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Scarlett Moffatt 'set to sign up for I'm A Celeb All Stars' as TV star prepares to head to South Africa 10 years after winning the show

Scarlett Moffatt 'set to sign up for I'm A Celeb All Stars' as TV star prepares to head to South Africa 10 years after winning the show

Daily Mail​04-06-2025

Scarlett Moffatt is reportedly planning her return to TV and is in talks to join the All Stars version of I'm A Celebrity: Get Me Out Of Here!
The Gogglebox star, 34, was crowned Queen of the Jungle back in 2016, so her appearance on All Stars would mark her tenth anniversary of winning the show.
Filming is set to start in South Africa later this year with a source telling The Sun: 'Scarlett won I'm A Celeb in 2016 and was hugely popular with viewers, so everyone's really excited she might be returning for the new All Stars series.
'She is so game for a laugh and knows what to expect in terms of the Bushtucker Trials, so she'll throw herself into every task.
'Scarlett is a mum now and she wants to do it to show her little boy how brave she can be.'
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MailOnline have contacted Scarlett's representatives and ITV for comment.
It was revealed in February that Ant and Dec would be returning to host another All Stars series.
A source close to the production revealed: 'It did well last time and while they can't do it annually, they wanted to do another.'
The first series featured a star-studded lineup of former contestants, including boxing champion Amir Khan, Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan, TV presenter Carol Vorderman and Olympic athlete Fatima Whitbread.
Series six runner-up Myleene Klass was crowned the winner after defeating series 16 campmate Jordan Banjo in the final survival trial.
A spin-off of the original I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, the special is filmed in Kruger National Park, South Africa, where celebrities take on various challenges in a basic, luxury-free camp.
Unlike the original format, however, the all-star series does not allow viewers to vote for contestants to face Bushtucker Trials.
Instead, the campmates battle it out for the title of 'Legend,' departing from the traditional crowning of a Jungle King or Queen.
The I'm A Celebrity… South Africa special garnered strong viewership, with an average of 5.5 million viewers tuning in per episode.
The news comes after Scarlett shared a powerful message on body confidence as she showcased her incredible dance skills during a ballroom competition at the weekend.
The TV personality previously took to Instagram to share a video of herself dancing with a pal during the contest, in which she expressed how much fun she was having on the dancefloor.
However, Scarlett then re-shared her video on Sunday where she encouraged others to not let their appearance or age stop them from doing what they love.
Alongside the clip, which sees her beaming with joy while dazzling in a neon green gown, Scarlett penned: 'I've said it once I'll say it a million times. DO NOT let your shape, size or age stop you from doing something that brings you joy.
'Don't let that silly inner sabotage voice tell you ya won't be able to do it. Don't tell yourself I'll do it when I'm thinner, when I'm fitter or when a,b or c happens. Do it now!'
The former Gogglebox favourite continued: 'I can't tell you how much joy dancing in two finals with my childhood friend has made me this weekend. I was thinking of nothing but the sheer joy that dance brings me, I hope I can encourage one more person to do the same.'

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30 years on from that World Cup, how rugby changed South Africa
30 years on from that World Cup, how rugby changed South Africa

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30 years on from that World Cup, how rugby changed South Africa

