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Some fans feel let down by the Channel 4 star after defending her when she was accused of using Mounjaro, despite the fact that she appears unrecognizable from her days on Gogglebox and Celebs Go Dating.

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Gogglebox star Amy Tapper got herself into a furious clash with a disgruntled fan who accused her of lying about her 7.5 stone weight loss. The 26-year-old hit back after being branded a liar, with one fan claiming they felt “cheated” after she admitted using ‘skinny jab’ Mounjaro to lose her weight.

Amy, who previously promoted Muscle Food on her Instagram account, appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday, coming clean about her decision to use the controversial weight loss medication. But one fan took aim at Amy, accusing her of deceiving her loyal followers.

The fan claimed on social media that she felt cheated because she frequently displayed her Muscle Food as being delivered and exercising on her Instagram page. Although she uses the injection naturally, don’t come on TV and say it when she is receiving moral support.

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But Amy, who left the Channel 4 show in 2017, jumped to defend herself, replying: “If you watch the whole interview you’ll hear that I started the injections last June, I haven’t done the diet you are talking about since 2023 so there’s been no lying here.”

The fan continued to accuse Amy of deceiving the fans who had been standing up for her despite Amy’s insistence that she had been truthful. You didn’t say you were taking the injection, they replied, “but you didn’t say that.”

“I am aware that losing it is nobodies’ business if you are,” I say. However, when you posted those before and after photos the day before, someone [commented that you had been using] injections. A few of us said, “No, she has been doing it the natural way,” as we had assumed but were unaware that you had been taking it.

Amy didn’t reply to the comment, with many of her other fans jumping in to defend the star. One wrote: “The injections only help her to not overeat. The rest she has to do herself, diet and exercise. Lots of people take the injections alongside slimming world, weight watchers etc. You still have to eat the right foods and put in 100% effort.”

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During her interview on GMB, Celebs Go Dating star Amy admitted: “That is what I’ve been advised by my doctor. Because I think a lot of the way that people look at the injection is as a quick fix.

“It’s quick, but it won’t fix you forever,” it is. My body will start acting like it did the first time, which means, yes, I’ll be on it forever. We’ll go over it and see what might happen, but I’m taking the most at the moment.

ITV Daytime star Dr Amir Khan was listening into the conversation, and he acknowledged that Amy had a ‘compelling story’ to tell with her health journey but did insist that two years was the maximum time an individual should take the injection for in general.

He continued, “That two years gives me plenty of time to make those changes, perhaps through movement, sleep, and stress, that all contribute to weight. I don’t believe you need to be on it because a lot of that will be excess weight if you only have about three stone to lose.

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Although the crowd is singing along to some of the songs on Sir Rod Stewart’s extensive playlist, he acknowledges that the one he wants to be remembered for won’t be the first to come up in everyone’s minds.

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Sir Rod Stewart has a catalogue of tunes worthy for his iconic status. But, for the man himself, there is one tune in particular who would love his legacy to be remembered for – and it’s not one some would expect.

The 80-year-old rocker is still going strong, wowing his crowds at energetic gigs. His career has spanned over six decades and he is one of the best-selling artists of all time.

While his fans are still enthralled by popular tunes like Maggie May and Do You Think I’m Sexy, Rod himself is most impressed by one of his other compositions. Rod admitted during a speech in 2011 that his most notable accomplishment in the field was a song from the 1970s’ socially conscious heyday.

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The Killing of Georgie would be the one song he would be most proud of, he told Dean Goodman at the time. because it dealt with a challenging subject in 1976, which is a very long time ago.

The two-parter song was included on his seventh solo album, A Night on the Town, from the same year. It addressed homophobia in particular.

The subject was hardly ever discussed in popular culture at the time. The theme of the song was a victim of sexual abuse and assassination according to the lyrics.

Rod previously explained how the song’s plot was loosely based on the account of an old friend. The song’s opening line reads, “I these days of changing ways/ So called liberated days/ A story comes to mind/ Georgie boy was gay, I guess/nothin’ more or nothin’ less/ The kindest guy I ever knew.”

