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Forget Rupert Campbell-Black – this is the hottest thing about Rivals
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I was expecting to like Rivals, Disney+’s new steamy eight-episode adaptation of the classic Jilly Cooper novel. With Eighties hairstyles and soundtrack, an all-star cast and more bonking than you can shake a stick (or, should I say, “rock-hard member”) at, what’s not to like? What I definitely wasn’t expecting, however, was to find myself swooning over Danny Dyer. But swoon I did.
In a completely unprecedented turn of events, it was the ex-EastEnders actor – amid an ensemble cast stuffed full of thinking women’s crumpets – who set pulses racing in the role of straight-talking, salt-of-the-earth, boy-dun-good tech magnate Freddie Jones.
Forget David Tennant (the dastardly Lord Baddingham), Aidan Turner (the tenacious rottweiler of a journalist Declan O’Hara) and Alex Hassell (cartoonishly sexy rake Rupert Campbell-Black) – Dyer’s gruff brand of charm sparked a thousand WhatsApp chats as the nation succumbed to what can only be described as “Freddie Fever”.
“It’s all I’m talking to people about,” one friend messaged me frantically over the weekend. “The quiet love and respect of Danny Dyer and how wholesome that is. We don’t want bad boys; we just want Danny Dyer! (Also DD is everyone’s w*** fantasy now).” I never thought I’d be reading these words, let alone agreeing with them. But credit where credit’s due.
“I love a ladder – stairway to heaven and all that,” he mutters at one point to sexually frustrated romance novelist Lizzie Vereker, played by Katherine Parkinson, in reference to the ladder in her tights. “Have you got any idea how f***ing beautiful you are?” he says at another. Her vapid fop of a husband, James Vereker (Oliver Chris), is too busy preening and presenting a daytime TV show to perform his marital duties. At Freddie’s words, she melts; we all melt with her.
Dyer and Parkinson are an unlikely pairing – one whose languid, simmering journey towards infidelity sounds, on paper, like the least sexy thing about a show bursting at the seams with adultery, betrayal and naked tennis matches. Why would anyone be on the edge of their seat to find out whether a man frequently typecast as hooligans and criminals and a character actor best known for her role as Jen Barber in The IT Crowd are going to finally rip each other’s clothes off? Yet their understated subplot (well, understated for a show in which the opening scene consists of Campbell-Black renewing his mile-high club membership) is the heart of the entire series. It’s the believable backbone, providing a much-needed injection of emotional investment that grounds the rest of this hugely entertaining shag-fest in something approaching reality.
Their slow-burn romance is perhaps so beguiling because it is slow, set in a fictional Cotswolds world where people need do no more than glance at each other before dropping trow and getting down and dirty. If desire is all about wanting and not having, then Freddie and Lizzie are its epitome; they find themselves first thrown and then drawn together at shoots and dinners and garden parties, creating a two-person bubble of warmth and intimacy whenever they meet before it’s abruptly popped by one of their deeply unlikeable spouses.
In spite – or perhaps because – of being rooted in simplicity, this dynamic is several hundred degrees hotter than Lord Baddingham’s torrid affair or Campbell-Black’s fast-paced bed-hopping. Freddie and Lizzie bond over their shared love of sweet treats, secretly snaffling a bar of Cadbury’s or a piece of fruitcake in defiance of their partners’ enforced diets; they giggle like school children while hiding in a train toilet to avoid paying for a first-class ticket. No innuendos or cheesy chat-up lines necessary – their admiration for one another is straightforward and no-frills, the Ryanair equivalent of saucy dialogue. Yet the sexiest line of the whole show comes courtesy of Freddie after he gallantly rescues some pages from Lizzie’s work-in-progress novel that she accidentally leaves on the train.
“I hope you don’t mind, I read your chapters,” he says upon dropping them back to her. “They were brilliant… And sexy. Like you.” Like I said: swoon.
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Hats off to whoever was responsible for casting. It takes real vision to see the potential of Dyer, in particular, to become the romantic hero we never knew we needed (though past viral clips airing his political views and an unlikely friendship with the late, great playwright Harold Pinter have long been testament to the fact that there’s much more to him than the hardman, cockney wide-boy image). There’s a beautiful stillness in both performances, with Dyer and Parkinson playing the gentle build-up just right, the very ordinariness of their longing making it all the hornier. While other characters flirt so brazenly that they should, by rights, burst into flames on the spot, Freddie and Lizzie convey overwhelming tenderness with just a look or a smile; their pauses say as much as the words they frame. We knew Parkinson had this in her locker, but Dyer? The master of nuance? It’s as shocking as it is tantalising.
