The Zimbabwean star married and has two children with a hotelier since Prince Harry dated an entrepreneur named Chelsy Davy for five years before ending their relationship in 2009.
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Chelsy Davy pictured laughing with Prince Harry in 2008, during their relationship(Image: AFP/Getty Images)
Prince Harry’s ex Chelsy Davy would “hated the Montecito madness” he now lives, an expert has today claimed.
The Duke of Sussex was in a relationship with the entrepreneur for five years between 2004 and 2009, until she ended things. He since quit royal duties for a new life in the US, opting to explore new ways to live his life and earn a trade.
However, Chelsy continued to pursue her original careers in the travel and jewelry industries and has since moved to Chiswick, west London. The 40-year-old woman explained this week that she and husband Sam Cutmore-Scott, a hotelier, are moving to an island in the Indian Ocean without the conspicuousness of a celebrity.
In the wake of this, friends have reflected on how different Chelsy’s life would be now had she gone the distance with the Duke of Sussex, and he taken her to the US with his new vision in 2020 rather than Meghan Markle. Royal expert Ingrid Seward has also shared her opinion. Ingrid, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, said: “She would have hated it all, especially the Montecito madness that is now Harry’s life.”
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Harry was “utterly head over heels for that girl,” according to Ingrid, a royal biographer, but Chelsy, a Zimbabwean star, ended it because she “had no ambition better herself” and married into The Firm.
But Meghan did, having reached that decision less than two years after dating the Duke of Sussex. It was she whom moved to Montecito, California, with Harry, 41, in 2020 after his bombshell statement that he would step back from royal responsibilities.
She (Chelsy) was aware that royal life wasn’t for her, as Cressida [Bonas, whom Harry dated from 2012 to 2014] did. She was perceptive of that from a young age.
“She wasn’t over-powered by ambition to better herself, or to marry into the Royal Family. At the end, she said to him: ‘There’s no way this is ever going to be my future.'”
And Chelsy met Sam several years after her relationship with the royal ended. Friends have told the Daily Mail the entrepreneur “has never been happier” as they prepare for their new life on the archipelago of Mauritius with their two children.
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It’s strange to consider how much of a parallel existence she would have had if Harry had stayed with her. But that was a very long time ago. One friend told the publication, “That break-up was probably the best thing that ever happened to her.”
The journalist and TV presenter Dame Esther Rantzen had a preconceived notion that she would “fall off [her] perch in weeks” when she was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer in January 2023.
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Dame Esther Rantzen has made a sad admission(Image: Getty Images)
Dame Esther Rantzen is celebrating Christmas early with family this year — in case she “doesn’t make” the real day.
The journalist and campaigner says she continues to astound herself at making milestones following her incurable lung cancer diagnosis nearly three years ago. The grandmother of five has been battling to legalise assisted dying since her bombshell news but there have been delays on the Assisted Dying Bill and, earlier this year, Dame Esther, 85, said she believes she won’t see it passed in her lifetime.
And now the veteran TV presenter, who founded the charity Childline in 1986, has arranged to have her Christmas early in the fear she might not be alive on December 25. She said: “This year I am planning an “official” Christmas with my children and five grandchildren, slightly ahead of the real Christmas so that there will be more chance that I am actually alive to enjoy it with them. Although I live alone, Rebecca (Dame Esther’s daughter) will come and decorate the house beautifully, as she has done every year with all my old baubles and bits of tinsel.”
Dame Esther said she didn’t expect to live for any more Christmases following her cancer diagnosis in January 2023. It quickly became Stage 4, and then her family told the press medication was no longer working as the mum of threewasn’t responding to it.
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But, even though the TV legend has celebrated two further Christmases, she is now fearful this will be her last — if she makes the next four weeks that is. In a candid interview with The Times, Dame Esther said: “When I was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2023, I did not expect to last until the next Christmas, so the fact that I am still here and looking forward to this one is a wonderful surprise.
I’m not currently receiving any treatment, which was my doctor’s choice because the negative effects outweigh the advantages. So, the cancers are progressing slowly, but slowly, as my most recent scan suggested. Scanxiety, an additional mental health issue that I never anticipated, is also a coincidence.