Rod told the Guardian in 2016 that he only knew him for a short while and that he was connected to the truth. He would play songs for us and ask, “Have you heard this? “

“I can recall him singing “Night Time Is the Right Time” to us. He was a truly beautiful guy, I can tell you.

And he acknowledged that despite the story’s apparent truth, he was not involved at the time. I embellished a little because I wasn’t on the scene when it occurred. He called the icon “poetic license” when he described how he had handled the murder as an unintentional.

I believed they might not have intended to murder him. They might have intended to do him over, perhaps.

Rod recently called his wife Penny Lancaster’s new memoir ‘blood curdling’ as she gets ready to spill some of their most intimate marriage details in the book. In a lighthearted video on Instagram showing him thumbing through Penny’s book while the pair lounged togethe, Rod put on a horrified performance, gasping: “Wow this is incredible Penny. Absolutely blood curdling information in here.”

He teased, “You shouldn’t have put that in the book, Penny,” as he feigned to cringe at her revelations.

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Due to a broken ankle, Daniel Dyer has been replaced on Strictly Come Dancing by fellow Love Island winner Amber Davies. The lineup change was made just before the first live performance.

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Theatre star Amber Davies has been unveiled as the latest contestant on the new series of Strictly Come Dancing this week. She’s already begun rehearsals with her dance partner ahead of her first performance on the show.

It has been announced today that Amber, 28, has joined the line-up for the BBC show as a replacement for fellow Love Island winner Dani Dyer. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Dani had withdrawn from the contest after sustaining an injury during a rehearsal.

Amber will be partnered with professional dancer Nikita Kuzmin, who was Dani’s partner. It’s been confirmed that Amber will make her debut on the dancefloor tomorrow night in the first live show of this year’s Strictly.

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It will be the latest TV appearance by Amber, who rose to fame on the third series of Love Island in 2017. She won the ITV2 show with Kem Cetinay, whom she later split from, after having both been original Islanders in that series.

Amber made her West End acting debut in 9 to 5: The Musical at the Savoy Theatre in 2019 and has since pursued opportunities to work as a comedian. She also appeared in Pretty Woman: The Musical and Back to the Future: The Musical on Broadway as Lorraine Baines McFly.

More recently, she played Jordan Baker in the Great Gatsby musical, which had a limited run at the London Coliseum that concluded just weeks ago. She starred alongside the likes of Corbin Bleu and Rachel Tucker in the show.

It was announced earlier this week that Amber’s next role will be Elle Woods in a touring production of the musical Legally Blonde. The upcoming revival of the show is set to tour the UK and Ireland from February next year.

Amber is also getting ready for Call to Stage live performances, which are scheduled for Sunday at the Fortune Theatre. The podcast, which was released last year, features host Amber interviewing other performers and is about musical theater.

She often promotes the podcast on Instagram and guests have included her 9 to 5: the Musical co-star Louise Redknapp, who did Strictly herself in 2016. Whilst an episode released in December last year saw Amber interview choreographer and former Strictly judge and Arlene Phillips.

Amber has also interviewed her partner Ben Joyce, whom she began a romance with when they were co-stars in Back To The Future: The Musical in 2022. She’s now being supported by him amid her Strictly journey, with Ben, who once starred in a West End production of Jersey Boys, reacting in a post earlier: “Does she ever stop?!! No she doesn’t!!”

She has shared insights into their life together on social media in recent month, including posting about a holiday to Greece last week. Whilst back in June, she celebrated the couple having moved into a new home together.

Amber, who has given insights into her experience as an actor, also occasionally shares updates about her family and friends, with her loved ones including her sister Jade Davies, who is a theatre performer herself. Amber is close pals with Natalie Paris, who originated the role of Jane Seymour in the musical SIX and who has previously been part of the Strictly band.

Alongside her acting career in recent years, Amber has also competed on Dancing on Ice. She was a contestant on the ITV show last year and she ended up placing fifth with her skating partner Simon Proulx-Sénécal.

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