Helen Flanagan has seemingly had enough of her ex Scott Sinclair after letting her feelings be known when he missed their son’s nativity
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Helen seems to have had enough(Image: Instagram)
Helen Flanagan has cut another tie with ex Scott Sinclair as their bitter feud escalates. The former Coronation Street star was left raging on Tuesday evening and was sure to let her feelings about her ex be loudly heard as she laid into him on her Instagram.
She snapped at footballer Scott, calling him a “piece of s**t” and hitting out at him for missing their son’s school nativity play. It came as Scott shared an array of snaps from his weekend at the Formula 1 in Abu Dhabi.
The lavish uploads showed his views of the race course, drinks with friends and yacht. He captioned the post: “What a weekend-Abu Dhabi F1”
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But Helen was far from impressed. The actress, who shares three children with Scott, swiftly reposted his picture onto her stories. In her fume, she claimed Scott had missed their youngest son Charlie’s school play.
She wrote: “You really are a piece of s*** @scotty_sinclair how dare you not turn up to Charlie’s nativity”. She followed the dig with a picture of her and Charlie and said he was the ‘best boy’.
Now, it appears the outburst has proven to be the final straw for Helen. She has seemingly stopped following Scott on the social media platform.
It could be that Helen as blocked her ex as it appears as though Scott is no longer following her either. He does, however, still follow their ‘Sinclair Home’ account. The page had been used to document their home renovations.
Scott and Helen share three children; Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, four. The former couple separated in 2022 after 13 years together.
Helen candidly opened up on their separation earlier this year. She admitted the duo tried to make things work, but simply couldn’t. She said at the time: “Me and Scott really loved each other, but we were always quietly breaking up and then getting back together.
“So it had been a long time coming. In the end, it was me who decided. I’ll always be sad it didn’t work out and we still have love for each other, but we’re happier apart.”
Speaking to The Sun previously, she added: “Break-ups are so sad, and if you can deal with it in a way where you’re on good terms, it’s better for your mental health and 100% better for the kids.”
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However, she admitted the pair often had clashes. She went on: “Don’t get me wrong, sometimes we still end up telling each other to f**k off!
“But we’ve managed to keep things quite nice and we’ve been fair to each other. It’s helped that our families get on and I have a good relationship with his mum.”
Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench goes on a festive journey into her family history to discover whether one of her ancestors ever crossed paths with her hero, William Shakespeare.
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The show airs on Channel 4 on the 27th of December(Image: Channel 4)
Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench will be turning detective this Christmas in a mission to discover if one of her ancestors met her hero William Shakespeare.
In Channel 4 documentary, Shakespeare, My Family and Me – airing on Boxing Day – she searches Danish archives to see if her eight times great grandfather met the bard in 1606.
Laughing out loud, she recalls her own colourful mishaps down the years acting in Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
She says: “I remember when I played Portia in The Merchant of Venice at Stratford-upon-Avon with my husband Michael [Williams], I got one of the words wrong in the script and ended up saying ‘erection’.
“We had a wind band about to play on stage with us and they left as they were embarrassed. It was exquisite agony. I was surprised I did not get the sack afterwards.
“Also, my wig flew off one night when I was in Twelfth Night. It was a very dark wig with a head-dress attached and it just went flying.”
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Now 91, she has acted alongside a gallery of stars and fondly recalls playing Cleopatra to Sir Anthony Hopkins’ Mark Anthony.
“I absolutely adored it,” she says. “Every night I used to haul Tony up and he used to die in my lap, as he was playing Mark Anthony. After he died on stage he used to whisper to me ‘Now, I am going for a nice cup of tea’ and that would be the whole of act five.
“I love Shakespeare, but I have fallen over in nearly every play I have done.It is something to do with my balance.
“And I have had bad reviews. Once when I played Juliet in Romeo & Juliet one critic wrote ‘she conveyed about as much as an apple in a Warwickshire orchard’.”
But, since she first stepped on stage at The Old Vic in 1957 in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the multi-award winning actress has more than redeemed herself.Most famous with younger audiences as MI6 boss M in seven James Bond films, she says with thespians of her generation the edict was “the show must always go on.”
