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I’m A Celeb and Love Island star Maura Higgins was left emptied handed after her luggage was seemingly stolen during a connecting flight on her way to work in Fiji

Maura Higgins has claimed her luggage has been stolen as she travels to Fiji for work. The former I’m A Celebrity star, 34, took to Instagram to share the bad news with her followers.

She looked fuming as she stood empty-handed at the baggage claim department at Tom Bradley International Terminal in Los Angeles International Airport. She had earlier shared a post of her air tag telling her her baggage had been left behind during a connecting flight.

She said on the post: “Oh brilliant. Now I have to sit on this flight riddled with anxiety until I land at LAX.”

Sharing a video update with her followers on her Stories after arriving in the States, the Irish star said: “So, everyone in my DMs was like ‘don’t worry. The air tag usually does that. It’s probably on the flight’.”

She then grimaced in rage as she pointed at the camera and added: “No it’s not. Actually, they’re telling me that it was put on the conveyor belt so it looks like it’s been stolen.”

The former Love Island star continued to gesture at the camera as she went on: “Stolen. Stolen,” before sarcastically and angrily laughing while putting her finger to her lips.

“I’ve work when I land. I’ve work,” she finished as she pondered her next move.

Maura had earlier shared her lavish set up as she got ready to fly from London to Fiji. She was on route to the luxurious destination for her latest role on Love Island USA.

The popular UK version contestant was taking up her role once again as host of the American version’s Aftersun spin-off show. She had been in London for the National Television Awards, where I’m A Celeb took home a gong.

At the ceremony, she appeared on stage alongside her fellow campmates, but opted against attending the afterparty. And she moved quickly to dismiss rumours her no-show was due to her being turned away.

A publication shared TikTok video making the claims, captioning the clip: “Maura Higgins left raging as she’s turned away from celeb-packed NTA afterparty.”

But after fans had tried to defend Maura, she took the decision to clear up the moment herself. In an Instagram Stories post, Maura snapped: “Here we go again!!!!

“I had a fantastic night, won an award, drank water and left after the ceremony as I had an early call time this morning!! The headline is not only untrue, it’s a prime example of how women are constantly vilified, exaggerated and reduced to clickbait.”

She went on: “The pictures used of me ‘raging’ were actually taken in my hotel lobby before I left for the red carpet, while I was waiting for my car – which is why my makeup artist and photographer are in the photos with me. I also DID get invited to the afterparty, as did all nominees, but I chose to get n early night ahead of work today.”

Shirley Ballas says there is Strictly no surgery involved with her £4,675 course of treatement to look her best for BBC series

Shirley Ballas has unveiled her incredible latest non-surgical facelift results, which she says have restored her confidence.

The Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas turned 65 this month but insisted feels 20 years younger following seven months of high-tech aesthetic procedures from a top Harley Street doctor.

She says the only downside to having the £4,675 course of NeoGen nitrogen plasma treatments with Dr Johanna Ward, is she’s frequently accused of having a surgical face-lift because she looks so much younger.

Shirley said: “I was on Instagram posting pictures of myself celebrating my 65th birthday with my mum a week ago and several women made rude comments saying, ‘your mum looks amazing but of course you’ve had so much work done Shirley, facelifts and all’. Well, I need to set the record straight here – I haven’t had any surgical facelifts of any kind, at any time. I mean, you can tell I’ve got no stitches or scars.”

Speculation about Shirley having cosmetic surgery has grown online recently as fans have noticed her youthful new look, but she insists her amazing transformation is only due to a pioneering non-surgical treatment.

She had treatments last year with the same company ahead of the 2024 series of Strictly to look her best on screen.

Since the start of this year, Shirley has undergone a course of six NeoGen nitrogen plasma treatments with top aesthetic practitioner Dr Johanna Ward at the W1 Skin Clinic, near Harley Street in central London. The procedure is completely non-invasive and works by tricking the body into producing high levels of collagen and elastin, key proteins that create youthful and radiant skin.

It’s not the first time she has used these treatments, but this year Shirley says the results have been life-changing.

She added “I never thought at 65 I would feel the way I feel about myself. When I hit 60, I was dreading the inevitable decline of my appearance, I had dark blotches on my skin, my skin looked tired, jowls were starting to fall, and I started to panic so I started to research all the different treatments that one can do.”

