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Duncan James, 47, said his new partner, Alexander Roque, has already met his mum and the other Blue members – and they have all given him their seal of approval

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Duncan James has confirmed his romance with stripper Alexander Roque after splitting from his long-term boyfriend, Rodrigo Reis.

The Blue singer and his ex went their separate ways after dating for six years – but weeks later it emerged that Duncan, 47, had moved on with Alexander, who is currently performing on stage at the strip show Forbidden Nights and once appeared on Britain’s Got Talent. Last month, a source said the pair’s romance was still in its “early days” but things were going well between them.

Now, Duncan himself has opened up about his new partner, describing Alexander as a “love bug” and “real sweetheart” who has already got the seal of approval from his mum and bandmates. While attending the Children with Cancer UK Gala at The Peninsula in London last night, the actor and TV presenter praised Alexander, describing him as “really considerate, respectful and kind”.

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Duncan told the Daily Mail: “He is a very handsome boy. It’s new and it’s exciting. He’s a real sweetheart. He’s a bit of a love bug, which is sweet. And he’s showering me lots of love.

“And he’s like a big gentle giant. So it’s just really, he’s really kind, really considerate. And it’s just been fun.” He said Alexander has already his mother, Fiona Inglis, and the other Blue members – Simon Webbe, Antony Costa, and Lee Ryan – and they all like him.

He added that Alexander understands the public interest in their relationship – however, he was keen to stress that he is not just a stripper, but also an actor. Rumours of a relationship started spreading after Duncan attended the Hollyoaks party with Alexander and then shared a photo featuring the model, drag queen Danny Beard and Ruby O’Donnell.

When he was still dating Rodrigo, Duncan revealed how he met his ex while in Belgium for a gig with Blue. Speaking on ITV’s Loose Women, he said, “We met a couple of years ago in Belgium. I was doing a gig with the boys and I met Rodrigo at the after-party. I saw him across the bar and […] he was very much my type. I was like: ‘He’s hot.'”

However, the pair split over the summer, with the boyband star confessing to starting a “new chapter” as he wrote on social media: “Summer 2025 – a season of sea, sun, and soul-soothing magic. Grateful for family, friends, and adventures that filled my heart. From quiet healing to laughter under golden skies, and neon lights … this chapter was one of growth, love, magic and light. Here’s to carrying the glow into every season ahead.”

A source told The Sun at the time: “Duncan and Rodrigo have gone their separate ways after six years. A break-up is never easy but Duncan has been throwing himself into the band and keeping his mind occupied with music.”

Duncan has previously admitted that he struggled with coming out as gay while being a boyband star was extremely difficult. Recalling the intense scrutiny during his time with Blue, he said, “I remember when I was in Blue the first time around, there were all these rumours I was dating my friends Geri, Martine and Tara [Palmer- Tomkinson] and I used to feel relieved.”

Love Island’s Amy Hart has shared she is expecting her second baby following two miscarriages as she said she is ‘very excited’, but the ‘nerves are ‘hard to settle’

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Love Island’s Amy Hart has announced on her Instagram that she is pregnant with her second child, following two heartbreaking miscarriages in the last year. Amy, 31, who is alread a proud mum to two year old Stanley, said while she is ‘very excited’, the ‘nerves are ‘hard to settle’.

She announced the exciting news to her 1 million followers with a sweet video where she is going pumpkin picking with her son and her husband, Sam Rason, who she tied the knot with last year.

Amy wore a knitted bodycon dress, which perfectly showed off her bump, with a beige trench coat over the top. She wrote in the caption: “Sam & I are over-the-moon to share…we’re expecting again.” Going into more detail on her pregnancy journey, she said: “This time the journey has been longer. After two heartbreaking miscarriages in the last year, we’re both very excited, yet the anxiety and nerves are hard to settle.”

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“That’s why we waited to tell you all, but the bump is now impossible to hide, and Stanley’s been proudly announcing “Mummy has a baby in her tummy!” to anyone who’ll listen. He has also decided he has a baby in his tummy too!”

She finished off the post with: “ Christmas with our little man feels extra magical this year, and then a new family chapter begins in 2026.”

