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TV STAR OLIVER PROUDLOCK AND HIS MODEL WIFE EMMA LOUISE CONNOLLY SHARE INTIMATE PHOTOS FROM THEIR BEAUTIFUL WEDDING 4 ormer Made In Chelsea star Oliver The couple – who have been engaged St Alban’s Church in Fulham with just Proudlock and model Emma Louise since 2018 – reorganised their nuptials in 15 guests. The couple said their vows in Connolly delighted fans when they just 24 hours after rumours started swirling front of Reverend Pat Allerton, aka the real revealed they had secretly wed on on the news that London would be entering hot priest, and photographer Adam Fussell F15 December. It was their fourth attempt at Tier 4 restrictions. quickly cancelled a job to provide the couple tying the knot due to Covid cancellations. They wed in an intimate ceremony at with stunning images of their special day. WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 Wildabout Flowers arrived at me round, it felt like I was floating the church at 6am to create a above this insane set-up. I hadn’t picture-perfect winter wonderland realised how much emotion of the in just two hours. Florist Leanne past year I had been carrying.” and her team lined the aisle with The beautiful couple posed at candles in glass hurricane jars, the altar for a dramatic Hollywood while Christmas trees flanked the kiss, with Proudlock practically alter creating a romantic, festive sweeping Emma-Lou off her vibe. Singer Joe Baxter performed feet. It’s a signature pose they on the piano and guitar for the have recreated countless times pair’s beautifully intimate ceremony. during their romantic holidays. After signing the register, they But the day didn’t go without enjoyed an impromptu first dance a hitch. Emma-Lou was an hour to Frank Ocean’s Godspeed. late to the church, as her vintage Emma-Lou gushed, “Ollie twirled Bentley got caught in traffic. The 6 The Saloon order of service had the wrong old”. The lace design featured a bespoke three-piece suit at The Ned, hymns printed in it, the rings gorgeous open back, complete designed by close friend where were engraved with the wrong with a breathtaking white bow. Joshua Kane. Opening up the couple date, and Proudlock’s mother Sharing images from her about dressing him, Joshua, held their was forced to watch the fittings with designer Alessandra who also made Laura reception ceremony on live stream from Rinaudo, the bride revealed, “I Whitmore’s stunning white America because of Covid. It cried a lot of tears,” when she wedding suit, said, “After being was still wonderful, though. saw the gown and thought friends for nearly 10 years it was Emma-Lou, 29, looked about her husband-to-be at the an absolute honour to design stunning in a bespoke Pronovias end of the aisle. “All my Carrie and tailor Oliver’s wedding suit. Atelier gown that had been Bradshaw dreams rolled into Oliver was one of the first to ready since March, before the one!” she said. visit me in my house seven years first lockdown. She had her Renowned for his suave style, ago when I started my business grandmother’s locket pinned Proudlock didn’t disappoint and supported me.” inside it, as her “something on his special day, wearing a The romantic ceremony was WWW.OK.CO.UK 7 followed by a reception at London Christopher Pratt. He joked that the private members’ club The Ned, where short turnaround didn’t leave them the beautiful couple posed in front of a much time to work on their speeches! fire place in the stunning Saloon room. While it’s unclear whether any of the For the wedding breakfast, guests Made In Chelsea cast made the tight dined on a tasting menu of hamachi guest list, there was a flurry of support crudo, Puglia burrata, parsnip soup with on social media. Hugo Taylor posted 63-degree egg and fillet of beef, followed a wedding snap with the caption, by apple and blackberry crumble. The “Best News Ever,” and his wife Millie stunning dishes were washed down with Mackintosh gushed, “Love you guys.” picante della casa, pisco sours and Jamie Laing, Rosie Fortescue, Louise espresso martini cocktails. Thompson, Josh Patterson and Stevie Proudlock, 32, was supported on Johnson also offered congratulations. the day by his two best men, Viscount Opening up about the last-minute Erleigh and Eton school friend event, Proudlock explained, “Our grand
Guests enjoyed a tasting menu and cocktails
8 plan had been to have 200 people at laughed. “Hopefully later in the year Cowdray Park. All of a sudden we could we might be able to celebrate with our only have 15 guests, then, just days other friends and family. It will be great before we were due to get married, to be able to dance and hug – I’m Boris [Johnson] dropped the bomb that probably going to have to order triple everything would be cancelled again.” the amount of alcohol!” Emma-Lou revealed she’d driven The couple’s first wedding date was home in tears after hearing rumours of cancelled in April 2020 due to the Tier 4 on the news, but by the time she pandemic, but the pair kept their spirits got home, Proudlock had sprung into up by celebrating with a romantic action and rescheduled everything. picnic. Dressed in matching powder He explained, “It was like something blue, Emma-Lou and Oliver enjoyed out of Home Alone – I started running foccacia and sipped rosé to mark what round calling everyone to see if they would have been their big day. could change the date. By the time Speaking about it, Proudlock said, Emma got home, I said, ‘Don’t worry, “It was so upsetting to postpone our we’re getting married tomorrow.’” wedding, but like everyone else, Then, as the clock struck midnight, we’re trying to make the best of a the couple made their way home. bad situation. We know when it does Emma-Lou then changed into beautiful happen we’ll cherish it even more.” Intimissimi pyjamas, monogrammed And now they’re married. “ELP”, signifying her new surname, Here’s to Mr and Mrs Proudlock! OK! Proudlock. WORDS: KAT ROMERO PHOTOS: DONATION “We are married and that was the MADE TO THE FELIX PROJECT most important thing to us,” Proudlock WWW.OK.CO.UK 9 ‘A’ FOR EFFORT KATE’S HOMESCHOOLING SECRETS AS THE ROYALS GET TO GRIPS WITH PLAYING TEACHER OK! REVEALS HOW KATE AND WILLIAM ARE KEEPING GEORGE CHARLOTTE AND LITTLE LOUIS BUSY DURING LOCKDOWN
hen the UK was She’s not afraid for the plunged into the children to get messy with it.” third lockdown of The family have isolated the pandemic, in their Norfolk residence, Wthe Duke and Duchess of Anmer Hall, with the Duke Cambridge were among and Duchess carrying out millions of parents facing the many duties remotely. And challenge of homeschooling while hands-on, they will have their children again. help with homeschooling Prince George, seven, and from the children’s nanny, Princess Charlotte, five, attend Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo. the prestigious Thomas’s She joined the family in 2014, Battersea in London, where after George was born, and school fees are up to £7,000 has also been on hand for per term. And royal expert Charlotte and Louis, two. Katie Nicholl, author of Kate: Trained at the prestigious The Future Queen, says the Norland College in Bath, school is keen for the children Maria has been seen helping to learn through practical out at occasions including projects as well as Zoom calls. Harry and Meghan’s 2018 “Kate and William are very William and Kate wedding and the Queen’s involved with the children’sren s with children George, annual Christmas lunches. schooling,” she says. Louis and Charlotte Katie says William and “Thomas’s Battersea expectsxpects Kate will make the most of a hands-on approach fromrom her expertise – but fellow parents, that’s part of thehe chcchildrenil who had lessons Norland College nanny Louenna Hood reason they picked it. ouooutside and ask how they says nannies face challenges too, having George and Charlotte eenjoyed it. She saw the been forced to adapt to the new learning are studious and love bbenefit first-hand. Kate environment and parents’ expectations. to learn, so they are isi aware of screen time She explains, “Nannies have had to pretty self-sufficient anda tries to limit the learn as much as parents, they’ve had to when it comes to childrenc being exposed learn on the job as well. We teach kids Zoom learning. But tto too much. When the through everyday learning but we’re not the school likes the cchildrenh have a break, trained teachers. A lot of my friends and children to do practicall Nanny Maria ssheh takes them outside, colleagues have had to learn the best way projects too. Teresa Turrion cocomem rain or shine. of homeschooling, the same as parents.” “Kate revealed last yyearear Borrallo “S“Sheh wants them to get Still, Louenna says Norland nannies are that Charlotte was makingking ffreshresh air and be in nature. She taught to give their all. She explains,“Their spider sandwiches for herher llovesoves to ppickick vegetables with them motto is, ‘Love Never Faileth.’ As a nanny, homework [a fun activity based on the in the gardens. If they are learning about every single thing I do is for the child’s book Spider Sandwiches, by Claire rivers or the sea, she and William try to best interests, it’s always about putting Freedman]. It can be full-on for parents.” incorporate that into their walks. Charlotte the child before what I would like to do. Katie says Kate’s charity work around is a massive fan of spiders and loves It’s very much taught at Norland.” the early years has influenced how she looking at them and learning about them, Between their loving parents and their approaches home learning with her own so they go on spider hunts so that she can dedicated nanny, it’s safe to assume the children, as she realises the significance see them up close and then let them go. Cambridge brood will be getting the best of outdoor play. She explains, “Kate has “Kate is also a great painter and loves home-education possible. been interested in how outdoor learning art. She’s the more creative of her and Here, OK! takes a look at the key areas can benefit children. She got to meet William and loves to paint with the kids. William and Kate will be focusing on...
10 The Duchess on a visit to a Scout group in September last year
WWW.OK.CO.UK 11 Hands-on Kate helps out in an art lesson at an Oxford school
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
ate has opened up about just how busy her days at Khome with her brood can be. “The children have got such stamina,” she said. “You pitch a tent, take the tent down again, cook, bake. You get to the end of the day – they’ve had a lovely time but it’s amazing how much you can cram into a day, that’s for sure.” Nanny Louenna says learning through play is something they are taught at Norland College. “Learning through play is a massive part of how we teach children and how we were taught at Norland,” she explains. “Children have no idea that they’re actually learning, it’s just a fun activity for them and so their brain soaks up everything.”
12 George and Charlotte enjoy a run around during a 2018 family outing to a polo game
GETTING OUTDOORS
ate has long believed in encouraging Kchildren across the country to get outside whenever possible. In 2019, she spoke about her love of the outdoors while backing a campaign by Backyard Nature – an organisation that helps families make use of outside spaces. “Spending time in nature can play a pivotal role in helping children grow up to become happy, healthy adults,” the Duchess explained. “The great outdoors ‘THE GREAT provides an open playground for children to have fun and learn lifelong skills – from OUTDOORS balance and coordination to empathy and creativity – with friends, parents, PROVIDES AN OPEN carers or family members.” And it seems that Kate’s ideas align PLAYGROUND perfectly with those taught at Norland. Nanny Louenna explained that getting FOR CHILDREN’ outdoors was at the heart of the college’s ethos. She added, “We were taught at Norland that there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.” The Duchess encourages outdoor play
Kate has fun in a forest den while visiting Scouts
WWW.OK.CO.UK 13 Duchess makes pizza with children in Islington, north London, in 2019
HOME COOKING
ver the years, the Duchess has Ospoken about the pleasure her children get from helping her cook. She appeared on a Christmas special with Mary Berry in which she said she “really enjoys” cooking with the kids and thinks it prepares them to be “asas indepeindependent as ppossible”.ossib At tthehe time, Kate prpraised Mary’s pizzap recipe, adding,a “We made pizzas with your pizza dough recipe… TheyT loved Kate with iit.t Absolutely Mary Berry llovedov it.” And LLouennaoue agrees tthathat bbakingak and cooking are brilliant ways to teach younger children. She explains, “They learn words and it’s good for their speech development. It’s great for their motor skills with all the mixing and holding. It’s a maths lesson too – can you pour half in here, or how many cupcake cases do we need? It’s constantly using their brain.”
14 ‘I WAS A BIT EMBARRASSED – I CAN’T DO YEAR MATHS!’
