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After two previous marriages showbiz whizz Ross King is building a new life in Los Angeles with his successful girlfriend Bridget Siegel while competing on Strictly Come Dancing

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Strictly Come Dancing star Ross King’s private life has often drawn as much attention as his career. Now, the 63-year-old TV presenter and showbiz correspondent is in a new chapter as he’s head over heels with girlfriend and American executive Bridget Siegel.

Ross’ new relationship with the high-flying brunette comes after his two previous marriages with Charley King and Brianna Deutsch – both of which ended in divorce.

The ITV star made headlines last weekend when Bridget flew more than 5,000 miles from Los Angeles to London to watch his first Strictly performance. He danced the cha-cha-cha with professional partner Jowita Przystał to Katy Perry’s California Gurls.

Despite receiving just 10 out of 40 points, Ross was delighted and used the moment to acknowledge his stunning new girlfriend’s support. “It’s so lovely that my girlfriend Bridget flew over 5,000 miles to come watch,” he said.

Acknowledging that his stint might be short, he joked: “I said to her, ‘You have to come because there might not be many of these.’” Cameras then showed Bridget beaming in the audience as she stunned in a black dress and simple necklace.

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Who is Ross’ girlfriend Bridget Siegel?

Bridget, 43, is a senior executive in the food and hospitality industry. She currently works with R3 Venture Studios, a company specialising in developing consumer brands. Her CV includes serving as chief operating officer at Kevin Hart’s vegan fast-food venture Hart House, and previously at &Pizza in New York.

The couple were reportedly introduced through mutual friends two years ago and began dating last year. Since then, they have shared their time between Los Angeles and London, with Bridget being based in the US and Ross continuing his media work on both sides of the Atlantic.

An insider told The Sun: “When Ross was confirmed for Strictly, Bridget immediately said she would be with him every step of the way.

“True to her word, she flew over from Los Angeles to support Ross and will remain in the UK throughout his time in the competition. She’s extremely successful in her own right, which is one of the things that attracted Ross to her.”

Previous marriages

Ross has walked down the aisle twice before. His first marriage came in 1999, when he wed actress Charley King. Charley built her career in theatre, appearing in major productions such as Chicago, The Producers, and Controlled Chaos.

The couple’s relationship lasted seven years before they eventually separated in 2006. Despite the split, the pair are said to have maintained a strong friendship. In January 2023, Ross and Charley were seen posing together at the BAFTA Annual Burns Bash and their cosy pictures suggested at the time that any past tensions had long been forgotten.

Almost a decade after his split from Charley, in 2015, Ross married for a second time. His relationship with actress and producer Brianna Deutsch was a high-profile affair and it highlighted his close ties in Hollywood with some of the biggest A-list names in the industry.

Their wedding guest list read like a roll call of A-list names including Gerard Butler, Vinnie Jones, Gary Barlow, Jackie Collins and Patsy Palmer, who were just a few names on the star-studded invite list.

The pair spent much of their marriage based in Los Angeles, where Ross had built his stellar career as a showbiz correspondent and writer. However, by 2022, after seven years together, the relationship had come to an end. The former couple confirmed their divorce that year, however, their close friends described the separation as ‘amicable’.

A source told The Sun at the time: “The pair have remained amicable and still run in the same circles, they just realised they weren’t on the same page romantically any more. Ross loves living in Hollywood and has been throwing himself into work and writing novels.”

The end of showbiz whizz’s marriage to Deutsch marked another major turning point in Ross’ personal life, but unlike many high-profile breakups, the split appeared to be handled quietly and without any public drama.

Both of Ross’s ex wives, Charley and Brianna, remain part of the wider social circles he continues to move in.

Building a new life with Bridget

Ross has described Los Angeles as his long-term base, where he lives in a three-storey Beverly Hills property he calls his “Scottish Castle.” Bridget has been spending more time there with him, and the relationship has quickly become a central part of his life, according to reports.

On the How To Be 60 podcast with Kaye Adams, Ross was recently asked if he planned to return to the UK permanently. He replied: “Oh yeah, I love LA. Who knows what happens in the future, but it would take a lot to take me away from LA.

“I love the place. I’ve got a great life there. I’ve got a beautiful, lovely girlfriend Bridget. We have a great time there. So it’s very much home.”

