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Actor Lewis Cope is competing in the current series of Strictly Come Dancing and has been impressing the judges week after week

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Strictly Come Dancing star Lewis Cope’s girlfriend shared a sweet message after fans said he was “thrown under the bus” after last night’s show. The actor was left apologising to his partner Katya Jones following their performance on Saturday night. The star was heard saying “sorry” to Katya during the quarter final routine.

It was Musicals Week on the show and the pair danced a salsa to Dance At The Gym from West Side Story. They still managed to score a respectable 35 out of a possible 40 points but the judges pointed out that it wasn’t his strongest dance so far. Shirley Ballas told Lewis “it wasn’t your best dance, for me, by far” as Craig Revel Horwood agreed and said: “We have seen you dance better.”

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However, Anton Du Beke said had an “incredible physicality” and added: “All in all… I rather liked it.” The couple then went and joined Claudia Winkleman in the Clauditorium to chat about the dance.

Katya was asked about her motto as the pro dancer shared: “It’s my motto for life – more is more. I’ve just been looking for a partner who can match me and finally I’ve found one. All my life I’ve been told, ‘less Katya, less’. Never! More is more!”

Lewis grinned before they both said in unison: “More is more!” Lewis’ girlfriend Rachel Lopez shared a sweet message praising her boyfriend. Commenting on a clip of his dance, she said: “I am so beyond proud of you. Your strength is like nothing I have ever see. So beautiful inside and out.”

This comes as fans pointed out that they think Lewis wasn’t given a good song for the style of dance. One person took to social media to say: “That song was HORRIBLE for a salsa….”

While another wrote: “Lewis and Katya were done dirty by the producers – terrible song choice for a salsa for an overdone musical.” A third viewer said: “Honestly I love West Side Story but that was a dreadful song for a salsa. It wasn’t Lewis’ best but suchhhh an epic production.”

“Lewis song choice made it a very strange salsa. Bit disappointing. #Strictly,” another added. As one commented: “The music is TOTALLY wrong for a salsa. Lewis has been thrown under the bus massively here #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing.”

Lewis has been impressing the Strictly judges week after week on the BBC show. He has been praised consistently and has found himself at the top of the leaderboard on several occasions.

There is just two more weeks of live shows left until the final show. The final will air on Saturday 20 December where one of the celebrity contestants will be crowned the 2025 winner of Strictly Come Dancing.

Drag queen La Voix was seen making her return to Strictly Come Dancing after she was forced to bow out of the competition after sustaining a nasty injury to her foot

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Strictly star La Voix was seen making her return to the show as she posed for pictures with hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman. The drag queen made a comeback for Musicals Week after being forced to withdraw from the competition. Posting on her Instagram stories La Voix shared an update by Tess where she was seen beaming as she posed with with the pair wearing a pale blue embellished suit. The star had a medical boot clearly visible on one foot after sustaining an injury on the show.

La Voix broke down in tears over her sudden Strictly Come Dancing exit last month. She sustained an injury on her foot, and became emotional as she and professional partner Aljaž Škorjanec appeared on the results show on November 23 to announced her departure from the line up.

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She began: “This has been the most extraordinary experience of my entire life. What I loved most, don’t hate me, it’s not the dancing, but it’s just being welcomed by everyone. I came into the show as a minority, as a redhead, and you’ve embraced me wonderfully. I cannot thank you enough. It’s been amazing.”

As Aljaz paid his own tribute to La Voix, the former Drag Race star wiped her eyes and then thanked him for everything he had done for her during their time on the programme.

She added: “I’m just so lucky. What you see on that dancefloor is a fraction of the love and the passion this man has for dance. You have made me carry on when I’ve questioned myself, made me laugh on the toughest day and when I thought I couldn’t do something, you never gave up on me. Not once. I am leaving this show more confident, and that’s because of you.”

Fans on social media expressed their sadness at her exit, with one writing: “#Strictly So disappointed that La Voix has had to drop out as injured. I love her dry witticisms. How about her as one replacement next season for Claudia or Tess as a presenter?”

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“La Voix, so sad they’ve had to pull out of #Strictly. Her witty quips were brilliant, never know she may front the show next year, or host the Clauditorium upstairs,” said a second. A third wrote: “I’m so sad La Voix had to withdraw from the competition and the fact she and Aljaz aren’t creating magic for the rest of the season.”

Speaking on the spin-off show, It Takes Two, prior to revealing her exit, La Voix, said that the foot had been causing havoc throughout the competition. She told fans: “This has been ongoing since the foxtrot. I felt a little niggle in my foot, hence comments about me being flat-footed. I was thinking this will be fine, but it got gradually worse.”

