Holly Willoughbymarried TV exec Daniel “Dan” Baldwin in Amberley, West Sussex in 2007 and the couple, who have three children together, have recently moved house
Holly Willoughby has been married to Dan Baldwin for 18 years(Image: Getty Images Europe)
TV power couple Holly Willoughby and husband Dan Baldwin have moved into “an amazing” mansion, it is reported.
Holly, 44, recently bought the “an insanely beautiful forever home” with her 50-year-old partner whose media company, it is said, struck a deal with America’s National Football League (NFL), Channel 5 (which now wants to be known as 5) and US media giant Paramount to bring live coverage of American football to UK viewers.
As the consortium has even bagged the rights to broadcast the Super Bowl in this country, it is thought Dan and Holly have been eager to explore opportunities to relocate. It is understood they’ve now snapped up a six-bedroom mansion, said to be worth millions of pounds.
A source who knows the couple, who married in 2007, said: “Together, Dan and Holly make a smashing pairing. They have the whole industry covered between them.”
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The TV power couple have recently moved home(Image: @hollywilloughby/Instagram)
The Super Bowl is the most-watched annual sporting event in America and the second most popular around the world after the FIFA World Cup – with nearly 200million people worldwide tuning in each year.
And so television sources suggest the deal could be worth “well over £2million” for Baldwin and his consortium. The new American football show, which started last week, is presented by one of Dan’s best friends, Dermot O’Leary, 52, along with former NFL player Osi Umenyiora, 43, and hockey player-turned-sports-presenter Sam Quek, 36.
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An industry insider told Mail Online: “It is the deal of the year. Dan pulled it off. It’s lovely, actually, as it means the pressure is off Holly to wait for the right job to come up… She has been to hell and back in the past two years. It has been awful for her.”
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They referred to Holly’s ordeal at the hands of former security guard Gavin Plumb, who planned to kidnap and murder the star. He was jailed for life in July last year for the sinister plot, which a court was told was “life-changing for the victim.. both in private and personal terms”.
This came after Holly’s This Morning career ended abruptly in 2023 after a distressing fallout with her best friend Phillip Schofield over his brother Timothy’s sex offences trial. These episodes “knocked the wind out of Holly,” a source told Mail Online.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened Palestinians in Gaza City to “leave now”, as the United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel for what he described as the “mass killing” of civilians and deliberate obstruction of lifesaving aid.
Volker Turk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, accused Israel on Monday of committing “war crime upon war crime” and said the scale of devastation in Gaza was “shocking the conscience of the world”.
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He added that Israel “has a case to answer before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)”, pointing to the court’s ruling in January that obliged Tel Aviv to prevent acts of genocide.
Turk’s appeal to end the “carnage in Gaza” came as Israeli forces continued their destruction of Gaza City, the largest urban centre in the enclave, ahead of their plans for a ground invasion of the city.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said that Israeli strikes have levelled more than 50 buildings across Gaza since Sunday morning, while another 100 have been partially damaged. Spokesman Mahmoud Basal accused Israel of deliberately hitting residential blocks next to encampments of displaced families, destroying more than 200 tents in the last 24 hours.
He said that rescue teams are continuing to pull people from the rubble in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood after Israeli bombs flattened buildings in the az-Zarqa district. Mosques and sport grounds were also targeted, he added.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said it was “heartbreaking to watch these high-rise towers in Gaza City falling one after another due to the systematic tactics of the Israeli military”.
“It’s not just a building that’s been destroyed – it’s the services that come with it, services that are crucial for people trying to live their lives after nearly two years of war.”
Dozens killed, famine deepens
Local hospitals told Al Jazeera that at least 52 Palestinians were killed on Monday alone, with 32 of them in Gaza City. The Ministry of Health reported six more deaths, including two children, from starvation and severe malnutrition in the besieged enclave, where Israel routinely blocks or bombs aid.
Among those killed in Israel’s bombardment on Monday was Osama Balousha, a Palestinian journalist, medics said.
Palestinian officials say that nearly 250 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began – all of them Palestinian, as Israel bars foreign reporters from entering. It is the deadliest conflict for media workers in modern history.
