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Longtime couple Eric Stonestreet and Lindsay Schweitzer announced the incredible news of their wedding on September 9 in a series of photos shared on Instagram

Modern Family icon Eric Stonestreet, known for playing Cameron Tucker on the sitcom, has officially tied the knot with fiancée Lindsay Schweitzer on his birthday. The longtime couple announced the incredible news on September 9 in a series of photos shared on Instagram.

“It’s my birthday and guess what I got,” the 54-year-old actor wrote in the caption. The first photo showed him standing on his own looking dapper in a black suit, white shirt, blue tie and brown-rimmed glasses and the second sweet snap had the bride and groom hold hands as they entered the reception.

Lindsay looked out of this world with her brown locks in loose curls as she rocked a simple silk gown. He also posted a snap of the two giving each other a smooch after officially becoming husband and wife.

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Friends rushed to the comment section to congratulate the happy couple, with Eric’s onscreen husband Jesse Tyler Ferguson posting: “Of all second marriages, this one is my favorite! I love you both! I’m so happy for you!!!!”

Rico Rodriguez, who played Manny Delgado, posted a few partying face emojis. Hollywood icon Octavia Spencer said: “Congratulations! So happy for you both,” while Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Joel McKinnon Miller posted: “So happy for you. Congratulations!”

In July, Eric revealed his plans to tie the knot in their Kansas City home after getting engaged in 2021.

He said to People: “Well, I’ve said we’re building a house to host a wedding, and we’re still on track to do that. We’re almost done with the house, and that’s been our plan all along.”

“We got engaged and then all of a sudden got an opportunity to build a house, and I thought, no better way to start a relationship than literally building a foundation. So that’s our plan and we’re still on track for that.”

When the couple first got engaged, their were a few people who criticised their seven-year age gap.

In response, he hilariously tweaked one of the images from his announcement to make Lindsay look a lot older.

Alongside the picture, he wrote: “Apparently a lot of people think I look too old, as a 49 year old man, to be engaged to my almost 42 year old fiancé [sic].

“Look, she can’t help that she looks so great at 42 and I can’t help that I apparently look like her grandad so, I fixed it for everyone.”

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Joe Swash didn’t have much luck when he tried to give wife Stacey Solomon a present for Valentine’s Day but it made the family laugh

It was meant to be a declaration of his love for wife Stacey Solomon. But Joe Swash left his partner and their family in stitches after getting a tattoo on his finger.

The tattoo is meant to show a love heart that Stacey uses on social media alongside the letter S as a symbol of his love. But once he put his wedding band back over the top, the tattoo looks very different.

Stacey and husband Joe Swash continue to do well and are loved by TV viewers thanks in part to their family reality show on BBC1 and their down to earth nature. A second series of BBC’s Stacey And Joe began tonight.

Explaining how much he loves her, Joe, 43, tells viewers: “She’s got just the most morally moral compass. Is that a word? The most morally moral compass I’ve ever come across. I want to show Stacy how much I appreciate her, and I think the best way to do that is to use my body as a canvas. I’m hoping she’s gonna love it.

“It is all good intentions but things don’t ever work out how I expect them to.”

In the second episode Joe then gets a tattoo for Valentine’s Day to show his love for her, but when he puts his wedding band back on over the ink, it makes the tattoo look like a man’s private parts.

“It’s not as romantic as I thought it was going to be,” admits Joe. “I knew it looked like a p*nis, I just didn’t want to believe it. It is a bit like a Transformer, it starts off as a truck and then when you put the ring on it looks like a c*ck and balls. Are we allowed to say that on the BBC?”

Joe tries to take Stacey on a romantic sunset date away from the kids during the skiing trip.

After she is shown the tattoo, Stacey burst out laughing: “That’s not the same as mine. Why did you draw a p*nis.

“Start thinking of a bigger design. Why didn’t you just get the name?”

Stacey had previously got a tattoo for Joe on her finger in 2023, with his name spelled out and joked it was her “midlife crisis” moment.