She says: “When I started at the Oxford Playhouse, you did more than one role at a time.
“We would do a night at Stratford and there was this taxi driver and he used to drive me to London. There was no motorway then, it was like the A34 or whatever it was and we used to think nothing of it. It was exciting just to be working.”
Dame Judi says there was never a question of pulling out of a performance.“You can’t say ‘I don’t feel like it today’. You can’t do that,” she says.
“I remember when there was the Asian flu in the 1950s. I remember coming on as Ophelia in Hamlet and I cried the whole way through the scene, but I got through it.”
Passionate about theatre, she continues: “There are very few plays I have done that I have not enjoyed.”
“Theatre is my passion. It is a learning curve, but the learning starts with the audience.
“When we do a comedy and we don’t get the laughs that is when we know something is wrong and that is why living theatre is important. It is vital to life.”
But her most famous comedy role was undoubtedly in the TV series A Fine Romance, opposite her husband Michael Williams.She recalls a funny moment off-set, saying: “Once coming down Shaftesbury Avene we had a row in the car. I was looking one way and Michael was looking the other, then this woman came up to the car window singing A Fine Romance!”
Sadly, her failing eyesight due to the condition macular degeneration, means she is less likely to watch live performances these days.
She says: “When I go the theatre I can’t see. Hopeless.
“I have lost my eyesight now, so I can’t read now. I have to learn [a script] by somebody teaching it to me another way. I can’t see and I can’t read a book.”
But Dame Judi looks back on her career and the talented people she has worked with extremely fondly.
She says: “I wanted to be a designer when I started out. That is what I fancied being. I went to York Art School and my parents took me to see Michael Redgrave in King Lear at Stratford-upon-Avon and the set was simply sublime.
“There was an enormous circle that went round with a big rock in the middle. There was a throne and a cave and I thought, ‘this is what design should be and I don’t have the facility for it.’”
Realising she wouldn’t make it as a designer, she decided to follow her brother into acting.
She says: “My father was a doctor and there was no television then and my mother was wonderful at playing the piano. I did get to Central School of Speech and Drama and I went straight to the Old Vic and that was my training ground.
“My first role at The Old Vic was Ophelia. I learnt a lot and they kept me on.”
Like her millions of fans, Dame Judi will be enjoying festive TV over Christmas, although she has a very critical companion in her pet parrot Sweetheart – a gift from her partner, conservationist David Mills.
She says: “We watch television sometimes and the parrot suddenly goes ‘You noisy cow’. Not at me, but to the television!.
“It is a spectacular parrot, an African grey which David gave me for Christmas.”
Sweetheart belonged to a man living in Maidstone for 14 years, and Dame Judi continues: “She is called Sweetheart and is a female but talks like a man. She travels between David and me.”
Dame Judi will also mark the passing of friends she has last over the Christmas period, by spending time in the garden of her Surrey home, where she has planted memorial trees in their honour.
She also has a very unusual statue of Queen Victoria. She explains: “The statue was given to me. It is higher than me. I can’t possibly reach it. After we did the movie Victoria and Abdul we were in India and there was an enormous statue of Queen Victoria and it is made of papier mache.
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“After the film they said ‘do you want that statue?’ And I said no’ but then I said ‘oh, just a minute.’ She is in my garden, where she stands with an orb and sceptre and the birds like her a lot. She is quite hidden, but I know she is there.
“I plant trees for all my friends who have died and there was a beautiful designer on that film who I was fond of and was very, very clever. He died startlingly young, so beside Queen Victoria I have a tree for him. So he is there as well. It is a very very nice thing to have.”
Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench goes on a festive journey into her family history to discover whether one of her ancestors ever crossed paths with her hero, William Shakespeare.
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The show airs on Channel 4 on the 27th of December(Image: Channel 4)
Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench will be turning detective this Christmas in a mission to discover if one of her ancestors met her hero William Shakespeare.
In Channel 4 documentary, Shakespeare, My Family and Me – airing on Boxing Day – she searches Danish archives to see if her eight times great grandfather met the bard in 1606.
Laughing out loud, she recalls her own colourful mishaps down the years acting in Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
She says: “I remember when I played Portia in The Merchant of Venice at Stratford-upon-Avon with my husband Michael [Williams], I got one of the words wrong in the script and ended up saying ‘erection’.
