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t’s been a whirlwind romance for Katie Price and Tell us all about the proposal… Carl Woods, who started dating last July. Soon Carl: I had the whole house kitted out with balloons after their eyes met at Essex hot spot Sheesh, they and flowers, and a big sign inside that said “Mrs had moved in together – not spending a day apart Woods”. So I was assuming she was going to say yes! Isince. And now, after the news that they’re engaged, Then there was a marquee in the garden with loads we’re delighted to exclusively reveal all the details of of flowers and candles. I had a sign saying, “Dolly the romantic proposal and their wedding plans! [Carl’s pet name for Katie], will you marry me?” We met up with the happy couple for this shoot at Braxted Park Estate, a stunning venue set in 500 acres Were you surprised, Katie? of Essex parkland. “I knew when I first met her I was Katie: Yes. We’d spoken about it a lot, so I knew he going to propose to her,” says Carl. And Katie, 42, was going to, just not when. It was amazing. Carl adds, “I knew he was going to do it but not when.” asked my mum and dad for permission – and Junior! Businessman Carl, 32, popped the question at his Carl: Junior gave me a talking to, like he was my dad! Essex home after asking reality He was asking me if I was sure. star Katie’s mum Amy Price, 69, He gave me all the pros and dad Ray Infield, 70, and son cons about his mum and said, Junior, 15, for their blessings. “If you’re happy, then I’m Katie, also mum to Harvey, 18, happy.” I asked Katie’s dad Princess, 13, Jett, seven, and and he said, “100%.” And her Bunny, six, can barely contain mum was the same. her excitement, saying that although it may not be her first Were there any tears? rodeo, this is it. And she says Carl: No. Katie doesn’t cry. She even the kids agree this time is didn’t even out of excitement. different. “It’s the first and last She was just shocked. time the ring is going to be off Katie: I was so shocked! The my finger,” Katie says as she slips ring nearly blinded me. off her huge sparkler to show us. Here, Katie and Carl open up about his romantic Were you nervous, Carl? proposal, her Hollywood-style ring and being more Carl: I didn’t think that I was and then when it in love than ever… was actually happening, I did get really nervous. I was calm and cool and then as it was happening, Congratulations! What’s the reaction to your news that’s when, I s**t myself. But I knew the ring would been like? Have many people reached out? do the talking! Katie: Hundreds of thousands! We’ve had so much love and congratulations! I guess it’s something positive Tell us about the ring… to look forward to after lockdown and everything people Carl: The ring had to be perfect. I was recommended have been through this past year. I wish everyone the a family jeweller, Rankins in east London. Jodie happiness we have found – Covid brought us together. Rankin helped me with the design. I knew what
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KATIE WEARS DRESS BY GHOST. CARL WEARS TOP BY NEW LOOK 6 Katie had her eye on and added my own How much was it? before but nobody says anything. My touches. Like Katie, it’s a one-off, a truly Carl: Plenty! It’s expensive, put it that way. head is just in a different place. Carl has stunning piece. I knew when I went to It’s eye-watering. A gentlemen doesn’t met me as the person I was 10 years ago. pick it up this was more than special – it discuss money – that’s for me to know! I feel fresh. Everything is different. The left Katie speechless, put it that way! The Katie: I know Carl gets bored of girls past is the past – exes are exes, Carl is my ring in all is just under seven carats. quickly and he’s very particular. I obviously future. My family approve of Carl and the Katie: When I saw the ring, I couldn’t passed all the tests and now I’m the one kids love him. My kids said they didn’t believe it. It’s so amazing. I was always who has got a ring. This is real this time. want to meet someone else unless it was looking at rings on Pinterest and saving real, The One – period. And Carl is it. loads of pictures. He was definitely What will make this marriage looking on my Pinterest for ideas. different, Katie? Have you thought about plans Carl, did you look at my Pinterest? Katie: My head’s in the right place. It’s for the wedding already? Carl: Yeah, of course. I wanted to get not rushed, it’s been done properly. Not Carl: We’ve got a few ideas – we’re something you liked. only am I head over heels in love, my kids on the same page. Katie: I knew he would. And I didn’t have approve and my family approve. And the Katie: Yes, we have lots of ideas. It won’t to buy my own ring this time! It was made best thing about Carl is he doesn’t need be a bog-standard affair or boring. Put from scratch and came out of his own me for anything and I don’t need him for it this way, the wedding I want, if you money. He designed it – it’s really special. anything. It’s refreshing to be with a man googled it, no one has done it before. It’s like a fairy-tale ring and massive. It’s that if I decided I never wanted to work Carl: It’ll be completely different. like something out of Hollywood. It’s again, he’d look after me. I just love him. Katie: I want the focus on Carl as much more than I could dream of. as me, this is his special day too. No What would you say to people who wall-to-wall celeb faces or opening-of-an- Had you been saving up for it, Carl? would say you’ve said this before? envelope guests, or people we don’t Carl: No. Luckily, I could afford it. But it’s Katie: People can say what they want. know. It’ll be about us, Carl and our not cheap – it’s made a dent. Carl has a past too. He’s been engaged family, coming together as one. OPPOSITE PAGE: KATIE WEARS JUMPSUIT BY PHASE EIGHT, HEELS BY KURT GEIGER. CARL WEARS SHIRT BY RIVER GEIGER. CARL WEARS SHIRT HEELS BY KURT WEARS JUMPSUIT BY PHASE EIGHT, KATIE OPPOSITE PAGE: WEARS DRESS BY ASOS KATIE LOAFERS BY DUNE. THIS PAGE: AND SCOTT, ISLAND, TROUSERS BY LYLE
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Carl: Great food, lots of laughs – fun, top-class entertainment. It won’t be dull with long speeches – expect the unexpected. It will certainly be a day to remember, whatever we end up deciding. It will be about our love for one another and sharing that with our closest and our loved ones. Katie: 2021, the new not-normal traditional with a Mr and Mrs Woods Katie will twist! The wedding bands will be compete in designed by Jodie and Daisy Rankin. MasterChef I’d like Carl to have diamonds in his.
When would you like to marry? days. I won’t be in heels on the day. Carl: We’ll get married this year. I’ll have to wear trainers, but I’ll make It just all depends on how quickly sure they’re glamorous. we can get it organised. Katie: Yeah, we definitely want to Are you still having to use do it this year. your walking frame? Katie: I’ve been using crutches, Katie, is your mum’s illness (Amy a Zimmer frame and then hanging has a chronic lung disease) an on to Carl some days. incentive for you to get married sooner rather than later? Does that worry you when it comes Katie: Yes, absolutely, I want my to walking down the aisle? mum well enough to be able to Katie: Who said I’ll be walking down attend the wedding. Time is precious. the aisle? I’m not revealing anything Also, I want my mum to be able to but, put it this way – it will be an rest easy knowing I’ve finally found entrance and a half! someone I’m happy with. Will there be any celebrity How did Amy take the news of guests at the wedding? your engagement? Katie: I don’t need celebrities around Katie: Mum’s reaction was the me, just the people I see all the time. happiest I have seen her in years – When I had my breakdown last year, she loves the ring. She can’t wait to all the people who supported me have Carl as a son-in-law. Mum loves then are the people who are in my Carl and she knows I will be OK now life now. And all the others I got rid – it’s given her peace of mind. That of. Anyone draining, who wasn’t means the world to me, that Carl good for me, I removed from my brings that peace to Mum. I love life for good. I have different people him unconditionally for that. around me, a whole new support team and management, I only want Do you get on with Carl’s family? people at the wedding who are of Katie: Yeah. Family is important to emotional value, who have really Carl, like my family is important to been there for me… for us. me. If I didn’t get on with his family, there’s no way he’d be with me. I see Will you be inviting any of your his family quite a lot. His mum is ex-husbands to the wedding? absolutely stunning. She’s like a doll. Katie: Absolutely not. They’re exes Compared with his sister and his for a reason. mum, I feel like the ugly sister! Will you change your name to Katie You broke your feet on holiday last Woods once you’re married? year. Are you worried your injuries Katie: Yes. I have never changed my could affect your big day? surname for anyone – but I’m going Katie: I have good days and bad to change it legally and be known 8 KATIE WEARS DRESS BY ASOS, HEELS BY TED BAKER AT SHOEAHOLICS.COM. CARL WEARS SUIT BY NEXT, T-SHIRT AND LOAFERS BY NEW LOOK T-SHIRT CARL WEARS SUIT BY NEXT, WEARS DRESS BY ASOS, HEELS TED BAKER AT SHOEAHOLICS.COM. KATIE WWW.OK.CO.UK 9 as Katie Woods. I’m proud of it. It’s going to be a new me and a new era.
You’ve admitted you’re trying for a baby. Is that still on the cards? Katie: It’s pretty obvious that we’ll be having a baby. We’ll leave it at that.
Would you want to be pregnant at your wedding? Katie: How do you know I won’t be? Who knows! But we’ve got to decide when we’re getting married first.
You hit headlines when you posted a shot of your stomach and everyone thought you were pregnant. What was that about? Katie: It just goes to show that pictures can be deceiving.
Were you trying to wind people up? Katie: I wasn’t doing any wind-up. I’ve put on weight, end of. If people think I look pregnant, that’s their take. I know
10 OPPOSITE PAGE: KATIE WEARS DRESS BY COAST. CARL WEARS SUIT BY BOOHOO MAN WEARS DRESS BY COAST. KATIE OPPOSITE PAGE: CARL WEARS TOP BY NEW LOOK, TROUSERS NEXT WEARS DRESS BY GHOST. KATIE THIS PAGE: WWW.OK.CO.UK 11 I’ve put on weight but I love it because Carl loves me, it’s not about what the scales say or anyone else’s perception of my shape. I am who I am. Carl loves me just the way I am – to him I’m perfect. You recently said you’ve always found it hard to trust men. Did it take a while for you to open up to Carl? Katie: People forget in the very early stages of our relationship I broke my feet and I couldn’t walk. So he was my knight in shining armour. He literally proved he was going to be there in sickness and in health before we’ve even said “I do”. I think most people would have done a runner. Carl has made me the best I could ever be. I’ve been sucked dry in the past. I was mentally abused and broken by everyone. It’s not like I have skeletons in my closet but everyone tried to get everything they could out of me. But now, I can go to sleep at night and I just think, “F**k it.” My bankruptcy is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. In what way? Because anyone who has ever been in my life before has tried to take from me, financially mostly. Now they can’t, as I’m in a bankruptcy. I love it. It has been a secret security to me that Carl is not with me for any money I have, as I don’t have millions in the bank. I want to stay in bankruptcy as long as I can. It’s only supposed to be a year and I’m like, “No!” The longer I can keep it up, the better for me. I don’t
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mean that as I will. My accounts are getting campaigns] will make the changes needed. back on track, all is in hand and life, work and I am blown away by the support we’ve had. business are going from strength to strength. I am doing it for all those who haven’t had a voice until now. Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding was a bridesmaid at your 2005 wedding. Have you You recently posted a clip of Harvey been in contact with her since she revealed smashing a window while frustrated by her terminal breast cancer diagnosis? hiccups. How do you cope in that situation? Katie: I actually bought her book the other Katie: You just get on with it. He had hiccups day. I’d love to meet up with her. It’s not that and I didn’t have a drink near me, so he went I’m coming out of the woodwork but I’d like for the window. Usually, he bangs his head on to send her flowers, just to let her know I care. the wall, so he did it on the window instead. I’ve known her years. Like a lot of us, we go our That’s the real insight into autism and the separate ways, but it doesn’t mean you don’t behaviour. His ears pop when he has hiccups. think of people. Sarah is in my thoughts – I’d It hurts him and he hit out. Carl is an amazing, love to have a girlie chat with her. She’s been selfless support to me, one I have never known through the mill. I’ll call her, I just don’t want to before. Not just for me but the kids, the encroach at a time I understand she wants her animals, my hectic life and, most excitingly family close. I know how it is with my own mum. for the family, we will grow together. Loads of mini Woodses! Your BBC show Katie Price: Harvey And Me, about Harvey turning 18, was so successful. Finally, we see you’ve been confirmed for Do you have any plans for a follow-up? the next series of Celebrity MasterChef… Katie: Yes. Everyone loves Harvey, he has no Katie: I’m not allowed to let any secrets idea! In reaching out, sharing our private life, out but, put it this way, I do better than I’m hopefully educating those who were ignorant just OK! OK! to what goes into being a parent of a child WORDS: GEORGIA TREVITT PHOTOS: GLENN GRATTON, SPLASH NEWS living with disability. I will stamp out trolls HAIR: JOEL MAGUIRE MAKE-UP: FERN HOWE-SHEPHERD, @FERN–MAKEUP and change the world and its attitude towards STYLIST: HARRIET WHEELER STYLIST’S ASSISTANT: KATY GALE others. Harvey’s Law and Track A Troll [Katie’s SPECIAL THANKS TO: BRAXTED PARK, RANKINS JEWELLERS
WWW.OK.CO.UK 15 THREE CHEERS PRINCE LOUIS BEAMS FOR HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY
AS THE YOUNGEST OF THE CAMBRIDGE CHILDREN CELEBRATES ANOTHER MILESTONE ROYAL EXPERT KATIE NICHOLL EXPLAINS HOW KATE MIDDLETON IS THE GLUE KEEPING THE WINDSOR FAMILY SECURE
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18 Charlotte’s A snap by Kate tender kiss for marking Louis’ baby Louis first birthday
he royals have had a gloomy Holy Trinity Church, next to the At the 2019 time recently but Prince Royal Albert Hall and Kensington Trooping Louis certainly brightened Gardens. Classes are split into The Colour things up for the family as morning school and afternoon Tthey celebrated his third birthday school, with the morning structured last week. To mark the occasion around lots of free play and on 23 April, his proud parents, the children beginning the first Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, stages of reading, writing and released a heartwarming image of understanding simple numbers. him beaming while sitting on his The afternoon school is less balance bike with a backpack on. structured and focuses more on art Mum Kate shot the photo in and music. Fees are £3,400 per the grounds of Kensington Palace term for children attending shortly before he left for his first morning school and £2,250 per day of nursery school – and it came term for afternoon sessions. just days after the funeral of his Meanwhile, royal expert Katie great-grandad Prince Philip. Nicholl tells OK! that while public Louis is following in the health guidelines will have footsteps of sister Charlotte, five, prevented Louis from having a joining Willcocks Nursery School. huge party to mark his birthday, Children are typically greeted with there’s no doubt Kate and William a toy or a photo of home on their will have gone out of their way to first day at the nursery to help ease make it special. them in. “It will have been a low-key The nursery is only a short drive celebration and now they’re back from the family home in Kensington in London it will have been at Palace and is run from the hall of Kensington Palace,” she says. ‘IT WILL HAVE BEEN A LOW- KEY CELEBRATION I IMAGINE A LOVELY TEA PARTY’
WWW.OK.CO.UK 19 Her Majesty at Philip’s funeral and, below, the image shared to mark her birthday THE QUEEN IS
The Cambridges CARRYING ON visit air cadets and, below, Kate tries out a flight here’s no doubt that Her Majesty’s 95th birthday was her loneliest yet as it fell days after the funeral of her husband of 73 years, Prince TPhilip. But the milestone was still marked on social media. Alongside an old picture of the Queen wearing a purple hat and coat, a caption read, “Today is the Queen’s 95th birthday. HM was born on 21 April 1926 at 17 Bruton Street in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. This year, the Queen remains at Windsor Castle during a period of royal mourning following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.” But royal author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth says that while the Queen is understandably “devastated” following the passing of her husband, she is still committed to her royal duty. He says, “The queen is fighting fit and full of energy. She is obviously bereft but she is driven by her duties sustained by faith. “She still has a great passion for life. As the court circular makes clear, she has carried on with her duties since his death. She’s still performed two official duties, taken telephone calls from at least three Commonwealth Prime Ministers. So she’s carrying on.”