Despite the odd looking tattoo, Stacey is still impressed by the gesture. Hugging Joe, Stacey says: “Being married to you is a constant turn of event when I feel special.”

This is not Joe’s first tattoo and he has now ended up with three tattoos, none of which are perfect. As he was getting the third one done he explained: “My experience with tattoos ain’t great, so I’ve got one on my back. That was like for my dad, it said, Protected in love from above’ but it reminds me of Shooting Stars[TV show] like the dove from above and also the tattoo, sort of like dips into my bum, so it is a bit like I have farted it out.

“The other one I got when I was on holiday with the boys. I got drunk on an 18-30s holiday, and my mate’s paid for me to have a tattoo, it says something in Hebrew on my hip here.

“I haven’t really looked into what it says. I can only imagine It’s not something lovely. Why? Why anything? Why did I trust my friends? Why was I so drunk? Where was my mum looking out for me?”

Stacey and Joe married in 2022 and have been together nine years. They have filmed more of their home life for the BBC. After rising to fame on the X Factor in 2009, Loose Women star Stacey has become a national treasure and is best known for her bubbly personality and as the Instagram DIY queen.

She keeps her social media followers in the loop as she has transformed Pickle Cottage into a family home.

As well as her dream home which features in the series, Stacey has the dream family life too with former EastEnders actor fiancé Joe Swash, and her five children; Zachary, 17, Leighton, 13, Rex, six, Rose, three, and Belle, two.

In the opening episode she told how she thought she has “had her last baby”.

The cameras showed their youngest Belle going to nursery. And Stacey admits she gets “sad” as the kids grow up.

“Another one flies the nest. All the kids are at school, and we can have a lot of fun,” says Joe before asking: “D’you think that’s our last baby?”

Stacey replied: “I think that’s our last baby, bubs.”

Joe said: “I think what we need to do is start looking forward to the future bits of the kids growing up instead of it being like ‘awww’.”

Stacey replied: “Yeah, that’s why I’m getting more animals, to be honest with you!”

* Stacey And Joe is on BBC1 on Tuesday nights at 7pm and available to stream on BBC iPlayer.

Fans of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing have called for controversial reality TV star Thomas Skinner have called for the former Apprentice star to be axed from the upcoming series

Strictly Come Dancing fans have called for Thomas Skinner to be axed from the 2025 series after he stormed out of an interview on Tuesday before snatching a reporter’s phone.

The Apprentice star told reporters ‘I’m not doing this’ before he stormed out of a roundtable interview with several journalists at the BBC’s Elstree Studios on Tuesday. The former reality star, 34, best known for his social media output these days, grabbed a reporter’s phone as they asked him to stop.

It came just a few short hours after Skinner told his followers on X he “can’t be bought” and “won’t say things just to keep people happy”.

Skinner has been a controversial signing for this year’s series of the BBC series. The dad-of-three has drawn strong criticism for Twitter (X) posts saying it is “not far-right” to be “flying your flag and loving your country”, and complaining “it ain’t safe out there any more” in London, saying the city is “hostile” and “tense”.

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The divisive figure had taken issue with a reporter recording an interview, a common practise, during the big Strictly Come Dancing press day.

He had arrived at the table alongside fellow contestant, former footballer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who was left having to do interviews on his own after Skinner decided to storm out of the room.

“He walked to the table with his head down, he sat down, grabbed one of the reporters phones, who told him to stop,” an insider at the event has told the Mirror. “It was a shock. His reaction came out of nowhere.”

Another source told us: “It was totally out of the blue. He was absolutely fine during the first interview. In good spirits and delighted and surprised to be there. Like a competition winner.”

His actions were said to have left organisers furious and BBC bosses in talks over whether he should remain on the show at all.

A female journalist had simply asked Skinner what had motivated him to sign up for Strictly, which left the reality TV star realising he was being recorded on a phone during the press event.

“What’s that?” Skinner demanded, before picking up the woman’s phone and taking it from the table.

The journalist responded asking: “What are you doing, can you answer the question, we have only got three minutes. I’m just recording him.”

Now fans have called for the former Apprentice star to be axed from the upcoming series which starts later this Autumn.