William takes part in lessons at a Liverpool primary school last year
PLANNING AHEAD TO CREATE VITAL STRUCTURE
he Cambridges have discussed the trials I was a bit embarrassed about my maths I have suggested that to parents in my app. In Tand tribulations of getting involved in knowledge – I can’t do Year 2 maths!” lockdown, when you’ve got the children in the their children’s lessons in detail throughout Kate said it can be tricky when the kids are house all day, it works. Make a list of the things the pandemic. During his appearance on set different work by teachers. She explained, you would like to do the next day the night former footballer Peter Crouch’s podcast, “George gets very upset because he wants to before, so you’ll be prepared.” OK! William even admitted to finding some of do all of Charlotte’s projects… making spider THE NANNY LOUENNA APP IS AVAILABLE FROM THE APP STORE AND George’s maths lessons tricky! sandwiches is far cooler than literacy work.” GOOGLE PLAY WITH SUBSCRIPTIONS STARTING FROM £4.99 A MONTH Asked about what he’d learned through When it comes to structuring days, Louenna homeschooling, the Prince said, “Probably reveals one of the key lessons at Norland is WORDS: ANNA MATHESON & KAT ROMERO that my patience is a lot shorter than I thought planning and getting organised. She says, “I’ll PHOTOS: GETTY/MATT PORTEOUS/THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE/KENSINGTON PALACE it was… and that my wife has a lot of patience. always plan as it helps the day go smoother. WWW.OK.CO.UK 15
CARERS ON CALL ‘IT’S THE THINGS THAT COME FROM YOUR HEART – THAT’S WHAT MATTERS NOW’ THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE PRAISES FRONTLINE NURSES IN A HEARTFELT VIDEO CALL
Kate called the nurses from Sandringham
In a separate call, William praised the NHS
s frontline workers across the UK work Kate praised the role nurses have played decided to return to help with the NHS hard to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine, throughout the pandemic and spoke about vaccination programme in care homes. the Duchess of Cambridge took the her admiration of their professionalism. She Both Kate and her husband, the Duke of time to thank nurses for their role in added, “You hear time and time again about Cambridge, have praised frontline workers Athe process in a heartfelt video call. the amazing things nurses up and down the since the start of the pandemic. Earlier this Kate, 39, spoke to five nurses at the country are doing – going that extra mile.” month, Prince William, 38, took time to thank University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire The Duchess went on to speak warmly healthcare workers who were involved in the NHS Trust, where the first Covid vaccination about the compassion nurses across the organisation of the vaccination programme. was delivered in December, about their UK are showing at this difficult time. She The Duke spoke warmly about the NHS’ experiences during the pandemic and the elaborated, “It’s the things that are not part drive over video call, stating, “I know what importance of their profession. of the training… but the things that come a massive difference it is going to make to In another show of their close relationship, from your heart, and I think that’s what matters everyone. It is also worth pointing out I think royal sources revealed that the Queen had so much now: these acts of kindness to the that this isn’t something that happens really allowed Kate to work from her spare room at patients you’re looking after.” easily and everyone has access to around the Sandringham to ensure a quiet space. The Present on the specially arranged video call world. This is because we have a world-leading Cambridges are based not far away at Anmer were nurses Caroline Rudd and Judith Smith, NHS and we have the right people, OK! Hall, where the kids are being home schooled. who had both retired from nursing but research and development here.” VIA GETTY ROMERO PICTURES: KENSINGTON PALACE WORDS: KAT WWW.OK.CO.UK 17 PLAYING HER PARTPLAYING HER PART ‘I WAS SO EMOTIONALLY AFFECTED – I STOOD AND SOBBED’ ACTRESS ACTRESS VANESSA KIRBYVANESSA KIRBY ON THE CHALLENGES ON THE CHALLENGES OF PLAYING A BEREAVED MOTHER AND WHY HER OF PLAYING A BEREAVED MOTHER AND WHY HER ROLE IN ROLE IN THE CROWNTHE CROWN GAVE HER A NEWFOUND GAVE HER A NEWFOUND APPRECIATION OF THE ROYAL FAMILYAPPRECIATION OF THE ROYAL FAMILY
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1818 WWW.OK.CO.UK 19 ‘IT WAS THE MOST MAGICAL EXPERIENCE I’VE EVER HAD ON SCREEN’
20 about it but I’d never imagined myself in action movies as I came from the stage. But I thought a movie role like that would be a challenge – and it really scared me.
What scared you the most about it? I’m not a very physical person. At school, I was always the last one in the running race, so shooting a Mission: Impossible movie was more about overcoming a personal challenge!
Your star is shining brightly. Does it feel like you achieved overnight success? It feels like it took a long time because I started off doing stage for many years. I was up and down England doing plays and it might be only 300 people a night. But it was still fun. To be honest, I think things started to change when I did The Crown. It was still quite early days for In Pieces Of A Woman Netflix and we had no idea if anyone with co-star would even watch the show. Suddenly, Molly Parker it came out and people started talking about it – and it seemed like many more people watched it than we ever How did you prepare for the role? imagined. That was a beautiful experience. I was really nervous about shooting a birth scene because I’ve never given birth, so I began Do you have a new sense of appreciation for to research it as much as possible. I watched as the royal family after working on The Crown? many documentaries as I could and spoke to Definitely.DeD finitely. I didndidn’t t knowkn them at all before lots of women. I also had thehe privilegeprivilege TheThe CrownCrown, wwhich is a testament to of shadowing an obstetricianan at hohoww prprivateiva they’ve managed to a hospital in London for aboutbout bbee in thist age of technology a month before rehearsals.. anandd social media. They were I shadowed her and the aalwayslw mysterious to me and midwives in the labour I ddidn’t understand what ward. Also, an amazing ththeir purpose was. Now woman let me watch II’ve delved behind closed her give birth. That was ddoors and I can imagine essential, really, because ppsychologically what this I was so worried about it. ffamily has been through bbecause they were born How long did it take to ininto it – and they had no shoot the birth scene? chchoice other than to be It was two days of shootingg Alongside Tom wwhoho they were. I mean, the Mission: and a day of rehearsal. Theyey Cruise in ffreedomreed I have is so different Impossible wanted to shoot it in one ttake,ake, ttoo MarMargaret’s.g I definitely look at which was going to be a challengehallenge them didifferentlyffe now. OK! – but we had this amazing douldoulaa whwhoo WORDS: ALAN TANNER PHOTOS: LAUREN FLEISHMAN/ had been with us as our birth consultant. As a NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX/EYEVINE/GETTY/SPLASHNEWS team, we rehearsed it in the space where we were going to shoot. Bit by bit, we refined it. When we shot it, we did four takes in a row and it was the most magical experience I’ve As Princess ever had on screen because as soon as you Margaret in started it, you knew that you had to be present The Crown and in the moment. You had to let the scene take you instead of trying to control anything.
It must have been very emotional… I wanted to do a birth scene that was as authentic as possible. I felt a duty to every mother to try to represent that on screen in a true-to-life and raw way. After we shot it, I was so emotionally affected that I remember [director] Kornél [Mundruczó] giving me this massive hug for about three minutes as I stood there sobbing. I remember thinking, “I’ve got to retain this. I’ve got to retain this feeling.”
You’ve also done blockbusters such as Mission: Impossible and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs And Shaw. Do you consciously try to mix it up? It’s not really a conscious decision. I mean, Mission: Impossible came along because I was on The Crown and [Mission: Impossible director] Christopher McQuarrie had seen it. He approached me and started to chat to me WWW.OK.CO.UK 21 STAYING STRONG ‘DEREK IS STILL RAVAGED BY THE EFFECTS OF COVID’ GOOD MORNING BRITAIN HOST KATE GARRAWAY OPENS UP ABOUT HOW HER LIFE HAS CHANGED SINCE THE START OF HER HUSBAND’S BATTLE
With her husband ver 10 months on Susanna then paid tribute to Derek and their from his admission her friend, saying, “What I think two children to hospital with is so inspiring is we know the Darcey and Billy coronavirus, Kate hell that you are going through OGarraway has revealed that her but you still turn up all of the husband Derek is still “ravaged” time, you’re always just you. by the virus. You’ve still got a smile, it’s a joy The TV host heartbreakingly to interact with you and a lot of revealed that she has to be people think, ‘How can she careful of not “running away maintain that?’” with hope” about Derek’s Kate, 53 – who shares Darcey, recovery as the prognosis is 14, and Billy, 11, with her “incredibly uncertain”. husband of 15 years – is putting Speaking to Piers Morgan her pain aside to share the story and Susanna Reid on Good of the devastating impact Morning Britain, Kate opened coronavirus has had on her up about how “unbearable” family. Her memoir, The Power Christmas was without Derek, Of Hope – which came about 53, by her side. after Piers suggested to Kate “It’s been a strange time. I’ve that she kept a diary of Derek’s been a bit low since Christmas, illness – will be released in April. physically low. I feel like I was “While my experience physically at the end of my of covid is an extreme/ tether and I sort of had to extraordinary one, I am only regroup a bit,” she shared. too aware that this virus has Offering a rather bleak impacted every single one of update on her husband’s us. We are all going through recovery, Kate said, “Derek is this, to a greater or lesser still ravaged by the effects of degree. By telling the story of covid [since] way back in March. Derek’s illness and how it has His recovery is incredibly altered our lives, I hope to be uncertain. I’m trying to look able to reach out to others who for new things and new ways, are suffering,” Kate said. talking to doctors about what While Kate has had months we can do for him of fearing the worst for her “Meanwhile, people are husband, she explained that she still dying, extraordinary hopes to help those who are numbers of people who going through a similarly aren’t older, who haven’t devastating time. “If writing got underlining symptoms about my experience of facing and it is just unbearable.” fear, coping day-to-day with an Piers, 55, reminded Kate that uncertain future and finding “miracles do happen”, strength for the sake before she revealed of my kids can in that Derek is unlikely some way help to get better. “They another who is feeling said the chance of lost or in despair, it Derek’s survival was will mean a lot.” OK! next to nothing and THE POWER OF HOPE WILL BE PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2021 Kate with her that he’d probably die, but I thought some co-stars Piers WORDS: ELLIE KIRWIN PHOTOS: and Susanna people are surviving MARK HAYMAN/FABULOUS/ so why not Derek,” THE SUN/NEWS LICENSING, she said. SHUTTERSTOCK, TIM MERRY 22 WWW.OK.CO.UK 23 WORTH OVER
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LET THE PLANNING COMMENCE HERE COMES THE BRIDE THE RING INSIDE MOLLIE KING AND STUART BROAD’S ‘SOPHISTICATED AND SIMPLE’ FAIRY-TALE WEDDING PLANS Mollie’s fans were in awe as she flashed her engagement ring – thought to be worth an eye-watering £18,500 – on Instagram, revealing Stuart picked it himself. “He did it all himself… ollie King’s 2021 THE VENUE he knows me very well… and the hints I’d been got off to a pretty dropping must have got through!” she shared. amazing start when ‘SMALL AND INTIMATE’ Kate Earlam-Charnley, Design Director of her cricketer beau Mollie has previously revealed that she dreams London jewellers Taylor & Hart, revealed, “The MStuart Broad, 34, popped the of a “small and intimate wedding” so she’s ring design is sophisticated and simple, while the question on New Year’s Day. looking in just the right place with planners oval diamond shape brings a touch of distinction.” Since then, Radio 1 host Carats & Cake. But it seems she might be Mollie, 33, has gushed, “I’m planning to say “I do” in the US as the company so excited! I’m right at the specialise in stylish American ceremonies. THE DRESS beginning of all the planning However, plans might be even more exotic ‘DISNEY PRINCESS’ and can’t stop looking than that as she’s also got her eye on boutique With a fairy-tale wedding in her sights, Mollie won’t be at wedding accounts wedding destination planners Isla & Smith who settling for anything less than princess-perfect when it on Instagram.” organise big days everywhere from Hong Kong comes to her gown. From sensational venues to Bali, Italy, France and Greece. And it’s never too soon to start looking at dresses, all over the globe to Mollie has also indicated that her heart may with Mollie apparently having her eye on a Liz Martinez non-negotiable wedding lie closer to home. When she was a bridesmaid gown from bridal website The Lane. The Israeli designerer speeches and star-studded at her sister Ellen’s Surrey stately home wedding specialises in lacey, boho creations featuring lots of guestlists, we take a closer in 2013, she said, “It was such an emotional embellishments with prices starting from £4,500. look at everything we know day… I couldn’t help but think of my own It seems Liz is the perfect choice for a destination so far about Mollie and wedding and that it would be quite similar.” wedding, as she was also the designer behind Lacey Stuart’s big day... Turner’s stunning gown for her big day in Ibiza (right). 26 Mollie at her sister Ellen’s wedding
THE VIBE ‘FAIRY TALE’ Mollie has spoken openly about dreaming of her big day since she was a little girl. “I want the fairy tale and I’m not going to settle for anything less,” she said, adding, “It’s about meeting the perfect guy, falling in love, being genuinely happy and knowing that in 40 years’ time, if you were still waking up next to that guy, you’d still feel like the luckiest girl alive.”
THE GUESTLIST STAR-STUDDED! Of course Mollie’s former Saturdays bandmates and Stuart’s England teammates will make the guestlist, while Mollie’s BBC co-host Matt Edmondson (right) is already working on his speech! “YAAAAAAAAAS! I CAN’T WAIT to deliver a speech at your wedding. This is non-negotiable. Sending so much love to you both,” he replied via Instagram to the exciting news. All of the Saturdays were bridesmaids at both Rochelle Humes’ and Una Healy’s weddings, so we’re hoping for a reunion on Mollie and Stuart’s big day, too! OK!
