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EastEnders fans convinced This Morning star ‘let slip’ MASSIVE 40th anniversary spoiler today – did you spot it?
EASTENDERS fans are convinced a This Morning star ‘let slip’ a massive 40th anniversary spoiler.
Fans of the BBC One soap are counting down to next Thursday’s special live episode.
They’ll watch as the iconic Queen Vic pub is blown apart in a deadly blaze as one resident won’t make it out alive.
But during her regularly soap slot on This Morning, Sharon Marshall appeared to let slip a major spoiler – according to fans.
She told Ben and Cat: “Well funny enough during the live… giving birth.”
Ben gasped: “Sonia gives birth?”
Sharon replied: “In the live episode whilst trapped in The Vic, which is all going to be a life and death situation.”
Reacting to Sharon’s tease, one EastEnders fan said: “Sharon Marshall has let slip that Sonia gives birth during the live episode in The Queen Vic… maybe she and her baby don’t survive as there are deaths as we all know.”
A second wrote: “Is this new information or did we already know this?”
“This poor woman is never going to experience giving birth in a hospital is she? Hope we get Midwife Mo again at least,” said a third.
While a fourth commented: “According to Nat Cass’ podcast today, her and Patsy were still filming last week so I doubt it.”
BBC bosses had previously revealed Sonia would be in the pub giving birth during the dramatic episode.
Photos of the aftermath surfaced earlier this month, showing a vast array of flowers left outside the gutted pub.
The Sun previously revealed Natalie Cassidy will be leaving Albert Square after 32 years, and her character Sonia Fowler is now one of the favourites to be killed in the blast
EastEnders' 40th anniversary cameos so far
With the 40th anniversary of EastEnders coming up, fans are looking forward to some more incredible cameos from iconic faces of Walford's past. But who have we had so far?
Tracy-Ann Oberman – Oberman returned as Chrissie Watts, a character she last played nearly two decades ago.
Paul Bradley – Bradley returned as Nigel Bates, a character he last played over 25 years ago.
Micheal French – French returned as David Wicks, a character he last played two decades ago.
Patsy Palmer – Palmer returned as Bianca Jackson, a character she last played in 2019.
Coming up this year…
Ross Kemp – Kemp will reprise his role as Grant Mitchell, a character he first played in 1990. The BBC has described Kemp’s storyline as “explosive”. Kemp said it was an “absolute honour” to return to the show.
Other aspects of the 40th anniversary celebration include: A wedding between fan favorites, A huge explosion at the Queen Vic, and A live interactive episode.
Welsh Open snooker 2025 LIVE RESULTS: Wilson CRASHES OUT, Brecel and Selby in action TONIGHT – updates
KYREN WILSON has CRASHED OUT of the Welsh Open!
World champion Wilson lost a final-frame decider to Joe O’Connor, which means that Neil Robertson – who also lost at the last-32 stage – remains in the driving seat for the £150,000 Home Nations bonus.
Defending champion Gary Wilson lost in the first round after a shock 4-3 defeat to Ishpreet Chadha on opening day, while Ronnie O’Sullivan withdrew on Tuesday.
The likes of Mark Williams, Mark Allen and Shaun Murphy are also out of the tournament.
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Everton’s cheeky match programme cover NEARLY backfires before Tarkowski saves Goodison from nightmare derby farewell
EVERTON’S cheeky matchday programme cover NEARLY backfired in heartbreaking style in the final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.
The Toffees hosted their cross-city rivals at Goodison for the last ever time tonight.
Everton fans were full of excitement for the fixture ahead of kick-off, with many grabbing a programme as a souvenir.
And they would have been treated to a cover featuring Toffees fan favourite Mikel Arteta.
The picture is from Everton’s 2-0 derby day win over Liverpool back in 2010, in which the Spaniard netted the second goal.
And many fans believe that the club were having a dig at Liverpool by putting Arteta on the cover.
This is down to him being the current manager of the Reds’ title rivals Arsenal.
Many reacted to the programme cover on social media.
One posted: “Everton know what they’re doing with this programme cover.”
A second wrote: “Everton actually put Mikel on the cover of their programme hahaha.”
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A third commented: “Everton have put Arteta on the match programme. Holy cringe.”
A fourth said: “That match programme Everton has done is absolutely embarrassing.”
Another added: “Classic hahaha.”
