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The Mummy Diaries star SAM FAIERS exclusively talks to OK! about her long-term compulsive disorder, and how she’s beating it KATE MOSS soaks up the sun in France PAUL HOLLYWOOD’s bitter split from SUMMER MONTEYS-FULLAM Love Island lovebirds MOLLY-MAE HAGUE and TOMMY FURY join OK! for an exclusive shoot BRADLEY COOPER, OPRAH WINFREY, ORLANDO BLOOM and KATY PERRY holiday together in Italy It’s plain sailing for THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE at Cowes KYM MARSH’s OK! column MARK WRIGHT and MICHELLE KEEGAN enjoy some down time in Majorca Meet the new stars of Strictly Come Dancing EMILY ANDRE’s OK! column BRIT CROWD All the UK showbiz news THIS WEEK’S COVER STARS LOVE MATTERS Who’s found Cupid? BRAD PITT on his latest role in QUENTIN TARANTINO’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Rugby ace BEN FODEN gets married… after two weeks of dating! OK! looks forward to the return of Peaky Blinders as we chat to three of the hit show’s stars, HELEN McCRORY, SOPHIE RUNDLE and NATASHA O’KEEFFE Sex And The City creator CANDACE BUSHNELL talks to OK! about dating, her latest book and New York in the ’90s LISA SNOWDON on the perimenopause Coronation Street actress BROOKE VINCENT celebrates at her baby shower Emmerdale star SANDRA MARVIN reveals her plans for life after the Dales HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL England footballer ELLEN WHITE talks about peaking out about LIldLove Island’T’s Tommy FFury and dMll Molly- fulfilling her dreams at the Women’s World Cup OK! ICONS a health disorder Mae Hague look super sexy in our exclusive Penélope Cruz OK! PARTIES takes courage, so shoot, and while they’re going from The week’s big events we commend Sam strength to strength, they can’t understand SFaiers, who describes the negative comments. ‘Whatever she FASHIONISTA living with trichotillomania goes through, I go through. It’s horrible,’ in our frank interview. Tommy tells us in between bites of WHAT’S IN STORE Michelle Keegan for Very Since childhood the mayonnaise-laden pizza. And while Molly- FASHION SPY Rosie’s stylish week star has suffered with Mae concedes that some of the things STEAL THE STARS’ STYLE the condition that sees written about her have been ‘pretty vile’, BEAUTY EDIT All that glitters her habitually pick out all her eyelashes. she says: ‘I’m so happy – I’m loving my life.’ BEAUTY BUZZ Citrus scents Sam, who is joined by her children for our There was fun for the Duke and Duchess exclusive shoot, tells us the trigger for the of Cambridge last week when they attended compulsive disorder was her stepdad going the King’s Cup regatta with Princess Charlotte LIFESTYLE AND CHAT to prison when she was eight. ‘I used to and Prince George, who looked pick out an eyelash and wish for my dad to adorable in his captain’s hat! OK! HEALTH Coping with panic attacks come home,’ she says. Plus, we bring you OK! TRAVEL Rhodes The catalyst for her finally seeking help interviews with Once STARS What lies ahead this week came when her daughter Rosie began Upon A Time In OK! HOTSPOT Moddershall Oaks ROWAN ERLAM OK! RECIPES copying her. ‘I was like, no, I can’t have her Hollywood actor Brad OK! ACTING EDITOR Lucy Burton doing that – that was the turning point.’ Pitt and the stars of ROWANERLAM OK! REVIEWS The hottest new releases Turn the page for the full interview. Peaky Blinders! rowanerlam VINTAGE OK! Coleen Rooney on married life
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REALITY TV QUEEN SAM FAIERS OPENS UP TO OK!’S KATIE LANGFORD-FOSTER ABOUT HER COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND WHAT FINALLY PERSUADED HER TO SEEK HELP
atching entrepreneur and reality star From the age of eight, Sam has suffered Samantha Faiers calmly juggle business with trichotillomania, a condition that sees her calls and tend to her two children habitually pick out all her eyelashes. This year, while looking like a movie star on our she’s finally felt ready to talk openly about it and Wexclusive shoot is impressive, to say the least. seek help. ‘I didn’t see picking out my eyelashes Alongside running their businesses, All Bits as self-harming, but it is,’ she tells us. London and My Little Darlin’, Sam and her partner Big Paul’s mum, nanny Gaynor, is on hand to of almost five years, Paul Knightley, are parents to help with the children as we chat, and as Sam opens adorable son Paul, three – known affectionately as up about her condition and family life, it’s clear her little Paul – and one-year-old daughter Rosie. feet are still firmly on the ground – albeit now in But while today’s shoot with her children is Hertfordshire rather than her home county of Essex. an undeniably glam affair, Sam is keen to open The 28 year old tells us: ‘I know my sister and up about the disorder that has plagued her I live a bit of a glamorous lifestyle sometimes, but since childhood. 90 per cent of the time we are mums at home
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with our kids having know what it’s like growing up with it tantrums and changing and feeling self-conscious. Thank God nappies!’ She’s of course for fake eyelashes! referring to her older sister and fellow former Do you wear them all the time? TOWIE star Billie, with No, I’m actually quite good now. When I whom she stars in was in TOWIE, I used to wear them all the ITVBe’s The Mummy time. I was still very self-conscious, and Diaries, now in series six. felt I had to wear fake eyelashes and lots Here, Sam opens of eye make-up to cover the fact I didn’t up about seeking help have any lashes. Most of the time now, for her hair-pulling I just line my eyes with eyeliner, so you disorder, family life and can’t really notice. why honesty is the key to her success… ppresentst bbuttt nothinghi How does it feel when you are actually wworked. Now I’ve got kids, picking them out? You’ve suffered with trichotillomania for the last thing I’d want them to think is that It feels nice. It’s a habit and a compulsive 20 years. How does it affect you? it’s okay to pull your eyelashes out. disorder, but I am so used to it I don’t even I’m speaking about it more now because I see it as that. I don’t see picking out my am at the point where I am ready to grow Do you ever pull out the hair on eyelashes as self-harming, but it is. them back. It’s such a subconscious thing. I your head? do it either in my sleep or I pull them when No, just my eyelashes. It’s more common How many therapy sessions have I am in a daydream. My mum tried to stop in women and girls and 2.5 per cent of you had? me for years. She put little mittens on me at the UK suffer with it. I hope me speaking I’ve had two in the last couple of months. bedtime, I had hypnotherapy and incentive about it will help other people because I But it’s meant to take a minimum of 6 ‘We don’t have a nanny or any extra help,’ Sam tells us ERS BY BURBERRY SAM WEARS SUIT BY RDVK; SHOES BY GIANVITO ROSSI; AND EARRINGS BY VALET. ROSIE WEARS DRESS BY BURBERRY. PAUL WEARS TOP AND TROUS PAUL ROSIE WEARS DRESS BY BURBERRY. SAM WEARS SUIT BY RDVK; SHOES GIANVITO ROSSI; AND EARRINGS VALET. WWW.OK.CO.UK 7 Above and facing page: Sam says she sought help for her trichotillomania after seeing Rosie touch her own eyelashes SAM WEARS SUIT BY MATERIEL; AND EARRINGS BY VICKI SARGE. ROSIE WEARS DRESS DOLCE & GABBANA SAM WEARS SUIT BY MATERIEL; 8 six to eight sessions, so it’s a process. Do you know what triggered it in the it’s such a shame that we were so young, It’s hypnotherapy. They speak to your first place? we didn’t understand what Mum was going subconscious, so you’re not in a deep sleep Yes. When I was younger, I was really close through at the time – it must have been but you’re very relaxed. She tells you how to my stepdad, who I consider my dad, Dave horrific for her. But despite everything lovely your eyelashes are, that your hands – ‘Chatty’ on the show. I was a real daddy’s she was going through, she was always the don’t need to be near your eyes, but should girl. Unfortunately, my dad went to prison best mum. stay by your sides. and he got quite a long sentence when I was younger and I took it really hard. Then, one Do they still really miss you not living Have you noticed an improvement? day, a family friend’s little girl told me that if in Essex? No [laughs]! I rang my therapist after the you pick out your eyelash and make a wish, It’s only half an hour down the M25! But first sessions and was like: ’I’m picking them it will come true. So I used to pick out an yes, they do, they always want me to move out more!’ She was like: ‘This is normal. It’s eyelash and wish for my dad to come home back to Brentwood. I don’t think I’ll ever not that you’re picking them out more, it’s from prison. It’s sad, but as the years have move back. Sometimes you have to be a that you’re aware of it now. So you notice gone on, I don’t directly relate it to that now. little selfish and Paul and I wanted to move when you’re doing it.’ I have noticed that my It’s just a habit. for ourselves and the kids. And it’s nice bottom eyelashes are coming because when we do get through, but I am still pulling together once or twice on the top. a week it’s really good quality time. Has there ever been a period of time when you How do you and Paul haven’t done it? juggle work and the No, I’ve done it forever. kids between you? I’m very lucky to have When is it at its worst? big Paul. I wouldn’t When I’m stressed by work I be able to do half the pick them out more, or if I’m things I do without him. super busy and then I get The last year has been some down time I find I do really busy so he’s taken it more. I never pick them a step back from office when I’m doing something. work at All Bits London It will always be during my and he’s been really quiet time. helping out with the kids. We don’t have a What made you want to nanny or extra help. He’s seek help for it now? like: ’I would rather do When Rosie was around 14 it myself.’ Gaynor does months old and I was still help out a lot, and my breastfeeding her, I would go mum does when she can to pull or stroke my eyelashes but she also works full and I noticed she’d rub her time running Minnie’s eyelashes too – she was Boutique Online. copying what I was doing. She didn’t know to pull, of We’ve heard you get up course, but that was a big at 5.30am to work out, red flag. I was like, no, I can’t is that true? have her doing that. So when I haven’t done in three Rosie began to copy me weeks [laughs]! But yeah, that was the turning point. I I have to get up and do knew I needed to get help. it before the kids get up, As a mum that is devastating. otherwise it’s impossible. My mum must have been So I do have a personal devastated, too. For years, trainer and he comes to she tried to get me to stop my house before anyone and she just couldn’t. else is awake. I love the feeling of exercising How do your mum and feeling and looking and sister feel about good, but it’s not my your progress? passion, so I like to get it They’re so happy. They done. It sounds brutal but ring me up after each I’m always in bed by nine therapy session. We’ve said anyway [laughs]! that when I’ve got all my eyelashes back, we’re going Would you and Paul like to go mascara shopping! to have more kids? Because, believe it or not, Yes, 100 per cent. Me I’ve never owned a mascara [laughs]! Does your dad know that’s how it began? and Billie have said if we both had a third, Yeah, he does know. But we don’t really we’d love to be pregnant together. Because Has Paul been supportive? speak about it a lot any more because it was what happened was, it was Nelly, then Paul, At first, Paul didn’t understand. My mum so long ago. then Arthur then Rosie, so effectively we and sister have lived with it forever, but didn’t go ‘out out’ together for four and Paul didn’t get how I couldn’t not do it. He Did that time in your life make you and a half years! We can’t have a gap like that was like: ’Can’t you just stop picking them Billie extra close as sisters? again. So we need to time it right this time. out?’ So until recently, he’s never really Me, my mum and sister have always been But I don’t know. I think Billie and Greg are understood. But now he’s really involved and really close, but during those times, it was just happy with their two, enjoying being supportive. He’s interested in what happens always just us three. We call ourselves the married now. I know for sure that I want at therapy, and what else I can do. three musketeers. Me and Billie always say more. She’s not sure yet.
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Big Paul wasn’t keen on the idea of sending little Paul to nursery. Did he ever go in the end? No, he hasn’t. We did try two or three weeks at a lovely little nursery down the road, but I can’t get little Paul out the door for eight o’clock [laughs] and it was difficult to commit to specific hours. He has a really good life at home and is constantly mixing with my friends’ children and his cousins. Paul and I both take him out all the time and he’s always doing activities. I’m not fussed, Paul has a lovely life, and we’ve got one more year left to be flexible and work as hard as we can and then once he’s in school that’s it. You have to stick to those boundaries.
How do you feel about the milestone of sending him to school? When he did those few days at nursery, he was really confident. They said he was actually above a lot of the children his age ‘I hope me considering he’s never been to speaking about nursery or playgroup. We read to it will help him all the time, he does so many other people,’ activities and he gets to travel. Sam tells us SAM WEARS TOP AND SKIRT BY AWAKE MODE; EARRINGS BY VICKI SARGE; AND SHOES FAR SAM WEARS TOP AND SKIRT BY AWAKE
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Above: ‘They absolutely love each other,’ Sam says of Paul and Rosie. Below left: Sisters Billie and Sam at Billie and Greg’s wedding SAM WEARS DRESS BY JOAO ROLO; AND EARRINGS BY VICKI SARGE. ROSIE WEARS JUMPER BY FENDI; AND LEGGINGS BY H&M. PAUL WEARS HOODIE SAM WEARS DRESS BY JOAO ROLO; AND EARRINGS VICKI SARGE. ROSIE JUMPER FENDI; LEGGINGS H&M. PAUL So I think he has an advantage in that sense. How is your Crohn’s disease currently? Was it emotional seeing Billie and Greg tie I have no worries with him when it comes It’s absolutely fine, and my fellow ‘Chronees’ the knot earlier this year? to school but I know me and Paul will be hate it when I say this, but I honestly don’t think It was absolutely amazing. It exceeded all our devastated [laughs]. I have any symptoms any more. They say that expectations. From start to finish, it was the when you get diagnosed you have it forever, best day. It took me weeks to get over it! Will Rosie go to nursery? but I haven’t had a I think so. But again, while flare-up since my first Your dad was escorted off the plane en I can still have her at home one in 2014. It’s under route to the Maldives for the big day. That with Paul and I’m still juggling control. I weaned must have been very stressful for you all… everything, I want them around myself off the steroid That was really bad! My dad decided to take us as much as possible. I feel medication, followed a sleeping tablet and drink a few glasses of very lucky that we even have an anti-inflammatory wine, because he’s a really nervous flier and he that option. diet for six months and was so worried about the 11-hour flight. When just took every vitamin we got the phone call from one of our friends Do they get on well? I could. But because who said: ‘Dave is being walked off the flight,’ They do! They absolutely love I’m okay now, some obviously at first we thought it was a joke. You each other. Paul adores Rosie, people think I never can just imagine how bad that looked in the he really looks out for her and had it that bad, but I press, like: ‘Dave didn’t make the flight,’ but is very protective. really was severely ill. he is terrified of flying so he just tried to do WWW.OK.CO.UK 13 Below: Sam juggles family life with her businesses. Right: Cousins Paul, Nelly, Rosie and Arthur
what he thought was best to fall asleep and get there. It just backfired badly. But there’s always drama at a wedding, isn’t there?! He made it, which was the main thing [laughs].
Would you like to get married one day? Yes, I just feel like when the time is right, it will be. There was no way Paul would have done it across Billie getting engaged and married. He’d want it to be special for me and he knew I was so devoted to my sister getting married, the hen do and the planning. I feel like now that’s all calmed down, maybe soon… [laughs]. But yeah, we both really want to get married and we’ve said it would be lovely to be married before we have more children.
Does Paul feel more relaxed on camera filming The Mummy Diaries now? He’s much more relaxed in front of the cameras but he doesn’t particularly enjoy it. He does it to support me and the kids. He knows it’s a great show and that the family unit is why the FORE show works, but it’s not his favourite thing to do – unlike [Billie’s husband] Greg, he loves it! He rings the producers and knows his plans. Paul’s the opposite, so sometimes when we’re filming I’m like: ’You need to talk back to me here,’ because he sometimes freezes [laughs].
Does it bother you that he receives criticism for how he comes across on the show? Sometimes his shyness can come across as arrogance, and that’s not Paul at all. He’s actually really soft and kind, and he has a good sense of humour. He just doesn’t find it very natural to be himself on camera.
Greg told us that you and Billie sometimes have to tell him to rein it in on social media. Is that true? He does get carried away! Once he decided to do a charity thing naked, just covering his bits! Me and Billie were like: ‘Is that really necessary?’ [Laughs.]
Why do you think The Mummy Diaries is so successful? Because we don’t hide if our kids have a tantrum. I didn’t hide when I was giving birth. Obviously some bits you keep for yourself, but we give everything, the good and the bad. I think mums can maybe relate to us. OK!
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ummer Monteys- about their relationship, Fullam has said ‘family even to her family. means everything’ The NDA was also following her split thought to contain a Sffrom Paul Hollywood. Things section that said Summer tturned ugly between the couldn’t tell anyone the ppair last week, with Paul document existed. aaccusing the 24 year old of When she refused ‘‘playing games’. to sign, Paul reportedly Former barmaid Summer shouted at Summer: ‘F*** iimmediately hit back at off back on that horse you tthe 53 year old’s claims, rode in on,’ to which she rrevealing that she felt replied that she ‘rode into ‘‘betrayed’ and was going to the sunset with a middle ‘‘upgrade’ from The Great finger held high’. BBritish Bake Off judge. Summer has moved out of their Summer ended things after the baker £1 million Kent mansion and back into rrequested that she sign a non-disclosure her mother Sabina’s home. Paul is said to aagreement restricting her from talking have kept some of the gifts he bought her, including a £9,000 ring, a hot tub and a £100,000 Range Rover. He is also Below: Summer has said to be keeping their beloved chicken, moved back into her Karen, but told Summer she can have their mum’s house. Above Rottweiler puppy, Bear, and her horses. right: Paul and his Their war of words continued with Paul former wife Alex liking a comment calling Summer a ‘hungry ex’, while she said the star would ‘shout at me and blame me if I got photographed’. She continued: ‘His claims that I’m making money selling stories are totally false! I felt so betrayed by the NDA, particularly with how much pressure Paul put me under! I had demonstrated loyalty to Paul, and he knows that without question.’ Former Bake Off winner Candice Brown, who was forced to deny rumours of a fling with Paul in 2017, liked a post of his which read: ‘I’ve never understood anyone who makes money selling stories and courting the paps... it saddens me.’ Paul added of the split: ‘There’s always two sides to a story.’ Summer is considering writing a book, while reality shows are apparently desperate to sign her up. But she’s said of appearing on Love Island or starting her own YouTube channel: ‘Neither of those are attractive to me.’ Paul and Summer had been dating since 2017 after the end of his marriage to wife Alex, the mother of his son Josh, 18. The pair met in his local pub, where Summer worked. In August 2018 Alex filed for divorce, the terms of which are still being negotiated, including how Paul’s £10 million fortune will be split. Paul is also said to have asked Alex to sign an NDA during their marriage break-up, which she refused. OK!
