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REAL CHRISTINE

LIFE TORN BY
‘MIXED
‘I found myself a hubby MESSAGES’ AISLEYNE’S
at a swingers party!’ FROM PADDY SURGERY SPREE
£2.60 ‘I’ve lost
10 years
& bagged
a toyboy!’

SPLIT DRAMA

HOLLY’S SECRET
AGONY OVER
NEW ROYAL FEUD SEPARATE LIVES
LIES, SPIES &
BACKSTABBING LAUREN’S
HEARTBREAK
‘I’m still
struggling
to move
J-LO on after
& BEN Charles’

‘It’s over!’
ISSUE 1109

25 – 31 MAY 2024
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Welcome to
inside

this issue...

ON THE COVER

4 William and Kate’s new fears


over Harry and Meghan
6 Holly: “I hate being
away from my family” POST-BABY CELEB INTERIOR

8 Lauren: “No one helps me” WORKOUT INSPO


17 J-Lo & Ben in marriage crisis
18 “I found myself a
husband at a sex party”
24 Christine “desperate
for a fresh start”
34 Aisleyne: “I’ve spent £7k
on surgery to look younger”

CELEB NEWS

10 Katie: “I’d love to get married


again and have more children”
14 Posh’s royal takeover:
“Call me Lady Beckham!”
16 Loved up Renée moves
to the UK for her man!
20 Love dramas
22 Vanessa: “If I don’t like my
dinner date I insist on paying half”
48 Ease yourself back into fitness after
giving birth with these exercises 59 Be calmed and wowed by Sam Faiers’
“quiet luxury” home decor

28 How Sam helped save Louise


TASTE THE FEELING
30 Molly: “I’ve challenged Tom
to keep up with my workouts” GLOW PEACHY!

REAL LIFE

12 New report: What’s behind the


rising cases of whooping cough?
26 Baby Reindeer victim: “I was
stalked by the ‘real-life’ Martha”
32 “I met the love of my life on
Tinder, while having chemo”

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Eugenie and Beatrice


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with the Waleses

Harry is
close to his
cousins
NEWS

The King mingled at


the garden party

❛ THE SUSSEXES AREN’T AFRAID his elder brother in his book


Spare. But many claim these
TO PUT INFORMATION OUT THERE allegations have been lies.
With Harry’s milestone

AND AIR DIRTY LAUNDRY ❜ birthday looming, insiders say


that Eugenie and Beatrice, 35,
are helping to plan the British
part of his party – which has
further made William and Kate
uncomfortable.
The source says, “Recently,
dci]Z^gDZiã^mh]dl"l]ZgZ are in frequent contact with, in the back’ by Meghan and their closeness has made
she was seen playing with and knowing it’s their only line Harry, they wouldn’t put them increasingly paranoid –
Archie at the beach. to the family has put Wills and anything past them.” especially after learning how
Meghan has previously said, Kate on edge,” the source says. they’ve been helping Meghan
“Eugenie and I had known each “William in particular has felt CONCERNS plan Harry’s birthday bash.
other before I had known Harry, an increasing distance from his In recent years, Harry and While Beatrice and Eugenie are
so that was comfortable. We’re cousins over the last couple of Meghan haven’t held back close with Harry and Meghan,
friends with them as a couple” – years, so when they reach out to when it comes to their views William and Kate feel they can’t
while a family friend has said meet up or spend time together, on the monarchy. Meghan, be as pally with them – especially
of Harry and his cousins, it sparks an element of paranoia 42, claimed that there were as they’re in regular contact with
“They’re still the best of friends – with both William and Kate “concerns and conversations” them over Harry’s party.
and talk constantly”. fearing they could be trying to about Archie’s skin colour “They’re going to continue
And the source now reveals spy on them and feed intel back. within the royal household – keeping their distance as much
that their unwavering closeness “While they’re hoping they’re Charles and Kate were then as they can, which is sad, but
]VhWZZcY^åXjai[dgM^aa^Vb wrong, it doesn’t stop their minds linked to these allegations last they feel necessary right now.
and Kate. from spinning with conspiracy year in a new book by Omid They don’t need any more
“Eugenie and Beatrice are the theories and after having been Scobie. Harry also shared drama in their lives.”
only royals Meghan and Harry so badly betrayed and ‘stabbed YZiV^ahd[VhXjæZ]Z]VYl^i] By Shereen Low

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holly:

She’s been
missing
her family
Separation from Dan and their kids on the other side
of the world is taking a toll on the TV presenter
he’s been of her family life and all her Celebrity… Get Me Out
Wjhnâab^c\

S
creature comforts,” the insider Of Here! with Declan
her new show reveals. “She’s had some down Donnelly in 2018,
in Costa Rica, days. It’s been tough, and being in the Costa Rican
and while it’s she’s really missed Dan and jungle has been quite
WZZcVXVgZZg#YZâc^c\bdbZci the children. The distance the experience for Holly,
for the star, being apart from between them and the gruelling 43. “She’s had a full-on
her family is taking its toll on schedule feels like they’re living schedule with little rest
Holly Willoughby. separate lives. She’s missing l]^aZâab^c\i]ZcZl
Holly, who’s married to TV cuddles with the kids and can’t show, and while it’s been
producer Dan Baldwin and wait to get home and see them.” a great experience, it’s
Survival
mum to children Harry, 14, Not only has she given up her been a real eye opener
expert
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Belle, 12, and Chester, eight, home comforts, Holly’s had to on how gruelling reality shows Bear
^hXjggZcianh]ddi^c\DZiã^mºh deal with the risks of being in like this can be,” we’re told. Grylls
reality survival contest Bear the wilderness, which include “Filming this show has made
Hunt, which she is hosting rabid bats, poisonous snakes her realise she’ll never take her
with explorer Bear Grylls. and deadly spiders. home comforts for granted
“Bear Hunt is not for the faint again. But at least now she’s a
JUNGLE LIFE hearted and all the celebrities fully accomplished survival
But a source tells Closer that who have signed up know expert, she’s coming home
the 43-year-old mum of three they’re going to be heading into tougher than ever.
^hâcY^c\i]Zi^bZVlVn[gdb the wild where it’s teeming
]ZgadkZYdcZhgZVaanY^åXjai" with animal nasties,” a source STAR LINE-UP
especially as she’s on the other says. “As well as snakes like “In fact, she’s told pals she’ll
side of the world in the South the venomous hog-nosed pit never be scared of creepy
American jungle. “Holly is viper, and spiders like the black crawlies again – she’s seen
really missing her family. She widow and brown recluse, the snakes, spiders, the works!”
has really struggled being jungle is also teeming with bats, Twelve celebs including
apart from both Dan and the which can spread rabies.” Mel B, Una Healy, Steph
children. Especially the chaos Having co-presented I’m A McGovern, Lottie Moss and
former Strictly judge Shirley
Ballas have signed up for Bear
Hunt, where they will learn
survival skills from adventurer
Bear. Inbetweeners’ Joe Thomas,
Danny Cipriani, tennis star
Boris Becker and Changing
Rooms presenter Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen have also
Phil sparked joined the show. The group
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rumours when away from jungle for almost a month, with
he was pictured her old This
the show due to air next year.
with Declan Morning gig
By Daisy McLure

6 CLOSERONLINE.CO.UK
NEWS

She is
keen to
keep
up with
David

ALISON’S TOYBOY-
INSPIRED FITNESS PLAN
er new romance

H
with 6ft 10
massage therapist
David Putman
shocked fans, but insiders
say that Alison Hammond’s
relationship has given her
a new lease of life.
Open about her struggles
with her weight, Alison, 49, has
apparently been motivated to
boost her fitness in order to Alison is on
keep up with David, 26. a get-fit kick
A source tells Closer, “She’s
loving the romance with her the This Morning presenter
much younger man but has booked David for a massage.
said she wants to make sure After developing a friendship,
she’s able to keep up with him romance soon blossomed and
and match his energy levels. the pair reportedly began dating
It’s not that David is fitness towards the end of last year.
obsessed or anything, but he’s But while Alison’s love life is
naturally quite active as he’s seemingly better than ever, her
in his mid-twenties. He’s also career is taking a hit after she
naturally slim as well and has a failed to win over some with her
fast metabolism, which Alison new role as host of For The Love
is very envious of. Of Dogs. Luckily, Alison’s new
“They’re different in terms gym – which she’s had built in
of energy levels, which is her garage – is helping her cope
understandable given the with the criticism.
age-gap, but Alison has told “When Alison is met with
her friends that she sees it as a any sort of negativity, she can
positive. It’s a great motivator get really down and needs
for her to stay on top of her something to counteract it
fitness and feel healthy.” fast,” an insider explains.
It is thought that Alison and “Whenever she gets down now,
David originally met when she works out.”

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lauren:

The TOWIE star is struggling to balance her work commitments, motherhood and
her new workout routine after her ex Charles Drury moved on with his new love
auren Goodger I’ve cried all day in secret 2021, but the pair split rose
With daughter La

L
has admitted because I never let my daughter shortly after her birth.
that she’s see that. I’ll never understand They later reunited when
a nervous a^[Z" hd bjX] WVY hijä ]VeeZch Lauren revealed that she
wreck as she and I’ll never understand why.” was pregnant with their
struggles to juggle her hectic Last week, Closer revealed second daughter, Lorena,
life with daughter Larose, that Lauren’s ex and the father who was born in July 2022.
work commitments and of her child, Charles Drury, had Tragically, Lorena was
personal dramas. \dcZ ?chiV\gVb#dåX^Va l^i] ]^h born with her umbilical
Taking to her Instagram new girlfriend. She has since cord wrapped around
last week, the TOWIE star posted several cryptic posts on her neck and passed
revealed, “Been the worst day her social media including one away just minutes later.
ever. My baby girl and I [have] in response to a fan questioning Charles and Lauren’s
been up all night, relationship
her temperature
sky high… kept her ❛ SHE NEVER FINDS THE TIME eventually ended
in August 2022
in all day with me when Lauren
monitoring. TO FOCUS ON HERSELF – SHE’S accused Charles
of assaulting her
CRYPTIC POSTS
A SINGLE MUM AND IT’S HARD ❜
on the day of their
“I’m a nervous wreck daughter’s funeral.
and I have to do it Charles, 26, denied
all by myself, no one comes how she explains to their the claim and, in February,
to give me a helping hand… daughter where her Daddy is. Lauren withdrew her support
>Vihdä id Vaa i]Z h^c\aZ “I simply say Daddy is for the prosecution and
mums that are actually at football, working and Charles was found not guilty.
completely on their own.” remember he had to go back Despite the split, however,
The star then alluded to to school to learn how to be the pair remained close for
another drama taking its toll a good daddy,” she wrote. the sake of their daughter.
on her mental health, writing, Lauren welcomed Larose, But it seems now the star, who
“I also got some horrible news, three, with Charles in July rejoined TOWIE this year, is
âcVaan gZVYn id eji ]ZghZa[ âghi$ âcY^c\ i]Vi i]Z jhjVa ig^X`h h]Z
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In her did before – working out and


original FRUSTRATING cutting back on certain foods –
TOWIE “Charles moving on has given just aren’t working.
days her the drive to get her s**t ·I]Z âcYh ^i [gjhigVi^c\" h]Zºh
back in order,” a source tells WZZc ldg`^c\ ]Zg VghZ dä Wji
Closer. “She wants to get back feels like she’s gaining weight
out there and meet someone, instead of losing it.”
but knows she has some work But despite not getting the
id Yd dc ]ZghZa[ âghi$ I]Zºh instant results she wants, the
been struggling.” exercise regime does seem to
And it sounds like she’s be helping Lauren to unwind.
making a good start – rejoining Last week she shared, “I made
her local gym and working out some positive changes. I went
as often as she can. back to work and I train near
“Lauren blames stress for the enough every day… The gym
reason why she can’t ditch the is my medicine.”
pounds,” our source continues. The insider adds, “Lauren
“She’s been trying hard recently wants to feel happy and to
She split from id \Zi ]Zg âicZhh WVX`$ I]Z gZ# decompress so that she can
Charles in 2022
joined her local gym but she’s relax and lose weight, but

8 CLOSERONLINE.CO.UK
NEWS

She’s been posting


updates from the
gym

she’s constantly stressed with


juggling childcare and working
on TOWIE.
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to focus on herself – she has
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busy schedule, but she’s a single
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SUPPORTED
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on TOWIE back in 2010, with
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turbulent 10-year relationship
with co-star Mark Wright.
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Lauren was linked to Jake
McLean, Joey Morrison – who
Lauren began dating while he
lVhhZgk^c\i^bZ^ceg^hdc[dgV
series of violent drugs-related
charges – and then Charles.
While the Celebrity Big
Brother star is currently single,
now that she has returned
to TOWIE, she is being well-
hjeedgiZYWn]Zg[Vb^anVcY
friends, including pal and
fellow TOWIEE="7bn9]^aYh$
The source concludes,
“Lauren gets worried that she’s
doing everything alone – she
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not alone, she has lots of friends
around who want to help her.
“She’s loving being back
on TOWIEl^i]]Zg[Vb^an
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hjeedgi$¸

9
KATIE: Katie
and new
man JJ

‘I’d love to
get married
again and
have more
children’
The star opens up to Closer about her love
life, therapy and what’s next for the Pricey
ith a podcast tour and an HZedgihâghiZbZg\ZY
upcoming memoir, Katie of Katie’s relationship

W
Price is showing no signs with JJ back in February.
ildren
of slowing down. And Now, Katie – who is mum With four of her ch
neither is her love life. Her to Harvey, 21, Junior, 18,
relationship with Married At First Sight’s Princess, 16, Jett, 10, and
JJ Slater, 31, is going from strength to Bunny, nine – reveals that
strength, with the couple recently jetting the couple actually kept their blossoming mistakes before. Yes, it would be lovely to
däid9negjh[dgVhjccn\ZiVlVn$ romance well hidden from the spotlight. get married one day and I would love more
Now, Katie tells Closeri]Vih]ZºhâcVaan She shares, “We’ve been together children, but there’s no need to rush. The
found happiness. nearly six months now. A lot of that time best thing is just getting to know each other
Katie, who turned 46 this week, says, was hidden, which was the best thing and spending time together.”
“I’ve met his family, and all of my kids have ZkZg$@@ºh hdY^äZgZci[gdbl]Vi?ºkZWZZc It’s been a rough few weeks for Katie, who
met JJ. Everyone says how calm, gentle and with in the past, which is good.” has found herself in the spotlight following
sensible he is. Having your family’s approval a bankruptcy case. Revealing how she takes
is the best. There’s nothing worse than when YOUNGER MAN care of her mental health, Katie says, “The
you can’t be around your family with your Touching on their 14-year age gap, Katie Priory. I am getting a lot of support right
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partner because there’s an atmosphere.” adds, “JJ looks like he’s in his 20s, but he’s now, because it’s all just so damaging to
nearly 32! Do you know what’s weird? In me. My memoir, This Is Me, is coming out
Katie loves my mum and dad’s relationship, my dad is in July, and I think people are going to be
to perform younger, and now Junior is also following gobsmacked. I’ll be putting my Priory notes
in the footsteps and going for an older in there, because I think people need to see
woman. It must run in our family!” ]dl?ºkZWZZchjäZg^c\VcY]dl?ºkZ\di
Rumours have swirled in recent weeks through it all.”
that the couple were preparing to take Known for repeatedly going under the
their romance to the next step, touring knife, Katie often takes her social media
wedding venues and discussing baby followers along for the ride when it comes
plans. However, Katie – who has been to her surgeries, which include liposuction,
married three times before – insists they eye lifts and breast implants, among others.
are taking things slow. However, the star is now urging other
She explains, “What I’ve learned in women to think twice before following in
therapy is that I’ve rushed a lot of my her footsteps. She says, “When it comes to
relationships and I’ve made so many surgery, I’ll always have more because that’s
INTERVIEW

Katie’s podcast with sister


Sophie is going on tour

just me. But my advice to other people is


to research. There are loads of ‘before and
after’ pictures on Instagram, but actually get
in touch with the people who have had the
surgery done and ask them what it was like.”

PERFORMING
Since launching her podcast with younger
sister Sophie last year, Katie has garnered an
impressive fanbase. And the star is taking
The Katie Price Show on tour, performing
for fans across the UK. Opening up on her
love for podcasting and touring, Katie says,
“The best thing is I get to say what I want,
and it’s my voice. The whole family come in
ViY^äZgZcii^bZhdci]^hedYXVhi"hd?XVcºi
wait.” And while the star is used to appearing
on TV, Katie says she’s a fan of her more
low-key podcast appearances. “Podcasting is
easier because you can do it at home without
your make-up on,” she laughs.
Alongside her tour, Katie says, “I’m also
doing a lot of festivals this year, which I
never thought I’d be doing! I’ve been in the
studio recording some club classics. Work-
wise, my dreams are coming true.”
And at the end of the year, Katie says she’ll
be taking to the stage once more – reuniting
‘My with best pal Kerry Katona for panto season.
Katie adds, “We’re playing the two ugly
dreams sisters in Cinderella. I love it because Kerry’s
in such a good place. She doesn’t drink
are coming anymore and she doesn’t do drugs anymore.
We’re both the same in that way, really. It’s
true’ just refreshing that we’re both using our
natural energy.”
● The Katie Price Show is touring across the
UK throughout May and June. Buy tickets
online, and listen to new episodes of the
podcast weekly

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CLOSER NEWS REPORT

Experts warn we could be on the cusp of the worst whooping


cough outbreak in 40 years after five infants died of it this year.
Closer speaks to two mums whose children are suffering…
hen Kerry UKHSA said last week that 2020. Meanwhile, the number
Pearson gave 2,793 cases of the bacterial lung of two-year-olds who completed

W
birth to her infection – also known as their six-in-one vaccinations as
daughter Polly in pertussis – were spotted in of September 2023 was 92.9 per
March, she was ;c\aVcY^ci]Zâghii]gZZ cent, compared with 96.3 per
excited for the future with her months of 2024. This marks a cent in March 2014.
newborn. But when Polly was dramatic rise from the 858 Dr David Elliman, Consultant
just two weeks old, on 6 April, cases and one death in 2023. in Community Child Health at
she developed a rattly cough IiVgi^c\däl^i]XdaY#a^`Z Great Ormond Street Hospital,
and had laboured breathing. symptoms and progressing into said, “The NHS is going
And after four days of nasty coughing bouts, the through a period of turmoil
coughing at home, the tot had illness gets its name from the and all services are under Kerry
to be rushed to hospital when distinctive whoop sound some considerable pressure. This has and baby
she stopped breathing and people make when they gasp had a part to play. There is no Polly
turned blue. Shockingly, just for breath between coughs. evidence that the low uptake of
three days later Polly was on a the whooping cough vaccine in Polly was put on a paediatric
ventilator and in an induced DECLINE pregnancy is due to women lVgYdcVcdmn\Zc#ãdl
coma. She had been diagnosed Experts say a number of factors declining the vaccine. More machine, which provided extra
with whooping cough – a that are likely to be contributing likely is a lack of clarity as to oxygen for her to breathe. She
bacterial infection that to the rise including measures who is responsible for giving it was moved to a CPAP machine,
generally doesn’t respond to taken to control Covid, which – primary care or maternity.” which pushed oxygenated air
antibiotics. suppressed many other Kerry knew nothing about into her lungs, but she kept
Polly is now home and diseases, and also a small but whooping cough when Polly turning blue as her oxygen
breathing independently, and steady decline in whooping was diagnosed, saying she levels plummeted, and her
Kerry, 26, who lives in Bexley, cough vaccination rates. Just 61 thought it was something from breathing kept stopping. Kerry
London, with her partner Jack per cent of pregnant women in her “grandparents’ era”. Kerry says, “Every 20 minutes she
Deehy, 29, a forklift driver and England were vaccinated in had a whooping cough vaccine would stop breathing, I’ve
son Henry, seven, says her 2023, down from 71 per cent in as a child, and again during her never been more scared.”
daughter is lucky to have come pregnancy with her son, but
through the illness unscathed. lVhcºidäZgZYi]ZkVXX^cZl]Zc DIAGNOSED
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She says, “It’s been an absolute pregnant with Polly. On 13 April, Polly was put on a
living nightmare – I thought Polly was born on 26 March ventilator in an induced coma.
my baby was going to die.” after an uncomplicated labour Tests for whooping cough came
and went home with Kerry the back positive the next day.
OUTBREAK same evening. But four days Kerry says, “I couldn’t believe
Experts have warned that we later, Kerry started feeling ill this was happening to us, I
could be on the cusp of the with chills, a headache and a honestly thought we’d lost her.”
worst whooping cough very rattly cough. Polly was very 8jiFdaanlVhhadlaniV`Zcdä
outbreak in 40 years. Tragically, congested and got a rattly cough life support and was woken
The UK Health Security Agency too a few days later. from her coma on 22 April. She
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lZgZâkZ^c[VciYZVi]h^c Polly in the turned blue and stopped after breathing independently.
intensive
England between January and WgZVi]^c\"hdViZgg^âZYAZggn She’s now at home recovering
care unit
March this year. and Jack rushed her to hospital. and Kerry is determined to raise