However, the pick almost backfired as goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Mohamed Salah put Liverpool ahead after Beto‘s opener.
It looked certain that the Reds would leave the historic ground with bragging rights for the last time.
That was until the 98th minute when James Tarkowski netted a wonderful strike to earn Everton a draw.
The defender’s goal saw celebrations erupt from the home end as fans charged onto the pitch to join the players.
It was not the only bit of banter between the clubs.
Liverpool fans held up a sign that poked fun at Everton’s stadium move.
The sign read: “At least an empty cabinet is easier to move” in a jibe at the lack of recent success of their neighbours.
The clash did descend into chaos at the full-time as Liverpool’s Curtis Jones and Everton’s Abdoulaye Doucoure were sent off.
Merseyside Derby record at Goodison Park
Honours have ended evenly between Everton and Liverpool in terms of results at Goodision Park...
- Everton wins: 41
- Draws: 38
- Liverpool wins: 41
Mystery deepens as ‘smiley’ Brit Dawn Searle made appointments just before her death alongside husband in French villa
A BRITISH expat appeared “smiley” and positive according to one of the last people to see her alive before she died alongside her husband.
Dawn Searle, 56, was battered to death while partner Andrew, 62, was discovered hanging from a radiator at their rural France home on Thursday, prosecutors said.
Project manager Dawn even made chimney sweep appointments for herself and neighbours in her small hamlet for April.
She had been seen speaking to staff at a fireplace shop in nearby town Villefranche-de-Rouergue in the days before her mysterious death.
The worker who served her said: “Dawn said she felt a little sick, she had the flu, but her mood was very good, smiley”.
Other local shop staff recalled the couple often spending their Sundays teaching English to their French neighbours, bantering about rugby rivalry and eating fish and chips once a month.
Since their “violent deaths”, flowers and candles have been left outside their remote retirement home next to a sign offering counselling to shocked residents.
Prosecutors investigating their deaths said Dawn died from a significant head wound after suffering multiple blows to her skull from a blunt and sharp object.
Former financial crime investigator Andrew showed no signs of defensive wounds on his body when found as cops continue to probe whether a marital dispute led to a murder suicide.
Local prosecutor Nicolas Rigot-Muller insisted all lines of enquiry remain open including whether it was a double homicide “linked either to a financial motive or the deceased’s past”.
Pals of the couple have rejected the theory that Andrew killed Dawn and then himself in a murder-suicide.
They say the couple’s relationship was harmonious.
A couple, in their 60s, said: “Us Brits, who knew Dawn and Andy very well, are certain this is not a murder-suicide because of financial difficulties or anything like that.
“They weren’t flashy by any means, but they were definitely comfortable and had it good out here.
Several other questions remained unanswered over the deaths.
It remains unclear when exactly the pair died.
They were found by neighbours around 12.30pm on Thursday – with Andrew’s body discovered hanging and Dawn lying outside the front door.
CCTV footage from Wednesday is the last sighting of Andrew, who was seen buying two lottery tickets and a chocolate bar shortly before 6pm.
Past job-hunting criminals
Fears have been raised of the deaths being a targeted assassination carried out by a “hitman” after Andrew’s sensitive financial work.
His LinkedIn profile revealed the fluent English, French and German speaker was responsible for “sanctions screening” to stop money flowing to states like Russia.
His sensitive work also involved “Intelligence and anti-bribery and Corruption” plus responsibility for all “Anti-Financial Crime matters in the UK & Europe”.
This would have brought Andrew to the notice of criminal networks working across the globe.
Earlier in his career, he worked as a Group Financial Crime Manager following 14 years as an investigations manager “responsible for the Investigation of internal and external fraud”.
The motive behind their death is unclear with the cause yet not confirmed.
Cash was found in the couple’s bedroom and their home appeared to have been “roughly searched” despite no jewellery being stolen.
Dawn was found undressed but had not been the victim of a sexual assault.
Celtic 1 Bayern Munich 2: Harry Kane strike gives Germans victory as Bhoys rally late on to keep slim hopes alive
HARRY KANE stuck a dagger through the hearts of Celtic and left them needing a Champions League miracle at Bayern Munich.
It’s been centuries since an Englishman was handed as much freedom in Scotland as he was at Parkhead in the 49th minute.
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And he ruthlessly pounced unmarked to volley home and follow Michael Olise’s opener, leaving Brendan Rodgers’ side with a mountain to climb next Tuesday.
