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Jedward were unforgettable on Celebrity Big Brother, but the duo have now revealed that John was plagued by a ‘scary health diagnosis’ the whole time.

The brothers — John and Edward Grimes — have actually appeared on CBB twice, first in 2011 then again in 2017, when they finished as runners-up.

As the latest series kicks off, Jedward, 33, spilled some behind-the-scenes secrets and advice from their two stints in the house.

While most were light-hearted recollections, John discussed the dramatic moment he fell when entering in 2017 and had to get medical attention.

‘Another thing that didn’t air is that when we were entering the house, I fell off the stage,’ he shared. ‘I hit my back and had to go to hospital for tests.

‘At the time, they gave me a scary diagnosis that I could have cancer.’

Thankfully, John was given the all-clear after the series ended, having spent their entire 28-day run plagued by the health crisis.

‘I went through the experience thinking I was going to die,’ he added to OK! Magazine.

In a devastating development, the Eurovision icons would go on to lose their mum, Susanna, to cancer just two years later.

At the time, John downplayed the fall to Big Brother in the Diary Room: ‘Five seconds on the show and I’ve hurt myself!’

Pointing out his deflated signature hairstyle, he continued: ‘You know it’s a bad day when my hair looks like this! Now I have to go to hospital looking like this.’

He returned to the house that evening, with CBB not airing any conversations about a diagnosis and Jedward carrying on as normal.

The pair still managed to have fun while in the house, with Edward saying there is plenty of chance for romance on the show.

‘We could have had loads of showmances but we didn’t entertain them,’ he explained. ‘There are lots of condoms in there – they have a stash in the bathroom!

‘The producers have high hopes they’ll get used. There were hilarious moments.

‘Once, John ran out of underpants, so Bianca Gascoigne gave him her thong.’

On Monday, April 7, hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best return to front the showbiz edition of ITV’s beloved social experiment.

This year’s cast reportedly includes talk show hosting legend Trisha Goddard, American actor Mickey Rourke and internet sensation JoJo Siwa.

Only time will tell who will follow in David Potts’ footsteps and emerge victorious as the 2025 winner.

Celebrity Big Brother returns to ITV and ITVX on Monday, April 7.

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A leg injury has forced a Gladiators contestant out of the competition after they made it all the way to the final.

Zavia Hill, a personal trainer from Manchester, was hit during one of the games on the BBC One show’s semi-final, and at first it seemed like she would continue.

She was treated by a physiotherapist backstage and made it to the final leg, an assault course called The Eliminator, taking home the win, but later had to withdraw.

Her place will be taken by the fastest female runner-up from the semi-finals, Aneila Afsar, a supply teacher also from Manchester, who has broken barriers as the ‘first Muslim woman on the show’.

Zavia said: ‘Reaching the final felt special, I usually give up when I feel like I’ve failed.

‘After injuring my leg in the Gauntlet, I convinced myself I was out. But at the start of the Eliminator, I thought, not this time. Give it your all, girl.’

She also said that during the Gauntlet game, where Gladiators try to prevent contenders passing with the aide of power-pads, she ‘knew my time on the show was probably over, I was devastated’.

‘I got very emotional after I realised I’d hurt my leg as bad as I did,’ Zavia added.

‘When I got home and the adrenaline had worn off, I realised I could hardly move my leg but on the plus side, I got to watch the final from the front row and cheer both of my friends on.’

She also said that she felt ‘like a butterfly with newfound confidence’ after being in the arena, and urged Aneila to do ‘Manchester proud’.

Aneila said reaching the final was ‘bittersweet’, and added: ‘Anyone who’s been following the show knows how badly I wanted to make it to the final, but this isn’t the way I wanted to get there. At the same time, I’m beyond grateful for the opportunity and so excited for what’s ahead.’

She also called Zavia ‘an incredible contender and an even better person’, adding: ‘It’s an honour to represent her and I’ll actually be wearing some of her gems in the final.’

Aneila said: ‘Winning Gladiators would be amazing. I’m a competitive person and a former pro-athlete so I’m always in it to win it.

‘But honestly, just getting here is huge. I’ve already broken so many barriers as the first Muslim woman on the show, and now being in the final is incredible.

‘I know that my presence alone will have a positive impact on Muslim women, and that means everything to me.’

She will face Warrington gym owner Amanda Wah, as Scarborough-born gymnastics coach Joe Fishburn and east London youth worker Mus Dumbuya also go head-to-head in the men’s final.

Who won Gladiators 2024?

Finlay Anderson and Marie-Louise Nicholson were crowned Gladiators champions after a tense final showdown in March last year.

The duo went up against finalists Wesley Male and Bronte Jones for one last time – but after 11 weeks of gruelling challenges, they were the ones who emerged victorious.

To reach the final, the contenders had to battle against the show’s 16 Gladiators in games testing strength, speed and dexterity that continue to be family favourites from previous versions of the programme.

The BBC revived Gladiators last year, with a new batch of athletes following in the footsteps of icons Wolf, Jet, Hunter and Lightening.

Originally running from 1992 to 2000, Gladiators was hosted by Ulrika Jonsson on ITV, and now sees father-son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh at the helm.

