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Weddings – all the bride ON THE COVER REAL LIFE 40 Dear Gloria really wants to do is marry 8 ‘Social climber’ Meghan: 16 My eight-year-old had 41 Your Stars with the man she loves. But then Is a real Princess putting a stroke Russell Grant she starts planning the thing – her nose out of joint? 33 My bridesmaid 42 Recipes: Take comfort! who gets an invitation, who’ll be 9 Victoria caught out? blooper! 44 Homes: Go green! bridesmaids, the dress code, the The embarrassing 46 Girls’ night in… and out reception – the list is endless answers to her REGULARS 50 Tony Cowell talks to even for us mere mortals. So marriage questions ... 4 Start your week Anita Harris we can only imagine what 10 Strictly secrets: with a smile 53 Cash advice that task was like for Meghan Haunted, horriied 12 Fashion: Suits you! 55 Travel: Half term heroes! Markle or Prince Andrew’s and heartbroken 19 Angie Best 57 Crossword: win £550 younger daughter, Eugenie. 30 When it’s time for 20 We’re all talking 58 Treat yourself for under And how many more people their bed at the 39 about... a tenner want to voice their opinion animal hospice 22 Celebrate your shape about both women – from Piers 36 Diet or die! I’ve lost 24 Style: All bagged up! Hearst Magazines UK is a trading name Morgan’s views on Meghan of The National Magazine Company 21 stone to stay alive 28 Carol McGiin Limited (Registered in England number to newspaper reports on the 52 Win! Your £250 winter 34 The packed 112955) whose registered offices are at 30 Panton Street, London SW1Y 4AJ. money Eugenie is spending? * REX,

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A STAR WITH STRIPES! 1 This adorable new arrival was born at Blackpool Zoo earlier this month. Wakanda, as she has been named, is super-cute and also very special. She’s currently the UK’s only female Hartmann’s mountain zebra foal, and has been called a ‘miracle’ for the vulnerable species. She is also the only surviving female zebra born in the UK since 2002. Welcome to the world, Wakanda!

4 BACKPOOL ZOO, CAPITAL, GETTY CAPITAL, ZOO, BACKPOOL Our favourite PICTURES: PICTURES: nanny returns Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The oicial trailer for Mary Poppins Returns was released last week, and now we’re more excited than ever for the sequel to the 1964 classic ilm. This time, it’s British star Emily Blunt who’s serving up a spoonful of sugar to the Banks family, and we can’t wait to follow their adventures with the new nanny. The ilm will be hitting the Julie Andrews (top left) was LOUISE BULGIN, MILLIE GGOCH, HELEN PIKE PIKE HELEN GGOCH, MILLIE BULGIN, LOUISE silver screen on 19 December – it’ll an iconic Mary be like Christmas coming early! Poppins – good luck, Emily! WORDS:

4 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE Who wowed best this WEEK the crowd? Show-stopping gowns reigned supreme GC FOR NO.1! at last week’s Emmy Awards in LA, with Downton Abbey Michelle Dockery, 36, wowing’s in a Cinderella-worthy blue dress. Otherwise, it was all white on the 3 night, with Scarlett Johansson, 33, and Kristen Bell, 38, in simple, sculpted ﬁgure- ﬂatterers. Former star of The Only Way Is Essex, Gemma Collins has a new dream – to become a festive favourite and bag the top musical slot of the season. The self-proclaimed diva has just recorded a version of the 90s club classic Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good), after Strongbow got her behind the mic – and, apparently, it’s not too bad! ‘I would like to do an album,’ said The GC, 37. ‘I would like to be Christmas number one, I’m not gonna lie.’

SUNNY SIDE UP Here’s one for your wish list! Molton Brown’s Michelle went brand-new collection, Jasmine & Sun Rose, is just the ticket for those missing the summer months. for fairy-tale This grown-up ﬂoral scent comes as a perfume but, if your budget doesn’t stretch that far, immerse prettiness in yourself in its Bath & Shower gel, £20, her Carolina for an uplifting start to the day. Herrera gown, 5 while Scarlett and Kristen evoked ice-queen Hollywood glamour START YOUR week with Starry 6 eyed! Sarah Jessica Parker, 53, must have had something in her eyes (far right) when she put this outﬁt together. Sequins, satin and a whole lot of cleavage – what would Carrie Bradshaw say? For superstar style, copy Kylie Minogue, 50, with this gorgeous white, star-print strappy dress and fabulous lace-up boots. Space-chick Wouldn’t Change chic! We still can’t get her out of our heads... A Thing? Neither would we, Kylie

BAG LADIES Can you believe it’s been 10 years since Victoria Beckham, 44, hung up her Spice Girl outits to become a designer? To mark the anniversary of her fashion label, she released some pictures of herself in an over- sized shopping bag emblazoned with her name. Hilariously, Linda Robson, 60, later recreated the poses – but with a Primark bag. That’s deinitely more our price bracket!

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NUTS ABOUT EXERCISE? We’ve heard about gym bunnies, but gym squirrels? We’d never have believed it until we saw this cutie looking like he’s lifting weights! The mini-muscleman was captured

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Princess Eugenie is marrying entrepreneur A two-day affair, a bigger Jack Brooksbank guest list and a stricter dress code… It may be a case of wedding wars in Windsor Royal snub?

WORDS: DEIRDRE O’BRIEN hen Meghan a more traditional afair than Markle wed Meghan and Harry’s. The W her prince at dress code requires a ‘day St George’s Chapel, dress and hat’ and, for the Windsor, in May, you men, morning coats. Meghan could have forgiven her and Harry permitted men to for thinking it was the wear lounge suits. 850 guests wedding of the year. will attend – 250 more than But there’s competition in Meghan and Harry invited. town with the forthcoming Royal author Phil Dampier nuptials of Princess Eugenie, believes there are several 28, and entrepreneur ﬁancé reasons why this may be Jack Brooksbank, 32, at the such a grand afair, saying, same venue on 12 October. ‘Prince Andrew and his The Queen’s granddaughter ex-wife, Fergie, regard their is said to be planning a two- daughters in the same league day afair, including a formal as [Princes] William and reception and a ‘festival and Harry, even though they don’t funfair’-themed party. The perform royal duties. Their estimated price tag is close attitude is that Eugenie is to £3 million, with a heavy a granddaughter of the Queen security bill being picked up and deserves a big day.’ by the tax-payer, even though He added, ‘This is all part Eugenie is not a working royal. of Andrew’s campaign to As for the ceremony itself, get a role for his daughters Eugenie, ninth in line to the in the long-term, which throne, seems to be planning Prince Charles, as future king, is against. ‘As for Fergie, she is pushing behind the scenes The Beeb to raise the proﬁle of this wedding, so that she’ll be back said no on the royal stage big-time.’ If the Duchess does have Let’s not forget, too, that a touch of the green-eyed Jack, ex-manager of posh monster, one thing might London nightclub Mahiki, is 850 guests will attend be secretly cheering her extremely well-connected, up. Currently, there are no while sparky Eugenie has Eugenie’s wedding – plans to televise Eugenie’s several celebrity friends, big day. The BBC is rumoured to have turned including singer James Blunt, 250 more than Harry down the opportunity, model Cara Delevingne and fearing a ratings lop, while comedian Jimmy Carr. and Meghan invited a commercial broadcaster So, if this new wedding