Both actors are in their forties; both have refreshingly normal-looking bodies to match. And perhaps that’s the lesson in all of this: that underneath the gloss and the glamour, six-packs and DD cleavages, caricature baddies and virginal innocents, the hottest thing in the world is genuinely liking someone who likes you back; someone who sees and accepts you, flaws and all; someone who wants nothing more than to share a bar of Cadbury’s, rip open your hideously garish floral dress (with shoulder pads) and pour champagne over your heaving bosom.
“I’ve never done this before – adultery,” Lizzie says nervously when things finally get steamy between them.
“I’ve never met anyone I wanted to do it with before,” replies Freddie. Lock up your wives: after watching Rivals, I’m pretty sure there’s an army of women who wouldn’t mind, ahem, doing it with him…
BIG Brother star Sarah is left furious in tonight’s episode as she is electrocuted as part of a task.
The famous house is transformed into the R.A.T. Laboratory for this week’s shopping task – and it’s not long until some of the housemates are unhappy.
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Big Brother tells them: “Good morning and welcome to the Rodent Assessment Testing Lab… this state-of-the-art laboratory carries out groundbreaking research into rodent behaviour on its long-tailed test subjects.
“However, the lab’s future funding hangs in the balance and will be decided by today’s important experiments. If the research is completed successfully, the lab will receive luxury funding and will be the envy of the scientific community. Thank you for watching.”
Ali and Dean are given the role of professors while Hanah and Lily are lab interns.
Their job is to conduct experiments on the lab rats (the rest of the Housemates) in order to understand rat behaviour.
The fate of the luxury shopping budget hangs in their hands, as they must correctly predict most of the results of the experiments in order to pass the task.
A sneak peek at tonight’s episode sees Lily predict that Sarah might not react well, saying she is “extremely volatile”.
Sarah is then seen screaming in agony as she keeps getting electrocuted and she shouts: “Why are you pressing it all the f******g time.”
She continues shouting and chucking stuff around as the experiment went on.
The housemates are currently starving after being punished for breaking the rules by discussing nominations.
Plain porridge made with water, once served to orphans in Victorian slums, became their only meal option.
Hanah threatened to go on a hunger strike in the Diary Room.
She said: “Big Brother I can’t do porridge. Plain porridge. That’s famine.”
When Big Brother refused her some honey to sweeten it, she said: “I’m just letting this be known. I will end up starving myself. I will starve myself.”
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Big Brother 2024 cast
A brand new batch of Big Brother housemates are living it up in the famous compound.
Meet the cast of the 2024 series:
- Rosie, 29, dental assistant from Cornwall.
- Emma, 53, aesthetics business owner from Altrincham.
- Segun, 25, charity videographer from Watford.
- Nathan, 24, pork salesman from Dumfries.
- Daze, 24, climate activist from London.
- Khaled, 23, sales manager from Manchester.
- Martha, 26, NHS administrator from Scarborough.
- Lily, 20, Chinese takeaway server from Warrington.
- Ali, 30, Forensic psychologist from London.
- Thomas, 20 amputee footballer from Carlisle.
- Ryan, 28, marketing and events from Stockport.
- Hannah, 24, HR consultant from West London.
- Izaaz, 29, sales consultant from London.
- Sarah, 27, spa account manager from Shrewsbury.
- Marcello, 34, youth mentor from East London.
- Dean, 35, barber from East London
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Donald Trump is reportedly obsessed over his rivalry with the star of Rocky and Rambo, telling a journalist he is “better than Sylvester Stallone at being a reality star.”
Author Ramin Setoodeh interviewed Trump several times for his book, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which originally hit shelves on June 18.
According to Variety, Setoodeh discussed the Republican presidential nominee while speaking at TV market event Mipcom. He explained that Trump was hosting Mark Burnett’s business-themed reality show, The Apprentice, the same time as Stallone was working with the television producer on the boxing reality show, The Contender.
Setoodeh claimed that Trump became extremely jealous, telling those around him that “Sylvester Stallone wasn’t as good at making TV” and that he “couldn’t remember his lines, couldn’t deliver the words to the prompter.”
