I’m A Celeb star Kelly Brook recalls traumatic miscarriage at six months pregnant

I’m A Celeb star Kelly Brook has shared that she was traumatised by having a miscarriage while six months pregnant when she was in her thirties, and has not wanted to have a baby since

I’m A Celebrity star Kelly Brook has opened up about the devastating miscarriage she suffered 14 years ago that she describes as the most “traumatic” experience of her life.

The 45-year-old model and Heart Radio presenter, who is now happily married to French actor Jeremy Parisi, spoke about the heartbreaking moment during an appearance on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast.

“In my thirties, I got pregnant and it was with somebody that I hadn’t been with for very long,” Kelly recalled. “It was really a case of like, ‘Well, I’m in my thirties. This might be my last roll of the dice. Maybe I should just do this.’”

She continued: “Lo and behold, I had a miscarriage at six months, which was the most traumatic, horrific thing that I’ve ever been through. It was just the most devastating thing.”

Kelly explained that her relationship with her then-partner Thom Evans, a Scottish rugby player, did not survive the tragedy. She added: “It took me quite a long time for my body and for everything to kind of… I don’t think you ever fully recover from that. But our relationship didn’t survive that and I just had to pick myself back up and move forward.”

The Loose Women panellist revealed that after the miscarriage, she struggled to imagine going through pregnancy again. “I just thought, ‘It’s not in my world, I just don’t want to go through that again.’”

Kelly also spoke about deciding not to name her child as part of her way of coping with grief. “I didn’t have a name, and at that point I didn’t want to have a name,” she said.

“It was just a way of me coping and I know so many women deal with this in so many different ways. I was told that I would regret that and that I should have footprints and handprints and all these things — and I just chose not to.”

She pointed out that miscarriages weren’t really spoken about in that era, adding: “At the time, miscarriage wasn’t something we talked about. It was something that you hid away. It felt like you’d failed. It was very shameful.”

Now, as Kelly prepares to enter the I’m A Celebrity jungle, she is hoping to show fans a new side of herself. The presenter will face the usual bugs, Bushtucker trials, and sleepless nights alongside Lisa Riley, Vogue Williams, Jack Osbourne, and others.

A source close to the star told The Mirror Kelly is “nervous” about spending weeks away from husband Jeremy, who she married in 2022 after seven years together.

“Kelly is extremely close to Jeremy. He does everything for her,” the insider shared. “She’s going to really struggle without him, but she wants to prove to herself that she can do it.”

After a string of high-profile relationships in the past — including engagements to Jason Statham, Billy Zane, and David McIntosh — Kelly says she’s finally found “the love of her life”.

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If you have been affected by this story, advice and support can be found at the Miscarriage Association. You can call them on 01924 200799 or email info@miscarriageassociation.org.uk

James Van der Beek sells off Dawson’s Creek memorabilia to pay for cancer treatment

Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek is selling some of his most treasured belongings to help pay for treatment after being diagnosed with stage three colorectal cancer

James Van Der Beek is auctioning off some of his treasured TV memorabilia to help raise money for his cancer treatment. The 48-year-old, who has six children with wife Kimberly, revealed he had been diagnosed with stage three colorectal (bowel) cancer last year.

In a bid to pay for his expensive treatment, the actor – who is most famous for starring in the beloved teen drama from 1998 to 2003 – has teamed up with Propstore to sell off some of the cherished items from his personal collection.

Dawson’s Creek fans will have the chance to own the outfit he wore in the very first episode, which is expected to sell for up to £3,000. They can also get their hands on the necklace Dawson gave on-screen girlfriend Joey (played by Katie Holmes) for prom, which could raise as much as £40,000.

Other items up for sale include the shoes and West Caana Coyotes Hat that James wore when he starred in the hit 1999 teen comedy Varsity Blues. Fans will get chance to bid on the items at the Winter Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction, which will be held in London. Those interested can register now and online bids will take place from December 6.

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In March this year, James reflected on how it had been “the hardest year of my life”. In a heartfelt post on Instagram, he expressed his confrontation with mortality as he said: “I had to come nose to nose with death. And all those definitions that I cared so deeply about were stripped from me.”

Continuing his candid revelation shared what cancer had stopped him doing: “I could no longer be a husband who was helpful to my wife. I could no longer be a father who could pick up his kids and put them to bed and be there for them,” he wrote. “I could not be a provider because I wasn’t working. I couldn’t even be a steward of the land because at times I was too weak to prune all the trees during the window that you’re supposed to prune them.”

In an interview on Good Morning America, James said: “Physically, I’m great. I’m feeling really good. Emotionally, you know, it’s a lot. It’s really a ride… I was honestly in shock [after the diagnosis] I had a whole agenda for what I thought my year would be and what I thought my priorities would be… and the reality that all of that was going to change and take a different trajectory – it felt like a nightmare honestly at first.”