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 19 20 ADAPTING TO LIFE OUTSIDE THE VILLA ‘IT’S NOT NICE THAT SOMEONE’S CALLED MY GIRLFRIEND FAKE’ ‘LOVE ISLAND’ RUNNERS-UP TOMMY FURY AND MOLLY-MAE HAGUE TALK TO OK!’S KIRSTY HATCHER ABOUT LOVE LIFE AND MAYONNAISE
heir tans may be fading, but the love Boxer Tommy has been a constant source between Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae of support to influencer Molly, who has been Hague is stronger than ever. Since subjected to cruel trolling and has even received finishing as runners-up on the ITV2 death threats. Thankfully, Molly has found a way Tshow, the Love Island love birds have gone from to laugh off her ‘Money-Mae’ nickname and strength to strength. And when we meet them in suggestions she’s just with Tommy for her career, their penthouse suite at The May Fair Hotel for but there is no denying that the experience has our exclusive OK! shoot, it’s hard to believe that been hard on her. Molly has been accused of faking her feelings ‘It’s a lot of jealousy,’ says Tommy, whose for Tommy. From the way they look at each other brother is world champion boxer Tyson Fury. and finish one another’s sentences, it’s clear that ‘She’s a young, beautiful girl who is doing well this is the real deal. for herself.’ ‘We can’t see anything breaking us apart,’ says It’s not long before we are joined by the other Molly, 20, as she lovingly smiles at Tommy. love of Tommy’s life – a jar of mayonnaise! The
‘She’s a young, beautiful girl,’ says Tommy of Molly-Mae, and insists the online trolls are just ‘jealous’
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20 year old politely requests some to go with Tommy: It shows that you care. For me, Molly’s Has it been nice to be intimate without the his pizza and devours almost half a bottle perfection, inside and out. It’s something I’ve cameras around? during our chat! This even has Molly’s dad never felt before. She is the one for me. Molly: Yes, it’s an important part of the Stephen, who has joined us on the shoot along relationship. with her sister Zoë, joking about installing a Were you disappointed not to win? mayonnaise fridge at the family home for when Molly: Not at all. We’re so happy for Amber Do you want to get married? the pair come to stay! [Gill] and Greg [O’Shea], they deserved to win. Molly: To each other? Yeah! Here, Tommy and Molly, who were both Tommy: We were just excited to make Tommy: A hundred per cent. approached by ITV producers to take part in the final. Molly: It just feels mad at this age. I think a lot Love Island, tell OK! about weddings, babies of relationships at 20 are immature but we feel and how Molly has coped with the backlash Are you going to move in together? like full-grown adults. I never expected to find she’s faced… Molly: Tommy is going to stay with me a lot, someone at 20. I know we’re young but we’re then we’ll see what happens. We speak about so strong. Congratulations on finishing second! it and he’s already got a toothbrush at mine. Tommy: I’m a Christian and a big believer in Can you see yourselves following in the Tommy: We need to be attached at the hip; God; I thank God every day. It would be a big footsteps of previous Islanders who have being apart is not for me. I live at home in church wedding. got married, like Olivia and Alex Bowen? Manchester but I’m thinking about getting Molly: My job is fashion so I’d want a big Molly: We keep saying we can’t see anything a place in London and then we’ll just take it wedding! It’s a big deal. breaking us apart. We’re so happy. We haven’t day by day. had one argument since we got together. Have you thought about a proposal, We’re both jealous types but not in a way that We saw you get intimate in the villa… Tommy? it would ever come between us. I like someone Tommy: It was just vigorous talking! I’m a When the time comes it will be very who’s a bit jealous and Tommy does too. boxer so I was just trying to show her a few extravagant and I’d get her the nicest ring she We’re the boy and girl versions of each other. body shots [laughs]! wants. Whatever Molly wants she can have! 22 Have you spoken about having children? Molly: We did speak about baby names in the villa but only in the baby task, not because we actually want to have babies right now!
Did you both enjoy the reunion after-party? Molly: We didn’t stay long because we were so tired. I don’t really go out and drink, it’s not my vibe. There was some awkward tension on the show so we stayed in our own little group.
Did you speak to Anton Danyluk [who unfollowed Molly on Instagram and also said: ‘We never saw eye to eye, we weren’t friends’] at the party, Molly? No, I’m not confrontational at all. It’s his choice and I’m not going to
sit here and cry about it. WEARS BODYSUIT BY OSEREE MOLLY-MAE WWW.OK.CO.UK 23 MOLLY-MAE WEARS DRESS BY KIRSTY DOYLE; AND JEWELLERY BY LARA HEEMS WEARS DRESS BY KIRSTY DOYLE; AND JEWELLERY MOLLY-MAE 24 Tommy: It’s a shame get trolled. I think Left: The smitten couple he’s come out and people are jealous. admit they’re both the said these things, I’ve been living with jealous type. Right: Tommy but we both wish her for the past two and Molly on Love Island. Anton the best months and she’s Below right: Tyson and in life. the most genuine Tommy in the ring and nicest girl I’ve Do you think ever met. Anton regrets what he said? Is it true you’ve Tommy: Yes. We all been having went through this therapy to deal experience together with the trolling, so why shouldn’t we Molly? all be friends? On my No, I’ve been part, there is no bad having the same blood but it’s not nice that someone has called [post-Love Island] after-care as everyone else. my girlfriend fake when she’s clearly not. I’ve taken the support that ITV provided and it’s Molly: Everyone has seen that I’ve been helped. People keep sending messages like: getting quite a lot of backlash and hate online, ‘Pray for Molly-Mae, I hope she’s okay,’ but I’m so for him to then add fuel to the fire was quite literally sat here loving my life. I’m so happy, shocking. I know Tommy would never do that nothing can burst my bubble; what the public to [Anton’s girlfriend] Belle [Hassan] if she was think is irrelevant. in this situation, because he’s not that type of person. I think it showed more about him What does your job as an influencer entail? than anyone else. It’s a shame that this has I create content for brands, film YouTube happened. It was unnecessary. I want to be videos, model and go on brand trips. able to support everyone who was on the show. Influencers are so misunderstood. There is a lot we all did this together. more to it than people think and it’s a proper full-time job. It allowed me to move out of How have you dealt with the negativity home aged 19 and none of my friends have you’ve faced online, Molly? done that. I knew I was going to get my fair share of hate but I didn’t know Are you going it would be to this to go back to extent. To be called ‘INFLUENCERS ARE boxing, Tommy? fake and all these Yes, I was born a horrible names like MISUNDERSTOOD fighting man. I’m ‘Money-Mae’ when going to take these I haven’t actually IT’S A PROPER great opportunities done anything wrong now, but I’ll be back was a shock. It is hard FULL-TIME JOB’ in that ring. My family to hear. support me whatever I do. Have you looked at what people have said about you online? Did you see that your former girlfriend I did at the start but then I had to stop; I think Millie Roberts celebrated when you didn’t it’s best not to. Some of the stuff that’s been win, Tommy? said about me is pretty vile. There are death I thought things ended on good terms between threats, which really isn’t nice. us so it’s not very nice to hear people you’ve had relationships with doing those things, but I Can you understand why this is happening? can’t tell her what to do or say. There is no bad I think my job probably doesn’t help. blood from my part. Influencers do get a lot of hate but it’s funny and contradictory because everyone still Your brother Tyson warned you not to take follows you. I wasn’t trolled before so it was a part in Love Island… shock. Tommy’s been incredible, he’s A lot of people have their say on what I should so supportive. and shouldn’t do, and Tyson has always advised me well, but I’m my own man and I make my Has it been hard for you to see, Tommy? own decisions. My family were very supportive Yes, because whatever she goes through, I of me going on the show. go through. It’s horrible. I hate seeing Molly What has Tyson said to you since you’ve been home? He’s really happy for me and I can’t wait for Molly to meet him. I don’t think anyone expected me to come back with a girlfriend.
Tyson has been open about his mental health struggles. What was that time like for you? It was definitely a hard time for me but look at what Tyson has done for mental health since, he’s helped millions around the world. The people sending death threats to Molly need to think because these things can have big effects. Tyson’s the big man and the big champ but negative thoughts still entered his head. WWW.OK.CO.UK 25 Below and facing page: ‘I’m so happy, nothing can burst my bubble,’ says Molly. Right: ‘Till the day I die, I’ll be with Curtis,’ says Tommy
Have you ever talked about your background as a traveller, Tommy? No, I haven’t spoken about it much but I’m proud of where I come from, it’s who I am.
It was reported that your family are planning a ‘big fat gypsy wedding’ for the two of you, Tommy… There is no truth in that. In the future we’re going to have our own wedding. Molly: We’ll plan it ourselves!
Curtis Pritchard has said he’s open to a relationship with a man… I can’t comment as I haven’t seen the article, but I found a brother in Curtis. Till the day I die, I’ll be with Curtis.
What did you do on your weekly days off from filming in the villa? Molly: Just chilled. Sometimes the boys would go off to a different villa if there had been an argument because otherwise people might have sorted things out while we weren’t filming. On nights off from filming we had to sleep in same-sex beds in the same room [as the producers didn’t want to miss chats between couples]. Tommy and I would just wave at each other and throw [Molly’s teddy] Ellie-Belly across the room!
How much mayonnaise did you get through during your time in the villa, Tommy? It got to the point where I was going through a bottle a day. The boys had to save me. They said: ‘You need to think about your career!’ I started fearing for my health mid-way through as I’d put on a stone. I switched over to ketchup for a bit and I got some sort of abs back. Molly: I put on 5lbs. I go to the gym most days when I’m at home but in the villa your diet and health just goes out of the window. OK!
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STARS IN STRIPES KEEPING LOVE IN BLOOM ORLANDO BLOOM AND KATY PERRY ENJOY ISLAND HOPPING WITH THEIR FAMOUS FRIENDSS
aty Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bradley show host Oprah Winfrey, who looked Cooper and Oprah Winfrey enjoyed lovely in white, as well as newly single an Italian boat trip together last actor Bradley Cooper – who sensibly week. The foursome’s outing sported a sunblock-covered nose – for a Kcame after they attended Google’s star- stroll around the island town of Panarea. studded climate summit in Sicily, where The trip formed another part of Katy Prince Harry is believed to have given and Orlando’s Italian vacation, which an impassioned speech, and music was began with a journey down the Amalfi provided by top rockers Coldplay. coast on board superyacht the Rising Sun. Engaged couple Katy, 34, and Orlando, But last week it was revealed that 42, looked to be enjoying la dolce vita the origins of their romance are far less with Katy sporting a quirky yellow striped glamorous! The lovebirds met at the ensemble and Orlando matching her in 2016 Golden Globes, where a hungry orange stripes.p They were joined by chat Katy had a box of burgers delivered to her table. A famished Orlando asked for one and the rest is history! ‘I saw Katy – I’d met her a couple of times but didn’t know her well – and gave her a wink, and that was that,’ he said. Orlando also opened up about the secrets of keeping their romance fresh, revealing: ‘It’s always the little things that add up – writing a note, showing appreciation, making the person feel Bradley and The holiday AGENCY you care, that you see what they’re Oprah go continues for doing and appreciate it. That you’re for a stroll Katy and Orlando MEGA trying to make them feel safe and OK! THE MEGA AGENCY connected and grounded.’ 28 k 2MRXIRHSk )PIGXVSRMG%VXW-RG)%)%743687XLI)%743687PSKSERH9PXMQEXI8IEQEVIXVEHIQEVOWSJ)PIGXVSRMG%VXW-RG3JƤGMEP*-*%PMGIRWIHTVSHYGXk*-*%ERH*-*%ŭW3JƤGMEP0MGIRWIH4VSHYGX0SKSEVIGST]VMKLXWERHSVXVEHIQEVOWSJ*-*% %PPVMKLXWVIWIVZIH1ERYJEGXYVIHYRHIVPMGIRWIF])PIGXVSRMG%VXW-RG8LI9)*%[SVH',%14-3270)%+9)[SVHXLI9)*%PSKSERHEPPQEVOWVIPEXIHXS9)*%GSQTIXMXMSRW MRGPYHMRKFYXRSXPMQMXIHXSPSKSWHIWMKRWQEWGSXWTVSHYGXWXVSTLMIWERHREQIW EVIS[RIH ERHTVSXIGXIHEWXVEHIQEVOWHIWMKRWERHSVEWGST]VMKLX[SVOWF]9)*%*SVXRMXIk )TMG+EQIW-RG)TMG)TMG+EQIW9RVIEP9RVIEP)RKMRIERH*SVXRMXIEVIVIKMWXIVIHXVEHIQEVOWSJ)TMG+EQIW-RGMRXLI97% 6IK974EX 8Q3JJ ERHIPWI[LIVI8LI)TMG +EQIWPSKS*SVXRMXI WX]PM^IH XLI9RVIEP)RKMRIPSKSERH9)ERHMXWPSKSEVIXVEHIQEVOWSJ)TMG+EQIW-RG%PPVMKLXWVIWIVZIH1SNERKk Ű1MRIGVEJXűMWEXVEHIQEVOSJ1SNERK7]RIVKMIW%&k 4SOɯQSRk ũ 2MRXIRHS'VIEXYVIW-RG+%1) *6)%/MRG4SOɯQSRERH2MRXIRHS7[MXGLEVIXVEHIQEVOWSJ2MRXIRHSk 2MRXIRHS3VMKMREP+EQI k2MRXIRHS,%00EFSVEXSV]-RG'LEVEGXIVW k2MRXIRHS,%0Ʉ0EFSVEXSV]-RG4SOɯQSRɄ'VIEXYVIWɄ-RG+%1)*6)%/MRG7,-+)7%83-83-%4)MRGɄ-2- 8)00-+)287=78)17/SREQM(MKMXEP)RXIVXEMRQIRX7)+%'%4'31'308(&%2(%-2%1'3)RXIVXEMRQIRX-RG13230-8,73*8'%4'3197%-2'759%6))2-<'308(%80971MGVSWSJXk 1%6:)0k %GXMZMWMSR4YFPMWLMRK-RG%'8-:-- 7-32'6%7,8)%16%'-2+'86'6%7,&%2(-'338ERH'6%7,EVIXVEHIQEVOWSJ%GXMZMWMSR4YFPMWLMRK-RG8LIVEXMRKMGSRMWEXVEHIQEVOSJXLI)RXIVXEMRQIRX7SJX[EVI%WWSGMEXMSR%PPSXLIVXVEHIQEVOWERHXVEHIREQIWEVIXLITVSTIVXMIWSJXLIMVVIWTIGXMZIS[RIVW ALL AT SEA KATE AND WILLIAM SET SAIL THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE ENJOY A RIGHT ROYAL REGATTA
he Duke and Duchess of very own captain’s hat and showing Cambridge went head to off a gap-toothed grin. Meanwhile, head last week as they set Charlotte, four, looked the part in sail from Cowes on the Isle of an adorable nautical-themed Ralph TWight. And first in line to cheer them Lauren frock, and later pleased the on as they competed in the King’s crowds back on dry land as she Cup yachting regatta were their cheekily poked her tongue out eldest two children, Prince George at them! and Princess Charlotte. Arriving at the event, Kate paired While their parents battled it out her LK Bennett trousers and frilled on the water, the youngsters joined knitted Sandro top with Superga their grandparents Michael and trainers, before switching into her Carole Middleton to watch from sailing gear. And as she took to the another boat. George, six, played water, the duchess was also showing skipperpp for the day,y, donningg his off her tan following the family’s rerecentc holiday on the CaCaribbean island of MMustique.u Kate is a keen The race saw Kate sailor and looked aandn William, who right at home araree also parents to on the water CaptionCaption oone-year-oldn Prince whitewhite to bbee LoLouis, compete addedaddeed hhereere agagainst celebrity aambassadorsm rrepresentinge ttheh eight charitiesc they chosec to
The duchess looked elegantly nautical in a Sandro top and LK Bennett trousers 30 Above: Princess Charlotte smiled sweetly for the cameras… before poking out her tongue (below)!
Prince George looked adorable in his captain’s hat and nautical top WWW.OK.CO.UK 31 Kate laughs as she gracefully accepts the loser’s wooden spoon!
benefit from this year’s event. And The duchess despite putting on an impressive showw seemed to for the crowds, both were pipped to be having the post by Bear Grylls and his crew, a whale who were racing on behalf of William’ss of a time cause, conservation charity Tusk. While William and his team, who were racing for Child Bereavement UK, finished third, luck wasn’t on the duchess’s side and she and her crew were disqualified in the second race, finishing last overall. But her loss did nothing to dampen the 37 year old’s spirits, and she was all smiles as she was later reunited with her children in the stands. Also racing to support the duke’s chosen charities were England footballer Fara Williams, representingg Centrepoint, and historian Dan Snow,w, supporting London’s Air Ambulance Charity. Kate was racing for The Royalal Foundation’s Early Years programme,, and supporting her patronages were comedian John Bishop for Action Onn Addiction, CBBC’s Katie Thistleton for Place2Be and Olympic rower Helen Glover, who raced for the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The historic King’s Cup was first presented by King George V in 1920 and this year’s race was held a day earlier than originally planned, Charlotte and her due to the predicted bad weather mother looked on Friday. animated at the In other royal news, back on prize giving! the mainland, Zara Tindall enjoyed a family day out at last week’s Festival of British Eventing. 32 Kate took charge of her yacht William’s team came in third place
Granddad Michael Middleton looks out for Prince George and a young pal
Bear Grylls was the triumphant victor!
