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Dave Benett/Getty Images for Disney+Coleen Rooney is appearing alongside McFly’s Danny Jones and former Strictly Come Dancing professional Oti Mabuse in the latest series of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!
Other famous faces set to appear on the ITV reality TV show are former professional boxer Barry McGuigan, content creator GK Barry, and radio and N-Dubz singer Tulisa.
TV presenter Melvin Odoom, Loose Women’s Jane Moore and Coronation Street star Alan Halsall are also landing in Australia ahead of the show.
The ITV programme, which sees celebrities live in a jungle environment in Australia and undertake challenges, will return to screens on Sunday 17 November.
PA MediaColeen Rooney is the wife of former England footballer Wayne Rooney, with the couple sharing four sons.
She hit headlines when the so-called Wagatha Christie case went to court in 2022.
Rooney accused media personality Rebekah Vardy online of leaking private stories about her to the Sun.
She won the subsequent High Court legal case against Vardy, who had sued her for libel, when the judge found the allegation to be “substantially true”.
PA MediaKnown as Tyrone Dobbs in Coronation Street, actor Alan Halsall is tipped to be in the jungle.
The 42-year-old from Salford has appeared on screen for over two decades in the ITV soap, with his character featuring in some of the show’s major storylines, including as a victim of domestic abuse.
BBC/Jay Brooks/Matt BurlemMelvin Odoom is best known for presenting on BBC Radio 1 with co-hosts Rickie Haywood-Williams and Charlie Hedges.
He previously featured as team captain in BBC Three’s comedy panel show Sweat the Small Stuff and presented the The Xtra Factor, which was a companion show for the singing competition The X Factor.
The Londoner and former Kiss FM DJ swapped the mic for dancing shoes when he appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.
PA MediaInternet personality GK Barry is expected to be appearing in the latest series of I’m a Celebrity.
The real name of the 25-year-old from Cambridgeshire is Grace Eleanor Keeling and has 3.6m followers on TikTok and more than 60,000 subscribers on YouTube.
She has a podcast called Saving Grace, where she shares stories from her life and interviews celebrities, including comedian Alan Carr and YouTuber Louise Pentland.
PA MediaFinbar Patrick McGuigan, also known as Barry McGuigan, is reported to be heading to Australia for I’m a Celeb.
The former professional boxer from Ireland won the gold medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Canada when he was 18.
Following this, he turned professional and rose to fame in the 1980s after winning the British and European featherweight titles in 1983 and becoming the WBA World Featherweight Champion in 1985.
BBC/Sarah JeynesTula Paulinea Contostavlos, also known as Tulisa, is an English singer who first shot to fame as part of the hip-hop trio N-Dubz in the 2000s.
The Londoner later went solo with hits like Young and Sight of You, and went on to become a judge on The X Factor in 2011 and 2012.
She won a legal battle in 2018 over the role she played in one of the biggest hits of the past decade, Scream And Shout by Will.I.Am and Britney Spears.
Karwai Tang/WireImageDean McCullough is expected to be swapping the radio studio for the jungle as he is also tipped to appear in the jungle.
The 32-year-old is from Northern Ireland and is the presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Early Breakfast show on weekdays.
Dave Benett/Getty ImagesBest known as a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women, Jane Moore is a broadcaster and columnist for The Sun.
She is also known as an author of romance books, including Perfect Match and Love Is On The Air.
Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesOti Mabuse has been on TV screens for many years as a dancer and talent show judge.
She is an eight-time Latin American Champion in South Africa and was a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, which she won in 2019 and 2020.
Mabuse left Strictly in 2022 and became a judge on the celebrity figure skating competition Dancing On Ice in the same year.
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After Malaysia MotoGP (23 October – cancelled)
| Rider standings | ||||||||||||
| – | Name | Bike | Nat | Points | ||||||||
| 1 | Casey Stoner | Honda | Aus | 325 | ||||||||
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | Spa | 260 | ||||||||
| 3 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | Ita | 212 | ||||||||
| 4 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | Spa | 208 | ||||||||
| 5 | Ben Spies | Yamaha | US | 156 | ||||||||
| 6 | Marco Simoncelli | Honda | Ita | 139 | ||||||||
| 7 | Valentino Rossi | Ducati | Ita | 139 | ||||||||
| 8 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati | US | 132 | ||||||||
| 9 | Colin Edwards | Yamaha | US | 109 | ||||||||
| 10 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | Jpn | 94 | ||||||||
| 11 | Hector Barbera | Ducati | Spa | 77 | ||||||||
| 12 | Alvaro Bautista | Suzuki | Spa | 67 | ||||||||
| 13 | Cal Crutchlow | Yamaha | GB | 57 | ||||||||
| 14 | Karel Abraham | Ducati | Cze | 56 | ||||||||
| 15 | Toni Elias | Honda | Spa | 55 | ||||||||
| 16 | Randy de Puniet | Ducati | Fra | 49 | ||||||||
| 17 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati | Ita | 36 | ||||||||
| 18 | Kousuke Akiyoshi | Honda | Jpn | 7 | ||||||||
| 19 | John Hopkins | Suzuki | US | 6 | ||||||||
| 20 | Shinichi Ito | Honda | Jpn | 3 | ||||||||
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You have probably already noticed that the price of many of the foods in your grocery basket has risen – a lot. In the UK, the cost of white potatoes is up 20 per cent in the past year, with carrots up 38 per cent and olive oil up 40 per cent. And while that means the expense of putting together a roast dinner is soaring, specialty items are suffering even bigger hikes – you will now pay nearly double for some bars of chocolate.
