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Frank Lampard is a legend in the world of football, celebrated for his remarkable career with Chelsea where he bagged numerous honours including the Premier League and Champions League titles. In 106 appearances for England, he also netted 29 goals.
His managerial career has had both positive and negative outcomes, including stints at Derby County, Chelsea, Everton, and now Coventry City. Unlike his former England team-mates Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney, Lampard continues to work as a head coach.
The 47-year-old is currently at the top of the Championship table and enjoying a resurgence in his managerial career. In front of the Sky Sports cameras, Coventry will travel to newly-promoted Wrexham on Friday night for their next second-tier game.
The Welsh side, co-owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, are no strangers to hosting high-profile visitors at the Racecourse Ground. However, the prospect of facing Lampard’s Coventry will be a daunting one for the Red Dragons, who are 16th in the standings, whereas Coventry head into the game after registering six league wins in a row and have already scored 34 goals in their opening 12 matches.
Lampard has since invested a sizable sum of money into a lavish home that he shares with his wife Christine and their children. Here’s the inside scoop on his wealth, relationship with Christine and how he’s breathed new life into his managerial career…
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According to Celebrity Net Worth, Lampard’s net worth is estimated to be around £75 million, with Christine being a millionaire by herself thanks to her successful TV career. Although this figure hasn’t been confirmed, the website also points out that he was making an annual salary of £9 million while playing for Everton.
According to sports-focused website Total Sportal, Lampard’s contract with Everton was worth £15million, inclusive of a signing bonus and various other incentives, many of which weren’t realised as he was sacked by the Toffees in January 2023. At the end of the 2022/23 season, he briefly made a brief but unsuccessful stint as interim manager at Chelsea.
There was a touch of fate about Frank and Christine’s romance blossoming. At the Pride of Britain awards in October 2009, the two people first met.
Christine, who still had the surname Bleakley at the time, nearly missed the glittering ceremony altogether as she’d just finished presenting The One Show. She said, “I’m very, very glad we met when we met, it was definitely about timing for us,” when describing how she met her husband while making an appearance on Loose Women.
Although Christine remained skeptical at first, it became clear that Lampard was actually a devoted follower of the BBC program she co-starred with Adrian Chiles. She previously revealed: “Frank came over to me and said, ‘ I watch you on The One Show. ‘
I replied, “No, you don’t,” Who was last night’s guest? And he was able to tell me. Following the party, a awkward introduction was made. We both laughed as we proceeded.
“Then that was it. I had a caller’s number call my phone on the way home, and he somehow got my number. He picked up when I picked up him. I said, ‘ Wow, you’re keen, ‘ as a bit of a joke, and we chatted. He claimed he liked speaking with me and would like to communicate. It was a lot of fun.
The couple wed in 2015 and share two children, Patricia and Freddie. The late mother of Frank’s beloved mother is buried under the name Patricia. Luna and Isla, two of his older daughters, are also his parents, both of whom he was previously in a relationship with Elen Rivas.
A magnificent £10 million mansion in London is where The Lampards call home. Christine gave viewers a glimpse into their domestic life during one Loose Women episode.
She revealed that she has her own “she shed” in the garden where she spends her days retreating. Although it’s tiny, she said, “I walked into it the other day and thought, This could be a good hiding place, maybe even for a brief period of five minutes.”
Lampard’s mother Pat passed away in April 2008, causing a devastating family tragedy for the 58-year-old. She entered intensive care for a “week-long process” after being admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, but her family was shocked when she died from a brain hemorrhage.
The Chelsea star, who was 29 at the time, was left heartbroken by the tragedy and broke down in tears on the pitch just days later as he scored to send the Blues through to the Champions League final for the first time. He later devoted his mother, who he described as his “best friend,” to many of his professional accomplishments.
Lampard admitted to the Diary of a CEO podcast that his mother was “everything” to him and wonders if he should have left the football team in the wake of the tragedy.
Life is bigger than that, in my opinion, but it was probably just a small coping mechanism. We won the second leg of a match between Liverpool and I scored a penalty in the final match, but now we’re being sent to the Champions League final.
” I remember sitting in the dressing room afterwards and I had this almighty sense of fatigue, body and mental fatigue. I went home and opened a beer, was unable to drink it, and went to bed. It was a week or two of exhausting pain.
Many years later, the feeling of grief catches up with me. I think I probably had a year where I was single, drinking a little bit but I was playing fantastic football, I had a really good year of football, it was weird. Then, I met Christine, and I’m grateful that she came along at that time because I had a little trouble.
Coventry and Lampard’s coaching prospects in the Championship have been revived thanks to Lampard. Following club legend Mark Robins, who had led the Sky Blues from the fourth tier to the Premier League, presented him with a formidable challenge.
Lampard was already familiar with the second tier, having steered Derby to the play-off final in 2019. And he has made the most of that knowledge by helping Coventry, which had previously lost in the play-off semi-finals last year, to advance to Friday’s game against Wrexham.
Before the game, Lampard said, “We have to evaluate the opposition and comprehend how dangerous each game is.” Wrexham have gone away and got some good results this season already against good teams in the league. We simply must give our best and keep our focus on ourselves.
