potential night, telling them: ‘It’ll be interesting to hear if she’s all mouth or not.’
And just like that, Maura delivered a lesson in why just because a woman likes sex and is open about it – doesn’t mean you’re entitled to it.
Seems he still needs a lesson or two in being a gentleman.
Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
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Jeremy Renner may be part of the team that defeated Thanos, but he’s just as comfortable in a recording studio as he is confronting the Mad Titan.
The Avengers star has teased new music, but the reaction has been a tad mixed.
Jeremy, 48, shared a teaser of his upcoming album to Twitter, captioning the video: ‘Coming soon…’
In the clip, Renner is totally in the zone as he does some form of jazz scatting before seguing into the chorus of Heaven Don’t Have A Name, his 2018 collaboration with DJ Sam Feldt.
The clip then shows Jeremy belting out vocals in a room that has some sort of disco light set up to bounce off the walls, before he angrily plays the piano.
While many were impressed with Jeremy’s pipes, some weren’t as kind, with one person referring to the battle between Black Widow and Hawkeye to save the other and writing: ‘This is why it shoulda been Hawkeye.’
Jeremy is actually really serious about his music, with a picture of him performing used as his Twitter profile pic.
And on his official website, there’s even a section all about his music, reading: ‘Many people around the world recognize Jeremy’s passion for acting. However, few know that Jeremy’s first passion was music. He played drums in his high school band before ever considering a career in film. Jeremy has written and produced much of his own material featuring his skills on piano and guitar, as well as his vocals.
‘Jeremy has recently recorded an album (and hopefully will be releasing it soon!). In addition, he has written and recorded the entire soundtrack for the upcoming film Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, and released a single with Sam Feldt entitled “Heaven (Don’t Have a Name) in October 2018.
‘Jeremy has displayed his musical talents in multiple television shows and films, both as characters and as himself.’
The Oscar-nominated actor has showed off his vocal talents on a number of shows, including The View and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and has performed on stage with bands such as INXS and Steel Panther.
So we doubt he really cares about the critique of his album teaser.
After being absent for all of Avengers: Infinity War, Renner returned as Hawkeye/Clint Barton in Endgame and was one of the surviving OG Avengers after SPOILER ALERT the deaths of Natasha Romanoff and Tony Stark.
Currently, Renner is taking a break from the MCU, instead lending his voice to the animated comedy Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, in which he plays an Arctic fox.
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Dan is said to ‘ruthless’ and could have is sights set on Amy Hart, meanwhile Joanna, who dated England footballer Ben Chilwell last year, has reportedly made her ex ‘furious’ with her decision to go on Love Island.
A source told The Sun: ‘Ben has been left furious by her going on the show even though he dumped her at the end of last summer because he wanted to be single.
‘They had stayed good friends until when she told him she was going on Love Island.
‘She thought Ben was partying too much and he thought she was the right person at the wrong time.’
Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
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‘Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side.’
Beth, 51, was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii on Saturday, with Dog saying that he and his family were ‘humbly [asking] everyone to please pray for Beth’.
Her last tweet was on 22 June, when she playfully made fun of her husband for mowing the lawn, writing: ‘And that’s the fourth time this week he’s mowed the lawn.
‘What do you think? Does the man have something on his mind or he just forgot how many times he’s mowed the lawn #AskingForAFriend.’
In the wake of her death, here’s a look back at Beth’s and Dog’s complicated but ultimately enduring romance…
How did Beth Chapman and Dog the Bounty Hunter meet?
Dog and Beth’s love story is something even the most genius screenwriters probably couldn’t conjure up.
It involves murder, affairs and many kids, but at the heart of it all was their absolute devotion for one another, which ultimately kept bringing them back together.
The pair met in 1986 at a local police station in Denver after Beth was arrested for shoplifting.
She was 19 at the time and Dog, aged 34.
After a few years of an explosive relationship, that included fiery arguments, the couple split and Beth went on to marry Dog’s childhood best friend Keith Barmore, with whom she went on to have a daughter, Cecily.
