EastEnders star Rita Simons 'rescued naked from bathroom' amid medical emergency

Alyssa Barmonde is famed for appearing on Married At First Sight, but she appeared on our TV screens way before she joined the cast of the popular dating show. Alyssa, 35, featured on hit TV programme Judge Judy back in 2010, with a clip of her appearance as a defendant in the courtroom recently resurfacing and taking fans by surprise. Rocking a short blonde bob and a grey blazer, Alyssa looks nearly unrecognisable in the clip, which she shared on her TikTok account.

Big Brother star Lauren's mum Katy took to social media to share an update with fans. She wrote in her caption: "Lauren has woken up after her brain surgery. They had to shave her hair.

Stephen Mulhern has been on our TVs for over two decades, fronting many programmes and game shows.

Jamie Foxx is slowly getting back to normal.

Cheryl has been replaced in West End show, 2:22 A Ghost Story by actress Jaime Winstone.The Girls Aloud star, 39, received rave reviews after kicking off her three-month stint in the hit horror show in January. But it has now been announced that Jaime, 37, will be taking over the lead female role of Jenny in the spooktacular show.The actress, who is the daughter of renowned Hollywood actor Ray Winstone, previously took on the role of beloved EastEnders matriarch Peggy Mitchell in an iconic flashback episode that aired last year and the BBC biopic Babs, where she played the late Barbara Windsor.

If you’ve read the post on his daughter’s Instagram page, you might be wondering: what happened to Jamie Foxx? 

Oh no!

Hollywood star Jamie Foxx was taken to hospital for an undisclosed "medical emergency" Tuesday morning, his family have revealed as they ask fans for prayers. The actor had been filming for a new film this week when he was rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. Foxx's family announced on Instagram that the star was in hospital.

Jamie Foxx is recovering after experiencing a “medical complication”, his family has said.The 55 year old Oscar-winning actor, known for films including Django Unchained, Collateral and Ray, was treated with “great care” following the unspecified incident on Tuesday. Sharing the news on social media, his daughter Corinne Foxx, 29, said the family was grateful for fans’ support and asked for privacy. “We wanted to share that my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication yesterday,” she wrote in a post on Instagram.

Fans of the long-running iconic soap EastEnders will recognise Heather Peace for her portrayal as Eve Unwin, after she joined the cast in late 2021. The 47 year old, who originally hails from Bradford, entered the show as the new wife of veteran character, Stacey Slater, played by Lacey Turner.

Ravi is leaving VIXX.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and directed by Anne Fontaine. Zylberstein’s Sonia Films will produce the film with Philippe Carcassone’s banner Cine@ and Master Movie, the production vehicle of Marco and Lola Pacchioni. Rather than a biopic, the movie will revolve around the passionate transatlantic romance between de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren. Zylberstein has scooped the adaptation rights of de Beauvoir’s “Lettres à Nelson Algren” from Gallimard. Through those letters, the film will chart the pair’s affair, which spanned nearly two decades from 1947, in the aftermath of World War II, to 1964. Two-thirds of the movie will take place in Chicago, and the reminder will unfold in Paris.

ITV soap Emmerdale is known for its explosive weddings, with previous twists including kidnaps and deadly storms. So it comes as no surprise that Charity Dingle and Mackenzie Boyd’s nuptials will be anything but smooth sailing.

Maisie Smith has reportedly landed first major film role, as she's said to have been cast in key role in the upcoming gangster film Bermondsey Tales: Fall Of The Roman Empire, alongside a handful of famous faces.The former EastEnders actress, 21, has been acting since a young age and first appeared in the long-running BBC soap as Tiffany Butcher back in 2008, when she was just six years old. Maisie went on to appear in 678 episodes of the popular soap. Prior to joining to cast of EastEnders, she made her film debut as a very young Elizabeth I in 2008’s The Other Boleyn Girl.

Actress Su Pollard and Paralympian Millie Knight struggled to hold back their tears in the final episode of Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal following Shane Lynch’s shock departure. In the three-part BBC Two series, Irish singer and former Boyzone member Shane, 46, takes part in a modern-day pilgrimage with six other celebrities with differing faiths and beliefs.The show includes actress Rita Simons, reality TV star Vicky Pattison, maths teacher and TV personality Bobby Seagull and comedian Nabil Abdulrashid.The series follows the group who travel by foot, road and train along Portugal’s Northern Way, with the sanctuary in the city of Fatima being their final destination.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) honorary board member James Cromwell, who portrays Succession’s Ewan Roy, helped save a piglet who fell off a transport truck headed to a facility where he would have been fattened for slaughter.

Good Morning Britain star Richard Arnold couldn't resist a jibe at Leonardo DiCaprio's love life amid Maya Jama romance rumours.

April Fools' Day is a time where celebs - especially comedians - can really come into their own. Over the years, there have been many pranks, set-ups, and general tomfoolery all in the name of good fun - some of which have gone according to plan - and some, well, not so much. So, in the spirit of the practical jokes day, here are some of the most hilarious pranks that have backfired, from Ant and Dec’s ‘Toon Coin’ to Rylan Clark’s Alexa hoax… Ant and Dec’s Toon Coin Ant and Dec are the ultimate pranksters.

EastEnders star Jason Watkins shared the heartbreaking impact of the loss of his young daughter to sepsis while appearing on Good Morning Britain today.The former Gerry Fairweather actor, 60, was in the studio to discuss new documentary Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie, which chronicles the aftermath of his two-year-old's death in 2011, while urging doctors to assess youngsters more thoroughly for signs of sepsis. "It's hard isn't it for us as parents to feel that we... that's one of the painful things, is think, did we do everything that we [could've done]?" he said to presenter Susanna Reid.

Non-believer Vicky Pattison is as surprised as anyone that she was asked to take on the fifth season of Pilgrimage, a trek along the Catholic Fatima Way in Portugal.The ex-Geordie Shore star made her name in what she describes as “conflict-driven reality TV” and is the only one of the seven celebrity pilgrims not to have a faith. “I thought I was a bit of a rogue booking for this one,” she admits.