WWW.OK.CO.UK 33 The duchess’s loss didn’t dampen her spirits
The duke and duchess were pitted against each other for charity The weather meant that the regatta Kate took the took place a helm for The day early Royal Foundation
34 Above: Mum Zara cuddles an unamused Lena! Below: But the tot appears happier on Mum’s shoulders
Mia shows an early interest in the horses
Prince George and Princess Charlotte watch the prizes being handed out
The Olympic silver medallist was joined by daughters Mia, five, and one-year-old Lena, for a stroll around the grounds of her mother Princess Anne’s Gatcombe Park, where the competition was being held. And after taking her first public steps the previous day, Lena enjoyed a well- earned rest as her 38-year-old mum carried her around the show ground. In one of the few glimpses royal fans have had of the youngster since her birth last June, she showed a striking resemblance to her father Mike Tindall. But while her mum was all smiles, Lena was clearly not amused by the day’s festivities, showing her distaste with a little frown. Meanwhile, Mia enjoyed the festival with her cousins, Savannah and Isla Phillips, under the watchful Princess Anne keeps eye of their grandmother. OK! an eye on Mia Tindall REPORT BY KATIE LANGFORD-FOSTER and Savannah and PHOTOGRAPHS BY AFP, GETTY IMAGES, Isla Phillips UK PRESS, WIRE IMAGE
WWW.OK.CO.UKWWWOK COUK 35 KYM’SCOLUMN ‘WE DON’T TAKE EACH OTHER FOR GRANTED’ OUR COLUMNIST WELCOMES HOME HER ARMY BOYFRIEND GETS GOOD NEWS FROM HER DOCTOR AND AGREES YOU CAN’T HELP WHO YOU FALL FOR
eing reunited with Scott after everything’s fine. My implants are ten he had been out of the country years old now and some people say for work was wonderful! I you should get them replaced after a travelled down to his army decade, but my specialist said mine Bbarracks in Colchester on the night he are fine. If I was to have them done landed and then we came back up to again, I think I’d go for the same size Manchester the following day. It was a and shape, which reassures me that I nine-hour round trip for me, but every made the right choice ten years ago. I night matters when you don’t see each wouldn’t want to have them out. other that much – we don’t take each Many people have jumped to the other for granted. Back home Teddy defence of Love Island star Curtis was so pleased to see Scott! It was so Pritchard [below, with Maura Higgins] cute and I love this picture of the two who refused to label himself ‘bisexual’ of them [right]. despite saying he wouldn’t rule out a I’ve been experiencinggp pain in my y relationshipp with a man in the future. I right breast and ccompletely agree it’s been getting – why should he? worse, so the LLove is love. kids nagged me I think we have to go and get ttoo many labels it checked out, these days. You saying I usually can be someone go to the doctor’s who considers for a broken themselves to fingernail! Having be a straight breast implants person and then can make checking fall in love with a bit trickier, someone of the so I like to go same sex. I’ve every couple of seen it before years. and it doesn’t I had a mean they’re mammogram and bisexual, they’ve I’m pleased to say just fallen in love. LAUREN AND JACK’S NO-SHOW BEN’S A FAST WORKER! auren Goodger [left] and Jack Fincham et’s face it, I’m not in a position to judge anyone about L[below] were no-shows on This Morning Lmarriage as I’m twice-divorced. In fact, I’m living proof it lastl week after being pictured partying at the doesn’t matter if you’re with someone for a good few years CelebsC Go Dating wrap party the night before. before you get hitched, it can still go wrong! Having said that, I say,y, if youy can’t stand the heat, get out of the Ben Foden marrying his new wife, Jackie [below left], after two kitchen! No matter what, if weeks does seem very quick! you’ve been out the night My older children would before, you have to show up be like: ‘Dad, what are you for work. This Morning is live doing?!’ if their father got and I’m sure people there married that soon. That said, would have been furious we don’t know anything about about having to fill that slot their relationship. I’m sure at the last minute. You’ve got they’re super-happy and I wish to maintain a certain level of them all the best. Whirlwind professionalism, so if you know marriages can work. My mum you’re going on live TV, don’t and dad got married after drink, or worst-case scenario, six months. People were a you’ve just got to put on a bit shocked at the time but brave face! I’m sure going on they’re still going strong 54 hungover would have been years later. But two weeks! I preferable to them not showing do wonder how much you can up at all. How you treat people know about someone in that iis everything in this industry. short space of time. OK! BACKGRID, GC IMAGES, ITV 36 ROMANTIC REUNION OUR GIRL AT PLAY MICHELLE KEEGAN AND MARK WRIGHT WIND DOWN ON A SPANISH BREAK
njoying some down time following five months of filming in South Africa, Michelle Keegan joined her husband EMark Wright in Majorca last week. The reunited pair, both 32, jetted to the Spanish isle two weeks after Michelle wrapped filming on the fourth series of her BBC army drama Our Girl. Meanwhile, Mark has been busy hosting his own Saturday afternoon show on Heart FM. The couple, who married in 2015, arrived hand in hand for the Pirates Reloaded acrobatic show in Majorca. Their romantic break came after Mark’s former fiancée Lauren Goodger branded the couple’s marriage ‘really weird’. Saying she was glad she didn’t end up in Michelle’s position, the Celebs Go Dating star, also 32, said: ‘I saw them both in theh gym. They don’t talk. It’s really weird. I was like, f***ing hell, we weren’t like that. It’s like they don’t know each other.’ Lauren and Mark were together for 11 years but ended their engagement in 2011 amid claims she had cheated on Mark, something she has always denied. He began dating actress and former Coronation Street star Michelle a year later. OK!
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ALEX MIKE BUSHELLM S SCOTT he BBC Breakfast sports presenter urrently the bookies’ Tbecame an internet legend after Cfavourite, Alex hilariously falling into a swimming pool Scott MBE, 34, is while interviewing swimmers at the expected to do well Commonwealth Games in 2018. The video on Strictly, particularly was shared 11.5 million times in one day! as she won the 2018 Despite admitting that his poor dancing Sport Relief version ability led him to ‘jump up and down’ with Pasha Kovalev, during his wedding dance, Mike, 53, holds who praised the former a world record for trying the most sports, Arsenal captain for so could he be this year’s dark horse? her impeccable work ethic. But the sports pundit – who played 140 times for England (more, even, than David Beckham!) – won’t be reuniting with her dance partner as Pasha has now left the show and is set to become a dad.
SAFFRON BARKER
fter Joe Sugg’s success Alast year, it’s unsurprising that Strictly bosses have put another vlogger on MICHELLE VISAGE the billing. Saffron gets 15 million YouTube views every ichelle, 50, first found fame as part month with videos such as Mof girl band Seduction but is better ‘I faked having a boyfriend known as a judge on hit show RuPaul’s online for a week’ and ‘I Drag Race, even picking up an Emmy only wore roller boots for 24 nomination for her role as producer. The hours’. Her loyal fan base British incarnation of the show will also be helped her top the Sunday starting in October so fans of Michelle, Times bestseller list with her who once won a Madonna lookalike book Saffron Barker V Real competition, won’t be short of viewing Life, and she’s also released opportunities! This is not her first reality TV three homeware ranges with foray in the UK – Michelle finished fifth on Primark. Not bad for a 19 Celebrity Big Brother in 2015. year old!
38 JAMIE LAINGAM A NG ince landing on our screens in 2011 as Spart of Made In Chelsea, pocket rocket Jamie has caused plenty of drama. He was involved in a love triangle with best friend Spencer Matthews and Louise Thompson, and he is now dating Louise’s little brother Sam Thompson’s former girlfriend Sophie Habboo. The 30-year-old McVitie’s heir (yes, we’ve got Jamie’s grandad to thank for the digestive biscuit) has used his sweet tooth to create his confectionery brand Candy Kittens and his lovable charm to host a podcast called Private Parts. The reality veteran has appeared on 28 different TV shows, including Hollyoaks and Celebrity Hunted.
DEV GRIFFIN he BBC Radio 1 DJ’s path to Strictly Tbegan way back in 1996. ‘I entered a dance competition at the Pontins holiday CATHERINE TYLDESLEY park. I danced to MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This, came second and swore atherine, 35, waltzed Days and is now hoping to ‘Auntie Cath’ to fans. ‘I used retribution! Fast forward to 2019, I’m going Caway from her hone another new skill after to say good night to people to be on this year’s series of Strictly Come Coronation Street character admitting she ‘can’t really [on Twitter], so people used Dancing,’ he recently said. The 34-year- Eva Price in 2018, and is dance’. She’s mum to Alfie, to call me a grandma. I was old singleton, who began his career on now taking her cha cha cha- who she became pregnant like: “That’s a bit harsh, I’m children’s TV, also joked he’d rather like to nces on the dancefloor. She with after just six months of more like an auntie,”’ she be a victim of the famous Strictly ‘curse’. recently mastered a Welsh dating now-husband Tom says, explaining how the ‘That’s half the reason I signed up,’ he said. accent in crime drama 15 Pitfield, but she’s known as nickname came about. ‘I’d be upset if it doesn’t happen.’
WWW.OK.CO.UK 39 CHRIS RAMSEY tand-up comedian Chris has had Splenty of solo success, including two series of The Chris Ramsey Show for Comedy Central. But fans enjoy it best when he teams up with his wife Rose for their popular podcast Sh***ed, Married, Annoyed. The couple are often praised for being honest about all aspects of their relationship and parenting, including a heartbreaking miscarriage last year. Rose has already joked about succumbing to the Strictly curse after Chris, 33, failed to call her when he said he would.
JAMES CRACKNELL ouble Olympic gold medallist DJames, 47, is likely to welcome the positive focus he’ll need for Strictly following his split earlier this year from wife Beverley Turner, with whom he shares three children. Ironically, rower James, who was awarded the OBE in 2005, reportedly turned down a position on the show last year as Beverley was worried about the show’s curse causing a rift in their relationship.
KARIM ZEROUALM ZEROUAL ho better to Wpersuade the little ones to stay quiet during Strictly than CBBC presenter Karim Zeroual? The 25 year old should be well prepared following his West End performance as Simba in The Lion King. Also a DJ, Karim’s currently working on a sports documentary where he takes three British children to different EMMA THYNN parts of the world VISCOUNTESS to see how they do at other countries’ WEYMOUTH national sports. he announcement of the show’s Tfirst ever aristocrat had the nation asking a collective ‘who?’ but Lady ANNEKA RICE Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, 33, could do well. The mum of two, osses at Strictly have been keen to sign ’80s telly married to Longleat heir Viscount Blegend Anneka for years. The 60-year-old action Weymouth, has many strings to her woman,w who previously appeared with fellow hopeful bow – model, philanthropist, chef and JamieJ Laing on Celebrity Hunted, is no stranger to Vogue contributor. She’ll also become a bit of physical exertion, so she should stand a chance Britain’s first ever black marchioness ofo bagging that Glitterball. Fingers crossed we’ll get to when her husband inherits his father’s sees a Challenge Anneka-style freestyle routine, complete title. One to watch. wwith jumpsuit and helicopter.
40 WILL BAYLEY able tennis champ Will Bayley MBE, 31, Ttook home a gold medal in the 2016 Rio Paralympics so we can expect him to be one of this year’s most competitive hopefuls in the battle for the Glitterball. However, Will – who suffers with the condition arthrogryposis, which causes curved joints – admits he’ll have his work cut out. ‘I have never, ever danced in my life – apart from in clubs, where my friends have told me to stop because I’m awful.’
EMMA BARTON est known as EastEnders’ Honey DAVID JAMES BMitchell, Emma will soon be swapping Albert Square for fake tan and ormer England goalkeeper David James, sequins. While the 42-year-old actress F49, may want to put in a call to his old may not be the first Walford resident manager Harry Redknapp for reality TV to take to the dancefloor (more than advice. King of the jungle Harry led David 20 of the soap’s actors have already – who was awarded an MBE in 2012 – and gone through the Strictly experience), his Portsmouth team-mates to victory in the it’s no less exciting for the show’s self- 2008 FA Cup, and a few TV tips could work confessed ‘biggest fan’. While Honey’s wonders too! He may have modelled for on/off relationship with Billy Mitchell Giorgio Armani, but David isn’t just a pretty has kept viewers entertained since face – he is also a keen artist, who has 2005, Emma keeps her own relationship illustrated children’s books. OK! status more private, though she was linked to TV presenter Stephen Mulhern REPORT BY JOSIE COPSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY BBC, following her divorce in 2005. GETTY, INSTAGRAM, PA WIRE, WIRE IMAGE
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EMILY’SCOLUMN in association with ‘PETE AND I ARE PLANNING TO HAVE A NIGHT AWAY TOGETHER’ OUR COLUMNIST ENJOYS A DAY OUT AT THE ZOO SHUNS SOCIAL MEDIA AND SUPPORTS BARBARA WINDSOR
ete has been away working in Croatia ten times and Theo has even been dressing so we’re really missing him. When he up as Buzz Lightyear [below left]! gets back he’s straight into Grease The Drew Barrymore recently opened up about Musical again! It’s my 30th birthday this her children and said that she wishes she Pweek and he’s going to come back to spend could raise her daughters in a world without the day with us social media. I totally agree with Drew, it’s so before heading difficult to navigate social media as a parent. back to work. On the one hand you don’t want your kids to He’s working feel left out, but then studies have also shown hard at the that social media can be damaging. A recent moment so I’m study revealed that only nine per cent of social very happy he’s media use is able to come actually for social back. I’m going purposes, the rest to a friend’s is just scrolling and wedding for the making negative weekend after comparisons. For my birthday, me there are more which will be negatives than lovely, then positives when it Pete and I are comes to social planning on having a night away together to media, which celebrate in a few weeks! is exactly why I I took Millie to London Zoo last week. She don’t have it. I’m wrote a list of all the animals she was hoping definitely happy to see then ticked them off as we went around with my decision to keep Millie and Theo away [right]. She loved the giraffes [far right]! She from it, and I would only change my decision and Theo have also really got into Toy Story. once I’m confident they are old enough to be They’ve watched the original movie about able to understand the pros and cons. BINKY’S DUMMY RUN WELL DONE BABS inky Felstead [right] posted a video last ast week I was touched to read Bweek showing herself throwing all of Lthat Barbara Windsor signed an her two-year-old daughter India’s dummiess open letter to Boris Johnson [right] in the bin [below]. She said it was a urging him to change the way we ‘milestone’ for her to ‘finally’ be off them. care for people with dementia. It can be tricky weaning babies or toddlers Over 200,000 people have signed off a dummy as they come to depend the Alzheimer’s Society’s letter so on it for comfort or to help them sleep. far. So many people are affected Using a dummy is a personal choice. You by dementia, including Barbara, shouldn’t offer a dummy before four to six who suffers from Alzheimer’s. It’s weeks as it interferes with breastfeeding. such a heartbreaking disease, not I found I had no need for a dummy with only for those who have been diagnosed, but their families. One Millie, but for Theo I needed it to help him of the issues tackled in the letter is the lack of funding available sleep as he was very unsettled. I finally got to care for people with dementia, with many individuals having rid of all the dummies just before he turned to sell their homes or spend their life savings. I hope the letter two! We decided to go cold turkey and it is the start of the government making some positive changes, took about a month for him to get used to it.t. because things can’t continue the way they are. OK! GETTY IMAGES, INSTAGRAM
EMAIL ME AT [email protected] WWW.OK.CO.UK 43 JESY’S ‘SAD’ CONFESSIONJ he may have been on a picturesque holiday with her boyfriend CHRIS HUGHES (left), but that didn’t Sstop JESY NELSON bravely admitting that she gets hit with ‘waves of sadness’. During her trip to Bali with 26-year-old Chris, Jesy, 28, shared a post saying: ‘Sometimes out of nowhere I’ll get these random waves of sadness and I don’t know how they get there but they just do!’ She continued: ‘Most of the time when I have these moments I just want to burst into tears and just let myself be sad. Not so long ago I used to just hold it all in and trytry to forget about it, or think of things that didn’t make me feel that way to stop me from crying. But isn’t that ridiculous?’ She added: ‘If I feel sad now I let it out.’ Her admission and holiday bikini snaps (left) came after she recently opened up about her mental health and body confidence sstruggles, rrevealing that sshe used to just ssee herself as ‘t‘the fat one from LLittle Mix’. HOLDEN ON HOLS ith just weeks to go until Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions hits Wour screens, AMANDA HOLDEN took the opportunity to relax on her seventh holiday of the year. The judge, who has jetted around the world to Bahrain, Dubai, Portugal, Paris and Greece this year, shared a series of snaps from her Italian family getaway, including one of her chilling out on a unicorn inflatable (right). The Heart FM radio host, 48, was joined by her husband Chris Hughes and their daughters Lexie, 13, and Hollie, seven. Poking fun at her and Chris’s similar hairstyles (below), Amanda posted a picture of the pair in Puglia with the caption: ‘#samehairwedontcare.’samehairwedontcare. BGTT returns to ITV soon with Amanda joining her fellow judges SIMON COWELL, ALESHA DIXON and DAVID WALLIAMS to give their verdict on …Got Talent acts from around the world.
