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Leader Live
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
Gemma Collins in talks with ITV for 'I'm a Celebrity' return
The 44-year-old famously left the show just after three days during her stint in 2014. And now according to national press speculation, the TOWIE favourite is keen to give it another go. A source told The Sun: 'She hated it first time round, but knows it would be TV gold for her fans if she gave it another go. 'The discussions could go either way but signing her would be a huge win for execs.' The All Stars edition of the popular ITV show sees much loved campmates return to the jungle in South Africa, with bosses currently in talks with a potential cast for filming later this year. First airing in 2023, it saw the likes of Shaun Ryder, Gillian McKeith, Helen Flanagan, Phil Tufnell and Jordan Banjo take part. The competition was won by Myleene Klass, who had originally finished second during the show's sixth series in 2006. When Gemma previously took part, she was in tears less than 72 hours in, diagnosing herself with malaria. She said at the time: "People who murder get treated better than this. That's the truth. "Even a murderer gets fed three times a day." Despite Gemma's hatred for the jungle the first time round she has previously said she would like to give it a second chance. Speaking to The Sun a year after being the jungle, she said: "Everything would be different a second time. Recommended reading: Who won Celebrity Big Brother 2025? Coronation Street star crowned champion Bolton's Danny Jones thanks fans after I'm a Celeb win I'm A Celeb... South Africa apologises to fans after challenge "I'd be like Lara Croft and Angelina Jolie rolled into one, and I'd do the tasks. I'm not scared of nothing. 'Hopefully one day the producers may give me another chance.' It is reported that the new series of I'm A Celebrity... South Africa will be filmed in October and air in 2026. Newsquest have contacted ITV for a comment.
South Wales Guardian
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Gemma Collins in talks with ITV for 'I'm a Celebrity' return
The 44-year-old famously left the show just after three days during her stint in 2014. And now according to national press speculation, the TOWIE favourite is keen to give it another go. A source told The Sun: 'She hated it first time round, but knows it would be TV gold for her fans if she gave it another go. 'The discussions could go either way but signing her would be a huge win for execs.' The All Stars edition of the popular ITV show sees much loved campmates return to the jungle in South Africa, with bosses currently in talks with a potential cast for filming later this year. First airing in 2023, it saw the likes of Shaun Ryder, Gillian McKeith, Helen Flanagan, Phil Tufnell and Jordan Banjo take part. The competition was won by Myleene Klass, who had originally finished second during the show's sixth series in 2006. When Gemma previously took part, she was in tears less than 72 hours in, diagnosing herself with malaria. She said at the time: "People who murder get treated better than this. That's the truth. "Even a murderer gets fed three times a day." Despite Gemma's hatred for the jungle the first time round she has previously said she would like to give it a second chance. Speaking to The Sun a year after being the jungle, she said: "Everything would be different a second time. Recommended reading: Who won Celebrity Big Brother 2025? Coronation Street star crowned champion Bolton's Danny Jones thanks fans after I'm a Celeb win I'm A Celeb... South Africa apologises to fans after challenge "I'd be like Lara Croft and Angelina Jolie rolled into one, and I'd do the tasks. I'm not scared of nothing. 'Hopefully one day the producers may give me another chance.' It is reported that the new series of I'm A Celebrity... South Africa will be filmed in October and air in 2026. Newsquest have contacted ITV for a comment.