20 “I imagine it having been a lovely grandchildren and it showed just how tea party with lots of presents and special their bond was. Kate and a home-baked cake by Kate. She William’s priority will be ensuring the always likes to make her children’s children deal with their grief and they birthdays feel special.” can have conversations about loss in Following the death of Prince a healthy way. Losing Lupo helped the Philip, Katie says that both Kate, eldest children understand the concept 39, and William, 38, of death but Kate will have ensured understandably Louis, Charlotte and wants the subject brother George, ‘THE CHILDREN to be dealt with in seven, deal with the a sensitive manner.” grief in a healthy HAD A SPECIAL It was back to way. And she adds royal duty for Kate that the passing of BOND WITH and William days family dog Lupo late earlier as they paid last year helped PHILIP’ a visit to the RAF Air them understand the Cadets’ 282 (East concept of loss. Ham) Squadron in She explains, “Prince Louis is east London to learn about how it perhaps too young to understand the supports young people through the loss of his great-grandfather but it’s Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. certainly been upsetting for Charlotte The couple were given special and George. permission by the Queen to carry out “The royal family shared lovely this duty, as it fell within the official images of Philip with his great- mourning period. Kate looked WWW.OK.CO.UK 21 Harry with the Queen at the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show
Kate, Harry and William at Philip’s funeral
‘HARRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE QUEEN IS UNWAVERING’
e appeared to start to heal the rift a concerted effort to support his grandmother Harry’s wife Meghan – who is with his family at his grandfather while in the UK. Considering the short length expecting their second child in the Prince Philip’s funeral as he was of his stay after quarantining, he still met up summer – was unable to attend the pictured speaking with brother Prince with her at least twice privately.” funeral, based on medical advice. HWilliam and was reported to have met up with Harry, 36, paid tribute to Prince Philip and But she has continued to show her father Prince Charles. vowed to continue his grandfather’s legacy on support from their home in LA and But royal expert Omid Scobie insists that Omid insists that both she and Harry the one relationship that has remained a are eager for the Queen to feel like constant for Prince Harry is the one he enjoys ‘HE MET UP WITH a part of their growing family. with his grandmother the Queen – who he “Meghan has continued to be in was believed to have met up with at least HER AT LEAST contact with the Queen since Philip’s twice during his short stay in the UK. passing,” he said. “She’s had Zoom He explains, “Harry’s relationship with the TWICE PRIVATELY’ calls with Archie and Meghan reached out to Queen has been described as unwavering. show her support, including on the day with Despite what has happened, he is very a handwritten note alongside a wreath from capable of separating the institution from the the Sussex family. If the pandemic wasn’t still family – and his relationship with the Queen is World Earth Day. He said, “On this Earth Day, ongoing and Meghan had already given birth, one that he holds dearest. She has remained I reflect on the generations of conservation I’m sure she and Harry would be in the UK as a constant and positive presence in his life, as champions, including my late grandfather, much as they could to support the Queen. was Philip, which is why it was so important and feel proud and energised to continue “But this is a family that has adapted to for Harry to be a the funeral. Harry made doing my part in this legacy.” technology. There will be regular phone calls
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The Cambridges chat to cadets in east London
‘PEOPLE FORGET KATE HAS BEEN PART OF THE ROYAL FAMILY FOR YEARS’
effortlessly glamorous in a black Dolce & committed to their partner, committed to Gabbana coat and black face mask. family and a life of service. She has been William joked, “This is going to be the glue holding the Windsors together. interesting,” as she tried her hand at flight “People forget Kate has been a part of simulation. And after taking her seat, Kate the royal family for 18 years. She is loved and said, “I’m not really dressed for this.” trusted and has a wonderful relationship with The upbeat display came days after Kate everyone. She has a special bond with Prince was praised for playing peacemaker between Charles. A few years ago, I’m told he felt a William and estranged brother Prince Harry at little left out after the children were born, as Philip’s funeral. When the three were spotted though the Middletons were spending more and Zoom calls to stay close. Meghan and in conversation as they left the chapel, Kate time with the grandchildren. Kate made a Harry want the Queen to feel a big part of appeared to take a step back to allow the huge effort to make him feel involved and their growing family – especially with baby brothers some time together. spend more time at Sandringham all together. number two on the way. The Queen had She was also spotted planting a tender kiss “Similarly, with Harry, she has been hurt by a close bond with Archie when they both on an emotional Prince Charles’ cheek. things that have happened but is a forgiving lived in Windsor. After giving birth and once “Kate has shown herself to be a support to person and wants unity and peace.” OK! travel restrictions are eased, I’m sure they not only William but the whole royal family in will be planning a UK visit to see the Queen recent months,” Katie says. “In Prince Philip, PHILIP: THE FINAL PORTRAIT BY GYLES BRANDRETH IS OUT NOW and introduce her to their baby girl.” the family have lost their patriarch, but WORDS: KAT ROMERO PHOTOS: THE ROYAL FAMILY INSTAGRAM, what we see with Kate is someone equally GETTY, THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE VIA GETTY WWW.OK.CO.UK 23 A DECADE OF MEMORIES AS THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE MARK THEIR SECRETS OF TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OK! UNCOVERS THE ROYAL SOME OF THE LESSER-KNOWN DETAILS OF THEIR WEDDING SPECIAL DAY
en years ago this week, a blushing and beautiful Kate Middleton swept serenely down the aisle of a hushed TWestminster Abbey to marry her waiting prince. And after being shaken by recent sad events, Kate and William reaching their milestone anniversary gives the royal family some cause for cheer. The prince’s grandfather, the late Duke of Edinburgh, believed passionately in both family and the sanctity of marriage, and would have been delighted to see them toast a decade as man and wife. Former royal editor Duncan Larcombe, one of the 1,900 guests at the 2011 ceremony, recalls the special day. He tells OK!,“I saw William arrive and I really could feel his nerves. He was as pale as a ghost, fiddling with his uniform. “Best man Harry whisked him off to a side room right next to me for about 10 minutes. It really was the brothers at their very best – I don’t think William could have got through it without Harry. “Harry had a huge smile on his face. In an affectionate way, he loved the fact that his brother was petrified. When they left the side room, William had complete tunnel vision and didn’t speak to anybody except the Queen. “We had all been frisked and had our bags checked before taking our seats. Everywhere you turned, there were security personnel, with others dressed discreetly in top hats and tails to fit in. The first 100 people in line to the throne were in that building, so security was vital. “There was an expectation that you wouldn’t leave your seat, not even to visit the toilet! I had Chelsy Davy [Harry’s on-off girlfriend at the time] sat near me, David Cameron, Tony Blair and the Sultan of Brunei. “Nobody was interested in each other though. It was all about William and Kate. Even the Queen must have felt strange not being the centre of attention. After Her Majesty took her seat, it went totally silent. We listened to the cheers outside as Kate arrived. It still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up thinking about it.” 24 DIPLOMATIC BRIDE
Even though royal brides traditionally wear their hair up, Kate refused to comply. She wanted a “wavy and loose” look but diplomatically compromised with a half-up, half-down style. For the evening reception, when she switched to the looser look she preferred, William helped hairstylist Richard Ward carry a 500-year-old antique mirror to show Kate what the back of her head looked like. “He took one end and I’ve got the other and we’re shuffling along with this mirror. He’s great,” said Richard. Kate did her own make-up, having taken lessons from her make-up artist Arabella Preston, the co-founder of Votary skincare.
WWW.OK.CO.UK 25 AN UNEXPECTED EXTRA KISS The crowds expected to see a first kiss on the Buckingham Palace balcony – and were then thrilled when William satisfied their chant of “kiss her again” by spontaneously leaning in for a second. William’s goddaughter, Grace van Cutsem, who was one of their flower girls, looked unimpressed. However, it was the din of the bystanders’ cheers that caused the three-year-old to look so grumpy as she clamped her hands over her ears! TIARA DRAMA BEST MAN AND The Duchess of Sussex wasn’t the FALL GUY first royal bride to face wedding tiara issues! Kate’s initial choice of William spent his last night as headwear was a rather untraditional a single man with brother Harry flower crown – but she settled on at Clarence House. But first, wearing the Cartier Halo Tiara with the pair enjoyed a drink at the her Alexander McQueen gown. nearby Goring Hotel. Made up of 739 brilliant-cut It’s reported that when Harry diamonds and 149 baguette finally left at 3am, he jumped off diamonds, it was on loan from the one of the balconies and hurt Queen – who was gifted it on her 18th his ankle, leaving him limping at birthday. The junior bridesmaids and the wedding. William only got flower girls did wear flower crowns, half an hour of sleep – but due modelled on the one Kate’s mum to nerves rather than partying. Carole wore as a bride in 1981. 26 CHARLES ON SONG Prince Charles selected the music for the service, later explaining, “I love trying to organise some interesting, I hope, pieces of music for certain occasions… particularly for weddings. I know my eldest son was quite understanding and was perfectly happy for me to suggest a few pieces for their wedding. I hope that gave some people pleasure.”