44 BRITCROWD THE BECKHAMS LIVE LA DOLCE VITA ffering an insight into their Italian adventures, the BECKHAM brood last week shared a series of snaps from their family holiday Oin Puglia. Evidently still feeling loved up following their 20th anniversary celebrations in July, VICTORIA, 45, and DAVID, 44, looked the picture of happiness on a date night during the sun-soaked holiday (left). Another image shows the pair indulging their childish sides as theyyy cycle through the idyllic looking fields of the Italian countryside (below). The proud parents were also joined on the trip by their four children, Brooklyn, 20 (right), Romeo, 16, Cruz, 14, and eight-year-old Harper. Further social media posts show the family paddleboarding, enjoying a boys’ trip and indulging in a Puglian feast including prosciutto, pizza and lots of burrata.
WAYNE’S DERBY GAMBLE wo seasons before doing their fans no favours by completing his contract with wearing gambling logos. Rooney TWashington’s DC United, should take the lead and stand WAYNE ROONEY (below) has up for his fans by refusing to wear confirmed that he’s relocating to this shirt.’ Wayne has previously Derby Country to become player- admitted his own gambling losses coach at the club. This has no have been ‘stupid’. doubt pleased his long-suffering TURN TO PAGE 106 FOR MORE ON THE ROONEYS. wife COLEEN, who was apparently ‘unhappy’ while living in Washington. Some reports even suggest that she’s hoping to try for a fifth child now they’re back in the UK – the pair already share sons Kai, nine, Klay, six, Kit, three, and 18-month-old Cass (far right). However, there have been concerns raised by the Church of England about Wayne’s new club’s associations with betting firm 32Red, which will see him promote the gambling company. Dr Alan Smith, the bishop of St Albans and the church’s gambling spokesman, said: ‘Stars need to wake up to the fact they’re PA IMAGES, INSTAGRAM PA WWW.OK.CO.UK 45 HEIDI GETS HITCHED AT SEA ix months after their first wedding in California, HEIDI KLUM and TOM KAULITZ said ‘I do’ Sagain in front of friends and family with a lavish weddingw on a luxury yacht (bottom left) off the coast ofo Capri, Italy. The supermodel bride, 46, looked effortlesslye stunning in a strapless white gown (bottom),( while Tom swapped his scruffy rocker vibev for a sharp suit. The day before, the pair were picturedp heading to their pre-wedding party (left). The 29-year-old Tokio Hotel musician has embracede his role as a stepdad to the four children HeidiH shares with former husband SEAL, and the couplec were joined by her daughters Leni, 15, and Lou,L nine, and sons Henry, 14, and Johan, 12, along withw Heidi’s parents Erna and Gunther. Meanwhile, TomT had his twin brother and bandmate Bill by his sides as he and Heidi tied the knot on board the vessel ChristinaC O, once owned by Jackie O’s husband ARISTOTLE ONASSISA . The yacht was adorned with whitew and pastel pink flowers and fabric draping. As the sun set, guests including Heidi’s former America’s Got Talent co-star MEL B – wearing her trademark leopard print (left) – partied into the night under the disco lights on deck. Celebrations continued the next day with a party at La Fontelina restaurant in Capri.
46 LOVEMATTERS HOLLY CELEBRATES SAYING SHE WILLOUGHBY DAN’S WIFE arking her 12th wedding anniversary Mwith her husband DAN BALDWIN, HOLLY WILLOUGHBY (right) posted a sweet throwback snap from their wedding day (left). The day was exclusively covered by OK! and Holly told us of Dan: ‘I remember one of the first moments I realised how strongly I felt about Dan. It was quite early on in our relationship and I went on holiday with FEARNE COTTON, and Dan had made me a CD of his favourite songs.’ Author and presenter Fearne acted as one of Holly’s bridesmaids, while X Factor host DERMOT O’LEARY was an usher. The This Morning presenter, 38, and TV producer Dan, 44, now share Harry, ten, Belle, eight, and Chester, four. Commenting on the snap, Holly’s close friend EMMA BUNTON gushed: ‘Just so gorgeous!’ Holly, who wore a dress designed by herself and made by her friend, has admitted she did have one regret about the day, though: ‘I wanted the massive dress and the towering heels. But I regretted it and I ended up walking around barefoot for the whole day.’ CARA AND ASHLEY TIE THE KNOT IN VEGAS he rumour mill is in devoted to each other and overdrive following they had the biggest smiles Tclaims that supermodel on their faces.’ CARA DELEVINGNE and The couple did nothing to Pretty Little Liars actress quell the speculation. Days ASHLEY BENSON (right) after supposedly tying the knot have got married in an Elvis- in front of CHARLIZE THERON, themed Las Vegas chapel. THE JONAS BROTHERS and The Little Chapel owner SOPHIE TURNER, Ashley, 29, revealed: ‘Theyyy were clearly was snappedpp wearing what appeared to be a gold wedding band (left), while Cara shared a photo of a cake decorated with the words ‘I love you Cara’, which she captioned: ‘Luckiest girl in the world.’ There is speculation that the couple are not legally married and that they instead chose to have a ‘friendship ceremony’. Cara, 26, confirmed back in June that the pair had been ddating for over a year. BACKGRID, GETTY IMAGES, INSTAGRAM, SPLASH NEWS BACKGRID, GETTY IMAGES, INSTAGRAM, WWW.OK.CO.UK 47 BACK WITH A ‘LOVE LETTER TO LA’ ‘I HAD NEVER BEEN ON A PLANE UNTIL I WAS ’ BRAD PITT TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH LEONARDO DiCAPRIO THE PRESSURES OF FAME AND WHY HE ALWAYS ROOTS FOR THE UNDERDOG
ollywood legend Brad Pitt needs no introduction. His illustrious career spans nearly three decades and he’s appeared in films including Seven Hand 12 Years A Slave. But in recent years, his relationships have seen 55-year-old Brad hit the headlines more than his acting. After a high-profile divorce from Friends actress Jennifer Aniston, Brad moved on with Angelina Jolie and the pair have six children, three of whom they adopted, before splitting in 2016. He subsequently revealed that an addiction to alcohol had contributed to issues in his marriage. So it must be a relief for Brad, who is looking tanned, healthy and happy, to be back in the spotlight because of a movie. And not just any movie – Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sees Brad star alongside Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio in a warmhearted tribute to Brad Pitt with his Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Hollywood’s golden age. ‘It was really great co-stars Margot Robbie and Leonardo to work with Leo,’ he says, adding of the DiCaprio, and director Quentin Tarantino whole cast: ‘It’s knowing you’ve got the best of the best on the opposite side of the table.’ Here, Brad opens up about feeling like breakdown scenes I’ve ever seen from my What were you like when you were an underdog, working with director Quentin friend Leo. In the Cliff character, you see a 17 years old? Tarantino and being a ‘cars and girls’ guy who’s gone past that and is accepting of Man, I was just interested in cars and girls. obsessed 17 year old... his lot in life. He’s at peace. I wasn’t thinking that far ahead; I’ve never been one to do so. What was it like working with Leonardo’s character is becoming an Leonardo DiCaprio? underdog. Have you ever felt like that? You travel all over the world. What’s your There was a great ease and it was really Yes, I think it’s easy to forget that I came from first memory of planes? fun. I had a laugh with him. You’ve got the Oklahoma and Missouri – places where the I had never been on a plane until I was 25, so best of the best holding up the scene with film industry is not on the vocational list, so I everywhere I got to travel was really exciting you and there’s a great relief in that. We started as an extra and slowly learned about for me. It didn’t matter whether it was the have the same reference points. We came the industry. I still root for an underdog. Netherlands or Belgium or Tokyo, I just into the industry at the same time, we have remember soaking in everything. similar experiences and we know a lot of the Do you think outside the box? same people. Leonardo is really giving and I try to live outside the box. It started with Is fame liberating or suffocating? generous. I hope me at an early age in a It can be both; it’s a trade-off. It’s liberating we get to work religious environment. in the opportunities it provides but, on the together again. Leaving that behind other hand, it can be very confining. I haven’t was scary. I would think, seen a hotel lobby in 15 years because I’ve Leonardo plays what’s it all about? I got to go up the ass end of a hotel and out an actor whose had all these questions. the same way. We get our moments, but it’s career is taking Religion was a pacifier good and bad. a nose dive, for those fears, but and you play suddenly I had nothing What did you think when you saw his stuntman. to answer them with. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood for the How much do first time? you identify What was your dream I was as pleased as punch. Tarantino always with these when you first started brings something fresh and new to the table. characters? out as an actor? It’s a love letter to this community that I have I see Rick [Leo] I didn’t think that loved – and hated – through the years. It’s a and Cliff [me] as far ahead. I just loved love letter to LA, which I also love. It’s a love one individual. films, so I wanted to letter to cinema and television, as well as the Rick is feeling give it a shot. We unsung people who came before me. OK! put upon. Life’s put so much emphasis ‘ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD’ IS RELEASED ON THURSDAY. against him – and ‘Leonardo is really giving on success and failure there are some and generous,’ says but to me it’s an INTERVIEW BY ALAN TANNER of the greatest Brad. ‘I hope we get to ongoing process. PHOTOGRAPHS BY GETTY IMAGES, WIRE IMAGE work together again’ 48 ‘I haven’t seen a hotel lobby in 15 years,’ says Brad, who always has to sneak in and out through a back entrance
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 49 WHIRLWIND ROMANCE ‘PEOPLE WILL SAY WE’RE MAD OR CRAZY’ RUGBY PLAYER BEN FODEN Left: Ben posted photos of his MARRIES HIS SECOND WIFE… new wife and AFTER TWO WEEKS OF DATING! their wedding ceremony (below) ugby ace Ben Foden The newlyweds shocked fans last week byy show off announcing he had wed their rings his new girlfriend Jackie RBelanoff Smith after officially dating for just two weeks. Less than a year after divorcing The Saturdays singer Una Healy, former England rugby international Ben, 34 – who now plays for Rugby United New York – revealed that he had married New Yorker Jackie on a yacht in Massachusetts. ThThe fifirstt weekk off bbeingi And though the news Mrs Foden was not without its came as a shock to Ben’s challenges for Jackie, though, fans, Jackie’s family weren’t who then had to endure reports concerned, revealing that his that Ben had exchanged ‘filthy new wife is a ‘romantic’ who sex texts’ with reality TV star has always dreamt of having Rebecca Jane just before the her own family. Jackie’s 19-year- wedding. Rebecca’s friend old cousin Victoria Sazonov- said that she was ‘absolutely Smith said: ‘I was a little bit stunned’ when she heard about surprised but Jackie has always the wedding as she and Ben been a romantic. Her dream ‘still messaged all the time’. is to have her own family. Ben and Una were married They seem very in love and for six years and share seven- by what she’s told me about year-old Aoife and Tadhg, four, him, I think they’re perfect for but they split last year after each other.’ She added: ‘If you he admitted cheating on her. fifind someone perfect and you He said: ‘I was the one who hhave a gut feeling that it’ll last committed adultery. At the fforever, why not get married?’ same time, it wasn’t the only Her sentiment echoes that of reason for our divorce.’ OK! BBen when he posted Instagram REPORT BY CLARE FISHER ppictures of the new Mrs Foden PHOTOGRAPHS BY GETTY IMAGES, GC wwith a lengthy caption: ‘People IMAGES, INSTAGRAM, WIRE IMAGE wwill say we are mad or crazy oor even fools. But when ssomeone like her comes into yyour life, why would I wait?’ HHe added: ‘Life is short and yyou only get one and it’s worth lliving. Jackie is the greatest hhuman being I’ve ever come aacross... she will be a great sstep mum to Aoife and Tadhg [[his children with Una].’ Ben also revealed that his fformer wife had given the uunion her ‘blessing’. However, tthe 37-year-old singer rremained tight-lipped on tthe matter on her own social mmedia channels and was said tto be being supported by her Una and Ben fformer Saturdays bandmates. with their AAt the time of going to press, children Tadhg UUna was due to perform at and Aoife FFarmer’s Bash: Live At The BBeach in Northern Ireland.
50 The couple wed on a yacht in Nantucket, RACE YOU Massachusetts DOWN THE AISLE Ben and Jackie aren’t the only stars to have married after a whirlwind romance…
WHO? Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. HOW LONG? 96 hours. DID IT LAST? Pamela and Tommy married four days after meeting. They divorced three years later and have two sons.
WHO? Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom. HOW LONG? One month. DID IT LAST? Khloé and Lamar wed one month to the day from meeting at a party, but it wasn’t to be and they divorced in 2013.
WHO? Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. HOW LONG? Two months. DID IT LAST? They secretly wed after meeting on the set of her music video Bye Bye. Mariah and Nick are now divorced but share twins Moroccan and Monroe.
WHO? Cheryl Tweedy and Jean-Bernard Fernandez- Versini. HOW LONG? Three months. DID IT LAST? After dating for three months, the pair married in July 2014, divorcing a little over two years later.
WWW.OK.CO.UK 51 KICKING OFF OUR ‘PEAKY BLINDERS’ SPECIAL ‘OF COURSE OUR CHILDREN DON’T THINK WE’RE COOL!’ AHEAD OF THE NEW SERIES HELEN McCRORY TALKS TO OK!’S ANNABEL ZAMMIT ABOUT THE HIT SHOW MOTHERHOOD AND LIFE WITH DAMIAN LEWIS
arely has a TV show quite captured the men in the Peaky Blinders begin to draw the public’s imagination like Peaky parameters. There are also some wonderful Blinders. Created by Steven Knight, the scenes where Tommy’s son is telling Tommy BBC drama – which is about to kick off the way it is and, as any parent knows, no Rits fifth series – has themed bars named child thinks their parent is cool, even when in its honour, a clothing line in collaboration their father’s Tommy Shelby. He’s just an with a flat cap-wearing David Beckham, and irritating dad. As you get older, you do even a Peaky Blinders festival has recently think about the legacy you’re going to leave been announced! behind and who you’re going to be for Helen McCrory plays the criminal gang’s your children. It’s very different from before matriarch Polly Gray – known as Aunt Pol – you have children, as they look at you and and the actress, who turns 51 this week, is if you’re behaving like a pr**k it becomes quick to tell OK! that it’s the best series yet. a bit more serious, as the likelihood is your ‘I’m saying that as I haven’t seen it,’ jokes son’s going to be a pr**k too. Helen. Joking is something Helen does a lot of and you find yourself laughing heartily Do you worry about your own legacy in her company, as she’s quick-witted and and the impact on your kids? intelligent in equal measure. Definitely. Seven years ago I started a The actress, who received an OBE in 2017 pop-up in Deptford [south London] and for her services to drama, has been married in Queen’s Crescent [north London] on a to fellow actor Damian Lewis, 48, for 12 years. council estate where we do free childcare The couple fell in love when they starred in from 10-6pm every day for the Sir Hubert the 2003 production of Five Gold Rings at von Herkomer Arts Foundation. We do arts Above: Helen London’s Almeida Theatre, and married four – Banksy sent down some graffiti artists to with her husband years later. They live in London and share do graffiti – and Stormzy is with them this Damian Lewis. daughter Manon, 12, and son, Gulliver 11. week doing music. We also take arts into Below: As Aunt Pol Here Helen talks sex scenes, being closest schools which have no arts. to Cillian Murphy on set and the legacy she wants to leave for her children… Do your children think you and Damian her dad [Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler] was are cool? cool when she was 17! Is it nice to be back playing a baddie? No, of course not! Just like I didn’t think my It’s much more fun pygplaying the baddie, , but pyparents were cool. Even Liv Tyler didn’t think You said one of the joys of doing she’s not all bad. MotherFatherSon was being able to Being part of a pop home in the evening. Peaky razor-wielding Blinders is filmed in Birmingham – is it gang obviously difficult being away from home? isn’t UN work, I request that I don’t work Fridays, but within that Saturdays or Sundays, so I have long she’s all heart weekends. The advantage of having really. children in your eighties [laughs] is that you’re established enough to be able to Tommy Shelby, see them. played by Cillian Murphy, is Who are you closest to on set? surrounded by a My best friend is probably Cillian. He’s growing number the guy I mainly hang out with and chat of women in to. Most of the time I’m asking him the show. Does about music. He’s the one in the make- the interaction up truck who’ll come in and put Radio 6 between the on. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge women change of very cool bands and I love music – this series? I’ve recently come back from Latitude Yes, you start Festival, so we tend to chat about music seeing the or the usual; trying to keep the kids off women around the streets [laughs].
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Lots of cigarettes are smoked on the show. Do you have any idea how many? Cillian worked out that in the average series he smokes 1,000 herbal cigarettes! You can’t smoke tobacco on set, so you have to smoke herbal, even if you’re outdoors. They taste disgusting and you get an instant splitting headache. As an ex-smoker, I’d prefer to smoke a nicotine cigarette, which obviously I adore, but I’m not allowed. If my children are reading this, Mummy never smokes!
In what ways are you like Polly? I’m very protective of my children, and I get terrible hangovers like Polly too!
