Legal appeal over backdated £1,500 Universal Credit uplift payments due to be heard this week

CAROL Vorderman has set pulses racing after she posed for social media snaps in skintight faux leather trousers. The former Countdown co-host took to her Instagram grid to show off her new figure-hugging outfit in sultry snaps.

FOUR Holby City favourites enjoyed a pre-Christmas reunion for the first time since the show was brutally cancelled. The beloved BBC medical drama was unceremoniously axed back in March, but nine months later fans were treated to seeing several cast reunite on social media. David Ames, who played Dom, Camilla Arfwedson, who played Zosia, Ellie Fanyinka, who played Morven and Rob Ostlere, who played Arthur caught up with each other today.

LITTLE Mix star Jade Thirlwall has raked in a huge £900,000 in a year - despite not releasing any new music. The singer made a mammoth six times as much as her former bandmate Jesy Nelson, who broke away from the group to release her own solo music last year. Jade, 29, who is still part of the band, raked in almost seven figures in solo profit in the last year.

EASTENDERS fans are in shock after Phil Mitchell’s secret alliance was revealed. The Walford hardman - who is played by actor Steve McFadden in the BBC soap - returned to the Square this week after fleeing abroad to hatch a plan to stop DCI Keeble from destroying the family. Viewers know Phil left the Square earlier this year after making a phone call to a mystery person.

FANS of The Traitors were all left saying the same thing as the finalists undertook their final mission. The final of the BBC One reality TV series got underway as the five remaining players were given one last chance to add money to the final prize pot.

GOGGLEBOX legend Sandra Martin has wowed fans after revealing a dramatic transformation. The 60-year-old looked slimmer than ever as she slipped into a slinky black dress for a Christmas party.

THE Chase fans were left seriously impressed by one contestant who appeared on today's show but the mood quickly changed after she made a shocking decision. Bradley Walsh welcomed another four hopefuls onto the ITV programme today in the hopes of winning big and gaining some cash.

KATIE Price's ex-fiance Carl Woods has taken a brutal swipe at her after she was seen partying with friends until 3am. The media personality took to his Instagram with a cryptic quote which appeared to take aim at Katie, 44. Last night, Carl, 33, took to his Instagram stories with a quote post after his ex was photographed partying into the night.

AMY Dowden has shared details of the horrif body-shaming she expereinced in the dancing industry. Strictly star Amy, who suffers from Crohn's disease, revealed she had received shocking comments from a fellow professional dancer who told her she had a 'thick middle' and a 'fat bottom'.

THE Traitors hunk Aaron has won an army of fans and now his followers want him to appear on another huge reality hit. Viewers of the BBC One show, which wrapped up its run tonight, reckon the 24 year old property agent from Portsmouth would be the perfect Love Island contestant.

ASHLEY Banjo has revealed that he and his wife Francesca Abbot have gone their separate ways. The Diversity star turned Dancing On Ice judge opened up that he and his childhood sweetheart had split after 16 years.

EASTENDERS geezer Danny Dyer is calling time on his nine years as Queen Vic guv’nor Mick Carter – but not before swiping a stool from the bar. The Cockney hardman will bow out in an explosive Christmas Day special, after 1,150 episodes and 117 cliff-hangers to the sound of the BBC soap’s famed “doof-doof” drum roll. But Danny, 45, has revealed how shooting his final scenes left him so proper gutted, mate, that he had to half-inch a piece of the Albert Square pub for old times’ sake.

LOTHARIO actor Leonardo DiCaprio has hooked up with another young model. The 48-year-old Oscar-winner — famed for never dating a woman over the age of 25 — has been seen out with Victoria Lamas, 23. His latest squeeze was born in 1999, two years after Leo’s box office smash Titanic was released.

DANNY Dyer got a naughty send-off gift from his EastEnders castmates after shooting his final scenes as Mick Carter. The BBC soap legend, 45, will bow out of the show in dramatic scenes that will air on Christmas Day - but his fellow actors made sure they gave him a farewell pressie he'll never forget. Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Danny revealed: "I got my Albert Square board and they bought me a sign.” And it turns out the sign was rather explicit.

Rising tensions? Prince William and Princess Kate weren’t thrilled by the first teaser for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s Netflix docuseries, an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.

A royal mess. King Charles III and his family are “horrified” over the first trailer for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan, royal expert Christopher Andersen exclusively tells Us Weekly.

King Charles and Prince William will hold crisis talks in response to any allegations of racism or ill treatment of Harry and Meghan in their TV series, sources say.

On Wednesday, Glee alum Heather Morris revealed that her late leading lady Naya Rivera once confronted her over her eating disorder while they were on tour with the cast in 2010.'[Naya] herself had had eating disorders, and she was very open about it in her [2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry],' the 35-year-old SAG Award winner recalled on Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale's podcast And That's What You REALLY Missed.'So she of course was the first to speak up about it and just say "I don't know what's going on with you, but I feel like something is happening." Just was trying to be there in a way, and I just completely blew it off.' RIP: On Wednesday, Glee alum Heather Morris (L) revealed that her late leading lady Naya Rivera (R) once confronted her over her eating disorder while they were on tour with the cast in 2010 The 35-year-old SAG Award winner recalled on Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz's podcast And That's What You REALLY Missed: '[Naya] herself had had eating disorders, and she was very open about it in her [2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry]. So she of course was the first to speak up about it and just say "I don't know what's going on with you, but I feel like something is happening." Just was trying to be there in a way, and I just completely blew it off'By that point, Heather was so unhealthy her period had stopped and she would refuse to eat anything at the food hall as her castmates watched on helplessly.'[Naya] had probably got the hint like "Oh, okay.

A Forth fisherman has uncovered a piece of Stirling history with the purchase of an old Admiralty chart of the river.