X FACTOR GUARANTEED The X Factor stage manager Diccon Ramsay managed the big day’s production and gave Kate the signal to walk down the aisle. There were cameras discreetly placed around the cathedral, while the bright lights installed meant William and Harry wore built-in sweat guards to avoid unsightly patches in their armpits. QUEEN’S VERDICT
After the ceremony, the newlyweds travelled to Buckingham Palace in the State Landau, which had transported Charles and Diana following their 1981 wedding. According to a lip reader, the Queen disagreed with the choice, telling the Duke of Edinburgh, “I wanted them to take the smaller carriage.” However, she also remarked that the wedding “was excellent”. During the ride, William could be seen telling Kate, “I hope I remember… It’s mad, it’s mad! Oh my goodness, it’s really loud here – these people are clapping.” Turning to his new wife, he said, “You look happy.” WWW.OK.CO.UK 27 SIGNS OF THEIR TIMES The Queen hosted a lunchtime buffet reception at the palace for 600, where table names referred to places of significance to the couple, including “St Andrews” – in honour of where they met. A CHEEKY SPEECH Guests were treated to some memorable speeches. Best man Harry’s on-off girlfriend at the time, Chelsy Davy, reportedly made him cut a line about Kate’s “killer legs” to avoid embarrassment. The speech was a hit, with Kate even shedding a tear. Wearing a fez, Harry told guests William didn’t have “a romantic bone in his body” until he met Kate and did an impression of him calling his new wife “Babykins”. Charles said in his speech that Kate was William’s soulmate.
BLOOD SWEAT & TIERS There were two wedding cakes – a traditional fruitcake that cost £57,000 and William’s personally requested chocolate cake. Kate’s Alexander McQueen dresses cost £310,000, TRYING ON A NEW COAT while floristry costs came in just under £1 million The Middletons were granted a family coat of arms featuring and included the English field maples lining the three acorn springs, to represent Kate and her two siblings. aisle, which were replanted at Prince Charles’ It appears on the diamond earrings that parents Carole and holiday home in Wales. However, the majority Michael gave Kate to wear on her big day. She was spotted of the budget went on the day’s huge security in them most recently at a 2019 Easter Service. operation, which came in at £27 million. 28 FALSE START
After the reception, the couple headed to nearby Clarence House in an Aston Martin the Queen had given Prince Charles for his 21st birthday. It was decorated with balloons, ribbons and a “JU5T WED” registration plate. But their drive didn’t get off to the best start as William forgot to release the handbrake!
CHANNELLING SANDY AND DANNY FROM GREASE Kate wore a second Alexander McQueen dress for the evening event for 300 hosted by Charles at the palace – where she and William danced to Grease classic You’re The One That I Want. “Everyone was cheering, whooping, and they did a bow to each other,” said one guest. “After that, the dance floor filled up and the party got going properly.” Their official first dance, to Ellie Goulding’s live rendition of Elton John’s Your Song, only lasted 30 seconds, with William reportedly asking her to switch to a faster number. HONEYMOON SURPRISE William kept Kate in the dark about the honeymoon, surprising her with two weeks in the Seychelles. They broke tradition by staying at Buckingham Palace on their wedding night rather than heading straight off on the romantic break. The couple left the palace the next day (above) but the honeymoon was delayed until 9 May due to William’s work as a search and rescue pilot. OK!
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 29 WONDER WOMAN ‘THERE’S A REAL ETHOS OF WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN AT ITV’
PRESENTER RIA HEBDEN OPENS THE DOORS TO HER LONDON HOME AND TALKS FAMILY LIFE AND WORKING WITH LORRAINE KELLY
ia Hebden is a woman of many Here, Ria opens up about the talents. Not only is the 38-year- famous face who inspired her to get old entertainment presenter into presenting, the challenges of on ITV’s Lorraine, but she also broadcasting from home during a Rowns a media production company, pandemic and why she’d love to make produces a podcast and runs Wonder her mark on Strictly Come Dancing… Women TV – an online network championing trailblazing females in Hi Ria! How did you get the creative industries. into presenting? And it’s a good job Ria is a dab hand I started off in TV production and at multitasking because the star also quickly learned that’s not the way to has a busy home life with her young become a presenter. I travelled the children – Noah, 11, and Lula, four – world and wrote a blog, and when who she shares with her husband of I came back I looked at different jobs in eight years, director Mark Hebden. TV where you could write – so I became OK! joined the family for an exclusive a publicist. I worked at Channel 4 and shoot at their beautiful four-bedroom Disney and I loved it but I was on the home in west London, where they live wrong side of the industry. I spoke to with their schnoodle puppy, Ruby. different producers and started building “I told my daughter the shoot was up a show reel and I got a really great a party and she was so excited!” laughs break with ITV working on the MOBO Ria. “They know what Mummy does Awards in my early twenties. I went into and they enjoy being part of it.” ITV and pitched capturing red carpet interviews for social media to then drive people to the show. I remember the commissioner said to me, “Ria, I can’t believe we pay a whole marketing team Ria feels “lucky” and no one has to work with thought of that.” Lorraine A week later I was there presenting RIA WEARS TOP AND BOTTOMS BY MINT VELVET. MARK WEARS TOP BY BRORA, BOTTOMS JOHN RIA WEARS TOP AND BOTTOMS BY MINT VELVET. LEWIS. NOAH WEARS TOP BY JOHN LEWIS, BOTTOMS ZARA. LULA OUTFIT MONSOON
30 WWW.OK.CO.UK 31 THIS PAGE: RIA WEARS DRESS BY ZARA AND SHOES ARE STYLIST’S OWN. FACING PAGE: RIA WEARS JUMPSUIT PAGE: RIA WEARS DRESS BY ZARA AND SHOES ARE STYLIST’S OWN. FACING THIS PAGE: MARK WEARS TOP BY ZARA AND BOTTOMS JOHN LEWIS BY OLIVER BONAS AND SHOES JIGSAW. 32 for the ITV2 social media. That got me in with ITV, then I hosted This Morning Live and then they asked me to join Lorraine.
Have you had any hiccups while presenting from home over this last year? Thankfully no, although last week while I was talking to Lorraine [Kelly], my puppy knocked over some lights. I could just see them falling towards me and there was nothing I could do, but it’s those moments that make you feel alive! It’s like one big family on Lorraine.
What’s Lorraine like to work with? She’s absolutely fabulous. She really is exactly as you see her on TV. She is the queen of daytime and it is an absolute privilege to be on her show every week. I saw her the other week and she was like, “It’s so nice to see you in real life!”
Fans loved seeing Cat Deeley fill in for Lorraine recently and some said she should become a permanent presenter. Would you like to see her more on the show? Cat was lovely and I couldn’t not smile watching her. I feel so lucky that I get to work with Lorraine every week and then people like Cat, who I grew up watching on SMTV, and Ranvir [Singh]. But it’s Lorraine’s show and it wouldn’t be Lorraine without her. There is a real ethos of women supporting women at ITV. There is no vibe of anyone trying to take anyone’s role. People are happy to have a go for half-term and then hand it back. WWW.OK.CO.UK 33 Who would you love to interview? Michelle Obama. I think she’d be fabulous. Doing a job like that [First Lady of the United States] and then stepping away, she must have learned so much and I find her so inspiring. I also love Davina McCall. She massively inspired me when I was growing up. When I worked in TV production, I worked on an early series of Big Brother and Davina inspired me as a woman working in TV. At the time, she was pregnant and she would rock up with her baby and her nanny, and that for me was so inspiring because I thought, “Oh, you can work in TV and have a family.” I’d never really seen that before her. After Davina, we then saw Holly Willoughby pregnant on This Morning, too, and it was an important message that you can do both. That was one of the reasons that inspired me to create Wonder Women because it’s about showing real people who work in this industry but also have families.
Did you learn anything from working alongside Holly? I learnt about professionalism. You can learn a lot by shadowing people and I’ve always taken people into the studio with me when I can. I really admire Holly and Phil [Schofield] and how hardworking they are.
Are there any reality shows you’d love to do? I’d love to do Strictly Come Dancing. I’m such a girlie girl, I love sparkle and I love to dance. I do think in a previous life I was a dancer. It’s also such an inspiring show. How amazing was Bill Bailey? He couldn’t do anything and he was flinging props around by the end! It just shows you can do anything if you work hard. I also think some producers would like to see me on I’m A Celebrity because I love dressing up so I think they’d enjoy seeing me covered in bugs!
Has working from home made it easier when it comes to juggling family life? I had a really good balance anyway, but it’s actually been more challenging in the house with the kids being there. Recently I was chairing a panel discussion for women in film and TV with Kay Mellor and I was in my living room and my kids were upstairs jumping off their bunk beds! I had to text my husband saying, “Can you go upstairs?!” When we were homeschooling, Mark would take them to the park when I was doing Lorraine. Having children through this has been a blessing because they give you a reason to keep going.
How was homeschooling? I’ve been lucky to have been able to broadcast from home throughout the lockdown and while things have been quieter for my husband, it’s meant that he’s been at home more which has actually been really nice. The kids RIA WEARS JUMPSUIT BY FRENCH CONNECTION AND SHOES BY TOPSHOP AT ASOS. MARK WEARS RIA WEARS JUMPSUIT BY FRENCH CONNECTION AND SHOES TOPSHOP AT ASOS, BOTTOMS BY JOHN LEWIS AND STYLIST’S OWN SHOES. NOAH WEARS TOP BY TOPMAN AT TOP BY ZARA AND BOTTOMS JOHN LEWIS. LULA WEARS OUTFIT MONSOON
34 WWW.OK.CO.UK 35 have reaped the benefits of having both that’s not me – I’m never getting married.” Would you like any more children? parents at home. And by him managing the We were friends for years and we’d meet up That shop is very much shut [laughs]! We’re homeschooling he’s been a complete support but there was never anything there. Then very content and blessed with a boy and a girl. for me as I’ve been able to continue working. when I went travelling around the world, I had Having a four-year-old and a 11-year-old a welcome back party and we both got drunk Tell us about your home… at home was really challenging as they’re and told one another that we missed each We’ve lived in the area for 11 years but we completely different ages and we were also other. Having that friendship set us up for a moved into this house 18 months ago as we’d potty training and had a puppy! lovely marriage because we know each other been waiting to get on this road. We love it so well and can be ourselves. We’ve said we’ll here. Every room is so light and I love our What do Noah and Lula think about their go to the Maldives for our 10th anniversary. bedroom as it overlooks a green space filled mum being on TV? with flowers. We’re so lucky to have that type My son is quite blasé about it, but on the day Did Mark change your views on marriage? of view in London and we have parakeets in of the photoshoot he said, “Mummy it’s like It was having Noah. I remember when I went the garden! It’s also really close to ITV and not you’re a famous superstar.” It was very sweet. to the doctors with him when he was younger many people can say they can broadcast to There are a few presenters who keep their and the receptionist making me feel really the nation and 15 minutes later be at home. children out of the limelight, and I respect funny – she assumed I was the nanny because I turned the top room into a studio during that, but I’ve always been into Instagram and we had different surnames. I imagine that lockdown so it has a green screen and all the I’ve always taken my children to premieres. happens a lot but it really made me lights. I put on a suit and heels and people They’ve always been with me for the ride. uncomfortable. Then someone else told us think I’m in a studio but really I’m in my that if we had another child after getting spare room! OK! Did you and Mark meet through TV? married, our first wouldn’t be entitled to the No, we met at university. I remember same because we had them out of wedlock WORDS: KIRSTY HATCHER PHOTOS: LORNA ROACH STYLIST: EMMA LANE HAIR AND MAKE-UP: LAN NGUYEN-GREALIS someone said to me, “50% of people meet and that just made me think, “Wow, there are USING LANCÔME AND LIVING PROOF their spouse at university,” and I said, “Well, lots of legal implications I had no idea about.” 36 Take a tour around Ria’s incredible home which she shares with her adorable Schnoodle puppy, by scanning the code THIS PAGE: RIA WEARS DRESS BY RADISH AND SHOES BY DUNE. FACING RIA WEARS DRESS BY RADISH AND SHOES DUNE. FACING THIS PAGE: LULA WEARS RIA WEARS TOP BY BAUKJEN, BOTTOMS WEEKDAY. PAGE: DRESS BY BRORA. NOAH WEARS OUTFIT JOHN LEWIS WWW.OK.CO.UK 37 ADVERTISINGFEATURE COVID-TESTING REGULARRAPIDCOVID TESTSFORALLWILL HELPSTOPTHESPREAD QUICKANDEASYTESTINGTWICEAWEEKATHOMEISASMALL PRICETOPAYTOHELPUSALLGETBACKTONORMALLIFE
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fter over 750 chats, be able to share my thoughts this week is my last directly with you all. I’m also so column in OK!. So thankful to OK! for supporting much has happened me through all life’s milestones. Asince I started sharing snippets I’ve always been open and of my life with OK! readers honest with you all and I hope back in 2014, and I’ve loved that if you can take anything every moment of it. away from me, it would be It feels as though I’m to always be real and don’t saying goodbye to an old be afraid to be who you are. friend, but with so many work As a fond farewell, I thought commitments these days, I’ve I’d look back over the biggest decided that I need to make a moments I’ve shared with you change. It’s been a privilege to all over the years… BECOMING A GRANDMOTHER
n 2018, I shared the Inews that my daughter LEAVING CORONATION STREET Emilie, then aged 21, was expecting her first child. n February 2019, I made the minute with my co-stars, but it It was a shock to become Idecision to step away from my was my chance to explore other a grandmother in my long-running role as Michelle areas. I’ve been able to take on forties, but it’s been one Connor on Corrie. As you can new roles in dramas like The of the best things that’s imagine, it was a huge decision Syndicate, and this year start happened to me. and really daunting, but after an exciting new chapter as My grandson Teddy turns 13 years it was time for a a presenter on Morning Live. two next month and I just change. I adored working on Sometimes you just have to can’t imagine life without the soap and savoured every take a leap of faith! him. He’s such a gorgeous his birthday on 3 May and little boy and it’s been we’re hoping to have a little fabulous to share some of garden party for him. I’m my favourite parts of being sure you’ll see snaps on CAUSES CLOSE a grandmother with you. It’s my Instagram! TO MY HEART f there’s one thing I hope II’ve achieved in my years FINDING LOVE with OK!, it’s been to make sure readers never feel alone. ver the years I’ve been open about losing OI’ve been open my baby son Archie and not about my journey to being able to carry more finding love. There children after an operation has been some on the lining of my womb. heartbreak and, like More recently, I’ve everyone, I’ve made opened up about my hernia mistakes in my love surgery. I’ve also chatted BIG MILESTONES life. But in 2018, about mental health. This I met Scott and year, I feel as though we’ve rom my 40th to my son David’s I’ve been happily all had personal battles with F21st, I’ve shared plenty of coupled up ever the huge changes to our milestone birthdays with you all. since. I’ve learnt that lives. It’s been tough, but We have a stack of OK! magazines I don’t have to put we’ve all been in it together. at home that I’ve kept as souvenirs everything about Going forward, I hope you to look back on in the years to my relationship out all remember that no matter come and at times, this column there and we’ve what the issue, there is has been like my diary! Polly was been able to enjoy always someone out there to just three years old when I started privacy in our talk to, so never be afraid to this column, so it also feels as relationship, too. seek help if you need it. though I’ve been able to share all her big moments with you too. OK!
