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Joel Dommett, 37, and his wife Hannah Cooper, 32, have announced they are expecting their first child together. The model shared the happy news on Instagram this morning alongside some sweet photobooth snaps showing off her growing baby bump. The caption alluded to the fact the pair were about to be parents, as Hannah quipped: "Does anyone know how to change a nappy? Because Joel has s**t himself.

Paddy McGuinness looked worlds away from his usual self in a new throwback snap of himself with long hair on Instagram, leaving fans in shock. The Top Gear host, 49, looked completely different in the picture he shared on his social media, and his followers couldn't believe it was him.

Paddy McGuinness was a picture of despondency this week, as the BBC indefinitely paused production on his motoring series Top Gear.The 49 year old dad-of-three has co-presented the show since 2019 alongside ex-cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff and Chris Harris, following the exit of previous stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May several years earlier, who collectively jumped ship to Amazon Prime Video for The Grand Tour. News of Top Gear's axe arrived on Thursday in light of 45 year old Freddie's life-threatening injury while working behind the wheel for the show. Back in December at Surrey's Dunsfold Aerodrome, he was involved in a horrific accident that saw him airlifted to hospital.

The BBC has confirmed that Top Gear has been put on hold following the Andrew Flintoff crash, with a decision on the show’s future set to be made “later this year.”

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Top Gear favourite Richard Hammond has enjoyed a career of fast cars and exotic travel which, at times, left his schedule full to the brim. However, his relationship with his two daughters has been impacted enormously by it, as he revealed in a very candid podcast interview. He admitted he'd "made excuses" for his absences over the years, and has found himself comforting co-workers who had been separated from their families too.

VERY familiar stars have been confirmed to star in a brand new terrifying BBC thriller. The new show, called Wolf, sees a young man obsessed with the neighbour he believes murdered his 10 year-old brother in the 90s.

RICHARD Hammond has revealed the secret rules of Top Gear - and how all of them were broken. The TV presenter, 53, fronted the popular BBC One motoring programme alongside Jeremy Clarkson and James May.

READ MORE: Richard Hammond reacts to Jeremy's Clarkson's brutal 'ban' from Clarkson's FarmAlthough the incident left him with serious head injuries, he recovered and returned to the show in early 2007.Hammond told The Diary Of A CEO podcast: “I do worry about my memory because it’s not brilliant. My working memory is very large, my processing memory in the moment. So I can still read a page of script and deliver it.

Richard Hammond opened up about the financial mess he got himself in after departing from the BBC and Top Gear back in 2015.

Top Gear host and former cricketer Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff was injured in an accident this week while filming the BBC show on its test track at Dusnfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey, England. Flintoff received medical care at the scene and was airlifted to a hospital for further treatment. 

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield apologised to This Morning after a large spider ran across television screens across the nation.The presenting duo were back on our screens to host the ITV daytime programme on Wednesday (October 5).Following a break after Lorraine Kelly's self-titled show on ITV, the This Morning theme tune began to play out and the titles followed featuring what fans can expect from the episode.READ MORE: This Morning's Phillip Schofield touched by support after getting sweet anonymous letterHowever, viewers may have noticed a rather large spider run across their screens as it came to an end."Hell, good morning and welcome to your Wednesday's This Morning," Holly said as she greeted viewers to the programme. "As you might have noticed from our titles it's all very spooky and scary in her today, especially if you're not a fan of spiders.:Phillip continued: "We will be putting up spider alerts for anyone who doesn’t like spiders throughout the show."Although we didn’t warn you that they were going to be running across your screen at the beginning." Holly, 41, let out a "sorry" as Phillip, 60, carried on speaking to viewers.He said: "I can imagine you were looking at your telly and thought, 'Oh my God, there’s a spider on the telly!' We didn’t warn you about that.""Sorry!" Holly chirped again before Phillip triggered the 'spider alert' claxon which saw a note appear on screen and a loud alarm ring out.Phillip then revealed that the upcoming spider-focused segment were the result of Richard Hammond's recent appearance on This Morning."If you were watching last week you'll remember that Richard Hammond told us how he was pinned to the back of our green room by a big, bad, Barry we called it.

