FOOTIE’S Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is ready to swap his tracksuit for sequins to star in Strictly.

The former Chelsea and Netherlands striker and ex-England coach, 53, is said to have signed up with the BBC to appear on the next series of the dance show this autumn.

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His bid for the Glitterball trophy comes after he left his job on Gareth Southgate’s backroom team with the Three Lions following last summer’s Euro 2024 final loss to Spain.

He would follow in the fancy footsteps of a string of former players to appear on Strictly, including ex-Arsenal and England stars Tony Adams and Paul Merson.

A TV source said: “Jimmy has a huge fanbase from his years playing in the Premier League and is a very likeable character.

“Show producers are always keen to book a retired footballer as it gets footie fans tuning into the series and becoming unlikely fans of the show.

“Jimmy has a competitive edge and is going to get his head in the game.”

Dad-of-four Jimmy retired in 2008 after nearly two decades as a professional player.

He is also known for his spells with Leeds and Middlesbrough.

He has also made a name for himself as a respected TV pundit for Sky Sports.

A BBC spokesman said: “We don’t comment on speculation.”

SHE was viciously raped and beaten hundreds of times, forced to have an abortion and used “like a sex doll” from the age of just 14.

Grooming gang victim Sammy Woodhouse gave birth to her rapist’s baby – yet even when her abuser was behind bars her ordeal wasn’t over.

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Arshid ‘Mad Ash’ Hussain was jailed in 2016 for 23 offences including rape and assault on victims as young as 11[/caption]

The 39-year-old mum, targeted in Rotherham, South Yorks, had a child at 15 following sexual and physical abuse by gang ringleader Arshid Hussain.

She said she had to face a further “nightmare” when she was told the convicted paedophile could apply for parental rights over her son, despite serving a 35-year prison sentence.

After being repeatedly abused from the age of 14, Sammy has tirelessly campaigned for victims.

She welcomes the newly announced national inquiry but called Sir Keir Starmer “vile” for initially opposing it, then finally making a humiliating U-turn last week as he travelled to the G7 conference in Canada.

Sammy told The Sun on Sunday: “I support a national inquiry as long as it will bring real change. They’re saying it could take three years, but I’d wait a lifetime if it’s effective.

“As well as holding people to account — including those in positions of power at the council, police and social services — I’m hoping it will address the issue of children born to perpetrators.

‘Almost laughable’

“I haven’t seen anything yet about abusers losing parental rights to children conceived as a result of rape, and that is something I have been campaigning for since 2018.

“Surely it’s just common sense that they should be stripped of having access to their kids born as a result of grooming?”

She said of her own son, born as a result of rape: “Rotherham Council invited his father to apply for parental rights over my child without informing me, even though it was proven in court that he was a danger to myself and other children.

“It was another nightmare I had to live through. He’d had no involvement with my son, was in prison for the abuse I suffered, and wasn’t even on the birth certificate.

“But I was told that the council had reached out to him — he hadn’t even requested access himself — because human rights laws meant he had a right to family life.

“It’s almost laughable. What about my rights, my son’s rights?”

Sammy’s campaign to change the law has been backed by politicians including Rotherham MP Sarah Champion and former shadow policing minister Louise Haigh.

Ms Champion said ministers could sign off new guidance making it clear that any rapist, abuser, or anyone who is a risk to a child does not have the right to comment on their future, adding: “They could do that today but they don’t.

“They sort of shove it out to councils to make their interpretations.”

As it stands, the law allows a father to apply through courts for access or visitation rights to his children. That means he could have a say over his child’s education, healthcare and where they can live.

The victim and their children would have to attend court and could be cross-examined — having to relive the trauma all over again.

A law introduced last year means perpetrators will automatically have parental responsibility stripped, but it applies only to those who have raped a victim aged under 13. It also applies only when someone has abused their own child or stepchild.

Sammy, who has written a book about her ordeal, Just A Child, bravely waived her right to lifetime anonymity to expose the Rotherham grooming scandal.

But she became pregnant at 15 in 1999, so the law would not apply to her.

She said: “I don’t see how the Government can carry out a national inquiry and fail to address this huge issue. It hasn’t just affected me and my son — so many victims of grooming gangs have suffered the same.

“It has happened all over the country, not just Rotherham.

“Children are being removed, being given to rapists and murderers, for their families to have access. I call it child trafficking through the system.

“Rape victims are also having to go to support centres to share access and see the men that raped them.

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“Women and children are being put at direct risk. It’s just wrong, plain and simple.”

Arshid “Mad Ash” Hussain, who is ten years older than Sammy, was jailed in 2016 for 23 offences including rape and assault on victims as young as 11.

He is not named on Sammy’s son’s birth certificate and has never had parental responsibility for him under its legal definition.

But he was listed as a respondent in court proceedings instigated by Rotherham Council in 2017.

