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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Vernon Kay has opened up on his struggle as Tess Daly was left in dismay(Image: Joe Maher, Getty Images)
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’.”
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.”
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.
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’ wife Katie Dadzie rushed to hospital amid hysterectomy complications(Image: Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty I)
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.
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 House of Guinness (Image: Mike Marsland/WireImage)
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.
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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.
After witnessing the most abhorrent abuse at the Ryder Cup, golfing legend Rory Mcllroy praised his wife without a second thought. We reflect on some of their relationship’s ups and downs.
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Rory McIlroy of Team Europe and wife Erica Stoll(Image: Carl Recine/Getty Images)
Golf sensation Rory McIlroy was spotted beaming with pride as Team Europe beat Team US to win the Ryder Cup, but his wife was hit with horrific abuse along the way.
Erica Stoll had followed her Masters champion husband around the Bethpage Black course in New York, facing verbal slurs and on the worst occasion, being hit by a drink that was allegedly thrown by a member of the crowd.
Erica, 38, was standing next to Rory, 36, at the time and he quickly checked if she was OK, wiping her hat. After the tournament ended, the Northern Irishman said there had been “a lot of language that was unacceptable and abusive behaviour”. He added: “I don’t think we should ever accept that in golf. I think golf should be held to a higher standard than what was seen out there this week.”
Here are four more bombshells from Rory’s relationship career, not the first time…
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Rory thanked his wife for remaining polite despite the unacceptable abuse after her team won 15-13. She handled everything this week with the same class, poise, and dignity as she has always did. We’re going to have a good time celebrating tonight because I love her. “
Just 16 months prior, the golfer had submitted a three-page document to a Florida court detailing his request to file for divorce from Erica after seven years of marriage. According to TMZ, Rory asked for their prenuptial agreement to be upheld and requested a shared parenting plan for their daughter Poppy.
A few days later, the sportsman refused to answer any questions about his love life at the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club, where he was spotted without his wedding ring.
Relationship rumors are dissipated
With the announcement of the couple’s impending divorce shocking the golf world, rumours began to swirl that Rory was in the early stages of a relationship with CBS Sports presenter Amanda Balionis. A source would firmly deny there was anything between them.
This didn’t seem to deter spectators at the Ryder Cup – the i Newspaper reported some fans were heard to shout “Amanda” from the crowd.
U-turn in shock
Rory and Erica announced a month later that their divorce had been postponed. He said, “Unfortunately, there have been rumors about my personal life recently.” It’s a fool’s game to respond to every rumor.
Erica and I have come to terms with the fact that our best chance of growing up together as a family has been in recent weeks. We have thankfully come to terms with our differences, and we look forward to a new beginning. “
Following his first Masters victory in April, the world’s best golfer then paid emotional tribute to his family.
Restraints “still exist”
Rory and Erica turned a new leaf and appear to be back to their former flames, but some golfers’ acquaintances claim that their near-divorce was difficult.
Rory’s associate, according to a source who was cited by a source, claimed that “strains still exist” between the two.
They said, “I don’t think I’m going to surprise anyone by saying that,” they said. I’m not suggesting that he is planning a divorce, etc. He can avoid the spectacle of a public divorce, guard his brand, and shield his personal drama from the press by getting married.
According to the source, “The marriage is likely not entirely “fixed,” but rather depends on optics and shared interests. Aren’t all marriages filled with famous people?
Sports presenter Gabby Logan says she’s at a pivotal moment in her life after taking over as a main presenter on Match Of The Day as she opens up on some major personal changes
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Gabby is opening up about a pivotal moment in her life
With decades of experience under her belt, you could argue that sports pundit Gabby Logan was already at the top of her game. But since becoming one of the main presenters of Match Of The Day , her career has reached new heights. It comes at a pivotal moment in the 52-year-old’s life, as Gabby tells us she’s coping with her children flying the nest and adjusting to the feeling of having more “me” time.
“I’ve definitely taken things on recently that I wouldn’t have done before – I’ve said yes to more things,” says the former gymnast, who has 20-year-old twins Reuben and Lois with her husband of 24 years, Kenny Logan. “That’s the thing with this period of life, you have a bit more flexibility. It’s balancing those things and seeing some of the positives that can come out of your kids growing up. You have more time to spend on yourselves. I feel like people, women particularly, don’t do self-care very well when their kids are young, because you haven’t got the time.
“That’s a benefit I’m finding. I would probably not have worked as much on weekends when they were younger. You know, I did consider that quite a lot with things that I was offered to do, before. And now I’ve got more flexibility to do what I want to do, so it’s… strange,” admits Gabby.
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Following in their parents’ sports-loving footsteps, Reuben is a professional Rugby Union player for Northampton Saints, and Lois is a show jumper, while studying at university. And Gabby says the empty nest is still taking some time to get her head around.
“It is a challenge. You love their company and want to do things with them. You really miss them as people more than anything. And the house feels quieter. But then the pros are that the house has less washing,” she laughs.
“Luckily, they did it quite gradually because although Reuben moved out over two years ago, he was closer to home so he’d come to visit most weekends. Lois was having a year off back then, so it wasn’t a big double whammy where they both left on the same day.
“But now, Reuben has moved up north and he’s definitely not going to be able to get home as much, and Lois will be back at university. So I think this term will be a lot harder in terms of the empty house.”
While Gabby and former rugby star Kenny’s lives sound uber-exciting to sport fans, she says her grown-up kids aren’t quite as impressed.
“They don’t really know any different than what we do, and I don’t think any children think their parents are cool. But they’re sporty, so they enjoy the sporting events we get to go to and are really supportive. Well, I think they’re secretly supportive,” she admits.
