‘Big Brother’ Sets October Return on ITV – Global Bulletin

Alison Hammond made a very personal sex confession on This Morning, as she admitted: “Every time I eat chocolate, I want it.” The popular TV presenter, 48, left co-host Dermot O'Leary desperately trying to suppress a laugh after her frank admission.The pair were discussing foods being aphrodisiacs with Dr Karan Raj during Friday’s show, 20 October, when Alison decided to share the sweet treat that got her hot under the collar. Alison - who was said to be the early favourite to become the main This Morning presenter after Holly Willoughby decided to quit the ITV show - asked Dr Karan: “Is chocolate an aphrodisiac?” The doctor, conscious he was on a daytime show, diplomatically answered: “So scientifically there is no evidence linking chocolate to your ability to perform horizontal bedroom wrestling to the best of your abilities.” Alison, looking deadly serious, replied: “That’s really interesting because every time I eat chocolate, I want it.” The confession left a gobsmacked Dermot stifling a snicker before Dr Karan offered: “Well, caffeine is a stimulant?” Po-faced Alison nodded before moving on and saying: ‘Well that was a great item, wasn’t it? Dermot responded: “I’ve learnt as much about you as I have about medical science.” Elsewhere on Friday’s This Morning, Alison was left crying with laughter after Dermot exposed her false claims about making a selfless donation to charity.

Amy Dowden has shared her heartbreak at having to watch Strictly Come Dancing from the sidelines amid her breast cancer battle. The 33 year old was a professional dancer on the BBC series from 2017 to 2022, before she was diagnosed with grade three aggressive breast cancer, which she announced publicly in May 2023. On Friday, 20 October, Amy appeared on ITV's Loose Women, where she chatted openly to panelists Nadia Sawalha, Denise Welch, Judi Love and Jane Moore.

The Big Brother reboot has been taking over our lives as of late - and if we're being honest - we're not about to change that any time soon. Since the fresh batch of new housemates entered the iconic Big Brother house earlier this month, plus new hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best took to the job like a duck to water, our evenings have been filled with enormous amounts of entertainment.

Half term is officially upon us, and Rochelle Humes shared a very sweet series of photos documenting the first day of her children’s holidays over on Instagram. Amongst the adorable pictures and videos Rochelle also shared some ultra-glam snaps of herself sitting in her office wearing a black midi skirt and sleeveless black top, with a pair of red Jacquemus Les Ballets square-toe mules, £532 here, that her followers were gushing over.

Just days after the mystery woman that her husband James Haskell was spotted cosying up to last week was "identified", TV star Chloe Madeley has posted another Instagram photo without her wedding ring. James, the former rugby star, had been spotted chatting with the previously unknown blonde outside London club Chiltern Firehouse on Thursday 12 October, reportedly leaving Chloe "upset". And last night, personal trainer and reality star Chloe - who with James shares 14-month-old daughter, Bodhi - took to social media to post two sweet snaps of her holding her brand new niece in her arms, with a visibly wedding ring-free finger in plain sight.

This Morning star Matty Lock sadly died in September and the cause of his tragic death has now been revealed. Matty reportedly hanged himself in his summer house after taking alcohol and ketamine, the Express has reported.

Married At First Sight UK star Georges Berthonneau has finally posted one of the 'squatting for baguettes' clips that his wife Peggy Rose so disapproved of on the E4 show. Georges, 30, upset Peggy, 32, when he opened up about his "online gaming" hobby, which sees him take part in challenges - including squatting on-camera - set by other users in the community. During in-laws week, Georges explained how it works to Peggy's family, saying: “I do online gaming, and in my community the more you watch, you gain points, but I renamed them baguettes.

Autumn can be a distressing time for our furry friends, with Halloween and Bonfire Night often being marked with lots of impressive fireworks displays. The loud sound of fireworks can stress out animals, as their hearing is a lot more sensitive than the average human. If you're looking for a way to calm your nervous dog, Amazon has slashed the price of the ADAPTIL Calm Home Diffuser, down from £32.76 to £18.38, a total saving of £14.38 - and it comes with a 30-day refill.

A man has admitted sending an abusive email to Angela Rayner following the publication of a national newspaper article about the Ashton-under-Lyne MP. David Perry made crude and offensive references to Ms Rayner's appearance and accused her of being a 'puppet of the industrial military complex'.

A student watched on as flamed ripped through her home from a neighbour's property. Abbie Smithson, from Haslingden near Bury, saw smoke coming into the house she was living in with three other students at St Andrew’s University, in Scotland.

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA winner Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Blue Jean breakout Rosy McEwen and Jade Croot (The Serpent Queen) are starring in under-the-radar horror movie Rabbit Trap, which recently completed filming on location in Wales.

CNN‘s Sara Sidner faced a precarious situation on air today when reporting from the West Bank, as a protester in a pro-Palestinian demonstration confronted her and shouted, “f— CNN.”

Elle Fanning, the Emmy-nominated star of Hulu’s The Great, will make her Broadway debut next month in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, joining previously announced cast members Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Natalie Gold and Alyssa Emily Marvin.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmakers Limbert Fabian (MLK: Now Is The Time) and Brandon Oldenburg (Lost Ollie) are partnering as directors, under the name InBetween, and have signed with Anonymous Content for representation.