But the Hoops managed to salvage a slither of hope as Daizen Maeda pulled one back late on.
It all started with another spine-tingling pre-match atmosphere that then exploded again 30 seconds after kick off.
Nicolas Kuhn slammed it past Manuel Neuer from 25 yards only for an offside flag to spoil the party with Adam Idah the guilty party.
That denied the 25-year-old German a goal against his old club and hopes of repeating the trick legitamately soon ended.
Bayern took control and their probing passing finally got through and set alarms bells ringing on half hour when Leroy Sane failed to connect properly from close-range.
Kane then got his first sniff and should have finished only to instead head straight at Schmeichel’s legs, although his blushes were somewhat spared by a late offside flag.
The England captain, already on 28 this term going into this, got a second bite of the cherry in the closing stages of the opening period but this time headed into the side-netting.
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Luckily for Bayern Olise had his shooting boots on, and he broke the deadlock in thunderous fashion at a killer time for Celtic.
The ex-Crystal Palace winger cut brilliantly inside Greg Taylor and smashed it straight into the top corner from inside the corner of the box with the last kick of the half.
It was the first time in almost 17 years that Celtic had not recorded a shot, never mind on target, in the first half of a Champions League match.
The omens weren’t looking great for them either with Bayern going on to win 40 of the past 42 when they had led at the break in the competition and drawing the other two.
And Vincent Kompany’s boys were in no mood to break that run here.
They doubled their advantage just four minutes after the restart with Kane getting third time lucky.
He volleyed in from a corner at the back post from six yards out as both Alistair Johnston and Cameron Carter-Vickers pointed the finger of blame at each other.
Celtic were fuming when a VAR check ruled Arne Engels had not been fouled by Dayot Upamecano.
Hope looked to be fading when Daizen Maeda fired wide from a tight angle after rounding Neuer but their was still a late twist.
But the Japanese international was perfectly placed to help the ball in late on after Yang Hyun-Jun’s turn and shot to set up a frantic finish.
Backed by a thunderous crowd, Celtic huffed and puffed for an equaliser, but Bayern held firm to escape Scotland with the first leg advantage.
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Love Island All Stars fans spot ‘clue’ that proves Sammy Root is ‘going off’ Elma Pazar amid villa feud
LOVE Island fans have spotted a ‘clue’ proving Sammy Root is ‘going off’ Elma Pazar.
Viewers watched as tensions boiled over in the villa between the two couples.
Ekin-Su staunchly defended her man Curtis after Elma said he was ‘not her cup of tea’.
Elma said: “He was nob back then [in her series].
“He ain’t my cup of tea… he ain’t even my lukewarm cup of p***.”
Sammy looked visibly uncomfortable and told her to “chill out”.
Picking up on his reply, eagle-eyed fans are convinced that was a clue proving the hunk is ‘going off’ Elma.
One said: “Sammy just got the ick.”
A second wrote: “You can see Sammy catching the ick off Elma with every vile word she spits out.”
“Lol not Sammy saying chill out now, he’s getting put off for sure,” said a third.
Meanwhile, All Stars fans think they’ve worked out the ‘real reason’ Elma is lashing out at Ekin-Su.
Some viewers reckon her recent outbursts all stem from an incident two weeks ago.
It was when the Islanders headed to the beach bar and a public vote revealed Elma to be the most popular girl.
She was then given the power – alongside most popular boy Luca – to spend home their co-stars.
Love Island All Stars 2025 official line-up
Love Island All Stars is back on TV for season 2.
Here we take you through the line-up of all the Islanders who are in the villa so far.
- Scott Thomas – season 2 (2016) – QUIT
- Marcel Somerville – season 3 (2017) – OUT
- India Reynolds – season 2 (2017) – OUT
- Gabby Allen – season 3 (2017)
- Elma Pazar – season 5 (2019)
- Curtis Pritchard – season 5 (2019)
- Kaz Crossley – season 5 (2019) – OUT
- Olivia Hawkins – season 10 (2023) – OUT
- Nas Majeed – season 6 (2020) – OUT
- Luca Bish – season 8 (2022)
- Catherine Agbaje – season 10 (2023)
- Ronnie Vint – season 11 (2024)
Bombshells
Each series brings with it a string of hot single bombshells making their epic entrance into the villa.
