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Things are a little awkward in jungle already as Kelly Brook made her grand entrance and was greeted by presenters Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly – and they have history!

Fans were quick to pick up on the tension between Kelly Brook and Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly as she entered I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!

Kelly and the presenting pair are said to have not got on ever since 2009, with the model reported to have held a grudge against the Geordie duo ever since. It has been claimed that Kelly thinks that Ant and Dec pushed for her to get the sack from Britain’s Got Talent – but it didn’t stop her signing up for a reunion.

Viewers were quick to notice the awkwardness as she made her entrance. Ant and Dec awkwardly failed to really acknowledge Kelly in episode one when she parachuted down to them on the beach. As she prepared to jump out of her helicopter, excited Kelly turned to the camera and shouted “Ant and Dec, I’m coming for you!”

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But ever the pros, it was a simple exchange of pleasantries after their history – and fans say they did little to put distance between the rumours. “Do people realise Kelly Brook & Ant and Dec have serious beef with each other? #ImACeleb.” one write.

“Just realised. Doesn’t Kelly Brook not like Ant and Dec after what happened at Britain’s Got Talent? #ImACeleb” said another, as a third person posted on X: “Kelly Brook, and Ant & Dec on the same show… Again! What could possibly go wrong?”

The issue all started when Kelly allegedly believed that the famous Newcastle born duo pushed her out of Britain’s Got Talent back in 2009. Kelly’s rift with the duo came about when she was part of the panel of Britain’s Got Talent, alongside Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan.

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And at the time , it was explained by Simon that the judging panel was not working and Kelly was replaced by Alesha Dixon. Kelly reportedly told The Sun at the time: “The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec, and that was it. I would love to have stayed on the show. I really felt it was working out. Ant and Dec had never been anything but pleasant to my face, but clearly, they didn’t want me on the show.”

A source told the Daily Mail : “Kelly might be all smiles, but underneath she is a tough, tough woman who doesn’t take well to being crossed. She doesn’t forget. It is going to make for great television. She thinks Ant and Dec sneered at her for being a Page 3 girl, they didn’t think she had any talent.

“She’s a down-to-earth working-class girl done good, and she hates snobby behaviour. Woe betide Ant and Dec. She’s already been telling journalists she can’t wait to see them again.”

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Ant and Dec have tried to clear the air with Kelly in the past. In their 2010 autobiography, Dec spoke about the feud, saying he didn’t understand why Kelly was hired as a fourth judge with Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan due to it usually being three.

She was let go from the show within a week as the format of four judges was seen as too complicated. However, it then went back to four judges.

Dec wrote in the memoir, Ooh! What A Lovely Pair: “Kelly looked nervous, so I told her it was going to be great fun and to just relax. “She nodded, then looked at me and said, ‘And what do you do on the show?’ I looked at Simon, who was sat next to me, he turned to Kelly and said, ‘Kelly, you have seen the show, haven’t you?’ To which she replied, ‘Yeah… well, bits.’

“I don’t want to sound like an egomaniac, but the last person who said, ‘And what do you do?’ was the Queen.” Kelly then replied to the book as she said that the sacking had impacted her future job opportunities.

Kelly said: “There was nothing I could do in this country after Britain’s Got Talent. The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec and that was it. I would love to have stayed on the show.”

Adam Peaty’s mother Caroline has spoken out after being allegedly banned from her son’s wedding to Holly Ramsay – and claims to have been left “broken” by recent events

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Caroline Peaty was looking forward to her youngest son’s wedding, but has now found herself on the blacklist. Over the weekend, Adam Peaty’s mum broke her silence after reports claimed she’d been excluded from her son’s Christmas wedding to Holly Ramsay.

Tensions are understood to have escalated following Holly’s recent hen party, to which Caroline allegedly wasn’t invited, while the guest list did include Victoria Beckham and Holly’s mum Tana, who is married to TV chef Gordon Ramsay.

