Catherine, who was formerly a size 22 before she lost a huge amount of weight, which saw her drop to a size 10, told TV Biz, “When I started working with my personal trainer, I said, ‘I’d kill to look like Michelle Keegan!’”

She added, “I lost 4½st over the space of about 18 months when I was 17. What worked was healthy eating and exercise.

“I don’t eat any junk food and have loads of organic food and fruit and veg.

“Exercise-wise, I work out four times a week doing weights, swimming and interval training.”

And finally, of Michelle, Catherine, who plays Eva Price, added, “She is just gorgeous, inside and out” and it would appear that the girls’ Corrie co-star Bill Roache feels the same way about Michelle!

Also while speaking to The Sun, Michelle revealed that Bill – who plays Ken Barlow and who recently confessed he’d bedded around a thousand women – is forever trying to pinch her bum.

She said, “I’m not joking, he’s always touching me on the bum. But because it’s Ken Barlow he gets away with it. He’s a legend.”

And apropos of Bill, he visited the show’s new set in Salford’s MediaCity yesterday to see how preparations for the big move are coming along, even though the relocation won’t be complete until the spring of next year.

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It’s been revealed today that EastEnders actress Meryl Fernandes is leaving the show and her role as Afia Masood.

In fact, an EastEnders spokesperson told Digital Spy that Meryl has already filmed her final scenes on the show, which will be aired next month.

However, there’s no word as yet on why she’s left the show, or what Afia’s exit storyline will be, but I just hope she doesn’t take Tamwar (Himesh Patel) with her!

But there again, if Tam’s left in Walford, that means he and Afia are splitting up. O poor Tam…

The show spokesperson told DS, “Meryl Fernandes recently finished filming her final scenes at EastEnders, which will be on screen next month.”

And a show insider added, “Since the traumatic events of the fire, things have not been the same in Tamwar and Afia’s relationship.

“As their issues worsen, they are forced to decide whether their marriage is worth fighting for or whether they have grown apart.”

Meryl took on the role of Afia in December 2009, and before joining the cast of EastEnders, she’d starred in Doctor Who and Minder.

Meryl’s also had roles in musicals, starring in Oliver! and was an extra in the video to Dannii Minogue’s track, You Won’t Forget About Me.

Will you be sorry to see her go?

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Last night, Channel 4 viewers got their first look at the world of fat fetishists in Nick Betts’ documentary, My Big Fat Fetish, and in today’s Daily Mirror, one of the women featured in the film, Reenaye Starr, has revealed what the clients who flock to her website really want from her.

And it’s an astonishingly candid interview, in which 29 stone Reenaye revealed that men from all over the world send her money for food – then watch her eat it – and that many of her subscribers like “squashing”, which, as it says on the tin, means being squashed by a fat woman.

31 year old Reenaye, who measures 52-60-73, began by explaining that her subscribers love to watch “big girls eating or getting fatter or playing with their bellies.”

She added, “There are so many different kinds of ‘fat admirers’. Some men are not interested in squashing at all. Some men are just into big ladies looking cute…

“And then there are some into hardcore pornography who want to see big ladies having sex.

“It all depends on what your sub-fetish is – but to these men, being with a big woman in any capacity is their ultimate desire.”

And when asked, “What is the most popular request made of you by your website’s subscribers?” Reenaye said, “Probably stuffing sessions, where girls eat as much as their bodies can handle.

“But not everything on the site is eating, eating, eating. There are extreme aspects, sure – like domination and submission, including force-feeding.

“We try and cater for every kind of feeding fantasy. But there is also a lot of weight gain chat where subscribers note what a girl weighs when she starts and what weight she ends up at.

“Some of the girls on our site are not actively gaining, but they are willing to do fetish stuff.”

Of her own client base, Reenaye said, “I personally attract kinda nerdy guys, but that’s probably because I do things like set ups where I’m reading a comic book while eating. That’s my personality, too.

“I think it’s just a preference – like whether you like blue eyes, or blonde hair. I think all different types of men love big women.”