Dog wasn’t exactly thrilled by the marriage and wrote in his 2008 book You Can Run But You Can’t Hide: ‘When I heard they got married, I got physically sick. Friends told me he was abusing her something awful.’
He described Keith as a ‘thief with a heroin habit’ and heard he was ‘abusing her something awful’.
Eventually, Beth and Keith split and she continued dating Dog on and off in the coming years despite his other marriages.
When did Beth Chapman and Dog the Bounty Hunter marry?
But in 2006, they finally made it official and married in 2006.
At this point, Beth was Dog’s fifth wife following his previous marriages to La Fonda Sue Honeycutt, Anne Tengell, Lyssa Rae Brittain and Tawny Marie.
However, what was supposed to be a joyous wedding ceremony in Hawaii was mired by tragedy.
The day before the wedding, Dog’s eldest daughter Barbara Katie, from his marriage to third wife Lyssa, died at the age of 23 in a car accident in Alaska.
Remarkably, Beth and Dog still went ahead with the wedding ceremony and informed their guests of Barbara’s death at the reception.
Beth Chapman and Dog the Bounty Hunter’s children
In total, Dog has 12 children while Beth had two from previous relationships before she married the TV star.
Beth’s son Dominic, whom she gave birth to aged 17, was taken into state custody before she met Dog.
In 2011, Beth and Dog were awarded temporary custody of Barbara’s nine-year-old son, who had been in the care of his father, after reports that the child was being physically abused.
Together, the couple have two children, Bonnie and Garry, while Beth is also mum to Cecily, the latter from her marriage to her first husband, a friend from high school.
Dog’s eldest child Christopher Michael Hecht was born of a relationship with Debbie White, while he had two sons, Duane Lee and Leland with La Fonda.
The former bail bondsman had three children, Zebediah, Wesley, and JR ‘James’, with Anne; Zebediah died shortly after birth. He is also father to Barbara, Tucker and Lyssa ‘Baby Lyssa’ Rae from his marriage to Lyssa – Barbara was killed in a car crash the day before her father married Beth.
Despite all the obstacles, Beth and Dog always stood by each other.
In one episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter, Beth told the camera of their complex relationship: ‘My husband is a sweet personality. The problem is when that Dog guy comes around. He’s nasty, he’s aggressive. He doesn’t have a wife.’
Dog replied: ‘How do you fight with a woman? We always lose. … This is just a high-energy job, and once in a while, there’ll be disagreements. But we’re family, and that’s what counts.’
The couple bravely sat down to discuss Beth’s ordeal in a two-hour special with A&E called Dog and Beth: Fight Of Their Lives.
Around the time the special aired, Dog told Daily Mail TV: ‘My baby has cancer and she is fighting like hell. I have cried a lot over this because Beth is my everything.
‘Despite all of the obstacles I have overcome, this is by far the biggest test of my life and mark my words, I will not let her die. She is my rock and my bodyguard. I will do everything I can to keep her here.’
Dog changed his lifestyle after Beth’s diagnosis and even quit smoking.
In an interview two years before she died, Beth was asked if she thought Dog would ‘fall apart without her’, she replied honestly: ‘Yes.’
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The singer had been working as the support act for the Spice Girls’ most recent tour.
She has now had to pull out of performing at TRNSMT festival, as well as various other shows.
Here is everything you need to know about why she cancelled and how you can get a refund on your tickets.
Why has Jess Glynne cancelled her tour dates?
Jess Glynne has had to cancel several performances after doctor’s orders to rest her vocal.
In a statement to fans, the 29-year-old said: ‘It absolutely kills me to say this – especially given what has happened in the past few weeks – but on the advice of my throat surgeon, I am going to have to cancel my next shows through until July 14th and I hope to be back as soon as possible after that.