Sam, a proud dad and husband, left a sweet comment, writing: “I can’t wait for our family to grow again. It definitely has been an anxious journey for us both over the last 10 months and I still feel it each day that passes. I love being a father and watching you grow as a mother. And to see Stanley become a big brother will be a special experience. Love you millions.”

The former Love Island star was flooded with congratulatory messages. Molly-Mae commented: “Awwwww mama!!!! Congratulations”, while Yasmin Pettet wrote: “omg congratulations!!! Xx”.

Another follower wrote: “SO happy for you mama! And so sorry about your news, you’re so strong. Sending you so much love. I can’t wait to watch you guys xxx”, while a fourth said: “Aww so happy for you, sorry for your losses”.

She opened up to OK! Earlier this year where she said she would ‘love’ to have more children and admitted that they were ‘trying’.

She said at the time: “I’d love more children. We’re trying at the moment. It’s obviously not been as simple as it was with Stanley, but I’m manifesting and doing all the right things. I’m doing intermittent fasting to try and lose some weight, because though my BMI is not crazy high, it’s higher than what’s recommended for the optimum weight for getting pregnant.”

She added: “I feel like at the moment it’s quite hard to talk about online. Once, hopefully, I have some good news, then I’ll be able to share more and help others.”

Myleene Klass has opened up about her time in court last month, where Peter Windsor, 61, was found guilty of stalking Myleene and her Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick

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Former Hear’Say star Myleene Klass has opened up about her ‘horrific experience’ in court last month, where she was cross-examined and was made to doubt herself. She appeared in Birmingham Crown Court in October, where Peter Windsor, 61, was found guilty of stalking Myleene and her Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick.

Myleene told Birmingham Crown Court of her ‘sheer terror’ at discovering numerous items had been sent to the radio station’s central London studios, including fancy dress outfits and an air pistol.

Myleene said, ‘It was a horrific experience’, adding she ‘underestimated’ the court experience and said they made her feel like she had done something wrong.

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She told The Times: “Court was the most sobering part. I underestimated it. My goodness, the way women who take the stand are made to feel they’ve done something wrong, to prove they didn’t want these items and this attention. ‘How did you feel when you received this? How did you know the stalking was real?’ I don’t know how people get through it.”

Myleene was questioned on how she knew the handcuffs were real and how she knew the gun was real. “They had to bring in police to tell the jury, ‘This is a gun,’ and have them feel it. It was utterly ludicrous point scoring. I was asked why I didn’t tell my stalker to stop. That stopped me in my tracks. I had to admit it hadn’t occurred to me to write back to my stalker and ask him to keep away. Their response was, like, ‘Gotcha!’”

Giving evidence against Peter Windsor, Myleene said she was informed in an email in August last year of an “accumulation” of items sent to her by the 61-year-old.

Peter Windsor denies stalking both Myleene and her Classic FM colleague Katie by sending items to the station’s central London studios between 2020 and 2024.

Myleene told the court she was shown a list of items and photographs of some of the letters after being informed of them, having previously not been told about the mail to avoid worrying her.

Answering questions from prosecutor Timothy Sapwell, Myleene said: “It was very clear very quickly that it was a highly volatile selection of items.

“It was a huge shock, especially the extent to which it had escalated.

“It was pretty overwhelming when you have the accumulation of a bundle of this information. It’s pretty terrifying.”

Legendary actress Victoria Wood has been given a huge honour with a theatre being named after her, a decade after she died aged 62, having battled cancer

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Victoria Wood is to have a theatre named in her honour in her beloved Lake District. The 260-seat Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere has announced that it is to become the Victoria Wood Theatre from January. Wood, who died in 2016, opened the theatre and staged several of her own works there, including Talent in 2008 and a stage adaptation of Housewife 49 in 2013.

Wood had a cottage in nearby Ambleside, which she left to her children, Grace and Henry, after her death in 2016 at the age of 62. Her will instructed them not to sell it ‘so long as it’s enjoyed by family’.