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Alana and
daughter Ellie THE VACCINE WHILE PREGNANT,
awareness. She says, “We don’t
THEN PLEASE DEMAND IT ❜
know if there will be any lasting
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hdgZi]gdVil]^X]aViZgijgcZY By Amy Rowland

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POSH’S ROYAL TAKEOVER:

The Beckhams have made no secret of their desire to be given titles – and it looks like
they might finally be getting their wish
espite his Invictus Games. Unlike David,

D
ongoing battle however, the Duke of Sussex
with cancer, didn’t land any one-on-one
King Charles is time with his dad, 75, who was
said to have had a reportedly too busy to meet.
private meeting with David And with David friendlier
Beckham last week to talk about than ever with the King, a
the King’s Foundation. Now, source reveals that Victoria,
with David keen to secure his 50, is hoping a knighthood is
much sought-after knighthood, closer than ever.
a source tells Closer that Victoria
is ready to take their royal DIFFERENT PATH
connections to the next level. The source says, “It’s no secret
It was reported that David, that David is desperate to
49, took a trip to King Charles’ become a Sir, and him sidling
Highgrove House to discuss up to King Charles shows how
charity projects. The former much he wants it. He believes David is
[ddiWVaaZgâghiWdcYZYl^i]i]Z it’s only a matter of time before on good
nature-loving monarch after he’s knighted, and Victoria terms with
gifting him some homemade cannot wait. She’s said that the royals
honey last year. His visit she’s been waiting her whole
coincidentally took place life to become Lady Beckham
around the same time that µVcYh]Zl^aaYZâc^iZanWZ could give them that extra
Prince Harry, 39, also touched using the title! kudos which they think could
down in London to attend a “Victoria thinks this will put help them eventually become
ceremony to celebrate the ]ZgdcVY^äZgZcieVi]VcY billionaires. The marketing
anniversary of the âcVaanegdkZi]Vih]Zºhhi^aa opportunities would be
the poshest of the Spice through the roof.” Posh Spice
Girls, despite Geri trying to A knighthood has been a meets
the then
claim the title in recent long time coming for David, Prince
years. She’s already who has yet to join the likes Charles
planning what to wear to of footballer Marcus
the Palace when it Rashford, 26, and tennis
eventually happens and player Emma Raducanu, 21,
enjoying the feeling of by landing himself such a
being distinguished sought-after title.
– especially among her
American friends.” EMAIL SCANDAL
Far more than simply a However, the former footballer being knighted”. He allegedly
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knighted could do when he was embroiled in an disgrace, to be honest, and if I
At Harry and wonders for Brand embarrassing email scandal in was an American, I would have
Meghan’s Beckham. The source 2017. Leaked emails seemed to got something like this 10 years
wedding adds, “Victoria knows this show David, who currently ago.” In another email, it was
would give them even holds an OBE, branding the reported that David questioned
more respect in America honours committee singer Katherine Jenkins’ OBE,
and help them stand out “unappreciative c***s” and writing, “For what? Singing at
from all the US stars. It insisting he didn’t “care about the rugby and going to see the

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When Charles
met the Spice
Girls in 1997

igddeh5¸IdjgXZh]VYVaaZ\ZY reportedly fracturing any


that David told friends the friendship that was left.
emails were written “in the heat Now befriending some of the
of the moment”. The footballer most senior royals, the source
later denied the allegations, reveals that David isn’t afraid to
saying some of the emails had shut the door on his former
been “doctored”. friendships. The source reveals,
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now in the past, his recent i]ZâcVacV^a^ci]Z8ZX`]Vbhº
meeting with the King is friendship with Harry and
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David and Victoria’s dreams a over Meghan accusing her of
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it all wrong last time, so he’s they were always going to side
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– including charming Charles,” always been very vocal in their
says the source. support for Kate and William,
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THE RIGHT TEAM the right team.”
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the King may be strengthening, 8ZX`]VbXdjaYgZVX]cZl
his previous close friendship highs. The source says, “Despite
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even attended Harry’s wedding David and Victoria are so proud
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said to have soured. to show their support for the
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have drifted apart in recent be the ultimate fairy tale for
years. Last year, sources alleged David – a boy from London
that Meghan suspected that the âcVaanWZXdb^c\VI^gVcY
8ZX`]Vbh]VYaZV`ZYhidg^Zh Victoria a Lady.”
about them to the press, By Charlotte Roberts

❛ THIS WILL FINALLY PROVE


THAT SHE’S STILL THE POSHEST
PHOTOS: GETTY, SHUTTERSTOCK

OF THE SPICE GIRLS ❜


David presented the King
with some of his honey

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The actress asserts her love of England as she looks for
the perfect home to settle down with fiancé Ant Anstead
ollywood been a real Anglophile, even

H
A-lister Renée before doing Bridget Jones.
Zellweger Now that she’s marrying a Brit,
is looking it just makes sense to make a
to make a home there.
permanent move to the UK “Ant’s relatives in the UK
after falling in love with the are all getting older and he
country all over again. wants to spend more time back
Renée, 55, who is currently
renting a £4 million
home. Renée is all for it and
they’ve agreed the best thing
❛ THIS IS THE
townhouse in London as she to do is buy a house. That way,
HAPPIEST SHE’S
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âabhi]ZcZlBridget Jones whenever they go back they


movie, is said to be so happy can have somewhere that’s
to be back in the UK, she now
wants to make it her home.
totally private and decorated
just to their taste.”
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The couple
are looking to EVER BEEN ❜
move to the UK
ROMANTIC TRIPS Bridget Jones movie in London
Getting engaged to British 23 years ago, has always been
TV presenter Ant Anstead, open about her love of the UK “They’ll still keep a place in âab^c\i]ZnºkZWZZc\d^c\dji
45, has also played a big part and has been spotted in pubs California, but having a bolt hXdji^c\Y^äZgZciidlchVcY
in the couple’s decision on enjoying a pint of Guinness hole for romantic trips and looking at houses.”
where to live when they’re with the locals. Now it seems somewhere to celebrate special
married. that she wants to make sure occasions with Ant’s kids is a no DREAM LIFE
A source says, “Renée she can do that even when brainer,” the source continues. Renée, who was previously
loves England. She’s always she’s not just here for work. ·:jg^c\]Zgi^bZdä[gdb married to comedy actor
Jim Carrey and
divorced country
singer Kenny
Chesney in 2005,
met Ant in 2021
on the set of the
reality show
Celebrity IOU
Joyride. At the
time, Ant was
just seven
months out of
Renée his marriage
The first Bridget and Ant’s to reality star
Jones was filmed in A clip from the home in Christina Haack,
London 23 years ago 2016 Bridget California
who he’d starred

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J-LO & BEN IN


‘DIVORCE’ CRISIS
fter weeks maintain relevance and careers, next two big films. He doesn’t

A
of growing too much scrutiny. How could it need more chaos in his life,
concerns that possibly have worked?” self-inflicted or otherwise, and
Ben Affleck And now sources tell Closer that’s exactly what his marriage
and Jennifer that Ben, 51, found it increasingly with Jennifer turned into.
Lopez’s relationship was in hard to live out his marriage to “Moving to New York was
serious trouble, fans have the megastar in the spotlight. something Ben initiated a few
begun to suspect that they’ve “J-Lo has built them into months ago and Jennifer went
gone their separate ways for this super-brand, with Ben’s along with it, even though
a second time. permission, but he’s had her kids love living in LA,”
Divorce rumours went into major regrets over agreeing the source adds. “Now Ben’s
overdrive last week when to put their relationship in the revising those plans and you can
the 54-year-old singer liked spotlight,” a source tells us. “It see the stress all over his face as
an Instagram post about got way too intense for him, and he deals with this.”
broken relationships posted he feels the only way to save The couple, who married in
by a life coach who’d written, things now is to take stock.” 2022 – having called off their
“You cannot build a healthy Ben was noticeably absent first wedding in 2003 and
relationship with someone from his wife’s side when she co- splitting up due to the intensity
who lacks integrity and chaired the Met Gala. He instead of public interest – have become
emotional safety”. decided to stay on the west one of the most talked-about
with in the home renovation It followed a Hollywood coast to shoot his sequel film, marriages in Hollywood. But for
show Christina On The Coast. insider revealing, “The The Accountant 2. And insiders Ben, that seems to have taken
:Zhe^iZ^c^i^VaanâcY^c\ writing is on the wall, now have also said that their its toll, and sources tell us that
fame in the UK as the host of it’s over” – after Ben had search for a new house in to save their relationship Jen
Channel 4’s For The Love Of reportedly moved out of their New York was called off and might need to rethink things.
Cars"7cibdkZYidi]ZKI £47 million mansion. J-Lo is thought to have been The source adds, “If they hope
in 2017 to present Wheeler One fan responded to the house-hunting alone. to salvage this relationship, they
Dealers USA$>ZgZbV^cZY drama, posting, “Too much The source says, “This is a need to agree on a much more
there for ex-wife Christina baggage, too much money, critical period for Ben as he low-key lifestyle where their
VcYi]Z^ghdc>jYhdc$7ci^h too much desperation to makes final preparations for his marriage is more private.”
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swinging spouse:

Katy likes to
explore her
sexuality

Katy Bampton was only looking for some fun, but


ended up finding The One when she least expected to…
fter being think anyone expects to meet her to a swingers’

A
cooped up the man of their dreams at a party, which was
during the sex party. But I certainly did. I open to singletons
pandemic, adore Robbie and we couldn’t too. Dressed in a
Katy Bampton WZ]Vee^Zg$¸ ha^c`ndjiâi"h]ZlZci
wanted to let her hair down to the party with an
and have some fun. INTRIGUED open mind and, after
So, when an open-minded When she was 25, Katy left her sipping drinks and
couple she knew mentioned hometown of Prestatyn, Wales, watching others have
they were going to a sex party and moved to Australia’s Gold fun, she had sex with
and invited her along, she Coast to work as a nursery the couple she’d gone
jumped at the chance. teacher. Through her job she with. Katy recalls, “It
And Katy, 31, got more than got to know many of the parents was fun and thrilling.
she bargained for, meeting a – and one couple she got to I’d always been into
man at the party who she’s now know intimately. âicZhhVcYlVh
married to. Katy says, “I don’t Katy says, “One day we got XdcâYZci^cbn WdYn$¸
chatting and they were
She chronicles so friendly. They were ATTRACTED myself as open-minded,
her life on obviously very much in Afterwards, she went to I found myself judging
PHOTOS: MEDIADRUMIMAGES / @ITSKATYFIT *STEVE IS A FALSE NAME

social media love. I asked how they another room to sit down Robbie for being a porn star.
kept their spark alive and relax, and spied a face But I was also intrigued by
and they confessed she recognised – Robbie Oz, him, and of course attracted,
they were swingers. one of Australia’s biggest hd?lZciidbZZi]^b$¸
“Far from being taken porn stars. She hadn’t seen The pair clicked immediately
aback, I was intrigued. Vcnd[]^h âabh"Wjih]Z and just six weeks after
I’d heard about couple- knew he had a huge meeting, on Katy’s 29th
swapping in my younger following on social media. birthday, Robbie proposed at
years and had always Katy introduced herself. a beach bar. Katy reveals, “I
been curious. I’d always Nothing sexual happened said yes without hesitation! I’d
had monogamous between them and they just never met anyone like Robbie.
relationships, but had chatted. Two weeks later, He’d pushed me into thinking
struggled with feeling Robbie found her on social and living in new ways, and
ViigVXiZYiddi]ZgbZc$¸ media and asked if she fancied a I couldn’t wait for us to grow
She was delighted trip in a hot air balloon at dawn. daY id\Zi]Zg¸
when the couple invited She says, “Despite thinking of Katy’s family were supportive,

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Katy and Rob


are honest with
each other

with another man,

❛ I WENT FOR SOME FUN – BUT but we had long,


deep conversations
and worked through

BAGGED THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! ❜ it. Now Steve is


my boyfriend and
HdWW^Z^hâcZl^i]
but Covid regulations one another, exploring our that. He knows he’s
prevented them from attending sexuality, not just together my number one and
the wedding in February 2022, but also separately.” nothing will change
so the pair eloped and got that. The men even
married at a small venue. HONEST get on, with no jealousy from
She says, “I’d never been In June last year, Katy met a man either side. I call it double love!” It’s like having a best friend
happier. And over time, our called Steve* on social media. Katy chronicles her life to a in your corner all the time.
sexual exploration deepened. They got chatting and arranged large social media following, We’re open and honest – the
I took courses and retrained to to meet up. Katy says, “Our but some comments are critical. honeymoon period feels like
become a somatic breathwork relationship was purely sexual She says, “They’re really judging it’s never going to end.
coach and a sex educator, Viâghi$8jiV[iZg_jhiVXdjeaZd[ themselves, covering up for a “I am so grateful that I went to
hjeedgi^c\di]ZghidâcY times, I realised our connection lack of courage to explore their that sex party that night. I went
XdcâYZcXZVcYa^WZgVi^dc was deeper than I’d imagined. own sexuality.” for some fun – but bagged myself
in their bodies. Robbie and “It felt scary to confess to I]ZVYYh"·8Z^c\bVgg^ZYid the love of my life!”
I became more open with Robbie that I was falling in love Robbie has been amazing. By Miyo Padi & Moira Holden

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EKIN-SU & ARG SEEN ‘PASSIONATELY KISSING’
here may be Celebrity Big Brother earlier

T
romance in the air this year – for which she
between Love Island received an online backlash.
2022 winner Ekin-Su went on the show
Ekin-Su Culculoglu, 29, and shortly after breaking up
former TOWIE star James with her Love Island partner,
Argent, 36, after the pair Davide Sanclimenti, 29, in
were allegedly spotted kissing January. Arg is also newly
and spending time together. single after splitting from his
According to reports, the two ex-girlfriend, Stella Turian,
reality stars started to get close 19, in November last year after
after Ekin-Su’s appearance on more than a year of dating.
A source claimed
Ekin-Su and Arg
Ekin-Su were “practically
(left) neighbours” and had
and Arg been “passionately
kissing” after
spending more time
together. But while
fans are thrilled by
the potential reality
royalty hooking
up, both stars have
apparently denied
they are together.
An insider
claims the pair’s
management are
trying to get to
the bottom of the
romance rumours.
The source says,
“The team are
channelling their

LYDIA GOES OFFICIAL WITH NEW MAN! ZAYN ADMITS


Former TOWIE star Lydia Bright
has stepped out with her new
boyfriend, Ben Davies, for the
first time. The couple, who have
HE’S ‘NEVER
been dating for six months,
were spotted on a day out at
BEEN IN LOVE’
Paper Mill Lock in Chelmsford. In an apparent snub to his
Lydia, 33 – who has a four- exes, Zayn Malik, 31, has
year-old daughter, Loretta, revealed that he’s never
with her ex, Lee Cronin – been in love. Appearing on
confirmed her new The Zach Sang Show, the
relationship with singer admitted that he’s
the landscaper never experienced true love,
on Instagram. despite being in two long-
Sharing a story term public relationships.
of Ben singing The first was with Little Mix
Disney songs with star Perrie Edwards, 30,
her daughter, Lydia who he was engaged to,
wrote, “There are so and the second was with
many reasons why Gigi Hadid, 29, with whom
I love you, but this is he shares daughter, Khai.
my number one. Six A family He said, “I don’t know if Zayn with
months of us.” day out to I’ve actually truly been in Perrie
the Lock love at this point.” (left) and
Gigi (right)
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his first son aged 48, after he dogs, Milo and Bumble.
and wife Anne-Marie Corbett, Now that Ant is father to
46, announced the birth of a newborn, he and Declan
Wilder Patrick McPartlin. Donnelly, 48 – who has two
That’s one
award- The Britain’s Got Talent children of his own with wife
winning presenter shared a photo of Ali Astall – have taken a step
kiss, guys! himself cradling his son on back from work, saying, “We
Instagram, with the caption, have both got children that
After “passionately kissing” While it hasn’t been “Born, 14/05/24 at 8.45am. we need to spend time with”.
at the TV BAFTAs after-party, confirmed whether the pair Baby is beautiful, Mummy’s Ant has spoken about
Strictly finalist Bobby Brazier are dating, an insider at the a legend, sisters are over the wanting to become a dad
and recent MAFS star Ella event revealed, “Bobby and moon. Dad’s a mess!” The in the past. His ex-wife Lisa
Morgan have sparked new Ella were going for it, it was photo also revealed a tattoo Armstrong, insiders say,
romance rumours. According a proper snog and he went of a family tree on Ant’s found the baby news very
to sources, Ella, 30, and back a couple of times for shoulder, which includes difficult – she posted a story
Bobby, 20, couldn’t keep their more. They were sharing flirty the names of Anne-Marie’s on Instagram, “Be proud of
hands off each other and were banter and then they pulled children from her previous how you have been handling
spotted kissing several times each other to one side for a marriage, Daisy and Poppy, these past few months”.
throughout the night. snog by the bar.”

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VANESSA:

‘If I don’t like my


dinner date, I insist
on paying half !’
Vanessa with
The TV personality gives a rare update on her love life Tinder hottie,
Stefan-Pierre

and tells us the truth about those pictures with Mr Tinder Tomlin

t’s fair to say Vanessa


Appearing on

I
Feltz has had a
turbulent love life. Celebs Go Dating
After her marriage
with Michael Kurer
broke down in 2000, she moved
on with singer Ben Ofoedu but,
despite appearing solid to the
outside world, they also faced their
issues – splitting last February.
But instead of wallowing, Vanessa,
62, is now determined to have fun
and has got herself well and truly
back out on the dating scene.