She added, “I’ve gained over 100lbs purposefully but I’m no longer gaining, I’m maintaining my weight. I don’t want to be uncomfortable, I don’t want to be immobile.

“I was in a car accident a couple years ago and sustained a permanent injury to my foot and because of that I’m not really able to do some of the things I used to be able to do.

“I can still walk around and get around fine. But say, if I go to Disney for the day I have to ride an electronic buggy. That’s a really long ride for me.”

And finally, when asked, “Do you ever feel as if you’re being exploited or – on the flip side ? empowered?” Reenaye replied, “I feel very empowered with what I do.

“It’s like the age-old question of like, feminist movement or whatever because a lot of people would say that if someone is in the adult industry at all, a female, that they’re being exploited.

“But I run my own business. I do very well for my family. When you see the film, you’ll see that I have a really nice house.

“I’m doing the things that I want to do in life, so it’s very empowering.

“Not only that but I interact with women who love themselves and love their size.

“To me, being on ‘The Biggest Loser’ would be exploitation. To me, going along with what the rest of the world thinks I should do and feeling bad about myself and talking bad about how I feel and who I am just because I’m large… well, I love being big.

“To me, it’s absolutely empowering. I work with attractive women who love themselves – what could be more empowering than that?”

If you missed the show last night, you can catch My Big Fat Fetish on 4oD.

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Back in March, Channel 4’s chief executive David Abraham announced that the broadcaster was launching a catch-up TV channel dedicated to repeats of the regular channel’s hit shows.

And today, it’s been revealed that the channel, to be entitled, 4seven, will launch on July 4th.

Of the new channel, Abraham said, “With so much choice out there, viewers are increasingly saying they sometimes just miss the best stuff, despite their PVR and VOD.

“4seven will give viewers more chances to catch the most popular and talked about Channel 4 shows from the last seven days.

“It will schedule the main channel content that is creating noise – amongst social media, bloggers, commentators and of course via contact our viewers have directly with us – and incorporate this buzz into the look and feel of the channel…

“Scheduled in close harmony with all our other channels, 4seven will be a powerful way of maximising the audience for the many hours of new Channel 4 programming we launch every week, as well as an opportunity to direct viewers back to Channel 4 to watch more.

“The launch of 4seven also supports our strategy of embracing the opportunities of connectivity, by exploring way to deepen engagement with our viewers and expand the choices we can offer them.”

The channel number assigned to 4seven for Virgin Media and Freesat aren’t yet known, but it’s believed that 4seven will launch on channel 47 on Freeview and will replace More4 +2 on Sky at position 269 on the EPG.

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As fans of Corrie will know, evil loan shark Rick Whelan (Greg Wood) has passed on Terry Duckworth’s debt to his son Tommy, who’s being forced to secrete drugs on cars he’s working on to pay off what Terry owes…

And while speaking to Soaplife about how her character Tina McIntyre will feel when she finds out what Tommy (Chris Fountain) has been doing, Michelle Keegan also revealed that she’s not sure if Tina and Tommy can make it through the crisis and stay together.

She began by saying, “She feels totally betrayed he didn’t tell her about Rick. She thought they had a good relationship.

“Not only that, but they’re best friends who are meant to talk to each other about everything.”

When asked how Tina finds out about Tommy’s dodgy dealings with Rick, Michelle explained, “Tyrone borrows one of Rick’s cars and Tommy has a real go at him when he brings it back…

“Tina thinks his reaction’s strange. He’s not acting like himself and he hasn’t got a proper explanation for it.

”She follows him in Rita’s car [because] she suspects that something’s wrong and she wants to know what it is.

“He meets Rick and it’s Tina’s worst nightmare.”

However, even though Tommy then explains that he’s being forced into smuggling the drugs by Rick, Michelle said, “She feels confused and betrayed he didn’t tell her about this.

“She tells Tommy he has to call and tell Rick the deal’s off or she can’t trust him any more.

“Her dad died because of Rick and she doesn’t want Tommy going down the same path.”

But of course, things are far from over for Tommy where Rick’s concerned, and it’s all about come to a terrible head when Rick kidnaps Rita, demanding return of the drugs Tina’s taken from him.

