The first series of Celebrity Traitors came to an end last night which saw iconic chat show host Alan Carr crowned the winner after a series of dramatic events
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Paloma was the first person to leave Celebrity Traitors(Image: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
Alan Carr has released a baffling comment as he finally responds to Paloma Faith’s baby news after his Celebrity Traitors win. The chat show host was given the crown of the first ever celebrity series in last night’s episode.
The star managed to use deception to convince his fellow players that he wasn’t a Traitor, meaning that he was awarded all of the money to give to his chosen charity.
He has now finally addressed the news that his friend and fellow Celebrity Traitors star Paloma Faith is expecting her third child. In typical Alan fashion, he approached the exciting news with humour.
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When Paloma initially revealed that she was expecting, Alan didn’t comment despite the pair being good friends. But now he has replied by joking that he is the father of the unborn child.
Alan appeared on Traitors spin-off show Traitors Uncloaked when he made the joke. Turning to Paloma, he said: “I am so sorry, you know I am. I want to tell everyone that I am the father of her child. We had a make up hug and one thing lead to another.”
The friends have been joking that they had fallen out due to the BBC show. Paloma was the first person to leave the show and it was all down to Alan.
The Traitors were given the task to “murder” someone in plain sight and unfortunately Paloma was the victim. Soon after, the singer had joked that she and Alan were no longer friends but it seems they have now made up.
Paloma went public with her boyfriend Stevie Thomas in March this year, having welcomed two daughters with ex-husband Leyman Lahcine.
Paloma previously welcomed her daughter in December 2016 and another baby girl in February 2021. She has been honest about her devastating fertility struggles over the years, having conceived both her children through IVF.
The Only Love Can Hurt Like This hitmaker had six rounds of IVF as she suffered an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage.
Paloma had a traumatic labour with her first child as she needed to have an emergency C-section. She was left with fertility problems and post-partum psychosis.
Paloma opened up on the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast: “After 21 hours in labour and no sleep for a week. I had 7 hours of sleep in 7 days…
“I had an emergency cesarean which later on caused me fertility problems as well, and then a bit of post-partum psychosis because of lack of sleep so I was, like, hallucinating. Probably depressed for a couple of years without realising…”
She added: “Later I wanted a second child and then I had 3 failed transfers. The fourth one worked and I was just so, kind of, headstrong about it.”
Claudia Winkleman headed to the Celebrity Traitors finale with one of her best looks of the entire season, with her tailored grey coat and tulle midi skirt the star of the show
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Claudia’s finale outfit was a showstopper(Image: Sinead McKeefry/Instagram)
After last night’s Celebrity Traitors took us on a rollercoaster of emotions and produced “The best 10 minutes of TV ever” according to fans, we’re all devastated it’s come to an end, not least because it means there’s a Claudia Winkleman-shaped hole on our TV screens. Until January any way, when season four of the main show returns and we can return to coveting Claudia’s countryside gothic looks.
But before that, last night’s episode gave us two final outfits from Claudia, and both were a masterclass in how to dress for autumn and winter. An undeniable stand out piece was her tailored grey coat, which was Bella Freud’s London Coat and is still available to shop straight from the designer’s website.
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The chic maxi length wool coat has been raved about by fans on stylist Sinead McKeefry’s Instagram page, with many clamouring for details on where they can shop the look for themselves. The coat is perfect for the cold weather thanks to its heavy duty design and wool material which keep you bundled up and warm against the chill.
It’s also tailored around the waist to help add some subtle definition, with double breasted fastenings. The London Coat is priced at £1250 which does make it quite the splurge, however it’s a true investment piece that’ll last you a lifetime.
If that does break the bank for you though, we’ve spotted some beautiful (and more affordable) alternatives elsewhere so you can copy Claudia’s look on a budget. You can pick up this & Other Stories Wool Double Breasted Maxi Coat for £279 which has a very similar look to Claudia’s Bella Freud one for almost £1000 less.
Elsewhere, Karen Millen’s Wool Blend Tailored Fitted Maxi Coat is currently on sale down from £429 to £321.75 and mirrors the Belle Freud coat with a defined waist and structured details around the hips for an exaggerated hourglass silhouette. For a true bargain, you can nab this Weekend Collective Maxi Coat In Grey Wool Look for just £85 – it’s not made from real wool, but has a wool-like finish that makes it look more expensive than it is.