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Victoria has When Victoria Beckham launched had to deal with another an app for fans to help celebrate 10 PR disaster years as a fashion designer, it led to some surprising answers… Divorce David? Happily…

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hen the former But once it was up and Spice Girl running, the questions coming Wlaunched a in quickly got personal, with chatbot with Facebook the replies churned out The chatbot recently, fans were by the robotic app, rather was ‘very’ left both giggling and unfortunately for Posh, clearly informative… downright shocked by bearing no resemblance to the apparent replies. how the ‘real’ Victoria would Explaining the app last have answered. again replied, ‘Very.’ have been when she heard week, the fashion designer, 44, When asked by a user if As curiosity peaked, the about the wayward bot’s called it the ‘chatbot version of divorcing her husband David, bot was then asked, ‘Are you answers. me, Victoria Beckham’, which 43, would make her happy, the happy with David?’ Victoria is said to have a would keep all her followers bot answered, ‘Very’! ‘I can’t tell you anything wicked sense of humour – up to date with ‘everything In response to another more’ responded the chatbot, she’ll certainly need it after that’s happening at London question, ‘Does David’s money adding a zipped mouth emoji. this latest ﬁasco! Fashion Week’. make you happy?’ the bot Alex Miller, one of the app’s Even so, it’s not exactly creators, later what Brand Beckham All four children explained, ‘The needs right now. attended Vic’s natural language This all comes not long after latest show processor had reports that her fashion brand been programmed is losing as much as £4,000 a to recognise “Are day, which is hot on the heels you happy?” and of rumours that Victoria and respond, “Very.” David clashed over who in This has now the family should be part of been ﬁxed.’ the cover image for a glossy Still, you can magazine shoot recently. Instagram/davidbeckham imagine what They say never work with poor Posh’s children or animals – Victoria reaction must should add ‘robots’ to that list! Victoria will definitely GETTY IMAGES

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‘HORRIFIED’ Presenter Katie Piper Since falling victim to a terrifying acid attack in 2008, Katie has undergone dozens of operations to treat her severely scarred features, and she’s almost blind in one eye. But for the mum-of-two, 34, who is partnered with Gorka Katie was left scarred Márquez, her painful past inside and out has come back to haunt her. When the former model began Katie recently revealed that being her stint on the show, it emerged that her on Strictly was helping her through attacker was soon to be released from this, writing on Instagram, ‘This is prison. No one would blame Katie for a really diicult time for me. Strictly KATIE feeling horriﬁed that after six years has already given me such a welcome behind bars, Stefan Sylvestre, 30, is and positive distraction from my about to be freed. He had acted under past. While there is never a good the orders of the star’s ex-boyfriend, time to hear this news, I’m glad Daniel Lynch, who was subsequently I have this new journey to concentrate jailed for 16 years. on. Thank you for your support.’ It is thought Strictly bosses If anyone deserves a break from have given Katie round-the-clock her past, it’s brave Katie – and we security ahead of her attacker’s can’t wait to see what she has in release to ensure her safety. store for that dance ﬂoor!

‘HAUNTED’ Judge Shirley Ballas Queen of Latin Shirley joined the raising his daughter, Mary, who was glitzy BBC show last year, taking 10 at the time. It’s why the family the place of former head judge haven’t celebrated Christmas since. Len Goodman. And, although the Shirley has said previously, ‘He wasn’t petite brunette always maintains just my brother, he was like a father composure on screen, behind the figure. We’d talk every day... It was scenes, she’s admitted that she diicult. I always felt safe with him.’ has moments when she struggles. The tragedy caused Shirley, 58, to Sadly, Shirley seems haunted by the dedicate her life to raising awareness untimely death of her beloved brother, about depression and mental health David. In December 2003, her sibling issues, setting up the Ballas Foundation – who had battled with depression for with her son, Mark, 32. years – took his own life, aged just 44. Of course, such sadness might have She ended up been easier to bear if she had the right After her brother man at her side. But the dance David’s death, legend, who has been married Shirley raised his twice – first to dancer Sammy SHIRLEY daughter, Mary Stopford (1980 to 1984) then to Corky Ballas (1985 to 2007) – admitted in a recent interview that she’s ‘hopeless’ at finding love. ‘I never get it right,’ Shirley confessed. ‘I was engaged at 16 to Nigel Tifany, and he’s now my financial adviser. When I married Sammy, we were so young. Everybody got married

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the show’s hit formula So when did you irst will take any contradiction ard to believe, is bigger than any of its appear on TM? of her as dissent. I am but it will soon stars could ever be… It was 2002. There was an constantly on the yellow card Hbe 30 years idea to have a special This with her, waiting to be given since the very first This Happy 30th anniversary, Morning for the Queen’s the red. But we like to think Morning was broadcast, This Morning! Golden Jubilee, and put my we are carrying on that great from Liverpool’s Albert Thank you! It’s very strange wife, Ruth, and I on together. tradition from the days of Dock, on 3 October to see so much of your life After that, the executives had Richard and Judy. It’s not a 1988. And mischievous pass by! My connection the idea to make it a regular manufactured relationship, it Northern Irish TV with This Morning actually thing. Ruth was very anti it. is as real as it gets, with ﬂaws broadcaster Eamonn predates my joining the show. She went, ‘No way!’ She said and all. When you work with Holmes, alongside his I was presenting Open Air I made her nervous – she your wife, their maternal long-suffering wife and – the BBC alternative – back didn’t want to be an on-air instinct tends to kick in and co-host Ruth Langsford, in 1988. Open Air ruled couple at all. Ruth didn’t you have to ‘sit down and have been part of the the airwaves till this show want me on it, and I don’t behave yourself’. fabric of the hit daytime started. So originally, This think she’s ever wanted me You do seem to have a chat show since the Morning was my enemy – on it since, to be honest! giggle on This Morning early 2000s. and the rivalry was intense! What is it like working – it can be quite fruity! Here, Eamonn, 58, But 30 years ago, little did with your partner? Well, in the past few weeks, takes a stroll with best I think that I’d be working Ruth cannot divorce our home I have debated, ‘Should down memory lane, and on the show that I tried to life from our professional life masturbation be taught in reveals why he thinks strangle at birth! – I can do it very easily. She schools?’ and spoken to

