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Atomic Kitten star Liz McClarnon has announced her pregnancy in a sweet post shared on social media. The star recorded a video of herself sitting on a bench in a gorgeous garden as she announced the exciting news to fans.

Liz, who married her husband Peter Cho in 2023, said in the caption: “I started to record a video of me just telling you but I got too emotional so I thought I’d just hide behind this little announcement instead. I just can’t believe we’re here. So many have been through exactly what I went through and worse. I want to share what I can and add my voice and ears to those who already help others understand or deal with all that comes with ivf and loss after so much hope.”

She continued: “I’ve been a part of some beautifully supportive communities. I’m so grateful. I am so grateful!”

In the video, she sat in a garden soaking up the sunshine. She wrote over the clip: “I’ve been keeping a secret from you… And I’ve mostly kept myself off social media because sometimes it was hard to smile… But after years of sometimes quite painful IVF and quite dark times.”

She then suddenly got up and turned to the side to show off her blossoming baby bump. Liz added: “I’m pregnant!” before rubbing her belly and adding: “We feel like we’ve been given the world!”

Her pals were quick to congratulate her, with Michelle Heaton writing: “So unbelievably happy for you both . I know how the road has been unkind to get here .. but look at u now .. so so happy xx love to all three of u xx.”

Suzanne Shaw posted: “Love you lots,” while one fan commented: “Sending you all the love in the world. You are going to be an amazing ‘fun in a bun’ mum! This has made my day!!! Couldn’t be happier.”

“Happy tears I promise!!! Congratulations, so so happy for you,” another delighted user added. Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton wrote: “Literally couldn’t be any happier for you both! After all you’ve been through, this little miracle is everything.”

In 2009, Liz opened up about her health struggles after feeling faint on many occasions. As the star sometimes forgot to eat, she initially put it down to her lifestyle, but it turned out to be the early warning signs of a serious gynaecological condition.

At first, it was thought she had an ectopic pregnancy before she underwent emergency surgery. During the operation, it was discovered she wasn’t pregnant.

Her symptoms, including severe cramps, were the result of her fallopian tubes being stuck together.

“Having thought even briefly that I might never be able to have my own children made me realise what agony that would be, and made me want to help people in that situation,” she said at the time.

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If you’re on the hunt for the perfect pair of easy-to-wear trainers to see you through the summer in style, look no further than these anti-sweat, cooling shoes from Skechers that are now on sale

Thanks to this spring sale, shoppers can currently pick up a fashionable, comfortable, and practical pair of slip-on Skecher trainers for under £45. But you’ll need to act fast, as this deal won’t last forever.

Up for grabs from Skechers, those seeking the ideal pair of shoes to carry you through the spring and summer months with ease can pick up a pair of Skecher slip-on trainers for £14 less.

Boasting innovative cooling and anti-sweat technology, these shoes promise to be super easy to throw on and style with any outfit. They also ensure your toes aren’t feeling the heat as we head deeper into the summer.

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Set to help you rediscover the joy of walking without waving goodbye to complete comfort, the Skechers GOwalk Joy boasts an innovative 5gen midsole design, an advanced mesh fabric upper, and an air-cooled Goga Mat insole that work together to provide the most advanced walking experience ever.

The innovative and highly responsive 5gen midsole cushioning ensures every part of your feet can indulge in a pillow-like comfort, whether you’re walking to the shop or heading out for a three-hour hike. Ensuring you don’t come home with aches and pains, these shoes also offer Air Cooled Goga Mat insoles that provide cool cushioning and support that won’t weigh you down or leave your toes sweaty in the summer heat.

With a mesh upper that’s engineered to naturally expand with your foot while you walk, these shoes are the perfect solution for anyone who suffers from swelling feet. The mesh also ensures clear airflow through the shoe while you trek, so you don’t have to worry about overly hot, stuffy shoes on your adventures.

Super lightweight and ensuring a cooling effect without sacrificing comfort, these trainers would normally retail for £55, but are currently up for grabs for the majorly reduced price of £40.99 directly from Skechers.

