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The Sun
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Sam Thompson breaks his silence on Samie Elishi split as he opens up on love life
SAM Thompson has addressed his split from Samie Elishi while opening up on his love life. Former Made in Chelsea star Sam, 32, began dating the Love Island beauty earlier this year - but the pair later broke up after two months. 3 3 Speaking on his Staying Relevant podcast with best mate Pete Wicks, Sam shared an update on his love life. He said: "I'm going to work on myself, no dating. I'm not ready. I realised that." The Sun exclusively revealed Sam and Samie decided to go their separate ways weeks after first being spotted together on a cosy date. A source close to the former couple said: "It was a mutual thing and there is no bad blood between them. "They both just have really busy schedules, particularly Sam who has been non-stop recently, and it was really hard to make it work. They're still good mates. "It's a shame but sometimes things just don't work out." Sam and Samie confirmed they were dating in early May when they were spotted sharing a steamy kiss on a night out. Sam was pictured snogging Samie and holding her face as they smooched outside Olivia Attwood's 34th birthday bash. They were also snapped walking arm in arm afterwards and he tenderly placed a hand on her waist. While the pair didn't share their relationship on social media, Sam did praise Samie on his podcast. Sam Thompson and Samie Elishi SPLIT after just two months of dating Grilled by his best mate Pete, he was relatively tight-lipped but said: "What I will say though, really awesome chick. You met her that night. "Really, really lovely. Super down to earth, super nice, beautiful, obviously." Sam's romance with Samie followed his split from long-term girlfriend Zara McDermott. The pair had been together for five years before breaking up at the start of this year. A source close to the couple told MailOnline at the time: "Sam and Zara have ended their relationship. "It's been an incredibly difficult decision for them to part ways, they still care and have a lot of love for each other. "But after a tough year of working hard at their romance, they have split and will be focusing on their individual careers going forward into 2025. "There has been no scandal or fallout between them, it's just the result of a difficult year, where they both had to spend a lot of time focused on their own projects." Zara has since moved on to a new relationship with former One Direction star Louis Tomlinson. 3
Scottish Sun
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
This Morning star reveals terrifying moment she blacked out on boozy night out as she sends warning to fans
The star has spoken recently about her sexualized teen body and the fat-jab future lucky escape This Morning star reveals terrifying moment she blacked out on boozy night out as she sends warning to fans THIS Morning star Ashley James has revealed the frightful moment she blacked out on a boozy night out - and feared she had been spiked. The 38-year-old says she feels very lucky because she wasn't mugged or sexually assaulted, but is now extra careful with her drinks on nights out. Advertisement 6 Ashley James has talked about drink spiking and the dangers Credit: The Sun 6 The TV star has spoken about a traumatic experience on a night out Credit: The Sun Ashley, who is working alongside Spike Aware UK and CounterSpike in a bid to educate people on the issue, tells us: 'When I went to my brother's university, and I went out with him and his friends, it's the first time that I'd ever completely blacked out. "When I woke up I was in my brother's halls with my brother. 'I'd been sick everywhere and I actually didn't remember anything that happened. But luckily I was with my brother and his friends. 'They teased me that I couldn't handle my drink because I was the younger sister that had gone to visit my brother, but I didn't feel like that. Advertisement 'My reaction and how sick I was, was not in proportion to what I drank in that situation.' She continues: 'Had it happened now, my brother or me or his friends could have tested my drinks. 'If I had been spiked, there was no mugging or sexual assault. But the next person might not be so lucky, because I imagine a lot of these people that try to spike people's drinks don't just do it once - and if they fail, they don't stop doing it.' Like many people, Ashley didn't tell anyone about her concerns - according to a new survey by CounterSpike only 11% of spiking victims reported it to the police. Advertisement Now, Ashley is helping to promote SpikeStixx - a spiking test kit that enables people to test their drinks on a night out and get instant results. 'It's literally the same size as my lipstick, so you can put it in your bag, no matter how tiny and impractical your bag is - as mine always is,' says Ashley. Trolls said I'd 'let myself go' after kids - but I love my body more now than when I was super slim, says Ashley James 'Ever since I started going out properly, spiking's always been that sort of invisible threat or thing that we have to worry about.' DJ and TV star Ashley first rose to fame during her short stint on Made In Chelsea - she now uses her voice to talk about what's important to her. Advertisement She often speaks out about double standards for men and women - and refuses to cover up her boobs because other people choose to hypersexualize them. 'I definitely feel like I've got to a point where I realise that there shouldn't be a moral attachment to the clothes that we wear,' she tells us. 'And actually, we see that, even if you're looking at spiking. But any form of sexual violence, it doesn't just happen because of what we wear. 'I find specifically, the hypersexualization of boobs quite frustrating. I don't deserve to be judged and especially not my morals or sexuality questioned based on my body." Advertisement She adds: 'I certainly don't think that my body is any more shameful than anyone else's and I think time and time again, we see that it doesn't matter what we wear. 