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A former actor from the hit TV series Lost has admitted that he now regrets his behaviour while appearing on the show.

Ian Somerhalder played Boone Carlyle in 32 episodes of the hit USA drama, having been one of the initial survivors of the Oceanic Flight 815 crash, along with the character’s stepsister Shannon Rutherford, played by Maggie Grace.

Somerhalder’s time on the show didn’t last too long as Boone was killed off in season one and made sporadic appearances in season three and six.

The role was one of Somerhalder’s earliest in his career, which later saw him cast as Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries – but he has now expressed regret about his time on Lost.

Speaking to People, the 45-year-old said: “I don’t think I would really change anything other than maybe with Lost.”

He continued: “I maybe complained about craft service or something, showed up late twice, actually really late once. I was so tired from the night before, I slept through my alarms. That’s about as far as I can go.”

After starring in 171 episodes of The Vampire Diaries, and following the cancellation of V-Wars in 2019, Somerhalder has taken a step back from acting to raise a family with his wife, Twilight actor Nikki Reed.

“Once you reach a certain level, you’re like, ‘Okay, I want to focus on family and the future of farming and food and energy and the big things,’” explained the star.

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“I don’t need to chase awards and anything that would make me feel better about myself. It feels like it was yesterday. But then also too, you realise this was sort of lifetimes ago. I feel such enormous gratitude for this piece of IP and the journey and the character and all the writing both from Lost and from Vampire Diaries.”

Since its conclusion in 2010, Lost, which follows survivors of the doomed Oceanic flight, has regularly been featured on polls compiling the greatest shows of all time. It turned 20 in September.

The show was added to Netflix in both the UK and US.

ONE Big Brother housemate has had enough already and threatened to leave the reality TV show.

Daze, Lily and Ali have all received the most nominations and will face the public vote on Friday — but Ali has thrown her toys out of the pram and said there’s no way she’s staying.

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Forensic psychologist Ali, 30, walked out of a heated one-on-one conversation with Khaled who had tried to make peace.

Trouble has been brewing between the Leicester lass and sales manager Khaled from Manchester after their personalities have clashed.

The 23-year-old has got on the wrong side of the fiery redhead and she has branded him ‘fake’.

Khaled told her: “You felt like I was being fake. You expressed it in front of everyone. That’s how you feel, that’s how you feel. The only thing I didn’t like was the insult.”

Ali responded: “Okay, I take responsibility for the insult as funny as I thought it was…”

She ended the conversation: “I am leaving. I’m sorry things have snowballed.”

Although they appeared to hug it out, the atmosphere was very frosty and Khaled looked frustrated.

Fellow housemates asked her if she was ok. She stated: “I’m not staying, not a chance.

“I’m going, I don’t want to be here anymore. Don’t tell the others, but I don’t want to be here.”

It all started when Ali accused Khaled of faking being “nice“.

Ali confronted Khaled and said: “I heard you thought that we thought there was a vibe up here.”

Ali went on: “You know what it is Khaled… I think you’re a nice boy.

“But I find, sometimes the interactions I find false and I find that very, very difficult because then I don’t wanna engage with it because I don’t wanna play into, like I don’t wanna be fake with you.

“And I don’t wanna be shaking your hand and hugging you when inside I’m thinking I just don’t buy it.”

Ali continued by noting that Khaled seemed to lack empathy during the eviction by yawning and acting bored during a stressful situation.

Khaled responded: “I wasn’t the only one, but yes.”

Referring to an earlier conversation, Ali said: “There’s no need for these long speeches about how you want check in on us and make sure we’re okay. It’s not authentic…”

Ali said: “I don’t hate you; I don’t dislike you. All of the good things I’ve said about you are true, but I think some of your interactions are false.”

Celebrity Big Brother winner David Potts watched the argument unfold from behind the scenes.

He said: “Khaled and Ali are going at it now.

“So they’ve just had nominations and that seems to be what they are talking about.

“But Ali and Khaled are going back and forth on it. And I can’t wait to watch.”

He went on: “Khaled is just giving Daze a hug, she seems to be really upset.

“Khaled has just stormed off! Dean is following him.”

Fans were left shocked by Ali’s behaviour.

One wrote: “I hope Khaled can instantly evict Ali… let’s get the bullies out early this year.”

A second posted: “Ali is trying to use her degree to belittle and indirectly bully Khaled… cute.”

A third said: “Ali is so fake, can tell she was the high school bully.”

Voting for this week’s eviction opens at 10.15pm exclusively via the Big Brother app, with viewers being asked to vote for the housemate they wish to evict from the house during Friday’s live show.  

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Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins champion Georgia Harrison has described the finale of the show as among the most “degrading” and “demoralising” moments of her life.

The reality star and campaigner, 29, was one of two winners of the gruelling reality competition’s latest season, after she and boxer Lani Daniels passed an SAS-style selection test in the last episode.

Harrison, Daniels, reality TV star Bianca Gascoigne and boxer Anthony Ogogo were the only celebrity contestants to reach the finale, after succeeding in an array of physically and mentally demanding challenges.

