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Maura Higgins has fled the country as more details of her wild BRITs night out with Danny Jones emerge.

Maura shared a photo from inside a plane on her Instagram story this morning, following reports she and Danny had partied together until 6am. The post is her first share on Instagram since her drunken BRIT Awards afterparty kiss with married McFly singer Danny was revealed.

The snap sees Maura’s point of view from a luxurious British Airways plane, the photo shows the view of a runway from through a small plan window while a table next to the window can be seen, which has an iPad, headphones and a glass of wine resting on.

On a screen shown in the image, the British Airways logo can be seen while Maura’s seat number of 23 A as well as her route starting point and destination. It appears Maura is travelling from London Heathrow Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. As she posted the photo of her view on her Instagram story, she wrote on the image: “Exciting shoot” followed by a plane emoji.

Maura’s post comes after new details emerged last night about the Love Island star’s night out with her I’m A Celebrity campmate Danny. Last weekend, a video emerged of newly-single Maura, who had recently split from Pete Wicks, and married McFly singer Danny sharing a drunken kiss at the Universal Music BRITS afterparty.

At the time it was claimed the pair “seemed to be having a great time” at the afterparty. The source later added: “They looked like they had a brief drunken kiss”. The I’m A Celeb campmates were later photographed smiling as they left the bash alongside their fellow former campmate Oti Mabuse.

Danny then reportedly ‘ moved away ‘ to speak to others while Maura walked towards a chauffeur-driven car, while ‘ shouting Danny’s name’.

Since the footage was released both Danny and Maura have kept tight-lipped on the controversial kiss. The pair have also kept a low-profile as they have avoided posting to their Instagram accounts while Danny’s wife Georgia – who is said to have felt ‘ slapped in the face ‘ by the kiss – cancelled a public appearance.

A week later, a new video has since emerged of Maura and Danny from their BRIT Awards night out – after the pair travelled separately from the Universal Music afterparty at 180 Studios to the Sony afterparty at Nobu Hotel in London Portman Square. In the video, obtained by The Sun, the pair are seen chatting together, while laughing and both holding two filled-up glasses of wine at the Nobu Hotel in Central London.

A source told the publication: “Danny and Maura seemed to be enjoying their night of partying and had no plans to call it a night. They were knocking back wine at the Nobu from 4am and seemed keen to carry on. They weren’t seen leaving before 6am”.

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The real life Lisa Riley has posed with Peter Kay and attended his latest comedy show – just weeks after he threw out a woman from his set and joked she resembled the soap star.

Lisa showed there were no hard feelings with Peter and even posed for pics with him after the gig.

In February Peter said he had “no choice” but to ask security to eject two hecklers at his show on Saturday because their “repeated disruptions” made it “impossible to continue”.

The comedian asked staff at Manchester’s AO Arena to remove a man who shouted “Garlic bread”, his Phoenix Nights catchphrase, before telling them to throw out a woman who kept calling his name. At the time he dubbed her Lisa Riley because of her resemblance to the actress.

On X the real Lisa Riley said: “THANK YOU so so so much Peter for the most fantastic night. We laughed until it hurt-the show is absolutely hilarious-we were up until way gone midnight reciting all the jokes-northern at its absolute best. You are the best of the best. Love ya”.

In his statement at the time Kay was adamant the two people he threw out had been “disrupting from the very start”.

Following a backlash and complaints from the two people, he explained in a statement: “I then tried to ignore them, hoping they’d settle down, but when the disruption persisted into the second half of the show, I asked the audience around them if they were being bothered by the noise. They all shouted ‘ yes, ‘ and when I asked for a show of hands, at least 40 people raised theirs.

” At that point, I had no choice but to take action. The lady who was escorted out did bear a striking resemblance to Lisa Riley, though I don’t see how that’s an insult. “He said he had only kicked out one other person in the previous 114 shows of his three-year tour.

” As a comedian, you never want to eject anyone, but when repeated disruptions make it impossible to continue, it’s important to consider the experience of the rest of the audience, who’ve paid to see a show without interruption, “he added.

After Riley made headlines, she shared a post on her Instagram page, which suggested that she saw the funny side to the situation.

Riley shared an image that read:” Keep calm and laugh, “adding as a caption:” It’s a laugh, it’s funny! “

But Myar Curran, 25, who was the butt of the ‘ Lisa Riley ‘ comment said on Good Morning Britain she will never watch the comedian again.

She said:” I didn’t mean to cause any harm, I was just showing my love as he kicked someone out but he obviously didn’t like it. I feel like what I said was not abusive or aggressive – it wasn’t anti-social and I wasn’t drunk, ‘ she added. “I was just standing up chanting” we love you Peter, we do”. It’s just been a bit over the top, his reaction”.

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Jai McDowall skyrocketed to fame when he wowed the judges on Britain’s Got Talent in 2011 with his rendition of Anthem and he went on to clinch the series title. Now, some 14 years later, Jai’s floating on a wave of singing success and seriously, you’d hardly recognise him. In 2022, Jai revealed an operation to remedy problems with his previously-broken nose. The Scottish crooner needed surgery for a deviated septum – which resulted from him breaking up a pub scuffle.

