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During primary school, if my fellow classmates and I behaved well during our morning assembly hymns, then as a treat we’d be allowed to sing S Club 7’s Reach to conclude proceedings. I would dutifully belt out ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’ and ‘Give me oil in my lamp’, dreaming of the big finale.The words would be projected onto the wall, but I didn’t need to look. “Reach for the stars,” I would sing/shout as I lifted my right arm up into the air forcefully and then outstretched it directly in front of me, shaking my fingers while slowly moving it to the right side.

A mum-of-three has found a way to solve all of her money struggles, thanks to her incredibly long legs. Cornwall-based Lizzy Groombridge was left struggling for cash after the pandemic hit, and with the cost of living continuing to rise things started to become difficult for her and her family. However, Lizzy soon found a unique, and very lucrative, method of earning money quickly - she started selling her XL tights for £45 a pair via adult content site OnlyFans.

A mum says she lets her six-year-old son choose when he goes to bed because it helps him learn from his mistakes. Hayley Ambrose, 34, says she's allowed Leyland to dictate his own nap time since he was a baby. "I couldn’t face the hours of bedtime hell if I tried to get him in bed for 7pm," she told The Sun.

This week, former Hollyoaks ’ star Lysette Anthony, 58, - who played Marnie Nightingale in the hit Channel 4 show from 2016 - has told how she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the young age of 52.The actress broke her silence for the first time in an exclusive interview and shoot with OK! , describing the lows she’s overcome since her initial diagnosis, and vowing to live life to the full now. Business owner Donna Marshall, 52, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, knows exactly the challenges faced by those living with Parkinson’s. Here she shares her story...

Some of the most elite dogs took centre stage at Birmingham's NEC for Crufts 2022. They proved that working with dogs isn't so bad after all, and provided us all with some pretty damn adorable (and funny) moments... Dog lake A miniature Chihuahua proved that you can really be anything you want to be, as they transformed themselves into a doggy ballerina.

"It had taken me nine hours and 11 minutes, but I’d done it, I had completed the London Marathon on the 28th April 2019. I may have been the slowest time that year, but I’d done it and I felt pure relief (and pain) wash over my body. I’d dreamt of this moment during my months of training.

"Makeup applied and hair carefully done, I excitedly browse through my wardrobe. What is the perfect look for my date? There’s nothing unusual about a woman making themselves beautiful for the guy they love. But I’m not heading out for cocktails or a romantic meal.

"A photo was projected on to a wall in a cool Shoreditch bar of a man holding a T-shirt with the number 37 displayed on the bag it was residing in. It wasn’t just any T-shirt – this was a garment I’d worn to sleep in for the last three nights, in a bid for it to absorb my smell and attract a mate.This man had been instructed to spend the evening sniffing about 50 different ladies’ tops, who were all aged in their mid-twenties, and he’d decided that my scent – captured on my plain grey top – was the most desirable… That is, mine and woman number 64, whose garment he had in his left hand. Luckily for me, he hadn’t a clue who that belonged to.

A young Ukrainian woman has become a TikTok star after sharing exactly what daily life in a bomb shelter is like. In order to stay as safe as possible after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched attacks on the country, she has seemingly moved into a below-ground bunker with her mum, dad and pet dog.The account, which uses the name @Valerisssh has 569k followers, with a video showing, "My typical day in a bomb shelter" being viewed 32.8 million times.The 22 second clip offered a clear insight into her day - the youngster watched her mum cook on a small stove, conversed with her dad, played with her dog who she noted was confused by the situation and dried her hair with a heat gun. The most harrowing part of the viral video was when she showed the devastation in her home city.

Chloe (not her real name) was over the moon when she and husband Alex (not his real name) found out they were pregnant with their first child in 2020. After a battle with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) Chloe, 34, had struggled to get pregnant for 5 years following her wedding. Despite the joy and support of her friends and family, a 25-year-long friendship turned sour over a baby name… “I knew I wanted to be a mum since I was little.

Sunny Kooner is a 35-year-old businesswoman from Wolverhampton. She and her husband Baz, 34, own a chain of dessert parlours - Delightful Desserts - as well as a dessert parlour supply company, and Jatt Life vodka, whisky and gin labels. Sunny also has her own Instagram page and blog - Blessed with Girls "When I met an old school friend’s mum I hadn’t seen for ages, I was so excited to see her, and I expected her to be pleased for me when I told her I had four daughters.

