. “This was not a goal of mine,” Cuoco told in an interview published two months after the actor welcomed her first child, . "As a young girl I dreamed of it, but I became involved in my career.
10.05.2023 - 08:21 / ok.co.uk
Sam Quek may only be 34 but she’s packed a lot into her life. Hot on the heels of winning a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics as part of England’s hockey team, she quickly signed up to I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, where she finished in a very respectable fourth place.
Since her stint in the jungle, the Liverpool-born star’s TV career has gone from strength to strength, and she’s now one of the team captains on the new-look A Question Of Sport, as well as a regular presenter alongside Gethin Jones on Morning Live. In between all these career achievements, Sam, who is married to property entrepreneur Tom Mairs, 43, has also managed to have two children within the space of just one year.
The star is now mum to Molly, two, and one-year-old Zac, and is the first to admit that she struggles with mum guilt as she balances her blossoming career with looking after her little ones – but she tells us she’s a better mum and wife when she’s working. We caught up with Sam on Ladies’ Day at Aintree, where she told us about her upcoming role on Eurovision, her desire to do Strictly and battling the baby blues… Hi Sam! Are you excited about co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest opening ceremony? I can’t wait.
It will be broadcast on the European Broadcasting Union YouTube channel, and apparently gets 160 million views, so the pressure is on! Speaking of pressure, you worked on Morning Live up until the day before your son Zac was born, didn’t you? Yes – he was two weeks early! One of the producers said, “Right, Sam, it’s your last day tomorrow. Make sure you don’t go into labour tonight.” And that was clearly the kiss of death because I woke up with a few pains.Then I started bleeding and panic set in.
. “This was not a goal of mine,” Cuoco told in an interview published two months after the actor welcomed her first child, . "As a young girl I dreamed of it, but I became involved in my career.
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Charna Flam Early into Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ Bollywood career, the Indian-born actress paid back a film production after she backed out of filming within days, due to the “dehumanizing” director on site. In a recent interview with The Zoe Report, the actress explained how nearly two decades ago, as an actress new to the industry, she took money out of her own pocket to remove herself from a set with a degrading crew. Chopra Jonas recalled in the interview that she portrayed a character who was going undercover, and how the unnamed director spoke about her and her appearance to the other crew members.
Billie Eilish is showing some skin — and revealing a piece of body art she once claimed would forever remain private!
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Khloe Kardashian has opened up about her experience with surrogacy in an open and honest discussion, revealing she found it relatively "transactional" and that it left her feeling "guilty". The reality star, 38, welcomed the arrival of her second child with former partner Tristan Thompson via surrogate in July of last year.The couple have five-year-old daughter True together, too. Khloe opened up about the experience in the season three premiere of Hulu's hit series, The Kardashians, on Thursday, while chatting with sister Kim Kardashian and Scott Disick.
Back to her roots. American Idol winner Samantha Diaz — who goes by the stage name Just Sam — revealed she’s returned to performing on the subways in New York City.
Mackenzie Edwards is back, baby!
Alex Reid and his fiancée Nikki Manashe are expecting twin boys. The happy couple are set to welcome twins this year, and have now discovered that they’re having two sons. Alex, 47, and Nikki, 36, already share almost-two year old daughter Anastasia together, who played a cute part in the announcement of her siblings’ genders.
Zoe Hewitt Blake Shelton stays busy with his music career, a bit of acting and a lot of career coaching on “The Voice.” He’s been on the series since the beginning, and his picks have won nine times and counting over the show’s 22 seasons. But despite his busy schedule, he returns to his Oklahoma roots time and time again for relaxation and philanthropy. Though Shelton moved to Nashville after high school, he remains connected his home state with a 1,300 acre ranch near the town of Tishomingo. As an avid outdoorsman, it stands to reason that he’d support nonprofits with the same values. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation launched about four years ago and Shelton was one of the first to come on board with his support. While the organization is part of the State Department with a mission to protect, preserve and conserve wildlife and natural spaces, they don’t actually receive government funding apart from the revenue they generate from licensing and fees for various outdoor activities.
TV's Dr James Greenwood - star of BBC's much-loved early-rise show Morning Live - has welcomed a baby boy with his husband Mark Titterton.The on-screen vet, 37, shared the joyful news on Instagram on Friday, posting a snap of the loved-up couple alongside their newborn son and their "incredible" surrogate, Rachael Davis. Captioning the family photo, James wrote: "Here we go!!! We are all so thrilled and our hearts are bursting with joy.
Billie Shepherd looked sensational in a series of stunning bikinis just five months after giving birth to her third child - daughter Margot - in December 2022. It was a busy day for the 33 year old, as she jetted abroad for a "24 hour work trip" to shoot her new swimwear range with online retailer, In The Style. The location in question was a gorgeous white villa with a huge kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking an aqua-blue pool which is where she shot most of the swimwear content.
Keeping it real. Lindsay Arnold shared an authentic look at her postpartum body after she and husband Sam Cusick welcomed their second child.
Naman Ramachandran After exploring a multitude of genres, renowned filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (“Bandit Queen,” “Elizabeth”) has turned his hand to a romantic comedy with Working Title/Studiocanal production “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” The film follows documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), for whom swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath’s (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to a bride from Pakistan (Sajal Aly). As Zoe films Kaz’s journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.
Ed Sheeran shed happy tears this week after winning his plagiarism case, which fought allegations that he ripped off part of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 song, Let’s Get It On, for his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud.The singer, 32, who has battled and won court cases similar before, spoke spoke outside of a US courthouse while explaining his joy yet 'frustration' over the situation. Going on for years now, it was back in 2017 that singer Kathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of Ed Townsend, one of the co-writers on the Marvin Gaye track, filed a lawsuit against him in 2017.
Looks like Ed Sheeran won’t be leaving the music industry in disgust after all.