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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Grace Dent reveals the secret job she hated before finding fame - as she replaces Gregg Wallace on MasterChef
From scrubbing toilets to being scalded with boiling hot tea water, Grace Dent has revealed the secret job she hated before finding fame. The TV star, 51, who is known for her razor sharp restaurant critiques, said her career in food had a very unlikely beginning at Southwaite service station on the M6. And speaking on the new Mercedes-Benz Vans Under the Bonnet podcast, she told how she had to grit her teeth while racking up food bills as an '18-year old in an egg-stained uniform.' She told host Scott Mills: 'I'm going to let you into a secret, I worked at a service station. I worked at Southwaite service station on the M6. 'Everybody in my sixth form used to try and work there part time. If you got the job, you had to do very early shifts. They would pick you up in a mini-bus just to make sure you got there.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'They'd take you at about 5am, off down the M6, and disperse you to different parts of the service station. You never knew where you were going to go. 'You could end up on the teapoint - where you stand and just make cups of tea all day, being splashed by scalding liquids, boiling water, all day. 'Or you might be doing the tables. Or you might have to go and work in the shop. You were never on the same thing. 'The worst job? Toting up the food bill at the till in the restaurant, because everybody started kicking off about the price. 'As if you, this 18-year-old girl in an egg-stained uniform, got up that morning and made up the prices - as if I decided how much tea and scones would be. 'People did really kick off. It felt like every single person that came to the till, I would go: 'Four pounds, 95,' and they'd go: 'I've only had a cup of tea…'' In December it was revealed Grace would replace Gregg Wallace as a judge on BBC show MasterChef. It comes after Gregg stepped down from his role in November when a number of historical allegations were made about him. Speaking about her upcoming role on the show, Grace previously said: 'I've been watching MasterChef since I was a girl sitting with my dad on the sofa. 'My whole family watches it. It's all about uncovering and championing talent – and to have ended up in this position, is more than a dream to me. 'I'm so excited that I can't eat, which is severely detrimental to a restaurant critic. 'I feel very lucky to be stepping in for the next Celebrity MasterChef. I can't wait to meet the fresh celebrity faces for 2025.' I'm A Celebrity star Grace has appeared on MasterChef as a guest critic. Not only that, she has also competed as a contestant on MasterChef: Battle Of The Critics. Speaking to Luxury London Living Fabric about her career with food, Grace said: 'When I was a child in Carlisle in the '70s and '80s, we would put on The Good Food Show and we would see Jilly Goolden swooshing wine around her mouth and saying that it tasted like babbling brooks. 'I think that what makes me different as a restaurant critic is that I certainly didn't eat those types of food as a child. 'I didn't have that background. If you look at me and then look at the other restaurant critics, who I love very much, one of us is not like the others! 'I always say that it is an absolute fluke that I am in, doing what I do.' Grace joined BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show host Scott Mills to launch the Under the Bonnet podcast, the UK's first podcast exclusively for van drivers. The new series, recorded in a specially adapted Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van, has been launched to celebrate 30 years of the Sprinter and discuss findings from the Under the Bonnet report - which shows how van drivers have become a barometer for modern Britain.
Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Daily Mirror
Dad left chilling note for kids to find after strangling their mum in next room
The family of Kelly Morgan, who was strangled to death by her husband George just hours after the couple watched their children in a school assembly, have opened up to Killer Britain with Demot Murgnahan about a murder which shook Britain It was a regular morning for Kelly Worgan and her husband George, who had been sitting with other parents in a school assembly. No one could have imagined that just hours later, she would be dead, strangled to death by the man who had been sitting next to her as they watched one of their children perform. Teachers only began to suspect something was wrong after they failed to pick up their kids from school later that day, and didn't answer their phones. At 4.43pm the school called the police, who managed to get a key from their landlord to gain access to their house. As soon as they opened the door, they saw a chilling note left in the middle of the stairs: 'Please don't let the little ones go into the front room.' The note continued: 'No more suffering. I'm sorry, got pushed too far this time. Daddy loves you.' In the living room, detectives found Kelly slumped on the floor with the back of her head resting on the armchair, and ligature marks clearly visible on her neck. She had been strangled to death. The horrifying murder in Avonmouth, just outside Bristol, in November 2018 is being retold in Sunday's episode of hit true crime series Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan on the Crime+Investigation channel. Detectives knew prime suspect George Morgan had to be caught quickly - but unbeknownst to them, police 300 miles away in Cumbria were already pursuing him, thinking his only crime was petrol theft and dangerous driving. A BMW was driving dangerously on the northbound carriageway of the M6 after reportedly failing to pay for petrol. The driver had failed to pull over when a police vehicle approached. Officers got ahead of him and deployed a stinger, puncturing his tyres. When police arrested him and put his name in the national computer, they discovered he was wanted for murder. Speaking to the programme, Kelly's dad Paul, who is partially-sighted, remembers the moment he found out their son-in-law was suspected of strangling their daughter. 'After that telephone call, my wife was very upset and went upstairs crying, and my legs collapsed, and I fell on the floor crying like a baby. My guide dog came in and cuddled me. That's how bad it hit us. I'll always remember that,' he said. Kelly's parents were given full custody of her two children. 'The landlord phoned us up to make arrangements for us to go down to get some of the children's belongings,' he remembers. 'What can you do? You're actually where your daughter took her last breath. I just sat there and cried.' Charged with Kelly's murder, as well as dangerous driving, Worgan maintained his innocence, claiming he hadn't killed her and that he couldn't remember what had happened on that day. But as the investigation progressed, it became clear that behind the facade of a happy family, Kelly had been trapped in a violent and controlling relationship. Kelly had met George in 2011 when he got a job as a bus driver in the Bristol company where she worked. Eight months into the relationship, he asked her father for his daughter's hand in marriage. The family were delighted, but soon began to notice some worrying red flags. Kelly's sister Hannah remembers: 'They seemed to get on fine like a happy couple. But it was weird. She's very motherly, independent, her own person. But with George she was a completely different sister." Within two years, Kelly was expecting their second child. Hannah remembers: 'When he was at our place, it was like a show, he would be more involved with the children, changing their nappies and playing with them, or feeding them their bottles. But when it was at his own place, it was like Kelly was doing everything, the cooking, cleaning, looking after the new-born children. When she got to our place it felt like she was just tired all the time.' Dad Paul recalls: 'When George went to work on the buses, Kelly used to be alone in the flat, so we used to invite her up so she wouldn't be on her own. But Kelly always made up excuses.' She also discouraged her family from visiting her. Sister Hannah says: 'My mum was like, 'Why don't you go down keep your sister company?'. And when I tried to ask you she was like, 'Oh I'll have to ask George'. And I'm like, But I'm asking you, you're my sister, and I'm not asking him when thats nothing to do with him. It was a bit weird. It got to a point where it felt uncomfortable for me, like I was invading their privacy.' Tragically, only after her death would they find out the truth, after Kelly's medical records revealed she had suffered a series of injuries during this period, one of which resulted in a trip to A&E. A port-mortem also revealed old bruises on her body, while during an interview prior to trial the Worgans' children told how they had previously seen their father strangling their mother. Worgan unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty at his trial in May 2019. He was sentenced to life in prison. In their victim impact statement, Kelly's dad, Paul, and mum, Glynnis, described the effect on their grandchildren. 'Two days after the children came to stay with us and they have remained with us ever since. We had to tell them their mummy had died. 'Now neither of the children want to sleep in their own bed and and ask to go to her grave so they can talk to her. The biggest question we have is why? We trusted him and treated him as a son and as a part of our family. We now struggle with the concept of who we can trust." Speaking to the programme, Paul says he still feels like he's living 'in a nightmare, and it's not going to end. I feel l made the biggest mistake ever. I feel I handed my daughter over to a murderer.'
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Jeremie Frimpong: The making of Liverpool's 'little assassin' - the Bible-loving 'kid in an adult's body' with a killer edge
The scene is a rainy morning on the M6 northbound in September 2019 and Jeremie Frimpong is sitting in a car unsure what to do with himself. Still a teenager then, Frimpong was heading north of the border to have talks with Celtic but he asked his agent to turn the car around.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
MP and Preston Bus boss call for urgent action on M6 safety
The boss of a Preston bus operator has called for urgent safety improvements on the M6 after repeated closures have caused "severe disruption".Thomas Calderbank from Preston Bus has written to the transport secretary and the Ribble Valley MP Maya Ellis, to explain how crashes on parts of the motorway in Lancashire have been causing chaos for drivers and raised the issue in the Commons, where she told MPs that collisions and closures had become "a monthly, if not weekly, occurrence".The Department for Transport has been contacted for comment. Mr Calderbank said he was deeply concerned about the long-term effects the traffic problems would have on "public confidence in our services".He said the motorway closures "have directly impacted our bus services, our drivers, and most importantly, our passengers".Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport Lillian Greenwood agreed to meet Ellis to discuss the issues after she raised her concerns in the House of Commons. There was a serious collision between a van and a lorry on the motorway on 15 May between junction 31a and junction M6 was also closed due to a lorry fire on 22 May near junction 31 causing delays and congestion as commuters tried to find a way Calderbank said the knock-on effect meant the private bus company experienced a month's worth of cancellations on one open letter said following the lorry fire "severe disruption" included:70 individual bus journeys, amounting to over 350 miles, had to be cancelled By 16:00 BST not a single Preston Bus service in Preston was running on timeBuses were taking well over an hour to travel between Royal Preston Hospital and the city Ellis told MPs "economic growth requires people to be able to get to work".She said: "Yet another road traffic accident has had a hugely disruptive impact on the mainly small roads around it in my constituency."Yet again, my residents in Longridge, Grimsargh and all the surrounding areas woke up to the prospect of another journey to work that takes two hours instead of 20 minutes, and this is becoming a monthly, if not weekly, occurrence." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on BBC Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
M6 crash in Warwickshire leaves motorway closed to traffic near Coventry
The M6 motorway is closed following a crash in Warwickshire today (Sunday, May 25). The northbound carriageway is shut to traffic between Junction 3 (Coventry) and Junction 4. The closure was first reported shortly after 5pm and a diversion route is now in place. READ MORE: Can you pass a British citizenship test? See if you can answer these 23 questions READ MORE: 'I visited notorious strip where Jay Slater partied - what I saw disturbed me' A National Highways spokesperson said: "The M6 in Warwickshire has been closed Northbound between J3 (Coventry) and J4 (M42) following a collision "All emergency services are working at the scene, in a response being led by Warwickshire Police. "If this closure impacts on your planned route, please allow extra journey time. Plan ahead, you may wish to re-route or even delay your journey." Inrix, the traffic data company, said: "All traffic being temporarily held and queueing traffic due to accident on M6 Northbound from Highfield Lane (Corley Services) to J4 M42 J7 (Coleshill)." At M6 Junction 2 take the exit to A46 southbound, Coventry Eastern Bypass. Continue along A46 to its junction with A45, Tollbar End Roundabout. Take the exit to A45 Westbound (Stonebridge Highway). Continue along A45 westbound to its junction with A452 Stonebridge Roundabout. Take the exit to A452 northbound, Chester Road and continue along A452/A446 to M6 Junction 4. --- Day in day out, our reporters in the Manchester Evening News newsroom bring you remarkable stories from all aspects of Mancunian life. However, with the pace of life these days, the frenetic news agenda and social media algorithms, you might not be getting a chance to read it. That's why every week our Features and Perspectives editor Rob Williams brings you Unmissable, highlighting the best of what we do - bringing it to you directly from us. Make sure you don't miss out, and see what else we have to offer, by clicking here and signing up for MEN Daily News. And be sure to join our politics writer Jo Timan every Sunday for his essential commentary on what matters most to you in Greater Manchester each week in our newsletter Due North. You can also sign up for that here. You can also get all your favourite content from the Manchester Evening News on WhatsApp. Click here to see everything we offer, including everything from breaking news to Coronation Street. If you prefer reading our stories on your phone, consider downloading the Manchester Evening News app here, and our news desk will make sure every time an essential story breaks, you'll be the first to hear about it. And finally, if there is a story you think our journalists should be looking into, we want to hear from you. Email us on newsdesk@ or give us a ring on 0161 211 2920.