As to whether Tina and Tommy can come out of this still together, Michelle said, “I hope so because I think they make a great couple.

“But they’ve been through a lot at such an early stage in their relationship… She might feel the trust has gone.”

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Hollyoaks

Turns out that Martha (Carli Norris) wasn’t exactly generous with the truth about her financial situation, as Callum (Laurie Duncan) finds out when Jack (Jimmy McKenna) comes demanding the rent she hasn’t paid.

Brendan (Emmett J Scanalan) hasn’t seemed to learn anything about getting kids involved in men’s business, as he goes about frightening the life out of Bart (Jonny Clark), reminding him how much he now owes following the raid and cannabis confiscation.

In order to get ahead of the trouble that’s fast catching up on him, Bart sells the Savage’s camper van, and enlists the help of cousin Jacqui (Claire Cooper) to help him “disappear”.

Emmerdale

Katie (Sammy Winward) is growing more and more suspicious of Robbie (Jamie Shelton) , but Declan (Jason Merrells) is oblivious as he strides to help his long lost nephew.

Sean (Luke Roskell) finally has to retract his allegations, leaving Ali (Kelli Hollis) fuming!

Amy (Chelsea Half-Penny) starts to feel very guilty for making Eric (Chris Chittel) chose, when it becomes very apparent how much Brenda (Lesley Dunlop) means to him.

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It’s virtually unheard of in the travelling community, but Big Fat Gypsy Weddings stars, Josie and Swanley have split up and are filling for divorce!

The young couple,who wed on the show in a flamboyant ceremony watched by 6.5million viewers on the hit Channel4 dispatch spin-off show, have reportedly separated due to a string of heated rows.

According to reports, 18-year-old Josie, has taken the couples one year old-daughter, also named Josie, out of the family trailer on a gypsy travelling site, and moved into a house in Middlesex, as well as changing back to her maiden name.

A friend of the pair said: “There have been some awful rows. The fairytale is over.

“It’s very sad. Things haven’t been going well for a while and Josie thinks that it would be better if they were no longer married. She will be filing for divorce.

“She wants to move on with her life and being with Swanley just isn’t making her happy. She has little Josie to think of too, she’s her number one priority.”

It is thought that Josie’s mum, also a traveller, has moved in with her daughter to help her get over the break up and help with the baby.

Josie’s Agent Terry Mills said: “I can confirm my client has split from her husband. Josie is concentrating on being a good mother.”

Swanley and Josie, arguably the most popular couple on the show, appeared in the 2010 series as they planned their over the top wedding, with Josie wearing a huge wedding dress which turned into a micro skirt at the front, complete with bridesmaids dressed in shocking pink.  They then appeared in the Christmas special and the latest series as the show followed the pregnancy and subsequent birth of their daughter.

Two months after their daughter was born, both Swanley and Josie were arrested for separate gypsy wedding fights, with Josie even being fitted with an electronic tag for her part in the bust up.

The couple made their last public appearance together on the red carpet of the National Television Awards in January, which they attended on behalf of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings who had been nominated for an award at the event.

Swanley commented in an interview in February: “People say we are their favourite couple from the show.”

Watch a clip from the young couples wedding below:

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As we have all watched over the last week or so, the cover up of Heather Trott’s murder  is starting to unravel in EastEnders, leaving us all just waiting for the truth to be revealed, but could the Mitchell’s have one more trick up their sleeves?

So far, since Killing Heather, we have seen murderer Ben Mitchell (Joshua Pascoe) enlist the help of father Phil (Steve McFadden) to help cover up his dastardly deed, whilst Jay Mitchell (Jamie Borthwick) shook close to breaking point in the background!

However, despite his calculated steps to keep the truth from coming out, including breaking his dad and Shirley (Linda Henry), Heather’s best friend, up, it was Ben himself who spilled the beans, to half-brother Ian (Adam Woodyatt).

Thinking that Phil was about to confess all to Shirley, Ben went running to Ian thinking that if he ‘fessed up, the cowardly chip shop owner would protect him from his dad, and the authorities (about as likely as Simon Cowell being a mentor on The Voice).