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Rochelle Humes, Una Healy, Vanessa White and Frankie Bridge
WWW.OK.CO.UK 27 SMASHING IT ‘A HEAR’SAY REUNION? WAIT AND SEE!’ ACTRESS AND TV PRESENTER KYM MARSH EXCLUSIVELY CHATS TO OK! ABOUT CELEBRATING YEARS SINCE THE POP BAND WERE PROPELLED TO FAME
f you needed further evidence that time flies, 2021 Hi Kym. We can’t believe it’s been 20 years marks 20 years since Kym Marsh sprang to fame as since Popstars… one fifth of chart-topping group Hear’Say on ITV It’s a bit bonkers to think it was so long ago. It talent show Popstars. was the first show of its kind – there hasn’t been I “It feels like a million years ago, but at the same another one the same since. We were more like time, when I say 20 years, it makes me feel quite old!” a documentary, in a way, before it got to public Kym laughs as we catch up over Zoom. voting and all the rest of it. And it seems there could be big plans in place to mark the milestone, as Kym, 44, exclusively reveals Are you still in touch with your bandmates? that she’s been in regular contact with her former Yeah, I’ve been chatting with the guys. We haven’t bandmates Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw spoken since Christmas, but we had a couple of Zoom and Noel Sullivan. calls during the Christmas “We all jump on the call period and all wished each and it’s like we’ve never other a happy New Year. been apart,” the former We all jump on the call Coronation Street star, and it’s like we’ve never who is mum to David, 25, been apart. Emilie, 24, and Polly, nine, continues. Do you think you’ll always But as well as celebrating have that bond? her pop career, OK! I think so. There were a lot columnist Kym has got of stories in the papers plenty more on her hands about all the bad things over the coming months. – the arguments and this, This week, she’s back on the that and the other. But we box alongside TV hubby also had some fantastic Gethin Jones as their BBC times. Of course we had show Morning Live returns arguments – that’s people after smashing the ratings. – but we did some amazing Hear’Say Meanwhile, she’s flexing things in such a short space on Popstars her documentary muscle, of time and we’ll always in 2001 fronting the second series of remember that. her true crime series, Murder At My Door. Are there any plans to Here, the star, who’s in mark the anniversary? a relationship with Scott We’d like to give a little nod Ratcliff, opens up on adding ‘WE JUMP ON ZOOM to the fact that it’s 20 years. strings to her bow, why she’s What we’ll do, I have no given up playing matchmaker AND IT’S LIKE WE’VE idea. But we’d like to do for Gethin, and how a something to mark the potential Hear’Say reunion NEVER BEEN APART’ occasion – we’ll have to could be on the horizon… wait and see!
28 WWW.OK.CO.UK 29 ‘I’D LIKE TO PLAY A BADDIE AND SHAVE MY HEAD’
30 Are you cheering on Myleene Klass on Dancing On Ice? I’m obviously watching Myleene and rooting for her, but I have to put most of my loyalties into Faye Brookes, who played my onscreen cousin in Coronation Street. I predicted she’ll win right from the start. I know what she’s capable of and how bloody strong she is. She trains hard and is a fantastic dancer and a wonderful performer.
Rather them on the ice than us… Oh, I know! No thank you – especially when they get that headbanger out!
Since Hear’Say, you’ve gone from acting to presenting. Is it nice to be doing such a variety of work? When I left Corrie I worked straight away doing bits and bobs. Then the work I was meant to do last year was all either cancelled or postponed. I was like, “I don’t know what I’m going to do now.” So to have been offered the jobs I’ve been offered, and be lucky enough to do them, has been wonderful. Obviously, I’ll always be an actress, but I’m really fortunate and pleased with the way things have gone.
What’s your dream acting role? I’d like to play the baddie and to have to shave my head or do something bizarre to get into the role.
You’re back with a second series of Morning Live. You must have been thrilled with the response and high ratings… They’re only watching for Gethin [laughs]. It’s Kym says hosting great to be a part of something that’s brand new, Morning Live is and it’s been an absolute smash, so it’s obviously “wonderful” a very proud moment.
Last time we caught up, you mentioned you were trying Are you still able to keep to matchmake for Gethin. in contact with your How’s it going? grandson Teddy as part He’s the fussiest man in the of your daughter Emilie’s entire world! I don’t think support bubble? I could do it. I would make a Yes, I’ve been really lucky. mistake and then it would be Teddy’s just an absolute my fault. So no, I’m leaving the joy. He’s almost two years matchmaking alone. He and our old now and he’s reaching co-star Dr Xand can sort their that point where he’s own love lives out! [Laughs] testing the boundaries a little bit, and having the Your true crime documentary odd tantrum, and you need Murder At My Door is also to tell him no. returning. Is it hard to shake off the harrowing stories Have there been any after filming? memorable moments? Narrating the series isn’t as bad The other day Emilie was as going out and interviewing With children working and Teddy was the relatives and friends of David, Emilie here with his little karaoke people who have passed. But and Polly machine, singing into it. when I read through all the He went to put it into my cases, it’s such a horrible thing mouth and accidentally to think that these people smacked me in the face suffered at the hands of someone they trusted. That’s with it and bust my lip completely. I was properly injured by something that makes you think a lot. So it is quite difficult to my grandson, my lip was huge. Obviously he didn’t mean to get it out of your head, but when I get home I’m confronted hurt me, but I had to try and tell him off, without telling him by a nine-year-old who wants her dinner. off, while not laughing about it, otherwise he’d think it was funny and do it again. How’s it been juggling a hectic work schedule with family life during lockdown? Has he inherited the family singing gene? It’s pretty tough at the moment. I feel Polly is a kid who needs He loves music. He’s always dancing and Emilie’s very musical to be in school. She doesn’t really have a great attention span too, so I think it must be in his blood. OK! and gets quite distracted by the fact she’s at home. It’s also MURDER AT MY DOOR WITH KYM MARSH RETURNS TO CRIME+INVESTIGATION, WITH THE quite tricky to be able to work and see to Polly, as there’s a FIRST EPISODE AIRING ON MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY AT 9PM. EPISODES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR real structure to homeschooling and we have to meet certain 30 DAYS ON CATCH UP AND ON-DEMAND SERVICES things that the school has asked for. But we also know what WORDS: RIANNE ISON PHOTOS: LORNA ROACH PHOTOGRAPHY we’re doing a lot more now. WWW.OK.CO.UK 31 TIME WELL SPENT WITH ALL YOUR FAVOURITE CELEBRITIES
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ext week is Children’s Mental we are. They’re not able to see their Health Week. Polly is aware friends and their whole environments of mental wellbeing and she’s have changed – it’s natural for them always been encouraged to to feel a bit nervous and scared. It’s Ntalk about her feelings. good to raise awareness of it, because It’s important that we allow kids to sometimes people might not think express themselves and not be worried about how much this is all impacting to talk about how they’re feeling or children. We should definitely all get what they’re thinking. At the moment, involved and encourage our kids to kids are going to be feeling it, just like get talking. A SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK omesh Ranganathan recently Rsaid he was quitting Twitter. I’ve got two Instagram accounts, a private one and a public one. I haven’t been using my public one very often and I managed to log myself out, so I was without it ‘HAVING THE OP IS A RELIEF’ for a while and I really ’m really looking forward to starting the new NAKED SCENES didn’t miss Iseries of Morning Live. I will be joining Gethin it! I know a by Zoom as, by the time you read this, I’ll have ate Winslet has spoken about few people had my hernia operation and need a few days Kfeeling good about doing a who have to recover. It’s an inguinal hernia that has been nude scene in her forties for an decided bothering me for some time and it’s quite upcoming film. It’s great she feels that they common, especially with people who exercise a liberated by it. It sends a positive don’t want lot. It’s nerve-racking being put under anaesthetic, message in that respect. I’ve never to be on but it’s a relief to have it done and I’m hoping it had to do a nude scene. I’ve never Twitter any more. I get why. They won’t be long before I’m training again, as I’ve said I wouldn’t do something, but always say social media is a really missed it. All being well, I’ll be back in the it would depend on context. It wonderful place when it’s used in studio with Gethin from next week! OK! would have to be an important the right way. But I’ve had my fair part of the story. I don’t think I’d share of trolling, and it isn’t nice. worry about doing it in my forties. Sometimes it’s easy to ignore and I’m comfortable with who I am. I’m sometimes it’s not, so I can see 44, I’ve been pregnant four times, why people would want to take it is what it is! a break. ‘OTHER ILLNESSES DON’T GO AWAY!’ ew stats have shown that one in important it is to have smear tests as Nthree women have missed their women. I am someone who has had smear tests during the pandemic. It’s pre-cancerous cells – I’ve had them so important we don’t let our general removed and, touch-wood, I’m fine. health slip right now. But imagine if I hadn’t If you find a lump, or gone to that smear something’s not right, test at that time? you need to go to You’ve got to be
the doctor. There are vigilant. Coronavirus CREDIT people working. You is going on, but other should definitely be serious illnesses and making your smear diseases don’t go appointments, too. away so we’ve got We all know how to be aware. PHOTOS: DAZELEY, GETTY PHOTOS: DAZELEY,
WWW.OK.CO.UK 33 FAMILY GUY ‘I HOPE I’M NOT CHASING MY KIDS ROUND WITH A WALKER!’ GEORGE CLOONEY ON BEING AN OLDER FATHER THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS AND WHY HIS WIFE AMAL HAS ISSUES WITH HIS DRESS SENSE
n his latest movie, The Midnight Sky, George late, so all I can do is play catch-up and hope Clooney plays a grizzled, unsettled Arctic I’m not chasing my kids around with a walker scientist – but in real life things couldn’t be and a cane – or switching diapers [nappies] with more different for the 59-year-old actor. them. I don’t know the optimum age to become I Married to international human rights lawyer a parent, but I do know I’m experiencing what Amal for more than six years and father to twins most people in the world get to experience, which Alexander and Ella, now three, George is blissfully is the incredible amount of love with two children happy and says fatherhood has changed his life. you are responsible for. I’m very happy about that. “My daughter, it feels like she mightg be more leaning towards my wife. How much did you She puts everything in have to alter your order, she really is very lifestyle when the smart. And my son likes children came along? everything to do with Well, I got rid of a couple pranking people,” he said of friends. I can only have back in December. room for so many And while still a force people, so I got rid of in front of the camera, the two friends in particular. actor, who found fame in [Laughs] I’m joking! To 90s TV show ER, says he’s be honest, I wasn’t embracing his more completely unaware of recent career as a director. what life would be like He stars in The Midnight with children. All my Sky, but it’s also his friends have kids and I’m seventh turn behind the godfather to about 20 lens. And although he’s children, so I knew what had some practice, the I was in for. The surprise shoot wasn’t without Amal with for me was how much bumps in the road – very twins more complicated having specifically, co-star Felicity Alexander twins is than one. It’s not Jones’ unexpected baby and Ella like twice as much work. bump. The actress was It’s more than that, so reportedly worried she I have a huge admiration would lose her role in the film but sympathetic for my wife. Life changes when you become a George simply made her character pregnant! parent. Life fundamentally changes. You are now Here, George talks about the respect he responsible for other people’s lives in a way that has for his wife, his “knucklehead” twins and you haven’t been before. I love it. his impressive cooking skills… Did your outlook on life change when you A lot has changed for you over the last decade. became a father? Why was now the right time to focus on family? I have a great sense of responsibility to the twins Is there a right age to become a parent? I started because life with them is going to be much easier 34 WWW.OK.CO.UK 35 36 in some ways, but more difficult in other ways. It’s going to be challenging to remind children who have been born under the magnifying glass of celebrity – but also with money and all of those privileges. It’s important to get them to understand empathy and to understand about other people who aren’t as fortunate as they are. I feel a great responsibility for that.
You talk about being under the magnifying glass of celebrity… How does it feel to know people are selling stories about you? At this point in my life, I find the time spent with my wife, my kids, my friends and the people that I love is what I have learned to appreciate. I don’t think about the other stuff. I’m very aware of time and how good it is when things are good and I try to celebrate that because I’m well aware of the times that are not good. Nobody in their life or their career bounces from mountain top to mountain top. You always have these rides, so I try to celebrate the times that are very good and pay attention to that. George is full of How much do the twins make you smile? admiration for Are you kidding? Happiness has always been his wife Amal something that we are all looking for and I couldn’t be happier. Honestly, it’s incredible. I had this incredible relationship and then, all of a I make a nice pasta because I spent time in Italy sudden, we have these two knuckleheads who make and I make good breakfast food. I’m great at me laugh every day. All of this is the icing on the cake. Thanksgiving dinner, too. I’ve now become a bit of a connoisseur of Lebanese food, which I wasn’t What does marriage mean to you? before. I find it to be fantastic. I wasn’t looking to get married, but I met someone who I realised I wanted to spend the rest of my life If you could invite anyone from history over for with – and hoped she felt the same. When I asked her dinner, who would you choose? to marry me, it was one of those moments where she Tesla [inventor Nikola Tesla] would be pretty amazing could say, “What? Are you crazy? I thought we were to speak to. And I hear Albert Einstein was pretty fun just having fun here.” But from the moment I met at parties. Maybe we could get Albert Einstein drunk her, she has been the most important thing in my life and find out what the theory of relativity really means. because my family brings me the most joy in the world. Is there any truth to the rumours you’re moving Has your fashion sense changed since you married? into politics? Amal has a great sense of style, but she does look at I’m friends with a lot of politicians who I like and me confused when it comes to my own sense of style. respect and think the world of. Their life is very At times, she says, “Are you going to wear a tequila difficult and I don’t envy a moment of it. I truly feel T-shirt again?” And I go, “Yes, I am selling tequila. as if I don’t have to make compromises in the world I have a tequila brand.” It’s funny because there will I work in and if I want to take up a cause and fight for be 30 paparazzi guys outside my house. They follow it, I can do that without having to say, “Well, I can’t you and say, “Are you going to wear the same shirt?” tick off this guy because he’s raised half a million And I go, “Yeah, if you are going to stand outside my dollars for my political campaign.” I can be much house, you are going to sell tequila for me.” more effective in the things I want to work on without being tied to politics at all. I’ll steer clear of that one. Does Amal ever get you to change out of a T-shirt? Every once in a while she will go, “Put a nicer shirt You’re an actor, director and producer in your new on before you go out.” And I will go, “OK, you are Netflix movie, The Midnight Sky. How would you right.” Sometimes. describe the space story? The script is beautifully written. It takes a little bit of How domesticated is George Clooney? Gravity and a little bit of The Revenant and ties them I cook a little bit. I’m a decent chef. Listen, I was a both together in an organic way. When you take on a singleg guyg y for a longg time, so I know how to cook. projectpj to direct it, you’re basically saying, “I’m going to spend the next two years of my life on this.” If you’re going to do that, it really has to be something you’re excited about. I loved my role, too. I get to play a grumpy old man, which is a fun place to be.