GOOD TIME
In fact, when we caught up with
the TV presenter, she’d just been
on a blind date, telling us, “I had
dinner with some fellow last night, and I don’t like them – I’m trying my best,
I absolutely couldn’t stand him before but it’s not easy sometimes. I didn’t let
the soup. I didn’t like him. It was an him pay. When I don’t like them, I don’t
introduction from friends, but I just didn’t want them to pay because I don’t want
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really like him, but it was OK – I survived. them to think I owe them anything, so appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2001
I had a nice dinner. The dinner was good. I insisted on paying half.” and joined This Morning in 2006. But in
“I’m trying to learn from Celebs Go Dating Last month Vanessa, who’s mum to recent years she’s made headlines for her
not to dismiss someone too quickly and say Allegra, 38, and Saskia, 35, was also controversial opinions on daytime TV
spotted out on another date with Tinder’s shows and her rocky love life.
Her presenting career most-swiped man, Stefan-Pierre Tomlin,
began back in 1994 at the Vindication SwimâabegZb^ZgZ$8ji FUMING
it doesn’t seem to have turned into a long- And Vanessa now shares what she’s learnt
term relationship, as she explains, “He’s about the dating world and being single,
very easy on the eye, I can’t say any more saying, “I’ve learned that I’m more resilient
than that. My plan is just to have a laugh.” than I thought. I’ve been out every night
She adds, “I’ve got two wonderful for, I don’t know, 365 nights, it’s been more
children and four grandchildren. I don’t than a year, so it’s probably like 395 nights
need to go down the aisle though, I’ve done or something. I stayed home that one night.
that. I don’t need to get pregnant, it’s too late I didn’t really like it – I haven’t done it since
for that, so I reckon just have a good time.” and will be out every night this week!”
LVcZhhVâghigdhZid[VbZVhVJL She continues, “I just don’t like the
presenter back in 1994, starring on her idea of wasting my life. I think that’s one
show, Vanessa, for four years. She later thing I’ve really learned. I’m not going

22 CLOSERONLINE.CO.UK
INTERVIEW

She split
from Ben
last year

to want to stay in by myself – it’s not


that I can’t, I just don’t want to.”
Vanessa appeared on Celebs Go Dating
last year but was slammed for her “rude”
and “superior” attitude. In one episode,
she was left fuming after being set up with
someone who reminded her of her ex, Ben,
51. When dating experts Anna Williamson
and Paul Carrick Brunson tried to reason
with her, it only seemed to make things
worse. Vanessa said, “The last thing I want
is some itinerant, horny musician. I’m
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I don’t wish to be corrected on that,” and
Paul responded, saying, “You’re coming
for me right now and you’re doing to me
what you’ve just done to him [the date she
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CHEAP DATE
It’s not just her love life that Vanessa is
working on, she’s also been on a long
journey with her weight. Back in 1999, she
went from a size 22 to a size 10, and her
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years. She has described her yo-yo weight
struggles as a “punitive stint in prison
with no chance of parole”. But now
the single This Morning star is
looking and feeling better than
ever and is ready to throw
‘I’m more herself into dating.
Vanessa – who has
resilient previously admitted to
having gastric band and
than I gastric bypass surgery
thought’ – says, “The break-up
stopped me eating. I’ve been
out to all these dinners, and
I’ve hardly eaten anything at
any of them. I’m a very cheap date!
If anyone wants to take me out, I’m barely
eating, so that would be good.”
By Julie Ann Trainor
● Vanessa was in attendance at the Variety Club
Showbusiness Awards at The Londoner Hotel

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Baby Reindeer victim:

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of all time, with more than 22 night and these voicemails Morgan on 9 May,
million worldwide streams. – her words would bounce saying she had been
The story of Baby Reindeer around my eyelids. I remember “forced” into it after
centres on struggling comedian thinking, ‘God, if I was ever to being contacted by
Donny Dunn’s strange and speak about this on-stage, I’d “online sleuths” and
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woman named Martha (Jessica voicemails in a big cacophony sent death threats.
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to me, very career-damaging”. And she now fears for her
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TERRIBLE MEMORIES has been the target of abusive
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her tormentor re-entered Facebook accusing me of all
Donny met public life 22 years on since sorts, and of being abusive. You
Martha in a pub
she secured an interim don’t know where it will end.”

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like her. She had the same


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Laura said, “She made some
bizarre allegation that I was in
that Laura had hit Laura said, “If she does have my car driving and somehow
her disabled child. any friends, surely they should managed to hit my son who was
Laura said, be trying to help her and calm sitting in the back of the car in
“I hadn’t thought things down. But she doesn’t the child seat. Eventually it was
about her for want to calm things down. Part all dropped, but that’s when I
years. Every time of her is really enjoying this.” went for an interim injunction.
someone says a Thankfully, it worked. She
The show is comment, it STRIKING didn’t defend it. We never
written by triggers it again. Laura claimed the similarities heard any more from her.”
and stars Memories of between Martha and her stalker But Laura said she was
Richard Gadd things she did. were striking. She said, “It was hjgeg^hZYi]ViDZiã^m·Y^Ycºi
It’s distressing. obvious to me and to a lot of attempt to hide the stalker’s
Laura claims problems How did I manage to cope other people that she was my identity”. She said, “Even if she
started as she gave the woman, with that for so long?” stalker. They made her a lawyer. wasn’t mentally ill, if you are
a lawyer, a two-week trial at her Laura believes she features That detail didn’t have any doing a show billed as a true
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abuse. The woman, who we are targets barrister’s deaf child”. changed about her was her seems obviously so mentally ill.
choosing not to name, was even Now she is urging the woman’s name. The lady, Jessica, who They haven’t done enough to
accused of reporting Laura to friends to help bring the circus played Martha was excellent… protect her.”
social services, falsely claiming to an end. she sounds like her, she looks By Charlotte Everett

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NEWS

Kate and
husband
Martin

KATE:

‘It’s important to keep


the passion alive’
hey’ve only in front of friends and family,

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been married for including their daughter Noa,
two years, but following years of being hindered
Kate Lawler has by Covid restrictions. Originally
candidly revealed that she intending to tie the knot in 2020,
and husband Martin Bojtos Martin proposed to Kate in 2018
are currently in couples’ while the pair were on a romantic
therapy after struggling to trip to Bruges, five years after
make time for each other since meeting at the Kerrang Awards.
becoming parents. Their daughter Noa, now three,
In a recent interview, Kate, was born in February 2022,
44, confessed, “Before we got but following her birth, Kate
married, we went to couples’ struggled with severe post-natal
therapy regularly and we still depression. While Kate was
do from time to time. dealing with suicidal thoughts,
“You talk things out and it her and Boj’s relationship took
helps you to see things from a backseat, and the pair began
your partner’s point of view, therapy in order to prevent the
and makes you think, ‘Well… situation from worsening.
actually maybe that was my Kate admitted, “When you’re a
fault’. It’s hugely beneficial.” parent, you have to accept you’re
The Big Brother star not going to have the time – or
and Martin, 40 – who is energy – to do things you did
affectionately known as Boj before your child came along.”
– tied the knot in June 2022 She continued, “It’s so
important to keep the magic
to the removal of her colon. step of the way and Zara too Kate and and passion between you alive,
However, with all of this out has a great sisterly relationship daughter Noa even though it isn’t easy. People
in the open, Louise is allowing with Louise,” the insider says. say having a child is the hardest
herself to be seen for who she “The pair have certainly been thing you’ll do, but keeping the
truly is – and Sam and Zara instrumental in her recovery magic alive and working at your
are supporting her every step and bringing back the fun side of relationship takes as much effort.
of the way. Louise with their recent couple “You have to give each other
“It’s been a long and slow posts on Instagram, which has attention and show lots of
journey for Louise, but Sam been wonderful to see.” affection.”
and Zara have been there every By Isobel Lewis

29
MOLLY:

‘I’ve challenged Tom


to keep up with my
workouts!’ Tom and Molly have
gone from strength
to strength

The Love Island winner opens up on fitness,


fame and finding love in the villa
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INTERVIEW

Fitness fan Molly


‘I’d has launched a
health app

absolutely
love to do
Strictly’

She’s still
good pals with
Arabella Chi

contestants? “Have no expectations,


enjoy the whole process and completely
be yourself. If you are authentically you,
there’s nothing that anyone can take from
you,” she says.
Since being crowned the winners of All
Stars"CdaanºhXVgZZg]VhiV`Zcdä$7hlZaa
as launching her app, she has signed deals
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looking forward to stepping in front of the
cameras again.
“I’d absolutely love to do Strictly. I used
to make my dad dance me around the living
room,” she tells us. “I love a good challenge
so anything that challenges me physically,
I’d give it my all – I like the look of SAS: Who
Dares Win or I’m A Celebrity!”
By Shereen Low
● With summer just around the corner, don’t
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Summer
during
treatment

Summer Smith’s life was turned upside-down by cancer


– but the road to recovery led to her finding The One
hen Summer the way through her gruelling
Smith, now treatment and recovery. Seven
W
25, noticed years since her diagnosis,
bruising on her Summer is now cancer-free
body, she went and the proud mother of two-
to the doctor expecting to year-old Callie. Summer says,
be diagnosed with an easily “When I embarked on cancer
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blood tests revealed that that I would fall in love, but
the then-18 year-old had ?âgbanWZa^ZkZI]VjcVcY
leukaemia. Shocked at the I were meant to be together.” after her diagnosis, Summer
diagnosis, she quickly began was given amazing news. She
treatment and it wasn’t long AGGRESSIVE She lost explains, “The doctor told
before chemotherapy caused In May 2017, Summer had her hair me there was no evidence of
hair loss and rapid weight loss. experienced unexplained leukaemia in my body and
But determined not to fatigue before spotting her ?lVhâcVaan^cgZb^hh^dc$¸
put her life on hold while bruising. She says, “When aggressive. I couldn’t process While overjoyed, she knew
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she jumped back into the ?VhhjbZY^ilVhVYZâX^ZcXn"Wji on beating the disease.” Summer says, “Between
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matched with Shaun Court, lymphoblastic leukaemia – a months in hospital because the lymphoblastic leukaemia
now 29, on Tinder. The two type of blood cancer. I was with treatment was so gruelling and patients relapse, so I had to
clicked immediately – and he my mum, Katherine, and our made her very unwell, causing carry on with my treatment for
supported her every step of worlds were turned upside down weight loss and her hair to another year to reduce the risk
– we were devastated. I’d just got fall out. She says, “I knew it of that happening to me.”
bnâghi_dW^cVXVaaXZcigZVcY was saving my life, but it was
had my whole life ahead of me. hard. While everyone else my UPFRONT
Suddenly, I had no idea what the age was out there having fun, Feeling better and ready to
future held, or if I would even be working, living their best lives move on from her break-up,
alive to live it. It was a terrifying – I was stuck in hospital. It felt Summer downloaded Tinder
time for me and my family.” like life was passing me by.” following advice from a friend.
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PHOTOS: SUMMER SMITH

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before her my eggs for future fertility no guy would be interested.” herself with her short hair on
diagnosis
treatment, the cancer was too But in May 2018, a year ]ZgegdâaZ$7[iZgV[ZlbViX]Zh

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REAL LIFE

Summer and
Shaun are now
parents to Callie

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AISLEYNE:

‘I’ve spent £7k on


surgery to look
younger!’ Looking
forward to
going under
the knife

The reality TV star opens up about her latest nip/tuck,


her new younger man, and coping with online bullies…
he’s no stranger to going muscles separate and left me with

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under the knife, having loose skin, so I’ve had them fused
had three boob jobs, a back together.
supercharged Brazilian bum “I also started to get hooded eyes
lift and liposuction, as well as which happens as you get older, but
multiple cosmetic procedures over the years. I just couldn’t put my eyeliner on
And as she settles down to chat with straight anymore so I got the excess
Closer, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace reveals skin removed and I look much
she’s been through yet another round of brighter. Jowls were also starting to
surgery in a bid to look more youthful. form, so I had everything pulled up.
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The reality star has just returned from My face looks tighter and snatched.
Turkey, where she had a lower neck lift, ?XVchZZVbVhh^kZY^äZgZcXZ"ZkZc
eyelid surgery to remove excess skin and though I’m still swollen. It’s given
a procedure to have two neck muscles me a boost!”
stitched together for a smoother jawline.
And to say she’s thrilled with her new look YOUNGER MEN
would be an understatement. And it’s not the only thing that’s put a spring
in her step, as Aisleyne reveals she’s dating a
SPRUCE UP 29-year- old basketball player based in the US.
“I look about 10 years younger,” laughs “He slid into my DMs a while back and we’ve
Aisleyne, 45. “I’ve got no jowls and the ]^i^idä$>ZºhidiVaan^cidbZ$>Zºh\dg\Zdjh"
marionette lines around my mouth have tall, hardly drinks and believes in God, which
gone. I look a lot fresher – it’s amazing. is very important to me. We’re cyber-dating
When I take my dogs out for a walk and g^\]icdlVcYl]Zc]Zâc^h]Zh]^hhZVhdc"
catch myself in the he’ll come over to visit me – I can’t wait.”
After her latest ey
mirror in the lift, Aisleyne, whose past boyfriends include and neck surgery
e
I’ve done double Jack Whitehall and Mike Tyson, admits she’s
takes and have a not fazed by the 16-year age gap. She says,
little smile.” “I’ve always attracted younger men; they’ve
The star, who commented that I have a young spirit and so after facing severe trolling. She admits she
shot to fame in much energy. I don’t get on with men my age, receives dozens of messages, with bullies
Big Brother in I feel like I’m talking to my dad or uncle, and branding her too “old” to be posting racy
2006 with her no- I’ve got a lot of life in me yet. e^XijgZh$·JgdaahYdVäZXibZVcYbV`ZbZ
nonsense attitude, ·?iºhYZâc^iZanãViiZg^c\WZXVjhZi]ZhZ look at myself more. I get all sorts of nasty
has spent £7k on younger men can have someone their own comments about my age. They’ll say, ‘You
her latest nip/ age but they’re choosing me. It inspired shouldn’t be posting sexy pictures, leave
tuck, and explains, me to have this surgery. I don’t want to be it to the younger girls’. Or, ‘You look old,
“I’d had fat taken paranoid about my looks, and I want to keep haggard, look at those jowls’.
out from my neck up appearances with who I attract, and “Sometimes I wonder if they’re drunk
She found in a previous I want to look good for my new man.” as they’ll message at 3am. If it wasn’t for
fame after
operation, but it Despite wanting to roll back the years, ?chiV\gVb"?ldjaYºkZYZâc^iZan]ZaYdä[gdb
Big Brother
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and make you overanalyse yourself.”
While she’s determined to not let the
trolls get the better of her, Aisleyne has
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mental health. She reveals, “It’s ageist and
only makes me want to carry on posting
pictures. Just because I’m 45, it doesn’t
mean I should be indoors knitting jumpers!
I’m proud to represent women my age. I’ve
‘I’m taken a sabbatical from social media and
deleted the apps, it’s actually refreshing not
proud to to obsess over little comments.”

represent BOOB REDUCTION


Last October, Aisleyne told Closer she
women wanted to remove her 34G boobs to look
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my age’ reduction towards the end of the year. She
also sought advice from pal Katie Price, who
had her 16th breast augmentation in 2022.
She says, “I was speaking to Katie about
wanting to go smaller and change the shape.
At the moment I’ve got porn star- shaped
tits that look stuck on, that was very much
the look for us back then, but now I want a
natural, pear-drop shape. If Katie wanted
anything else done, I’d tell her she’s not
allowed and is beautiful as she is.”
But despite having
numerous procedures
herself, Aisleyne insists
she’s not addicted,
saying, “I don’t think
I’m addicted to
surgery itself, but I am
addicted to improving
myself.” She adds,
laughing, “I love the
feeling of going under
for seven or eight
hours, closing my
eyes and forgetting
about my worries.
When I go in for
surgery, it’s the best
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FOOD

raider THE “A PLACE IN THE SUN”


How much do
you spend?
It’s gone from £60
PRESENTER, 42, ON HER EATING to £100, which is a
HABITS big jump. The cost
of olive oil has gone
through the roof – I
usually bring a bottle
back from Spain or
Cyprus when I’m
“I like my sides and dips, filming, but it’s gone
especially chilli jam” up there, too. I shop
at Morrisons – I like
their fishmonger.
Describe your daily diet…
I’m quite a healthy eater, so for breakfast I’ll
have avocado on crackers with poached egg.
I don’t like to feel too full at lunch, so I’ll have a
light dish like a tuna salad. For dinner, I’ll cook
something that will last a few nights, like a
pot of chilli, or curry. My son loves stir-fry with
“If I open the fridge and lots of chicken, soy and veg. I’ve definitely
there isn’t a nice white been influenced by filming A Place In The
wine, it’s panic stations!” Sun, and I love tapas-style eating, with picky
bits, like cold chorizo, Parma ham, olives and
cheese, as well as big salads. I make my own
patatas bravas, it’s so easy – just potatoes
and seasoning! On Saturday nights we’ll have
steak and chips or tacos and nachos.
What do you snack on?
I’m not a big snacker, but I always have
houmous and celery or carrots in the fridge
Anything you refuse to eat?
Scallops are my food hell, and dim sum. I can’t
stand anything that has a slimy or wet texture.
Takeaway order?
We have a great local Nepalese restaurant,
they do a delicious massaman curry. I like hot,
spicy and hearty dishes.
Cook to impress?
I do a good Thai green curry, and a nice
Indian vegetable curry with sweet potato,
INSIDE I also like daal. I really learned how to cook
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HEALTH

Kris Hallenga, founder of the breast cancer


charity CoppaFeel!, has died aged 38. Dr C
reaffirms why her message was so important
his is such a sad YOUNG PEOPLE

T
announcement. GET CANCER TOO
Getting Cancer risk generally increases
diagnosed with with age, so it’s much more likely
breast cancer as you get older, but young people
aged 23 is terrible, and because do get cancer. My best friend
cancer is so unexpected at such from school, Susan, died from
a young age, it’s not surprising bowel cancer in her thirties. It
that CoppaFeel! founder Kris does happen, and it happens to
Hallenga said that when she was people we know. Kris found a
diagnosed, she wasn’t checking lump and was initially told it was
her breasts. She described due to hormonal changes, but the Fearne
]ZghZa[VhWZ^c\WVæZY" lump then got more painful, and Cotton
thinking, “Why didn’t I know blood started leaking from her with Kris
I could get breast cancer at 23?” breast. She still wasn’t referred, (right)
but her mum was anxious
KNOW HER STORY because her own mother
Kris died aged 38, after being had had breast cancer before
diagnosed with stage four she was 30, so she insisted
breast cancer at 23. The Kris go back. Her mum was
cancer had spread so much, absolutely right because being
it wasn’t curable. She lived aware of family medical history who get cancer under the age of
for 15 years after her original is really important. 50 are always relevant because
diagnosis, so while she died far they’re a hint that something’s
too young, she survived as long ASK ABOUT YOUR going on genetically. If women
as she did because treatments FAMILY HISTORY in your family have had breast
came along in her lifetime You don’t necessarily know or ovarian cancer under the age
that weren’t there when she the medical history for your of 50, you can get referred to a
lVhâghiY^V\cdhZY$I]Z]VY grandparents, so Kris may not genetics service, which will tell
the years she had because have realised that about her you if you have inherited one of
things are always improving. grandmother, but that kind the cancer risk genes. Knowing SPEAK OUT
We’re always looking for new of information is important. you have that gene means you Kris’ charity, Coppafeel!
treatments to keep us alive. Reasonably close female relatives can be monitored much more (coppafeel.org), had three
closely and you can catch things missions: to get young people
You can be early – when they’re treatable. to check their chests regularly,
monitored so they know what’s normal;
if you have UNDERSTAND RISKS to familiarise them with the
a cancer WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG symptoms of breast cancer;
risk gene
Kris’ cancer spread to her and to empower them when
spine, her brain and her liver. they’re seeking medical help.
It depends on the type of breast The trickiest of those is seeking
cancer, but oestrogen-receptive help. We doctors are sometimes
cancers can spread quickly in not very good at making patients
younger women, because they’re feel relaxed and comfortable,
bubbling full of oestrogen, which which is a massive failing on
feeds the cancer. I don’t know if our part. Please don’t assume
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that was the case for Kris, but it’s that because your doctor looks
all to do with blood distribution, VW^ihi^äVcYhZg^djh"i]Znldcºi
the blood allows tumours to listen. Try to push through any
“seed” in other places, which is embarrassment. It’s human
what happened here. nature to feel shy, but it’s not