The final episode saw Harrison tasked with memorising a cover story and concealing secrets from an interrogation team in the face of tough questioning.

At one point, the former Love Island contestant was locked in a dog cage while fellow star Gascoigne poured a bucket of cold water over her.

“I really did think that the interrogation was going to be easy, because I would watch it on TV and think, ‘If that was me, I wouldn’t be shaking on the floor,’ but I really underestimated it,” Harrison admitted in an interview with The Sun.

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“I was thinking that I could meditate through it, but it’s just so, so tough,” she added. “You get disorientated so much that you don’t know how long it’s been, who you’re with or if it’s even real any more.

“You lose all understanding of your surroundings. I was definitely hallucinating. It’s awful, excruciatingly hard, degrading, demoralising and one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life.”

As well as appearing on reality shows, Harrison has also starred in the ITV documentaryRevenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear, which saw the star open up about her image-based abuse trial against ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear, who shared a video of the former couple having sex on his OnlyFans account. In March 2023, Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison.

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This year’s season of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins previously saw actor and presenter John Barrowman leave the show just 32 minutes after arriving at base camp.

Former Dancing on Ice judge Barrowman declared that he was “done” with the show after being sick following the first challenge. “I thought, ‘I’m not going to make myself ill or hurt myself in order to try to prove something that I don’t need to prove,’” he told The Sun.

EASTENDERS star Cheryl Fergison has opened up on her struggle to find fresh acting work and only earning enough to “keep the roof over” her head.

It came just days after we reported the TV favourite had scrapped her upcoming show in Lytham, Lancashire, due to “unforeseen circumstances.”

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Cheryl Fergison, 59, who played EastEnders‘ loveable Heather Trott, took to her page on X to give a candid update on her finances following her Albert Square stint.

She wore a checked shirt and went make-up free as she opened up on her “minus” bank balance figures and juggling jobs.

Cheryl said: “I’ve been out of EastEnders for around 13 years.

“I’ve done jobs in between, I was in panto this year, but jobs aren’t continuous.

“It’s not kind of like being in a soap all the time.

“Unless you’re like George Clooney or an A-Lister American star that gets millions for their films, it’s very difficult to be, in inverted commas, rich.

“You just kind of keep by, you keep the roof over your head and that’s about it.”

The BBC One star added: “Some people don’t understand that like everyone else, we have bills to pay, rent to pay, we have to keep everything ticking. We have to get other jobs.”

Cheryl, who is currently on her one-woman stand-up tour, told how people “failed to realise” that “we still have to keep a roof over our head and the bills being paid.”

Admitting many actors can’t purely rely on on-screen gigs she continued: “It’s not a downgrade, its not terrible, it’s just life.

“I am, so grateful for having them [acting jobs] because I know I am lucky enough to do the job I was meant to do.”

She added: “Not all of us are rich by any stretch of the imagination.

“You can look at the minus in my bank account at any time.

EastEnders stars who QUIT

MICHELLE Collins has seen her second EastEnders stint boost her bank balance. Yet what stars have quit this year?

The Sun exclusively reported how Michelle, 62, was down to £20,000 in her company accounts when she agreed to a shock back-from-the-dead return to Albert Square last year.

Her character, Cindy Beale, was presumed dead off-camera in 1998.

Yet what about the 2024 exits?

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Earlier this summer, loyal soap fans appeared to note how Stevie Mitchell had “quit” the long-running series.

It came after Alan Ford enjoyed just six-months on-screen.

Bobby Beale actor Clay Milner Russell also left this year after five years in Walford.

Fans also feared Martin Fowler actor James Bye would “quit out of boredom” over recent storylines.

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Additionally, a host of stars have quit the BBC soap for Hollywood fame.

One of the most successful stars to come from the BBC One soap is Rob Kazinsky.

He played Stacey Slater’s brother Sean Slater from 2006 to 2009, he has starred in Hollywood blockbusters Pacific Rim and Captain Marvel.

Ben Hardy, who quit EastEnders as Bobby Beale almost a decade ago, went on to break Hollywood the following year, when he starred as Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse.

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Since then, he has played Roger Taylor in Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and he starred in Michael Bay’s Netflix movie 6 Underground.

Michelle Ryan played Zoe Slater until 2005.

She starred as the lead in short-lived American series Bionic Woman from 2007 to 2008.

“But just have a bit of empathy for some people, when you see them doing other jobs.”

We recently reported how Cheryl has bagged a brand new acting role after struggling to bag new acting gigs following her stint in Walford.

She is now set to star in this year’s pantomime production of Cinderella at The Cresset Theatre.

The actress will be playing the Fairy Godmother during the festive season from December 14 to 31 2024.

It came after the screen star revealed a crippling new health battle after being diagnosed with womb cancer.

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Cheryl’s soap character, Heather, was a fan favourite on EastEnders until her untimely demise.

The actress’ character was bludgeoned to death by troublemaking Ben Mitchell in 2012.