Gladiators: Grand Final is on April 12 at 5.50pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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A former contestant of The 1% Club has opened up about her time on the ITV gameshow – and has revealed the secret trick she used to get on TV.

The Lee Mack-hosted quiz series, which started in 2022, sees 100 players attempting to solve tricky brain games to win a cash prize of £100,000.

Before the game begins, members of the public are asked to answer the same logic games and puzzles, with the one with the fewest correct answers being ranked as the hardest (1%) question.

15 questions whittle the contestants down from 100 as each wrong answers sees a player eliminated, until there is just one contestant – or a handful of contestants – left standing.

Ahead of the final round, the remaining players have a chance to either share £10,000… or take a stab at the question only 1% of public responders got right.

Heidi Phillips, 49, who appeared on The 1% Club in January 2025, managed to get to the 30% question before being knocked out of the competition.

Speaking to Fruity Slots, she explained how she got on TV in the first place: ‘I saw a post on Facebook and filled out the form and submitted a video audition telling them a little about myself. That was in June 2024.

‘[At my audition] I tried to showcase my personality. I’ve worked as an entertainer before, so I’m good in front of people. I made silly jokes that if I won the prize, I’d spend it on opening a trifle sandwich shop.’

She continued: ‘That would be my advice to anyone trying to get on the show. When they ask how you’ll spend the winnings, don’t say something boring like paying off the mortgage. Give a really wild answer.

‘It made me stand out. We did a mock quiz and I got the first question wrong, so I didn’t exactly shine on that. But I told the producers funny stories and I think they warmed to me and my answers.’

Heidi then revealed that if anyone fancies taking home the £100,000 via nefarious means, the show’s invigilators and producers will step in to make sure you don’t make off with an unfairly won prize.

‘If they go back through filming and see you glanced over at another contestant’s screen before answering, you’ll forfeit the prize. That’s not happened yet but it was a stern warning.’

Back in February, contestants like Heidi apparently wouldn’t have had to work too hard – or stare at their competitors’ screens – to answer what was supposed to be the toughest question in the game.

During an episode two months ago, fans of the show declared the final question – that none of the players answered correctly – was apparently incredibly obvious.

The 1% question was: The words below share a specific pattern. Why could VOTING also be part of the group? The words listed were bandleader, nickelodeon and silverback.

Lee then explained that the link between the three was that the words contained a metal – including lead, nickel, silver and tin – hidden within their letters.

Watch The 1% Club on ITV, 8.20pm on Saturday, and stream on ITVX.

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Patsy Palmer has been revealed as one of the contestants on this year’s star-studded leaked Celebrity Big Brother line up.

On Monday April 7, hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best will return to front the showbiz edition of ITV’s beloved social experiment.

Rumours have been swirling around who exactly will be entering the famous compound, but it has now been revealed that the likes of Trisha Goddard, American actor Mickey Rourke and internet sensation JoJo Siwa will be among the names in the Big Brother house.

Entering alongside them will be EastEnders legend Patsy, who is known for playing feisty Bianca Jackson on and off in the soap since 1993.

Patsy, 52, has also appeared on Dancing On Ice and Strictly, and has been a regular on our screens since 1993, when Bianca was first introduced to Albert Square.

It remains to be seen if she will be anything like her fiery alter-ego in the house, but many viewers will remember her infamous Good Morning Britain interview.

After being invited on ITV’s breakfast show to speak with Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid, the former EastEnders actress stormed out in dramatic fashion.

Branded along the bottom of the screen said the words ‘addict to wellness guru’, which Patsy took great offense to.

While holding her dog in one hand, she said that she doesn’t want to do the interview anymore and shut down her laptop, to the dismay of the Good Morning Britain presenters.

One of the contestants on the show who will also certainly make some headlines will be Jojo Siwa.

In 2023, the star’s actions were deemed insensitive and disrespectful when she pretended to be pregnant. 

Also making his way into the house will be Hollywood icon Mickey, 72, whose career in showbiz spans over four decades.

He is believed to have negotiated himself a seven-figure fee for his appearance.

Some of the actor’s best-known roles include starring in films such as The Wrestler, Iron Man 2 and The Expendables.

Another hugely anticipated contestant is former Love Islander Chris Hughes, 32, who has now forged a career for himself in punditry, covering horse racing and cricket.

He’ll be kept company by influencer and Towie’s Ella Rae Wise, 24, who is currently dating co-star Dan Edgar.

Celebrity Big Brother returns to ITV and ITVX on Monday, April 7.

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A decade after featuring on Grand Designs, an ‘absolutely exquisite’ home has sold for a jaw-dropping £4,000,000.

In 2015, host Kevin McCloud travelled to the village of Colgate near Horsham in West Sussex to meet Clinton Dall, who was ‘willing to spend whatever it takes’ to build one of the largest homes ever featured on the long-running Channel 4 programme.

Arriving on site for the first time, Kevin was taken aback and exclaimed: ‘Bloody Nora, what Pandora’s box have you opened?’.

