Katie Begley

2 months ago | mirror.co.uk | Katie Begley |Jackie Annett

Sam Aston has lost more than a stone while training for Dancing on Ice and reckons the show is getting him into the best shape of his life. And the star – Coronation Street’s Chesney Brown – says his wife Briony is loving his new body. Not that the couple needed anything to boost their bedroom antics, as he explains: “We’ve already got three kids under five. But, yeah, she likes what she’s seeing. She saw me do a knee slide across the ice and she got a bit giddy.

2 months ago | mirror.co.uk | Katie Begley |Jen Pharo

When EastEnders goes live to mark the soap’s 40th anniversary on Wednesday many of the cast will be riddled with nerves, desperate to avoid a mishap in front of the nation. But for Jamie Borthwick, who plays Jay Mitchell, it will be a walk in the park. The 30-year-old actor, who has been a Walford favourite for 18 years, says taking to the Strictly dance floor has cured him of any nerves.

2 months ago | thesun.co.uk | Katie Begley

WHEN faced with a bear you have two options - stand perfectly still and pray it ignores you or make enough noise you scare it off. Or in my case, you run like hell and hope for the best. But I didn’t have to face down your regular sharp-clawed grisly, this one has travelled the globe hunting his prey and isn’t easily distracted once he’s locked on to his target.

Nov 23, 2024 | mirror.co.uk | Katie Begley |Mark Jefferies

She's set the Strictly ballroom alight with her sizzling routines and now Montell Douglas has vowed to bring that Fire to the next series of Gladiators. The Olympian earned an army of new fans after being cast as her Gladiator alter ego Fire when the iconic 90s show returned last year. But for the last ten weeks she’s been dazzling on the dance floor, and Montell believes all the tricks she’s learnt from her professional partner Johannes Radebe is going to make her a better Gladiator.

Oct 6, 2024 | thesun.co.uk | Katie Begley

WHEN Lloyd Camacho met up with his daughter three days before her 35th birthday he was so shocked by her appearance, he thought she had become a drug addict. Mum-of-two Shakira Spencer wasn’t the vivacious, care-free woman he’d watched grow up. Instead she was scarily thin and acting shifty. When she denied she was taking drugs, Lloyd begged her to see a doctor, fearing that she might be seriously ill because she’d lost so much weight. The reality was much more horrific.