As the date draws near, my anxiety levels rise, and we cancer patients have referred to it as scanxiety because I have no idea what is actually happening inside my own body, but every scan, every three or four months, carries with it the possibility of bad news. “
The journalist, who in addition to Childline, founded The Silver Line to support older people, continues to campaign to legalise assisted dying. The Assisted Dying Bill was, in June, approved by MPs and is now with the House of Lords.
Dame Esther claimed that her battle gave her and thousands of other terminally ill people new hope. The grandmother, who is from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, continued, “When I started this journey, as they say on Strictly, I assumed that I would fall off my perch in weeks, not months, let alone years. I avoided anticipating any treats in the past, as I always have.
After her partner left I’m A Celebrity, Jessica Glynne spoke after she started dating Alex Scott, a former football player, since the summer of 2023. Get Me Out of This Situation
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Alex Scott and Jess Glynne, pictured in September, have been dating for more than two years(Image: Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Im)
Jess Glynne has revealed the heartbreaking reason why she didn’t join Alex Scott on the bridge after she left I’m A Celebrity.
She claimed that her mother needed urgent brain surgery because of a “major stroke”. Jess opened up, saying, “My woman may be leaving far earlier than she ever deserved, but I’m so unbelievably proud of her. She didn’t receive the airtime to demonstrate just how amazing she really is, and this is only the start.
I wanted to share something personal because I know people will ask me why I wasn’t there at the bridge’s end. My mother recently had a significant stroke that required urgent brain surgery. My family has been through a very difficult, life-changing time, and I’ve been forced to stay close. Alex would always prefer to take me where I’m most in need. I look forward to having her back by my side.
Alex was the first campmate evicted from I’m A Celebrity, though mystery had initially shrouded why her partner didn’t welcome the TV presenter. Ant and Dec announced the news after a phone vote, which insiders said was “incredibly close.”
It feels like you’re free, Alex said. Such a wonderful experience has been had. It’s been difficult mentally and physically. It’s difficult in there, she continued, “because you constantly get water and firewood.” ”
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During her time on the programme, the football broadcaster spoke openly about their relationship. When asked by campmate Ruby Wax about whether she’d tie the knot with Glynne, Scott replied: “I will get married to her, just waiting for her to ask, Rubes!
The former football player also discussed sneaking banned salt into camp, which she sprinkled on dinner after being removed from the house. I simply grabbed a few drops of salt and put them in my sock, Alex continued. My campmates were involved. And they still wished they had salt every day. “
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She also supported Shona McGarty in winning. She remarked, “It will change her and give me the confidence to do great things.” “Millions of people are expected to have cast their ballots,” according to Aitch and Angry Ginge fans in particular.
The insider continued, “This has been unprecedented, and one of the reasons why users have issues with the app. “
Following his split from wife Kate Dwyer, who he married in 2018, showbiz presenter Jeff Brazier, has had a difficult month.
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Freddy Brazier and Holly Swinbourn, pictured last month, have parted ways(Image: Adam Gerrard / Daily Mirror)
Freddy and Jeff Brazier’s feud has accelerated as the young man has turned to his gran Jackiey Budden for support, it is claimed.
Freddy, 21, has this month split with his pregnant girlfriend Holly Swinbourn despite recently gushing about how excited he was to become a father. It is believed he has sought support from Jackiey — mother of his tragic mum Jade Goody — as he adjust to being a single man again.
Photographs taken on Thursday show Freddy, who is a model, with the pensioner as they walked together around Bermondsey, southeast London. It is understood Freddy has moved in with his grandmother in her two-bedroom home in the area. The bonding comes in the wake of Jeff’s own emotional time as the TV presenter too has split with his partner Kate Dwyer, who he married in 2018.
However, it is believed that Jeff, 46, is unhappy that his son opted to move to Jackie’s house instead of his home in Harlow, Essex. “Jeff utterly detests the closeness of Jackiey and Freddy,” according to a source. Freddy isn’t interested in being with her. Jeff claims Jackiey makes his son’s trouble worse and that he is telling people about it. It’s a never-ending war.
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The father and son, though, were snapped this week embracing warmly at a Christmas lights switch on at a farm in West Sussex. Speaking after this event, a source conceded Freddy and Jeff have faced “an incredibly stressful year”.