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Mr Motivator brought us together! Eamonn and Ruth actually met through TV circles – at a party hosted by Mr Motivator, aka Derrick Errol Evans, the itness instructor who rose to fame in the early 90s through appearances on breakfast show GMTV. ‘I’ve Mr Motivator to blame,’ Eamonn joked. ‘The irst time I saw Ruth, I went, “Wow”. She had me right under her spell, which is why I call her the witch! I’m joking, of course! ‘For me, it was love at irst sight. That has never changed. We argue every day, but we have the deepest love possible. But for Ruth, an argument is like foreplay!’ Mr Motivator (centre): more like Mr Matchmaker! year – it’s a lot of shows, so we can’t remember all of it. But what you do remember about the content and how is how amazing people are. the presenters communicate When adversity strikes, they with the audience. will do anything to protect Do you think the show their family. I love sitting with has changed a lot? real people, and sometimes I think it’s not as tough as it it’s so hard not to just reach was back in the 80s, because out and hug them. Sometimes, the audience has changed. I think the programme really Items you would have done has made a diference. 30 years ago – there would be Have you had any totally diferent attitudes to favourite guests? them today. There is so much Well, just recently we had more tolerance, respect and a 95-year-old lady who understanding these days. parachutes out of planes. The audience doesn’t expect She was just incredible you to come on, laugh at and had this great attitude. someone, mock them or call What’s the secret of them weird. It’s a much more This Morning’s success? tolerant society nowadays. It taps into what people want Who would you tip as REX ITV, to see. It’s not predictable. a hot presenting duo It doesn’t matter who is of the future? a woman demonstrating how is safe or dull obviously don’t presenting it, whether it’s How about Jeremy Clarkson PICTURES: she strengthens her pelvic watch it. But I do think I can Ruth and I, Phillip and Holly, and Ann Widdecombe?! ﬂoor by lifting a tin of beans be like the naughty pupil in or Richard and Judy, This Those two would be amazing. on a string. So, what can the class. Morning is bigger than any It’s written in the stars. I say? People who say Do any moments stand presenter sitting there. The

daytime television out for you? formula is right, and it will O This Morning – 30 O’BRIEN DEIRDRE Well, we do This Morning outlive all of us. It’s not all Unforgettable Years, ITV, for a third of a about who hosts it – it’s Tuesday 2 October, 7.30pm WORDS: This Morning 30 YEARS

RICHARD & JUDY TWIGGY & COLEEN PHIL & FERN PHIL & HOLLY 1988 – 2001 2001 2002 – 2009 2009 – present My eight-year When Candice Dolby, 42, from Surrey, got a phone call from her daughter Issy’s school, she had no idea of the dreadful news in store for her…

Before her stroke, sassy Issy loved to dance and ride her bike

t’s a day that will stick in my mind forever, Ibut it began like any other. Rushing around, shovelling down breakfast and gathering school bags, trying desperately to get out of the door on time. ‘Have you done your teeth, Oli?’ my eight-year-old daughter Issy asked her brother. I couldn’t help laughing. It was typical Issy. Full of sass, she was like a little mother hen to her big brother. But she was also full of love, and when I dropped them of at school, it was she who turned and waved, treating me to the full sunshine of her smile. At 3.30pm that day in late June, I finished work and picked up 11-year-old Oli, taking him to the shops while we waited for Issy’s dance class to finish. But before it was time to collect her, my phone rang. Issy’s school. Why were they calling? It rang of before I could answer and, being only a couple of minutes away, I decided to head straight there, rather than call back. When I walked in, I was ushered straight down the corridor. ‘Why is everyone looking?’ I wondered, more surprised than worried. Then I saw Issy’s legs, sticking out of a doorway. Panic rising, I rushed over to where she was lying on the floor and knelt beside her.

16 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE best for REAL LIFE r-old had a stroke My beautiful daughter was the UK – and they had no idea a wheelchair. She Issy with dad Richard, clutching her face, and the why Issy had sufered one. wanted to be like any mum Candice and second I took her hand away It was tempting to sink other eight-year-old, brother Oli and saw her drooped features, into despair, but then I like the friends she I knew. I’d seen the adverts remembered Issy’s drawing missed so badly. We – I recognised the signs. book. On every page, she’d arranged for her three Within minutes, the written an inspirational best pals, Grace, Emily ambulance arrived. Issy message. ‘You’ve got this!’ and Lexi, to visit. As was now unconscious and the ‘You are strong!’ ‘Be brave!’ soon as she saw them, paramedics fired questions So, following her example, something wonderful at me. ‘Has she hurt her head? we sat by her side and told her happened. She smiled. Has she fallen?’ how much we loved her and They laughed and ‘It’s a stroke,’ I kept what a strong girl she was. giggled as they told repeating. After two days, she woke Issy all the school We were rushed to our up. ‘Your arm and leg are very gossip, then baked local hospital, St Peter’s in tired and we need to work hard biscuits in the hospital Chertsey, Surrey, where a to wake them up,’ I explained. school room. When a glass team of doctors was waiting ‘I love you!’ she mouthed. of water was brought for ‘Because of with my husband Richard, 44. It was all I could do to hold each of them, Issy took one The school had called him and back my tears. herself and downed the her brain he’d arrived after leaving Oli Instantly, it was clear just lot, something she hadn’t with my parents. how badly she’d been afected. managed to do before. injury, ‘What’s happening?’ he Because of her brain injury, Just seeing them did stammered, but I just shook she had to re-learn everything. wonders for Issy’s spirit and Issy has to my head. There was nothing She couldn’t even swallow. afterwards, she was even more to say as Issy was put into a While Richard, an IT determined to get better. re-learn coma and on to a ventilator. specialist, looked after Oli Then, five weeks after She had a CT scan and at home, I stayed with Issy her stroke, following a physio everything’ was then transferred to St as she started therapy. The session, she got out of her George’s Hospital in Tooting, staf let her go at her own pace wheelchair. ‘Look, Mummy,’ London, where sedation was and gradually she was able she said, laughing at my remain for another two. stopped and we waited for her to eat jelly and yoghurt. shock. ‘I can walk!’ Issy struggles with short- to wake. But she didn’t. Through sheer ‘Sit down,’ I insisted, term memory loss, but she’s Later her consultant told determination, within a half-delighted, half-terrified. improving every day and is us the tests had confirmed fortnight she went from ‘You’re not strong enough yet.’ even well enough to come a stroke, explaining it had uttering single words to But it turned out she was. home at weekends. happened on the left side of whole sentences. Meanwhile, Wearing a boot designed When she returns her brain, causing the right- with physiotherapy, she’d to strengthen her foot, she permanently, her therapy – hand side of her body to be progressed from sitting in was up and away. physio, massage, speech and paralysed from head to toe. bed to being able to stand. Finally, after six weeks, language – will continue. It’ll Strokes are incredibly rare in The thing Issy found she was transferred to The be pricey, costing us nearly children – only 400 a year in hardest was needing Children’s Trust, a brain £3,000 a month, but our injury rehabilitation centre community has been so kind Left paralysed in Tadworth. She’s been and her dance teacher ran down her right there a month and will a triathlon to raise money. side, Issy is determined to Issy’s a fighter, and her

