Last night, a number of soap stars at the British Soap Awards in London let their hair down before a rumored bomb scare brought the afterparty to an abrupt halt.
Mollie Gallagher looked quite content chomping on a burger after the British Soap Awards(Image: JAMES CURLEY AND MAGICMOMENTSUK)
Stars of the nation’s favourite soaps were papped looking bleary-eyed as they left the British Soap Awards in London last night. The glitzy event, which was held at Hackney Town Hall, celebrated the creative cast from a whole host of shows, including EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
After the ceremony in which EastEnders waltzed away with an impressive eight gongs, beating Emmerdale, Corrie and Hollyoaks to take home Best British Soap, a slew of excitable stars let their hair down at the afterparty. Jaime Winstone, Patsy Palmer and Tina O’Brien were among those snapped at the bash, which went on until the early hours.
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Jaime Winstone was seen puffing on a cigarette as she left the British Soap Awards with Bianca Jackson star, Patsy Palmer(Image: JAMES CURLEY AND MAGICMOMENTSUK)
Jaime, the daughter of award-winning actor Ray Winstone, was seen leaving the venue with Bianca Jackson star Patsy Palmer while puffing on a cigarette and wearing a thigh-high white a gold dress.
After watching EastEnders clean up at the awards, Patsy looked stunning in a blue silk blazer and matching pair of pants.
Scott Maslen, a Jack Branning star, also represented EastEnders. As he praised Albert Square’s success, he was also seen smoking a cigarette, donning a tux, and holding a bottle of beer.
Adam Woodyatt, a fellow Walford wonder, Anita Dobson, who played the iconic Angie Watts, and Ian Beale star Adam Woodyatt, both performed at the knees.
EastEnders star, Scott Maslen, was also seen sparking up at the bash in Hackney(Image: JAMES CURLEY AND MAGICMOMENTSUK)
In the early hours of the following party, Coronation Street actress Tina O’Brien was spotted exiting the venue. As she made her way to her hotel in the capital, she looked stunning while wearing a floor-length, nude dress with gold sequins.
Also at the bash on behalf of Corrie, was actor Jack P Shepherd and Mollie Gallagher, who looked quite content chomping on a burger in the street, wearing a gorgeous powder blue dress with tuille detail and a cute black hair bow.
Anita Dobson, who played the iconic Angie Watts, and Ian Beale star Adam Woodyatt were also papped leaving the party, after EastEnders’ success(Image: JAMES CURLEY AND MAGICMOMENTSUK)
The soap stars were abruptly asked to leave the venue shortly before 1am after the event had reportedly received a bomb threat, despite letting their hair down at the glamorous bash.
Speaking to the Mirror, our source said: “We all got evacuated just before 1am. No reason was given at first and security came round and told us we had to leave immediately.
Security informed us that there had been a bomb threat as we all stood outside the street. People started making their way home because we were prevented from returning to the building.
Some of TV’s biggest soap stars can be seen waiting outside the venue as more evacuate, with the likes of Emmett J. Scanlan and other former stars in a video that we have seen.
Corrie star Tina O’Brien made her way home in the early hours(Image: JAMES CURLEY AND MAGICMOMENTSUK)
A show source added that the after-party venue had to be evacuated because of a security alert following the recording of the awards. Everyone was safely cleared from the building.
The Metropolitan Police also told us: “At 00:49hrs on Sunday, 1 June, police were called to Hackney Town Centre after a threat was made to the premises. The call was determined to be a hoax and nothing suspicious was located.”
The Mirror has contacted ITV.
Despite the reported drama after the ceremony, the awards were a real celebration of the best the soap world has to offer.
Jack P Shepherd looked very dapper in his tux(Image: James Curley)
Eight awards were given to EastEnders, including Best Dramatic Performance for Steve McFadden and Best Single Episode for Phil Mitchell’s psychosis.
Meanwhile, Hollyoaks won three gongs, Emmerdale took home two and Coronation Street left with one – the Outstanding Achievement Award to David Neilson, who has played Roy Cropper for 30 years.
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As football fans celebrated Paris Saint-Germain’s stunning Champions League victory overnight, two people died, hundreds were detained, and cars were set on fire in France, according to the interior ministry’s statement on Sunday.
Following PSG’s 5-0 victory over Inter Milan in Munich, Germany, the euphoria reached its epicenter in Paris, a theater full of car horns, cheers, singing in the street, and fireworks all night long.
When crowds gathered on the Champs-Elysees Avenue and started fighting with officers, the ministry reported that 491 people had been detained in the capital.
559 people were detained overall in France, including Paris, according to the report.
