Pop superstar turned top fashion designer Victoria Beckham has confessed that she worries about her and husband David Beckham’s children just as much today as she did when they were very young
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Victoria Beckham opens up on ‘worries’ for children(Image: Instagram)
With three sons in their twenties, and a teenage daughter who’s determined to carve out her own identity, Victoria Beckham could be forgiven for losing track of her kids’ movements from time to time.
But the pop star turned fashion designer has rejected any suggestion that she might not know where Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper might be at any given moment: “Absolutely not,” she told the Daily Mail, “we have a family chat group, and we all know where each other are.”
Victoria, 51, explained she and husband David check in with their kids at least once a day, every day via the WhatsApp group.
“David and I like to check in with them all before we go to bed at night and check everybody’s home,” she said.
“Romeo might not live with us any more but we like to make sure he’s home and safe. You don’t stop worrying about your kids, even when they’re grown up.”
The former Spice Girl says that she worries about her children’s welfare as much today as she did when they were very young: “That’s something that will never change,” she said.
Victoria went on to confess that, at the moment, she’s particularly worried about her daughter, who at 14 is growing up in a world where intense pressure is placed on young girls to conform to unattainable beauty standards.
Admitting that she’d had her own personal struggles with an eating disorder, Victoria said she had spoken to Harper about it before the premiere of a new Netflix documentary about her life: “We just had a really honest conversation, and I explained that when you have issues with food, it is all consuming,” she said.
“It is sad. It’s a very lonely place. I thought it was important that she heard it from me before she saw it at the theatre.”
Victoria, who denied having anorexia when directly asked about it on the late Sir Michael Parkinson’s BBC chat show in 2000, says she’s been talking to her daughter about the issue of eating disorders for quite some time, “because that is a conversation that’s flying around at school.”
However, in the new Netflix documentary, she admitted: “I could control my weight and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.
“When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents. I never talked about it publicly.”
That’s why she’s determined to have an open dialogue with her daughter: “The one thing that doesn’t seem to change is that little girls think a lot about food as they’re growing up, and when their bodies are changing and when they’re going through puberty.
The couple were on the BBC One show together from 2006 to 2013 and survived the dreaded Strictly Come Dancing curse and are now celebrating 22 years of marriage.
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James and Ola Jordan are celebrating 22 years of marriage(Image: PA)
Strictly Come Dancing power couple James and Ola Jordan are celebrating their 22nd wedding anniversary. The pair became professional dance partners in 2000 before joining the BBC One show together in 2006.
On Sunday (October 12), Ola, 43, took to Instagram to share a sweet tribute for her husband as she showed off a series of pictures of the two throughout the years.
She penned: “22 years married!!! I deserve a medal, a parade and possibly a statue. Happy anniversary to my darling husband James – currently off living his best life on tour with the Dance Legends while I hold down the fort… and the recycling bin and trying to remember where we keep the screwdriver and at least three light bulbs I’m refusing to change on principle!!!
“Can’t wait for you to get home… mainly because I’ve got a looooong list of blue jobs I need you to do. Love you.”
Fans rushed to the comments section to send the couple their well-wishes as one gushed: “Happy Anniversary to a great couple – you are both amazing dancers and hope many more years to come.”
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Another expressed: “Congratulations to the best dancing partners ever on Strictly,” while someone else said: “Happy anniversary to you both.”
James, 47, took to his own Instagram page to share his own tribute, with a series of pictures of videos of them throughout their years together.
He wrote: “22 years!!! Happy Anniversary to my partner in crime and beautiful wife @olajordan. Can’t wait to get home to spend time with my two girls – love you.”
The two first met back in 2000 when James was looking for a new professional dance partner, and after holding a try-out in Poland, he met Ola. The pair started out their equation professionally before their dynamic turned romantic two years later.
They got married in 2003, and they both joined Strictly Come Dancing for the fourth series in 2006. He left the show in 2013, and she departed the following year.
James and Ola became parents in February 2020 when they welcomed daughter Ella into the world after undergoing IVF treatment. The couple tried IVF again to try for a second child, but after getting pregnant, they received devastating news.
They appeared on Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 show earlier this year as Ola revealed: “It was very heartbreaking, devastating. We went in, and suddenly everything went quiet, and I knew something was not right.”
The duo explained how doctors had confirmed there wasn’t a heartbeat. Following the miscarriage, doctors told Ola she had only a “five percent chance of having a healthy baby” with further IVF treatment.
