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Millionaire music mogul, Simon Cowell, has opened up about his changing appearance as he admits to having undergone a number of cosmetic procedures

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Simon Cowell has finally revealed the cosmetic work he’s had done after years of speculation about the music mogul’s appearance.

Fans of the dad-of-one, 66, have been convinced that the X-Factor star – whose new Netflix show, Next Act, sees him on the hunt for the next big boy band – has been under the knife after Simon’s face suddenly seemed to change drastically.

With reports of botox, fillers and even a facelift, the Britain’s Got Talent star, has been plagued by rumours about his jaw-dropping new look. However, now he’s set the record straight as he spoke candidly about his appearance as well as the misconceptions about him.

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Speaking to the Mail, revealing he’s had botox, laser treatments and “this and that”, Simon denied having a facelift, insisting: “I have heard certain things about how I’ve had a facelift. I haven’t.

“I’ve had botox. I’ve had lasers and this and that. I look at myself sometimes and go, ‘Oh God, I look s**t.’ Sometimes I think I look OK. I’m more about: ‘Is it real?’ I guess that authenticity was my main thing.”

There have also been rumours about Simon’s physique, with the star noticeably trimmer than when he first found fame. It has been suggested he may have been taking diabetic drug Mounjaro, which is now being used for weight loss. However, he denied this was the case, but did say: “Whoever made it hit the jackpot”.

Explaining that he started taking more care of his body after he broke his back in a e-bike crash in 2020, he said: “Breaking my back, weirdly, was a good thing, because I hadn’t realised how unfit I was. Everything was spiralling badly down before that. So the exercise I had to do to recover and the diet change got me to where I am.”

Simon also said that he enjoys two smoothies a day with a bowl of porridge and eats his dinner, often consisting of haddock or chicken and mushroom pie at 5.30pm.

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Going back to botox, and Simon says it’s as ‘normal as toothpaste’, previously telling Glamour: “To me, botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works, you do it once a year – who cares?” However, he also told The Sun: “There’s lots of things you can do now. You don’t just have to stuff your face with filler and botox.”

One of these things includes washing your blood as the star Simon has also revealed that undergoes the gruesome sounding procedure at a ‘wellness clinic’.

He told Rolling Stone recently: “I go to this wellness clinic where they actually take your blood, they rinse it, they filter it, they put it back into your body.”

Claiming he was ‘ageing backwards’ by changing his lifestyle, Simon concluded: “I’ve actually aged backwards by eating better, more exercise, less stress.”

Coronation Street star Calum Lill is set to become a dad for the first time after revealing his fiancee is pregnant.

The soap star 30, took to Instagram to share the happy news – posting a festive snap showing wife-to- be Roberta’s bump painted like a snowman as she held up a scan photo and the actor held a carrot to her belly.

“New character dropping April ‘26,” Calum wrote alongside the announcement. The couple have been together since 2021 and got engaged last year.

“About time I made an honest woman of her,” Calum joked at the time. The star told The Mirror he kept the engagement ring hidden in his dressing room at Corrie as he waited for the perfect moment. “I’m so glad for the ring to finally be on her finger!”

Calum Lill played Coronation Street villain Joel Deering, and was involved in the soap’s biggest whodunnit in years. Calum’s alter ego, lawyer Deering, was recently revealed to have battered missing Lauren Bolton with a chair leg.

And nobody was less impressed with the storyline than Calum’s own grandmother. Calum was sitting next to her on the sofa when she first watched the episode – and his video of her priceless reaction has now gone viral on social media. “You mean to tell me my grandson’s a killer? You battered her!,” she asks. “I can’t believe that. Honest to goodness!”

The TikTok clip has now been watched over 8 million times.

Following the unlikely hit, Calum said he believes he owes his career to his gran’s sacrifices. Soap fan Sue who used her hard-earned money to pay for her grandson’s acting classes from the age of 14 – and she even ferried him backwards and forwards to his lessons.

“My grandma is so funny and I knew she wouldn’t be able to believe it. She’s a working class woman from Manchester; she’s so proud of me, but I knew her reaction would be priceless. We’d [always] watch Coronation Street together with a cup of tea and she used to drive me to my acting classes – from the age of 14.

“So to be able to watch this with her and share that moment was really nice and so special.”

Calum’s success did not come easy. His mum initially paid for acting lessons but found it too hard to make ends meet. So his gran and grandfather decided to do whatever they could to find the funds instead.

“We weren’t a family with money,” Calum recalls. “And the classes weren’t cheap, so I’m glad that I can now make all that expense worth it for her.”

The true state of shamed Andrew’s Royal Lodge home has been revealed and with an investigation launched into the Crown Estate, a royal expert believes it will have caused nerves among the royals

A probe into the Crown Estate in the wake of the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal could prove ‘uncomfortable’ for other royals, according to an expert. A powerful group of MPs who form the Public Accounts Committee are set to launch an inquiry after details of former prince Andrew’s rent deal for his crumbling Royal Lodge home emerged, causing public outrage.