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I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star Angry Ginge gushed over Michelle Keegan during a recent chat with his former jungle campmate Ruby Wax

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Mark Wright has issued a playful warning to Angry Ginge, in response to a recent comment he made in the jungle about Michelle Keegan. During a chat between Ginge and his former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! co-star Ruby Wax, the 24-year-old admitted he had a crush on Mark’s wife and actress Michelle, 38.

After Ruby asked: “Who would turn your head down the street?”, he replied: “Michelle Keegan, I think she’s beautiful.” Questioned on how he would approach her to ask her out, Ginge continued: “I would say, ‘Hi Michelle, I hope you’re doing well. I’m just wondering if I can get your Instagram please?'”

Addressing Ginge’s admission on Heart Radio on Saturday, Michelle’s husband jokingly urged him to “stay away”. He told his co-star Olly Murs: “So listen, I don’t mind him saying that my wife is his dream woman but saying I’m going to approach her while she’s married?

“Maybe he doesn’t know, I’m just gonna take it that Ginge doesn’t know.

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“If you know Ginge, then we’re going to have some problems, if you don’t know then I’ll let you off.”

In response, Olly told Mark to take it as a compliment and suggested he may have said it because they’re both from Manchester.

“But she’s your dream woman,” he added, to which Mark replied: “She is my dream woman, she’s mine – Ginge, stay away!”

Michelle has been married to Mark since 2015, while Ginge, whose real name is Morgan Burtwistle, is believed to be single.

Recently opening up about his love life in the jungle, the YouTuber shared how he asked his now ex-girlfriend to be his partner, before the relationship came to an abrupt end.

Ginge told campmates that to ask her out he put “rose petals, from the front door all the way up the stairs” into his bedroom.

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“And then it opened to my room, there’s a teddy bear, there’s a rose and then I officially asked her to be my girlfriend,” he shared.

Despite his romantic efforts, Ginge said their relationship ended when she texted him while he was livestreaming. “I had to carry on for six more hours,” he confessed.

The Twitch streamer is one of this year’s three finalists, alongside Tom Read Wilson and Shona McGarty, hoping to be crowned the new King or Queen of the jungle.

Last night, Aitch became the ninth celebrity to be voted off after competing with his co-stars in the Celebrity Cyclone.

Sharing who he would like to win, he told hosts Ant and Dec: “I love Shona to death I think she deserves it, same with Tom, but that crown needs to come back to my home town so its Ginge.”

Lisa Riley’s comments left people wondering if she has secretly married her partner of 10 years, Al, after the Emmerdale icon left the I’m A Celebrity camp

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Lisa Riley has hinted she is now a married woman after leaving the I’m A Celebrity camp. The Emmerdale icon entertained the ITV viewers with a fun stint Down Under before fiance Al met her on the rope bridge. And now, it’s thought the loved-up duo might have tied the knot.

Lisa, who is best known for playing Mandy Dingle, was part of a shock double elimination, leaving with Jack Osbourne on Friday evening. Following her exit speech, Lisa joined Unpacked host Joel Dommett for a chat on all things jungle. She admitted she is thrilled she no longer has to wear the camp boots that “smell like a skip”.

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Joel then asked about her revelation about her lusting over Ant McPartlin. The presenter said:”Obviously you had a lovely moment with Al on the bridge but how was your hug with Ant [McPartlin, show host]?” Lisa joked things got “juicy” between her and the Geordie presenter. And she went on: “And it’s caused a bit of fury with my husband, he’s fine.”

Despite clearly saying husband, Lisa continued: “As I said you can go to a shop and have a look, you don’t have to buy anything.”

And she later tried to brush over the term once again as she said: “When we go to the bank, he will say ‘that’s my wife’ and I will call him ‘my husband’.” She added: “We use that terminology and there is nothing different other than I am wearing an engagement ring rather than a wedding band.

“We are happy as we are — I don’t see what that day would do. I dress up every day as Mandy Dingle, I don’t want to dress up as me.”

Following her exit, Lisa admitted she lost weight in camp. She disclosed she shed nearly a stone and a half in the weeks in the jungle. She revealed it wasn’t solely the rice and beans diet responsible for dropping the pounds, but rather the controlled portions and demanding daily routine.

Lisa said: “Do you know what it is? It’s portion control. Everyone says, ‘Oh, it’s beans and rice.’ Yes, it is beans and rice, but it’s actually what you consume. When you’re in there, people don’t have an idea of the lifestyle, the geography of the camp. It’s the do-ability, the activeness.”

