Just two days before Adam Peaty’s wedding, Holly Ramsay, is scheduled to get married to him in the middle of their dispute with his family, Holly Ramsay celebrated her final Christmas as an unmarried woman.
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Holly Ramsay has celebrated her last Christmas before her wedding to Adam Peaty(Image: Instagram/ @adam_peaty)
Holly Ramsay has celebrated her last Christmas as an unmarried woman. The daughter of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, 25, will tie the knot with Team GB star Adam Peaty on December 27, and took to social media to update fans with a romantic post.
Adam had posted a snap of them both onto his Instagram Story which he he simply captioned: “Merry Christmas!” But Holly took things one step further, by acknowledging the big day that is less than 48 hours away.
The model reposted the snap, which pictured them outside holding hands, onto her on Story and wrote over it: “Last Christmas as a Miss,” as she emblazoned the caption with a string of emojis.
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The couple will exchange vows at Bath’s historic Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul before getting festive drinks later in the month.
But it all comes amid a feud that exploded into the public eye after the mother of the groom, Caroline, was left out of Holly Ramsay’s glamorous hen party at Soho Farmhouse, prompting Adam’s aunt, Louise Williams, to publicly criticise Holly and Adam on social media for the “hurt” inflicted.
After being noticeably absent from Holly’s hen party, the question of whether or not her mother-in-law will be invited to the lavish wedding ceremony was raised. She so heartbreakingly stated in a recent interview, “I want Adam to know that no matter what happens in the future, you can talk to me whenever you want.”
She continued to state to the Daily Mail, “I would not forgive anything you’ve done.” I’m so in love with you. I sincerely hope your marriage turns out well, and I sincerely hope that Holly and you have a successful union. I want everything to end, so I’m speaking out.
She claimed that she was at home looking after Adam’s young son, who he shares with his former partner at the time of Holly’s hen party, which included her mother Tana, Victoria Beckham, close family friends, and her siblings. She revealed that she was left crying and that she “didn’t want to live” because that was how she felt at the time.
Caroline claims that her and Holly’s relationship deteriorated as a result of her extended family’s disapproval of the engagement party. She claimed to have sent Holly a text in an effort to acquaint her with her feelings, which irritated Adam. She continued to assert that she thought her son was “in Gordon’s clutches,” which has further exacerbated the ongoing rift.
Holly and Adam traveled to Lapland ahead of Christmas Day, but despite the Olympian making no mention of the milestone milestone Caroline’s 60th birthday, despite the support of others.
Taking to Instagram as her son frollicked in the snow, Caroline confirmed she’d turned 60, and shared warm wishes from various family members.
Happy 60th birthday to one of the most powerful women I’ve ever met, from which I am grateful for everything you have done for the boys! I appreciate you for guiding me through both the good and the bad times. You’ve been there for me for 18 years.
In the meantime, Caroline’s aunt Janet and uncle Eddie shared a sweet nostalgic collage of photos taken right before her birth, with the caption “It only seems like yesterday since you were born Caroline, Caroline.” A lovely Christmas gift made me an aunt for the first time. Happy birthday, everyone, and many happy birthdays on the day.
Nicola Roberts has revealed her pregnancy. The 39-year-old Girls Aloud star has remained largely private in the past, but she recently confirmed her engagement to footballer Mitch Hahn.
The 36-year-old singer, who was born in Runcorn, has just confirmed that she is expecting her first child with Team GB star. As she broke the news, the Sticks + Stones singer took to social media to share it. She stated, “Mitch and I shared the most heartfelt news with our families on Christmas Day. We’ve been keeping secrets. Five months along! In the spring, we can’t wait to meet our little one.
Nicola, who rose to fame alongside Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine CoyleKimbereley Walsh, and the late Sarah Harding, was instantly spotted in the comment section.
Mitch Hahn, a football player, and Nicola are engaged to each other.
The pop star confirmed the news via a Twitter post (@lilcola/Instagram) on April 1.
Congratulations to you both, Laura Whitmore, former Love Island host! The best news, “”! while Jessie Ware, a fellow singer, said: “Amazing babe! Congratulations!
The stars of Coronation Street, Alexandra Mardell, and Ashley James of This Morning both said: “Mega news!! “Congratulations”
She and her bandmates are all mothers, with Cheryl, 41, and Liam Payne, age 80, having daughters Anaya, 11, and Jason Bell, a former Dallas Cowboys star, having sons Bobby, Cole, and Nate with former singer Justin Scott.
In June 2022, Nicola and Mitch made a public appearance while performing at Elton John’s British Summertime show in Hyde Park. The Masked Singer star appeared smitten during their date night, and the couple put on a loved-up display.