Here’s who has joined the villa so far:
- Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu – season 8 (2022)
- Casey O’Gorman – season 9 (2023) and All Stars (2024)
- Ron Hall – season 9 (2023) – QUIT
- Tina Stinnes – season 2 (2016) – OUT
- Grace Jackson – season 11 (2024)
- Harriet Blackmore – season 11 (2024)
- Montel McKenzie – season 10 (2023) – OUT
- Sammy Root – season 10 (2023)
- Danielle Sellers – season 3 (2017) – OUT
- Omar Nyame – season 11 (2024)
- Samie Elish – season 9 (2023) – OUT
- Chuggs Wallis – season 7 (2021) – OUT
Inside Nasa’s sci-fi movie battle to save earth from asteroid strike that could cause more damage than 100 nuclear bombs
IF you’ve got any plans for December 22, 2032, you might want to bring them forward.
Because the chance of an asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled.
If the giant rock is on a collision course with our planet, it could rip through the atmosphere at 38,000mph and wreak more devastation than 100 nuclear bombs.
At the moment humankind does not have a foolproof plan to prevent such a catastrophe, despite Nasa’s sci-fi-sounding Planetary Defence Team, set up to detect hazardous asteroids and comets that come within 30 million miles of Earth.
And scientists are worried that we won’t be ready to put current options into action in seven years’ time.
The potential defence systems sound like something out of the Hollywood movies Armageddon or Deep Impact.
They include deflecting the asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — away from a dangerous trajectory or blowing it up with a nuclear device.
Astronomer Dr David Whitehouse warned: “We cannot ignore this rock. It has the potential, the possibility, for being an emergency for planet Earth.
“We might even have to consider the severe measures of sending up a nuclear weapon to the surface of this asteroid in order to deflect it further.”
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted on December 27 thanks to the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas) in Chile.
Travelling through space 515,000 miles from Earth, its chances of hitting our planet were initially calculated at one in 83. But now those odds have shortened to a one in 43 shot (2.3 per cent).
That’s only slightly less chance than Premier League side Ipswich Town have of winning the FA Cup this year.
The UK National Space Operations Centre monitors up to 300 Near-Earth Objects (Neos) every month.
But most of them are too small to pose a threat or too unlikely to reach our atmosphere.
What has concerned scientists about Asteroid 2024 YR4 is its estimated size — between 130 and 300ft wide — and the uncertainty about its position.
That’s big enough to destroy most of a large city.
Dr Robin George Andrews, the British author of How To Kill An Asteroid, is worried we do not have enough time to stop it.
Of the possibility of a mission to deflect it, he tells The Sun: “They can do this. But you want as many years as possible. It’s a bit tight.”
American space agency Nasa started formulating a test mission for deflecting an asteroid in 2015.
A Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), in September 2022, was successful, nudging the 581ft diameter Dimorphos — which was no threat to Earth — into a new orbit around parent asteroid Didymos.
But the spacecraft took nearly a year to reach its target and the mission took seven years in total from conception to impact.
We only have that amount of time to prevent 2024 YR4 hitting Earth, and Dr Andrews thinks a lot more work needs to be done.
He explains: “It did change the Dimorphos orbit, but it’s still a small change. It’s not like you’re playing pool and you’re knocking it.
“You need a huge spacecraft to do that kind of thing.
“The reason you need a fair number of years to do this in real life is because if you deflect an asteroid, you want to be sure you are deflecting it completely away from the Earth by the time it actually comes around.
“If you deflect it, but not emphatically enough, you might deflect it into another part of the Earth. So you have to be really careful.”
Currently the UK is not in 2024 YR4’s path.
Currently, we don’t have the technology for such a mission.
Dr Andrews
The “impact corridor” includes the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia.
Astronomers will only be able to observe the potentially deadly celestial object until May at the latest, then they won’t see it again until 2028.
For that reason, the James Webb Space Telescope has been tasked for the first time with observing a Near Earth Object to calculate the risk.
The largest telescope in space, it has been orbiting the sun, a million miles away from Earth, since January 2022 and can view asteroids in infrared vision, allowing their size to be better understood.
If we don’t know the danger posed by 2024 YR4 before it goes out of view, scientists believe we will have to prepare for the worst.
Professor Brian Cox wrote on X/Twitter: “Interesting situation — if the probability remains this high then we will have to make a decision on preparing a deflection mission — which would be a good investment even if (as is most likely) we don’t need to use it this time.”
