Kate Ferdinand shares rare pic of Rio’s children as he returns home from World Cup

KATE Ferdinand has been mum-shamed after sharing a rare picture of husband Rio Ferdinand and the kids. The former Towie star, 31, posed alongside her family for a Christmas photo as they all donned matching festive pyjamas. The backdrop of the snap saw a stunning Christmas tree in place as they gathered together.

PANICKED Maya Jama reveals she missed out on watching the World Cup final after her ex Stormzy's row over visiting Qatar. The Love Island hostess revealed she was stuck in traffic on her way to watch the final game last night between Argentina and France. Maya, 28, was heading to a watch party with friends on Sunday night to watch the final of the World Cup last night.

Superstar Lionel Messi freed his Argentina team-mates of burden en route to World Cup immortality – according to close friend Pablo Zabaleta.

French football supporters may be a little down in the dumps today, but France’s leading broadcaster TF1 certainly has something to celebrate. The World Cup final that saw Argentina defeat Les Bleus on Sunday afternoon has set a new all-time record for viewership in France with an average of 24.1 million watching from the 4pm local hour. 

Yesterday’s thrilling World Cup final was watched by a peak of almost 20M viewers across the BBC and ITV as the game drew to an incredible close.

Celtic wing-back Josip Juranovic will not play any further part in the World Cup by being ruled out of the third-place playoff against Morocco - after it emerged that he played 70 minutes injured against Argentina.

As mum to a toddler and three older stepkids, life’s never quiet for Kate Ferdinand. But with football pundit husband Rio having been in Qatar covering the World Cup, the former TOWIE star has understandably been finding solo parenting tough.The couple are parents to Cree, who is almost two, plus Rio’s kids with his late wife Rebecca Ellison – Lorenz, 16, Tate, 14, and 11-year-old Tia. “Kate really has taken one for the team with Rio being away in the run-up to Christmas,” an insider tells heat.“It’s been so full-on, what with four kids and recording her podcast, other work bits and getting everything ready for the holidays.

The semi-final World Cup match between France and Morocco on Wednesday night was watched by an average 20.7 million viewers on TF1 from 8pm French time. This is the network’s biggest audience since 2016, and is also the best for any program on any French channel in those six years.

football star David Beckham, 47, has faced backlash from fans after sharing some pictures from his meeting with Bill Gates, 67, on Instagram today.

Grant Wahl‘s death is no longer being suspected of foul play according to his brother Eric.

Paris' iconic Champs Elysee could be closed on Wednesday as police fear clashes between French and Moroccan fans.

Harry Souttar has revealed his mum banned him from swapping shirts with Lionel Messi following his World Cup heroics with Australia.

A second journalist has “died suddenly” while working at the World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar.

A journalist covering the FIFA World Cup died “suddenly” in recent days, a Qatar newspaper has reported, with the announcement on Saturday following by a day reports of the death of U.S. journalist Grant Wahl.

England’s heartbreaking defeat to France on Saturday became the most-viewed UK TV broadcast of the year so far, peaking with 21.3M viewers on ITV1.

Longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl died today while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Details surrounding Wahl’s death are unclear.

Japan international Daizen Maeda has taken his Celtic philosophy to the World Cup as the forward insists he will continue his high pressing tactics against Croatia.

Lionel Messi will go home with a Gorgie memento from Qatar as Hearts star Cammy Devlin swapped shirts with him at full-time.

Josip Juranovic says the first thing he will do is shake Daizen Maeda 's hand when he reunites with him in Qatar on Monday - but after that it's going to get "aggressive."

The United States fell behind early in their second-round clash with the Netherlands on Saturday at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and was unable to work its way back despite having its share of chances, losing 3-1 to end its run at the tournament.