She wore an engagement ring as she confirmed their engagement last year when she performed at Brighton Pride for Girls Aloud’s final performance. During a trip to the South of France, it is thought that Mitch had kneeld down.
A source at the time stated to The Sun that Nicole had found Mitch as her true love. She couldn’t be happier. Mitch is not a stranger to success, even though Nicola has established herself in one of the country’s most popular girl groups.
In 2002 (The People), Nicola rose to fame as a member of Girls Aloud.
Although he is now the CEO of Nordens, he also played for Grays Athletic and Southend United during his professional sporting career. He also helped bring Britain to gold at the 2019 Maccabi European Games.
The songstress, who has also composed music for other artists, is thought to have been interested in having her bandmates play a part in her special day. According to a previous source, “She wants all the Girls Aloud girls as bridesmaids.”
Sarah Harding, her late bandmate, will also be a part of Nicola’s special day, too. She will also pay a special tribute to Sarah during the wedding, according to the source. Nicole is aware of her desires.
Following a courageous battle following a diagnosis of breast cancer, Sarah put up a brave fight and tragically passed away on September 5, 2021, at the age of 39. The band united to support the Stockport legend despite having a fractious relationship once following their split in 2013.
And last year, they reunited to honor Sarah’s request to make a band-record request for them to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The band’s 30 concerts raised money for The Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal, which the band’s members support.
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Helen Worth, a veteran actress, will return to Coronation Street for a special occasion exactly a year after leaving the show after 50 years.
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As the mother of three who fell in love and became one of the show’s most beloved and enduring characters, Gail.
Gail Platt, a star of Coronation Street, bid farewell to Weatherfield as she packed her bags for France almost a year ago.
Following her departure last Christmas, we are set to see Helen Worth back on our screens over the festive period as the long-suffering mum makes a surprise Corrie return – although bosses are keeping her involvement in the episode a strict secret.
After a long-running run on the soap dating back to 1974, her exit shocked viewers of the ITV show. When the show’s avid viewers notice the long-served return and the Platt family’s additional issues, she will make a one-time appearance.
Helen loved playing Gail, a character who has had her fair share of drama over the years from multiple marriages, her daughter Sarah’s teenage pregnancy, bitter feuds, and falling for a serial killer. Since she left, the 74-year-old star has been linked with a number of big parts.
As she prepares to return to the streets a year after his departure, we take a look at her off-screen life and what might come next.
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Helen – understood to be a big fan of the BBC show – has been linked since 2024, the year she announced she would be leaving Coronation Street. Fans are hopeful we will still see the star don the sequins when the next line-up is announced.
She would join a long list of former Corrie stars who’ve competed on Strictly, including Tina O’Brien, Catherine Tyldesley, Georgia May Foote, and of course the 2023 winner Ellie Leach.
London’s secret life
Helen was one of the soap’s highest-paid stars because she had worked for Corrie for so long and appeared in more than 3,000 episodes. She reportedly took home a £250,000-a-year salary.
She actually resides in London where she owns a house, rather than living there, where Coronation Street is shot.
Helen, who was raised in Morecambe, Lancashire, enjoys a glitzy life there, making the most of some prestigious hotels and frequently staying in the city, despite being a northern girl at heart. She also has grown up in the city and has grown up there.
Husband’s tragic relationship
Although Helen frequently avoids the spotlight, her personal life was in jeopardy in 1995 when her first husband’s affair was exposed.
Speaking about his infidelity back in 2001, she told The Mirror: “Nothing can ever prepare you for the day your husband sits you down and tells you he is having an affair.
“It was everything to me that my marriage was. Everything else was built on the same foundation as it was. Nearly the entire time, I spent with Michael. Never did I think that our relationship wouldn’t lead to our age. Everything just went into black as he said it.
“Things started to make sense.” Perhaps I just now realized that something similar was going to happen. Although things hadn’t worked out for a while, I didn’t believe it was serious. “
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Helen’s glittering soap career took off three years after she tragically lost her mother in a hit-and-run accident when the actress was 20 years old. Previously opening up to the Daily Star about her heartache, she shared: “The one person I really wanted to tell when I got the part of Gail was my mother.
The actress and British artist Dinos Chapman prefer to keep their private lives a secret, despite the fact that the couple is married.
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When it was revealed that Lucy Punch, one of the show’s beloved characters, would have its own spin-off series, Amandaland, the BBC show’s viewers were thrilled.
The story follows blow-dried mum Amanda as she navigates life after divorce in a less well-to-do area of London. The show hit screens in February 2025, and a special Christmas episode will air on Christmas Day.