“We’ve always been quite an open family, so they aren’t afraid to bring things up when they think we’ve crossed the line on TV or in interviews,” Gabby adds, as we bring up her son’s recent revelation that he was “embarrassed” to hear his mum chatting about sex on a podcast.
Embarrassing as it may have been, Reuben spoke highly of his famous parents, and has clearly had some strong role models to look up to.
“I wouldn’t be the person to tell you what the secret is, if there is a secret to marriage,” says Gabby, who met her husband on a night out in 1999. “You do need to enjoy each other’s company, and having respect and fun and being a team has always been integral to our relationship. Sometimes, you have to ride through tough times and times that are more challenging, but that can then make it better on the other side. It’s about having a bit of resilience at times. The bad times are as important as the good times.”
The family have certainly had their fair share of tough times, with Kenny battling prostate cancer in 2022 which, thankfully, he got the all-clear from a year later. Not one to sugarcoat the difficult journey, Gabby says the heartache of Kenny’s health battle has brought the family closer.
“Families go through all kinds of challenges, whether it’s bereavement or cancer or other illnesses – and you somehow come out of those situations with the armoury to get stronger. You learn how to deal with those stressful times and adopt that, ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ approach. You have a level of strength that comes from that pain,” she says, quietly.
Alongside mental strength, Gabby has been focusing on her physical health over the last few years and tells us she has got into strength training.
“Training, for me, has been a game changer recently, especially in this period of my life,” says Gabby, who has openly spoken about her journey with perimenopause in recent years. “I was doing a lot of Pilates and walking until about six months ago. I started training with an online programme and have been building muscle rather than just maintaining. I really enjoy it. I find that any kind of exercise helps with my mental health, as well as physical.”
Gabby has found that her new routine helps her deal with her menopause symptoms, something which has led her to work with Menopace on its Strength Test campaign.
“Things started to change for me a bit in my forties,” says Gabby, when we ask about her menopause journey. “I didn’t really understand what perimenopause was. I’d never heard it before and then it was creeping into conversations quite a lot. Then I noticed changes that were quite gradual. It wasn’t anything overnight where I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is it.’ It was more small things like having lower moods, or my hair feeling more brittle, or doing an exercise and not seeing the results I would usually see.”
Aiming to help women in midlife to maintain their strength, vitality and happiness while balancing often wildly fluctuating hormones, Gabby has been taking part in the Strength Test, something she reckons every woman going through these changes should try.
“It’s a mix of simple things that people can measure themselves against and work out what they need to do, you know, to get better at them. Things like, ‘I can’t hang as long as I thought I could’, or ‘I need to be able to lift a bit more weight on this exercise to get to the strength level that I should have at this age’. So, yeah, they are tests people can use to make sure they’re hitting those benchmarks that they should at this age.”
And Gabby won’t be winding down anytime soon. “I’m the Mary Berry of sports broadcasting, to be honest,” she says. “I’ve got lots going on at the moment, so there are no plans to slow down.”
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Gabby Logan is an ambassador for Menopace, and she has launched the Menopace Strength Test to help women assess and improve their physical strength. Gabby takes Menopace Max RRP £25.95 available at Vitabiotics.com.
As the most recent series of live performances comes to an end, we take a look at the lowest-scoring Strictly Come Dancing contestant’s life away from the show.
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Quentin Wilson holds the title of lowest scoring celebrity in the history of Strictly Come Dancing from his time on the show in 2004(Image: Channel 5)
After scoring a paltry ten points following his first performance on Strictly Come Dancing last week, Ross King could be forgiven for feeling a little downcast as he enters week two of the competition.
Even though his concerns about tonight’s show are understandable, he may find it a little comfort knowing that he is not the first to receive a very low score. His performance of the Cha Cha last weekend left the judges, including Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke, speechless.
Ross responded to his low score with, “At least I can say that I received a 10 on Strictly Come Dancing in my first week. We all know that you can rewrite history these days, which is fantastic.
He continued, “So, in years to come, people will ask me about my Strictly experience and I will respond, “Can you believe it?” Nobody ever needs to remember that the group was 10.
He continued, “I think it’s just Stefan (Dennis) that’s older than me, trying to make a lasting impression and inspire the public.” So, “he says, I’m trying to inspire people.” I’m bringing back everyone who has never danced before, but I might be able to take some lessons.
But back in 2004, former Top Gear host Quentin Wilson scored a dismal eight points alongside his professional dance partner Hazel Newberry. At the time, judge Bruno Tonioli compared it to watching a Reliant Robin circle a Ferrari, a reference to his career in the motoring industry.
And more than twenty years later, Quentin continues to hold the title as the lowest-scoring celebrity on the BBC dance show. But forever the optimist, the presenter claimed that Strictly was one of his “proudest moments.”
The presenter said in a GB News interview that he thought of his time on the show and that it was what civilized us.
He continued, “I immediately said no when they rang up and said, “Would you do it?” I was just, you know, I’m just as agile as a JCB. “
He continued, “But my wife said, “No, because it will demonstrate your humanity and your ability to laugh at yourself.” And I believe it to be very significant. People would shake my hand and say, “Well done, mate,” for months after that and shake my hand.
He continued, “I think it’s really important that you show your true self and that you can’t fail,” adding: “I think. That is admirable. The message is appropriate.
However, Quentin’s life couldn’t be more secluded from the opulence of the stage. By displaying vintage cars on social media, he maintains a strong connection with the auto industry.
He also served as FairFue1UK’s spokesperson, which helped to fight against driver’s tax increases. In addition to capturing his wife and kids, he also offers family members an insight into their lives.
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