Ed Balls has proven himself to be quite the Love Island fan during his recent stint on Good Morning Britain. The former Labour politician has been co-hosting the ITV news programme for a number of weeks alongside Susanna Reid.
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April Ashley, this is the way to frame a documentary about her – through other people’s eyes. For Simon Callow, who always says (and enunciates) it best, his beloved friend – the model, London socialite and restaurateur who was among the first to undergo gender realignment surgery – was “a self-made woman in the most literal sense”. When Ashley came to his house for supper or parties: “It was like meeting a character from a novel … She was queenly.
She had exquisite manners and diction. And behind that magnificent exterior there was a scouse fighter. ”For Boy George: “It wasn’t drag.
April was a woman. ” Grayson Perry, who briefly dated her, remembers walking into a party in 1983 and “there was April Ashley in all her glory … Seductive. Vampy.
There was a lot of alcohol involved. ” Juno Dawson notes how Ashley passed not just as a woman but “as a woman of the upper classes”. For Peter Tatchell: “The idea that she might be trans never entered anyone’s head.
”There are lots of stellar contributors in The Extraordinary Life of April Ashley (Channel 4), which airs seven months after her death at the age of 86. It’s a zippy, entertaining, slightly superficial documentary, though perhaps one that’s also grimly apt for a woman so fundamentally unseen for much of her life. It does its best to cover as much of Ashley’s incredible trajectory as possible: from working-class Liverpool to the Lancashire psychiatric hospital where she was tied to a bed and treated with male hormones and electric shock therapy; to Paris; London high society; a brutal divorce trial; tabloid annihilation; exile in Hay-on-Wye; and, finally, as these only-in-Britain fairytales go, to Buckingham Palace to collect her MBE.
Ed Balls has proven himself to be quite the Love Island fan during his recent stint on Good Morning Britain. The former Labour politician has been co-hosting the ITV news programme for a number of weeks alongside Susanna Reid.
From the villa to the nursery! Love Island UK aims to help British singles find their perfect match, and many have gone on to welcome children with — or without — their fellow contestants.
Love Island 's Jacques O'Neill has been seen for the first time since he touched down in the UK, after sensationally quitting the show on Monday 11 July. The 23 year old, who hails from Cumbria, made the decision to leave the show on Monday, citing that he "wanted to feel like himself again", and his dramatic exit was aired on Tuesday night's episode.
Manny Charlton, the founding guitarist of Nazareth who played on the Scottish rock band’s best-known records, including “Love Hurts”, its LP Hair of the Dog, and also produced early Guns N’ Roses demos, died today. He was 80. His grandson, Jamie Charlton, posted the news on social media with the caption “RIP Grandad.”
Amanda Holden has revealed she has decided to ban her eldest daughter Lexi Hughes from ever appearing on Love Island in the future. The Britain's Got Talent judge, 51, made the comments after discussing how her daughter, 16, had become "obsessed" by the latest series of the ITV2 dating show. She explained her decision saying that Lexi may have gotten ideas to be a future islander after seeing how Michael Owen's 19 year old daughter Gemma had got on since entering the villa.
There’s a new bombshell entering the villa.
Love Island’s Remi Lambert has slammed Jacques O’Neill for allegedly “playing up” for the cameras in the villa. Manchester based model Remi, 22, was left single last week when Indiyah chose to keep Ikenna in instead, meaning he had to pack his bags and leave the villa. Now that the star has arrived back in the UK, he’s started to open up on his experience on the show, including what he thought of fellow contestants.
Love Island newcomer Antigoni Buxton has already made waves inside the Love Island villa, but outside of it, it's her very good looking parents that have caught the attention of the show's fans. Her 57 year old father Paul has had fans swooning over his incredible looks after Antigoni posted a poolside photo of the pair showing off her father's fit physique with rippling muscles and abs.
She recently gave birth to twins - her first children - and Frankie Essex looked absolutely stunning as she stepped out with The Only Way is Essex and Love Island stars just weeks after giving birth. The 34 year old was attending a charity event at popular Essex restaurant Sheesh for the Jorja Foundation. Amy Childs has been petitioning to make medical cannabis accessible on the NHS after seeing the plight of little girl Jorja who suffers an extremely rare chromosome abnormality and her father's plight to get access to medical cannabis in the UK to help her condition.