New actors like The Hunger Games actor Sam Claflin star in this series. Does it change the dynamic? It does, but because we’ve all been doing it for so long, it’s a bit like who’s invited to the family barbecue on Sunday – you still have the same old faces and then the new ‘I request person comes along. Sam’s superb – I know that I don’t him from old. I’ve done screen testing with work Fridays, him, as all I play is women who have sex with Saturdays or much younger men and he’s much younger, Sundays so so obviously I’ve done a screen test where I have long I’ve had sex with him – twice, actually, for weekends,’ two different films! OK! says Helen of juggling acting TURN THE PAGE FOR MORE ON ‘PEAKY BLINDERS’. and motherhood WWW.OK.CO.UK 53 Right: Acting is ‘an absurd LIVING HER CHILDHOOD DREAM job’ for a 31 year old, says Sophie. Below left: With fiancé ‘I DON’T KNOW Matt Stokoe ANY WOMEN WHO ARE WEAK’ WHEN THE FIRST SERIES STARTED FEW KNEW SOPHIE RUNDLE – NOW SHE’S HOT PROPERTY
anding the part of Ada Shelby in absurd job for a 31 year old. When I was the first series of Peaky Blinders was 15 saying I wanted to do it, it made sense! Sophie Rundle’s big break and now, five series in, the actress is highly Do you ever have pinch-me moments? Lsought after, with roles in both last year’s All the time! When I think back to being a hit Bodyguard and, more recently, opposite kid who’s like ‘I want to be an actor’ and Suranne Jones in Gentleman Jack. then you’rey on set with these amazing, ‘I’ve been busy creative people. There’s so – I’ve been paying much talent buzzing around that mortgage!’ the and I think, I can’t believe I refreshingly down- get to be here. to-earth actress tells OK! when we meet. What’s the dynamic like on Away from the set this year with the likes camera, Sophie, 31, of Sam Claflin joining? lives in London with It’s so exciting that people her actor and writer want to come and be a part fiancé Matt Stokoe, of it. And total movie stars! 30. The couple met I was on set sitting next to on the set of period Sam and Cillian – there drama Jamestown were just cheekbones and got engaged everywhere [laughs]. earlier this summer. However, Sophie has hinted she’ll shun a Do you think the Peaky women are the typical wedding, saying ‘Everyone expects true powerhouses of the show? you to be desperate to be a princess for Absolutely, although ‘strong women’ does the day… that’s really not my scene.’ feel like a modern buzz phrase and implies Here Sophie chats ‘pinch-me’ moments, typically women aren’t strong. I don’t know feeling embarrassed about her choice of any women who are weak, boring, meek or career and why women run the show… mild. In a typical family dynamic, women run the show! Was it a leap going from Gentleman Jack back to Peaky Blinders? Why do you think I finished Gentleman Jack on the Friday Peaky Blinders is and was filming Peaky Blinders on the so popular? Sunday. It’s so different. I was really hammy It’s just so cool! It’s in the first couple of scenes, as I was trying mythologised British to find my range. Sweet Ann Walker in history in a way Gentleman Jack to Ada Shelby! I was we’re a bit shy about like, give me some lipstick, a gun and a doing. The Americans cigarette [laughs]. do it well, they take their history and Are there any similarities between make it rock and roll, the characters? and this show does Ada would very clearly never let anyone that. It’s funny, cool f*** with her and I suppose Ann surprised and not ashamed to everyone by having a real backbone by the be a bit heightened. end of the series, so perhaps that’s the one People love it all over similarity – that’s probably about it. the world. I was in a pub the other day You’ve said you feel quite embarrassed and there was a huge Asked about telling people what you do for a living. Peaky Blinders stag the show’s Do you still feel like that? do going on. They popularity, I’m mortified! I feel like such a lucky kid had no idea I was Sophie says: ‘It’s saying: ‘I’m an actor.’ It does seem like an there – I snuck out! just so cool!’
54 PLAYING A BLINDER ‘MY SON THINKS I WEAR A WIG FOR A LIVING’ A NEW BABY FINDS NATASHA O’KEEFFE SLEEP-DEPRIVED BUT HAPPY
rom a prostitute to a politician’s wife, Natasha O’Keeffe’s character Lizzie Stark has certainly risen through the Peaky Blinders ranks since Fthe show started. The end of the fourth series saw Lizzie give birth to Tommy Shelby’s daughter Ruby, and in this series we’ll see her support Tommy, played by Cillian Murphy, in his new role as Labour MP for Birmingham. In real life, Natasha, 32, lives with her husband, GameFace actor Dylan Edwards, who she met at drama school. The couple have a three-year-old son and welcomed their second child, a daughter, last year. ‘Without sounding really corny, I couldn’t do what I do without him,’ the actress has said of her husband. ‘Especially now that the kids are so young, we’re a tag team.’ Here Natasha opens up about finding it hard to learn her lines while looking after a baby and what she wants for the future of her character…
How has it been working on series five of Peaky Blinders? I’ve had personal challenges as I have a very young baby and there’s the challenge of remembering lines after not sleeping duringg the night!
How did you manage to learn the lines when you were sleep deprived? I swear there’s a hormone that kicks in where you think you’re not able to do it! It Above: ‘I had such a blast,’ ended up absolutely says Natasha of the show. fine and I had such Left: Natasha with her a blast. husband Dylan Edwards Did you have any moments of myself. I grew up in quite a rough area, but I ‘baby brain’? wwas a bit of a goody two shoes! Actually, the set is such a calml environment thath it probably helped the process. It was less rowdy this If Peaky Blinders were to end, how would you like year! My son’s growing into an age where you can your character’s journey to end? communicate with him and he came on to set the last Well Lizzie has gone from prostitute to lady of the season. I was wearing a wig and now he thinks I wear manor – her journey’s been vast and outstanding for a wig for a living, like that’s my job! her. Perhaps some more growth. She’s a politician’s wife, so a politician herself, maybe?! OK! Peaky Blinders is about a fictionalised notorious, violent family. What dodgy deeds have you ‘PEAKY BLINDERS’ WILL RETURN ON SUNDAY AUGUST 25 AT 9PM ON BBC ONE. got up to? INTERVIEWS BY ANNABEL ZAMMIT I hung out with some naughty kids when I was PHOTOGRAPHS BY BBC, CAMERA PRESS, GETTY IMAGES, younger, but I didn’t get up to anything too naughty PHOTOSHOT, WIRE IMAGE
WWW.OK.CO.UK 55 THE WOMAN BEHIND CARRIE BRADSHAW ‘NOW IT SEEMS YOU CAN ONLY MEET PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET IT’S SAD’ ‘SEX AND THE CITY’ CREATOR CANDACE BUSHNELL TELLS OK!’S JOSIE COPSON ABOUT WRITING NEW YORK IN THE ’ s AND COPING WITH GRIEF
he women of Sex And The City In The City?. Writing her latest tome – Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda hasn’t been easy for the 60 year old, and Samantha – may have who was also dealing with her divorce become pop culture legends, from her husband of ten years, Charles Tbut they started off as nothing more Askegard, her father’s death and best than a figment of Candace Bushnell’s friend’s suicide at the same time. Writing imagination. Luckily for us, they didn’t became Candace’s therapy, and she tells stay inside her mind for long, and were us she found solace in the dry humour soon turned into a newspaper column, Sex And The City fans love so much. before becoming a book, then finally We meet in the Magic Hour Rooftop one of the world’s most iconic TV series. Bar – which has hosted Rihanna and The endlessly quotable and relatable Heidi Klum, and where we can just see Sex And The City became a beacon for the Sex And The City girls hanging single women and thirty-somethings out – to discuss the inspiration for her everywhere, showing that marriage new book, dating in your fifties and her and babies aren’t the only route to memories of the Sex And The City set... happiness. It taught us that the real joy is the journey, and the friendships you form How does it feel to release your ninth – and the shoes you buy – along the way. book, Candace? Now, Candace is back with her ninth I can’t believe it’s my ninth, but in other book which is asking,g, Is There Still Sex ways I think I should have written more by now! Why didn’t I write 12?
Do you always like to be working on a writing project? Yes, I always have to be doing something creative, and trying to tell a story. Whether it’s just for fun, or a serious book. Ever since I was young I’ve always had the drive to tell stories.
You were experiencing a lot of turmoil in your life. How did you carry on? You get to a stage in life where you just have to learn how to move on from loss. When you reach a certain age you can be moving forward, but all of a sudden
56 Above: ‘I always have to be doing something creative, and trying to tell a story,’ Candace tells us. Above left: Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall as Sex And The City’s Charlotte, Carrie, Miranda and Samantha CANDACE WEARS DRESS BY JOHANNA ORTIZ WWW.OK.CO.UK 57 ‘LAUGHING AT THE PAIN IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT INSPIRED ME TO WRITE “SEX AND THE CITY”’
58 Left and right: ‘Outrageous things happened when I was dating and you’ve just got to keep your sense of humour,’ says Candace QUEEN C DER M
you have losses. Those losses can bring you out of your apartment, run into somebody down or you can feel the pain and try to find on the street, strike up a conversation and the strength to go on. start dating them. I met a guy horse riding in Central Park once! I had a roommate who How do you find the strength to continue? went to the Rockefeller Center to see the I never thought about it as being strong, but lights and next to her was a single guy, they it did make me realise that I was. My sense of started talking and they ended up getting humour is the thing that really saves me. I felt married. I mean, you could meet somebody the same way when I was writing Sex And The in an elevator. If you talk to somebody in an City. It could be hard to be a single woman in elevator now they’re like: ‘What the f**k?’ your thirties in ’90s New York. There were men like Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump and Do you think that’s sad? if us women didn’t laugh then we’d have gone Yes, people don’t look at each other any more. crazy. Outrageous things happened when I People are in bars, on their phones, waiting to was dating and you’ve just got to keep your meet someone they found online. Everyone’s sense of humour. Laughing at the pain is one in their own phone bubble. Sex And The City is of the things that inspired me to write Sex And a pre-app show, it would be so different now. The City and it’s one of the things that inspired me to write Is There Still Sex In The City?. Is being in your fifties now different from how it was for your parents and grandparents? And is there still sex in the city? Absolutely. I call it the new middle age. The Yes, but less! Less for people over 50, but also book is about the transitional journey I went less for younger people. Now it seems you can through in my fifties. I really got depressed only meet people on the internet or through and I noticed other friends did too, and then friends. The one thing that seems impossible you come out of it. I was questioning, why is the one thing that used to be so easy – walk am I here? The answer is that I’ll probably THIS PAGE: CANDACE WEARS DRESS BY PRABAL GURUNG; AND SHOES BY MANOLO BLAHNIK. FACING PAGE: CANDACE WEARS TRENCH COAT BY ALEXAN CANDACE WEARS TRENCH COAT PAGE: CANDACE WEARS DRESS BY PRABAL GURUNG; AND SHOES MANOLO BLAHNIK. FACING THIS PAGE:
WWW.OK.CO.UK 599 ‘If you’re single, make the best of it; if you’re in a relationship, make the best of it,’ says Candace CANDACE WEARS DRESS BY ROLAND MOURET AT NET-A-PORTER; AND SHOES BY MONSE NET-A-PORTER; CANDACE WEARS DRESS BY ROLAND MOURET AT 60 never know, but Do you have any the journey is worth favourite Sex taking. Now is the And The City time to work on my moments? soul and feel good We really did have about myself. fun. I was very close to [producer] Candace Was your divorce Darren Star so we and her part of the would hang out boyfriend transition? at all these really Jim Coleman Divorce shakes cool locations. One everything up. summer night we were at a restaurant Would you ever marry again? opposite The Metropolitan Museum I would. I’m not looking to of Art, at an outside table watching get married, but in the right them shoot a scene as if it was the circumstances then why not? I’m not ultimate live theatre. bitter. Here’s my feeling; if you’re single, make the best of it, if you’re Do you speak to any in a relationship, make the best of it. of the cast? I have a boyfriend [estate agent Jim I haven’t run in to any Coleman] and I feel like I know how of them for years. to be in a relationship and I know Well, actually that’s how to be single. not true, I did run into Cynthia Nixon Did you have much involvement in [Miranda Hobbes] at the Sex And The City series? a gas station in the I did at the beginning, in the first Hamptons, and we two seasons. And then I wrote had a little chat. They a best-selling book called Four all seem very happy, Blondes and was offered so much though, so that’s nice. money to write novels it didn’t make sense to write TV scripts. What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? Work harder and have more confidence. People wanted to put me in a box so I’d say fight harder to get out of that box. But it’s hard. OK! STOCKISTS: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN WWW. ALEXANDERMCQUEEN.COM/GB; JOHANNA ORTIZ WWW.JOHANNAORTIZ.CO; MANOLO BLAHNIK WWW. MANOLOBLAHNIK.COM; MONSE MONSE.COM; NET-A-PORTER WWW.NET-A-PORTER.COM; PRABAL GURUNG PRABALGURUNG.COM.
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 61 LOOKING HOT AND KEEPING COOL ‘HOT FLUSHES ARE THE MOST AWKWARD’ LISA SNOWDON TELLS OK!’S JOSIE COPSON ABOUT DEALING WITH PERIMENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS HER LONG ENGAGEMENT AND BEING ‘A GIRL’S GIRL’
elatable is not a word most You got engaged in 2016. Have we’d all be thinking, what is wrong would use to describe a you started wedding planning? with me? It’s nice for women to former top model, but Lisa No – I do want to get married to know they are not going through Snowdon has challenged George, but I don’t want the whole this alone. You can give yourself a Rthe stereotype. While some might production, so that puts me off. bit of a break when you know what avoid tricky subjects such as We’ll probably do something low- is happening. I just like talking and mental health and going through key, but then I also don’t want to sharing anyway. I’m a real girl’s girl. I perimenopause, that certainly can’t offend people if we have a small think it comes from being the oldest be said for the 47 year old. wedding, so I just run away from it. of three girls. I’m a ‘bossy mummy’ And it’s that warm and honest I feel content with him so it doesn’t type, even with my own mum! nature which has earned her feel like I have to rush. We love plenty of fans, and is part of the each other and know we want to be Are you still having therapy? reason women trust her with their together forever. The wedding will I don’t see a therapist any more, wardrobes on This Morning. It be the icing on the cake, but it’s not it was just for a year in 2014. I had has also won her high-profile jobs necessary at this stage. CBT [cognitive behavioural therapy] throughout her career, such as to address things that happened hosting Britain’s Next Top Model How does George find having a in the past, which contributed and presenting on Capital FM. famous partner? towards feeling quite anxious and Away from the spotlight, Lisa is It doesn’t really bother him. He’s depressed at times. happily engaged to entrepreneur very cool like that. If we do a red George Smart – so happy, in carpet, he’ll tell me to go do the How do you feel about your fact, that she doesn’t want to pictures and he’ll meet me inside. decision not to have children? risk upsetting things by actually I never found the right person at the marrying him! Here, Lisa opens up You began perimenopause just right time. It wasn’t a priority, and about being a ‘girl’s girl’ and her over a year ago. What symptoms the same for George. We have a experience of perimenopause… do you find the hardest? wonderful life and have taken a step It’s a whole mixture of things that back and thought, actually, we’re flare their ugly heads unfortunately, really lucky. Plus, we have children but hot flushes are the most around us all the time anyway. awkward because you feel aware and almost embarrassed of people You’re an ambassador for looking. You’re thinking, do they femtech brand Become. How know? It comes out of nowhere as does their clothing help with your well, but then it goes again really menopause symptoms? quickly, which is a relief. It’s a roller- It’s amazing new technology that is coaster. If I get them at night then the first of its kind. It has this amazing I don’t sleep very well and it has fabric that controls your temperature. a knock-on effect. My brain also There are very basic staples you can feels foggy and groggy. Sometimes easily incorporate into everyday life, things that are simple become like a night dress for when I’m going really difficult. Not always, just through those hot nights. OK! occasionally, but I’ll get hit by this LISA SNOWDON IS BRAND AMBASSADOR FOR cloud of fog. FEMTECH BRAND BECOMETM. THE CLOTHING IS DESIGNED TO ALLEVIATE HOT FLUSH SYMPTOMS AND REGULATE BODY TEMPERATURE DURING THE Do you think it’s important to talk MENOPAUSE. VISIT WWW.WEBECOME.CO.UK. about your experience? Everyone’s journey is different, but TWITTER.COM/JOSIECOPSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY GETTY IMAGES it’s good to talk because otherwise
62 ‘WE LOVE EACH OTHER AND KNOW WE WANT TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER’
Above: ‘It’s good to talk,’ Lisa says. Facing page: With her fiancé George
WWW.OK.CO.UK 63 SHOWERED WITH LOVE ‘THE THREE OF US ARE SO LUCKY’ ‘CORONATION STREET’ ACTRESS BROOKE VINCENT IS JOINED AT HER BABY SHOWER BY BOYFRIEND KEAN BRYAN AND HER FRIENDS
ith just weeks to go until she Newly engaged couple Ryan Thomas becomes a mum, Coronation and Lucy Mecklenburgh made it a family Street’s Brooke Vincent occasion by bringing his ten-year-old celebrated her impending daughter Scarlett, from his relationship with Warrival with a star-studded baby shower Tina O’Brien, as well as Ryan’s brothers Scott brunch. Last week’s bash at Manchester’s and Adam and their mother Gail. Brooke Rosso restaurant brought together lots of was also joined by her co-star Lucy Fallon Brooke’s former and current co-stars from and her boyfriend Tom Leech as well as the cobbles including Catherine Tyldesley, who’s Michelle Keegan, recently been revealed Catherine Tyldesley, as one of the stars of Sally Dynevor, Jennie this year’s Strictly Come McAlpine and Lucy Dancing. Meanwhile, Fallon. As 27-year-old Our Girl star Michelle Brooke doesn’t know Keegan, who looked the gender of the stunning in a sheer pink baby, the event had skirt, attended the brunch a rainbow theme with with her cousin Katie multicoloured balloons, Fearnehough. a flower wall of white During the day, roses and a three-tier Brooke and her cake. Guests tucked boyfriend, Sheffield Above: Michelle Keegan was among those into a delicious menu United footballer Kean celebrating Baby B (below). Right: Guests of avocado on toast Bryan, hit the dancefloor were invited to guess the baby’s gender and sausage and bacon to the rather appropriate sandwiches. The starry event also featured tune We Are Family. Taking to Instagram giant white lights spelling out ‘Baby B’, and after the event, Brooke gushed: ‘Me, Kean Brooke asked guests to guess whether the and our families had the most perfect day. babyygy would be a girl or a boy. There’s a whole lot of people who have got a whole lot of love to bless our child wwith. The three of us are so lucky.’ OK!