WWW.OK.CO.UK 39 SIR TOM’S BLUE BEDROOM CONFESSIONS
rooner SIR TOM JONES gave an insight into his uplifting sex life last week, revealing that he uses Viagra. While Cchatting to US comedian Marc Maron, the conversation turned to how Tom can still control his vocal cords by “pushing it harder”. Sir Tom, 80, was then asked whether “everything else” was working. In reply, the Voice UK coach joked, “So far so good. There is always Viagra. A little help here and there is alright.” The legendary heartthrob went on to recall how earlier in his career he would be inundated with women’s knickers while performing on stage. “I was drowning in a sea of panties after a while,” he explained. “I was in Vegas once and someone threw a room key at me. I said, ‘Whose is this?’ This woman said, ‘Use it and you will find out.’”
ANT AND ANNE-MARIE’S PDA IN THE SUN
ove is certainly in the air for Saturday Night Takeaway presenter ANT MCPARTLIN and his fiancée ANNE-MARIE CORBETT, who L were spotted smooching while out on a dog walk last week. The couple, who got engaged at Christmas, wrapped their arms around each other as they shared a public embrace in the spring sunshine. The loved-up pair were taking their Maltipoo pups Bumble and Milo for a wander around the park near their London home when they stopped for a kiss and a cuddle. Ant, 45, looked laid-back for the occasion, sporting shorts and trainers, while Anne-Marie, 43, opted for jeans and a pink rain mac. Later, they were seen carrying the tired dogs home. What a happy family!
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KOURTNEY’S SAUCY BIRTHDAY TREAT
link-182 drummer TRAVIS BARKER celebrated girlfriend KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN’s 42nd birthday last week with a Bstream of steamy snaps. In one photo, the couple can be seen snogging on a sofa, while another shows them hugging in front of a firepit. Travis also shared a suggestive video of Kourtney sucking his thumb. Captioning the post, Travis wrote, “I f***ing love you! You’re a blessing to this world. Happy Birthday @kourtneykardash.” The couple have been firm friends for years, but only went public with their relationship in February when Kourtney shared a picture of them holding hands. Earlier this month, Travis, 45, was spotted sporting a new tattoo of Kourtney’s name on his chest. Looks like things are getting serious!
STACEY TALKS BABY PLANS
resenter STACEY DOOLEY opened up about her plans for the future with her partner, former Strictly professional PKEVIN CLIFTON, on her show, Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over. Speaking to a family who are part of a community called Tradwives, in which women give up their careers to look after their children and husbands, Stacey admitted she was more bothered about having kids than getting hitched. She said, “Kev and I have been together for two years. I don’t think I want to get married. I think I’d be more interested in starting a family than getting married.” Stacey, 34, who met Kevin, 38, when she was partnered with him on the BBC dance show in 2018, added, “I can’t think of anything worse than being a Tradwife. I would be useless, completely and utterly useless.” The star went on to joke, “He’d divorce me in a heartbeat.” WORDS: ANNA MATHESON PHOTOS: GETTY, SHUTTERSTOCK, SPLASH NEWS PHOTOS: GETTY, WORDS: ANNA MATHESON WWW.OK.CO.UK 41 TIME WELL SPENT WITH ALL YOUR FAVOURITE CELEBRITIES
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resenter Myleene something I will be as I loved hockey when I was younger. She Klass was recently encouraging them does quite a few different clubs, and I’ve talking about the to do when they get been looking for a trampolining club for her importance of to that age. and Theo to join so they can do something Pteaching her children I tend to buy things for they enjoy together. I told Pete and he the value of money and Millie now that she can looked at me like I was totally bonkers and revealed that her daughter hand them down to Theo, said, “Do you not think we do enough clubs? Ava now earns money from too. She’s also started We’re running around enough as it is!” but teaching music lessons. doing football and she’s I think they’ll really enjoy it. She said, “I don’t give been wearing Junior’s old her any pocket money football boots and his old because I think that they get enough. AstroTurf boots for hockey. The other day I Otherwise, it starts getting ridiculous, they also found a massive box of Junior’s clothes have to learn the value of money. So she is from when he was age four to five I’d put now teaching and she’s got six pupils.” aside that Theo is now wearing. I remember I have to say that’s very impressive for him wearing them and it’s crazy to think of a 13-year-old! him being that The kids have never had pocket money, small. It’s very but if they want something I won’t just sweet to see get it for them, I will save it for a birthday Theo wearing or Christmas. I keep their presents within them now, but reasonable limits so it’s not too over the top. also satisfying I also try to help them understand that Mum to reuse all and Dad have to go to work so we are able of Junior’s to buy things for them. It’s a hard concept for old clothes! kids actually! Millie is I got my first job when I was 15 as a doing so well babysitter and then I worked as a waitress in at hockey and a restaurant. It taught me about hard work I’ve felt proud and time management, so that’s definitely watching her YOUR BODY YOUR CHOICE IT’S EASY TO SAY WE COULD HAVE ecently, Lucy DONE THINGS DIFFERENTLY RMecklenburgh was called he NHS waiting list in England Although the last year has “irresponsible” for Thas hit a 14-year record high, been challenging for everyone, promoting a form with 4.7 million people awaiting I do also think that some of the of contraception treatment. This changes have called Natural is such a a positive side. Cycles. It’s an app difficult I have which uses your situation for spoken to temperature to see those who lots of people if you are fertile are waiting or who find the that day or not. had diagnoses telephone Contraceptive delayed. appointments methods are It’s also easy easier for something that to look back certain things, are completely and say we including personal. could have reducing Something that done things unnecessary will work for one differently when travel for the person, won’t work it comes to the elderly. As a for another – with some forms of contraception more pandemic. I’m busy mum, I effective than others. No form of contraception is sure that in have also seen 100% effective, so as long as you know the risks and years to come the benefits of benefits of the method you choose then it’s totally up there will be much more clarity on more phone appointments, but to you. Your GP can talk you through all the options what we did well, and which bits I do think face-to-face contact will and work out what’s best for you. could have been improved. always be important. OK! PHOTOS: GETTY
EMAIL ME AT EMILY ANDREA@REACHPLC COM WWW.OK.CO.UK 43 FAMILY MATTERS ‘LOCKDOWN HEIGHTENED MY ANXIETY – IT WAS HORRIFIC AT TIMES’ MUM-OF-TWO VOGUE WILLIAMS OPENS UP ABOUT HER MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES AND REVEALS THE ADORABLE BOND BETWEEN HER LITTLE ONES
t’s been a busy year for Vogue Williams. The only just stopped breastfeeding, so Gigi was deny it, although he’d like to think she looks Heart radio host and former model, 35, has probably more attached to me for that reason. like him. But she’ll change to look like me! her hands full with son Theodore, two, and daughter Gigi, nine months, who she shares What’s her personality like? Do you feel your family is complete now? Iwith her hubby, former Made In Chelsea star I think she’s going to be in charge. She’s got Our family is amazing the way it is but I would Spencer Matthews, 32. Theodore figured out. love more children. The plan is definitely to And when OK! chats to the Irish star, have more. People think I’m mad but the she opens up on the difficulties of living Is Gigi like Theodore was as a baby? dream would be to have four kids. in lockdowns – revealing she’s even seen Very different. But that might be because it’s a therapist to help with her anxiety, which very different when you have your second How have you coped with lockdown? the pandemic has heightened. It’s been hard. But because I’ve been working “There are times when it was horrific,” and we love spending time together, I can’t she says. “But we’re through it now.” say we’ve had a really hard time because Vogue, who also uses exercise to boost we enjoy being in each other’s company. her mental health, was thankful to have the I’m trying not to be a complainer because company of her family while stuck inside too. I think other people find it hard. But this last Here, the presenter lifts the lid on lockdown felt so long and everyone wanted her two very different children, toddler it to end. It’s so nice to be able to go to town tantrums and plans to expand her brood… now and see everyone on the streets.
Hi, Vogue! What milestones has Gigi How was your mental health in lockdown? reached recently? I think everyone has had serious anxiety and I’ve done baby-led weaning with her, with people who suffer from depression it’s which involves her feeding herself. She’s definitely been made worse. There’s a lot of hilarious! She sits there for so long. You loneliness. All that has made it hard for other think she must be full but she keeps going. people but it’s definitely heightened my anxiety. She’s started waving and she sits up. She There’s times where it was horrific. But we’re has no intention of crawling, so I don’t through it now. know what age that’s meant to happen. With husband But she’s such a happy baby. She’s going Spencer and kids Do you do anything to take care of through a phase where if she doesn’t know Theodore and Gigi your mental wellbeing? someone, you can tell. We met my friend That’s kind of why I train. I feel like it really in the park and she was not into it. I guess helps with anxiety. I use it for my body she’s not seen many people during lockdown She uses exercise and my mind. I think people forget about – or else she didn’t like my mate [laughs]. for her mind as how helpful it can be. I’ve been talking well as her body to people and saw my therapist for a little What was Theodore like when Gigi first while over lockdown. But all is good now. came home? Was there any jealousy? Oh, there was jealousy. I think that’s only You’re taking part in a Fairy campaign. natural though, especially because I was Tell us about the new Platinum Pods. feeding her. It took him a long time to get Are you using them every day? used to that. But for the most part he’s been I’ve used them the whole time. I didn’t even amazing. Especially now – he’s so obsessed switch when we were having a baby. I find with her! He can’t wait to see her in the my skin can be sensitive and Fairy is perfect. morning when she wakes up. Have you always used Fairy? How is he now he’s hit two? baby. You feel a lot more confident. You’re not My whole life. My mum used it and you stick He’s had his moments! But for the most part panicking that everything will go wrong. Gigi is with what you know. In Ireland, the Fairy mum he’s really good. It was before he was two that so good at settling herself. You put her down is a huge deal. So when they asked me to be he started having little tantrums. He might and she goes straight to sleep. I think that’s the Fairy mum, I was overjoyed. OK! have a whinge, but he’s a good boy. I wouldn’t because we didn’t have time to stand rocking FAIRY NON-BIO HAS LAUNCHED NEW PLATINUM PODS WITH say he’s the most magnificent at going to bed, her for hours like with Theodore. EXTRA STAIN REMOVAL, OFFERING THE SAME GENTLE CARE FOR but that’s just one of the small downfalls. CHILDREN’S SENSITIVE SKIN WITH BOOSTED CLEANING POWER. AVAILABLE FROM ASDA, MORRISONS, SAINSBURY’S, WAITROSE, Who do they take after the most? WILKO’S, OCADO AND AMAZON, RRP £5 Is Gigi a daddy’s girl? I think Theodore looks more like me. Gigi
He [Spencer] really wants her to be a daddy’s looks like Spen but she really looks like how WORDS: EMILY WHITWAM PHOTO: GETTY girl! But both of them are mummy’s kids. I’ve I did when I was a baby. Even Spenny can’t 44 WWW.OK.CO.UK 45 ANNIE MAC LEAVES RADIO fter 17 years on the Radio 1 airwaves, ANNIE MAC has Arevealed that she will be leaving the station. Making the announcement on Twitter last week, Annie, 42, said, “I have never not walked out of the studio feeling lighter and happier than when I walked in. So why leave? It’s all about time really. I need more time to see my kids in the evenings now they are both in school.” Mum-of-two Annie went on to explain that she also wanted more time to “write fiction and create podcasts”. The DJ also added that she loved the idea of “leaving the party… when I’m still having the most fun I can have”. She started back in 2004 with Annie Mac’s Mashup on Thursday evenings and for the past few years, she’s been the voice of new music on the station with her nightly Future Sounds show. Fellow Radio 1 DJ and Strictly star Clara Amfo, 36, will be taking up the Future Sounds baton, but we’ll miss you, Annie…
FRANK AND CHRISTINE’S ROMANTIC LUNCH DATE
appy couple FRANK and CHRISTINE of their son Freddie with a photo of herself LAMPARD enjoyed a well-deserved breastfeeding him in hospital. Hbreak together last week as they Former England footballer Frank, 42, werew spotted dining on the terrace of the and Loose Women presenter Christine Bluebird Café in west London. are already parents to daughter Patricia, The pair – who tied the knot in 2015 two, while Frank has two older girls, – welcomed their second child in March, Luna, 15, and Isla, 13, with his former and Christine, 42, announced the arrival partner Elen Rivas.
