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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Scarlett Moffatt shares powerful body confidence message as she showcases her incredible dance skills during ballroom competition
Scarlett Moffatt shared a powerful message on body confidence as she showcased her incredible dance skills during a ballroom competition. The TV personality, 34, previously took to Instagram to share a video of herself dancing with a pal during the contest, in which she expressed how much fun she was having on the dancefloor. However, Scarlett then re-shared her video on Sunday where she encouraged others to not let their appearance or age stop them from doing what they love. Alongside the clip, which sees her beaming with joy while dazzling in a neon green gown, Scarlett penned: 'I've said it once I'll say it a million times. DO NOT let your shape, size or age stop you from doing something that brings you joy. 'Don't let that silly inner sabotage voice tell you ya won't be able to do it. Don't tell yourself I'll do it when I'm thinner, when I'm fitter or when a,b or c happens. Do it now!' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to Daily Mail's showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The TV personality, 34, previously took to Instagram to share a video of herself dancing with a pal during the contest, in which she expressed how much fun she was having on the dancefloor The former Gogglebox favourite continued: 'I can't tell you how much joy dancing in two finals with my childhood friend has made me this weekend. I was thinking of nothing but the sheer joy that dance brings me, I hope I can encourage one more person to do the same.' Her inspiring post was met with a plethora of supportive messages from her fans and showbiz pals. Former Strictly star Ian Waite shared: 'Love this darling', while Janette Manrara added: 'Yes yes yes!!!!' Emily Atack commented: 'Omg obsessed xxxxxx', with Karen Hauer remarking: 'Wooohooo yes babe!!' Scarlett cut a glamorous figure in a stunning green embellished ballroom gown, gliding gracefully across the dance floor with poise and confidence. Her chic ensemble featured a plunging neckline, sparkling sleeves, feathered cuffs, silver detailing at the waist, and a dramatic flared skirt. Scarlett elevated her look with a pair of bold orange heels and exuded confidence as she showed off her best moves. To complete the ensemble, she accessorised with green tassel earrings and styled her dark tresses into a sleek up do. Scarlett penned: 'I've said it once I'll say it a million times. DO NOT let your shape, size or age stop you from doing something that brings you joy' Her inspiring post was met with a plethora of supportive messages from her fans and showbiz pals She captioned the post: 'First rule of dancing; HAVE FUN!' It comes after Scarlett enjoyed a very boozy karaoke night in Torremolinos, Spain, earlier this month. The former Gogglebox favourite flaunted her slimmer frame in snaps posted to Instagram, showing off her wild night out with her friends. Scarlett looked glamorous as she posed in a semi-sheer co-ord, which was made up of a shirt and matching wide-legged trousers. Revealing that she now takes the opportunity to let her hair down now she's a mother, Scarlett said: '48 hours in Torremolinos with my besties. 'Honestly, no one is wilder on a night out than a mother, I used to be very mild and now I'm a stay-at-home mam I'm first on the dance floor and last off the karaoke.' Alongside her sizzling shots, Scarlett shared a clip of her singing the night away during a fun karaoke session joined by one of her best friends. She looked over the moon posing for a slew of hilarious selfies with her pals and later posed alongside two glamorous drag queens. It comes after Scarlett flaunted her recent weight loss as she enjoyed a very boozy karaoke night in Torremolinos, Spain, earlier this month Scarlett also shared a fresh-faced snap of herself going make-up-free while posing with a thumbs-up. The former I'm A Celebrity star previously flaunted her weight loss as she enjoyed a sweet family day out to Tynemouth beach in Newcastle last month. She showed off her new look in an album posted to Instagram, and she looked happier than ever in a chic light green co-ord. Scarlett layered her two-piece in a figure-hugging leopard-print body suit as she accessorised her look with a pair of orange-tinted sunglasses. During the outing with her fiancé Scott Dobinson, Scarlett looked every inch the doting mother as she played with their son, Jude, 22 months, on the beach. Sharing the family pictures to her social media, she penned: 'Quick dash to home bargains
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Strictly Come Dancing star Karen Hauer claims she 'bankrolled' her short-lived third marriage to a man she met online after painful year long separation from Kevin Clifton
Strictly Come Dancing star Karen Hauer has reflected on her protracted and painful divorce from Kevin Clifton led ands subsequent ill-fated marriage to a man she originally met online. The Venezuelan-American ballroom specialist married Clifton, her second husband, in 2015 - three years after joining the Strictly team of professionals. Currently the show's longest serving cast-member, Hauer announced her divorce from the British dancer in 2018, but she admits their separation played out behind the scenes for months before the couple confirmed they were no longer together. Appearing on the latest edition of Paul C. Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, Hauer, 43, insisted it was she who instigated the separation when it became clear that he had 'distanced himself' from her. She said: 'This one hurt, because we belonged together. You wouldn't say each other's names without following the other person's name. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'I felt that he distanced himself from me, but I was probably doing the same. Because I felt that if you don't want me then OK, I'll retreat, I'll give you your space. It was one of those, where we're both not talking about it. 'I was like, "Do you want a divorce? Do you want to split up? I don't know what I want to do. What do you want to do? Do you know what you want? I don't know what I want. Are we broken up?"' 'So it took a while actually, it took about a year... behind the scenes. In front of the scenes everything was normal. 'We fell apart, and me not knowing... obviously, I didn't know what was happening in his mind and whether he wanted to be with me or not.' Despite calling time on the marriage after just three years, Hauer admitted she would have worked at salvaging their relationship had he wanted to be with her. She said: 'I knew that I would've worked on it - I would've stayed. But at the same time, I couldn't be with someone who wasn't sure of whether they wanted to be with me or not. I couldn't wait. 'I waited for a while, and I was giving him his space to think, and then funnily enough I met someone. I was literally waiting to be loved. 'He just wanted a divorce, and I didn't fight it. Something had to happen in order for him to make a decision, because I wasn't going to make the decision.' Clifton subsequently embarked on a new relationship with documentarian Stacey Dooley after meeting her on the BBC show. The couple welcomed a daughter together in 2023. Meanwhile Hauer went on to date opera singer David Webb, who she was said to have 'quietly split' from back in September 2020, before entering a new relationship businessman with Jordan Wyn-Jones, the man who would ultimately become her third husband. Originally from Brighton, Wyn-Jones was living in Sydney when he started to follow Karen on Instagram. She followed him back and they began to exchange messages before regularly speaking on FaceTime. The businessman eventually relocated to the UK, with the couple marrying in 2022, but the marriage soon crumbled and the couple announced their separation just 16-months later. She said: 'I got myself into a relationship that I shouldn't have. I felt embarrassed that I couldn't keep anyone around me and I said to myself, "No, I'm not going to get into a relationship... spend some time on your own." 'But I don't know how to be on my own.' Looking back on their relationship, Hauer says she kept them afloat through the money she earned as a professional dancer. 'He was saying to me I'm going to get a job soon, I'm going to help out when I can. But I work hard for my money and I was bankrolling everything,' she claimed. 'I wasn't home alone, but there was nothing that fulfilled me. He wasn't providing anything, there was no enhancement in my emotional being, my physical being. 'I was working, doing my thing, coming in and out of the house and letting him settle down.' Shortly before announcing their separation, Hauer revealed they were having counselling to help them with their relationship. She told HELLO! magazine: 'Counselling. You know what I think communication is massive but learning how to communicate, you know, so we get outside help. 'So whenever we're having tricky moments or anything like that, it's just seeing the vulnerable side of each other and understanding it and knowing that both of us are working on things because nobody is perfect.' She added: 'There is no such thing as a happy marriage or a happy relationship with the perfect couple. 'It's about dealing with things the right way and not just running away from things, and I guess that's what makes us tick even better and understand one another.'
South China Morning Post
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Queer liberation of Hong Kong's burgeoning underground drag and performance scene
Wings are unfurled. Horns glint under purple lights. Figures strut and spin down a narrow runway as music throbs and cheers echo off the walls in a studio tucked away in Kennedy Town. It is a balmy Saturday night in April, and this is no ordinary costume party. Forbidden Forest Ball is a performance and queer self-expression in Hong Kong's growing underground ballroom scene, a subculture grown from the marginalised queer and transgender communities of 1970s Harlem in New York, offering sanctuary for those who feel pushed to the fringes. Advertisement 'Ballroom gave me space to be me, fully and unapologetically,' says 28-year-old Prince Kiki Sassy Savage, of the Kiki House of Sassy Savage and the Haus of Basquiat, Hong Kong's first locally founded and one of its most active ballroom collectives. (In keeping with ballroom tradition, members adopt their house name as their stage surname when performing.) Raised in a traditional Hong Kong household, where queerness was met with silence if not derision , Kiki never imagined such self-expression could be met with celebration. 'I didn't grow up with this kind of support, and now I want to pass it on.' Since launching in 2020, the house has grown into a family of 11 members, united not just by craft but by kinship. In Hong Kong, where LGBTQ rights have progressed but prejudice persists , the ballroom scene offers an alternative reality where everyone gets a chance to shine. Dino Mulan Oricci, of the Legendary Haus of Hua Mulan. Photo: Liang Yinzhen 'On that runway, you get your moment,' says Kiki. 'Even if it's just 45 seconds, that's your spotlight. You're powerful. You're free.' Advertisement For the uninitiated, the idea of balls may conjure Viennese waltzes or society galas. But in the queer scene, the term is loaded with subversion, deliberately borrowing the language of the elite to reframe acts of resistance and reimagination. Ballroom, here, is a creative battleground, as well as a safe haven, where walkers compete in categories such as Runway, Realness, Face and Performance (Vogue): where beauty, gender and identity can be reimagined on their own terms.