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64 Above: Brooke and Kean at the baby shower in Manchester, which had a rainbow theme (top right). Right: Catherine Tyldesley
Above: Coronation Street actresses past and present gathered to celebrate. Left: Brooke and Lucy Fallon
WWW.OK.CO.UK 65 ‘I sing up and down the corridors, in between takes and in the make-up room,’ Sandra says BY NEXT THIS PAGE: SANDRA WEARS JUMPSUIT BY ASOS. FACING PAGE: SANDRA WEARS SUIT BY EMMA WILLIS AT NEXT; TOP BY MUTHA HOOD; AND SHOES NEXT; SANDRA WEARS SUIT BY EMMA WILLIS AT PAGE: SANDRA WEARS JUMPSUIT BY ASOS. FACING THIS PAGE: 66 DROPPING HER BOMBSHELL NEWS ‘MY LAST DAY WILL BE EMOTIONAL THERE’LL BE A WOBBLY LIP! MULTI-TALENTED SANDRA MARVIN EXCLUSIVELY TELLS OK!’S KIRSTY HATCHER SHE’S LEAVING ‘EMMERDALE’ FOR EXCITING NEW PROJECTS
he may have only starred in Why are you leaving Emmerdale? the title song on the sound track Emmerdale for two years, but I always felt I was being pulled in for the Oscar-winning film Gravity Sandra Marvin has certainly so many directions, still with a love with Sandra Bullock and George made her mark. From getting for singing and theatre. Thank God Clooney. It’s been an amazing time Smarried on Christmas Day to being they’ve left the door open, I’m very on Emmerdale but I’m also excited shot and held hostage, things have grateful for that. Prior to Emmerdale to see what the future could hold. It been far from quiet in the Dales for I had quite a diverse career and was a really hard one as I love soaps her character Jessie Grant! I’ve done a lot of theatre, plays and I always dreamed of being in But despite loving her time on and musicals, and solo concerts one. I’ve had the most fantastic time. the ITV soap, the actress exclusively too. As a session singer, I recorded tells OK! she’s leaving Do you plan to return Emmerdale. ‘As scary as in the future? it is, you have to be brave It’s a difficult thing because and challenge yourself you never assume you can sometimes,’ says the come back, the cogs keep single star. turning and the lives of With big hair and an these amazing characters even bigger personality, carry on. But maybe, it Sandra is a laugh a minute would be lovely if I could and regularly has the OK! one day. I’ve made some team in fits of giggles. So friends that are going to be it’s no surprise that her with me for life. next challenge will see her in a fun-loving role in Is leaving a risk? The Thunder Girls, a play Absolutely, because you about an ’80s girl group never know what’s going to who reunite after 30 years. happen. There are so many Sandra will play Carly in amazing people looking the hotly-anticipated show, for work and it’s a tough which has already sold out industry, but if you don’t its run at The Lowry. challenge yourself you’ll Before Emmerdale, never know. My last day Sandra’s career had will be emotional. There’s included starring as definitely going to be a Motormouth Maybelle in wobbly lip! Hairspray in the West End, Matron Mamma Morton in Do you know how Jessie Chicago and performing will leave? with Kate Bush in her 2014 She isn’t going quietly! Her Before The Dawn concerts. ex-husband arrives to stir Here, on our shoot at things up and there will be Quebecs Hotel & Luxury a lot of fireworks! ‘It’s like a Apartments in Leeds, big family,’ Sandra tells OK! about Do fans approach you Sandra leaving Emmerdale, when you’re out? says of Emmerdale working with Meryl Streep Emmerdale YYes, fans are and Kate Bush and her amazing! I had a lot of plans for the future… people say it’s nice to see
WWW.OK.CO.UK 67 Hffdifhil?Have you suffered anxiety for a while? For the last ten years or so. Exercise really helps me, especially yoga, and my Buddhism. It helps me focus my mind; it answers questions and calms me.
Do you do yoga in your dressing room? No [laughs]! Nobody needs to see me in those positions when they’re dropping off costumes! After a tough scene I chant a verse and then have a very large gin and tonic!
What’s next for you? The Thunder Girls at The Lowry Theatre in Manchester from September. People keep asking: ‘Do you want to do theatre or more TV?’ But I’d like to try everything, I’m a bit greedy! I don’t want to limit myself. I’m excited by stories that I’ve not told before. I’d also love to do something in fashion as I love Gok Wan’s shows. And I’m thrilled to be at The Curve Fashion Festival in November on the main stage talking all things fashion.
Are you excited to go back on stage? I’m so excited and The Thunder Girls is already sold out! I sing all the time anyway, as many of my Emmerdale colleagues will testify! I sing up and down the corridors, in between takes and in the make-up room. I’m playing a completely different character from Jessie. She’s quite free, and funny as hell. [Thunder Girls writer] Melanie Blake has written a hilarious, fiery script. When I read it, I loved Above: ‘If you don’t challenge yourself you’ll all the banter and the bitching, but also the never know,’ Sandra says of tackling new roles. friendship. It’s so fun to play a woman in her Above right: With on-screen sons Billy and Ellis. forties unashamedly talking about her body Below: As Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray and wobbly bits. I can’t wait to meet [Sandra’s Thunder Girls co-stars] Beverley Callard and someone that’s curvy, and how nice it is to Fletcher] and Asan N’Jie [Ellis Grant], my Carol Harrison, and I sat next to Coleen Nolan see themselves represented on-screen. Fans husband Mark Charnock [Marlon Dingle] on the Loose Women panel a few weeks ago! also write in asking where Jessie’s clothes and my stepdaughter Amelia Flanagan are from. [April Windsor]. I hang around the most Tell us about singing with Kate Bush... with Gaynor Faye [Megan Macey], Fiona She is amazing. She hadn’t done any live Is celebrating your curves important? Wade [Priya Sharma] and Louisa Clein performances for around 25 years and her It is. It can be hard nowadays with social [Maya Stepney], who is very missed at voice was as incredible as ever. She’ll always media and other pressures, but I feel more work. I’m not letting them go. Me and be such an inspiration to me. comfortable in my own skin than I ever have Gaynor are both Buddhists so we also done. I think, I’d love to lose a bit of weight, share that. Emmerdale really is such a great You were also in the film Florence Foster but then I’ll happily place to work, it’s like Jenkins alongside Meryl Streep… go and have an ice a big family. It’s a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moment! cream! As far as I’m There is a level of professionalism on set concerned, if I wanted How long have you but after the scene she did come and talk to be slim enough I practised Buddhism? to us. I was gobsmacked! She was so lovely; wouldn’t have the ice I’ve meditated on and beautiful and enigmatic. OK! cream! I’m glad I don’t off since I was 15. It’s STOCKISTS: ASOS WWW.ASOS.COM; LIQUORISH AT ASOS; feel that pressure. And always something I TOPSHOP WWW.TOPSHOP.COM; ZARA WWW.ZARA.COM/UK. Spanx are a girl’s best looked to when I was WITH THANKS TO QUEBECS HOTEL & LUXURY APARTMENTS, friend [laughs]! struggling with anxiety LEEDS. VISIT QUEBECSHOTEL.CO.UK/HOME AND WWW. QUEBECSLUXURYAPARTMENTS.CO.UK. or nerves. Gaynor SANDRA STARS IN THE SOLD OUT PLAY ADAPTATION OF Who are you closest introduced me to MELANIE BLAKE’S BESTSELLING BOOK ‘THE THUNDER to on Emmerdale? Buddhism in the last year GIRLS’ AT THE LOWRY, SALFORD THIS SEPTEMBER. VISIT I’m a girlie girl but and it’s a really good fit THETHUNDERGIRLS.CO.UK. I’ll obviously miss for my lifestyle and my TWITTER.COM/KIRSTY_HATCHER PHOTOGRAPHS BY LORNA my sons, Jay Kontzle beliefs. It’s really been a ROACH ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY ITV STYLING BY [who plays Billy great strength to me. CHARLOTTE BURTON HAIR AND MAKE UP BY TALLY BOOKBINDER 68 ‘I FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IN MY OWN SKIN THAN EVER’ THIS PAGE: SANDRA WEARS DRESS BY LIQUORISH; AND SHOES BY NEXT. FACING PAGE: SANDRA WEARS TOP BY ZARA; AND EARRINGS TOPSHOP PAGE: FACING SANDRA WEARS DRESS BY LIQUORISH; AND SHOES NEXT. THIS PAGE: WWW.OK.CO.UK 69 GWYNETH’S FAB FOURSOME
heir split won’t be inspiring any lovesick source last week revealed: ‘Things change and TColdplay ballads as frontman CHRIS they have been drawn back together.’ MARTIN and his actress girlfriend DAKOTA Things also seem to be on the right JOHNSON have reconciled. The couple, track for Brad and Gwyneth, 46. Despite who got back together at the end of July, marrying almost a year ago, the pair still celebrated their reunion with a romantic trip live separately, apparently on the advice of to the Hamptons last weekend accompanied Gwyneth’s ‘intimacy coach’. But now they’re by Chris’s former wife GWYNETH PALTROW ready to become roomies, with the Goop and her new husband, film producer BRAD creator revealing last week: ‘We took a year FALCHUK, 48. The foursome chatted on the to let everybody [in the family] take it in and golden sand (above), proving that despite let the dust settle. And now we’re moving in ‘consciously uncoupling’ back in 2014, together this month.’ Gwyneth and Chris, 42, are still very close. She also said: ‘I adore my husband. He’s Back in June, Chris told pals he was single brilliant and deeply kind. I feel like he’s a real after having dated Fifty Shades Of Grey equal too. And he pushes me in the best actress Dakota (right), 29, for 20 months, but a ways. I really like being married. It’s fun.’ BRITNEY’S DISNEY DAY OUT t’s called the ‘happiest Iplace on Earth’, so no wonder BRITNEY SPEARS was all smiles last week as she enjoyed a day out at Disneyland with her sons and boyfriend SAM ASGHARI (left). Britney, 37, and fitness model Sam, 25, basked in the Californian sunshine as they strolled around the theme park with Sean, 13, and Jayden, 12, who the singer shares with her former husband KEVIN FEDERLINE. Admitting getting a snap with her boys is rare, Britney shared a picture (far left) with the caption: ‘My boys are older now, so they don’t like their picture taken ever… so I was thrilled today when they said SURE!!!!! Such a great place!!!!!’
700 HOLLYWOODGOSSIP J LO’S PARTY GOES ON he may have just Sturned 50, but JENNIFER LOPEZJ ’s bbikini body is ageless! TThe singer and actress llooked incredible aas she posed in the MMediterranean in a ccropped Guess jumper anda bikini bottoms (left),( proving her hours ono the pole for her new strippers film Hustlers have certainly paid off! J.Lo has also been touring the world on her It’s My Party tour since June, and last week celebrated the final night in Russia. The star has been supported by her fiancé ALEX RODRIGUEZ every step of the way, with A-Rod, 44, joining her in Israel for some down time and sightseeing. Sharing a snap of the pair enjoying a camel ride in Jerusalem (above), she wrote: ‘Oh just riding a camel on a Saturday afternoon… #familyoutingsarethebest.’ When Alex hasn’t been by her side, he’s let her know she’s in his thoughts, posting this family picture (right) and captioning it: ‘Can’t wait to see these smiling faces again.’ BUMP’S FIRST T RED CARPET
fter revealing her difficulties Aconceiving her second child, ANNE HATHAWAY looked to have put all her troubles behind her as last week she made her first red carpet appearance since announcing she’s set to become a mum again (right). The Les Misérables star looked fabulous in fuchsia as she attended the opening night of Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway, New York. Anne, 36, was joined by her husband ADAM SHULMAN (far right) to watch JAKE GYLLENHAAL and TOM STURRIDGE in action in the production. Last month Anne, who is already mum to three- year-old Jonathan, confirmed she was expecting her second baby after going through ‘infertility hell’. She also said that it was not a ‘straight line to either of my pregnancies’. The Oceans 8 star also said: ‘I didn’t just wave a magic wand and be like: “I want to be pregnant now and, wow, it all worked out for me.” It’s more complicated than that.’ GOFFPHOTOS.COM, INSTAGRAM, THE MEGA AGENCY, WIRE IMAGE THE MEGA AGENCY, GOFFPHOTOS.COM, INSTAGRAM, WWW.OK.CO.UK 71 Y H&M; AND SUIT BY TOPMAN
‘I HAD TO CHASE HER UP THE STAIRS AND GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE IN THE BEDROOM’ THIS PAGE: ELLEN WEARS DRESS BY TOPSHOP; AND SHOES BY NEW LOOK. FACING PAGE: ELLEN WEARS DRESS BY ASOS. CALLUM WEARS T-SHIRT B ELLEN WEARS DRESS BY ASOS. CALLUM T-SHIRT PAGE: ELLEN WEARS DRESS BY TOPSHOP; AND SHOES NEW LOOK. FACING THIS PAGE: Above: ‘I’m just not used to this,’ laughed Ellen as she glammed up for our shoot! Right: In action on the pitch against Sweden at the World Cup in France 72 Ellen and her husband Callum are moving to Manchester now she’s signed to Manchester City
SHE SHOOTS SHE SCORES! ‘A WORLD CUP GAME IS WHAT YOU DREAM OF AS A KID’ ENGLAND FOOTBALLER ELLEN WHITE AND HER HUSBAND CALLUM CONVERY TELL OK!’S EMILY WHITWAM ABOUT HOW LIFE HAS CHANGED SINCE THE LIONESSES’ SUMMER OF SUCCESS
he year 2019 has gifted us with a fresh new but difficult for me in terms of leaving my current outlook on football, as the Women’s World job, although I am excited for a new challenge and Cup became one of the most watched events change of city,’ explains Callum, currently a sports on TV. Nearly 12 million fans tuned in to development officer for the Nottinghamshire Twatch England forward Ellen White and the rest of Football Association. the Lionesses’ semi-final match, where they were Here, the couple open up about Callum’s hilarious dramatically defeated by the USA. proposal, starting a family and Ellen’s future plans to When OK! meets Ellen and her husband Callum become a firefighter... Convery, she’s staring at her reflection in the mirror as she tries on a glamorous bodycon dress. ‘I’m just Ellen, the Lionesses received so much support not used to this!’ laughs the 30 year old, who earned during the World Cup – how are you feeling now a bronze in the World Cup’s Golden Boot awards this it’s all over? July, after contributing to her third World Cup. I loved every minute of it. As the games progressed, ‘Since the World Cup life has got crazier,’ says Ellen. we were told how many people were watching, ‘Both my Instagram and Twitter following doubled!’ which was incredible. It did really motivate us, but The footballer, who began playing for Manchester I’m still gutted. We had so much belief in winning City just two weeks ago, is eager to start playing and the World Cup, the USA game was a horrible scoring for her new team following a successful two- heartache. Not reaching the final was frustrating, year run at Birmingham City. we were so close! After being married for four years, Ellen and Callum are now in the process of moving from Male footballers can be paid hundreds of Nottingham to Manchester for Ellen’s exciting new thousands per week. Does that bother you? transfer. ‘It was a fairly easy decision as we always The men create a lot more revenue than we do and support each other and work decisions out together, they’ve been going for way longer than we have. WWW.OK.CO.UK 73 Above: The couple share a love of all things football! Below: ‘I loved every minute of it,’ Ellen says of the World Cup
Hopefully, in time, our revenue will increase and You had a winter wedding a year and a half What do you think of social media? when I retire we’ll leave the game in a better later – what was the day like? I tried to stay off social media during the place for the youngsters coming through. I’m Callum: It was incredible. We had it in a barn tournament as I wanted to be really focused an England fan anyway and watched every outside Aylesbury and invited 60 people to the on playing football and not get wrapped up in England game of the men’s World Cup. We ceremony and another 60 to the evening do. comments. It can be quite detrimental, like a need to support each other as a nation. Not to toot our own horn but people still talk mental barrier. about it now! Callum, you must be really proud of Ellen... Ellen: It was the best day of my life. Have you faced any online trolling? Absolutely, yeah, it’s just incredible. You can’t I don’t go searching for that type of thing, really put it into words. I’ve gone from watching Ellen, your profile has risen hugely since the there’s just no point. People are always going to Ellen 11 years ago on a windy, wet afternoon in World Cup. How’s that affected you both? leave negative comments, but they don’t know Leeds to seeing her in front of thousands in the Callum: We’ve been in our own bubble. me or what it’s taken the whole team to get to World Cup! We don’t go hunting down the papers or where we are. anything, so we are aware of it but we’re not Tell us about how you met… at the same time. Do you get anxious before a game? Ellen: We were studying sports science at Ellen: Since the World Cup life has got crazier. A hundred per cent! I get nervous before every Loughborough University together. He kept More people recognise me now and they’ve game, but I use that in a positive way. Nerves asking questions in class and I was like, stop even approached me while I’m shopping. Both are good. asking questions, I want to go home [laughs]! my Instagram and Twitter following doubled. We started chatting after I was injured. I’ve had a few people say that if they had How do you combat nerves as a team? Callum: After you pied me [laughs]! She to choose between Coronation Street and We’re all different in the changing room. Some ignored me after I said: ‘We should hangg out women’s football, they’d pick women’s football! people dance around to music, others just chill. a bit more,’ but eventually we I do a bit of both! You should see some of went out for a curry and, 11 my dance moves [laughs]! Everyone has years later, we’re still here! their own superstitions about what really helps them perform. But playing a World You got engaged six years Cup game is so exciting, it’s what you later in 2013 – how did the dream about as a kid! proposal go? Callum: Absolutely horrendous. How did your love of football Ellen: I completely ruined it! begin, Ellen? Callum: We went for a meal When I was about four, I was always on the after she’d been away, playing sidelines watching my older brother playing. for England, and when we got So, my dad created a football centre called home we watched some TV – I Mini Ducks where I mainly played with boys. had the ring in my pocket the Then I was lucky enough to be scouted for whole night. Then she decided Arsenal when I was eight. she was tired and going to bed! I had to chase her up the Have you ever felt stereotyped as a stairs and get down on one female footballer? knee in the bedroom. And then At school I was friends with a lot of boys I got the wrong hand! through football. I was a tomboy, but the girls 74 took me under theirir wing, which was nice. People are always going to stereotype, but ourr game is growing. More people recognise women’ss football now. They can see how much passion we have. We’re footballers in our own right.
