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Glasgow Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Coronation Street star's future revealed after cull on show
Fans of Harriett Bibby, who plays the role of Summer Spellman on the popular ITV soap opera, feared that she would be forced to leave the programme after the exit of her in-show adoptive dad and godfather. Daniel Brocklebank (Billy Mayhew) announced that he would be leaving just months after her on-screen father, Drew Spellman, played by Tom Godwin, was killed off. Coronation Street star's future revealed after on-screen family axed from ITV show However, The Sun has revealed that the Coronation Street star will remain on the ITV show. The 27-year-old has reportedly been handed another 12-month contract by show bosses, despite the "exodus" of cast members over the last year. A source said: "Harriet is a real asset to the show and extremely well-liked. "There is a big story coming up later this month with Harriet and the other younger cast at the centre of it, which will have repercussions for many of the residents." Who is Coronation Street actress Harriett Bibby? Harriett Bibby was born on April 27, 1998 and is best known for playing the role of Summer Spellman on Coronation Street. The character, originally portrayed by Matilda Freeman, made her first appearance in 2017 and is the adoptive daughter of Drew Spellman (Tom Goodwin) and the goddaughter of Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank). However, after Matilda's exit, the role was recast to Harriet in 2020, according to IMDb. Recommended Reading: Beyond her time on the cobbles, she has also starred in a number of other shows like Brassic and medical drama Doctors. She also had a stint on The Masked Dancer, a short-lived spin-off of The Masked Singer which aired from 2021 to 2022. Coronation Street is available to watch and stream on ITV, STV, ITVX and STV Player.
Irish Independent
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Joel Dommett Sligo Live gig announced
Joel Dommett returns to his stand-up roots with a brand-new show. With glamorous tales from behind the camera and less glamorous anecdotes of first-time fatherhood, Joel remains a charming, exhausted, happy idiot. As one of the most familiar faces on UK television, Joel has established himself as one of the most trusted and beloved presenters. Having fronted five hugely successful series of the smash-hit The Masked Singer, along with two series of its spin-off, The Masked Dancer, and hosting The Masked Singer Live tour across arenas. Joel is also famed for presenting ITV2's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here: Extra Camp. Recently, he took the reins of the hosting duties for Survivor on BBC One, reviving the classic format with his signature style. He also hosted the Red Nose Day for Comic Relief in 2024, regularly co-hosted This Morning, and made his return to the National Television Awards at The O2 for a fourth year running. Joel has also recently hosted BBC's Live at the Apollo.
Daily Mirror
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Oti Mabuse on Strictly Come Dancing return and why she'll always love the show
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse hints at a major comeback to the BBC One show just like Aljaz Skorjanec, who returned to the professional cast last year Oti Mabuse has teased she may be up for another waltz on the Strictly Come Dancing dance floor, after seeing another much-loved favourite make a triumphant return. The South African-born star left the hit BBC show in 2022 to pursue other telly ops after seven series. Oti went on to feature in I'm A Celebrity, be a panellist on The Masked Dancer and a judge on Dancing On ice - as well as have her daughter in 2023. The 34-year-old star says watching Aljaz Skorjanec go back for the most recent series and witnessing how much he loved it has certainly given her food for thought. 'Everyone asks me [if I'd return to Strictly],' muses Oti. 'I think right now, with a daughter and everything I'm doing, I'm quite busy, and I'm happy with what I'm doing at the minute. But never say never. The doors are always open, which is really, really nice. Aljaž [Škorjanec] went back and he's doing really well. I went back to choreograph with him and he's just in a different space. He's absolutely sensational. So, you never know.' Oti took away two glitterballs from her Strictly run - with actor Kelvin Fletcher in 2019 and comedian Bill Bailey the following year. Despite hanging up her professional dancers shoes, she still is a big part of the show, helping with choreograph. 'When I look back on Strictly, I think the whole seven-year journey was amazing,' she reminisces. 'I say that the show brought me everything, like me sitting here today, and the relationship still very much continues. There were ups, there were downs; if you can imagine being the first Black anything, anywhere, there will always be ups and downs.' Born in Pretoria, Oti studied civil engineering at university before her professional ballroom dancing career. She followed in the footsteps of her elder sister, Strictly judge Motsi, 44. Oti took part in the German series Let's Dance for two series before she joined Strictly. Moving to the UK with her now husband Marius Iepure, 42, also a dancer, Oti opened up about her sense of belonging when she moved her. 'When I lived in Germany, Marius and I used to come to London," she recalls. "The best dance school was in Croydon, and all the best couples would go there. I remember the first time we'd be walking the streets, and there were so many interracial couples. 'I would say to Marius, 'There's us! There's us! Oh, there we go again!' And I was just like, 'Wow, where have I been living? Why am I not here? I just see so many multicultural couples,' and it felt like, 'I need that diversity in my life.' And when I came here, every time we took a lesson, we'd always take a walk. It just felt amazing; it felt like I belonged.' Oti's career has taken off since Strictly, and seen her on some of the biggest entertainment shows in the country. As well as The Masked Dancer and Dancing On Ice, she fronted her own ITV breakfast show, a BBC documentary about South Africa. She also hopes of being a regular on Loose Women. Juggling work with being a mum to her one-year-daughter has been a challenge, Oti admits, but one she is loving. 'Motherhood is amazing,' she beams. 'It's really incredible. But if I'm being brutally honest, it's also the most challenging and exhausting journey of self-discovery that you will ever be on.' Oti says her girl is keeping her on her toes and has already developed a go get it attitude - just like her mum. 