In a heartbreaking interview, Caroline said that she “knows it’s the end” for her relationship with Adam, but said the door would always be open if he wants to come back to her. “The message I want Adam to hear is no matter what happens in the future, please know I love you, your dad loves you, you can come home and talk to me at any point,” she told the Daily Mail.

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“There’s nothing you’ve done that I would not forgive. I love you so much. I hope your marriage is a good one, I don’t wish any ill on you and I want you and Holly to have a long and happy marriage. The reason I’m speaking out is I want all this to end.”

Caroline also revealed she was at home caring for Adam’s son during the hen and stag celebrations. She added: “I was crying all the way home. I got home and told Mark that for the first time in my life, I felt I didn’t want to live. That’s how low this has made me. I’m a strong woman and I can get through anything, but this has broken me.”

Caroline alleged that the relationship began to deteriorate at the engagement party when her extended family weren’t invited. She said she had sent a polite message to Holly about it.

“But Adam didn’t take kindly to me sending that message,” she revealed. Caroline also claimed that Adam was unyielding and “nor will Holly”. She added that he “rarely says sorry” and “has a very black and white view”.

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However, Caroline has stated that she would attend the wedding if she received an invitation. But sharing her theory about why the rift continues, she claimed that her son is “in Gordon’s clutches” and believed the family were “pulling him away”. “He’s in Gordon’s clutches. I can’t help but feel like they are pulling him away from me. Their family is very insular,” she told the Daily Mail.

Caroline’s sister, Louise Williams, has publicly lambasted Holly in a social media post. She penned: “@hollyramsayy I’m so glad that you had a great hen do. As a bride, you deserve that. However, as a person you were divisive and hurtful towards a woman who I have loved and continue to love deeply. You have inflicted a hurt on my sister that will take a very long time to heal if ever.”

Now rumoured to be worth between £1million and £4million, Adam has previously spoken with pride about the sacrifices his nursery manager mum made for him to succeed.

“My mum worked on the other side of Stoke, I trained in Derby. That is a big journey,” Adam once told the Guardian.

“I would get up at 4am, my mum would drive me to the pool for 4.40am in Derby. She would wait for me for two hours, drive back, have some breakfast, then she would be in the house for 50 minutes, then work all day 8am to 5pm, God knows. Then come back to Derby, wait another two hours, collect me. She wouldn’t get home until 8pm or 10pm.”

However, the family’s financial struggles were never far from his mind. “You do feel on the back foot if you don’t come from a rich family or a family who are already involved in sport… You’re starting off at a massive disadvantage against those kinds of people,” he once said.

“As an amateur you’re up against people with money who can afford physio or therapists, and these kids turn up with all the kit. Not everyone is equal. But if anything, it made me more determined to make the most of what I did have and give 110 percent in training.”

Reflecting on his upbringing, he told the Guardian how his modest background fuelled his ambition. “That relationship with suffering has driven me since I was a kid. I am working class – but millions of people in this country are also working class. “They live paycheck to paycheck and can’t have luxury things.

I was in a larger family with two brothers and one sister, so you had to fight for what you had and because I was the youngest I always had hand-me-downs. “But that gives you an appreciation for the things you do have. I now really respect everything I have earned, such as my house. I’ve got a roof over my head, I can feed my family and enjoy the luxuries if I need them. Now, becoming a dad, I want to be the best role model possible to George to show him that if you want something, you get it by working hard. Don’t become lazy and ever think anything will be handed to you.

Shona McGarty’s ex fiance has spoken out on social media after the former EastEnders star entered the I’m A Celeb jungle

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I’m A Celebrity star Shona McGarty’s ex fiance David Bracken has broken his silence on social media silence as the soap star joined her fellow campmates in the IAC jungle. The Irish musician, 38, and Shona, 34, who rose to fame at 16 playing Whitney Dean on Albert Square, got engaged last year – but split a few weeks ago, just before the actress jetted off to Australia to take part in the jungle.

