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Jason Manford jokes wife Lucy Dyke is expecting his seventh child saying ‘here we go again’

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The comedian took to social media to jokingly suggest his wife, Lucy Dyke, is pregnant with his seventh child, in a post that “backfired” and infuriated his other half

Jason Manford took to social media to jokingly hint that his wife, Lucy Dyke, is pregnant with his seventh child, unenthusiastically commenting “here we go again”. He later admitted the joke “backfired” and that he “didn’t even think” about the impact on his wife.

Earlier on Sunday (16 November) the comedian and father of six took to Instagram to share a post of himself looking tired and miserable in a hospital waiting room, underneath a picture of a baby scan. In the caption, he wrote: “Here we go again”.

Fans immediately flooded the comments with congratulatory messages, and some also showed surprise, as Jason already has six children. “No way…” one wrote. “6 sounded hard work when you were talking about your family at Derby gig the other night. Congrats.”

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Others pointed out the comedian had a vasectomy two years ago, and wondered how it was possible that he was expecting another child. One fan penned: “I was thinking then, how did that happen! He’s had the [scissor emoji] you b*****! Hope the scan goes OK Xx.”

Just two hours later, Jason had to head back online to apologise to fans, admitting it was a joke and that he was actually waiting to have a scan for a hernia. “Well that joke backfired,” he admitted. “Sorry folks, was just a scan for a potential hernia! (All clear btw!). Bored on a Sunday.”

Many fans commented laughing emojis in the comments, suggesting they found the joke funny. This included fellow comedian Asim Chaudhry who followed his emojis with the words: “You potent prankster you!”

Just an hour after that, Jason revealed his wife’s furious reaction to the posts. He shared a screenshot of texts between them, in which Jason sent Lucy a screenshot of a Daily Mail article about his joke and commented underneath: “Whoops”.

Lucy responded with an angry demand. In all capitals, she wrote: “YOU OWE ME CHLOE SHOES AND THE EXPENSIVE ONES”. Designer fashion brand Chloe sells trainers, heeled shoes, boots and sandals as part of its footwear collection, with prices ranging from £390 to £2,290.

In the caption of the post about Lucy’s reaction, Jason admitted he didn’t think about the impact of his joke on his wife: “This has not gone well! I didn’t even think.”

He then jokingly asked how much Chloe shoes were, and suggested £40, a price much lower than any of the shoes listed on Chloe’s website.

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Jason married Lucy in 2017 and the pair have two children together. He has four children by his first wife, Catherine, whom he married in 2007, but got divorced from in 2013.

‘I was on I’m A Celebrity and Ant and Dec showed their true colours in off-camera moment’

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The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star shared his true thoughts on presenters Ant and Dec after many viewers claimed Ant was “harsh” on him

A former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! contestant has revealed what Ant and Dec are truly like behind the scenes, following a difficult experience in the jungle. Radio host Dean McCullough appeared on the show last year and faced six gruesome Bushtucker Trials consecutively.

Throughout the series, some viewers criticised Ant for being overly critical of Dean after he struggled to finish certain tasks.

Ant himself subsequently acknowledged being “quite unprofessional” regarding his response, but Dean has now made clear that there are no hard feelings between them.

Looking back on his time on the programme, he said: “Look, it’s banter and I thought it was funny and that’s why I was bantering them back.

“When you see it on TV, the banter that we had down at the trials was real because I don’t know what’s going on on the outside.

“As far as I’m concerned, Ant’s just being hard on me because I’m being a f*****g p***y and sometimes you’ve just got to say to somebody, ‘Get on with it’.

“And I do actually respond well to that, so knowing that he was being a bit harder on me, I was like, ‘I actually want to prove Ant and my campmates that I can do this’.”

Speaking further on the Not My Bagg podcast, Dean said while he would’ve appreciated “a bit more compassion” from the duo, he echoed that he “enjoyed” their humour.