Looking ahead

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Strictly Come Dancing may be his latest adventure, but Ross has made it clear that his girlfriend’s presence is equally as important to him right now. From her decision to fly across the world to his sweet gesture of acknowledging her during his mega dance debut, the relationship appears to mark a new phase for the presenter.

After two divorces and a career largely spent in the public eye, Ross’s romance with Bridget seems like it’s going in all the right directions. Whether his time on Strictly lasts weeks or ends early as he has already predicted, it’s clear that his personal and romantic life is also taking centre stage.

Strictly Come Dancing continues at 7pm on Saturday night on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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Italian actor Remo Girone has passed away at the age of 76 following a battle with bladder cancer. The Monte Carlo resident, who died on Friday, October 3, was widely celebrated for his roles in both Italian and international cinema.

Girone gained fame for his portrayal of a mob boss in the iconic mafia TV series La Piovra and earned global recognition playing Enzo Ferrari in the blockbuster Ford v Ferrari.

His career began in 1974 with the film The Antichrist, and he went on to feature in a host of Italian productions, including Father of the Godfathers, Malamore, Breath of Life, and Don’t Stop Me Now.

In addition to his work in Italy, Girone appeared in American films, most notably as Mafia boss Maso Pescatore in the 2016 crime drama Live by Night, starring alongside Ben Affleck.

In 2021, Girone’s remarkable career was celebrated with lifetime achievement awards from both the Venice International Film Festival and the Flaiano Film Festival, recognising more than five decades of work that saw him navigate seamlessly between Italian cinema and Hollywood productions.

Among his later roles, Girone appeared as Cesare Greco in an episode of Killing Eve, demonstrating his continued ability to captivate audiences on the small screen.

In 2019, he took on the high-profile role of Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the legendary Italian luxury sports car company, in the blockbuster film Ford v Ferrari, starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale.

His final on-screen appearance came in 2023 alongside Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 3, cementing his reputation as an actor who remained in demand well into his seventies.

Born in 1948 in Eritrea, East Africa, to Italian parents, Girone returned to Italy to study acting at the prestigious Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome.

Over the course of his career, he became a familiar face in both Italian and international productions, moving effortlessly between film and television, and earning acclaim for his performances in dramas, thrillers, and historical epics.

Girone’s personal life was equally fulfilling. He married actress Victoria Zinny in 1982, and together they shared a life rooted in the arts.

He is also survived by his stepchildren, Veronica and Karl, who were an important part of his family life.

Beyond his professional accolades, Girone was remembered for his dedication to his craft, his passion for storytelling, and his ability to bring depth and authenticity to every role he inhabited.

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Fans of Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl album were adamant that the singer’s track Actually Romantic was a diss track about Charli XCX, and the singer has since clarified what it means.

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Taylor Swift has moved to clear up her Actually Romantic lyrics as fans claim she is hitting out at former pal Charli XCX. As fans obsessed over Friday’s release of Taylor’s 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, they were sure she was firing shots at Charli’s way.

Taylor 35 sings, “I heard you called me “boring Barbie” when the coke made you brave. She later added, “High-fived my ex, and then said you’re glad he ghosted me/wrote a song in which I said it makes you sick to see my face/Some people might be offended/But it’s actually sweet”

As they dissected the song, fans quickly speculated on the meaning. Many people shared their opinions on social media, saying Charli, who had previously opened up for Taylor on tour, was in for a snap.

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Some people expressed doubts that it was a response to Charli’s song Sympathy Is A Knife from her Brat album. She sang the song “Don’t know if I’m spiraling,” “One voice tells me that they laugh, and George says I’m just paranoid.”

I hope they end their relationship right away; I don’t want to see her at my boyfriend’s show backstage. Taylor is trying her best to downplay the speculation, while Charli previously denied claims that the song was about Taylor.

The Shake It Off singer claimed that her new song is “a song about realizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn’t know about” in an audio track-by-track breakdown of the new album for Amazon Music.

Taylor continued, “And suddenly they start acting rudely and telling you that you’ve been living in their head rent-free.”