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Democrats and Republicans failed to reach a funding agreement on October 1st, leading to the US government shutdown, which has now passed one month. American people’s daily lives are becoming more and more sluggish.
According to data from the Bipartisan Policy Center, 73, 000 federal employees (32 percent of the workforce) have been without pay, while 670, 000 have been fired because government departments are unable to pay them. As the government departments become inoperable and the shutdown drags on, that number will increase.
A number of services, including essential food assistance, have been interrupted or even completely stopped as a result of the shutdown.
After Democrats refused to approve a spending bill supported by Republicans without important amendments that would restore funding for public health programs, US President Donald Trump threatened to launch massive federal layoffs in the weeks leading up to the shutdown in October.
The shutdown, which is now the second-longest in US history, was caused by neither side’s backs.
Government shutdowns have rarely occurred over the course of a few days, but they occasionally occur.
Trump’s first year as president of the United States was the shutdown’s last one. The longest in US history, lasting 35 days from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, was despite only a partial shutdown. The conflict began with a row over the construction of a wall along Mexico’s border, and it only came to an end when Trump made a tentative agreement with congressional leaders to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations raged.
The government has experienced 20 funding gaps, which have led to 10 shutdowns since 1976, the beginning of which was the process for establishing and approving government budgets.
Non-essential federal services like those offered by regulatory bodies and museums are temporarily suspended or reduced, and many government employees are furloughed and taken on unpaid leave.
Before funding is restored, essential personnel like military personnel, law enforcement personnel, air traffic controllers, and agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must continue to work, frequently without compensation.
The federal government employs more than two million people nationwide.
Just over seven percent (162, 489) of all federal workers are based in Washington, DC, followed by 6.7 percent (150, 679) in California, 6.5 percent (147, 358) in Virginia, 6.4 percent (144, 497) in Maryland and 5.8 percent (130, 686) in Texas.
The locations of 276 and 235 employees are not made public.
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s most recent estimates indicate that about 730, 000 federal employees are paid untrained, and about 670, 000 have received furloughs.
97 percent of the Department of Veterans Affairs employees still carry out their duties. The majority of the department’s funding is being paid because it is not funded by annual appropriations, or Congress-approved budgets.
Secret Service agents, border control officers, airport security, Coast Guard workers, and emergency workers in disaster relief are among the department’s 271, 000 employees still employed, the majority of them without pay.
Law enforcement, FBI agents, criminal prosecutors, and prison guards are among the Department of Justice’s 115, 000 current employees, and 90% of them are still employed, largely without pay.
Conversely, 91% of its 4,300 employees are being laid off. Only those who continue to monitor markets and deal with urgent fraud problems work.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s 15, 000 employees have received furloughs, or about 89 percent. The work of security guards, criminal investigators, and emergency response personnel continues.
2,450 government employees at the Department of Education have been furloughed, or about 87 percent of them. Workers who still provide grants and student aid to schools are among those who are still employed.
Some vital government programs will completely lose funding when November 1st.
On October 10, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it would not have enough funds to pay food benefits by the month’s end.
By the end of this week, the USDA will no longer have funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Food assistance is a necessity for more than 42 million Americans.
SNAP has access to a $5 billion contingency fund that could provide benefits for a few weeks; it costs the government $ 9.8 billion annually, or roughly $ 8.3 billion per month. However, Reuters claims that the USDA won’t use these for November-slated assistance that will expire.
The Trump administration has stated that it won’t fund the program with emergency funds.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which provides food, breastfeeding assistance, and education to more than six million pregnant women, young mothers, and children, is also in need of funding.
The economy’s shutdown is typically temporary and has little to no impact. When a shutdown is over and funding is released, unpaid and furloughed employees’ pay is typically retroactive.
That doesn’t imply that it is insignificant. Contract workers are typically more negatively impacted than others because they only receive back pay from their contracting employers.
The Trump administration has also threatened to terminate workers altogether or not provide back pay, which would mean that the shutdown could have a bigger impact on the economy.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the partial shutdown in 2018-19 slowed the growth of the country’s GDP by about 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 ($3 billion) and by about 0.2% in the first quarter of 2019 ($8 billion). This was primarily due to delayed spending on goods and services as well as the loss of furloughed workers’ pay.
Since about $3 billion of these losses were not anticipated to be recovered, GDP is thought to be 0.2 percent lower than it would otherwise be in 2019.
Analysts predict that the shutdown will cut GDP by 0.1% to 0.2% for each week it lasts, which would be equivalent to about $15 billion per week.
The impact, according to economist Michael Feroli in a JPMorgan briefing note, “could be worse this time due to the looming layoffs and actual job losses, which could put a risk on both the labor market and consumer spending.”
How does the audience react to Prince Andrew’s news?
Andrew’s bombshell news was well received by the audience for Question Time. Buckingham Palace confirmed in a rare statement that the King had started the process of absolving Prince Andrew of all of his royal titles on Thursday night when the show is being filmed.