She continued: “It’s hard but when we came out with our story that we were going through IVF and struggling to have children, there was so many people who contacted us. It’s not easy and it’s better to talk about it.
“We had been together for a long time and tried for 18 years not to be pregnant because you’re on the show, have this career and life.
“One day we said ‘let’s just take it easy and see what happens. We’re not not trying to get pregnant anymore but let’s not put pressure on it’. Years went pass and nothing happened.”
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After attempting to conceive naturally for three years, Ola, who was 37 at the time, was recommended by her GP to try IVF. The couple decided to pursue this option as their next step, with their first attempt at IVF being successful.
“We had our wonderful Ella, she is wonderful and very clever. I don’t know where she gets it from, neither of us. Very funny, very cheeky, she is just amazing.”
It was announced this weekend that actor Diane Keaton died at the age of 79 after an award-winning acting career, but her health had rapidly declined
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The actress won and Oscar and starred in major films including The Godfather trilogy(Image: Getty)
Oscar-winning Diane Keaton’s health declined rapidly before her death at 79, it has been reported. It was announced on Saturday that the award-winning actor had died in California.
It has since been reported that the star’s health declined at a rapid rate in the last few months before she died. More details about Diane’s death have since emerged, with a friend reportedly saying that her death was “unexpected”.
The actress was best known for her work in films such as The Godfather, Annie Hall, The First Wives Club, and Something’s Got To Give. She also worked with director Nancy Meyers multiple times on projects like the Book Club series.
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She received numerous awards throughout her career, including an Oscar, a BAFTA, Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. The late actress was romantically involved with Hollywood stars like Woody Allen, her Godfather co-star Al Pacino and Warren Beatty.
More details surrounding Diane’s health in recent months have been emerging. A friend of Diane’s told PEOPLE Magazine: “She declined very suddenly, which was heartbreaking for everyone who loved her. It was so unexpected, especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”
The source added: “In her final months, she was surrounded only by her closest family, who chose to keep things very private. Even longtime friends weren’t fully aware of what was happening.”
The star bravely opened up about her battle with bulimia back in 2014, as she described it as “the lowest point in [her] life”.
Behind the scenes, the A-lister was sadly dealing with body image issues and mental health struggles since her twenties. During a candid chat on The Dr Oz Show, Keaton confessed that she would consume a staggering 20,000 calories daily during the height of her bulimia battle.
She explained what she would have for a typical evening meal, which would consist of “a bucket of fried chicken, several orders of fries with blue cheese and ketchup, a couple of TV dinners, a quarter of soda, pounds of candy, a whole cake, and three banana cream pies.”
According to People magazine, Diane’s eating disorder began after the director of the Broadway show Hair offered Keaton the lead role on the condition that she lose weight.
Diane managed to conquer her bulimia, but in a 2020 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, the celebrity confessed that even as she grew older, she didn’t feel “secure” in herself.
On the subject of ageing, she sadly expressed: “I don’t think it gets easier as you get older. I think it gets more pressing, just because it’s really about death. It’s really like approaching it, and how do you approach that part of your life? Nobody wants that.”
If you’re worried about your health or the health of somebody else, you can contact SEED eating disorder support service on 01482 718130 or on their website, here.
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Canary Wharf has been branded the UK’s answer to New York City thanks to its hotspot as a film location
What do Hollywood icons Angelina Jolie, Idris Elba, Emma Thompson and Colin Firth all have in common? They’ve all been spotted filming in London’s financial hub Canary Wharf, which has been dubbed the UK’s ‘mini-Manhattan’.
With its sleek skyscrapers, sophisticated shopping centre and futuristic-looking underground station, it’s not surprising the area has caught the eye of film and television makers who are putting the area in the spotlight and showcasing its screen-ability. Just this month, A-lister Angelina Jolie was spotted sporting a stunning blonde bob during filming for new Netflix comedy Anxious People – and she’s just the latest in a long line of Hollywood celebrities who have been frequenting the area.
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Film expert Adam Brannon, founder and editor of Movie Metropolis, says he’s not surprised that Canary Wharf is catching the attention of filmmakers as it offers both scale and accessibility. “Unlike many parts of London, particularly central London, its wide-open spaces, controlled estates and modern infrastructure make it easier to manage large-scale shoots,” he says. “Whether that be a car chase or an intricately choreographed fight sequence.