Officials told him he could seek visits from his son and promised to keep him informed of all future proceedings.

At a family court hearing, Sammy was told — with no prior warning — that Hussain could attend and seek legal representation.

He chose not to, but would have been entitled to request visitation rights, or for his son to be given into the custody of his relatives.

I just felt like a dead body on a slab in a morgue.

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Sammy said: “Thankfully he never wanted any part in his son’s life so never applied. But the point is, he should never have been given the option. I felt like his rights were put before mine or my son’s.”

In a statement at the time, Rotherham Council said: “At no stage has it been the intention of the council to put any child at risk, or to allow any convicted child sexual exploitation offender to have care of any child.”

It sought clarification from the Ministry of Justice as to how legal directions relating to Family Court proceedings should be applied.

An MoJ statement said: “Local authorities can apply to courts to request permission not to notify parents without parental responsibility about care proceedings, and courts should consider the potential harm to the child and mother when making this decision.

“This is obviously a very distressing incident and the relevant departments and local authority will work urgently to understand and address the failings in this case.”

Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Newlove said it was a “perverse situation”, adding: “A victim of the worst sexual violence faced the prospect of continuing to be abused by her perpetrator, this time via the family courts.”

Sammy’s 2018 campaign calling for the amendment of the 1989 Children Act to “ban any male with a child conceived by rape from applying for access/rights” attracted nearly half a million signatures.

‘Absolute monster’

She is also campaigning for grooming gang victims to have their criminal convictions quashed when they were coerced into crimes by their abusers.

And she wants those in positions of power who turned a blind eye to the gangs to be held to account.

She said: “They should face criminal convictions. It’s the only way to stop it happening in the future.

“At the very least, they should be stripped of their pensions.”

Sammy has also campaigned — successfully — for children born from rape to be legally recognised as victims, so they can access any support they may need.

She felt passionate about the issue after witnessing at first hand how hard it was for her son to come to learn that his father was a rapist.

The new law was introduced in 2023, making England and Wales among the first nations in the world to officially confer victim status to children born of rape.

Sammy was subjected to horrendous abuse from the age of 14, including rape, assaults and coercion, with threats to kill her family at the hands of Hussain.

She has previously said: “I was pretty much his sex doll. He was an absolute monster.

“I just felt like a dead body on a slab in a morgue.”

In 2013, after years of abuse, she approached The Times anonymously with her claims.

The resulting coverage led to the 2014 Jay Inquiry, which exposed the Rotherham gang and led to the discovery of more than 1,400 abuse victims in the town between 1997 and 2013.

HER husband may raise money for charity and his brother is related to the Royal Family, but when it comes to the in-laws, Vogue Williams insists she is their favourite.

The TV presenter ­married Spencer Matthews in 2018, and his brother James wed Princess Kate’s younger sister Pippa ­Middleton the year before.

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But in an exclusive interview, Vogue, 39, says: “I am a firm favourite with my in-laws. I would say I’m even above the siblings.”

Hers is a marriage that very nearly did not happen, though, because Vogue admits she once thought that ­Spencer, 36, was a “sociopath”.

He might now be a clean-living ­marathon runner, but in 2017, when they met on Channel 4 reality ski show The Jump, he was known for being a heavy-drinking party boy from Made In Chelsea.

Vogue says: “I kind of met him with a preconceived idea, and I was like, ‘I’m not going to like him’ because I thought he was a sociopath.

“But after I met him, I loved his personality straight away . . . he was so sound, but I was being really good at being single and I wanted to stay ­single, so I thought, ‘He’s going to be a really good friend’ — that’s the first thing I thought.”

Fast forward eight years and the couple are now parents to Theodore, six, Gigi, four, and three-year-old Otto.

‘I was feral’

But in her new memoir, Big Mouth, Vogue reveals how life wasn’t always easy for her growing up in County Dublin, with her parents Sandra and Freddie ­separating when she was five.

And speaking to The Sun on ­Sunday, she explains how she found it tough when her own marriage to her first husband, Westlife star Brian McFadden, ended in divorce in 2017 — because she had never been ­single before.

Vogue says: “I was just kind of a relationship girl, and in a way I regret that.

“I was in a relationship from when I was 18 for six-and-a-half years, and then another relationship, and then after my first marriage ended, I made the conscious decision to try to be single because I’d never actually been on my own.

“I needed to be single.

“I absolutely hated it at the start, and then I loved it.

“I felt so in control of everything, and I was doing it on my own and I really enjoyed it.

“If you’re a single girl in London, check out Battersea Park on a Saturday morning, and you can thank me later!”

But Vogue admits she initially struggled to play the ­dating game. Laughing loudly, she says: “I’m kind of a frigid.

“Before I met Spen, I’d meet someone nice and I’d kiss them, and I thought I’d be nice and invite them back to the party that was happening at my house.