The celebrations took place as the two deaths took place.
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A motor scooter rider in Paris was killed in a collision in the city’s southern 15th arrondissement, which is located a few kilometers (miles) from the Champs-Elysees.
A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed at a gathering in Dax, according to prosecutors in the town’s southwest.
The prosecutor’s office said it was unsure whether the death was directly related to the Champions League final, but he died “during the celebrations.” The perpetrator was “on the run,” the statement continued.
192 people celebrated in the streets, according to the interior ministry, along with 18 police officers in Paris and three others in France. Additionally, seven members of the fire service suffered injuries.
According to the report, 692 fires were reported nightly, including 264 fires that occurred in 264 cars.
Victory Parade
Tens of thousands of supporters were expected to gather on Sunday to see the PSG team’s victory parade on the Champs-Elysees.
On May 31, 2025, PSG supporters gathered on Place Trocadero in front of Paris’ Eiffel Tower to celebrate their 5-0 victory in the UEFA Champions League final football match between PSG and Inter Milan, which was played in Munich. (Photo by Hugo Mathie / AFP)
The Arc de Triomphe, which is located at the top of the Champs-Elysees, was blocked by police on the famous thoroughfare overnight, according to AFP journalists.
In a statement, police claimed that “troublemakers” allegedly clashed with police “by throwing large fireworks and other objects.”
According to the prosecution, a policeman was struck in the eye by a firework in the Normandy region and was in an induced coma.
Members of a family are injured
Four people were seriously hurt when a car crashed into PSG fans in Grenoble, southeast of France, according to police, two of whom were seriously. According to police, all of the injured were members of the same family.
The driver was arrested after entering the police force. According to a source close to the investigation, it was thought that the driver had not done anything wrong.
The driver had a negative alcohol and drug test, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
Police in Paris reported scuffles that broke out near the Champs-Elysees avenue and PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium, where 48, 000 spectators had watched the game on enormous screens, but the majority of the crowds gathered peacefully.
According to police, the majority of those detained in the capital were suspected of illegally bringing about disorder and fireworks.
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For the first time in their history, PSG claimed the biggest prize in European club football with their victory.
On May 31, 2025, Paris Saint-Germain’s players celebrate with the trophy following the UEFA Champions League final football match between Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in Munich, southern Germany. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP)
Clement, a 20-year-old PSG supporter, called it “so good and so deserved!” Our struggles have been addressed in a song that discusses them.
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The French President’s office announced that he would celebrate the players who won on Sunday by holding a party for them.
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It was hailed as a “historical win,” according to Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo.
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After their United Rugby Championship quarter-final defeat to Sharks was decided by a place-kick competition, Munster captain Tadhg Beirne said, “there was nothing more” he could ask of his team-mates.
The Irish team had a 21-10 lead in the second half, but the match turned into a penalty kick shootout after the game in Durban ended 24-24 and neither team had scored after extra time.
Rory Scannell was the only player who missed Munster’s six-from-six shots from the tee for the game.
They are riddled with foreigners, according to Beirne of the Sharks, who will now face South African rival Bulls in the semi-finals.
I have nothing more to ask of the young men. To go to a penalty shootout or whatever you call, we were gutted, but that’s how it ended, and we lost the game.
Peter O’Mahony, Conor Murray, and Stephen Archer’s final Munster appearances were marred by the defeat.
Beirne, who will tour with the British and Irish Lions for a second time this summer, added, “There’s no tomorrow for us this season and we have to say goodbye to some pretty special characters in this room.”
We’ve already discussed it before, and it’s going to be a strange place without them.
More than a decade after being banned by the country’s largest Muslim party by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s government, Bangladesh has now reinstated its registration.
The Jamaat-e-Islami party can now be officially listed with the Election Commission thanks to Sunday’s Supreme Court ruling, which will allow the interim government to hold its election by June 2020.
The ruling, according to Jamaat-e-Islami lawyer Shishir Monir, would “give the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people” a “democratic, inclusive, and multiparty system.”
Regardless of their ethnicity or religious identity, we hoped that Bangladeshis would support Jamaat and that the parliament would be spirited with constructive debates, Monir told journalists.
Following the ouster of Hasina’s government in August 2013 by a student-led nationwide uprising, the party had filed an appeal for a review of a 2013 high court order revoked its registration.
Hasina, 77, fled to India and is currently facing an absentee trial for her crackdown on protesters last year, which the United Nations described as a “systematic attack” that resulted in the death of up to 1,400 people.
Key figure freed
Following Tuesday’s overturning of a conviction against ATM Azharul Islam, one of the party’s top leaders, the Supreme Court issued a decision regarding Jamaat-e-Islami.
During Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, Islam was sentenced to death in 2014 for rape, murder, and genocide. Pakistan was backed by Jamaat-e-Islami during the war, a position that still elicits resentment from many Bangladeshis today.
After Islam’s conviction was overturned, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Shafiqur Rahman said, “We are not beyond making mistakes,” without stating what he was referring to.
If we commit any wrongdoing, he said, “We seek your pardon.”
The party’s members were Awami League’s Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who would become Bangladesh’s founding president, in opposition to Hasina’s father.
During her time in power, Hasina outlawed Jamaat-e-Islami and retaliated against its leaders.
After going viral with her crappy social media videos, TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka The History Gossip, is bringing history to life in her new Sky TV program History Crush.
It’s unclear whether Anne of Cleeves was a “minger,” or whether Queen Elizabeth I was a “minger.” Henry VIII was a “clapped” queen. In her cheesy social media posts, which have received millions of likes on TikTok, Katie Kennedy, better known as The History Gossip, uses this vibrant language to bring famous historical figures to life. Most people take years to get noticed, but Katie became famous practically overnight.
She was finishing up her 12 000-word dissertation on Women in Pompeii at Durham University one minute, and then she had shared a few bizarre history videos on TikTok that had gone viral.
Like most students, Katie enjoyed slogging away hours of study time on social media, but it turned out to be more important. “I was on TikTok all the time anyway, so I posted some stuff about the Tudors and I got a couple of thousand followers Then I did a video with the caption – why were the Tudes clapped”? she asserts.
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Seeing my blank expression, she translates: “Why were they really ugly? That performed very well. It was able to gain access to a sizable meme called “Great British Memes,” which has a sizable following. People were screenshotting it and asking, ‘ Is that you”?
Earthy and funny, Katie’s history videos are the right side of sweary, with a sprinkling of Gen Z language. “Some of the slang that I’ve picked up through the years was originally just to get around TikTok guidelines,” she explains.
The young Henry might have been worth a flng, but Katie says the older king was definitely ‘clapped’(Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
After a million followers, Katie accepted a book deal and published The History of the History of the Minger. And she’ll also be making an appearance on Sky History’s History Crush, where she’ll be sifting through the underwear drawers of famous people like Henry VIII, Charles Dickens, and Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Marie-Antoinette, and posing the big questions. “Yes he was”, she giggles. And did Lord Byron experience burns or crushes? “Definitely a crush,”
The speed at which Katie got a book deal will have many seasoned writers gnashing at the bit. She claims that “something went wrong” when she received a message from her current agent in February of last year. She asked, “Have you ever thought about writing a book? ” and she responded. And I thought, ‘ Yeah maybe in the future. ‘ However, as soon as I received my dissertation, I began writing it and finished it during Oxford’s Freshers Week while still feeling hungover!
Because it was more of a gifty book, we released it for Christmas in November. It’s still really weird seeing it in the book shops. “
I have to ask, “Was Anne of Cleeves a minger?” when we meet outside on a sunny afternoon in the charming Vaults and Gardens Café in Oxford, where Katie, 25, is currently a student for her master’s degree.
A diet of sugar left the Virgin Queen with ‘fuggers’ teeth and awful breath, says Katie Kennedy(Image: UIG via Getty Images)
” Well I don’t think so, “she replies”. She received a castle from Henry VIII, and their relationship resembled a brother-sister bond. She emerged from it quite well out of all of his wives. She wasn’t really minging, like her portraits said, but she was ‘ mid’. “
How about Elizabeth 1? According to Katie, her teeth were fuggers because of how much sugar she consumed. And it’s so funny that even when she looks a bit minging in her portrait, that’s probably her best photoshopped version. “
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Katie just returned from a trip abroad, but her skin is still “porcelain-like.” I don’t like to sit in the sun because I get scared of getting sunburned, “she says in her sing-song Geordie accent.
My entire life has been spent in Durham. I attended a nearby comprehensive school, attended a local comprehensive school, and completed sixth form there. And then a journalism apprenticeship with BBC, “she says.
This explains why Katie has a journalism certificate to back up her ability to find a hook in a story. She explains that I must have a three-second intro before posting anything in order to keep people interested. I don’t really script them though, I just press record! “
The History Gossip says Anne of Cleeves was nowhere near as ‘minging’ in real life as her portrait(Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
An authentic voice on the platform, which is supported by years of diligent academic work, is undoubtedly the key to Katie’s success.
” I did journalism for two years, but I felt like I’d missed out on university, so I applied to Durham to do Ancient History and Archeology – and got in! She asserts.