‘I know many of my fans feel I let them down so badly when I pulled out of the Isle of Wight festival but the reason I knew I just wasn’t going to be able to make that performance has now been made clear to be by my doctor, Dr Zeitels.
‘I am so devastated to be letting anyone down but I want you to know the full truth of my situation so you understand why I have to do this. All I know is I have to go away, look after my voice and come back stronger, better and be the performer my fans truly deserve.’
The singer won’t be performing until at least the 14 July, but her return hasn’t been confirmed yet and is likely to depend on how her vocals recover.
TRNSMT director Geoff Ellis confirmed that an announcement for her replacement at the festival will be announced in the next few days.
How to get a refund for Jess Glyne tour
Fans who had tickets for recent Jess Glyne performances will likely be contacted by their ticket provider to arrange a refund.
If you are not contacted, then the best way to get a refund for a cancelled Jess Glyne event will be to contact the ticket seller.
If the gig is rescheduled then your ticket should usually be valid for the new date, but if you are not able to make the rescheduled date, then you should be entitled to a full refund.
Many of Jess Glynne’s recent tour tickets were sold through SongKick.co.uk, but some fans may have bought them from different websites such as Ticketmaster.
Elma Pazar has admitted she tried to lie about her age in a bid to seem more appealable to the Love Island bosses – but it massively failed.
The 26-year-old attempted to pretend that she was actually 23 because she was already used to pretending she was younger than she was.
Speaking on the Love Island: Morning After podcast, Elma admitted: ‘I lied about my age on Love Island.
‘I tell everyone I’m 23, it’s a real issue. I’m 26 but now everyone knows it because they said they couldn’t lie for me.’
Tom Walker is the oldest contestant on this year’s series so far, aged 29, while Molly-Mae Hague is the youngest at just 19.
However, it appears that age doesn’t necessarily equal wisdom in the case of Tom, who manages to completely blow things up with his couple-up partner Maura Higgins…again.
Following the now iconic moment she busted him to bragging to the boys that he’s ‘see if she’s all mouth or not’, he’s in the doghouse again.
Despite winning her over, picking her in the coupling up and even sharing some intimate moments in bed with her, Tom’s been telling the boys he finds her OTT and attention seeking.
But that still hasn’t stopped him a) not telling her he feels like that and b) continuing with their bedroom antics.
Not one to be made a fool out of, Maura is seen confronting him in the garden on tonight’s show.
On tonight’s episode, there’s due to be a double dumping as viewers at home got to vote on their favourite couple.
Those with the least votes had their place on the show threatened.
Could their lack of chemistry and Tom’s games cost them a spot on the show?
Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
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Game of Thrones alum Maisie Williams and her boyfriend Reuben Selby have been seen kicking back on Silhouette Island in the Seychelles as the actress took a break from filming her new movie, a thriller called The Owners.
According to his Instagram, Reuben, also 22, is the founder of The Contact Agency, which is a modeling agency, a co-founder of Cortex Creatives, a creative agency, platform and online magazine for creatives, and the communications director of Maisie’s social app Daisie.
His LinkedIn also states that he’s available on a freelance basis for ‘creative direction, brand consultancy and casting’.
The couple were first seen together back in February, when they were clocked holding hands in New York City.
Previously, Maisie was romantically linked to Ollie Jackson, co-founder of 100 Tons of Plastic – the two first got together in 2015.
No announcement was made as to their breakup, however the two have not appeared on each other’s social media since last year.
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For those people born and raised in Japan, kimono is a ceremonial dress worn on special occasions.
It marks milestones, such as Miyamairi (celebration of a baby’s first full month), Shichi-Go-San (celebration of children growing past the ages of seven, five and three years old), coming-of-age, university graduations, New Year’s Day, weddings and funerals.
Sometimes, kimono is passed down from mother to daughter as family heirlooms.
Kimono is in the very heart and soul of the Japanese people. Kimono is our pride and joy. Wearing it is an act of love and preserving our history and cultural heritage.
