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Professional skaters Mark Hanretty and Brendyn Hatfield have announced that the 2025 series of Dancing On Ice will be their last.

Hanretty, who is the longest-serving professional skater on the series after making his debut in 2011, said in a post shared online that he is “eager to soak up every second” of his final season.

“Good luck to all the team and here’s to a fantastic series!” he said.

Hatfield, who is in a relationship with S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens after they performed on the show together in 2022, also said online that the 2025 series will be his last.

“Excited to be back for my 6th and final season of Dancing On Ice. Let’s make this one the best one,” he said.

Hanretty has placed third three times with partners including Pussycat Dolls star Kimberly Wyatt, broadcaster Adele Roberts and Paralympian Libby Clegg.

Meanwhile, Hatfield has also been partnered with Love Island winner and reality star Ekin-Su Culculoglu, comedian Lou Sanders and rapper Lady Leshurr, with whom he secured fourth place in 2021.

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Fans of the show have been left disappointed by the announcement of the two much-loved pros leaving the series at the same time.

“Yay, so happy that you’re back for another year but I’m sad that you’ll be leaving along with Mark,” one fan wrote to Hatfield online. “Not your last year too. What’s happening!” said another.

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Earlier this month, the full Dancing on Ice celebrity lineup was revealed, with celebrities including TOWIE’s Ferne McCann, Traitors star Mollie Pearce, Eastenders actor Charlie Brooks, Love Island’s Chris Taylor and sports pundit Anton Ferdinand.

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Ahead of her debut on the show next year, Brooks, best known for playing the evil Janine Butcher in EastEnders, said she is “going to embrace the spray tan”.

“All I want to do is enjoy it and try not to break my leg,” she said.

Pearce, best known for making it to the final in the latest season of the BBC hit game show The Traitors, has said she is “ready for the challenge”.

Pearce works as a disability model for different kinds of adaptive clothing, including swimwear and underwear that accommodates a stoma – such as the one she wears due to ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune condition that causes inflammation in the large intestine triggering ulcers and debilitating pain.

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Radio DJ Adele Roberts, who uses a stoma bag and competed on Dancing On Ice last year, sent Pearce a message congratulating her on “the most incredible news” and thanking her for bringing awareness to stoma bags.

Pearce and her fellow contestants will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of last year’s winners Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas and pro skater Amani Fancy.

While no date has been announced for its 2025 return, the show will be fronted by Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern, who are expected to be returning to their hosting roles.

AUDREY Landers was a pin-up star in the 80s and still looks sensational after her latest public appearance. 

Taking on the iconic roles of the troublesome and money-hungry Afton Cooper in Dallas, as well as starring turns in Dukes of Hazzard, Fantasy Island, Somerset and Highcliffe Manor, Audrey has cemented herself in soap history. 

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After quitting Dallas in 1989 after eight years on the soap, Audrey and her sister Judy even posed on the cover of Playboy together. 

Nearly 40 years on, Audrey is still a head-turner and drew a crowd last week at the Southfork Experience in Texas, looking incredible as she met with fans. 

With her blonde hair still in a classic bouffant style, Audrey, 68, was age defying as she donned a classic all black look with a pop of colour thanks to a black blazer. 

Signing photos for fans at the experience with her booth, Audrey welcomed fans and put her autograph to some of her most iconic snaps. 

Sharing a video of the booth on Instagram, fans were delighted and admitted they wished they were there. 

“Hopefully this happens again next year cause I’ll be there if it does. 😁 Hope you’re having a blast. ❤️” wrote one. 

Another wrote: “Thanks for sharing this. Fantastic woman, great actress, super business girl and big heart. Always supporting people.” 

A third added another pic from the event: “This was an amazing weekend! It was a pleasure meeting you. You were so kind and so gorgeous every day. I am most impressed by seeing what a beautiful and loving mom you are❤️ You make this a much better world to live in” 

Audrey was someone born to be in the spotlight, with her mother, Ruth Landers, a film producer for shows including Circus Island and Ghost Writer. 

She first fell in love with acting when her mum brought her onto sets when she was just a toddler, admitting being on commercials became something she strived for. 

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She landed her first role at the age of nine on A Secret Storm. 

Her sister, Judy, 66, was also an actress, and together the pair appeared on The Love Boat and The Hitchhiker together. 

For one saucy shoot in 1983, the pair posed in a non-nude shoot for Playboy, taking on the roles of sexy cocktail waitresses. 

Landing the role of Afton in 1981 on Dallas, she was only intended to appear in a two episode arc, but made such an impression that show bosses decided to keep her on. She ended up remaining on the series for eight years. 

In 1985, she joined the cast of A Chorus Line and worked with Sir David Attenborough. 

Audrey has been married to Donald Berkowitz, an esteemed businessman, since May 1988, and together they have two sons, twin boys Adam and Daniel (now 31). 

Speaking to Closer in 2022, Audrey said the key to her long marriage was having trust and long distances between each other. 

“We’ve had a long-distance relationship from the time we met in 1983,” she said. 

