Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi shared a sweet peek at their recently adopted baby daughter in a new post
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Millie Bobby Brown shares quick glimpse of adopted baby daughter with Jake Bongiovi(Image: Variety via Getty Images)
Millie Bobby Brown snuck in a snap of her baby daughter, who she adopted with husband Jake Bongiovi. Earlier this year, the 21-year-old Stranger Things star and her husband, 23, wrote in a message on social media that they adopted a “sweet baby girl” together.
They wrote in August: “This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption. We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy,” with fans and friends rushing to the comment section to congratulate them on the happy news.
The post, which was accompanied by the Beatles’ Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, continued by reading: “And then there were 3.” It was then signed off by Millie and her husband Jake, who shared his surname at the end of the message to fans.
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Two months later, Millie sneakily placed a glimpse of their daughter in a carousel of snaps shared on her Instagram page. In the snap, Millie and Jake sat side by side and leaned their foreheads towards each other. The baby’s legs could be seen peeking through in between them.
She captioned the post: “My t swift october,” and gained almost 700,000 likes in two hours. Fans were in awe over the happy couple, with one writing: “Jake and you and the sweet baby girl.”
Another added: “You’re so thriving i love this for you.”
The news came after Millie and Jake, who is the son of Jon Bon Jovi, got married in 2024 following their engagement in 2023. They confirmed that they had tied the knot in separate posts on the platform in October following speculation.
Alongside photos from their wedding, Jake wrote in a post at the time: “Forever and always, your husband.”
Whilst Millie wrote, beside a series of photos from the nuptials, in the caption of her post: “Forever and always, your wife.”
Millie previously opened up about her desire to become a parent. Speaking on the SmartLess podcast in March, she said she hopes for a “big family” and even mentioned adoption.
She said: “Jake knows how important it is to me [to have a child].” She talked about balancing having a family with her career.
Millie said on the podcast: “Of course, I want to focus on really establishing myself as an actor and as a producer, but I also find it’s so important to start a family, for me, personally.” Millie then commented: “Like, it’s a huge thing.”
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The Loose Women star shared her thoughts on the big bash in Sicily celebrating the Brat singer and her new husband George Daniel
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Denise Welch on Charli XCX’s wedding and her hopes for son Matty Healy’s own marriage(Image: WireImage)
Denise Welch is revelling in her icon status after living it up at Charli XCX’s wedding. The Loose Women favourite danced the night away at the celeb-packed bash in Sicily – and Denise said it was the best party she’d been to all year.
Speaking at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, Denise – who has known groom George Daniel for years through son Matty Healy’s band The 1975 – said she had the time of her life last month. Attending the event of the year with husband Lincoln Townley, she said: “It was just the most wonderful time and completely unpretentious.”
Geordie actress Denise shared selfies with celeb guests from the big day on Instagram and was called an icon by fans. “It was quite exciting for me to post pictures of lovely people that I’d met at the BBQ. One of those turned out to be Troye Sivan. All these really cool people I didn’t know at the time until my Instagram blew up. It was testament to Charli and George just how lovely and relaxed it was. It was great, I’m very happy for them.”
Son Matty and his fiancé Gabbriette joined in with the wedding festivities – and Denise said she can’t wait to be there for his nuptials. “I am looking forward to that,” beamed Denise. “He is engaged, so that will happen. I love my daughter in law to pieces.”
Whilst Matty may not have made her a grandmother yet, she said she might be getting the practice in soon with their pet rats. “She had two rats. Sadly Bobby Robson has died. But Splinter is still flying. I’m a grandma to the rats.”
Former Coronation Street favourite Denise, who also starred in Hollyoaks and Waterloo Road, revealed her next big telly project – Channel 5 drama series Death In Benidorm “It’s a bit like Death In Paradise,” she explained. “I can’t say much but I’m playing a drag club owner. I’ll be in my element. I fly out in a couple of weeks to start filming.”
Denise Welch was among the celebrity guests at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards. The evening, hosted by Jamie Laing and Mika, featured performances from Scissor Sisters and and Calum Scott. Denise presented The Comedy Award to Tom Allen.
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Among the night’s top honours at London’s Roundhouse, Russell Tovey was named Man of the Year, presented by Russell T Davies; Elizabeth Hurley received the Honorary Gay Award, presented by Anna Richardson; and Dannii Minogue was celebrated as this year’s Ally Award recipient, presented by Josh Cavallo.