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getting on top of did nothing, another took five
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new study looked at ways to sessions. Both nature walks and
lower psychological distress, birdwatching lowered distress,
and birdwatching had a but the improvement was
bigger impact than walking in bigger with birdwatching.
nature, with people feeling less Previous research has also
distressed as a result of looking shown that in the UK, a higher
for feathered friends! abundance of birds present in
Participants gave a rating the afternoon was associated
of zero to five for statements with lower anxiety, stress and
about wellbeing in the last two depression, while listening
weeks, like “I have felt calm to birdsong is linked to lower
and relaxed”, with zero being stress. So, look up and feel
the worst possible and 25 the your stresses melt away.

worth letting that shyness TAKE THE WARNINGS nowhere, you know to see your
worth
prevent you from getting an Sadly, Kris isn’t the only high- GP. Nobody other than you will
early – and therefore treatable egdâaZeZghdcidY^Zndjc\ know if your boobs, your moles trying

– cancer diagnosis. – Girls Aloud singer Sarah or your poos have changed.
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if the lump had gone away. at 27. If we can name those VWViiaZ"h]ZlVhcºi^cVâ\]iVcY hangover. She stuck an
She later realised that if she’d women, it shows that while it’s she certainly wouldn’t want you After Party Hangover
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her, she could have spoken up We need to stay aware of what’s was simply living.” Sometimes hapipatch.com) on her
there and then. That’s why it normal for us in terms of our the language around cancer arm before bed
became her life’s mission to get skin, our chests, our energy, our is all about a battle, and then and didn’t
everyone to know their boobs. weight, our toilet habits. Things ndjºkZ·adhi¸Vâ\]i$J]Vi^hcºi wake up with a
You’ve got to be able to look like looking at your poo and always helpful. The truth is, Kris headache. She
your doctor in the eye and say, feeling your boobs isn’t weird became ill, took treatment, lived felt lethargic, but
‘No, I know that’s not normal or icky, it’s just you. Knowing her life fully and dedicated it it’s a natural way
for me’. That’s a very powerful what you’re normally like means to helping other people – and to minimise the
thing to be able to say. that if changes come out of that’s wonderful. pain the next day.
balance
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communication issues. When situation?” With that information,
that happens, it’s perfectly you can give yourself a piece of WOULD LIKE TO MEET
reasonable to accept that they advice about what to do. Is an
are not your kind of person. If
someone is unkind, abusive or
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clear the air, can you agree to
Closer’s dating expert, Rebecca
disagree? Could you say, “We Twomey, on celibacy and why
both recognise we don’t gel,
but can we create some basic,
mocking it is not funny and why,
respectful rules when we do have instead, it should be applauded...
to be together?” You don’t have
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coexist and both feel respected? ating app after an outcry on social media,

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If any attempts to find common Bumble landed they realised the error of their
ground are fruitless, just keep themselves in hot ways and apologised. While
out of their way, but if there is water last week I’m pleased they did this, I also
interaction, be polite. when they were forced to pull believe it’s a good thing that
disrespectful, it’s OK to choose Occasionally, you may need to a series of ads in America that this incident has encouraged
not to be in their company. You spend time with someone you appeared to mock celibacy. us to address celibacy. There
may have to explain why that is dislike in order to support your The billboards featured are lots of reasons why people
to other people and they might partner, friend or family. Ignoring slogans including, “A vow of choose to be that way. It can be a
be offended or upset, but as long them is rude and will exacerbate celibacy is not the answer” response to trauma, for religious
as you’re being true to yourself issues, so try to make interactions and, “Thou shalt not give up on reasons, a refusal to settle, or
and are being respectful and kind, kind but brisk. Have some dating and become a nun”. The for no reason at all – and there
you’re entitled to not spend time pleasant small talk, then move on aim was to encourage women doesn’t need to be one. I’ve gone
with them. to speak to somebody else. not to give up on dating but, through periods of celibacy

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FAMILY MATTERS

BOUNCE BACK FROM


PARENTING ‘FAILS’
Anna Mathur, mum-of-three and psychotherapist, recently sent her daughter into school in uniform,
when all her classmates were in fancy dress. Anna says nobody should feel guilty about this kind of thing
f we’re feeling guilty mums who hadn’t been there. I they mess up, so we should do

I
because we’ve truly felt sick to the pit of my stomach, the same. If your child is upset,
done something because nobody wants their child apologise, give them a hug
wrong, or we’ve to feel sad or exposed, but I had and remind them that you love
hurt somebody, right that wrong to remind myself that parenting them, but you simply forgot.
and you’ll get rid of that guilt fails happen. Somebody always Look at the bigger picture,
immediately. If, on the other hand, forgets it’s World Book Day, rather than the small stuff. Are
you always try to do your best or the Easter egg decorating the fundamentals ticked off; do
but you’ve forgotten something, competition (which has also they have a roof over their head,
guilt serves no positive purpose. happened to me!). Recognise that are they being fed, do they
Guilt – especially mum guilt – is a you’re only human, embrace the have a loving home life? If the
wasted emotion. words of Elsa in Frozen and “let it answers are yes, you’re doing a
Life is busy – and the more balls go”, because making yourself feel great job! If you feel judged by
we’re juggling, the greater the dreadful about it won’t change other parents, remind yourself
chance we’ll drop one of them. anything. There is no such thing that their opinion serves no
This has happened to me – there as a perfect parent, we’re all just purpose. You do you.
was a Mother’s Day assembly doing our best. Finally, lean in to your school
that I was told was optional. I had In that moment, when you feel mum friends. Be honest about

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something else on, so I didn’t go, dreadful, ask yourself, “Is this the fact that, like everyone else,
but afterwards I found out that feeling justified?” Remind yourself you sometimes forget stuff,
my son had stood up to show a that you’re a good, kind and and openly ask if you can all
picture he’d drawn of me, and to loving mum and, on this occasion, remind each other of important
read a poem he’d written about you simply made a mistake. We days. Being a parent is all about
me. I was one of only two or three teach our children not to worry if teamwork, so find your tribe.

the
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Start on the floor in an all fours
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position. Tuck your toes under and,
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lift one hand and, while keeping the
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CRUNCH
tap the opposite shoulder then return
your hand to the floor. Repeat on the
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Start on the floor then plant your hands directly under your
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TV WEEK: FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE


Ethan is determined to make the most of his final hours of
25-31 MAY freedom – by earwigging on a conversation between Ruby
and Rose. BIG mistake, as he ends up telling Charles about
The look some concerns he has for Dawn, and later, Charles discovers
of love? Ethan collapsed on the floor. Dawn listens to the voicemail,
and Charles is terrified as he fears the worst – could it be that
the two incidents are linked?
Elsewhere, nosey parkers Leyla,
Suzie and Liam try to uncover
Ella’s secret, while Tom tries to
stop Lydia from visiting Belle.

What have we
got here, then?

“Some juicy
gossip with
EASTENDERS
your pint, Ian?”

LIKE A BAD PENNY…


Surprise! Nish turns up on the doorstep of No 41, armed with
That’s one way
out of court

divorce-related news – but absolutely no one is pleased to see him.


There’s talk of getting the locks changed, but then he silences Suki,
Ravi, Eve, Vinny and co with something of a bombshell: He’s dying!
‘EMERGENCY MODE’
The Panesars think Nish is telling porkies and kick him out, but when Kevin Mathurin, 51, aka Charles the
Ravi gives him a welcome home shove, Nish falls and is rushed to vicar, on what happens this week…
hospital, where the truth will out! Also on the agenda this week is a “Charles has been helping Ethan
girls’ night out for Elaine, Gina and Anna. Cindy gets the boot – but cope with the accident (drink driving
has the last laugh when she spends the evening running The Vic with which led to a car crash and pal Nicky
George. Elaine’s revenge? Tell Ian about Cindy kissing George. Ouch. being in a coma) and facing the
consequences of his actions. Father
and son are quite united, Ethan is

ALSO THIS WEEK... going to do the right thing…” On


finding Ethan collapsed, Kevin adds,
● Freddie tries to matchmake Kat and Alfie with a voucher for “They’re getting ready for court,
a couples’ spa – but she invites Big Mo along instead. bonding. Charles is letting Ethan
● Jean tries to encourage lonely Harvey to make some new know whatever happens, they’ll
friends, and he bumps into a woman called Maya. The pair hit it face it together. But he realises he’s
off – bonding over football – but Kat is suspicious… not getting any response – then he
● Peter gets back into Lauren’s finds Ethan on the floor, and he just
good books by trying to stick up goes into emergency mode, he
for her when Cindy is horrid, and has no clue what’s going on. He’s
she agrees to spend the evening relieved when Manpreet shows up,
Actor Kevin
with him. Back of the net! but Ethan’s not responding and
Mathurin
Charles is panicked…”

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a nightmare time of it for the nation’s under the pressure of
least likely murderer, Street stalwart Roy working on Free Roy…
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charged with the dastardly deed! Fasten She’s been trying hard to
your seatbelts as all manner of dramatic hold it together, but I think
storylines knit together, involving the return the pressure is taking a toll
of nasty-piece-of-work Griff (the far-right on her. Roy isn’t just a client
extremist who groomed Max). Back in to Dee-Dee, she values him
prison, this is one person Roy doesn’t want as a person so we can see
to be sharing a cell with, and the racist the strain it’s putting on her.
thug is very much out for revenge after the What’s it been like working
Roy’s Rolls café owner took him on and with David Neilson [Roy]?
humiliated him back in 2022. Griff tries to It’s been absolutely brilliant!
force a confession out of Roy – pulling out David is just so funny. It’s
a knife! Meanwhile, Bethany is still fixated been a bit of a masterclass
on bringing down her rapist, Nathan – a for me to learn some of his
terrifying blast from the past for her, but did Corrie’s friendly wisdom and expertise.
he kill Lauren? Sarah vows to get rid of her copper is at it again Has she lost hope for him?
daughter’s sex offender for good, planting It’s a race against time to
Lauren’s hair bobble (left at the Platt’s) ensure Roy’s innocence.
in Nathan’s van. She’s caught in the act, Besties in the Dee-Dee is desperate to
making
but Nathan is arrested anyway (for being make sure he walks free.
a dodgy sexual predator) and if anyone
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25-31 MAY

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GOT TALENT
IT’S SEMI-FINAL TIME
BANK HOL MON-FRI 31 MAY, 8PM, ITV1
Following a regular show on Saturday and Sunday
(25/26 May), the BGT live rounds are upon us,
where the contestants take to the stage one more
time as the judges edge closer to crowning the
winner of 2024! On air all week, those acts who
impressed Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha
Dixon and Bruno Tonioli will be back – as well as the
golden buzzer performers who won a guaranteed
spot in the live stages from when they did their
LIVE
auditions. Ant ’n’ Dec will host, and it’s not long now
SHOWS
until we find out who’s following in the footsteps of
2023 winner, magician Viggo Venn.

RADIO 1’S BIG WEEKEND


LIVE MUSIC EVENT
SAT 25 / SUN 26 MAY, 11.10/10.30PM, BBC1
With the main coverage on BBC iPlayer,
100,000 music fans are expected to attend

2 the live music spectacular from May 24-


26 – with performances from the likes of
Coldplay, Charli XCX and Raye.

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The super-sassy,
anarchic comedy about
an all-female Muslim
punk band blasts back
with a second series. THE FAMOUS FIVE CELEBRATION OF LIFE BANK HOL MON / TUE
28 / WED 29 /FRI 31 MAY, 8/7.30PM, BBC2
Lady Parts are on the EPIC ADVENTURE Returning for three weeks of glorious live
verge of recording their BANK HOL MON, programmes, a whole new array of nest-cameras
first album, but it’s not 2PM, BBC1 are rigged up to bring a fresh cast of characters to

3
just that old rock & Joining the cast for viewers at home. As always, fans of the show will
roll chestnut “musical another exciting feature- be encouraged to join the conversation as Chris
differences” that’s length episode are Jason Packham, Michaela Strachan and Iolo Williams
rearing its head among Flemyng and Art Malik. celebrate this season of new life. The main location
the band. Great stuff. NEW is RSPB Arne in Dorset, and this year there will be
Lashings of ginger beer
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WITH ROBSON GREEN
JOYOUS EPISODE TWO
TUE 28 MAY, 9PM, CHANNEL 5
The adventure of a lifetime continues for
Robson Green, this week heading deeper
into the rainforest along with his indigenous
guide, Saru. “The jungle looks almost inviting,”
comments Robson to camera, seconds before Robson Green:
stepping on a black wasps’ nest, and we

‘It’s important to
probably heard the cries for help back
home… Moving on, it’s time to learn how
to extract water from what essentially
looks like a dry old vine wrapped

just be yourself’
around a tree, and Saru in his wisdom
wants his new best friend to plunge
his hand into a swarm of ants...
Fabulously entertaining TV.

TV star Robson Green, 59, heads into the Amazon rainforest for the adventure of a lifetime…
ow did the series And was the view worth it? gathering food. I just thought, night’s sleep? I changed rooms…

H
come about? Yeah, the Amazon rainforest “This is what I should be doing”. What are your
I was shocked when is awesome. That word is I love acting and I’ve got some travelling must-haves?
Channel 5 rang misused so much in America – great jobs coming up, but it’s A dustbin liner – it’s the best
me and said, “We’re doing this “This coffee is awesome”. important to just be yourself and wet-weather cover you will
adventure series – where would Coffee isn’t awesome, but the be true to yourself later in life. ever have. You don’t do it at
you love to go?” I’ve been to the universe is – and being there was Did anything dramatic happen? home, but I put a bin liner over
Amazon five times, it’s where incredibly life-affirming, as well In episode two, I go the wrong my whole face because when it
Extreme Fishing all started, and as meeting the people who call way down a path – and I step on rains in the rainforest, it’s Biblical
I said I’d really like to go back. that place home. a black wasps’ nest. They went and it doesn’t stop. I also take a
In terms of it being a privilege Has doing the trip inspired you down my pants, on my head…, little survival kit with me, for my
and an honour, it was more than to live your life differently? and I just heard Saru shout, “Run, inner Bear Grylls – and a small
that. It was a true adventure like Absolutely, 100 per cent. I spent run!” I learned very quickly that suitcase, I pack very lightly.
no other and I never took one a week with no phone signal – there are certain areas of the Is there anyone
second of that journey with an extraordinary human Amazon that I know nothing who inspires you?
for granted. being called Saru, who taught about. Without Saru as a guide, From the age of seven – when
In episode one we see you me the way of the rainforest. it’s a big “no”. my Uncle Matheson took me out
tackling a tight rope bridge… We were hunting, fishing and And there were spiders…? on my first fishing experience – I
I’m really good with heights, We stayed in some very nice wanted to be like him. It was a
but it was very scary when the lodges and as I’m walking to day I didn’t want to end… We saw
wind got up and you’re 150 mine, I did a double take. There’s a barn owl, otters, hedgehogs, a
feet above ground at the top this spider the size of a dinner stoat… I caught a fish – it was my
of a tree… There’s me going, plate just hanging about the introduction to adventure. He’s
“Oh, it’s amazing! Look at that door – and there were five of 75 and being alongside him now
view!” when actually I was this them. The manager said, “Well, is just as joyous as when I was a
gibbering wreck – up there with what can I do? They won’t jump kid. He’s my everything in terms
this amazing guy who had the on you!” Then there was a huge of the outdoors and he’s a
DNA of Spider-Man, he was one underneath my bed. You beautiful human being.
Robson with Saru
incredible. think I’m going to have a relaxing By Hannah Wright

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FA CUP FINAL

WEMBLEY MATCH
SAT 25 MAY, 1.45PM, ITV1 /
1.50PM, BBC1
Live coverage of the Manchester
City V Manchester United FA
Cup match. Who will lift the
trophy under the legendary
Wembley Stadium arch?

STARRY DOCUSERIES

THE OUTLAWS
WED 29 MAY, DISNEY+
This Dua Lipa-produced show
about the neighbourhood of
Camden explores how some
of music’s biggest stars were
forever changed by London’s
SERIES THREE LANDS THU 30 MAY, 9PM, BBC1 gateway to chart-topping
Stephen Merchant’s superior comedy-drama about a disparate group of people brought together superstardom! It features the
through doing community payback in Bristol returns, along with the excellent original cast that likes of Noel Gallagher, Chris
includes the likes of Hollywood legend Christopher Walken and Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gurning. Martin, Pete Doherty, Mark
After the events of series two, crime boss The Dean (Claes Bang) is behind bars awaiting trial, but it’s Ronson, Boy George, Black
only a matter of time before the gang of misfits are once again in the middle of some deadly chaos… Eyed Peas and more!

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BANK HOL MON / TUE 28 / WED 29 /
FRI 31 MAY, 6.30PM, BBC2
A personal adventure for Mastermind star

THE MISADVENTURES OF
Clive Myrie. Following last year’s trip to
Italy, the BBC news correspondent jets GEEK GIRL
ROMESH RANGANATHAN across four islands in the Caribbean –
unravelling his family roots and “developing FITTING IN THU 30 MAY, NETFLIX
UNLIKELY HOLIDAY connections” with each location (Cuba, Based on the best-selling coming-of-age book
DESTINATIONS Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and series, House Of The Dragon star Emily Carey plays
WED 29 MAY, 9PM, BBC2 Barbados). Sister Judith pops up too. an awkward 16-year-old girl who is unexpectedly
Comedian and TV presenter scouted by a modelling agency when she’s on a
Romesh Ranganathan returns school trip. Sarah Parish is in it too as “model agent
for a new three-part travelogue extraordinaire” Jude Paignton.
NEW
series, with episodes set FACTFILE: Geek Girl was Holly Smale’s debut
SERIES
in Uganda, Rwanda and novel – based on her own career as a teenage
Madagascar. model, and the bullying she experienced at school.

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SIX-PART THRILLER
THU 30 MAY, NETFLIX
Benedict Cumberbatch is at his
troubled, tortured soul best playing a
complex character who suffers a terrible
tragedy when his young son suddenly goes
missing. Set in 1980s New York against a
backdrop of police corruption, crime and
the AIDS pandemic, this is from the pen
of Abi Morgan (The Split), following TV
puppeteer Vincent – creator of the
hugely popular children’s television
show Good Day Sunshine. One
morning, his son Edgar vanishes
on his way to school, and a guilt-
ridden Vincent turns to Edgar’s
drawings of a 7ft-tall fluffy blue
5 MINUTES WITH...
monster puppet called Eric in
the hope of bringing his son
Benedict Cumberbatch,
home via the medium of TV. 47, leading the cast of
Netflix’s latest thriller
series, playing a grief-
NEW
stricken father whose
SERIES Troubled face, check
son goes missing…
hat was it about Eric? mouthed buddy to the thing
From the minute Abi that can say the things we can’t.
W (Morgan) pitched Working alongside a 7ft-tall

CAMDEN
it to me, I was fluffy monster was great – this
hooked. When I read the script I is a guy who’s suffering a sort of
thought, “This is fantastic, what psychic split. It was a wonderful
an amazing, colourful romp...” I experience co-creating Vincent,
remember asking where the hell Eric and Eric’s voice.
she got this idea from, because it How much preparation
seemed so far off from the work did you do for the role?
I’d seen her do before. Quite a bit. I looked at puppetry
Tell us about your character… in that era, the whole Jim
Vincent’s at a tipping point at Henson world of it. Also looking
the beginning of the series. The at issues of mental health and
crisis has yet to be full-blown, how they manifest. I did dialect
but it’s pretty bad. He starts to work as well, placing Vincent in
bring home his vanity and all his era, in his time, in his class in
kinds of toxic behaviour. He is a New York.
troubled, extraordinarily funny, And why should we be tuning in?
FINAL aggressive and complex human There’s a nostalgia to this
being and this show is a six-part piece – it’s pretty special. This
RACE ACROSS THE odyssey into his psyche as he is a story about people finding

WORLD / THE REUNION


becomes unravelled due to the their home. Whether it’s a
disappearance of his son. child, a homeless person, a gay
Who is Eric? black cop, a wife in an unhappy
ONE FINAL PUSH
He’s many different things to marriage, or even Eric on the
WED 29 MAY, 9/10.40PM, BBC1
Vincent at different stages. He show, it’s all about finding a
After racing nearly 14,000 kilometres
can be everything from the foul- place.
over seven weeks, it’s all come down to…
12 minutes! That’s all that separates the

12 factfile:
first two teams on the

14 final leg... The Reunion


episode sees the pairs
all together again.
There’s a great soundtrack, which Benedict says was
“pretty damn cool”. David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Rodriguez,
Mink DeVille. “The list goes on and on,” he adds.

