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TV presenter Emma Willis has opened up about her hole in the heart diagnosis as she backs a British Heart Foundation campaign to raise awareness amongst people living with cardiac conditions

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Emma Willis has revealed how she was “floored” by a hole in the heart diagnosis after meeting another mum facing the same condition.

The presenter, who this week confessed to feeling “nervous” about stepping into Zoe Ball’s shoes on BBC Radio 2’s Saturday lunchtime show this weekend, learnt she was living with a heart defect last year.

The 49 year old is now championing a fresh campaign by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to boost awareness amongst people living with cardiac conditions. Willis had unknowingly been living with a hole in her heart for 48 years, which only came to light following a routine medical examination last January.

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Willis was informed she had a congenital condition, meaning she was born with the cardiac hole. The defect was sealed through keyhole surgery at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital just two months following her diagnosis.

Willis explained: “The last thing I expected my cardiologist to say was that it was a congenital heart condition. I was floored as I had gone 48 years oblivious, not knowing anything was wrong. It was a bolt out of the blue, and I had a million questions going through my head. The mental shift was the biggest challenge, because when you hear those words, it terrifies you.

“My perspective on life shifted. From diagnosis to surgery was the most present I have been in my life. I’m hoping that sharing my story will help others going through something like this.”

As part of her involvement with the BHF campaign, Willis had the opportunity to meet Aimee Nicholls, a woman living with a heart condition, and her eight year old son Leo, who also suffers from congenital heart disease. She also had a conversation with Michelle White, a mother of three who has endured 13 different types of heart procedures.

The BHF is set to unveil 65 red benches – one for each year the charity has been in existence – across the UK as a tribute to those battling cardiovascular disease. Each bench bears the name of a survivor along with a brief message about them and their interests.

Mrs Nicholls was born with a heart defect and underwent a keyhole procedure when she was just four years old. A scan at 20 weeks into her pregnancy revealed that her son Leo would also be born with a heart condition.

Upon his birth in November 2017, Mrs Nicholls and her husband Alex were informed that their son had multiple heart defects and would require open heart surgery at only a week old. “When we were told about Leo’s conditions, our world collapsed,” shared Mrs Nicholls, 32, from Bristol.

“We’d gone from being told he had a minor heart defect that wouldn’t require surgery and would rectify itself, to being told that without open heart surgery he wouldn’t survive. We just broke down and couldn’t process it at all.”

Following a successful operation, Leo was discharged from hospital two days before Christmas, although he may require further surgery in the future.

Mrs White, 48, hailing from Manchester, is living with a defective heart valve. Her heart condition led to an enlargement of the organ and necessitated two open-heart surgeries to mend the valve.

Subsequently, she developed several irregular heart rhythms and had a pacemaker installed. Despite suffering multiple strokes, she has been reassured that her heart is functioning well due to ongoing treatment.

She bravely stated: “I won’t let fear define me. I’m taking things step by step, staying positive, and I feel I’m at a new chapter where I can focus on what truly matters most.”

Dr Charmaine Griffiths, the chief executive of the BHF, called for donations towards vital research, expressing gratitude to Emma, Aimee, Leo and Michelle for their openness about their heart conditions.

“Their stories send a powerful message that cardiovascular disease can affect anyone, and that it’s OK to talk about your heart health.

Katie Price has continued sharing more cryptic posts in the aftermath of her alleged breakup from partner of two years, JJ Slater

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Katie Price has been sharing more cryptic posts following her break-up from JJ Slater. The pair are said to have called time on their relationship of two years this year and the former glamour model has continued to share quotes on her social media.

The duo had last been spotted together over Christmas as Katie spent Boxing day with his family. However, although neither have publicly revealed their status, it’s thought they’ve gone their separate ways.

Sources have claimed the problems in their romance sadly became ‘too obvious to ignore’. It comes just weeks after Katie shot down reports of a break up.

But Katie’s posts are seemingly pointing that way. Posting on Instagram on Wednesday, the-mum-of-five uploaded a quote which read: “Real intimacy isn’t built in bedrooms but in conversations where your raw thoughts, fears, and truths are met with love patience, and a desire to understand.”

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Another said: “They say falling in love takes time. But it’s not true. Falling in love only takes the right person – the one who knows exactly what you need, without you having to ask.”

In another telling post, Katie shared points that are said to reveal the signs you are with the right person. “If a person is your soulmate, you will notice these divine signs,” the upload read.

