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I’m A Celeb’s Vogue Williams’ heartbreaking admission over appearance

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Vogue Williams has confessed that she has had Botox in a bid to stave off the hands of ageing during a discussion with fellow campmate Ruby Wax

I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’s Vogue Williams may be undoubtedly one of the most beautiful women in the UK, but it seems she too battles insecurities. The 40-year-old TV personality, who is married to Made In Chelsea’s Spencer Matthews, revealed that she was not completely happy with her appearance, and so used Botox to aid her confidence.

Speaking to fellow campmate Ruby Wax, who is known for asking deep and meaningful questions, Vogue told her that she used permanent lip liner in order to aid her appearance.

This comes after Vogue confessed to feeling “so ugly”, while stating that “everyone is so good looking it’s so annoying.” Ruby asked Vogue if she had anything else done, to which Vogue admitted: “Loads of Botox.”

Speaking of her own experience of cosmetic surgery Ruby went on to say to the Bush Telegraph: “I’ve had things removed and things lifted, and I said to Jennifer Saunders once, ‘do you know what’s great? Is that you can’t notice it’, and she said ‘are you kidding? Of course you can.”

Vogue and latecomer Tom Read Wilson arrived later than the other campmates, so you perhaps assume that they may ruffle a few feathers.

But it seems as though the original campmates are pleased with their inclusion. Alex Scott said: “They’ve brought a new energy to the group… I would say that much.”

Alex and Jack Osbourne received the most votes to take on the next trial, which has been named the Dreaded Dunnies’ Bushtucker trial.

Vogue and Tom were allowed to choose who to take on the challenge with, and they opted for Martin Kemp and EastEnders star Shona McGarty.

The task required the celebrities to retrieve a tool from inside their make-shift toilet to start unscrewing the stars. But they were joined by a host of jungle creepy crawlies. The group successfully managed to gain all 12 stars for camp.

As a reward for winning stars during their trial, the celebs were treated to an Ostrich egg for dinner. And in conjunction with that, the group were also allowed popcorn after completing their fishing and shelter tasks.

Prior to entering the camp, admitted she likes the idea of playing the game like a certain hit BBC show. “I would not mind causing a bit of mischief, a bit like Traitors vibes,” she laughs. “I don’t want to annoy anyone, but I think I am very much willing to go along with the game.”

Vogue and Spencer Matthews share son Theodore, six, daughter Gigi, four, and youngest son Otto, three, and it is leaving them that is preying on her mind more than any Bushtucker Trial. “My only real worry is missing the kids and missing Spencer and missing my family,” she said.

“I have done all my Christmas shopping. I have done our food shops for the next four weeks. I have organised everything down to a tee because I kind of do all that stuff at home, so I have got everything organised so I do not have to worry when I get back.” Vogue – whose husband was in the Jungle in 2015 before he was forced to leave over his steroid use – had to think carefully about how much she told the children after agreeing to take part.

“I had to be careful telling my kids, because they have a bigger mouth than me,” she laughed. “I have ignored everybody who has been texting asking if it’s true? I am like, ‘ignore, ignore.’ I showed the kids the last series to get them into it, and they absolutely loved it when people were having an absolute nightmare. So if I get thrown in with rats, that will be their dream.”

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I’m A Celeb’s Vogue Williams’ heartbreaking admission over appearance

By in Entertainment News, News

Vogue Williams has confessed that she has had Botox in a bid to stave off the hands of ageing during a discussion with fellow campmate Ruby Wax

I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’s Vogue Williams may be undoubtedly one of the most beautiful women in the UK, but it seems she too battles insecurities. The 40-year-old TV personality, who is married to Made In Chelsea’s Spencer Matthews, revealed that she was not completely happy with her appearance, and so used Botox to aid her confidence.

Speaking to fellow campmate Ruby Wax, who is known for asking deep and meaningful questions, Vogue told her that she used permanent lip liner in order to aid her appearance.

This comes after Vogue confessed to feeling “so ugly”, while stating that “everyone is so good looking it’s so annoying.” Ruby asked Vogue if she had anything else done, to which Vogue admitted: “Loads of Botox.”

Speaking of her own experience of cosmetic surgery Ruby went on to say to the Bush Telegraph: “I’ve had things removed and things lifted, and I said to Jennifer Saunders once, ‘do you know what’s great? Is that you can’t notice it’, and she said ‘are you kidding? Of course you can.”