A South African school recently organised a 'wear your profession day', asking pupils to dress for the jobs they wanted to do as grown-ups. Some wore white medical coats or pretend pilot hats. One wielded a tennis racket. But the majority of the racially diverse children arrived in the green and gold attire of their heroes, the Springboks, the national rugby team. 'I've been to schools all over the world but I've never seen rugby and sport permeating a school's life as much as it does in South Africa,' said Grant Butler, headmaster of Grey Junior School in the Eastern Cape. As he spoke, the joyful chaos of a nine-year-olds' match spilt in through the window — shouts of children and cheers from proud parents. In this country forged through political struggle and extraordinary resilience, rugby has become much more than a sport. Many people here call it the cornerstone of post-apartheid South Africa. On Tuesday the country celebrates the 30th anniversary of its first victory in the rugby World Cup in 1995 when, just a year after being sworn in as the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela famously donned the Springbok rugby jersey, in those days a symbol of white, Afrikaner pride that was loathed by the black majority — black people generally did not play rugby. Mandela's embrace of the game was more than political theatre. He wanted the nation to follow his example, binding around a once-hated white team in pursuit of reconciliation. How he seized on the oval ball as a tool of nation-building is a remarkable tale of courage, hope and magnanimity told in the Hollywood film Invictus (2009) directed by Clint Eastwood with Morgan Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as the Afrikaner Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar. 'Mandela told me that in order to really persuade, you had to appeal not to people's minds but to their hearts,' said John Carlin, author of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, on which the Hollywood film was based. 'The World Cup in 1995 was the first time the country came together. Blacks and whites were united in one common purpose and goal, winning the World Cup. On the day of the final, racial divisions just dissolved.' 'To do what Mandela did took a lot of guts,' said Kobus Wiese, who was a second row forward in the famous final against New Zealand and is now a television rugby commentator. 'He reached out to tell us, the common men, that, 'If I the president can do this, there's no reason for you not to do it. We can have our differences but we can overcome them as well.'' In 1995 the country had only just emerged from international isolation after the lifting of apartheid and the Springboks were the underdogs in the final. 'The country had just come back from the brink of civil war, we had fallen behind for many years with our training techniques, we weren't given any chance by anyone,' said Wiese, 61, a tractor-sized figure with a shock of white hair. His first sense that rugby was more than just a game came on the day a helicopter touched down on the training field and Mandela stepped out. 'We thought, 'What the hell is this?'' Wiese recalled in a café run by his wife in Franschhoek, a picturesque town in the winelands east of Cape Town: whenever black South Africans had come to Springbok games in the past it was generally to cheer for their opponents. Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison for his role in resisting apartheid and leading the armed struggle against white minority rule, meekly apologised for disturbing the players. 'He said, 'I know you are busy preparing for the World Cup but I was wondering if I could spend a bit of time with you?'' Wiese said. They went into the clubhouse for tea and sandwiches. 'Mandela wanted to find out more about rugby and the World Cup and what we thought our chances were. Then he said, 'It's very important that we do well.' He kept saying it, 'It's very important for more than the game of rugby.'' Such was Mandela's aura and influence that the entire country was soon rallying around the Springboks. 'As we progressed through the games, in the hotels, people in the streets, people walking up to you, the lady cleaning your room in the hotel, they were all massively involved in supporting you, it was incredible.' After the victory Mandela, still wearing his Springbok gear, famously handed the cup to Pienaar, saying: 'Thank you very much for what you have done for our country.' Pienaar replied: 'Mr President, it is nothing compared to what you have done for our country.' Desmond Tutu, the archbishop who had played a key role in ending apartheid, called it 'quite incredible, quite unbelievable. It had the effect of just … turning around the country. It was … an extraordinary thing — it said, 'Yes, it is possible for us to become one nation.'' The vast majority of the 63,000 people in Johannesburg's Ellis Park stadium were white, most of them Afrikaners. They had been conditioned to believe their president was a terrorist but rose to their feet when they saw him after the match to chant his name in thunderous admiration: 'Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!' 