The Inspiration Award was presented to the Williams family in honour of the late The Vivienne, recognising the creation of The House of The Vivienne and their campaigning around addiction awareness. The Vivienne herself received the same honour in 2022.
Pals say Harry Styles and his actress girlfriend Zoe Kravitz are set to take a huge step in the relationship and reveal what “very attractive quality” Zoe sees in Harry
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Inseparable Harry Styles and Zoe Kravitz take major relationship step
Friends close to Harry Styles and Zoe Kravitz say “this is love” for the couple as they prepare to take a major step in their relationship. The singer and the Batman star are said to be inseparable – and are planning to move in together.
Harry and Zoe’s relationship was revealed in August and throughout the past month, they were seen growing closer in New York, where she lives. Following a series of holidays together, pals are now saying that they will both relocate to Harry’s Hampstead home when Zoe returns to work.
A source said: “Harry and Zoe have a real connection — this is love. It’s a real honeymoon period and they’re barely apart. Zoe has to get back to work on a film so she’s coming to London and will be staying with Harry while she’s here. They’ve had an amazing summer together and things are only getting more serious between them.”
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The couple has been seen together all over Europe, including Rome, Paris and Ibiza. In between their holidays together, Harry has been staying in the US with his girlfriend. According to press, both his mother Anne and Zoe’s rockstar father Lenny Kravitz both approve of the relationship.
An insider revealed to The Sun what Zoe likes the most about her boyfriend: “Zoe thinks Harry is cool without trying and that’s a very attractive quality in Hollywood, when most people are too busy trying to desperately break through or stay relevant.
“He treats everyone the same, whether they’re famous or not and she’s found that refreshing. Lenny is like that and growing up with such as famous dad, that ethos was instilled in Zoe – to be kind, to never be a diva.”
In May, Harry split from Taylor Russell, a Canadian actress he had been dating for 14 months. Sources close to the pair said the break-up was amicable and down to conflicting schedules that made seeing each other difficult. Zoe was single at the time, having ended her engagement to Channing Tatum in October 2024.
Harry’s most famous ex is Taylor Swift, who has recently released her twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl. The two were reportedly dating for only two months, starting in December 2012 and ending in January 2013.
Some songs on a previous Taylor album, 1989, are speculated to be about Harry. Fans have speculated that the 2014 song Style is about their whirlwind romance and likened the “James Dean” looking man in the song to Harry’s personal style at the time.
A later addition to the album, Is It Over Now?, is also rumoured to be about the British singer. Some fans have suggested this song and the way it sings about one of Taylor’s partners searching “in every model’s bed for something greater” works as a companion song to Harry’s From the Dining Table. In the 2017 track, Harry singes about waking up next to “the girl who looked just like you I almost said your name”.
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Taylor has gone on to date and become engaged to Travis Kelce. The two announced their engagement in August, just after the announcement of The Life of a Showgirl. Many songs on the new album are about Travis, including Wood and Wi$h Li$t.
The 00s pop group Scissor Sisters are said to be working on new music and had 10 UK Top 40 tracks including I Don’t Feel like Dancin’ and Filthy/Gorgeous
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Huge pop group Scissor Sisters to make a comeback after 14 years
Huge 00s pop group Scissor Sisters are making a comeback and working on new music, thanks to the success of their reunion tour this summer. The band last made music together 14 years ago.
By the time the band broke up in 2011, they had amassed ten UK Top 40 tracks and two No. 1 albums. Their biggest hits, such as I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’, Take Your Mama and Filthy/Gorgeous are iconic songs of the Noughties.
14 years after the release of their last album, frontman Jake Shears, guitarist Del Marqui and bassist BabyDaddy (real name Scott Hoffman) are reuniting for another record. They are joined by current band members, Bridget Barkan and Amber Martin. The news was revealed at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, which celebrate the LGBTQIA community and its allies. According to the band, who were there to take home the Music Icon award, they were already back in the studio.
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Jake said: “Scissor Sisters has always been about coming as you are, coming together and celebrating what it means to be a human being. And it’s exciting to look back but it’s really exciting to look forward too. We’re back in the studio making new music after a long time and the next chapter feels like it’s well under way.”