“It helps to have a relationship built on trust, humor and love. We try to spend as much time as we can together, but it’s not for everyone. 

“When I speak to my kids about relationships, I say, ‘Please don’t follow in your parents’ footsteps.’ It’s worked for us, but it’s not something I would recommend as a lifestyle.”

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Irish actor Saoirse Ronan has spoken about the reaction to a viral clip of her on The Graham Norton Show where she managed to silence the three male A-listers with a remark about gender-based violence.

The 30-year-old actor, who stars in the Steve McQueen wartime drama Blitz, appeared on 25 October edition of the BBC talk show alongside Gladiator II stars Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington and The Day of the Jackal actor Eddie Redmayne.

The moment occurred after, Redmayne, 42, revealed how he had been taught how to use a phone in an attack while he was training for his role as a lone assassin in the Sky Atlantic series.

In response, Mescal joked: “If someone attacks me I’m not going to go (reaches into pocket) phone.”

The Aftersun actor’s gag got a chuckle out of the audience before Ronan chimed in and said: “That’s what girls have to think about all the time. Am I right ladies?”

The response from the Brooklyn star earned an enthusiastic response from the female audience members.

Clips of the moment were soon shared on social media and at the time of writing, have been viewed more than 19 million times.

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Speaking on The Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio UK on Wednesday, Ronan said: “The reaction has been wild. It’s definitely not something that I had expected, and I didn’t necessarily set out to sort of make a splash.

“But I do think there’s something really telling about the society that we’re in right now and about how open women want to be with the men in their lives.

“So many men and women that I know from all over the world have gotten in touch with me about this one comment, which is, again, I would urge people, please, please, please to watch this in context.

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“Please watch the whole interview or watch at least that part of the conversation, because it really wasn’t about… the boys weren’t sort of like debunking anything that I was saying.

“But at the same time, it felt very similar to like when I am at dinner with a bunch of my friends and I will always make the point that, well, this is actually an experience that we go through every single day, 100 per cent.”

Ronan said Normal People star Mescal is one of her “very dear friends” and added that she has “had conversations like that with him before and he completely gets that.”

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She continued: “I think the fact that there was a moment like that that happened on a show like Graham Norton, which is something that the entire nation channels in to watch and even overseas, it’s something that people tune into, it seems to have had an accessibility which seems to have really gained traction, which I think is amazing.

“It’s opening a conversation and again, hopefully, it’s allowing more and more women to just be like, well, yeah, actually, let’s talk about our experience.

“I met a woman last night who’s working on Blitz, and she said ‘It’s really interesting, after we watched that interview, myself and a few of my female friends were with my husband and we said, you know, this really reminds me of the fake phone call.’

“And her husband went, ‘What, fake phone call? What do you mean?’.

“And of course, you wouldn’t understand if you’ve not had to go through anything like that. But she somehow, throughout her life as a female, has gained these tools without ever talking to other women about it and understanding that this is sort of a survival tactic.

“And we’ve all sort of subconsciously found the same tools and use them again and again and I find that really interesting.”

Additional reporting by PA.

MARRIED At First Sight fans were left irritated tonight after spotting Amy’s very annoying habit.

Amy was left furious as Lacey told her that Luke was “envious” of her when she salsa danced with Adam last week.

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Amy who admitted that Adam treated her like a “princess” during her time with him, was upset that she was not receiving the same treatment from her husband Luke.

She relayed this to some of the girls but viewers were too busy picking up some of the errors in her grammar.

Amy repeatedly kept saying ‘tret’, mistakenly using it as the past tense of ‘treat’, when it is actually ‘treated’,

E4 viewers quickly pointed this out, with one writing: “Tret” isn’t a word darling.”

A second said: “It’s treated not tret.”

This annoyed viewer posted: “AMY STOP SAYING ‘he TRET me like a Queen’ TRET is not a thing’.”

Someone else said: “Amy – the past tense if treat is NOT tret. IQ of a pineapple.”

This person commented: “STOP SAYING TRET IT’S NOT A WORD.”

On tonight’s show, Lacey dropped a huge bombshell that rocked Amy and Luke’s marriage.

During a conversation with Lacey, Kristina and Sacha, Amy said: “The thing that made me think, was that Adam was treating me like a queen and he said to me ‘Amy, I’m not doing anything for you that I don’t do for Polly’.

“It made me think, I can’t wait to ask Lacey, what’s Luke done for Lacey.”

Lacey then spilled the beans and said: “Another thing, you know that picture of me and Adam, he said that he was actually a little bit envious deep down.

“He wanted a partner like that.”

Amy gasped and said she needed a minute to comprehend what her husband had said.

Sacha pointed out: “That’s contradicting himself massively.”

Amy tried to clarify, saying: “So at the beginning you weren’t classy and he was proud of me for being classy, but now he wants me to be like you because I’m too classy.”

Lacey simply replies: “Yes,” leaving Amy confused and hurt.

Lacey was referring to the photo that was taken between Lacey and Adam when they were salsa dancing on the separate days.