What is driving prices up is complex, but one of the biggest factors is climate change. In the short term, extreme weather caused by a warming climate has had devastating consequences for growers. In northern Europe, for instance, torrential rains in spring 2024 left fields too sodden to harvest vegetables or plant new crops. Meanwhile, a drought in Morocco, which typically exports a lot of vegetables to Europe, meant there wasn’t enough water for irrigation. The result was soaring prices for potatoes and carrots.
As the average global temperature zooms past 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in the coming years, heatwaves, droughts and extreme storms are going to become even more common and severe, causing greater disruption to food production. But current efforts to compensate for the impact of poor harvests – such as clearing forests to grow more crops – make many other problems worse, from biodiversity loss to increasing carbon dioxide levels. With such big impacts on so many foods already happening, have we underestimated how bad the effect will be? And what can we do about it if we have?
BBCThey think it’s all over… and it will be soon for Gary Lineker as host of BBC One’s Match of the Day.
The former England striker-turned-broadcaster will leave the long-running football highlights show after 25 years at the helm at the end of the season, the BBC understands.
The Sun reports he will leave the BBC altogether after leading coverage of the 2026 men’s World Cup.
So, who are the potential star signings that could fill the vacant hot seat to become the show’s sixth main presenter in its 60-year history?
Getty ImagesA familiar face to football fans, Mark ‘Chappers’ Chapman is considered by many to be a front-runner with his warm presenting style.
He brings a wealth of experience, having regularly stood in to present Match of the Day and fronted its sister programme, Match of the Day 2, for over a decade.
Chapman has also recently begun hosting the BBC’s new mid-week Champions League highlights show, secured under a three-year deal with Uefa.
Outside television, the broadcaster presents a number of shows on BBC Radio 5 Live, including its football-orientated Monday Night Club.
Getty ImagesGabby Logan is one of the UK’s most well-known sports presenters, with 20 years’ experience hosting major football coverage across various networks.
After starting her broadcasting career at Sky, she moved to ITV, deputising for Des Lynam on The Premiership, the channel’s highlights show launched after they won the rights from the BBC between 2001 and 2004.
Logan later succeeded Lynam to front Champions League coverage on the station, before departing under what she described as a “cloud” when her job as a World Cup anchor was given to a male presenter instead.
She swiftly joined the BBC in 2007 and has stood in for Lineker on Match of the Day, alongside covering the biggest sporting events, including the Six Nations, the Olympics, the men’s and women’s football World Cup and this summer’s Euros.
Logan has recently begun hosting live games shown on streaming service Amazon Prime, further boosting her Premier League credentials.
Getty ImagesScott, another regular Match of the Day stand-in, broke through as one of the first mainstream female football pundits after retiring from the game in 2017.
The former England and Arsenal midfielder became the first female analyst to be taken to a men’s World Cup by the BBC when Russia hosted the tournament in 2018.
Later that summer, she also debuted as Sky Sports’ first woman football pundit.
In 2021, she took over hosting duties for the BBC’s Football Focus – replacing the departing Dan Walker on the weekend preview show.
An ever-present broadcaster at men’s and women’s tournaments since, Scott wore a rainbow armband during England’s first match of the Qatar World Cup – showing support for the LGBT community in a country where homosexuality remains illegal.
The recipient of an MBE, she defended her London accent after ex-House of Lords member Digby Jones criticised her pronunciation.
Getty ImagesFollowing a stint at TNT Sport, Kate Abdo has found her career transformed at the helm of CBS’ Champions League coverage.
She previously told GQ that the show’s success relies on its uninhibited feel, calling it the “locker room environment translated onto television” – mirroring the personality-driven tone younger audiences are used to from online sports content.
One of its pundit Micah Richards (see below) has separately described Abdo as the “glue” that keeps the controlled chaos of the show together; balancing frolics (such as being teased into revealing her first kiss) with genuine analysis from the panel.
As young audiences increasingly turn their back on terrestrial TV, the BBC is under pressure to adapt – particularly as individual match highlights now appear on YouTube long before Match of the Day’s 10:30pm time slot.
There’s no doubt the new-age formula has worked for CBS, but it is a far cry from the traditions of Match of the Day. Could it work on the BBC? And would Abdo want to risk jeopardising CBS’ popular dynamic?
