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Wynne Evans became choked up as he spoke on This Morning about his Strictly Come Dancing scandal, just a day after announcing he is engaged.

The Welsh opera singer, 53, was sensationally dumped from the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour earlier this year over comments he made involving host Janette Manrara.

The ‘unacceptable’ joke referenced having a threesome with the dancer, 41.

Soon after he apologised, saying he was ‘deeply sorry for the pain my inappropriate action caused’ and would take a break from the public eye for ‘self-reflection’ and to ‘prioritise my wellbeing’.

At the time it was reported that he’d been dumped by his girlfriend Liz Brookes, 50, but it was then quickly clarified she was helping to ‘rally around him’.

Evans appeared on This Morning just a day after announcing they are now set to tie the knot, and spoke about how the negative attention from the scandal had a profound impact on his mental health.

Evans sat down with Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley in the ITV studio and said the scandal took him ‘to the darkest spot of his life’ when the attention ‘wouldn’t stop’.

‘I was at my lowest ebb, I wanted to end my life. I would have if I hadn’t been surrounded by people,’ he said.

At one point, Evans said that he remembered expressing suicidal thoughts to his grilfriend.

‘I remember saying to my girlfriend, “I have to kill myself. I have to because this is what they want”,’ he said, becoming choked up with emotion,’he shared.

‘You’re full of these thoughts the entire time and it takes over your life.’

Evans went on to say that he was monitored by a crisis team for a month and that his friends, family and girlfriend set up a schedule to ensure that he wasn’t alone at any point in the day.

His appearance in the ITV studio comes just a day after he posted a photo of him down on one knee while in holiday in Morocco, captioning the Instagram post: ‘Big news… I got engaged! 💍

‘This weekend in Morocco, somewhere between the couscous, the camels, and me limping around the souks like a man with no spatial awareness, I proposed to Liz — and she said yes! (No take-backs, I’ve checked.)

‘She’s clever, she’s kind, she’s got excellent taste in men. Absolutely no idea how I pulled that off, but here we are! Feeling very lucky, very happy, and just a tiny bit smug.’

In the post, Wynne also shared a photo of their hands holding glasses of champagne, with Liz’s engagement ring front and centre.

Liz, who runs her own successful events company in Cardiff, met Wynne at one of her events.

Following the news a source told The Sun: ‘It has been a tumultuous six months for Wynne, but Liz has been his absolute rock throughout.

‘Finally, some wonderful news for Wynne and his inner circle to celibate and everyone is chuffed for them both.

‘He secretly bought an engagement ring and squirrelled it away for their holiday and then popped the question over champagne.’

They added: ‘Liz has been incredible over the past few months, supporting him through thick and thin, and had his back throughout, but obviously Wynne is telling everyone she’s a lucky girl!’

Wynne and Liz are believed to have started dating last year after his divorce from his wife of 17 years, violinist Tanwen Evans.

The former couple share two children, daughter Ismay and son Taliesin.

Wynne has previously spoken about the impact of his divorce, telling BBC Radio Wales: ‘It was almost like grief, but you can’t grieve for somebody that’s still there. So, it really affected my mental health, my confidence and my ego – it totally changed me as a person.’

‘It made me very aware of being alone. And, even though I was only 46, I had this irrational fear of dying on my own.’

Wynne’s engagement comes a few months after he was axed by the BBC, who didn’t renew his one-year rolling BBC Radio contract following a four-month investigation.

He confirmed in an Instagram statement: ‘It breaks my heart to say the BBC has decided not to renew my contract, so I won’t be returning to my radio show. I’m gutted. That show wasn’t just work — it was home. It was us. We laughed, we cried, we sang like nobody was listening. And somehow, through the airwaves, we became a family.’

A spokesperson for the BBC told Metro: ‘Wynne Evans is not under contract with the BBC. He is not returning to the mid-morning show on BBC Radio Wales and there are currently no plans to work with him.’

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The cast of Little House on the Prairie has unpacked a wild episode of the beloved show, insisting it wouldn’t see the light of day today.

The drama ran for nine seasons between 1974 and 1983, and focused on the Ingalls family living in Walnut Grove in Minnesota, at the end of the 1800s.

Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson, Richard Bull and Karen Grassle made up the cast, while stars Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler teamed up with Pamela Bob to start a podcast looking back on their experiences ahead of the upcoming Netflix reboot.

Appearing on the latest episode of Little House 50, they reflected on season four episode Here Comes the Brides, which aired on December 5, 1977 – it followed Adam Simms (Joshua Bryant) and his ‘shoeless’ son Luke (Bob Marsic) moving to town and causing a stir with locals.

While Adam made a beeline for Eva Beadle (Charlotte Stewart), Luke quickly fell in love with Nellie (Alison) – with the youngsters running away to tie the knot.