“Like New York, the area’s dramatic night-time lighting and reflective skyscrapers also lend themselves really well to stunning cinematography. And both London and New York offer generous tax incentives to attract film and TV productions, which means this central city location and incentives for crews in the UK means it can take the place of NYC relatively easily.”
A Hollywood leading man spent months learning The Boss’s distinctive vocals in a new biopic
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The Hollywood star got Bruce’s approval for his portrayal of The Boss(Image: INTERNET)
Every painstaking note Jeremy Allen White sang as he strove to perfect Bruce Springsteen’s rasping tone made him certain who was The Boss. Aping Springsteen’s genius for his role in the new biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, was always set to be a daunting task.
But the actor, who first found fame playing juvenile delinquent Lip Gallagher in the US version of Shameless, had not bargained on the Born to Run star shadowing him 24/7 on set. He laughs: “It was very hard. Especially because he’s sitting there the whole time.
“I had not had a lot of experience – or any experience – singing, playing guitar, any of it, before I took on the role. So that was daunting, to say the least, in the beginning. I had a lot of time, but I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked. You never do, you know? I had about six months to kind of learn.
“The chords are pretty simple. There’s not many of them. And a lot of the songs are in the same (chord). Yeah. But the singing was a gamble.”
Six months may sound to the uninitiated like a very long time. But there is a reason why Springsteen’s rugged, raspy, heartland voice has helped him sell 150 million records … he is pretty much inimitable.
To get somewhere close, White, 34, hired Hollywood vocal coach Eric Vetro to knock his vocal chords into shape. He says: “He helped Austin Butler with the Elvis movie and he helped Timothy Chalamet with the Bob Dylan movie. He’s kind of the ‘go-to’, you know?
“And he works with a lot of amazing, like vocalists and real singers and performers.” Worried if he could even sing, White continues: “Then you try to find a little bit of that rasp and then you start messing around with that nasal sound, that New Jersey phrasing.
“I really have to give Eric credit because he was there to say ‘this is how you sing a song. This is how you make it sound good.’ When I finally sounded like Bruce, that was like a breakthrough.”
And, according to The Boss himself, White – who will be appearing with Springsteen on BBC1 ’s Graham Norton show on October 17 – hit all the right notes, as he recreated his trademark New Jersey blue collar sound. He says: “I remember Bruce was great the first time he heard one of my pre-records, because he was like, ‘You sound like me, but you’re singing the song, you know? And you’re making the song your own. You’ve got your connection with the song”.
Audiences can see if they agree when Deliver Me From Nowhere is released in cinemas on October 24. The film shows Springsteen crafting his 1982 ‘left turn’ album Nebraska, after finding Billboard success with his seminal 1980 album The River.
Based on a book by Warren Zanes, it dramatises Springsteen’s journey to create the album, as he accelerates towards global stardom, which struck in 1984 when his multi million selling album Born in the USA exploded, with hits like Dancing in the Dark.
Springsteen was keen to ensure the movie was an accurate portrayal of this time. But, after showing his faith in White’s singing, the actor says it felt like Springsteen was giving him “permission” to keep going with his interpretation of his life.
In fact, the stars’ backgrounds are not a million miles apart. While Springsteen was born in New Jersey, White grew up in nearby Brooklyn – where he was teased onto the stage, aged around 14, by his parents, who were both former actors.
White, who was trained in ballet, tap and jazz as a child, remembers: “My mom grew up in North Carolina, went to North Carolina School of the Arts and studied acting there. But she moved to New York in the late 70s, early 80s, with the big dreams and my pops too. He grew up outside of Philadelphia and he moved there to pursue acting as well. I grew up in a household that was very supportive of the arts, the passion there, you know what I mean?”
White says he owes his success to a drama teacher, who drew the best out of him as a teenager. He says: “This teacher taught at a school in Brooklyn and I joined the class. And yeah, it was just an improv sort of exercise and in a black box, you know.
“I just remember the feeling of being able to focus, which was very hard for me as a young person and still is. But I remember the attention. I felt the eyes on me. And I felt people were waiting and like connected and wanted to see what was going to happen next. And I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool.’ That space always feels insane. It was my teacher who planted the seed.”
Since his breakthrough in Shameless, White has established himself as one of Hollywood’s rising stars to watch, thanks to his role in the Hulu series The Bear, playing troubled New York chef Carmen Berzatto.