How will an apocalyptic story like The Midnight Sky be received in the midst of a global pandemic? We’ve always liked these kinds of stories, even when times didn’t seem as apocalyptic as they do right now. We still always like a good He plays a “grumpy apocalyptic story. OK! old man” in The Midnight Sky WORDS: ALAN TANNER PHOTOS: MAGDALENA WOSINSKA/ NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX/EYEVINE, MEGA
WWW.OK.CO.UK 37 ANNE-MARIE FLASHES THAT SPARKLER
fter ANT McPARTLIN and obviously Anne-Marie said popped the question on ‘yes’ straight away.” AChristmas Eve, fiancée The engagement comes ANNE-MARIE CORBETT has three years after Ant split from given the first glimpse of her LISA ARMSTRONG following ring – and it’s impressive! 11 years of marriage. Ant and Anne-Marie, 44, was seen former PA Anne-Marie began flashing the huge sparkler, dating around April 2018. which is rumoured to be worth around £200,000, while on a walk with Ant, 45, and their dogs. The TV presenter is thought to have designed the piece himself. A source said earlier this month, “He’s a traditionalist, so got down on one knee after first checking with Anne- Marie’s family that he had their blessing. It was super-romantic,,
MIKE TURNS TEACHER!
arents across the land have with his face covered in paint. been giving homeschooling Mike captioned it, “Feel like I Ptheir best shot during succeeded in home schooling lockdown, and now MIKE arts and crafts today!!!! Any TINDALL has hilariously echoed movies out there need a creepy their struggles. villain I think I fit the bill!!” The former rugby star, 42, The relatable post went down is dad to Mia, seven, and Lena, a storm with his followers, with two, and is set to welcome his one commenting, “You’re third child this year with wife a good dad! Your daughters ZARA, 39. are very lucky.” Another wrote, Taking to Instagram, he “Awww you’re the DADDY! shared a snap of himself Star of the week for you.” sporting an orange beard Even royals have to do it! WORDS: GEORGIA TREVITT PHOTOS: GETTY, SHUTTERSTOCK, TILLENDOVE WORDS: GEORGIA TREVITT PHOTOS: GETTY, 38 BRITCROWD ULRIKA CALLS OUT HER CRITIC
LRIKA JONSSON has F*****G BOUNDARIES.” furiously hit back after It came after the TV star Ushe was told by a critic opened up in an emotional to “stop whinging”. Sharing post about how she was the message she received feeling in lockdown. She – which also said she should wrote, “Mentally things are “pick herself up” and “move dark at the moment. Deep- on” – Ulrika, 53, wrote on rooted issues rise to the top her Instagram story, “It and grab me by the throat.” actually doesn’t happen She added, “Black Dog is often so I’m [blessed]. sluggishly dragging his paws “But some people are along the pavement behind c***s. Sorry if that breaks me, ready to pounce. So, the rules but seriously ‘pologies. I’m going to try mental health has NO to be more fun.”
MARK FORCED TO ISOLATE
e made his professional Hdebut for Crawley Town recently, but MARK WRIGHT has been having to self- isolate following a coronavirus outbreak among the team. It’s understood the League Two football club has suffered 11 cases, meaning Mark, 34, who lives with wife MICHELLE KEEGAN, 33, in Essex, has had to stay at home for seven days. A spokesperson said, “Mark is of course following all guidelines. Consequently he has had to postpone his daily BBC Two fitness show, Workout The Wright Way, by a week. It was due to start on 25 January. “He will also be broadcasting his daily Heart evening radio show from home until he is allowed out.”
WWW.OK.CO.UK 39 40 LEARNING CURVE ‘EVERYTHING ABOUT MARRIAGE IS AN ADVENTURE’ ACTRESS PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS ON HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HUSBAND NICK HER ADVICE TO HER YOUNGER SELF AND THE LESSONS SHE’S LEARNT DURING LOCKDOWN
appily married for two years, things only appear to be going from strength to strength for Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her Hsinger hubby Nick. And in our exclusive interview with the Indian actress, she openly tells us she “loves being married” and gushes about their relationship. “It’s a partnership and it’s wonderful,” she says. As well as a deep dive into her personal life, the 38-year-old tells us she is currently on our shores filming her latest project, a TV show for Amazon – although she admits working in a pandemic certainly has its challenges. “Even though all of the safety measures are being taken, it’s scary,” she reveals. “We get tested every day and everyone has masks. Everyone keeps a distance from the actors especially, because we are the ones who take our masks off to do the scenes. We’re highly susceptible, so it’s scary and crazy, but I’m also grateful to be able to go back to work. I’m grateful to be actually working,” she adds. Here, Priyanka – who was crowned Miss World in 2000 – talks about her hopes to make more Bollywood movies, the lessons she’s learnt over the years, and being vulnerable in her upcoming memoir Unfinished...
You’ve been living in the UK with your husband Nick Jonas for a couple of months. How’s married life treating you? I love being married. I’m learning all of the time, which I love. We are both trying to catch up on each other’s years of upbringing, which is amazing and Priyanka beautiful. That’s the greatest thing about and husband marriage – the learning. Especially when Nick Jonas you find the person that’s just right.
WWW.OK.CO.UK 41 Everything about marriage is an adventure. It’s full of curiosity The star in and excitement. upcoming film, The What have you learned about White Tiger Nick recently? Both of us have learned so much about each other’s cultures. I didn’t really know what a Thanksgiving dinner entailed, so I’m learning all the time. I forget so many little things about American culture and it’s the same with him.
Valentine’s Day is around the corner. How are you going to celebrate? Unfortunately, it’s not going to be very romantic. I’m going to be on set. My husband is rather romantic, so I guess I’ll throw some hints at him.
Do you prefer big, showy acts or more quiet, personal acts of love? I think conversations are the most romantic to me. That’s what I love.
Who is the most romantic between the everyone is feeling the same way, but I’m How close do you feel to your Indian two of you? finding strength in the fact that I’m not roots today? Oh, Nick is definitely more romantic. alone in feeling the way I feel. You can take me out of India, but you can’t take India out of me. I’m still that You recently posted a great photo of On to work... What can audiences girl. It’s my greatest joy and privilege to yourself at 17 on Instagram. What goes expect from your new Netflix film, be able to take south Asian stories – through your mind when you look at The White Tiger? which are not represented in global that picture? I love this movie and I’m very proud of it. entertainment as much as they should When I looked at that picture, I was like, This movie was written at the turn of the be – and put them on a global platform “Damn, I was lean! Where did that waist millennium and it’s based in 2008, so it’s like Netflix. South Asians are one-fifth go?” I guess that’s your teenage years not very reflective of the India of today of the world’s population, but you don’t for you. I’ve written a memoir this year, – but it’s a fantastic story. As a producer, see many films with a south Asian cast because I’ve been in the business for 20 it has been a quest of mine to create or story, so it’s been a joy to shoot in years now. Writing a memoir really jogs representation on screen and to be able to my home country. your memory about so many things that champion movies that create a debate. you’ve forgotten. You’re fforcedorced to tthinkhink ThiThiss movmovieie hhappensap to be based Over the years, you have appeared in about things and you startrt to in InIndiadia bbutu it tackles the a number of Bollywood movies. Do you remember more about certainertain rreallyeally llargea subject of plan to do more in the future? times in life. I joined the MMississ cclasslass disparity, which Yes, I do. I’d love to be able to do work India pageant as one of tthehe exexistsis around the back in India and I have read a couple of contestants and I was woworld – and that’s things that I would really love to do next really feeling myself. wwhat makes it so year. I’m hoping to be able to fit that into I was like, “I’m pretty uuniversal. That’s my schedule, but it’s a bit like playing and I’m going to be a wwhy I attached as Tetris right now. model.” That was my an executive dream, but I took pproducer, as well Do you remember Nick’s reaction to everything so seriously aas an actor. seeing a Bollywood movie for the very back then. first time? I don’t show him any Bollywood movies. What advice would you We both didn’t know anything about each give to 17-year-old you?? other’s careers when we got together. I think the one piece of advicedvice When we were away from each other, he that I would tell my youngerger selselff is saw some films himself and I checked out to take the pressure off your shoulders.hld his music – but we had to educate each I’d say, “Listen, all of this is not the end of other on each other’s careers. the world. Focus on really smelling the roses and enjoying the journey.” I think What will people learn about you in I’ve reached a place in life where I now your upcoming book? feel in a much more comfortable position My memoir is called Unfinished, because than I was when I was 17 and starting my that’s exactly how I feel. It looks back at 20 career. Maybe it’s taken experience to get years in the business from my childhood to here, but I would definitely tell my now. It looks at the choices I made and younger self to chill out a little. why I made them – and a whole lot more. I’ve given so many interviews in my life, What have you learned about yourself but people will now get to learn about the during the pandemic? things they haven’t heard about. I’m I definitely learned through quarantine terrified because I’ll be showing a lot of that I haven’t been in touch with my my vulnerabilities and I’m talking about friends and family as much as I wanted to Priyanka – who things that I’ve never spoken about be. During quarantine, I’ve been speaking was Miss World before. It’s very scary to open up, but it’s to everyone a lot more and that’s a habit (above) – posted worth it. OK! that I want to keep maintaining. I usually this photo of herself at 17 INTERVIEW: ALAN TANNER travel a lot and my work takes over. It’s PHOTOS: GETTY also taught me that I’m resilient. I think 42 WWW.OK.CO.UK 43 FOUR GREAT MAGAZINES ONE SMALL PRICE
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loved being on Good Morning Britain with Pete. I do like how Piers Morgan always says it how it is and I Ienjoy watching his interviews, but then that also made me wonder what questions he would ask me! But it was a great interview and both Piers and Susanna Reid were so nice. I hope I got the message across about the vaccine. Whatever the comments are At the time of writing this, I’m massively reduced. If you get one or two about how the due to have my first vaccine in doses it still cannot protect you 100% from government a couple of days, which is great. catching the virus, but for me it’s about has handled the There has been much talk about doing the best thing for the greatest number pandemic, you whether or not it is safe to delay of people. I’m happy to wait for my second can’t deny that having the second dose of the dose because I don’t think it’s fair for me to our vaccination vaccine. Your immunity is of course have two doses and someone else miss out efforts have been boosted further after two doses, but on having one. incredible. They is it not better that we vaccinate as I was really shocked to see the UK has are hoping every many people as possible rather than the worst daily coronavirus death rate in the adult will be give half the amount of people world. I think it’s difficult to piece together vaccinated by a higher level of immunity? One why this is, and I expect there are lots of September and dose gives you a good level of things contributing. It will probably only currently we are protection and even after one dose become clear in the future. For now we way ahead of many other countries in terms the research suggests that your chance of need to focus on getting people vaccinated of the number of vaccines given. getting seriously unwell from coronavirus is before we can start easing restrictions. WE CAN’T TAKE AWAY PARENTING IS SO ALL ENTERTAINMENT MUCH HARDER IN TV’s Dancing On LOCKDOWN IIce has been criticised for olly Willoughby has admitted putting a “strain” Hshe’s worried about her children’s on the NHS after screen time and is struggling with some contestants homeschooling. I totally get where had to go to A&E. she’s coming from. We never thought I get where people we’d be in a situation where our kids are coming from would be looking at a tablet instead of but I think there going to school! are two sides to I do try to limit the kids’ screen time the discussion. but it’s difficult in lockdown because I think it’s still there is only so long they can entertain I don’t feel anxious or depressed but it important to offer each other. If they’ve been really good, is 100% harder to parent in lockdown. people some I do let them spend some time You’re so limited on what activities you entertainment and watching a movie or on their iPads. can do with them and it’s easy for them normality, and Usually I wouldn’t let them on their to start bickering with each other. television is one of the few ways of doing tablets at all in the week but I’ve Those 10 days of self-isolation when that at the moment. People are still allowed relaxed a bit on that because we’re in Pete had coronavirus were so horrible. to go out on their bikes, so should we say a unique situation and it’s boring for The kids were so bored and we people can’t ride them in case they have an them to be stuck indoors all day. couldn’t even go out for a walk. It accident and take up NHS time? It’s just It was also reported that stress, was just really boring and isolating, about not being reckless or taking anxiety and depression has increased so I really feel for anyone else in unnecessary risks. among parents during lockdown. that situation. OK! PHOTOS: ITV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
EMAIL ME AT EMILY ANDREA@REACHPLC COM WWW.OK.CO.UK 45 SIMPLE PLEASURES ‘MY SECRET TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE? FOOD!’