It is thought Freddy finds Jackie good company to ease some of the pressures he faces. Speaking after his move to her London home, the insider told the Daily Mail: “While Freddy was with [his ex-girlfriend] Holly, he was living between Jackiey’s house and Jeff’s. But now he’s on his own he has gone back to his nan’s. He likes it there, he can chill out, smoke and talk about his mum. He sleeps in her old bedroom, it’s comforting for him.”
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Their relationship wasn’t so tight, however, as earlier this year Freddy had claimed his maternal grandmother got him “hooked” on drugs when he was just 12. The feisty pensioner quickly refuted these allegations, saying: “I’ve read all these things he’s said about me and I just can’t believe he’d say them. It just isn’t true at all – I can’t believe it.
Before he and I ever smoked together while we were traveling in Essex near Jeff’s house, Freddy said, “He had gotten into some bad crowds, but it wasn’t with me.
Westminster Abbey is hosting The Princess of Wales’ annual Christmas carol concert next week, and new information about the occasion has been made public.
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Brand new details about the Princess of Wales’s annual Christmas carol concert have been released – just days away from the big event.
Kate will preside over the Together at Christmas service at Westminster Abbey, now in its fifth year, on Friday (December 5). The event will bring together 1,600 guests to celebrate love in all its forms – whether within families, through friendships, across communities or kindness between strangers. A string of new musicians have been announced as performers at the event, with those being added to the stage including singer songwriter Katie Melua, Cornish folk group Fisherman’s Friends and rising star Griff.
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And for the first time this year, an illustrator will be sketching obscene scenes from the Abbey to record their unfolding.
The princess will be joined by husband Prince William, who will give a reading, and royal fans will be hoping their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis make an appearance alongside other members of the royal family.
Hannah Waddingham and Dan Smith, both members of the pop rock band Bastille, will also be performing on the roster.
The event will honor those who have volunteered or given their time to help others in their communities, organized initiatives that unite people in their communities, or offered a helping hand to those who are close to them.
During the event, readings linked to the theme of love, compassion and connection will be delivered by Hollywood stars Kate Winslet and Chiwetel Ejiofor, comic Babatunde Aleshe and rising actor Joe Locke, with the speakers accompanied by pianist Paul Gladstone Reid.
The service will also feature the stories of some of those invited, who are assisting in making a more caring and connected society, as well as candles lit by people William and Kate have met in recent years and others who have participated in it.
The Royal Horticultural Society will donate wreaths made by their ambassadors, including Dame Mary Berry, and schoolchildren, while horticulturist Jamie Butterworth’s festive display, based on the significance of nature in our lives, will be presented to them.
A “connection tree” will allow the congregation to include their names, illustrating the importance of genuine connection and the power of interdependence.
A brass ensemble of eight teenagers will play as guests arrive at the service, which Future Talent, the late Duchess of Kent, co-founded to support musically gifted children from low-income backgrounds.
Some 15 community carol services, held in places including the Coronation Street Visitor Centre, an arts centre in Newbury and a community farm in Gwent, are also set to take place across the UK with the same love and togetherness theme.
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Armagh, Berkshire, Derbyshire, Dumfries, Dyfed, East Riding, Gwent, Greater Manchester, Isle of Wight, Lanarkshire, Nottinghamshire, Renfrewshire & Ayrshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Worcestershire are the locations for the community services which are to be hosted by lord-lieutenants and supported by The Royal Foundation.
On Christmas Eve, the Westminster Abbey program will be broadcast on ITV1 and ITVX, and it will also be repeated on Christmas Day.
After struggling for 18 months after splitting from fellow telly presenter, Eamonn Holmes, the much-loved TV host is now seeing “light in her future.”
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In a wide ranging interview Ruth talks about divorce, a new book and how she is keeping fit these days(Image: David Venni/woman&home)
Ruth Langsford has admitted she encountered a dark period after her split from husband Eamonn Holmes, but has survived the ordeal and would one day be open to marrying again. The TV host, 65, has spoken out in-depth for the first time since she announced a split from Eamonn in May last year.
Ruth is now getting used to living alone after 14 years of being married, but she acknowledged that her experience has been difficult over the past 18 months and that she is still seeing a counselor to address any issues. Ruth says, “I definitely see light in the future where I didn’t before,” sounding resolute. What would have happened if I had seen the darkness and wondered, Oh my God, what would happen? ‘”.