James then expressed his gratitude that his cancer was detected early, giving him a strong chance of recovery. He continued: “I’m going to make changes that I never would have made otherwise, that I’m gonna look back on 30 years and say: ‘Thank God this happened'”.

Colorectal cancer is a term for bowel cancer, which can form and grow in the large bowel, which includes the colon and rectum. The disease is one of the most common types of cancer in the UK, but can be detected through bowel cancer screening and, if caught early, is one of the easiest forms of cancer to treat.

The NHS records symptoms to watch out for are changes in your poo, such as having softer poo, diarrhoea or constipation that is not usual for you, blood in your poo which could look red or black, a sensation of needing to poo even if you’ve just been to the toilet – and other symptoms including tummy pain, bloating and unexpected weight loss.

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Married at First Sight UK’s Reiss exposes unseen moment from ‘awkward’ wedding

EXCLUSIVE: Married at First Sight UK groom Reiss Boyce has claimed that a key scene from his wedding day was cut from the E4 show, which may have changed the way viewers see him

Married at First Sight UK groom Reiss Boyce has revealed a crucial moment from his wedding day that E4 viewers didn’t see.

The reality TV newcomer opened up to the Mirror about his journey on the dating experiment, where producers matched him with Edinburgh bride Leisha Lightbody.

Whilst their final vows have yet to be shown, the pair have endured their fair share of turbulent moments throughout the process.

They even appeared incompatible on their wedding day, but 33-year-old Reiss insists the programme’s editing didn’t show the full story behind their first meeting, reports OK!.

“There were definitely stages where I wasn’t happy with the edit. They sort of cut bits out and you can be perceived as the bad guy but that’s not exactly how things went down. Some things can be twisted a little bit,” he revealed.

Reiss then highlighted an uncomfortable moment from the big day, when Leisha mistakenly read aloud a direction in her vows that instructed her to ‘pause’ – rather than actually taking a break in her speech.

The bride and wedding guests erupted in giggles, whilst Reiss appeared stone-faced on screen.

However, the groom also found Leisha’s gaffe amusing, but claims his laughter was edited out completely.

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Reiss explained: “When me and Leisha got married and she was saying her vows – she said the word ‘pause’. I actually laughed, when she said ‘pause’, I found it funny.

“But the edit cut that bit out and you just see me shaking my head and just looking in a bit of a huff and a puff. But that’s not actually how it went down.”

He added: “If I was watching someone else do that when his missus has just said ‘pause’ out loud instead of just looking at the word, I would look at him and think ‘That means he’s quite boring, he’s not up for a laugh.'”

The Essex lad then claimed that the early scenes in the show “tried to paint me like I wasn’t into it at all,” but insisted that he was genuinely interested in the relationship.

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Reiss is now embarking on a completely different venture from the E4 show.

The reality star will be making a guest appearance in the adult panto Sinderella, penned and directed by Big Brother celebrity Simon Gross.

The ‘naughty’ show is an adult twist on the fairy-tale classic, featuring popular tunes such as Dancing Queen, Electric Dreams, It’s Raining Men and Never Going To Give You Up.

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The show debuts at Scala London on Friday, December 19, with Reiss set to make his cameo appearances on December 21 and 22.

Sinderella is at Scala London from December 19, 2025 to January 11, 2026.

Tess Daly MBE LIVE: Strictly star at Windsor Castle with family for huge honour

TV presenter Tess Daly will be among those accepting honours from the King today as she is officially made an MBE at Windsor Castle.

The 56-year-old and her Strictly Come Dancing co-host Claudia Winkleman were both made MBEs in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting.

It follows Daly and Winkleman’s announcement last month that the two will leave the show after fronting it together since 2014.

Who else is being honoured today?

Former EastEnders star Anita Dobson will also attend the royal Berkshire residence as she was made an OBE for services to charitable fundraising and philanthropy.

The 76-year old London-born actress, best known for playing Queen Vic landlady Angie Watts on the BBC soap, is a patron of several charities including Thames Hospice and Focus Foundation, which provides support for grassroots charities and local organisations.

Shadow housing secretary Sir James Cleverly will also receive his knighthood during the same ceremony, which he was awarded in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list.

Detective Superintendent Katherine Goodwin, the Met Police chief who led the manhunt for the murderer of marketing executive Sarah Everard in 2021, is also to receive the King’s Police Medal.

Her investigation led to the conviction of Met police officer Wayne Couzens.

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When will Tess and Claudia bow out from Strictly?

Tess and Claudia are still presenting the current series of Strictly but do not have long left. They will finish the series in December.

And then their last appearance together on the show will be its Christmas special, which will air on December 25.

Claudia will continue on the BBC host hit show The Traitors.

