EastEnders spoilers for next week’s episodes confirm new trouble for Max Branning thanks to Zoe Slater’s daughter Jasmine, amid her plan to flee with Oscar Branning
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Max Branning faces fresh trouble on EastEnders next week, and this time he’s actually not guilty. Amid a double exit teased on the BBC soap, new spoilers reveal someone causes drama for Max in the fallout to some bad decisions. Ahead of much more chaos on the way for the character, as teased in the flashforward episode earlier this month, someone sets him up next week.
It all kicks off after Kat Moon returns to Walford after some time away, and her granddaughter Jasmine goes with her to the prison to visit Zoe. Zoe explains she’s decided to plead guilty. Kat insists that they tell the police about Chrissie, but Zoe refuses. In the fallout, Jasmine plots to leave Walford with her love interest Oscar Branning who’s also feeling down after recent events.
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Kat is under the impression that Jasmine is going to speak to the police about Chrissie Watts’ involvement, but Jasmine is lying to her grandmother. Instead, she plans to flee, but Oscar appears to have a change of heart.
Jasmine hopes to cut ties with Walford, only for Oscar not to be keen. Soon Max tries to talk his son out of leaving, and when he finds out Jasmine is up to something, he takes action.
After Jasmine tells Kat she’s been to the police, Max confronts her about her plot to flee and the pair clash. Cindy Beale soon warns Max to watch out as Jasmine is dangerous.
Soon Max and Jasmine argue once more, and when they take their argument to Oscar he’s left conflicted. Jasmine soon ups the ante though, and makes a claim about Max.
Max denies the accusation made against him, but Jasmine doubles down on her lie. Soon, Max is plotting when Oscar is determined to leave with Jasmine.
Also next week, Nugget pushes Ravi for answers about why he didn’t visit him in the hospital. Honey plays matchmaker between Nicola and George. Linda and Elaine go to The Vic to remember Mick on his birthday.
Ricky arranges a surprise birthday party for Phil and Sam finally shares her diagnosis with her son. George is disappointed when his offer on Walford East is refused. Sam tries to talk Phil out of taking Nigel to Portugal. Elsewhere, Ian is incensed to hear that Elaine has struck a deal with Councillor Barker and decides to fight fire with fire.
Suki and Eve attempt to rally Priya and Ravi, but the family are unaware of just how much Ravi is struggling. When Ian and Elaine’s feud steps up another gear, Harvey intervenes to try to strike a truce.
Richard Keys’ controversial past as he’s seen after ‘crass’ tribute to Gabby Logan’s dad – The Mirror
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BBC sports presenter Gabby Logan was dealt with family heartbreak when she found out her dad had passed away whilst she was hosting Match of the Day, and ex-Sky Sports host Richard Keys caused huge upset with his tribute
Who is Richard Keys and what did he say?
Richard Keys is a former Sky Sports presenter, who caused a stir when he paid tribute to Gabby Logan’s dad Terry Yorath, a former footballer, when he passed away earlier this week.
In his initial post, he said: “Sad to hear the news of Terry Yorath’s passing. He was a warrior & won fans over wherever he played. He was great for us at Coventry & the reason I got Gabby a job at Sky. I had no idea who she was when we met, but I knew her dad. RIP Terry. Your daughter did you proud.” Numerous names from the sporting world hit out after the statement.
He was then smiling broadly and in high spirits as he left a breakfast at London’s Claridge’s Hotel with GB News broadcaster Eamonn Holmes – just days after furious fellow presenter Laura Woods branded him a “t**t”.
But this is not the first time Richard and Gabby have been at the centre of a public feud. Back in 2022 he threatened Logan with “libel action” after she wrote about an encounter with him and former Sky Sports pundit Andy Gray in her memoir, The First Half. In the tome, she claimed Keys and Gray made “cruel” comments around her during a flight in 2005.
But Gabby is not the only star to have come to blows with Richard. In 2024, Jamie Redknapp also found himself in the firing line, as the sports pundit took aim at him, not for the first time, in a savage social media post.
The pundit also sparked controversy in 2023 when he married Lucie Rose, a woman reported to be a friend of his daughter, Jemma, following the demise of his 36-year marriage to his first wife, Julia – though that she was his daughter’s friend is something Keys has always denied.
In January 2011, Keys and colleague Andy Gray left Sky Sports after making derogatory comments about female assistant referee Sian Massey. He said later: “Prehistoric banter isn’t acceptable in the modern world. I accept that. We failed to change when the world has changed.”
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Where the stars of one of the Square’s most iconic families are now after the family’s figurehead Derek Martin sadly died.
Few families made as big an impact on Albert Square as the Slaters. And they had big shoes to fill back at the turn of the Millennium, replacing EastEnders’ mighty Di Marcos. Charlie Slater and his three girls Kat, Lynne, Little Mo and grandaughter Zoe (the other Slaters came later) made a huge impact from the start.