Lucy, a 47-year-old British actress, and her partner Dinos Chapman, a four-year-old boy named Rex, a nine-year-old, and their two children, Rex and Dinos Chapman, live in Los Angeles. Amanda dated James D’Arcy, an actor from the Avengers, for about three years before meeting Dino.
Although Lucy and Dinos have been dating since 2014, Lucy says she prefers to keep her relationship with the British artist completely secret.
She told The Times : “I think I’m just a fairly private person, and private even with people who are close to me. I also feel that anything interesting about myself is the last thing I’d want to share in an interview. I just think we’ve all become so accepting of a lack of privacy in our lives, and there’s so little left. There’s no more secrets and there’s no more mystery, and I think that’s weird and sad.”
Twenty years ago, Lucy and her family moved to Hollywood, where Laurel Canyon is known for its bohemian charm, and now reside there. Despite having lived across the pond for more than 20 years, Lucy doesn’t feel like she belongs there, calling LA “a very transient place.” She explained that she prefers to appear “more human” and declined to get carried away in the Hollywood aesthetics scene.
She continued, “I get that there is a lot of pressure on movie stars, but I think you need to have some humanity in your face.” And character or comedy actor must take that seriously. Because I believe that’s not what makes me a good person, I can’t do anything to my face.
Lucy grew up in West London and attended the private girls’ school Godolphin & Latymer, which counts Davina McCall and Nigella Lawson amongst its former pupils. She went on to study history of art at University College London, but dropped out when she got her big break – Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French offered her a part in their 1999 sitcom, Let Them Eat Cake. She went on to play receptionist Elaine Denham in Doc Martin.
In addition to Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher, Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp in the 2014 film Into the Woods, Lucy has since co-starred with a number of well-known actors.
Joanna Lumley portrays Amanda’s evil mother Felicity Sanderson in Amandaland. Working with Joanna is “a dream,” according to Lucy. Jennifer Saunders and Joan Saunders, who played Felicity’s sister, will play the Christmas special with Joan in which Joanna will reunite with her Absolutely Fabulous co-star.
Lucy and Jennifer will also be getting together again. This time around, Lucy claims it was “even better” to co-star with the TV legend.
She explained to Metro, “I was 22 when I worked with her the first time, and I couldn’t speak,” because I was so excited and impressed.
On BBC One and iPlayer, the Christmas Special from Amandaland will be broadcast on Christmas Day at 9:15 pm.
Michael Le Vell has played Kevin Webster on Coronation Street for 42 years.(Image: ITV)
When Michael Le Vell was handed a new year-long contract this month he breathed a sigh of relief.
Complacency isn’t wise in Coronation Street – even after 42 years playing mechanic Kevin Webster, who now owns the garage.
Michael, 61, tells The Mirror: “You can never take the job for granted. My contract was due in January and I’ve just been offered a new one, so I can breathe a sigh of relief for another year.
You can never look further than that, though. They might say, “You know what, we can’t write for you anymore, we can’t.” I say thank you and bid you far. That is the beast’s nature.
Bitter and depleted, after battling testicular cancer and losing his wife, Abi (Sally Carman) to his scheming brother, Carl (Jonathan Howard), gossip is rife among Corrie fans that Kevin could be set for a romantic reunion with ex-wife Sally (Sally Dynevor).
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People frequently ask me if I want to return to Kevin and Sally, and I always refuse, according to Michael. I do so because Sally and Tim are together. I don’t want them to end their relationship just so I can get back together with Sally because I think they’re a great couple. Because I adore working with Sally Carman, I’d go back with Abi. I’m hoping they can reconcile their differences in 2026, but that’s not currently a possibility.
What is guaranteed is a year of drama ahead – starting with Corriedale, the special episode on January 5, which will see Corrie and Emmerdale come together for the first time. Michael is sworn to secrecy on the details, but knows his family will be affected by a devastating pile-up on a country road between the two locations, after leaving the wedding of his sister Debbie (Sue Devaney).
He says: “It was an honour to be part of Corriedale because these things don’t come around too often. I was in a scene with a couple of Emmerdale actors – Jeff Hordley (Cain Dingle) and Danny Miller (Aaron Dingle) – as we tried to move a crashed car, which was great. The episode involved a lot of night shoots out on location and our trailers were next to each other, so the casts of the two shows were always having a cup of tea and a chat, which was fun. It’s very exciting; it was a great privilege to be a part of it.”
After Bill Roache (Ken Barlow) Michael’s 1983 arrival at Weatherfield, he is the second longest-serving actor. He confesses, “No day goes by where I don’t get nervous,” and continues to get anxious before his scenes. I experience stomach churning and anxiety, especially when I’m present in every scene. If I’m in a scene with someone like Bill Roache or Barbara Knox out of respect, or if it’s a big showdown between the Rovers, it’s even more stressful.