Vogue and latecomer Tom Read Wilson arrived later than the other campmates, so you perhaps assume that they may ruffle a few feathers.

But it seems as though the original campmates are pleased with their inclusion. Alex Scott said: “They’ve brought a new energy to the group… I would say that much.”

Alex and Jack Osbourne received the most votes to take on the next trial, which has been named the Dreaded Dunnies’ Bushtucker trial.

Vogue and Tom were allowed to choose who to take on the challenge with, and they opted for Martin Kemp and EastEnders star Shona McGarty.

The task required the celebrities to retrieve a tool from inside their make-shift toilet to start unscrewing the stars. But they were joined by a host of jungle creepy crawlies. The group successfully managed to gain all 12 stars for camp.

As a reward for winning stars during their trial, the celebs were treated to an Ostrich egg for dinner. And in conjunction with that, the group were also allowed popcorn after completing their fishing and shelter tasks.

Prior to entering the camp, admitted she likes the idea of playing the game like a certain hit BBC show. “I would not mind causing a bit of mischief, a bit like Traitors vibes,” she laughs. “I don’t want to annoy anyone, but I think I am very much willing to go along with the game.”

Vogue and Spencer Matthews share son Theodore, six, daughter Gigi, four, and youngest son Otto, three, and it is leaving them that is preying on her mind more than any Bushtucker Trial. “My only real worry is missing the kids and missing Spencer and missing my family,” she said.

“I have done all my Christmas shopping. I have done our food shops for the next four weeks. I have organised everything down to a tee because I kind of do all that stuff at home, so I have got everything organised so I do not have to worry when I get back.” Vogue – whose husband was in the Jungle in 2015 before he was forced to leave over his steroid use – had to think carefully about how much she told the children after agreeing to take part.

“I had to be careful telling my kids, because they have a bigger mouth than me,” she laughed. “I have ignored everybody who has been texting asking if it’s true? I am like, ‘ignore, ignore.’ I showed the kids the last series to get them into it, and they absolutely loved it when people were having an absolute nightmare. So if I get thrown in with rats, that will be their dream.”

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Former President Jair Bolsonaro asks to serve house arrest in Brazil

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by Reuters

In response to health concerns, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers requested that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes grant him the right to serve his 27-year prison sentence while he is currently house-administering.

Bolsonaro’s lawyers claimed in a document released by the Reuters news agency on Friday that the former president’s persistent intestinal problems would render prison life-threatening.

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While campaigning in the state of Minas Gerais in 2018, he had been stabbed in the stomach.

The petitioner’s physical integrity and even his life would be directly and immediately harmed, according to the document, “without a doubt.” On humanitarian grounds, it requested house arrest.

A five-judge panel from Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison in September. After losing the 2022 election to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, he was found guilty of plotting a coup to hold onto power.

In a separate case, the former right-wing leader allegedly courted American interference to halt the criminal proceedings against him, he has already been placed under house arrest for violating precautionary measures.

After the Supreme Court panel rejected an appeal filed by the former president’s legal team, Bolsonaro’s arrest appeared to be imminent, according to court sources.

His attorneys promised to file a new appeal, but they argued that once all previous ones are exhausted, Bolsonaro should start serving time in house arrest.

They noted that the top court earlier this year, after he was sentenced to almost nine years in prison on corruption and money laundering charges, let 76-year-old former president Fernando de Mello go on house arrest due to his age and health issues, including Parkinson’s disease.

According to Bolsonaro’s legal team, “a serious or sudden illness is not a question of “if,” but rather “when,” according to recent medical tests on the subject.

Carlos, one of Bolsonaro’s sons, claimed on Friday that the former president was constantly vomiting and experiencing severe hiccups. On the social media platform X, he wrote, “I’ve never seen him like this.”

Bolsonaro, who oversaw Brazil between 2019 and 2022, was found guilty of five crimes, including organizing a coup, attempting to obliterate democracy with force, and other crimes.

Mahmood Mamdani says Palestine helped motivate son Zohran’s mayoral run

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In early November, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election in a landslide, a victory that sent shockwaves across United States politics and galvanised the country’s political left.

It was a dramatic turnaround for a campaign that – less than a year earlier – had been polling at 1 percent support.

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Among those who were most surprised was Zohran’s own father, Mahmood Mamdani.

“He surprised me and his mother,” Mahmood told Al Jazeera Mushaber reporter Allaa Azzam in an interview this week. “We wouldn’t expect him to become mayor of New York City. We never thought about it.”