recover fully focus is to dance and ride her EDDIE JUDD PHOTOGRAPHY bike again. Although we have a long road ahead, we’re holding out for a full recovery. And if I know Issy, she won’t settle for PICTURES: anything less.

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Cutie pies Trending on Tw Who said double carbs were #SongsBandsInTheArmedForces a bad thing? Scotland is home to many a bold culinary invention (deep-fried Mars Bar, anyone?), and we reckon this one is worthy of a place in the food hall of fame. Macaroni pies are exactly as you’d expect – shortcrust pastry ﬁlled with rich, creamy macaroni cheese. These tempting treats, pictured, are from Old Salty’s, a chippy based in Glasgow. If you search ‘macaroni pie’ on Pinterest, you’ll get a sea of recipes to try your hand at.

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GOING VIRAL Trust me, WEIRD OR WONDERFUL? Cloudy forecast I’m a lady doctor When it comes to beauty trends It’s a moment all Doctor Who fans have been on Instagram, anything goes, waiting for with bated breath – Series 11 of the cult it seems. While eyebrows are sci-ﬁ series. There will be more time travelling being left alone, everyone’s in the Tardis, but this time with a twist. Because, attention has turned to eyes, even if you can’t diferentiate your Daleks from with ‘cloud make-up’ getting your Time Lords, you’ve probably heard that Jodie a turn in the spotlight. How Whittaker is taking on the lead role. Yes, that’s does it work? White shadow right, a female Doctor. Which is probably why is applied to the sockets the trailer is going down a storm with Whovians and shaped to form a cloud, – and everyone else. We can’t wait to see her pick with the surrounding area up the sonic screwdriver on Sunday 7 October! painted a darker ‘sky’ shade. It looks striking, but we can’t imagine having the time or the inclination to copy it ourselves. FIND US ON INSTAGRAM AT… @bestmagoicial Instagram/@nikkietutorials

Pizza for pudding? Chicago Town has swapped its usual cheese and tomato filling for something a lot sweeter. Its Chocolate Dessert Pizza, £2.39, still has the signature deep crust synonymous with Chicago Town pizzas, only this time it’s filled with hot chocolate sauce and topped with milk and white chocolate chips. Definitely a decadent dessert! witter EVERYONE’S Everyone feels a bit of pomp and BUYING… circumstance when they see an armed forces parade, so it’s only TWITTER PINTEREST, INSTAGRAM, GETTY, BBC, right that this week, tweeters have Holly’s combined songs and the military.

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With STRICTLY CRAIG FABULOUS, DARLING! Craig Revel Horwood gives us all the backstage gossip on the biggest show on TV… SHIRLEY AND ME LOOKING ‘COSY’ I loved the video BBC Three So, Lee Ryan and partner shared recently, showing ﬁve-year- Nadiya Bychkova have olds giving their very forthright been seen out holding opinions on Strictly. hands. Big deal. The thing Very cute. One of is, when you’re dancing them suggested so closely and, literally, that Shirley and holding hands with I were in love. another person for eight That made me hours a day, you become giggle! I mean, quite tactile. A gesture I love Shirley, could be meaningless but clearly, not but, to the outside world, in that way! CLOSE ENCOUNTERS it can look like you’re madly in love…

Moi, PARTY GIRLS starstruck?! People love to hear about I love meeting the big guest backstage rows, but I’m stars we get on Strictly. I was so afraid I must report that Tess starstruck by Beyoncé in 2006. She and Claudia are the best of was backstage, looking fab, with her mates – just like they seem entourage of 25. I just stood in the on telly. Very sociable. They Instagram/@tessdaly corner, too nervous to go up to her. love a cheeky drink in their She walked straight up and dressing room post-show, went, ‘Hi, Craig! I love you on the and occasionally, I join them. show, how are Last time, they’d run out of you?’ I nearly alcohol. I think that’s why Too good to be died. they invited me, because true? Actually, they’re for real! I had booze in my fridge…

TANGO TIME I can’t wait to see the couples take on the Argentine tango. It’s one of those iery dances I can’t get enough of. I loved Flavia Cacace and actor Jimi Mistry’s tango in 2010 – it was so passionate.

