The K-beauty buy loved by Meghan Markle for its glow-boosting results has been slashed by 20% in a limited time Boots offer
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Meghan Markle’s go-to plumping cream is now 20% off (Image: Netflix)
With the release of Meghan Markle’s Netflix show earlier this year, the Duchess set up a ShopMy page featuring a selection of her favourite fashion, beauty, and homeware products.
Although this page has since been updated, one beauty product that previously caught our eye was the Medicube Collagen Jelly Cream. Meghan always has a healthy-looking, radiant complexion, and this plumping cream appears to be the secret behind the glow.
And the best bit? The cream is currently reduced at Boots from £26 to £23.40, making it the perfect opportunity to stock up before Christmas or try out a new product.
The K-Beauty buy is packed with collagen for firmness, niacinamide to brighten and strengthen the skin barrier, and squalane for that long-lasting glow. It sinks in fast and leaves the skin looking immediately plump and refreshed.
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The jelly texture is a big part of the hype; it gives that dewy finish people rave about while also being gentle enough to work for pretty much every skin type. No wonder it’s one of Meghan’s go-to products.
Our beauty editor, Laura Mulley, tested out the cream for herself, saying, “It has a consistency unlike anything I’ve ever tried before: red, bouncy and surprisingly firm, like actual edible jelly, and comes with a little scoop to spoon it out with. I usually find gel moisturisers not hydrating enough for me, disappearing too quickly into my skin, but not this one – this had a really smoothing, plumping effect, and gave a genuine ‘glass skin’ look without the greasiness that sometimes comes with very dewy creams.”
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Another favourite moisturiser of Meghan’s, and one she’s shared her love of numerous times over the years, is Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream, priced at £67.
Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Dame Arlene Phillips has spoken about her own mortality and the one thing that would encourage her to explore assisted-dying in Switzerland
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Dame Arlene Phillips gave an honest interview about her late father
Strictly Come Dancing icon Dame Arlene Philips made a heartbreaking admission about her own death.
The popular dancer and choreographer, 82, was opening up about her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s when she considered how she herself would react to the cruel disease.
Speaking in the Weekend pullout of The Times, she said: “My friends and I talk about this a lot. I think if I had Alzheimer’s I’d like to go to Dignitas. So many people are against that, but it would be my decision. I don’t ever want my daughters to go through what I went through.”
Arlene, who is currently working on choreography for Footballers Wives: The Musical, recalled her painful memories of watching her dad Abraham’s decline before his death in 2000 at the age of 89.
Speaking about her late father, she continued: “It’s like watching a train going in a tunnel and by the time it gets out the other side it’s completely transformed.
“It’s crippling to have them stare at you with no sign of recognition. You think, ‘What about all the times you put your arms around me? When you talked to me? When you loved me reading to you?’ All gone but someone has to put food in your mouth to keep you alive.
“Dad always used to say to me, ‘When I get old, I want to be like an animal, to walk into the forest, lie down and go to sleep.’ But he couldn’t have that.”
Abraham, who used to work as a barber, started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s, which is the most common cause of dementia in the UK, when mum-of-two Arlene was in her early 40s and working on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express show.
She remembered bringing her father breakfast, lunch and dinner and how he sometimes refused to get dressed or believed his flat had been broken into.
The judge, who starred in Strictly from 2004 until 2008, later became an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society after his death.
Earlier this year, Arelne also spoke to the Guardian where she revealed dying was her greatest fear.
And when asked what her biggest disappointment has been, she answered: “Being let go from Strictly.”
She reflected about the BBC show earlier this year when speaking to Closer about the debate that rages annually – should the celebs be allowed to have prior dancing experience?
And giving her take, she said: ‘The thing is, and this is really important, it doesn’t mean because you are trained dancers, you are going to win. Think about Bill Bailey. Think about Ore Oduba… Stacey Dooley. So I wish people would get over it.”
She added: “Just enjoy what they do, they may win. Ellie [Leach] wasn’t the best dancer; she had dance training – not necessarily the best dancer. In the end, the public can fall in love with anyone, and they can rocket them to a win.