Top Gear host Chris Harris has announced that he wants the UK motorway speed limits lifted. He explained that this is so “lunatics” like him can travel at an eye-watering speed of“190mph”.The TV host said the 70mph limit was set in 1967 and cars can “travel safely at much higher speed these days”. READ MORE: Jeremy Clarkson branded 'fat bumbling idiot' by Richard Hammond in Clarkson's Farm dig The 47 year old said that 70 miles per hour makes “perfect sense” on busy roads.However he doesn't think that they are needed “at 9pm, on an empty stretch of motorway, with excellent driving conditions, in a car that’s capable of cruising at double the limit."He said: “The issue here isn’t so much people like me who the anti-speeding lobby views as murdering lunatics wanting to travel at 190mph the whole time, it’s just the sensible application of a limit where it is necessary.”But Road Safety GB’s James Gibson said there was a “link between speed and severity of collisions and casualties”.And Becky Guy, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “Studies have shown that lower motorway limits help maintain smoother traffic flows, reduce air pollution and save drivers fuel.

TV STAR Jeremy Clarkson, 62, has shared his thoughts on daughter Emily’s new husband, Alex Andrew, after their May wedding. The Top Gear star’s 27-year-old daughter married in a very romantic countryside ceremony at none other than Diddly Squat Farm – which is famously owned by Jeremy. Emily, who works as a writer, said Alex had made her “the happiest girl in the whole wide world” when they got engaged in 2020.

Richard Hammond feared James May was dead after his horror crash while filming 'The Grand Tour'. The 52-year-old TV presenter feared the worst when his 59-year-old co-host smashed his motor up while shooting a stunt in Norway for their Amazon Prime Video show. Speaking on 'The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X', he said: "I don't know what came over him, genuinely, I don't [.

He then cheekily joked: “I wish it had been longer."It comes not long after The Grand Tour showrunner, Andy Wilman, opened up on the tension between the stars while filming the Amazon Prime Video show. He explained the dynamic between the trio as like that of a band, rather than a group of friends. He told Express.co.uk about the arguments that went on during the adventurous series, which involved James May suffering a 70mph crash.The longtime collaborator with the trio explained the dynamic they share by saying: "Their relationship is intense and it's more like a band."Richard, Jeremy, and James are currently entertaining fans with the latest instalment of the show, The Grand Tour: A Skandi Flick. Andy said: “They bicker and do think things differently and so on, because they are so much part of it.“So they have fallouts and then they come back together, and so on and so on."Andy has been working with the trio since Top Gear's meteoric rise in 2002.Due to the length of time the team have known each other, Andy joked their advancing years may also contribute to the tensions.He added: "There's a bit of age creeping in now, James was taking longer to get out of the hotel and they were like 'Jesus, what is he doing now?'"But despite the odd fallout and bickering, he believes they will continue to work together on TV projects well into their last years.Andy quipped: "I can see when they're in an old people's home in about 15 years what it will be like, you get the signs of it."They will be bickering or just concentrating on separate, small things, but their relationship is still fully there."The showrunner also insisted that despite the challenges of filming together for long days, they were still close.

AMANDA Holden showed off her incredible legs in a blue dress in London. The 51-year-old was pictured looking amazing as she left the Heart Breakfast Radio Studios in Leicester Square this morning.   Amanda - who presents Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston weekdays from 6:30am - opted for a smart look at work today.

TV presenter Richard Hammond has revealed that Jeremy Clarkson stopped talking to him for two days — because he took up golf. He said his announcement to his The Grand Tour co-stars Clarkson, 62, and James May, 59, offended them.

EAMONN Holmes has taken another swipe at his This Morning rivals Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby after their 'queue-jump' backlash. It comes following uproar as Phil and Holly Willoughby appeared inside Westminster Hall to see the Queen lying-in-state without having taken part in the queue.

VANESSA Feltz broke down in tears on live TV as she discussed the poignant details of the Queen's funeral. The veteran broadcaster became emotional while interviewing Royal commenter Emily Andrews and broadcaster Richard Tice during her TalkTV show.