I mean, they got married in 2013! That WENN BBC, GETTY, INSTAGRAM, doesn’t mean that, if you dance it, you’re going to fall head over heels – think THE DANCE OF LOVE Ann Widdecombe and Anton du Beke! PICTURES:

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best for STRAIGHT TALK CAROL McGIFFIN THE WAY THE I AGREE WITH DEIDRE I SEE IT... Wise words WHOLE from our feisty, fearless TRUTH? and funny columnist OR NOTHING?

ots of people were shocked and And if someone’s food is revolting. it’s, angry when The Sun’s legendary “Mmmm!”, which could mean anything. ‘Lagony aunt, Deidre Sanders, But seriously, with inﬁdelity I know it’s advised a caller on This Morning not to not that simple, but it’s not always the end tell his wife he’d slept with a stripper. of the world, either, especially if it’s only I think she was right – sometimes, with a stripper. Don’t get me wrong, I’m honesty is not the best policy. I tell it not advocating it. I mean, if it’s his/her like it is, but I know when someone isn’t best mate or next-door neighbour, and it’s ready for the truth, even if they ask for been going on for years, then it probably my opinion or advice. I don’t lie exactly, is the end of the world. But for a one-of but I’ll either say nothing at all, if I can, episode of pathetic weakness, where or at least be diplomatic. there’s almost no chance of being found For example, my friend doesn’t need out, it’s not. So, like Deidre said, keep it me to tell her that her bum looks big to yourself. Don’t ooad your own guilt in that, because I’m sure deep down by dumping it on the person she already knows, and is just you love and risk looking for reassurance. So I’ll say, cocking everything “Not from where I’m standing.” up, so to speak… ’

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GO AWAY WHITE BOOTS WEEDS! My new boots are WEEDS so on-trend I can’t The more time I spend believe it, but in my garden, the more what’s even more I hate weeds. In fact, they unbelievable ofend me so much that I can

GETTY IMAGES/STOCKFOOD, NICKY JOHNSTON NICKY IMAGES/STOCKFOOD, GETTY is they’re from be quite violent towards them, Primark and were and I’m not happy unless I’ve only £15! Perfect ripped them right up from when you know it’s the root. But still they come PICTURES: PICTURES: a look that’s vaguely back, at lightning speed and LOVE MY ridiculous and won’t NEW without water. It’s like they’re BOOTS last ive minutes. taunting me, spreading around I’m wearing mine the garden like wildire, even with cropped penetrating the fake grass. white or Honestly, it’s like skinny black The Day Of The Trids jeans and a round our gaf. loose- itting jacket. FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE 28

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With Maggie, who inspired the animal hospice One dog’s lega Alexis Fleming, 37, is helping sick and vulnerable animals by providing them with the end-of-life care they deserve to have…

can still remember My mum, Flora, now 70, Maggie was my constant I got a call to say something the exact moment I and my dad, Archie, 69, had companion and support had gone terribly wrong. Iirst laid eyes on her. been involved in animal while I helped other animals. ‘She’s not going to pull Maggie was a Bullmastif, protection for as long as And when I sufered terrible through,’ the vet explained. and was being advertised I could remember, and had bouts of ill health with my ‘It would be best to let her go on Gumtree as she’d rescued cats for 26 years. Crohn’s disease – a painful, now.’ I had to make the awful been badly treated and Before I was born, Mum had inflammatory bowel condition decision for her to be put to needed rescuing. rescued a dog named Trouvee – Maggie would curl up in bed sleep so she wasn’t in pain. It was 19 December who hated children, because next to me. Losing a loved one – human 2008, and as it was nearing she’d been badly abused. But in August 2015, Maggie or animal – is very dicult. I Christmas, I wanted to do Yet when I arrived, the seemed of colour – she spent the whole night crying. something meaningful and stae-cross loved me. She wasn’t her usual self. Weeks The next morning, I went worthwhile. So, I collected was like my shadow and stood of tests followed at our local with my mum to the vet to Maggie with a view to protectively by my pram. We veterinary practice and poor see Maggie’s body for the last rehoming her. Only then, were best mates. So it was no Maggie was later diagnosed time. Afterwards, I turned to I fell in love. She was the surprise that, as I grew up, I with a tumour on her lung. Mum and said, ‘The Maggie most welcoming, gentle dog. wanted to help animals, too. ‘The cancer has already Fleming Animal Hospice.’ I couldn’t give her up, so she I volunteered at shelters spread to her oesophagus,’ She nodded, knowing became my own companion, and rescue centres when the vet told me gently. exactly what I meant. my own family. I could, then in February I was heartbroken. My I’d talked before about how A stranger even stopped us 2013, I set up a charity called brave pup had a feeding tube important I thought end-of- in the street once. ‘You can Pounds for Poundies, which fitted but, shortly afterwards, life care was for animals, and just tell she’s a lovely dog,’ she rescued dogs that’d been it became dislodged and one of the hardest things about said, as Maggie wagged her confined to pounds where, she had to go back for more losing my Maggie was that I tail happily. And she was. after seven days, they were surgery. I wasn’t allowed to hadn’t been there to comfort I’d always loved animals and put to sleep. see her while she was prepped her in her last moments. had grown up around them. Throughout the process, for theatre and hours later, I hadn’t been able to do it

30 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE a Alexis with of some launched theMaggie Fleming time ofneed. for theseanimalsintheir someone hadtobethere devastating attimes–but knew Oshadidn’t have long. of theirlives, especially asI helping animalsattheend emotionally prepared for and decidingwhether Iwas researching thehospice the sunshine. eating, sleepingandbaskingin quickly learnedthatsheloved given sixmonthstolive andI brought herhome.She’d been checked over byavet and terminal, inoperablecancer. dumped byanearbypond. Bullmastif, whohadbeen I’d heard aboutOsha,another the animalprotection world, death, through my contactsin it forothers –inhername. for Maggie,butIcoulddo So, on30March 2016, I It would behard –even Meanwhile, Ispenttime I’d pickedherup, hadher She was foundtohave Weeks before Maggie’s her beloved farm farm beloved her cy animal rescues weeks andsomehave been some animalswithus forafew to theirdistress. We’ve had days left, we don’t want toadd they only have acoupleof are well enoughtotravel –if need. We always checkthey and poundsaboutanimalsin get callsfrom other rescuers helped 40other animals. I that we could. we’d donethebest forher heartbreaking, butwe knew put hertosleep. Itwas the vet cameandgently the sun.Latethatafternoon, lawn, foronelast sprawl in her favourite fruitchews. treating hertopasta and her foralongwalk before and have sometoast. We took I let hercomeintoourbed partner, Adam,now 34,and her todiewithdignity. decision, butwe wanted left pain-free. had acoupleofweeks said, suggesting sheonly she willbesoon,’ thevet coughing upblood. months later, Oshastarted Animal Hospice. Butsix Since then,thehospicehas Then shelaidoutonthe So, on7June 2016, my It was adicult ‘She’s not inpain,but