Ahead of the new series of After The Floor, the actress tells of what’s in store for fans, her joy at getting ‘meatier’ roles, and opens up about dealing with grief after loss
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Just 14 when she cut her teeth on Byker Grove, alongside Ant and Dec, Jill Halfpenny has since played a soap opera seductresses in both Corrie and EastEnders, she’s won Strictly and become a stalwart of gritty TV dramas. Currently starring in the thriller, Girl Taken, on streaming channel Paramount TV+, she is also returning to ITV mystery drama After The Flood for a second series on Sunday (18 Jan) playing DS Sam Bradley. And she will be starring alongside another former soap actress, Sally Lindsay, in a new thriller Number One Fan, coming soon on 5.
On playing the detective, Jill, 50, says: “I liked the cast, so when they asked me to join it was a really easy yes. I didn’t even have to think about it. Sam comes across as someone who is very easy to talk to and very warm and approachable, but I’m not sure whether that’s exactly who she is.
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“She’s been doing it for so long she knows how to be affable and how to play the game and how to fit into a new team. She might ask people about their lives, but they might not find much out about hers – she’s one of those people.”
The second series picks up with newly promoted detective Jo Marshall (Sophie Rundell) juggling a new baby and childcare arrangements with her estranged ex Pat (Matt Stokoe) and her mum – councillor Molly (Lorraine Ashbourne) – while at the same time trying to expose her corrupt boss, Sergeant Phil Mackie (Nicholas Gleaves).
The first episode of the six-part thriller opens with Jo, clearly baffled when a dead body is found in strange circumstances on the moors. DS Bradley, newly transferred to the area, joins her in trying to solve the murder. Jill says: “I’m often cast as the ‘everywoman’. I tend to play characters that are quite grounded and no-nonsense.
“I can identify with that. I don’t come with a lot of bells and whistles. I’m straight to the point. Maybe that’s just who I am, maybe that’s how I was brought up, but I like people who are really direct. It makes me feel comfortable.”
Fans of Jill’s will remember her from early roles like Coronation Street, which she joined in 1999 as nurse Rebecca Hopkins, whose affair with Martin Platt ended his marriage to Gail, and EastEnders (2002) when she played Kate Mitchell, an undercover policewoman introduced as a honeytrap for Phil Mitchell, whose cover was blown when she fell in love and married him.
But the actress, who won Strictly’s second series in 2004 and has starred in dramas like Waterloo Road, Wild at Heart, Three Girls and The Long Shadow, says until a decade ago a lot of her roles were “dull.” She says: “It gets quite dull when you’re a young 20 year-old, playing the secretary, or the girl in the village. That gets quite boring after a while.
“You do find yourself in your mid to late 20s, where you’re like ‘come on! Give me something!’ It’s a fact that it’s a bit harder for women, because there are less parts, so you find yourself competing for the good stuff. When I went to drama school, I really believed that I was going to be given all these amazing opportunities when I left and I was going to be able to play a girl from a council estate and then go on to play a Russian princess and then a Spanish dancer.
“Then I left drama school and people went ‘oh, no, no, no!’ We all get typecast into a certain type of role, so it’s lovely when somebody says ‘do you fancy playing something like this’ and it’s something different. Thankfully, as time has gone on, I’ve been given more to do and in the last ten years, people have started to write more interestingly for women, which has been great.
“I’m getting meatier roles, because writers are allowed to tell stories from the point of view of the woman and being allowed to tell stories that are a bit messier and more complex. So, the woman is not just the person that’s with the lead character.” In the last four years Jill has done brilliantly, appearing in gripping TV dramas including The Feud, The Holiday, The Drowning and The Cuckoo.
But while her professional life couldn’t be better, away from the cameras she has been through the mill. In 2017, her life was turned upside down when her partner Matt Janes, 43, died after suffering a heart attack at the gym. His death also triggered tragic memories of her father Colin’s death, aged 36, also after a heart attack, during a game of five-a-side football.
She shared her experiences of loss and grieving in her memoir, A Life Reimagined, published last year. She says: “I didn’t write the last page and think ‘oh my God, that’s better,’ because I was re-visiting a lot of feelings. “But my whole philosophy is not to run away from grief – to be brave enough to cry and stay in the discomfort. So, I talked about how I felt and I hope that helped some people.
“One of the reasons why we struggle when we lose people is because we don’t talk about the fact that we’re going to lose people – ‘shut up, don’t talk about that, no point in talking about it until they’re gone.’ Well, there is actually. It’s called preparation. What made me decide to write it was that I’d read a huge number of books about grief when I lost my partner. They were brilliant, but a lot of them were written from a professional’s point of view.
“I would have loved to have heard from a normal person who had lost someone and was speaking from a very personal point of view about how they dealt with it and what they went through. Even things like what you do when someone dies. All the paperwork, how you book a funeral. It’s all shrouded in secrecy. No-one knows until it’s happening to them. They’re like: ‘why didn’t anyone tell me this?’ It’s because we don’t talk about it.”