Even when being interviewed in the years following his presidency, Trump would repeatedly tell Setoodeh: “Sylvester Stallone wasn’t as good as me; Mark Burnett said I was better than Sylvester Stallone at being a reality star.”
“I just think we need to let this sink in,” the journalist and author said. “Donald Trump has been president for four years, he’s been leader of the free world for those four years, and what he’s still fixated on was the fact that he was a better reality star than Sylvester Stallone.”
Setoodeh also claimed that “Donald Trump views the world through the lens of reality TV.”
He added: “He’s a reality TV star, not a politician, and he sees the entire landscape of the White House, of the political world, essentially as a reality TV set where he can get attention, he can generate drama and he can get ratings, which is very, very important to him.”
While serving as president in 2019, Trump posted an image of his face superimposed onto a picture of Stallone’s shirtless body from Rocky III. The bizarre post came shortly after Trump said during a wild Florida campaign rally that a doctor told him to show his “gorgeous chest” during an exam.
“Take off your shirt, sir, and show us that gorgeous chest. We’ve never seen a chest quite like it,” Trump said, quoting his doctor, at rally in Sunrise, Florida.
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Elsewhere in Setoodeh’s book, Trump discussed his relationship with Joan Rivers, who won the second season of Celebrity Apprentice in 2009. “I thought she might have been a Republican,” Trump said. “I know one thing: she voted for me, according to what she said.”
However, his claim is impossible as Trump first stood for election on November 8, 2016. Rivers died on September 4, 2014 at the age of 81.
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Tom Daley in career boost as Olympic hero is set to host Traitors-style TV show – but with a quirky twist
Olympian Tom Daley is being teed up to host a fierce Traitors-style TV contest with competitors battling it out — at knitting.
The retired gold-winning diver — who has become Britain’s most famous knitter — is set to front the new show Game of Wool for Channel 4 next year.
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Like The Traitors, it will see a group of contestants taken to a house in Scotland for eight weeks, where they will face a string of challenges with the chance of winning a big prize.
A TV insider said: “Staging such a ferocious-sounding contest for what seems like a genteel pastime may sound wild, but the world of elite knitting can be as competitive as cage fighting.
“Channel 4 realises that there is an irony to it all, particularly as the show’s title seems to reference the backstabbing fantasy thriller Game of Thrones.
“But giving it such a grand staging — and lining up a big name like Tom — is also a reflection of how much producers respect the craft and how seriously they take it.”
Wool and needles
Tom, who’s also set to join the line-up of BBC One’s Celebrity Traitors in 2025, has quickly become the pin-up for thousands of knitters across the nation.
He was often seen with his wool and needles among the poolside crowds at competitions and regularly shows off his creations online.
This summer, Tom announced he was retiring after winning silver with Noah Williams in the men’s synchronised 10m platform at the Paris Games.
With five medals under his belt, he is now Team GB’s most decorated diver in Olympic history and one of the country’s most recognisable sportsmen.
Now, he’s set to start carving out a new chapter in his career as a media personality.
He’s said to be considering multiple offers to be in various projects, many of them on TV.
Eddie: Neigh chance of me on horseback
In the upcoming thriller The Day of the Jackal, Eddie Redmayne is seen shooting, abseiling, racing cars, and tussling with henchmen, but he met his match when it came to horseriding.
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At this week’s premiere of the Sky drama, the actor was seen performing all sorts of action skills as the assassin at the heart of the ten-parter.
But despite him spending weeks trying to master riding, when it came down to scenes where he had to be seen in the saddle, show bosses wouldn’t let him near an actual horse.
The actor, who attended the premiere with his wife Hannah Bagshawe, said: “I went to Budapest where our stunt coordinator has this amazing farm, and it was weeks of training.
“He was like a horse whisperer, and he would get a horse to bow down, and I would leap on the horse. I went out there for weeks training to try and up my horse game.
“I arrived on set on the day ready, I was stretched, bolstered, good to go, and this truck pulls round the corner with half a fake wooden horse attached to it, which is basically a bucking bronco.
“I’ve never asked this question, and perhaps I can ask that question in front of the producers tonight: was my riding just that bad that I wasn’t allowed on the real thing, or was I uninsurable?
“But I had to deal with not only all the preparation but the deep humiliation of riding on a bucking bronco being tugged along going: ‘Hah! hah!’