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WORDS: JOAN MCFADDEN, LOUISE BULGIN best for REAL LIFE My bridesmaid blooper! Vanesa Marcia, 37, couldn’t wait to walk down the aisle in front of her friend Gracia Garcia – but then she had a high-heel hiccup!

aking a deep own shoes. So, wanting to feel breath, I clutched extra-glam, I chose a pair with Tmy bouquet and huge heels. took a step forward. I was But the night before the last of ive bridesmaids her wedding in July 2017, Vanesa was to walk down the aisle it rained. thrilled to be a bridesmaid for and behind me, my best ‘I don’t want to have my pal Gracia friend Gracia was dressed wedding inside,’ said Gracia, in a beautiful white dress, her eyes filling with tears. excited, nervous and ‘It’s just a village hall.’ Luckily, waiting for her moment. So, we agreed to go ahead a guest Gracia, 34, and I met outdoors. Aware that the yanked her shoe free at Middlesex University. paths were slippy, when She’d just split up with her it was my turn, I made sure boyfriend, and my mum to walk slowly and carefully. was seriously ill with cancer. But, halfway down the path, As we supported each other my heel got trapped in through our respective tough a drainage grate. times, we became firm friends. I staggered, just stopping We both got jobs as myself from falling. But as language teachers, and I tried to move my foot, I Gracia met someone new, realised the heel was stuck. Rajvi Batchu, where she I couldn’t move. Yikes! Vanesa’s lived in Richmond upon Forcing a smile, I tried heel gets Thames, London. desperately to wriggle the heel stuck They were so clearly in love, loose, but it wasn’t budging. it didn’t surprise me when she After a minute or two, the told me he’d proposed while guests had started to turn shaking with laughter. I was so frightened of what they were on holiday in Paris around, wondering where the Eventually, someone stood Gracia would say afterwards, in the summer of 2016. As bride was. My face reddened, up and, with a sharp jerk, I barely heard a word of the she showed me the pictures, my hands shook, but I couldn’t wrenched my shoe free. The ceremony. She’d spent months WAYNE AUSTIN Gracia popped her own big yank the shoe out. heel snapped in two, but I planning this and I was question. ‘Will you be my I could hear giggling as the didn’t care. I rammed it back terrified she’d be upset.

bridesmaid?’ she asked. nearest guests clocked what on my foot and hobbled down Fortunately, she laughed PICTURES: I was so excited, I couldn’t was going on. My humiliation the aisle, trying to ignore the it of. And, as for the shoes, wait for her wedding. turned to panic. Gracia would smothered sniggers. they went straight in the bin! Gracia loves the countryside be furious! and decided to tie the knot in By now, the entire a beautiful English garden. congregation was looking at ‘I could hear giggling She chose gorgeous maxi me. My partner, Sam Ali, 34, BRICK SAMANTHA dresses for her bridesmaids, was ﬁlming the ceremony from the guests’

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hether you’re well practised at throwing together a packed lunch for school or work Wor you’re new to it all, packing your own meal is a great way to lose weight. It’s particularly handy because you can control your portion size and calories. When hunger strikes, your packed lunch is there waiting for you, making you less likely to nip out for something high-calorie just because you fancy it or because you’re in a rush. In fact, a study by the University of California, San Diego, found that following a diet of portion-controlled, prepacked meals helped slimmers lose eight per cent of their body weight over 12 weeks – compared to six per cent in dieters left to select their own slimming meals. A healthy packed lunch should include… OOne wholegrain starchy food such as bread, pasta or rice: great for giving you a steady stream of energy. OLean protein like white meat, fish or beans: all good options for helping you to feel fuller for longer. OPlenty of fruit and vegetables: great for helping you feel satisfied. HOW IT WORKS Follow the plan (right) which includes breakfast, a packed lunch, dinner and two snacks daily. Drink at least eight glasses of fluid per day including water, sugar-free squash (well diluted) and tea/cofee with a splash of semi-skimmed milk from your daily allowance (250ml). Milk mentioned in the plan is extra to this. Follow the plan for no more than a month. Lose 1st on the packed lunch diet

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WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Breakfast 2 slices Breakfast of wholemeal toast with 40g porridge made with low-fat spread and 1tbsp 200ml semi-skimmed milk. peanut butter. 1 apple. Packed lunch Tuna Packed lunch Pasta and bean salad: Combine salad: 1 cup of cooked 60g mixed beans and an penne mixed in to salad. 80g tin of tuna with 1 pitta 1 Ryvita. 1 pear. (in strips). Celery sticks Dinner Stir-fry: 1 with 2tbsp of salsa dip. sliced chicken breast, Dinner veg and Frylight. 1 cup Omelette: 2 eggs and of cooked noodles. a splash of milk. 1 roll. FRIDAY SATURDAY Breakfast Breakfast Toasted bagel Smoothie: 1 low-fat with a little low-fat spread. yoghurt, 2 pieces of fruit. Packed lunch Packed lunch Prawn and rice salad: Mix 2 Sandwich: Two wholemeal handfuls of cooked prawns bread slices, low-fat spread, and 1 cup of wholegrain rice

ham and salad. 1 banana. with salad and lemon juice. VARY MAY ACHIEVED LOSS IGHT Dinner Bean chilli: Small Handful of blueberries. cans each kidney beans Dinner 1 salmon illet, and tomatoes. 1 onion. ½ ½ cup brown rice and cup cooked brown rice. some broccoli.

