Tomos Williams, a scrumhalf from Wales, will join Saracens next year after leaving Gloucester at the end of the current campaign.
Williams has been a standout player for the Cherry and Whites since signing in 2024, winning the title in June and taking the Gloucester crown this year.
Gloucester’s Prem rivals confirmed on Christmas Day that he would be joining the London club in the summer, with their rivals earlier in December making that announcement public.
In a statement released on December 25th, Saracens stated, “Tomos is a player we have rated very highly for a long time, and we believe he will make an outstanding addition to our squad.”
We are very excited to see him pull on a Saracens shirt next season because he is a world-class operator.
Williams, 30, expressed his excitement at joining Saracens, a team he’s always admired.
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Williams was chosen for the British and Irish Lions tour this summer, but he was forced to make a comeback after suffering a hamstring injury in the first game against Western Force on Australian soil after scoring two tries in a pre-tour warm-up match against Argentina.
His departure from Kingsholm will coincide with Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake joining the West Country Club from Ospreys in 2025-26.
Tomos Williams will leave Gloucester Rugby at the end of the 2025-26 season, according to a statement released on December 16.
Williams accepted a new contract to stay at Kingsholm after impressing at the club through the end of the season, but he instead chose to take up a new challenge elsewhere.
The Welshman will leave with the club’s best wishes when it arrives, but he will completely commit to ending his Gloucester Rugby career on a high.
Gloucester also made the announcement that 33-year-old former academy graduate Dan Robson will return to Kingsholm next season, ten years after his 2015 departure.
Gogglebox star hits the Strictly dance floor in The Mirror, according to Scarlett Moffatt
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Scarlett Moffat, a TV star, has previously discussed how dieting and body confidence have affected her mental health, arguing that she wants to concentrate on being both physically and mentally healthy.
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Scarlett Moffatt’s recent weight loss is everything you need to know.
Former Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt recently shared photos on Instagram showing a noticeably slimmer figure, prompting fans to comment on her weight loss transformation and compliment her look. She has ditched her size 18 clothes and appears to have a more slender shape in recent public appearances.
Scarlett, 35, from County Durham, has previously discussed how body confidence and dieting have affected her mental well-being, arguing that she prefers to focus on being healthy and body positive rather than chasing a arbitrary size.
The mother-of-one, who gave birth to a boy named Jude in 2023, has had a difficult time gaining her self-assurance since obtaining TV fame. She recently described how, despite years of brutal dieting and low self-esteem, she felt “happier” than ever.
She previously released a fitness DVD and lost a sizable amount of weight (roughly three stone), but she later regretted the extreme methods and how they affected her mental health. She discussed how she learned to love herself, how she learned to embrace her body more holistically, and how she feels about the pressure of body image.
Scarlett made her breakout TV debut with the Channel 4 program Gogglebox between 2014 and 2016. In British television, she became a household name as a result. She also won I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2016 and formerly worked on shows like IMG, I’m a Celebrity: Extra Camp, and Ant &.
Scarlett Moffatt has a BBC Sounds podcast called Scarlett Wants to Believe, has appeared in documentaries like Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates, hosted a cookery show on ITV, and is the author of several books about her television career.
Scarlett is officially confirmed as one of the celebrity contestants on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 too. She will be paired with professional dancer Vito Coppola for the festive episode. Scarlett has described taking part as a “personal and career highlight” and said she’s excited to dance and have fun with the experience.
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As part of the festivities observing Christmas, the Wife of the Rivers State Governor, Valerie Fubara, has emailed the children at the Port Harcourt Children’s Home.
Mrs. Fubara thanked the children and caregivers for their continued support of the governor’s administration’s commitment to the welfare, protection, and overall well-being of children throughout the state during the visit.
The Rivers State First Lady made other visits to the Rivers State Teaching Hospital (RSUTH), where she gave Christmas presents to babies born on Christmas Day, including babies Ann Amadi and Eric Blessing, as well as other children in the wards.
Billie Shepherd, the former The Only Way Is Essex star, opened up about the emotional struggles her husband and their children have faced this year by sharing a Christmas family photo with her husband Greg and their children.
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Billie Shepherd has opened up about her “emotional” Christmas amid speculation she has fallen out with her sister, Sam Faiers. Taking to social media on Christmas Day, the mum-of-three posed for a family photo alongside businessman husband Greg Shepherd.
A majestic Christmas tree was erected in the backseat of the five, which the five yelled at the camera. However, there are raw emotions as the family adjusts to a family bereavement behind the warm smiles. In a caption that appears next to the image, Marilyn mentions her difficult times. She wished everyone a happy Christmas in her typed. We are very appreciative of our relationship this year, look forward to spending time with our loved ones, and celebrate and cherish every moment.