The Celebrity Traitors is to return for a second series next year (BBC/PA)

Husband Vernon’s sweet response to wife’s award

BBC Radio Two presenter Vernon Kay has congratulated his wife, Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly, for being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

The 56-year-old has been recognised alongside her Strictly co-host Claudia Winkleman in the King’s Birthday Honours for her services to broadcasting.

Kay, who has two children with Daly who he married in 2003, also praised Winkleman and the Strictly team for “consistently producing the best show every year”.

Posting a series of photographs on Instagram, Kay said: “Well what can we say!!! Congratulations @tessdaly on your MBE.

“All the hard work and huge effort you put into everything you do has been recognised by the King.

“Being on Strictly from the start when our babies weren’t even born just proves how well you’ve done. Now they’re almost 21 and 16 and we’ve all enjoyed this journey together!!

“Also, bravo everyone at @bbcstrictly and @claudiawinkle for consistently producing the best show every year!! Time to pop a cork me thinks…”

Vernon Kay will be there to support Tess Daly on her special day (Getty Images for the NTA’s)

Why Is Tess Daly getting an MBE?

TV presenter Tess Daly will be among those accepting honours from the King today as she is officially made an MBE at Windsor Castle.

The 56-year-old and her Strictly Come Dancing co-host Claudia Winkleman were both made MBEs in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting.

It follows Daly and Winkleman’s announcement last month that the two will leave the show after fronting it together since 2014.

Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly will bow of Strictly at the end of this year (PA)

Adam Peaty ‘changed’ after meeting Holly Ramsay and ‘ditching family for fame’

Adam Peaty OBE has been slammed after it emerged that his family had been uninvited to his upcoming wedding to Gordon Ramsay’s daughter, Holly, later this year

Adam Peaty OBE has been slammed after allegedly turning his back on his family. The Team GB legend, 30, is set to tie the knot with Gordon Ramsay’s daughter, Holly, in a few weeks’ time – without his family by his side.

Last weekend, it emerged that his mother, Caroline, who helped Adam on the road to Olympic success, was absent from Holly’s star-studded hen party at Soho Farmhouse, which was attended by her mum, Tana and Spice Girls icon, Victoria Beckham. But sources close to his mother have claimed Adam’s decision to shun his family appears to relate to his idea of chasing fame.

A source close to Caroline claims that Adam’s mum, Caroline, 59, believes the six-time Olympian believes his working-class family are “not good enough” to match the Ramsay family. It’s claimed that Caroline wasn’t invited to Holly’s hen as she “might have stuck out a bit”.

Now, a source close to Caroline has hit out at Adam, claiming the former Strictly Come Dancing star has “changed” since meeting Holly and is continuing to chase fame, despite his humble upbringing in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. “Adam has changed so much ever since he has been with Holly,” the source said.

They added to the Daily Mail: “She’s from a celebrity world and his parents are not, and his ego and self-importance has just got bigger. He’s not the lovely boy next door that we all remember him as. Adam has changed and he is almost a bully. He has been so horrible to his mum and he is now trying to exclude her from his life. She is worried sick about all this and can’t believe it is happening.

“We think Holly has triggered all this, and her parents – the power of the rich and famous.” Growing up, Adam was extremely close to his mother, who woke up at 4am to drive him to various swimming competitions as he built his name in the sport before winning three Olympic golds.

Sadly, it’s now claimed that after Adam met Holly and started mixing with some of the biggest names in entertainment, he is said to have changed, with the source adding that Caroline is “not good enough” for his soon-to-be in-laws. “She doesn’t fit the celebrity mold and she doesn’t look like them and dress like them.”

Just this week, Adam’s mum, Caroline, shared a cryptic quote on her personal Instagram page, alluding to the alleged rift in the family. She said: “When you love someone, you protect them from the pain, you don’t become the cause of it.”

This isn’t the only post Caroline has uploaded about the situation. After she was not invited to the hen do, she posted: “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.” Adam’s aunt, Louise Williams, has also addressed the situation on social media, claiming Holly was “divisive and hurtful” for not inviting his mother to the hen party.

She said: “@hollyramsayy I’m so glad that you had a great hen do. As a bride, you deserve that. However, as a person you were divisive and hurtful towards a woman, who I have loved and continue to love deeply.

“A woman who opened her home and heart to you. You decided, for whatever reason, not to invite her, your prospective mother-in-law to your hen night yet Adam invited his father-in-law, your dad, to his stag night.” Louise added: “You invited your mum (quite rightly) and even your mum’s assistant, your sisters, your friends, my niece, but not my sister, your future mother-in-law.

“I have also seen messages passing between her and Adam about this and other matters and, quite frankly, I expected better of you and definitely of Adam. You have inflicted a hurt on my sister that will take a very long time to heal if ever.”