As of yet, former vocalist Ana Matronic (real name Ana Kirby) does not seem to be involved. Ana did not rejoin the band when they first announced their in October 2024, and wrote on Instagram that the timing wasn’t right.
“People familiar with my story and career arc will know that in the heart of this Showgirl lies a giant Nerd,” she penned. “In the past decade my Nerd self has taken the wheel and is now driving my career. I am currently finishing production on the first season of my history podcast Good Time Sallies, which has grown into several long-term research and writing projects.
“With contracts signed and schedules agreed on these commitments, the timing of a Scissor reunion does not allow me to join my former bandmates for this tour. I wish the band and our fans all the best… I will be there in spirit to kiki with you!”
Elsewhere during the awards night on Wednesday (8 October), Jake performed on stage in a bright jump suit. During his acceptance speech for the Music Icon award, he also cracked jokes about the band.
He told the crowd: “The most incredible thing about being back here after all these years is how little we’ve aged.” More seriously, he added: “I hope we continue to inspire others and those that come after us to create and express themselves freely and find the joy in not always taking yourself so seriously.”
Jake also said the UK has made him and the band, who are all from America, feel “loved and accepted”, even if their headline slot at Glastonbury this year was scheduled at the same time as Charli XCX and Doechii.
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“The UK’s been a place that has made us feel so loved and accepted,” he shared. “Ironically though, the most homophobic thing that has ever happened in our career here was at Glastonbury this year — putting us against Charli XCX and Doechii this last summer. It’s terrible.
“But people showed up and they brought their friends and their boyfriends and their kids and their nannas and it reminded us why we do this all in the first place.”
Football star David Beckham thanked his wife, Victoria Beckham, for giving him ‘four beautiful children’ following the Netflix premiere of her new programme
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David Beckham thanks Victoria for giving him ‘four beautiful kids’ amid Brooklyn feud(Image: SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
David Beckham has thanked his wife, Victoria Beckham, for giving him ‘four beautiful children’ amid the family feud with eldest son, Brooklyn. The Beckham family, minus Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz, celebrated the release of Victoria’s new Netflix documentary this week.
Given the ongoing feud in the Beckham family, Brooklyn was not expected to feature in this doc or be mentioned. But he does make a fleeting appearance. During the premiere, Victoria made sure to thank the aspiring chef and former aspiring photographer in her opening speech.
Speaking on stage, she said: “I’d like to thank the Spice Girls, Geri, Emma, Melanie and Melanie, I love you so much and thank you so much; my children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, Harper and David.”
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When the crowd laughed at Victoria implying David was her child, she gasped: “Oh my God, he’s not a child! I was doing so well without cards as well. It’s taken me this process to be proud of what I’ve achieved and to realise finally that I am enough.”
After the family affair at Curzon cinema, David took to his Instagram to share a video of him dancing with the love of his life to Whitney Houston’s hit song How Will I Know at the premiere’s after party.
He wrote: “I love you Mrs Beckham for many reasons, for being my wife, for giving me 4 beautiful children, for making my vitamins each day & for bringing your story to life.
“I’m very proud of the journey you have been on and continue to go on and to show people the struggles that helped get you here… you should be very proud.
“And for the record you can make a Ham&Cheese sandwich very well. We love you x @victoriabeckham.”
An emotional Victoria wrote: “I’m crying happy tears. I love you so much.” Not long before, David shared snaps from the red carpet as he praised his wife.
He wrote: “Such a special evening celebrating Victoria Beckham on Netflix. We love you so much and can’t wait for people to watch and see just how much of a warm, loving and hard working person you are… we are so proud.”
Meanwhile, nepo baby couple Brooklyn and Nicola managed around five seconds on screen in the new Netflix series as they were shown arriving for Victoria’s fashion show in 2024 in Paris shortly before the rift began.
It is a heartbreaking glimpse of the son Victoria and David are now estranged from following a rift which has continued throughout 2025.
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Celebrity Traitors star Charlotte Church has found a new passion in life practicing witchcraft and offers a course at her retreat to help others ‘heal the witch wound’ and connect to magic
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These days Charlotte guides her guests in witchcraft
She is currently on TV screens starring in Celebrity Traitors with 18 other celebrities, including Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross and Paloma Faith, but off screen Charlotte Church has turned to a very different pursuit.