She never chose to leave the programme, and the decision was made by EastEnders executives.

At the time, a source told The Sun: “Heather’s character has been hugely popular over the years, but the decision has been taken to cut her out of the show before viewers tire of her.”

Yet, back in April, she teased her return to Walford with a cryptic post.

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Katya Jones has made an admission about her interactions with Wynne Evans on Strictly Come Dancing.

The latest episode of the BBC competition aired on Saturday (12 October), with the results show, which sent home the third celebrity, airing the following night.

Opera singer Evans received his highest scores of the series so far, but this was outshadowed by a furore caused by videos showing his background interactions with Jones.

After the Saturday episode, a video showing Evans awkwardly placing his hand on his professional partner’s stomach, in which Jones removed it and placed it on her hip instead, went viral on social media.

Later, a separate clip was shared from viewers who noticed that Jones refused to give Evans a high five while standing behind the show’s co-host Claudia Winkleman. Jones turned her back on Evans and seemingly rolled her eyes at the opera singer.

Many fans predicted something was “off” between the pair, with some adding they felt tension – but Jones and Evans, realising there was a social media furore brewing, shut down any suggestion of a feud with a video shared online.

However, despite Jones calling the fiasco “nonsense” and “absurd”, Evans still found himself receiving criticism, leading the pro to defend the star on companion show It Takes Two on Monday (16 October).

Jones said that she “can’t bear” seeing Evans in distress over the situation, calling the interactions nothing more than an “inside joke”. However, Jones admitted the joke was “silly” and “bad”.

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After Evans said he can see why viewers “may have misinterpreted” his hand placement, his professional partner continued: “The idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended in any way is total nonsense, and those that have doubts, you guys have got it wrong. So hopefully this will be the end of it, and you just keep making me smile.

“I can’t sit here watching this man being portrayed as someone he’s not. In fact, it couldn’t be further away from the truth. So I have to make this absolutely clear that this whole incident, with the hand and the high five on Saturday night, was an inside joke between Wynne and I.

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She then stated: “Was it a silly joke? Yes, was it a bad joke? Yes.”

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Jones previously told her fans: “The hand incident that happened on Saturday night was a very silly inside joke between Wynne and I, so even the idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended me in any way is complete nonsense.

“It’s quite absurd, actually. Can we focus on how brilliantly he’s doing and what an amazing dancer he’s become?’”

GAIL Platt will be rushed to hospital while clutching her chest in her harrowing Coronation Street exit storyline.

The long-running character will suffer a massive health setback after Jesse Chadwick returned to the street.

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Actress Helen Worth previously announced she would be leaving Coronation Street after a 50 year career on the cobbles.

Events will soon take a drastic turn on the popular ITV serial drama in forthcoming scenes.

It will start when Audrey (Sue Nicholls) and her grandson David (Jack P. Shephard) both have Gail on their minds.

They are both in agreement that she should not trust Jesse (John Thomson) and is a fool if she does.

After Gail was forced to take out a loan to cover Bethany’s medical costs, Carla (Alison King) will then make an interesting move.

She will tell David and Shona (Julia Goulding) that she wants to buy their home and has put in an offer to do so.

But the family tension is not getting easier as the Platt family are engulfed in a huge row.

Gail will snap at her kids as David and Sarah (Tina O’Brien) continue to argue with Jesse, and she tells them to get out of their home.

Meanwhile, Jesse is on the hunt for Lilly’s bicycle pump and will be completely bewildered by what he will find in the stair cupboard.

However, he will soon become panicked as Gail will be in need of urgent medical assistance.

Jesse is forced to call for an ambulance after he sees Gail clutching her arm with unsteady breath.

David, Sarah and Nick (Ben Price) arrive back on the street, just as Gail is carted out the house.

Just as the siblings blame themselves for starting the row with Jesse, he’s more concerned with his discovery from under the stairs.

Although Jesse will try and get a confession from David, will he own up?

Gail’s biggest Corrie storylines

Over the years the character of Gail Platt has been the centre of several major plots.

Here we take a look back over actress Helen Worth’s biggest storylines:

Teenage daughter’s pregnancy

One of Gail’s most controversial storylines was in 1999.

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It came when her 13-year-old daughter Sarah became pregnant.

Multiple marriages

Gail holds the record for the series’ most married female character.

She has been wed a whopping six times, each one worse the last.

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Married to a serial killer

One of Gail’s multiple marriages saw her wed Richard Hillman, who turned out to be a serial killer.

At the climax of the storyline, 19 million fans tuned in to watch Hillman drive his wife and her family into a canal.

Scrapping on The Street

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Gail has proved over the years she can’t resist a good scrap.

Her most memorable bust-up saw her attack Eileen Grimshaw on the cobbles in 2004 while in her dressing gown. 

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In 2010, Gail found herself wrongly banged up in jail.

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She was wrongfully arrested for murdering her 4th husband Joe McIntyre. 

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Coronation Street is available to watch on ITV1 and stream on ITVX.