Former Arsenal footballer Alex Scott was notably absent as the cast of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2025 reunited for the final of the show to see the winner crowned
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Why Alex Scott is not at the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! final
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star Alex Scott hasn’t appeared in the line-up when the campmates assembled at the final.
The former Arsenal footballer and sports pundit, 41, was the first celebrity to leave the camp on November 28 after two weeks in Australia.
After her exit Alex admitted she had almost pulled out of the show at the last minute due to her girlfriend Jess Glynne’s mother suffering a medical emergency.
The personal battle means Alex broke I’m A Celeb tradition and returned home to the UK immediately after her eviction. Exiting campmates usually stay in the lavish JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort and Spa, where they stay relaxing until the grand finale.
Alex told The Express after her exit: “It’s been tough because I want to be here for the wrap party and I have to get home straight away. She’s my Jessica, and I’m going home to be her rock. My campmates knew what I was going through and I just want to thank everyone at ITV and my campmates because they’ve all shown me so much support.”
Fans learned of the situation with Jess’ mum when Alex was greeted on the exit bridge by her friend Regan Coleman instead of Jess. The singer then posted on Instagram to explain her absence.
She wrote: “I know people will wonder why I wasn’t there at the end of the bridge, so I wanted to share something personal. Over the last few weeks, my mum suffered a stroke and needed urgent brain surgery. It’s been a really serious, life-altering time for my family, and I’ve had to stay close to home. Alex would always want me to be where I’m needed most.”
Jack Osbourne took part in this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! where he quickly became a fan favourite on the show
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Jack left the jungle on Friday(Image: James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)
Sharon Osbourne had a perfect five-word response to I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! son Jack’s baby news after it was announced yesterday that his wife Aree is expecting another baby. His mum Sharon shared her own sweet message on Instagram when she also heard the exciting news. She simply said that there’s “another Osbourne on the way” alongside photos of Jack with his wife Aree.
Alongside a praying hands and angel emoji, Sharon wrote: “Overjoyed for Jack & Aree Another Osbourne on the way!” Fans took to the comment section to share their responses to the happy news. One person said: “Congrats to you guys ! So happy for you.” While a second added: “I love this for you! Maybe Ozzy hit the ‘return’ button and is coming back through the new little one!!”
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“What a blessing! Congratulations! May God bless you greatly always. Big hug!,” a third commented. Another wrote: “Such happy news! So glad you guys are ending the year on a high. If anyone needed it, it’s the Osbornes. X.”
Jack revealed his wife is pregnant which will be the pair’s second child together. The son of late rock legend Ozzy Osbourne admitted the news is helping him with the grief of his dad’s death.
Jack, who left the Australian jungle on Friday confirmed his wife Aree is 28 weeks pregnant. The 40-year-old star revealed the news has been the joy his family needed following Ozzy’s death in July.
“It’s awesome,” he gushed as he revealed the sweet news. “I think it’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing – probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way.”
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, he added: “It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness. It’s been easy for me – I think it’s been a lot harder for my wife!”
The Osbournes star admitted the family are super-excited and confirmed they had “sort of planned it”. However, he revealed the news had came sooner than the pair expected.
“But it’s definitely something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously,” he went on. The child will be their second together, with the duo welcoming daughter Maple in 2022.
The couple are choosing to keep their unborn child’s gender a secret. It will Jack’s fifth child in total. He shares three children with his ex-wife Lisa Stelly, whom he separated from in May 2018.
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Jack and Lisa share Pearl, Andy Rose and Minnie. The former couple sadly lost a baby boy named Theo when Lisa suffered a miscarriage during her second trimester in 2013. Their divorce was finalised in March 2019.
Shona McGarty has officially left the I’m A Celeb camp and finished in third place following rapper Aitch who left last night. The last three remaining celebs included EastEnders’ Shona McGarty, Celebs Go Dating’s Tom Read Wilson and social media star Angry Ginge.
Fans were gutted to see the star leave as one person wrote online: “Shona 3rd???? im a celeb you shock me once again”, while another added: “Shona should have won”. A third penned: “Gutted for Shona. I have a feeling Tom is going to take the crown. He has been the dark horse”.
During the extra-long final episode on Sunday evening, Shona, Ginge and Tom took part in their own final Bushtucker trial in order to win a starter, main course, dessert and drink for their Jungle Banquet.
Shona McGarty has officially left the I’m A Celeb camp ( ITV)
At the start of the episode the trio met presenters Ant & Dec at the Bushtucker Trial clearing where Shona went first and taking on the trial Rat Race in order to win all three starters for the group and a drink of her choice in a banquet later in the evening. She was strapped down inside a tight confined box and had to remove four stars using only her mouth with eight minutes to do so.