I used to live in a neighbourhood in Japan with four recycled kimono shops in close proximity and was used to seeing many senior citizens wear and love them. I could see someone who wears kimono daily, just by walking out of my door.
In summer, my friends and I dress each other in yukata, the casual kimono for summer, to enjoy local festivals.
To see the name of garment – which is so dear to our hearts – taken away and used to represent an entirely different, revealing form of clothing (underwear, no less) is unbearable.
While cultural appropriation is nothing new, this just shows how much ignorance there is around Asian culture.
When I was an international student at a US university, I was very shocked to find out how ignorant the average white American was of any Asian students they encountered.
‘Hello, I’m Kasumi. I am a journalism major. I was born in Japan and grew up in China.’
‘Oh, cool! So your dad is a samurai? Is your mom a geisha? I love Japan! I want to study abroad there one day so that I can become a hokage!!’
In US pop culture and social scenes, more Asian names have been co-opted and to represent something they are not.
People actually thought the kanzashi, a traditional hair decoration, are chopsticks. The grills we call teppanyaki somehow ended up being known as hibachi, whose literal meaning is ‘a bowl for housewarming fire.’
Fried meat stuffed in rice and wrapped in seaweed called the ‘Pikachu roll’. Ninjas with samurai swords are seen in the backdrop while Coldplay croons about a mysterious, beautiful ‘Princess of China.’
This is why I earnestly ask Kim Kardashian to reconsider her name choice. Her position gives her an unparalleled amount of influence on young women in the US and the rest of world.
With over 140 million followers on Instagram and more than 61 million followers on Twitter, she has the power to potentially redefine and dissociate the word kimono from its original meaning – a traditional garment of an island nation outside of the consciousness for many white girls.
I am afraid we may be the ones to be branded as cultural thieves, stealing the name of our own ethnic dress. Much like when fans of Kim’s husband thought it was Kanye that gave Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney a platform in the music industry after their FourFiveSeconds collaboration.
I don’t want the world to forget what kimono is. I don’t want the world to forget that we exist. I don’t want the world to once again erase us.
So Kim, please hear me out.
You and your lovely family are welcome to visit Japan and see for yourselves the loving care, hours of labor and meticulous craftsmanship that go into every piece of kimono. I invite you to put it on and feel its weight on your shoulders.
Jeremy Clarkson has returned to Vietnam for filming on The Grand Tour season four, but there’s no sign of a USA bike blasting Bruce Springsteen.
Filming on the fourth season kicked off earlier this month in Cambodia, reuniting Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May for a photo inspired by The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover.
Posting on his Instagram, Clarkson has since revealed filming has now jumped to Vietnam, writing: ‘Deep joy. Back in the ‘Nam.’
Its unclear whereabouts in Vietnam filming is taking place, but fans will be likely hoping for another bike adventure to match their classic Top Gear special from 2008.
The previous special saw the trio travel 1,000 miles across the country on motorbikes, starting in Ho Chi Minh City and finishing in a bar at Ha Long Bay in the north.
The whole journey took eight days, and famously saw them threatened with riding a bike emblazed in US flags blaring out Bruce Springsteen if their machines broke down.
Clarkson previously confirmed the fourth season of The Grand Tour will also film in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Singapore.
The new season will be entirely comprised of road trip specials, after deciding to drop the studio audience format from the show.
Stacey Dooley has mysteriously disappeared from the Glastonbury line-up this weekend.
The reigning Strictly Come Dancing champion was set to talk on the Free University of Glastonbury Stage this Sunday between 12:30pm and 1:30pm.
However, Stacey has disappeared from the line-up on Glasto’s website, to be replaced by BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq.
The 32-year-old was originally confirmed for the talk after The Park line-up announcement, when she was announced alongsid Brett Anderson, Tom Cox, Shaun Keaveny, Dr Alice Roberts and Chris Difford – all of which remain on this weekend’s line-up.