The Israeli military said that four of its soldiers were also killed when a roadside bomb detonated under a tank in northern Gaza.
Palestinians inspect the site of a collapsed residential building, shortly after it was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, September 8, 2025 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
‘Humanitarian areas’ under fire
Israel issued new evacuation threats on Monday, releasing maps warning Palestinians to leave a highlighted building and nearby tents on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street in Gaza City or face death. It told residents to move to the so-called “humanitarian area” in al-Mawasi, a barren stretch of coast in southern Gaza.
But al-Mawasi itself has been repeatedly bombed, despite Israel insisting it is a safe zone. At the start of the year, about 115,000 people lived there. Today, aid agencies estimate that more than 800,000 – nearly a third of Gaza’s population – are crammed into overcrowded makeshift camps.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanches echoed the UN’s condemnation of Israel and announced new measures against the country.
He said Spain would block ships and aircraft carrying weapons to Israel from using its ports or airspace, expand humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and ban imports of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements.
“We hope that they will serve to add pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government to alleviate some of the suffering that the Palestinian population is enduring,” Sánchez said in a televised address.
He added that anyone directly involved in what he said was a “genocide” would be banned from entering Spain.
Hamas open to ceasefire as violence spreads to West Bank
Meanwhile, Hamas said it was ready to “immediately sit at the negotiating table” after receiving proposals from the United States for a ceasefire and release of captives.
US President Donald Trump declared he had issued his “last warning” to Hamas to accept a deal. Axios, citing an unnamed source, reported that the US plan includes a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, “subject to the new government in Gaza’s ability to impose security’.
Hamas dismissed this as a trap, saying that the condition effectively grants Israel veto power over how and when the withdrawal happens.
The war also spilled into the occupied West Bank on Monday, after Palestinian gunmen killed six people and wounded dozens more near an illegal settlement. The attackers were shot dead by an Israeli soldier and a civilian.
In response, Israeli forces sealed off checkpoints between occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, while troops raided nearby Palestinian villages, including Qatana, Biddu, Beit Inan and Beit Duqu.
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, Jordan, said such raids were part of Israel’s “collective punishment” policy.
“It is the collective punishment that takes place every time. The villages are raided, the roads are blocked, the checkpoints are completely shut down, family members are arrested and, ultimately, the family home is demolished,” she said.
In Jenin, two 14-year-old boys – Mohammad Sari Omar Masqala and Islam Abdel Aziz Noah Majarmah – were confirmed killed during the Israeli raids. Wissam Bakr, the director of Jenin Government Hospital, said that Masqala died from his wounds hours after the Jerusalem attack.
Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti said that Israel uses such attacks as pretexts for escalation.
“Attacks on Palestinian cities and towns in the occupied West Bank are a pattern that exists without any attacks,” he said. “It’s just that they [Israel] use such a moment to justify and escalate collective punishment acts against Palestinians.”
“Misconceptions” surrounding England’s team and their style of play are “disrespectful”, according to head coach Brendon McCullum.
McCullum took over England’s Test side in 2022 alongside captain Ben Stokes and revived a team that had won one match in 17.
They have since become known for a fearless and aggressive brand of cricket, particularly with the bat, but McCullum – who dislikes the term “Bazball” which was coined to describe the approach – has frustrations around how they are perceived as a team.
“We never have that kind of mindset about ourselves in the sense that, we’re not rigid in how we go about things,” McCullum told the For the Love of Cricket podcast.
“I think there’s a bit of a misconception about how we play, that we swing the bat as hard as we can, we try to take wickets and then we go for a round of golf and a few beers.
“I find it slightly disrespectful to all of you guys [the players] and all of the people in the set-up who work so hard and have such clear determination of wanting to succeed, to have that so simply categorised, almost.”
Before the start of the summer, McCullum called on his players to show more “humility” after making headlines with some of their comments which were perceived as not caring enough about winning.
Comments which caused a stir include Ben Duckett saying it did not matter that England lost 3-0 to India as long as they went on to win the Champions Trophy, while in September last year Harry Brook said “if you get caught somewhere on the boundary, then who cares?” when asked about his side’s one-day batting approach.