'People are spiking drinks, not because of what we're wearing. People are hurting and killing women, not because of the clothes that they are wearing. It's because those people are bad people who want to harm women.' Despite any concerns Ashley might have on a night out, the mum-of-two is planning to keep on partying for a long time to come. She says: 'I love socialising. I'm such an extrovert and I'm a DJ as well. So I'm always out and about in various different environments where there's drinks. Advertisement 'I love being around friends. I've got a really good group of mum friends. I've got a really good group of friends in the industry and I feel like I'll never slow down - I'm just a bit more tired.' 6 The mum-of-two is refusing to let other people hypersexualize her body Credit: Instagram/ashleylouisejames 6 Ashley regularly appears on This Morning and speaks about hard-hitting topics Credit: Rex 6 Despite any spiking worries, Ashley will continue to socialise and party Credit: Getty Advertisement
The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
To Catch a Stalker review – a charity tells one woman to abandon her toddler and flee
Hello and welcome to part 86,747,398,464 of the continuing cataloguing via television documentary of the apparently infinite series Ways in Which Largely Men Terrorise Largely Women and Prevent Countless Millions of Them from Living Their Lives in Freedom and Contentment. This one comprises two episodes and is entitled To Catch a Stalker. It comes from the corporation's most youth-oriented arm, BBC Three, which mandates a telegenic presenter better versed in sympathy with the programme's interviewees than interrogation of wider issues, and who has usually come up through the ranks of reality TV rather than journalism. Here, it's Zara McDermott (Love Island, Made in Chelsea, The X Factor: Celebrity), who previously fronted entries in the infinite series on 'revenge porn', rape culture and eating disorders. We meet survivors (although this suggests their ordeals are at an end, which for none of them is the case – but to call them victims would be to diminish what McDermott rightly emphasises as their extraordinary strength and endurance) of different forms of stalking. Jen has endured the obsessive attentions of a man with whom she briefly crossed professional paths during her work for a recruitment company. It began with a few friendly texts and rapidly escalated to bombardment at all hours with insistent messages about their imminent relationship ('I am the guy you're looking for. You just don't recognise it'), naked pictures of himself and – as Jen continued not to respond to this stranger – fury. He repeatedly parked in places she was likely to pass and when the police eventually became involved – which has led to four convictions and three prison sentences for the man – they found multiple searches on his computer for pornographic lookalikes of Jen. She is now counting down the days until he is released from his latest stint in jail with dread. As McDermott says: 'I don't know how she sleeps at night.' It's likely that she doesn't. Jen shakes with nerves and has a terrible hunted look about her – because that is exactly what is happening to her. She is the prey of a predator who apparently cannot be stopped. No more, it seems, than any of them can with the current paltry tools at the law's disposal – presuming you can find someone willing to wield them in the first place. All the women interviewed speak of police reluctance to take their experiences seriously. Twenty-year-old Isabel, who has moved five times to try to escape the terrifying attentions of her ex-boyfriend, no longer bothers to call the police when she sees a man, whom she assumes to be him, watching her from the alleyway behind her latest home, because they dropped her case when the original investigating officer left. 'If you don't help me, he's going to kill me,' she told them. Apparently it fell on closed ears. Maybe they thought she was hysterical. Maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe you can think of a good enough reason for ignoring a young woman and her toddler trapped in their home because a man has decided he will not let her go. 'He knows what he's done,' she says. 'And he knows he's got away with it. So what is he going to do next?' The best safety plan a charity has been able to give her if he forces his way into her home is to drop from her balcony to the car park roof below and from there to the ground – she will not be able to take her son with her – then contact a neighbour or flag down a passing car. Victims' (sufferers', survivors') family members attest to the fear and anxiety that stalkers induce in them all. Next week, the remit expands to consider the effects of cyberstalking ('Just ignore it' seems to be the most popular recommendation), and continues to document more women's experiences with the flesh-and-blood kind of stalker, who message their targets 500 times a day and draw their fingers across throats from afar (far enough that they do not get returned to prison for breaching non-molestation orders), and so on and appallingly on. It is a documentary designed to raise awareness rather than provide answers, but you do long for a little examination of context; for someone to ask whether this would be so prevalent without, say, an existing culture of male entitlement, or within a society that valued women's lives and freedom as highly as anyone else's. If we didn't have a police force known to be as riddled with bad apples and systemic sexism as it is. If, if, if. To Catch a Stalker aired on BBC Three and is on iPlayer now.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Millie Mackintosh looks effortlessly stylish in a green summer dress as she embraces the London heatwave with temperatures soaring above 30C