While Stacey has not addressed the cancellation – she has not been on social media since 16 June – some fans were rather disappointed when they discovered the schedule change.
One person tweeted: ‘Please tell me you are still speaking @GlastoFest – I’ll be heartbroken otherwise!!!’, while another wrote: ‘Are you at Glastonbury free university ?! Thought I saw you on the list but can’t anymore.’
The BBC documentary-maker has been in the headlines recently due to her relationship with Kevin Clifton.
The Glow Up host was dating personal trainer Sam throughout Strictly, but their three year relationship came to an end in March – and Sam later revealed that after their split, he discovered messages from Kevin reading ‘I love you’ on Stacey’s phone.
Sam told The Sun: ‘I was getting my stuff to leave. Stacey was in the loo. Her phone went and it was Kevin Clifton. I grabbed the phone and confronted her. She said she’d tell me everything I needed to know.’
He went on to say that Stacey told him she didn’t start ‘entertaining’ Kevin until they had split up.
‘I did fall for him but when we were done,’ Sam claims the presenter said. He replied: ‘I don’t hate you Stacey. I hate what you’ve done.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted reps for Dooley and Glastonbury for comment.
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‘I’m not going to stop talking to him or stop acting like I did before around him, because I think that’s not really fair,’ she tells them. ‘It’s not normal.
‘I don’t know if it’s him or her that’s come to this agreement. It’s weird to put an agreement on a friendship.’
Discussing her stance even further in the Beach Hut, Lucie explains: ‘The fact that there’s boundaries on the friendship now between me and Tommy just annoys me more so I feel like I just want to go and talk to him more now because that’s just how I am which is bad, but I think that’s just weird.’
Elsewhere in tonight’s episode, word gets out about Lucie’s feelings towards Tommy and the lads aren’t best pleased.
Revealing the antics, Curtis Pritchard tells them: ‘I have heard something through the grapevine, that somebody asked Lucie, “would you go there with Tommy, is that a complete closed door?” and she said “never say never”.’
Unimpressed by the bombshell, Danny Williams snaps: ‘In my opinion, that’s disrespectful. Whether you feel it or not, keep that to yourself.’
The model, who came under fire for coupling up with Arabella Chi, continues: ‘I would actually be quite disappointed if that was the case.
‘The impression I got was the next person she would be open to is someone that comes in that was 100% her type, and is very compatible with her.
‘I was under the impression that’s the only reason she was still here. Now after that comment, is she just waiting on the sidelines for something to go wrong?’
Are things about to get ugly?
Love Island airs tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
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Piers Morgan has raged about the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle for ‘behaving like a Kardashian’.
Piers criticised the Duchess over her relationship with her father Thomas Markle, who he interviewed on Good Morning Britain.
Asked on LBC whether he felt ‘any sort of guilt at all with the breakdown of that relationship’, defiant Piers said he felt ‘none whatsoever’.
He went on: ‘I feel very sorry for Thomas Markle. I had a bad experience with Meghan Markle, I’ve talked about it a lot.
‘I just think she’s a, I’m afraid, she’s a bit of work, drops people as soon she gets someone more important in her life and it’s just my experience.’
The outspoken host said ‘the way she treats her family’ is ‘not a good look’.
‘There are a lot of worrying signs,’ Piers said.
‘Not least doing up their house, £2.5m cost to the taxpayer. That’s the behaviour of a Kardashian, not somebody who married into the Royal family so they’ve got to be careful.’
He was also adamant that he would not meet up with Meghan even if she reached out to him.
‘I loved Suits, got to know her and the other guy on suits, he came on Good Morning Britain, Rick Hoffman who played Louis Littman on Suits, he dumped me like a sack of spuds too, at her behest, the moment she meets Harry.
‘I put her in the cab to meet Harry, never heard from her again, she met somebody more important and that was it, gone, bang, ghosted.’
The Good Morning Britain star has frequently called on Meghan to tell explain why she ‘ghosted’ him all those years ago.