Taking to X, they shared their thoughts as one user wrote: “This is what the BBC deserve because I for one am not surprised at all. Now drop the axe IMMEDIATELY. #Strictly.”

“Get rid of him man child #strictly,” another fumed. “Well I can’t say I’m surprised should never had been part of the show to begin with hope he’s axed,” someone else complained.

Another Strictly fan said: “I hope they don’t let him on the show. This behaviour is horrible. The show hasn’t even started and he’s acting like this. No way.”

“The first mistake was asking Thomas Skinner to be on Strictly in the first place. Rookie mistake omg,” someone else added.

Skinner posted a cryptic message to his Twitter (X) followers this morning ahead of the press day commencing.

In the length tweet, he wrote: “I cannot be bought. I won’t say things just to keep people happy like others do. I am not a weathercock who changes opinions to gain clout like others you see online or social media. I’ll say what I believe in, even when it’s not easy. Because that’s what we need more of in today’s world.”

Skinner’s antics came just hours on from BBC director-general Tim Davie, 58, defended the decision to cast former the Apprentice contestant in the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Speaking to MPs from the Culture, Media and Sport committee, Davie said: “That was not my decision, that was the production team looking for those people … who want to do Strictly, and those people they thought would be interesting to the audience.”

“Clearly, we wouldn’t take anyone whose views are just beyond the pale, or we would see as completely unacceptable or not suitable, racist views, all those things, we wouldn’t accept them. But that’s not the case here, from what I know, I’m not an expert on the individual, per se.”

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Die Hard actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023, and his wife Emma Heming has now spoken out about the challenges of caring for him

Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming, is standing her ground against criticism of her decision to move the actor out of their family home as he battles frontotemporal dementia.

During Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning America, the 47 year old actress acknowledged the judgement she has faced online but emphasised that the move was in the best interest of her husband and their daughters, Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11. “[It] was the safest and best decision – not just for Bruce, but also for our two young girls,’ she told Michael Strahan. “And, you know, it’s really not up for a debate.”

Heming explained that having Willis live in a second home with a full-time care team ensures his needs are met around the clock, while also safeguarding their daughters’ wellbeing. “Now I know that Bruce has the best care 100% of the time. His needs are met 100% of the time, as well as our two young daughters. So I’m not gonna take a vote on that.”

The Die Hard star, 70, was diagnosed in 2023 with frontotemporal dementia, a condition that affects language and personality, and leads to gradual cognitive decline. While promoting her new book, The Unexpected Journey, Heming reflected on how caregivers are often unfairly judged.

“Caregivers are so judged, and it just goes to show that people sometimes just have an opinion versus really having the experience,” she said.

The author continued: “I’ll say that dementia plays out differently in every household. If you’ve seen one case of dementia, it’s one case of dementia. So you have to do what is right for your family and what is going to keep your loved one safe, as well as your young children.”

She emphasised the importance of doing what’s right for your family and keeping loved ones safe, especially when dealing with dementia. Her ‘wake-up call’ came when a neurologist revealed that caregivers often pass away before their loved ones.

She confessed: “I’m not a failure because I need help. It’s okay for me to raise my hand. I didn’t realise that,” she admitted. “I really needed permission for someone to tell me that it’s okay to get help.

“That’s what I hope this book does for caregivers: it gives them permission to care for themselves. Because if they don’t, how will they be able to show up and continue to care for the person that they love?” she added.

Last month, during the ABC special Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey, Heming shared that Willis had been moved into a one-story home better suited to his needs. “Bruce would want that for our daughters. He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs,” she told Diane Sawyer.

Willis’ daughters frequently visit their father for breakfast and dinner, and Heming said their family continues to find ways to spend meaningful time together. She added: “When we go over, either we’re outside, or we’re watching a movie… it’s just really about being able to be there, and connect with Bruce. It is a house that is filled with love, and warmth, and care, and laughter. And it’s been beautiful to see that, to see how many of Bruce’s friends continue to show up for him, and they bring in life.”