'We didn't have the support of 63,000 South Africans today. We had the support of 42 million,' was how Pienaar put it. Thirty years on, the spirit of 1995 endures. A national rugby obsession has fuelled three more World Cup victories. 'Rugby, and more generally sport, is a beacon of hope for our country, it gets us through tough times,' said Joel Stransky, the Springbok fly-half who scored all of the 15 points in the 1995 final, including the decisive drop goal that won the match in extra time six minutes before the whistle. He remembered Mandela, a former professional boxer, coming into the changing room before the game. He again apologised for disturbing the players while they were 'focused' on the task ahead. 'Then he wished us all luck individually. That was the Mandela magic. We felt touched by his magic, his kindness and leadership. It was extraordinary to see how he had survived all that time in jail with forgiveness in his heart.' Mandela would be proud of today's Springboks, Stransky believes. They include several black players, including the captain, Siya Kolisi, who married Rachel Smith, a white events organiser with whom he had two children. The couple separated last year but, for a while, at least, seemed an embodiment of the 'rainbow nation', or racial harmony dreamed of by Mandela. The former president died in 2013, but rugby continues to bring people together — particularly after big World Cup victories when crowds of black and white revellers sing, dance together and wave South African flags while wearing the green and gold of their heroes. The bonhomie around rugby, though, is not limited to World Cup victories. 'Rugby is the language a lot of South Africans speak these days, it's the language of unity,' Butler said. His school is where Kolisi learned to play rugby on a scholarship, perhaps explaining why so many pupils want to be Springboks. Any day the national rugby team is playing is known as 'Bok Day' when, across the racial, social and economic lines, schools and businesses relax dress codes, encouraging people to wear green and gold gear and braais, or barbecues, are fired up across the country. On such days much of Port Elizabeth, a renowned rugby hub, is decked in green and gold. 'You can be standing in the queue to buy a chicken at Woolworths and you'll strike up a conversation with someone from a very different cultural background to yourself, you're wearing the same colours,' Butler said. 'For that wonderful moment, you are facing in the same direction and supporting the same group of people. It's a wonderfully unifying thing.' Despite rugby's unifying power, viewing habits reflect a deep economic divide. Most white fans watch on pay television while black audiences rely on free state television broadcasts, where they made up 58 per cent of viewers in 2017, according to one survey, compared to just 3 per cent on pay television. Yet in stadiums, a growing and more diverse crowd signals slow but real change. In many ways, though, Mandela's dreams for the country remain unfulfilled. Politicians today are always eager to step into the glow of Springbok triumphs but Wiese, the second row forward, hopes they stay away from the anniversary gala dinner he and other members of the 1995 World Cup final line-up will attend on Tuesday at Ellis Park, the scene of their triumph three decades ago. The former player said Mandela and his allies in the anti-apartheid struggle would 'roll over in their graves' at the corruption among their successors in the ANC, the former liberation movement turned political party. He quoted Oliver Tambo, a close friend of Mandela: 'He said when politicians start driving Mercedes and living in huge mansions, they've lost the plot because then they are not working for the people. And I agree 100 per cent.' Flawed as it is, South Africa today stands in stark contrast to the legally enforced inhumanity Mandela helped to dismantle. Ryan Christianson, 51, the son of an Indian mother and white South African father, believes he may have been the first non-white boy to play rugby after being sent to a white school in the Eastern Cape in the 1980s. His parents had been barred from living together under an apartheid-era 'Immorality Act', which prohibited sexual relations between white people and those of other races. 'I'd come off the field black and blue, the other kids would target you in the scrum because of your skin colour,' he said. 'They were born into racism.' With Mandela, the nation changed. 'Suddenly non-white people believed that rugby was theirs. Recent World Cup victories with a black captain lifting the cup have shown a nation of non-white players emerging and saying this is our sport now too.' Christianson is now the fundraising manager at Cape Town's Masiphumelele Pumas Rugby Club which includes white, black and so-called 'coloured' (mixed race) players from all walks of life. He recently secured £20,000 in funding from wealthy white donors to install floodlights at the club's field. 'Mandela taught us that unity is possible. Rugby showed us what it looked like,' he said. 'Now we have to live it.'