“My most entertaining moment in post-production was having a visual effects call with producers discussing whether the horse’s CGI mane was a bit too Pantene — a bit too glossy and well-conditioned.”
The first five episodes of Day of the Jackal will drop on Sky on November 7, with the remaining five available weekly.
Gervais: It’s no to Euro
Ricky Gervais has dashed hopes that David Brent will represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest, despite pleas from fans.
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The funnyman admits he “likes the idea” but says his character from hit sitcom The Office isn’t as “mad” as some of the genuine contestants.
He believes the only way Brent could appear was if he created a fake contest, but says it would be “too much work.”
Speaking on X, Ricky explained: “I’m not sure about him entering the real thing. I don’t think you could do it ironically because it’s all mad, camp, and kitsch.
“I don’t think David Brent would be madder than the average [contestant].”
The UK hasn’t won Eurovision since 1997 with Katrina and the Waves’ song Love Shine a Light.
But Brent would have fared better than most of our entrants since — especially if he did his hilarious dance.
THE BBC has acquired a new crime drama series, The One That Got Away, from the writer of Lewis and DCI Banks. The “dark” thriller sees Elen Rhys’s DI Ffion Lloyd, and DS Rick Walters, played by Richard Harrington, try to solve the murder of a nurse in a Welsh coastal town. It will air next year on BBC iPlayer and BBC Wales.
Maggie in Abbey ending
Downton Abbey bosses are taking comfort in having given Maggie Smith a tremendous show send-off before she passed last month.
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The veteran actress’s character, Lady Crawley, died at the end of 2022’s film, A New Era, and it meant the crew felt they had been able to say goodbye to her.
Executive producer Gareth Neame said: “It was news that we’d all dreaded at some point, you know that because of Dame Maggie’s advanced years. I think we all feel so honoured that we worked with her.
“I’m proud of the fact we managed to give a true ending to that character. She had a full stop in that second movie.
“I think we can, all of us, look back on Downton Abbey in the future and see that Violet had a journey and a proper ending with a sense of grief and loss.”
Martin’s board meeting
Martin Lewis’s expertise in saving money has established him as Britain’s most trusted man.
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Now, followers of his consumer tips will have a whole new arena in which to worship him.
The Good Morning Britain presenter will host a festive special for ITV called How to Win at Board Games, schooling viewers on the likes of Scrabble, Connect 4, and Monopoly.
He’ll spotlight the top tactics and game-winning tricks behind the most popular games, and in the process, try to take on the toughest of competitors while improving his own gameplay skills.
The one-off will air over the Christmas period to help his fans take on relatives and win.
JERRY SPRINGER’s chat show has produced some of TV’s most jaw-dropping moments. Now the most outrageous scenes will feature in Fights, Camera, Action, a two-part documentary for Netflix. Landing in January, it will feature first-hand testimony and revelations from show insiders.
Alex is cart in the act
Disney’s raunchy drama Rivals is this week’s must-watch TV — with that naked tennis scene taking top billing.
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Character Rupert Campbell-Black performs a cartwheel starkers when he and Sarah Stratton (Emily Atack) are caught in the nude.
Now, star Alex Hassell has revealed the moment was all his own work.
He told This Morning: “It wasn’t in the script, no. It was a touch of improv.
“We did the naked tennis scene, and everyone’s quite nervous because there are all these rules about who can look at the monitor and what you can show of your body.
“And I thought, as a way of maybe breaking the ice, I would do a naked cartwheel.
“As I was halfway over, I thought, ‘I think I might be cancelled for this. I’ve broken loads of HR rules.’”
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Season 33 of Dancing with the Stars has shimmied its way onto screens, welcoming a new cast of celebrity contestants ready to put their skills to the test for a chance to win the coveted Mirrorball trophy.
The popular dance competition series – the American version of the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing – has welcomed back Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribiero as co-hosts.
Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Hough’s older brother, Derek Hough, have returned to judge the competition.
Among the star-studded lineup competing this season are former NBA player Dwight Howard, Bachelor franchise stars Joey Graziadei and Jenn Tran, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik, and Family Matters and Die Hard actor Reggie VelJohnson.
Find out below which celebrity’s dance moves didn’t make the cut. This article will be updated weekly.
DWTS airs Tuesdays on ABC at 8pm, with episodes available to stream on Hulu the next day.
