Jamie Oliver described her new hobby as “extraordinary” and the “most challenging thing” he had ever done in a broadcast of her BBC Radio 2 show.
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Jamie Oliver has revealed that a demanding new hobby is “extraordinary”(Image: Getty Images for Royal Caribbean)
Jamie Oliver has revealed that a demanding new hobby is “extraordinary”, but also the “most challenging thing” he’s ever done. Jamie’s remarks emerged in a recent chat with Zoe Ball during a broadcast of her BBC Radio 2 show on November 29, in which she asked the Naked Chef star how his “flying” was going, much to Jamie’s surprise.
Zoe, when asked how she knew, explained that she’d been informed that he was learning to fly, prompting Jamie to share candid insights into his “extraordinary” hobby, including the rigorous training he must undergo.
He opened up about the “incredible community” that he’s now involved in, but conceded that it’s a difficult pursuit.
He even claimed that he must pass nine exams, aside from the practical ones.
It’s not what you believe it to be, Jamie said. It’s a wonderful community, but I believe it to be the most difficult thing I’ve ever done and what I’ve learned. I recently took seven exams; There are still two more to go. It is extraordinary. “
The majority of us have done everything, he continued, but people haven’t really been flying in a while, so… I’ve got some old tin that’s probably even older than me. “
As Jamie noted that it was one of the most “extraordinary things” he’s ever undertaken, Zoe reacted with the “crazy thing” that some planes are like “Mini with two like ironing boards.
According to Jamie, “I do believe having time for hobbies is really important.” I’ve been doing multitasking for 35 years, and I’m already exhausted. And flying is the only thing I can think about while doing that; Otherwise, I would pass away. “
In other news, celebrity chef Jamie, known for shows such as Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders, Jamie’s Easy Christmas, and Jamie: Eat Yourself Healthy, revealed one vegetable that he prefers to buy frozen.
Despite also buying the green fresh (and reportedly growing it at home), he hailed the frozen alternative, dubbing it “incredible” and “fantastic for curries and breads” in an Instagram post.
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Jamie, a dad-of-five with wife Juliette Norton (aka Jools), sang the praises of spinach. He said: “So I buy fresh spinach, I grow fresh spinach and I always buy frozen spinach.
Simply adding an extra little cube to a stew or soup is a fantastically brilliant idea, and this is incredible and fantastic for curries and breads. “
Sudan’s army, known as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), is still fighting a devastating conflict with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), despite the country’s continuing humanitarian crisis.
The resource-rich Northeast African nation’s top generals, who are both accused of crimes against humanity and crimes against humanity, don’t appear to be turning down international calls for a ceasefire.
What significant humanitarian, political, and battlefield developments are occurring this month?
Military and combat control
After retaking El-Fasher, the last remaining army stronghold in the area, in late October, the RSF has been killing civilians and strengthening its grip on the West Darfur state.
Most of the country’s eastern and central regions, including Khartoum and parts of Kordofan, are occupied by the SAF. However, the RSF and some of its allied militias have been deploying troops and equipment to further central Kordofan.
The RSF has targeted Babnusa and El-Obeid, strategic cities with high agricultural, livestock, and petroleum resources, which give them a significant military advantage and an economic advantage over Khartoum.
As international organizations push for a ceasefire that might allow the Army to retake control of Kazqil and Um Dam Haj Ahmed in North Kordofan, they have been occupying the area in central Sudan.
Humanitarian crisis
Witnesses and international aid organizations in Darfur remarked numerous, horrifying atrocities committed by the RSF following its bloody annexation of El-Fasher. RSF militias are implicated in numerous mass murders, including rape of girls and women, as well as holding hostages for ransom.
After fleeing El-Fasher to nearby Tawila, thousands of people have still vanished. In response to the humanitarian crisis there, where the UN is struggling, and where thousands more Sudanese civilians are being forced to flee, there are agencies working to help those in the country.
In an effort to conceal what a Sudanese non-governmental medical organization called a “genocide,” the RSF burned and buried a large number of bodies in mass graves throughout several areas of El-Fasher, according to satellite images.
Early in November, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) revealed that famine had been found in Kadugli, a town in South Kordofan, as well as in El-Fasher. According to the UN-backed global hunger monitor, 20 other Darfur and Kordofan regions are seriously at risk of experiencing severe famine conditions as a result of the majority of aid remaining blocked.