When the realisation hit him that he had just blown his cover for no reason, Ben turned back to his dad to help him keep Ian quiet, but it seems as though the Walford hardman may have taken this a bit too far!

Phil has tried everything to buy Ian’s silence, including offering him a friendly handshake, but Ian’s anxiety over the situation has seen him get addicted to drinking caffeine drinks and behaving erratically, well more so than usual anyway.

When Ben informs Phil that Ian, who was meant to be marrying Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton), has vanished, Phil becomes somewhat horrified, but still tries to take control fo the situation.

He firstly warns Ian’s daughter, Lucy (Hetti Bywater) not to call the police as if social services get wind of the situation then Bobby will be given to Jane.  He then helps her out by giving her the money that her father had owed to Janine (Charlie Brooks) as well as asking for her fathers accounts to help him track Ian down.

Ben and Jay instantly smell a rat, and despite Ben reassuring Jay that there is no way Phil would have killed Ian to keep their secret, he urges Lucy to go tot he police and report her dad missing, going against what Phil said.

Lucy does not take Ben’s advice however, and luckily for Phil who still goes mental at Ben when he finds out he tried to get her to go to the police, and hands over the accounts as requested.

Where is Ian, and when and how will this sorry tale end?

Watch the moment that Ben killed Heather in the clip below:

EastEnders can be seen Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings on BBC1/BBC1 HD.

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On Saturday night we will field music legend Englebert Humperdink to be our latest attempt to try and get the top prize at the Eurovision Song Contest though I think most of us have already reconciled with the fact that we’ll never win it again. We were though about to at least break the record for the oldest Eurovision entrant ever, that was until Russia unveiled their entry six grandmothers that go by the collective name of Buranovskiye Babushki combining their country’s traditional roots with a Europop twist.

As you can imagine these ladies were the main highlight of a semi-final, that also included an ode to social networking and a familiar pair of Irish twins, which emanated from the newly built Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan. For those unaware of how the Eurovision structure works the semi-finals see thirty-six countries compete for twenty spots in Saturday’s final with the other six places filled up by the western countries who fund the whole thing but never win as well as this year’s hosts.

Last year’s winner Eldar was also one of tonight’s presenters alongside two female co-hosts one of whom is bizarrely a lawyer and is a lot older than a colleagues evidenced by the fact that she refused to give her birth year during the welcome introduction. While Graham Norton will be on hand on Saturday night our guides for the semi-finals will be the team of Scott Mills and Sara Cox who were both constantly trying to outfunny the other one with their witty puns about the strange Europeans who entered.

Talking of strange Europeans right off the bat we had one of my highlights of the evening with the representative from Montenegro, going by the name of Rambo Amadeus, came onto the stage wearing a cloak before revealing himself then breaking into a rap before welcoming on a wooden donkey onto the stage. Rambo’s track, entitled Euro Neuro, was predictably naff as he rhymed words such as institution, revolution and pollution to make a song which I think was about climate change but overall he just came across as a sweaty man who shouldn’t be there. A complete contrast from this was the very polished Icelandic entry which was a folksy Evanesence style duet performed by the beautiful Greta Salome and former Eurovision entrant Jonsi which I did check isn’t the one who sings for Sigur Ros. What these Iceland natives did have was an amazingly pretty violin player who added an air of class to one of the best proper songs of the evening. Then we had something for the dads as the Greek Eleftheria Eleftheriou flaunted herself on stage randomly pinching the bottoms of her male backing dancers while belting her way through a Europop number about how her lover is her aphrodisiac even if he does touch himself too much. I also noticed for the first time in the evening that the stage at the Crystal Hall had been littered with video screens both behind and underneath the performers which were used, in the case of Greece, to display oyster shells because of course oysters are aphrodisiacs.