North Wales Chronicle
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- North Wales Chronicle
Gemma Collins in talks with ITV for 'I'm a Celebrity' return
The 44-year-old famously left the show just after three days during her stint in 2014. And now according to national press speculation, the TOWIE favourite is keen to give it another go. A source told The Sun: 'She hated it first time round, but knows it would be TV gold for her fans if she gave it another go. 'The discussions could go either way but signing her would be a huge win for execs.' The All Stars edition of the popular ITV show sees much loved campmates return to the jungle in South Africa, with bosses currently in talks with a potential cast for filming later this year. First airing in 2023, it saw the likes of Shaun Ryder, Gillian McKeith, Helen Flanagan, Phil Tufnell and Jordan Banjo take part. The competition was won by Myleene Klass, who had originally finished second during the show's sixth series in 2006. When Gemma previously took part, she was in tears less than 72 hours in, diagnosing herself with malaria. She said at the time: "People who murder get treated better than this. That's the truth. "Even a murderer gets fed three times a day." Despite Gemma's hatred for the jungle the first time round she has previously said she would like to give it a second chance. Speaking to The Sun a year after being the jungle, she said: "Everything would be different a second time. Recommended reading: Who won Celebrity Big Brother 2025? Coronation Street star crowned champion Bolton's Danny Jones thanks fans after I'm a Celeb win I'm A Celeb... South Africa apologises to fans after challenge "I'd be like Lara Croft and Angelina Jolie rolled into one, and I'd do the tasks. I'm not scared of nothing. 'Hopefully one day the producers may give me another chance.' It is reported that the new series of I'm A Celebrity... South Africa will be filmed in October and air in 2026. Newsquest have contacted ITV for a comment.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tragedy as beloved Happy Mondays tribute act dies suddenly, as Shaun Ryder and Rowetta pay respects
Shaun Ryder and Rowetta are among dozens who have paid tribute to the 'top frontman' of a popular Happy Mondays tribute band. Marc James Watmough, who was part of the Happy Mondaze group for 11 years, tragically died last week. In a post on Facebook this week, the band described Marc as the 'driving force' for its success over the years. READ MORE: Prince Harry escorted from courtroom by bodyguards amid woman's outburst READ MORE: Police at scene of crash as roads left blocked at major junction They said: "It is with great sadness to let you know that our frontman Marc passed away unexpectedly last week. "He was truly one of a kind and has been a driving force and vital part of the bands success over the past 11 years. "Our thoughts are with all his friends and family during this time." Dozens of fans and fellow artists have posted their own tributes to talented Marc, describing him as a 'lovely guy' with a 'heart of goal'. Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder posted on Facebook: "RIP Marc James Watmough of Happy Mondaze. Sending condolences to Marc's bandmates and loved ones." Former Happy Mondays star Rowetta commented: "RIP Marc! Sad, sad news." Other tribute bands are among those who have shared their memories of Marc, paying tribute to a 'great guy and frontman'. True Order commented: "Very sad news we shared many a good night with Marc and the band RIP buddy x" Clone Roses said: "RIP Marc, great guy and frontman. Loved working with him. Sending love to his friends and family." Oasish wrote: "Sorry to hear this news guys. We worked with you guys a couple of times over the years and Marc was a great frontman who we all enjoyed watching. Thoughts and prayers to all of Marc's family and friends." Definitely Oasis added: "So sorry to hear that guys he was a really great guy with a heart of gold will really miss him, thinking of you all, RIP Marc." A spokesperson for the Fields of Gold Festival in Ashton wrote: "So sorry to hear this terrible news! RIP Marc, top frontman and it was a pleasure working with you. Best wishes to family and friends from all at FOGF." Fans also paid tribute to the singer in a stream of comments on Facebook, recalling Marc's talents as a frontman and times shared for a chat. Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE One person wrote: "I'm so sorry to hear this. He was a gentleman and a phenomenal frontman . I had a great chat with him in Newcastle recently. Peace and love to you all." Another said: "What a shock went to school with Marc such a lovely guy. Sending love and thoughts to his family." A third person wrote: "I'm shocked to hear this awful news. Seen Marc many times over the years in the Mondaze when they gigged in Hull, he always had time for a chat, nice bloke. RIP Marc." A fourth added: "Such a sad loss, great guy, amazing performer." One fan said: "What sad news. Such a nice lad. Always had time to chat. He'll be sorely missed. Thoughts and prayers with Marc's family and to you all." Another added: "Really shocked and saddened to hear this, loved coming to see the Mondaze. Always remember you's being at Darlington and we got to come 'backstage'. "My favourite was seeing you a couple of times at Factory as that's how I thought it would be seeing the Mondays in the early days. Thinking of you all."