They are not the only GOWalk Skechers up for grabs with a delectable discount, as these Sensational Day black slip-ons are available for £44.99 down from £60. Or, if you still swear by the white trainers trend, Skechers have you covered with these Bright Summer GOWalk Flex trainers, which are now £47.99 down from £65.

Kim Kardashian has arrived at the Palais De Justice in Paris for the trial where she will testify over the horrifying 2016 robbery that saw her being held at gunpoint by masked men dressed as police officers as millions of dollars worth of jewellery was stolen. A group of pensioners dubbed the ‘grandpa robbers’ by French media are on trial in Paris, charged with stealing the star’s jewellery during Paris Fashion Week in 2016.

Hundreds of extra police and gendarmes were mobilised around the historic Palais de Justice in the centre of the French capital, where the 44-year-old American reality TV star and socialist was due on Tuesday afternoon. She is the lead civil party speaking on behalf of the prosecution in the trial of nine men and one woman who allegedly made up the gang behind the armed attack in 2016.

Kim looked solemn as she arrived at the building wearing a black blazer with pointed shoulder pads and a large diamond necklace. Her hair was tied into a neat bun with bangs cascading down the sides of her face. She also wore diamond earrings for the trial.

She was surrounded by members of her team as she entered the historic building. Armed guards were seen standing around the court on Tuesday afternoon.

In the terrifying robbery, the masked gang, whose ages range from 35 to 78, bound and gagged the SKIMS founder, 44, before stealing £7.5 million of jewellery, including her engagement ring from ex-husband Kanye West.

The jewellery was never recovered.

The court on was told o May 12 Kim was in a state of “serious terror” when the armed robbers burst into her hotel room nine years ago.

Hotel receptionist, Abderrahmane Ouatiki, 48, who was handcuffed and forced at gunpoint to lead two armed robbers to Kim’s hotel room, told the court: “She was terrified, in a state of hysteria.”

Ouatiki told the court Kim began screaming that she was a mother when the gunmen burst into her bedroom. He said: “She was in serious terror; it was unbearable to see a woman in that type of distress.”

The ten suspects, who are aged between 35 and 78, are on trial on May 23. Some are accused of aiding in the organisation of the robbery. Eight of the accused deny any involvement in the terrifying robbery.

The suspects include Aomar Aït Khedache, 69, and the alleged ringleader, who has publicly admitted kidnapping and robbing Ms Kardashian. Another suspect who confessed is named Yunnis Abbas, 72, who wrote a book about the robbery called I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian.

The trial continues.

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An incredible moment was shared between the drummers of a legendary indie band and a tribute act for the group, with fans left in awe of the unprecedented moment

A legendary indie group’s tribute band left fans stunned when they clocked who was on the drums. Tribute acts are all the rage in the UK, and this year’s Fake Festival saw “history made,” as put by the lead singer of one such act. The band, belting out classics and lesser-known tracks of a beloved group, had a “something special” up their sleeve for those in attendance.

Fake Festivals, which hosts tributes to the likes of Oasis, David Bowie, and Pink, recently witnessed a jaw-dropping moment during Pulp’d’s set. At Sheffield’s Fake Festival on May 10, Pulp’d’s own Jarvis Cocker doppelgänger announced a thrilling surprise for festival-goers.

Pulp, led by the iconic Jarvis Cocker, is set to embark on their ‘More’ tour globally, with an inaugural gig in Glasgow on June 7 and a fully booked Manchester show at Co-op Live Arena on Saturday, June 21.

The tribute band’s lead vocalist exclaimed: “Can you believe this? This is something quite special, it definitely makes Fake Festival history. Because nobody in Fake Festival history has ever had a member of the band that they are tributing get on stage and play a song with them.”

Nick Banks, the longstanding drummer of Pulp since 1986, graced the stage for the band’s second-to-last tune.

Veteran drummer Banks revealed he had “joined” the tribute for a one-off performance on Bluesky, posting footage of his entrance on stage.