46 BRITCROWD KELLY ADMITS SHE’S RELAPSED V personality KELLY OSBOURNE has been open about her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction Tin the past. And last week, the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne told her Instagram followers that she’d relapsed after four years of sobriety. “This is a little hard for me to talk about but I’ve always promised I will be honest with you about where I’m at and what’s going on on my road to recovery,” Kelly, 36, wrote. She added, “I relapsed, I’m not proud of it but I’m back on track and I will be doing a podcast this week where I tell everybody about what’s going on and what happened.” The star then told fans that she was “sober today” and will be “sober tomorrow”. She also thanked everyone for their support and added, “It is just one day at a time and I wanted to tell you guys the truth because I never ever want to lie to you.” JANINE’S WALFORD RETURN
ord on Albert Square is that WEastEnders supervillain Janine Butcher could be making a comeback. Reports surfaced last week that actress CHARLIE BROOKS, who played devilish Janine, is set to head back to the soap to film scenes for a bombshell plot later this year. It’s been seven years since Charlie, 39, last appeared on EastEnders and her storylines were among the most dramatic in the show’s history. After killing her fourth husband, Michael Moon, Janine headed off to France. Expect fireworks! WORDS: ANNA MATHESON PHOTOS: BACKGRID, GETTY WORDS: ANNA MATHESON WWW.OK.CO.UK 47 JUGGLING ACT ‘I COULDN’T DO IT ALL ON MY OWN’ AS IF STACEY SOLOMON WASN’T BUSY ENOUGH THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR TV PRESENTER AND MOTHER OF THREE IS NOW DIPPING HER TOE INTO THE WORLD OF FASHION
t’s been a hectic year for Stacey Solomon. Were you involved in the design process? Along with planning her summer wedding Yes! It took over a year. It’s every girl’s dream to fiancé Joe Swash, 39, she’s currently to make mood boards and find inspiration. renovating their new Essex home, Everything I said I wanted, In The Style have Inicknamed Pickle Cottage, as well as taking tried to make happen, like making sure care of her three gorgeous sons, Zachary, 13, every size is available, and everything comes Leighton, eight, and Rex, 23 months. in tall and petite. Plus, we worked with a Plus, with a regular slot on Loose Women charity app called reGAIN, so people can and a bestselling book, Tap To Tidy, which is return any items they’re not wearing any about to be made into a TV show, Stacey’s more to be recycled. work life is also booming. Now, the former X Factor star has set her sights on the fashion Amazing! Has the design process given world too, teaming up with clothing brand you any ideas about wedding dresses? In The Style to launch her own collection. I’ve got ideas. But the lady at a wedding How does she manage it all? Well, she dress shop said you’ll end up going for The family doesn’t. At least, that’s what self-deprecating something you’re not even considering, has recently Stacey, 31, tells us when we catch up with her. so you need to try on every shape and moved to their “I’ve not sorted out my wedding and style before you commit. So I’m going dream cottage I’ve not sorted out the house,” she shrugs. to wait and see what looks best. “I’m trying my best, and trying to make sure I’m fulfilling my work commitments, too! Can you give us any hints about what I’d even look at what he was wearing. Maybe Luckily, I have my family around me.” styles you’re thinking of? it’s because we’ve been together for a while. Here, Stacey chats about her dream I want that really light, floaty material as my wedding dress, moving house and how she skirt. I want it high-waisted with a capped You’ve had the busiest year – moving, manages to juggle her many projects... sleeve. I don’t want a long sleeve, but I also getting engaged, planning a wedding don’t want a spaghetti strap or strapless. and work. How do you do it all? Hi Stacey, congratulations on the collection. I might end up changing my mind, but in I just don’t do it all! My wedding has not got What’s your favourite piece? my head, I want a capped sleeve with not- any further from when I started planning it last Thank you! I love the lemon dress. I love the too-low a neckline and a really floaty skirt. year. We didn’t foresee moving house. These eucalyptus dress as well, because that leaf kinds of houses never come on the market and makes me really happy. There are a couple Where do your creative visions come from? we just couldn’t believe the price of it, so we of lounge suits that are really comfy so I’ll They’re a blessing and a curse! I imagine said, “Right, this opportunity might never just live in those forever. what I want and then I google it and it doesn’t come along again so let’s do it.” But it has exist! That’s why I end up just making stuff, meant that we’re behind on everything! because I know what I want, but I can never Stacey and Joe find it. Even with the wedding dress, I was And you’re planning to hold your wedding are planning drawing pictures because what I wanted just in the garden too? their wedding wasn’t there. Yes! It will just be me, Joe, my family and later this year the rabbi in the garden at this rate. No food, Does Joe ever tell you to chill out? no disco, nothing. So I’ve not sorted out my He quite enjoys the fact I stay productive. wedding and I’ve not sorted out this house. Also, he doesn’t have to decorate! He loves it! I’m trying my best, and trying to make sure I’m fulfilling my work commitments, too. How would you describe your style? I don’t think I have a style! When In The Style And you’ve got three boys to look after… asked me to do a clothing line, I was like, “Are Luckily, I have my family around me. My dad you sure? Have you been watching my Instagram helps me with childcare. Me and my sister for the last two years?” I don’t think I’ve got out share the school runs. I couldn’t do it all on my of my pyjamas more than three times. I love own. I might never get another job so I’ve got pretty patterns and bright colours – things that to take the opportunities while they’re there. make me feel happy and comfortable. What’s your life mantra? Does Joe like it when you get glammed up? Just go for it. If you don’t get it all done, then Joe wouldn’t notice if I walked in and I had big don’t beat yourself up. You can only try! OK! boob holes in my top! He’d be like, “You look nice”! He says he doesn’t see my clothes, FOR IN THE STYLE X STACEY SOLOMON, VISIT INTHESTYLE.COM he just sees me. And I think the same about him. Unless he was naked, I don’t even think WORDS: ANNA MATHESON 48 WWW.OK.CO.UK 49 THE OK! BEA
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 53 e may watch her settled down a bit, so I’m excited showing clients around to show the world that I have it stunning multimillion together now. I’m not always late, dollar mansions on the frazzled and sad. I’m able to be Whit Netflix series Selling Sunset, more honest about what was but behind closed doors, Amanza actually going on with my kids’ Smith is a single mum-of-two who’s father because I tiptoed around it trying to do her best for her kids. so much in the last season. The luxury real estate agent shares her son Braker, nine, and So, tell us what you were actually daughter Noah, 11, with her former going through? husband of two years, NFL player When we first started filming, I was Ralph Brown – who she claims in a situation where the kids would she hasn’t heard from since spend one week with me and the September 2019. other with their dad because we When we call the 44-year-old, had joint custody. We had a great she’s at her new home in Los relationship and he was an amazing Angeles and is still buzzing from father. It had been that way for our exclusive photoshoot the day eight years since we got a divorce before. “We had so much fun,” when the kids were aged one and beams Amanza. “As a single mum, two. Then we were about three trying to get a photo of the three weeks into filming, he dropped of us together is a juggling act!” them off at school and just never After building her own interior came back, so they were with me design business, Amanza – who full time. We didn’t know what had has been dating a new man for happened to him or when he’d be a year – was welcomed into back. I didn’t want to say all of this The Oppenheim Group during at the time because I didn’t want to series two and tells us she’s looking throw him under the bus if he came forward to showing the world back and there had been some she’s in a better place as they start emergency. But seven months into filming the next two seasons. filming, it hadn’t changed. There’s “I’ve tiptoed around what was a specific scene in the last series actually going on with my kids’ where I’m 20 minutes late, but father for too long,” she says. what no one sees is that I was “When everything finally hit me, bawling my eyes out in the car things got so bad that I laid in bed because I’d been at the courthouse for three days and my assistant had fighting for custody of my children. to look after the kids.” Half the time in my scenes I was Here, Amanza opens about falling apart on the inside. searching for her ex-husband, battling through depression, and How have you explained that finding love again... to the kids? It’s been traumatic. The first seven Hi Amanza! Are you excited months I was rocking them to sleep about filming the fourth series every night and wiping their tears. of Selling Sunset? I had to answer their questions Yeah, and I’m nervous. I remember without any real answers. My best how taxinggy it is to film. My life has answer is that their dad mightg be THIS PAGE: AMANZA WEARS DRESS BY NORDSTROM. NOAH FREE PEOPLE. BRAKER THIS PAGE: AMANZA WEARS DRESS BY MARCIANO PAGE: TOP BY ZARA AND BOTTOMS RALPH LAUREN. FACING
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going through something. One night one kid would cry themselves to sleep, the next night it would be the other one. Then I would cry myself to sleep. But most recently, when I decided I had the mental capacity to deal with it all, it hit me hard. I laid in bed for three days and my assistant had to look after the kids.
What are the next steps for you now? I’ve now started a search party. I want to find him and need answers. His family say they don’t know anything. So I’ve got my own people looking and I’m on a mission to find him. My son has said if he turned up now he wouldn’t want to go with him. He says he doesn’t think his dad loves him.
As the father of your children, you must genuinely care about his wellbeing… For sure! People think I want to find him so I can get child support, but it has nothing to do with that. I genuinely do care. I can’t be angry with him yet because I don’t know what’s happened.
Do you have full custody of the children? It’s still ongoing. It’s very expensive.
Has your Selling Sunset co-star Mary Fitzgerald been a big support to you through all of this? Yeah. She’s been my best friend for 20 years. A lot of my friends don’t even know what I’m going through until I open up about feeling depressed or anxious.
What do you do to get through your depression and anxiety? I’ve suffered with severe anxiety since I was a kid. I had regular panic attacks, but I only realised what it was about six years ago. Mental health was so taboo where I was from and I didn’t go to therapy or anything like that. But in my adult life, I questioned why I’d get so irritated about little things. So I went to a therapist and now I take antidepressants every day. It’s called Zoloft and I’ve been on it for six years and I swear by it. It changed my life. I realised I was chemically imbalanced. I also pray and meditate.