But McCullum added that his messaging has always been around players’ mindset, rather than instilling a particular way of playing or a focus on high scoring.
“For us, it’s about trying to create an environment that allows you to handle the pressures of international cricket, to understand the size of that task but to not be restricted in your ability to play,” McCullum added.
“You want your talent to come out, I hate seeing talent stymied, so having a certain style or belief in how we want to play gives us the best chance of success.
“You can’t do that if you are bound by this tension and negativity. I know they want to win, I know I want to win, I know the opposition wants to win.
2025 is a defining year for McCullum and Stokes’ side, which started with a thrilling drawn series against India before the Ashes starts in Perth on 21 November.
It has been a difficult year for the white-ball team, however, which McCullum took over last year.
They were thrashed by India away from home before crashing out of the Champions Trophy, and while Harry Brook led a clean sweep over West Indies in his first series in charge, they were recently beaten 2-1 in the one-day international series against South Africa.
McCullum said that when he was appointed in 2022, he felt he was not suited to the white-ball role because at that time they needed someone to take them “from good to great”, while he is now tasked with a similar rebuild that he managed with the Test side.
“I felt like what you guys needed at that time, my skills were kind of suited to that [Test cricket] – giving guys confidence and encouragement to push the boundaries of their games,” McCullum said.
“I looked at where the white-ball side was at and I was thinking, that’s not really my skill, I’m about giving a team soul and purpose and freedom, and pushing them towards bravery on the field.
Nottingham Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo is set to leave the club, according to well-placed sources.
BBC Sport understands the decision has been taken by the Forest hierarchy, including owner Evangelos Marinakis.
The position of the Portuguese coach had been uncertain for two weeks since publicly declaring his relationship with Marinakis had deteriorated.
Talks are under way over Nuno’s replacement, with an appointment imminent.
The 51-year-old took charge of Forest in December 2023 after the dismissal of Steve Cooper and helped them preserve their top-flight status.
Last term he guided the club to seventh in the Premier League – their highest finish since 1994-95 – as they qualified for Europe for the first time in three decades.
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Steve Clarke says he is “already thinking about next month” and Greece’s visit to Hampden after his Scotland side took four points from their first two games in World Cup qualifying.
Monday’s 2-0 win over Belarus in Hungary backed up a hard-fought goalless draw away to Denmark on Friday and has Scotland level with the Danes in Group C.
Greece are one point further back after their shock 3-0 defeat by Denmark in Athens, and they are Scotland’s next opponents in Glasgow on 9 October.
Belarus also visit Hampden three days later, before Scotland finish with a trip to Greece and Denmark at home in November as they bid to end a 28-year absence from the World Cup.
“It’s a good start, a solid start,” Clarke told BBC Scotland.
Start breeds confidence for Scotland
Clarke is not the only one looking ahead, with the Tartan Army now dreaming of returning to football’s biggest show next summer.
After a difficult time in the spring and summer, the draw in Copenhagen set Scotland up nicely, and though the performance in beating Belarus was far from flashy, it was professional and delivered a critical result.
Che Adams’ goal just before half-time calmed the nerves, and his lovely pass helped force an own goal which saw Scotland over the line in a game played in Hungary behind closed doors.
Although Belarus did not offer a great deal, goalkeeper Angus Gunn only made one meaningful save, a third clean sheet in a row was welcomed by Clarke.
It is a sign of Scotland returning to the more form which helped them qualify for two European Championships.
“Clean sheets are what we have to build our campaign on,” the Scotland head coach said.
“If we can keep the ball out the net we’ve always got enough to score one or two goals.”
Scotland have rarely put any team to the sword under Clarke’s tenure, but overall they have been effective in building on a solid base and being clinical in key moments.
“It’s going to give the whole team a lot of confidence,” former Scotland captain Scott Brown said on Sportscene.
“There were four changes as well, which shows you he can manipulate the squad well too.
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Greece still a danger
While there is justified optimism after a solid first third of the campaign, there is always a note of caution.
While Greece were well beaten at home by Denmark, Scotland know all too well the threat they still pose.