Quoting the famous Gloria Gaynor song, she added: “But now the fear has gone, because what do you do? Do you crumble? Do you lay down and die? Oh no, not I. I will survive.” The Loose Women star and Eamonn announced their break-up last year, amidst reports they had been living separate lives for some time already. Since then, Ruth has kept a dignified silence but had to watch on as Eamonn began a new relationship with girlfriend Katie Alexander, whom he has regularly taken to events and on holiday.
Ruth insists she is willing to start dating herself in the future despite insisting she is still single. Never, she adds, “do not start a new relationship.” I’m not frightened of dating. I’ve never even been discouraged from getting married, but I’m definitely not looking at it any more, partly because I’ve come to terms with my own prowess. I have a lot of strength and independence. Although it took me a while to realize that, and I’m not sure what lies ahead, the chapter is already quite exciting. Not as terrifying as I anticipated.
Ruth, who shares son Jack, 23, with Eamonn, took time off work from fronting Loose Women when the split was first announced in May last year and returned in July. Sources at the time told the Mirror she had been left devastated by what had happened and how quickly Eamonn moved on. In an interview in January she also conceded it had been “very difficult” and “very painful” in the months that followed their separation.
Ruth said in a new interview with the home magazine woman& that she “started counseling when Eamonn and I separated, and I’m still having it.” It is extremely useful and powerful. It gives me methods for handling situations. My counsellor has probably seen us on television, but she isn’t familiar with either of us, so she doesn’t intervene or make a judgment.
A very long relationship’s end requires a lot of unraveling. Counseling assists in moving past it without being held back.
Ruth is now back working full time on Loose Women and other TV projects, but the ITV series is one of a number of daytime series which will see cost cutting measures next year. The move will see Loose Women air for 30 weeks of the year instead of 52. ITV have insisted the current panel will continue but like hundreds of staff Ruth is waiting to find out more details.
She says: “Television is an exciting job but if it stopped tomorrow, I’d do something else. It would be a shame, but I’ve had a great run so I’d go and work in a garden centre because I love gardening. I never feel settled because I’m self-employed. However, as I’ve got older, I try not to fret about it.
“Throughout my career, I’ve lost my job frequently due to a finished program, a new department head making changes, or the closure of the entire company. Everyone lost their jobs when I worked for Television South West, and we lost our franchise. You panic and believe you’ll never work again at the time. I’m still here, though. No matter what your job title, all I can say to young people who are losing their jobs or going through changes is, “This is difficult, but you will be okay.” Sadly, in most industries, nothing is the same, and we all have to adapt and move on. We persevere despite the difficulties.
Ruth currently works for ITV, runs her own clothing line for the QVC shopping channel, and is preparing to release an Autumn/Winter 2026 collection. Additionally, she will soon start writing. She has now started writing in pencil and has been speaking with a number of publishers since the Mirror made public in July.
She states, “My first book is coming out!” I’ve received numerous requests for doing one over the years, but I never chose the right time. The life lessons I’ve learned over the course of my 65 years, including those that are good, happy, bad, and sad, and how I’m feeling about starting anew at the age of 65 on my own, in a new chapter, are not autobiographies. I hope people will find it encouraging, entertaining, and humorous when it comes out in the first quarter of the year.
And on a lighter note, Ruth also told the magazine she does have one new love in her life – a new vigour for exercise and some classes to stay fit. She says: “My new love? Pilates. I’m hooked!” She adds: “I did it 23 years ago to help a really bad back following my pregnancy with Jack. Back then, it wasn’t so popular. A lot of dancers did it, but I had no clue!
I looked up the Pilates Foundation and chose a woman who, it turns out, resided just one street away as one of the three instructors. I did Pilates with her for a year, and it did help my back, but I eventually lost my mind. We’re currently working again after we recently reconnected with each other. I’m enjoying it to the point where I can’t help but wonder, “Have I just discovered my exercise thing?” It’s hard b****y work. I practice mat and reformer Pilates, and I recently purchased a small home reformer from QVC after it was neglected.
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“I’m now almost daily Pilatesers and feeling more powerful. My legs, waist, and core are all affected by it. Strength and movement are at the heart of the discussion. Children who lack coordination and core strength fall over. That is not who I want to be.
* December 4 is the sale date for the January issue of Woman&Home.
