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Barbara Windsor made Ross Kemp return to EastEnders


Ross Kemp was forced to return to 'EastEnders' by Barbara Windsor.
The 51-year-old actor - who is married Renee O'Brien - last appeared in the soap as hard-man Grant Mitchell 10 years ago but was convinced to return to his old stomping ground by the veteran actress, who plays his on-screen mother Peggy Mitchell.
Ross quipped: "We met for dinner with my wife and her husband Scott, and she didn't put a gun to my head but she may as well have done.
"Have you tried saying no to Dame Barbara Windsor? It is not easy. She asked me face to face in the restaurant. I had no idea it was coming. She's clever and so is Scott. They knew what they were doing.
"Now I have to start thinking about pulling on Grant's old leather jacket.
"I've still got it but I don't know whether I fit in it any more. I haven't tried it on yet."
The star has spent his hiatus from Walford fronting documentaries, most recently 'Ross Kemp: Extreme World' on Sky1.
And he admits it will be "emotional" to film scenes with his brother Phil played by Steve McFadden and say goodbye to Peggy, who is dying of cancer.
Ross - who is set to return for a month in the build-up to Peggy's death - told The Sun newspaper: "It is going to be emotional. Barbara's character is being written out, so it is going to be surreal. I am looking forward to working with Steve McFadden again... I loved being in EastEnders, I had ten years on it.
"When I was younger people calling me Grant instead of Ross would really upset me. But not now"

David Walliams wears dress again for Sports Relief


David Walliams is "back in a dress" to raise cash for Sports Relief.
The 44-year-old star is set to reprise his 'Little Britain' role and teach former Liverpool FC player Peter Crouch - who is 6ft 6inch tall - how to be a "lady" in a hilarious sketch that sees fellow comedian Micky Flanagan join them and play sports agent Mickey Perm.
David revealed: "I'm back in a dress as Miss Emily Howard and it's going to be Peter's attempt to get back playing international football again by trying out for the England's women football squad. We went to the FA training camp in Derby and Peter was really game - he puts on a dress. It's hard, though, because I don't know anything about football."
The duo will slap on makeup and frilly frocks in scenes that will air on Friday (18.03.16) from 7pm on BBC One, in aid of the charity which funds projects in some of the world's poorest countries.
And despite the 'Britain's Got Talent' judge supporting the cause for 10 years he confessed he isn't at all "sporty".
He told The Sun's TV Mag: "I'm just not that particularly sporty. I've got friends such as Jonathan Ross and Jimmy Carr who play tennis, but they're quite competitive and I'm useless. I could play if it was a friendly match and people batted the ball straight to me... see! It's not even a 'bat' is it?"

Vicky Pattison is undergoing therapy for partying


Vicky Pattison is having therapy to stop her partying.
The former 'Geordie Shore' star is working hard with life coaches Nik and Eva Speakman to control her explosive drunken outbursts and calm her wild ways.
She said: "I'm having therapy to curb my booze-filled partying. Nik and Eva have been in my life for a year.
"They joke how I sat there with my arms crossed when I first went in and within an hour I was sobbing, unearthing issues I didn't know I had. For years I told myself I was a horrible person and an awful drunk. I'd ignored the fact that I'm a control freak and situations that I can't control, like 'Geordie Shore' where you're told where to go what to say and who to be with, trigger something in me.
"Add alcohol to the mix and it was obvious why I behaved the way I did at certain times."
The 28-year-old star wants to be more responsible as she focuses on her new career as a presenter.
She added to Closer magazine: "I'm not 21 any more, I'm closer to 30. I've never missed work because I've had a night out. I'm a perfectionist. I don't like being tired. I want to put my days of being irresponsible behind me. I want to be a TV presenter."
But that doesn't mean Vicky, 28, will be giving up alcohol altogether.
She said: "It's not about me giving up the drink altogether, it's about making sensible decisions and that's something we'll work on."

Gregg Wallace on fiancée’s old man fetish


Gregg Wallace thinks his fiancée has an "old man fetish."
The 51-year-old presenter is preparing to tie the knot with his beautiful girlfriend Anne-Marie Sterpini, 29, who is 22 years his junior, later this year but he has admitted their large age-gap is something that constantly plays on his mind.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he said: "I worry for Anna. By the time she is my age, I'll be in my 70s. I worry for her. I wonder if she's got an old man fetish. If we broke up would she start hanging around bowling greens."
The couple are set to become husband and wife in the foreseeable future but are remaining tight-lipped on the location of their big day for the time being.
However, the kitchen mastermind doesn't think they'll get hitched abroad as he and his mother aren't fans of flying.
He added: "I don't think my mother is a happy flyer, so wherever it would be we would have to get her there by ship. I think if you are frightened of flying, which I am, leaving from somewhere called 'Terminal' scares me."
And, although their age gap is something that bothers Gregg, the presenter - who already has children Tom, 21, and Libby, 19, from a previous relationship - has admitted he's open to having children with Anna one day.
He said: "She is a young woman so I imagine she wants children. I often think of the number 15 because that's how many people it takes to fill a rugby team."

Charlotte Crosby found guilty of drink-driving


Charlotte Crosby has been found guilty of drink-driving.
The 'Geordie Shore' star has scarpered her chances of carving out a career in the USA after she was caught whizzing home in her Range Rover in January following a drinking session on the train from London to Newcastle.
The blonde beauty's lawyer Nick Freeman said in a statement: "She accepts that she is the author of her misfortune. She's bitterly ashamed, contrite and embarrassed. She would like to apologise to the court and her family. She would like to apologise to her legions of fans and supporters who she has let down in a huge way."
Mr Freeman went on to add that the reality TV star was close to landing a gig across the pond but "that will not now happen as she will not get a visa" to allow her to work in the country.
Charlotte was temporarily thrown behind bars on January 28 after police pulled her over in the early hours of the morning and she blew over double the legal limit in the breathalyser test.
Mr Freeman claimed Charlotte - who had 80 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath compared with the legal limit of 35 - had decided to make the short journey from the railway station to her hotel in Newcastle by car, despite having initially planned to get a taxi.
But this isn't the first time Charlotte has been caught drink-driving as she also committed the same offence in 2012 and was dished an 18-month driving ban at the time.
The 25-year-old beauty will now be forced to surrender her driving licence for three years.

Katie Price pulls out of Loose Women due to food poisoning


Katie Price pulled out of her panellist appearance on 'Loose Women' today (11.03.16) due to a "medical emergency."
The 37-year-old beauty sent the lunchtime show into a frenzy this morning after she dropped out of her gig at the last minute when she was struck down with food poisoning.
Head panellist Andrea McLean broke the news to fans, saying: "You may have noticed there's an empty chair, there's only three of us on the panel today.
"Katie Price was supposed to be on the show today but she's had a bit of a medical emergency this morning.
"She did come in - I have to say that woman is a trooper - she came into the morning meeting but she's not very well."
A pre-recorded clip then jumped to Katie, who was wrapped up under a duvet with sunglasses on, as she said: "I haven't been sick for about an hour now but I still feel sick and obviously both ends - it's not nice."
The camera then jumped back to the panellists as they revealed they'd pulled in Katie's good friend Michelle Heaton - who was scheduled to be a guest on the show today - as the blonde beauty's last-minute replacement.
Andrea explained: "Katie's gone back to bed, so we needed someone to come in and who better than one of her good friends, who was actually due to be a guest on the show today anyway, so standing in for Katie Price and saving the day for 'Loose Women' is Michelle Heaton."
Keen to lighten the mood, Michelle joked she'd actually fed Katie sushi to sabotage her presenting gig.

Charlotte Crosby doesn’t trust Gaz Beadle


Charlotte Crosby doesn't trust Gary 'Gaz' Beadle.
The 'Geordie Shore' star has admitted she's not "ready" to jump straight back into a relationship with her turbulent boyfriend, who she has dated on and off for four years, because she's concerned it'll pan out the way it did before.
She explained: "I'm having big trust issues. I'm not the same girl I was five years ago who would have have dropped everything and run into his arms. I know what I want, I know what I don't want and I don't want to go back to that."
And while the 27-year-old hunk is busy telling his relatives he and Charlotte are very much back on track, the blonde beauty is adamant they're still single and just dating at the moment.
Speaking to Emily Segal on heat radio, she said: "Well we are still single. We've been spending time together and it was great and we had two days together in Sydney but I still am definitely not ready [for a relationship with him yet]."
However, news Charlotte is very much solo at the moment will no doubt come as a shock to Gaz as he admitted just last week that they're very smitten this time around.
He said: "If you have that connection with someone, no matter how much you try and ignore it, something brings you together. We ring each other five times a day."

Stephanie Davis ‘harassed’ Jeremy McConnell’s fling


Stephanie Davis allegedly bombarded Jeremy McConnell's teenage fling with almost 70 messages.
Caroline Pope, 19, has admitted she was left fearing for her life after the former 'Hollyoaks' actress contacted her via Instagram earlier this month in a bid to discover the truth surrounding rumours the Irish hunk had romped with the student behind her back in Newcastle in February.
The youngster explained: "When I first got them I thought I'd be the better person and just tell her the truth, but when she started harassing us I felt intimidated and shocked. I didn't really know what to do. I felt quite threatened. I was very emotional. I didn't really know what to say to her to calm her down or whether to reply or not. I was really shocked."
Stephanie allegedly pushed Caroline - who met Jeremy during an appearance at a nightclub - into phoning her to discuss the cheating allegations but, when she said she couldn't call her due to being at work, the brunette beauty threatened to tell the press everything and ruin her life.
Caroline added: "I thought she was going to post something about me on Twitter and it would have started all the cyber bullying again. I really didn't want that happening, because it was quite bad when it first came out. All of her fans on Twitter were telling me to kill myself and that I was a sl*g."
Despite the backlash she's received since the news broke, Caroline has admitted she thinks Jeremy is a "gentleman."
Speaking about their night of passion, she told The Sun newspaper: "We didn't get any sleep. He dropped me off at my flat on the way to the train station, that was nice."
Meanwhile, it seems Stephanie and Jeremy are trying to put the unfaithfulness behind them and give their relationship another go after the model flew to Majorca, Spain to apologise and beg for her forgiveness.

Brooke Vincent eyes up Hollywood blockbuster


Brooke Vincent wants to land a role in a Hollywood film.
The 'Coronation Street' star, who has starred on the soap since 2004, is desperate to broaden her horizons and try her hand at a "gritty" blockbuster across the pond.
She explained: "I'd give it a go. I'd love to do a gritty role like 'Million Dollar Baby'. That's a great film."
But, for the time being, the brunette beauty has other things on her mind as she's taking a break from the long-running soap, in which she portrays lesbian Sophie Webster, to try her hand at theatre in Manchester's 'My Baby' later this year.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, she said: "I had been there for so long. I wanted a new challenge. 'Corrie' is my home and that's nice but it's also nice to do something else for a while. Being on stage is a different way of acting.
"I'm playing a character who is a bit like me - bolshy and loud. It's set in the 1960s so it will be different costumes too. I'm excited. I'm getting a different string to my bow."
And Brooke, 23, isn't the only member of the 'Corrie' cast to expand her wings as her former co-star Ryan Thomas - who played bricklayer Jason Grimshaw - quit the show earlier this year in order to kick-start his career Stateside.
Matthew Marsden, who played mechanic Chris Collins in the late 90s, also turned his back on the programme for Hollywood, while Michelle Keegan - known for playing easy-on-the-eye barmaid Tina McIntyre - is also desperate to nab a gripping role across the pond in the near future.

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