A long-gestating medical drama that’s inspired by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks has been handed a series order at NBC.

Follow the Protocol, set during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Brazilian filmmaker, who writes, directs, and stars as protagonist Francisco, opens on a familiar pandemic scene: the mind-numbing nothingness of being stuck indoors.

Reel Affirmations features three days of live screenings, from Friday, Oct. 21 to Sunday, Oct. 22, at the centrally-located Eaton Hotel‘s intimate, state-of-the-art screening facility.The festival will continue on Monday, Oct.

Metro Weekly over the years.)During the pandemic, the Missouri native joined forces with producer Mauricio Pita and writer Eva von Schweinitz to devise the short film Safe Word. It screens Saturday, Oct. 21, at 11 p.m.

Lauren Sanchez announced that the Bezos Earth Fund is allocating $10 million to Water.org. “Access to safe water is crucial.

Thania Garcia Adele has announced she is extending her residency at the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas one last time. The final leg of Weekends With Adele, which launched last November, is 32 dates and runs from January through June 2024. Details were announced by Adele, who on X (formerly Twitter), penned a thoughtful paragraph to go along with the news.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter NBC has given out a series order to the medical drama “Dr. Wolf,” Variety has learned. The show was originally ordered to pilot at NBC back in January.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Amazon MGM Studios have landed rights to Benjamin Percy’s novella “American Criminal,” with Gavin O’Connor negotiating to direct. The film, which Hidden Pictures and NeoText will produce, follows a professional thief who, after being apprehended by an FBI agent, is coaxed into infiltrating a violent Midwestern gang with the goal of dismantling them from the inside.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In 2016, John le Carré published a memoir called “The Pigeon Tunnel,” which the late spy novelist — who died in late 2020 — claims had been the working title of nearly all his books at some point. For le Carré, the term describes the passage through which naive birds of sport were forced from their nests, only to emerge as targets for marksmen waiting with rifles poised at a hotel in Monte Carlo.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Elle Fanning will make her Broadway debut in the upcoming production of “Appropriate,” a darkly comic family drama from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The show is directed by Lila Neugebauer, the director of the acclaimed 2018 revival of “The Waverly Gallery.” Fanning, best known for her work on Hulu’s “The Great” and “Super 8,” joins a previously announced ensemble that includes Natalie Gold, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll. Jenkins is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose credits include “An Octoroon” and “Gloria.” “Appropriate” follows the Lafayette family as it returns to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of “Gen V,” titled “Jumanji” now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video. This week’s “Gen V” came with a pleasant surprise for fans — and we’re not even talking about Thursday’s Season 2 renewal news that hit just before the episode arrived. The installment featured the much-teased cameo of Jensen Ackles’ “The Boys” supe Soldier Boy, who appears to Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Andre (Chance Perdomo) and Jordan (Derek Luh/London Thor) as they travel through Cate’s (Maddie Phillips) fractured mind while she’s breaking down from doing too much brain-wiping/un-wiping of her friends on behalf of Dean Shetty (Shelley Conn).

Britney Spears is opening up about her very brief marriage to Jason Alexander.

Maluma is living out his dream right now, and he wants the world to know it!

Britney Spears wrote extensively about her relationships with Justin Timberlake and Colin Farrell in her memoir The Woman in Me. She also wrote a song that was seemingly inspired by both of them.

Mary Lou Retton’s daughter Shayla Schrepfer is providing an update on the former Olympian’s recovery from a rare form of pneumonia.

Dove Cameron is explaining the juicy meaning behind her brand new single, “Lethal Woman”!

Adele isn’t done with Las Vegas just yet.

Jordan Moreau This weekend at the box office is a showdown of two pop culture titans: Martin Scorsese and Taylor Swift. The “Mean Streets” director and “Mean” singer each have a movie facing off this weekend, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” Scorsese’s latest movie has so far made $2.6 million in Thursday previews at the box office. “Eras Tour” made $5.9 million on Thursday, Oct.

Ethan Shanfeld Mike Krzyzewski, better known as Duke’s iconic Coach K, had no idea his 2000 book, “Leading With the Heart,” would play a key role in FX’s hit restaurant dramedy “The Bear.” In fact, he had never heard of the show. “I got texts from people saying, ‘Your book is on “The Bear.”‘ I said, ‘What the hell [is] “The Bear”?’” Coach K said on a new episode of Duke’s “The Brotherhood Podcast.” Early on in Season 2 of the series, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) is gifted a copy of Coach K’s inspirational book by her dad. Sydney becomes obsessed with the book, subtitled “Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life” and applies its lessons to developing The Bear restaurant and motivating the kitchen staff.

Justin Timberlake is “happy” amid all Britney Spears’ jaw-dropping claims?! That’s what someone is selling… but we’re not sure we’re buying.

Sounds like their chemistry was OFF THE CHARTS!

New Line’s The Nun II, one of the few bright spots at the fall box office rocked by the actors strikes, will hit Max on Oct. 27. That premiere date is after the pic’s 50-day theatrical window.