Commending the presenting pair, the broadcaster said there were also some comforting exchanges from the hosts that audiences didn’t get to see.

Looking back on one of his challenges where he was put in a confined box, he recalled suffering a “full-blown panic attack” with Ant and Dec by his side.

“Ant and Dec were like holding my hand saying, ‘You have got this, you’re going to be alright’ and ‘You don’t have to do this’ and whatever,” he remembered.

“They couldn’t get me in the box before we even started filming, they couldn’t even get me in it. I got into the box twice before we started filming, so they got it, they knew I was genuinely petrified.

“But I think all the stuff on the outside is just clickbait, they needed something to talk about. The crack was the crack,” he continued.

This year, a fresh line-up of famous faces will venture into the jungle hoping to claim Danny Jones’ crown.

The celebrities trading their luxuries for camp life include; Kelly Brook, Martin Kemp, Alex Scott, Jack Osbourne and Ruby Wax, Lisa Riley, Aitch, Angry Ginge, Shona McCarty and Eddie Kadi.

For the 2025 series, bosses have brought in a new rule meaning celebrities can only face two back-to-back trials, before they’re exempt from the next challenge.

A spokesperson explained: “Show bosses are keen to give all campmates the opportunity to shine in Bushtucker Trials this year and are bringing in a new rule that after a celebrity has been voted for TWO trials in a row, they cannot be voted for one on the next day.

“This new rule means the responsibility for winning food is shared amongst more of the campmates.

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“More campmates will have an opportunity to step up and play their part with viewers getting a chance to get to know them more, it’s their chance to shine.”

Sacha Baron Cohen, 54, spotted getting cosy with Kylie Jenner lookalike, 26

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Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen was seen getting flirty with a young American influencer as he continues to move on from ex-wife Isla Fisher following the end of their 14 year marriage

Sacha Baron Cohen was seen cuddling up to a Kylie Jenner lookalike who is 28 years younger than him. The comic actor – who finalised his £120million divorce from Isla Fisher in June – was snapped enjoying a flirtatious outing with American influencer Kelsey Calemine, 26.

He was reportedly seen swapping numbers with the social media personality after they met in a lavish new nightclub. Sacha, 54, and Kelsey were seen laughing and chatting outside the Hollywood venue before he handed her his pink mobile phone. The influencer – whose property developer dad is just two years older than Sacha – then entered her number.

The exchange between the pair took place at around 3am, with the elite venue being so new that it has not even been named yet. Sacha had arrived at the venue just a couple of hours earlier at 1am. Kelsey is a socialite and foodie influencer who has a whopping 2.8 million followers on Instagram.

An onlooker told The Sun on Sunday: “Sacha arrived at 1am at a hot new exclusive nightclub that is just up and coming in Hollywood. He was on his own with no security. He left the club at 3am just seconds after Kelsey and her friend left. He instantly noticed her.

“He was staring at Kelsey and then walked over and started chatting to her. Someone told me he had been flirting with her inside the club. Outside, they were both very flirty, and they didn’t stop laughing.”

Meanwhile, Sacha’s ex-wife Isla, 49, has admitted her partying days are over as she attempts to settle into life in London. The Australian actress, who shares three children with Sacha from their 14-year marriage, confessed that the move “has been challenging, but deeply rewarding”.

Talking to Elle Decoration magazine about the moment her furniture was delivered, Isla said: “I did have a bit of a cry because this was my first time as a single woman, being in a home of my own.” She met Sacha in 2001, and they married nine years later in 2010.

The former couple announced their split in February April last year, saying that after a “long tennis match” the marriage had come to an end. Their divorce was then finalised in June, with Isla appearing to ridicule the size of Sacha’s manhood on social media the following month.

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She posted on Instagram: “For all those men who say ‘Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free’ here’s an update for you. Nowadays, 80 per cent of women are against marriage. Why? They realise it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.”

The Mirror has approached Sacha’s spokespeople for comment.