Millie Mackintosh looked the epitome of chic as she stepped out for a sun-soaked stroll in London on Monday. The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, sported a stylish patterned green summer dress for the outing as temperatures soared to north of 30C in the capital. The mother-of-two slipped into a pair of coordinated green velvet Mary Jane shoes which complemented her dress. Millie accessorised the look with a white bag flung over her shoulder and covered her eyes with some matching sunglasses. Millie stepped out with her daughters, Sienna, five, and Aurelia Violet, three, as she was pictured carrying a pink scooter along with her. Millie shares her girls with her husband Hugo Taylor, who she tied the knot with in June 2018, one year after he proposed during a holiday to the Greek island of Mykonos. They welcomed Sienna a couple of years later in May 2020 and welcomed Aurelia Violet in November 2021. Just a couple of weeks ago, Millie gushed about her husband in an Instagram post as they celebrated their seventh anniversary. Sharing pictures of her and Hugo looking smitten on their wedding day, she wrote: '7 years married today. 'We've grown, changed, and built a life I'm so proud of. Through every high and low, and all the adventures in between, you've been my teammate, my safe place, and my best friend. 'Parenting together, laughing together, doing life side by side - there's no one else I'd rather have beside me. Happy anniversary my love @hugotaylorlondon' The couple's relationship hasn't always been smooth sailing though as they first started dating in 2010 while starring on Made In Chelsea. Millie and Hugo were firm friends for five years before the Quality Street heiress made her debut on the reality series at the age of 21. There were break-ups, make-ups, drinks thrown and feisty jealousy while their passionate six-month love affair played out on the show in 2011. Things took a turn when Millie accused Hugo of sleeping with their co-star Rosie during the second season of the show. Following the pair's 2011 split, Millie left the show and found love later that year with Professor Green, real moniker Stephen Paul Manderson. But the couple subsequently split just over two years later, in February 2016. Meanwhile, Hugo dated Made In Chelsea's Natalie Joel, before they also parted ways in 2015. Millie then reconnected with Hugo, and she confirmed that they were back together in May 2016. The pair moved in together the following year, with Hugo then proposing.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘The ultimate dating series': Blind Date is back – as an absolute Frankenstein's monster of a show
Good news: Blind Date is returning to our screens. Weird news: it won't be on television, you probably won't watch it and it may not technically count as Blind Date. But let's concentrate on the good news first. On Monday, Disney+ announced three new unscripted TV shows. One is a sort of Made in Chelsea spin-off about parenthood, another sounds like The Kardashians except it has Wayne and Coleen Rooney in it, and the third is the return of Blind Date, which Disney calls the 'ultimate dating series'. No host or release date has been revealed yet, but that doesn't matter. It's Blind Date, for crying out loud. Everyone knows Blind Date. A person has to pick the most desirable option from a panel of three strangers who are hidden from view. Once they have matched, they go on holiday and then report back. And that's it, over and over again. If that seems slightly staid, that's because it is. Even in its day, there was something uncomfortably robotic about Blind Date. The dates were chosen through a stilted exchange of scripted lines, and the contestants themselves were so relentlessly chaste you might as well have been watching footage of toddlers visiting a zoo. It was a classic of the terrestrial-era form: 'Was it good or was it the only thing on?' It is also a good example of the changing television landscape. In its prime, when it was presented by the now late Cilla Black, Blind Date was watched by 18.2 million viewers. When that run ended in 2003, the figure had plummeted to 5 million. That was still 3 million more than the number who tuned in for the 2017 revival on Channel 5, hosted by Paul O'Grady. If the new Disney version gets even a quarter of that figure, it will probably be deemed a success. More pressingly, we now live in a firmly post-Blind Date world. In the years since Cilla ruled the airwaves, the dating show spectrum has burst into a dazzling kaleidoscope. Simply having a brief verbal exchange with some strangers, then spending a long weekend in Benidorm will no longer cut it. In the last 15 years alone, we have had karaoke-based dating shows (Sing Date), sensorily deprived dating shows (Dating in the Dark), neurodiverse dating shows (Love on the Spectrum), dating shows for exhibitionists (Naked Attraction) and dating shows for people who wish that the human-trafficking scene from Taken was a fully immersive entertainment experience (Take Me Out). This is only the tip of the iceberg. For decades, the format has adopted reality TV with The Bachelor, Love Island and countless others. There is even Married at First Sight, which seems less designed for singletons than for all their judgmentally dismissive friends. In this landscape, Blind Date looks woefully outdated. Perhaps this is why the new iteration is promising a fleet of changes. To quote the press release: 'Our daters will see if for ever love can truly grow as they spend the summer living together, but potential new partners are always lurking behind the wall.' Which does sound like a comprehensive overhaul, dragging the show into the 21st century by lingering on the relationships rather than the very first interaction. It also – almost! – hints that the contestants might be sexually attracted to each other this time around, which will make a change from the Cilla era, which tended to vault from polite conversation straight to marriage. Then again, this new format has an air of Ship of Theseus about it. What Disney seems to be making has so little in common with the original Blind Date that it doesn't seem much like Blind Date at all. It sounds a bit like Frankenstein's monster, with so many ungainly new elements bolted on that it is destined to rise up one day and murder its oppressors. It goes without saying that the new version may be exactly what the current television landscape requires – and that it could end up running as long as the original. But still, what would Cilla think?