Taking it in her stride and using her tongue to release four stars, she was joined by rats, cockroaches, crickets and mealworms. She scored 4/4 stars meaning three starters and a drink of her choice. Het campmates cheered her on throughout and offered support where they could.
During the extra-long final episode on Sunday evening, Shona, Ginge and Tom took part in their own final Bushtucker trial ( ITV)
Next up was Tom who took on Bushtucker Bonanza – an eating trial. As he took a seat at a huge dining table he had to eat four dishes to win three main courses for camp and a drink of his choice.
His first dish was a fermented duck egg and scorpion, and in a show first, Tom put the entire fermented duck egg in his mouth at once as a shocked Ant said “Oh! We’ve never had that! 25 years and no one’s ever popped it in whole.”
His second dish which was brand new for 2025 was camel’s brain, this third dish was a pig’s vagina and lastly his fourth dish was a huntsman spider. He successfully finished all four dishes, successfully winning four main courses and his drink of choice.
The celebs celebrated the final night with a three course banquet ( ITV/Shutterstock)
Lastly, Ginge took on Helmets of Hell, where he had to put his head into four helmets one at a time, whilst putting his hand in the four boxes below to release each star. He had two minutes to win each star.
For the first star, in the helmet he was joined by mealworms around his head, and toads in the hand box below. For the second star, he was joined by crickets and cockroaches in the helmet and lizards in the hand box. For the third star, he was joined by scorpions in the hand box and snakes in the head box. And finally, for his final star he was joined by rats in the handbox and his worst fear, spiders in the head box. He successfully got four out of four stars winning desserts and a drink of his choice for camp.
On cloud nine, the three celebrities headed back to camp knowing they’d be dining on a twelve star banquet that night.
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Roland Manookin arrived in EastEnders 18 months ago to lead a new branch of the Mitchell family but is now being axed from the soap as BBC say ‘we wish him the best’
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A source said Rolans took a risk in the soap after a successful career in film and being known for roles in The Football Factory and Rise of the Footsoldier
An EastEnders actor is leaving Walford after just 18 months as he is axed by bosses in a shock move. Roland Manookin, who played Teddy Mitchell in the BBC soap, arrived alongside on-screen sons Elijah Holloway and Lewis Bridgeman but will now be leaving them.
He arrived to lead a new branch of the Mitchell family, but has now become the latest star to leave the show after new boss Ben Wadey took control earlier this year. A source said Rolans took a risk in the soap after a successful career in film and being known for roles in The Football Factory and Rise of the Footsoldier.
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A source told The Sun: “Roland took a big risk agreeing to join EastEnders after his long and successful career in film. There was big hopes for the Mitchells being revitalised by the new family but things obviously changed for some reason and the material just wasn’t there for Teddy.”
They added: “Bosses made the decision that the character had run his course and that was that. It seems such a waste.”
A spokesperson from the soap also confirmed the news in a statement: “We can confirm Roland will be leaving EastEnders this year, and we wish him all the best for the future.”
The latest announcement follows a string of actors being axed from the show as Clair Norris, Matthew James Morrison and Micah Balfour were all also axed by bosses.
Bobby Brazier and Molly Rainford, who appeared on the latest Celebrity Race Across the World, also left the show after “mutual decisions after talks with bosses”, and Lacey Turner decided to leave the show on an extended break.
The BBC soap has also faced backlash after viewers criticised the return of Michelle Ryan as Zoe Slater after 20 years. Viewers said procedures ‘botched’ the return with a ‘dud’ storyline after it was long-awaited by fans.
The new changes to the soap also include an almighty flash-forward twist as an episode on New Year’s Day 2026 takes us a year into the future. We will see a glimpse of 2027, as well as major hints of all the big plots unfolding across the next 12 months from that day. Max Branning will take centre stage, as Jake Wood makes his comeback to the BBC soap.
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Speaking about the big episode and what’s ahead, Executive Producer Ben Wadey teased the show first. He said: “For the first time in the show’s history, we’re going to be offering our viewers an entire flashforward episode set on New Year ’s Day 2027.
“2026 is going to be full of drama in Walford, especially for the Brannings, and the episode is sure to raise plenty of questions on how Max has got himself and his family into such predicaments, but all is not what it seems, so stay tuned for 2026 to find out how and why.”
Ben Ryan Davies rose to fame by playing the role of Nick Savage on Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks and now he has become a dad
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Ben has become a dad(Image: benryandavies/Instagram)
A Hollyoaks star has secretly welcomed his first child as he also shared their sweet name. Ben Ryan Davies has become a dad for the first time after welcoming a baby boy with his partner Lottie.