If you want to get your hands on a true Bella Freud coat for less, the Pure Wool Belted Double Breasted Coat from the M&S X Bella Freud collection is still in stock in all sizes, and can be picked up for £300 at Marks & Spencer now.
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Claudia’s white tulle skirt was another scene stealer, with the host wearing Simone Rocha’s £874 Tulle Midi Skirt during the majority of the finale episode. We spotted some other great affordable picks to copy the look, with M&S’ Lace Maxi Tiered Skirt available for £50, whilst River Island’s showstopping Cream Tulle Mesh Maxi Skirt is priced at £59.
Gaza’s classrooms are slowly coming back to life, following two years of relentless Israeli war and devastation that has destroyed the Palestinian enclave’s fabric of daily life: Homes, hospitals and schools.
Four weeks into the United States-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is in the process of reopening schools across the territory amid ongoing Israeli bombardment and heavy restrictions on the flow of aid.
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Since October 2023, more than 300,000 UNRWA students have been deprived of a formal education, while 97 percent of the agency’s school buildings have been damaged or destroyed by the fighting.
What were once centres of education are now also being used as shelters by hundreds of displaced families.
Reporting from the central city of Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum found families sharing classrooms with children striving to reclaim their futures.
Inam al-Maghari, one of the Palestinian students who has resumed lessons, spoke to Al Jazeera about the toll Israel’s war on Gaza has had on her education.
“I used to study before, but we have been away from school for two years. I didn’t complete my second and third grades, and now I’m in fourth grade, but I feel like I know nothing,” al-Maghari said.
“Today, we brought mattresses instead of desks to sit and study,” she added.
Palestinian student Inam al-Maghari speaks about her return to school [Screen grab/Al Jazeera]
UNRWA is hoping to expand its educational services in the coming weeks, according to Enas Hamdan, the head of its communication office.
“UNRWA strives to provide face-to-face education through its temporary safe learning spaces for more than 62,000 students in Gaza,” Hamdan said.
“We are working to expand these activities across 67 sheltering schools throughout the Strip. Additionally, we continue to provide online learning for 300,000 students in Gaza.”
Um Mahmoud, a displaced Palestinian, explained how she and her family vacate the room they are staying in three times a week to allow students to study.
“We vacate the classrooms to give the children a chance to learn because education is vital,” Um Mahmoud said. “We’re prioritising learning and hope that conditions will improve, allowing for better quality of education.”
A picture taken from outside a classroom in Deir el-Balah, Gaza [Screen grab/Al Jazeera]
The war in Gaza has taken an immense toll on children, with psychologists warning that more than 80 percent of them now show symptoms of severe trauma.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF has estimated that more than 64,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza during the fighting.
Rotting pumpkins and burnt-out sparklers litter the garden, another international break looms and we’re at the end of another of those gruelling ‘nine-point weeks’ in the Championship.
By tea-time on Saturday, almost every EFL side will be a third of the way through their season but the 2025-26 campaign is turning into the most open in memory across all three divisions.
We have friends, and some foes, reunited in the second tier, sack races heating up and subplots galore, and with last weekend’s FA Cup first round games done and dusted it’s back to regular business for League One and Two teams.
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Rams on the up ahead of Eustace’s Rovers return
Plastic snakes and spray-painted bedsheets at the ready, all eyes on Ewood Park on Saturday lunchtime.
John Eustace quit Blackburn last February to take over at Derby, dropping 16 places in the Championship table and swapping a play-off push for a relegation scrap
Rovers eventually finished seventh under Valerien Ismael, missing the play-offs by two points, while Eustace steered the Rams to 19th, one point clear of the drop.
While this 12:30 GMT kick-off is Eustace’s first return to Ewood, it is not the first reunion, the rock-bottom Rams welcomed some very bitter Rovers fans to Pride Park in March in just Eustace’s fourth match in charge and went 2-0 up inside seven minutes on their way to a 2-1 win, his first at the club after starting with three straight defeats.
Former Rovers players Andi Weimann, Danny Baath and skipper Lewis Travis have followed Eustace to Pride Park to add some more spice to this occasion.
Despite the subplots, the fixture also pits two of the division’s in-form sides against one another.
Derby’s 2-1 win over Hull City on Tuesday was a fourth straight win, while Rovers’ 1-0 success at Bristol City the same evening was their third in succession.