Their marriage didn’t last long and was very quickly annulled, but that wasn’t the only ceremony to shock locals, as Eva and Adam also went on to get married.

Lifting the lid on the instalment, Alison declared: ‘I love this episode so much … It’s just a display of adolescent rebellion, pouting and smoking, massive hormonal love… it really is Romeo and Juliet just gone berserk.

‘The hormones go wild, it’s just crazy.’

‘I am 15 in this episode,’ she clarified, branding it ‘one of her favourite’ episodes. ‘It aired in December, so we shot it a few months before. I would have just turned 15 in January.

‘So I was 15, probably in a few months when we shot this.

‘I was super super super puberty, teenage insanity happening. It was hilarious. So, it was so perfect. The first time she rebels against her mom, the first time she falls in love…’

However, while the actress was 15 during filming, she shared that her character was two years younger.

‘I’m sorry, I’m 15, so she’s just barely 13,’ she continued. ‘This cat is playing, I guess, 16, 17? He’s 27 years old. He was late 20s, definitely older than 25.’

Alison later corrected herself and explained that Bob was 22 at the time.

She joked about the fictional Walnut Grove natives: ‘We’re children, teenagers… We’re not just like, “Gee, he’s cute! Hi there”. We’re like, “[Forcefully] Hi, what are you doing later?”

‘They’re young girls, these children, accosting a grown man who they have not been introduced to…’

Pamela agreed that there was no ‘swag or subtlety’, quipping: ‘It’s straight in for the kill.

‘There is no swag on the prairie. No one’s got game on the prairie.

‘That would not happen today, right? Casting a full-grown adult to play or even kiss – and it was an innocent kiss, but it’s a kiss – a minor.’

Alison added that, if those scenes were being filmed now, there would be intimacy coordinators on set to help ensure that everyone involved was safe and comfortable.

The actress recently left fans devastated when she confirmed that she would not be popping up on the Little House on the Prairie reboot currently in the works at Netflix.

Bosses teased that they would offer a ‘fresh take on the iconic story’, with Rebecca Sonnershine leading the way as showrunner and executive producer.

Alison, who played Nellie Oleson from 1974 to 1982, later shared that her original castmates would be taking a back seat.

‘None of us, as far as I know, our gang, are in at this point,’ she told ReMIND, adding: ‘I have been joking for years that I’m finally old enough to play Mrs. Oleson, so call me!

‘This [show] is part of the Laura Ingalls Wilder multiverse. So concerns that they’re going to run amok away from the books and make it into something weird – not happening.’

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The woman who inspired Richard Gadd’s hit series Baby Reindeer has revealed she is going blind.

Fiona Harvey, 59, a Scottish law graduate, is currently at the centre of a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit against Netflix.

Last year the dark comedy was released on the streaming service, which stated at the start that it was ‘a true story’.

The seven-episode series was written by and based on the real-life experience of Gadd, who plays amateur comedian Donny. Over the course of several years, he is stalked and abused by Martha, played by Jessica Gunning.

Following its release, internet sleuths seemingly found the ‘real Martha’ – Harvey – who has taken the streaming giant to court, demanding £132million for her supposed depiction in the series.

Now, however, Harvey has shed light on how she has been ­diagnosed with background retinopathy.

The law graduate told the Record: ‘I’m going blind and it’s not surprising with the stress I have been under as a result of Baby Reindeer.

‘I am diabetic and had always been able to keep my blood sugars under control, but my blood sugars have been wild ever since Richard Gadd’s show aired.

‘I am not sleeping properly, I’m not able to eat properly, I’m not able to get proper exercise because I’m virtually a prisoner in my own home.’

It is said that Harvey received confirmation that she had the illness on Thursday after undergoing eye tests at a London hospital.

The condition affects people with diabetes and occurs when high blood sugar levels damage light sensitive tissue.

Although people with stage one of the disease do not suffer vision loss, it is more than likely that vision problems will continue over time.

According to the Record, a copy of the letter confirms her diagnosis, saying: ‘Dear Dr Fiona Harvey, Your test results show that you do have ­background retinopathy.’

Harvey went on to add that her sugars ‘were fine’ until Baby Reindeer and it ‘led to all my physical health problems’.

‘I don’t have money for proper food. I feel it could lead to blindness very quickly in both eyes,’ she continued.

Previously, Harvey alleged that the series falsely implied she had sexually assaulted Gadd and had been sent to prison for stalking him.

Although Netflix filed a motion in July to throw the suit out in July, a judge ruled towards the end of last year that Baby Reindeer did not live up to its billing as a ‘true story’ and has allowed Harvey to pursue the court case.