She ended her message by saying, “Lots of love The Sheps.” Additionally, the note contained a number of emojis, including stars, a Christmas tree, and hearts. Fans rallied around the family to share messages of support for the update.
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One of the comments reads, “Merry Christmas Sheps.” I wish you all a wonderful day. Another person expressed their gratitude by saying, “We are thinking of you all today and Merry Christmas.”
Greg and his family were devastated by his father’s passing in September. He wrote, “I’m devastated and heartbroken to be writing this, but this time last week, my dad Dave passed away suddenly,” in a heartfelt statement at the time. Even at the age of 77, he still had a lot more to offer, which is what makes this difficult.
You raised me like your own, I said at the age of four. You taught me how to be a father, and you kept me present no matter what. You also made it look simple. Never missed a milestone, birthday, or other significant occasion. You and my sisters and grandchildren were always in your lap.
“I hope I can be the man you once were, Dad, who was always smiling, dancing, and who was the most appreciative person you could meet. I hope I can be that person.” Without you, our bar will never be the same again as the ones where all of my friends and I shared a relationship.
With only 36 years of love, memories, and happiness, I can only try to make you proud and to teach you how to live. I love you more than you’ll ever know, until we meet again, our child.
Meanwhile, recent reports have hinted at tensions between Billie and her younger sister, Sam. The duo have enjoyed plenty of success in the spotlight over the years after first finding fame on ITV’s The Only Way Is Essex and then building on their fame with shows of their own; The Baby Diaries and The Mummy Diaries.
However, the pair experienced a major setback this year when Sister Act, their most recent reality series, was cancelled after only one season. Fans have also noticed that the duo has not recently featured in any of their respective social media posts. Sam recently took a jet to Lapland, but neither Billie nor Sue, their mother, accompany her on vacations abroad, did so.
Sam revealed her latest show had been axed in a recent Q&A session with fans online. One asked her via Instagram: “Love watching you and Billie on Sister Act, will we see another series soon?” But the reality star warned: “Billie and I had the best time filming Sister Act last year. It was honestly such a special experience. We don’t have any plans for another series right now as work is pretty full on for both of us.”
Despite Sam’s insistence that the decision was made as a result of the workload, it was claimed that Sister Act received the chops due to low rating standards. Sam hadn’t been on TV in a while, an insider told a news outlet at the time, and it appears viewers missed her.
Viewing figures didn’t go as planned, and the show’s focus was on the sisters selling products, which resembled a protracted advertisement.
And reports from this week have suggested that Sam is feeling “lonely” after being iced out by her previous social circle. Fans have noted that she appears distant from Billie, and that she now only interacts with work colleagues.
“Her old friends in Essex have been complaining about how it seems like the only people she spends time with right now are the people who work for her, all of whom are always there,” according to a source in Essex.
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They added: “There’s her business partner, her PA, Billie and her Revive Collagen team and that’s it. She seems to have now been permanently frozen out of her old life by the Essex wives.” The Mirror has contacted a representative of Sam for comment.
Mohammad Bakri, a well-known Palestinian filmmaker and actor, has passed away in northern Israel, bringing his five-decade career to an end. He is one of the most influential figures in Palestinian cinema.
According to hospital officials, Bakri had heart and lung issues and passed away on Wednesday at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
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A renowned artist whose work directly challenged Israeli narratives and whose decades-long legal battles over censorship became a defining chapter of Palestinian cultural resistance after his death has been forgotten.
The 72-year-old was best known for his 2002 documentary, Jenin, Jenin, which gathered Palestinian residents’ testimony following a 52-person Palestinians-fatally-perished Israeli military operation there.
The movie sparked years of controversy in Israel, but it also elevated Bakri’s creative status, which would rule his entire life.
The Supreme Court upheld the prohibition in 2022,  , deeming it defamatory, despite Israeli authorities’ ban on the documentary in 2021.
Bakri stated at the time that the verdict was unfair and that it was “neutering my truth.”
Five soldiers sued Bakri, and the court ordered all copies taken and online links removed, leading to a final judgment against him that cost hundreds of thousands of shekels.
In a statement released earlier this year for the British Film Institute, Bakri stated, “Israel considers me their enemy, not my enemy.” They view my filmmaking as a traitor.
