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There is rife over who will take the coveted roles now that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman have confirmed that they will be leaving Strictly Come Dancing after this year.

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Tess Daly choked back tears as she addressed her exit from the Strictly Come Dancing live on air alongside fellow soon to be ex host Claudia Winkleman.

La Voix made a number of jokes about the off-screen upset during a night of high drama. While Vicky Pattison chose not to run for the newly vacant hosting positions.

Vicky said she was unsuitable to front the show, due to the family friendly element. She said this week: “If they wanted me and and (fellow contestant) Angela Scanlon to do it, they’d have to move it post-watershed, that’s for sure. But of course we would love it.”

Vicky also shared that she thinks the end of Tess and Claudia’s stint fronting the show is “devastating news” for viewers, but she does think the pair “deserve” to ge their weekends back. She told The Sun on Sunday: “My husband sent me through Tess’s statements. It’s devastating news. Tess and Claudia are such consummate professionals, beautiful women inside and out.

But I bet they enjoy spending weekends with their families at home. It deserves it. Tess, 56, and Claudia, 53, both admitted that they had always planned to leave together, and they both shared a joint statement confirming their exit earlier this week.

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They stated in a joint statement that Strictly was a “absolute dream” and that we have enjoyed working together on Thursday (October 23). We had planned to leave together before, but now it seems appropriate.

“We will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show. They’re the most brilliant team and we’ll miss them every day.

When we say the final “keep dancing,” we will cry, but we will keep saying it to one another. Possibly while eating some pizza while wearing tracksuit bottoms at home. “Tess and Claud.

Who else might be chosen because Vicky has decided to leave her and is now being considered for a successor, according to the news sources?

Janette Manrara and Fleur East

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Fleur and Janette, who are already co-hosting Strictly It Takes Two, are the current favorites for the role, with 3/1 odds for taking over the main show. Zoe Ball and Hannah Waddingham, who have already presented Eurovision and the Olivier Awards, are the other stars who are expected to take the place at 3/1.

Roman Kemp

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Roman, who hosted The One Show, already has a strong presence on the BBC. If producers decide to change things up a little, he has the potential to change the format and audience. His odds are 5/1.

Rylan Clark

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Rylan might be the obvious choice to take over after hosting It Takes Two and having a lot of experience in a live TV setting. His quick wit, humor, and general popularity with viewers wherever he turns his hand are also pluses for bosses. He currently has a ratio of 5 to 1.

Emma Willis

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Emma has always been a fan favorite when she turns her hand to anything and is no stranger to the demands of hosting live shows. Her decades of experience as a reliable face on television have given her a 10/1 rating, especially with her most recent co-hosting of Love Is Blind with husband Matt Willis. If Matt and Matt were to marry, we might even see a marriage.

Rose Ayling-Ellis

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Former EastEnders star and Glitterball winner Rose was a huge hit with viewers when she cruised to victory with Giovanni Pernice. Her popularity makes her an obvious choice and a former successful contestant returning to front the series would be a wonderful touch. Her odds currently stand at 12/1.

The mothers of Hampstead are practically drooling as Ryan Gosling chats with other parents as he charms his way through North London, making his children’s mothers drooling.

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Hollywood star Ryan Gosling has left stunned mums “swooning and drooling” at the school gates, after making the move from Los Angeles to London. He and wife Eva Mendes swapped the sunny climes of Santa Barbara for Hampstead, where they have settled with their two daughters.

In a joke called the “Donald Dash,” the 44-year-old, who is from Ontario, Canada, reportedly fled the US to escape the country’s political climate. The heartthrob has now continued to charm the wealthy residents of North London while he goes about his daily affairs.

The family initially relocated while Ryan filmed for upcoming Star Wars film Starfighter. But they have set up home in the UK, where fans are expressing their delight at bumping into him.

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A gobsmacked fan took to Instagram’s threads to tell the world about their chance encounter with the star. They wrote: “Today’s unexpected adventure, Ryan Gosling holding the door open for me at a cafe in West Hampstead.

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” What a gent!… Really quite unexpected!

Another local told the Mail: “Yes, he’s here and so delightful chatting to everyone at the school gate – such a lovely man. And everyone can’t stop talking about how good looking he is, the mums are practically drooling over him.”

Meanwhile, the pair’s largely private home life has been an ongoing source of speculation, with the couple remaining tight-lipped over their family. In an interview with the Times, 2 Fast 2 Furious star Mendes, 51, gave a rare insight into their move last year.

We’re in Notting Hill, so we have access to those communal gardens, Oasis fan Mendes said. It’s incredibly magical, to be sure.

The signs were present, even though the couple never had a major wedding announcement. In 2022, Mendes sported a tattoo of “de Gosling” on her wrist.

When asked about the tat on Australia’s Kyle and Jackie O Show, she revealed she had got it “years ago”. “But who says we weren’t already [married],” Mendes told People. “I like to keep it all mysterious. I’m a very mysterious woman.”

However, rumors were confirmed when speaking on Australia’s Today Show in 2022. Eva casually admitted that “everyone here is very welcoming, and my husband Ryan is here, and we are having the best time.”

When the couple started a family together, they kept things quiet. In 2014, they gave their daughter Esmeralda Amada, and Mendes revealed to Violet Grey that the name was based on her favorite book.

People reports she told the outlet: “Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and we just think it’s a beautiful name.” She added: “Amada was my grandmother’s name. It means ‘beloved’ in Spanish.”