You joined Manchester City this summer – are you excited to be playing alongside your best friend Steph Houghton? Of course. It’s always hhorrible ibl coming i up against i her when I’m on the opposite team. We don’t want to hurt each other on the pitch!
Callum, how are you planning to support Ellen on this new journey? Will you be cheering from the sidelines? Yes! I can’t think of a single game I’ve missed. We’ve sold our house in Nottingham and are both moving to Manchester. So when she ‘I STAYED OFF SOCIAL MEDIA DURING THE WORLD CUP – I WANTED TO BE FOCUSED’
comes home, I’ll do all the cooking. My way of supporting her is giving her that home life she needs. I’m excited for the move although it will be hard to leave my job and colleagues, we are looking forward to this next chapter together.
Are you planning to start a family? Callum: We definitely want to have kids when the time is right. Ellen: There are so many aspects to think about if we have children with my career but for now I am happy and focussed on playing and loving every minute.
What’s the dream after football? Ellen: I’d like to do something different, like fire fighting. Something active, but positive at the same time. Doing something rewarding is really important to me. Callum: I think she’d be great as a firefighter. She’s been speaking about it for a while!
How do you feel about your fellow Lioness Alex Scott being in the Strictly Come Dancing line-up this year, Ellen? Great! I hope Alex does really well. I’ve never Above: ‘I think she’d be great been asked to do any reality shows myself, but as a firefighter,’ Callum says I’d be up for going into the jungle! OK! of his wife’s post-football STOCKISTS: ASOS WWW.ASOS.COM; H&M WWW2.HM.COM; dreams. Above right: Ellen NEW LOOK WWW.NEWLOOK.COM; TOPMAN WWW.TOPMAN.COM; with her best friend, England ZARA WWW.ZARA.COM/UK. and Man City teammate TWITTER.COM/EMJWHITWAM PHOTOGRAPHS BY CRAIG FLEMING ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY GETTY IMAGES, SHUTTERSTOCK
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ater this month, Penélope and Eduardo, a mechanic. She had a Bardem’s fiery former wife in Woody Cruz is back on the big screen happy childhood listening to the chat in Allen’s 2007 comedy drama Vicky in Pedro Almodóvar’s semi- her mother’s hair salon, which she later Cristina Barcelona, alongside Scarlett autobiographical film Pain And called ‘the best acting school’. Johansson. Her performance won her LGlory, in which she plays the Spanish A natural performer, she trained in the Best Supporting Actress Oscar – as director’s mother opposite Antonio classical ballet for nine years at Spain’s well as the affections of her co-star, as Banderas. It’s the sixth film she’s made National Conservatory and, aged her on-screen chemistry with Javier with her mentor, who she credits with 15, beat 300 girls to land a position spilled into a real-life romance. The pair inspiring her to become with Spain’s top began dating in 2007 and married in an actress when she was talent agent. She 2010 in the Bahamas. a little girl in Madrid. made her screen Becoming an item added a new, The 45 year old debut in a music not always welcome, dimension to joint could never have video, but longed projects, including Loving Pablo, about imagined back then to be an actress – infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. that she would become obsessively watching ‘It’s not something we want to do an Oscar-winning Almodóvar’s films on that often,’ Penélope has admitted of superstar. ‘I can’t say it the family’s Betamax working with her husband, ‘partly out was a dream as I never video recorder. of a desire to protect what we have.’ dreamed it could be ‘He was the whole Indeed, Penélope and Javier are one possible,’ she has said. reason I became an of Hollywood’s most private couples Equally at home in actress,’ she has said. and have managed to keep their an art house flick as in a ‘He changed the way children Leo, eight, and Luna, six, out blockbuster like Pirates I looked at the world of the spotlight, too. Of motherhood, Of The Caribbean, before I even knew Penélope has said: ‘There are a lot Penélope nailed her TV him. When I was a of things that have surprised me. It’s debut, too, earning a As Donatella Versace kid, I would go to the like a revolution inside you – a very Primetime Emmy nod in The Assassination set in Madrid where animal-like one. The whole world looks for her turn as Donatella Of Gianni Versace he was shooting, different. You’ll never think of yourself Versace in 2018’s The hide and watch him.’ first again, and I think that’s a very good Assassination Of Gianni In 1992 she was thing. It happens in a second.’ Versace: American Crime Story. cast as the daughter of a prostitute in Now in a position to be able to She was also the first Spanish-born art house hit Jamón Jamón, alongside pick and choose her films, she’s firm actress to win an Academy Award – her her future husband Javier Bardem. Her about putting family before work. ‘The husband Javier Bardem, 50, being hero Almodóvar took notice: ‘He called first questions I ask about a movie is: the first Spanish actor – and the first me and said that maybe one day we “Where in the world is it being shot?” Spanish actress to receive a star on the could work together. I was blown away.’ The next question is: “When?” And Hollywood Walk of Fame. They first collaborated on Live Flesh then I look at the project – I don’t want It’s a long way from the working in 1997, but it was her performance as projects that would mean we would not class suburb of Alcobendas, Madrid, pregnant and HIV-positive nun Rosa be able to be together.’ OK! where, in 1974, Penélope was born, the in 1999’s All About My Mother that ‘PAIN AND GLORY’ IS RELEASED ON AUGUST 23. eldest of three, to hairdresser Encarna showed Hollywood what Penélope was capable of. Lead roles in 2001’s FEATURE BY ANNA BAILEY Vanilla Sky, Captain Corelli’s PHOTOGRAPHS BY BBC, FILMMAGIC.COM, GETTY IMAGES Mandolin and Blow cemented her star status, with Vanilla Sky sparking a headline-grabbing relationship with Tom Cruise that lasted three years. Other high-profile boyfriends followed, including her Sahara co-star Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon, her leading man in All The Pretty Horses. With her film career on the up, 2006 mystery drama Volver – which earned her a Golden Globe nomination – was a ‘liberation’, she says. ‘It opened a lot of doors. I did feel a difference in terms of the With her Best Penélope types of role I was offered.’ Supporting and husband One such was a career Actress Oscar Javier Bardem milestone – playing Javier
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WHAT: Konnie Huq’s book signing. WHERE: Hatchards, Piccadilly, London. WHEN: Tuesday August 6. WHO: Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq was joined by celebrity pals including Vanessa Feltz. LOWDOWN: Konnie, who joined us for a shoot in last week’s OK!, unveiled her first children’s book, Cookie And The Most Annoying Boy In The World. MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK Above: Channing Tatum and Curtis Pritchard. Left: Megan Barton-Hanson. Below: AJ Pritchard and Abbie Quinnen A MAGICAL EVENING
WHAT: VIP performance of Magic Mike Live. WHERE: The Hippodrome Casino, London. WHEN: Tuesday August 6. WHO: Director and creator Channing Tatum rubbed shoulders with Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard and his Strictly pro brother AJ. LOWDOWN: Curtis admitted to being ‘star-struck’ after meeting Channing, while AJ said he was ‘the nicest guy’.
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WHAT: The opening of the Katie Piper Foundation Rehabilitation Centre. WHERE: Fairfield Independent Hospital, St Helens, Merseyside. WHEN: Friday August 2. WHO: Patron of the foundation Simon Cowell and his partner Lauren Silverman joined Katie Piper. Above: Simon Cowell, LOWDOWN: Katie visited staff and Katie Piper and patients at her new rehab facility. Lauren Silverman GOFFPHOTOS.COM GETTY IMAGES
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WHAT: Variety ’s Power Of Young Hollywood. WHERE: The H Club, LA. WHEN: Tuesday August 6. WHO: Camila Cabello and Nico Parker were among the young guests. STREETS AHEAD LOWDOWN: The event celebrated the best and WHAT: Pre-launch of new restaurant the brightest of Hollywood’s Bloomsbury Street Kitchen. rising stars. Above: Ryan Thomas and WHERE: Bloomsbury Street, London. Lucy Mecklenburgh. Above WHEN: Thursday August 8. right: Lydia Bright WHO: Kimberly Wyatt and Max Rogers joined VIPs including Beverley Knight. LOWDOWN: Guests enjoyed contemporary Mediterranean and Japanese small plates.
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Above: Sian Clifford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Right: Phoebe in the critically acclaimed TV show Above: A glowing Rachel Riley BAG STAGE cradles her bump
WHAT: Deadline AwardsLine’s Fleabag MUSICAL CHEERS screening and panel. WHERE: Landmark Theatres, Los WHAT: Evita press night. Angeles. WHERE: Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London. WHEN: Monday August 5. WHEN: Thursday August 8. WHO: Phoebe Waller-Bridge appeared WHO: Countdown star Rachel Riley was among the with her on-screen sister Sian Clifford famous faces at the big night, showing off her growing to field questions. baby bump. LOWDOWN: Phoebe confirmed she LOWDOWN: The Andrew Lloyd Webber classic – telling would be taking Fleabag back to the the story of Argentinian legend Eva Perón and featuring stage for a limited run in London. Don’t Cry For Me Argentina – plays until September 21. GETTY IMAGES SHUTTERSTOCK GETTY IMAGES
80 right: Norton. MinnieDriver Above: James James Above Above Tomlinson. Above: Rafferty Law time hostingagarden attheannualmusicfestival. The Wilderness Festival. The Wilderness LOWDOWN: WHO: WHEN: WHERE: WHAT: Driver were amongthestarsenjoyingbubbly. Eleanor Eleanor Right: INTO THE WILDERNESS JamesNorton,EleanorTomlinson andMinnie TheVeuve ClicquotChampagneGarden at Saturday August3. Cornbury Park,Oxfordfordshire. Cornbury
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’CHELLE SHOCK ‘OUR GIRL’ STAR MICHELLE KEEGAN ON STAYING ACTIVE AND AGEING WITH CONFIDENCE Michelle wears dress, £30, bum bag, £18, and trainers, £85, all Adidas by at Very PLUS ZESTY SCENTS ECO-FRIENDLY GLITTER AND STEAL THE STARS’ STYLE WWW.OK.CO.UK 83 Michelle wears top, £23, skirt, £45, and SHOWING HER SPORTY SIDE trainers, £75, all by Adidas at Very ‘DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY’
MICHELLE KEEGAN TALKS ABOUT FASHION WORKOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS!
ince taking a leap of faith and leaving the security of the Coronation Street cobbles in 2014, Michelle Keegan’s SCV has read like an action and adventure novel you can’t put down. She’s travelled the world as an Army medic in BBC drama Our Girl, and embraced life from the ‘50s through to the ’80s as Tina Moore in ITV drama Tina And Bobby. Now, having just celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary to husband Mark Wright, and finished filming another action-packed series of Our Girl, the 32-year-old actress has found time to front the new Adidas range for Very, and we can’t think of anyone better suited to the role. Here, the star shares her hacks for staying in shape, style tips for nailing ‘athleisure’ and learning to be comfortable in her own skin…
How has your relationship with your body and staying in shape changed over the years? As I’ve got older, I’ve definitely become more comfortable in my own skin and more confident in who I am. There is so much pressure to look a certain way and I think it can be really harmful. We are all different and beautiful as we are.
What do you rely on to make you feel good about yourself? Most importantly, do what makes you happy! See friends and family, and take time out for yourself, doing what you love. Rest and get as much fresh air as possible, and make sure you still enjoy the occasional glass of wine and takeaway. Life without a Chinese takeaway just isn’t worth living!
Do you have a workout routine? I really don’t have a set routine. I tend to work out when I’m in the
84 Michelle wears sweatshirt, £45, cycling shorts, £22, bum bag, £23, and trainers, £85, all by Adidas at Very
WWW.OK.CO.UK 85 Above: Michelle wears body, £33, tracksuit bottoms, £45, and trainers, £85, all by Adidas at Very
Right: Michelle wears T-shirt, £23; shorts, £25; and trainers, £85, all by Adidas at Very 86 mood and not put too much pressure on myself. I like doing group classes as I enjoy working out with other people and it’s a really fun social environment. I love the satisfaction you get after a spin or HIIT class and I always feel a sense of achievement. If I’m not feeling like doing lots of cardio, I’ll opt for a gentle flow yoga class.
Tell us a little bit about your beauty regime… Michelle and I always use a good her husband moisturiser in the morning Mark Wright and before I go to bed. I try to let my skin breathe GETTY IMAGES as much as possible and TllTell us about b tth the AdAdidasid range I use a face mask once a for Very you’re modelling week, if I have this season… time. I also It’s a twist always make ‘I TRY TO on the old sure I take my classics, so make-up off LET MY SKIN there are before bed. some pieces BREATHE AS in there you What is your will really post-workout MUCH AS recognise and skin routine? some that are I always avoid POSSIBLE’ slightly more make-up if I’m unexpected working out! and really It’s about being as comfortable cool. I love the way they have as I can be. I always tend to carry experimented with their colours a moisturiser, lip balm and and patterns, making it a really a highlighter with me, in case exciting collection. I need them. What are your favourite pre- Do you wear exercise clothes and post-workout snacks? outside the gym? Pre-workout I always try to have Yes, I love wearing athleisure. I a small bowl of porridge with think mixing relaxed looks with chopped banana or a shake trendy pieces means you can be to give me some slow-burning chic and comfy at the same time energy. Post-workout, I love – especially with this new Adidas having a delicious salad with range, it’s so versatile and cool. some protein. OK! I can definitely see myself wearing it when I’m out and VISIT WWW.VERY.CO.UK. about, at meetings or catching INTERVIEW BY ROSIE UNDERWOOD up with friends.
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he’s a campaigner, philanthropist and TV star – in fact, there are few women in the fashion and beauty industry who are quite Sas inspiring as Katie Piper. Refusing to let her life-altering acid attack dampen her incredible spirit, her determined confidence is something that translates perfectly when she turns her hand to looking and feeling good. Which is why we’d all be doing ourselves a favour by taking her lead in the style stakes. Dress, Her two latest collections with Want £29.95 That Trend have got any high summer fashion woes sorted, and for the mums- to-be out there, she’s got you covered too with a maternity range.
EXTREMELY LIPPY ever one to fade into the background, Rimmel London Nambassador Rita Ora has changed up her hair, make-up and style more than most women do in a lifetime. Which is why, when it comes to showcasing high-octane pigment, Rita, 28, is a girl in Dress, the know. The new Lasting Finish Extreme Lipstick does exactly £27.95 what it says on the tin by promising some serious staying power – ten hours, to be precise! Having road-tested the shade Blush Touch from morning till night, I can vouch thereere iiss lilittlettle nneedee for re-application. And it’s as soft as butter!
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88 STYLESTEAL LISA’S A SAM GOES JEAN-IUS GLAM Lisa Snowdon appeared on Sam Faiers showed off her This Morning recently looking fashion credentials at the as stylish as ever in a New Goodwood Festival recently. Look denim boiler suit, and The reality star mixed added a pop of colour with designer and High Street her yellow River perfectly, styling her black Island Zimmermann strappy broderie heeled anglaise sandals. dress with Aldo espadrilles, a raffia clutch and a Piers Atkinson hat.
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IT’S A CINCH CATHERINE’S FOR EMILY DOTTY For Emily Ratajkowski, any She’s signed up for the next street becomes a catwalk. series of Strictly Come Dancing The model sashayed her but Catherine Tyldesley left way through New York in the sequins at home for a telly an oversized white shirt and appearance last week. The cinched in her waist with a actress looked chic in a black tortoiseshell Black & Brown and white belt. She completed her lookk polka dot with bulky trainers Rixo dress and sunglasses. paired with yellow open-toe heels.
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eing drawn to everything glittery, I recently found myself with something of a dilemma. Glitter is no longer reserved for parties and the festival season; the catwalk has dictated that a shimmer on the eye Blids is the perfect addition to casual day wear [above]. Here’s my conundrum: beautiful, ethereal glitter is a microplastic, mostly made from aluminium and a plastic called PET, which means once the party’s over and it’s flushed down the drain, it kills marine life. However, I’ve done some digging and these products are safe, durable alternatives to ensure you don’t lose your sparkle…
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he may appear to be one of the most of anxiety can be helpful to us. She tells confident women on television but OK!: ‘It’s important to remember that Maya Jama says most of the time anxiety can have a purpose – it’s a normal, she feels like a quivering wreck. ‘I’m healthy human emotion. It’s part of our in- Sa super anxious person,’ Maya says. ‘It’s just built fight or flight response, which protects feeling overwhelmed and sweaty and sick. us from danger and allows us to respond All of those nervous feelings. You know that quickly to emergencies.’ feeling like you’re on a plane and your belly Dr Soumitra Burman-Roy, a consultant drops and then it just doesn’t go away? It’s psychiatrist, says the majority of people like that feeling all day – like you’re really he sees have had symptoms of anxiety at nervous but everything is fine. You feel some point in their life – but that doesn’t physically sick and you can’t eat.’ necessarily mean they need to seek help. Surprisingly for someone who performs He explains: ‘Many episodes of panic are in front of huge crowds on a regular basis, isolated and in the context of a specific global megastar Ed Sheeran feels the situation. Just because you’ve had one same way. He recently revealed he feels once, or even a few times, doesn’t mean panicky every day, saying: ‘It creeps up on it’s going to become a long-term problem you. I’ve been working on it for eight years requiring a long-term solution.’ So how and I closed off from reality. Whether it’s much anxiety is too much? Dr Soumitra getting rid of your phone or only looking explains: ‘It can be a motivating emotion, at emails twice a day. Or cutting down my but when it gets so extreme as to limit your friendship group to the bare minimum just ability to function, then we would no longer Above: The ‘super anxious’ so I can trust everyone.’ He adds: ‘I have consider it helpful.’ Maya Jama. Right: Emma social anxiety. I don’t like large groups of Current estimates Stone has struggled with people, which is ironic given I play shows to say around ten per anxiety. Below: Breathing thousands of people. I feel claustrophobic cent of us will have exercises can help and I don’t like being around many people.’ at least one panic Others who have battled anxiety despite attack during our their stardom include actress Emma Stone lifetime. Here, Dr and singer Ellie Goulding. Soumitra and Natalie HAVE A SET PHRASE offer some helpful tips Remind yourself that all the physical DO YOU NEED TO SEEK HELP? on how to manage such sensations you are experiencing are According to psychotherapist and an attack if and when symptoms of anxiety and panic, and counsellor Natalie Hawkins, a certain level it strikes… reassure yourself. Having a set phrase that you have prepared in advance and can repeat to yourself during these times SIT IT OUT can be very helpful. There is a lot of evidence that suggests riding out the panic attack – staying with it and what you are doing – can help. By not running away from your experience, you are able to show yourself that the panic subsides CaptionCaappttioion BREATHE MORE SLOWLY and that nothing bad is going to happen to you. whitewhiitte tot bbee The symptoms of panic attacks addedadddeded hehhererere can be relieved by breathing exercises. You should close your eyes and focus on your GROUND YOURSELF breathing. Concentrate on Visualisations and grounding exercises can taking long, slow breaths also help. You could carry a familiar and out – count to three while comforting smell around with you, such as doing it. This can not only a handkerchief spritzed with perfume, that be extremely calming but you can inhale and really focus on. Try the will also stop you from following grounding exercise. Count from hyperventilating. You can do one to five on each in-breath and out- this with eyes open or closed. breath for three to five minutes – you can If at all possible, try to sit do this either laying down or standing up. down as this will help you feel The key is to make sure either your feet, more secure and reduce the arms or hands, or all of them, have contact fear of collapsing. with the floor or the arm of a chair.
