Monday, 14 March 2011

Sam & Brianne get judges votes!

Jeff Brazier and partner Isabelle Gauthier missed out on a place in the Dancing On Ice semi-final after they were voted off the show last night.

The TV presenter was sent packing by the judges after losing a skate-off with Sam Attwater and Brianne Delcourt.

The father-of-two took the news graciously after surviving the skate-off twice previously, saying: 'I'm grateful to have the opp and to have gotten so far.'

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Sunday, 13 March 2011

Tointon set to tread the boards

She's gone from Albert Square to foxtrotting across the dance floor to hiking through Kenya.

And now Kara Tointon is moving up in thespian circles by taking on the iconic role of Eliza Doolittle.

The 27-year-old will star opposite Rupert Everett in the acclaimed play Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre in London from May.

Kara will follow in the footsteps of Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews, and more recently Martine McCutcheon and Claire Danes to play the feisty flower seller .

The celebrated George Bernard Shaw play sees Professor Higgins (Everett) attempt to pass off Cockney girl Doolittle as a society lady.

The pair were photographed together tonight at the 2011 Lawrence Olivier Awards held in Central London.

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Britains oldest working cooker!?


KEEN cook Avice Hartshorn bought her brand new Belling electric cooker in 1952 - and 58 years later the cooker is still in perfect working order and has never needed any repairs.

Hospital worker Avice, of Harlow, Essex, only ever had TWO cookers until she died recently aged 91.

Her daughter, Avron, 69 - who inherited the Belling - said: "It still works brilliantly. But I didn't realise it was guzzling so much electricity."

The cooker costs £180 a year in electricity. An energy efficient one would cut a third off that.

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Katie Price fires shot at ex!

According to The News of The World - They got on like a house on fire when they met at Elton John's post-Oscars party.

And now Katie Price has spoken for the first time about her relationship with new man Leandro Penna, admitting their relationship is almost entirely based on sexual chemistry.

The 32-year-old model posted a picture of the pair posing up before she performed on Let's Dance for Comic Relief last night, and said she finds she is more attracted to the Argentinian model than her estranged husband Alex Reid the newspaper claims.

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Britain's oldest Dad

Doting Dennis Ealam has fathered his third child in as many years at the age of SEVENTY-SEVEN.

The retired lorry driver, who will be 78 in October, already has ­toddlers Johnathon, two, and Jessie, 14 months, to care for.

His wife Cora, who at 36 is FORTY-ONE years younger than her husband, will be giving birth to their third child in May – despite having been on the PILL.

It means Dennis is on course to enjoy his 80th ­birthday party with three of his children under six.

Not bad for someone who ­survived a brain tumour and ­divorced his previous wife after 47 years because, as he recalled, the passion ­“fizzled out”.

Dennis’s eldest son Andrew, 49, who has three children, is amazed that he will have a new baby sister a week after he turns FIFTY.

He said: “It’s crazy. I’m still struggling to believe my dad had me half a century ago and has another child on the way.”

The Ealams’ story emerged a week after The People told how Britain’s oldest dad of twins Richard Roden, 72, ­had become a father again after his wife Lisa, 26, gave birth to his 13th child, ­daughter Madison.

Last night Dennis put his ­extended ­fatherhood down to ­giving up cigs and booze.

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Alex Reid in dash to fathers bedside

Cage fighter and estranged husband of glamour model Katie Price had another kind of fight on his hands this week as his father Bob underwent emergency heart surgery. The star dashed to his bedside and 'Twittered' that his dad was in intensive care.

He later let his fans know that "the nurses did seem to be very nice. He's in a bit of pain, but u can't keep a good man down."

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Bieber flies low!

Justin Bieber had an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction in front of a house-full crowd at his Liverpool concert after he stepped on stage without zipping up his pants.

The zip on the teenagers trousers gaped open as he greeted the screaming 11,000-strong fans that had been waiting for their idol to arrive, said reports.

But the 17-year-old remained unaware of the error as he sang and danced his way through the two-hour-performance.

His fans sang along with the pop star as he treated them to a setlist packed full of his hits including Baby, Never Say Never and his debut single One Time.

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