The comedian was also a trustee and patron of the Old Laundry Theatre, which was opened in 1992 by husband-and-wife team Roger Glossop and Charlotte Scott in a disused laundry. They also turned the neighbouring building into the World of Beatrix Potter attraction, which Wood officially opened.

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Glossop told the Sunday Times: “People do forget very quickly. The trust is intent on people remembering Vic and her remarkable talent. So what we want from these legacy projects is to keep the name bouncing along.”

The couple first met Wood while working as stage manager and designer on Wood’s musical Talent at the Sheffield Crucible in 1978 and remained lifelong friends, going on family holidays together.

Scott explained: “With young families in tow (hers and ours), we followed Vic’s career as she toured up and down the country, always returning to re-charge in the Lake District. By the time we opened the venue in 1991, followed by the theatre in 1992, Vic, together with Alan Rickman, Griff Rhys Jones, Andre Ptaszynski, Peter James, and Alan Ayckbourn all became trustees and the journey began.”

The renaming will coincide with the world premiere of jukebox musical Fourteen Again, a brand new show featuring Wood’s music and lyrics.

Tom MacRae, who co-wrote the musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, has written the script for the show. He wants the musical to work for fans of Wood’s work and for newcomers too.

He said: ”How do you explain Victoria Wood to people who have no context for her? I say, ‘She is probably one of the most beloved British comedians of them all, working at a time when there were very few female comedians and a consensus that women weren’t funny.

“And yet you never think of her as being this trailblazer. She was just the funniest person you wanted to watch. She was just Victoria Wood. She was brilliant. There was an absolute determination within her. But everyone felt like they were friends with her.”

Wood, died from cancer aged 62 in April 2016. She found fame in the 1980s and was best known for her BBC sketch Acorn Antiques and comedy Dinnerladies. She won five Baftas including two for her one-off ITV drama Housewife, 49.

At the time of her death long-time comedy partner Julie Walters said she was “too heart sore to comment – the loss of her is incalculable”.

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Love Island star Molly-Mae Hague has opened up about her struggle to let go of her family home which she has lived in for almost four years and brought her daughter up in

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Molly-Mae Hague shared with fans her latest dilemma while on a video post on social media. The reality TV star, who is a mum of one, told fans that she is in a quandary when it comes to the sale of her £3.8million house, as she doesn’t want to let it go – despite knowing she has to.

The 26-year-old reality TV star, who shot to fame on Love Island in 2019, moved into her lavish home in 2022, along with fiancé Tommy Fury.

But things have been somewhat rocky between the pair, which may explain her decision to leave the once family home. Speaking on her vlog, she told fans: “Like I still don’t know what I’m doing in terms of this house.”

She went on to say that “a lot of big decisions need to be made in terms of what I’m going to do with this house, and I’ve mentioned it [but] I don’t want to sell it. I don’t particularly want to rent it ou,t but then equally, what am I keeping it for? I don’t know. I just don’t, I really, really don’t know.”

She then continued: “Like there’s some things, that I know in my mind like I’m ready to do, and I want to do, but like in terms of this house…This house will always be so incredibly sentimental to me.”

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Despite her growing fame, Molly expressed that the house she currently shares with her daughter Bambi, “is more than just a house.”

She added: “I don’t know. I think just like need to figure out like what the next few months is going to look like in terms of where I basically go from here and with this house.”

Looking at options in order to stay living in the north of England, she even looked at her mother moving up from the south. But she soon discarded that idea, as her mum’s husband has an “amazing job” in the south.

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In an interview with the Decemebr/January issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, she said: “I felt like I’d lived so much life by 23, I felt really ready for a new chapter. Tommy and I were in an incredible place and to have something that was half him, half me, just felt really special. I’ve never had any regrets about starting a family young. “

She added: “But if I could go back and maybe go again, would I have waited a few more years? Potentially. I would love more days to just sit and do absolutely nothing. They were great for my mental health.”

She also touched on the possibility of having another child. She continued: “I think about it a lot, and I feel a real pressure around it because I’m desperate to give Bambi a sibling.