Israel can’t fly us all out to South Africa

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Earlier this week, a flight carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza landed in South Africa without documentation. The passengers were stuck on the plane for 12 hours before the South African authorities, who claimed they had not been informed by Israelis about the deportation flight, allowed them to disembark on humanitarian grounds.

The Palestinians on board had paid between $1,500 and $5,000 to a company called Al-Majd Europe to leave Gaza. The operation is run by a few Palestinians on the ground in coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities. At least two other such flights had already been made since June this year.

This is the latest scheme Israel is deploying to depopulate Gaza – a longstanding goal of its apartheid regime that goes back to the early 20th century.

Since the beginning of the Zionist movement, Palestinians have been perceived as a demographic obstacle to establishing a Jewish state. In the late 19th century, Theodor Herzl, one of the founding fathers of Zionism, wrote that the displacement of Arabs from Palestine must be part of the Zionist plan, suggesting that poor populations could be moved across borders and deprived of employment opportunities in a quiet and cautious manner.

In 1938, David Ben-Gurion, a key Zionist leader who would later become Israel’s first prime minister, made clear he supported forced “relocation” and saw nothing “immoral” in it. Part of this vision was carried out 10 years later during the Nakba of 1948, when more than 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes in what Israeli historian Benny Morris has called “necessary” ethnic cleansing.

After 1948, Israel continued efforts to displace Palestinians. In the 1950s, tens of thousands of Palestinians and Palestinian Bedouins were forcibly transferred from the Naqab (Negev) desert to the Sinai Peninsula or Gaza, which was under Egyptian administration at that time.

After the June 1967 war, when Israel occupied Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, it adopted a strategy of what it called “voluntary migration”. The idea was to create harsh living conditions to pressure residents to leave, including demolishing homes and reducing employment opportunities.

In parallel, “emigration offices” were established in the refugee camps of Gaza to encourage people who have lost any hope of return to their homes to leave in exchange for money and travel arrangements. Israel also encouraged Palestinians to go work abroad, especially in the Gulf.  The price Palestinians had to pay for leaving was never being allowed to come back.

After October 7, 2023, Israel saw another chance to carry out its plan of ethnically cleansing Gaza – this time through genocide and forced expulsion. It thought it had the necessary international sympathy and diplomatic capital to carry out such an atrocity, as statements by various Israeli officials, such as ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, show. They even came up with the so-called “General’s Plan” to fully depopulate northern Gaza.

The new scheme for forcing Palestinians out of Gaza fits well into this historical pattern. What distinguishes it, however, is that Palestinians are made to pay for their own forced displacement and their desperation is exploited by Palestinian collaborators who seek to make easy profit. This, of course, is meant to further the financial depletion of the Palestinian population and create more internal fissures and tensions.

This scheme, like previous ones, also has the central feature of denying Palestinians return. None of the passengers on the plane received Israeli exit stamps on their passports, which was the reason the South African authorities struggled with the admission process. Having no legal record of leaving the Israeli-occupied territory of Gaza means these people are automatically classified as illegal migrants and have no possibility of returning.

It is important here to clarify why Israel is allowing these flights to take place while impeding the evacuation of ill and injured Palestinians and students accepted in foreign universities. These exits of patients and students would be legal, and they imply the right to return – something Israel does not want to allow.

That there are Palestinians willing to fall for this flight scheme is unsurprising. Two years of genocide have driven the people of Gaza to unimaginable desperation. There are that many Gaza residents who would willingly board those planes. And yet, Israel cannot fly us all to South Africa.

Through decades of Zionist occupation, Palestinians have persevered. Palestinian steadfastness in the face of wars, sieges, home raids, demolitions, land theft, and economic subjugation confirms that the Palestinian land is not merely a place to live, but a symbol of identity and history that people are not willing to give up.

In the past two years, Israel has destroyed the lives and homes of two million Palestinians. And even that has failed to kill the Palestinian spirit and drive to hold onto the Palestinian land. The Palestinians are not flying out; we are here to stay.