Luke described that initially as not being classy.

Expert Paul C Brunson explained: “The fact that Amy sees that Like likes the way Amy acts, is confusing to Amy.”

A furious Amy admitted to the girls: “That comment about him being envious because he wants me to be like you is f****** bull***.”

Sacha let rip at Luke at the dinner table and told him he playing up to the cameras, leaving him gobsmacked.

But it looks like only half of the conversation was relayed.

Last night, Luke simply said that he would have liked a wife to be “less stiff” and to let her hair down.

He also told Lacey during their chat that he wanted Amy to relax more, so he could see a different side to her.

Luke also apologised to Lacey for saying that dancing with another man was “not classy”.

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The new Netflix series Territory is earning rave reviews from critics while fans on social media have compared it to hit shows Yellowstone and Succession.

The Australian series arrived on the streaming service last week.

An official synopsis says: “When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart.

“Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill.”

On reviews aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes the series is rated 80% fresh, with Hollywood Reporter critic Daniel Fienberg declaring: “The cattle in Territory may not have a lot of genetic diversity — it’s a plot point! — and the hats may look a bit worn around the edges. But whatever you’re looking for, this series has a lot of it.”

On social media, viewers pointed out the similarities to Yellowstone with one writing: “I’m just 1,5 episodes in, but if #Netflix cancels this Aussie Yellowstone gem of a show, they are damn fools and we all should cancel subscription and renew it for a month when a particular show comes out, because COME ON! #Territory”

Another viewer added: “the new Netflix show ‘Territory’ is a mixture of Yellowstone and Succession. 9/10”

Others were less complimentary about the parallels, with one writing on X: “Territory is just Yellowstone with accents.”

Another said: “Netflix just dropped a new series called Territory that’s basically Yellowstone (hate to admit, it’s an admittedly great show)…”

In a B- review for AV Club, critic Todd Lazarski said he found the show both “bloody” and “soapy.”

“With such a shotgun-and-pickup-truck swagger, and a plot in conversation with season two of Fargo, Netflix seeks to get in on the wide-open-spaces itch of fans of Yellowstone, or Tulsa King, or whatever else Taylor Sheridan is cooking up under the expansive stars of his ranch,” wrote Lazarski.

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“But it’s not long before the tough-guy-and-girl schtick runs a bit toward pulpy, ending frequently in the realm of soapy. And for stretches, it can read as downright sudsy, with a love story sparked around an awkward request to take iPhone vids of some sweet horseback-riding moves. A Road House-esque brawl is precipitated by the kind of bar entrance where you hop on your buddy’s back and jostle his hat down over his eyes and then start a for-fun quarrel with bottles smashed over heads.”

Territory is on Netflix now.

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Marvel has released a preview of its entire slate of TV shows for 2025, which included a much-anticipated glimpse of Daredevil: Born Again, which has delighted fans.

Ahead of the finale of Agatha All Along, a montage previewing all of Marvel’s Disney+ shows seemingly leaked online featuring footage of some major forthcoming titles.

It included live action series Daredevil: Born Again, Ironheart and Wonder Man as well as the animated shows What If…? Season 3, Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man, Eyes of Wakanda and Marvel Zombies.

Easily the biggest among these is the new Daredevil series which will see Charlie Cox return as blind attorney Matt Murdock for a reboot of the Netflix original series, which was based on the comics created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett.

The new trailer shows that Vincent D’Onofrio will be returning as Kingpin and Jon Bernthal reprising his role as The Punisher. Various action scenes are also shown in the trailer but one moment has got fans very excited.

In one snippet, Daredevil can be seen diving from a rooftop and using his billy club to swing from another building, as Spider-Man would with his webbing.

This is a common thing that Daredevil does in the comics but until now has not been featured in any of the live-action adaptations of the character on screen.

Many fans have reposted the scene on X/Twitter and are understandably exhilarated by the prospect of seeing a famous trope brought to life.

One person asked: “Are we about to live in a world where Daredevil has better swinging scenes than Spidey?”

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Another said: “Daredevil swinging with his billy club is everything to me, I waited SO long to finally see this”

A third wrote: “DAREDEVIL USING HIS CLUBS TO SWING OFF BUILDINGS!”

A fourth added: “Daredevil using his clubs to go from building to building looks so cool.”

It comes after Cox reportedly asked for his stunt double Chris Brewster, to work on the programme alongside him. Brewster starred as Cox’s stunt actor in the Netflix series, which came to an end in 2018 after three seasons.

Appearing on an episode of the Ikuzo Unscripted podcast, Brewster divulged that Cox had put in the request to bring him back but that it was sadly rejected multiple times.

He also claimed that “nobody” who had previously worked on all three seasons of the original Netflix Daredevil series was asked to return.

“But ultimately, Born Again, I had no doubt that they were going to reach out to me. Charlie [Cox] specifically requests me on everything, and he always goes out of his way and fights for me to be there,” said Brewster.

“And he asked them over and over to bring me in, and I never even got a phone call. Ironically, nobody that worked on seasons one, two or three went back.”