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Daily Mail
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Cherry Healey's shock feud with her best friend revealed: BBC presenter's joint project turned sour after the TV star 'backed out over other commitments'
BBC presenter Cherry Healey has said her belief in the power of 'manifestation' has enabled her to attract her dream life, including her job and 'the specific man' she wanted. Yet the TV star, 44, who competed in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, probably wasn't intending on manifesting a bitter fall-out with her best friend over a joint book deal. I hear that Healey's decision to pull out of a lucrative project has left her co-author, Alexis Lee, fuming and struggling financially. The pair have previously run workshops together called Manifest That Sh** and were approached by a publisher to write a book about it. Manifestation refers to the process of bringing desires or goals into reality through focused thoughts, beliefs, and actions. The topics that were due to feature in the book included journaling, intention setting, alignment and finding stillness. Sadly, according to Lee, the work will never see the light of day. 'There was a lot of excitement about the book and a bidding war among the publishers and a brilliant advance and we were incredibly happy,' says the London-born author. 'Since the book deal in 2022, and after writing at least 70/80 per cent of the book, my co-author Cherry Healey pulled out. It coincided with her TV work increasing at the time, so I can only assume this was the real reason.' She alleges that Cherry, who is Paddy McGuinness's co-presenter on Inside the Factory, made damaging comments about her personality including that she was 'difficult' and 'intimidating' to work with. 'When she told me she wanted out, the book was almost finished,' she claims online. 'I explained I couldn't afford to pull out as I was banking on the income, and I wouldn't be able to pay back the advance as well as all the work we'd both put into the project. 'Initially, she said she'd pay the whole advance back herself since it was her decision, but she later retracted this. It's taken me a long time to recover emotionally, and I've still not recovered financially.' The divorced mother-of-two who runs the Style Me Sunday blog, says the loss of their friendship has 'rocked her world'. She says: 'It's the betrayal and lack of care from someone who I viewed as one of my closest friends, that hurts most. Showing Alexis support in the comment section, and referring to her fallout with Billie Shepherd, Ferne McCann wrote: 'Hope you're ok. I hear you friendship breakups are totally underestimated. So tough. Sending love' Ashley James added: 'Hope you're ok lovely, friendship breakups are so tough. I hope one day you'll get to write the book you wanted to' 'I wanted to seek legal justice, but I just didn't have the funds to do so.'A spokesman for Cherry, who attended Cheltenham Ladies' College before completing a drama degree at the Central School of Speech and Drama, could not be reached for comment. Showing Alexis support in the comment section, and referring to her fallout with Billie Shepherd, Ferne McCann wrote: 'Hope you're ok. I hear you friendship breakups are totally underestimated. So tough. Sending love' Ashley James added: 'Hope you're ok lovely, friendship breakups are so tough. I hope one day you'll get to write the book you wanted to' It comes after Paddy squashed the rumours that he and and Cherry had struck up a romance together. The comedian, 51, sent his Instagram followers into a frenzy after he shared an album of snaps with Cherry on the BBC show and dubbed her a 'diamond'. Among the photos, Paddy, whose divorce with wife Christine was finalised in October last year, shared an insight of the two them enjoying a meal out and visiting a book shop. While in the caption he gushed: 'The whole crew on Inside The Factory have been a joy to work with. A small but perfectly formed team. 'Also I'd never met @cherryhealey before but we hit it off straight away. Absolutely love working with her, she's an absolute diamond!' This sparked speculation from fans that the co-stars were dating, with many commenting that the pair 'looked very comfortable together'. Followers flocked to the comments to ask if they were an item, writing: 'Is this a soft launch of the new Mrs?'; 'Is this your new love? If so all the very best (you look very comfortable together)'; 'I suspect your soulmate.' But despite excitement from their fans, Paddy broke his silence to deny the rumours, replying: 'Not at all. She's just a great person.' Paddy made his Inside The Factory debut alongside Cherry last month during the Christmas special, after Gregg Wallace stepped down from the show last year due to the allegations in regard to female factory workers at Nestle, where he was filming at the time. Previously, Paddy gushed about working with co-host Cherry in an interview with The Sun. Admitted he had been nervous at the start, he said: 'That's always the tricky bit, you hope you get on. 'But I'm telling you now, me and Cherry do so much laughing. As soon as I met her, we had the biggest talk and we just got on like that. 'This is testament to her - when I did my Children in Need challenge, she turned up in Kendal to surprise me - she even brought me up a lasagne she'd made!'