“We had a wind band about to play on stage with us and they left as they were embarrassed. It was exquisite agony. I was surprised I did not get the sack afterwards.
“Also, my wig flew off one night when I was in Twelfth Night. It was a very dark wig with a head-dress attached and it just went flying.”
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Now 91, she has acted alongside a gallery of stars and fondly recalls playing Cleopatra to Sir Anthony Hopkins’ Mark Anthony.
“I absolutely adored it,” she says. “Every night I used to haul Tony up and he used to die in my lap, as he was playing Mark Anthony. After he died on stage he used to whisper to me ‘Now, I am going for a nice cup of tea’ and that would be the whole of act five.
“I love Shakespeare, but I have fallen over in nearly every play I have done.It is something to do with my balance.
“And I have had bad reviews. Once when I played Juliet in Romeo & Juliet one critic wrote ‘she conveyed about as much as an apple in a Warwickshire orchard’.”
But, since she first stepped on stage at The Old Vic in 1957 in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the multi-award winning actress has more than redeemed herself.Most famous with younger audiences as MI6 boss M in seven James Bond films, she says with thespians of her generation the edict was “the show must always go on.”
She says: “When I started at the Oxford Playhouse, you did more than one role at a time.
“We would do a night at Stratford and there was this taxi driver and he used to drive me to London. There was no motorway then, it was like the A34 or whatever it was and we used to think nothing of it. It was exciting just to be working.”
Dame Judi says there was never a question of pulling out of a performance.“You can’t say ‘I don’t feel like it today’. You can’t do that,” she says.
“I remember when there was the Asian flu in the 1950s. I remember coming on as Ophelia in Hamlet and I cried the whole way through the scene, but I got through it.”
Passionate about theatre, she continues: “There are very few plays I have done that I have not enjoyed.”
“Theatre is my passion. It is a learning curve, but the learning starts with the audience.
“When we do a comedy and we don’t get the laughs that is when we know something is wrong and that is why living theatre is important. It is vital to life.”
But her most famous comedy role was undoubtedly in the TV series A Fine Romance, opposite her husband Michael Williams.She recalls a funny moment off-set, saying: “Once coming down Shaftesbury Avene we had a row in the car. I was looking one way and Michael was looking the other, then this woman came up to the car window singing A Fine Romance!”
Sadly, her failing eyesight due to the condition macular degeneration, means she is less likely to watch live performances these days.
She says: “When I go the theatre I can’t see. Hopeless.
“I have lost my eyesight now, so I can’t read now. I have to learn [a script] by somebody teaching it to me another way. I can’t see and I can’t read a book.”
But Dame Judi looks back on her career and the talented people she has worked with extremely fondly.
She says: “I wanted to be a designer when I started out. That is what I fancied being. I went to York Art School and my parents took me to see Michael Redgrave in King Lear at Stratford-upon-Avon and the set was simply sublime.
“There was an enormous circle that went round with a big rock in the middle. There was a throne and a cave and I thought, ‘this is what design should be and I don’t have the facility for it.’”
Realising she wouldn’t make it as a designer, she decided to follow her brother into acting.
She says: “My father was a doctor and there was no television then and my mother was wonderful at playing the piano. I did get to Central School of Speech and Drama and I went straight to the Old Vic and that was my training ground.
“My first role at The Old Vic was Ophelia. I learnt a lot and they kept me on.”
Like her millions of fans, Dame Judi will be enjoying festive TV over Christmas, although she has a very critical companion in her pet parrot Sweetheart – a gift from her partner, conservationist David Mills.
She says: “We watch television sometimes and the parrot suddenly goes ‘You noisy cow’. Not at me, but to the television!.
“It is a spectacular parrot, an African grey which David gave me for Christmas.”
Sweetheart belonged to a man living in Maidstone for 14 years, and Dame Judi continues: “She is called Sweetheart and is a female but talks like a man. She travels between David and me.”
Dame Judi will also mark the passing of friends she has last over the Christmas period, by spending time in the garden of her Surrey home, where she has planted memorial trees in their honour.