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Robins flying with only Sky Blues ahead
Friday marks one year to the day since Mark Robins was sacked by Coventry to end a seven-and-a-half year stay at the Sky Blues, having steered them to within a penalty shootout of promotion to the Premier League the previous year.
Frank Lampard was named City boss three weeks later while Robins joined the Potters in January, and the rest, as they say, is history.
On Saturday, the two clubs meet with Coventry four points clear at the top after a blistering start to the season, though their unbeaten run was ended at Wrexham last week before they bounced back to come from behind and beat Sheffield United on Tuesday.
Three straight wins for Stoke, with nine goals scored and just one conceded, took them into second ahead of the weekend clash of the meanest defence in the division, with just nine goals conceded by Stoke in 14 games, against the leading scorers, with Coventry netting an astonishing 39 goals.
There was a sting in the tail for Robins on his first return to the CBS Arena last March when Sam Gallagher’s double looked to have ensured the Potters a late 2-2 draw, only for Bobby Thomas to win it for Coventry in the 97th minute.
What we’d give for more drama like that on Saturday.
There’s also another clash of promotion-chasers on Saturday which might have crept under the radar a bit.
Despite an injury crisis at Deepdale, a 2-1 win over Swansea on Wednesday was Preston’s third straight victory and took them fourth ahead of their 12:30 GMT trip to Millwall, a point back in fifth after a 4-0 drubbing at Birmingham on Tuesday night.
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Up, up and away
Quiz time. Of the 62 teams who both finished last season and started this one in the EFL, who has won the most points in 2025 so far?
Surely it’s Coventry? Nope, not even close. It must be Bradford then? No. Wrexham? Afraid not.
Birmingham’s back-to-back 4-0 home wins this past week took them up to 83 points and counting this year.
League One leaders Stockport are second with 78 while it’s little old Charlton who are third, a further three points back, after their last-gasp win over West Brom at The Valley on Tuesday.
In a world where Sunderland have bounced straight from the Championship play-offs into the top four of the Premier League, is it really beyond the imagination to expect newly-promoted League One sides to be competing at the top of the second-tier?
There was a bit of heat on Chris Davies less than a fortnight ago after a meek 1-0 defeat at Bristol City, a fourth defeat in five away games without scoring.
However they head to Middlesbrough on Saturday brimming with confidence sat just two points outside the play-off places, and having scored as many goals in the past two matches as they did in the previous 11 combined in all competitions.
The side in sixth they are chasing? That would be Charlton, who rather edged through the nervy League One play-offs last year but have taken to the Championship like a, erm, Addick to water, with just three defeats in their opening 14 matches and the second best defence in the league with just 11 conceded.
That record will be tested on Saturday (15:00 GMT) as Nathan Jones heads back to his homeland to visit Wrexham, a club he previously referred to as “a circus” before backing down a bit, not that Phil Parkinson was buying it.
His Red Dragons have also found their feet following promotion, losing just one of their past eight games and going unbeaten in four at home, inflicting a first defeat on leaders Coventry last time out at the Racecourse to help them sit five points outside the play-offs themselves.
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Sack race or promotion race?
You can throw your cap over half a dozen sides at the top of League One with three points separating the top six sides going into the weekend, but those names are not necessarily the ones you might expect to be leading the fight for promotion.
Cardiff are the only team relegated from the Championship to be in the thick of things, with Luton floundering in 10th and with Jack Wilshere freshly at the helm ahead of their trip to fellow Hatters Stockport, who are top of the pile.
Before the season not many would have picked Peterborough and Blackpool to be in the bottom half, let alone make up the bottom two at this stage, while Reading were fifth-bottom and like the previous two also sacked their manager, swapping Noel Hunt for Leam Richardson in an attempt to boost their fortunes, it certainly began well as the Royals beat Stevenage 1-0 on Thursday night.
Another two sides expected to challenge for promotion were Huddersfield and newly-relegated Plymouth, who meet on Saturday (15:00 GMT) off the back of three straight defeats each, with Lee Grant’s Terriers already six points off the play-off pace and Tom Cleverley’s Greens third-bottom with nine defeats in their opening 14 games.
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Saddle up for another wild weekend
Death… taxes… League Two being utterly bonkers.
Just five points separate the top 13 sides in the fourth tier and you might forgive Walsall fans for feeling a spot of deja vu.
After a run of 19 points from seven games took them top of the table, where they were for the majority of last season before capitulating, Mat Sadler’s men have taken a single point from their past three games against Crawley, Barrow and Cheltenham, all struggling in or near the relegation zone at the time.