One Dead, Six Injured In Lagos Auto Crash

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One person has died with six others injured in an early Sunday auto crash in the Ikorodu area of Lagos. 

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Adebayo Taofiq, said the accident occurred around Majidun, inward Ogolonto, directly opposite MRS Filling Station.

Taofiq said, “The brutal impact resulted in the instantaneous death of an adult female passenger, while five female occupants and one male sustained severe and life-threatening injuries.

“While all five injured casualties were rushed to nearby Benic Special Hospital, the remains of the deceased were immediately transferred into the custody of security personnel who conveyed them to the General Hospital, Ikorodu, for urgent formal documentation.”

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He said the accident involved a Volkswagen commercial bus bearing registration number EPE 494 XM and a stationary tipper truck.

“Preliminary inquiries have established that the ill-fated commercial bus, chartered to convey passengers to a scheduled programme in Ogijo, experienced an abrupt brake failure,” Taofiq said in a statement.

“The driver, who was reportedly travelling at a perilously excessive speed, consequently lost control and forcefully collided with a tipper truck positioned at the roadside for diesel purchase.”

Although the truck driver had attempted to abscond following the accident, LASTMA operatives apprehended him as well as the commercial bus driver.

“Both individuals were thereafter handed over to officers of the Ipakodo Police Division for comprehensive investigation,” he said.

“To re-establish order and ensure seamless vehicular movement toward Ikorodu Garage, LASTMA personnel efficiently removed the mangled remains of both vehicles from the roadway.”

In the wake of the accident, the General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, conveyed profound grief over the harrowing incident and extended his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

Music legend Gary Numan breaks down on stage after ‘worst news ever’

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The singer, 67, became distressed in the middle of a concert and had to be comforted by his wife after receiving the ‘worst news ever’ earlier that day

Gary Numan worried fans attending a concert at the O2 Academy in Birmingham after he broke down on stage. The singer had to be comforted by his wife as he struggled after receiving what he said was the “worst news ever” earlier in the day.

The 67-year-old was midway through his song Please Push No More, which was in the middle of his set on Saturday (15 November), when he became distressed. His wife, Gemma, had to rush out on stage to comfort him, as Gary explained he’s received the “worst news ever” that morning.

He explained that he would share what the news was in a few days, when he had properly processed it. Gary is currently in the early days of his Telekon tour, which celebrates the 45th anniversary of his album of the same name, which reached the UK number one spot in 1980.

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Fans were incredibly concerned and expressed their worry on social media. One user wrote on X: “Rough to see him so upset during PPNM – not looking forward to hearing the reason in the coming days. Can’t be good. Absolute pro to battle on.”

Another added: “Gary Numan breaks down at O2 in Birmingham?? Hope he’s ok! He’s heard something today but said it’ll all come out in a few days.” Another said: “Hearing today that Gary was struggling in his Birmingham show, sending love.”

On Facebook, one fan wrote: “Hats off to Gary!! Imagine having bad news and still coming on stage to perform to all his fans. Takes great courage!” Another shared: “Fantastic show, very emotional. Hope it isn’t anything to do with his health or his family.”

One fan posted an image from the gig and wrote: “A very emotional Gary tonight in Birmingham. He broke down during Please Push No More. Apparently, he’s had some bad news today, which he’ll make public in a few days’ time. Gemma came on stage and hugged him. I really hope it’s not something to do with Gemma’s health. But he still did a tremendous show. And the audience loved him a little bit more for it.”

Gary has been married to Gemma for 30 years. The couple met in 1997, when she was a member of his fan club. They have three daughters together.

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One of his daughters contributed vocals to his 2017 song My Name Is Ruin, when she was only 11. Currently, the family live in Santa Monica, California, where they’ve been based since 2012.

Gary’s tour is set to continue with another concert in Bristol on Sunday (16 November), and there has been no indication that this performance will not go ahead. He has not addressed the events of the Birmingham performance on any of his social media profiles.