‘I thought it was all a bit pathetic, really. It was a bit of a warning sign because she does it to everyone,’ he told Heat.
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The 39-year-old famously dated the boyband member briefly in 2011 when she was 31 and he was just 17.
The Love Island presenter gets a grilling from pal Keith Lemon on his show, Shopping With Keith Lemon, tonight, as he presses her about her former flame, asking: ‘Did you go out with him or was that just nonsense picture?’
Keith teased: ‘Oh right then, that says enough things. ‘Cos I remember when you were on Juice, I think you were worried I was gonna’ slate you for it, but I said my biggest concern was bonfire night’s going to be really rubbish, because he’s not old enough to get sparklers, which was true.
‘Because he was at an age where he couldn’t have a drink, what did you do, just go bowling?’
When she doesn’t give in, he asks her if she can’t remember to more coy shrugs.
‘It’s a great answer,’ he joked.
Elsewhere on the episode, the subject of plastic surgery and photo editing comes up, with Caroline admitting to feeling guilty after posting an edited photo to Instagram before.
‘You know, I’ll tell you the one thing I do feel strongly about is Instagram, when people alter their pictures,’ she said.
‘Everyone’s starting to get, like, the same face on Instagram because of these Facetune things.
‘I will admit, I’m going to admit it, I have used Facetune once. You can alter the shape of your body, you can colour in your skin, or get rid of a spot, things like that.
‘And I used it once when I was on the beach and I had like a, fat back so I got rid of my back t**s, and it got so many likes and I felt so guilty.’
Shopping With Keith Lemon airs tonight at 10pm on ITV2.
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Like the rest of the planet, Ben Platt is a huge fan of Beyonce but he was stunned to learn that the superstar is also a fan of his.
The 25-year-old actor had the pleasure of meeting Queen Bey backstage at his Broadway show, Dear Evan Hansen, in 2017 and it was the stuff dreams are made of.
Ben knew the Formation singer would be visiting him backstage but nothing can really prepare you for meeting music royalty.
‘I knew she was coming from the morning so I had prepped in my mind what I wanted to say,’ Ben told Metro.co.uk.
‘And I knew I wouldn’t get it all out because I would be too nervous but, I did get some semblance of it out which was to tell her she’s not of this Earth and that she’s very inspiring as a live performer to me.’
Sounds about right.
Ben is in complete awe of Beyonce, 37, for her work ethic and no-holds-barred attitude on stage – the extent of which we all witnessed in the critically-acclaimed Netflix documentary, Homecoming, following her journey to headlining Coachella.
The Pitch Perfect actor said: ‘In the sense that she always keeps physically fit and always gives all of herself and never makes the audience feel like she’s holding anything back.
‘There’s a lot of disinterest and apathy that’s become the cool thing in music and I think she’s raging fire against that because she’s all about putting in the effort and showing how powerful it is to be commanding and aggressive.
‘I just find her very inspiring.’
But perhaps Ben and Bey have more in common now than they first thought.
After a two-year stint as the title character in Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen, Ben took a break from the stage to release his debut studio album, Sing To Me Instead, in March.
And understandably, it was a shock to the system being able to tell his own stories for a change.
‘Once it was out I felt an immediate release and the response to it,’ he explained.
‘But going into it, it’s really uncharted territory, I put a lot of time and energy into acting since I was eight years old. It scared me to then open up a new page and work on something that you haven’t.
‘I’m really happy to open up and show my authentic self because that’s the one thing that I really haven’t been able to do playing other characters so it was definitely worth the risk.’
He added: ‘It allowed me to process things in a way that acting hasn’t really afforded me.’
Ben is openly gay and he doesn’t shy away from using male pronouns or speaking about his past experiences of relationships with other men.
But Sing To Me Instead shouldn’t be considered him ‘coming out’ as a gay man.
