Love Island’s Matilda Draper sparks engagement rumours as she’s seen trying on wedding dresses after Towie debut
LOVE Island star Matilda Draper has sparked engagement rumours after she was spotted trying on wedding dresses.
The 24-year-old, who has recently joined Towie with boyfriend Roman Hackett, looked amazing in a number of white frocks and she couldn’t resist sharing some snaps with fans.
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![Matilda-June Draper and Roman Hackett in matching sweatpants.](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/love-islands-matilda-june-draper-962515821_a77567.jpg?strip=all&w=540)
Alongside a crying face emoji, a delighted Matilda wrote: “Got to try on April Banbury’s new bridal collection and I can’t cope.”
April is a wedding dress designer who appeared on Married At First Sight UK.
Matilda, who appeared on Love Island last summer, went public with her new relationship last month and is head over heels.
The pair decided to get matching tattoos just weeks after they started dating.
She was coupled up with sweet salesman Sean Stone on Love Island – but just months later she was accused of dumping him by text.
Speaking about her new romance on Not My Bagg podcast, she said: “I first met him at someone’s birthday, just after I broke up with Sean.
“We were just friends before I went on Love Island, he’s friends with one of my friends and they went on holiday together and he’d always pop up on her Instagram Stories about me.
“So I knew he fancied me. Then I went to his event on Halloween and I ended up snogging him and then we were in Dubai at the same time alone, so we had a holiday romance.”
She added: “It was so weird though because I’m usually an ice queen but he’s really just melted my heart.”
The star also revealed that she was in talks for All Stars but pulled out once she started dating Roman.
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Michael Lowry asks to address Dail over ‘so-called new allegations’ by Sinn Fein about his purchase of UK football club
MICHAEL Lowry wants to address the Dail in response to “so-called new allegations” about him by Pearse Doherty.
The Sinn Fein TD, under Dail privilege, claimed he burned documents relating to a deal to buy Doncaster Rovers football club in the UK in a bid to hide them from a tribunal.
The club was bought by businessman Denis O’Brien in 1998, with Independent TD Lowry claiming he never had any part in this deal.
But Doherty alleged on Thursday that “fake documents” were made for the Moriarty Tribunal to create a “false narrative”.
And he urged Lowry, a member of the Regional Independent Group, to “come clean”.
Lowry said he wrote to Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy’s office hours after Doherty “availed of Dail privilege to make so-called new allegations in respect of my dealings with the Moriarty Tribunal”.
He today added: “I formally requested an early opportunity to make a personal statement on the floor of the Dail to address this smear.”
A tribunal report said it was “unable to determine the precise nature” of Lowry’s interest in the team and the “extent to which it was intended he’d benefit”.
Earlier this week, both Mr O’Brien and Mr Lowry insisted that Mr Lowry had no involvement in the Doncaster deal.
However, speaking under Dail privilege, Pearse Doherty claimed that Deputy Lowry had “57 meetings in relation to the Doncaster deal including here in the Houses of the Oireachtas with the organisers of the project and representatives of sport.”
The Sinn Fein TD said: “These payments were never disclosed to the tribunal.
“Will he use Government’s time to explain to this House and the public why he on the 15th of March 2001 met with other key individuals in relation to this deal in Dublin – the outcome of the meeting was the creation of a false narrative and fake new documents.
“Fake documents that were given to the tribunal.
“Maybe he could explain why he, it is claimed, with two others that were central to these deals met in a rural farm on August 2002 to burn the original documents pertaining to these deals.
“He did so to make sure that the truth would never see the light of day.
“The information that I am telling you now Tanaiste comes directly from one of the men present.”
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‘Never seen anything like that,’ say fans as MMA star brutally breaks opponent’s ARM with kick in front of boxing legend
MMA star Haider Khan brutally broke his opponent Mostafa Nada’s ARM with a lethal kick.
The middleweight pair fought on the undercard of Usman Nurmagomedov’s Bellator title bout against Paul Hughes in Dubai.
