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BINKY FELSTEAD PEEK AT THEIR PAD

The former Made In Chelsea star and her daughter India have moved into this chic London pad with her boyfriend Max Darnton

The stylish star has even matched her glam red carpet dress to her champagne-hued décor.

Are those age spots on Binky’s vintage mirror or is she trying out a freckles filter on Snapchat?

India is about to tuck into some cake in the open-plan kitchen and dining space, which boasts shabby-chic exposed brickwork.

Binky’s little ballerina makes herself comfortable on Mum’s yoga bolsters. Those tiny ballet slippers, though!

That stunning bouquet co-ordinates perfectly with Binky’s sitting room, which is decorated in neutral and earthy tones.

Binky’s traditional dining table is in a bright corner, perfect for a spot of crafting with her mum Jane.

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Adorable India looks as pleased as punch with this cake – we’re pretty impressed by that sleek kitchen, too.

Fitness fanatic Binky’s dining area doubles up as a gym. At least she can gaze at the garden while she hits the treadmill! Binky says this sweet snap taken just after India was born makes her “smile every time” she looks at it.

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‘WE’RE FINALLY GETTING SOME SLEEP’

The family of three

Marnie Simpson and Casey Johnson on the ups and downs of parenthood

How is baby Rox doing? Marnie: He is good – so good. He’s just started to get into a decent routine so we’re

finally getting some sleep. He’s got such a little personality – I just love him. Casey

makes him laugh. As soon as Casey says something he just starts howling. Is he more like his mum or his dad? Marnie: Personalitywise I feel like he’s more like Casey.

Casey: I think like he looks like Marnie. At the moment he does anyway. He has Marnie’s dark eyes. Marnie: I think he’s a mix. He does have my dark eyes and that’s the first thing you see, but the rest of his face is like Casey’s – his nose, his lips, his everything. You should have plenty of footage of Rox to watch back, doing Geordie OGs! Casey: Yeah, I feel like when Rox is older, we can show him and say, “Oh that was how you were born”, which is pretty cool. p y

So Holly, what’s it like to have Sophie on the show? Holly: It’s so good because obviously me and Sophie are best friends in real life, so it’s nice to actually have someone on the show. Marnie lives quite far away, and we do kind of film together, but Sophie is always up and down the country. It’s nice to have another OG there with us. What can we expect to see on this season of Geordie OGs? Holly: Oh there’s so much – there’s my engagement party which is amazing, there’s Sophie’s 30th which is incredible, Gary and Emma get engaged, Aaron [Chalmers] finds out he’s having a baby, Marnie’s got a baby. There’s just so much. Sophie: It’s just a really relatable show. A lot of people are now having families, having career changes, settling down, buying houses. That’s a really relatable thing for viewers. Everyone goes through that in life. Is there anyone from Geordie Shore who you would love to join you on the show? Sophie: Well, of course, all the OGs! Everyone from the original series. Holly Hagan and Sophie Kasaei are reunited for a big engagement ut he’s rnie’s own, at’s hing one n life. m o you you urse, ne eries. ei are t ‘THE SHOW IS SO RELATABLE NOW’

MATURE SHORE!

As Geordie OGs returns to MTV, we catch up with some of the gang

Gaz Beadle on how his fiancée coped during their daughter’s health scare So Gaz, what can we expect to see this season? Kids everywhere! It’s nice though – it was a new challenge for me. I got engaged [to Emma McVey], but the new challenge was preparing for another baby. My missus was pregnant, we had another child growing up, I’m working – so it’ll be relatable to people watching. People’s normal lives are hectic. Everyone is trying to juggle kids and whatever else you’re doing in your normal life. For me it was just having a pregnant missus and having a two-year-old running around. Baby Primrose has been ill. How’s she doing now? To be fair, she’s a lot better now. It’s weird because nobody could give her a diagnosis. She was just really, really constipated. They were doing loads of checks on her insides and all that sort of stuff. What happened? We went to the hospital and they did loads of tests, but medically they couldn’t find anything wrong, so they couldn’t do anything. We’ve since seen an osteopath. And what was the result of that? The osteopath said she’d been curled up during the pregnancy, so it’s more about alignment. They straightened her out and it’s really, really helped. When did you first realise she wasn’t well? Obviously, when you first have a baby and they’re not pooing, it’s a problem. They can go seven days then they get uncomfortable. So you go and get flushed out and then after another five days we would go and get her flushed out again, and then we had to question why it was happening. The osteopath said it can all be to do with how they are during pregnancy and seeing how they are aligned when they come out. It’s like, you wouldn’t go to the toilet if you were curled up, so they just straighten them out a little bit. Within two or three sessions, she was like a different baby. Was it quite scary for you and Emma? It’s not scary, it’s just lucky she wasn’t white or boiling hot. She just physically couldn’t go to the toilet. We could help her, so we were on top of it, but we were wondering why! How was Emma during it all? She’s been a trouper to be fair. She will not stop until she gets answers. A mum knows their child better than anyone – they know if the baby’s uncomfortable. Emma was the one in the driving seat. Is Chester a good big brother? We got him a baby doll about two weeks before Primrose came and it was one of the best things we’ve ever done. We changed nappies with the doll, we used to put the doll in the pram and push it, so when the baby came, I think he just thought we got him a real life baby. He goes, “Ah baby”, “Morning baby” and pats the baby because he used to pat his doll! He’s been really good. Have your reality TV pals been supportive of all the changes? Yeah, you get a lot of messages from everyone, especially people like Marnie, asking if we were OK. To be fair, a lot more kids are in worse conditions, but it’s just scary being in hospital. But it wasn’t too bad in the end. We were lucky and it helped that Emma was persistent. Geordie OGs starts on 26 February, 9pm, MTV ‘EMMA’S BEEN A TROUPER’

Gaz, Emma, Chester and Primrose TV Q&As

‘I TURNED DOWN A HUGE SOAP ROLE’

Paddy McGuinness on missed opportunities, working hard to get to the top and the best advice he’s ever been given H e’s a busy man is Paddy McGuinness. When he’s not speeding around a race track in the name of Top Gear, he’s filming the new series of BBC game show Catchpoint, which is back on our screens later this month.