But Mahmood, an anthropology professor and postcolonial scholar at Columbia University, framed his son’s electoral success as evidence of a shifting political landscape.

Zohran, for instance, campaigned heavily on questions of affordability and refused to back away from his criticisms of Israel’s abuses against Palestinians, long considered a taboo subject in US politics.

He is the first Muslim person to become mayor of the country’s largest city by population, as well as its first mayor of South Asian descent.

“There were certain things that were near and dear to him,” Mahmood explained. “Social justice was one of them. The rights of Palestinians was another.”

“These two issues he has stuck by. He’s not been willing to trade them, to compromise them, to minimise them.”

Inside the Mamdani family

The son of Mahmood and Indian American director Mira Nair, Zohran first emerged as the frontrunner in the mayoral race in June, when his dark-horse campaign dominated the Democratic Party primary.

He earned 56 percent of the final tally, besting former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

When Cuomo ran as an independent in the November 4 election, Zohran once again beat him by a wide margin, with more than 50 percent of the vote to Cuomo’s 41 percent.

Mahmood told Al Jazeera that, while his son’s sudden political ascent came as a surprise, his resilience did not.

“It didn’t surprise us, with his grit and determination,” he said of the election. “I don’t think he joined the race thinking that he was going to win it. I think he joined the race wanting to make a point.”

He traced back some of Zohran’s electoral finesse to his upbringing. Zohran, Mahmood explained, was not raised in a typical US nuclear family but instead shared his home with three generations of family members.

Living with a diverse age range allowed Zohran to expand his understanding and build his people skills, according to Mahmood.

“He grew up with love and patience. He learned to be very patient with people who are slower, people who were not necessarily what his generation was,” Mahmood said.

“He was very different from the American kids around here who hardly ever see their grandparents.”

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani stands with his wife Rama Duwaji, mother Mira Nair and father Mahmood Mamdani after winning the 2025 New York City mayoral race [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]

A ‘mood of change’

Mahmood also credited his son’s victory to a shifting political landscape, one where voters are fed up with the status quo.

“There’s a mood of change. The young voted like they never voted before,” Mahmood said.

“Sections of the population which had been completely thrown into the sidelines – Muslims, recent immigrants whether Muslim or not – he gave them enormous confidence. They came out and they voted. They mobilised.”

Local media outlets in New York reported that turnout for November’s mayoral race was the highest in more than 50 years. More than two million voters cast a ballot in the closely watched race.

Mahmood cast his son’s upcoming tenure as mayor as a test of whether that voter faith would be rewarded.

“America is marked by low levels of electoral participation, and they’ve always claimed that this is because most people are satisfied with the system,” Mahmood said.

“But now the levels of political participation are increasing. And most people, it’s not just that they are not satisfied, but they no longer believe – or they begin to believe that maybe the electoral system is a way to change things. Zohran’s mayoral term will tell us whether it is or it is not.”

Mahmood was frank that his son faces an uphill battle as mayor. He described politics as a sphere dominated by the influence of moneyed powers.

“ I am not sure he knows that world well,” Mahmood said of his son. “He’s a fast learner, and he will learn it.”

He noted that significant resources were mobilised during the mayoral election to blunt Zohran’s campaign.

“ He’s taking on powerful forces. He’s being opposed by powerful forces. They failed during the campaign,” Mahmood said. That defeat, he added, “exposed the failure of money” as a defining force in the race.

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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on January 1 [File: Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

A focus on Palestine

Mahmood also addressed the role of Zohran’s advocacy on the campaign trail.

Though faced with criticism from his mayoral rivals, Mamdani has refused to retreat from his stance that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide.

That position, though widely affirmed by rights groups and experts, including at the United Nations, is relatively rare in mainstream US politics, where opposition to Israel is a political third rail.

Still, voters appear to be shifting on the question of US support for Israel.

A March poll from the Pew Research Center found that the percentage of US respondents with an unfavourable view of Israel has increased from 42 percent in 2022 to 53 percent in 2025.

While unfavourable views were most pronounced among Democratic voters, they have also increased among conservatives, especially those under the age of 50.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 69,500 Palestinians since its start in October 2023, and there has been continued outrage over widespread Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank as well.

Mahmood said the undeniable human rights abuses are causing a shift in public perception – and not just in the US.

“The real consequence of Gaza is not limited to Gaza. It is global,” said Mahmood. “Gaza has brought us a new phase in world history.”