My parents were very strict, so we were always trying to find ways around that.

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“And we’d get back to the party, and they’d turn around to me and go, ‘Will we go to your room?’. And I’d be like, ‘Why? The party is here’. I never clicked that they were never coming back just for the party, but for other stuff.”

However, Vogue’s single days did not last long. She and ­Spencer tied the knot in June 2018 and she was firmly welcomed into the family fold by his multi-millionaire parents.

Since then, Vogue has landed DJ gigs on Virgin Radio and Heart, and fronted segments on ITV’s Lorraine and Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.

Meanwhile, Spencer is now sober, runs his own successful booze-free drinks brand, CleanCo, and last year ran 30 desert marathons in 30 days — all on sand.

It set a new Guinness World Record and raised more than £500,000 for Global’s Make Some Noise, which supports small charities across the UK.

Between them, the power couple have more than two million followers on social media and their careers are going from strength to strength.

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Vogue also reveals that her in-laws — landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews and his wife Jane — are role models who “have been together for ever” and are still “really happy”.

She appears to have everything in life that could make her happy, too — but she says she has often struggled with the notoriously cut-throat ­showbiz world because she has never been “cool”.

Vogue explains: “I think, in this industry in particular, there is ­nothing wrong if you are not in the cool gang.

“Let’s say Kate Moss — she was in the cool gang back in the day, and I just feel I wouldn’t have been, and I’m OK with that.

“Some people think that they are really cool and wouldn’t give you the time of day.

“Sometimes they’d say hi to you at an event, and sometimes they wouldn’t, and I’ve got to a point in my life where I really don’t care if I’m not cool.

“I’m just grand where I am and I have got really good friends who are still in my life since I was 12, that I made when I was in secondary school, and they are actually what’s most important in life.

“My family are really amazing, and who I spend most of my time with.

‘Spencer was raging’

“Then I come across people I love, and loads of people in the industry that I meet — they’re sound.

“I was on Paloma Faith’s podcast the other day and was really nervous because it’s Paloma, but she was just fing hilarious and brilliant.

“She’s pretty cool, so maybe I’ve got a foot in the door there!” Vogue has never fully left her Irish roots. For her book, she enjoyed reflecting on her life growing up.

She says: “I loved going back to my childhood and going back through all the things my sister Amber and I used to do.

“My parents were very strict, so we were always trying to find ways around that.

“There was a swamp around the corner that we always wanted to swim in, but we weren’t allowed.

“We’d go to our friends’ house up the road and their parents didn’t give a crap what they did.

“So, we would go to their house and put their clothes on and swim in the swamp.

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“Then we would go back and put our own clothes on and act like nothing had happened. I was feral.”

Soon, her own kids will be able to follow in her footsteps because she and Spencer are hoping to spend more time near her home town of Howth, Dublin, in a house the couple bought last year.

Vogue calls it their “forever home”, and they have put their apartment overlooking the River Thames up for sale, too.

They first listed it a year ago and have recently slashed the price by £1.3million to £3.9million.

Vogue says: “I like to take the kids home as much as I can — I want them to have friends in Ireland, so that they always want to go back, and they enjoy spending time there.

“I want them to know Irish phrases if they can.

“They got the free Irish passports, so they’ve got to work for it a little bit. “They wouldn’t give Spenny one and he was raging.”

Chances are that Vogue made the decision to move because — even though she struggles to admit it — she likes being in control.

She says: “I think when it comes to wearing the trousers between Spen and I, it shifts.

“I don’t think anyone wants to wear the trousers full-time, do they? “I don’t. My therapist did tell me I was controlling though, so I fing fired him!”

But she admits: “He was right — I do like controlling things.”

It’s clearly a quality that her in-laws admire.

THIS is the disgusting moment two brazen tourists were caught in a sexual act in front of a church at a popular Brit tourist hotspot.

Locals in Sóller, Majorca, were left outraged by the lawless behaviour after the frisky clip went viral.

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The couple were filmed in front of the  Sant Bartomeu Church at the town square of Soller[/caption]

The clip showed a partially-naked man wearing what looked like a blue suit jacket standing in the middle of the road.

A topless woman can be seen on her knees close to the man.

Both of them are said to be tourists, according to local news outlet Utima Hora.

The man with a phone in his hand appeared to record a video as they engaged in the raunchy act.

A huge church can be seen right behind where the couple were filmed during nighttime.

There is no information on whether they faced any police investigation after the clip went viral.

A fuming local said: “For years, people have talked about bringing in high-quality tourism to avoid all this incivility, but in the end, we’re faced with reality, and this is what we have.”

It comes after a gob-smacking video shows two cops romping up against a police car in broad daylight.

A local caught the lawless behaviour on camera in Cyprus, and the frisky footage has left the holiday island stunned.