Zimbabwe's 'Sir Wicknell': Nobody can stop talking about the self-styled knight giving away cars
Zimbabwe's 'Sir Wicknell': Nobody can stop talking about the self-styled knight giving away cars

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Zimbabwe's 'Sir Wicknell': Nobody can stop talking about the self-styled knight giving away cars

A flashy tycoon in Zimbabwe has a nation entranced - some beguiled, others alarmed - by his habit of giving away cars along with wads of cash to those he deems patriotic - even presenting them to those he has never Toyota SUVs, Range Rovers are Wicknell Chivayo's vehicles of choice for the recipients, who range from music stars, down-at-heel gospel singers, footballers, church leaders and those loyal to the ruling Zanu-PF controversial 44-year-old is himself partial to a white Royals Royce and has a fleet of personalised luxury cars, some of which he has also started giving away as he gets in newer years "Sir Wicknell", as he calls himself, has loved to boast about his riches via Instagram - details the tabloids lap up - but while he is open about how he spends his money, he is less so about how he makes it as he faces scrutiny over the source of his wealth in a country where life is a daily struggle for most the last year or so his social media account has also been awash with posts about his follow a similar pattern: a photo of a gleaming car with balloons tied to it - sometimes with a big bow on its bonnet - is accompanied with a message of congratulations to someone with instructions about where they should collect it, usually from one of various luxury car dealerships he uses in the capital, Harare."Please GO AND SEE VICTOR at EXQUISITE MOTORS, your brand new 2025 Range Rover Autobiography is FULLY PAID FOR and ready for collection," he told top musician Jah Prayzah last month, adding that $150,000 (£111,000) in cash was also awaiting him there."This is just a small token of my gratitude for your IMMENSE contribution to Zimbabwean music and your patriotism in uniting thousands of people through music, preaching PEACE, preaching LOVE and preaching UNITY in every song."The volume of his "public gifting" has become almost frenzied - he even reposts humorous memes about it. On social media, Zanu-PF accounts have been lavishing him in praise, commending his philanthropy. In private Sir Wicknell - as everyone knows him - has also dished out houses and study scholarships to followers of his apostolic church, the Zion Christian Church, known for their white garments and worshipping softly spoken, heavy-set businessman has come to symbolise Zimbabwe's growing "flex culture" - the desire to flash one's wealth in person and online."$hopping and spending money are just some of my hobbies," he wrote in 2013, when he first started on Instagram, next to a hotel trolley full of his was followed not long after by the quip: "Damn being rich is a headache at times" and a photo of his vast shoe collection as he tried to decide whether to wear a pair of Louis Vuittons or Salvatore so it has continued, with holidays to Dubai, New York, Paris, London and business trips to Johannesburg, Shanghai and New Delhi - and most recently posts about his new private also loves to display his proximity to power - posting photos of himself with politicians, from Zimbabwe's late President Robert Mugabe and his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa to, more recently, other African leaders such as Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan and Kenya's William Ruto."He is very hands-on with his businesses dealings, very much on the ground and keeping tabs on how every cent is spent," a businessman, who has previously dealt with Mr Chivayo and asked to remain anonymous, told the BBC."It's clear that he is politically protected," he Cry Havoc, the late British mercenary and coup plotter Simon Mann's 2011 memoir of his time incarcerated in Zimbabwe's Chikurubi Maximum Prison, the former British army officer said his "well-educated" fellow inmate Wicknell warned him never to criticise pair were in the same cell block - Mann serving four years for his role in a failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 and Chivayo a couple of years for fraud."In Africa the unsolicited gift is massively powerful," Mann quoted him as saying - a seemingly prophetic them they paid in cigarettes for the services of a prisoner, serving 94 years for armed robbery, to do their laundry. Mann said Chivayo insisted on referring to him as their "butler". The two remained friends with Sir Wicknell posting a smiling photo of them together in 2013 - a year that seems to have been a turning point for was when, as well as taking to Instagram, his company Intratrek Zimbabwe and a Chinese firm won a tender to build a solar power plant worth $ the project later became embroiled in fraud allegations - court records several years later state that Intratrek had been paid an advance to begin work on the 100MW plant in Gwanda but failed to deliver as expected to the state-owned Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC).He in turn sued ZPC for cancelling its contact over the dispute. He won that case and was later acquitted of all the criminal Wicknell is media shy, has spoken of his dislike of journalists and politely declined my request for an on a rare outing on a breakfast radio show last year, he was asked directly how he made his bashful tones, he said his main business was government tenders secured with foreign partners in the areas of renewable energy, engineering procurement, construction and power projects. He said he also had businesses in Kenya, South Africa and last year, his company IMC Communications was licensed as the partner for Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service Instagram, he has been much more brash about his "Midas touch" - saying he is a "hustler" who works hard. He also attributes his success as a "self-made millionaire" to his humble background growing up Harare's satellite township of Chitungwiza, where his family struggled after his father died when he was aged tends to repost "throw-back" photos to his late teens when through a family friend he got a job as a wages clerk at a bus company. "I remember I was the only one my age with a cell phone in Chitungwiza," he has said about his hard-working ethic. An avowed Zanu-PF supporter he has previously attributed his success to the party's empowerment policy, which was launched in 2013 and forced all companies to cede economic control to black see him as a successful example of this indigenisation policy, creating a new class of black businessmen, but others believe some of his wealth is a result of corruption and murky relationships with those in power – which he vehemently in February about Sir Wicknell's predilection for giving away cars, President Mnangagwa dismissed an accusation that the businessman was acting as his frontman. "Where would I get the money to give him?... You can't bother me about someone who is philanthropic," he told Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) did launch an inquiry last year after South African investigative non-profit organisation Open Secrets alleged Chivayo had received a windfall of millions of dollars as the facilitator of a tender to supply election materials to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in scandal ballooned when a leaked audio message purportedly of Mr Chivayo talking about the deal also seemed to implicate two other businessmen by consoling them for failing to get promised kickbacks, suggesting many more deals were in the pipeline as "we have them in vice-like grip".The fallout was spectacular. Zec denied any dealings with Mr Chivayo or the other men, all of whom denied the allegations - and a year on ZACC has not charged Chivayo said the audio must have been a deep fake, generated through sophisticated technology. He also apologised to the president for any impression the audio may have created that the first family was not long afterwards, the two businessmen mentioned in the audio were arrested and charged with misappropriating around $7m in a separate case. They deny the accusations, linked to a presidential goat scheme tender, and have spent almost a year in jail waiting for the trial to begin. This week there has been more hoo-ha about a supposed leak over a document from March about an alleged $500m contract with Mr Chivayo's name listed as a director of a company to supply cancer treatment equipment to the Zimbabwe government for four outrage is over the fact that if it is true, it did not go through a public tendering process. 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Stephen Mulhern dropped from £1m Butlins magic show deal in latest career blow after Dancing on Ice & game show canned
Stephen Mulhern dropped from £1m Butlins magic show deal in latest career blow after Dancing on Ice & game show canned