The actor is best known for playing the role of Nick Savage on the Channel 4 soap and he took to his Instagram this week to repost a snap from Lottie’s account of their new little baby. In the photo the couple can be seen smiling from ear to ear as they went on a festive day out. Another photo was also uploaded of Lottie holding the baby boy.
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Lottie went on to reveal the name of the tot in the caption as she wrote: “And Jensen was asleep for the whole thing.” The couple announced in July of this year that they were expecting their first baby together after getting together in 2024.
Sharing the exciting news, they shared a picture of them holding a baby sonogram photo. They wrote over the top of the sweet photo: “Big news! Incoming October 2024!”
Ben and Lottie only revealed their relationship in April after getting together in October last year. Going Instagram official with their relationship, the actor shared photos as well as writing: “What an amazing 6 months.
“I’m so excited for our future together. You’ve changed my life and I’m so happy.” Ben first joined Hollyoaks back in 2016 as evil character Nick Savage.
He has been involved in several big storylines and was in one very shocking one in particular. His character raped Ellie Nightingale, after he slept with her when she was too drunk to give her consent.
This wasn’t his only sexual assault, as he raped his girlfriend Holly Cunningham, even though she stood by him after he attacked Ellie.
Nick didn’t get away with it as his crimes caught up to him and he went to prison. Ben then left the soap in 2017.
Ben was praised for his portrayal of evil Nick and was nominated for a British Soap Award for that role. Before he joined the Hollyoaks cast, Ben was on our screens in Waterloo Road.
He played the role of student Ronan Burley and stayed on the show for two years and 36 episodes in total. Since he left Hollyoaks, he has also taken on several other acting jobs.
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He has made guest appearances in Casualty and Father Brown. Ben’s latest role will be on stage playing the titular character in The Further Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan, according to his Instagram page.
The star is is the middle of a month long schedule of shows where he is performing at the Forum Theatre in Billingham.
Former Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan has opened up about her overwhelming guilt after the death of her 19-year-old sister Darci from a drugs overdose
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Holly Hagan has admitted she feels “guilty” over her sister Darci’s death(Image: Instagram/hollyhaganblyth)
Holly Hagan has said she feels “guilty” over the tragic death of her sister. The former Geordie Shore star recently lost her half-sister, Darci, who died in October at the age of 19 following an accidental drug overdose. The teenager passed away 48 hours after taking crystal MDMA.
Holly is expecting her second child with footballer husband Jacob Blyth, and has opened up about the devastation she feels at the loss. The reality TV star says she feels an overwhelming sense of guilt and regret that she did not warn her sister about the dangers of taking drugs the night she fatally overdosed at Warehouse Project in Manchester.
She told the Mail: “The grief I have for Darci is guilt. When good things are happening to me and the life I have been able to live, not that it hasn’t come with difficulties sometimes, but I have been so lucky overall.
“I have the perfect man, I have a child, I am pregnant, I got married, and I have been on the holidays. My life hadn’t even started at 19 and she doesn’t even have the chance to see any of it. Every event that she was a part of was mine.
“The guilt that the only thing she had was her prom. It breaks my heart because it’s not fair. What is the purpose? What’s the lesson in all of this?”
Holly also said that Darci “had a lot to live for” and that her biggest regret was “not messaging her that night” to tell her to be careful with the substances she was consuming. Darci had done drugs in the past but had never consumed MDMA in its crystal form.
She added: “Darci had a lot to live for, she had just passed her theory test, she was looking to get a little car, she said all she wanted to do was go to Starbucks and get a matcha and listen to her music, she worked as a cocktail waitress, which she loved.”
But Holly also admitted that she doesn’t know if there’s “anything she could have done to change anything.” She added: “She’s in a dark club and being naïve and not realising how much a quantity is because she’s never taken a version of this drug before, she has poured it into her drink.
“Her friend said there was still a lot left but if you have seen that drug before you know it comes in powder and there are rocks in there as well. What happened is possibly the bigger rocks had gone into her drink, and it still looked like there was a lot left in the bag, but it was enough for it to be an overdose.”
The two girls’ stepdad, John, had driven Darci and her best friend to Manchester for the night out. Holly and her son Alpha-Jax were planning to meet with John and Darci the next day.
Holly also shared how she knew something was drastically wrong when she was woken by a light knock at her door and discovered she had 130 missed calls on her phone, as her heart sank.
She said: “The first message I saw was in capital letters, saying, ‘We are with your sister, you need to get to Manchester Royal Infirmary right now, please call us back’, and that was at 2am. My whole body was in fight mode; I sat on the toilet shaking.”
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Holly then shared her praise for the “phenomenal” care that the medical staff at the Manchester Royal Infirmary provided. She said the support could not have been better and that although it was “traumatic”, it was “so comforting” knowing she was “in the best hands.”
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