Netflix has defended the lawsuit and Gadd’s ‘right to tell his story’, but at the crux is the claim that Harvey has no criminal convictions, unlike Martha.

The streaming platform continues to argue in legal papers that the alleged defamatory statements are ‘substantially true’.

This year, Gadd, of Fife, has been filming his follow-up drama called Half Man in Glasgow which will also feature Jamie Bell.

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It’s been more than a decade since HBO’s Girls first hit our screens in 2012, and now Lena Dunham is back for her latest project.

Titled Too Much, the Netflix show stars Hacks’ Megan Stalter as Jessica, who is a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties.

Reeling from a broken relationship, she decides to take a job in London to live a life of solitude.

But after she arrives, she meets Felix (Will Sharpe), who seems to be a less-than-suitable partner.

Despite this, she finds that their unusual connection is impossible to ignore.

The trailer landed on June 10, and while many fans can’t wait for the romcom to arrive on the small screen, others were preoccupied by a certain ‘spitting scene’.

The moment in question sees Felix spit in Jessica’s mouth, and users have said watching it made them feel ‘violated’.

@AmandaBaker-Patterson wrote: ‘THE SPITTING IN MOUTH SCENE VIOLATED ME,’ while @jhinjhin00_1 echoed, ‘That spitting scene is not gonna leave me for a while now’.

@mltdmlks added: ‘The spitting really caught me off guard omg,’ and @chicoulino said: ‘I paused at the spitting scene to read the comments, okay I’m not alone.’

@kennetherhabor5543 joked: ‘Yeah, the spitting scene was ‘Too much’ for me.’

And @cjwhite18 wrote: ‘As a gay man. That spitting scene is tame. Y’all freakin over nothing.’

Meanwhile, many commenters have heaped praise on the upcoming series. @treemu.c said: ‘We love a plus size lead, who knows what she wants💁🏻‍♀️ So excited for this!’

@geminithetwins added: ‘Wait, am I actually excited about a Hollywood rom-com?!’

And @RandomPersonOnEarth678 joked: ‘Emily in Pari- I mean London.’

Written and directed by Girls creator Lena and from the producers of Love Actually, Too Much will officially launch on Netflix on July 10.

The streaming platform has also revealed that five guest stars — Andrew Scott, Jennifer Saunders, Kit Harington, Rita Ora and Jessica Alba — will feature in the show.

Speaking at the Next on Netflix event in London earlier this year, Lena said that while her own experiences of moving to and living in the UK informed the storyline, the Hacks star made the role her own.

‘I’m sure many of you have fallen in love with Megan Stalter from her work as Kayla on Hacks, the not very competent, but utterly delightful assistant.

‘What I love about her is she is truly an old-fashioned physical comedian in the vein of, you know, Carol Burnett or Elaine May, but she has something really modern and also really sweet about her, and she can move between intense comedy and heavy drama with ease,’ she explained.

‘She just felt like the perfect foil to feel how Americans contrast against the people of this nation, because it didn’t take very long for me to realise that while you technically speak the same language, there are some vast differences that I am still coming to understand.’

The 38-year-old went on to share that while the show ‘does touch on some heavy topics’, it was ultimately a comedy whose goal is to ‘bring joy’.

‘You can take a half hour away from your day and feel like you are part of a world that is truthful, but just a little more sweet and tender than the actual world that we live in,’ she added.

Following the end of Girls, Lena has appeared in shows such as American Horror Story and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. She has also directed the first season of Industry, created the comedy Camping and executive produced Genera+ion.

Too Much will be available to stream on Netflix on July 10.

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Doctor Who has survived an awful lot.  

We’ve seen the Doctor fall off a giant telescope, absorb a lethal amount of radiation (twice), and even bump their head on the Tardis console, yet they still walked away to tell the tale. 

True, they might not have had the same face after these incidents, but that’s pretty run of the mill for Time Lords. 

It’s strange, then, that for the first time since 2005 and Doctor Who’s triumphant return that it feels like the beloved sci-fi series is in peril.  

Low viewing figures, mixed critical reception, and growing fan antipathy have dogged the show over the last few series, and there’s a fear amongst fans that the Doctor might be done for.  

Yet, do you know who else has believed the Doctor was defeated over the years? The Daleks… and the Cybermen… and The Master.  

In fact, countless villains over the years have considered the Doctor to be beaten, only to be proven wrong, and new rumours have me optimistic that the Last of the Time Lords can do the impossible once again.  

We’ll start with the bad news. There are unverified reports online that Disney is done with Doctor Who and that they won’t be helping produce another season.   

On paper, that sounds like a massive blow, but before you start wailing into your Tom Baker scarf, there is some good news.

Supposedly, the BBC is close to finding a new partner for the beleaguered series, which will allow them to continue Doctor Who in some form or another.  