“Like, when you go up to the [Bush] Telegraph to talk, it’s step after step. When you go to a challenge, you never stop moving,” she told the Mail. “It’s endless. It’s not just sat around a campfire having loads of giggles. The activeness… by the time you’ve consumed the beans at night, you’ve probably burned it off.”

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Meghan Markle’s dad Thomas has revealed that he refused to change his phone number in the desperate hope that she would be able to contact him when she was ready

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Thomas Markle has revealed that he has kept the same telephone number in the hope that Meghan would be able to reach out to him when she felt ready to reconnect. The 81 year old father of the Duchess of Sussex was recently hospitalised after having his left leg amputated in the Philippines. Before the surgery, his foot had become discoloured and swollen, restricting his mobility.

According to reports, had Thomas not had the “life or death” surgery, the infection in his foot could have reached his heart. In an interview with The Mail On Sunday, Thomas explained that he has never changed his phone number so Meghan “could always get in touch with me.”

The pair have been estranged since 2018 when it came to light that he had reportedly staged paparazzi photographs ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry. From that moment on, relations between Thomas and his daughter became so tense, he pulled out of the wedding, claiming to have health problems at the time. Instead, King Charles walked her down the aisle.

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During the height of their tense relationship, Thomas spoke to the press once again and cast doubt over their decision to step away from the public eye.

In an interview at the time, he reportedly said: “I think they’re both turning into lost souls at this point. I don’t know what they’re looking for. I don’t think they know what they’re looking for.”

One of his wishes before he dies is to reconcile with his daughter, meet his grandchildren and her husband Prince Harry. Meghan and Prince Harry have two children together, Archie and Lilibet.

He told the publication: “I’ve always said I am open to reconciling with my daughter. I have never stopped loving her. I don’t want to die estranged from Meghan. I want to meet my grandkids. It might be nice to meet her husband too.”

According to reports, a source close to Meghan said the Duchess’ team had not been contacted before the publication went to print. But according to the BBC, a spokesman for Meghan said: “I can confirm she has reached out to her father.”

The source went on to say that had Meghan had prior knowledge of the article, where Thomas spoke openly about desperately wanting to reunite with his daughter, they would informed hospital staff, to tell Thomas to read his email, a detail Meghan’s team wanted to remain private.

Meghan’s half sister Samantha has also denied hearing from Meghan. She took to X and described quotes from sources close to Meghan as “PR b********t.”

With the permission of Thomas, his surgeon spoke to the publication and confirmed: “It was life-or-death surgery. Had the infection in the foot moved to his heart, it would most likely have been fatal. He is doing well but he is not out of the woods yet.”

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Heartbreak and tragedy have plagued the legendary Doctor Who actress’s private life

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Doctor Who star and fourth-generation actress Jemma Redgrave is notoriously private when it comes to her personal life.

As she reprises her role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, we take a look at her life away from the cameras.

Famous parents

Jemma was born to actor Corin Redgrave and fashion model Deirdre Hamilton-Hill on 14 January 1965.

“There was so much freedom,” she recalled of her childhood to the Telegraph, with kids games in their spacious garden and music always playing. It had been a very bohemian upbringing.

But at age seven her parents divorced and she believes politics had been behind the split: her father was an outspoken leftist and co-founded the British Marxist Party with his sister, Vanessa. Her mother, by comparison, was more removed and kept her distance.

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Jemma reflected: “It was a game of two halves.” But through the turbulence, she remained close with her paternal grandmother and matriarch of the family dynasty, actress Rachel Kempson, who cultivated Jemma’s love of the theatre and set her down the family trade.

Divorce

In 1992, age 27, Jemma married Tim Owen, a famed English barrister. Together, they had two children: Gabriel, born in 1994; and Alfie, born in 2000.

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Jemma and Tim stayed together for over 20 years until a quiet and characteristically unpublicised divorce.

Jemma blamed their busy work schedules for the separation, citing the constant pressure of her acting career and his law practice.

She joked: “Tim is a brilliant barrister but would have been a terrible actor. He is very argumentative – trained to demolish opponents – scorched earth!”

Family heartbreak

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Heartbreak struck Jemma’s family when in March 2009, her cousin Natasha Richardson – and wife of Liam Neeson – was killed in a freak ski accident in Quebec.

In April 2010, her father Corin lost a long battle to prostate cancer and passed away. A month later, Jemma’s aunt, legendary actress Lynn Redgrave, died due to her own breast cancer, as well as complications arising from bulimia.

In a deeply personal interview with the Guardian, Jemma reflected that grief “is like a tsunami. The waves come from nowhere and shake you to the core”.