When shamed Andrew was stripped of his titles in October, he was also booted out of his Windsor mansion after it was revealed he was barely paying rent to the Crown Estate for the property. The lucrative peppercorn rent prompted the public spending watchdog to investigate as profits from the Crown Estate go back into the public purse, leading to fears taxpayers could be missing out on value for money.

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And with it also now emerging that other royals, including the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, also having peppercorn rent deals, royal expert Jennie Bond believes it’s time to be transparent – and the fallout may have to be dealt with a future king William.

She told the Mirror : “Although I don’t think the family will be jumping with joy at the prospect of a comprehensive rent review, I think they will accept that it’s high time that the monarchy’s finances were more transparent.

“In my opinion, it’s also time that the family’s property portfolio should be substantially reduced. And I think William will be the one to do that, if nothing has changed by the time he becomes King. For now, though, they will have to accept that their rents are being scrutinised.”

In initial answers from the Crown Estate to the Commons committee, it emerged that Andrew looks set to lose £500,000 in compensation after surrendering the lease on the property to go and live on the King’s private Sandringham estate – with the move believed to be happening after Christmas.

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If no end-of-tenancy repairs were required, Andrew would have been entitled to £488,342.21 for ending his tenancy on October 30, 2026. But the Crown Estate said that following an inspection of the property on November 12, it was thought unlikely that any compensation will be paid.

Meanwhile, in the information provided by the Crown Estate, it also emerged that unlike Andrew, the Prince and Princess of Wales are paying market rent for their new home Forest Lodge.

It said William and Kate, who moved into their property with their children in the October half term, hold a “a 20-year non-assignable lease with The Crown Estate for Forest Lodge, commencing 5 July 2025” and have “open market rent”.

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And Jennie added while William and Kate may have nothing to fear, the other royals will probably not receive any public sympathy. She added: “The findings could be uncomfortable for some of them, but as far as we know William and Catherine have little to fear in regards to their new home because they are said to be paying a market rent for Forest Lodge.

“But if they or others are found to be paying peppercorn rents, as Andrew did at Royal Lodge, then I think they’ll have to accept it’s time to stump up.

“None of them can possibly pretend to be impoverished. By normal standards, they are all extraordinarily wealthy and perfectly able to pay a market rent — or move to somewhere smaller if they don’t want to. I don’t think they should expect, or receive, any public sympathy about this.”

At the end of October, the King officially stripped his disgraced brother Andrew of his HRH style and his prince title, and removed his dukedom from the Roll of the Peerage over his “serious lapses” of judgment.

The move followed the publication of a posthumous memoir by Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Giuffre, and the US government’s release of documents from Epstein’s estate.

It emerged that Andrew had emailed Epstein in 2011 saying “we’re in this together”, three months after he claimed he had broken all contact with the paedophile. Andrew denies all wrongdoing.

Jack Osbourne is set to become a father for the fifth time and he was able to share his happy news with his dad Ozzy Osbourne before his tragic death in July

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I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here star Jack Osbourne has revealed that he is to become a dad again with second wife Aree Gearhart. This will be the couple’s second child but Jack’s fifth as he has three children from his previous marriage.

And one thing that Jack, 40, is perhaps most proud of is that he was able to share the happy news with his dad Ozzy Osbourne, before he died in July.

In a recent interview following his exit from the ITV show, Jack said: “It’s awesome. We’re super-excited. It was sort of planned, I should say. It was maybe a little earlier than expected. But it’s definitely something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously.”

It’s believed that Aree is 28 weeks pregnant. And Jack was not only happy about being able to share the news with his late father, but the upcoming birth has been a welcomed distraction from grieving Ozzy absence.

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“I think it’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing — probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way. It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness,” he told The Sun on Sunday.

Jack secretly married Aree two years ago, a year after the arrival of their first daughter Maple. At the time, Jack shared with news with his fans by posting: “Something really cool happened. I married the most amazing women I’ve ever met. All in.”

Jack is already a father to Pearl, 13, Andy 10 and Minnie, seven, who he shares with ex wife Lisa Stelly.

Jack and Aree started dating back in 2019 and decided to publicly make their relationship official by attending the American Music Awards in the November of that year.

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The couple’s joy comes a few months after the world was left mourning the loss of the rock icon after it emerged that he had died on July 22 at the age of 76.

Honouring the memory of the globally renowned musician, Jack posted an emotional tribute a month after Ozzy died, which also included pictures of his children.