Telegraph
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Ready Meals: What They Really Mean for You, review: flavourless look at the British food industry
Gregg Wallace may have consciously uncoupled with the British Broadcasting Corporation, but his spirit is alive and well within the corridors of W1A. Ready Meals: What They Really Mean for You (BBC One) was ostensibly a cheap and cheerful magazine show about the British food industry's attempts to reach net zero by 2050. If that particular ready meal sounds a bit dry, the BBC agreed. Pouring on the Inside the Factory gravy was its Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt, who eagerly stepped into Wallace's hairnet. 'Wow!' he said at some fairly large, stainless steel machines. 'It is massive!' he hollered at a Tesco distribution centre in Avonmouth. 'Magical!' he trilled at a production line. 'Liam is going to unleash some of his state-of-the-art food processing machines,' he drooled at a man called Liam, who was pressing a button. 'It looks like a huge insect, doesn't it?' he quipped at a combine harvester. If Wallace was watching at home, he could only have marvelled at the craft. Dull as it undoubtedly was, the programme had a serious point to make, but seemed ambivalent about what exactly it was. Rowlatt did a good job of holding obfuscating industry spokespeople to account – Are the supermarkets all talk? Do farmers just need to accept we must eat less meat? – but this sort of tech-business documentary always falls into the same trap. In highlighting some of the innovations – synthetic meat made from a few pig cells or a palm oil alternative that could save countless hectares of rainforest – the show left you with an artificial sense that everyone was okay. How innovative we humans are! No need to change course too much – the boffins are onto it. It all felt a little like an Open University video that would have its students' eyelids sagging. 'I am a woman who loves a robot,' said scientist Fran Scott, which briefly threatened a far more exciting programme. Alas, she was talking about a robotic arm that could make soup. Tesco and Multivac got some good free publicity out of it, but this was a ready meal short of some seasoning.
BBC News
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bungay book printers to feature in episode of Inside the Factory
The biggest single site book production operation in the UK is set to have a starring role in an episode of the BBC series Inside the of Bungay printed more than 167 million books last year on its 14-acre (5.7-hectare) site in show, due to be broadcast 28 January, will feature presenters Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visiting the factory to find out how staff make 20,000 hardback copies of Pride and printing general manager David Hancy hosted the visit from McGuinness and Healey who told him they were impressed by the scale and speed of operations. Clays sales director Vicky Ellis-Duveen said: "It was great to have the Inside the Factory team on site, and to see what takes place behind the scenes during the making of the show."We are honoured and thrilled to have our company featured in the programme and it was brilliant to show the size and the speed of the operation we have in Bungay."It also allows us to highlight the meticulous process behind the creation of these beautiful books, while also offering viewers a broader understanding of the intricacies involved in book manufacturing as a whole."Established more than 200 years ago, Clays said it was recognised as a market leading book production specialist, employing around 800 the episode, staff at the factory are shown making a clothbound classic hardback edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice being produced for the publisher Penguin.A spokesperson for the BBC said: "While Paddy helps to prepare the paper for printing, Cherry learns how the 480 pages of Pride and Prejudice are prepared for the printing press, with specialist computer software arranging the text into something called an imposition. "The next step is to transfer the imposition to a large aluminium printing plate. Cherry helps to load a blank plate into a specialist machine which uses a laser to bake the words of the book onto the metal. "Paddy is staggered by the size of the printing press: 18 metres long, 6 metres tall and weighing a hundred tonnes." A total of ten printing plates were produced which transferred the ink on to paper in the printing press, forming the 124,713 words of each copy of the in the episode, Cherry Healey visits an optician to understand how our eyes read the text of a book and historian, Ruth Goodman, discovers the tale of a young boy called Louis Braille who helped to transform the lives of people with sight episode is due to be broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 GMT 28 January. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