TV PRESENTER ANGELA SCANLON ON BARGAIN-HUNTING MOTHERHOOD AND HER DREAM WEDDING DAY
fter showing us how to transform our homes on Ercol and worth quite a bit of money but we got BBC Two’s Your Home Made Perfect, Angela the whole set for a good price. I’ve also got a really Scanlon knows a thing or two about upscaling beautiful lounger I bought from a friend. There’s on a budget. So we’re not surprised to learn something really special about finding something Athat the star – who has also presented The One Show in the rubble or from eBay or Gumtree! and Robot Wars, and has her own spot on BBC Radio Two and a hit podcast – loves a bargain! Since you’ve been working on Your Garden Made When we call the 37-year-old, she tells us she’s taking Perfect, can you share your tips for giving your cover from the rain on a miserable day in London. But garden a budget makeover? that doesn’t dampen her spirit as she fills us in on her There’s loads of off-the-shelf things you can do! One latest project, Your Garden Made Perfect, in which she’ll of my favourite things are railway sleepers. You can get oversee garden redesigns. them from any normal builders and they are around £15 Away from TV, Angela says her greatest achievement each. They can be used for benching and to create little is two-year-old daughter Ruby, who she shares with beds in your garden. Or a veg patch or herb garden. hubby of six years Roy Horgan. “Lockdown has meant Also, you don’t have to go to a big garden centre for I’ve been able to spend much plants. Pop to your supermarket more time with Ruby,” she says. to keep prices down. “Having her was the proudest With moment of my life.” husband What insider knowledge Here, Angela talks about Roy about budgeting have transforming gardens on you learnt from doing a budget, the secret to a your shows? happy marriage and parenting It often means getting your in lockdown… hands dirty! If you’re on a smaller budget, you don’t Hey Angela! Tell us, do you want to spend it on a project love a good bargain? manager. Also, if you’re creating Oh, I love a good bargain! a garden you think you want Absolutely love it. It’s one of trees – but established trees my favourite things. There’s that have been grown and something very satisfying cared for elsewhere are quite about feeling like you’ve got expensive. On a small budget, something cheap or for free! those are the things you have to sacrifice. You realise you There is! Have you always need to have smaller trees been super thrifty? that will flourish over years. Yes. I’ve always loved charity- shop finds and clothes. I buy How has your home life been furniture off my friends on during lockdown? Instagram. I have a beautiful I’ve been up and down, like kitchen table and chairs I got everyone else. There are days from a friend. They were from where I jump out of bed and 46 WWW.OK.CO.UK 47 ‘I CAN HOLD A GRUDGE I’M TRYING TO LEARN TO LET IT GO’
48 it’s great because I’m not travelling for show how much we love each other work and get to see my daughter more. through cooking. But it comes in waves. There’s lots of worry and uncertainty. Also, missing people! It’s Do you have a moment you remember a lot. I’m reminding myself daily to be as the best time of your life? gentle and compassionate with myself. My wedding day. We got married in a We’ve never done this beforebefore,, but we wowoodlandodland attacattachedhe to a house. Everyone need to give ourselves a bbreakreak was ppanickedanicke that it might rain in everything we’re doing.g. bbecauseecause we were marrying We need to be kinder andnd outsoutside.id But during the understand we are goingg ceceremonyre there was to fall apart multiple bebeautiful light coming times in a day. throughth the trees and wwe looked at each other Have you had to like,l “Wow, this is the homeschool Ruby? momentm – we want it to She’s three next month, stays this way forever.” so we’re not doing full homeschooling. She’s WhatW are you most mooching about and proudpr of in life? we’re juggling it all. Lastt Her mum gives HavingHav Ruby. She is so lockdown it felt idyllic good advice funny.funny She’s fearless and has because it was March andnd a reareall twinkle.t She’s an amazing we’re lucky enough to haveave a andand wildwild littleli being. We throw garden. Whereas at the moment the word “authenticity”“auth around a it’s pretty bleak and dark. We try to lot, but it’s innate in kids. You can really usher her out the door to run her appreciate how unashamedly themselves little legs off, but sometimes it doesn’t they are. I’m striving to prolong that. go to plan. Have you learnt many lessons from How much support has Roy been through your own mum? this tough year? Yes! “What’s for you, won’t pass you.” It’s He’s been amazing! We’re both quite something she always says and her mum hands-on and juggle it well. I’m a very taught her. We’d always roll our eyes when emotional human. I have big highs and very we were in the depths of despair, whether low lows. I’m sensitive, whereas he’s more a guy hadn’t called or we hadn’t got a job, rational. He reassures me and is naturally and she’d say it. Now I realise there’s so very positive, whereas I have to remind much in that. You have to accept you’re myself. Also, he tries to make me exercise. not the driver of everything. He says it’s good for my head. I know I feel great after moving. I even try to dance Tell us something you’d like to change around in the kitchen! I’m normally very about yourself if you could… active and now I’m always sat at a desk. I can hold a grudge. I’m trying to learn to let it go, but I sometimes get swept away. OK! What’s the secret to a happy marriage? YOUR GARDEN MADE PERFECT STARTS ON THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY Can I say food [laughs]? We really pour AT 8PM ON BBC TWO. MEANWHILE, LISTEN TO ANGELA’S THANKS our love into the food we cook for each A MILLION SHOW, AVAILABLE ON ALL PODCAST PROVIDERS other! Lockdown has been a reminder WORDS: EMILY WHITWAM. PHOTO: GETTY of how important that is. We really do
WWW.OK.CO.UK 49 TIFFANY GETS ENGAGED s her father and stepmother made their exit from the White House ahead of President Biden’s inauguration, ATIFFANY TRUMP found herself with a rather sparkly distraction from the goings on in the wider Trump family. The heiress, 27, revealed online that her billionaire boyfriend, MICHAEL BOULOS, 23, had popped the question, with a huge ring reported to be worth up to $1.2 million. Alongside a photo of the couple, Tiffany wrote, “It has been an honor to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories with my family here at the White House, none more special than my engagement to my amazing fiancé Michael! Feeling blessed and excited for the next chapter!”
JESY SPLITS FROM ACTOR BEAU
ormer Little Mix singer JESY NELSON Fand actor SEAN SAGAR prompted break-up rumours last week after eagle-eyed fans spotted that the once loved-up pair had removed all evidence of their romance from their Instagram accounts. Rumours that the pair were dating first surfaced last April and in October Jesy, 29, confirmed she was with the Our Girl actor, 30, posting a cosy snap that showed Sean kissing her neck. The singer went as far as to label Sean “Everything”, while he described Jesy as “The reason for my happiness”. However, with the couple seemingly deleting all trace of each other, it appears their romance may be a thing of the past. It was also reported that Sean had liked a slew of snaps of models on social media.
50 LOVEMATTERS DEMI AND FRANCESCA GO INSTAGRAM OFFICIAL umours have been flying about their relationship since they were spotted leaving flirty messages on each other’s Rsocial media, but now DEMISIMS andFRANCESCAFARAGO have gone Instagram official. TOWIE star Demi posted a loved-up snap of the pair kissing on her Instagram page, captioning it “Swipe for a kiss”. The 24-year-old then flew to Mexico to meet Too Hot To Handle star Francesca, 27, where the pair shared a romantic dinner date on the beach. Demi posted snaps of the message Francesca had made with red rose petals on the sand forming the question “Girlfriend?” Later, Demi confirmed they were an item, telling her followers, “Aw I’m so happy. This is the cutest thing ever. Obviously, I said yes.”
CHERYL’S EX MOVES ON
hey split four years ago, and now Cheryl’s former husband, JEAN-BERNARDFERNANDEZ-VERSINI, has been spotted Tgetting close to another A-lister’s ex. Last week, the French businessman was pictured looking cosy with One Direction singerNIALLHORAN’s ex girlfriend, Irish model ZOËWHELAN, in Miami, sparking romance rumours between the pair. Jean-Bernard was married to Cheryl for two years before the pair finalised their divorce in 2016. Earlier this year, Zoë, 29, and Jean-Bernard, 40, were both in St Barths at the same time, and it appears they are now hanging out together in America’s sunshine state. Jean-Bernard posted a snap of them laughing as they shared a table in Joia Beach. WORDS: ANNA MATHESON PHOTOS: GETTY, SWNS.COM PHOTOS: GETTY, WORDS: ANNA MATHESON WWW.OK.CO.UK 51 SUPPORTING FRIENDS ‘WORKING WITH KATE GARRAWAY IS INSPIRING – SHE’S SPECIAL’
PRESENTER ADIL RAY OPENS UP TO OK!’S EMILY WHITWAM ABOUT HOW HE GETS ON WITH HIS GOOD MORNING BRITAIN CO-STARS AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF FINDING LOVE DURING LOCKDOWN
fter temporarily replacing Piers Morgan responded to that throughout the pandemic. on Good Morning Britain in 2018, Adil They know we’re having a tough time, so it’s Ray has become a regular face on the important to have a bit of fun where we can. ITV breakfast show. With his friendly Abrummie accent and witty sense of humour, Which of your co-presenters do you get on when we speak to Adil it’s not long before he’s with the most? divulging on his love life. I always end up co-hosting with the female “I’m looking for The One,” he tells us. presenters, who are all brilliant. I’m not just “Dating in lockdown is difficult – I just need saying that – they really are. They’re super the right girl to settle down with!” smart. I would say I present with Kate Garraway The 46-year-old, whof ronts new game the most. show Lingo, also tells us how inspiring he finds working alongside co-presenter Kate How is Kate? Garraway, whose husband Derek Draper is She’s had such a difficult past 12 months and still in hospital after contracting coronavirus it’s been so tough for her. But being with her in March last year. in the studio during this time really is inspiring. Here, Adil reveals to OK! whether he thinks We’ve all gone through our own personal his GMB co-star issues, but you Ranvir Singh really look at Kate and did find romance think, “Well, I’ll on Strictly Come keep doing Dancing, and what she’s discusses the doing!” She can difficulties of dust herself living alone down, look in lockdown… fantastic, get in front of the What do you like cameras and be about Good utterly brilliant Morning Britain? when we know There’s a level of what she’s going entertainment and through in life. lightness to it. I She inspires think people really so many.
52 WWW.OK.CO.UK 53 54 How do you think she’s remained Lots of peoplee say hohoww in our ggardens,arden that was great so strong? difficult being single foforr meme.. NNow I’m in a She’s just got amazing willpower. She has been overr supposupportr bubble with even showed it when she went into the the last year. my bbrother and his jungle. There’s always been something Do you agree?? kikids.d Lockdown special about her and she can just build Yeah, I hahas taught me this courage. I’m absolutely sure completely howh great my that when she goes home it must be agree. I’ve familyf are, but tough and she must have moments of been single I really do miss complete despair. But life has to go on for a long my friends. But and she has to move forward or she’s time. When at the same time, being defeatist. I think coming into work the first it’si a time to and doing her TV show is really helpful. lockdown reflectr and learn It’s a real privilege to be around her. happened, I abouta yourself. thought it wouldld What’s it been like working with be OK becausee HaveHav you suffered Ranvir Singh? we’d be back Adil in his withwith youry mental It’s been great! She kept Strictly very out and dating by movie debut healthhealth ata all? quiet. It was quite funny actually Christmastime. It’s I wouldn’twouldn’t say in a huge way, because I remember messaging and frustrating. Evenen iiff yyouou ggetet butbut to anan extentexten we all have to saying we should wind up viewers about introduced to somebody and look after our mental health. It’s about us doing it. She said to me, “Are you you’re chatting to them online, how nurturing yourself. I’ve always tried to doing it?” I said I wasn’t and asked long do you do that for? There comes cook and not have too many takeaways. if she was, to which she replied, “No, a point where you’ve got to meet. I’m I’ve learnt to bake new cakes and to of course not!” So it went on to cause glad we have a support bubble, because cook curry properly, too. a grey area about whether or not we otherwise when you’re living on your were taking part, when all along she Do you dream of starting a family was [laughs]. some day? ‘I’M SINGLE I think my career will always be a focus Do you believe all the romance for me, but I also want the right balance rumours about her and her dance AND I’M with my personal life. Yes, one day partner Giovanni Pernice? that’ll be me settling down and starting Is it true? Is it not true? Who knows! LOOKING FOR a family. That’ll be fantastic. It’s just I think it’s great. She’s lovely, and he’s about finding the right girl to settle amazing, so why not? I suspect they’re THE ONE’ down with! Maybe she is out there, probably just mates. Everyone wants to but let’s just get through this lockdown see some love and happiness this year first. I’m slightly worried about what and they both deserve it. I think if she own and are single you could go a we’ll all be like when we come out of was, she’d keep it to herself anyway. bit crazy. this. We might be like dogs on heat and taking the first person we come What about you, is there anyone How have you found living by across. I might jump on the Amazon special in your life at the moment? yourself in lockdown? delivery driver [laughs]. No, I’m completely single at the It hasn’t always been easy, it’s been moment – looking for The One! hard. When we were allowed people You’ve dabbled in acting. What was it like filming with Dame Judi Dench for your first film, Blithe Spirit? I loved playing alongside her! She’s a national treasure and I was so nervous when I first filmed with her. I was like, “Don’t mess your line up!” But she went first and got her line wrong. If Dame Judi Dench can get her line wrong then so can I. She just looked at me and said, “Adil, that was for you!”