Sudan has the largest displacement crisis in the world, according to Amy Pope, director general of the UN’s International Organization for Migration, and it is not receiving the attention it deserves despite affecting most children and women. Nearly 14 million people are internally displaced or forced to flee to developing nations.
On November 22, 2025, el-Fasher refugee girl Mabroka Adam poses inside her family tent at the Tine transit refugee camp. [Amr.
political and diplomatic developments
A truce proposal that envisages a possible transition to civilian rule in Sudan has been submitted by the so-called Quad, which includes the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Even though the RSF claims to accept the proposal while the SAF rejects it, fighting continues on the ground.
The RSF announced on November 6 that it had accepted the mediators’ proposals, and its commanding general, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is well-known as Hemedti, claimed in a video message on November 26 that his paramilitary force is engaged in an ostensibly unilateral three-month “humanitarian truce.” However, November’s RSF attacks continued.
The RSF commander announced this the day after army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan publicly stated his opposition to the Quad proposal in an address to senior commanders. Al-Burhan claimed that the proposal severely impairs the RSF, dissolves security organizations, and keeps the RSF in its current positions.
The army commander also cited the UAE as a source of legitimacy and claimed that the Quad had been “the only country to witness the UAE’s support for rebels against the Sudanese state.” The RSF continues to deny arming and funding it, despite the largest import of gold from Sudan.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appealed to the US president during a White House visit, and he vowed “cooperation and coordination” to put an end to Sudan’s conflict. Massad Boulos, Trump’s senior adviser on Arab and African affairs, and Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s president’s diplomatic adviser, held a press conference to discuss the proposed truce.
The Miranda and Call the Midwife star is back from a five-year break and utterly in love with her.
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Miranda, 52, hid her battle with Lyme disease(Image: GL Weekend)
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, her tell-all book, was called that. However, Miranda Hart, a comic, is now completely honest when she claims she no longer desires fame and that things should be kept simple. She says, “I just woke up and thought, ‘right, what am I going to do today?'” It spends time with my husband, watching television, and walking the dog. Because of that, I find life to be much more liberated and happier. I adore living in such a simple way.
While Miranda dominated the sitcom industry, Call the Midwife’s Chummy made her famous. However, this excellent British comedian has taken a five-year break from television. And she has changed as a result of her ongoing battle with Lyme disease, which was revealed in her memoir earlier this year. She resents the phrase “when an illness takes everything from your life.” It made me think things like “you are not what you do” and “you can’t take it with you” and all those other things. It was so simple to hear. You don’t realize how real suffering is until you are older and are facing it. Life is currently pretty good. I believe that’s because I excel at taking several days at once.
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I believe that living in a manageable way is what I should have done. I’m not rushing around doing things that no longer matter to me, which is to say that it has its challenges. Simply put, it is simple and calm. Miranda, 52, spent years avoiding public awareness of her battle with Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that can spread to humans by infected ticks. She explained how it had been undiagnosed for 33 years in her autobiography.
In her teens, when her family lived in Virgina, USA, a tick bite caused extreme fatigue, recurrent infections, joint pain, and cognitive difficulties in the years that followed. Prior to that, agoraphobia and other debilitating weakness were mistaken for chronic fatigue syndrome (CNY) and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
She finally fell asleep at home, becoming bedbound at her worst. She eventually received reactivated Lyme disease in 2020 while she was “feeling” alone in the “dark” of isolation during the Covid pandemic, which was a great relief. One of the hardest things about these kinds of conditions is to be misunderstood and misjudged, she says.
She was forced to make a stock decision, and she is now more content than ever. Being known for playing a very jolly, playful character, which is obviously part of me, “she says,” was very interesting. then collapsing with illness and completely unable to be that. That was what I actually felt. There was a feeling like you have to be “on” before I became ill. You must fit that mold, I suppose. Although it was expected, you were also a character and a part, of course.
Becoming reflective, as her illness took hold, she realised she’d worked so hard in her 20s and 30s that she’d lost her sense of joy. She says: “I had this full circle moment. I realised I had been writing a character whose mission is to play and to tell the adult world to play and be silly, but I was fearful the second series would not do as well as the first and I got looped into the whole success of it. I lost my ‘play’. I lost joy by getting serious about my work. I wish I had not been so quite stressed about the series, but you feel you have to keep going and not let yourself or the audience down.”
Miranda’s most notable TV appearances came in January 2020, when she celebrated Miranda’s tenth birthday with the celebratory special show Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration. She also occasionally hosts chat shows. The semi-autobiographical series’ success was celebrated with the career-defining television program, which launched her 20-year career in television in 2001 with a number of sitcoms, including Channel 4’s Smack The Pony.