Despite their short engagement, it’s thought the pair parted on good terms – and David was keen to show his support for Shona, as she made her show debut parachuting into camp. Taking to his Instagram Stories, the guitarist shared a sweet picture of the former couple together, with the words: “Let’s go girl! You got this.”

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It emerged just a few weeks ago that Shona and David had called it a day on their whirlwind romance – but there were no hard feelings. A source at the time claimed, “They are on amicable terms, but have ended their romantic relationship. “There are no hard feelings, they realised they wanted different things and are better off as friends. Shona is now focusing on her music and career.”

Shona and David, who lives in Ireland, met two years ago on TikTok two years ago and the former Blessed band member proposed during a romantic picnic in Kensington, West London.

Gushing about the romantic moment at the time during an exclusive interview with OK!, Shona said, “David took me to this beautiful Japanese garden because I love Japanese culture and the spirituality of it. “He brought a picnic, which was really sweet. It was lovely, I was in my element but I didn’t think he was going to propose.”

She also discussed their future wedding, saying:“We want to get married in Ireland because I have so much family there, as does David. We’re thinking West Cork, it’s so beautiful and picturesque. We’re both Catholic, so we’d want to get married in a Catholic church and a lot of the churches there are amazing.”

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Before meeting David, Shona – who wowed critics and audiences alike last year playing Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story – had dated EastEnders co-stars Max Bowden, 30, who played Ben Mitchell, and Matt Lapinskas, 36.

Now, as the show begins in earnest she’s facing one of her biggest fears alongside fellow celebs such as Ruby Wax, Kelly Brook and Martin Kemp.

Shona told the Mirror from Australia before entering camp, “My mental health, my anxiety and my depression has been pretty bad over the last at least four or five years, and that has stopped me from doing a lot of things I have always wanted to,.I have kind of come to a point in my life where I do not want to let the anxiety win.”

She added, ““I mean, even talking to you now, I am very nervous, but it is just something I want to do to challenge myself and to kind of prove to myself that I am bigger than this anxiety.”

The man who grabbed Wicked star Ariana Grande at the film’s premiere in Singapore has been sentenced to prison.

Johnson Wen, 26, was quickly identified and has pleaded guilty to one charge of being a public nuisance. Now he has been given nine days’ jail time after jumping the barricade and ambushing the singer.

The 32-year-old mega-star was greeting fans from the yellow carpet event – in a nod to Oz – when a man suddenly ran towards her and put his arm around her shoulders. This prompted her co-star Cynthia Erivo, 38, to leap into action and push the man away from a clearly bewildered Ariana.

A court in south east Asia heard that the man had arrived in Singapore on November 11 on a social visit pass so he could attend the premiere. He has recently pulled similar stunts with a shocked Katy Perry who kept her cool but pulled away from him as he suddenly joined her on stage during a gig in Sydney in June.

In a clip of the incident, Cynthia, who plays Elphaba to Ariana’s Glinda in the second part of the hit movie which is released in UK cinemas on Friday, is heard shouting: “Get off!” before putting a protective arm around her colleage.

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The E4 reality star has spoken publicly about his break-up for the first time

Married at First Sight UK star Davide Anica has broken his silence over his shock split from co-star, Keye Luke.

The pair were matched on the E4 reality show and married upon their first meeting. Throughout the series viewers watched as their bond strengthened, and they soon became firm fan favourites.

Despite making it all the way to the end of the experiment, Keye confirmed the couple had now parted ways in an emotional statement posted last week. It came after the MAFS UK reunion specials aired in which the former spouses had presented a united front.

Keye explained: “In the early hours of a Sunday morning, while Davide was on a flight, I downloaded Grindr. I want to be clear that I was not looking to cheat, hook up, or find someone else. I was in a dark and fragile place and reached for something unhealthy because I did not know how else to cope.