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NEW
FRI 31 MAY, 9PM,
SERIES SKY MAX / NOW
Reuniting Rick (Andrew Lincoln)
and Michonne from the main
Walking Dead hugely successful
post-apocalyptic franchise, the
latest spin-off series launches this
side of the pond. Danai Gurira
(Michonne) explains, “We both
left the mothership with plans to
come back, so then it became a
question of figuring out how. This

THE WALKING DEAD: is Rick and Michonne’s epic love


story – we catch up with what’s
happened in the past with a

THE ONES WHO LIVE flashback and then step right in.”
A must for anyone who loves a
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Legendary explorer Sir US remake of the award-winning


Ranulph Fiennes and his British TV show, starring the
cousin Joseph explore the likes of Billy Zane and Ben
Canadian
wilderness –
revisiting Ran’s
1971 expedition.16
Chaplin as pals thrown into a
series of wild, unsettling events
during a trip to Belize.
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Presenter Michelle Ackerley
asks how decisions about
sustainable air travel
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Ann Ming, who
fought the Double
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was murdered.

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household name overnight when engaged – and have 90 days to on Disney+. Aidan
news broke of a secret payment either get wed, or return home. Turner, Danny Dyer
she received from Donald Trump Shocking revelations and and Katherine
to keep quiet about an alleged explosive drama are promised. Parkinson also star.
encounter. This is her story... Addictive viewing right here…

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Live. 11.30 Simply Nigella. 12.0 6.35 Grizzy And The Lemmings. 6.45 Your Weekend With Alan Titchmarsh. Cheers. 7.25 Everybody Loves SquarePants. 9.0 Entertainment News
Football Focus. 1.0 BBC News. 1.15 FA Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese. 6.55 8.25 Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show. Raymond. 7.50 Everybody Loves On 5. 9.10 22 Kids & Counting. 10.05
Cup: Road To Wembley. ✱ 1.50 Match Monster Loving Maniacs. 7.05 Shaun 9.25 ITV News. 9.30 James Martin’s Raymond. 8.10 The Simpsons. 8.40 22 Kids & Counting. 11.05 22 Kids &
Of The Day Live: The FA Cup The Sheep. 7.15 Pokémon Horizons. 7.35 Saturday Morning. 11.40 Ainsley’s The Simpsons. 9.10 The Simpsons. Counting. 12.05 Dogs Behaving (Very)
Manchester City v Manchester United The Next Step. 8.20 Blue Peter. 8.50 National Trust Cook Off. 12.35 ITV 9.40 The Simpsons. 10.10 The Badly. 1.05 Dogs Behaving (Very)
(Kick-off 3.00pm). All the action from Newsround. 9.0 James Wong And The News; Weather. 12.40 Ninja Warrior Simpsons. 10.40 The Simpsons. Badly. 2.05 Dogs Behaving (Very)
the final at Wembley Stadium, as the Malaysian Garden. 10.0 Interior Design UK: Race For Glory. ✱ 1.45 FA Cup 11.10 The Simpsons. 11.35 The Badly. 3.05 Our Yorkshire Farm. 4.05
rivals meet in the showpiece match for Masters With Alan Carr. 11.0 Jay’s Final Manchester City v Manchester Simpsons. 12.05 The Simpsons. 12.35 Our Yorkshire Farm. 5.05 Our
the second successive season. Yorkshire Workshop. 12.0 Nadiya’s United (Kick-off 3.00pm). All the FILM: The Karate Kid Part III (1989) Yorkshire Farm.
5.45 Garden Rescue. Summer Feasts. 1.0 Our Food, Our action from the showpiece final, as the ★★ 2.50 A Place In The Sun. 3.50
Family With Michela Chiappa. 1.30 The rivals meet at Wembley Stadium for Four In A Bed. 4.20 Four In A Bed.
Hairy Bikers. 1.45 FILM: Laura (1944) the second successive season. 5.45 4.50 Four In A Bed. 5.20 Four In A
★★★★ 3.10 Yellowstone. 4.10 The Deal Or No Deal Celebrity Special. Bed. 5.50 Four In A Bed.
Great British Sewing Bee. 5.10 Flog It!
6pm 6.05 5 News Weekend (S)
6.10 The Morecambe & 6.10 Royal Servants: In Their
6.30 BBC News (S) Wise Show 1970 – The 6.20 News (S) Own Words Stories from the
6.40 BBC Regional News; Lost Tape (S) (R) 6.35 ITV News; Weather (S) 6.50 Formula 1: Monaco royal household’s staff. (S) (R)
Weather (S) 6.55 The Perfect 6.45 ITV News London (S) Grand Prix Qualifying
6.50 Doctor Who Morecambe & Wise Highlights The battle
7pm The regulars of a Welsh pub Eric annoys Ernie by eating 7.0 In For A Penny Stephen for pole in the eighth round
fear that ancient legends crisps in bed. (S) (R) Mulhern sets challenges to of the season. (S)
are coming to life. (S) 7.25 International T20 members of the public. (S) 7.30 Inside Windsor Castle:
7.35 Michael McIntyre’s Cricket England v Pakistan. (S) 7.30 Britain’s Got Talent A Royal Residence
The Wheel With Michael Ball, More performers take A look at Elizabeth II’s time in
Tom Allen, Lulu, Joe Marler, to the stage. (S) the castle. (S)
8pm Maisie Smith, Anita Rani
and Raj Bisram. (S) (R)

8.25 RHS Chelsea Flower 8.20 D-Day: Secrets Of The


8.35 Casualty Show Highlights from the Frontline Heroes The stories 8.30 The 1970s: Those Were
Hospital drama. (S) event. (S) of film-makers who The Days A look at what it
8.55 The 1% Club Quiz, documented the D-Day was like living through the
9pm hosted by Lee Mack. (S) Landings. (S) early 1970s in Britain. (S)

9.25 Rebus John and Siobhan 9.25 Gladys Knight At The 9.25 FILM: Saving Private
track down a witness to the BBC Archive performances by Ryan (1998) ★★★★★
assault on Jimmy McJagger. (S) the soul singer. (S) American soldiers scour the
battlefields of France in search
10pm 9.55 ITV News; Weather (S) of a missing infantryman.
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar- 10.0 TV’s 30 Most
10.15 BBC News (S) 10.15 FILM: The Hitman’s winning Second World War Controversial Moments
10.35 MOTD: FA Cup 10.25 Later... With Jools Wife’s Bodyguard (2021) drama, starring Tom Hanks The British TV programmes
Highlights Manchester City v Holland With Mark Knopfler, ★★★★ Premiere. The and Matt Damon. (S) that attracted the highest
Manchester United. (S) Paul Weller, Nadine Shah, Bob bodyguard, Michael Bryce, number of complaints. (S) (R)
Vylan, Katherine Priddy and continues his friendship with
11pm Rachel Chinouriri. (S) assassin, Darius Kincaid, as
✱ 11.10 RAYE: Radio 1’s Big Weekend 11.10 Gladys Knight And The Pips In they try to save Darius’ wife 11.55 Harry Styles: The Story Of His
RAYE performs in the headline slot on Concert. 11.40 Gladys Knight And The Sonia. Crime comedy, starring Life. 1.15 PlayOJO Live Casino Show.
the main stage. 12.10 Doctor Who: Pips In Concert. 12.20 FILM: Do The Ryan Reynolds. (S) 12.40 FILM: The Mechanic (2011) 3.15 10 Years Younger In 10 Days. 4.05
Unleashed. 12.40 Superman & Lois. Right Thing (1989) ★★★★★ 2.10 ★★★★ 2.10 Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun. 4.40
1.25 BBC News. This Is BBC Two. 12.15 Shop On TV. 3.0 Next Level Chef Hell And Back. 3.0 Imposter: The Man Wildlife SOS. 5.05 House Doctor. 5.30
USA. 3.50 Unwind With ITV. 5.05 Deal Who Came Back From The Dead. 3.55 Entertainment News On 5. 5.45 Paw
Or No Deal. Hollyoaks Omnibus. Patrol.

6.50pm Doctor Who, BBC1 11.10pm RAYE: Big Weekend, BBC1 10.25pm Later... With Jools, BBC2 7.30pm Britain’s Got Talent, ITV1 8.25am Breakfast Show, ITV1

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6.20pm My Family. 7.0 Miranda. 7.40 5.10pm FILM: Turbo (2013) ★★★★ 6.20pm The Big Bang Theory. 6.45 6pm Dinner Date. 7.0 Dinner Date. 8.0 6pm Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire.
Miranda. 8.20 Miranda. 9.0 The 7.0 FILM: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White FILM: How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days Celebrity Dinner Date. Comedian 7.0 The Lost Boys Of Bucks County.
Catherine Tate Show. 9.40 The And Blonde (2003) ★★ 9.0 FILM: (2003) ★★★★ 9.0 Celebrity Donna Preston is given five menus to 9.0 Murder On CCTV. 10.0 American
Catherine Tate Show. 10.20 The We’re The Millers (2013) ★★★★ 11.15 Gogglebox. 10.0 Gogglebox. 11.05 choose from. 9.0 Botched. Dr Paul Detective With Lt Joe Kenda. 11.0
Catherine Tate Show. Peter Kay guest Family Guy. 11.45 Family Guy. 12.10am Gogglebox. 12.10am First Dates. 1.15 Nassif helps a man who wants his ears Faking It: Tears Of A Crime.
stars. 11.0 Wife Swap USA. 12midnight American Dad! 12.40 American Dad! First Dates. 2.20 Gogglebox. 3.15 back. 10.0 Botched. The doctors 12midnight Nightmare Next Door. 1.0
Wife Swap USA. 1.0 Bang On Budget. 1.10 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility. 1.55 All Gogglebox. 4.10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. perform two radical surgeries. 11.0 My Forensic Detectives. 2.0 Murder
1.50 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars. 3.0 American. 2.50 Unwind With ITV. 3.0 4.35 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 5.0 Brooklyn Mum, Your Dad Australia. 12.25am Comes To Town. 3.0 FBI Files. 4.0
Teleshopping. Teleshopping. Nine-Nine. 5.25 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Unwind With ITV. 1.0 Teleshopping. Teleshopping. 5.30 Teleshopping.

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6pm Catfish: The TV Show. 7.0 Catfish: 6pm Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 7.0 6pm Formula 1. 8.0 A League Of Their 6.45pm Billions. 7.55 Game Of 7pm Ryan Tricks On The Streets. 7.05
The TV Show. 8.0 Catfish: The TV Little People, Big World. 8.0 7 Little Own: Mexican Road Trip. 9.0 FILM: Thrones. 9.0 Game Of Thrones. 10.05 EastEnders. 7.35 Doctor Who:
Show. 9.0 Catfish UK. 10.0 FILM: Johnstons. 9.0 MILF Manor. 10.0 Say Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ★★★★★ Game Of Thrones. Daenerys hosts a Unleashed. 8.05 Becoming The Doctor.
General Commander (2019) ★★ Yes To The Dress. 11.0 Temptation 11.15 Hold The Front Page. 12.15am much-anticipated celebration of 8.30 EastEnders. 9.0 Athletics:
12midnight Celebrity Ex On The Island. 12midnight Ants In My Head: The Office (US). 2.30 The Office (US). athleticism. 11.10 Game Of Thrones. Diamond League: Eugene. 11.0 Two
Beach. 1.0 Jersey Shore Family Body Bizarre. 1.0 Extreme Couponing. 3.0 Nothing To Declare. 3.30 Nothing 12.15am Game Of Thrones. 1.15 Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.
Vacation. 2.0 Jackass. 2.20 Jackass. 2.0 Say Yes To The Dress. 3.0 Sex Sent To Declare. 4.0 Nothing To Declare. Domina. 2.20 The Deuce. 3.30 In 12midnight I Kissed A Girl. 1.30 Things
2.45 Catfish UK. 3.35 Ridiculousness. Me To The ER. 4.0 Say Yes To The 4.30 Nothing To Declare. 5.0 Nothing Treatment. 4.0 The Guest Wing. 5.0 You Should Have Done. 2.55 Two Pints
4.0 Teleshopping. Dress. To Declare. 5.30 Nothing To Declare. The Guest Wing. Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.
Sunday 26 May ✱ CLOSER PICKS

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 C4 CHANNEL 5


6am Breakfast. 8.25 MOTD: FA Cup 6.30am Countryfile. 7.25 Our Coast. 6am James Martin’s Great British 6am The King Of Queens. 6.20 The 6am Milkshake! 8.50 SpongeBob
6 am
Highlights. 9.0 Sunday With Laura 8.25 Breakfast. 9.0 Beechgrove Adventure. 6.30 James Martin’s King Of Queens. 6.45 Cheers. 7.15 SquarePants. 9.05 Entertainment
Kuenssberg. 10.0 Politics England. Garden. 9.30 Landward. 10.0 Spanish Adventure. 7.25 Ainsley’s Cheers. 7.40 Everybody Loves News On 5. 9.10 The Yorkshire Vet.
10.30 Animal Park. 11.0 Great Saturday Kitchen Best Bites. 11.30 National Trust Cook Off. 8.25 Katie Raymond. 8.05 Everybody Loves 9.35 Cruising With Jane McDonald.
Manchester Run. 1.0 BBC News. 1.15 Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers. 11.45 Piper’s Breakfast Show. 9.25 ITV Raymond. 8.30 The Simpsons. 9.0 The 10.35 Cruising With Jane McDonald.
Songs Of Praise. 1.50 Points Of View. FILM: D-Day The Sixth Of June (1956) News. 9.30 Love Your Weekend With Simpsons. 9.30 Sunday Brunch. 12.30 11.35 Cruising With Jane McDonald.
2.05 Lifeline. 2.15 Escape To The ★★★★ 1.30 Live Rowing World Cup. Alan Titchmarsh. 11.25 Alan The Simpsons. 1.0 The Simpsons. 1.30 12.35 Cruising With Jane McDonald.
Country. 3.15 FILM: A Shaun The 3.0 Cycling: Ride London. Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club. 12.30 The Simpsons. 2.0 The Simpsons. 2.30 1.30 FILM: The Dam Busters (1955)
Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) ITV News; Weather. 12.40 Britain’s Got The Simpsons. 3.0 FILM: Clueless ★★★★★ 4.0 Dad’s Army: Secret
★★★★ 4.35 The Green Planet. Talent. 2.0 In For A Penny. 2.30 FILM: (1995) ★★★★ 4.55 Our Dream Farm Lives & Scandals. 5.30 5 News
5.35 BBC News. 5.50 BBC Regional Dr Seuss’ The Lorax (2012) ★★★★ With Matt Baker. Weekend. 5.35 Shoplifters:
News; Weather. 4.15 FILM: From Russia With Love Catch Me If You Can.
(1963) ★★★★

6pm 6.0 RHS Chelsea Flower 6.0 This Farming Life 6.0 News (S)
Show Sophie Raworth and Robert’s cattle get their first 6.30 Formula 1: Monaco
Joe Swift look back on the taste of freedom and fresh Grand Prix Highlights
highlights of the week. (S) grass in the Cairngorms. (S) (R) 6.30 ITV News; Weather (S) Action from the eighth round 6.30 The Bailiffs
6.45 ITV News London (S) of the season, held at the Documentary following the
Circuit de Monaco. (S) work of High Court
7 pm 7.0 Countryfile Adam 7.0 Race Across The World 7.0 Deal Or No Deal enforcement agents.
Henson and Charlotte Smith The teams navigate their way Game show, hosted by Last in the series. (S) (R)
explore the Camel Trail in through the Indonesian island Stephen Mulhern. (S) (R)
North Cornwall. (S) of Sumatra. (S) (R) 7.30 Secrets Of Your
Favourite Chocolate Bars
A look at how the nation’s
favourite confectionery is
8pm 8.0 Antiques Roadshow 8.0 The Americas With 8.0 Britain’s Got Talent made. (S)
Fiona Bruce and the team Simon Reeve Simon travels Performers take to the stage in
head to Windermere Jetty down the Rocky Mountains the final batch of auditions. (S)
Museum. (S) (R) from Montana to Colorado. (S) (R)

9pm 9.0 The Responder 9.0 Rob And Rylan’s Grand 9.0 Red Eye The truth about 9.0 The Piano Claudia 9.0 Shetland: Scotland’s
Chris has a choice to make Tour Rob Rinder and Rylan the conspiracy is revealed. Winkleman hosts from Wondrous Isles New series.
when he obtains Franny’s Clark go on a cultural tour of Last in the series. (S) Liverpool Lime Street Station. (S) Life on the archipelago. (S)
encrypted phone. (S) Rome. Last in the series. (S)

10pm 10.0 BBC News (S) 10.0 FILM: Tenet (2020) 10.0 ITV News; Weather (S) 10.0 Gogglebox The 10.0 Morecambe & Wise: 30
10.25 BBC Regional News; ★★★★ Premiere. Fighting for 10.20 Ellie Simmonds: households’ opinions on Funniest Moments The
Weather (S) the survival of the world, a Finding My Secret Family recent TV. (S) (R) comedy duo’s most
✱ 10.30 Coldplay: Radio 1’s troubleshooter journeys The Paralympian swimmer 10.55 Gogglebox The house- memorable sketches. (S) (R)
Big Weekend Coldplay close through a twilight world of attempts to find her birth holds’ opinions on TV shows
Radio 1’s Big Weekend at international espionage. mother. (S) (R) aired in October 2022. (S) (R) 12.0 World’s Funniest TV Ads With
11pm Stockwood Park in Luton. (S) Action thriller, starring John Jason Manford. 1.0 PlayOJO Live
David Washington. (S) 11.20 English Football League 12.0 FILM: Saturday Night Fever (1977) Casino Show. 3.0 10 Years Younger In
11.30 FILM: 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Championship Final Highlights. 12.15 ★★★★ 2.05 The Gathering. 2.55 The 10 Days. 3.50 Bargain-Loving Brits In
(2019) ★★★ 12.55 BBC News. 12.20 FILM: Memento (2000) Shop On TV. 3.0 Motorsport UK. 3.50 Gathering. 3.45 Come Dine With Me. The Sun. 4.40 Wildlife SOS. 5.05
★★★★★ 2.10 Sign Zone: Blue Unwind With ITV. 5.05 Ainsley’s 4.10 Come Dine With Me. 4.35 Come House Doctor. 5.30 Entertainment
Lights. 3.10 This Is BBC Two. National Trust Cook Off. Dine With Me. 5.0 Come Dine With Me. News On 5. 5.35 Thomas & Friends:
5.25 Come Dine With Me. 5.50 Big World! Big Adventures! 5.45 Paw
Countdown. Patrol.

