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CALL the Midwife fans have been left fearing for show star after ‘disappearing’ from the new series.

The beloved period drama returned earlier this month for its 14th season with new storylines – and of course babies.

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Timothy Turner hasn’t been seen in the popular drama since its Christmas special in 2023[/caption]

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The character, played by Max Macmillan, is believed to be studying at medical school[/caption]

But as viewers got caught up on the latest from Nonnatus House, they noticed one character is missing.

Timothy Turner was last seen as he departed Popular for medical school in 2021.

He briefly returned to screens in 2023 for the show’s Christmas special but hasn’t been back since.

Flooding social media with comments, worried fans begged for an update on Timothy, who is played by Max Macmillan.

One asked: “Not to worry anyone but where’s Timothy Turner? #callthemidwife.”

A second posted: “Where is Timothy Turner? I can’t even remember if he disappeared somewhere in the previous series or if something happened to him.”

“What’s happened to Timothy Turner? He wasn’t in the Xmas special and not in the new series so far,” said a third.

While a fourth wrote: “And that’s it for this week-See you same time next week for Episode 4 and a new arrival (although if Nancy, Timothy and Cyril can hurry back before this series ends that would be great) #CallTheMidwife.”

Timothy has been a part of Call the Midwife since series two, and viewers have seen him grow from a boy into a young man.

Meanwhile, show boss Heidi Thomas recently revealed the future of the hit after 14 years on screens.

Despite pulling in millions of viewers for the Beeb, Heidi revealed fans constantly assume the show will eventually have to end.

However, she reckons Call the Midwife can continue to run and run.

ALISON Hammond has admitted her brand new travel show is inspired by her late mum.

The This Morning star, 49, has headed to sunny Florida for her new series on BBC Two and has been joined by her son, Aidan.

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Alison Hammond’s new show Florida Unpacked will pay tribute to her late mum[/caption]

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Alison’s mum passed away in 2020[/caption]

In the show, the duo will show viewers how they can take on Florida on a budget – something she used to do as a child with her own mum.

Alison opened up to The Sun’s TV Mag about her travels with her mother Maria, who passed away in 2020, and the reason as to why travel has always been in their DNA.

In an exclusive interview, she said: “For years, I worked as a tour rep, following in the footsteps of my dear, lovely mum – a hard-working, no-nonsense travel agent. Travel’s in my blood.

“Thanks to Mum’s money-saving tips, we managed to budget our way to a place that totally captured our heart – Florida.

“What you experience as a child, you naturally want to pass on to your own children, and Florida was such a big part of my life, so of course I want to share that with Aidan. 

“We’ve always been together and travelled together. Usually when we go to Orlando, it’s theme parks or bust, but this time we’re doing things a little differently…”

Across the 10-part series, viewers will see Alison and Aidan hitting the road and exploring the sunshine state on a shoestring budget, visiting beautiful parks and making priceless memories by taking part in activities such as canoeing and paragliding.  

“This trip was eye-opening,” smiles Alison. “We visited some stunning, historical places that I never knew existed. And the natural beauty is unbelievable.

“As we were canoeing through the natural springs, we saw monkeys and all sorts of wildlife.

“My mum wasn’t there this time, so that was sad, but it was still lovely because we could reminisce about the things we used to do together.

“Both Aidan and I have so many memories with my mum, and this trip was a beautiful time spent with my son.”

Even though many teenage boys might think it’s uncool to holiday with their mum, Alison insists that she’s Aidan’s number one travel buddy.

“He absolutely loves it. He’s always asking: ‘Can I come?’” she smiles.

“The other day, he was saying how much fun we have together – I bring the LOLs, I am the life and soul, and he realises that. He’s been on plenty of trips with his friends, but he always says he has the best time with me!”

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Florida Unpacked will follow Alison and her son around the sunshine state[/caption]

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Alison has always been close to her family[/caption]

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ARSENAL fans have spotted the moment Mikel Arteta shot Michael Oliver a “death stare” after the ref’s red card blunder.

The Gunners boss was left “absolutely fuming” after Myles Lewis-Skelly was dismissed in the 1-0 win over Wolves on Saturday.

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Mikel Arteta was livid with ref Michael Oliver following his team’s 1-0 win at Wolves[/caption]

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Oliver sent off teenager Myles Lewis-Skelly during the first half at Molineux[/caption]

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Arteta was filmed shaking hands with Oliver following the game[/caption]

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But he was spotted throwing him a ‘death stare’ before going to celebrate with the Arsenal fans[/caption]

Oliver gave the teenager a straight red after he felled Wolves defender Matt Doherty on the counter.

The decision has since been called out by Arteta, Match of the Day pundits and even the former head of the PGMOL Keith Hackett.

Footage has now emerged following the contest in the West Midlands, showing Arteta shaking hands with Oliver after the final whistle.

The Arsenal boss moved away to go celebrate with the travelling support from North London.

But just as he went to do so, Arteta stopped in his tracks and looked directly back at the 39-year-old whistler.

The footage quickly went viral on X, where it was viewed over 325,000 times.

One fan wrote in response: “I would REALLY like to know what Michael Oliver said to Arteta here. That pause and look back, he was evaluating his next move.”

Another said: “Always fear the Arteta death stare.”

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While a third commented: “Why did he shake his hand in the first place? Seriously.”

And a fourth added: “No Arsenal player or official should ever shake Oliver’s hand, the man should be left with no doubt about how the club feel about him.”

Arteta attempted to hold his emotions in check following the narrow win on the road.

But he still let his feelings be known in a tense post-match interview with Sky.

Arteta raged: “It is that clear and I will leave it to you guys.

“I am absolutely fuming. But I will leave it with you, it is that obvious that I don’t think my words are going to help.

“[Lewis-Skelly] is really happy now that the team won and found a way to win it.

“He is very worried about what’s coming next because he’s strongly feeling that there was nothing to do with the action.”

Lewis-Skelly will face a three-game ban for receiving a straight red card.

But former ref Hackett – who was a top whistler between 1981 and 1991 – believes it is Oliver who needs time away from the field.

Speaking on TalkSPORT’s Sunday Edition with Shaun Custis and Henry Winter, Hackett said: “I’d be admitting this morning that this is a major error, that you don’t expect the alleged number one referee to make.

“He’s on top of the incident. I think he’s too close and so I think he requires operational advice.

“I’d be saying to Michael Oliver, I think you need a rest and I think you’re not going to see another game in the Premier League for a couple of weeks.”

Hackett was also speechless that Darren England – who was on VAR during the Wolves vs Arsenal game – had been allocated a spot on the official’s list for Sunday’s clash between Crystal Palace and Brentford.

He continued: “Darren England’s allocated a game this afternoon at Crystal Palace. 

“So as VAR, he would not be on that game.

“I’m quite clear that there needs to be seen to be a level of accountability.”

The Premier League has since issued its own statement defending Oliver and VAR for the decision made on Saturday.

It read: “The referee’s call of a red card for Lewis-Skelly was checked and confirmed by VAR, who deemed his challenge to have been serious foul play.”

The statement came after scathing criticism of the decision across the media.

BBC 5Live pundit Pat Nevin said labelling such a challenge serious foul play was setting “a bar so low even a limbo dancing snake couldn’t get under it”.

While former Tottenham star Jamie O’Hara wrote on X: “I’m all for Arsenal having a beast but that is never ever a red card, one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen.”

STANDING naked before a small, dishevelled 67-year-old man, in his dirty dressing gown, Miranda felt scared and vulnerable, knowing what was about to happen. 

But brain-washed, she felt compelled to let Gregorian Bivolaru, who she had been conditioned to believe was ‘God on Earth’, have sex with her to receive a higher spiritual awakening.

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Gregorian Bivolaru used a disgusting sex ‘routine’ to initiate women[/caption]

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Nudity and group sex were encouraged at the retreats[/caption]

“I thought, ‘I don’t want to do this.’” says the 30-something-year-old woman from Oxfordshire, who is not being fully identified. “He looked so much older and frailer than I had imagined.

“I was physically repulsed by this person. I was shocked because we had been told so much about how this was a perfect living example of a tantric master.”

What followed in the dirty bed in his squalid two-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Paris was both sickening and bizarre.

Closing her eyes, Miranda recited the ‘consecration ritual’ she had been taught – “Lord God, I offer up to you, here and now, totally and unconditionally, all the fruits of this action.”

The sexual routine followed rules – 40 minutes of foreplay that only he could perform, then penetrative sex in seven different positions, each supposedly relating to the seven tantric chakra points of energy around the body.

Miranda adds: “I went into autopilot, feeling completely disconnected and repulsed. After three of the positions he said, ‘You have lost your erotic energy. We are going to stop.’”

Miranda’s journey to this degrading point began in the most ordinary way possible when, two years before, as an English teacher living in London, she joined a yoga class.

Her remarkable story is told in the BBC Radio 4 podcast World of Secrets: The Bad Guru.

It follows how Miranda, a respectable, educated woman was lured into a sex cult that would place her at the centre of an international trafficking and sexual exploitation ring, in the bed of the movement’s so-called guru, becoming a topless masseur and being put to work as a sex cam girl.

Miranda was finding her job as a teacher in London stressful when, in an effort to find some spiritual and mental wellbeing she joined the Tara Yoga Centre near Old Street in 2017.

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A seemingly innocent yoga class proved a gateway to the sect[/caption]

The centre promoted the teachings of Romanian-born Bivolaru, and was part of the the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) it had various branches in the UK and 28 other countries.

She says: “It felt a really safe and welcoming space. People in the reception were smiley and friendly.”

As well as basic classes, it offers tantric yoga – a spiritual aspect encompassing love and relationships.

For weeks, Miranda attended a one-hour tantric class, which she says made her feel “good” and “amazing”.

In the spring of 2018, she was invited to attend a weekend retreat in a beautiful country house in Somerset, organised by the Centre.

She explains: “The course was called ‘The Polarity Retreat’. Polarity is one of their tantric theories that there is a very binary concept that men and women have very different needs, qualities  and energies and that by separating them, as much as possible, you increase the magnetism between them.”

At the house, the men and women were split into separate groups – a tactic to ” increase the magnetism between them.”

After some meditative yoga with the women’s group, Miranda was surprised when things took an overtly sexual turn – learning about make-up, clothes and how to look sexy.

“We were encouraged to dance very sexually to a song,” she says.

Later, they were told to surprise the men by doing the sexy dance for them they had learned.

She says: “Some of the teachers wore just their underwear or took their underwear off when they were in there. I wore a short skirt and a top.

“I danced close to my tantric teacher from London and I remember him looking directly at my crotch.

“I was shocked because it was very much in conflict with everything we had been taught about spiritual sexuality where teachers, in particular, were on a higher level and understood women and worshipped them and didn’t sexualise them.”

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Although she felt uncomfortable with the sexual part of the course, Miranda felt the retreat gave her “new levels of confidence because I got used to being outside my comfort zone.”

In the summer of 2018, she was excited to be invited to a yoga festival in a coastal resort in Romania for two weeks.

By now, she was getting used to the movement’s unorthodox ways and accepted supplying a half-naked photograph of herself prior to the event.

This was so that the great and mystical Gregorian Bivolaru – who wouldn’t be attending the event in person but was there in spirit – could “read her aura.”

At the reception, Miranda was asked to leave her passport and mobile phone which would be returned on departure.

She adds: “The women then pulled out a bible, placed my hand on it and gave me a sheet of paper to read out words vowing that I wouldn’t tell anyone about what happened inside the villa and that if I did I would face the spiritual and health consequences of my demonic action.”

What was going to happen in this villa to warrant this demonic vow?

There were around 150 women staying there and thousands of others attending. In the centre of the complex was a huge marquee pumping out dance music and inside, people sat on wooden benches, silently meditating.

“The music involved certain sexual noises and moans and it was set to a compilation of soft porn videos as part of a programme of sexual boundary stretching”, she says.

The evenings were given up to the bizarre Miss Shakti competition. Shakti is a tantric word for femininity.

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Miranda says it was “a kind of hyper-sexualised Miss World.” She watched, wide-eyed as things became increasingly sexual with bikini parades, nudity and even simulated sex.

When she was asked if she would like to meet Bivolaru at some time in the future, she jumped at the chance.

As the festival came to a close, guests staying at the women’s villa took part in an organised love-making ritual.

Miranda says: “The windows were closed, curtains drawn. They put down a lot of black tarpaulin with mattresses on top of that. 

“Three women stood there naked, painted in gold. They were playing evocative meditative music and then the ritual started.” 

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Miranda started noticing the increasingly sexual nature of the centre’s teachings[/caption]

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She met Gregorian Bivolaru and felt compelled to have sex with him[/caption]

Now, seeing her family and friends less frequently, Miranda was still absorbed by the movement back in London.

She even worked alongside her tantric teachers at a topless massage parlour, six minutes away from the Centre.

“I didn’t like using body parts, especially breasts, to massage guests but there was an ecstatic sense of overcoming something that you were nervous about that we were told was good for us on a spiritual level,” she says.

In June 2019, Miranda got word that Bivolaru, was ready to meet her and there would also be something called “an initiation.”

Around the same time she learned he had been sentenced to six years in prison for having sex with an underage girl in Romania.

Agnes Arabela Marques, 33, would later reveal she was one of the underage girls he abused, when she was 15, and she revealed he believed he could achieve a high level of spirituality if he slept with 1,000 virgins.

She said: “Bivolaru claimed that, if I had sex with him as a yoga master, I could achieve superior levels of tantric spirituality.”

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Bivolaru was dishevelled and dirty when Miranda met him[/caption]

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Agnes claims she was abused by the guru at 15[/caption]

But at the time, Miranda was told by other followers that he was facing political persecution in Romania. 

She was unaware that he in hiding and was wanted in Finland on five charges of aggravated trafficking of human beings and four charges of sexual abuse.

Miranda found herself being driven across Europe with three other women, and made to wear dark glasses and a hat over her eyes so she wouldn’t see where she was going.

They were taken to a three-storey ‘holding house’ where they waited with various other women for the guru to contact them, while being made to watch streamed porn.

After two and a half weeks, she and two other women heard that Bivolaru was ready to meet them.

“We were told to shower and shave all of our body hair, not use any deodorant, perfume or creams, and to pack a toothbrush and a couple of changes of underwear”, she says.

Blindfolded, they were taken to an apartment block where the women slept in the second bedroom until Miranda finally was called into Bivolaru squalid bed, surrounded by fairy lights.

After the sexual initiation, she was taken to another holding house in the city to record a naked testimonial video for others to watch.

Miranda also signed a declaration saying she had never been raped by Bivolaru or any other person or been trafficked or psychologically manipulated.

She was then taken to another house in Prague, for what Bivolaru had called The Garden of Miracles, where huge transformations will take place.

It turned out to be women performing as cam girls – live feeding themselves in lingerie, dancing, stripping and touching themselves provocatively for the camera to paying customers.

Miranda worked on the webcam into the early hours in a basement room of the villa. 

She says: “If you were not smiling or active enough, one of the coordinators would come in and tell you off. And there were fines.

“Leaving the fridge open was a ten euro fine, an unwashed plate was 25 euros, leaving a tissue in your pocket when you gave your laundry to them to do was a 150 euro fine and being late to work, even by one minute, was 500 euros.”

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Bivolaru on an Interpol wanted poster[/caption]

Despite this, she still felt she was doing the right thing in order to reach heightened spirituality.

After six months there she visited her parents in Oxfordshire. They had been concerned about her but mum Penny says: “she seemed happier.”

Miranda was beginning to have doubts but it wasn’t until she began talking to a man at the Oxford branch of the Tara Yoga Centre that her eyes were fully opened.

“He said, ‘You know it’s a cult, right? You know that you are brainwashed?’ I was extremely angry at first and I didn’t talk to him for a few days but on some levels I was ready to hear it. And over the next few months I thought about it.”

On New Year’s Eve, Miranda was at her parent’s, in her old bedroom watching a TV programme about cults.

She says: “I knew I had to leave and to tell people. To admit to myself and then to my mum that it was a sex cult was extremely painful and embarrassing.”

In November 2023 Bivolaru was arrested by French police and charged with human trafficking, organised kidnapping, rape and organised abuse of weakness by members of a sect.

In a raid, which also saw 40 of his followers arrested and £500,000 seized, police found 58 women living in appalling conditions in various properties, with no hygiene facilities, and many were malnourished.

The investigation continues. 

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Gregorian Bivolaru had gotten in trouble with the law on multiple occasions[/caption]

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A raid found 58 women living in terrible conditions in various properties[/caption]

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A DANCING On Ice pairing have been forced to pull out of the ITV series completely just hours before the next live show.

Fans were left devastated at the reveal, made on the programme’s page on X, due to an “injury during rehearsals.”

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Josh Jones and Tippy Packard will play no further part in the 2025 series[/caption]

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Josh suffered an injury during rehearsals[/caption]

Now Josh Jones and Tippy Packard will play no further part in the Dancing On Ice 2025 series.

The social media caption announced: “Josh and Tippy’s partnership will be greatly missed! We wish Josh a speedy recovery.”

The full statement then read: “Josh Jones sustained an injury during rehearsals and has had to withdraw from Dancing On Ice.

“Josh and Tippy’s partnership will be greatly missed.

“We will be helping to support Josh and wish him well in his recovery.”

One fan was quick to remark: “Speedy recovery Josh, bring back
@chelseehealey.”

Another wrote: “Bring back Chelsee then.”

A third then quizzed: “Does this mean no skate off/elimination tonight?”

Fans were stunned after Hollyoaks actress Chelsee was given the boot last week.

They even threatened to call broadcasting watchdog Ofcom after the shock elimination – with some going as far as to brand it a “fix.”

IT’S that time of year when all we want to do is snuggle on the sofa and keep warm.

And now, shoppers have found the perfect winter buy to stay toasty while looking luxe.

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Primark’s viral buy comes in multiple colours[/caption]

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Primark shared a video of their new collection of dressing gowns and there’s something for everyone.

But shoppers were particularly impressed with their new waffle robes which came in multiple colours.

The high street retailer showed off the 100% cotton bath robes on social media.

Primark workers wrote: “Our new waffle and spa robes in store now!

“Perfect for your pamper night or after your ‘everything showers, while stock lasts.”

The gorgeous robes look exactly like the ones you get in hotels and we agree they’re perfect for pamper nights.

In the video, they showed a range of colours including sage green, baby pink and camel.

The new buy from the store is just £16, making it much cheaper than booking a night away at a hotel.

Also available was their new towel bathing robe to keep you warm after a bath and it costs just £20.

It looks like the dressing gowns haven’t made their way online yet, so you’ll have to head to stores to grab one for yourself.

Viewers of the video posted to the TikTok account @primarkmetro were quick to share it with friends and notify them of the new cosy buy.

Shoppers have also been racing to pick up Primark’s new viral cardigans.

Last year, bargain hunters rushed to their local store, desperate to add the cosy-looking knitwear to their wardrobes.

And now, not only are the much-loved cardigans available again in Primark stores around the country, but there are new colours too.

Shoppers have praised the knitwear as “so thick” and such “good quality”.

Last year, the cardigan came in light blue, cream and brown; now there are three colours to choose from, two of which are brand new – classic light blue, khaki and beige. 

The stunning cardigans, which can be worn unbuttoned for a cool and casual look, or buttoned up for the ultimate cosy style, are just £20.

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A FLIGHT attendant has revealed a plane hack that parents need to stop following when travelling with babies.

During Skye Taylor’s 16 years of service with Virgin Atlantic, one trend has shocked her the most.

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Putting babies to sleep on the airplane floor is “absolutely crazy”, Skye declared.

The trend appears most popular with social media influencers, Skye revealed after discovering the hack on TikTok.

She said: “You certainly wouldn’t go and put your child in the footwell of a car.”

And added: “Why would you put them on the floor of an aircraft that could potentially drop 10,000ft within minutes and your child is laying on the floor under metal?”

Skye is adamant restrictions should be in place on uploading such content and believes there is a general lack of safety awareness around planes on social media.

She said: “It is crazy there are no restrictions on uploading stuff like that or making it look a certain way on social media because then it gives people ideas.”

According to her social media, Skye has spoken out many times about her passenger peeves.

It comes after a mum revealed the best airline for flying with young kids.

Her number one is Emirates, which she says makes all flyers feel like a VIP – not just those in first class.

“The service is impeccable, even in economy class,” she wrote in a Travel and Leisure article.

“On the flight, Emirates seems to be invested in building lifelong customers offering children Emirates branded plush toys, a blanket, and a kit with a spoon, wipes and baby toiletries.”

She explained that infant-in-arms tickets still allow kiddies their own separate baggage – making it much easier for parents to pack all the essentials.

The crew also dishes out a baby menu with choices of fruit or vegetable blended food for little ones.

“And, if you didn’t already feel like a VIP, a flight attendant will come by offering you the option of taking a Polaroid of you and your child in flight,” she added.

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