‘I’m not friends With I’m A Celeb’s Vogue Williams – but I wish I was’

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Journalist and PR expert Lynn Carratt recalls her experiences with Vogue Williams over the years and reveals why, glitzy red carpets aside, the Irish star is the real deal

I’m not friends with Vogue Williams – but the truth is, I wish I were. In this industry, you meet hundreds of celebrities who breeze in and out of events, red carpets, and launches every year.

Most are lovely, some are forgettable, and a few are not so nice. But every once in a while, someone stands out for all the right reasons. And for me, that’s Vogue. I first came across the I’m A Celeb star nearly a decade ago at a party inside the M&M’s store in central London – an event already bizarre enough on its own. She was there with her then-husband, Brian McFadden, and at that point, I have to admit, I didn’t really know who she was.

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She wasn’t a major tabloid fixture then, and, if I’m being totally honest, I was more interested in getting a photo with Brian. He had been in Westlife, after all. What’s even stranger is that life later circled back, and I ended up working with Brian on PR for his solo album and some Boyzlife gigs. By then, the couple had split, and he had a new partner; Vogue never came up in conversation – I would never ask either. It wasn’t until a fashion launch on the King’s Road that Vogue really came to my attention. It was the first time I had interviewed correctly her and spoken to her at length. I’ll hold my hands up – I had my assumptions.

But she was warm, funny, open, and refreshingly genuine. The kind of woman who looks you in the eye, listens, and has that ability to make you feel like you’ve known her longer than five minutes. We even discovered we were practically neighbours in Bow at the time. She was living in a flat Brian had bought, and I’d occasionally spot her walking her dogs or heading into Westfield, usually looking gym-ready, because fitness was clearly a huge part of her life even then.

She adored her dog. I once sent her a pet product that a friend had created, not expecting anything in return. She posted it on Twitter unprompted and sent the kindest message. She didn’t need to do that – but she did. And I never forgot it. I’m also intrigued to know about her relationship with her sister-in-law, Pippa, but I’d never ask. Vogue is literally one step away from being related to royalty and I’m very jealous of her holidays in St Barts. After she and Brian split, I didn’t see her around for a long time. And then she started hosting the NTAs red carpet for its Lorraine, and our paths crossed once again.

My job at the NTAs is to bring celebrities to TV crews for interviews, so for the past couple of years, I have found myself bringing talent over to Vogue. And every year, she’s the same: friendly, full of energy, impossibly glamorous (even when she’s hiding Ugg boots under a gown), and chatting to everyone as if it’s the most natural thing in the world. This year, something really struck me. Boyzone were nominated for an award, and Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch were walking the carpet with their wives. I asked Vogue if she wanted to interview them – after all, Keith is Brian’s best mate.

She immediately said yes. Watching that interaction was genuinely heart-warming. There was no awkwardness, no tension, just a warm, polite, very natural exchange. At one point, Shane even turned and said, “My wife loves you!” It proved what I’ve always suspected: Vogue is incredibly likeable, even to people connected to her past. After the carpet was wrapped, I asked if she was going inside to watch the ceremony. She laughed and lifted her gown slightly to reveal chunky Ugg boots – chic comfort at its finest – but then shook her head. “I have to get home. Spencer’s working in New York, so I’ve got the kids tonight.” And there it was: a glimpse into her real life. Because while the public sees the red carpets, the podcasts, the TV work, the beauty brand, the incredible challenges she takes on (remember Bear Grylls: Mission Survive and the Jump), what they don’t always see is the juggling act behind the scenes.

Vogue isn’t just a presenter or influencer – she’s a mum of three, and from everything I’ve observed, a very hands-on one. People like to say, “Well, they have help,” but Vogue strikes me as the kind of woman who is in it: homework, routines, bedtime, the lot.

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It’s one of the reasons I think she’ll prove phenomenal in the I’m A Celebrity jungle. She’s tough, she’s warm, she’s funny, she’s brilliant under pressure, she takes challenges head-on and she has that mother-hen quality that would glue a camp together.

She’d happily get stuck into the trials, but she’d also be the one comforting someone who’s having a wobble. She possesses that rare blend of strength and softness that draws people to her. I’ll definitely be voting Vogue for the win. So no, I’m not friends with Vogue Williams. But after a decade of crossing paths with her on and off, watching her grow, evolve, and juggle life with a smile, I genuinely wish I were.