Their video shows a cop car parked up in full view after ploughing through the crops – clearly in a hurry.

The front passenger door is open and one party is bending over the seat.

The other appears to be going at it hammer-and-tongs behind.

Vehicles stream past on another road just a stone’s throw away, also with a clear view of the car.

The local force confirmed it was probing a video of “a man and woman”.

Two officers have been identified in relation to the clip and temporarily dismissed from their posts until the inquiry is wrapped up.

The investigation was said to be focused on ascertaining whether the vehicle belonged to the force.

One member of the local police said: “We are not ruling anything out.

“There is a possibility that this is a fake video, footage that has been deliberately manipulated and we are investigating that too.”

Commenters said it had “humiliated” a police force already under stress from the escalating conflict in the nearby Middle East.

One source told The Sun: “If this video is for real it is deeply offensive but we will not let it get in the way of our good name and good work.”

TV star Ferne McCann’s acid attacker ex is seen getting a suspected steroid injection in his cell.

Video of Arthur Collins, 32, taken on a smuggled phone, came as he was linked to drug drops by drone at jails in Herts and Greater Manchester.

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In the clip, Collins is asked, “Hey, bruv, what are you doing?”, by a fellow prisoner — before replying: “Injecting.”

The exchange was caught on our exclusive video, showing laughing Collins apparently receiving a jab in his buttock from another lag.

He could face disciplinary action after the body-building drug was seemingly sneaked into the jail, along with a handset used to record footage in his cell.

Collins was recently switched from The Mount Prison — where the footage was taken — amid fears he was plotting to import drugs using drones.

And it comes after a jail anti-corruption team found illicit items at his new home — HMP Buckley Hall, near Rochdale.

A source said: “Collins has been in trouble constantly and doesn’t seem to care. He goes around like he is the big ‘I am’ and as if he rules the roost.”

His actions will sicken the 22 victims of his 2017 attack when he hurled acid across in an East London nightclub — leaving 16 people with serious burns.

Collins, who described himself as a businessman and scaffolder is serving a 20-year term imposed at Wood Green crown court after he admitted GBH with intent and nine counts of ABH.

He had eight months added to his sentence in 2018 for smuggling in a phone which he used to call Dancing on Ice star Ferne, 34.

She had been pregnant with their daughter, now aged seven, when he was jailed.

The injection video shows Collins leaning over while another con jabs him.

He is also holding hands with another inmate to help stop him recoiling in pain.

One of the prisoners asks him: “Hey, bruv, what are you doing?”

Collins replies: “Injecting.”

Collins has been in trouble constantly and doesn’t seem to care

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A second short video features Collins — topless and in Nike tracksuit bottoms — flexing his muscles to show off the fruits of his fitness regime.

One of his jail pals says to Collins: “Show me. Do you think you’re big?” Collins tenses his muscles and replies: “Am I?”

Both videos were shot at Category C prison The Mount, in Bovingdon, Herts.

Our source said: “Collins has been in trouble constantly and doesn’t seem to care.

“He has been linked to drone deliveries and drugs at both the jails he has been at.

“These videos show him having the injections, which he was doing quite regularly, as well as being filmed on a phone. He should face disciplinary action over the videos, as they were shot in his cell on a smuggled handset.

“But he has now been moved — and already got into trouble at his new jail.

He seems cocky and like he is having a laugh with his mates inside, rather than being punished

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“They thought he was behind drone deliveries at The Mount, and he has been suspected of helping to bringing in and possession of steroids, spice and weed.

“He is constantly in bother and keeps having to move jails because of it. He is mixing with the wrong people and getting involved in all sorts inside.

“As these videos show, he spends a lot of time at the gym and is proud of his progress, although he was using steroids to help him.

“That is what he is doing in the video, and loads of steroids get smuggled into jails. He is a lot slimmer than he was and is proud of being quite shredded, and he is physically strong

“But it would be pretty sickening for any of his victims to see this.

“He seems cocky and like he is having a laugh with his mates inside, rather than being punished.”

Prison bosses at 1,001-capacity The Mount investigated Collins over smuggled drugs but did not call in police.

He was moved to Buckley Hall earlier this year.

Sources said the switch was also partly to protect Collins, as the northern jail holds fewer people likely to be linked to his victims.

They added he was hopeful of having his status lowered to Category D, which could clear him for a move to an open jail.

Collins started dating former Towie star Ferne in 2016 but she dumped him after the acid attack.

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She had visited him in jail and revealed she told him: “This is the last time you will see either of us. You have ruined our lives.”

Ferne was eliminated second from the most recent series of Dancing on Ice.

She starred in ITV show My Family & Me with fiancé Lorri Haines, with whom she shares a two-year-old daughter.

We are seeing in prisons the failures of the government’s pledges to crack down coming home to roost

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Her other TV credits include coming third in 2015’s I’m A Celebrity.

Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke said yesterday: “The fact that mobile phones and drugs are readily available in jails shows a breakdown at the top of the prison system, which people need to get a grip on.

“We are seeing in prisons the failures of the government’s pledges to crack down coming home to roost.”

And Reform MP Lee Anderson said: “It seems that many prisoners are committing crimes in jails with absolute impunity.

“These problems could easily be stopped. If a prisoner is caught with something like a smuggled phone or drugs they could be put in solitary for six months and have no visitors.

“If any drones are spotted on the grounds, lock down the prison for a week or two. But successive governments have turned a blind eye.”

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “The availability of drugs and other illicit items in prisons is yet more evidence of the crisis this Government inherited. We have an additional invested £10million on anti-drone measures to help us seize more contraband and have a specialist team to bear down on drugs and serious and organised crime.

“We have also created restricted fly zones around prisons, and are collaborating with police to tackle the growing illegal use of drones around prisons.”

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IN a time when celebrities are more sanitised than ever, it’s refreshing to speak to a star who isn’t afraid to say what she thinks – even if it offends.

It’s that unfiltered, straight-talking, no-nonsense attitude that helped Olivia Attwood, 34, win over the nation on Love Island in 2017, and propel her to the top of TV commissioners’ most-wanted list.

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“I don’t take myself too seriously,” she admits.

“Sometimes, the problem online is that the nuance is lost. I’m writing something, cackling away because it’s like, ‘wink wink’, but then it reads differently. Then it’s all: ‘She attacked someone’. And it was just a little joke.

“Guests leave my podcast saying: ‘I’m worried about X and Y’, and it’s nothing controversial. There’s a culture of trying to please everyone by saying nothing. But the only person you’re selling short is yourself.

“It’d be very easy for me to change the way I approach things, and zip it. But should I change everything and be boring because a handful of trolls have got in a twist? I don’t think so,” she laughs.

“I’m happy to be Marmite. It works. I’ve given them something to talk about. It’s much easier for me to be myself, plus it’s so much more fun.”

‘The Kardashians’ bodies are not created in the gym’

True to form, Olivia has never shied away from discussing the work she’s had done, either – two boob jobs, chin liposuction, plus regular tweakments of Botox and fillers.

Does she think other celebrities should be equally open?

“This is such a difficult conversation, because I don’t want to tell people that they owe us their medical records. However, I think when people monetise things, like they’re on Ozempic but selling a weight-loss plan, or they’ve done something to their skin and are pushing a face cream, it’s disingenuous.

“I like openness. I always say that if you look at me and something looks too good, then it’s probably not natural.”

As for the Kardashians, who recently hit the headlines for Kris’ reported facelift, and Kylie Jenner revealing details of her breast augmentation on social media, Olivia has mixed feelings.

“I’m all for honesty, but it feels like it’s a bit fashionable now to be an open book. I wish we’d had that energy from them years ago,” she says.

“Kylie came out and said about her boobs, and I was like: ‘I’ve been talking about my breasts for the past 10 years.’ I like the Kardashians, this is not me bashing them, but it’s too little, too late for me.

“We know Kylie’s breasts are fake. We knew she had lip fillers when she was selling those lip kits. What about talking about lipo and BBLs [Brazilian bum lifts]? Their bodies are not created in the gym.”

Olivia is back discussing surgery on the second series of her ITV documentary, The Price Of Perfection.

During the show, she follows different people’s nip/tuck journeys, from TOWIE star Charlie King’s nose job, to The Traitors’ Amanda Lovett’s facelift.

“It is full-on and we’ve got to make a decision about how much gruesome stuff we leave in,” she says.

“I knew going into the shows that I was fine with blood, and I’ve watched a lot of surgeries online. I find it more interesting than disgusting. But it’s the smell as they cauterise the flesh, which is basically burning it to stop it bleeding.”

In fact, despite having a self-confessed “pancake bum”, watching a BBL in Turkey put Olivia off wanting the surgery.

“I would definitely have a facelift in the future, as they can look amazing,” she says.

“I’ll have my breasts done again, because they’re only guaranteed for 10 years and, if I have kids, I’ll have to redo them. BBL is the only one I wouldn’t do, because the risk is too much. It’s one of the surgeries that has the highest revision rate.

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“Watching surgeries makes you appreciate what you’re putting your body through. I’ve minimised breast augmentation [in the past], but when you actually see it happening, it sobers you up to the reality of surgery. I think that it’s probably given me a bit of a reality check. I love cosmetic intervention and I think it can be life-changing. But surgery is surgery. It’s not like getting your nails done or whatever. It’s still a big risk and I don’t think we should trivialise that.”

When leaving Love Island, contestants are often offered free boob jobs or surgery, but Olivia says she has been scrupulous about never accepting free treatments.