It read: “I haven’t really wanted to post anything since the passing of my father. My heart has hurt too much. He was so many things to so many people, but I was so lucky and blessed to be apart of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad,’ “

Jack added: “My heart is full of so much sadness and sorrow, but also so much love and gratitude. I got 14,501 days with that man and I know that is such a blessing.”

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Sophie Kasaei and Jordan Brook reveal they’re expecting first child after challenging two-year fertility journey. The stars have undergone an emotional two-year fertility battle in their bid to become parents.

Sophie, 36, announced the news as she added a very special bauble to her Christmas tree this year. The heart ornament read “Merry Christmas Mummy and Daddy. See you in 2026.”

Sharing the video of her decorations, mum-to-be Sophie wrote: “The most magical gift. Merry Christmas from the three of us.”

Over the last two series of The Only Way Is Essex, both Jordan and Sophie have been candid about the emotional strain their fertility struggle has had on them individually and as a couple.

But now, the happy couple wasted no time in sharing their news with fans. . In one part of their video announcement, Jordan is seen wrapping his arms around Sophie, as they both cradled her growing baby bump, stood by their Christmas tree.

In another scene, Sophie is seen holding a Christmas stocking and the top was embroidered with the words “baby Brook coming 2026.” And underneath was an image of a rainbow.

Meanwhile, a third snapshot showed a Christmas decoration which was placed on their tree which read: ” Merry Christmas mummy and daddy , see you in 2026.”

This comes after viewers saw Sophie questioning if she was ever going to be able to have the happy ending she longed for, as those around her fall pregnant.

Close friend Charlotte Crosby welcomed her second child recently, while her cousin Marnie Simpson is now a mother of three.

Both Jordan and Sophie have given viewers and fans a real insight into their fertility struggle and at one point during an episode of TOWIE, they were both sat in the doctors office waiting to find out the results of their tests.

Sophie was diagnosed with endometriosis five years ago, which she feared would greatly lessen her chance of falling pregnant.

Their social media pregnancy announcement kicked off with Sophie and Jordan sharing a smooch as he gave her his present, which was decorated with a white bow.

The video then took viewers back to Christmas 2024 when the pair placed a wrapped blanket under the tree, with the hope that the following year would be when they started their family.

The video then shot to the couple unwrapping the blanket before Sophie gently rubbed her belly, showing off the fact she was now pregnant with her first child.

Fans then saw Jordan and Sophie’s emotional reaction when she had just taken her pregnancy test while stood in their bathroom. Both looked stunned and in disbelief as the test showed a positive sign.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs mother Janice Combs has hit out at what she called a number of inaccuracies about the Netflix series – slamming her son’s alleged friends and diminishing a slapping incident that features in the show

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ mom has shared her fury at the damning new Netflix documentary about her son.

The streaming service released the four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning this week and Janice Combs has now shared her furious reaction.

The mum has blasted claims that she was an “abusive parent” to her son, calling herself a loving and nurturing parent to her boy who she described as a ‘goal orientated over achiever.’

In a statement given to Rolling Stone, Janice insisted The Reckoning – which has Diddy’s nemesis 50 Cent as one of the executive producers – was created with the purpose of “misleading viewers” and further “harming the family’s reputation.”

Denying she had been abusive, Janice said: “As I have stated previously, I was a single mother, raising my son, I held three and even four jobs in an attempt to provide a comfortable upbringing and quality education for my child. I raised Sean with love and hard work, not abuse.”

Janice wanted to release a statement to “correct some of the lies” in the docuseries, and accused Tim Patterson, an alleged childhood friend of her son, of making “salacious” claims of her relationship with the I’ll Be Missing You hitmaker.

Diddy is serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

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Janice said: “I loved and nurtured Sean. My memories of Sean growing up are one of a respectful and a diligent child and teenager. Sean has always been an industrious, goal oriented, over achiever.”

The mum also insisted Bad Boy Entertainment co-founder Kirk Burrowes’ statement that his then-business partner once slapped his mother was “patently false”.

She said: “The allegations stated by Mr. Kirk Burrows that my son slapped me while we were conversing after the tragic City College events on December 28, 1991, are inaccurate and patently false.

“That was a very sad day for all of us. For him to use this tragedy and incorporate fake narratives to further his prior failed and current attempt to gain what was never his, Bad Boy Records is wrong, outrageous and past offensive.(sic)”

Janice praised the incarcerated rap mogul as a “dutiful son” who had helped her with medical care and other financial support and requested “these distortions, falsehoods and misleading statements be publicly retracted.”

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Diddy’s representatives previously branded The Reckoning “fundamentally unfair and illegal”.

A statement said: “Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalise every minute of Mr Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalise on a never-ending media frenzy.

“If Netflix cared about truth or Mr Combs’s legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context – including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing. No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party.”

However, Netflix later hit back and insisted there is nothing untoward about The Reckoning.

A spokesperson said in a statement: “The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The project has no ties to any past conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix.