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Daily Mirror
an hour ago
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- Daily Mirror
Katherine Ryan is convinced over the gender of her unborn baby as she shows off bump
Pregnant comedian Katherine Ryan gave an update into her pregnancy over on her Instagram stories this morning, revealing she's convinced she knows the gender of her unborn baby Comedian Katherine Ryan has given a candid update into her pregnancy, as she awaits the arrival of her fourth child later this year. The stand-up and TV star, who recently wrapped up her epic Battleaxe tour around the UK, showed off her bump in a video posted on her Instagram story this morning and said she's sure she knows what she's having. Katherine, 42, is already a proud mum to daughter Violet, from a previous relationship, and shares children Fred, four, and Fenna, two, with her childhood sweetheart husband Bobby Kootstra. Katherine confirmed her pregnancy with her fourth child on her podcast in June this year and has since been keeping fans updated with the odd snippet of information on her podcast and social media. In a post on her Instagram story shared this morning, Katherine posed in front of a full length mirror, which she recently had installed in front of the bottom of her stairs. As she stood on a dark walnut brown wood step in her London home, she modelled a casual outfit consisting of a pair of grey tracksuit bottoms, a white T-shirt, in which her blossoming bump was peaking out of the bottom, and a plaid shirt. As she leaned on her bannister and filmed herself, Katherine told the camera: "I could not have picked a better time to get a full length mirror in the corridor. Just got me feeling great..." Katherine, who recently landed a huge role on the upcoming reality series Real Housewives of London, then walks to another long mirror placed on the other side of her hallway as she shows off her blossoming bump and tells fans: "This has got to be a boy," in reference to her unborn baby. "We don't know," Katherine insists, pre-empting questions about if she and Bobby have found out the gender of their third child together. She then adds: "We never know. A lot of people ask me and it's like, come on. Come on. I try my best to, like, spice up the look. "I got some extensions put in by my friend Reberto – the best – to voluminous the hair that I've decided is not blonde enough so I went to see Sam Burnett, who got me back to my bob but like..." Katherine then zooms into her bump and lifts her vest top before ending the video with the word: "Honey". The comedian announced her pregnancy on her podcast last month. Giving a candid insight, Katherine discussed her pregnancy with husband Bobby and shared her theories on the gender, as she told Telling Everybody Everything podcast listeners: "The boys are yours and the girls, I feel like, are mine." Bobby added: "I think the best thing for the family would be a girl." Katherine joked that the pregnancy "explained the 20lb weight gain", with Bobby admitting she had kept her pregnancy relatively secret. Her daughter, Violet, however, hinted at the news on social media last week when she shared a clip of her mum's blossoming baby bump.
The Irish Sun
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Pregnant Katherine Ryan horrified as she's hounded by bailiffs over £10,000 council tax bill
KATHERINE Ryan has revealed she's been hounded by bailiffs and treated like a tax dodger after council blunder saw her wrongly held responsible for £10,000 in unpaid bills. 4 Katherine was paying the bill for her rented out property – which led councils to think she had a second home Credit: PA 4 The star said that she received notice of a 200% price hike by the council over the error Credit: Getty She paid the charge voluntarily - as a gesture of goodwill - to make things easier for her renters in the gothic church conversion in Crouch End. But she was shocked to then discover that Haringey Council believed she still lived there, classed the property as a second home, and hiked her council tax by 200%. When payments didn't match the inflated charge, they sent bailiffs to her house. Speaking on her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, Katherine said she sent them the tenancy agreement as proof that it wasn't her second home, and explained: "We pay the council tax because we want to make it seamless for everyone, but we don't live there.' READ MORE KATHERINE RYAN 'I never got a reply. I emailed four times,' she added. 'I called and was on hold for 40 minutes - then they just sent me back to the switchboard.' Katherine, who is 'I finally spoke to a woman who said, 'Oh yeah, we didn't receive any of your letters.'' Most read in TV She was then told that, legally, landlords aren't responsible for council tax if the property is tenanted - unless it's classed as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Because the tenancy agreement hadn't been logged, the council wrongly billed her and added the second-home premium. Katherine Ryan pregnant with FOURTH child after hiding last pregnancy from BBC 'She goes, 'We can't go after you for council tax because you don't live there.' And I was like, 'Well, apparently you can - I've paid you ten grand and you've sent bailiffs to my house. Twice.'' Katherine was told she could apply for a refund but that the council would now send her tenants a backdated bill for the entire period. 'I was like, 'What!? You're going to send my tenants a bill for ten grand dating back two years?' She's like, 'Yep... Sometimes this causes problems - tell them not to freak out.'' She asked if the credit could be transferred but was told the tenants were 'just going to get a big bill.' 'Luckily, I'm in contact with the tenants,' she said. 'They trust me... But the bureaucracy! What if English wasn't my first language? 'Navigating all of this, there's got to be a better way.' 4 Katherine has called for an "easier way" to deal with council tax issues Credit: Getty 4 Katherine has shared that she's in communication with her renters over the issue Credit: Splash
Scottish Sun
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Pregnant Katherine Ryan horrified as she's hounded by bailiffs over £10,000 council tax bill
The star has opened up about the ongoing issue with her council tax bill TAXING PROBLEM Pregnant Katherine Ryan horrified as she's hounded by bailiffs over £10,000 council tax bill Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) KATHERINE Ryan has revealed she's been hounded by bailiffs and treated like a tax dodger after council blunder saw her wrongly held responsible for £10,000 in unpaid bills. The comedian, 42, says she was footing the council tax bill for her tenants at a London flat she owns with husband Bobby ever since they rented it out in October 2023. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 Katherine was paying the bill for her rented out property – which led councils to think she had a second home Credit: PA 4 The star said that she received notice of a 200% price hike by the council over the error Credit: Getty She paid the charge voluntarily - as a gesture of goodwill - to make things easier for her renters in the gothic church conversion in Crouch End. But she was shocked to then discover that Haringey Council believed she still lived there, classed the property as a second home, and hiked her council tax by 200%. When payments didn't match the inflated charge, they sent bailiffs to her house. Speaking on her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, Katherine said she sent them the tenancy agreement as proof that it wasn't her second home, and explained: "We pay the council tax because we want to make it seamless for everyone, but we don't live there.' 'I never got a reply. I emailed four times,' she added. 'I called and was on hold for 40 minutes - then they just sent me back to the switchboard.' Katherine, who is pregnant with her fourth child, was forced to take matters into her own hands last week and travelled to the council's Wood Green office herself. 'I finally spoke to a woman who said, 'Oh yeah, we didn't receive any of your letters.'' She was then told that, legally, landlords aren't responsible for council tax if the property is tenanted - unless it's classed as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Because the tenancy agreement hadn't been logged, the council wrongly billed her and added the second-home premium. Katherine Ryan pregnant with FOURTH child after hiding last pregnancy from BBC 'She goes, 'We can't go after you for council tax because you don't live there.' And I was like, 'Well, apparently you can - I've paid you ten grand and you've sent bailiffs to my house. Twice.'' Katherine was told she could apply for a refund but that the council would now send her tenants a backdated bill for the entire period. 'I was like, 'What!? You're going to send my tenants a bill for ten grand dating back two years?' She's like, 'Yep... Sometimes this causes problems - tell them not to freak out.'' She asked if the credit could be transferred but was told the tenants were 'just going to get a big bill.' 'Luckily, I'm in contact with the tenants,' she said. 'They trust me... But the bureaucracy! What if English wasn't my first language? 'Navigating all of this, there's got to be a better way.' 4 Katherine has called for an "easier way" to deal with council tax issues Credit: Getty
Buzz Feed
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Katherine Schwarzenegger On Stepparenting Chris Pratt's Son, Jack
When Chris Pratt and his now-wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, got together back in 2018, she became a proud stepmom to his son Jack, whom he shares with his ex, Anna Faris. Chris and Anna married in 2009, welcomed Jack in 2012, and separated in 2017. Their divorce was finalized a year later in 2018, by which point, Chris was already dating Katherine. Jack is now 12 and a big brother to his dad and stepmom's three kids: 4-year-old Lyla, 3-year-old Eloise, and 8-month-old Ford. Now, during this week's episode of the Parenting & You with Dr. Shefali podcast, Chris and Katherine got real about the challenges that come with blending a family, revealing she even hired a 'stepparenting coach' to help. 'I got that right when we got engaged. And it's been incredibly helpful for me and just understanding my role as a stepparent,' Katherine said, admitting that her coach/therapist has been 'essential' in her journey with Jack. 'Stepparenting, like parenting, has no handbook,' she said. 'Because I have the benefit of being in both roles, stepparenting is extra confusing because you aren't a parent, you're not a nanny, you're not an assistant. You have responsibilities in all of those areas, but you're not either of them. It's a confusing thing to navigate where you fit in.' Katherine said that 'every dynamic is obviously very different,' but that she, Chris, and Anna coparent 'very well,' calling it a 'huge blessing, which takes a lot of work.' 'It works when everybody is willing to put in the work,' she added. Chris agreed that being a stepparent can be tricky and sometimes feel 'thankless,' comparing it to motion-capture acting, in which an actor's physical movements are recorded before being projected onto a digital animation (think Avatar). 'It's a tough job,' he said. 'Stepparenting is a little bit like mo-cap acting because, in the end, you don't end up getting the credit you deserve.' 'Children are children and they're on their own paths,' he continued. 'They're probably having to continually process the fact that they are children of divorce. If a parent is in there doing the hard work of creating structure for a child and holding children accountable, and it's not a biological child, it can feel thankless. But it's a really, really important job.' I can't say I've ever heard of a stepparenting coach before, but it sounds like it did the trick for the Pratt family! You can listen to Chris and Katherine's full podcast appearance here.
The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I started a relationship with my ex-wife & have a new partner – now we're raising 4 kids together with a 5th on the way
JOSHUA and Katherine were together for 20 years before they got a divorce. But the childhood sweethearthearts, who have four children - Josslyn, 17, Helena, 12, JJ, 10 and Hannah, seven - have continued to be in a relationship despite ending their marriage. 2 2 Not only this, but since getting back together, the couple have decided to open their relationship to another woman they matched with on a dating app. Now, Joshua, Katherine and their new partner Abby are not only raising four kids together, but there's even a fifth on the way too. Opening up to Truly, on a recent episode of My Extraordinary Family, the throuple confirmed that the children have fully embraced Abby into their lives and now, Katherine is pregnant with her fifth child. The throuple are planning to raise the baby girl together and will even give the child Abby's middle name as a tribute. Abby said: 'To me it was going to be an experience, but it ended up being so much more than that.' Joshua recognised: 'I do feel like it will affect the children somehow, but I do feel it has affected them negatively in any way.' While the kids think it's 'cool' to have a second mum in their life, being in a throuple has led to the trio receiving a barrage of negativity online. Not only have people called the trio 'idiots' and described their relationship as 'weird,' but others have gone as far to accuse them of teaching their children to be 'immoral adults.' And that's not all, as haters have even accused the trio of giving their kids a 'running headstart for confusion and relationship problems.' Joshua recognised: 'Being in a throuple, we get judged, we just do.' I'm married to a man double my age - now we've become a throuple To this, Abby said: 'These people are so small-minded I feel sorry for them, maybe that's what their parents taught them but that's not what we're teaching our kids.' Meanwhile, Joshua acknowledged: 'I love it, I love the hate. You hate us because you ain't us.' Looking towards the future, Joshua beamed: 'I hope that our future holds marriage - I want them to be married to each other as well as to me at the same time.' What is polyamory? Polyamory is the practice of having romantic relationships with more than one person at the same time, with the knowledge and consent of all parties. It can refer to relationships where one person has multiple partners or spouses, or where all parties are in a relationship with each other, for example in a throuple. According to You Gov, 6.8% of people in the UK have been in a polyamorous relationship. Big divide YouTube users were left totally divided by Joshua, Katherine and Abby's relationship and many eagerly raced to the comments to express their thoughts. One user beamed: 'Happy for them!' A second chimed in: 'You are such a beautiful family!!! It was heartwarming to hear about the love you share.' Whilst someone else wrote: 'I'm happy that they're all happy together.️ Wish them luck and a lot of joy with the little baby girl.' But at the same time, someone else said: 'I feel sorry for the child.' Another added: 'Just no.' And a third commented: 'Three people making a mockery of an actual wholesome relationship. A relationship is between two people. Not multiple. Y'all are ruining the children.'