The Voice of an Angel singing sensation set up a wellness centre in Wales a couple of years ago at a beautiful country house where she guides guests through immersive experiences such as breathwork, forest bathing and creative expression.
She has been working as a sound healer at the retreat for some time but has just branched out into a whole new area – witchcraft.
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The Dreaming’s website offers a variety of experiences for guests to enrol in, with the newest being Witch. The “enchanting” five-day retreat is for “17 souls ready to embody their magic through ritual, nature and deep witchcraft practices”.
Charlotte, 39, is one of two high priestesses who lead the course which is described as an “immersive retreat designed to activate the witch within: blending ancient wisdom, elemental magic, and deep self-exploration.”
The website goes on to explain how it works: “Led by singer and spiritual guide Charlotte Church and High Priestess and author Tree Carr, this retreat is an opportunity to rekindle your craft through ritual, herbalism, dream-work, plant-spirit connection, meditation, sound and sacred art.
“We’ll awaken our witch’s voice through sound rituals woven with the rhythms of nature. Chanting at dawn, humming at dusk, invoking breath and tone, we align our magic with the sun, the land and the unseen. These are not songs to perform but spells to cast, prayers to plant and vibrations to stir the wild world awake,” it reads.
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In an accompanying video Charlotte is seen staring in wonder up through the trees while walking barefoot through mud in the forest. “I need you to remember, listen closely, listen deep,” she whispers mystically. “Do you hear the whisperings of your blood?”
As a haunting tune is sung in the background, presumably by Charlotte, she sings, “the ancient understanding in your bones” and asks, “do you remember beloved? Can you feel her? The priestess is rising.” At the end of the video she can be seen dancing in a circle with others who are wearing headdresses, flowing tunics and face paint while they play instruments.
Charlotte has completely embraced her new life working at The Dreaming where she also works as a sound healer “I’m doing stuff at The Dreaming, which is really about pulling out the strands of how sound can be used for healing, how voice can be used for healing. I wanna sort of try and meld this idea of music and healing, and voice and healing, with that joy and ecstasy.”
She has previously discussed how taking magic mushrooms helped her get in tune with nature. She revealed she first took the hallucinogenic drug which can be eaten or made into a tea, in her 20s. “When I was about 27, I took magic mushrooms for the first time,” she told The Skylark. “That experience created a different sort of connection, a deeper understanding, far more intrinsic and connected to patterns. You can never unsee or unfeel that connection once it happens. Ever since then I’ve been diving deeper and deeper into my spiritual journey – the idea of the unseen world, the wonder, awe, and power of nature.”
Recently she spoke to Martha Kearney on her BBC Radio 4 podcast about the drug. “My relationship with nature started to blossom partly when I had kids and then partly when I first took magic mushrooms for the first time,” she said. “When I took magic mushrooms, everything, everything in nature just opened up and began communicating. When you see that you can’t unsee it.”
When Charlotte acquired The Dreaming she spoke about wanting to have a change of path and how she knew she wanted to buy the property as soon as she saw it. “I didn’t want to have to make a living from showbusiness any longer,” she explained. “I wanted to make art and music, but not be reliant on celebrity; to live more in line with my values.”
Charlotte and second husband Jonathan Powell bought Rhydoldog, the former idyllic home of designer Laura Ashley, back in 2021 and opened it as wellness centre, The Dreaming, in 2023. It is set in 47 acres of ancient woodland, which is described as, “a haven nestled in magical lands of Wales” which is, “the perfect setting for witches to reconnect with the old ways”.
A four-night stay costs £3,000 in what is called luxury accommodation. Home cooked food and drinks are included in the price as is access to the home, gardens, land and plunge pools. According to the centre’s Instagram the first retreat in June this year sold out so more dates were added. The next Witch retreat runs in early December, with two more scheduled for 2026.
Despite this, The Dreaming is reported to be struggling to make a profit. After making a whopping £25million from her singing career, last year Charlotte admitted she is no longer a millionaire. She was said to have been forced to sell her home and downsize to a semi-detached house.
She and her family lived in a huge mansion, The Spinney, in Dinas Powys, Wales. She is believed to have paid £1.3million for it in 2010 and made almost a million profit when it sold for £2million. Charlotte had previously told Closer about the school she ran from the “beautiful” property. “We had a school there for a bit and a studio,” she said. “When it is used by the community, it makes sense, but when it is not used, it doesn’t.”