10.30pm Coldplay, BBC1 9pm Grand Tour, BBC2 9pm Red Eye, ITV1 9pm The Piano, C4 9pm I Kissed A Girl, BBC3

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7pm Inside The Operating Theatre. 9.0 5.15pm FILM: Johnny English Reborn 6.05pm The Big Bang Theory. 6.35 5.50pm John And Lisa’s Food Trip 6pm Murder In The Heartland. 8.0
Red Flag. 10.0 Trial In The Outback: (2011) ★★★ 7.15 FILM: Liar Liar The Big Bang Theory. 7.05 FILM: Down Under. 6.55 Billie And Greg: Murder At Carter Caves. 9.0 Britain’s
The Lindy Chamberlain Story. 11.0 (1997) ★★★★ 9.0 Family Guy. 9.30 Skyscraper (2018) ★★★ 9.0 FILM: The Family Diaries. 8.0 Drama Queens. Deadliest Kids. 10.0 Murder On CCTV.
Gemma And Gorka: Life Behind The Family Guy. 10.0 Family Guy. 10.30 Logan (2017) ★★★★★ 11.45 The 9.0 The Only Way Is Essex. 10.0 11.0 Faking It: Tears Of A Crime.
Lens. 12midnight One Born Every Family Guy. 11.0 Family Guy. 11.30 Inbetweeners. 12.15am The The Real Housewives Of Cheshire. 11.0 12midnight Nightmare Next Door. 1.0
Minute. 1.0 Bang On Budget. 1.50 American Dad! 12midnight American Inbetweeners. 12.50 Gogglebox. 1.55 The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls’ Forensic Detectives. 2.0 Murder
Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers. 2.25 Dad! 12.30 CelebAbility. 1.15 All First Dates. 2.55 The Inbetweeners. Trip. 12midnight Vanderpump Rules. Comes To Town. 3.0 FBI Files. 4.0
Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: American. 2.15 Unwind With ITV. 3.25 The Inbetweeners. 3.50 12.55 Unwind With ITV. 1.0 Teleshopping. 4.30 Teleshopping. 5.0
Cosmopolitan Cook. 3.0 Teleshopping. Hollyoaks Omnibus. Teleshopping. Teleshopping. 5.30 Teleshopping.

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6pm Catfish: The TV Show. 7.0 Catfish: 6pm Brother Vs. Brother. 7.0 Brother 5.30pm Formula 1. 6.30 The 6.45pm Billions. 7.55 Billions. 9.0 The 7pm Doctor Who. 7.50 Doctor Who:
The TV Show. 8.0 Catfish: The TV Vs. Brother. 8.0 Dr Pimple Popper. 9.0 Simpsons. 8.0 The Equalizer. 9.0 Tattooist Of Auschwitz. Gita grows Unleashed. 8.20 Shark Tank. 9.0
Show. 9.0 Catfish: The TV Show. Dr Pimple Popper. 10.0 Dr Pimple S.W.A.T. 10.0 A League Of Their Own: worried over the whereabouts of Lali. I Kissed A Girl. 9.45 FILM: Late Night
10.0 Celebrity Ex On The Beach. 11.0 Popper. 11.0 Dr Pimple Popper. Mexican Road Trip. 11.0 Brassic. 10.10 The White Lotus. Albie asks (2019) ★★★★ 11.20 Bad Education.
Teen Mom Family Reunion. 12midnight Body Bizarre. 1.0 Extreme 12midnight The Force: Manchester. 1.0 Dominic for a karmic payment to help 12.20am I Kissed A Girl. 1.05 Charlotte
12midnight Ink Master. 1.0 Ink Master. Couponing. 1.30 Extreme Couponing. Brit Cops: War On Crime. 2.0 The Lucia. 11.40 Euphoria. 12.55am House In Sunderland. 2.05 Charlotte In
2.0 Sex On The Streets. 2.45 Catfish 2.0 Dr Pimple Popper. 3.0 Dr Pimple Sympathizer. 3.10 Road Wars. 4.05 Of The Dragon. 2.05 The Sympathizer. Sunderland. 2.35 My Mate’s A Bad
UK. 3.35 Ridiculousness. 4.0 Popper. 4.0 Dr Pimple Popper. 5.0 Say Nothing To Declare. 5.0 Nothing To 3.15 Ray Donovan. 4.15 The Guest Date. 2.55 Bad Education. 3.25 Bad
Teleshopping. Yes To The Dress: Lancashire. Declare. 5.30 Nothing To Declare. Wing. 5.05 The Guest Wing. Education. 3.55 Close.
Bank Holiday Monday ✱ CLOSER PICKS

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 C4 CHANNEL 5


6am Breakfast. 9.30 Rip Off Britain. 6.45am Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Marcus 6am Good Morning Britain. 9.0 6.30am 3rd Rock From The Sun. 6.55 6am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. 11.15
6 am
10.15 The Moment Of Proof. 10.45 Wareing Simply Provence. 8.0 Sign Lorraine. 10.0 This Morning. 12.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.20 3rd Rock Storm Huntley. 12.45 Friends. 1.10
Expert Witness. 11.15 Homes Under Zone: MasterChef. 9.0 BBC News. 1.0 Loose Women. 1.45 ITV Lunchtime From The Sun. 7.45 Everybody Loves Friends. 1.40 5 News At Lunchtime.
The Hammer. 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.0 Impossible. 1.45 Mastermind. 2.15 News. 1.50 ITV News London. 2.0 Raymond. 8.10 Everybody Loves 1.45 Home And Away. 2.15 FILM: A
BBC News At One; Weather. 1.20 BBC Great Coastal Railway Journeys. 2.45 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.0 FILM: Nanny Raymond. 8.40 Everybody Loves View To Kill For (2023) ★★★ 4.0
Regional News; Weather. 1.30 Doctors. The Farmers’ Country Showdown. McPhee And The Big Bang (2010) Raymond. 9.10 Everybody Loves Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun. 5.0
✱ 2.0 The Famous Five 3.30 Escape 3.30 Five Bedrooms. 4.15 Cornwall: ★★★★ 5.0 Tipping Point: Best Ever Raymond. 9.40 Frasier. 10.10 Frasier. Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun.
To The Country. 4.30 The Finish Line. This Fishing Life. 5.15 Flog It! Finals. 5.30 The Chase. 10.40 FILM: Annie (1982) ★★★ 1.05 5.55 5 News Update.
5.15 Pointless. Find It, Fix It, Flog It. 2.10 Countdown.
3.0 A Place In The Sun. 4.0 A Place In
The Sun. 5.0 Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals.

6pm 6.0 BBC News At Six; 6.0 Richard Osman’s House 6.0 Four In A Bed The 6.0 Police Interceptors
Weather (S) Of Games (S) (R) competition begins at Home The officers chase two
6.20 BBC Regional News; ✱ 6.30 Clive Myrie’s 6.30 ITV News London (S) Farm B&B in Milton Keynes. (S) separate runaways. (S) (R)
Weather (S) Caribbean Adventure New 6.45 ITV Evening News (S) 6.30 News (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)
6.30 The One Show Alex series. The newsreader
Jones and Jermaine Jenas explores his heritage. (S)
7pm present topical stories and 7.0 Thief At The British 7.0 Emmerdale Leyla is 7.0 The Great Celebrity 7.0 Traffic Cops A scooter is
celebrity chat. (S) Museum (S) suspicious of Ella. (S) Bake Off For Stand Up To driven the wrong way down a
7.15 EastEnders Suki and Eve 7.30 Saving Lives At Sea 7.30 Coronation Street Cancer With Deborah dual carriageway. (S) (R)
are rattled when Nish turns up An RNLI crew race to the Sarah plans to implicate Meaden, Jay Blades, Judi Love 7.55 5 News Update (S)
on the doorstep of No 41. (S) rescue of a diver on the Nathan in Lauren’s murder. (S) and Mike Wozniak.
7.45 FILM: Spider-Man: No Dorset coast. (S) (R) Last in the series. (S) (R)
Way Home (2021) ★★★★★
8pm Premiere. Peter Parker asks ✱ 8.0 Springwatch New ✱ 8.0 Britain’s Got Talent 8.0 Our Welsh Chapel 8.0 Motorway Cops:
Doctor Strange for help to series. The team returns to Ant and Dec host the first live Dream Keith and Marj sleep in Catching Britain’s Speeders
change the past, only to face RSPB Arne in Dorset. (S) semi-final. (S) a shipping container in their PC Martain Anderson
foes from parallel universes. car park. Last in the series. (S) stakes out a suspect at
Comic-book adventure sequel, a fast-food outlet. (S)
9pm starring Tom Holland. (S) 9.0 D-Day: We Were There 9.0 Kill Zone: Inside Gaza – 9.0 Mysteries Of The
Rachel Burden traces the Dispatches Examining Pyramids With Dara Ó
stories of the UK’s D-Day the toll of Israel’s military Briain A look at the constant
veterans. (S) campaign on Gaza. (S) battle between tomb raiders
and tomb builders. (S)

10pm 10.0 BBC News At Ten (S) 10.0 FILM: Hope And Glory 10.0 ITV News (S) 10.0 Inside The Force Behind
10.20 BBC Regional News; (1987) ★★★★★ Life in London 10.25 FILM: The Invisible 10.15 24 Hours In Police the scene at a police station. (S)
Weather (S) during the Blitz from the Man (2020) ★★★★★ An Custody Feature-length
10.30 Have I Got A Bit More viewpoint of a boy who sees abused woman flees for her special telling the inside story
News For You Amol Rajan the war as an adventure. John life, but then fears her of an armed siege in a tower
hosts an extended edition of Boorman’s drama, starring apparently dead partner has block. (S) (R)
11pm the quiz. (S) (R) Sebastian Rice-Edwards and come after her. Thriller, starring 11.05 Police: Suspect No 1. 12.35 Traffic
Sarah Miles. (S) Elisabeth Moss. (S) 11.55 Kingpins. 12.50 Ramsay’s 24 Cops. 1.25 PlayOJO Live Casino Show.
11.15 I Kissed A Girl. 12.0 I Kissed A Girl. Hours To Hell And Back. 1.40 The 3.25 10 Years Younger In 10 Days. 3.50
12.55 BBC News. 11.50 FILM: The Road Dance (2021) 12.30 Shop On TV. 3.0 My Mum, Your Simpsons. 2.05 The Simpsons. 2.30 Police Interceptors. 4.40 Wildlife SOS.
★★★★ 1.45 Sign Zone: Question Dad. 3.50 Unwind With ITV. 5.05 FILM: The Road To Kuthriyar (2021) 5.05 House Doctor. 5.30
Time. 2.45 Sign Zone: Countryfile. Gino’s Italy: Like Mamma Used To ★★★ 4.30 Grand Designs. 5.25 Beat Entertainment News On 5.
3.40 This Is BBC Two. Make. 5.35 Gino’s Italy: Secrets Of The The Chef. 5.50 Countdown.
South.

2pm The Famous Five, BBC1 6.30pm Caribbean Adventure, BBC2 8pm Springwatch, BBC2 8pm Britain’s Got Talent, ITV1 9pm Housewives Of Cheshire, ITVBe

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6pm Tipping Point: Lucky Stars. 8.0 6pm Celebrity Catchphrase. 7.0 6pm The Big Bang Theory. 7.0 6pm Drama Queens. 7.0 Million Dollar 6pm The Murder Tapes. 7.0 The Killer
Gemma And Gorka: Life Behind The Family Fortunes. 8.0 Bob’s Burgers. Hollyoaks. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.0 Listing: LA. 8.0 Dinner Date. 9.0 The In My Family. 8.0 Murder On CCTV. 9.0
Lens. 9.0 Nick Knowles’ Big House 8.30 Bob’s Burgers. 9.0 Family Guy. Teen First Dates. 9.0 Made In Chelsea. Real Housewives Of Cheshire. Reality Murder On CCTV. 10.0 Murder On
Clearout. 10.0 Trial In The Outback: 9.30 Family Guy. 11.0 Family Guy. 10.05 Gogglebox. 11.05 First Dates. series. 10.0 The Real Housewives CCTV. 11.0 Murder On CCTV.
The Lindy Chamberlain Story. 11.0 Red 11.30 American Dad! 12midnight 12.10am The Big Bang Theory. 1.10 Ultimate Girls’ Trip. Kenya gets a 12midnight Forbidden: Dying For
Flag. 12midnight Stacey Dooley: American Dad! 12.30 Bob’s Burgers. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 2.10 Modern triggering message that sends her into Love. 1.0 Betrayed. 2.0 Murder Comes
Locked Up With The Lifers. 1.05 Bang 1.0 Bob’s Burgers. 1.30 Hey Tracey! Family. 3.0 Made In Chelsea. 3.55 a spiral. 11.0 The Only Way Is Essex. To Town. 3.0 FBI Files. 4.0
On Budget. 1.55 Nigel Slater’s Simple 2.25 Unwind With ITV. 3.0 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.45 Be Beautiful. 12midnight Teleshopping. 4.30 Teleshopping. 5.0
Cooking. Teleshopping. 4.45 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Unwind With ITV. Teleshopping. 5.30 Teleshopping.

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6pm MTV Cribs. 6.30 MTV Cribs. 6pm Dr Pimple Popper. 7.0 7 Little 6pm The Simpsons. 6.30 FILM: Angels 6.50pm House Of The Dragon. 7.55 7pm The Next Step. 8.05 Shark Tank.
7.0 Rich Kids Go Skint. 8.0 Ghosted: Johnstons. 9.0 Seeking Brother & Demons (2009) ★★★ 9.0 The House Of The Dragon. 9.0 The 8.45 Quiet Life. 9.0 I Kissed A Girl.
Love Gone Missing. 9.0 House Of Husband. 10.0 Bride & Prejudice: The Sympathizer. 10.10 The Jinx Part Two. Sympathizer. 10.10 Succession. As 9.50 Dave’s Games. 10.05 Juice. 10.30
Food. 10.0 Teen Mom Family Reunion. Forbidden Weddings. 11.30 Body 11.10 Sex And The City. 11.50 Sex And Logan works to finalise a deal, an Juice. 11.0 Dubai Hustle. 12midnight
11.0 Ink Master. 12midnight Bizarre. 12.30am Extreme Couponing. The City. 12.30am The Force: unexpected threat emerges. 11.20 The Charlotte In Sunderland. 1.0 Charlotte
Ridiculousness. 12.30 Ridiculousness. 2.0 Bride & Prejudice: The Forbidden Manchester. 1.30 Brit Cops: Frontline King. 12.20am The King. 1.20 The In Sunderland. 1.30 Juice. 1.55 Juice.
1.0 Geordie Shore. 2.0 Ink Master. 2.45 Weddings. 3.30 Seeking Brother Crime UK. 2.30 Road Wars. 3.0 Road Deuce. 2.30 Game Of Thrones. 3.35 In 2.20 Dubai Hustle. 2.50 Dubai Hustle.
Catfish UK. 3.35 Teen Cribs. 4.0 Husband. 4.30 7 Little Johnstons. Wars. 4.0 S.W.A.T. 5.0 Motorway Treatment. 4.05 The Guest Wing. 5.0 3.20 Doctor Who: Unleashed. 3.50
Teleshopping. 5.30 My Lottery Dream Home. Patrol. 5.30 Motorway Patrol. The Guest Wing. Close.
Tuesday 28 May ✱ CLOSER PICKS

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 C4 CHANNEL 5


6am Breakfast. 9.30 Rip Off Britain. 6.30am Bargain Hunt. 7.15 Money For 6am Good Morning Britain. 9.0 6.30am 3rd Rock From The Sun. 6.55 6am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. 11.15
6 am
10.15 The Moment Of Proof. 10.45 Nothing. 8.0 Sign Zone: MasterChef. Lorraine. 10.0 This Morning. 12.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.20 3rd Rock Storm Huntley. 12.45 Friends. 1.10
Expert Witness. 11.15 Homes Under 9.0 BBC News. 1.0 Impossible. 1.45 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV Lunchtime From The Sun. 7.45 Everybody Loves Friends. 1.40 5 News At Lunchtime.
The Hammer. 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.0 Mastermind. 2.15 Great Coastal News. 1.55 ITV News London. 2.0 Raymond. 8.10 Everybody Loves 1.45 Home And Away. 2.20 FILM:
BBC News At One; Weather. 1.30 BBC Railway Journeys. 2.45 Five Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.0 Lingo. 4.0 Raymond. 8.40 Everybody Loves Secrets By The Shore (2022) ★★★
Regional News; Weather. 1.45 Doctors. Bedrooms. 3.30 The Farmers’ Tipping Point. 5.0 The Chase. Raymond. 9.10 Everybody Loves 4.0 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun.
2.15 Money For Nothing. 3.0 Escape Country Showdown. 4.15 Cornwall: Raymond. 9.40 Frasier. 10.10 Frasier. 5.0 5 News At 5.
To The Country. 3.45 Garden Rescue. This Fishing Life. 5.15 Flog It! 10.40 Frasier. 11.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
4.30 The Finish Line. 5.15 Pointless. Nightmares USA. 12.05 Channel 4
News Summary. 12.10 Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA. 1.05 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It. 2.10 Countdown. 3.0 A
Place In The Sun. 4.0 A Place In The
Sun. 5.0 Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals.
6pm 6.0 BBC News At Six; 6.0 Richard Osman’s House 6.0 ITV News London (S) 6.0 Four In A Bed 6.0 Police Interceptors
Weather (S) Of Games P (S) (R) 6.30 ITV Evening News (S) The second visit of the Officers go in pursuit of a
6.30 BBC Regional News; ✱ 6.30 Clive Myrie’s week is to The Vale Hotel in drunk driver. (S) (R)
Weather (S) Caribbean Adventure Clive Cricklade, Wiltshire. (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)
discovers a new talent for 6.30 The Simpsons The
Dancehall dancing. (S) family relocates to a farm. (S) (R)
7pm 7.0 The One Show 7.0 Hairy Bikers: Route 66 7.0 Emmerdale 7.0 News (S) 7.0 30 Tips To Cut Your Bills
With Lauren Laverne and Dave and Si cross the state of Ethan collapses. (S) Household energy saving tips
Jermaine Jenas. (S) Arizona in search of the 7.30 Coronation Street After and advice on cutting bills with
7.30 EastEnders Wild West. (S) (R) failing to get the truth out of ingenious hacks. (S) (R)
Ravi orders Nish to stay away Carla, DS Swain pays Roy a 7.55 5 News Update (S)
from the family. (S) visit in prison. (S)
8pm ✱ 8.0 Cheap Flights: What ✱ 8.0 Springwatch ✱ 8.0 Britain’s Got Talent 8.0 Emergency Helicopter 8.0 The Yorkshire Vet An
They Really Mean For You Iolo Williams heads to More semi-finalists compete Medics Air ambulance crews emaciated sheep is rushed to
Investigating what the Hengistbury Head. (S) for a place in the grand final. (S) help a man trapped under a the Huddersfield hospital. (S)
government’s net zero targets pallet of granite. (S)
means for holidaymakers. (S)
9pm 9.0 The Great British 9.0 Blood On The Dance 9.0 The Gathering Promise ✱ 9.0 Into The Amazon With
Sewing Bee The sewers face Floor – Spotlight The of getting his sister to the UK Robson Green Robson heads
challenges inspired by the unsolved murder of a police safely leaves Bazi with a deeper into the Amazon
world of sport. (S) officer that shattered the gay decision to make. (S) rainforest. (S)
scene in Belfast. (S)

10pm 10.0 BBC News (S) 10.0 Meet The Richardsons 10.0 ITV News (S) 10.0 My Sexual Abuse: The ✱ 10.0 Stormy
10.30 BBC Regional News; Jon is given career advice from 10.30 ITV News London (S) Sitcom Mark O’Sullivan Following the story of Stormy
Weather (S) his comedy hero, Jack Dee. (S) (R) 10.45 On Assignment Emma creates a sitcom about the Daniels, who reflects on
10.40 Tokyo Vice Sato and 10.30 Newsnight (S) Murphy meets the widows abuse he survived as a child. (S) receiving a secret payment as
Hayama strategise a way being abandoned by their 10.55 Sky Coppers (S) (R) incentive to stay quiet. (S)
11pm forward. (S) 11.05 International T20 Cricket. 12.05
families in India. (S)
12.05 Ultimate Police Interceptors. 1.0
11.40 Tokyo Vice. 12.40 BBC News. Sign Zone: Secrets And Spies: A 11.20 Absolutely India: Mancs In 11.55 Taskmaster. 12.55 Ramsay’s 24 PlayOJO Live Casino Show. 3.0 10
Nuclear Game. 1.05 Sign Zone: Hidden Mumbai. 11.45 Absolutely India: Mancs Hours To Hell And Back. 1.55 FILM: Years Younger In 10 Days. 3.50 Police
Treasures Of The National Trust. 2.05 In Mumbai. 12.10 ITV Studio Sessions. Moffie (2019) ★★★★ 3.35 Interceptors. 4.40 Wildlife SOS. 5.05
Sign Zone: Great British Railway 12.35 Shop On TV. 3.0 My Mum, Your Unreported World. 4.0 The War On House Doctor. 5.30 Entertainment
Journeys. 2.35 Sign Zone: The Crime Dad. 3.50 Unwind With ITV. 5.05 Britain’s Motorists: Dispatches. 4.30 News On 5. 5.35 Thomas & Friends:
Bosses Who Terrorised A City – James Martin’s Spanish Adventure. Location, Location, Location. 5.25 Big World! Big Adventures! 5.45 Paw
Panorama. 3.05 This Is BBC Two. Beat The Chef. 5.50 Countdown. Patrol.

