Pregnant Georgia Harrison stuns in a baby blue bikini on the beach as she shares cute first-trimester video
And former Love Island star Georgia Harrison, 30, took to her Instagram on Tuesday to share a cute bikini-clad first-trimester video taken before her first scan.
The clip began with Georgia looking sensational in a stylish baby blue bikini and white lace beach trousers as she enjoyed a day at the beach.
She then unbuttoned her trousers and cradled her tummy while lip-syncing to the popular TikTok audio: 'Are you real? I dunno, you seem a little sus.'
She cheekily captioned the video: 'Me before I had my first ultrasound.'
Sharing the post with her 1.3 million followers, Georgia joked: 'When the only thing assuring you there's life in there is a plastic stick (laughing emoji) it's jack in the background for me … @jackpstacey got ya.'
It comes shortly after Georgia revealed she has a 'whole new drive' to change the world for the better - just weeks after announcing she is expecting her first child.
The reality TV star explained in a new interview that she wants to make the world a better environment for her unborn baby to grow up in by continuing her campaigning on the issue of revenge porn.
Georgia told OK! Magazine: 'I initially thought of my little sisters and brother when I was campaigning – hoping to make things different for them.
'Now, I have this whole new drive – I want the world to be a better place because I'm bringing my own child into it.'
Georgia met Jack, 33, on a dating app last summer and described her pregnancy as a 'beautiful surprise'.
Georgia said: 'We both definitely wanted children, but we didn't quite plan on it this soon, we might've tried to have a fun summer beforehand! But once we'd taken it in, we realised this was the right time.
The star added that it's 'amazing to have the gift of being pregnant', as so many people struggle for a long time and for some, the dream never comes true.
Georgia also explained to the publication that she was hesitant before starting her relationship with City worker Jack after her former partner, Stephen Bear, 35, shared a private video of them on the internet without her consent.
The reality TV star explained in a new interview that she wants to make the world a better environment for her unborn baby to grow up in by continuing her campaigning on the issue of revenge porn (pictured with boyfriend Jack)
The Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins star explained that she was quite 'pessimistic' about love in general after the ordeal. However, she wanted to make an effort to meet someone.
Now, she has her partner Jack, who treats her well, and the pair are expecting their first child together.
Elsewhere in the interview, Georgia was particularly emotional about telling her mother, Nicola, that she was expecting.
The star said that her mum has watched her 'go through everything' and has always reassured her that everything will be okay and that she would finally meet someone and get her 'happy ending'.
So, Georgia added that her mother seeing her at this happy stage in life is 'such a relief for her'.
The stunner announced her happy news via Instagram last month after a whirlwind ten-month romance with Jack.
She told followers: 'We've been keeping a secret! Me and Jack are having a baby! Due November 2025, we can't wait to welcome this little one into the world and embrace all the joy and love he or she will bring.
'I still can't believe I've finally got everything I ever wanted and I couldn't be more grateful… And just like that 2 are about to become 3.'
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In the post-World Cup cards-on-the-table 'honesty call', it was Ravi who spoke up when no one else would. 'Literally no one said anything! So I said, 'We're shit scared of playing our shots! Look at the other teams, they're scoring 350, 400 and we're still tinkering around 250, we're miles off lads. We need to grow some balls and stop being so scared of getting out caught mid-off, when that's no different to getting cleaned up or caught behind.'' When similar comments in an interview ended up in the press – 'England are scared,' etc –he was hauled up in front of the ECB and told to apologise. After that, he never played again for England. Does it gnaw away? 'Yeah, it does. I wish I could've played [under Morgan]. That was my time, just after turning 30, I was like, 'I know I can play aggressively, so let's see if I can make it doing it this way.' But it just didn't work out. But look, we had some gun players too.' 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He loves the challenge, he says, and is obsessed with technique. Obsessed with all of it. Graham Gooch, the ultimate technical coach, is for Ravi the best coach in the world. That'll be his style. 'I'll do it all, throwdowns, technical work, the lot.' And what of the future? After a few more outings? A few more back-foot punches and wrist-snapping flicks and maybe, just maybe, one last swansong back where it all began? 'I want to coach England one day,' he says, beaming. 'One day, I want to coach England.' This is an article from Wisden Cricket Monthly. Click here to get over 50% off an annual digital subscription.