As the discussion erupted about benefits being cut for those with anxiety, host Fiona interrupted and said, “I’m stopping recording because we have a breaking story to address.” As the audience began to laugh, “Prince Andrew,”
We will talk about this because The King has already started a process, Fiona continued. The crowd clapped as Prince Andrew was no longer Prince Andrew. The audience continued to applaud as she continued, adding that “He will be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor” and that he would find alternative private accommodation.
Lisa Nandy MP, the secretary of state for culture, media, and sport, was asked to respond during her panel discussion. She remarked, “The King has made a significant step forward.”
She was interrupted by the cheering crowd, and I must admit that I really support the first step he’s taken. Lisa continued, “I believe this sends a very powerful message to the victims of sex crimes and grooming.”
Before I entered Parliament, I had the opportunity to work with children who had experienced horrific abuse from the grooming gangs, many of whom I knew. Some of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s testimonies have come to mind. Not just at the time, but also recently as new details emerge.
Given the new information we have, the King, in my opinion, took a brave, significant, and wise decision. Due to his connections to convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew has found himself entangled in scandals.
In March 2001, he was charged with having sex with Virginia Giuffre, who was then 17 years old. Ms. Giuffre claimed she had sex with Andrew after meeting him at the London Tape nightclub and that she had been allegedly trafficked by Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
She claimed that after sleeping with Andrew, Epstein paid her $15, 000. The royal vehemently refutes the allegations, and he claimed in an interview with BBC Newsnight that he had no memory of ever meeting Virginia. However, Buckingham Palace believes that there have been “serious lapses in judgment.”
His Majesty has started a formal process to remove Prince Andrew’s style, titles, and honors, according to Buckingham Palace on Thursday night. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will now be known as Prince Andrew. He has since been given legal protection to remain in residence thanks to his lease on Royal Lodge.
He will move to another private accommodation after receiving formal notice that the lease has been revoked. Despite the fact that he continues to refute the accusations against him, these critiques are deemed necessary. Their Majesties are happy to express to the victims and survivors of all forms of abuse that their thoughts and sympathies have been and will remain with them forever.
As she shares the first photos of her newborn granddaughter, Coleen Nolan has gushed about the arrival of her family. The TV actress shared the sweet photos of her grandchild on social media.
Just this week Coleen’s daughter Ciara Fensome shared the sweet news she had given birth to her baby boy. The news came just over a year after Ciara got engaged to her partner Maxx Innes.
Max proposed to Ciara in Vietnam, and they announced their engagement in April 2024. Ciara’s baby is Coleen’s third grandchild as Coleen is already a grandmother to son Shane Jr’s daughter, Amelia, who was born in 2016, and to her younger son, Jake’s baby boy, who was born last year.
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Coleen wrote in a blog post about her daughter holding her newborn son: “Hi everyone, I’m almost lost for words (yes, I know totally not the usual me) and I can’t even begin to describe the incredible range of emotions I’m feeling right now: love, pride, relief, and happiness to name a few.
We’re all pleased that it was a planned c-section, with a beautiful baby grandson named Sidney Ray Innes, who was born on September 29, 2005, a whopping 9lb10, and that the mother, father, and baby are all doing very well.
We’re just beginning, Ciara Fensome, and what a gift it was to go through this entire journey with you (aside from the hemorrhoids). You and Max are already adopting Sid’s best child, and I can assure you that you will both be the best parents.
“To this community, thank you so much for all the kind messages of love and support throughout this whole pregnancy and I apologise in advance for too much Nanny Col spam.”
Ciara announced the happy arrival via her own Instagram page. The first-time-mum wrote: “Sidney Ray Innes, 29/10/2025, 9lb 10. So proud of all 3 of us. I have carried him for 9 months but @maxkerrinnes you have carried us all this whole time.”
Friends and family have been encouraging Ciara by sharing sweet messages on social media. And there’s the first one out and into the world, wrote her brother Shane in a sweet message online.
“My sister is doing great, and she’s going to be my best mother,” she said. Thanks for making my band mate and future brother in law Max again, who will be my uncle, and forgiving my 9lb 10 son, Sidney Ray Innes.
When they first met, Coleen has admitted that she wasn’t entirely sure about Ciara’s relationship with Max. Ciara first met him at a family party after Shane’s band introduced him to him.
Speaking on the Loose Women: Just Between Us podcast, Coleen and fellow ITV panellist Jane Moore spoke about the moment. Coleen said: “She came out and I was sitting outside with my friend, and she said, ‘Oh, Mum, she said, ‘The guitarist’. She went, ‘I might have to kiss him; he’s very attractive’.
“Oh God, how funny, what’s she like, I went,” I said. And when she entered, I said to my friend, “Oh God, no, please don’t let her end up with a musician because I just divorced one, that being her dad,” and she responded, “Oh God, no, no, please don’t let her end up with a musician.”
However, everything turned out well, and the relationship between them is strong. Coleen stated that she had her own reservations at first, but that he would prove to be “absolutely brilliant.”
It is a good sign that Hamas is still active and that they aren’t allies with this ceasefire agreement, according to the statement.
Published On 31 Oct 2025