Elsewhere in the chat, Sawyer asked Heming Willis what she would ask her husband today if she had the chance. The former model replied: “how he’s doing, [if] he’s okay, he feels okay. If there’s anything that we could do to support him better. ‘I would really love to know that. If he’s scared. If he’s ever worried. I just would love to be able to just to have a conversation with him.”

Willis is father to adult daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, from his previous marriage to Demi Moore, 62. When a brain scan confirmed the FTD diagnosis, Heming Willis admitted she was ‘so panicked’ hearing the diagnosis she “couldn’t pronounce” for the first time. “I remember hearing it and just not hearing anything else. It was like I was freefalling.”

When questioned if she thought the Pulp Fiction star understood what was happening, Heming Willis said ‘I don’t think Bruce connected the dots’. Heming Willis has now become a full-time carer for her husband and has penned a book about her experience. The Unexpected Journey hit the shelves on 9 September.

Speaking of her husband’s current condition, she said: “Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know. It’s just his brain that is failing him.”

As the Sixth Sense star loses his ability to speak, Emma revealed the family has ‘learned to adapt.’ “We have a way of communicating with him that is just a different, a different way, but I’m grateful. I’m grateful that my husband is still very much here,” she also revealed.

She highlighted the subtle yet ‘alarming’ initial signs that he was grappling with dementia. She said: “For someone who is really talkative, very engaged, he was just a little more quiet, and when the family would get together he would kind of just melt a little bit.”

It is understood that both King Charles and Prince Harry will both be in London at the same time tomorrow with hopes they could potentially meet for the first time in almost 20 months

Prince Harry and the King are both set to be in London tomorrow, paving the way for a potential long-awaited reunion.

Charles is expected to travel back to the capital from Balmoral tonight, meaning he would be in the city where his estranged son is due to carry out a third day of charity visits on a whirlwind trip to the UK.

Father and son have not seen each other in almost 20 months since Harry dashed to the UK to see his dad after he revealed his cancer diagnosis in February 2024. It is understood both sides would like a meeting to happen, with a source close to the Duke of Sussex saying: “As Harry has stated before, he’d love to see his family and be reconciled.”

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Tomorrow, Harry is set to visit Imperial College London where he will be at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies, which he opened 12 years ago. However, both Buckingham Palace and Harry’s office have refused to comment on whether a meeting between the two men is scheduled.

Harry previously said he would love reconciliation with his family but admitted that “some members of my family will never forgive me” after he wrote his controversial memoir, Spare. Earlier today, the Duke continued his UK engagements by visiting Nottingham, where he revealed he had personally donated £1.1 million to BBC Children in Need to support young people affected by violence.

Harry announced his gift, which has come from his own money rather than his Archewell foundation, during a visit to the Community Recording Studio (CRS). Despite relocating to California, more than 5,000 miles away, and giving up his role as a working royal, Harry vowed to maintain his links with Nottingham.

“I’ll continue to stand with you,” he said in a speech at the event. “Nottingham has my respect, it always has, my commitment, and a permanent place in my heart.”

The duke said the city had taught him “important lessons” and had “truly” inspired him. “I’ve lost count of the number of visits I’ve made here, and the amount of jerk chicken I’ve eaten on almost every occasion on the way back,” he said to much laughter. “It really is banging.”

Harry added: ”For nearly 15 years, I’ve been working alongside communities to tackle violence impacting young people, particularly knife crime, which remains one of the most urgent issues facing this country. During all that time, Nottingham has been a place where I’ve heard harrowing stories, learned important lessons, seen resilience, and felt truly inspired.”

Harry’s personal money comes from a variety of sources, including their much-publicised deal with Netflix. He is also chief impact officer at mental health firm Better Up and inherited nearly £7 million from his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Duke also had an inheritance from the Queen Mother in 2002, and is likely to have received one from both his grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, in more recent years.

While the duke was in Nottingham, where he snapped selfies with cheering well-wishers, his estranged brother Prince William was carrying out an engagement in Lambeth, south London.