'I have a one-year-old who's very expressive but doesn't speak, so when something's happening, I don't know what's going on,' explains Oti. 'But she's so incredible, fun and so determined. She's like a little me – and it scares the life out of me, because my mum didn't know what to do with me and I moved to another continent. So now I'm like, 'I will follow her wherever she goes. If she's going to a jungle in the Amazon, we're moving to the jungle in the Amazon.' She's a very determined child and it's exhausting trying to keep up, but I love it.' The star opened up in the jungle last year about the impact of body shaming. She said people would criticise her weight gain and call her 'fat', saying the comments came when she was being healthy for the first time and they hurt. Oti says she's long had a turbulent and 'toxic' relationship with her body as a dancer. 'Growing up, I always thought that the people who did the best (in dancing) were the thinnest, and you always felt like, 'If I need to be successful, I need to look like that,'' she said. 'And I think it's not just Latin and ballroom dancers, it's across the board. All dancers, we always feel like that. 'So we then have this very toxic relationship with our bodies, and even when you walk into the room, and if you've lost weight, they go, 'Oh my gosh, she looks so good.' And it's like, 'Wait, do I look good because I'm small, or do I just look good in general?' Words hold power over a lot of us as women.' Oti says she's working on 'rebuilding' her relationship with her body. She tells: 'It will be every day, I guess, for the rest of my life, that I'll just have to work on that relationship, and hopefully by talking about it, it's going to create more of a conversation around the fact that we need to build our relationship with our bodies in a very healthy way.'' She says having her daughter - and taking time away from dancing - has helped her find peace with her body 'I'm now coming into the world as a human being who used to dance, not as a dancer," she says. "I still dance, but I'm a person first, before the dancer. 'My body has had its ups and downs; the gaining of the weight, the losing of the weight, having the baby. It's been such a rollercoaster, but I think it's normal to experience that as a woman. 'Yes, there are some moments where I feel, 'Oh my gosh, I'm not happy with what I look like,' and then I have to say to myself in the mirror, 'No, you are good. You are perfect. You have had a baby, you've had a human being come out of you. It's okay to not look perfect, as long as you move, as long as you're trying to be healthy.''
Daily Mirror
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Oti Mabuse eyes up major ITV career change after Dancing On Ice was cancelled
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse has seen her two ITV talent shows, Dancing On Ice and The Masked Dancer, get the axe - but she's hoping to appear regularly on another ITV show Oti Mabuse has teased she is hoping to slide into a regular role on another ITV show after her winter sport reality contest Dancing On Ice was canned by the network. The 34-year-old professional dancer shot to fame in the UK in 2015 when she joined the cast of the hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing. During her time on the talent show, she won twice - first with soap actor Kelvin Fletcher in 2019 then comedian Bill Bailey in 2020. She then quit the show after performing with rugby player Ugo Monye in 2021 - before defecting to ITV to take up a chair as a judge on Dancing On Ice in 2022. But last month, ITV axed the long-running ice skating competition after viewing figures bombed - bringing to an end its 19 year on-off run. Oti has suffered further bad luck as her other ITV show, The Masked Dancer, on which she was a judge, was cancelled in 2024 after just two seasons. However, the star has now hinted she hopes to land a new role on the network - as a regular panelist on iconic lunchtime talk show Loose Women. Fans of the current affairs discussion show - which includes Denise Welch, Coleen Nolan and Nadia Sawalha as panellists. Oti made her debut as a guest panellist on the daytime show earlier this month - and viewers may see her appearing on the show more regularly. She has shared her dream of returning to the show in an interview with the Express. The dancer told the publication: 'That was amazing, it was really fun. I have to give it up to Ruth, Jayne and Denise because they were so lovely and we had so much fun, and they made me feel so welcome and at ease. "I was obviously nervous, but it was nice to be padded around by people who know what they're doing." Oti went on to admit it had been less stressful to be a panellist on the series rather than as a guest. She explained: 'I was less nervous as a panellist than I am as a guest because as a guest there's specific things that you have to say. Whereas a panellist, they just let you talk, and you discuss things and it's like sitting with your friends and having a coffee and just chatting away.' Viewers were touched to see Oti open up about difficult topics including her brother's suicide, why she left Strictly, and her struggles with her body confidence. She revealed: "I think being on Loose [Women], which is what is so amazing about it, is that everybody's got their independent life experiences. "And I shared mine and I'm very open about it and I think since th jungle that has helped me to just be me and not be afraid of just being honest and being genuine and being authentic. Those things did happen and I don't shy away from it. "They don't make me less than a person, if anything, I think I'm at a point in my life right now where I can address them and I know how to articulate and be sensitive because other people are going through the same thing, but it's also to raise awareness." Last month ITV confirmed that Dancing On Ice would not be returning to screens following the 17th season, which concluded at the beginning of March. The show had been on the air since 2006 - although was taken off the air from 2015 until its revival in 2018. An ITV spokesperson said: "Following another successful series earlier this year, Dancing On Ice will be rested in 2026 with no current plans for another series. "We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the cast and crew who have worked on the show since 2006, and over the previous 17 series, for all of their hard work both on and off the ice."