Week Two: Oscars Night, Double Elimination
Anna Delvey
Controversial addition convicted fraudster Anna Delvey was one of two eliminations on the show’s first round of cuts.
For her final performance, she and her professional partner Ezra Sousa danced the Quickstep to “Suddenly I See” from the 2006 comedy Devil Wears Prada.
Following her elimination, Delvey was asked by host Hough what she would be taking away from her time on the show.
“Nothing,” the Russian-born con artist bluntly replied.
Tori Spelling
Beverly Hills, 90210 star Tori Spelling was also eliminated. She and her dance partner Pasha Pashov performed the Rumba to “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman for their final routine.
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Reacting to her elimination, Spelling told ExtraTV that she was “sad.”
“I feel like I just started my journey, and I was changing so much and really finding myself through this,” the actor said. “I have an amazing [dancing] partner and now friend in life. I’ll be sad. We all got close, really fast. And you hear that happens, but you’re all thrown into this very unique situation in a short amount of time. So I’ll miss my dance family, and I’ll miss dancing with my partner every day.”
Week Four: Hair Metal Night, Double Elimination
Eric Roberts
After four weeks of receiving some of the lowest scores this season, actor Eric Roberts was given the boot in the second round of double eliminations. Partnered with Britt Stewart, the actor and older brother of Hollywood star Julia Roberts danced the Paso Doble to Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” for his final performance.
Speaking to TV Insider post-elimination, Roberts shared that he’s going to miss Stewart, the crew and the show. “There’s a crew of over 200 people here, and they make you feel like family,” he said. “You fall in love with the show, your partner, everyone here is so kind and so aware.”
Reginald VelJohnson
The oldest cast member this season, Reginald VelJohnson, was also eliminated alongside Roberts.
During his final dance, the Family Matters alum gave a stiff performance of the Cha Cha to “I Wanna Rock” by the Twisted Sisters with his partner Emma Slater.
Week Five: Dedication Night, Elimination
Brooks Nader
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model was eliminated during the halfway point of the season with her partner, Gleb Savchenko.
During her final dance, she was with her three younger sisters to whom she dedicated her salsa to. “It’s been amazing and we had so much fun,” she told the show’s co-hosts, Ribeiro and Hough, following her elimination. Savchenko gushed over the model and his time with her as he said: “I want to thank you for an amazing season, it was so unexpected. I had a blast working with you. You are super talented and I love you.”
Week 6: Disney Night, Elimination
Phaedra Parks
For her final solo dance, reality star Phaedra Parks and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy danced the Jazz to “Cruella de Vil” from 101 Dalmations.
Following their solo routine, they teamed up with half of the cast to compete on Team Roar, where they danced to “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” from The Lion King.
By the end of the episode, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star’s combined solo and team score put her at the bottom of the leader board, and she was ultimately eliminated.
Speaking to co-hosts Ribeiro and Hough after her elimination, she said: “Val’s been the best coach ever. I wanted to thank him for being patient and for allowing me to explore dance.”
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Strictly’s Shirley Ballas hits back after viewers accused the judges of overmarking scandal-hit Wynne and Katya
STRICTLY Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas has slammed fans over accusing the judges of overmarking Wynne Evans and Katya Jones in the ballroom.
Wynne and Katya were the penultimate performers of the night, dancing a Quickstep to Mr Blue Sky by ELO.
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The judges were full of praise for the opera singer’s fun bird-pooping routine, but viewers were not so impressed.
The routine featured Wynne getting paint on his brightly coloured outfit after sitting on a freshly painted bench.
He ended up with tissue stuck to his shoe and bird mess on his head in the final moments.
Fans were infuriated by the over-generous scoring as he ended up with 33 points and bagging two nines.
People took to social media to express that he had been overmarked – and not for the first time.
We asked Shirley on the Pride of Britain red carpet about the claims.
The head judge told us exclusively: “It was an outstanding dance.
“I appreciate everyone’s opinion and when they’ve been in the studio as many years as I have, 55 years, I will listen to what they say.
“Until then, I will keep doing my thing and what I believe in.
“He was amazing!”
The duo beat off the likes of Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola, and Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu, and found themselves sitting comfortably 5th on the leaderboard.
Taking to X – formerly Twitter – one wrote: “9s for Wynne is INSANE… why do they overmark him EVERY week.”
Another added: “I must be really missing something with Wynne because I think he’s always overmarked. He’s a lovely guy and he’s doing really well but a 9? Same as Tasha? Sarah? There’s no comparison for me but hey ho.”
A third tweeted: “Wynne was completely over marked. Good old Strictly stitch up as usual.”
Meanwhile some viewers felt the judges had been told to score Wynne and Katya highly on purpose to keep them in after the past furore.
One wrote: “9???? F*** off. Guess who @bbcstrictly are stacking the decks for. Ain’t gonna happen now. Wynne Evans needs to be gone.”
Controversy began after pro partner Katya was seen live on TV physically removing the Welsh opera singer’s hand from her waist.
She was seen moving Wynne’s hand away and snubbing his effort to high-five her.
The BBC’s welfare team got involved following the incident.
Katya later confirmed that she had not felt uncomfortable and no further action was taken.
Olympian Sam performed a Quickstep to Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten alongside pro partner Nikita Kuzmin.
The pair were supported by fans after something “went wrong” during the live show and cruelly undermarked by the judges.
Sam and Nikita earned 26 out of 40 from the judges, which didn’t go down well with fans.
Punam Krishan and Gorka Márquez only bagged 21 points and ended up at the bottom of the leaderboard.
Paul Merson became the fourth celebrity to be eliminated from the 20th series of the competition.
The former footballer failed to impress the judges in the dance-off against JLS star JB Gill and his dance partner Amy Dowden.
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Married At First Sight fears for bride as fans spot her ‘visibly shaking’ ahead of shock exit twist
MARRIED At First Sight fans have noticed a concerning detail about one bride ahead of her husband’s shock exit from the show.
In scenes yet to air, viewers will soon see Ryan Livesey leave the experiment.
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During Monday night’s episode, viewers were convinced his wife Sionainn Carmichael couldn’t stop shaking and feared it could be due to some unseen issue with her husband.
One person commented on TikTok: “I just felt that shannon(yes I know that’s not how she spells it) was visibly shaking the whole time she was talking on the sofa last night.”
Another agreed, replying: “I said the same to my daughter, she has been visibly and vocally shaking a lot of the time.”
A third suggested there could be an innocent reason for it, writing: “maybe she is just cold. If they film for long hours and it’s cold there I would be shaking as I can’t stand cold.”
The couple told the experts of a misunderstanding they’d had, with Sionainn revealing something Ryan did reminded her of an ex-boyfriend, prompting her to “panic” and flee.
However, they resolved their issues and revealed they’d even discussed moving in together in Manchester and getting a puppy.
Both decided to stay in the experiment, with Ryan gushing about his bride and Sionainn saying he’d turned her into a “soppy mess”.
But the wind will soon blow a different direction as binman and former semi-pro footballer Ryan decides to walk after becoming embroiled in a wife swap drama.
An insider told us: “Ryan has been a real hit with viewers and they will be shocked to see what unfolds in the next few weeks.
“Fans will see a very different side to him and other people in the show.
“He could make a return later on down the line but he feels it is right to walk when he does.”
A Channel 4 Spokesperson said: “Contributors have the right to exit the experiment at any point they wish.
“Viewers will see one contributor opt to leave the process and, as one spouse cannot remain without the other, both halves of the couple exit, which will play out as part of their story, on screen.”
Ryan was at the centre of a huge row between Hannah Norburn and her husband Stephen Nolson prior to their exit.
During the couple’s retreat, Hannah was accused of being inappropriate towards Ryan.
Polly told the group: “Last night after the commitment ceremony she’s gone up to Sionainn and Ryan’s room and she was rubbing Ryan’s feet in front of Sionainn and going ‘ain’t you got nice blue eyes, your feet are so soft, isn’t it nice and warm in there?’”
But things got even worse for Ryan, when Stephen told him he planned to make a move on Sionainn.
During a tense confrontation in front of the group, Ryan raged: “If I wasn’t here, you’d crack on with her? Muppet.”
Hannah also found herself being confronted by the other brides over her flirting with Ryan – despite being married to Stephen.
Hannah told them: “Nobody is letting me speak, how do you think that makes me feel? It’s f****** horrible.”
But Polly was quick to jump in and told her: “Don’t start getting muggy.
“Do not start speaking to people like that. The last thing you want to do is get brave.” An upset Hannah replied: “Don’t threaten me.”
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