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 Former Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole has faced criticism on Twitter after he posted about his controversial views on vaccination against COVID-19.The star is currently a favourite to win on the ITV show Dancing On Ice.Brendan, 45, took to Twitter on 16 December 2021 to share his controversial Instagram post with his 187,400 followers.The dancer shared a picture of a poster for the “Freedom March” that took place on December 18 against vaccine mandates.In the accompanying caption the star wrote: “If you are concerned as I am about government mandates, use your voice.“Whether you wish to be vaccinated or not, it must be your choice and we must respect other people’s right to their choice.“Peaceful protest is seldom covered by the media but it must not stop people in their quest for what they believe to be right!“Together we can peacefully demonstrate what we believe is right for our own body,” he continued.Brendan wrote: “It is a slippery slope when the government can dictate and mandate what we do to our own body or make it impossible for people to exist if they don’t conform to their mandates.“Change the word vaccine to anything else and you should have your answer. Does another human have the right to force you into doing something to your body?“The answer should be unequivocally no.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterIt’s (still) good to be Tom Holland.The 25-year-old actor has been all-but-singlehandedly propelling ticket sales at North American movie theaters, leading two films in the top three spots on domestic box office charts. Over the weekend, his action-adventure “Uncharted” repeated No.

Wetherspoons to find out just how it got so many bad reviews.The Bankers Draft in Sheffield has a three-star rating on TripAdvisor, with dozens of complaints about terrible food, poor service, inconsiderate punters - and even other customers selling items in the venue.Yorkshire Live reporter Amber O'Connor was not blown away by the restaurant when she had lunch there last week, but she believes it may have received some unfair criticism.In her review, she wrote: "Approaching the city-centre venue, the grand building looks welcoming, as do the five stars (very good) food hygiene rating displayed in the window."'This is exactly the kind of place where I would like to eat,' I remember thinking to myself."Although, I quickly built up reservations after noticing another notice warning customers it is forbidden to buy and sell from each other inside the pub."What had people been selling that prompted the need for such a sign, I wondered. Unperturbed, I headed in."My first task, finding somewhere to sit, was easy enough.

EastEnders star Lorraine Stanley looked worlds away from her iconic character Karen Taylor on Saturday as she attended her on-screen son Zack Morris' leaving party. Taking to Instagram, the actress, 45, posted a collection of sweet snaps with the actor, 23, as she sweetly said she would "cherish" their BBC One soap memories forever.

James Argent is ‘nearly back to his best’ following his admission of a ‘very bad relapse’ in early February, according to reports.The former The Only Way Is Essex star revealed that paramedics were called to his home after he spiralled following an alcoholic drink on a night out after two years of sobriety.However, the 34-year-old has apparently recovered well from his setback with the help of visiting a rehab walk-in centre six days a week and has ‘stunned’ friends with the speediness of his bounce back.A source told The Sun Online: ‘James is doing really, really well. He’s nearly back to his best and considering how bad things were a week or so ago everyone is pretty stunned at how he’s turned things around.‘But James is a fighter.

Molly-Mae Hague has opened up about her dermaplaning woes, explaining that her hair grows back at ‘rapid levels’ after the beauty treatment.In a new video on YouTube, the Love Island star revealed that she got into the habit of undergoing dermaplaning procedures to ‘remove the peach fuzz’ from her face.However, the 22-year-old admitted that she had been left with ‘a little bit of a beard’ after the treatment.Speaking in her latest clip on the platform, she told fans: ‘If you guys can see that I do have a little bit of a beard, we’re not talking about it.‘I need to speak to you guys about my battle with dermaplaning.