“What I was seeking had nothing to do with intimacy. It was an attempt to escape emotions I could not sit with, and I reached for substances when what I really needed was support.”

He added: “When Davide found my profile through his, it cost me my marriage. That is something I carry with me every day.”

Now Davide has also taken to social media to offer his side of the story and how he feels about the “painful” separation which occurred five months ago.

In a lengthy statement, he admitted: “The night in question (this happened five months ago), I had a gut feeling something wasn’t right. Out of my own insecurity I created a profile on Grindr to check whether Keye was on the app only to find that my gut feeling was correct.

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“That moment was painful and it made the trust between us break in a way I couldn’t move past. That’s why when it was broken, it was something I simply could not overcome. I won’t lie I was deeply hurt and shocked but with time, I’ve healed and found peace.”

Both men shared their respect and love for the other in their respective statements and their MAFS UK co-stars have since rushed to offer up messages of support.

“You are one of the most genuine, kind, caring people I know. You’ve been an absolute inspiration to us all. I will always be here for you, love you,” penned Abi Lindsay, while Leigh Harris added: “I couldn’t be more proud of how you’ve navigated this Davide. Even when people hurt you, you still act with kindness and compassion.”

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The couple are not the only fan favourites on the show to have now split, with Rebecca Fen and Bailey Smith also confirming their separation last week.

Bailey confirmed the sad news in a social media statement, and admitted it had been “ridiculously hard” watching their love story unfold on MAFS UK.

“We tried our best to navigate life after the experiment, and although we spent a lot of great time together on the outside, unfortunately the relationship came to an end,” he added.

Former EastEnders actor Martin Kemp has entered the I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! jungle six years after son Roman Kemp came third on the hit ITV show

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I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here’s Martin Kemp told son Roman to “leave it” when they discussed the hit TV show. Former EastEnders actor Martin was among the latest bunch of famous faces to arrive in the camp last night.

The One Show host Roman, 32, came third when he appeared on the hit ITV show in 2019. Spandau Ballet bassist Martin says his son was the “first person” he spoke to when offered a part on I’m a Celeb.

But he feared his son would take credit if his advice led to him being crowned King of the Jungle. Martin however says Roman was “jealous” that he was going on the show.

Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, 64-year-old Martin, said: “Roman was the first person I asked for advice about whether I should take the job, and he told me to go for it and said he was jealous of me going in.

“But then he kept trying to give me advice, and I had to tell him to stop. I was like, “Just leave it, Roman,” because if I do well, I know he’ll just claim the win. If I do win, Roman won’t live it down.”

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Roman finished behind Coronation Street star Andy Whyment and EastEnders actress Jacqueline Jossa in 2019. Martin believes his “life experience” will help him in the show.

He also says he wants to be himself, because “the last thing I want to do is go in there and be false, I’ve never done that and I don’t want to start now”.

Roman previously revealed his dad told the family he was entering the show by sharing a picture of him in the I’m A Celeb outfit on WhatsApp. Martin however insisted he was “sworn to secrecy” by producers.

Speaking to Roman on the You About? podcast ahead of the show, Martin said: “I’m really excited about it. I love doing iconic television, stuff that I’ve been watching for yours, and my favourite memory of the show is you being in it in 2019.”

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He added: “When I went to a fitting the other day and I was trying on jungle clothes, I almost felt like I was putting on your clothes. I thought, ‘I bet Roman had these on,’ but it’s really exciting.”

Martin asked his son how he breaks the boredom in the show. To which Roman replied celebrities rely on speaking to each other to break up the day and doing trials.

Roman added: “The boredom’s hard and you want trials. I don’t understand people who go in there and they don’t want a trial, you want trials.”

Roman however says the pressure of dealing with a Bushtucker Trial is “hard”. He also warned his dad about the infamous I’m A Celeb meals, including crocodile feet and eels.