Are you proud of how you’ve juggled everything as a single mum? I’ve been struggling. I have a lot of mum guilt right now because I’m so busy. I do feel like I can’t be as much as a connected parent as how I used to be. I feel like I’m not doing the best that I can. It’s really tough, especially over the past year and a half. They used to go to their dad’s every other week, but since that changed I feel like I see them less because I’m WWW.OK.CO.UK 57 KE T BY JEAN PAUL ATAKER ATAKER T BY JEAN PAUL
so busy. I don’t think I do the best job at allowed us to get the help we need. But but I’m realistic. I’m 44, so to have one balancing all of it. I’ve made changes in I’m still the little Indiana girl. I’ve been on naturally probably isn’t the safest route. hiring staff to help where I need it, so I can the other side of the fence and I don’t take I’m planning to freeze my eggs soon. I’ve be more present as a mum. But it’s hard anything for granted. always wanted to adopt and I will one day. – I don’t know how I do it sometimes. How is your current dating life? We’re excited for the new series of What staff have you hired? I’m very much in love with someone. Selling Sunset. Was it hard seeing I’ve never had a nanny, but now I’m He’s the coolest, hottest person! We Chrishell Stause go through such interviewing full-time nannies and I’m want to keep it private for now because a public divorce in the last series? thinking of getting them to live with us Yeah, we lived it in real time and it was because when we film it’s such a rigorous devastating. A month after the show came schedule. Also I’ve never had a ‘I FEEL LIKE I’M out, Chrishell then lost her mother to the housekeeper, but now I have the means to same cancer she’d lost her father to. be able to employ someone to help with NOT DOING THE that. Then lastly, I have a personal And things didn’t work out for her and assistant. When I first moved to Los BEST I CAN AS Keo Motsepe… Angeles 20 years ago, I was dating JC No, they aren’t together now. I think she Chasez from NSYNC. I saw how busy he A PARENT’ dodged a bullet there. I’ve never been a was and he had an assistant who lived in lesbian, but she’s so beautiful – we joke that his house. I’d pray that I’d be so busy one we’d get together if we don’t find anyone. day that I’d need someone delegating my lots of people want to see you fail, day. Now, here it is but I wasn’t prepared especially if you’re in the public eye like Your co-star Christine Quinn is for it! So careful what you wish for [laughs]. me. But he is amazing – I’m off the market. expecting a baby! Are you excited? So excited. I know she’ll be in six-inch Would you say it’s been your success Is he also in the public eye? Louis Vuittons pushing the best baby on Selling Sunset that has given you Yes. He’s not an actor and he’s actually stroller. I love babies! I want nothing more the means to hire your own staff? 10 years younger than me [laughs]. than to have 100 kids myself, but that’s not For sure. I’ve been through ups and downs going to happen unless I adopt them. OK! in my life, but Selling Sunset came along Can you see marriage and children with at the same time that I was building my him in the future? WORDS: EMILY WHITWAM PHOTOS: SIMON PERRY own business, so it’s been the perfect I’d love more than anything to be married HAIR AND MAKE-UP: JOANNA WOOD marriage. The success of the show has again. I’d love to have another child, STYLIST HENNY LETAILLEUR PRODUCED BY: LINA DARTON THIS PAGE: AMANZA WEARS DRESS AND SHIRT BY HEIRESS BEVERLY HILLS AND NECKLACE BY UNCOMMON JAMES. FACING PAGE: AMANZA WEARS SUI PAGE: HILLS AND NECKLACE BY UNCOMMON JAMES. FACING AMANZA WEARS DRESS AND SHIRT BY HEIRESS BEVERLY THIS PAGE: AND EARRINGS BY UNCOMMON JAMES. BRAKER WEARS TOP AND BOTTOMS BY H&M AND SHOES BY VANS. NOAH WEARS OUTFIT BY H&M AND SHOES NI AND EARRINGS BY UNCOMMON JAMES. BRAKER WEARS TOP BOTTOMS H&M SHOES VANS.
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hey say blondes have more forgotten what my natural colour is. fun – and Vicky Pattison is We lightened it in three big stages on a mission to prove that and I’ve used Fudge’s hair care all theory correct. The bubbly the way through, so there hasn’t TTV star has undergone a stunning been a moment when my hair felt hair transformation and has every or looked unhealthy. intention of showing her new hue a good time. Will you stay blonde? “You know when you break up I didn’t know if I was just going with a fella and you want to do to have a hot blonde girl summer, something wild with your hair because but now I think this could be a you want to show the world the new permanent change. I thought I you? Well, this is me breaking up with wouldn’t recognise myself blonde, lockdown,” she says, showing off her but when I look at the “before” OK glamorous look for ! in these The couple outside picture, that’s the me I don’t makeover photos. their luxury five- recognise. I should have done “I want to feel sassy. I want to feel bedroom pad this a long time ago. like I’ve got a new lease of life, and I’ve always felt a big hair change does How will blonde Vicky have more that for me,” explains Vicky, 33, who’s theirthh i new home.h TheThh pairi haveh jjustt movedd intoi t fun this summer? had a makeover for Fudge Professional’s In their dream £1.5m countryside pad, and even I’m going to have no bother at all! I want to The Chair series on Instagram. “When I saw the odd rural internet glitch can’t dampen see friends and family, drink cocktails, eat food the final result, I was over the moon. I can’t Vicky’s delight as she chats to us on Zoom. I haven’t cooked and have a laugh. wait to get out and show it off,” she adds. In her own inimitable style, Vicky talks The former I’m A Celebrity champ isn’t the about everything from babies and beauty to Do you hope to travel? only one who appreciates the change. Her breaking with her Geordie Shore past, and I’m torn. Part of me wants to be a homemaker, boyfriend Ercan Ramadan, 37, “absolutely explains why she’s never been happier. the other part of me wants to go and slut drop loves it” and will have ample opportunity to around all the European hot spots. I want to admire it over romantic candlelit dinners in Wow, Vicky, talk us through your new look… drink overpriced cocktails in Mykonos. But I I’ve been getting sick of seeing also want to nest in our new house and possibly the same face in the mirror, day get a puppy. We’ve been talking to the Dogs in, day out, but it’s been years Trust, trying to do the responsible thing. since I’ve done something different with my hair. I’ve had Is your new place a sign you and Ercan some colour blunders in the are truly settling down? past, and mine get splashed Ercan has been so kind and supportive, across the tabloids, so it was I don’t think I could have got through imperative that I had products to lockdown without him. Getting this house avoid the pitfalls of brassiness. feels like a logical next step for our I’m using Fudge’s Clean Blonde relationship. We’re so happy here. Damage Rewind range [£15], which means I can keep on top What’s the new pad like? of orangey tones and look after It’s super remote and we’re living on a private my hair health estate. Our new neighbours are all so lush. without loads of Ercan and I like to think we’re grown-up but expensive salon we’re both clueless. There’s a fancy system trips. Woo-hoo! with the bins here and the neighbours could see we were struggling so they all came out Were you scared of to help us. I thought, “Aw, where have I such a big change? moved to? I feel like I’m in a Disney film!” I was excited, but nervous at the same Will it be a party house? time. I’ve dyed my I don’t know, because everybody in the street hair for so long I’ve has kids. Now I’m thinking, “Oh my God, 60 WWW.OK.CO.UK 61 62 we’re the only ones without two crying on the sofa, and he kids. Maybe this means we need A loved-up Vicky would say, “Baby this isn’t to get a move on!” with Ercan before normal.” That was my wake-up her transformation call, seeing someone who Aha, so not just the patter of loves me worried about me. puppy paws? I think I’ve got a couple more What has your doctor said? years of garden parties and wine Ultimately, the first step was left before I start popping them getting my contraceptive out. Oh, Ercan’s come back in implant out to see if that made and I can hear him anxiously a difference. I’d been on it for emptying the dishwasher as around 15 years. Now I think I talk about children. [Ercan, in my body is finding its natural background, “Puppies only!”] rhythm again. I’ve noticed improvements – my emotions Dare we ask about weddings? are not as heightened now. [Vicky, shouting] “Ercan! Will we get married?” [Ercan, in Are you having to be careful background, “Of course we to avoid getting pregnant? will.”] Ah, there we go. I’m Oh my God. I don’t let him just a normal girl. I want a lovely anywhere near me. [Laughs] partner who cares about me, I’m so nervous at the moment. I want a nice big wedding, a We are being super, super beautiful family. But my journey careful. We’re being “separate to getting it hasn’t been smooth bedrooms” careful. Ercan sailing. Finding Ercan wasn’t can take his blue balls and easy and I’m not going to rush sleep in the spare bedroom! the process. I’m content to be his girlfriend for now. Getting the house After winning I’m A Celeb, are there is exciting but [whispers] I don’t want to ‘I CREDIT ERCAN other reality shows you’d like to do? scare him away with the rest of it. I have a burning desire to do The Island WITH HELPING With Bear Grylls. For years they wouldn’t Has he taught you how to love again? have me on, they said it was too similar I think after what I went through before ME LEARN TO to the jungle, but I think enough time has [Vicky broke off her engagement to lapsed now. I’d also love to do Bake Off. businessman John Noble after claims LOVE MYSELF’ he cheated on her], it was always going Where do you see yourself in 10 years? to take a remarkable man to teach I would love to have a husband, loads of me to trust again. Ercan had to deal What have you learnt to like about dogs, hopefully some kids if I’m lucky. I with all of that, he was very patient and the real you? don’t see myself as someone who’s ever our relationship has grown gradually. You get this real sense of liberation in going to abandon my career ambitions. We’ve been together over two years your thirties. You’re done trying to be I would love to be a presenter one day, now. He is wonderful and I credit him Kendall Jenner. These days, I’m happy so I am just going to keep grafting away. with teaching me to love again, and also saying no to a night out, and to cut helping me to learn to love myself. somebody out of my life because they Is there anything you wish you’d don’t bring me peace. Don’t get me done differently? Is that something you’ve struggled wrong, I like it when people like me, I don’t regret Geordie Shore, it would be with in the past? but I care more that I like myself. really ignorant of me not to acknowledge Growing up, I was quite a chubby kid I’ve learnt to be more “good selfish” the show that provided me with the and I think feelings of insecurities and – that’s what my life coach Bill calls it. incredible platform that I have today. not matching up started from a very But ultimately I did lose sight of what young age. I spent so much of my teens How often do you speak to him? I really wanted on that show and became and twenties not liking the way I looked. Every week, usually. He keeps me really a version of myself I wasn’t always proud I thought if I got as thin as I could it balanced. Some weeks, I’m racked with of. For the last 10 years I’ve worked would make me happy, but you know, anxiety and sometimes I catch realreallylyy hardhard to erase the moments I’m it never does. Happiness does not come ugly emotions. Like I covetet notnot so proudp of. from a number on a scale. It comes from other people’s lifestyles, or within. Now I am super embracing the I worry if I’ve made the What’sWh the best side real me, and I want to pay it forward. right decisions. There are ofof being famous? thoughts running throughh EveryE time I do a big How are you doing that? my head, and it’s nice to shows I treat myself to I like to paint a really honest picture of have somebody to help a handbag – that’s myself wherever I can. All those years me make sense of them. probablyp as flashy as I trying to keep up this really perfect get.g But I did always want image of myself on social media was You’ve also been trying On I’m A to be able to look after very draining. Every time I got papped to get to grips with Celeb in mymy family and treat my from an angle I didn’t like or I had bags your hormones... 2015 friendsfrien once in a while. I’m under my eyes I would be so sad. But I went to see my doctor in thatthat position now – it’s the then I thought, “I am giving these because I was getting suchch mmoodood nicestnicest feelingfeel in the world. OK! people too much control” so I took it swings. Jesus, the amount of crying I was VICKY PATTISON IS LEADING THE FUDGE PROFESSIONAL back. It’s really freeing to let that shield doing was just not right. The PMS would COOLING ALL BLONDES CAMPAIGN, SHOWCASING ITS PRODUCTS FOR EVERY BLONDE, INCLUDING THE UK’S slip and show all sides of yourself. It’s start two weeks before my period, then STRONGEST PURPLE TONING SHAMPOO. VISIT good for your mental health and it I’d be on for a week, so there was only UK.FUDGEPROFESSIONAL.COM AND @FUDGEHAIR helps other women feel empowered one week a month when I was normal. WORDS: LYNNE HYLAND