Song four looked to be the Latvian approximation of Girls Aloud but actually turned out to be lead singer Anmary and her four back-ups who were all clad in satin to sing her self-referential hit Beautiful Song. In it Anmary tells us how she got to be a singer and what will happen in her future including an imagined telephone conversation in which she has to turn down Mick Jagger. I have to say I wasn’t a fan of the Albanian entry, a woman who looked like Samantha Morton but with a beehive attached to her sculp singing one of these big boring ballads, so let’s move onto Romania. The Romanians fielded the band Mandinga who were a seven-piece ensemble but as Eurovision rules only allow six people on stage at one time they had to leave tambourine-player Tony in the dressing room. I have to say Mandinga were an odd group as they combined the Europop vocals of their lead female singer with an almost Highland pipes and drums backdrop. The Swiss also put forward a group in the form of Sinplus an electronic indie band who are sort of a rubbish Muse covers-band who wanted to play some of their original songs which are a bit rubbish even though they try to hide this with strobe lighting. Then we had a 17 year old girl singing a tune called ‘Would You?’ in which the opening line was come and find me I’ve been hiding from you. To be fair to the Belgian entry Iris she did give it her all and came across as someone who was a lot more mature than her years.

The Finnish entry Pernilla captured everything that exemplifies Eurovision as she was wearing a long-flowing green dress which kept me upturned by a wind machine while a cellist strummed away behind her although I can’t for the life of me remember what her song was about. Israel bought to us a creepy gypsy band that went by the name of Izabo who had unique staging idea in that their backing singers would stand in front of the band in order to nail the ultra-high chorus. The Israeli song, entitled Time, used the video screens to full effect by showing a cavalcade of watches and clocks while the creepy lead singer instructed the audience to feel free to turn him on. Act of the night for me, or at least the one that didn’t get through to the next stage, was the San Marino entry Valentina with her ode to Facebook entitled The Social Network song. Valentina’s number was originally going to be entitled Facebook but the rules state that no advertising be done so the name was changed however most of the words that rhymed with the social networking site stayed on. There are really no words to describe how amazing Valentina was but she was joined on stage by a captain, a doctor and a cheerleader while in addition she sung and typed on a fake laptop at the same time belting out such classic lines as ‘if you want to come to my house then just click me with your mouse.’ This song about Facebook was so bad it was almost enough to make Mark Zuckerberg jump in a time machine and just form a society at Harvard instead.

After San Marino it was all downhill for a while although Cyprus did put up quite a catchy number entitled La La Love which was one of those European dance numbers that you’d expect to hear while on holiday in Crete but it seemed that the backing dancers would have had an awkward moment earlier in the evening when they’d all realised they’d come wearing the same outfit. From there it was Denmark whose entry was sung by a Miley Cyrus lookalike dressed as a captain who in fact was 21 year old Soluna Samay an accomplished singer, musician and songwriter. The Danish entry was one of my favourite songs of the whole evening with Samay being a talented young lady and her band including a xylophonist which is always a good thing.

Then it was the main event for most people the aforementioned granny sextuplet whose act opened with two of them putting some pastries in the oven before joining up with their pals to sing their hit Party for Everyone. In fact this is a fairly gimmicky number as the central joke is old women dressed as Russian dolls singing Europop I’m sure everybody will find this completely amazing but at some points the girls went completely out of tune or just didn’t sing at all. Though I can’t really say anything bad about these women as they are trying to raise money to rebuild the church that Stalin destroyed seventy years ago but maybe they could’ve just set up a Just Giving account rather than participate in a global singing competition. Before the final acts could perform we had a quick interview with Englebert Humperdink in which Sara Cox tried to get in as many questions as possible before we had to return. It seems to have been decided that young kids can’t say the name Englebert Humperdink as it just has far too many letters in it so now we just have to refer to him as #thehump or at least until he loses on Saturday night.