Getty ImagesAlan Shearer, alongside Lineker, is one of England’s all-time great goal-scorers. Despite retiring in 2006, he still holds the Premier League goal record and remains top scorer for Newcastle United.
This pedigree helped him become a mainstay pundit on the BBC and Match of the Day. He also formed a strong trio with Lineker and Richards, first on the BBC’s Match of the Day podcast and latterly The Rest is Football – produced independently on Lineker’s hugely successful Goalhanger podcast company. These have allowed him to show off more of his personality.
Now almost 20 years into his media career, Shearer is however yet to host a show – could that step up to becoming Match of the day anchor finally be on the horizon?
Getty ImagesThe ex-Manchester City and England defender burst onto the footballing scene as a teenager, but, after an on-pitch career curtailed by a knee injury, Richards has blossomed as the ever-animated pundit with a mega-watt personality to boot.
He embodies the modern take on the role, engaging viewers not only with analysis but also fun-loving camaraderie shared between analysts and presenter.
His media career blossomed as a jovial foil to the tough-talking, former Manchester United captain Roy Keane on Sky Sports’ Super Sunday.
Similar roles have followed on Match of the Day and for CBS’ Champions League coverage – where humorous off-script moments between presenter Abdo, Richards himself and Premier League legends Jamie Carragher and Thierry Henry regularly trend on social media.
Asking Richards to make the step up to presenting duties on a show as prestigious as Match of the Day would represent a risk from bosses, but certainly mark a fresh start and shift in tone.
He also has the backing of Lineker, who, when discussing the speculation over his future on The Rest is Football, told Richards: “I’d love to see you take over. I think you’d be brilliant in the chair.”
Beginning his career in music as a fun-loving, noughties upstart on BBC Radio 1, Colin Murray soon moved into sport broadcasting.
The northern Irishman balanced hosting BBC Radio 5 Live’s raucous sport comedy panel show Fighting Talk with anchoring European football on Channel 5, before moving to precede Mark Chapman in the hot seat on Match of the Day 2.
But controversy later struck when Murray used Fighting Talk’s ‘Defend the Indefensible’ segment to ask panellists whether they would be able to “turn” the sexuality of openly gay broadcaster Clare Balding. The BBC soon issued an apology. Within months Murray had left the BBC to join TalkSport radio.
Murray has since expressed regret, admitting to The Guardian: “The second I said it… I knew it was over the line”.
In the years since, Murray has rehabilitated his BBC career, returning to present various shows on 5 Live and expanding to become the host of Channel 4’s long-running word show, Countdown.
A chance at the main Match of the Day role may end up a step too far, but Murray is certainly a tried, tested and trusted football anchor with appeal spanning all age groups.
Getty ImagesPrior to quitting the BBC for Channel 5 in 2022, Dan Walker shared his high-profile BBC Breakfast presenting tole with 12 years as the host of Football Focus.
Walker would offer bosses a clean cut image and a safe pair of hands were he to take the role, having previously also covered Olympics and football World Cups for the BBC. He has also recently covered games for Amazon Prime.
But questions remain over Walker’s own interest – he is on a bumper contract at Channel 5 and has persistently batted away suggestions of a return to the BBC.
Getty ImagesLaura Woods made her name on TalkSport, receiving plaudits for her relatable style as a host and interviewer.
She has since stepped up to become lead presenter for TNT Sports’ Champions League coverage, replacing Jake Humphrey when the channel rebranded from BT Sport last year.
Woods also presents football on Amazon Prime and ITV – joining the latter for coverage of this summer’s Euros.
Earlier this summer she spoke of receiving “numerous death threats” online after commenting on an article questioning the eligibility of Olympic champion boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting.
Woods fits the mould of Abdo and Richards in bringing a more personality-led style to her broadcasting.
Getty ImagesHumphrey is a vastly experienced sports broadcaster, with a catalogue of BBC experience to draw upon prior to his later career exploits.
After an early career on BBC children’s TV, by 2006 he had started working with BBC Sport, presenting Formula 1, Football Focus, Final Score and becoming the youngest ever host in Match of the Day’s history.
Since stepping back from BT Sport, Humphrey has focused on his successful High-Performance podcast, exploring the lives of high-achieving individuals. However, Humphrey remains a fan of Match of the Day, previously telling The Express he would “never say never” to hosting the “legendary show”.
Getty ImagesAn experienced anchor across radio and TV, football is Cates’ life-blood, quite literally – she is the daughter of Liverpool and Scotland legend Kenny Dalglish.
The broadcaster has hosted BBC Radio 5 Live’s 606 football phone-in and, more recently, the station’s Football Daily podcast, in amongst numerous other roles at major tournaments.
But she is best-known in front of the camera as part of the presenting roster for Sky Sports’ Premier League coverage – including its flagship Super Sunday programme.
Cates, like Logan, brings both pedigree and gender diversity – but it remains to be seen if she could be tempted away from Sky.