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e’s been entertaining people split our time between there and for more than 35 years and Ireland. What more could we want? is the only artist to have had a hit in the UK album charts Are you quite frugal then? Hevery year since 1988 – outshining I’m not extravagant. I saw a pair of everyone from Michael Jackson and shoes that cost 80 euros and I didn’t Madonna to U2 and the Rolling think they were worth it. I never did Stones. His records, a mixture of buy them. He just would not come country, Irish folk and pop, have down on the price. topped 10 million sales. Yet despite his incredible success, Irish singer What was lockdown like for you? Daniel O’Donnell remains one of I’ve not been climbing up the walls. I’m the most affable and unassuming content at home and accept every performers you could hope to meet. situation that comes. You can fight A step-grandfather to OliviaOlivia,, fivfive,e, sossomethingmething – or go with it. and Archie, three, he livesives with wife Majella in Countyounty TeTTellll uuss about your Donegal. And rather faffavouritevo TV shows… than wild nights of I wwatch Coronation rock’n’roll excess, SStreet and Majella he admits to llilikes EastEnders. We a preference wwatched Nashville and for whist in GGold Digger and I love the village hall. qquizzes. The Chase is Here, Daniel, 59, Daniel and my favourite. We love talks about family life, his wife Majella BBradleyrad Walsh and all passion for TV quizzess and ththee ChChasers. his forthcoming UK tour.ur. Do you fancy acting? Daniel, your tour is coming up I used to think it would be nice to later this year. Are you nervous do The Sound Of Music, but I think about performing live again? I’ve gone past the sell-by date for I’ll have to start singing a bit soon, Captain von Trapp. A cameo in because your voice is a muscle. Coronation Street would be great. I think I’ll have to gear myself up I’d be in heaven with that! and start singing into the mirror. How has Majella changed your life? Will you be practising your dance We gel well together and have moves, too? a wonderful time, but we are very My dancing is more good luck than different. We respect each other’s good management. I have a bit of differences and it works well. fun moving about, but it’s not like I have to do anything in particular. What was it like becoming a stepdad when you married? How do you unwind? I was very fortunate that Majella’s I took up bridge five years ago children Siobhan and Michael were and in the latest lockdown it’s been so easy to get on with. They’re lovely fantastic as I play three or four nights people and Siobhan is a super mother. a week online. Before lockdown The grandchildren have brought I played whist in my local village hall. such joy to my life. Two years ago, at Christmas, I won the voucher for the turkey! Tell us about your tour… It looks like the shows will come off Is yours a showbusiness lifestyle? in October at 19 venues. After the No. I’m very fortunate in that I can pandemic, I just hope people have do pretty much whatever I want to the confidence to go out. OK! do – but what I want to do is not an DANIEL TOURS THE UK IN OCTOBER. FOR TICKETS, awful lot. We have a lovely home in SEE DANIELODONNELL.ORG/TOUR-DATES Ireland and live three miles from the house I was brought up in. We have WORDS: SUE CRAWFORD a nice apartment in Tenerife, so we PHOTOS: KIP CARROLL
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here’s something about Emma Emma Squad, Friends With Benefits, Battle Of Stone that makes you want to be and her The Sexes and Easy A, as well as starring her gal pal, which is maybe why husband roles in Oscar winners La La Land, Birdman she decided to surprise us all by Dave and The Help. Tplaying the scheming Cruella de Vil in her One of her famous friends is Jennifer latest movie. Then again, the 32-year-old, Lawrence, who she first texted because who is starring in the Disney reboot of the they shared the same stalker. Jennifer says classic film 101 Dalmatians, pretty much of Emma, “She’s my best friend – the love has her pick of roles. She was Hollywood’s of my life. We’re exact opposites so we highest paid actresses in 2017 and has help each other. We laugh our heads off netted a £35 million fortune. together, but there are certain things we’d But her easy charm belies a steely handle completely differently. If we put ambition and a deep conviction from early our heads together, we can form the childhood that she was destined for the perfect solution.” acting life, despite coming from distinctly In 2017, after winning the Best Actress unstarry Scottsdale, Arizona. At just four Oscar for her role as actress Mia in La La years old, Emma – born Emily Jean Stone Land, the sky was the limit for Emma. But (Emma was the professional name she there was one role that she was yet to take chose after discovering there was another on – that of being a mother. Emily Stone in the Screen Actors Guild) – She dated her Spider-Man co-star knew she wanted to perform. Andrew Garfield on-and-off for five years Her stage debut came two years later until splitting for good in 2015. She then in a Thanksgiving school musical called met Dave McCary, 35, a comedian and No Turkey For Perky and later, her ‘CRUELLA IS A writer best known for his work on Saturday characterisation of Otter in a local theatre Night Live. And last year, in lockdown, the version of The Wind In The Willows, at LARGER-THAN- two got married. On 13 March this year, aged 11, was a show-stopper. Emma gave birth to a daughter, whose “When I asked, aged 11, if I could take LIFE CHARACTER’ name has yet to be revealed. acting classes, apparently I said to my mum Intensely private about her personal life, ‘If I can’t act, I’ll die.’ And then she knew she previously revealed a small glimpse that only an actress would say something Krista relocated with her daughter to into her vision of motherhood saying, “My like that,” Emma says. California in 2004. Emma recalls, “I went perspective about kids has changed as I’ve From that point on, there was no up for every single show on the Disney gotten older. I never babysat or anything. stopping her. However, success didn’t come Channel and auditioned to play the As a teenager, I was like, ‘I’m never getting overnight. She had many failed auditions daughter on every single sitcom. I ended married, I’m never having kids.’ And then as she commuted between Arizona and up getting none.” She enrolled in online I got older and I was like, ‘I really want to Hollywood until she persuaded her parents, school classes and worked at a gourmet get married, I really want to have kids.’” contractor Jeffrey and stay-at-home mum bakery making treats for dogs to Alongside being a new mum, Emma is Krista, that she needed to move to Los supplement her living costs. looking forward to playing Cruella in the Angeles. She even gave them a PowerPoint Her breakthrough came with the 2007 live-action prequel to 101 Dalmatians. And presentation noting all the reasons why. Jonah Hill movie Superbad and she went she’s revelling in the character’s dark side. on to land roles in Crazy “Cruella is a fantastic character to play Stupid Love, Gangster because she’s larger than life,” she says. “It’s been a great experience to play around with her backstory and discover what makes her the woman she becomes in the story we’ve seen. The time period the film takes place in is the 1970s, so we’ve had fun with the costumes, hair and make-up to create her entire Emma as With Ryan persona.” OK! a young Gosling in Cruella La La Land WORDS: LISA MARKS PHOTOS: GETTY
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he always manages to look How else did your body change fills me with endorphins so I’m ready for the unfathomably gorgeous – even with throughout your pregnancies? day. I can’t run – it bores me to death. Pete four young children to look after. So I was so ill during pregnancy, and my skin was and I have recently got into boxing. It feels if there’s anyone’s beauty secrets we’re so reactive. It was allergic to everything, even like you’re learning a skill. During lockdown Sdesperate to know, it’s Abbey Clancy’s. fabrics and washing powder. I also had a lot we did a lot of the Joe Wicks classes with But the model hasn’t been without her of hair loss. It grows back, but when clumps the kids. It was hilarious watching Pete, own beauty concerns. For Abbey – who is of hair fall out when you’re washing it, it’s who’s 6ft 7in, jumping around like a bunny! mum to Sophia, 10, Liberty, five, Johnny, terrifying. I had three kids in four years, so three, and Jack, 23 months, with her former I felt like I had no hair left by the end! It’s Do you pamper yourself? footballer husband Peter Crouch – pregnancy another thing that was damaging to my I can’t get into bed without having a bath brought with it some other unexpected and confidence. It’s scary for any woman going first – music, candles, a nice oil. It lasts for unwelcome physical side effects, such as through that. I took a lot of vitamins, like zinc, a while, and then I usually get at least two pigmentation and hair loss. However, as biotin and omegas. But my miracle product kids jumping in, with armfuls of Barbie dolls! something of a self-confessed beauty junkie, for hair loss, especially eyelashes, is castor oil. Abbey, 35, has picked up plenty of tips, Are your daughters starting to take tricks and know-how over the years. an interest in beauty? Here, she reveals the effects of Peter with Sophia is driving me insane at the pregnancy, how she maintains her the couple’s moment because every time I go to get supermodel figure and the skincare and four children a cream or a make-up brush, it’s gone. make-up essentials that really work… She nicks everything. I can see myself in Sophia – she’s definitely a girlie girl, and Abbey, your skin always looks she’s totally got a mind of her own. glowing! What’s your secret? The obvious things like drinking water What’s always in your make-up bag? and getting enough sleep – which I know One thing I cannot live without is my is hard to do if you’ve got loads of Kevyn Aucoin concealer. And I’m children! I’m a fan of a good face oil, too. a huge fan of bareMinerals foundation – I love how it feels on my skin. That’s Have you always had pretty good skin? my daytime foundation, and for the I’ve been struggling with pigmentation for evening I’d go for a NARS liquid about 10 years now – it began when I was foundation, and warm it up with a pregnant with my first daughter, Sophia. It bronzer. I like Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush was quite damaging to my self-confidence Bronzer, and her Pillow Talk Lipstick. – I felt like I always had to wear make-up to cover it up – so I’m always on the lookout Do you put make-up on to do the for products that can help combat that. school run? No – just some sunglasses to hide the Have you found anything that works? bags! Getting everybody dressed and I’ve been using Nivea Cellular Luminous packed up by ten to eight in the morning, 630 Serum and Day Fluid for a couple ‘LOSING MY HAIR there’s no time to put make-up on. of months and I’ve already noticed a significant difference – they’ve broken AFTER PREGNANCY Have you ever made any embarrassing down some of my pigmentation, and the beauty faux pas over the years? colour has faded. I like how lightweight WAS TERRIFYING’ Millions! But when you’re younger they feel, and that they’re suitable for all you have a lot more confidence – I skin types, even sensitive. The day cream used to go out wearing luminous contains an SPF50, so you don’t have to orange fake tan and think that was worry about that, and they’re a great price. What’s your diet like? fine. And I had Biro-thin eyebrows Being married to a professional athlete, on my wedding day – it looked like Do you have a favourite product in eating healthy, fresh meals has always been I had drawn them on. I need to put the range? important. We try to teach the kids to eat my dress back on and reshoot my The serum. There’s just something about the well, but at the same time, everything in wedding day, this time with more word “serum” that sounds like it does more! I moderation. Cake is my favourite thing! acceptable eyebrows! OK! use it at night. It’s also got hyaluronic acid and NIVEA CELLULAR LUMINOUS 630 ANTI-DARK SPOT vitamin E in it, so it’s really hydrating. Some What about your fitness regime? SERUM, £29.99, AND DAY FLUID SPF50, £26.99, ARE of these anti-pigmentation products can be The only reason I work out is because it AVAILABLE NOW FROM BOOTS AND BOOTS.COM drying, but this feels really luxe on the skin. gives me energy, makes me feel strong and WORDS: LAURA MULLEY PHOTOS: KARIS KENNEDY
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 85 BEAUTY EDITOR LAURA MULLEY SHARES THIS WEEK’S MUST-HAVES TRENDS AND TIPS
1 Plant power
I regularly talk about the anti-ageing powers of retinol, however – despite some smart formulas on the market nowadays – it’s still not for everyone. But now bareMinerals has come up with an impressive alternative. Its Ageless Phyto-Retinol collection, from £40, instead uses an extract from the picão preto plant, which has been found to have the same skin-transformative effects as the vitamin A derivative but with less potential for irritation, making ageless skin available to all. Just ask Hailey Bieber and her mum-but-could-be-her-sister, Kennya Baldwin.
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Naively, I thought I’d be able to casually stroll back into 2 my local hair salon on 12 April, but alas, my first post- lockdown hair appointment is still a couple of weeks away. Fortunately, John Frieda’s latest salon-inspired shampoos and conditioners, £6.99 each, are on hand to help the, ahem, less organised among us through this final stretch – and beyond. There’s Blue Crush, for neutralising warm tones in brunette hair, Brazilian Sleek, which mimics the smoothing effects of a Brazilian blow-dry, and Miraculous Recovery, which hopefully will have my hairdresser marvelling at my hair’s condition when I do eventually see her again.
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 87 FEELING UNDER PRESSURE? SOAKING UP SECOND-HAND STRESS FROM OTHERS HAS A HUGE IMPACT ON OUR OWN WELLBEING – BUT HELP IS AT HAND
motions are contagious. Leading psychologist Just like the flu, we can Dr Courtney Raspin explains, “catch” and absorb what “Your body goes into a fight or others are feeling. flight response in an attempt EThere’s a term for it, too to manage the stress cues – second-hand stress. In other from others, just as if you were words, the tension and pressure experiencing your own anxiety. we experience due to other Second-hand stress can have people’s behaviour. the same effect on your body, Connecting with those too, causing your heart to beat around us and caring for them is faster and your blood pressure to rise. key to humans’ survival. So it makes In the long run, it can negatively affect sense we take on the positive and your physical and emotional health.” negative feelings of friends, family These six steps will help you spot the and colleagues. signs and sort it…
IDENTIFY IT – WHOSE STRESS IS IT? “If you notice yourself feeling overwhelmed and tense, the first thing to do is try 1to locate the triggers,” says Dr Raspin. “Is it due to your personal pressures, or could you be absorbing other people’s distress? Identifying whether it’s ‘your stuff’ or ‘their stuff’ can help you feel more in control and ready to devise a plan to move forward.”