In Lalalaletmeexplain's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. With nearly 200k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers.

International Women's Day will take place on Tuesday 8 March this year, and in celebration we chatted to four inspiring individuals, who are breaking the bias and thriving in careers that are often associated with men.The Mechanic Laura Kennedy, 39, lives in London and founded Spanners with Manners "On an average working day you’ll find me under a bonnet servicing a car and having a good laugh. Every day is different and I love it, but as a kid I was convinced I was going to be the next Sporty Spice. "I left school at 17 and worked in the admin office for Mercedes.

"She wanted a tight and sexy body," Kacy Duke, who trained the real Anna Delvey from Netflix's Inventing Anna, tells me from her high rise New York City apartment. Anna had heard of the celebrity personal trainer after watching Fifty Shades of Grey and finding out that Kacy was behind Dakota Johnson's incredible physique in the films. "She wasn't far from it," Kacy, who was played by Lavern Cox, explained.

I was sipping a takeaway coffee in the window of my new flat when a news alert popped up on my phone. Police were “increasingly concerned” for a missing woman’s welfare and were working “round the clock” to find her.The report said her phone signal was last picked up less than two miles from where I was sitting. It was March 6 2021, and I’d just picked up the keys to my new home in south London when the Metropolitan Police raised the alarm over Sarah Everard’s disappearance.Three days earlier, at around 9.30pm, the 33-year-old daughter, sister, friend and girlfriend, was walking home from a friend’s house when police officer Wayne Couzens arrested her under the pretence she’d breached Covid rules.

“The night started out at the Student Union bar, but it was boring so we decided to go to a nightclub. We’ve been there a few times so I felt perfectly comfortable walking in with my friends, including my boyfriend, Aedan, 20, who’s also a student. It was just a regular night out, with the six of us.

Over the years, women falling in love with notorious criminals has been well documented. Serial killer Ted Bundy married Carole Ann Boone after committing at least 30 murders.The Menendez Brothers are currently happily married to Tammi and Rebecca, despite being in prison for almost 30 years for killing their parents. Dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the press, Richard Ramirez was sentenced to death in 1989 on charges that included 13 murders, five attempted murders and 11 sexual assaults.

In Lalalaletmeexplain's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. With nearly 200k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers.

When identical twins Briana and Brittany Deane met identical twin brothers Josh and Jeremy Salyers, it was love at first sight.The sisters, 35, married the brothers, 37, in a joint ceremony back in 2018 and became pregnant months apart. Now the two couples share one-year-old sons - Jax and Jett - so genetically similar they’re more like brothers than cousins.The foursome live under the same roof and are one of about 300 ‘quaternary’ marriages in the whole world! “Jett and Jax were born to identical twin parents less than nine months apart,” Brittany explained to TODAY Parents.

Having your drink spiked is not a new phenomenon, though it's certainly sinister and yet another thing for us all to fear while enjoying a night out with friends.  For many years women have feared being drugged by someone – usually for predatory sexual purposes – by having a liquid or pill slipped into their drink. But, in the past few months, it’s become apparent that spiking has also been happening to victims via injections – often in public places such as bars.  Shockingly there have been almost 1,400 incidents of needle spiking reported in the UK in just five months, and police warned last month there was a dangerous “new phenomenon” of needle spiking.

Self-employed Shabnam, 43, lives in West Yorkshire with her husband Nadeem, 44, and their four children. Here, she tells her story... I was busy making TikTok videos with my 10-year-old daughter last month when my 17-year-old son Qais – who is obsessed with politics – came running into the bedroom.

I can't afford a house deposit - fact. I'll tell you why - after graduating from university, I moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and around half of my wages went on having a roof over my head. A rented roof.

Staring down at the huge number in front of me – an eye-watering £27,000 – it felt unreal. How was it possible to owe so much? How could I have let it get this bad? Then I thought about the deliveries of clothes I’d hidden behind the sofa, the £1,000 bed we’d bought on a payment plan, all the holidays we’d booked without a thought about how to pay for them… For a minute I felt completely overwhelmed.Then fight mode kicked in. “I’m going to face this head on,” I thought, determination flooding through me.