Looking at her before and after treatment pictures Shirley said: “Now when I look in the mirror, I see this fresh face. It’s not a little difference. It’s a huge difference. I find my jawline is more defined. I don’t have all those spots all over my face. My skin looks brighter. There’s not a mark on my forehead. And my neck looks so much better. I mean, I think that’s impressive.” Treatment package like the one that Shirley has – the Triple Collagen Reset – start at £2,750 for three treatments. Other extras can include twice daily bespoke Zenii collagen drinks which cost an additional £400

Shirley opted for low energy NeoGen treatments that did not get in the way of her busy work schedule, which would be the case if she went under the knife.

Shirley said: “I’m constantly working so I can’t have any period of downtime but with these low energy treatments I might have a slight bit of redness the next day but it’s nothing you can’t cover up with some makeup and it doesn’t last. As regards the pain, it’s not totally pain-free but it’s bearable.” The NeoGen treatment emits a plume of super charged nitrogen gas into the deep layers of the skin creating a controlled trauma which triggers the body to heal itself with high levels of collagen and elastin, key proteins which promote youthful and radiant skin.

Dr Johanna Ward explained: “NeoGen is unique because it doesn’t just treat the surface of the skin – it penetrates deeper layers, triggering natural regeneration. With Shirley we used a lower energy setting to allow her to continue with her busy work schedule, meaning minimal downtime but steady improvement after each session. Over time, the cumulative effects can be extraordinary.”

Dr Ward added: “The beauty of NeoGen is that it works on all skin types and tones, unlike some traditional lasers or peels. That makes it a safe and effective option for a wide range of patients. Most patients will see a major difference after three low energy treatments, but we can also do higher energy treatments for women who can manage to have a week or more downtime, and they will see the rejuvenation results much quicker.”

Christine McGuinness has candidly opened up on her health woes as she admits her condition had left her feeling frustrated and upset as it affected her everyday life

Christine McGuinness has opened up on the health issue that is challenging her everyday life. She has candidly revealed how the situation left her hands seizing up with no warning earlier this year while trying to get her daughter ready for school.

She admits that at first she thought nothing of the issue and put it down to being clumsy. However, the Real Housewives of Cheshire star soon realised it was more than that as it kept on happening.

Christine, 37, began to notice that any stressful scenario or last-minute change of plan could trigger the ailment which saw her fingers turn white and numb. She was also unable to move them.

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And she admits the situation is “frustrating and upsetting” add that she often has no choice but to stop and wait for the uncomfortable moment to pass. Sometimes, she admits, this isn’t that easy due to her busy lifestyle in work and as a mother of three.

As the issue continued, Christine decided to get medical advice in May and was diagnosed with Raynaud’s syndrome. According to the NHS, Raynaud’s affects your blood circulation and coldness, stress or anxiety can see your fingers and toes change colour.

It can also affect tiny arteries in the nose, ears and tongue. Other symptoms include pain, numbness and pins and needles and it’s said flare ups can last from a few minutes to an hour.

Christine says she sometimes feels embarrassed or disappointed when she has a flare up. Speaking to Femail, she said she feels “as if I’ve caused it by not managing my stress or self-care well enough”.

“The hardest part is that they can stop me in my tracks until the symptoms settle, which leaves me feeling like I’ve let myself down.”

She explained how her symptoms seem to show up at times she is most stressed. And she admitted she was shocked to discover stress and possibly PTSD can be a cause of the ailment.

“It was as if all the strain my nervous system had been carrying finally spilled over into something I couldn’t ignore,” she continued. “I do feel that I may have elements of PTSD, though I can’t attribute it to just one cause.”

She then candidly opened up on her past traumas growing up, saying at times in childhood she “didn’t want to wake up in the morning”. The model also said she was bullied at school and developed anorexia as a teenager.

Later in life she met and married comedian Paddy McGuinness. The pair divorced in 2022.

Speaking on how her past could have affected her Raynaud’s, she added: “For anyone who has lived through a difficult childhood, an eating disorder, sexual abuse, the breakdown of a marriage and a heartbreaking divorce, alongside the daily challenges that come with being a neurodivergent mum juggling work life and other personal traumas that may never be spoken about – it inevitably takes its toll. My body is showing me that.”