It sounds strange, considering her comedy repertoire, to hear Miranda say that she lacked the confidence to act as a youngster. She describes her “foolish” shyness during her university years. “I did know always what I wanted to do,” she says. “I had this weird moment when I was seven, looking at comedians on the television, and I was so excited by adults playing and their silliness and joy. I just remember saying ‘If that is a job, that is what I want to do’. I wanted to jump into the television. So I always had this dream.
“But I was too embarrassed and shy to pursue acting until I was 26.” I should have stated that I wanted to study drama at the university. After my first year of college, I left to pursue speech and drama, but I accidentally damaged the acceptance letter. Right now, it just breaks my heart. I’m sure Miranda would have been a regular TV show and I would have been alternating between books, but I should have listened when I was 20.
While she is contemplative now, she is also confident and hopes she will have a Christmas hit this year. Only this time, rather than being a TV show, she hopes it will be her new novel The Christmas Tree That Wanted to Dance that makes waves. The short story novel is the latest in a string of books she has written, as she balances her new life at home with her dog and new husband, building surveyor Richard Fairs, 60, who she married in secret last summer.
She and Richard are alleged to have brought the congregation to tears when they married to the Sound of Music classic Climb Every Mountain despite having almost “given up” on getting married. A small number of family and close friends only attended the ceremony at a 1, 000-year-old church in Hambledon, a picturesque village in Hampshire.
When surveyor Richard was called in to clean Miranda’s home, they had already met. After falling “hopelessly in love with each other,” they quickly got married while visiting Kew Gardens in west London. Miranda, who is now 18 months into her marriage, says, “We can’t imagine our lives being apart, can we? ” That is a great relief, in my opinion. Everything has been unanticipated, and I didn’t anticipate getting married.
Finding someone who completely understands and gets me, and who is the most incredibly patient with me, has been an unexpected experience. The good that can come from suffering is also unexpected. To truly discover who I am and feel free… I have a lot of love. Everything, including having extraordinary fame moments, was unanticipated.
I simply enjoy being laughing and joyful, whether I have just come off stage at the 02 to 15 000 people or being at home. All that matters is that. Finding joy again has been the greatest gift ever, even though I had never anticipated it.
But reconsider if you believe Miranda’s new, serene, and homelike personality makes Christmas cards year-round. “Do I love Christmas? ” asks Miranda. I agree, as it is a play invitation. However, I don’t send Christmas cards. I detest holiday cards. I detest this insane cultural pressure, such as, “I have to see these people before Christmas.” You’ll receive texts that read, “We must catch up. No, we don’t, I tell myself. Why won’t we get together in February? Let’s just relax, shall we say?
The Christmas Tree That Wanted to Dance, Miranda Hart’s newest book, is now available.
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Last month, Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox and his wife traveled on a luxury train with Neighborhoods star Holly Valance and far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
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Tommy Robinson, a far-right activist, and Holly Valance have been photographed numerous times.
Neighbours star, Holly Valance, has been pictured with far-right activist, Tommy Robinson, on a number of occasions following her split from Reform UK treasurer, Nick Candy.
The Neighbours actress, 42, and her billionaire ex, 51, who were regular fixtures at a host of high-profile events – including Princess Eugenie’s wedding – ended their 13 year marriage in June. And now Holly is mixing in very different circles after she was seen on a luxury train along with Robinson, Reclaim Party leader, Laurence Fox and his wife last month.
A picture posted online by former actor, Fox, showed the mum-of-two and his wife cuddled up on a sofa in one of the train’s plush carriages. A grinning Robinson sits nearby, as a caption by Fox reads: “It’s a bit early for that…”
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Holly gulps a cup of tea as Robinson says, “Good morning everyone, everyone. ” In a video of the trio, Robinson says, “Good morning. “How are we doing?” Holly also posed for a selfie with her new friends while on the road.
The Mail on Sunday reports that friends of actress, famed for playing Flick Scully in Neighbours, are worried that she and Robinson have ‘grown close’.
With the real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Robinson has been charged with assault, mortgage fraud, false passport, and numerous counts of contempt of court.
Many of her friends are concerned, according to a source who spoke to the Mail. Is it still unclear whether [Ms. Valance and Robinson] have romantic ties? He has all of these convictions against him, even if they are not in a romantic relationship.
Far-right political commentator Katie Hopkins also attended Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally in September, when Holly and him were first pictured.