“So I think people should just relax. Yes, they’ve been trained, and Layton [Williams] didn’t win. He’s phenomenal, and together, they did things that have never been seen on Strictly anymore. They did come second; didn’t win.
Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan’s sister Darci died in October after mixing the drug, crystal MDMA, into her drink during a night out at Manchester’s Warehouse Project nightclub
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Holly Hagan details seeing her sister in hospital hours before her death(Image: hollyhaganblyth/Instagram)
Holly Hagan has revealed her harrowing final memories of her sister Darci as hospital staff fought to save her life.
The 33 year old Geordie Shore star’s sister Darci died at the age of 19 in October this year after an accidental drug overdose. Holly was devastated as she announced the death of her beloved sister on her social media.
Holly’s sister Darci Rose Gibson died 48 hours after taking crystal MDMA. Six weeks on from the tragedy, Holly has now spoken out about seeing her sister’s final hours as doctors fought to save her in hospital.
Recalling the harrowing moment she saw her sister in hospital after the accidental overdose, Holly tearfully said: “I opened the curtain, and I’ve never seen anything like that in my life and I hope no parent or no sibling ever has to see anything like that.
“She had tubes in her nose, in her mouth, she had bruises everywhere from where they had cannulas wherever they could put cannulas. Needles in her neck. She had blood pouring out of her nose, which they were continuously cleaning. She had blood pooling from her mouth.”
Holly added to the Daily Mail: “They actually taped her eyes down for us because her eyes… she looked dead. It was not a nice sight. There was machines covering the entire room – one of them helping her breathe, one of them on her heart, one of them on her kidneys – just trying their absolute best with all this technology to just keep her alive.”
Holly has also revealed the events which unfolded the night Holly’s sister went out with pals. The reality star explained her stepdad John had driven Darci and her best friend to Manchester for a night out – with Holly and her son Alpha-Jax planning to meet John and Darci the following day.
That night, Holly was woken to a ‘light knock’ on her door and saw she had 130 missed calls on her phone, in that moment her ‘heart dropped’. Holly revealed: “The first message I saw was in capital letters, saying, ‘We are with your sister, you need to get to Manchester Royal Infirmary right now, please call us back’, and that was at 2am. My whole body was in fight mode; I sat on the toilet shaking.”
Holly explained her sister Darci had taken crystal MDMA during the night out, something she had never taken before, and Darci was unaware of the drug’s deadly potential. Darci had previously experimented with drugs in the past, but had never taken MDMA in crystal form before.
Holly admits she now regrets not warning her sister to “please be careful” before her night out. Holly insisted Darci’s friends said she was “always so sensible”. The TV star revealed she doesn’t know ‘if there’s anything I could have done to change anything’.
She explained: “She’s in a dark club and being naïve and not realising how much a quantity is because she’s never taken a version of this drug before, she has poured it into her drink.
“Her friend said there was still a lot left but if you have seen that drug before you know it comes in powder and there are rocks in there as well. What happened is possibly the bigger rocks had gone into her drink, and it still looked like there was a lot left in the bag, but it was enough for it to be an overdose.”
Holly explained that after taking the drug, Darci felt unwell and vomited, but was ok to continue the night after being comforted by her boyfriend outside the club. However, 45 minutes later, Darci’s condition changed and she went into cardiac arrest, which saw medical staff at the nightclub rush to her aid in a bid to save Darci’s life.
She was rushed to Manchester Royal Infirmary in an ambulance, where, she suffered another cardiac arrest but was brought back with chest compressions. Darci’s heart was then beating out of rhythm and she was placed on dialysis because her kidneys had “completely packed up”.
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Despite doctors efforts, Darci underwent a brain scan and a series of tests, which confirmed she was ‘100 per cent braindead’. Holly explained: “We sat in the room, me, my mam, my stepdad, the neurologist, and two nurses, and he said that basically, the MDMA had heated her body so much that it caused her muscles to spasm, and it released sodium, potassium, and it basically poisoned her.
“With her body heating up so much, her brain was swelling tremendously, but they didn’t know how much until they did the scan. They said that the swelling was very extreme and they presumed there would be no signs of life when they did the tests.”