When it comes to your bit, you’re thinking, “don’t mess up, don’t mess up,” if there are many people in the pub. Otherwise, they will all have to re-enter their dialogue, which adds pressure. He hopes to match 93-year-old Bill Roache, who is still holding his own. If they still want me, he says, “I’ll be in the show in my 70s, 80s, and 90s.” Never have I tried to leave.
“I’ve had so many lines recently where Kevin’s said ‘I’m old, I’m grey.’ He even mentioned something about retiring the other week and I went ‘I don’t want to say that line, thanks very much!’ As far as I’m concerned, I’m in the No 1 show. It’s the best job in television and if it’s not broke, why change it? I love the storylines and the people – great actors like Sally Dynevor, Sally Carman and Alan Halsall. They’re such a joy to work with that some days it doesn’t feel like a job. Although I’m not going to say that too loudly or they might stop my wages!”
After having daughters Rosie and Sophie, Kevin and Sally married three years after purchasing 13 Coronation Street from Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander). He chuckles, “Jean Alexander was one of the show’s legends, but I can recall her once abusing me.” She requested that Bernard Youens, who played Stan, receive a get-well card. I had some oil on my card as I was just getting ready to film a scene in the garage. She yelled at me indignantly”!
Kevin and Sally had a happy ending until he cheated on her with Natalie Welch (Denise Welch), then cheated on her again and delivered his son Jack while having a fling with Molly, the ex-wife of his best friend, Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall). He has since split from Abi and Alison Wakefield, who committed suicide after their son Jake passed away.
Michael, who was born in Manchester, first began his acting career at the Oldham Theatre Workshop before making his TV debut in Corrie, where he played paper boy Neil Grimshaw, at the age of 15. He auditioned for the comedy drama series Scully three years later and was spotted playing Kevin. He recalls: “I was waiting in the corridor when the casting director came in and said, “Is there a spot for me for Coronation Street tomorrow?” I said ‘ no. ‘ She urged me to “leave it with me.” My agent called me when I got home and informed me that I would have an audition the following day. The rest is history as long as I enter and get Kevin’s role. I’ve lived here my entire life; I’ve grown up. Since I’ve been Kevin Webster since I was 18 years old, I now consider myself the show’s older statesman.
Michael and Louise Gibbons, their three Yorkshire terriers, and two Siamese cats, reside in Cheshire. They also have two horses, Maximus and Magica, who are passionate about nature and the countryside. Michael describes himself as “very different,” comparing himself to Kevin. When I’m not working, I’m mucking out, filling hay nets at the stables, and shoveling horse s**t.
Getting into horses 10 years ago through Louise, when they went for riding lessons together, he adds: “The horses give me serenity. When you’re riding, you can’t think about anything else. It’s the same with the dogs and cats. When I’m with them, they give me unconditional love, so I can’t help but give them unconditional love back.”
He even declared, “I’ve done alright,” and that he has even competed at equestrian events. I did little circles around the arena to earn gold medals for dressage and other things. But then I started taking jumping lessons because I was getting a little bored of that. I sprained twice. When you’re my age, you bounce differently. Really hurts, I mainly rely on Louise to handle the riding and feeding.
Kevin has been a lothario for four action-packed decades in Corrie, he saved Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) from a fire in The Rovers, and he has thrown more than one punch. He responds, “Angry Kev,” as Alan Halsall refers to him. He believes that everything he does is enraged. He is definitely a little hands-on with his fists. He has struck everyone at once, including Terry Duckworth. He first reacts, and then comes back and considers it later. I’ve been involved in more fights than anyone else on the cobbles. What, Kevin must have already struck his brother Carl four or five times? Next year, I’ll hit him once more. “
We take a look at the show’s former stars as the new Call the Midwife Christmas special gets closer to its release after winning the hearts of viewers.
The BBC drama Call the Midwife, which follows the Midwifery at Nonnatus House, has won viewers’ hearts for more than ten years. We sadly had to say goodbye to a number of the actors who have appeared in the series over the years.
The beloved television series, which premiered in 2012, is still running well after 14 seasons, with a new Christmas special on the horizon. The nuns and nurses embark on a rescue mission as part of the BBC drama’s two brand-new festive episodes that air on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
The episode will transport viewers to 1971 and will begin with Fred (Cliff Parisi) and Violet Buckle (Annabelle Apsion) leaving Poplar, East London, and visiting Hong Kong with Derek (Nicholas Atkinson).
Let’s take a look at the show’s stars who are unfortunately no longer with us, while fans of Call the Midwife have been waiting for a while for the series to return to our screens.