Bakri, an Israeli-born Palestinian national who studied Arabic literature and theater at Tel Aviv University, was born in 1953 in the Galilee village of Bi’ina. In Costa-Gavras’ Hanna K, he made his powerful acting debut, playing a Palestinian refugee attempting to reclaim his family’s home, at the age of 30.
In the 1984 Israeli film Beyond the Walls, his portrayal of a Palestinian prisoner won him both an Academy Award nomination and praise.
His career, however, was shaped by Bakri’s commitment to telling Palestinian stories. He directed and appeared in more than 40 movies that examined Palestinians’ experiences while they were living under Israeli occupation.
His solo theatrical production of The Pessoptimist, based on Emile Habibi’s novel about Palestinian identity, was performed more than 1,500 times around the world, cementing his place as a cultural icon.
Former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough once referred to Robertson, John as “the Picasso of our game,” calling him “the Picasso of our game.” He has passed away at the age of 72.
Robertson spent the first few months of his life at the City Ground before Clough made his debut in January 1975, utilizing the talent and intelligence that had been hidden behind the Scot’s frequently gloomy appearance to great effect in Forest’s excellent team in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In fact, the left-winger was widely regarded as the most influential player for a team that, after winning promotion in 1977-1978, won the First Division title and the League Cup in their inaugural season.
Despite what we know, this was just the beginning.
Forest followed up this with the even more remarkable achievement of winning the European Cup in 1979 against Malmo when Robertson headed the decisive header from the left-hand side of Trevor Francis. He continued to do so the following year when he scored against SV Hamburg in Madrid.
In 1983, Robertson and his long-term managing partner Peter Taylor experienced a bitter divorce.
Clough never apologized to Taylor, who was then in charge of Derby County, for signing Robertson for a fee that would be determined by a tribunal without giving him any explanation about his intentions.
Before Taylor’s death in 1992, at the age of 62, the rift was never resolved, to Clough’s regret.
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Before joining Forest as a teenager in 1970, Robertson had played for Scotland both in high school and youth. Prior to Clough’s appointment, he had not had a significant impact, but the great manager saw potential in him.
In his autobiography, Clough wrote that “Rarely could have been a professional athlete with a more unattainable appearance… scruffy, unfit, uninterested waste of time,” but something told him he was worth persevering with and one of the best football players I have ever seen.
He added, “I would sit next to him if I ever felt a little off color.” In contrast, I had a bloody Errol Flynn. But give him a ball and a yard of grass, and you’ll see how talented he was as a player as Picasso.
Robertson compared Clough to a man who loved him, saying, “I knew he liked me but I loved him. Without him, I wouldn’t have been able to work.
Robertson played 243 games in total between December 1976 and December 1980, and despite the big-money signings of England’s first £1 million footballer, Francis, he was the one who made Forest tick.
Robertson was Forest’s pivot despite the talent elsewhere.
Robertson not only contributed greatly to Forest’s 1977-1978 return to the top flight under Clough, but he also scored the winner from the penalty spot against Liverpool in the League Cup final replay at Old Trafford.
Robertson’s significance was recognized by Clough, who was a former team-mate Martin O’Neill, who said: “He was the most influential player in Europe for maybe three to four years.”
And John McGovern, Forest’s captain, said: “He had two good feet like Ryan Giggs.”
Despite Robertson’s own admission that he had no pace and was invincible, everything was done.
Clough, however, preferred to let him focus on what he could do rather than what Robertson could not do. The ideal manager-player union was achieved in football. Two entrancing mavericks working in harmony.
Before the 1980 European Cup final against Hamburg, Clough was questioned about the possibility of their great German right-back Manfred Kaltz keeping Robertson quiet in a well-known interview before the famous interview.
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And so it was when Robertson, who was outstanding, cut inside to exchange passes with Garry Birtles and beat Hamburg’s goalkeeper Rudi Kargus from 20 yards before striking out with his right foot to end the 20-minute game.
Robertson won the First Division title, two European Cups, and two League Cups while playing 386 games for Derby before making an agonizing switch.
Instead of Robertson’s deeds, it is a transfer that is remembered for the irreparable division it caused between Clough and Taylor. A return to Forest in August 1985 failed because he was now past his best years.
Robertson won 28 caps for Scotland, including two World Cup appearances in 1978 and 1982.
He scored eight goals for his nation, including the penalty-winner in the 1981 Home International Championship victory over England at Wembley and the second goal in the 5-2 victory over New Zealand at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, which he referred to as his “greatest ever goal”.
Robertson joined his former Forest manager when he was manager of Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City, Leicester City, Celtic, and Aston Villa, and was a key member of his old colleague O’Neill’s backroom team.