In the Nations League play-offs in March they overturned a 1-0 first leg deficit to win 3-0 in the return on a sobering night at Hampden.
Club Brugge winger Christos Tzolis is among their stars and scored that night, as did teenage star Konstantinos Karetsas.
The Greeks will return to Glasgow desperate to ignite their campaign after their home humbling.
“We’re in a great position,” former Scotland forward James McFadden said on Sportscene.
“The squad and mood are in a good place. They defended well as a team on Friday, it’s a team that is together and fighting for each other.
‘Scotland must win home games’ – your views
Stuart: Wasn’t pretty, but didn’t need to be. Felt like playing a non league side in the cup. Score first and you win. 4 points from 2 away games is the perfect start. On to Hampden in October.
Michael: A good result, but frustratingly conservative again from Scotland. We should be looking to get more than two against Belarus, and once the game was won, we should have had Miller and Bowie on to give them some experience and rest the starters. I hope we don’t end up losing out on goal difference, as Denmark will likely demolish our opponents tonight.
Geoff: Brilliant start but we need to win our home games or its all in vain.
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Steve Clarke says he is “already thinking about next month” and Greece’s visit to Hampden after his Scotland side took four points from their first two games in World Cup qualifying.
Monday’s 2-0 win over Belarus in Hungary backed up a hard-fought goalless draw away to Denmark on Friday and has Scotland level with the Danes in Group C.
Greece are one point further back after their shock 3-0 defeat by Denmark in Athens, and they are Scotland’s next opponents in Glasgow on 9 October.
Belarus also visit Hampden three days later, before Scotland finish with a trip to Greece and Denmark at home in November as they bid to end a 28-year absence from the World Cup.
“It’s a good start, a solid start,” Clarke told BBC Scotland.
Start breeds confidence for Scotland
Clarke is not the only one looking ahead, with the Tartan Army now dreaming of returning to football’s biggest show next summer.
After a difficult time in the spring and summer, the draw in Copenhagen set Scotland up nicely, and though the performance in beating Belarus was far from flashy, it was professional and delivered a critical result.
Che Adams’ goal just before half-time calmed the nerves, and his lovely pass helped force an own goal which saw Scotland over the line in a game played in Hungary behind closed doors.
Although Belarus did not offer a great deal, goalkeeper Angus Gunn only made one meaningful save, a third clean sheet in a row was welcomed by Clarke.
It is a sign of Scotland returning to the more form which helped them qualify for two European Championships.
“Clean sheets are what we have to build our campaign on,” the Scotland head coach said.
“If we can keep the ball out the net we’ve always got enough to score one or two goals.”
Scotland have rarely put any team to the sword under Clarke’s tenure, but overall they have been effective in building on a solid base and being clinical in key moments.
“It’s going to give the whole team a lot of confidence,” former Scotland captain Scott Brown said on Sportscene.
“There were four changes as well, which shows you he can manipulate the squad well too.
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Greece still a danger
While there is justified optimism after a solid first third of the campaign, there is always a note of caution.
While Greece were well beaten at home by Denmark, Scotland know all too well the threat they still pose.
In the Nations League play-offs in March they overturned a 1-0 first leg deficit to win 3-0 in the return on a sobering night at Hampden.
Club Brugge winger Christos Tzolis is among their stars and scored that night, as did teenage star Konstantinos Karetsas.
The Greeks will return to Glasgow desperate to ignite their campaign after their home humbling.
“We’re in a great position,” former Scotland forward James McFadden said on Sportscene.
“The squad and mood are in a good place. They defended well as a team on Friday, it’s a team that is together and fighting for each other.
‘Scotland must win home games’ – your views
Stuart: Wasn’t pretty, but didn’t need to be. Felt like playing a non league side in the cup. Score first and you win. 4 points from 2 away games is the perfect start. On to Hampden in October.
Michael: A good result, but frustratingly conservative again from Scotland. We should be looking to get more than two against Belarus, and once the game was won, we should have had Miller and Bowie on to give them some experience and rest the starters. I hope we don’t end up losing out on goal difference, as Denmark will likely demolish our opponents tonight.
Geoff: Brilliant start but we need to win our home games or its all in vain.