He wrote: “Joined Pulp tribute band last night Pulp’d. Had a blast!” They delved into the iconic Pulp hit, Disco 2000, thrilled to have Banks on drums.

Pulp’d shared the electrifying moment on the official Fake Festivals Facebook page with high praise. They wrote: “It was an incredible experience to play with one of our heroes.”

The group added to the amazement: “We watched him on Top of the Pops when we were younger and to get to play a song with him as a tribute band. An experience we will not forget. Thanks to Nick for making a band of Pulp fans very happy. True gent.”

After reuniting in 2023, Pulp, with Banks back on board, are set for their big comeback as Jarvis Cocker announced a slew of live dates, signalling their second revival.

Eager fans also heard whispers of new tunes, with the lead single ‘Spike Island’ launched just in April.

Come June 6, ‘More’, the highly anticipated new album from Pulp, drops and they hit the road in the UK and Ireland starting June 7. Banks shares his journey with Pulp and early influences in his upcoming memoir, ‘So It Started There’.

Thomas Markle Snr, the estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has moved to an apartment in the Philippines from his cliffside property near the US border in Rosarito, Mexico

Thomas Markle Snr, the estranged father of the Duchess of Sussex, is now living in a £500-a-month high-rise apartment on the island of Cebu in the Philippines, where he is being looked after by his son, Thomas Markle Jnr.

Now 80, Thomas Snr has relocated from his cliffside property near the US border in Rosarito, Mexico and moved more than 7,000 miles from his daughter Meghan, 43, and her family – Prince Harry, 40, and grandchildren Archie, six, and three-year-old Lilibet.

Exclusive pictures obtained by The Mirror showed the former Hollywood lighting director sitting alone while resting in blistering heat outside a supermarket near his new home on Wednesday. That was the day after Archie’s sixth birthday, which he missed.

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“I am ready for a change,” he told the Daily Mail. “I have felt stuck in a rut for some time and I am ready to meet new people and experience kindness.”

Speaking in January, when he revealed he was considering relocating to South East Asia, he said: “I travelled in that part of the world when I was a younger man. The people are so kind and welcoming, and they are respectful to older people. It is a place of culture and beauty.

“At 80 it is time to go somewhere where the people are lovely and I can enjoy a quieter, friendlier existence. In South East Asia the medical care is good, you can live reasonably cheaply, the people are kind and respect older people and the food is healthy. Mostly I just want peace. At 80, none of us know how long we have left. I want whatever time I have to be peaceful with none of the awful drama of recent years.”

His move follows a series of serious health issues, including two heart attacks and a stroke. The tropical climate of Cebu presents further challenges, with temperatures reaching 33°C this week and humidity levels nearing 90%.

Locals have seen the retired TV lighting director, once a regional Emmy award-winner, using a walking stick to navigate the uneven roads and heavy traffic near his new home. A source familiar with the situation said: “There are only two kinds of weather in Cebu: hot and humid, and hot and humid with rain. It’s tough even for much younger people, and Thomas looks like he’s having a hard time.”

Despite the difficult adjustment, Thomas Snr and his 58-year-old son – who was pictured leaving the flat hand-in-hand with a young woman – appear to be supporting each other as they settle in. The two had been living in a three-star hotel before recently moving into the apartment. They reportedly made the transition after shipping over personal belongings – including treasured photo albums featuring Meghan – to the island.

Before relocating to the Philippines, Thomas Snr had spent the past decade living in a beachside bungalow in Rosarito, Mexico, just 250 miles from Meghan and Harry’s estate in Montecito, California.

Though their new flat sits near a busy seven-lane road, it’s considered upscale by local standards in a country where the average annual income is around £7,000. Cebu is home to more than three million people, nearly a third of whom live below the poverty line.

The contrast between Thomas Snr’s modest lifestyle and the Sussexes’ multimillion-pound mansion in California is stark. On Tuesday, May 6, Meghan marked her son Archie’s sixth birthday by sharing a photo of him alongside a sweet message calling him her “sweet boy.”

The image, which showed the youngster from behind silhouetted against a bright sunset, was reportedly taken in Mexico.