The Hungarian band Compact Disco sung a catchy tune which felt about fifteen years out of date while their keyboard player looks like he teaches physics at a local secondary school. Then it was onto the Austrian duo who go by the name Trackshittaz and perform a style of music they call gangster party rap which when they sing it in their native tongue sounds like they are swearing a lot of the time. Thanks to the magic of subtitles I was able to translate some of the lines they sung with a typical sample being something like, ‘unpack your pots, here come the noodle soup gangs.’ The two boys, one of whom wore a baseball cap and looked about twelve, were flanked by four gorgeous pole-dancers before descending into a finale which included everybody on stage revealing the flashing portions of their clothing when the lights went down. Following this was a sort of Eastern European Michael Buble number as sung by a Colin Farrell lookalike as Moldova took to the stage their main man serenaded the woman of his dreams with lines like, ‘you’ve never been to my show you haven’t seen before – how looks the trumpet? ‘ This number ended with a very interesting dance routine which could be best described as a bunny hop conga an act so strange that it would’ve been hard to follow.

Luckily the final act of the night was the returning entry for Ireland who are those twins that you love or hate the mighty Jedward. After coming eighth last year with the annoying and confrontational ‘Lipstick’ they’ve returned with their hit ‘Waterline’ which is incredibly catchy if not a song that makes any sense at all when you examine the lyrics in detail. In fact Jedward’s only concern seems to be the staging in which they were clad in silver spacesuits looking like two extras from Starlight Express before doing a special dance routine in which they tried to mimic a waterline what ever one of those is. This all built up to a grand finale in which the boys actually stood in an actual fountain of water as their quiffs fully deflated they’d definitely put everything into this final number. As we went back to the European announcer they informed everyone that Jedward were back after last year to which I was tempted to tell the rest of Europe that they were the lucky ones if they only had to deal with this pair once a year.

After lots of faffing around showing video packages and interviewing a man who has a doctorate in the Eurovision Song Contest/has a lot time on his hands it was time to reveal the results. Some of the mediocre acts, such as Moldova and Hungary, made it into the final alongside Iceland, Albania, Romania, Cyprus and Denmark. With only three places left it was Greece who got the eighth spot before those pesky Russian pensioners got the penultimate pick so everybody was on tenterhooks to see who got the so-called ‘Golden Ticket’ i.e. the last place. Of course it was Jedward who were so utterly excited that they cart-wheeled their way to the stage possibly suffering some mild brain damage along the way but then who would notice if they had done? I have to say every year I enjoy the semi-finals more and more as they give you the chance to see the really camp and awful acts who don’t make it through to the finals. I feel sorry for those who didn’t watch Valentina on her laptop, haven’t witnessed the Montenegron donkey or are yet to experience Austrian Gangster Party Rap as they missed a treat and I’m just hoping that the second semi-final produces as many classics as this one did.

Did you watch this semi-final? Which acts stood out to you? Are you supporting #TheHump this Saturday? Leave your comments below.

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We reported last week how Emmerdale’s Alicia Gallagher will vent her fury at her secret Crush’s step-mum by means of a punch in the face (read original article here), leaving Val Pollard fuming, with a bloody nose, and phoning the police.

However, it would seem that, as funny as the scene will be to watch, it actually opens a huge can of worms for the Woolpack barmaid, as a well-kept secret leads her to serious trouble over the attack.

When stubborn Val (Charlie Hardwick) refuses to let the matter of the attack drop, Alicia (Natalie Anderson) starts to panic over the court hearing she faces.

Alicia hits Val after she calls David (Matthew Wolfenden) spineless in a torrent of abuse aimed at her stepson upon her return from Portugal in the next few weeks.  Alicia, who has been harbouring a secret crush on her sisters ex, sees red and lashes out at  flame haired Val, who instantly reports the incident to the police.

The day of the court case arrives, and a visibly anxious Alicia is desperate for the judge not to look through her file, whilst back at the shop David is desperately trying to get down tot he court in time to support Alicia.

Outside the court Alicia breaks down in David’s arms as she admits to her solicitor that she has a previous conviction for assaulting one of her mother’s carers.  As David tries to console her, the solicitor is less sympathetic, this could mean jail time!

With the actress who plays Alicia, Natalie Anderson, finishing filming next week before going on maternity leave, could prison be the way her character is written out till the end of the year?  A later report suggests that Val ends up dropping the charges, but could it be too little too late?

Watch some more snipits from Alicia’s criminal past in the clip below where she admits to stealing from her own sister:

Emmerdale can be seen weekday evenings on ITV1/ITV1 HD.

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