Tell us about presenting your new game show, Lingo… It was so much fun to film! Meeting people who walk away with thousands of pounds, you realise how much it’s going to change their lives. I felt privileged to bring joy to people’s lives. OK! LINGO IS ON ITV AT 3PM ON WEEKDAYS AND IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE ITV HUB. ADIL CAN BE SEEN STARRING ALONGSIDE DAME JUDI DENCH IN THE NEW ADAPTATION OF THE NOËL COWARD COMEDY CLASSIC BLITHE SPIRIT, Presenting AVAILABLE TO WATCH NOW ON SKY CINEMA new game show Lingo PHOTOS: ITV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK, IAN WALLMAN
WWW.OK.CO.UK 55 JUSTIN’S SLEEPLESS NIGHTS USTIN TIMBERLAKE has confirmed that Jhe and wife JESSICA BIEL welcomed a second child last year, following months of speculation. The Hollywood couple, who have been married since 2012 and have five-year-old son Silas together, have named their new boy Phineas. While rumours have been swirling since last July, the news was finally confirmed when 39-year-old Justin appeared on the ELLEN DEGENERES show recently. Questioned about his new baby by the host, Justin admitted, “Yeah, I’ll tell you his name. His name is Phineas. He’s awesome and he’s so cute and nobody’s sleeping. But we’re thrilled. We’re thrilled and couldn’t be happier. Very grateful.” BECKS’ KITCHEN PROWESS ctress EVA ALONGORIA recently revealed that DAVID BECKHAM is a “great” cook who taught her the secret to making a top- notch Shepherd’s pie. Speaking on JESSIE WARE’s podcast, the Desperate Housewives star revealed, “David’s a great cook. He didn’t teach me how to cook but he told me the trick is ketchup.” The actress, 45, added that Becks also makes a “good Bolognese”. Meanwhile, David, 45, and wife VICTORIA, 46, are reportedly celebrating a planning win at the palatial Cotswolds home they have been spending lockdown in. They now have the green light to build a wine cellar and the space to be created under their garage – capable of accommodating more than 7,000 bottles – is described as being bigger than the average UK home. So they’ll never be short of a red to go with David’s Bolognese!
56 HOLLYWOOD ORLANDO’S BLOOMING LOVELY TRIBUTE ctor ORLANDO BLOOM, 44, paid a gushing tribute to Ahis wife-to-be, KATY PERRY, as he praised her for her performance at JOE BIDEN’s inauguration last week. As Katy, 36, sang her hit Firework to a backdrop of fireworks over the White House, the actor looked on and posted his own video of his fiancée. Captioning the moment on Instagram, Orlando wrote, “One day our little girl will grow up and see her mother play her part in a moment in history that we hope will heal, we hope will unite, we hope, we love. One proud partner here with a tear of joy.” The couple had their first child together last August, daughter Daisy Dove Bloom – sharing the tender snap below.
JLO’S POWER MOVES host of stars turned out last took to the mic to belt out tributes. ALEX RODRIGUEZ, 45, watched Aweek to help usher in new JENNIFER LOPEZ, 51, performed a proudly as she performed in a President JOE BIDEN. LADY GAGA, moving version of This Land Is Your gorgeous sparkly white suit and 34, sang a powerful rendition of Land and America The Beautiful the couple were later pictured the American national anthem and before breaking into Spanish to cuddling up together as they BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JOHN speak about there being “liberty posed for pictures on the steps LEGEND and JON BON JOVI also and justice for all.” JLo’s fiancé, of the Capitol. PHOTOS: GETTY WWW.OK.CO.UK 57 58 MEET THE HARTMANNS ‘I THINK PEOPLE ARE READY FOR A WEE BIT OF NORMALITY’ THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JERSEY STARS TESSA HARTMANN AND HER DAUGHTER TALLIA STORM ON MEETING PRINCE WILLIAM HANGING UP ON ELTON JOHN AND HOW PERSONAL TRAUMA LED THEM TO REALITY TV FAME WWW.OK.CO.UK 59 60 he Real Housewives Of Jersey star Tessa Hartmann is without doubt a formidable woman. Having founded the Scottish TFashion Awards, earned herself a CBE and fought off breast cancer – all while running a business and raising four children – we can’t help but be in awe of her. Tessa, 51, moved to Jersey five and a half years ago with her husband Sascha, 52, and their children Tessie, 23, Tallia, 22, Johnnie, 16, and Zac, 14. The straight-talking Scot may come across as a little frosty on the show, but we’re pleased to report that this grounded Glaswegian lass is no ice queen. When we catch up with Tessa on Zoom she’s warm, chatty and very apologetic for the flatness of her post-workout hair. “It hasn’t got its usual height,” she jokes. We think Tessa is looking fabulous, and so does her daughter, Tallia Storm, who joins her mum for the call. The singer and former Celebs Go Dating star couldn’t be happier that her mum is finally getting her time in the spotlight. “She’s been behind the scenes for so many years and I’ve always felt like people need to see all the amazing things she does,” Tallia gushes. “It’s been brilliant fun,” says Tessa when we ask her how she liked her first major television gig. “As a family we are 100% ourselves. We’re a bit dysfunctional, take the mick out of each other and are as real and honest as it gets.” That may be the case, but as we delve deeper into the lives of these two ladies it’s clear their stories are pretty extraordinary. Prince William, Elton John and Gemma Collins are but a few of the names dropped during our conversation, and Tessa and Tallia have fantastic tales to tell of them all. Here, we uncover those memories, talk all things Housewives and get to know the pair a little better.
Hi Tessa, hi Tallia! Let’s talk about The Real Housewives Of Jersey. How do you deal with all the drama? Tessa: To be honest, I just take it all in my stride. Throughout the show I always made sure I was authentically me. I never reacted in a way Tessa Hartmann wouldn’t normally behave. Sometimes that made me seem a little frosty, like when I turned down lunch with Kate Taylor, one of the other wives. Truth is, I’ve not done lunch in 25 years. I’m always working, so it would have been fake of me to take her up on that offer. Tallia: Mum likes to call family meetings (we call them COBRA meetings) and we had so many of them throughout the show about things that were going on.
Was there anything that really threw you, Tessa? Tessa: Well, when Mia Ledbury WWW.OK.CO.UK 61 revealed on the show that What’s the best piece of she’d had sex in a graveyard advice Gemma gave you? at the age of 24, I was truly Tallia: She taught me to be shocked. I’m not shaming or a boss, stand my ground and victimising. You can have stick up for myself. Don’t put sex anywhere in the world up with anybody’s anything. apart from a graveyard. It’s She’s a workaholic and consecrated ground! I had I think people are quick to to call a COBRA meeting to misjudge her – but if there’s find out whether I was just anyone who puts in the time out of touch. and consistency, it’s Gemma. Tallia: You weren’t. Even Tessa: She really looked Eamonn Holmes got in on after you. the beef. He tweeted mum about “graveyard gate”, Did you enjoy watching saying he was on her side. Tallia on TV, Tessa? Tessa: I was beaming! We What’s it like hanging out all were. It was Tallia’s first with celebs? TV project and, as a mother, Tessa: I’ve worked with so I could tell she was loving it. many celebrities over the That’s the most important years because of the work thing. Gemma was really I do with the Scottish fun and guided her. Fashion Awards. I know Alesha Dixon really well Tallia, could you address and Pixie Lott too. Professor the Brooklyn Beckham Green and Sophie Ellis- drama. We hear you dated, Bextor have also performed but he denied it… at the Jersey Style Awards. [Laughs] I actually have a They all just know me as blanket ban on talking about Tessa they’ve worked with. this. I’m genuinely so happy Tallia: Mum gets everyone for him and his engagement. to the island for the Jersey A soulmate is a soulmate Style Awards. Gemma and once you’ve reached Collins was my favourite. that point where you want to settle down, it’s none of Tallia, you’ve got a bit of anyone’s business. The history with The GC… moment you propose or get Tallia: I have! We were on married to someone, anything the same series of Celebs before is beyond irrelevant. Go Dating so that’s how I met her. I loved filming that Tallia, we also hear there’s show. It was one of the best a connection between you experiences ever and it and Elton John. You’ve got changed my life. I even to tell us that story… scored the theme tune [It’s Tallia: My grandad had The GC] to Gemma’s show planned a huge holiday for Diva Forever because of the all of us to celebrate his 80th relationship I built with her. birthday, but he got sick at
62 WWW.OK.CO.UK 63 the end of it so we couldn’t fly home when You hung up on Elton John! He came to me with my medal and started planned. After a lot of faff we checked into Tallia: I know! I was in tears and convinced talking all about the Scottish Fashion a hotel and found out at reception that Elton my moment was gone. He did call me back Awards. He said, “I understand you’ve done John and his husband were staying there! though and told me how much he loved my a lot for Scottish textiles and fashion,” and I thought, “This is my moment,” and I was voice and the CD. He loved that my mum told me how amazing that was. “My wife walking about the halls, fully stalking Elton managed me. By the time we landed back Catherine is really interested in textiles,” John – as if he’d just be wandering around! in London he’d asked me to open his next he said, and mentioned she loves the I never bumped into him though… show in Scotland for him. That was the day Scottish lace manufacturers in the Borders my life changed. and Ayrshire. He was an incredible gent. But you did run into his husband… Tessa: It was unbelievable in every sense of It was wonderful to know that he had such Tallia: Yes. We were at breakfast and I saw the word. He told Tallia it might take her impressive knowledge of Scotland’s amazing David Furnish sitting a couple of tables 10 years for people to know who she is. textiles. I came away and said to the girls across from us. I asked Mum if she thought Although I think that disheartenedsheartened anandd SaschaSascha,, “I’veIve jujust had a conversation I should go up to him. her at the time, it’s the ttruth.ruth. wiwithth the ffutureutu King.” I am a total Tessa: I said, “Look, you need to be Overnight success doesn’tsn’t ffangirlangirl wwhen it comes to Prince prepared to be shut down in the middle really exist. WiWilliam.llia Hands down his of a restaurant because you’re invading his bibiggestgg fan. privacy.” Well, she ran up to reception and Speaking of hard- wrote a letter then grabbed her CD which earned achievements, YYou’ve also beat breast she took everywhere and went up to him Tessa, you had a CBE ccancer. Can you tell us with her little brother Zac. awarded to you by a bit about that journey Tallia: I asked him if there was any way he Prince William… aand how it affected you could pass the CD on to Elton, and he was Tessa: That’s got to be aand the family? so lovely to me. Later, when we were going one of the highlights TTessa: When I was through airport security on our way home, of my entire life. Apart ddiagnosed in March 2017, my phone started ringing. I picked it up and from giving birth, of Tessa received a I ddidn’t worry about myself it was Elton John. I couldn’t talk though course. The best thing CBE from Prince at aall. My only thought was, because I was literally in the middle of about it was the William in 2016 ““SS**tt, what are my family security so I asked him to call me back. conversation we had. gogoinging ttoo do.” I went into 64 WWW.OK.CO.UK 65 66 complete power mode. I stopped drinking alcohol, Are you glad you opened up about it? ate clean, exercised. I was on a mission because the Tessa: So many young women going through breast only thing I could think about was them. I made cancer messaged me saying how comforting it was sure I was always glammed up because I didn’t want to see someone who had come out the other side. them to see how ill I was. There were days when I definitely want to do a lot more in the future. I was constantly vomiting and I would just shut the Cancer is everywhere, but these days it’s about bedroom door. No one wants their children to see survivorship. We need to start changing the language that. I was big into my wigs and my scarves. Tallia got to make it easier to talk about. me millions of false lash sets. Everyone copes with it differently, but that was how I managed. What’s next for The Hartmanns? People say you Tallia: I actually can’t even talk about it because it still could be the next Kardashians… upsets me so much. Tessa: I’m gobsmacked that people think that, but I would love to do more television as a family. We’ve Do you feel like it gave you a new outlook on life? got the Scottish banter, and Sascha’s fiery temper. Tessa: When you go through something like that, the Also, I’m a size 14, no plastic surgery, no hair whole world changes. Your perspective shifts and for extensions. I think people are ready for a wee bit of me it became about taking every opportunity and normality rather than something they can’t achieve. running with it. I wouldn’t have done Housewives if Tallia: I think it’s about time there was a British I hadn’t gone through that. There’s a moment where family out there. OK! it comes up in conversation on the show and I think, WATCH THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JERSEY ON MONDAY AT 9PM ON ITVBE “That’s the first time I’ve cried out loud in three OR CATCH THE ENTIRE SERIES ON ITV HUB years.” I don’t ever talk about it. When it was over I was so grateful to be alive and out the other end that WORDS: CHLOE ALEXANDROU I parked it. I’ll be taking Tamoxifen for five – probably PHOTOGRAPHER: DANNY EVANS, MAKE-UP: SOPHIE CUBBAGE TESSA’S OFFICE SPACE WAS CURATED BY JO DICASA OF DICASA HOMES 10 – years. I get scanned every year and live for today.