The Guardian
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‘We were the runt of the litter at the BBC': Johnny Vegas and Graham Duff on resurrecting their sitcom Ideal
Drugs, gangs, kidnappings, police corruption, murder, even necrophilia. While this might sound like the stuff of a grisly crime drama, in reality it's the backdrop to the strange and surreal BBC sitcom Ideal. A black comedy centred on a low-level weed dealer, Moz (played by Johnny Vegas), the show has become a beloved cult classic since its original run from 2005 to 2011. After years spent lingering in the digital abyss, episodes were finally uploaded to iPlayer last year and now, 20 years since it first aired, the show is returning for a live stage production. 'I didn't appreciate how original it was when we were making it,' says Vegas, sitting in the restaurant of a plush five-star hotel in Manchester, a far cry from the rodent-infested flat he spent years in as Moz. 'You only appreciate it years later, when folks are coming up going: 'That was the one show that spoke to me – that was my life.'' As a genuinely inventive and countercultural word-of-mouth hit, the show picked up obsessive followers; there's a dedicated Facebook group where fans share quotes, memes and clips; people gush about it on Reddit threads and have made Spotify playlists to recreate its soundtrack. When its stage return was announced, several shows sold out instantly. 'There was no guarantee there'd be an audience for Ideal in 2025,' says creator and writer Graham Duff, who also plays Brian, a hilariously snippy and flamboyant gay man with an infinite number of men on his arm. 'But the response has been wonderful. The phrase we keep hearing is: 'Why has it taken so long?'' There is a feeling of unfinished business. The show was cancelled abruptly, leaving Ideal without a neat wrap-up. 'Every series, I wrote the final episode thinking this could be the last one,' says Duff. 'The only time I didn't do that was [the final] series seven. By that stage, the viewing figures were so good, and we had Kiefer Sutherland saying he was going to appear in the next series. I thought: now I can stop looking over my shoulder. So it felt really brutal. We had a lot more to say.' The TV show featured Moz, his girlfriends, bent coppers, a gangster called Psycho Paul, a hitman called Cartoon Head (a silent character who never removed their cartoon mouse mask), some utterly bizarre neighbours, and everyone from kids and schoolteachers and DJs all swinging by to skin up and buy cannabis. It also featured a spectacular list of guest stars. Julia Davis played a partly blind clairvoyant who claims she foresaw 9/11 in a Cup-a-Soup. Sean Lock was a transgender love interest of Brian's son (a plotline that also involves some accidental incest). Paul Weller popped up as himself, and they even managed to cast Mark E Smith, late frontman of the post-punk band the Fall, as Jesus Christ. 'There's only one person who ever turned us down,' says Duff, 'and that was Kate Moss. Everybody else couldn't say yes quick enough but her agent said she wouldn't do anything related to drugs.' 'It was a show that, against the odds, kept going,' adds Vegas. 'It was almost unwanted – we were the runt of the litter at BBC Three.' The BBC, he says, 'didn't know what to do with it'. There was talk of a film to be directed by Ben Wheatley, who did series five and six of the show, but it never materialised. Then in 2021, Vegas saw the live stage show of another beloved and arguably overlooked BBC show, Early Doors. It triggered an idea: 'I thought: That's a beautiful way to get around the system,' he says. The live show will pick up 20 years later with Moz, unsurprisingly, still a dealer in his and Cartoon Head's flat. 'The story is partly a murder mystery,' explains Duff, who is keen to keep details to a minimum, 'with each of Moz's regular customers under suspicion. Moz also has a new girlfriend, Liza, and my character now has an OnlyFans – because, of course he has.' In the original TV show, Duff created a world that was vast but also intensely claustrophobic. There's only one scene out of 53 episodes that ventures outside: everything else is shot in Moz's or his neighbours' flats, with an ever-rotating cast of oddballs. 'At the time I was thinking: I reckon at least a quarter of the country smokes weed and will have been to a dealer,' says Duff. 'But how often do you see it on TV? I thought there's something in that: it's a locus for all these people to cross and interact.' As such, the show isn't really about drugs, nor was it ever intended to be. 'I've always hated things like Cheech and Chong, where it's like: Oh, I was so out of it I did this crazy thing,' says Duff. 'I've got zero interest in that. It's no more about drugs than Only Fools and Horses is about stolen goods. It's about those characters and their interactions, dynamics, aspirations and disappointments.' The pair clearly love talking about the show. Vegas sips a vodka soda, Duff a cranberry juice, and in the deserted restaurant hall this afternoon, their frequent howls of laughter echo through the room. Vegas recalls the 'spliff-making bootcamp' he had to go on before the first series, because he wasn't much of a cannabis smoker himself. 'I couldn't get creative by smoking weed,' he says. 'It just made me play [PlayStation game] Toca Racing and eat loads of toast.' He also recalls the time he and the cast had been out the night before and came in on two hours' sleep, a bit too wobbly. A producer deemed him unfit for work, and he was told to go and lie down. 'We had the best time,' says Vegas. 'We worked hard, we played hard, but we delivered. I was gifted a character that always looked worse for wear.' However, such shenanigans were limited to series one. 'By the second series, we all realised we were doing something that had some gravity to it,' says Duff. 'We needed to protect it.' Vegas's performance is some of his best work. Spending 53 episodes with a permanently stoned, adulterous work-shy drug dealer, confined largely to his living room, only works because Vegas is able to show him as funny, vulnerable, occasionally tender, and likable, as well as a bit of a dope. 'It might be the closest thing I have given to a nuanced performance,' Vegas says, with typical self-deprecation. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion But this time, it's perhaps Vegas's onstage experience that Duff will be tapping into for Ideal's stage reboot. 'There are all kinds of onscreen elements that just aren't possible on stage,' he says. 'But there are things that live performance gives you, which are so special. Several of the cast work as standup comics [Emma Fryer, Joanna Neary and Ben Crompton are all confirmed] so they know a thing or two about live comedy timing. Plus, seeing the action play out in real time really elevates the suspense – and there's a lot of suspense in this play.' However, one thing they are clear to point out is that this is not going to be some greatest hits rehash. 'I'm aware of what it means to fans and I don't want to trample on that,' says Duff. 'But it can't just be a celebration. I want somebody who's never seen Ideal on TV to be able to watch it and be gripped. I'm not interested in nostalgia and 'Oh, do you remember that thing from back then? Yeah, we brought it back, and it's almost as good as it used to be.' Fuck that. It's got to be bulletproof and enjoyable in its own right. I just hope people think we've done Ideal justice.' Vegas nods along, taking a sip of his drink, before adding: 'And, if it's shit, it's all Graham's fault.' Ideal tours from 8 September to 11 October; tour starts Salford.