He explained: ‘I think to me it was me coming out as Ben Platt rather than as a queer person. I’ve never really shared things from my own emotions, experience or opinion because they’ve never been relevant to the work I’ve been doing.
‘So I think sharing those in a macro sense was what felt like a big hurdle.’
He added: ‘The queerness of it was sort of a by-product of the experiences I happened to have. It was an inevitable not an active thought – more like, if I’m going to be transparent, I’m going to be transparent.’
Ben Platt’s debut album, Sing To Me Instead, is available to buy now.
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Madonna has spoken out to defend her new music video for God Control which has explicit scenes of a nightclub shooting that left survivors of the Pulse shooting ‘traumatised’.
The track, which comes from her latest Madame X album cover, depicts someone opening fire with a machine gun in a brightly coloured disco.
The singer later defended the video choice, seeing it as a call to action for those in charge to take notice.
She told People: ‘Seeing the reality, and the brutality of things makes you wake up. This is really happening. This is what it looks like.
‘Does it make you feel bad? Good, ’cause then maybe you will do something about it.’
God Control’s video has drawn comparison to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people died and a further 53 were injured by a shooter with access to semi-automatic guns.
The video, which was released on Wednesday, opens with a violence warning that reads: ‘The story you are about to see is very disturbing. It shows graphic scenes of gun violence.
‘But it’s happening every day. And it has to stop.’
What follows is an eight-minute mini-video where party-goers are seen laying lifeless and covered in blood on the dancefloor.
She explained: ‘As a survivor of gun violence it was really hard to watch.
‘I get that she was trying to bring awareness to gun control but I don’t think that was the right way to go about doing it.
Brandon Wolf, another survivor of the attack, later reached out to her on Twitter and said: ‘Appreciate the message but please remember that there are people behind the prop you’re using.’
However, others have praised her bold choice to draw attention to the need for gun control.
George Takei, who launched 1Pulse4America in the wake of the shooting, said: ‘Thank you @Madonna for supporting @1Pulse4America.
1Pulse4America was among a number of named LGBT, Gun violence and memorial charities Madonna encouraged her following to support.
She also named: Everytown for Gun Safety; A March For Our Lives; Gays Against Guns; Sandy Hook Promise; Human Rights Campaign; Task Force; National Center for Transgender Equality; National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; States United to Prevent Gun Violence and the Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
She added: ‘Wake up and insist on common-sense gun safety legislation. Innocent lives depend on it.’
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Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are gearing up for their second wedding ceremony in the past two months (how the other half live) this weekend, and the couple have been spotted in Avignon, France.
Sophie and Joe were snapped leaving their hotel near the town of Avignon, where the wedding is rumoured to be taking place, with the Game of Thrones actress already wearing an all-white outfit.
We’d probably want to practice keeping a head-to-toe white ensemble clean before rocking a wedding dress, too, to be fair. One person who has so far been noticeably absent from the pre-wedding celebrations is Sophie’s co-star and BFF, Maisie Williams.
Rest assured, the besties haven’t fallen out – Maisie is just in the middle of filming in the UK and is likely to be one of the last to arrive in the Côte d’Azur for the big day.
Joe and Sophie are technically already hitched, having tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony after the Billboard Music Awards in May, in front of a host of celebs they dragged along after the awards.
They’ve kept the details of their main wedding ceremony strictly under wraps so far – even though TV’s Dr Phil did totally give away the date in a comment on their Instagram post – but there will surely be a lot of famous faces on the guestlist.
As well as Nick and Priyanka, Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle and Dr Phil, apparently, the couple are likely to have some of Sophie’s GOT cast mates at the ceremony too.
Diplo – who live streamed the Vegas wedding for them – could also be invited, and Wilmer Valderrama has also been spotted in France with the couple this week.
Joe’s DNCE bandmates are also posting stories from the French capital, so they’re pretty much a given, and Bruno Mars has been rumoured to be performing after the ceremony.
We’re still waiting for our invite in the post – there’s still time to book the Eurostar and make it!
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