Baftas and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2003.The 76-year-old has five SAG wins and received 13 nominations over the course of her impressive career, and is the most decorated SAG lifetime achievement award winner. Dame Helen will be presented with the trophy by Collateral Beauty co-star Kate Winslet.Speaking about the award on ITV’s Lorraine, she said: ‘I didn’t quite grasp how big a deal it was.‘It’s a funny moment that, of course, there’s a great feeling of pride and: “Wow, me? Really?”‘She added she felt ‘a slight sting in the tail as well’ as the realisation hit her that she was ‘in a way coming to the end of the road’, though she seems to be as busy as ever.Dame Helen recently finished filming Warner Bros.’ Shazam! sequel, Fury of the Gods, and is currently filming Golda, in which she is playing the leading role of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.Dame Helen Mirren reveals fears about transforming into Geordie housewife for The DukeGolda film producer admits to ‘stirring’ Jewish casting controversy for ‘publicity’Dame Helen Mirren ‘strongly believes BBC has to be protected’ amid licence fee rowFellow British stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are tipped to bag top accolades at the ceremony later this evening, as is Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, much-lauded film Belfast, which focuses on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It’s nominated for best picture, as well as a nomination for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture, and its Irish star Caitriona Balfe is tipped to nab the statue for best supporting female actor.As is the norm during the award season run, a host of glittering Hollywood megastars will be taking to the stage for presenting duties during the

Her Majesty the Queen unexpectedly, but Prince Harry has revealed that even he sees her as “the boss” and often thinks of her more as the monarch than his grandmother, In a clip from a 2018 documentary about the Queen's role as head of The Commonwealth, Harry joked about feeling a sense of "panic" whenever he bumped into his grandmother in the hallways of Buckingham Palace.In the HBO documentary, Queen of the World, Harry is shown addressing a group of hospitality professionals from the Caribbean who are staying at the palace. The prince offers the group some advice, reports the Daily Mirror, and goes on to reveal that even he still "panics" when he sees the Queen, despite being related to her.He said: "You guys have spent way more time in Buckingham Palace than I ever have - and you’ve only been here two weeks."Have you bumped into the Queen yet?"If you suddenly bump into her in the corridor, don’t panic."I know you will.

Jurgen Klopp has revealed why he will not be wearing a suit for Liverpool’s Carabao Cup final clash against Chelsea.The Liverpool manager dressed up for his two previous cup finals at Wembley Stadium, but will not be swapping his usual tracksuit and cap combo for a suit this time around.Klopp’s first Wembley final was the 2-1 Champions League loss to Bayern Munich back in 2013 with Dortmund, while his second appearance ended in a Carabao Cup penalty shootout defeat to Manchester City in 2016.But the German insists the two devastating losses are not the reason behind his change in approach on Sunday.Klopp told the Liverpool Echo: "I am not overly superstitious. I will not wear a suit but not because I am superstitious."I am pretty sure that someone told me before the League Cup final that I needed to wear a suit."With the Champions League in 2013, honestly, it is really silly but someone told me that it was expected to wear a suit on the touchline and then when I saw the first coach next to me without a suit I thought ‘are you kidding me?!!!’ “That was the moment I stopped it.”Would you wear a tracksuit for a cup final? Let us know in the comments section.He added: "No, I will not wear a suit for a football game unless it is a rule.

Dr Alex George has appeared to respond to the claims that he cheated on his ex-girlfriend Ellie Hecht before breaking up with her. News broke earlier this month that the pair had reportedly decided to go their separate ways after a year of dating, just weeks after getting an adorable puppy together. Ellie is said to be keeping their dog — a cockapoo named Freddie.