But some fans were dubious about his reasons, leading Jai to clear the air directly from his hospital bed in 2017. In an honest video, Jai said: “The amount of times I’ve been asked if I have a cocaine habit and that’s why I have a deviated septum in the first place has been unreal”. He made it crystal clear: “I don’t have a cocaine habit, just in case anyone is wondering”.

Speaking to the Daily Star after his surgery, Jai described the experience: “It was a really nice procedure. Obviously, I had black eyes for about three weeks and big bandages and stuff, but it was worth it”.

But life gave Jai more curves than straight lines post-BGT. He spoke to The Sun about his monetary woes after parting ways with the record label Sony, which nudged him perilously close to financial ruin. Jai confessed: “I didn’t do it because, thankfully, I’ve got a brilliant support network. But I did get to a point where I was like, ‘ Is this it, is this over? ‘”

He continued: “I moved in with my parents at the time. I did have property but I had no money. That took a long time and a lot of grit and determination for me to get back out of that”.

The singer spoke to the Mirror when he recalled standing in the final alongside Ronan Parke. “I know genuinely it does sound sort of out there but I envisioned the finale of that show and I knew it was going to be me and Ronan. Not going to lie, I thought he was going to win”, Jai told us. “That way I was like, ‘ No, keep positive thoughts and keep going ‘ and genuinely I thought that really helped and it’s one of those things. Life is up and down – it’s a roller coaster and you can’t always be positive all the time. I genuinely feel like if you can keep yourself in a better mental state with that you can – magic happens sometimes”.

He was forced to give up his singing career during the coronavirus lockdown. “I genuinely know I couldn’t give singing up because the only time I had to was during Covid and it was terrible, genuinely the closest I’ve ever been to being really, really sad. And I genuinely missed it”, Jai admitted.

Former Coronation Street star Wendi Peters lives a very different life after shooting to fame as the iconic Cilla Battersby-Brown.

Swapping the cobbles for the theatre stages, Wendi is currently starring as Florence Foster Jenkins in the production of Glorious, a musical playing now at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester. The show tells the story of an American socialite based in the 1940s who drew a devoted crowd from her opera performances despite her awful singing.

Now an established musical theatre star, Wendi’s role in Glorious follows her tour with last years Sister Act: The Musical.

Looking unrecognisable from her flame-haired and pink-lipped Corrie character, Wendi has teased that she is not opposed to returning to the soap.

In 2023, Wendi went through another major life change as she split with husband Kenny Linden after 30 years of marriage. A year later Wendi went revealed her new relationship with Gareth Wale, a carpet fitter.

Wendi and Kenny share daughter Gracie. On her journey with IVF, Peters shared the parents had looked into adoption after having Gracie as “it took seven attempts to have her. Then we had two more attempts after her to have another child, and then we gave up”.

The mother added that a lot of thought was put into this decision and that the pair “discussed it and thought about it”, but due to them both having jobs as actors, “thought it wasn’t really something]they] felt]they] would be able to give]their] full attention to”.

She continued, saying: “You do consider all options, but then we thought” instead of worrying about what we haven’t got, let’s enjoy what we have got. It took such a long time to have her, let’s just enjoy life with her now””. Now 24 years olds, Gracie received a dedicated birthday post on Instagram from the Musical theatre star. The mum wrote: “How can you be 24!!! Happiest birthdays to me beautiful, kind baby. Have a fabulous day… love you Grooves xx”, below a thread of pictures of her blonde mini-me.

Now dating a younger Gareth, 54, Wendi appears to be totally in love months on. In November, the 57 year old spoke to The Sun on her new relationship, sharing that “moving in]was] certainly something]they] might consider”. Living in Buckinghamshire at the time, and her boyfriend from Leicester, the pair have date one and a half years already.

And though she admitted to finding it “very hard continuing a relationship when you’re 150 miles away from each other, with very different work hours”, the ex ‘ Corrie ‘ actress is still in no rush to wed again. She said: “I was married a long time, and I mean, never say never to doing it again” but, “at the moment, I just don’t really see the need”. The pair have made an effort to travel together, jetting off to Crete, Greece, as well booking romantic staycations like their trip to the Cotswolds – which the star shared on socials.

Peters ‘ soap son ‘ Sam Ashton has also found success elsewhere, making it to the DOI final after a blunder from judge Christopher Dean who ‘ forgot ‘ to put in Sam’s score.

Chris became flustered over his mishap when asked after his score, shouting: “Oh f****** heck, I forgot to put that in”, later explaining that he “got so excited with]Sam’s] performance that]he] forgot to give a mark”. Viewers were alarmed, despite a shortly followed apology from the judge, one saying: “Did Christopher Dean just drop an F bomb”? and another asking “did Christ just go F****** Heck. #dancingonice”.

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