The Mirror has approached Adam and Holly’s respective spokespeople for comment.

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Ian Watkins ‘killer’ pleads NOT guilty after Lostprophets paedo stabbed in prison

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, 48, was stabbed in the neck in high security HMP Wakefield prison, and Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, both inmates at HMP Wakefield, were arrested after the death

A man has pleaded ‘not guilty’ to murdering paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins.

Balding Samuel Dodsworth, 43, an inmate at HMP Wakefield, appeared at Leeds crown court via a video link for the plea and case management hearing.

He appeared wearing a grey sweatshirt and sat with his arms crossed as he pleaded not guilty to murder, which allegedly took place on October 11th and not guilty to possession of a ‘makeshift knife’ in a prison.

A second accused, Rico Gedel, 25, refused to appear via a video link and it was said he has made an application to appear in court next in person rather than remotely.

The Recorder of Leeds, His Honour Judge Guy Kearl KC, said Gedel can enter a plea at a later date and set a provisional trial date of May 5th for the pair with the next hearing set for December 2nd. The trial is expected to last four weeks.

Depraved Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, 48, was stabbed in the neck in high security HMP Wakefield prison last month, an inquest opening into his death heard recently.

Disgraced rock star Watkins, who was serving a 29-year jail sentence at HMP Wakefield for child sex offences, was set upon last month.

He had been jailed in December 2013 with a further six years on licence, after admitting a string of sex offences – including the attempted rape of a fan’s baby.

The twisted singer was arrested following the execution of a drugs warrant at his Pontypridd home in September 2012. A large number of computers, mobile phones and storage devices were seized. Analysis of the equipment uncovered Watkins’ depraved behaviour.

Watkins was previously taken to hospital after being attacked in 2023. At the time, police said his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

In 2019, he was jailed for 10 months on top of the sentence he was serving for child sex offences after he was found guilty of possessing a mobile phone in prison. Area coroner, Mr Oliver Longstaff, opening the inquest into his death at Wakefield last month, said: “Ian David Karslake Watkins was born on 30th July 1977 in Wales.

“He was a single gentleman at the time of his death, a serving prisoner at HMP Wakefield where Mr Watkins was pronounced deceased on the 11th October 2025 by an attending doctor.”

A forensic post mortem a day after his death was carried out by Dr Rob Ainsworth which “gave a provisional cause of death for Mr Watkins”.

“By way of circumstances of Mr Watkins death, giving rise to the need for an inquest to be held into it, it appears that Ian Watkins was pronounced deceased by paramedics who attended HMP Wakefield where he was serving prisoner, following a report he had been stabbed in the neck.

“A forensic post mortem has given a provisional cause of death for him of IA incision wound to the neck. Other prisoners have been charged with Mr Watkins murder.

“Clearly a death occurring in those circumstances being an unnatural death in state detention requires an inquest to be held into it…”

But he said it must be adjourned and suspended if someone has been arrested for murder and he said two people had been charged. The coroner said the inquest was opened and adjourned pending the outcome of the ‘criminal justice justice process.’

Watkins was once one of Wales’ most recognisable musicians – the frontman of the rock band Lostprophets. The band was formed in Pontypridd in 1997 and they went on to sell millions of albums around the world.

The band was disbanded after the paedophile singer from Pontypridd was convicted in December 2013 for a string of child sex offences, including the attempted rape of a baby.

At his trial prosecutors described Watkins as a man corrupted by fame, drugs and power who committed crimes ‘beyond imaginations’.

Watkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison with a further six years on licence, and his two female co-defendants were jailed for 14 and 17 years.

The attack at Wakefield Prison came two weeks after a report was published that found violence there had “increased markedly”. The report from the chief inspector of prisons said: “Many prisoners told us they felt unsafe, particularly older men convicted of sexual offences who increasingly shared the prison with a growing cohort of younger prisoners.”

The singer had previously been attacked at the same prison in August 2023, when he was reportedly taken hostage and stabbed by fellow inmates before being freed by officers six hours later. He had non-life-threatening injuries.

During Watkins sentencing, Mr Justice Royce said the case broke “new ground” and “plunged into new depths of depravity”.

“Any decent person… will experience shock, revulsion and incredulity.” He said Watkins had a “corrupting influence”, and had shown a “complete lack of remorse”.

Watkins admitted the attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 but pleaded not guilty to rape.

He also admitted conspiring to rape a child, three counts of sexual assault involving children, seven involving taking, making or possessing indecent images of children and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.

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His trial heard Watkins had used his fame to manipulate and control others, often under the influence of hard drugs, including crystal meth.

After Watkins was sentenced, Des Mannion, NSPCC national head of service for Wales, said: “Watkins used his status and global fame as a means to manipulate people and sexually abuse children.