Dancing on Ice star Chemmy Alcott has told how she named her horrific shin injury after celebrated professional golfer, Sir Nick Faldo.Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk, the alpine ski racer, 39, opened up candidly about the injuries she's sustained throughout her skiing career, which included her breaking her neck aged 11 and a smash in 2010 that saw her bones pierce through both her skin and ski boots.Speaking about the horror crash which saw her break her right leg in two places in 2010, Chemmy told how she had been living with the pain.She said: "It was persistent straight after the crash."But I had it all the way until January last year."I had this, like, Nick Faldo size golf ball of swelling on the front of my shin that I squashed into a ski boot all the time," she added.The Ski Sunday presenter explained the reasoning behind naming her injury after the sportsman.Chemmy went on: "I always call him Nick Faldo."I'm a bit of a, 'name everything to personalise it', and I'm like, 'Oh, hey, Nick's, back today, I better take it easy.'"However, despite affectionately naming her injury after the sports commentator, she has never come face to face with him.Chemmy continued: "And I've actually never met Nick Faldo."And I've got nothing against him at all."But I didn't want him in my life, on my leg."Even though I was retired, I was spending a lot of time in a ski boot and actually working in skiing, I had relatively few days off," she divulged.Elsewhere in the interview, Chemmy opened up on wearing her injuries with "pride".She reasoned: "All the injuries were proof that I was willing and confident enough to take risks."A lot of my career, actually, in my healthiest, in my twenties, I didn't break anything."And it's

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Jonathan Ross’ daughter Honey blew fans away as she dolled up in a vintage frock with a plunging neckline to celebrate her 25th birthday.The activist and social media personality looked stunning as she poured her curves into a white cotton dress complete with frills hemming the neckline and skirt, tied with a belt at the waist.With a dress that left little to the imagination, Honey beamed at the camera while giving her 58,000 Instagram followers a glimpse of her bare skin.With puff sleeves that gathered around the fiery haired beauty’s elbows, Honey completed the look with a glittery silver tiara and pendant necklace, wearing her signature red tresses in delicate curls that just skimmed her shoulders.Honey even showed off her incredible singing talent in a cheeky video posted to her Instagram Stories, rocking out to a rendition of Cardi B’s WAP with a pal.She later added a fringed green jacket to her ensemble to head out into the streets accompanied by her pals - and the entire group was beaming from ear-to-ear.The star was living it up for her birthday celebrations as she sang karaoke in a booth with a gang of pals, as well as enjoying a few relaxed drinks with her partner Zane Saz.Surrounded by candles in wine bottles and cans of cocktails, the lovebirds looked on cloud nine, Zane rocking a grey-and-black blazer with a dark shirt underneath.The star captioned her photoset: "Thank you for humouring me, I had a lovely time.

UFO insists that it definitely wasn’t a cloud and moved too fast to be any conventional aircraft. On Saturday, February 26, Cornish mum Sarah Louise was driving towards Goonhilly in Cornwall, site of the Goonhilly Satellite Earth radiocommunication site, when she noticed a bright light in the sky.It appeared on first glance, to be a large, “silvery” star, she says – even though it was only just midday.Sarah said: “It caught my eye because it was so bright.

Dancing On Ice star Brendan Cole has been impressing both fans and judges alike on the show, scoring the first 10 of the series last weekend (February 20).The former Strictly Come Dancing professional has managed not to ruffle any feathers so far during his stint performing on ice skates, but that hasn't always been the case.In fact, Brendan has had his fair share of controversial moments over the years of his professional career, including a string of high profile conflicts with his Strictly Come Dancing co-stars.Here we take a look at some of the most standout feuds to spark from his fiery professionalism to date.Former GMTV presenter Fiona, 60, was paired with Brendan in series three of Strictly in 2005.In 2020 Fiona told the Daily Star: "Brendan was a real b***er, actually. He wasn’t very nice.

TikTok by magic man Jadon Ray @jadon.ray he tears open a sachet of sugar and empties it into his hand.He then throws it skywards, before putting out his hand and apparently catching the sugar in his palm.Jadon then pours the sugar from his right hand back into the sachet.Since he uploaded the spellbinding clip on Thursday (February 24) it has been watched more than 6.5million times and viewers are desperately trying to figure out how he did it.One person commented: "Me watching for the 100th time tryna figure out how.""I'm a magician and he caught the sugar off-camera," suggested another, but Jadon replied they were wrong and said it was a "good try".Many viewers were equally baffled, while others claimed to have sussed the trick by taking screenshots or watching it in slow-motion.One user said: "Look at his right thumb and he literally fixed the artificial thumb using his left hand after putting some powder. I GOT IT.""Saw it the first time understood look at his discolored thumb that’s where the salt went," wrote a second person.Another said: "If y’all know how he did it don’t be in these comments ruining it for the rest of us."Twitter user @mycroft16 gave a blow-by-blow account of how he thought the trick worked, writing: "It's very simple, but when done well, like this, it is so very effective.