“But I would never want to do it just for her – I would also want to do it because it is something I want to do. At the same time as being a mum, I also have huge career ambitions and when I fell pregnant with Bambi, my biggest goal was that I didn’t want to lose my identity – I didn’t want to lose myself and my goals and my dreams and my business ambitions because I was becoming a mum.”

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Gillian Anderson’s new Netflix drama Trespasses is based on Louise Kennedy’s novel, which follows a cross-community love affair in Northern Ireland during the Troubles

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Gillian Anderson is inspiringly unapologetic about her free-spirited approach to dating. Having enjoyed two marriages, two long-term relationships, a dates with some who have very famous exes, her unflinching honesty about her love life is beloved by many fans.

Her career has also been iconic. From finding fame as sceptical Dana Scully in The X-Files to compiling a collection of confessions from women around the world in her book Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous, she has become known for being the voice of reason and source of female empowerment.

Her latest project is no different. Gillian is set to play a mother of a young Catholic woman who falls in love with a Protestant man in an upcoming Channel 4 and Netflix romantic drama, Trespasses, set in Northern Ireland in 1975, amid the Troubles.

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What is Gillian’s new Netflix romance about?

Trespasses is based on a novel by Louise Kennedy. The show is set to air on Channel 4 and Netflix on 9 November. It is set in Holywood, County Down, just a few miles north of Belfast, in 1975. Gillian plays Gina, the mother of Lola Petticrew’s Cushla.

Cushla is a young Catholic school teacher who pulls extra shifts as a bartender in her family’s pub, often frequented by locals and soldiers from the nearby barracks. It is there that she meets a Protestant lawyer and the two start a relationship.

Speaking about the role and trauma of the Troubles that still exists in Ireland, Gillian told BBC News NI: “What I was surprised at this last time was the degree to which the trauma is still under the surface [in Northern Ireland], all the time.

“And so it is so much a part of the character of the place, too. Coming as an outsider it’s shocking because one’s told that it’s part of the past, but it’s clear that it’s on the tip of everyone’s tongues still today.”

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Who has Gillian been married to?

The actress’ love life is just as exciting as her TV roles. Her first husband was Clyde Klotz, an assistant art director on The X-Files. He is the father of her daughter Piper.

Gillian married Clyde in a Buddhist ceremony held in Hawaii on 1 January 1994. Piper was born later that year. “I got pregnant on my wedding night,” Gillian said. “How old-fashioned is that?”

She and Clyde divorced three years later in 1997. After that, Gillian started dating British actor Adrian Hughes and then Hollywood producer Randy Stone. She also dated actor Rod Rowland and later restaurant owner Keith McNally.

But her second marriage was to Julian Ozanne, a producer and director who made several documentaries, including one about Giorgio Armani. The pair married in 2004 and split just over a year later.

Did Gillian date Geri Halliwell’s ex?

Yes, she did. After splitting from her second husband, Gillian began a relationship with Mark Griffiths, a businessman who was previously linked to Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, who is now married to former Formula 1 star Christian Horner.

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She and Mark had a son together in 2006 and another in 2008. Talking to the Mirror, she said: “Mark is one of the kindest people I have ever met. He has a very good head on his shoulders and part of me was ready to be grounded. I recognised that in him. That is exactly what has taken place – a grounding for all of us. And really paying attention to what is precious.”

The couple split in 2012, after six years together. This isn’t the only person she’s dated whose had a famous ex, as Randy Stone was linked to Barbara Streisand. And she was linked to Chris Martin. Though the Coldplay singer is famous in and of himself, he is also the ex of Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

Who is Gillian dating now?

Gillian is not thought to be dating anyone. Her last long-term relationship was with screenwriter Peter Morgan. The two were first romantically linked in 2016.

The pair lived in separate homes and Gillian told The Guardian: “My partner and I don’t live together. If we did, that would be the end of us. It works so well as it is and it feels so special when we do come together.”

In 2020, they broke up, and Peter was said to have moved on with his long-time friend Jemma Goldsmith. But a month later, the two were rumoured to be back on, leaving Jemma “shocked and confused”. They were reported to have broken up for good not long after, but in April of 2023, seemed to confirm they had gotten back together. However, this has not been confirmed and Gillian is thought to be single at the moment.