8pm Cheap Flights, BBC1 9pm Sewing Bee, BBC1 8pm Britain’s Got Talent, ITV1 10pm My Sexual Abuse, C4 9pm Into The Amazon, Channel 5

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W ITV2 E4 ITVBE QUEST RED
6pm Tipping Point: Lucky Stars. 8.0 6pm Celebrity Catchphrase. 7.0 6pm The Big Bang Theory. 7.0 6pm Masters Of Flip. 7.0 Million Dollar 6pm The Murder Tapes. 7.0 The Killer
DIY SOS: The Bigger Build Ireland. 9.0 Family Fortunes. 8.0 Bob’s Burgers. Hollyoaks. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.0 Listing: LA. 8.0 Dinner Date. 9.0 In My Family. 8.0 Murder On CCTV. 9.0
Gemma And Gorka: Life Behind The 8.30 Bob’s Burgers. 9.0 Hell’s Kitchen. Teen First Dates. 9.0 Celebrity Botched. A fitness enthusiast asks Murder On CCTV. 10.0 Murder In The
Lens. 10.0 Trial In The Outback: The 10.0 Plebs. 10.30 Plebs. 11.0 Family Gogglebox. 10.0 Gogglebox. 11.05 Paul Nassif to fix her nose. 10.0 The Heartland. 11.0 The Suitcase Murders.
Lindy Chamberlain Story. 11.0 Cold Guy. 11.30 Family Guy. 12midnight First Dates. 12.10am The Big Bang Real Housewives Ultimate Girls’ Trip. A 12midnight Forbidden: Dying For
Case. 12midnight One Born Every American Dad! 12.30 American Dad! Theory. 1.10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 2.10 fabulous yacht day turns into a boat Love. 1.0 Betrayed. 2.0 Murder Comes
Minute. 1.0 Bang On Budget. 1.50 1.0 Bob’s Burgers. 1.30 Bob’s Burgers. Modern Family. 3.0 Celebrity ride from hell. 11.0 The Only Way Is To Town. 3.0 FBI Files. 4.0
Nigel Slater’s Dish Of The Day. 2.30 1.55 Hey Tracey! 2.50 Unwind With Gogglebox. 3.55 Ramsay’s Kitchen Essex. 11.50 Be Beautiful. 12.05am Teleshopping. 4.30 Teleshopping. 5.0
Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook. ITV. 3.0 Teleshopping. Nightmares USA. Unwind With ITV. 12.55 Teleshopping. Teleshopping. 5.30 Teleshopping.

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6pm MTV Cribs. 6.30 MTV Cribs. 6pm Dr Pimple Popper. 7.0 Say Yes To 6pm The Office (US). 7.0 The 5.40pm Billions. 6.45 Billions. 7.55 7pm Phoenix Rise. 7.30 Phoenix Rise.
7.0 It’s Your Fault I’m Fat. 8.0 The Dress. 8.0 My 600lb Life: Where Simpsons. 8.0 Rob & Romesh Vs Game Of Thrones. 9.0 The Tattooist Of 8.0 Shark Tank. 8.40 The Catch Up.
Teen Mom UK. 9.0 Catfish: The TV Are They Now? 10.0 Bad Hair Day. Cricket: The Test. 9.0 A League Of Auschwitz. 10.05 House Of The 8.45 Zen Motoring. 9.0 Freddie
Show. 10.0 True Life Crime. 11.0 Sex Sent Me To The ER. Their Own: Mexican Road Trip. 10.0 Dragon. 11.15 Band Of Brothers. Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams. 10.0 FILM:
11.0 Ink Master. 12midnight 12midnight Body Bizarre. 1.0 Extreme Hold The Front Page. 11.0 S.W.A.T. 12.25am Domina. 1.35 The Newsroom. Tenet (2020) ★★★★ 12.20am Fresh
Ridiculousness. 12.30 Ridiculousness. Couponing. 1.30 Extreme Couponing. 12midnight Resident Alien. 1.0 Brit 2.35 Game Of Thrones. 3.35 In Cops. 12.50 Fresh Cops. 1.20
1.0 Geordie Shore. 2.0 Ink Master. 2.45 2.0 Bad Hair Day. 3.0 Sex Sent Me To Cops: Frontline Crime UK. 2.0 Road Treatment. 4.05 Richard E Grant’s Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost And
Catfish UK. 3.35 Teen Cribs. 4.0 The ER. 4.0 My 600lb Life: Where Are Wars. 3.0 Hawaii Five-0. 4.0 S.W.A.T. Hotel Secrets. 5.0 Richard E Grant’s The Gravestone. 1.50 Freddie Flintoff’s
Teleshopping. They Now? 5.0 Motorway Patrol. Hotel Secrets. Field Of Dreams. 2.50 Fresh Cops.
Wednesday 29 May ✱ CLOSER PICKS

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 C4 CHANNEL 5


6am Breakfast. 9.30 Rip Off Britain. 6.30am Money For Nothing. 7.15 6am Good Morning Britain. 9.0 6.30am 3rd Rock From The Sun. 6.55 6am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. 11.15
6 am
10.15 The Moment Of Proof. 10.45 Escape To The Country. 8.0 Sign Zone: Lorraine. 10.0 This Morning. 12.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.20 3rd Rock Storm Huntley. 12.45 Friends. 1.10
Expert Witness. 11.15 Homes Under MasterChef. 9.0 BBC News. 1.0 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV Lunchtime From The Sun. 7.45 Everybody Loves Friends. 1.40 5 News At Lunchtime.
The Hammer. 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.0 Impossible. 1.45 Mastermind. 2.15 News. 1.55 ITV News London. 2.0 Raymond. 8.10 Everybody Loves 1.45 Home And Away. 2.15 FILM: Rear-
BBC News At One; Weather. 1.30 BBC Great Coastal Railway Journeys. 2.45 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.0 Lingo. 4.0 Raymond. 8.40 Everybody Loves View Mirror (2023) ★★★ 4.0
Regional News; Weather. 1.45 Doctors. Five Bedrooms. 3.30 The Farmers’ Tipping Point. 5.0 The Chase. Raymond. 9.10 Everybody Loves Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun.
2.15 Money For Nothing. 3.0 Escape Country Showdown. 4.15 Cornwall: Raymond. 9.40 Frasier. 10.10 Frasier. 5.0 5 News At 5.
To The Country. 3.45 Garden Rescue. This Fishing Life. 5.15 Flog It! 10.40 Frasier. 11.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
4.30 The Finish Line. 5.15 Pointless. Nightmares USA. 12.05 Channel 4
News Summary. 12.10 Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA. 1.05 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It. 2.10 Countdown. 3.0 A
Place In The Sun. 4.0 A Place In The
Sun. 5.0 Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals.
6pm 6.0 BBC News At Six; 6.0 Richard Osman’s House 6.0 ITV News London (S) 6.0 Four In A Bed 6.0 Police Interceptors
Weather (S) Of Games Previous winners 6.30 ITV Evening News (S) The third visit of the week is to Dan and Tom have their hands
6.30 BBC Regional News; Stephen Bailey, Ria Lina and Cottage Lodge Hotel in full with a driver who is four
Weather (S) John Thomson compete. (S) (R) Brockenhurst. (S) times over the limit. (S) (R)
✱ 6.30 Clive Myrie’s 6.30 The Simpsons Homer 6.55 5 News Update (S)
Caribbean Adventure (S) becomes a celebrity. (S) (R)
7 pm 7.0 The One Show With Alex 7.0 Hairy Bikers: Route 66 7.0 Emmerdale Belle feels 7.0 News (S) 7.0 Poundland: Are You
Jones and Jermaine Jenas. (S) The duo cook with marijuana guilty. Tom’s plan is working. (S) Being Conned?
7.30 EastEnders and visit a taco festival. 7.30 Coronation Street Behind the scenes of the chain
The Panesars vote on Last in the series. (S) (R) Roy crosses paths with a of retail stores. (S)
whether to let Nish back into vengeful Griff. (S) 7.55 5 News Update (S)
their lives or not. (S)
8pm 8.0 The Repair Shop ✱ 8.0 Springwatch Chris and ✱ 8.0 Britain’s Got Talent 8.0 Location, Location, 8.0 The Motorway A four-car
Experts restore an armchair, a Michaela commentate on the Ant and Dec host as more acts Location Kirstie Allsopp and crash in Manchester’s rush
model carousel and a drama from the live nests. (S) compete in the semi-finals. (S) Phil Spencer help house hunters hour puts the patrollers
bodhran drum. (S) along the south coast. (S) under pressure. (S)

9pm ✱ 9.0 Race Across ✱ 9.0 The Misadventures 9.0 The Gathering 9.0 Casualty 24/7: Every
The World: The Final Of Romesh Ranganathan Simmering emotions explode Second Counts Walk-in and
The teams head to Lombok New series. Romesh into showdowns and a violent ambulance patients queue up
where a prize of £20,000 Ranganathan visits Uganda. (S) assault at the beach. Last in rapidly on the hottest day of
awaits the winners. (S) the series. (S) the year. (S)

10pm 10.0 BBC News At Ten (S) 10.0 Inside No 9 A family try 10.0 ITV News (S) 10.0 Britain’s Most 10.0 Trauma Room One
10.30 BBC Regional News; out their local escape room, 10.30 ITV News London (S) Expensive Houses A man undergoes a hi-tech
Weather (S) The Killer’s Lair. (S) 10.45 The 1% Club Quiz, Sales broker John has a vast operation to remove a tumour
✱ 10.40 Race Across The 10.30 Newsnight (S) hosted by Lee Mack. (S) (R) family home to sell in the on his spinal cord. (S) (R)
World: The Reunion Six stunning New Forest. (S) (R)
months after finishing their
11pm race, the five teams reunite in 11.05 Unspun World With John 11.05 The Piano. 12.10 24 Hours In A&E. 11.05 999: Emergency Call Out. 12.05
London. Last in the series. (S) Simpson. 11.30 Hidden Treasures Of 11.45 Absolutely India: Mancs In 1.05 Imposter: The Man Who Came Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
11.40 FILM: The Prestige (2006) The National Trust. 12.30 Sign Zone: Mumbai. 12.10 Absolutely India: Mancs Back From The Dead. 2.0 Kill Zone: Speeders. 1.0 PlayOJO Live Casino
★★★★★ 1.50 BBC News. Rob And Rylan’s Grand Tour. 1.30 Sign In Mumbai. 12.35 Shop On TV. 3.0 How Inside Gaza – Dispatches. 3.05 FILM: Show. 3.0 The World’s Biggest Murder
Zone: The Great British Sewing Bee. Broke Is Your Council? Tonight. 3.25 Sequin In A Blue Room (2021) Trial: Nuremberg. 4.15 Great Artists.
2.30 Sign Zone: David & Jay’s Touring My Mum, Your Dad. 4.15 Unwind With ★★★★★ 4.30 Grand Designs 4.40 Wildlife SOS. 5.05 House Doctor.
Toolshed. 3.0 This Is BBC Two. ITV. 5.30 For The Love Of Dogs With Australia. 5.30 Kirstie’s House Of Craft. 5.30 Entertainment News On 5. 5.35
Alison Hammond. 5.50 Countdown. Thomas & Friends. 5.45 Paw Patrol.

9.00pm Race Across The World, BBC1 9.00pm Misadventures, BBC2 8.00pm Location, Location, C4 Camden, Disney+ 9.00pm Drama Queens, ITVBe

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W ITV2 E4 ITVBE QUEST RED
6pm Celebrity Tipping Point. 7.0 6pm Celebrity Catchphrase. 7.0 6pm The Big Bang Theory. 7.0 6pm Masters Of Flip. 7.0 Million Dollar 6pm The Murder Tapes. 7.0 The Killer
Tipping Point: Lucky Stars. 8.0 DIY Family Fortunes. 8.0 Bob’s Burgers. Hollyoaks. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.0 Listing: LA. 8.0 Dinner Date. 9.0 In My Family. 8.0 Murder On CCTV. 9.0
SOS: The Bigger Build Ireland. 9.0 Hell’s Kitchen. 10.0 Plebs. 11.0 Teen First Dates. 9.0 Celebrity Drama Queens. Amy meets the Murder On CCTV. 10.0 American
9.0 Inside The Ambulance. 10.0 Red Family Guy. 12midnight American Gogglebox. 10.0 Gogglebox. 11.05 ultimate Drama Queen, Dame Joan Monster. 11.0 Forensic Factor: A New
Flag. 11.0 Louis Theroux’s Altered Dad! 12.30 American Dad! 1.0 Bob’s First Dates. 12.10am The Big Bang Collins, in Prague. 10.0 The Only Way ERA. 12midnight Forbidden: Dying
States. 12.25am Inside The Burgers. 1.30 Bob’s Burgers. 1.55 Theory. 1.10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 2.10 Is Essex. Reality series. There’s trouble For Love. 1.0 Betrayed. 2.0 Murder
Ambulance. 12.55 One Born Every Shopping With Keith Lemon. 2.20 Modern Family. 3.0 Celebrity in Essex as Dani spills the beans to Ella. Comes To Town. 3.0 FBI Files. 4.0
Minute. 1.45 Bang On Budget. 3.0 Shopping With Keith Lemon. 2.50 Gogglebox. 3.55 Ramsay’s Kitchen 11.0 Botched. 12midnight The Only Teleshopping. 4.30 Teleshopping. 5.0
Teleshopping. Unwind With ITV. 3.0 Teleshopping. Nightmares USA. Way Is Ibiza. 1.0 Teleshopping. Teleshopping. 5.30 Teleshopping.

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6pm MTV Cribs. 6.30 MTV Cribs. 7.0 6pm Dr Pimple Popper. 7.0 Sister 6pm The Office (US). 7.0 The 5.40pm Billions. 6.45 Billions. 7.50 7pm Phoenix Rise. 7.30 Phoenix Rise.
Judge Geordie. 7.30 Judge Geordie. Wives. 8.0 Say Yes To The Dress With Simpsons. 8.0 A League Of Their Own: House Of The Dragon. 9.0 The 8.0 Shark Tank. 8.40 The Catch Up.
8.0 Geordie OGs. 9.0 Catfish: The TV Tan France. 9.0 Temptation Island. Mexican Road Trip. 9.0 Hold The Front Sympathizer. 10.10 The King. Bruno 8.45 Zen Motoring. 9.0 FILM: Spider-
Show. 10.0 Help! I’m In A Secret 10.0 MILF Manor. 11.0 Sex Sent Me To Page. 10.0 Resident Alien. 11.0 Ted. gains Mancuso’s trust. 11.10 The King. Man: Far From Home (2019) ★★★★
Relationship! 11.0 Teen Mom Family The ER. 12midnight Bubble Woman: 11.45 Brassic. 12.40am The Force: 12.10am The Pacific. 1.15 The Deuce. 11.0 Back To Life. 11.50 I Kissed A Girl.
Reunion. 12midnight Ridiculousness. Body Bizarre. 1.0 Extreme Couponing. Manchester. 1.35 Brit Cops: Frontline 2.20 Game Of Thrones. 3.30 In 12.40am I Kissed A Girl. 1.30 Charlotte
12.30 Ridiculousness. 1.0 Geordie 2.0 Extreme Sisters. 3.0 Sex Sent Me Crime UK. 2.30 Road Wars. 3.0 Hawaii Treatment. 4.0 Richard E Grant’s Hotel In Sunderland. 2.30 Back To Life. 2.55
Shore. 2.0 Ink Master. 2.45 Catfish UK. To The ER. 4.0 Say Yes To The Dress Five-0. 4.0 S.W.A.T. 5.0 Motorway Secrets. 5.0 Richard E Grant’s Hotel Back To Life. 3.25 Laugh Lessons. 3.30
3.35 Teen Cribs. 4.0 Teleshopping. With Tan France. Patrol. 5.30 Motorway Patrol. Secrets. Charlotte In Sunderland. 4.0 Close.
Thursday 30 May ✱ CLOSER PICKS

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 C4 CHANNEL 5


6am Breakfast. 9.30 Rip Off Britain. 6.15am Homes Under The Hammer. 6am Good Morning Britain. 9.0 6.30am 3rd Rock From The Sun. 6.55 6am Milkshake FM: Brave Bunnies. 6.05
6 am
10.15 The Moment Of Proof. 10.45 7.15 Money For Nothing. 8.0 Sign Lorraine. 10.0 This Morning. 12.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.20 3rd Rock Peppa Pig. 6.25 Pip And Posy. 6.30
Expert Witness. 11.15 Homes Under Zone: Rick Stein’s Food Stories. 8.30 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV Lunchtime From The Sun. 7.45 Everybody Loves Odo. 6.40 Tweedy & Fluff. 6.45 Fireman
The Hammer. 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.0 Sign Zone: Great British Railway News. 1.55 ITV News London. 2.0 Raymond. 8.10 Everybody Loves Sam. 6.55 Thomas & Friends: All
BBC News At One; Weather. 1.30 BBC Journeys. 9.0 BBC News. 1.0 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.0 Lingo. 4.0 Raymond. 8.40 Everybody Loves Engines Go! 7.05 Peppa Pig. 7.15 Paw
Regional News; Weather. 1.45 Doctors. Impossible. 1.45 Mastermind. 2.15 Tipping Point. 5.0 The Chase. Raymond. 9.10 Everybody Loves Patrol. 7.30 Pip And Posy. 7.35 The
2.15 Money For Nothing. 3.0 Escape Great Coastal Railway Journeys. 2.45 Raymond. 9.40 Frasier. 10.10 Frasier. Adventures Of Paddington. 7.55 Milo.
To The Country. 3.45 Garden Rescue. Five Bedrooms. 3.30 The Farmers’ 10.40 Frasier. 11.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen 8.10 Paw Patrol. 8.25 Peppa Pig. 8.45
4.30 The Finish Line. 5.15 Pointless. Country Showdown. 4.15 Cornwall: Nightmares USA. 12.05 Channel 4 Pop Paper City. 8.55 Meet The Experts.
This Fishing Life. 5.15 Flog It! News Summary. 12.10 Ramsay’s 9.10 Milkshake! Story Den. 9.15 Jeremy
Kitchen Nightmares USA. 1.05 Find It, Vine. 11.15 Storm Huntley. 12.45 Friends.
Fix It, Flog It. 2.10 Countdown. 3.0 A 1.40 5 News At Lunchtime. 1.45 Home
Place In The Sun. 4.0 A Place In The And Away. 2.15 FILM: Twelve Desperate
Sun. 5.0 Come Dine With Me: The Hours (2023) ★★ 4.0 Bargain-Loving
Professionals. Brits In The Sun. 5.0 5 News At 5.
6pm 6.0 BBC News At Six; 6.0 ITV News London (S) 6.0 Four In A Bed 6.0 Amazing Railway
Weather (S) 6.30 ITV Evening News (S) The final visit of the week is to Journeys With Nick
6.30 BBC Regional News; 6.15 International T20 Beach Sun Retreat in Knowles The presenter
Weather (S) Cricket England v Pakistan. Dymchurch, Kent. (S) explores Norway. (S) (R)
Live coverage of the fourth 6.30 The Simpsons Apu’s 6.55 5 News Update (S)
and final T20 match of the wife has octuplets. (S) (R)
7pm 7.0 The One Show Live series, staged at the Oval. (S) 7.0 Emmerdale 7.0 News (S) 7.0 Escape To The Farm
magazine show, hosted by Alex Manpreet confesses. (S) With Kate Humble Kate
Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) 7.30 Coronation Street embraces innovative
7.30 EastEnders Sarah regrets her reckless treehouse accommodation. (S)
Ravi struggles to stand firm actions as Nathan is 7.55 5 News Update (S)
against Nish. (S) questioned over
Lauren’s murder. (S)
8pm 8.0 Dragons’ Den Two sisters ✱ 8.0 Britain’s Got Talent 8.0 The Truth About Temu: 8.0 Reuben: Life In The
hope the Dragons will be The semi-finals continue. (S) Dispatches (S) Dales A plumbing project
attracted to their maternity- 8.30 Kirstie And Phil’s Love turns into a disaster.
wear business. (S) (R) It Or List It: Brilliant Builds (S) Last in the series. (S)