William popped into the music studio during a visit to The Oasis Village in Tulse Hill, south London, where he was hearing more about the work of Spiral Skills. The youth organisation in Lambeth has expanded its services in the community hub thanks to a grant from his Homewards Fund.

While there, he said he was making sure his children grow up learning to play an instrument as he believes music is ‘crucial’. William spoke about the importance of music in his life after politely turning down the opportunity to play the drums – but said his youngest child, Prince Louis, would have loved to have had a go.

Warring brothers William and Harry are not expected to meet during Harry’s trip to the UK. On Monday, the pair marked the third anniversary of the late Queen’s death separately, just eight miles apart.

Harry privately laid flowers at his grandmother’s grave in St George’s Chapel, Windsor, while William and wife Kate visited a WI branch in Sunningdale in Elizabeth II’s honour.

Strictly Come Dancing returns later this month and ahead of the launch Thomas Skinner has made headlines after ‘storming out’ of an interview about the BBC dance show

The BBC’s director-general Tim Davie defended the casting of Thomas Skinner on the new series of Strictly Come Dancing earlier today. It came just hours before the former The Apprentice candidate “stormed out” of an interview.

Thomas, 34, whose casting has sparked controversy, is due to compete on the BBC show when it returns later this month. It was reported this afternoon that he walked out of an interview ahead of the launch and “grabbed” a reporter’s phone after realising that he was being recorded.

Hours earlier, BBC boss Tim, 58, had addressed the decision to cast Thomas on the new series. It was whilst he was speaking to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee about the corporation, including on Strictly, earlier today.

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Tim said: “That was not my decision. That was the production team looking for those people that they thought would … you’ve got two criteria; those people who want to do Strictly and those people they thought would be interesting to the audience.”

He also spoke about presenter Narinder Kaur who previously questioned the decision to cast Thomas. As part of her criticism of the show, Narinder said that she had been told that she was “too controversial” for Strictly herself.

Speaking about Narinder, Tim said he had “never heard that” when asked about claims she was rejected for the show. He continued by saying to the committee: “I’m not involved directly, that’s not disowning it, it’s just day to day.

“It’s for BBC Studios to propose to the commissioner of entertainment who they think they can get … one is who will take part, because it’s quite a commitment, three months in full training. And the second is, who are people that they think would make a good balance in terms of the cast, and my goodness, they’ve done a good job in terms of creating a phenomenal show.”

He added: “Clearly, we wouldn’t take anyone whose views are y’know just beyond the pale, or we would see as completely unacceptable or not suitable, racist views, all those things, we wouldn’t accept them. But that’s not the case here, from what I know, I’m not an expert on the individual, per se.”

Asked if there’s criteria for someone to be deemed “too controversial” for the show, he said: “There may be views you don’t agree with but that’s not to me a criteria. If someone had broadcast things that y’know were totally unacceptable, had racist [views] … we don’t want them anywhere near our shows. That’s obvious.

“That’s what our team have to judge. I don’t know how many series we’re in but we’ve had a pretty good run of the contestants, there’s been things to deal with, but actually, in terms of the casting and the overall show around the world, I think they do a good job.”

Just hours later, Thomas “stormed out” of an interview about the show, with him telling reporters: “I’m not doing this.” He was being interviewed by journalists at the BBC’s Elstree Studios when he got up and left the room.

It’s reported that he took issue with a reporter recording an interview, which is a common practise, during the press day for Strictly. He had arrived at the table alongside fellow contestant, former footballer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who was left having to do interviews on his own.

A source told the Mirror: “He walked to the table with his head down, he sat down, grabbed one of the reporters phones, who told him to stop. It was a shock. His reaction came out of nowhere.” Another source told us: “It was totally out of the blue. He was absolutely fine during the first interview. In good spirits and delighted and surprised to be there. Like a competition winner.”

A journalist is said to have asked Thomas what had motivated him to sign up for the show, which left him realising that he was being recorded on a phone at the press event. Before picking up the phone and taking it from the table, he asked: “What’s that?” The journalist responded asking: “What are you doing, can you answer the question, we have only got three minutes. I’m just recording him.”