Britain’s “dating detective” has revealed how to spot a potential scammer – and is warning people they could be conned out of thousands of pounds if they're not careful. Samantha Cooper, 53, from London, works as an investigator with her primary goal being to “save people from heartbreak and financial loss” as a result of their love matches.

Brittney Coble, from the USA, has divided social media after revealing the rules that her children have to follow.The mum of five took to video sharing platform TikTok to disclose her controversial rules to her 43,800 followers. Speaking in the video, she said: “So I've seen a trend on TikTok where mums are talking about things they do with their kids that most other parents wouldn't agree with,'' she started off the video.

It’s not everyday you say "I do" to your soulmate so when it’s time to plan the nuptials we like to make it memorable. We Brits spend over £14 billion on weddings and The UK Weddings Task Force (who represent the industry) forecasts a whopping 350,000 will take place this year. Micro weddings with just a few friends and family have become the norm for many since the onset of the pandemic.

"If somebody had told me six years ago that I’d spend most of my waking hours thinking about my vagina, I’d have laughed them out of the room. But the constant, biting pain I feel down there not only rules my life, but my family’s too. It’s only with the support of my husband David, 43, that I’m still alive today.

Needing to take a pill everyday, and being forgetful, means that occasionally in the middle of a coffee date (or let's be honest, hot chocolate date) I find myself reaching into my bag, grabbing my beloved prescription and swallowing the medicine that keeps my mental health on track. Of course, this move intrigues people. Number one, how I can do it without water? Well, I took acne medication for years and a teenager doesn't like leaving their room, not even for a glass of water.

I’d always imagined our first Valentine’s Day as a married couple would be full of romance and passion. But on 14 February in 2019, I instead found myself lying on a hospital bed next to my husband Ciaran, who was going through chemotherapy. Sweetly, he’d still managed to get me a balloon and a teddy with some help from the nurses.

While Valentine’s Day is seen as a couples’ celebration, we meet two long-term unattached women who will be spending the day of romance alone and they are happy about it. ‘I’ve frozen my eggs so I don’t have to worry about rushing to settle down’ Events planner Liz, 40, lives in London and has been single for nine years. She documents her life on podcast Diary, She Wrote.

Hot flushes, night sweats, anxiety and insomnia - the symptons of menopause are no fun.There’s also ‘brain fog’, mood swings and depression. Every year rougly 1.5 million women are quietly enduring them, and yet only one in ten are prescribed Hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Last week, the ONS (Office for National Statistics) revealed that over half of women in UK (well just, it's 50.1%) haven't had a child by the time they reach their milestone 30th birthday. Back in 1941, it was just 17.9% who didn't. It's clear times are definitely changing and at a relatively fast pace.

While getting ready for school aged 14, I looked at myself in the mirror and let out a frustrated sigh. I was in a loving, supportive family with my dad Terry, mum Sharon and two younger siblings, and everything from the outside looked fine. But I knew I wasn't happy in my own skin.

Builder Charlie, 44, fell critically ill and his partner Dawn Sturgess died after exposure to the deadly nerve agent Novichok at his home in Amesbury, Wiltshire. In March 2018, three months earlier, ex-Soviet spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia had been found unconscious on a Salisbury park bench, seven miles away… "I didn’t mean to, but I killed my girlfriend. How do you ever get over that? I can’t.

Last November, ex-glamour model and footballer’s wife Danielle Lloyd gave birth to a baby girl, Autumn Rose.The celebrity mum-of-five was desperate to conceive a girl after sharing “four boys is hard work.” To make her baby girl dreams a reality, she decided to use The Babydust Method with her husband Michael O'Neill. Amy Walker, 36, used the same method to try for a boy after having four girls. She lives in Folkestone, Kent, with her plumber husband John, 37, daughters Abigail, 16, Isabelle, 14, Olivia, 10, Amelia, four, and one-year-old son Teddy.

In a new twist on Lalalaletmeexplain 's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. Here, she offers advice to a reader who's partner's best friend is sharing intimate videos and pictures of his new girlfriend – and thinks it's hilarious.