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Ruth Langsford shared details about her exchange with King Charles and Queen Camilla in her latest interview
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Ruth Langsford said she was ‘star-struck’ by the royal pair (Image: ITV)
Ruth Langsford has opened up about a personal chat she had with King Charles after he left her “star-struck”. The 65-year-old met the monarch and Queen Camilla in 2018 when they toured the ITV studios to mark the 90th anniversary of The Royal Television Society.
Known as Prince Charles at the time, he and Camilla mingled with the stars of ITV programmes and tucked into some food on the famous This Morning set. Reflecting on this time, Loose Women star Ruth revealed that the pair were keen to speak to her about Strictly Come Dancing.
Asked when she was last star-struck in an interview with Woman & Home Magazine, she said: “When I met King Charles – well, he was actually the Prince of Wales at the time.
“He and Camilla came for a tour of ITV, and spoke to me about Strictly and how much she loves the show.”
What’s more, although the monarch has often shown how much he enjoys dancing, he surprisingly claimed he wasn’t any good at it.
“He told me he couldn’t dance!,” Ruth revealed.
The trio’s encounter came a year after the former This Morning host danced in the competition with former professional dancer, turned judge, Anton Du Beke.
Recently reflecting on her time on the show, Ruth said she didn’t have enough time to dedicate to perfecting her dance routines.
The former contestant, who finished in ninth place, shared: “I’d be learning, and learning, and learning, and that would be the start, and then he’d show me the next section and he’d go, ‘right, from the top’ and I couldn’t remember it from the top.
“And Anton will back me up, because nobody believes me, I genuinely can say there was not one Saturday where I 100% knew my dance because I didn’t have enough time.
“I think there are people who maybe aren’t working, or that’s the sole thing they’re doing, but I was doing This Morning and Loose Women, so I never got to rehearsal till half past two in the afternoon, and you’re tired.”
She went on to tell The Mirror: “I wasn’t that person that did 10-12, hours of rehearsals a day because I couldn’t, and it was fine, and I just accepted that and I did what I could.”
Ruth isn’t the only former Strictly star to share a moment involving the royals.
This year’s contestant La Voix recently recently revealed details about what she witnessed at a royal party she was invited to perform at.
According to her, she saw the, now late, Queen Elizabeth II in a very different light when she showcased her dance moves.
She shared: “I’ve [performed] for the Royal Family for two years in a row. I did their New Year’s Eve party at the Dorchester for two years in a row for Prince William and Harry — it was their party and it was amazing.
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“Obviously there were loads of NDAs signed and things that I’m not allowed to talk about – I can’t give you too much – but I can say I’m one of the only people to have watched the Queen dance to Uptown Funk, Queen Liz.”
The Duke of Sussex went viral this week after making a surprise cameo on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Now a fan has revealed what it was like to watch the wild skit live
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Prince Harry has had a busy week dipping his toe into the glossy world of TV, following in the footsteps of his wife Meghan Markle. And now one fan who was in the crowd during his viral comedy sketch has revealed what it was really like to watch live.
The Duke of Sussex made a surprise cameo on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, performing in a toe-curling skit where he potrayed himself trying to land a gig as the “Christmas prince” in a Hallmark movie. Colbert probed Harry on why an actual prince would want to star in such a production, leading Harry to joke in response: “You Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you’re clearly obsessed with royalty, so why not?”
When the show host challenged him on whether Americans are really “obsessed” with the monarchy, cheeky Harry quipped back: “Really? I hear you elected a king.” The joke appeared to be a nod to the recent “No Kings” protests in the US, aimed at the Trump administration.
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Also alluding to CBS’ recent lawsuit settlement with the US president, the duke joked that he would “do anything” to land the Christmas film role, saying: “I’ll record a self-tape, I’ll fly myself to an audition, settle a baseless lawsuit with the White House – all the things you people in TV do.”
There’s famously no love lost between Trump and the Sussexes, with the Republican leader having taken aim at Meghan Markle on numerous occasions. He’s called her “nasty” in the past over her critical comments, something he denied – despite there being an audio recording. More recently, he said the duchess was “terrible” but said that he wouldn’t “deport” Harry.