Nuking it
China is also taking these rogue asteroids seriously, by developing a plan to hit one with a spacecraft.
But Dr Andrews feels the European Space Agency needs to put more funds into this field.
He argues that defending planet Earth is not as expensive as you might imagine.
He says: “Planetary defence is remarkably cheap. The Dart mission costs about $325million, which again, sounds like a lot, but that’s the price of a high-end luxury yacht.”
If humankind can’t unite in time to deflect the asteroid, the other answer would be nuking it.
Dr Andrews says: “Another option is vaporising it.”
Currently, though, we don’t have the technology for such a mission.
Thankfully, if all else fails there should be enough time to evacuate any city that could be hit.
Right now I am not losing sleep over Asteroid 2024 YR4.
Dr Robert Massey
And the other good news is that the odds are changing all the time.
But there are plenty of other asteroids flying through space that we have not yet observed.
There are so-called “planet killers” in the universe.
If one was rated ten on the Torino scale of risk, it “may threaten the future of civilisation as we know it”.
Such events only take place on Earth once every 100,000 years on average.
For that reason Nasa hopes to launch a Neo surveyor in two years’ time to look for hazardous objects.
Dr Robert Massey, deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society, concluded: “Right now I am not losing sleep over Asteroid 2024 YR4.
“But one day, one of these asteroids will be on course to hit Earth and we need to be prepared for that.”
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Everton and Liverpool stars sent off in post-match brawl as police intervene with Slot seeing red after handshake stunt
THE final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park ended in chaos as a mass brawl erupted on the field – with even Arne Slot seeing red.
James Tarkowski netted a dramatic equaliser in the eighth minute of added time for Everton, levelling the game at 2-2.
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Slot’s Liverpool were denied the chance to stretch their lead at the top of the Premier League to 9 points.
And tempers flared after the final whistle, with Curtis Jones in the middle of a huge fracas.
Police and stewards were seen intervening to get between the players, as Jones tussled with Everton’s Abdoulaye Doucoure.
Doucoure appeared to celebrate Everton‘s late equaliser in front of the travelling support, with an incensed Jones confronting him.
Jones and Doucoure had picked up bookings in what was a bad-tempered encounter.
They were booked again by ref Michael Oliver, resulting in a red card for both.
Tempers appeared to be cooling as Everton players crossed the field to celebrate with their fans.
But Slot wasn’t done – and promptly saw red for a bizarre handshake with ref Oliver.
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The Liverpool boss approached the whistler and appeared to hold onto his hand when Oliver tried to pull his away.
He was immediately shown a straight red, despite the protests of Liverpool skipper Virgil van Dijk.
Everton began the night brilliantly, with Beto giving the Toffees a deserved early lead.
But Liverpool hit back through Alexis MacAllister and Mo Salah, with the three points looking set to head back across Stanley Park.
Tarkowski was sent forward by Moyes in the final seconds of the game.
And the centre-back thundered in a stunning strike on the volley to take the roof off.
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Love Island fans work out the ‘exact moment’ 2025’s All Stars winner is ‘revealed’
LOVE Island fans reckon they’ve worked out Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Curtis Pritchard will WIN All Stars 2025.
Viewers were horrified as the couple were “bullied” by Elma Pazar and Sammy Root – and say it’s made them want Ekin-Su to be the series champion.
In a furious clash on Wednesday night’s show, Ekin-Su confronted Elma for “picking on her” and holding a “weird grudge”.
Ekin-Su admitted to feeling upset at being laughed at by Elma and Sammy who encouraged the rest of the villa.
Fans voiced how they believed Elma’s actions could end up being the reason Ekin-Su wins the show.
“Elma might be the reason Ekin su will win again and I hope she does just to see Elma’s dumb self be humbled,” said one.
One added: “Please can we all agree to make sure Ekin and Curtis win? Not even a massive fan but anything to see Elma’s face.”
Someone else said: “Them all laughing is mad they are all a pack of bullies I actually feel for Ekin and Curtis might vote them to win now for that lol. Elmas jealousy of them is crazy.”
Another added: “Might vote Ekin and Curtis to win, just to wipe that smug smirk from Elma’s face.”
A fan said: “Can we all collectively vote Ekin and Curtis to win purely to spite Elma cause that b****y little smirk needs to be removed ASAP.”