The Saddlers head to rock-bottom Newport on Saturday (15:00 GMT) and, should they lose for a third straight game, could find themselves as low seventh by the full-time whistle of Cheltenham v Notts County on Monday night.
You can follow the entire EFL programme as it happens on the BBC Sport website and app, starting with live text coverage of Watford v Bristol City on Friday (20:00 GMT).
Kelly Osbourne took to social media to share sweet memories of her late dad, Ozzy Osbourne, with her son Sidney as he turned three years old
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Kelly Osbourne has made sure her late dad Ozzy is still very much a part of family life as she celebrates her son’s third birthday. It’s the first birthday Sidney has had since his grandfather’s death in July.
The Black Sabbath icon died of heart failure on July 22 in Buckinghamshire. He was 76. It came two weeks after he had performed at his farewell concert with his bandmates and an array of other huge stars at his beloved Villa Park in Birmingham.
To mark her son’s big day, Kelly, 41, has shared a number of sweet snaps of the two together to mark the occasion. Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the singer and reality TV star showed shots of Ozzy looking happier than ever alongside his grandson.
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One image showed the War Pigs singing playing with Sidney in a swimming pool outside. Another also showed Sharon’s connection as the trio cuddled up in bed.
Kelly captioned the post with a sweet nod to her dad, saying he will be “watching down” on the family. She wrote: “I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already.
“I cried my eyes out making this reel. So much has happened in the most magical ways in the last three years.”
Kelly went on: “‘Happy birthday my little angel I know what Papa is watching down on you so proud of the little man that you are becoming! YOU ARE 3!!!!!!!!! I love you I love you I love you.”
She later shared clips of Sidney enjoying his celebrations with huge displays and balloons. The youngster was treated to a variety of different dinosaur toys as he opened up his presents with glee in matching pyjamas with his mum.
And in another “3rd birthday photo dump” the tot is seen singing while later meeting super heroes. They also went feed goats while Kelly showed off her face paint and dress up.
Just days before Sidney’s celebration, Kelly remembered her dad as she marked her own birthday. In a sentimental upload, she said: “Tomorrow is going to be a first for me.
“The first birthday without my dad. Every year, the thing I look [forward] to the most was spending the day with him and the cards he would write me.
“Knowing that I will never get one again shatters my heart. Here are just a few of them. They were always short, simple but said everything I needed to hear. I love you, Daddy, tomorrow will suck without you.”
In one card, Ozzy had penned: “To Kelly, I love you with all my heart,” while in another he sweetly wrote: “Dearest Kelly, I just want to say that I love and miss you every second of the day.” In every one of them he signed off as “daddy”.
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Kelly often posted her and her son’s bond with her late dad and has been open about her feelings since his passing.
Taylor Swift is set to walk down the aisle to marry fiancé Travis Kelce, but her love life has been a bit of rollercoaster until now and includes a savage breakup
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Taylor’s romantic experiences have spurred a number of hit tracks(Image: Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
She may be set to marry the man of her dreams, but Taylor’s slow path to Travis has been notoriously bumpy. As reflected in her song lyrics, she has frequently been broken-hearted and once called herself “ridiculously stupid” when it comes to falling in love. “So much of her music has been about past relationships,” says PR and communications expert Lynn Carratt. “Her songs have traced her emotional journey in real time, and fans have always bought into that. Her relationships are embedded in her music for listeners to decode, and rather than being a celebrity who is forever talking about her love life in the public eye, she instead creates and controls her own narrative around it.”
Just a few weeks before Taylor and Travis got together, she split from The 1975 rocker Matty Healy, who she first met almost a decade earlier at one of his gigs. They were repeatedly linked over the years, but the rumours finally became a reality in May 2023 when Cheshire-born Matty attended three of Taylor’s Eras shows in Nashville. On one occasion, he was seen clutching a hand to his heart as she performed, and they were later seen holding hands while out for dinner with Taylor’s long-term collaborator Jack Antonoff. They were snapped out together in New York too, and Matty also attended an Eras show in Philadelphia with Taylor’s dad Scott.
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But while the fling reportedly ended after just a month, it was still said to have been intense, and Taylor sang about Matty on her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department. In fact, he was said to have inspired its name, with the title track concerning his love of typewriters. “You left your typewriter at my apartment / Straight from the Tortured Poets Department,” she sang. Meanwhile, the track Loml was also thought to have been about Matty, with lines like, “It was legendary / It was momentary / It was unnecessary / Should’ve let it stay buried.”
