US President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman killed at least 18 children and three adults at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.
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Joe Wicks has said that he hopes that his new documentary will help people to open up more about parental mental health. The 36-year-old told of his parents' own struggles with mental health problems, and said that he wants to inspire others to do the same.
The new documentary is called Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood, and will be broadcast on May 16. It will see The Body Coach explore the impact of his mother’s eating disorder and severe obsessive compulsive disorder and his father’s drug addiction had on him when he was growing up.
Popular documentary maker Louis Theroux produced the programme. Theroux has previously spoken how Wicks' fitness programmes were a lifeline during the Coronavirus lockdowns.
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Wicks has grown a huge following online, becoming one of the most followed fitness accounts on Youtube and Instagram. His following grew massively during the Coronavirus Pandemic when he broadcast livestreams called "PE with Joe".
He has since landed his own Channel 4 programme The Body Coach. Now, Wicks wants to look at people's mental health as well as physical health.
Wicks told the Radio Times: “After PE with Joe ended, I realised I hadn’t just helped people’s physical health, but their mental health, too. I wanted to keep that conversation going.
“As a young kid, I didn’t realise my parents had mental health issues. I just thought my dad was a drug addict and my mum loved cleaning.
“But I was aware I had this ability to share my story, and that hopefully it would inspire people.”
The specialist in nutrition and fitness said that exercise was a way for him to de-stress as a child. It would also provide an
US President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman killed at least 18 children and three adults at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.
Sasha Urban editorJoe Earley, the president of Hulu, never misses an opportunity to flex his marketing skills. While discussing the ongoing trend of subscribers leaving streaming platforms (also known as churn), Earley said he’s noticed one exception to the rule in bundles that Hulu offers alongside access to Disney+ and ESPN+.“The churn is so low on the bundle, so we want as many people to subscribe to it as possible, because they’re happy, they stay longer,” Earley said, before adding that “it is still an unbelievable price of $13.99,” to laughs from the audience.Earley discussed Hulu’s strategy (and perhaps solicited some new subscribers) in conversation with Cynthia Littleton, co-editor in chief of Variety, at the Variety Entertainment Marketing Summit presented by Deloitte.
JAY B has shared how it doesn’t feel real to have finally reunited with boyband GOT7 and released a brand-new project after being apart for so long.Yesterday (May 23), the septet returned with their brand-new self-titled EP, which featured the title track ‘NANANA’. The project marks GOT7’s first official comeback since departing long-time agency JYP Entertainment in January 2021, after which the seven members embarked on solo careers.“We told each other that all seven of us should be part of our new mini-album, but it is still surreal to see that we have actually made this happen,” JAY B said of ‘GOT7’ during a recent press conference for the release, per The Korea Times.
Courtney Love has claimed that Johnny Depp once saved her life with CPR after she overdosed outside the Viper Room in Los Angeles, in 1995. In a series of videos shared by her friend Jessica Reed Kraus’s Instagram account, the “Mono” singer expressed her support for Depp amid his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard. “I don’t really wanna make judgments publicly, but I just want to tell you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outside the Viper Room with Sal,” Love said.
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Sitcom star Suzanne Somers is a firm believer in second acts. After four seasons on ABC’s Emmy-winning TV show "Three’s Company," the actress was fired in 1980 after she asked for a pay raise from $30,000 an episode to $150,000, which was on par with her co-star, John Ritter. Despite being adored across America as bubbly blonde Chrissy Snow, Somers was kicked to the curb.
Joe Wicks had an emotional moment this morning as he discussed his childhood.The fitness guru broke down in tears as he recalled his parents’ addiction and mental health issues during his younger years. As he remembered a visit to a primary school in Harlem, New York, he remembered a student he met there. Joe said he could remember the “sadness” in his eyes, and said he had the “hardest home life you can possibly imagine”.
Joe Wicks – already a national treasure – has earned himself even more credit after his new documentary 'Facing my Childhood' aired for the first time on Monday evening.The emotional, hour-long film showed Joe – also known as The Body Coach – revisiting his chaotic childhood. Joe looked back on his experience of growing up with a dad who was addicted to heroin and a mum with obsessive compulsive disorder. When we caught up with the fitness guru, 36, ahead of the documentary's release, he revealed that letting out all those emotions was "like therapy." Joe breaks down in tears a couple of times during the documentary – especially when talking to and about his father – and he admits to us that he "cries all the time." Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .
Joe Wicks live in a huge home with his family, which many of his fitness fans will have had a glimpse at during his workouts.The dad-of-two moved into the new home over a year ago, and it comes with an enviable amount of space. After reportedly banking a whopping £1.6millon in 2020 alone, Joe splashed out on a £4.4million mansion for himself, wife Rosie, and their kids to live in. Speaking of the new home during a previous work out Joe, who grew up on a council estate in south London, said: ”We're moving on and I'm excited about starting a new chapter of our lives together in our new house.
Jamie Oliver has penned an emotional tribute to Joe Wicks, admitting that his BBC documentary, Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood, which aired this week, had motivated him to speak out after it "got me".MORE: Jamie Oliver and wife Jools' £6m Essex mansion is so regal – insideTaking to Instagram, the father-of-five shared several pictures of them together, as well as a photo of Joe's documentary being shown on TV.WATCH: Joe Wicks holds back tears on This Morning as he relives childhood trauma"I feel motivated to do a shout out to Joe wicks tonight as I just watched his documentary about mental health and his journey to the PE with Joe MBE we all know today," he began writing.READ: Joe Wicks holds back tears on This Morning as he relives childhood traumaRELATED: Joe Wicks admits addiction struggle that's impacting his family"I met him maybe 10 years ago before his rise to fame and I knew, I just knew he would resonate with a massive audience and make a difference. I never doubted him for a second.
Taylor Swift's boyfriend Joe Alwyn explained working together with the musician was "an accident." Alwyn is credited on at least two songs from her album "Folklore" and a few from "Evermore," although he goes by a pseudonym, William Bowery. Swift confirmed that the mysterious Bowery was Alwyn after fans began speculating.The musician confirmed that the two had written a few songs together while in COVID-19 quarantine. "It was completely off the cuff, an accident," Alwyn told Vulture about writing the first verse of "Exile." "She said, ‘Can we try and sit down and get to the end together?’ And so we did.