What form will the show take next? Who knows?  

To paraphrase the Doctor, regeneration is a lottery; you never know what you’re going to get, and so is renewal in the TV world. 

What I do know is that whoever takes it over is unlikely to have pockets as deep as Disney – unless it’s Apple TV Plus, they’re Scrooge McDuck rich – which means Who’s going to have to make some adjustments.  

And you know what? I think that’s great.  

The BBC may have grand ambitions for Doctor Who to be a big-budget affair like the MCU or other modern sci-fi series, but that’s not what audiences watch the show for. 

They watch it because they love the characters, the stories, and the incredible creativity of the writers.  

The House of Mouse’s cash might have allowed the Doctor to go on bigger adventures than ever before through impressive special effects, incredible sets, and stunning CGI, but it also robbed the show of some of its underdog spirit.  

Now, the stereotype of every Doctor Who monster being made of a pedal bin with bubble wrap glued to it is a bit outdated, as is the belief that it’s filmed exclusively in Welsh quarries. 

Yet it is true that the series’ limited budget forced the show’s writers and producers to get creative, which gave Doctor Who a certain charm all of its own.  

Monsters felt more real because they were just people in goofy costumes, not CGI behemoths.  

Alien worlds felt tangible because they weren’t green screens, they were… well, to be honest, they were Welsh quarries, but they used other places in Wales too! 

More than that, I think the limited budgets pushed writers and producers to think their way out of problems, rather than throwing cash at them.  

There are plenty of examples from across the show’s history but the best example I can think of involves the iconic Tardis.  

Have you ever wondered why the Tardis is a blue police phone box? No, it’s not because the chameleon circuit is broken. It’s because the BBC didn’t want to pay for a new prop every week.   

That’s right, one of the most important pieces of iconography in British pop culture was born because some backroom accountant wanted to save a couple of quid.  

Glibness aside, I do think a big problem in recent years has been an overreliance on spectacle over character and plot (most notably in the last two season finales).  

With that in mind then I’m hopeful that whoever takes on Who will make Russell T Davies and his writers realise expensive CGI isn’t a substitute for a coherent story.  

So, what I’m saying is that Disney dropping Doctor Who may wound the show. It may even force Doctor Who to change its face once again, but change can be for the better. 

Do you have a story you’d like to share? Get in touch by emailing jess.austin@metro.co.uk. 

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Netflix’s newest South Korean revenge thriller, Mercy For None, is already being praised by fans.

The seven-episode series follows a ‘former gangster’ who ‘returns to the underworld’ after his brother is murdered, fuelled by ‘power, ambition and revenge’.

The synopsis continues: ‘Gi-jun (So Ji-Sub), who’s been living in exile since he left the underworld over a decade ago, reenters the mob scene to get revenge against anyone and everyone involved in his brother’s murder.’

The show is based on the webtoon Plaza Wars: Mercy for None by O Se-hyung and Kim Gyun-tae and has been adapted to screen by Yoo Ki-seong.

It has clearly already made an impression on eager viewers, catapulting into the top 10 TV shows on Netflix this week – and the reviews reflect its well-deserved popularity.

‘From brutal hand-to-hand combat to wielding his signature baseball bat and mastering blade fights, bones crack, bodies fly, and blood stains the walls of many villains’ hideaways. So Ji-Sub delivers an electrifying performance that sets a new standard for action storytelling.

‘Mercy for None lands its blood-soaked action sequences and sufficiently surprising plotting to stay engaging,’ Google reviewer Gunta Sharmila shared.

‘This is the first time in a while that I’ve truly enjoyed an action-themed series, and Mercy for None completely exceeded my expectations. From the opening scene to the final episode, it delivers a gripping, emotionally intense experience that goes far beyond the typical revenge drama,’ Jahazeel Ramos agreed.

‘The best revenge series sooo far! Since I’m a fan of the thriller action genre, I absolutely binge-watched it in one day. Definitely would recommend this,’ Shejal Ray echoed.

Over on X, user kdramamiss added: ‘Mercy For None was an insane ride, a very fast paced, bloody action packed thriller drama with great performances from the ensemble cast and intense crazy fight scenes it was so good!’

‘It feels like I’m watching a Korean version of John Wick but I love the crazy fights, blood everywhere, and revenge! And honestly, I’m loving every second of it,’ te3_tia said.

It is not the first South Korean revenge thriller to garner special attention on the streamer.

Earlier this year, fans raved about the K-drama Karma, which followed the ‘intertwined lives of six individuals’ who were ‘plunged into a cycle of retribution’.

So if you are looking for your next bite of the revenge apple, make Mercy For None your next watch.

Mercy For None is now streaming on Netflix.

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