While she appears surprised by her “luck,” it seems to me that Durham and Oxford are fortunate to have someone who can bring history to life.
Although she has a bit of imposter syndrome, the university social life has made up for it”. She acknowledges that I enjoyed going to Durham because of all the traditions and things that came with it. You don’t get that in every university, but it’s fun.
A quick peek at her socials and you can see Katie has settled in well since arriving last September. She says, “Yes, the balls are wonderful. The gowns are my favorite to wear. I went to a Balioll College ball last week. The balls here are superior to those in Durham, I’ll tell you!
Katie’s first taste of history came when her parents dragged her around National Trust properties every Sunday. “I remember when I was seven being like, I don’t want to go to Wellington and Cragside, I just want to sit on my little Nintendo,’” she admits.
In her new show, Katie reckons poet Byron was definitely a ‘crush’ rather than a ‘burn’(Image: Getty Images)
She became a participant in a Beamish Living Museum of the North exhibit, which made the experience memorable.
” It’s just down the road from where I live. therefore, I twice had work experience there, “she recalls.” I once had my little cardboard gas mask box as a Second World War evacuee and later dressed as a Victorian school child.
“Did you know during rationing, instead of ice lollies little kids would have frozen carrots”?
Inspired by TV historians such as Lucy Worsley and Ruth Goodman, Katie admits that Horrible Histories – which has probably done more to make history popular than all the dusty old academic institutions put together – inspired her.
You don’t feel like you’re learning in Horrible Histories, says the author. The author of the books, Terry Deary, is from Sunderland, which is not far from where I’m from”, she adds proudly.
When she would appear in Victorian Farm on television, Ruth would say, “I’m going to make bread from scratch.” She doesn’t give the impression that you are being lectured; rather, she is talking about common people, who I believe occasionally get overlooked.
” It definitely sparked the way I like to present history in a fun, doesn’t-feel-like-you’re-learning type of way. “
‘Misunderstood’ Marie Antoinette loved her gowns and employed a full-time hot chocolate maker(Image: ullstein bild via Getty Images)
I’m curious what Katie’s more traditional tutors think of her approach to teaching history to the masses. When I first started on TikTok, I blocked everyone at Durham and friends and family, because I was embarrassed about posting a video that might get three views, “she reveals”. I stopped caring what people thought until I did a series about the Victorians.
“I really like my Oxford supervisor,” she says. I told him it’s like Horrible History but for adults, and he thinks it’s great that I’m making history more accessible”.
Influencers are likely to burn out on social media. With so much going on, I have a question about how she is spending her time. “My masters is on British and European 18th-century history, and I’m doing my dissertation on the fan-making industry and how women used fans. But since I’ve only been working part-time, I still need to spend a year to get my arse back in gear and sort it,” she says.
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“I used to post every single day on TikTok, but I’ve learned to take a step back from it and know that if I don’t post today, it’s not like the end of everything”.
And history is undoubtedly appealing to social media users. I just get that Americans don’t understand my accent, or they ask, “What’s a minger?” she laughs.
She and her brother, who has just begun studying politics at university, live in Durham with their parents. She claims that despite her claims that she was debating politics or history, she enjoys arguments.
Katie and her new book The History Gossip – Was Anne of Cleeves A Minger?(Image: Rowan Griffiths / Daily Mirror)
She sidesteps when asked if she is single, even though she is interested in if historical figures are worthwhile to date. “Depends on who’s asking”? she exclaims a smile.
But she gushes when describing one of her long-standing passions in Durham. “We’ve just got a King Charles Spaniel puppy called Millie – I love to sit and cuddle her in the garden”, she says. When I’m not there, I miss her dearly.
Katie, who devotes a lot of her time to studying historical women, continues, “I especially like the Brontes and Mary Antoinette, because I believe she was very misunderstood.”
The arts have been losing out in the push for more maths and engineering, but Katie is making history cool again and reminds us the importance of knowing about our past.
She claims that history keeps repeating itself. “People don’t really differ from who we are today. The Tudors put belladonna in their eyes to make them sparkle. Victorian women wore dresses made of arsenic and ate arsenic wafers to give their skin a pale complexion. Women were killed while wearing them.
So, forget Brazilian butt lifts, or excessive tanning – when it comes to dying for beauty, the Tudors and Victorians got there first.
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• HISTORY CRUSH, presented by Katie Kennedy (aka History Gossip), will be available on Sky HISTORY on demand via Sky and Virgin Media from May 29. More at www.history.co.uk/shows/history-crush #HISTORYCRUSH @HISTORYUK
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