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Stephen Mulhern dropped from £1m Butlins magic show deal in latest career blow after Dancing on Ice & game show canned

TV's Stephen Mulhern has been dropped from his £1million deal with holiday camp giant Butlin's. The Saturday Night Takeway star will not return to his sell-out shows after this summer. 3 ITV host Stephen, 48, has appeared for the past three years at the chain's centres at Minehead, Bognor Regis and Skegness. But his lucrative deal for the weekend performances will not be renewed at the end of this year. A source said: 'Stephen has been a massive hit with holidaymakers. 'He began his career as a Redcoat and has kept families brilliantly entertained.' The end of the deal comes after Mulhern collapsed in a Pizza Express in Sunningdale, Berkshire, late last year. He was also left devastated by the death of his father Christopher, who taught him magician tricks as a child. In March, ITV announced that Dancing On Ice - which he hosted with close pal Holly Willoughby - would not return next year. And his game show In For A Penny, which saw Stephen head to different places around the UK to challenge members of the public, was shelved by ITV after six series. But he is due to start to start filming for his challenge show You Bet! on Tour next week — without Holly, after she quit the show in March. Stephen, a close pal of Ant and Dec, started out in children's TV in 2001 when he was the presenter of the game show Finger Tips. Watch the moment Stephen Mulhern is left red-faced as he makes HUGE blunder on Catchphrase puzzle He presented his first show with Holly in 2004 when they worked together on Children's TV show Ministry Of Mayhem. The magician launched Tricky TV on CITV in 2005, which he presented until 2010. During this time, he was handpicked by bosses to front the ITV2 spin-off for Britain's Got Talent. He presented Britain's Got More Talent until the cancellation of the spin-off in 2019. A Butlin's spokesperson said: 'Stephen has been an incredible part of the Butlin's experience and continues to be a valued member of the family. 'Stephen's much-loved live show won't return in 2026 after three fantastic years, but we're thrilled to be working together on ongoing projects this autumn.' A spokesman for Stephen said: 'Stephen has absolutely loved being part of the Butlin's family — performing his stage shows in front of thousands of holiday makers across the country and the relationship with Butlin's remains hugely positive. 'This change allows Stephen to explore new opportunities in the family holiday space – something he's incredibly passionate about.' 3

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