9pm ✱ 9.0 The Outlaws 9.0 Taskmaster In the grand 9.0 The Hotel Inspector Alex
New series. Return of the final, Sophie Willan impresses Polizzi is back on the Kent
comedy drama, starring on keyboards and Steve coast to revisit the Westward
Rhianne Barreto. (S) Pemberton is surprised in a Ho! hostelry. (S)
field. Last in the series. (S)

10pm 10.0 BBC News At Ten (S) 10.0 Mock The Week 10.0 ITV News (S) ✱ 10.0 We Are Lady Parts 10.0 Rose West: Making Of
10.30 BBC Regional News; With Jen Brister, Rhys James, 10.30 ITV News London (S) New series. Comedy about a A Monster Unlocking the
Weather (S) Laura Lexx, Glenn Moore and 10.45 FILM: From Russia Muslim punk band. (S) serial killer’s childhood. (S) (R)
10.40 Question Time Ahir Shah. (S) (R) With Love (1963) ★★★★ ✱ 10.35 We Are Lady Parts
Fiona Bruce presents topical 10.30 Newsnight (S) James Bond is sent to steal a The band are left with no
debate. (S) top-secret Soviet decoding rehearsal space. (S)
11pm 11.05 The Misadventures Of Romesh machine – but the mission is a 11.35 5 Clues That Caught The Killer.
11.40 Newscast. 12.15 BBC News. Ranganathan. 12.05 Sign Zone: Saving trap set by crime syndicate 11.10 Gogglebox. 12.10 First Dates. 12.35 Criminals: Caught On Camera.
Lives At Sea. 1.05 Sign Zone: Doctor Spectre. Spy thriller, with Sean 1.05 Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And 1.0 PlayOJO Live Casino Show. 3.0
Who. 1.50 Sign Zone: Cold Case Connery and Robert Shaw. (S) Back. 1.55 FILM: The Art Of Racing In Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun. 3.50
Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex The Rain (2019) ★★★ 3.45 Our Police Interceptors. 4.40 Wildlife SOS.
Crimes. 2.50 This Is BBC Two. 12.45 Shop On TV. 3.0 My Mum, Your Welsh Chapel Dream. 4.40 Location, 5.05 House Doctor. 5.30
Dad. 3.50 Unwind With ITV. 5.05 Katie Location, Location. 5.30 Kirstie’s Entertainment News On 5. 5.35
Piper’s Breakfast Show. House Of Craft. 5.50 Countdown. Fireman Sam. 5.45 Paw Patrol.

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Tipping Point: Lucky Stars. 8.0 Family Fortunes. 8.0 Bob’s Burgers. Hollyoaks. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.0 Dollar Listing: LA. 8.0 Dinner Date. Mistake. 8.0 Murder On CCTV. 9.0
Gemma And Gorka: Life Behind The 8.30 Bob’s Burgers. 9.0 Family Guy. Teen First Dates. 9.0 Celebrity 9.0 Billie And Greg: The Family Murder On CCTV. 10.0 Evil Lives Here:
Lens. 9.0 Red Flag. 10.0 Inside The 9.30 Family Guy. 11.0 Family Guy. Gogglebox. 10.0 Gogglebox. 11.05 Diaries. Billie and Greg wonder if the Shadows Of Death. 11.0 Evil Lives
Ambulance. 11.0 Louis Theroux: 11.30 American Dad! 12midnight First Dates. 12.10am The Big Bang kids’ snacking is affecting their Here: Shadows Of Death. 12midnight
Extreme Love – Autism. 12.15am One American Dad! 12.30 Bob’s Burgers. Theory. 1.10 Rick And Morty. 1.45 behaviour. 10.0 My Mum, Your Dad Forbidden: Dying For Love. 1.0
Born Every Minute. 1.15 Bang On 1.0 Bob’s Burgers. 1.30 Don’t Hate The Smiling Friends. 2.15 Brooklyn Nine- Australia. 11.35 The Only Way Is Ibiza. Betrayed. 2.0 Murder Comes To Town.
Budget. 2.15 Nigel Slater’s Simple Playaz. 2.10 Unwind With ITV. 3.0 Nine. 3.05 Celebrity Gogglebox. 4.0 12.25am Unwind With ITV. 1.0 3.0 FBI Files. 4.0 Teleshopping. 5.0
Suppers. 3.0 Teleshopping. Teleshopping. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. Teleshopping. Teleshopping. 5.30 Teleshopping.

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6pm MTV Cribs. 6.30 MTV Cribs. 7.0 6pm Dr Pimple Popper. 7.0 Say Yes To 6pm The Office (US). 7.0 The 5.45pm Billions. 6.50 Billions. 7.55 7pm Athletics: Diamond League Oslo.
Ghosted: Love Gone Missing. 8.0 Rich The Dress. 8.0 Brides, Grooms And Simpsons. 8.0 Painting Birds With Jim House Of The Dragon. 9.0 The 9.0 Shark Tank. 9.40 Spud. 10.0 The
Kids Go Skint. 9.0 10 Years Younger In Emergency Rooms. 9.0 Cornwall Air And Nancy Moir. 9.0 The Tattooist Of Tattooist Of Auschwitz. 10.05 Band Of Young Offenders. 10.30 High:
10 Days. 10.0 Jersey Shore Family 999. 10.0 Hoarding: Buried Alive. 11.0 Auschwitz. 10.05 Zuckerberg: King Of Brothers. Winters is promoted to a Surviving A Dubai Drugs Bust. 11.0
Vacation. 11.0 House Of Food. Sex Sent Me To The ER. 12midnight The Metaverse. 11.50 The Jinx Part desk job. 11.10 Succession. 12.20am Becoming The Doctor. 11.20 I Kissed A
12midnight Ridiculousness. 12.30 Born With No Eyes: Body Bizarre. Two. 12.50am Sex And The City. 2.05 House Of The Dragon. 1.40 Game Of Girl. 12.55am Charlotte In Sunderland.
Ridiculousness. 1.0 Geordie Shore. 2.0 1.0 Extreme Couponing. 2.0 SEAL Team. 3.0 Hawaii Five-0. 4.0 Thrones. 2.50 Game Of Thrones. 4.0 1.55 High: Surviving A Dubai Drugs
Ink Master. 2.45 Catfish UK. 3.35 Teen Hoarding: Buried Alive. 3.0 Sex Sent S.W.A.T. 5.0 Motorway Patrol. 5.30 Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets. 5.0 Bust. 2.25 Drugs Map Of Britain. 3.25
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6 am
10.15 The Moment Of Proof. 10.45 Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure. 8.0 Sign Lorraine. 10.0 This Morning. 12.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.20 3rd Rock Storm Huntley. 12.45 Friends. 1.10
Expert Witness. 11.15 Homes Under Zone: Antiques Roadshow. 9.0 BBC Loose Women. 1.0 ITV Lunchtime From The Sun. 7.45 Everybody Loves Friends. 1.40 5 News At Lunchtime. 1.45
The Hammer. 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.0 News. 12.50 Lifeline. 1.0 Impossible. News. 1.20 ITV News London. 1.30 ITV Raymond. 8.10 Everybody Loves Home And Away. 2.20 FILM: The
BBC News At One; Weather. 1.30 BBC 1.45 Mastermind. 2.15 Great Coastal Racing Live: The Oaks. 5.0 The Chase. Raymond. 8.40 Everybody Loves Stepsister (2022) ★★★ 4.0 Bargain-
Regional News; Weather. 1.45 Hope Railway Journeys. 2.45 Five Raymond. 9.10 Everybody Loves Loving Brits In The Sun. 5.0 5 News At 5.
Street. 2.30 Money For Nothing. 3.0 Bedrooms. 3.30 The Farmers’ Country Raymond. 9.40 Frasier. 10.10 Frasier.
Escape To The Country. 3.45 Garden Showdown. 4.15 Cornwall: This Fishing 10.40 Frasier. 11.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Rescue. 4.30 The Finish Line. 5.15 Life. 5.15 Flog It! Nightmares USA. 12.05 Channel 4
Pointless. News Summary. 12.10 Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA. 1.05 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It. 2.10 Countdown. 3.0 A
Place In The Sun. 4.0 A Place In The
Sun. 5.0 Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals.
6pm 6.0 BBC News At Six; 6.0 Richard Osman’s House 6.0 ITV News London (S) 6.0 Four In A Bed 6.0 Police Interceptors
Weather (S) Of Games Stephen Bailey, 6.30 ITV Evening News (S) It’s payment day, and the A gang of burglars flee in three
6.30 BBC Regional News; Charlie Brooks, Ria Lina and B&Bers are ready to take stolen vehicles. (S) (R)
Weather (S) John Thomson take part. (S) (R) each other to task. (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)
✱ 6.30 Clive Myrie’s 6.30 The Simpsons Homer
Caribbean Adventure (S) tackles a biker gang. (S) (R)
7pm 7.0 The One Show Live 7.0 Beechgrove Garden 7.0 Emmerdale Cain 7.0 News (S) 7.0 Smart Motorways: The
magazine show, hosted by Alex Carole Baxter is looking at considers a big change. (S) Shocking Truth How drivers
Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) bedding plants. (S) 7.30 Coronation Street have been affected by the
7.30 Make It At Market Dom ✱ 7.30 Springwatch Chris Nathan voices suspicions installation of smart
Chinea helps an artist and a Packham and Michaela about Sarah. (S) motorways. (S)
potter make their passions a Strachan are joined by Iolo 7.55 5 News Update (S)
business. (S) (R) Williams at RSPB Arne. (S)
8pm 8.0 Would I Lie To You? With ✱ 8.0 Britain’s Got Talent 8.0 Double The Money 8.0 Motorway: Hell On The
Sara Pascoe, Dan Walker and Ant and Dec host another The remaining teams gather Highway New series. Drivers
Mr Motivator. (S) (R) semi-final. (S) for the semi-final. (S) and experts return to assess
8.30 Outnumbered Ben 8.30 Gardeners’ World dramatic traffic incidents. (S)
becomes fascinated by the Monty Don reveals a new
world of psychology. (S) (R) outdoor eating area he has
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9.0 Have I Got News For You been working on. (S) 9.0 Gogglebox The critics’ 9.0 The Hoover Dam:
Chris McCausland and Sophy takes on the best TV shows of Building The Impossible
Ridge are the guest panellists. (S) the latest series. (S) Rob Bell discovers how the
9.30 The Young Offenders 9.30 Hidden Treasures Of Hoover Dam was built. (S)
Fake Billy Murphy steals The National Trust
Conor’s most prized A showstopping clock
10pm possession. (S)
10.0 BBC News At Ten (S)
needs restarting. (S)
10.0 ITV News (S) 10.0 The Nevermets 10.0 Only Fools And Horses:
10.30 BBC Regional News; 10.30 Newsnight (S) 10.30 ITV News London (S) Law graduate Dumebi met Britain’s Favourite Sitcom
Weather (S) 10.45 ITV Studio Sessions Dubai-based boyfriend Mazi Celebrity fans discuss
10.40 FILM: Dunkirk (2017) Vocalist Becky Hill joins Clara on Instagram. (S) why they love the classic
★★★★ Allied soldiers Amfo. (S) comedy. (S) (R)
surrounded by the German 11.05 FILM: Team America: World
11pm army wait for evacuation 11.05 Rob And Rylan’s Grand Tour. Police (2004) ★★★ 12.55 FILM: Save
during the Second World War. 12.05 Sign Zone: Panorama. 1.05 Sign 11.20 When English Football Ruled Yourselves! (2020) ★★★ 2.25 11.30 Bob Monkhouse: Master Of
Christopher Nolan’s drama, Zone: Andi Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts. Europe. 12.20 Shop On TV. 3.0 The Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back. Laughter. 1.20 PlayOJO Live Casino
starring Kenneth Branagh and 2.05 Sign Zone: David & Jay’s Touring Larkins. 3.50 Unwind With ITV. 5.05 3.15 The Simpsons. 3.35 Come Dine Show. 3.20 Bargain-Loving Brits In
Tom Hardy. (S) Toolshed. 2.35 This Is BBC Two. Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show. With Me. 4.0 Come Dine With Me. 4.25 The Sun. 4.10 Divine Designs. 4.40
Come Dine With Me. 4.55 Come Dine Wildlife SOS. 5.05 House Doctor. 5.30
12.20 Rebus. 1.10 BBC News. With Me. 5.20 Come Dine With Me. Entertainment News On 5. 5.35
5.45 Find It, Fix It, Flog It. Fireman Sam. 5.45 Paw Patrol.

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Inside The Ambulance. 9.0 Inside The Family Fortunes. 8.0 Bob’s Burgers. Hollyoaks. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.0 Listing: LA. 8.0 Dinner Date. 9.0 Mistake. 8.0 Murder On CCTV. 9.0
Ambulance. 10.0 999 Rescue Squad. 8.30 Bob’s Burgers. 9.0 FILM: We’re Teen First Dates. 9.0 FILM: Logan Botched. A transgender woman wants Murder On CCTV. 10.0 Lethally
11.0 999 Rescue Squad. 12midnight The Millers (2013) ★★★★ 11.15 (2017) ★★★★★ 11.45 Naked to have her collapsed nose fixed. 10.0 Blonde. 11.0 Mean Girl Murders.
One Born Every Minute. 1.0 Bang On Family Guy. 11.45 Family Guy. 12.15am Attraction. 12.50am The Big Bang Botched. Medic Paul Nassif helps a 12midnight Forbidden: Dying For
Budget. 1.50 Nigel Slater’s Simple American Dad! 12.45 American Dad! Theory. 1.45 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 2.40 mother out of a “snotty” situation. 11.0 Love. 1.0 Betrayed. 2.0 Murder Comes
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Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook. 3.0 2.05 Don’t Hate The Playaz. 2.45 4.25 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Beautiful. 11.55 Unwind With ITV. Teleshopping. 4.30 Teleshopping. 5.0
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6.55 Official UK No 1. 7.0 Fresh Out Life. Latonya’s weight has made her Simpsons. 8.0 A League Of Their Own: Game Of Thrones. 9.0 Game Of 8.0 Shark Tank. 8.40 The Catch Up.
Live. 8.0 Catfish: The TV Show. 9.0 almost immobile. 9.0 My 600lb Life: Mexican Road Trip. ✱ 9.0 The Thrones. 10.0 The Pacific. Sledge has a 8.45 FILM: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Help! I’m In A Secret Relationship! Where Are They Now? 11.0 Sex Sent Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live harrowing first experience of combat. (2021) ★★★★★ 11.0 Dinosaur. 11.25
10.0 Teen Mom Family Reunion. 11.0 Me To The ER. 12midnight My Parasitic 10.15 Never Mind The Buzzcocks. 11.0 11.0 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz. Dinosaur. 11.55 Dinosaur. 12.25am I
FILM: General Commander (2019) ★★ Twin: Body Bizarre. 1.0 Extreme The Tattooist Of Auschwitz. 12.05am 12.05am The Time Traveler’s Wife. Kissed A Girl. 1.10 I Kissed A Girl. 2.0
1am Behind The Music. 2.20 Ink Couponing. 1.30 Extreme Couponing. Hold The Front Page. 1.0 Resident 1.05 Euphoria. 2.15 House Of The Dinosaur. 2.25 Dinosaur. 2.55
Master. 3.10 Catfish UK. 4.0 2.0 My 600lb Life: Where Are They Alien. 2.0 SEAL Team. 3.0 Hawaii Five- Dragon. 3.30 In Treatment. 4.0 Urban Dinosaur. 3.25 High: Surviving A Dubai
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It’s hard to believe the first film in the Mad
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(Chris Hemsworth). Sweeping through Nell wakes up the next morning very much alive, she must
the Wasteland, Furiosa remains in a non- figure out how to seize this second chance…
stop battle to return home.

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With Yasmin Boland

21-27 MAY

CAPRICORN 22 DEC – 19 JAN


THIS WEEK’S
CELEB STAR SIGN This week could be a last-ditch attempt
showing someone just how much they
Gemini mean to you. Life is about to get frantic
21 MAY – 20 JUN for you in terms of how busy it’s going to
This is the most exciting get. Smell the roses now. Don’t put off
week for you as Jupiter until tomorrow what you need to do today.
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CANCER 21 JUN – 22 JUL LIBRA 23 SEP – 22 OCT PISCES 19 FEB – 20 MAR

Friendships have been a little topsy turvy of It doesn’t always feel like it at the time, Your Home and Family Life is the recipient of
late. If this has rattled you emotionally, then but the changes you’ve made will begin some wonderful benefits and blessings now.
this week may bring some relief. Extend to bear fruit. When you decide to change Your living situation is set to improve, or it
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LEO 23 JUL – 22 AUG SCORPIO 23 OCT – 21 NOV ARIES 21 MAR – 19 APR

You’ll enter a double luck phase this week as Your relationships have had their fair share A change in your fortune is possible, either
Jupiter arrives in your Luck Zone. This isn’t of ups and downs for as long as you can literally, metaphorically or both, this week. As
necessarily winning the lotto type of luck. It’s remember. It’s taken a toll! You now have the two of the sky’s luckiest and most benevolent
more about opening up to new possibilities chance to kiss and make up, or perhaps it’s planets join forces in your Cash Flow Zone,
and opportunities that are available. more about forgiving and forgetting. The you can expect some good things to come
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It’s your Career and Life Direction that is You can expect some of the happiest This may be one of the best weeks you’ll have
going to be loaded with new opportunities moments in love this week. That’s due to your all year! This is because your star, Venus, joins
and growth possibilities. With so many planet, Jupiter, arriving in your Relationship lucky Jupiter in your sign. You can expect
options available to you, remember that you Zone. Personal or professional, other people a lot of good things to happen. Also, you
always have a choice. Decision fatigue may are coming into your life to elevate and can feel very proud of yourself. The rewards
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A FINAL FIX
OF THIS WEEK’S
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