“It’s presenting itself as them sort of resenting you or having a problem with you but you take that and just accept it as love and you accept it as attention and affection, and how flattering that somebody has made you such a big part of their reality when you didn’t even think about this.

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Taylor concluded, “It’s actually pretty romantic if you really think about it, to borrow a title from the song.” Taylor and Charli made the remarks in response to any hint of conflict that had arisen. After a fan enraged, “Taylor is dead,” Charli responded to Taylor’s defense on stage in Brazil last year.

Charli responded, “Please stop those who do this.” either online or at one of my shows. Anyone who believes there is room for this in this community would be offended by what I want because it is the opposite of what I want. It won’t be tolerated by me.

Since Charli’s music’s release more than ten years ago, Taylor herself has made a public remark about it. Fans have referred to Taylor’s most recent work as her “best yet,” despite the tune and potential drama.

Despite such rave reviews, fans will be disappointed to hear, the pop icon has no plans to take it on tour. Following her epic The Tortured Poets Department world tour, Swifties were hopeful she would embark on another. But she has poured cold water on the idea.

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BBC Radio 2’s Vernon Kay has lifted the lid on his home life as he shared how Strictly Come Dancing’s Tess Daly was recently left annoyed as he began a new routine

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BBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay has disclosed how his latest lifestyle overhaul has come at a price, confessing that it has left his wife Tess Daly fuming.

With both stars set to make their television comebacks this evening, it’s a behind-the-scenes drama that has sparked recent tension between the married pair.

Chatting to listeners during his regular BBC Radio 2 show earlier this week, Vernon confessed how he’d recently allowed his exercise regime to slip and was determined to get back into shape.

He said: “I started again yesterday, I’m very very proud of myself, because I’ve been speaking to Janine and I’ve been telling Phil ‘I’ve got to get going again, I’ve got to get going again’.”

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Nevertheless, while he had become lazy with his fitness habits, he’s now completely committed to returning to his previous ways.

He confessed that Tess is far from thrilled, as she worries that his fresh regime will bring a number of disruptions across the household. “Tess is like, ‘Oh no, not again. Here we go: protein milkshakes every morning, smoothies, we’ll be on the multi-vitamins.’”

Revealing another item he’ll be incorporating into his updated fitness regime, he continued: “Oh skipping ropes will be arriving through the post all that kind of stuff.”

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Vernon and Tess initially crossed paths by accident almost 25 years ago when they were challenged with recreating Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time.

Since that moment, they have married and welcomed two daughters together, Phoebe and Amber. Meanwhile, the dynamic duo of Tess and Claudia Winkleman will be gracing our TV screens tonight as they team up to present Strictly Come Dancing. After the series’ kick-off last week, this weekend will see the first pair eliminated from the contest.

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Later in the evening, Vernon will join Kelly Sutton to bring highlights from the Royal Albert Hall, celebrating the 100th birthday of the Grand Ole Opry radio show live in London.

A host of well-loved acts will be performing throughout the night, including Luke Combs, Breabach and Mumford and Sons.

Strictly Come Dancing is set to return to our screens this evening (Saturday, 4 October) on BBC One at 6.20pm.

Kate Dadzie, the wife of Nick Knowles, was taken back to the hospital after complications from her most recent hysterectomy caused her to be in excruciating pain.

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Nick Knowles has revealed that his wife, Katie Dadzie, has been rushed back to hospital after complications from life-saving surgery.

The DIY: SOS presenter explained that his wife was suffering from complications from a recent procedure and shared a photo of her in the hospital. “Poor @KatieAKnowles is once more in the hospital.

“Despite having her lifesaving surgery last week, she is still smiling despite the discomfort and medical procedures. He wrote, “When she’s not crying with the pain,”

Nick praised his wife’s resilience, saying, “I can’t tell you how much my wonderful wife has been through over the past few months, and I don’t mean just living with me.”

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She overcomes the difficulties, the painful recovery, the medical procedures, and the start-from-scratch encounters with enormous resilience and determination, along with a few tears. She deserves my absolute best.

After years of experiencing endometriosis-related pain, Katie, 34, had her hysterectomy this summer. She had a serious setback when her previously stitched cervix ruptured, but she recovered 12 weeks later.

She described the ordeal as “the most terrifying day I’ve ever had” and went over severe symptoms like internal bleeding, breathing difficulties, and crippling abdominal pain.