As Harry’s astonishing skit with Colbert went viral on social media, one woman who was in the crowd as the Trump jokes unfolded has revealed her thoughts on the whole sketch. Cathy, a royal fan, commented on The Late Show’s official Instagram page to deliver her verdict.
The woman, who goes by @sunshine_cat8 on the platform, giddily wrote: “I was actually THERE!! I had no clue that Prince Harry was going to come out and do that. We were told Michael Shannon and Jesse Buckley. The audience went crazy. Let me tell you.”
Continuing her review of Harry’s new-found talent, she added: “It was a fantastic skit so funny and we were all shocked at the acting chops our Prince Harry had lol it was a great show”. Other fans replied to Cathy’s tell-all comment, with one writing “I’m so jealous lol” and another adding: “looks super fun”.
But it’s not gone down so well with other viewers. One royal expert believes Harry should be stripped of his titles to make it clear to the US public that his views and comments are his own, and do not reflect that stance taken by the Royal Family.
The prince’s comedic comments about Trump just months after the US leader and First Lady Melania flew to the UK for a whirlwind state visit, in which both Trump and King Charles spoke fondly about each other and the relationship between the two nations.
Tom Sykes, editor of the The Daily Beast’s Royalist newsletter, wrote: “I think the Royal Family has no real choice. Harry believes he’s free to speak his mind now that he’s no longer a working royal.
“I think if he were truly living as Harry Wales, a private citizen, that argument would hold water. But he isn’t Harry Wales. He’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. And in the American imagination, he still carries the full aura of a prince – a representative of the monarchy.”
The Duke of Sussex has been criticised for a recent TV appearance which pointed out the cruel irony of his comedy sketch and his current celebrity lifestyle in the US
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Prince Harry on the Stephen Colbert Show
Prince Harry has been slammed for a surprise recent TV appearance, which exposed the cruel irony between his awkward comedy skit and his current celebrity lifestyle in America. The Duke of Sussex made an unexpected appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in which he featured in a sketch portraying himself as he tried out to become a Hallmark film ” Christmas prince”.
The talk show host questioned why an actual prince would wish to star in such productions, leading Harry to respond: “You Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you’re clearly obsessed with royalty, so why not?”
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When Colbert challenged the notion of an American “obsession,” Harry wisecracked: “Really? I hear you elected a king,” in what appeared to be a nod to the “No Kings” demonstrations aimed at the Trump administration.
Harry has since received a wave of backlash for his brief appearance, with many wondering why the Duke opted to appear on the late night talk show in the first place. According to former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond, the appearance missed the mark entirely.
She told the Mirror : “I can’t for the life of me think why Harry chose to do this. What was in it for him? The result was an onslaught of criticism – for a rather stilted performance, for a political joke and for the timing (with his father in law in hospital and the State Banquet at Windsor).”
While some royal watchers found the joy in Harry’s skit, Jennie Bond believes there was a painful irony in the comedy sketch, in which the prince begged for a role in a fictional Christmas film.
She said: “I like Harry, and I rather admire the way he’s willing to laugh at himself, but this just seemed so unnecessary. It was also rather too painfully close to the truth: a Prince looking for a role and willing to do anything to secure one.”
With the TV appearance coming at the same time the Royal Family were hosting the German president for a historic state visit in Windsor, Jennie added: “The contrast between Harry larking around as a LA celebrity and the dignity of his family back home exercising their soft power at a glittering banquet was stark.”
Jennie’s comments were echoed by another royal expert, as Tom Sykes, editor of the Royalist newsletter on Substack, called for Harry to be stripped of his titles as a result of the TV appearance, to make it clear to the US public that his views and comments are his own, and do not reflect that stance taken by the Royal Family.
Harry’s comments about Trump just months after the US leader and First Lady travelled to the UK for a whirlwind state visit, in which both Trump and King Charles spoke fondly about each other and the relationship between the two nations.
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Jennie said that all in all, Harry’s appearance on the show was tone deaf, and he would be better off sticking to his other philanthropic efforts, instead of trying to pursue a career in showbusiness.
She said: “A bad choice, Harry: you are not an actor or a comedian. Stick to your charity work and campaigning on issues you care about. Or, indeed, just stick to being a great dad and husband – you seem to be wonderfully good at that.”