She also has a very unusual statue of Queen Victoria. She explains: “The statue was given to me. It is higher than me. I can’t possibly reach it. After we did the movie Victoria and Abdul we were in India and there was an enormous statue of Queen Victoria and it is made of papier mache.
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“After the film they said ‘do you want that statue?’ And I said no’ but then I said ‘oh, just a minute.’ She is in my garden, where she stands with an orb and sceptre and the birds like her a lot. She is quite hidden, but I know she is there.
“I plant trees for all my friends who have died and there was a beautiful designer on that film who I was fond of and was very, very clever. He died startlingly young, so beside Queen Victoria I have a tree for him. So he is there as well. It is a very very nice thing to have.”
Bombshell new legal filings in £37 million lawsuit allege Grease star John Travolta’s youngest son was conceived using an egg donated by Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, Riley Keough
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A legal filing lodged in Los Angeles alleges Elvis Presley is the biological great-grandfather of John Travolta’s youngest son(Image: Michael Ochs Archives)
Elvis Presley may have an unacknowledged great-grandchild amid allegations that John Travolta’s youngest son was conceived using an egg donated by the King’s granddaughter, Riley Keough. The bombshell claims emerged in a legal filing lodged in Los Angeles.
The allegations centred on the parentage of the Grease star’s youngest son, Ben, appear in a $50 million (£37 million) breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by Priscilla Presley ’s former business associates, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, against her son, Navarone Garibaldi Garcia. The filing, lodged on 16 December, alleges that Lisa Marie Presley donated eggs so actor Travolta and his late wife Kelly Preston could “get pregnant”.
Further claims are that her daughter, actress Riley Keough, is the biological mother of the couple’s son Ben, now 15. The claims remain entirely unproven and are presented solely within the plaintiffs’ lawsuit.
According to the complaint, family tensions intensified immediately after Lisa Marie’s death in 2023. It states that “the entire Presley family clamoured for control of the estate and for pay-outs, using plaintiffs Kruse and Fialko as both negotiators and mediators”, with Lisa Marie’s ex-husband, Michael Lockwood, among those involved. Lockwood, 61, is alleged to have told Kruse “that John Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, had been unable to bear her own children, and Travolta and Presley previously used Lisa Marie’s eggs to get pregnant”.
The filing does not assert that Lisa Marie’s eggs produced a child. The complaint further claims that Lockwood said the Travoltas approached the Presley family again in 2010, one year after their son Jett died following a seizure.
It continues: “Lockwood claimed that Travolta needed to help salvage his career amid claims of sexual assault against other men, which threatened his career as a leading man.” The document adds: “Lockwood claimed that Travolta said he no longer wanted to use Lisa Marie’s eggs because they did not want ‘eggs with heroin’ on them,” referring to her opioid addiction, “and they orchestrated a deal, where Riley Keough gave her eggs to Travolta, so that Kelly could give birth to their son, Ben Travolta.”
Ben was born in November 2010. Preston died in 2020 after a long battle with breast cancer. The filing alleges that Riley Keough was paid modestly for the alleged arrangement. Lockwood is said to have claimed she “was given an old Jaguar and paid between $10,000 – $20,000 for the deal.”
The complaint also states that the agreement “required a ‘sign off’ from the Church of Scientology, which heavily involved Priscilla’s oversight.” According to the plaintiffs, Lockwood wanted them to use the allegations “to orchestrate a settlement for him and his daughters.”
But when Garcia allegedly learned the information might be used, the filing claims he “threw a tantrum, demanding that Plaintiffs keep Riley’s and Travolta’s son out of the press, since Priscilla promised him that he would be the only male musician in the family and would now be the ‘king.’” The document further claims he “demanded a multi-million-dollar settlement.”
The Travolta family is based in Ocala, Florida. Priscilla Presley, who is countersuing Kruse and Fialko for fraud and elder abuse, has denied all allegations against her.
Her lawyer, Marty Singer, said that the “shameful, ridiculous, salacious and meritless” claims are “nothing more than a sad and vicious attempt to falsely tarnish the reputation of an 80-year-old woman.” Ben Travolta’s name now appears in the newly amended complaint. In a statement issued by Kruse and Fialko’s lawyer, Jordan Matthews, he defended the filing, saying: “Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko are heartbroken that they have been forced to file their most recent amended complaint.