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or those who didn’t catch inside of a baby’s nappy, say it.” the first series, BBC Two’s Basically, they’re saying I’ve got Interior Design Masters is no filter and I’m quite blunt! home decor’s answer to FBake Off. Now in the hands Were you already big on of Alan Carr, taking over from interior design? original host Fearne Cotton, I love it but Handy Andy I am it shows how budding interior not. Paul, my husband, has designers tackle epic challenges this amazing eye. I can write a with a tight deadline. But will comedy sketch but will skirting judge Michelle Ogundehin and boards match the colour of the her guest panellists, including wallpaper? I have no idea! Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, be impressed? Did you pick up any tips We caught up with Alan to during filming? hear about the show, why it made I was inspired. The downside is you him re-evaluate his own house come back, look at your house and and which mates he’d sign up for think, “God, I live in a s**thole!” So a celeb version... it made me more imaginative – the amount of fake flowers I’ve bought, Hi, Alan. Were you excited to it’s becoming an addiction. join the show? Oh, it was great. In the middle of If there was a celebrity edition the pandemic, I was pleased to of the show, which famous talk to anyone. And as the show friend would you rope in? went on, I became friends with Gok Wan. I’m so jealous of him them. I’ve actually never cried so because he’s amazing at styling, much on a show! cooking and his house is to die for. I get house envy with him. Really? Yes, it means so much to them. What project would you love I wish it was in normal times, to do next? as they were just crying, saying, A bit of comedy acting and, after “This is my dream,” and you had doing Epic Gameshow, I’d love to be like, “Bye!” You felt like you to have a go at Generation wanted to have a glass of red Game. And I’d love Melanie wine together and a cuddle. Sykes to be the Isla St Clair role.
Were you surprised at how Are there any other stars you’d emotional it was? love to work with? It’s like Bake Off. I used to see I love Judge Rinder. He’s so them crying and think, “Get intelligent. We have dinner and I over yourself! It’s only a sponge.” understand two or three words in But when I did the Stand Up To each sentence. We were doing Cancer version, I was in bits. this challenge to lose weight and The deadline was coming, I got whoever lost the most, the other my cake out and it wasn’t how I had to pay for dinner. Due to the wanted it, and I just felt this lump pandemic, we had to cancel. We in my throat. It’s the passion that spoke recently and he’s got fat makes it such addictive viewing. again and I’ve got fat again, so we might have to start again! OK! How would you describe your INTERIOR DESIGN MASTERS STARTS ON TUESDAY, presenting style? 2 FEBRUARY AT 8PM ON BBC TWO The producer said, “Just be the viewer at home. If they have WORDS: RIANNE ISON painted a wall that looks like the
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here may be no jacket required and Easy Lover. In July 1985 he but when it comes to the life of Phil made history when he agreed to Collins, there’s definitely a whole appear in the Live Aid concerts, bucket-load of talent needed. Only both in London and Philadelphia, Tsolo artists Paul McCartney and Michael flying by Concorde to ensure he Jackson have sold more records than Phil, made it to the stage in time. who has notched up an incredible 150 He also found time to act, most million sales. notably in the 1988 British movie The star has had a music career that has Buster, playing Buster Edwards, spanned five decades – but he was a child one of the Great Train Robbers. actor before any of the music royaltiesy Professionally,y he was flying high rolled in. Born in Chiswick on 30 bbutut his lovlove life was more January 1951, the hitmaker’sr’s comcomplicated.pl From 1975 dad Greville worked in to 11980 he was married insurance, while his mum to Canadian Andrea Winifred was a theatrical BBertorelli, who he Tony Banks, Mike agent. Phil started taking fifirst met as an Rutherford and acting lessons as a child 111-year-old in Phil in Genesis and was 13 when he drama class. landed the role of the TThey adopted a Artful Dodger in Oliver! ddaughter, Joely, now 48, were divorced in 1996 with Phil paying in London’s West End. He Phil with aand had a son, Simon, now his ex a £17 million settlement. “I was was also an extra in the filmm daughter 444.4 Phil married his second following my heart. But it turned out I was A Hard Day’s Night with Thehe Lily wiwife,fe Jill Tavelman, in 1984, being a bit of a b*****d,” he has said. Beatles (drummer Ringo Starrtarr aandnd ttheyh had a daughter, the Three years later he married his third was an early hero of his), andnd actress Lily Collins, 31, who recently wife, Swiss-born Orianne Cevey, and they appeared in productions made by the starred in the Netflix show Emily In Paris. had two sons, Nicholas and Matthew. They Children’s Film Foundation. After Phil admitted cheating on Jill, they split in 2006 and are currently embroiled in The young Phil was also musically gifted a legal battle over their Miami mansion. and more than a little precocious. Barbara A freak fall in a hotel room put Phil’s Speake, who founded the stage school Phil 2019 Not Dead Yet tour plans on hold. he attended, once said, “Phil was always on the But since 2009 he’s suffered greatly special. Aged five he entered a Butlin’s drums when he injured a vertebra in his neck talent contest singing Davy Crockett but in 1965 while performing. Two years later he he stopped the orchestra halfway through was forced to step back from music after to tell them they were in the wrong key.” nerve damage left him unable to play the By the time the 1970s rolled around, drums. His ill health lead him to drinking the band Genesis, with Peter Gabriel and excessively but after a death-defying bout Mike Rutherford, were looking for a new of pancreatitis in 2013 he reined it in and drummer and Phil fit the bill. They went said, “I didn’t drink for all that time but on to have hits over two decades with now I am quite capable of having two or Follow You, Follow Me, Invisible Touch, In three glasses of wine, saying goodnight Too Deep and Mama. and walking away.” As is the way with touring supergroups, But have the highs of his career it was eventually time to ring the changes outweighed the many documented and Phil released his first solo album Face lows? “It’s got so complicated because Value in 1980. His most successful album, I’m known for this and known for that,” No Jacket Required, which featured the he said. “But really I’m quite a simple guy, No 1 hits One More Night and Sussudio, just trying to do it right.” OK! was released in 1985. Other hits for Phil include Against The Odds, You Can’t Hurry WORDS: LISA MARKS PHOTOS: GETTY/CONTOUR Love, Another Day In Paradise, Two Hearts
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ood trends such as Meat-free Mondays and Veganuary have risen in popularity – with the hashtag #vegan being used Fmore than 105 million times on Instagram at the most recent count. This January, more than a quarter of meals were meat-free – that’s 1.2 billion dishes*. It’s clear that we’re all more conscious about what we eat and the idea of meat and two veg for every meal has gone out of fashion along with jeggings. However, Glen Burrows, who co-founded The Ethical Butcher, believes that those decisions aren’t actually so heroic. In fact, he argues that going veggie or vegan can do more harm than good... ‘THERE ARE KEY NUTRIENTS AND VITAMINS WHICH ARE SIMPLY MISSING’
“I was a vegetarian for 25 years but as soon as I introduced animal products back into my diet, my health dramatically improved. I was starting to suffer from some terrible brain fog, which is a symptom of high levels of systemic inflammation. I was always hungry and I developed huge patches of psoriasis. My wife suffered from fatigue, which was really debilitating, so she started eating meat before me and her recovery was miraculous. I decided to try as well – and the psoriasis cleared up, I packed on muscle, ‘SOYBEANS ARE glyphosate, which is found in I lost body fat, my brain felt like it was CONTRIBUTING TO a chemical weed killer called awake once more, my sleep improved DEFORESTATION’ Roundup. It’s sprayed on the and so did my digestion. There are key field and kills every other plant. nutrients and vitamins which are simply “Fast-food brands like Subway It has detrimental effects missing in our diets without meat. and KFC are creating soybean on the bacteria in the soil Of course, it is different for products to emulate meat,” says and encourages as little everybody and it is possible to be a Glen. “Our meat farming often diversity as possible to healthy vegan or vegetarian. But it only uses sunlight and rainwater eliminate competition. takes an awful lot more planning than but they’re having to produce Soy is also often grown in an omnivore diet. chemically dependent crops to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil People might initially feel the benefits make soy. Replacing high- – and this is leading to a lot of of going vegan because they cut out quality and well-cared-for deforestation. The soybean junk food or engage in health-seeking animals in a natural system with farmers are essentially creating behaviours like doing exercise. But fake meat is not a good swap. a desert so that they can grow soon, they require supplementation A lot of the soy is genetically soybeans. It’s an incredibly and fortification for a balanced diet.” modified to be resistant to destructive crop.” *STUDY: RUSTLERS BURGER *STUDY: 88 HEALTH&FITNESS
‘NO MEAL IS FREE FROM DEATH’ “There’s the guilt of killing animals for food but no meal is free of death. Crops are often sprayed with insecticides, which kills insects and rodents. Organic vegetables are fertilised with organic manure – made up of animal dung, bones and blood. Using animals to make food is a part of the cycle of life.” ‘IT’S HARD TO HAVE A VEGAN DIET AND EAT ONLY WHAT’S SOURCED IN THE UK’ “Regardless of whether you’re vegan or omnivore, you should try to source more of your food from local and sustainable sources to contribute to the economy and avoid importation, which is costly to the planet,” says Glen. “There aren’t many non-meat foods that grow natively in the UK that provide quality fats, so it’s hard to have a vegan diet and eat only UK-sourced products. You can have a happy, healthy and varied omnivore diet by eating foods that are in season and British. We must make sure we’re feeding ourselves but taking care of nature at the same time. Our aim is to be regenerative, so we’re taking care of the planet for the future.”
‘I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE ‘AVOCADOS REQUIRE A HUGE AMOUNT EATING WHAT THEY WANT’ OF ENERGY AND WATER TO GROW’ “When I express my opinion, there can be backlash “An avocado farm in New Mexico has reportedly used from the vegan community because it’s challenging so much water it is experiencing mild earthquakes,” says their ‘scared’ beliefs,” says Glen. “They experience Glen. “This is because aquifers (underground rock layers confirmation bias but actually we all need to think saturated with water that can be brought up by natural a bit more about where our food is coming from springs or pumping) are depleted. Why? Avocados need before it becomes dangerous. a huge amount of water and energy to grow. Swapping one product for another without If we could grow them commercially in the UK it really considering what we’re doing doesn’t do wouldn’t be so bad, we’ve got plenty of water. But in any good. Just because something doesn’t involve Mexico, it’s taking it away from other places it’s needed. animals, it isn’t necessarily better than plant-based There’s also the human aspect – people can be alternatives. I want to challenge the black-and-white exploited to produce this foodod anandd thinking that you’ll be healthier going vegan and as it’s produced so far away, it’s the planet will be healthier too. I have no problem hard to trace. Plus, the supplyply with people eating what they want – but it’s chain uses fossil fuels to get important we know the facts.” OK! avocados here – and half thee time you open them they PHOTOS: GETTY are black inside anyway.”
WWW.OK.CO.UK 89 FAMILY FAVOURITES WHOLESOME AND INEXPENSIVE MEALS THAT EVERYONE WILL LOVE Margherita flatbread pizzas
SERVES INGREDIENTS ● 200g passata ● 4 plain flatbreads ● 200g cherry tomatoes, sliced in half ● 150g mozzarella, patted dry and torn into small pieces ● 2 tbsp olive oil ● A twist of black pepper to season ● Handful of baby spinach leaves ● A drizzle of balsamic glaze (optional)
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas mark 6. 2. Spread 1-2 tbsp of passata over each flatbread. 3. Top with the halved cherry tomatoes, torn mozzarella and the olive oil, season with ground black pepper. 4. Place the flatbreads on a baking tray and place in the oven for 10 minutes, until the tomatoes are cooked through and the cheese is melting. 5. Top with a few baby spinach leaves and a drizzle of balsamic glaze if desired. Serve immediately. WRITTEN, DEVELOPED AND STYLED BY: VICTORIA GRAY PHOTOGRAPHY: CLIVE SHALICE PHOTOGRAPHY: VICTORIA GRAY WRITTEN, DEVELOPED AND STYLED BY:
90 Creamy mushroom pasta
SERVES INGREDIENTS ● 400g uncooked penne pasta ● 1 tbsp butter 1. Boil a large pan of salted water for the and garlic and sauté for a further 5 minutes, ● ½ tbsp olive oil pasta and cook it al dente according to stirring occasionally. ● 2 cloves garlic, crushed the packet directions. 5. Stir in the cream and let it simmer ● I onion, finely chopped 2. Heat the butter and olive oil in a gently for five minutes. ● 200g button mushrooms, thinly sliced heavy-based pan on a medium-high heat. 6. Drain the pasta and add it to the ● 200g double cream 3. Add the crushed garlic and chopped creamy mushrooms. Mix well together, ● Salt and pepper to season onion and sauté for about 2 minutes, until the pasta is completely coated. ● Freshly grated parmesan to taste (optional) until translucent. 7. Season with salt and pepper and serve 4. Add the mushrooms to the onions with freshly grated parmesan if desired.