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DEAL WITH STRESSORS KAZ CROSSLEY Looking at the long term, there is a growing body of THE ‘LOVE ISLAND’ STAR evidence to suggest that panic TELL’S OK!’S EMILY WHITWAM attacks can be prevented through stress management, ABOUT LOVING HER LEGS AND which includes daily breathing HER WEAKNESS FOR SPICY FOOD exercises, eating regularly and healthily, and regular physical exercise. Also, avoid caffeine, How do you like to stay in smoking and alcohol as these shape, Kaz? can all make the symptoms of I like doing Muay Thai [Thai panic attacks worse. boxing, right] – I just love the combination of exercise and discipline. It’s an extremely powerful martial art and I just GET SUPPORT love it! I also go for runs Make sure your friends and and do classes in the gym – family know how you feel so fun stuff! Kaz (below) stays they can support you. Specific in shape with psychological therapeutic Are you body confident? Muay Thai (above) approaches such as mental Yes, I’ve learnt to love my health apps (www.nhs.uk/apps- body whether I’m hitting the Above: Ellie Goulding library/category/mental-health/), gym every day or slacking off. spices. I have really cute dinner has battled anxiety. wwebsites or self-help books can As long as I’m staying healthy, parties with my friends, they’re Below: CBT is often used ssometimes also be helpful. I’m happy. great cooks so it’s usually them to treat panic attacks who host. What do you love most about your body? Do you feel pressure TALK ABOUT IT I like my legs because I to look a certain way really work them hard promoting beauty Talking therapies can help when I do Muay Thai. products and being in individuals identify the source the spotlight? of their anxiety and stress, How often do you Not particularly, you and to establish positive ways work out? don’t need of coping with it. Depending Three times a beauty on symptoms and experiences, week. It’s products to this may include low-level important be beautiful. psychological interventions, for me I love looking such as guided self-help physically and natural and and psycho-educational mentally to trying to limit groups, or higher intensity because it aims to help you have a routine the amount psychological therapies such recognise negative thoughts, when it comes of make-up I as psychotherapy or cognitive reduce unhelpful thoughts to training; it’s wear, but at behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT and behaviours and reinforce an important the same time is often used for panic attacks positive and calming ones. part of my it’s great fun lifestyle and to really dress helps me maintain up and look glam! WHAT ARE THE SIGNS OF A PANIC ATTACK? a positive mindset. Tell us about Panic attacks are sudden and intense experiences that vary What’s your working with between individuals in terms of the exact symptoms experienced. food weakness? KISS... Typically, people will have a combination of the physical and I love kung pao KISS is a psychological symptoms below: prawns and any great fit for type of chow mein – me because The physical symptoms The psychological being half Thai, I love I love all can include: symptoms can include: anything with lots of things beauty. ● Palpitations ● Extreme anxiety and fear Not only do ● Chest pain ● Feeling detached from they have an ● Trembling reality with a sense that amazing range ● Sweating you are not connected to of super easy ● Muscles tensing your body or to the world nails with lots ● Feeling sick around you of designs, ● Abdominal pains ● Feeling you are losing control but I also love ● Difficulties in breathing or losing touch with reality their lashes. with a sense of choking ● Feeling you are about to They make ● Feeling dizzy collapse or even die OK! me feel so glam and put FEATURE BY YASMINE GRIFFITHS OK! PHOTOGRAPHS BY GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCKPHOTO, KATARZYNA BIALASIEWICZ, SHUTTERSTOCK together. ‘I love all KISS NAILS AND things beauty,’ LASHES ARE WITH THANKS TO DR SOUMITRA BURMAN-ROY, A CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST WHO WORKS IN LAMBETH Kaz tells us AVAILABLE AT BOOTS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES SOUTH LONDON AND THE MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION AND SUPERDRUG TRUST AND THE SLOANE COURT CLINIC (SLOANECOURTCLINIC.COM), AND NATALIE HAWKINS, NATIONWIDE. PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND COUNSELLOR MBACP (ACCRED).
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Eucalyptus trees WHY GO NOW? WHERE CAN I DINE? line the main street into Kolymbia Mykonos and Santorini may garner more headlines as the Greek Stroll into Kolymbia, a islands to be seen on over the summer, but Rhodes is a real hidden charming low-key resort gem. The year-round destination offers all the same ingredients, with where the eucalyptus-lined sun-kissed beaches and rustic tavernas, but it stands out in terms of its main street has plenty of wealth of archaeology, historical treasures and natural beauty, such as shops selling leather bags Butterfly Valley, home to thousands of butterflies of different species. (OK! bought a beautiful Rhodes is fast becoming a popular family destination with child- handmade leather tote friendly resorts, such as Levante Beach, and its top-class Mark Warner- bag), jewellery, floaty kaftans run sportingpg facilities, , as OK!’s Yasmine Griffiths discovers… and tie-dye dresses. After browsing the shops, OK! dined at Taverna Michel, where we ordered the grilled halloumi followed by chicken souvlaki.
WHAT ARE THE MUST-DO SIGHTS The main attraction in Rhodes Town is the magnificent UNESCO-listed Old Town – one of the best preserved inhabited medieval walled towns in Europe. Kids will love exploring the Grand Master’s Palace; walk along the top of the city walls and get lost in the maze of hundreds of little cobbled alleyways. If you don’t want to get lost, take a guided walking tour – and be sure to avoid the midday sun! Climb the 200 steps up to the impressive ancient Acropolis of Lindos that sits atop a rocky hill and commands panoramic views down over the town’s pretty white-cubed houses that tumble down the hillside to the sandy beach and turquoise sea. Reward yourself afterwards with History is a seafood risotto at around every nearby Ambrosia. corner in Rhodes
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WHERE CAN I STAY? Just half an hour’s drive south of Rhodes Airport, the low-rise Levante Beach Resort is the perfect place for an active holiday. An outpost of the Mark Above and facing page Warner holiday company, bottom left: OK! stayed at the stylish beachfront hotel the Levante Beach Resort boasts top-class sporting facilities and British-run childcare, with six pools (one just fdfor sports and two indoor). Located on Rhodes’ longest beach, families are well catered for with a choice of room sizes (including 100 family suites and ten suites with their own pool) that come with either terraces or balconies. Make sure you dine at the hotel’s Amalthia If you’re feeling restaurant, where OK! enjoyed a lovely al fresco dinner of adventurous, take to the langoustines, moussaka and baklava. sea in a ‘crazy sofa’!
WHAT ARE THE MUST-DO SPORTS? OK! loves to be active on holiday, and Mark Warner offers a whole spectrum of activities for adults and kids at the hotel. You can try out a new sport such as windsurfing or paddle boarding at its free clinics, or sign up for one of its week-long tennis programmes, RYA-run sailing or PADI diving courses. OK! enjoyed a guided kayak safari around the coastline, a sunrise yoga class and a sunset Zumba-inspired dance class held at a beachside cabana. Doing exercise with views of the twinkling sea is so much more enjoyable! For sporty types, there are guided mountain bike rides, while the water polo matches between staff and guests get very competitive! For those who want to have fun in the water, OK! loved being pulled through the waves by a speedboat on an inflatable ‘crazy sofa’! OK! The Street Of Knights was where knights in the Middle REPORT BY YASMINE GIBSON EDITED BY OK! TRAVEL EDITOR ANNABEL MACKIE PHOTOGRAPHS BY Ages stayed in inns and lodges GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO, ROSS WOODHALL
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WHAT IS IT? your drink orders. The country spa retreat, housed in a Depending on beautifully converted farmhouse, is hidden how you like to off a winding road in the Staffordshire relax you can get countryside. ’Not many people know we’re yourself a glass here,’ says the receptionist with a wink as we of prosecco, arrive at Moddershall Oaks, which goes some a green juice way to help you forget about the real world or a luxury hot when you arrive. chocolate completete witwithh whwhippedipped cream anandd WHO GOES?WHO GOES? marshmallows – we went for all three! The Real Housewives Of Cheshire stars have WHY DO WE LOVE IT? Once OK! had a long soak we grabbed enjoyed some pampering at this luxury The pièce de résistance is the large outdoor our branded grey robe (which are available spa hotel. And Love Island stars including hydrotherapy pool that overlooks the rolling to purchase) and flip flops to head to the Montana Brown and Wes Nelson have been green hills, obscured only by the steam rising indoor spa, which includes heated loungers spotted relaxing in the grounds. from the water. There’s no need to leave the under twinkly lights, reflexology foot baths bubbles, as staff regularlygy circulate to gget and a steam room. To take your relaxation up WHAT ELSE? aanother level, book in for an Elemis Stay overnight in one of the ten luxurious treatment – OK! enjoyed a deep spa suites to allow yourself maximum time The restaurant is tissue massage (£70 for 55 minutes), to enjoy all that Moddershall Oaks has to the perfect spot for which was tailored to our needs, and offer. Guests have access to a hot tub, so some indulgence by the time we walked out it felt like grab a drink and you can pretend you’re on we’d been given a whole new body! a date in the Love Island villa hideaway! The After all that relaxing you may hotel restaurant, which looks out onto the crave a bit of exercise, and there’s picturesque lake, is the perfect place for an plenty to choose from with tennis indulgent dinner. OK! enjoyed the gnocchi courts (racquets are available for (£15) followed by the salted caramel, pear and free hire) and 70 acres of parkland, frangipane tart with pistachio ice cream (£7). which can be explored on foot or Another great added bonus is the use of any on a vintage-style bike which can Elemis tester products throughout your stay – be borrowed from the hotel. You our skin never looked so good! OK! can also visit the Made Wellness
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WWW.OK.CO.UK 103 FEARLESS AND ENERGISED ‘PEOPLE LOVE TO TELL WOMEN THEIR LIMITATIONS’ NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Right: Natasha CHATS TO OK!’S KATIE credits time away LANGFORD-FOSTER with husband Matt and son Solomon ABOUT HER NEW ALBUM (below) as inspiration ‘ROLL WITH ME’ for her new album
ince moving Stateside in the late noughties, Natasha SBedingfield has taken the US by storm, collaborating with the likes of Nicki Minaj and Bruno Mars, performing at the White House and being named one of VHS’s 100 Greatest Women In Music. Now the 37 year old – who shot to global fame when her 2004 song Unwritten was used as the theme to The Hills – is back with her first studio album in eight years, Roll With Me. ‘I wanted to make music that moves people and makes them move,’ she says of her new material. When we catch up with the singer – who lives with her husband, businessman Matt Robinson, and their 20-month-old son Solomon in Malibu, LA – she tells us her little boy inspired one of the album’s standout tracks, King Of The World, in which she sings: ‘I like the way I become when you’re around.’ Natasha admits: ‘I hope that can last until he’s a teenager!’ Here, she also opens up about defying expectations, raising her son and why Radio 2 once banned her music…
What inspired you to get back in the studio for Roll With Me? I’ve always been busy, but my music wasn’t ready. Having a baby gave me a new energy. I feel fearless and like I can do anything after having gone through that.
How is motherhood treating you? I love it. There are so many horror stories, so it’s definitely better than I thought it would be! I got lucky and got a really good kid. If people say: ‘Oh, you’re such a good mum,’ I’m like: ‘No, I just lucked out.’ I have a little buddy for life. Were you ever not taken seriously as impressed!’ And now I’m like: ‘This is really a young female songwriter? good, come hang out with me.’ That’s what Roll It’s funny you wrote a song called I Wanna I’ve experienced my fair share of being put With Me is about – come along for the ride. Have Your Babies and now we’re talking back in my place as a woman, but I like to about your baby… defy people’s expectations. That’s the way I’ve Do you miss the UK? I know! Radio 2 wouldn’t even play that song, chosen to handle it. I’m lucky I’m surrounded I get homesick sometimes. When you leave like they thought it was encouraging girls to by people like my friend Serena Williams, home you hang on to your roots even more. go and have babies. It was tongue in cheek, who defies expectations. People love to tell I’ve never drunk so much tea as since I left – and but men were scared of me after that. It’s just women their limitations, but that just inspires it has to be builders’ tea! I feel like I’ve been honest – we’re all just thinking, will this guy be a us to keep going. representing England out here. I love my English good dad? fans and I’m so grateful for their support. OK! Have you grown in confidence since you ‘ROLL WITH ME’ IS OUT ON AUGUST 30. What do you hope to teach your son? started out? I want to make sure he’s kind and treats Definitely. I feel very experienced and I’m INTERVIEW BY TWITTER.COM/KT_ELLE_EFF PHOTOGRAPHS BY KRISTIN BURNS, INSTAGRAM women well. enjoying that. I used to be like: ‘Love me! Be 104 ‘INFLORESCENT’ MUSIC FRIENDLY FIRES FILM ‘GOOD BOYS’ ight years after Etheir last studio album, Friendly Fires are back with their third record Inflorescent. An eclectic blend of dance-punk, house and indie-rock, fans can expect to hear the upbeat instrumentals and echoes of the ’80s. Fresh from a year of touring Australia and North America, fans will be pleased to hear the trio’s bright new sound. LW ★ ★ ★
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he ultimate blast from the past, after a ten- Tyear hiatus, MTV’s iconic Cribs is back! And some of our favourite stars are set to open the doors to their lavish homes for an exclusive tour. From Joey Essex’s back garden beach club, to hockey star Sam Quek’s very own Olympic torch, the weird and wonderful interiors of the rich and famous will have you rinces William and Harry can regularly be found hopping astride hooked. But can a polo pony and brandishing their mallets. Even little baby anyone beat P Archie has already witnessed his first few chukkas, so OK! decided Missy Elliott’s to head to The Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club to see what all epic colour the royal fuss was about! As Argentina took on England to win the co-ordinated Coronation Cup, even the South American team’s victory couldn’t trainer collection dampen our spirits. Sipping champagne pitch side was a great start or Mariah Carey to the day, and of course, we joined the rest of the crowd to flood soaking in the the field for the traditional half time ‘divot-stomping’. And the fun bathtub of didn’t stop when the riders dismounted, as OK! joined them at the her New York after-party, hosted by Mahiki, to dance the night away. A day out at apartment? We’ll Royal Berkshire Polo Club is not to be missed! KLF have to wait and see. KLF FOR DETAILS ON UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE CLUB, VISIT WWW.RCBPC.COM. REVIEWS BY KATIE LANGFORD-FOSTER, KIRSTY HATCHER, LAUREN WILLIAMS, DANNY LEDGER; PHOTOGRAPHS BY HELEN CRUDEN LANGFORD-FOSTER, KIRSTY HATCHER, REVIEWS BY KATIE WWW.OK.CO.UK 105 VINTAGE NEWLYWED COLEEN ROONEY TELLS OK! ABOUT GETTING USED TO HER NEW SURNAME AND LIFE WITH WAYNE
Above and below: Coleen ISSUE was excited to become SEPTEMBER an OK! columnist he’s now been married to Wayne Rooney for 11 years, but when we caught up with Coleen Rooney in 2008 it had only been a matter of months since they had tied Sthe knot in a romantic Italian ceremony, which was exclusively covered by OK!. Coleen’s new surname was still a novelty when we spoke to her at the shoot to celebrate her new role as an OK! columnist. ‘Me and Wayne were having such a laugh about the Mrs Rooney thing,’ she revealed. ‘It was so funny on honeymoon when we’d check into places and they’d call us Mr and Mrs Rooney.’ In 2008 Coleen was unsure about how many children she and Wayne would have. ‘I would like a big family but I’m going to wait and see until I have one,’ she said. They had their first son Kai, now nine, and they went on to have Klay, six, Kit, three and 18-month-old Cass. But Coleen never did get to use the girl’s name she told us was top of her list. ‘Ava is a very pretty name,’ she said at the time. Over a decade since their big day, it’s fair to say Wayne and Coleen, both now 33, have had their fair share of ups and downs. Their latest challenge was a stateside move to Washington DC, but the couple are now moving back to the UK 13 months into Wayne’s three-year contract. The former England captain has accepted a job as player-coach at Derby FC. His new position means roughly a £2.8 million pay cut, but according to a source the decision has pleased a ‘homesick’ Coleen, who is grateful that Wayne has put his family ahead of his career and is reportedly keen to have a fifth child. OK!
Above and left: ‘I would like a big family,’ Coleen told us
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