Among the points made were someone who gets your quirks and someone who makes “small moments feel magical”. The comments also said that the right person will “make your soul smile” and provide an “instant connection”.

Continuing her quote-posting spree, she also shared a message reading: “My Mom always say that when you meet the male version of yourself is when you meet the love of your life.”

Just a day earlier, Katie had once again been posting cryptic posts and thoughtful quotes. But as she continues to share online, her daughter Princess Andre shared footage of the duo enjoying a mother-daughter day.

It comes after Katie had hinted she was going to take eldest son Harvey to Las Vegas. In a vlog upload on YouTube, the star asked her son, who has complex medical conditions which include Prader-Willi syndrome, if a trip to the United Stats could be in order.

Speaking to him on a video for her channel, Katie said: “You’ll be 24. You are such a man. I think we need to take you to nightclubs this year.

” Do you know I could take you to Vegas? You’re old enough. I could take you anywhere now. You’re 24, you’ll be 24. Do you want to try your first beer?”

The clip was recorded on New Year’s Eve. It showed Katie sitting on a bed while Harvey stands next to her. She went on: “What we’re gonna do this year is get very, very healthy so you can get on those rollercoasters for your birthday.”

Cheryl Tweedy was terrified after Daniel Bannister repeatedly turned up at her home, and “displayed fixated, obsessive, unwanted and repetitive behaviour” towards the Girls Aloud singer

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Cheryl Tweedy’s stalker was secretly freed from jail having served just three months, it is reported.

Daniel Bannister, 51, left the Girls Aloud singer terrified by turning up four times at the house she shares with son Bear, eight, including on an occasion when the star was grieving the loss of her former partner, Liam Payne.

But, although he was jailed last year, it is understood Bannister was released early in recent weeks. It had been feared Bannister could target Cheryl again — but the stalker was snagged this week in south London. The criminal was spotted breaking rules in his halfway house, a bail hostel in the capital, as it is believed alcohol was found in his room there.

So last night, Bannister was back behind bars, a welcome conclusion for Cheryl, 42, who “immediately panicked” on one occasion in 2024 when she saw the intruder outside her home in Buckinghamshire.

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All lags released on licence are required to “be of good behaviour” but Bannister broke the rules at his halfway house, it is understood. Last night, an HM Prison and Probation Service spokesperson told The Sun: “As this case shows, we do not hesitate to send offenders back to prison where necessary if they break the rules.”

When Bannister appeared in court in connection with the Cheryl case, it was heard Bannister was jailed for 30 months in 2012 — for manslaughter after attacking a man who died of his injuries. Following the emergence of grim details, the singer told the court in a statement: “I was concerned he was looking for a way into the property.”

But the mum of one bravely overcame this trauma — and the loss of Bear — in a poignant last few years. She recently looked radiant in a video as part of her partnership with Nivea UK. Speaking about this link on social media, Cheryl said: “I’ve really noticed the difference in my skin. It’s glowy. There’s no fuss, no drama. Just science doing its thing. It’s a new era for me and I’m ready.”

The songstress, from Walker, Newcastle, took a “trip down memory lane” to promote the skincare brand. Cheryl was announced as the face of its new Cellular Epigenetics Age Rewind Serum last year and fronts the campaign, which marked her TV comeback following her late former partner Liam’s death.

A Love Island fan-favourite has revealed she has gone under the knife for a secret nose job and shared the results on social media

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A former Love Island star has revealed her new look after undergoing a nose job. The operation was carried out “in secret” and the reality star, 30, shared her cosmetic procedure result on social media.

Kady McDermott is currently in Dubai and stepped out without her nose cast on to proudly showcase her new image. Sharing on her Stories on Monday, Kady posed for the camera as she wrote: “That feeling when you get your nose cast off.”

She also shared the clip on her TikTok, with fans loving her reveal. It was the first time Kady had publicly shared news of her op. Many of her followers commented on how she was already “perfect” before the procedure. “This surprised me because you were already perfection girl,” gushed one.

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After relocating to Dubai, it’s said Kady rekindled a past romance. The All Stars contestant moved to Dubai with her on-again-off-again millionaire beau. In November, it was reported that the reality star has got back with Henry Simmons, despite previously swearing off men.