The Australian-born actress spotted showcasing her new acquaintance in a “Make England Great Again” hat and expressing her gratitude to Tommy for his success, saying, “I’m very proud and pleased for him – this is his redemption. Finally . The case study of how the man who yelled “the bad guy” about the rape of white British girls will turn out to be.
“How foolish and morally wrong have we become. Our disobedience is moral. The lions appeared at the march.
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Holly has been very vocal in recent years despite keeping her political beliefs a secret for years.
The Mirror has contacted Holly’s reps for comment on this story.
Australian PGA Championship final round leaderboard
-18 D Puig (Spa), -16 W Ding (Chi), -15 N Voke (NZ), M Leishman (Aus), -14 D Hillier (NZ), M-W Lee (Aus), -13 A Scott (Aus)
Other notables: -11 S. Baristow (Eng), -9 A. Fitzpatrick (Eng), and -8 M. Penge (Eng).
With a two-shot victory in Brisbane, David Puig won the Australian PGA Championship for the first time since Seve Ballesteros in 1981.
In Sunday’s final round, the 23-year-old claimed his first DP World Tour title on 18 under with a bogey-free five-under 66.
Following two victories on the Asian Tour in 2023 and 2024, Puig now holds his third professional title. His previous best on the DP World Tour was third at the January Ras Al Khaimah Championship.
Puig, who placed 10th in the 2025 Liv Golf Rankings, said, “It feels amazing.” I struggled to get through a lot of close calls in a few events this year and last year.
I was a little anxious, especially as I pondered the past a little bit and what I could have done differently. But I managed to maintain my composure.
Puig is the first European champion since 1998’s David Howell, a legendary compatriot like Ballesteros, and he also imitates legendary compatriot Ballesteros.
Ding Wenyi, from China, shot a final-round 66 to finish second overall, with Nick Voke, from New Zealand, and Marc Leishman, who is one shot further back.
Arianna Grande addresses the dangers of making body-related comments about other people’s looks and the criticism of her body.
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Ariana Grande posts resurfaced interview from last December where she talks about her weight-loss(Image: Variety via Getty Images)
Over recent weeks, Ariana Grande’s appearance has been under scrutiny as she promotes the release of the second instalment of Wicked. The singer, 32, has always maintained a silence despite continued speculation around her weight.
But now, the star has finally hit back about the emotional impact the conversations around her weight has had on her. This weekend she shared an interview where she tearfully spoke about her weight-loss to Instagram.
She captioned the post saying: “Resharing this from last year as a loving reminder to all.” Fans saw Ariana sat with her beloved co-star Cynthia Erivo during the emotional interview.
She then went on to openly state that the comment section sent a “dangerous” message to everyone who was familiar with her appearance.
She stated in a statement to the television program Oui Oui Baguette, “I think it’s really dangerous to comment on other people’s looks, appearance, what they think is going on in the background, health, or how they present themselves.”
While Ariana discussed the drawbacks of being in public, viewers spotted Cynthia holding her hand in support of her close friend.
Ariana continued, “I’ve been doing this in front of the public and as a specimen in a petri-dish since I was 16 or 17.” No matter what scale you’re experiencing it on, it’s difficult to protect yourself from that noise.
Contrary to some, Ariana expressed gratitude for having a strong network of supporters who reflect who she is as a person.
She concluded, “I’m really lucky to have the support system I have, and I know and trust that I’m beautiful.”
Fans took to social media to express their concerns about Ariana’s altercation since she began the film’s promotional tour last year, which has since caused her to become sober.
Taking to X on the back of seeing her on the red carpet for the SAG Awards earlier this year, one fan wrote: “For real tho. Is Ariana Grande ok? She so thin and talks so slow now. Im actually worried.”
Someone else remarked, “Someone have to intervene with Ariana because something is not going on with her.” Being a fan, it’s so depressing because she’s too thin and appears to be fakeing a smile.
“I hope Ariana Is healthy,” was written by a third author. I hope she puts on some pounds. healthy . Women shouldn’t sacrifice their bodies for their health. I want to see that women who are attractive and well-weight are seen. not “Rose thin”
She took to Twitter in 2023 to post a three-minute video after the general public had compared her to when she was younger.
There are many different ways to look beautiful and healthy, she said at the time. And personally, I thought my current body was the least healthy version of my body, as you have compared it to.
She continued, “At the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you would think I was healthy, but that wasn’t my healthy.”
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