But Paddy, who has six-yearold twins Leo and Penelope and three-year-old daughter Felicity with his gorgeous wife Christine, 31, tells us he’s always been a hard-working go-getter.

To celebrate the return of Catchpoint, in which contestants must answer trivia questions and catch falling balls, Paddy, 46, tells us why he feels out of his depth during filming, what makes sports stars a different breed to celebs and which shock role he turned down… Another day, another show, Paddy! What’s the secret of your success? It’s taken me 20 years to get to this point. I’ve always worked, right from leaving school, and after filming Phoenix Nights [with his BFF Peter Kay], I was working in a leisure centre with no agent or anything. I got a job at a local radio station, writing for one of the DJs. I just did pretty much anything I could at the time. I started with a stand-up set, then we did Max & Paddy. And then, rather than sitting down waiting for the phone to ring, I just went out and got it myself, if you know what I mean. Hard work is the key to everything. What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve ever received? When I left my job at the leisure centre, the manager said, “Are you sure you’re doing the right thing?” Well, about six years later I was doing quite well! I rocked up to a supermarket and at the time I was in young flash mode – I had a Ferrari! – and I bumped into that same manager. He was like, “Oh, it’s worked out alright.” And I went, “Yep!” That always sticks in my head, but I’ve never really had any guidance, to be honest. Not even from agents or showbiz types? Actually one of my first ever agents gave me some advice. I was offered a job on a soap about ten or 15 years ago. It was a big part. It was a character in it for a long time – I won’t say which one. But my agent at the time told me not to do it. And I was like, “What are you on about?” And he said, “Don’t do it, because that will be it after that.” Back in those days it was really difficult when you were doing soaps to get a job outside of that. I’ve got to say, that’s probably one of the best bits of advice I’ve ever had, because everything’s all nice and bonny and I’m working! Was hosting a game show like Catchpoint something you’d always wanted to do? I’m lucky in the sense that I can turn my hand to most things. But no, I’d never had any ambition to host a game show. When I was a kid, I used to watch things like Strike It Lucky and The Generation Game and I loved them – even Bullseye on a Sunday afternoon. But I never had ambitions to do those kind of shows. You’re on the second series now. Did you realise it would be so popular? Every show you do, you just give it your best, but you can never tell until it goes on the telly. When you’re in that room, with the live audience, you know straight away if they like it or not. When I filmed the new episodes it was a full house and everyone was enjoying themselves. What was it like working with celebs for the Sport Relief episodes? The sports stars are a different breed. You can have a laugh and a joke with them, but as soon as it comes to catching that ball they go full tunnel vision laser focus! If they ever drop one you can see they really take it to heart. There are lots of trivia

subjects on the show. Is it hard not to chime in when you know the answer? I love having a little play along myself! I’ve got to be impartial, but if I think I know the answer and they go the opposite way, and they’re right and I’m wrong – that’s why I shouldn’t say anything really. But when a map comes up and it’s that kind of question, I’m way out of my depth. I was crap at geography at school. Would you like to get the Top Gear guys on a celebrity special, or perhaps Phoenix Nights vs Top Gear? Have you seen the state of the lads from Phoenix Nights?! They’d collapse halfway through! [laughs] If the game was sitting down and drinking a pint, then I’d get them on, but other than that, no. Chris Harris and Freddie Flintoff would be alright, actually. They’re very competitive so I might do that! Catchpoint, 8.30pm, 29 February, BBC One d d m, ee s it hen ? y o nk

hey –ng s . nix y m nd . at! ne Wife Christine and their three kids With Freddie and Chris on Top Gear Paddy hosts Catchpoint

THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH, 9PM, ITV

Dawn French returns to our screens in this fab new drama, which focuses on the fallout in a close-knit community when one of its own spills all its secrets. Dawn plays local historian Maggie, the self-appointed D s w c o M

oracle of the small town, who shares a little too much info with a radio journalist after a tipple too many. Cue some very unhappy residents who don’t take kindly to being gossiped about – and with good reason!

GREG JAMES’ SPORT RELIEF HEROES He spent part of last week locked in a room after the Brits, but Radio 1 DJ Greg has somehow found time to pull together this inspiring show, celebrating the heroes of BBC’s Sport Relief. Stars such as David Walliams, Eddie Izzard, Davina McCall, John Bishop and Zoe Ball recall their efforts for the cause, including Eddie’s quest to run 27 marathons in 27 days and Davina’s 500-mile triathlon. FRIDAY 6 MARCH, 10.35PM, BBC1

CRUFTS You’d be barking mad if you thought we’d miss a second of this pawsome show! Yep, Crufts is back, unleashing a whole new set of perfect pups and canny canines onto our screens, as the annual dog competition returns to TV.

Clare Balding hosts, alongside some special celeb guests including pet-loving Scarlett Moffatt and, randomly, the wrestlers of the WWE, who pick their favourite mutts in between the live action from the Birmingham NEC. THURSDAY 5 MARCH, 8PM, CHANNEL 4 C Y th p u p o d s in a W m fr T 8