The Guardian
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Guide #181: TV has given up on live music – but social media won't let it die
Whenever, in a weak moment, I find myself mindlessly scrolling on Instagram, it usually isn't long before I encounter a compellingly fuzzy video of a band performing on a long-since-cancelled TV show: Shaun Ryder with a bowl cut swaying awkwardly to Happy Mondays' Step On on a 1990 edition of Top of the Pops; or Cedric and Omar from At the Drive-In thrashing away to One-Armed Scissor on Later with Jools Holland; or riot grrrlers Huggy Bear mounting an impromptu feminist protest against the lads and ladettes of The Word after their performance of Her Jazz. On Instagram, X and TikTok there are tons of these accounts, dedicated to clipping and uploading live studio performances from the 80s, 90s and 00s, and saddos like me ready to lap them up (I won't link to them here because I suspect lots of them might be violating copyright). The appetite for these old performances clearly hasn't gone unnoticed by the TV networks that used to host them. Last week there was much excitement online as Paramount Plus added 50 episodes of MTV Unplugged to its platform, featuring everyone from Nirvana to Mariah Carey (though only, it seem, in the US – curse you, Paramount Plus!). In the UK the iPlayer continues to share vintage episodes of Top of the Pops at a steady clip, shortly after their BBC Four rebroadcast. (They're up to June 1997 at the moment, a distant age when the likes Hanson and Gina G roamed the earth.) For all the appetite for these archive performances, modern equivalents seem thin on the ground. In contrast to decades gone by, where TV seemed heaving with music performances, from morning shows like CD:UK or Popworld, to The Tube or The White Room at night, it's a bit of a wasteland out there today. We're nearing 20 years since the end of Top of the Pops as a weekly concern, and there's a general absence of specialist music shows across the schedules elsewhere. Granted, Jools trundles on admirably, and Sky Arts broadcast live performances, particularly of concert films, though they tend towards the more heritage end of the scale. And while there may be live performances on talk shows like Jonathan Ross or Graham Norton, as a rule those shows tend to book acts that don't scare the horses. (US talkshows – where you might get an adolescent-scaring performance from Knocked Loose, Doechii and her doppelgangers on Stephen Colbert or whatever magnificent weirdness Kim Gordon is up to at the moment – can be a bit more adventurous). Of course there's the BBC's Glastonbury coverage, a truly vast live music spectacle on your TV – but that's once a year. The streamers meanwhile seem to have given live music a swerve entirely. So what's replaced those TV live performances? YouTube, naturally. Take hate5six, a channel devoted to capturing the gleeful chaos of hardcore punk shows in vivid HD. Founded in 2008, right as YouTube was exploding, by New Jersey videographer Sunny Singh, hate5six has become legendary in hardcore circles for documenting the scene's brightest and best. (Singh has even been profiled by the New Yorker such is his outsized influence.) As much as the bands playing, hate5six is as interested in the roil of the crowd watching them; the slamdancers and stagedivers central to a hardcore show. The channel's most viral moment came a few years back when it captured a fan in a wheelchair stagediving at a festival, an incident Singh described as the 'hardest shit I've ever seen'. Singh's channel is just a drop in an ocean full of musicians playing live, across genres and age groups. There's wildly successful Colors, with its videos of rappers, R&B stars and global music artists performing in front of what look like giant Farrow and ball swatches. Boiler Room, for all that it might be criticised, continues to grow and grow. NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts and AV Club's recently revived Undercover put a fun, gimmicky twist on the genre, and there seem to be endless variants of the tried and true 'stick a band in a room and let them play' channels, such as Audiotree or Mahogany Sessions. Still, as great as these channels are, they do tend to have their own silos of genre. They're largely watched by rap/metal/EDM fans who have sought them out, and so are serving those people what they came for. That's not a mark against them, but it does speak to a wider problem of music discovery, where algorithms point us towards what we already know and like. TOTP and their ilk produced by people who had their own tastes and biases too, of course. But those shows seemed to have a mission: to show what popular music, in all its breath and depth, looked and sounded like. Watch these shows every week, and you'd witness new sound genres and sounds – punk, house, garage – storming the battlements, broadcast live across the nation. Maybe this is just lamenting a monoculture that no longer exists. After all, if there were dedicated music shows on television, how many people would actually tune into them? The days of millions of households being jolted upright in unison by M-Beat and General Levy blasting out jungle for the first time ever on TOTP, are long gone. But that doesn't seem a good enough reason to give up entirely – especially when performances can easily be given a second life on social media (something that BBC 1Xtra, for example, does really well with their live sessions on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok). If you build it, they will come – or at least they'll watch while mindlessly scrolling away their phone. Sign up to The Guide Get our weekly pop culture email, free in your inbox every Friday after newsletter promotion If you want to read the complete version of this newsletter please subscribe to receive The Guide in your inbox every Friday