Prior to Matty, Taylor’s six-year romance with British actor Joe Alwyn was her longest to date. It was thought they first met at the Met Gala in 2016, but they kept things strictly off-radar, with Taylor once saying, “Our relationship isn’t up for discussion.” In a diary entry that accompanied her 2019 album Lover , she wrote of their time “hiding out in London”, adding, “We have been together and no one has found out for three months now.”
The album included the song London Boy , in which she sang about cosy trips to Camden Market and Soho, while she confirmed to fans that earlier song Gorgeous was also about the ConversationsWith Friends star. Joe even made a fleeting appearance in Taylor’s MissAmericana documentary, and he co-wrote the songs Exile and Betty on her album Folklore , under the pseudonym of William Bowery.
After the pair spent much of lockdown in the capital together, rumours of an engagement swirled, and there were suggestions they had tied the knot when she wore a wedding gown in her video for Willow . But in April 2023, the pair split, with friends blaming “differences in their personalities” as well as the intense pressures of fame.
Unsurprisingly, Joe’s presence was felt on The Tortured Poets Department , with songs like So Long, London referencing Taylor’s pain at the end of their time together. “The fact Taylor writes about relationships in her music makes it so relatable,” says author Annie Zaleski, who explored the meaning of more than 250 tracks in her book, Taylor Swift: The Stories BehindThe Songs .
“She’s been very honest and vulnerable about where she’s at, and fans can say, ‘I’ve gone through that as well.’ Her music is very human and empathetic, and shows how life can be difficult. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, even for Taylor.”
Before dating Joe, Taylor had a 15-month relationship with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, but their amicable split in June 2016 soured when she moved on with the actor Tom Hiddleston. A fight over songwriting credits saw Calvin claim Taylor and her team were trying to “make him look bad”, and her subsequent song Getaway Car was seen as a revenge shot, with lines like “I wanted to leave him / I needed a reason.”
Her whirlwind fling with Marvel star Tom then sparked a media frenzy, but after he famously wore an ‘I HEART TS’ T-shirt on the beach, Taylor felt it had all become too public and #HiddleSwift was officially over. The relationship was also shrouded in claims it had been a PR stunt, but that was refuted. “Of course it was real,” Tom said in response to the doubters. “We had the best time.”
Another much-hyped but short-lived romance came with former One Direction singer Harry Styles, who Taylor first met at the 2012 Kid’s Choice Awards. The pair were affectionately dubbed ‘Haylor’ by fans, but after around a month of dating it ended in early 2013, with Taylor admitting her subsequent song Style was about “one of those relationships that’s always a bit off”. But the pair seemed on good terms as they bumped into each other at the 2021 Grammys, and Harry once said of their time together, “It was a learning experience for sure.”
Of course, Taylor’s most famous breakup anthem is We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together , and the track was widely assumed to concern her on-off dalliance with actor Jake Gyllenhaal. He reportedly broke Taylor’s heart just as she turned 21. When they split in 2010 it gave rise to the mysterious red scarf in her song All Too Well – widely viewed as an emblem of devastating lost love.
Taylor also had other brief romances with Twilight actor Taylor Lautner and musician John Mayer, while she once revealed that singer Joe Jonas dumped her over the phone after three months of dating in 2008. “I looked at the call log – it was like 27 seconds. That’s got to be a record,” she said. That split resulted in several songs on her album Fearless , including Forever & Always, with savage lyrics that seemed to refer to Joe as a “scared little boy”.
Meanwhile, Travis has had some celebrity relationships of his own, with one former flame Maya Benberry winning his heart on his US reality show Catching Kelce . In the series, 50 contestants from across the US vied to snare Travis, and he and Maya dated briefly in 2016 before going their separate ways. He also had an on-off romance with sports journalist and influencer Kayla Nicole for several years, but they broke up for good in May 2022. Travis was then linked to Access Hollywood presenter Zuri Hall in 2023, but their relationship was never confirmed.
But while Taylor and Travis have found happiness together, it’s safe to assume the singer won’t stop writing sad songs in future. “Being happy brings different sources of melancholy,” adds Annie. “She’s often written about the pain of growing up and her own insecurities, and I think she will still want her music to convey the full range of human experience.”