Kady, who first appeared on the ITV reality show 10 years ago started dating Henry in September 2024. At the time, she had hinted at the relationship by sharing snaps from her holiday in St Tropez.

However, their romance was short-lived. Kady quickly announced after just a few months that she was single. She wrote at the time that you “can’t change bad morals”.

She then took a further swipe at him on social media, telling her followers: “If any of you see me with a man again, just know I was held hostage cos I am honestly DONE with them all.

“No matter how good you are to someone, you can’t change their bad morals, unfortunately. Onwards and upwards.”

However, it appears as though she has backtracked. The couple rekindled their romance with Kady confirming their news in a photo of herself lying next to Henry.

As well as her latest op and love life stories, Kady has been keeping her followers up to date on her move to Dubai. She regularly uploads snaps and videos to social media, including documenting taking her Pomeranian dog to Dubai with her.

Kady first entered the Love Island villa in 2016. She hoped it would be second time lucky as she gave it another shot in 2023. At the time shee coupled up with Scottish footballer Ouzy See.

The two, however, barely lasted outside the villa. Just two days after the pair looked loved up at the Aftersun reunion special, Kady announced the break-up

There was another shocking exit on the hit BBC show tonight no one saw coming

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A much-loved player went from hero to zero on The Traitors tonight as she failed to persuade contestants to vote for traitor Rachel Duffy. So she instead went “kamikaze” and banished herself from the game.

In unprecedented scenes, former criminal barrister and crime writer Harriet Tyce, 52, was unable to convince the others Rachel was lying, and so urged them to “vote for me” and then take her advice once she confirmed she was a faithful exiting the game. The stunned players took her words literally and she left the BBC hit series with a massive 10 votes, having seemed one of the strongest remaining contestants last week.

Harriet told them: “What I am interested in is a win for the faithfuls. Now you can clear this up once and for all by voting me out and have me stand there and then I say that I’m a Faithful, at which point you will realise what I am saying has merit.”

After the vote she added: “Its a kamikaze move. I appreciate that. But I wanted to ensure you all knew who I really was. It seems to me that this was the only way I could get rid of any doubt over what I have said. I’ve given you the names, do not let this sacrifice be in vain. I am a faithful.”

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The result means the two traitors, Rachel and Stephen Libby, survived another day. And like banished Fiona Hughes before her, Harriet lost her position in the game when she risked going head-to-head with the formidable game player Rachel.

Speaking afterwards, Harriet insisted she had no major regrets about her passionate speeches at breakfast and the round table which included revealing her real occupation and strong feelings Rachel was definitely a traitor, which some contestants felt was out of character.

She told the Mirror: “On the one hand, I’m gutted not to have got further. I haven’t won therefore I’ve lost so it’s hard not to see it that way, but on the other hand, I could not have asked for more action!

“I was given some opportunities there, I created other opportunities for myself and as I said, Faithfuls have very little control. In all of that I managed to find a way of fighting as myself and leaving on my own terms and I really don’t think many other people who’ve been through the game can say that. If I were to swap with being there in the final but being duped, I’d take my short-lived game any day.”

She added: “My game plan blew up but it is what they say it is… ‘Everyone’s got a plan until someone punches them in the face’. The idea was to go in as the nice lady with the jumper who was not a published author. Not too much on anyone’s radar – the invisibility cloak of the middle-aged woman and just try and keep my head down and watch what was going on.

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“Unfortunately, because of Hugo, I was triggered into action there. I was then able to merge back relatively easily from that which surprised me because people weren’t being observant enough. They should have killed me when they had the chance.

“So, until the Smoke and Mirrors Mission, I think it was working very well, but it was hard to allow myself to be underestimated consistently. I didn’t really enjoy that even though I could see that it served a strategic aim. I think that with Smoke and Mirrors, it was just too irresistible an opportunity to let myself be myself properly and to stop letting anyone play me for a fool.”

After winning a prize in the Smoke and Mirrors Mission, Harriet was allowed to ask the Traitors two questions and had told them she was onto Rachel. But her over zealous accusations afterwards seemed strange and suspect to other faithfuls.

Referring to her decision to disclose information at breakfast, after she had been allowed to ask two questions, she explained: “I didn’t want the Traitors to have a single piece of information on me that I hadn’t shared with my fellow Faithfuls. You have very little control in that environment as a Faithful and I was bloody well going to control my own narrative and not give that to anybody else. People could choose not to believe me, but I was not going to leave anyone the opportunity to spread lies about me before I had told the truth.”

