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GORDON Ramsay fans were left shocked at his X-rated lesbian sex joke on Bank Balance last night. In order to win £100,000 all the contestants have to do in the chef's new BBC game show is transfer gold blocks over to a board. Pretty easy right? Well the board is very unstable, making it ten times harder for the guests to successfully do it. Contestants Lindsey and Vicki - who have been together 17 years and own an online pet shop together - decided to take on the challenge so that they could put the money towards expanding their business. After a shaky start, the pair managed to answer a range of questions about topics such as classic pop, money, children's authors and ball sports. But when the topic of birds came up for the two to answer, Gordon couldn't help himself. He asked: "Have you ever eaten a bird?" The audience began to giggle and Vicki answered: "A long time ago!" Gordon began to list out a range of feathery friends that people like to enjoy … [Read more...] about Gordon Ramsay fans shocked at X-rated lesbian sex joke on new BBC Bank Balance show

A North-South divide has emerged as England prepares to emerge from its third lockdown. London and the South East, despite being crippled by the new Kent variant over Christmas, has seen cases plummet in recent weeks. Now nearly all of England's hotspots for Covid are in the North or the Midlands. Millions in the country are now being vaccinated although so far only people aged over 60 have been called forward. But cases are continuing to circulate, especially among younger age groups not yet protected. And the latest data shows the lockdown is struggling to contain stubbornly high infection rates in the Midlands and areas of the North. What do you think of this story? Let us know in the comments Only two of the top 30 areas of England for Covid cases are in the South East of England - Luton and Slough. Smaller towns in the North and Midlands such as Middlesbrough, Mansfield and Preston feature heavily at the top of Covid infections. Corby, Northamptonshire … [Read more...] about Shocking North-South Covid divide laid bare by full list showing cases in each area

Sam and Billie Faiers were brought up by their mum after their biological dad stopped seeing them when they were young. The former The Only Way is Essex stars have endured a strained relationship with their father, Lee Faiers, over the years. While step dad Dave Chatwood, who is no longer with their mum, is featured heavily on their ITVBe reality series The Mummy Diaries, Lee is nowhere to be seen. It was actually Dave who proudly walked Billie down the aisle during her Maldives wedding to Greg Shepherd in May 2019. Sam and Billie refer to Dave as their 'dad', having had frosty relations with biological father Lee for many years. "From what I gather, he was a seductive bad boy who made his money as a successful market trader," Sam wrote in her tell-all autobiography titled Secrets and Lies: The Truth Behind the Headlines in 2015. When the girls were young they lived on an 18-acre farm in Upminster, Essex, after Lee's job as a market trader made him a millionaire. Sam … [Read more...] about Sam and Billie Faiers’ biological dad – violence, wedding snub and why he’s not on Mummy Diaries

PFIZER is to start testing its Covid vaccine on children as young as five. The pharmaceutical company's boss said it has already finished enrolling volunteers aged 12 to 15 and is now looking at younger subjects. It will begin trials on kids aged five to 11 soon, with data available by the end of 2021. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told NBC News : "We have already licensed in kids 16 and above. "We are already doing trials with kids 12 years old, all the way to 16 and I hope that we will be able to have data in a couple of months. "We are also planning to initiate pediatric studies from younger ages, from five all the way to 11. "And I believe we should have data about this population by the end of the year." Children as young as six are already being given the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in a new trial in the UK. Researchers are studying 300 kids aged between six and 17 to examine whether the jab produces a strong immune response in youngsters. So far, … [Read more...] about Pfizer to test Covid vaccine on children aged five to 11, boss reveals

Auckland is set to go back into lockdown after a new case of COVID-19 was detected on Saturday. It is the second lockdown for Auckland's nearly 2 million residents in a matter of weeks. They entered a snap three-day lockdown on February 14 after a family of three was diagnosed with the more transmissible UK variant of COVID-19. The seven-day lockdown will go into force at 6 a.m. local time on Sunday. "It's frustrating. I know it is," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at a news conference. Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, is set to enter a weeklong lockdown from Sunday Saturday's new case has not yet been linked to the previously discovered family cluster, forcing the government to implement the lockdown, Ardern said. According to the NZ Herald, the person infected with the case went to the doctor in the afternoon on Friday for a COVID test and then went to the gym. The rest of New Zealand will be put under Level 2 restrictions that limit public … [Read more...] about Coronavirus digest: New Zealand’s Auckland goes back into lockdown