Comedian Peter Kay underwent a drastic weight transformation in recent years, with fans left in awe when he stepped out looking noticeably slimmer during a 2023 stand-up performance at the O2

Peter Kay revealed the ‘shameful’ moment that made him focus on his weight loss during an honest discussion at a recent event. The beloved comedian underwent a drastic weight transformation in recent years, with fans left in awe when he stepped out looking noticeably slimmer during a 2023 stand-up performance at the O2.

A photo with musician Bryan Edery sparked a frenzy online, with some fans barely recognising him. Even though he was dressed in a casual black tracksuit, it was clear that Peter had shed a significant amount of weight. In 2020, Peter joked about his experiences with Slimming World as he discussed his dieting.

He quipped at the time: “If you don’t know what Slimming World is, it’s like Weight Watchers, but a quid cheaper. I went once, Methodist Church Hall in Bolton, all the women were sat around in a semi circle.”

He went on to say: “‘Big round of applause for Debbie, she’s lost a pound’. I said: ‘A pound? I s**t a pound, what’s that? ‘” One pound! Big deal!”

The comic had audiences in stitches with a routine featuring “Carole in the back”, noting her near-miss on getting a “half-stone sticker” and her diet-breaking fry-up mishap.

Peter quipped: “Carol, take the ‘c’ off chips, what do you get? It’s up to you love, I can’t do it for you.”

While he has cracked jokes about his weight in the past, Peter has mainly kept his private life away from the spotlight. However, at a recent event, that changed as Peter revealed the source of his eating habits before he made the lifestyle changes.

During the In Conversation With . . . event hosted by Sara Cox at The Lowry theatre in Salford, Peter was asked whether he ever tried to lose weight.

According to The Sun, the star revealed: “Only for the first 48 years of my life. Yeah I had to, eventually, because you start thinking about your health and things like that, don’t you?

“I tried everything. Good God in heaven. I mean, you go to flaming weight-loss groups and stuff like that. I joined Slimming World and WeightWatchers. I did all of them.”

He went on to reveal the eye-opening moment that made him turn his life around. He didn’t specify when the moment unfolded, but revealed he was at the cinema with his wife Susan.

They were watching The Green Mile and he suddenly had food cravings during the three-hour movie. After lying to Susan that he was heading to the toilet, he nipped out to buy a hot dog.

“I was doing really well with this diet, but I’m so bad with willpower. I had this hotdog and I caught a glimpse of myself reflected in, ironically, a framed poster for Babe,” Peter admitted.

“I thought, look at you — what are you doing? You’re doing really well on this diet, you should be ashamed of yourself. And I got it and threw it in the bin — and just as it was about to hit the bin liner, I grabbed it and still ate it.”

Peter also revealed at the event that his eating habits started when he was a baby, explaining how his mother, Deirdre, would place a “meat pie from the market hall and put it on my knee, and I’d be there eating it.”

“My mum used to bring pies in for me at primary school. She’d go in and she’d say to the dinner ladies, ‘Can you give this to Peter?’” he continued.

“Everyone would be queueing up and the dinner ladies would be like, ‘Your mum’s been in with a pie’.”

His mum is now “obsessed” with people’s weights and “properly judges everybody by it”. Meanwhile, when he was a child, she would ‘hide the biscuits in the house’ but Peter still knew where they were.

“I used to have me mates round for a brew and I’d reach inside the tumble drier and get a packet of digestives out, like it was normal,” he said.

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Many fans have been shocked to discover the dark past to one of their favourite songs

Music is a universal language, but despite billions listening to their favourite tunes each day, many do not know the hidden stories behind them — and some are darker than others.

The Rolling Stones have amassed a legion of fans over several decades and are slated to tour next year, led by octogenarians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and the sprightly Ronnie Wood, 78.

One of the more obvious testaments to the band’s enormous talents is their modern-day relevance and popularity, becoming a British cultural staple and even clocking close to 30million monthly listeners on Spotify 61 years after their debut album.

Their 1969 effort, Let It Bleed, is considered by many to feature their best work, though there is ample selection to choose from.

The aforementioned album includes classics such as You Can’t Always Get What You Want, title-track Let It Bleed and its famed opener, Gimme Shelter, amongst others.

And it’s the latter track which has a haunting legacy centred around one of its more prominent attributes — the quite possibly greatest backing vocals of all time performed by Merry Clayton.