Nick Reiner has appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested in connection with the murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, in Los Angeles at the weekend
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Rob Reiner with son Nick(Image: Getty Images)
Nick Reiner has appeared in court for the first time. The 32-year-old writer has been charged with first degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.
The couple were found dead in their LA home on Sunday, with their throats said to have been slit. Hours later, Nick was arrested.
Their son waived his right to enter a plea at his arraignment hearing. He appeared with no shirt and in shackles. He appeared to be wearing what looked like a suicide prevention vest.
During the hearing, Nick said only three words and the judge prevented him from being filmed. The next hearing for Nick has now been set for 7 January. There, he may enter a plea.
Outside of the LA court, Nick’s lawyer Alan Jackson said there were “complex and serious issues” at play. He asked people not to “rush to judgement” and said nothing substantive had happened in the case today.
Following proceedings, Rob and Michele’s children Jake and Romy made their first public statement, which was shared with US media via a family spokesperson. They said in the joint statement: “Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day.
“The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
They continued: “We are grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and support we have received not only from family and friends but people from all walks of life. We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
Romy is believed to be the person who found her father dead. She had allegedly received a call from the couple’s masseuse, who could not get in touch with them. When she arrived at the house, she found her father dead.
It’s said she hadn’t been aware her mum was also home. It’s claimed a paramedic told Romy that her mother had also died too.
The pair’s joint statement echoed Rob’s eldest daughter, who broke her silence earlier in the week. Tracy, 61, who was adopted by Rob during his marriage to Penny Marshall, told NBC News: “I came from the greatest family ever. I don’t know what to say. I’m in shock.”
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LA Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said in a press conference about the pair’s deaths: “Upon entering the residence, they discovered the bodies of Mr. And Mrs. Reiner. Detectives from our robbery homicide division homicide special section immediately initiated a comprehensive investigation.
“This case is heartbreaking and deeply personal, not only for the Reiner family and their loved ones, but for our entire city. We extend our deepest condolences to all of those who are affected by this tragedy.”
Nick Reiner has appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested in connection with the murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, in Los Angeles at the weekend
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Rob Reiner with son Nick(Image: Getty Images)
Nick Reiner has appeared in court for the first time. The 32-year-old writer has been charged with first degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.
The couple were found dead in their LA home on Sunday, with their throats said to have been slit. Hours later, Nick was arrested.
Their son waived his right to enter a plea at his arraignment hearing. He appeared with no shirt and in shackles. He appeared to be wearing what looked like a suicide prevention vest.
During the hearing, Nick said only three words and the judge prevented him from being filmed. The next hearing for Nick has now been set for 7 January. There, he may enter a plea.
Outside of the LA court, Nick’s lawyer Alan Jackson said there were “complex and serious issues” at play. He asked people not to “rush to judgement” and said nothing substantive had happened in the case today.
Following proceedings, Rob and Michele’s children Jake and Romy made their first public statement, which was shared with US media via a family spokesperson. They said in the joint statement: “Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day.
“The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
They continued: “We are grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and support we have received not only from family and friends but people from all walks of life. We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
Romy is believed to be the person who found her father dead. She had allegedly received a call from the couple’s masseuse, who could not get in touch with them. When she arrived at the house, she found her father dead.
It’s said she hadn’t been aware her mum was also home. It’s claimed a paramedic told Romy that her mother had also died too.
The pair’s joint statement echoed Rob’s eldest daughter, who broke her silence earlier in the week. Tracy, 61, who was adopted by Rob during his marriage to Penny Marshall, told NBC News: “I came from the greatest family ever. I don’t know what to say. I’m in shock.”
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LA Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said in a press conference about the pair’s deaths: “Upon entering the residence, they discovered the bodies of Mr. And Mrs. Reiner. Detectives from our robbery homicide division homicide special section immediately initiated a comprehensive investigation.
“This case is heartbreaking and deeply personal, not only for the Reiner family and their loved ones, but for our entire city. We extend our deepest condolences to all of those who are affected by this tragedy.”
