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ISSUE 1290 ● 31 MAY 2021 ● £2.50 WEEKLY PREGNANCY EXCLUSIVE LOUISA BABY JOY! HOW PRINCESS BEATRICE’S NEWS HAS LYTTON ‘UPLIFTED THE QUEEN’ SHARES HER EXCITEMENT AS SHE PREPARES FOR MOTHERHOOD ‘THE BEGINNING WAS A WHIRLWIND OF WORRY, PANIC AND SICKNESS, BUT NOW I’M ENJOYING IT’ ‘WE’VE CANCELLED OUR WEDDING – WE’LL FOCUS ON THE BABY’ EXCLUSIVE AT HOME ACTRESS EXCLUSIVE WILLIAM’S VERITY HEARTBREAK RUSHWORTHRUSHWORTH HISHIS ‘INDESCRIBABLE‘INDESCRIBABLE SADNESS’ OVER ‘I DIDN’T SET DIANA INTERVIEW THE MASKED DANCER’S OUT TO JUST JOELJOEL DOMMETTDOMMETT BE A MUM – t Export £2.60/€3.43 I WANTED A t Esp/Por €3.30 t Italy €4.80 t Auz $8.40 inc GST t CDN $7.99 t ROI ‘MY WIFE KEEPS ME CAREER TOO’ €3.29 t NL €4.75 t FR €3.80 t Aus €6.10 t Malta €4.25 GROUNDED’ t Ger €5.30 MAY CONTENTS ISSUE Our cover stars NEWS & INTERVIEWS LOUISALYTTON THEDUCHESSOFCAMBRIDGE THEDUKEOFCAMBRIDGE THEDUKEOFSUSSEX PRINCESSBEATRICE NAOMICAMPBELL JOELDOMMETT LOUISETHOMPSON DENISEVANOUTEN BRITCROWD CLARAAMFO NATIONALTELEVISION AWARDS VERITYRUSHWORTH JUDILOVE AMANDABYRAM GETMOREOK!TIME EMILYANDRE NANCYSORRELL Our fabulous daily newsletter brings you the best celebrity house tours and biggest FASHIONISTA exclusive interviews. 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And our studios in central now, with a little one on the way, London, the pregnant Louisa reveals that after already WEastEnders actress admits she’s having to postpone their big day feeling a mixture of emotions about twice, they have cancelled it baring her bump to the world for the altogether to concentrate on their first time. impending arrival. “I’m excited, but quite nervous,” “We’re going to have the baby Louisa tells us. “It’s a weird thing, but and focus on that and then get you almost feel like you’re not in your married once we’re ready,” says own body when you’re pregnant. It’s the star, who plays Ruby Allen in a body you’ve never known before.” the BBC One soap. But it soon becomes clear that she Here, Louisa, who lives in north has nothing to worry about, as the London with Ben and their 32-year-old, who’s due in September, Cockapoo Riley, tells us all about is absolutely glowing from head to toe. her pregnancy journey so far Louisa and her fiancé Ben and reveals how she told Bhanvra, 30, previously told OK! her co-stars... 4 WWW.OK.CO.UKWWW.OK.CO. 5 ginger biscuits, but nothing The couple are was helping. The only thing expecting their that would stop me feeling first child sick was eating, so I was eating constantly! Thankfully it stopped around 11 weeks. Have you had any weird cravings? I couldn’t stop eating McDonald’s and chips to start with. All I wanted was grease, salt and fat. I think the man in the McDonald’s near my work was like, “Are you alright?” [Laughs] I was sending Ben out at all hours to get things. He would make a big roast dinner and then 20 minutes later I’d say I was starving. Now I’ve moved onto sweet stuff. When we last spoke to you and Ben, you said you wouldn’t put off having children for the sake of getting married… When we did our last OK! shoot [in December], I was already pregnant and didn’t know! Ben and I did have a conversation towards the end of last year and it wasn’t looking like the wedding Hi Louisa! How are you feeling so anxious and nervous is not how was going ahead. We’d already about our bare bump shoot? I expected to feel when I found out. postponed it twice by then and I’m nervous, but excited because It’s still a constant worry, but feeling I didn’t want to put off having it’s something I’ll forever be able to movement is really nice. children any longer for something look back on. I’m really grateful to we didn’t know when it was going be able to do this. How have you felt about your to happen. I’ve always wanted changing body? to get married first before having Have you embraced your bump? It’s an odd one. Before, when children for tradition, but The first 12 weeks were really tricky. I had friends and family who were sometimes things are taken out You’re dealing with a lot of nerves pregnant and they said they felt of your hands. You also don’t and anxiety because there’s uncomfortable in their own skin, know how long these things are chances of things going wrong, all you can think is, “But you’re going to take, so I didn’t want so I was just trying to protect myself carrying a child,” and then it to put it off any longer and Ben instead of getting too excited happens to you and it’s just agreed. So we just said, “Let’s see or really believing what was something you’ve never what’s happens,” and it ended happening. It was a whirlwind of experienced before. It took me a up happening really quickly! We worry, panic and sickness. I was while to see what was happening were so lucky. Now we’re having really sick! But once I had that to my body and realise it was to rethink the wedding. 12-week scan, my whole body because I was growing a human. relaxed. After that I felt like I Did you postpone your wedding could accept and enjoy what was How bad has your sickness been? again when you found out you happening. You wait so long and I can only describe it as an all-day were expecting? being a mum is something I’ve hangover. I was sick in the morning The wedding had actually already always dreamed of and wanted, and then so nauseous all day. I had been put back to 2022 because it so for the first few months to be sickness bands and was eating didn’t look like it was going ahead 6 WWW.OK.CO.UK 7 8 ‘WE’VEDECIDEDTOSCRAPTHE WHOLEWEDDINGANDSTART AGAINWITHOURPLANS’ the way we wanted this year. Then, soon Are you going to find out the sex? after, we found out I was pregnant so we No. All we want is a healthy baby, so had to call them and say we’re actually that’s why we don’t feel the need to find having a baby so it can’t go ahead out. Ben keeps saying “he” and I say anyway! I also don’t want to get married “she”, we’re just trying to cover all while pregnant. bases [laughs]. So when are you planning to get You revealed you were drinking tequila married now? shots the night before you found out Well, we’ve cancelled the wedding you were pregnant. What made you altogether now. We’ve decided to scrap take a test? the whole thing and start again with our It was Christmas Day and we did a Zoom plans. We’re going to have the baby and call with all the family because no one focus on that and then get married once could get together. We were doing a we’re ready. We’d already postponed it game and you had to have a shot if you twice and the wedding we were going to lost. I had all of two tequila shots and have was massive – we had nearly 200 then that night in bed I was violently sick people. This last year has put everything and alcohol doesn’t normally do that to into perspective and there are bigger me. I just thought, “Oh my God, could it things going on in the world. Now with be?” On Boxing Day I woke up and said the baby, it will be such a different day to Ben, “I’m going to do a test” and he and it’s just amazing. I was at my mum said, “Just a wait a few days.” He thought and dad’s wedding so it’s nice that our I was being melodramatic and I was just baby will now be doing the same. And sick because of the tequila. we know we’ll have lots of babysitters there, so we can have a day off! Tell us about the moment you took the test… How is Ben feeling about becoming Ben was in bed still so I went into the a dad? bathroom to do it, not thinking anything He’s really chilled out about it now. At first of it, and then I came running out! I got he was in such shock because I’d really the shakes – my whole body was laid it on that it could take a long time convulsing. It was lovely and such a to get pregnant and you just don’t know special, surreal moment.