Sharing an update on Instagram, Katie wrote: “The bit where they took my cervix and sealed it up ruptured which basically meant my insides went rogue, with crippling abdominal pains, difficulty breathing.

She continued, describing her horrifying symptoms, adding, “As well as incredibly painful gas, blood like Moses parting the Red Sea, fluid, and even my bowel where it definitely didn’t belong.”

Katie continued, “Saturday when it happened, I was in such great pain that I couldn’t walk or move and I just cried alone in the kitchen from 2 to 5 in the morning.” I was so painful that I almost passed out.

She continued, adding that a team of six surgeons and two anaesthetists worked together to immediately place her in need of emergency surgery.

She said, “Thankfully, the surgeons managed to get me back into the theater, fix everything, and stitch me back together.”

I’m very sore, bruised, and exhausted, and so devastated that my recovery journey starts all over again, Katie said in a photo of herself while lying on hospital pillows in a grey jumper. But thankful it has been fixed, as the agonizing pain of Saturday night was.

She has previously mentioned that she had endured years of pain as a result of her women’s health issues, and that she had recently returned to work after having her first hysterectomy, which she claimed may have had had an impact on her recovery.

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James Norton, actor best known for his roles in Happy Valley and Grantchester, has revealed that he only played a small part in his new Netflix series with his father.

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James Norton has revealed that he got his father a part in his latest Netflix show. The term ‘nepo baby’ refers to those who have made it in the business after being born to parents who are also in the industry, with some of the most famous being Stranger Things star Maya Hawke, Freakier Friday actress Jamie Lee Curtis, and Goldie Hawn’s daughter Kate Hudson.

Actor James, 40, has recently flipped the concept of a ” nepo baby ” because he revealed that his father, Hugh, who worked as a teacher and lecturer before moving on to a cameo role in his most recent episode of Peaky Blinders, made a cameo appearance.

In it, he plays fictional brewery foreman, Sean Rafferty, and stars alongside alongside Anthony Boyle as the real-life Arthur Guinness, Louis Partridge as Edward and Emily Fairn as Anne Guinness.

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Alongside a snap of the two of them working on set, he wrote on Instagram: “Blink and you’ll miss him #bringyourparentstoworkday.” Fans of the actor flooded the comments section to praise him over the revelation.

One person praised your dad’s “love” of doing this in all of his projects. while another person expressed their delight in saying, “Oh, that’s just so lovely,” and a third person added, “You guys are so adorable,” and added a red heart and a crying emoji to their comment.

Fourthly, “Your Dad, I’d say, this is lovely that he wants to appear in everything you do.” and a fifth person remarked, “I love this, brilliant when you explained on Graham Norton’s show that your father’s arm was in the still from Joy, just gorgeous”!

But this isn’t the first time James has invited his dad to star on screen with him. Hugh can be seen making small appearances in Death Comes To Pemberley, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and McMafia. James, who has also starred in Happy Valley and King & Conqueror, played a leading role in Grantchester and the BBC drama War & Peace, and his dad appeared in both of those as well at various points.

House of Guinness delves into the story of the family behind the famous brewery following the death of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness. In the series, the business owner bequeaths his empire to just two of his children and doesn’t want to ‘burden’ the others with such a responsibility. It is made clear that trouble will come to the forefront of the series as conflicts around money, power and family look set to rattle throughout.

The streaming service’s “House of Guinness” explores an epic tale that is inspired by the Guinness Family, one of Europe’s most well-known and enduring dynasties.

The story, which is set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, begins shortly after Sir Benjamin Guinness’s passing, the man who had a significant influence on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as a group of Dublin characters who interact with the Guinness phenomenon.

The cast is also made up of a host of esteemed names from the acting world, including Masters of the Air star Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, who starred alongside Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes, Emily Fairn, and Normal People’s Fionn O’Shea.

The cast includes Niamh McCormack, Danielle Galligan, Ann Skelly, Seamus O’Hara, Michael McElhatton, David Wilmot, Michael Colgan, Jessica Reynolds, Hilda Fay, and Elizabeth Daulau, along with Game of Thrones actors Michael McElhatton and Jack Gleeson.