Said to be based loosely on the career of British Michelin star-winning chef Marco Pierre-White, the role won him two Critics Choice Television Awards, as well as three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild gongs and two Emmys. Then, two years ago, White finally made it onto the big screen, playing the late American pro-wrestler Kerry Von Erich in the biographical sports film The Iron Claw.
And just last year, White graced billboards worldwide when he became global ambassador for Calvin Klein underwear, modelling the brand’s 2024 collection and generating a staggering $12.7m in advertising revenue. Next year looks to be even brighter for the actor, with a role in the Star Wars movie The Mandalorian & Grogu.
Attributing his growing success to his enthusiasm for learning, he continues: “I had a lot of energy as a kid and, like I said, it was very hard for me to focus. “My parents put me through everything. I was wrestling and I was playing soccer, I was playing baseball and doing all the stuff. They were like ‘We got to run this kid out.’
“It was fun. And it was that again, it was ‘eyes on you’. So, anyway, I think I was lucky in the start because I was like, ‘whatever, this is fun.’ And that’s the way to approach this thing. But the older you get, it becomes, ‘Oh, maybe I’m doing this now’, or ‘this is how I make a living’, or ‘this is how people are paying attention’.
For now, his career seems to be achieving perfect harmonies – that is, unless you ask him to sing the Springsteen classic Born in the USA. He laughs: “Doing the Bruce movie wasn’t easy, but I’ll remember recording Born in the USA for the rest of my life. I lost my voice entirely. I needed a nap and I saw Bruce shortly after that recording.
“I just stopped speaking for a couple of days and then my voice started to come back, and I loved the sound of it. I had this real rasp and I was like, ‘Oh, man, how can I capture this or recapture this?’
“I was waking up in the morning and I was screaming into a pillow to try and recapture like a little bit of that rasp, but I think my neighbours were getting nervous and I knew that I couldn’t go on that way.”
With about a week left before shooting on the biopic began, Springsteen had a documentary, Road Diary, coming out on Hulu and was at an event nearby.
White recalls: “I saw Bruce after that. I didn’t have any voice and he said,’What’d you do today?’ I said, ‘I recorded Born in the USA.’ And he said, ‘yeah, that sounds about right!’”
Liam Payne died almost a year ago, and police are still going through hundreds of hours’ worth of CCTV footage, as well as his personal laptop, to piece things together
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Police are still examining Liam Payne’s death(Image: Getty Images)
Liam Payne’s death is still being investigated – almost a year later. The former One Direction singer-songwriter tragically died aged just 31 on October 16, 2024. The musician fell from the third floor of his hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and sustained injuries incompatible with life.
But still, almost a year on, police are attempting to piece together Liam’s final hours in Latin America, where he was alone after his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, headed home, having explained she didn’t like to be in the same place for a long period of time.
Since Liam’s death, two suspects have been charged with supplying drugs, and both deny the allegations. However, no trial date has been set yet. It’s reported that local police are going through over 800 hours of CCTV footage, as well as trawling through Liam’s personal laptop and the mobile phones of those connected to his death.
“It’s very frustrating as the likelihood of a trial still seems a long way off, and there is a sense that the police investigation is too slow,” a source said.
Currently, waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, 25, and Ezequl David Pereya, 22, a former hotel worker, face up to 15 years in prison if they are convicted of drug offences. Both have been in jail since January. A source told The Sun: “The current evidence has been looked at by four judges and sent back for more work and examination.
“The last prosecuting official looked at the case in September and it’s now gone back to the original judge who is re-examining the evidence. Clearly more needs to be combed through such as the 800 hours of CCTV, the mobile phones and Liam’s laptop.”
While Paiz and Pereya are awaiting to find out their fate, three others linked to Liam’s death, including his pal Roger Nores, had their charges of criminal negligence dropped. In Argentina, the prosecutor’s office gathers evidence and later presents it to a judge, who decides whether to go ahead with a trial.
Paiz admits to taking drugs with Liam but vehemently denies supplying them. Court documents show that he is charged with selling cocaine to Payne, two days before the star tragically died. Paiz says that as the first anniversary approaches, he has started to revisit the memories.
“I wish he hadn’t died and things were different. I used to feel regret about what happened, but actually I don’t regret meeting him as he was my idol and I was a big fan,” he told the outlet. He states he didn’t sell drugs to Liam as he didn’t take any money from him.
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Liam’s death was caused by “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding”. At the time of his death, according to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 14, Liam was three times the US legal drink driving limit. His blood showed traces of alcohol, cocaine and prescription anti-depressants, which would have left him severely impaired.