“I know I’m lucky to have the ability to fund my own procedures. But I learned really quickly coming out of Love Island that even if it’s a hair colour or make-up, when you take something for free, you put yourself into a strange power dynamic. You are recommending that person [or product] and you can’t really retract that.

“I know first-hand people who have had a free boob job and it’s gone tits-up, quite literally, and they can’t publicly tell that story.”

‘Being a woman is hard enough, I don’t need a man sticking his nose in’

Money is a topic Olivia is keen to discuss, joking that she pays a “hot-girl tax” when she has work done.

“That’s tongue-in-cheek,” she says. “I’m not implying if you don’t have work done, then you’re not hot.

“But we do have a female tax in general. Colouring your hair, waxing, nails, make-up. . . That s**t is expensive, and I don’t think men realise that. Being a woman costs a lot.”

Olivia married professional footballer Bradley Dack, 31, two years ago in a lavish London ceremony.

Does the Gillingham midfielder ever complain about her spending too much on her appearance?

“No, he knows! We don’t have those conversations. Actually, I moan when I see him buying another set of golf clubs. I’m like: ‘What a waste of money!’ So, I’m a complete hypocrite,” she laughs.

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“But he does pull me back to reality. If I say: ‘F***, I look old today,’ he’ll be quick to say: ‘Please!’

“Also, it’s boring. For me, it would be very easy to become so obsessed with the way I look. But Brad will say: ‘There are so many more things interesting about you, Liv, than whether you’ve got a wrinkle.’ I love that he does that, because it reminds me not to get sucked in.”

Would he ever tell her to stop getting work done?

Olivia shakes her head.

“No, how I want to look is an individual journey. I don’t do things for him. If I don’t feel sexy, everything will have a knock-on effect. Although, if he said it from a wellness point of view, of course I’d listen. But I wouldn’t have married someone [who wanted to get] that involved. Being a woman is hard enough, I don’t need a man sticking his nose in. He can worry about football and I can make the call on what I need to look good.”

As well as deciding how she looks for herself, financial independence is another priority for Olivia.

“I went to an affluent private school, and I remember a close friend whose dad left their mum for his secretary. Suddenly, the big house and the cars were gone, and there’s a 50-year-old woman who doesn’t know how to pay a bill and can’t access their bank account. Watching the rug be pulled out from under people in real time was horrendous.

“Women should absolutely be able to stay at home if they want to. I applaud women who are fulfilled by that. But financial freedom is something that we should always prioritise, because you can’t say you’re in an equal relationship if you don’t have the power to leave when you want to.”

‘Get the man, get the handbag, but don’t quit your job’

She recounts the story of one woman who told her that she’d found messages on her footballer boyfriend’s phone that proved he was cheating.

“I said: ‘You have to go,’ and she said: ‘Where? It’s not my house, it’s not my car. Everything is in his name.’ You do not want to be in that spot.

“And I know it’s easier said than done. I speak from such a privileged position and I love my job, but I want young women to be educated. Yes, get the man, get the handbag, but don’t quit your job. Brad and I have separate bank accounts and a joint one for bills. Everything is very transparent. He knows what I earn, I know what he earns. We know where the money goes. You need to make sure you are aligned with money and want to spend it on the same things.

“Women don’t like talking about finances. I don’t think we should be afraid. Don’t let men mansplain us out of finances. I educated myself a lot in the last two years about money, tax structure and investment.”

Olivia and Bradley have also been discussing when to start a family.
“I don’t get annoyed with people asking me,” she says.

“I feel like I’ve entered into this relationship with the public where everything is for sale! I had my wedding on telly. I’m very open on social media, so I think it’s natural that people will be curious.

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“In general, should we be constantly asking women about children? No, but I put myself in a different box. It’s like these celebrities that sell their whole relationship, then they break up and ask for privacy. No, absolutely not. We are invested,” she laughs.

“I’m very comfortable with the narrative I’ve created, and I’m proud to be a voice for women in the same position. I know I want a family, I’m in my early 30s and fertility doesn’t last forever. But my life is really full right now and I’m enjoying smashing work. Having a baby would change things, and that’s something a lot of ambitious women are afraid to talk about. Whether we like it or not, having a baby will affect me in a different way to Brad.

“And I don’t half-arse anything in my life – I’m not going to half-arse being a parent, so I’ll do it when I’m ready. If it happened, I’d embrace it, but it would be hard to pause right now, as things are going so well.”

She’s absolutely right.

Then there’s the subject of Love Island.

With rumours that presenter Maya Jama is preparing to step down, surely Olivia is a natural successor?

“I don’t know if that’s true,” she says.

“Poor Maya is probably thinking: ‘Why is she out there auditioning for my role?!’ I have no information about Maya stepping down. For all I know, she’ll stay for the next 10 years. I think she’s f**king great, but if and when she didn’t want to do it, I’d throw my hat in the ring.