Now living by the sea in her native North East with her 17 year-old son Harvey, from her previous marriage to actor Craig Conway, she is dating marketing manager Ian McAllister. They met in 2023 and she says she is in a good place. She says: “You think about all of the years and all the pain and the tears and then suddenly I’m here today and I feel good.
“Life isn’t perfect, but I’m happy to be where I’m at. Life is random. I lost my dad and then I lost my partner. I’ve lost friends and other members of the family. It’s just a natural cycle of life. For some reason we have it in our heads that we should all live to a ripe old age, but some of us don’t. It’s not that it’s ok, but there’s no comfort for me in being angry or wishing it was different.
“The only comfort for me is acceptance. Then I can open my eyes and think there might be other things now. Because when you’re still angry you close yourself off to a life that could possibly be waiting for you.”
*After the Flood returns on Sunday, 18th January, airing weekly on Sundays and Mondays on ITV. All episodes are available on ITVX
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Julio Iglesias is facing accusations of sexually abusing two women.
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Spanish musician Julio Iglesias has been accused of sexually abusing two women. One claims that she had been pressured into having sex with Iglesias, 82. She described acts of physical and verbal abuse and slapping. Another claimed that she had been subjected to insults and humiliation as well as inappropriate touching.
The allegations are being investigated by Spain’s judiciary. The Aduiencia Nacional – a high court in Spain – said: “Preliminary criminal investigation proceedings have been initiated, which, as you know, are confidential.”
One alleged victim, using the pseudonym Rebeca to protect her identity said: “I felt like an object, like a slave.” A second woman, Laura, which is not her real name, claimed that the musician kissed her mouth and touched her breasts without consent.
Speaking to eldiario.es, she said: “We were on the beach and he came up to me and touched my nipples.” She went on to claim that a similar incident took place at the pool of his villa in Punta Cana.
While Mr Inglesias is yet to comment on the allegations, the Spanish media have reported that a woman identified as a manager of one of his homes said the allegations were “nonsense”.
She told the publication that she only had “gratitude, admiration, and respect for the great artist and human being that he is,” adding that he was a “humble, generous, great gentleman and very respectful to all women.”
Spanish prosecutors have since confirmed they are investigating a formal complaint made against the musician. In a statement, the Aduiencia Nacional said: “In view of the news reports published today concerning Julio Iglesias and given the interest shown by the media, I would like to inform you that a complaint was filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Audiencia Nacional on 5 January 2026.
“Preliminary criminal investigation proceedings have been initiated, which, as you know, are confidential. Given the nature of the allegations and reiterating the confidential (secret) nature of the Public Prosecutor’s investigation, and in the interests of protecting the alleged victims, it is not appropriate to provide further information.”
Mr Iglesias found fame in the UK when his track Begin the Beguine, topped the charts in 1981. Across the globe, he’s sold over 300 million records.
edlDiario.es claims to have repeatedly attempted to contact Mr Iglesias for comment. The Mirror has approached his spokesperson.
If you’ve been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999
Coleen Nolan shared the reasons behind her split from EastEnders star Shane Richie as she admitted she “stayed longer” than she should have in her first marriage
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TV star Coleen Nolan lifted the lid on her first divorce as she revealed the reason she says “I stayed longer than I should have”.
The Loose Women panellist, 60, has been married and divorced twice – most recently to musician Ray Fensome, who she split from in 2018. But her most famous relationship was with EastEnders actor Shane Richie.
The pair married in 1990 before separating in 1997 and divorcing two years later after allegations of infidelity.
Speaking about the divorce with the couple’s oldest son Shane, 37, on her YouTube channel, she admitted: “I think I stayed two years longer than I should have. Because of you and Jake. Because I had this real thing, I had this thing about ‘my kids are going to be from a broken home’.
“‘I’m Coleen Nolan and I’m divorced and I hated it. And it was mainly about you two and ‘I’ve got to stay, I’ve got to stay and work it out’ and eventually I had therapy.
“And she said to me: ‘But you’re going to bring two boys up to believe it’s OK to behave like that and their wife or girlfriend should put up with it.
“And as soon as I said that I went to the solicitors because I thought: ‘Oh I don’t want that either. I want them to know that if you treat people this way you’re going to lose them.”
As well as oldest son Shane, she shares another son, singer Jack Roche, 33, with her first husband.
Coleen went on to marry for a second time, tying the knot with Ray Fensome in 2007 before divorcing 11 years later. The pair had welcomed their daughter Ciara Fensome in 2001.
The TV presenter said that although she made the difficult decision to end her first marriage it worked out well as both kids stayed on good terms with both their parents.
She said: “It’s worked out great and it takes a lot of effort for it to work out great. I think it’s something you’ve got to put effort into when you’ve got children.”
Shane then added: “You could have easily used us as a weapon like a lot of men and women have in the past.”
Coleen agreed: “I didn’t do that because, seeing it happen with friends. I thought “if it ever does (happen to me), I’m never doing that.”
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It comes after Coleen opened up on her new one-woman show called This Is Me which kicks off next month. The show will take audiences through Coleen’s life story.