The single-storey glass and steel design was inspired by Mies Van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

At a massive 60 metres long, Kevin expressed concerns the project (which was called Pavello) set on a five-acre wooded plot might end up looking like a miniature airport or art gallery rather than a home. He also suggested the owner could face ‘financial ruin’.

Meanwhile the builder was also concerned about just how huge the home was. At 5,533 square feet, it was seven times the size of an average UK home.

But the sky was the limit for the ambitious project, which had no budget in place but had a 12-month deadline.

As Clinton, who ran a cleaning business, explained at the time: ‘I don’t want to compromise, I want it to be bang on.’

Like all builds featured on the show, he faced some challenges including issues with materials and ballooning costs.

However, his dream eventually came to fruition, with Clinton saying that ‘people didn’t really get it until it was finished’.

In the end he revealed the home cost £1.5 million to build, which came after he spent £850,000 on the land.

That included Kevin, who said this when visiting the property once it was finished. ‘I’m slightly awestruck by this – it’s so breathtakingly beautifully done.’

‘I think the colours and the furniture have exceeded my expectations,’ he says. ‘Everyone was worried at one point, because it’s vast and there’s so much glass, but I think it is softened by the furniture, the blue-and-grey walls and the wood veneer – I’m over the moon with that. It could have been a disaster, but it looks more like a home than I thought it would,’ Clinton told Grand Designs Magazine in 2021.

But two years later Clinton decided to sell up.

As he told the same publication, he ‘moves after a year or two as I get bored’.

‘But I must say this particular house does have a fantastic plot; it’s a great location and it’s been executed in exactly the way I wanted. I can’t think of anything better as far as I’m concerned, so from that point of view it’s the perfect house for me. But if one day I was flicking through a magazine and I spotted a plot of land with a lake or something, well, who knows…’

In 2017 Pavello was listed for £3.75 million. The asking price was dropped to £3.5 million the following year.

It then sold for £3.45 million at the start of 2019 but last year went up for sale again, for £4 million.

Photos of the property showed off its luxurious features.

The five-bedroom open-plan home, which has a glass exterior filling it with light, features a gym, spa and 15-metre swimming pool.

It also has underfloor heating throughout; all the bedrooms have ensuites and four have direct access to the pool.

Over the years the home was also rented out for use in a Peter Andre music video, was used to launch Michelle Keegan’s Lipsy range in 2016 and in a string of advertisements.

Grand Designs continues Wednesday at 9pm on Channel 4.

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Amazon Prime subscribers can’t speak highly enough of an ‘intoxicating’ new action horror.

Starring Kevin Bacon, The Bondsman sees the Golden Globe winner portraying murdered bounty hunter Hub Halloran.

Yes, you read that correctly—murdered.

Resurrected by the Devil, he’s back from beyond the grave with a second chance at life, love… and his music career.

Things take a turn, however, when he’s entrusted with a new role: sending back demons who have busted out of Hell.

In the process, however, Halloran discovers how his own sinful life got him condemned.

The series premiered on April 3, with other cast members including Jennifer Nettles as Maryanne, Beth Grant as Kitty, Damon Herriman as Lucky, Maxwell Jenkins as Cade, and Jolene Purdy as Midge.

Upon discovering the rather gory new show, fans have taken to X with their reviews.

While the response has generally been mixed thus far, it seems those who love it truly can’t get enough.

Describing it as ‘absurdly fun’, @RamasScreen wrote: ‘THE BONDSMAN was gory, gnarly and intoxicating. It’s “Brimstone” meets “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” and I enjoyed every minute of it. Kevin Bacon totally kicked ass. A delightful blend of gut-wrenching tension, apocalyptic chaos and blood-squirting action.’

Heaping equal praise on Bacon’s co-star, Grant, @TheJosieMarie wrote: ‘If you love the humor and gore of ZOMBIELAND, you’ll devour THE BONDSMAN, starring Kevin Bacon. Half-hour comedy goodness with a tremendous duo at the forefront.’

@klhicks912 declared: ‘Watched the first season in one day and I need another season’.

Meanwhile, @caseymcknew hailed it as ‘one of the best series I’ve seen this year’, stating it’s ‘great’ to have Bacon back on the screen.

Over on review site Rotten Tomatoes, The Bondsman debuted with a 74% score from audiences, while positive top critics only just secured a majority with 57%.

It has an average rating of 5.6 out of 10, with some streamers claiming the supernatural show is ‘nothing new’.

But it’s clear there’s still plenty of appetite for more, and given that the first season ends on a cliffhanger, Bacon and co. are determined to deliver the goods.

‘All I can say is I have a plan,’ showrunner Erik Oleson told TV Insider.

‘We’ve got some really fun stuff planned, depending on whether or not the show is able to [return].’

In fact, the dramatic ending was written on purpose to pile pressure on Amazon to green-light a season 2.

‘I made it intentionally difficult for Amazon to not give us season 2 by ending it the way I did, because I’m evil.’

As for Bacon himself, the lead star, 66, has confirmed conversations are already being had about another outing.

‘We’ve already started to talk about it,’ he revealed when asked about a possible season 2, predicting plenty of ‘interesting’ action if given the chance to explore Halloran’s relationship with Maryanne.

Watch The Bondsman on Amazon Prime Video.

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