“Love Island is the best thing I ever did. That show changed my life. I was lost and it redirected me. No one should have any expectation a reality show can do that. But for me, it worked out well.”

• Follow Olivia on Instagram @olivia_attwood and stream The Price Of Perfection on ITVX.

IN THE MAKE-UP CHAIR with Olivia

What are your skincare heroes?
My favourite face cream is SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2.

Any beauty hacks?
Put roll-on deodorant on your top lip – it stops make-up sweating off.

What do you splurge on?
Botox.

Any make-up bag essentials?
Nars Face Primer, Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Foundation and a YSL mascara.

Best budget buy?
Maybelline Grippy Serum Primer.

Who is your celebrity beauty icon?
Jennifer Aniston looks fantastic.

Describe your beauty evolution.
I’m still wearing the same amount of make-up, just in the right places now! I choose more natural hues and my lashes aren’t as big.

PETER Kay fans have been issued an apology after ticket sales for a special upcoming gig descended into chaos.

Comedy lovers had logged on to snap up tickets for the one-off show with DJ Sara Cox only to find the website kept crashing.

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The pair are due to take to the stage in Salford this September for Peter Kay In Conversation With Sara Cox.

But when tickets went on sale at 10am on Saturday for the two-performance charity gig at The Lowry Theatre, fans were left struggling to buy them.

Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, one frustrated punter wrote: “Had 3 tickets in basket and then couldn’t finish purchase and when tried to get back in everything almost gone. Guess I won’t be spending my bday celebration at the Lowry.”

Another added: “Peter Kay crashing the internet again!”

A third complained that it took him almost two hours to try and buy tickets.

One lucky customer added: “Pretty chuffed to have gotten front row accessible tickets for this today before the ticket website fell over for a good while!”

Peter has now re-shared an apology from The Lowry on his Instagram account.

The message read: “We are aware of the issues this morning regarding booking tickets.

“Please bear with us while we try to rectify the problem.

“We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

A further update from the theatre thanked fans for their patience and confirmed the two performances had eventually sold out.

Peter and BBC Radio 2 DJ Sara will be taking to the stage on September 14 at both 2.30pm and 7.30pm.

A blurb on The Lowry’s website reads: “In these unique and heartwarming shows, the two proud Boltonians will sit down to reflect on Peter Kay’s remarkable life and career, including the release of his much-anticipated new memoir, ‘Peter Kay’s Diary’, due later this year.

“As part of the conversation, they’ll also share and discuss the songs that have shaped Peter’s journey – from growing up in Bolton to becoming one of the UK’s most beloved entertainers.”

All profits from Peter and Sara’s show will go to Bolton Hospice and Crescent Food Bank Bolton.

The performances will also be recorded, to air on television at a later date.

Peter has been touring with his Peter Kay Live: Better Late Than Never tour since returning to the stage in 2022.

On Saturday night, he took to the Manchester AO Arena and will now be taking a break until July 25.

His tour will then run again until early November.

During his shows, Peter has endured several encounters with rowdy audience members.

In March, he halted his set and threatened to set security on hecklers at London’s O2 Arena.

Weeks earlier, Peter had a fan kicked out after he repeatedly disrupted the show by shouting out the comedian’s catchphrase “garlic bread”.

He also sparked controversy after comparing one heckler to actress Lisa Riley.

Peter later treated Lisa, who plays Debbie Dingle in Emmerdale, to VIP tickets to one of his shows in the wake of the remark.

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THE NATIONAL Lottery results are in and it’s time to find out who has won a life-changing amount of money tonight (June 21, 2025).

Could tonight’s £3.8 million jackpot see you handing in your notice, jetting off to the Bahamas or driving a new Porsche off a garage forecourt?

You can find out by checking your ticket against tonight’s numbers below. Good luck!

Tonight’s National Lottery Lotto winning numbers are: 06, 10, 12, 13, 31, 58 and the Bonus Ball is 15.

Tonight’s National Lottery Thunderball winning numbers are: 07, 17, 28, 30, 37 and the Thunderball is 03.

The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.

The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.

Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.

Sue Davies, 64, bought a lottery ticket to celebrate ending five months of shielding during the pandemic — and won £500,000.

Sandra Devine, 36, accidentally won £300k – she intended to buy her usual £100 National Lottery Scratchcard, but came home with a much bigger prize.

The biggest jackpot ever to be up for grabs was £66million in January last year, which was won by two lucky ticket holders.

Another winner, Karl managed to bag £11million aged just 23 in 1996.

The odds of winning the lottery are estimated to be about one in 14million – BUT you’ve got to be in it to win it.

Tipperary are heading back to Croke Park for the first time since the 2019 All-Ireland final after a comfortable eight-point victory over Galway.