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Gloria Hunniford is a mum-of-three and grandmother of 10. She’s been divorced, remarried and learned toRip deal Off with Britain the ,loss she of her daughter and, on battles consumer issues. In her own words, she’s ‘lived a lot’. So, ask Gloria anything… Our son got married… and shut us out ast year, my son got in that ‘honeymoon phase’, love. We parents all miss our married to a lovely girl. but I miss my son, and there children when they move on, We held the ceremony are only so many times I can whether it’s for work or, in Lin our own home, and reach out without taking your case, another woman! my husband and I couldn’t this rejection personally. Let your son know how much have been happier for them. Darcy, north London you love him and keep inviting Since then, I’ve been lucky them over for dinner, Sunday to receive a phone call every Oh, Darcy. They have only lunch or just a cuppa. Keep couple of weeks, let alone been married a short time. the lines of communication see them. My main concern Of course they are still in open and, for sure, if those is, when they start a family, I the honeymoon period, grandchildren come along, won’t see my grandchildren! where they are wrapped up your babysitting skills will I know they are probably still in a cocoon of romance and come to the fore! Panic not. Has redundancy upset him? She’s a dating disaster y husband was made being direct with me, how can I hile I adore my friend, who’s 40, her redundant nearly two go about this? I can’t stand him love life is a non-starter. It would be years ago. He has been bottling his feelings up if he’s OK if she were single and happy, Mfreelancing since then, not truly happy. I want to help! W but her friends, myself included, and will tell anyone that asks Ruth, Surrey are convinced she’s so wound up about not that he is happier for it. But I meeting Mr Right that it’s become a self- know him like the back of my So sorry to hear your husband fulilling prophecy. hand after 15 years of marriage, has been made redundant. It’s She’s begun to and I can tell he’s not being such a blow to one’s conidence treat online dating honest with himself. If he’s not – and, of course, a huge worry like a second job, for you. I would imagine he is but it’s making her wearing a kind of mask at the ill. How do we help moment, and perhaps it’s his her? She’s also way of coping. I feel you have very sensitive, so to be strong, and 100 per cent this needs to be supportive of him, throughout handled delicately. this period. Who knows, maybe Sharon, Leics he is enjoying a dierent, BIGSTOCK, GETTY more lexible way of working. I’m sure we all Sometimes we read the wrong make mistakes signs – while he wouldn’t have in our love lives.

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SAGITTARIUS TAURUS 23 November – 21 December 21 April – 21 May New ideas, new options and a new Sometimes, there is no option other image will renew your enthusiasm than to listen to your intuition. An for life. Take on a challenging assignment and instant decision needs to be made and there is you’ll enjoy your new responsibilities, while no time to consider the pros and cons. Although gaining fair reward for your efforts. Don’t be you don’t like to be rushed, you do know your surprised when you’re offered a dream job. own mind, and you’ll sense what is best for you.

CAPRICORN GEMINI 22 December – 20 January 22 May – 21 June Time to break out of a boring An organised approach is needed routine. Your future prospects to stop a group effort drowning look attractive as new horizons open up. in a mix of jumbled opinions. You’re tired of Going on a long trip will appeal to your receiving conflicting advice. You may be asked adventurous side. Remember, a journey of to take charge, so draw on past experience a thousand miles begins with a single step. and use your positive spirit to get results.

AQUARIUS CANCER has become an obsession 21 January – 19 February 22 June – 23 July – panic sets in. I’m not What you wish for and long for The results of changes in joint computer-literate myself, most is to get away from it all. arrangements are likely to benefit but I always say to people, Dreams of travelling over hills and dales and you if you are in a couple. Being half of a loving discovering the wide blue yonder keep you ‘If you’re going to look for team enhances your power. Working together optimistic. These fantasies could well come makes you feel alive and engaged. Don’t ignore a partner online, then, true, but it is up to you to take the initiative. initially, look for someone an intuitive insight at the end of the week. you like – who you have mutual interests with and can enjoy being PISCES LEO 20 February – 20 March 24 July – 23 August with.’ In other A vivid dream will make a strong A workmate or neighbour is trying words, search for impression and might give you clues to get something for nothing. companionship to a situation that has been causing confusion. Don’t allow them to take your good nature for – not necessarily You want to share your thoughts with friends, granted. If you feel they’re trying to manipulate for ‘The One’. but be careful who you confide in. A pal who you, don’t let them! A text message received Sometimes, feels more like family to you is the one to trust. on Friday could be both pleasing and puzzling. when you’re not looking so hard and just relax, that special ARIES VIRGO person comes 21 March – 20 April 24 August – 23 September along. Tell your Developing a daring creative project A group of friends are about to go friend to enjoy will renew your joie de vivre. Your their separate ways. You’re feeling herself and see excitement is contagious, but one person may sentimental and wish things could go on for what happens. try to hold you back. It’s important to follow ever. What could surprise you is how quickly your dreams, however unconventional they are. you start adapting. When one door closes, Forming a joint venture could be lucky for you. another opens. It will be a blessing in disguise. Take comfort! As we head into autumn, try one of these delicious and filling recipes

Pork schnitzel with coleslaw Sage and garlic pack 75ml sunlower oil 1 Put one pork steak then dip into beaten a punch in this dish. 1 lemon, cut into wedges at a time on to a board egg, followed by the and cover with cling breadcrumbs. Serves 4 FOR THE COLESLAW ilm. Carefully latten to 3 Heat the oil in a non- Per serving: 50ml cider vinegar, or 0.5cm (¼in) thickness stick frying pan and 622 cals, 32g protein, 32g white wine vinegar by hitting with a rolling fry pork for 5-8 mins, fat (5g saturates), 49g carbs 50g honey pin. Peel o cling ilm turning once, until (21g total sugars), 7g ibre 50g yellow and pat pork dry with golden and cooked American mustard kitchen paper. through. Meanwhile, in 4 pork loin steaks, 50g mayonnaise 2 Put lour, egg and a bowl, whisk together thin-cut, fat trimmed ½ red cabbage, cored breadcrumbs into vinegar, honey, mustard 50g plain lour and inely sliced three separate shallow and mayonnaise. Add 2 medium eggs, beaten 2 carrots, coarsely grated bowls. Mix the garlic remaining coleslaw 100g fresh white 1 small fennel bulb, granules and sage into ingredients and stir to breadcrumbs cored and inely sliced the breadcrumbs. Coat coat. Serve schnitzel 2tsp garlic granules 1 apple (skin on), each pork steak in lour, with coleslaw and 3tbsp inely chopped sage coarsely grated tapping o the excess, lemon wedges.