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And Khan ended the fight in round one after Nada simply tried to block his front kick.
As soon as Khan’s foot made contact with Nada, his arm appeared to shatter leaving him unable to continue.
Slow-motion replays revealed the brutality of the kick – leaving fans online grimacing.
One said: “First thing I see this morning when I turn on PFL is a front kick breaking a man’s arm.
“That was nasty. I’ve probably seen 5,000 fights and never seen anything like that.”
Another added: “What a kick.. The power behind that.”
One simply put: “Brutal.”
Another added: “Damn that sound.”
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British boxing legend Amir Khan – of no relation – is helping guide the MMA fighter’s career and watched from cageside.
And Amir said: “Listen, the guy’s a beast. The guy is an animal. He said he heard the click, the breaking of the bone.
“I mean, he looks in great shape. Sold.”
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The Traitors star Charlotte breaks silence as furious fans says she was robbed after controversial twist
THE Traitors star Charlotte Berman has broken her silence – as fans claimed she was ‘robbed’ after a controversial twist.
Business director Charlotte entered as a Faithful, only to be recruited as a Traitor in episode eight.
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Viewers claimed a late-game twist “robbed” her of the £94,000 prize money.
It saw fellow player Frankie become the “Seer”, granting her the ability to learn any other player’s role.
The interior designer chose Charlotte, hoping for affirmation about her closest ally – only to be left stunned to learn the truth.
One fan wrote on X: “Charlotte is genuinely the most legendary player the show has seen. Fiercely intelligent, utterly ruthless and delightfully charming, she played it the way traitors should: COLD.
“Ultimately robbed by the power of the Seer, my head still bows to her.”
Another remarked: Well the ‘seer’ power ruined the final. Charlotte was robbed. And poor Alexander. I am unamused.#TheTraitors.”
Speaking to MailOnline, Charlotte said: “I think the fact that Freddie had obviously voted for me at the banishment before he went, I think it would have been very hard for me to win from that.
“I think especially given the way that the game was played this year with the lack of revealing towards the end of who we were.
“I think if there’s one sprig of doubt you’re out, ‘oh Freddie, voted for you, you’re out.”
As the only witnesses to the secret meeting, each claimed the other was a Traitor.
Unfortunately for Charlotte, the other remaining players believed Frankie and she was banished.
She reached the final five alongside Frankie, Jake Brown, Alexander Dragonetti and Leanne Quigley.
Jake and Leanne, both 28, went on to scoop the prize money after revealing they were both Faithful.
Earlier in the series, Minah Shannon recruited Charlotte after the other original Traitors were eliminated.
Charlotte had already been deceiving the other players – by pretending to be from Wales.
Meanwhile, Minah had been hoping to continue the “sisterhood” among the initial line-up.
Wary of a potential betrayal, Charlotte planted seeds about her ally ultimately leading to Minah’s banishment.
How does The Traitors work and who hosts it?
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The Traitors first launched in the UK in 2022, after the Dutch format was acquired by the BBC.
Claudia Winkleman is the show’s host, and has now hosted all three series to date.
How does it work?
It is a reality game show that involves 22 contestants, and some of them are chosen to be The Traitors.
The Traitors sees a group of contestants taking part in “the ultimate game of truth and deception”.
The group of contestants are competing for the chance to walk away with a huge cash prize.
While navigating through a series of challenges, the team are also tasked with figuring out who the Traitors are in the group (usually three contestants).
Each night, the Traitors gather to “eliminate” one of the Faithful, removing them from the competition
Meanwhile, the traitors can be “banished” if they’re successfully outed as a traitor by a faithful.
The winners of the show are either the Traitor who remains undetected or the Faithfuls if they successfully eliminate all the Traitors.
The prize sees the winner could get £120K.
She then recruited Freddie Fraser, who’d had suspicion over him throughout the series.
Charlotte used information about a shield – which Freddie hadn’t been privy to – as a means of eliminating him as well.
Despite showing impressive tactical game play, it was not enough to secure victory in the end.
The Traitors is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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