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This Morning presenter Fern Britton has opened up on her struggles with having children with her ex-husband Phil Vickery and admitted it was the "last chance saloon."While speaking to Kate Thornton in the latest instalment of her podcast White Wine Question Time, Fern, 64, shared insight into her IVF experience with her first husband Clive Jones.The star also expressed the issues she had trying to conceive with TV chef Phil and how they both believed that they were running out of time.During Fern's first marriage to Clive, the former couple had twin boys, Jack and Harry, after conceiving through IVF.The couple later had a daughter named Grace.Speaking candidly, to presenter Kate, Fern opened up on how her marriage broke down when her daughter Grace was five months old.She said: "Unfortunately my marriage broke up when she was five months [old].

OnlyFans after she realised people offered money to see her body hair – and even buy it.Camille Alexander, a model and musician living in London, ditched shavers and waxing strips four years ago to embrace her natural body hair.She stopped removing her hair after feeling pressure to fit into the beauty norms and found confidence in flaunting them in public.The 25-year-old, who is a singer-guitarist in her grunge band A Void, told Daily Star that she created an OnlyFans account while struggling to find income during the pandemic and since then, she realised it was a pot of gold for her."There is a niche area for hairy people and if you are a woman and have body hair, you can get some decent money through doing this," she told this site."I have this one guy, he bought a lot of things from me all the time – He’ll be saying ‘can you send me your hair brush with your hair on it?’ Or ‘next time when you have a trim of your pubic hair, can you send me that?’"One time he asked for some panties as well and I charged him £300 for that."When asked if she had any idea what the client might do with her hair, Camille said: "I was scared he might take my DNA for some experience but I think he enjoys the thrill of having them."Camille said she doesn't post any nudity on her OnlyFans account nor on other social media platforms – and yet she's making £2,000 a month just on OnlyFans.In one video she shared on TikTok, she shares some behind-the-scenes during a photoshoot.Dressing in a red bodysuit, Camille lets her long, curly tresses flow freely from the side of her shoulder.She kneels on the floor in front of a white background and flings her hair to the back, proudly flaunting her underarm hair and pubes while posing confidently in front

UFO that appears to "turn invisible" before reappearing and darting away.Noelle Kippen, who recorded the video in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, told Daily Star she had also noticed military aircraft in the area, which is why she was watching skies in the first place.Even stranger, she said in a Reddit post she saw three military planes "circling around the area for three days afterwards".Noelle is used to seeing the planes due to her proximity to Canadian Forces Base North Bay but couldn't find a logical explanation for the spherical object.In the clip, the white or perhaps metallic object is briefly visible against the blue of the sky before it suddenly seems to vanish.Describing what she saw in the clip recorded at around 2.40pm on October 27 last year, Noelle said: "I quickly spotted this silver, spherical looking object in the sky."I tried to focus my eyes on it to see if it was a hot air balloon or something, but it was something I have never seen before."From a distance not too far from where I was (seemed like a 40-minute drive away or so) this object seemed quite low to the ground, steadily rising upwards, but slower than a balloon would rise, I thought."As the object was rising it almost looked like it went invisible, but then I saw a dark shadow quickly zip off towards the left of the video that you see."As if it was rising upwards and then made a quick turn before increasing its speed."The video was discussed on Reddit, with many users claiming to have spotted similar objects.One viewer said: "I've seen that a few times as well. I used to see chrome spheres every now and then too, haven't seen them in a while though."A second wrote: "I saw something on Saturday that looked like this too.

Kiss and tell! Jesse Metcalfe spilled the tea about some of his John Tucker Must Die costars, including who was his top on-set smooch