WWW.OK.CO.UK 91 Winter spiced plum crumble
SERVES 1. Heat the oven to 200ºC/180ºC fan/ gas mark 6. INGREDIENTS 2. Line the base of a shallow ovenproof ● 400g plums, halved dish with the halved plums. and stones removed 3. Mix together the sugar, cinnamon and ● I tbsp brown sugar mixed spice and sprinkle over the plums. ● 1 tsp cinnamon 4. Trickle the water over the spiced plums ● ½ tsp mixed spice and set aside while you prepare the ● 2 tbsp water crumble topping. ● Clotted cream 5. To make the crumble topping, place the (optional) flour, sugar and oats in a large mixing bowl. Add the butter and use your hands to mix For the crumble: everything together until the mixture ● 150g plain flour resembles large breadcrumbs. ● 50g caster sugar 6. Top the spiced plums with the crumble ● 3 tbsp rolled oats mixture and bake in the oven for 35-40 ● 75g salted butter, minutes, until the crumble is golden brown. softened 7. Serve with a dollop of cream if desired.
92 Fragrant lentil dahl
SERVES INGREDIENTS ● 1 tbsp vegetable oil ● 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped ● 1 onion, finely chopped ● 1 thumb-sized knob of ginger, finely chopped ● 2 tsp turmeric ● ½ tsp coriander seeds ● 300g split red lentils ● 1½ litres of vegetable stock ● 1 green chilli ● Naan bread (optional)
1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large pan on a medium-high heat. 2. Add the garlic, onion and ginger and sauté for about 3-4 minutes, until soft and translucent. 3. Add the turmeric and coriander seeds, mix well and cook for another minute until fragrant. 4. Add the lentils, stock and green chilli and stir to combine. 5. Simmer the lentils over a medium heat for 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally until they’ve absorbed most of the liquid and are becoming tender and creamy. 6. Discard the chilli (or use to garnish), divide between four bowls and serve with warm naan bread if desired. OK!
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NATURE LOVERS AND ADVENTURERS PLAN SHOULD PUT COSTA RICA ON YOUR ESCAPE THEIR DESTINATIONS DREAM LIST NOW
WHY GO THERE? Despite its small size, Costa Rica packs a hefty punch. Sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the Central American nation is one of the most bio-diverse on Earth – blanketed with technicolour rainforests, cloud forests and national parks (29 of them), all teeming with exotic flora and fauna, cascading waterfalls and mineral-rich hot springs. From smouldering volcanoes to unspoilt beaches, banana and coffee plantations to wildlife-rich parks offering ample opportunities to go river rafting, horse riding, mountain biking and zip lining, it’s no wonder Costa Rica is fast becoming a hit destination. It appeals not only to beach lovers but Manuel Antonio to adrenaline junkies, nature National Park lovers, surf dudes and wellness enthusiasts. NATURAL WONDERS Away from the beaches, no trip would be complete without a visit to the island’s mountainous interior, which runs through it like a spine. A great place to start is the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, which National Geographic describes as the “jewel in the crown” of cloud forest reserves and is home to toucans, macaws, monkeys, butterflies, sloths and hummingbirds. You can take a guided day or night trek (there are Sights include zip-lining options too) at Selvatura Park along a series La Fortuna of forest canopy walkways on different levels and the waterfall and suspension bridges that criss-cross the high-elevation monkeys forest. Manuel Antonio National Park is also a must.
94 ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES Enjoy a wild ride with a One of the most visited natural tubing trip attractions is the Arenal Volcano. This perfectly symmetrical cone, flanked by verdant rainforests and hot springs, is in the Arenal National Park, near the town of La Fortuna de San Carlos. It’s not safe, or legal, to climb the slopes to get a close view but you can take a gondola up neighbouring Cerro Chato mountain and zig-zag your way back down through the rainforest on a Sky Trek zip-line adventure. Other activities in the area include white- river rafting, canyoning and waterfall abseiling (be sure to see the majestic 200ft La Fortuna waterfall). Or why not kayak and wind surf on Lake Arenal? If you fancy a really nail-biting adventure, take a trip on a natural roller coaster as you water-tube down the Rio Negro in Guanacaste on your own personal “doughnut”. A thrilling ride!
Rustic-chic Lapa Rios
WHERE SHOULD I STAY? Your choice of accommodation really depends on what you want to do on your holiday. There’s everything from big-name resorts (Four Seasons, Marriott and Westin) and beachfront boutique hotels (Harmony, Tango Mar and Tropico Latino), to thatched beachside cabanas and backpacker lodges. The rainforest interior also offers plenty of picks from adult-only super-luxe jungle hideaways (Amor Arenal and Nayara Tented Camp), wellness and yoga retreats (Bodhi Tree and Anamaya) to rustic-chic lodges with strong eco credentials (Lapa Rios and BEACH ACTION Pacuare Lodge). OK! Costa Rica has 900 miles of coastline, offering everything from Super-luxe stays REPORT BY ANNABEL MACKIE, lively beach action to secluded coves. Pop star Pink wed motocross OK! TRAVEL EDITOR at Amor Arenal racer Carey Hart on a beach here in 2006. It’s also a surfers’ PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES paradise – some of the world’s most consistent waves are at Playa Hermosa on the north-west Pacific coast, which just joined the select list of World Surfing Reserves. Montezuma and Tamarindo also have great surf scenes. For Insta-worthy beaches, try Manuel Antonio, where the white sands are fringed with mangroves and palm trees. A coral reef also makes it a prime spot for snorkelling, scuba diving and boat trips to spot dolphins and whales. You’ll find lots of lovely resorts (Nosara, Samara and Manzanillo) spread along the Nicoya Peninsula. Over on the Caribbean Sea coast, the beaches are generally calmer and better for swimming – but they are often more inaccessible.
BA (ba.com) flies directly (but currently suspended due to Covid-19) from London Gatwick to San Jose International Airport, Costa Rica. Journey Latin America (020 8747 8315, journeylatinamerica.co.uk) can tailor packages to the hotels mentioned and organise transfers, excursions and activities. It offers HOW TO an 11-day Explore And Relax: Volcanoes To The Beach package with transfers, BOOK excursions and most meals, staying at first-class lodges on the Nicoya Peninsula, from £2,730pp or an eight-day Wellness Break (with three nights at Arenal Tented Camp and four nights at Harmony Hotel) from £2,850pp. For tourism information, go to visitcostarica.com/en.
WWW.OK.CO.UK 95 PLAN YOUR SUMMER ESCAPE A WALK IN THE PARK DISCOVER THE UK’S NATURAL WONDERS WITH A STAY IN ONE OF OUR SPECTACULAR NATIONAL PARKS
ockdown has revived our passion for the great outdoors. With the UK boasting 15 National Parks, there are lots of beautiful LINGHOLM places to explore – not just by foot but by mountain bike, kayak BOATHOUSE or horseback. These luxurious rental properties situated in and Laround some of our finest national parks could well provide the perfect THE LAKE post-pandemic pick-me-ups when travel restrictions ease... DISTRICT ural retreats don’t THE COACH HOUSE Rhave to all be all chocolate-box cute. This NORTHUMBERLAND ultra-cool contemporary boathouse conversion sits on the NATIONAL PARK shores of Derwentwater in the Lake District and is the perfect romantic getaway. The sleek design-led property is all about maximising the lake views, whether that’s from the sitting room or the freestanding bath. Situated near Keswick, Lingholm boasts a private lakeside position on the Lingholm Estate (where Beatrix Potter spent happy summer holidays). It’s also close to England’s highest mountain, the 978-metre Scafell Pike, if you fancy a more challenging hike. ROOM RATES AT LINGHOLM BOATHOUSE START FROM £227 PER NIGHT. FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT COOLSTAYS.COM/PROPERTY/LINGHOLM-BOATHOUSE/21411
f you stay at one of the eight Cheviot Holiday Cottages near IAlnwick, you’ll have the Northumberland National Park on your doorstep with plenty of walking trails and views of Hadrian’s Wall. Sleeping two to six, the stone cottages are in the grounds of a former rectory in the Breamish river valley. The one-bed Coach House has period character including a stone fireplace, while other properties have a plunge pool, hot tub or sauna. A SEVEN-NIGHT STAY AT THE COACH HOUSE FOR TWO COSTS £835. FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT PREMIERCOTTAGES.CO.UK OR CALL 01665 578236.
THE RIDDLE DARTMOOR njoy the rugged beauty of Dartmoor National Park with a stay at The ERiddle in North Bovey, a 13th-century village of picture-postcard cottages in Devon. Sleeping up to four guests over three bedrooms, the thatched cottage features a wood-beamed bathroom with roll-top bath. After a day outdoors horse riding and walking on the moors, sink CHEQUERS NORTH YORK MOORS into the sofa in front of the large stone fireplace. A spa treatment at nearby Bovey Castle hotel should be on your to-do list too. erched on a hillside commanding sweeping views of the North
A WEEK’S STAY AT THE RIDDLE COSTS FROM £1,495 (£1,095 FOR PYork Moors National Park, Chequers is a 400-year-old former A SHORT BREAK). VISIT THERIDDLE.UNIQUEHOMESTAYS.COM drover’s inn that recently featured on BBC2’s Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Christmas Special. Retaining many original features, including flagstones and wood beams, the stone cottage has been lovingly renovated. The sitting room has an Inglenook fireplace and a comfy sofa draped with a faux-fur blanket, while the two bedrooms have double sleigh beds and views across the heather-clad moors. A few miles away is the lovely village of Osmotherley and further afield is Castle Howard, used for the filming of classic TV series Brideshead Revisited. OK! A THREE-NIGHT STAY AT CHEQUERS COTTAGE COSTS FROM £280. FOR MORE DETAILS, CALL 01642611175 OR VISIT BEAUTIFULESCAPES.CO.UK
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The secret to a happy it hard to walk past someone marriage is… family. Mark and ignore them. I will always and I have been married for find time to speak to everyone. I 30 years, and we’re both very do still get recognised and I get family orientated. Our family stopped even with a mask on! always comes first. If I could pass any law… The person who has had the it would be to strengthen the biggest influence on me is… rules around knife crime in the Anna Scher, my drama teacher. UK. The Metropolitan Police has I started attending her classes recently been in touch asking at the age of 10 and it didn’t me to get involved. They said take me long to realise I had the I’m a woman of influence and acting bug. She was a terrible asked if I could help with knife actress, but a brilliant teacher! crime – I feel honoured they’ve Thanks to her, I was the first approached me. I think the in my family to have a bank laws do need to be tougher account and be earning money and more needs to be done at such a young age. It was like for young people. There is going to work with your friends nothing for them to do. There every day. We all had such a needs to be more youth clubs good time together. in this country.
The greatest The biggest piece of ‘BEING eye-opener advice I’ve for me has ever been RESPECTFUL been… taking given is… part in MTV’s to always be IS SO Celebs On respectful. It’s The Farm with so important. IMPORTANT’ nine other My mum celebrities! was big on It has made me respect and she taught us to appreciate my life even more. treat people in a way you’d Farmers work such long days want to be treated yourself. in the freezing cold, and it is so lonely. There is a lot of pressure My biggest priority is … on them. It’s their whole life and family. I’ve always been a they don’t have much time for hands-on mum with my three anyone else. I definitely do not kids and two grandchildren. want to be a farmer! They are the most important things in my life, and being a I’ve learnt recently that… mum has made me realise how I don’t like dirt! I got dirty doing happy I am when I’m with them. Celebs On The Farm and it I feel very lucky to have them. definitely wasn’t glamorous! Holly (Hagan) from Geordie My motto in life is… if you’re Shore turned up in heels and not going to enjoy something, make-up. That soon changed! then don’t do it. I have done Linda very few things in the past for The thing I most regret is… money. I have always taken on nothing. It’s important to learn projects because I want to. and get on with your life. I’m in a good place and feel very lucky I think my best life skill is… in these difficult times. OK! I’m good with people. I do think CELEBS ON THE FARM COMES TO Robson I’m a people’s person and I find MTV IN FEBRUARY
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