42 FACEBOOK.COM/BESTMAGAZINE best RECIPES Salmon and Finely grated zest avocado burger of ½ lemon If you like a bit TO SERVE of heat, use more 4 ciabatta rolls, horseradish in split open your burger. Avocado slices Rocket Serves 4 1 In the bowl of a food Per serving: processor, whizz spring (including 1 x 80g ciabatta onions and parsley roll but without avocado) (including stalks) until 703 cals, 40g protein, inely chopped. Add 33g fat (5g saturates), the salmon and pulse 59g carbs (4g total until inely chopped but sugars), 4g ibre retaining some texture. Scrape mixture into a 3 spring onions, large bowl and stir in roughly chopped breadcrumbs, horseradish, Large handful egg and some seasoning. fresh parsley 2 Shape into 4 patties. 500g skinless Heat oil in a non-stick salmon illets frying pan over a low- 100g fresh medium heat and fry breadcrumbs patties for 8 mins, 1tbsp hot turning midway through, horseradish sauce or until golden and 1 medium egg cooked through. 1tbsp olive oil 3 In a bowl, mix together aioli ingredients; season. FOR THE AIOLI 4 Serve burgers in 4tbsp mayonnaise ciabatta rolls, with 1 small garlic clove, avocado slices, rocket crushed and aioli.

spices and fry for 1 min. Meanwhile, Bombay rosti cakes bring a pan of water to a simmer. A cross between Bombay 2 Transfer onion mixture to a bowl. potatoes and rosti. Peel and coarsely grate potatoes. Pile grated potato on a clean tea towel, gather up the corners and Serves 4 squeeze out and discard moisture. Per serving: Empty the squeezed potato into the 453 cals, 16g protein, 23g fat onion bowl, then stir in coriander (6g saturates), 43g carbs and 2 beaten eggs, and season. (6g total sugars), 5g ibre 3 Divide equally into 12 lattened patties. Return frying pan with half 3tbsp sunlower oil the remaining oil and half the butter 1tsp mustard seeds to a medium heat. Fry six rostis for 2 onions, inely sliced 3-5 mins each side, pressing down on 2 garlic cloves, crushed them as they cook, until golden and 2tbsp garam masala piping hot. Repeat with the remaining ½tsp chilli powder oil, butter and potato mixture. 850g loury potatoes 4 Meanwhile, crack an egg into Small bunch coriander, a coee cup. Swirl the pan of roughly chopped simmering water to create a 6 large eggs whirlpool, then tip in the egg. HEARST 25g butter Repeat with another egg. Simmer Large handful spinach leaves for 3-4 mins until whites are set and Mango chutney, to serve yolk remains soft, then transfer to a shallow dish of warm water. 1 Heat 1tbsp oil in a non-stick frying Repeat with the remaining eggs. pan over a medium heat. Fry mustard 5 Divide the spinach leaves among seeds until they begin to pop. Add four plates, then top each serving onions, reduce heat and fry for 5 mins with 3 rostis, a drained poached until soft; add garlic and remaining egg and some mango chutney. FEATURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY: , Jar, H&M Main image: Jewellery box Double bed, Oliver Bonas £449 £29.50 Side table, £299 Ficus tree, £99 Tumbler, £3 Floral bed set, from £59 Jacquard cushion, £17.50 Plain dye pillowcase, £6 Throw, £39.50, all from M&S

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egendary Carry of financial troubles, but this On star Anita year has been a whirlwind! off to LHarris has I was really excited when I enjoyed a TV and film was invited to be a contestant career spanning 50 on Celebrity MasterChef. But years. The 76-year-old when it all got going, I was talks about working shocked by the reality of it all. Vegas with TV icons such as I felt really inept, and I did Frankie Howerd and things I would never do in my Sid James, and opens kitchen at home. You just get up about her sadness so nervous under pressure. over never being able But it was a lovely experience. at 16!’ to have children. You were discovered by Sinatra perform in Vegas I played the London You’ve never really a talent scout in your left a huge impression on me. Palladium with him stopped working Anita, teens and went straight I have to thank my parents for for eight months. He have you? to Las Vegas – tell us being so brave in letting me taught me so much, Well, it’s tough going at my how that happened… go. What I do remember was and I still think about age. I’ve had my fair share I was 16, and I was ice skating that the flight to Vegas took him today. Frankie at the time. Then, 36 hours in those days! was slightly more of all of a sudden, I was a mixture. He was a chosen to be a dancer Your parents sound like very gifted comedian, and whisked of to they were supportive… but also quite troubled, Vegas with 10 other Oh, very. My mum was just I felt. And, of course, girls. I was heavily a country girl, and Dad it was Frankie who chaperoned, which had this wonderful love of helped me get my my parents made sure music which, I suppose, in first part in the of, so I wasn’t at all a way, inspired me to go Carry On films. concerned. It was just into showbusiness at such a magical beginning an early age. Looking back, Tell me about to a very long career. they must have truly believed working with Sid Watching Frank I’d make something of my life, James and the because they really trusted Carry On gang… me to up and leave to follow I was very lucky to my dream. get that first part. It was a huge learning You went on to curve for me, and work with huge I had to quickly stars including prove myself – Sir Harry particularly with Secombe and Kenneth Williams. Frankie Howerd. He could be very What were they diicult. But really like? Sid James was BBC, GETTY, REX Anita felt Harry was the like an uncle to

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work, because all the films mum used to say, nobody has had to be completed in six everything – and you have to weeks. I’m proud because thank God for the blessings these films are so iconic, and you have. everyone still loves them. You started in showbiz You were also a big fan of really early. Do you singer Dusty Springield, think it’s easier now weren’t you? for women to get into I was. I worked with her, and the business than when she also became a friend. By you irst started? then, she was well on her way I think it probably is, when to being a big star and she you have shows like The X was such a great singer. Factor and BGT. When people I was in awe of her. Beneath like Morecambe and Wise, all that, she was a working Ronnie Corbett and Tommy girl who was just charming Cooper started out, they and sweet. I adored her, and were playing theatres and was devastated when she music halls. Today, TV is died of cancer in 1999. where the kids want to be and, of course, they can also You met your husband be discovered from being [Mike Margolis] very online. It’s a brave new world. ‘I was very early on in your career but, sadly, you never Tell us about your new lucky to get had children. Was that show that you’re touring a huge regret? with this year… that first part. Yes, because I had three It’s a very intimate show, miscarriages and that was where I basically discuss my It was a huge very diicult. We both wanted life through music and film, children so badly, but it wasn’t and all the lovely people who learning to be. The sad thing was we I’ve worked with over the had both already named years! Every song I sing curve for me, two of them. When you go has a meaning, and I want through that together, you to share those memories. and I had to just hold onto each other and pray that something prove myself’ good will happen. In the end, For tickets and further that made us stronger. But it info on An Evening would have been lovely to now With Anita Harris, have grown-up children. My see anita-harris.com best OFFER

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