Merry’s powerful performance, which springs out from behind the song’s hypnotic groove, delivered largely via the superb guitar work of Keith Richards, captures the sentiment of the band at that time, dark and seemingly full of despair, as she repeats her lines, “Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away, just one shot away”.

So emphatic is Clayton’s howling that, at around the three-minute mark of the song, you can faintly hear Mick Jagger cheer in the recording studio as her vocal cracks from the intense screams.

However, as celebrated as this song is, racking up more than 730million plays on Spotify today and being recognised as one of the Stones’ finest works, it would result in tragedy for 20-year-old Merry Clayton.

In November 1969, weeks before the Let It Bleed release, a very pregnant Clayton received a call, telling in previous interviews how “I’m at home at almost 12 o’clock at night. And I’m hunkered down in my bed with my husband, very pregnant, and we got a call from a dear friend of mine and producer named Jack Nitzsche.

“Jack Nitzsche called and said… ‘Merry, are you busy?’ I said No, I’m in bed. He says, ‘Well, you know, there are some guys in town from England. And they need someone to come and sing a duet with them, but I can’t get anybody to do it. Could you come?’”

She added: “At that point, my husband took the phone out of my hand and got angry: ‘This time of night you’re calling Merry to do a session? You know she’s pregnant!’

“But Nitzsche succeded to bring my husband on his side. In the end, he managed to convince me: ‘Honey, you know, you really should go and do this date.’”

As previously mentioned, the recording session was intense, with Merry forcing every emotion she had into her vocals, but she would later claim it came at a costly price.

Shortly after returning home, she suffered a miscarriage, with many pointing to the session as a leading reason for the loss of her baby due to the emotional stress and intensity of the process.

Merry could not listen to the song, which is so highly commemorated, due to the link it had with her miscarriage and it took time to recover from this anguish.

“That was a dark, dark period for me, but God gave me the strength to overcome it,” she said during an interview in 1986, 17 years after recording the song.

Thomas Skinner, who is a contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, admitted he has made “big mistakes,” including cheating on his wife Sinead just weeks after their wedding

Thomas Skinner’s mistress has claimed the salesman told her she “was the love of his life” during their fling.

But Amy-Lucy O’Rourke, 35, has also insisted she was the one who told his wife about his affair – and not the former The Apprentice star himself as he has alleged. Thomas, who is a contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, confessed to cheating on his wife Sinead just weeks after their wedding.

And Amy-Lucy has today again stressed the three-month fling was far more meaningful than Thomas, 34, had made out in his interview with reporters. Amy-Lucy, who lives near Brentwood, Essex, said: “Thomas told me I was the love of his life and sold me an absolute dream. He told me that he was in a loveless relationship of convenience.”

Thomas, who was on series 15 of The Apprentice in 2019, has claimed his wife has forgiven him, and the salesman said he and Sinead, who share three children, have “moved forward together”.

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Amy-Lucy, though, has spoken out this week, claiming Thomas’ account of thing hasn’t quite been accurate. The beauty clinic boss told the Daily Mail she and Thomas were often out in public together and acted like a couple besotted with one another.

She added: “It makes me really angry that his narrative is that he told her. He did not tell her. I can’t believe he’s trying to make out that he did the honest thing. He did not, he tried to keep the lie up for weeks and was torturing me emotionally. He was playing me and Sinead off against each other. Telling me one thing, telling her another.”

The fling is understood to have lasted several months, beginning just six weeks after Thomas married Sinead in May 2022. Now, the timing of the revelations are awkward for Thomas as he is set to make his Strictly Come Dancing debut on Saturday.

And the dad of three has said he has become a “target”, and is “being portrayed a public enemy number 1” following the affair bombshells. In a lengthy statement on X, he wrote: “My life ain’t perfect…..far from it. I’ve made big mistakes, I’ve let people down, and done things I’ll always regret in my past.

“The worst was what I did to my wife three and a half years ago…..one stupid moment I’ll carry forever. It was nothing more and nothing less despite what is being said. I told her straight away. She had every right to leave me back then, but she forgave me…….and that forgiveness changed my life.

“Since then, we’ve built a new home, had two more beautiful children, and moved forward together. We are stronger. Family is everything to me. It’s what I do everything for.