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Asked if she would have done anything differently she said: “I would have tried to have been less emotional, but it’s almost impossible. I did the best I could with what I had; other people might have done a better job, strategically other people might have lasted longer but I’m still very proud of myself. I demonstrated integrity and as it turned out that’s something that’s really important to me.”

She admitted it had been a spontaneous decision to put her own neck on the line in the round table.

She explained: “It was halfway through after Matt made his accusation against me and I started to defend myself with some force. I was really going to give it a go and then I thought; you know what? I don’t want to do this. It was the first time I’d been under suspicion in two weeks, and I didn’t like the feeling.

“I was a very useful distraction for the Traitors, so I would be kept in this state of having my wings pulled off. It just became clear that the kamikaze departure was the way to do it. Suddenly all the tension left me, and it was a relief after so much high emotion.”

Harriet’s disastrous ending, when she also accused faithfuls Matthew and Roxy of wrongly being traitors, was a complete contrast to her heroic earlier efforts when she calmly explained at a round table that Hugo Lodge was a traitor. Her reasoning won contestants over and there had been delight when he was unmasked.

Looking back at that moment, she said: “It was a very exhilarating moment and something I realised in retrospect was the fact that I was fighting for my 25-year-old self who was a pupil back in the 90s dealing with male barristers of a certain age, some of whom were considerably less well behaved than Hugo. I think that I was taking one for the team and driving something I felt needed to be driven, and even though I knew I was putting a target on my back by acting in that way, I knew that it was the right thing to do.

“Me with my arms in the air – oh it was glorious. Such a good feeling.”

She said appearing on the series had made her realise she was “capable of more than perhaps I think I am”. She added “I need to trust my intuition because my god my intuition was on the money!”

Tomorrrow(Thursday) we will find out the result of the latest murder by the traitors. It was looking most likely they would try to kill Jessie, Adam or James but some of them had shields thanks to the Fountain of the faithful mission.

* The Traitors continues on Thursday and Friday on BBC1 and BBC iPlayer.

The daughter of a former Hollywood power couple was back in front of the camera as she posed in a white gown in shallow waters

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The 21-year-old daughter of a huge star has shown her artistic side as she submerged herself in water for a photoshoot. The blonde beauty was seen in a number of poses wearing a flowing white gown in the water.

In one image she looked to be standing on the surface, while another showed her submerged. But can you tell who it is?

The star was involved in her second campaign with London based fashion house Self-Portrait, with images snapped by photographer Ryan McGinley. Alongside stylist Mel Ottenberg, the trio were reunited following working on the nepo baby’s debut campaign in October.

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Have you guessed who it is? Yes, it’s Apple Martin. The daughter of Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin looked like a natural in the shots.

Speaking of their connection, Apple said: “My relationship with self-portrait has evolved into something far deeper than I imagined. What started as a collaboration has turned into a true partnership.

“Whenever I am with the team, it feels so familiar and like coming home to a creative family; people who encourage me and celebrate the parts of myself I’m still discovering.

“Their designs carry this beautiful mix of vulnerability and confidence, and working with them has helped me tap into those same qualities within myself. It’s become a shared journey, and I feel honoured to grow with them.”

And the praise was mutual. Han Chong, Founder and Creative Director of self-portrait, said: ‘While our first chapter introduced Apple officially to the creative industry, this new series of portraits show a more reflective evolution of her personality.

“There’s a maturity and steadiness to the imagery which aligns with where she is heading.

“Watching her grow from the sidelines has been one of the most rewarding parts of this partnership; she is a joy to work with, a lot of fun to be around, and a new effortless style icon in the making.”

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Despite the huge praise from the fashion label, a pal of mum Gwyneth previously had to stand up for the star amid rude behaviour claims. Reports in 2024 suggested Apple showcased “diva” behaviour at a society ball.

While some have questioned if the youngster showcased evidence of spoiled behaviour at the event, others championed her as the new ‘sassy’ star of the Hollywood set.

And a source at the time told the Daily Mail: “Apple’s more playful and fun and she’s really a total girls’ girl. She would never mean to take the spotlight from anyone, that was not her intention.

“To characterise her as a mean girl is very untrue. She really had such a wonderful evening and I feel bad that this is even taking away from that because it was such an uplifting evening for her and the other girls.”