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“Sometimes, it takes very little to reduce 3 another person’s stress levels,” says Dr Raspin. “By successfully DECIDE THE NEXT STEP with stress. It’s important to try to make helping them, you’ll boost your a conscious decision about how you deal connection to them and you can If you identify that the stress with another’s behaviour. This will help you eliminate the second-hand stress is due to other people’s behaviour, feel more in control and less affected by them. coming your way. Take some time you have some choices. “Your If someone close, who’s normally relaxed, is out to be a sounding board for 2 immediate instinct may be to solve going through a tough time, it’s reasonable stressed family members, friends the problem (fight), or avoid the to try to help. However, if you constantly have and colleagues. You may be able source of stress (flight),” explains a negative person near you, it’s in your best to help them identify the source Dr Raspin. “Both responses are normal, and it interest to step away – view it as self-protection of their tension and make useful will depend largely on how you usually cope from this negativity.” suggestions as to how they might solve a particular problem.”
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BE KIND – TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS “It’s frustrating wanting to help but not being able to. We can end up getting angry with ourselves for not being good enough and angry with others for draining us,” explains Dr Raspin. “Neither of these responses are good for our own stress levels. Remember that your instinct to help makes you a kind and good person. It takes time to learn healthy boundaries. It’s essential you forgive yourself if you allow those boundaries to be violated. Also, when you feel angry with the stressed person, remember they’re suffering, too. They can’t see a way out and they’re responding by sucking the life out of everyone around them. They’re struggling and in pain. Keep this in mind and it can help reduce your own FEELING feelings of anger and, in turn, reduce STRESSED AND your stress levels. ANXIOUS? Visit your GP – they can TAKE SOME refer you to local services TIME OUT that can help. Or contact a national charity, such “If you feel bombarded as mind.org.uk by toxic negativity, it 6 may be time to create space away from the source,” says Dr Raspin. “Turn off your phone and perhaps make a separate folder where messages from the stressed person SET BOUNDARIES automatically go.” This puts you Be careful not to continue taking in charge of when you decide to on other people’s problems. “We look at those messages rather than all know that allowing someone to feeling compelled to open them as physically touch or hurt us in a way soon as they ping into your inbox. that makes us feel uncomfortable “You might also need to let the is bad,” says Dr Raspin. “And yet other person know that you’re many of us struggle to keep similar unable to help them any more emotional boundaries in place.” Her and advise them to seek help advice? “Pay attention to your body elsewhere,” adds Dr Raspin. “This when it tells you that somebody’s can feel mean, but it’s essential in invading your emotional space. order to maintain your own good This includes demands on your time mental health.” OK! and energy, lacking respect for your wishes and not taking no for an DR RASPIN IS THE FOUNDER OF ALTUM HEALTH – EXPERT answer. If you constantly put your CARE FOR YOUR EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING. needs aside to deal with theirs, it’s a CHECK OUT ALTUMHEALTH.CO.UK
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 89 BON APPÉTIT! DELICIOUS AND INSPIRING GARDEN TABLE RECIPES FROM CATHY GAYNER AN ENGLISH COOK IN FRANCE Broad bean and pea salad
SERVES 1. Mix the beans a serving plate with and peas together the torn mozzarella INGREDIENTS and, if frozen, leave or the burrata. ● 250g fresh or frozen ● Salt and pepper them to defrost. 4. Cook the Parma broad beans, skins ● 250g good mozzarella or 2. Pat them dry ham in a hot oven removed – even better – burrata and mix with the until it is very crispy. ● 150g frozen peas ● 6 slices of Parma ham mint and lemon Then crumble it up ● Handful of mint leaves (the cheapest you can zest, garlic, some and scatter it and ● Zest of 2 lemons find) or pancetta olive oil and the pistachios all ● 1 garlic clove, crushed ● 50g shelled pistachios, seasoning. over the top of ● Olive oil toasted and chopped 3. Arrange on the salad.
90 Chicken stuffed with tapenade
1. Mix the tapenade with the lemon zest, garlic and parsley. 2. Using your fingers, gently separate the skin from the flesh of the chicken and spoon in the tapenade mixture. Ideally, push SERVES it down both the breast and the legs. This is fiddly but not difficult. INGREDIENTS 3. Season the skin and pour over ● 1 x 100g pot of tapenade the oil and the lemon juice. ● Zest and juice of 1 lemon 4. Roast at 180°C fan/gas mark 6 ● 1 garlic clove, crushed for 20 minutes per 500g, plus 20 ● 1 tbsp chopped parsley minutes extra. ● 1 really good chicken 5. Serve with mashed potato ● Salt and pepper and the juices. ● 1 tbsp olive oil 6. A simple green salad is the ● Green salad (optional) only other thing you need.
WWW.OK.CO.UK 91 Radicchio salad
SERVES FOUR INGREDIENTS ● 2 heads of radicchio ● Olive oil and white wine vinegar ● Salt and pepper ● 2 large garlic cloves, crushed ● 2 x 400g tins of haricot beans, drained and rinsed ● 4 tbsp parsley, finely chopped ● 1 dessert spoon of capers ● 200g black olives, pitted (don’t use ones already pitted as they seldom taste as good as they should) and roughly chopped ● 100g Parmesan, shaved
1. Cut each radicchio into 8 segments, trying to keep each bit attached to the core. 2. Cook all the segments on a griddle pan until lightly charred on each side and transfer to a serving dish. 3. Drizzle over some olive oil and season. 4. Stir the garlic into the beans and season generously. Add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and then vinegar to taste. 5. Add the parsley, capers and olives to the beans and spoon the mixture around the radicchio. 6. Finally, scatter over the Parmesan shavings.
92 Cheese biscuits MAKES INGREDIENTS ● 250g extra-mature Cheddar, cut into chunks ● 250g salted butter, straight from the fridge, cut into chunks ● 250g plain flour ● Tabasco ● Dijon mustard ● Pepper and salt (These amounts should fit into a standard food processor. Don’t be tempted to overfill with extra ingredients, as you will risk the mixture not blending properly.)
1. Put the cheese, butter and flour into the food processor and add 12 shakes of the Tabasco bottle, 1 heaped tablespoon of Dijon mustard, 25 grinds of pepper and 2 teaspoons of salt. (This is just a guide – you can season the mixture as you want, but you’ll be surprised by the amount you need.) 2. Whizz all this up and, as soon as the mixture forms a ball, stop and divide it into three parts. 3. Lay out three large bits of cling film and put a ball of cheese mixture on to each. With damp hands, roughly shape each ball into a sausage. 4. Roll up each parcel in the cling film and hold one end tightly, with the other hand, the thumb and first finger forming a circle, then ease the dough along the cling film, so you have a long, even sausage measuring about 30cm long and 5cm across. 5. Freeze these parcels until you are ready to use them (don’t attempt to cut them unless they are very cold as they will end up squashy). 6. When you are ready to cook the biscuits, take the parcels out of the freezer and heat the oven to 180°C fan/gas mark 6. 7. By the time the oven has reached the right temperature, the cheese sausages will have thawed enough to cut into 2cm slices. 8. Line a tray with baking parchment and arrange the slices on it. Cook for about 10 minutes until golden brown. You can move them on to a serving plate straight from the oven without them coming to any harm. 9. These are best eaten on the day they are cooked, but if you have any left over, they freeze beautifully. OK!
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 93 RUM RHYTHM AND RELAXATION THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF ANTIGUA OFFERS A HEADY COCKTAIL TO SOOTHE YOUR SOUL
he Caribbean is gearing up to be hopefully, subject to government foreign The interior is blanketed with sugar cane a sizzler of a summer destination travel advice, be given the green light for and fruit plantations while the English and we’re not just talking about holidays from the UK, including Antigua, Harbour and UNESCO-listed Nelson’s the balmy temperatures. A cluster a coral-fringed isle famed for its 365 Dockyard, a British Navy base for 200 Tof these tropical island paradises will beaches – one for every day of the year. years, offer stunning colonial architecture.
Relax at the Royalton Antigua Resort & Spa
WHERE TO STAY If you don’t want to fret about your final hotel bill, book a pre-paid all-inclusive stay at the Royalton Antigua Resort & Spa. The luxury family-friendly hotel is only 30 minutes from the airport, so you’ll be on your sun lounger before you know it. It has 294 suites including a handful of heavenly overwater villas and a cool beach bar serving up the best coconut rum pina coladas. There’s some wonderful snorkelling to be enjoyed just metres from the sands of Deep Bay and you can also explore the shipwreck of the Andes that rests on the seabed. The beachside hotel is overlooked by the ruins of the majestic hilltop Fort Barrington and it’s definitely worth making the half-hour trek to visit.
94 WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK Sip rum cocktails and listen to reggae calypso bands before heading to BeachLimerz. The family-owned bar on Fort James Beach is an island institution, renowned for its laid-back vibe, live music and grilled seafood. Combine some souvenir shopping at Heritage Quay with a few glasses of wine in the pretty courtyard at C&C Wine House in the island capital of St John’s. Head up to The Lookout at Shirley Heights on a Sunday evening and party with the locals. Crowds gather by the ruins of Fort Shirley to watch the sun set, and with the cocktails flowing, the aroma of sizzling seafood in the air and live steel bands to shimmy to, it’s a party not to be missed. Another must Take a tour of is the Fish Fry party held every Friday at Copper & Lumber the stunning Store Hotel in the former naval yards at English Harbour. Don’t coral reefs miss the coconut shrimppp and conch fritters – perfect with a beer. MUST-DO ACTIVITIES Copper & Lumber Release your inner Tarzan or Jane by swinging through the jungle Store Hotel on an Antigua’s Rainforest Canopy Tour. The adrenaline surge as you propel through the air over a deep gorge and lush rainforest on a series of ziplines – one is called The Screamer and another the Leap Of Faith – is exhilarating. Take an island sightseeing tour on a luxury catamaran with Adventure Antigua’s Eco Boat Tour from Jolly Harbour Marina. Or make like OK! and hire your own private speedboat for the day – ours came with a captain, a bottle of rum punch and a huge bag of ice! We were taken on several guided snorkelling expeditions to coral reefs and spotted hundreds of colourful fish including our favourite, the native French Angelfish. OK!
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British Airways Holidays (ba.com/Antigua) offers a great seven-night all-inclusive package, including direct flights from London Gatwick to Antigua and hotel transfers, staying at the four-star Royalton Antigua HOW TO Resort & Spa. Check online for the latest deals. Flights to Antigua in BOOK September are from £369pp, departing from London. For more on the hotel, visit royaltonresorts.com/royalton-antigua and for tourist information, see visitantiguabarbuda.com. Check the latest UK government travel advice at gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 97 LIFELESSONS THE DIVERSITY STAR TALKS HIDDEN TALENTS HIS PLAN B AND WHO HE TURNS TO IN A CRISIS
My hidden talent is… mistakes. I was a cautious that I played the saxophone teenager and young adult. for years. My teacher was very I went into Britain’s Got Talent eccentric. I used to go to her at 19 and suddenly everyone house after school and she’d was looking at me and I cared teach me to play the blues and a lot. I’ve learnt to care less as jazz. I loved it! I stopped when I’ve got older. I was about 17, so I haven’t picked one up for a good 15 If I had half an hour left years now. on Earth and money and resources weren’t a problem, My most treasured I would… go up in space and possession… look back on Earth. is a box called a precious box. It’s only small, so I can only fit Something that makes me the most important things in angry is… there, but my mum bought it bullying. In lots of different for me when I was a teenager circumstances, but especially and I’ve kept it all this time. people being unnecessarily Every now and again I’ll put horrible or taking advantage of one thing others and that’s really using their important in ‘I WAS A power to there. It’s got oppress a card from CAUTIOUS people. my mum on my 18th TEENAGER The best birthday, a thing my wedding AND YOUNG parents invite, my taught baby’s first ADULT’ me is… scan and my if it feels like wedding trouble, walk cufflinks. All irreplaceable away. Don’t get involved if it’s things really. a hassle. Just be chilled.
My plan B in life… The one thing I’d change is something a bit geeky in about myself is… science. I was at university I’d make myself a few inches studying physics and biology. shorter. I’m 6ft 6in and have size 13 feet. Trying to fit into The first person I’d call in clothes, cars or shoes can be a crisis is… tricky. It would make life a little my dad, if I’ve run out of easier if I was 6ft 3in. petrol on the A13. If I can’t find a matching pair of socks, The most expensive item my wife! If I’ve got a crisis in I’ve ever bought is… business, my mum. So it just a house! depends on what the nature Ashley of the crisis is. I’m lucky to The happiest day of my have a lot of good people life was… around me. seeing my two little ones being born. OK! I’d tell my 16-year-old self… DIVERSITY HAVE PARTNERED WITH it’s not as big of a deal as you PERFORMANCE NUTRITION BRAND Banjo GRENADE TO CREATE EXPLOSIVE think it is and to make more CONTENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
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