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Model and TV personality Katie Price has opened up about her very first relationship with a jealous man 10 years her senior, who would cut off her clothes when she was just 15, she said

Katie Price’s trauma stems from childhood experiences with angry, jealous and perverted men, she has revealed in her most explosive interview yet.

The mum-of-five, who revealed she is in perimenopause at the age of 46, opened up about her first relationship aged 15, when she met a man 10 years her senior. Katie, who was then known as Katrina Infield – her birth name – was still in school at the time, and was picked up by an ex-prisoner who had his own Ford Fiesta XR2.

“My first boyfriend, I was 15 and he was 25,” she told Paul Brunson on a special episode of his podcast We Need To Talk. “He was always p****d. He’d just come out of prison.”

Katie’s mum Amy Price was understandably worried for her daughter and tried to stop her from going out with the older man – but Katie would pick fights with her and go out anyway, she said.

“My mum was nuts, but I denied it to her,” Katie recalled. “I argued with mum, ‘I’m going out, he’s picking me up’, and now I look back, thinking my mum was stopping me, but she wasn’t, she was protecting me.”

Katie didn’t have sex with her boyfriend until she was 16, after her mum begged her not to lose her virginity. “We didn’t have sex until my 16th birthday, after the East 17 concert,” Katie laughed. “My mum always said, ‘Don’t ever lose your virginity, make sure you’re at least 16.'”

But their relationship quickly soured as the older man would fly into jealous rages if he thought Katie was even looking at other men, she claimed. “The amount of times my mum had to pick me up, where he’d cut all my clothes off and I was naked in a telephone box, ‘Mum, he’s done it again. Pick me up’,” Katie revealed.

“If I was in a petrol station or anything, he’d be like, ‘are you looking at those men?’ I’d be like, ‘no, no, I’m not looking’. So I’d sit like that [head down] facing forwards. So jealous.”

Mum Amy was forced to take action to get her child away from the controlling boyfriend, and called Child Protection and the police to get him away from Katie. “I was training to be a nurse, because that’s what I wanted to do, be a registered nurse. But before I did the course, I worked in these nursing homes. I was like 16, and they had to call the police on him. These are memories that I’ve got, a big police van, him kicking off because he thought I fancied a guy that worked there,” Katie remembered.

“Oh my god, it took ages to get out of that relationship. It was dreadful. But I was so sucked into like, yeah, he’s older with the car. And it was near the end of my school years.”

Amy was right to be protective of her daughter – when Katie was seven, she was sexually assaulted in a park by a man who pulled her into a bush, she said.

“Basically a man did something to me, and I remember all the police being called. They took all our underwear and everything. He [the stranger who assaulted her] was basically saying to us, if you let me do this to you, I’ll go and get you an ice cream and all of this,” Katie recalled. “So that was my first, I suppose, traumatic thing with a man.”

Katie was later groomed by a photographer who took bikini pictures of her when she was just 13, after her mum had allowed her to do a photoshoot at his house.

“He was saying to my mum, ‘I’ve got these child model agencies, blah, blah, blah, we should go into modelling. Why don’t you come to mine? I’ll do a photo shoot.’ So we’d go to his house, a few times I went, but he’d never let my mum watch,” said Katie.

The photographer would make a pineapple milkshake and tempt her to drink it, while telling Katie’s mum and nan to take their dog out for a walk around the block.

“I didn’t like it, so I actually never drank it. And he’d tell my mum and my nan to just go and walk the dog and then come back. Then when we look at the pictures, I was in bikinis, sunglasses, doing all of this, sticking my tongue out, all of that,” said Katie.

“He’d always ring my mum and always speak to me, but it seemed so professional. Then we had a knock at the door, and it was the Child Protection. He’d been arrested. He had like, 12 different names, 12 different accounts, and he was in prison, and they said he was so obsessed with me that he had pictures of me in his cell. And this drink, he used to drug girls with it but I never took the drink.”

On a third occasion in her younger years, a man tried to pull her into his car, she said.