Eva said that she and Ryan were also on the same page when it came to keeping their kids away from the spotlight as much as they can. She added: “Whether we like it or not, privacy is going to be very difficult for Esmeralda. I think it’s unfair, but that’s our reality. So Ryan and I decided early on to give her as much privacy as we could. And my pregnancy was the first opportunity to give her that. It’s such an intimate time for the mother, too.”

Amada Lee, Mendes and Gosling’s second child, was born in 2016. Our oldest is named Esmeralda Amada, while my grandmother’s name is Amada. We chose a few names for our new child, but we didn’t think they were her when she was born.

She continued, “We tried a few more even that morning, and we came up with a few more.” What about Viviana, you ask? But we kept returning to Amada.

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Former Love Island star Georgia Harrison, who changed the law for women’s rights, speaks out as the Mirror exclusively reveals TFL’s decision to install women-only tube carriages on the underground following a petition to protect women from harassment on the way of transportation.

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While enduring a traumatic court case which saw her ex boyfriend Stephen Bear sentenced to 21 months in prison for voyeurism and disclosing sexual footage of her, Georgia Harrison has campaigned to increase the support for survivors of sexual abuse, in all forms.

And now, with the Mirror campaigning against Transport For London’s decision to not create female only carriages on the London Underground, we caught up with Georgia to discuss her thought on TFL’s decision. Here’s her story:

Many of my close female friends and I personally have had a number of negative experiences while using public transportation. You don’t want to say something or don’t know who did it because I’ve had times where I’ve been on busy carriages or people have grabbed or groped me.

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I worked in the city a lot so I tended to find that during rush hour when it’s really compact things like that happen. And a lot of my friends have had those experiences as well. I picked one of my friends up from the train station, some time last year and she was crying because the whole way home a man had been brushing up against her and she knew it was on purpose. And there was nothing she could do about it and she was too scared to say anything. She was really, really upset and she was like ‘oh it’s so out of character for me, I feel I didn’t stand up for myself’ but you just don’t know what you’re going to do in that moment. The other day I was getting the train home late at night and I don’t often do it but it was just going to be quicker to get a train. It wasn’t like a sexual assault or anything but it was a guy that was sitting opposite me and he was really drunk and he was speaking to me really inappropriately. It was very clear I was pregnant and he was saying how it’s horrible having kids , it’s going to change my life negatively. The other people on the carriage could probably sense it was making me uncomfortable but didn’t want to say anything. And then he kept trying to grab my hand after, like trying to make up with me but he had really dirty hands and alcohol them. I’m pregnant and I’ve got a baby inside me, I didn’t really understand the animosity that was coming towards me because of the fact I was having a child. And that was a really recent experience for me , this was only a couple of weeks ago.

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They practice it in Japan, Indonesia, India, Indonesia, and even Thailand. I’m surprised that London isn’t considering this because so many other nations are acknowledging that this is something that is needed. However, I can see how other people will be concerned about inclusion and how to make it safe for everyone. However, it shouldn’t be taken as a negative omen, as women are forced to segregate themselves. It is without a doubt not. If I’m a young girl of any age, or if I’m a woman returning home late at night and know that I’m going to be on my own, and I’m nervous, I don’t understand why I shouldn’t have the option to board a train, whether it’s for women only, then.

I’d absolutely like to see more surveillance. I don’t understand how that’s something we haven’t already introduced, so I don’t see why that’s a no-brainer. In a dream world, I’d assume there would be more police or security on the underground, allowing you to jump off immediately and seek assistance when necessary. There is no reason why people shouldn’t feel comfortable being filmed in that environment, which is why CCTV isn’t available on trains. In fact, there are many assaults occurring there, and people are now almost always filmed there. And it ought to be able to monitor trains without paying a premium.

I just believe that society needs to change in general in how we approach our misogynistic traits. Online hate, which is relatively new to society, is a major source of that hatred. And I’m a big proponent of how to educate people as they get older and in school. Actually, what they are seeing isn’t accurate. There is a better way to view women, understand them, and experience empathy for them. And in fact, it makes you more sympathetic to, appreciate, and understand a woman than it does to reject them.

I receive numerous messages from women. They will state that they have been abused and only want a contact. They’ll message me about image-based abuse, domestic abuse, and rape.

The messages never really seem to slow down, but they do seem to have gotten much more prolific, especially when sharing images. And that’s due to the development of AI and technology. You actually have to be in someone’s presence to do that, which is why DeepFace is now able to claim far more victims than obviously image-based sexual abuse, whereas at the moment you don’t really need that.

Many women have reached out for assistance, but many of them are deeply embarrassed by what they are going through. I believe this is because they don’t want people to be aware of. They require a conversation starter. I’ve actually put the revenge porn in my bio right now, so hopefully people will see it and donate to charities that can help them. I always try my best to direct them there.

In a nutshell, I’ve been having a few discussions about the fact that you must have reported image-based sexual abuse within a six-month period, which really blew my mind.

I don’t have the right to report anything if I discover a video of myself being uploaded to PornHub that has been there for about a year and a half because it hasn’t been updated. It should just be a life-long crime, regardless of when it was committed, and it should always remain that way. I’ve been talking about that as much as I can when giving speeches, so to speak.

I’m also fighting to have online child pornography and image-based sexual abuse taken seriously. So, if something is found to be underage porn, it is added to a list and then made illegal. And any website that hosts it is therefore considered to be a source of illegal activity and is taking it very seriously. Nothing is done to protect the footage or place it in a different category than anything else if you can demonstrate that it is unconsensual and sexually abusive. Therefore, the person who took the video is still entitled to the copyright even though you have to go through a lengthy legal process. It holds less weight than underage unconsented footage when charities try to get things taken down.

If you’ve been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999