The Premier will face Kilkenny in that semi-final on Sunday, July 6. The result in front of 15,404 fans at the Gaelic Grounds also means that giant-killers Dublin will meet Cork the previous evening.

The old and young guards came up trumps for Liam Cahill’s side. On the inside line, Jason Forde and John McGrath shared 10 points, led by Forde’s 0-7.

That tally was matched by the roving duo of Jake Morris and Andrew Ormond, who scored 0-5 each.

Teenage talent Oisín O’Donoghue made sure they would avenge their 2023 quarter-final exit against the same opponents with the clinching goal.

Colm Molloy and Declan McLoughlin, in the final play, hit the net for Galway. They were overly reliant on Cathal Mannion’s 13 points.

The Tribesmen tallied 16 wides plus a handful of missed goal chances. Tipp missed the posts with 14 shots.

Tipp won the toss and chose to play with the breeze at their backs.
Whereas Galway were reliant on Mannion for nine of their 11 first-half points, all six Tipp forwards were on the scoresheet within 25 minutes.

Forde tallied five points, comprising four from play and a sideline cut. McGrath tacked on three more and assisted two of Forde’s scores.
Vice-captain Morris also shone with 0-3 and was fouled for three scoreable frees.

Galway began with an early response to their Leinster final defeat. Mannion split the posts for three of the first five points, including one from play.

Tipp responded each time with instant equalisers.

The Premier went on to thread together five points on the spin. Forde scored two of those and laid on McGrath’s first.

Craig Morgan had three assists within 12 minutes, teeing up Morris (twice) and Ormond.

Centre-forward Ormond also had a sight of goal. Back from suspension, Darach Fahy advanced to save with his leg.

Trailing 0-7 to 0-3, Galway kept in touch with points from play via Conor Whelan, Mannion, and Conor Cooney.

The Tribesmen looked like slicing through a couple of times, but the ball didn’t go to hand. Brian Concannon fired high and wide with a snapshot.

Tipp’s scramble defence also came up trumps with Bryan O’Mara and Robert Doyle blocking point attempts. Ronan Maher held up Whelan’s run on goal at the cost of a free.

Their biggest advantage was seven, 0-15 to 0-8, on the half-hour.
Mannion finished the second half as he started it, with three of the final four points.

They could’ve had a goal in the closing stages, too. Kevin Cooney was forced to shoot early, and Rhys Shelly dived to turn the sliotar around the post.

They trailed 0-16 to 0-11 at half-time, but got their goal within five minutes of the restart.

Conor Cooney swooped onto a loose pass and fed Molloy out wide. Doyle slipped and the Kilnadeema-Leitrim attacker took full advantage, racing in for a low finish to the far corner.

The gap was two, but Galway didn’t score again for the next 12 minutes. They tallied seven wides in the third quarter.

In the meantime, Tipp scrubbed the goal with six consecutive points. Ormond accounted for two and won a free for McCarthy. Forde slotted his second sideline

They almost capped it with a goal, but Fahy denied Morris and Darragh Stakelum’s rebound.

Tom Monaghan broke the spell, only for Tipp to find the net in the 59th minute.

Noel McGrath fed the sliotar to O’Donoghue, who wrongfooted the keeper for his second championship goal.

When Galway tried the same short free routine that led to a Concannon goal in the Leinster final, the forward was too close to the free-taker.

Mannion went for goal from another free, which Shelly saved, and Eoghan Connolly got in the way of a Concannon strike.

Tipperary 1-28
Galway 2-17

Declan McLoughlin had three late efforts. Doyle blocked one, the next flew wide, but the final one evaded Shelly’s grasp to find the net.
TIPPERARY: R Shelly; M Breen, R Doyle, B O’Mara; C Morgan, E Connolly, R Maher; W Connors 0-1, P McGarry; J Morris 0-5, A Ormond 0-5, S O’Farrell 0-1; D McCarthy 0-3, 3f, J McGrath 0-3, J Forde 0-7, 2s/l, 1f.

Subs: D Stakelum 0-2 for McGarry h-t, N McGrath 0-1 for J McGrath 48 mins, O O’Donoghue 1-0 for McCarthy 52, C Stakelum for O’Farrell 59, S Kennedy for Connors 66.

GALWAY: D Fahy; P Mannion, Daithí Burke, D Morrissey; S Linnane, G Lee, C Fahy; David Burke, R Glennon; C Whelan 0-1, C Cooney 0-1, B Concannon; C Mannion 0-13, 8f, 3 65, C Molloy 1-0, K Cooney.
Subs: TJ Brennan for Linnane h-t, T Monaghan 0-2 for David Burke 50 mins, D McLoughlin 1-0 for C Cooney 51, T Killeen for K Cooney 58, R Burke for Glennon 66.

Referee: S Stack (Dublin).