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Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
BBC presenter shares unborn baby's gender after 'miracle' pregnancy
Pregnant Morning Live star Michelle Ackerley has shared her "miracle" baby's gender. The TV personality announced that she was expecting her first baby while live on air last month. The 40-year-old has now said that she is expecting to have a little girl this October. She and her husband Ben Ryan have described their future daughter as a "miracle". Michelle has been open in the past about her fertility struggles and being diagnosed with endometriosis. Endometriosis is when tissues similar to the lining of the womb grow on the outside of it causing inflammation and pain which can also cause issues with fertility. Michelle told Hello!: "I'm expecting a little girl in October and it feels very special. When I found out I was pregnant, I told my husband, and he said this is a baby miracle." Speaking about her struggles with endometriosis while also announcing her pregnancy, Michelle wrote on her Instagram page: "I can't believe it's nearly been a year since getting married and I honestly didn't think 12months on that I'd be writing a post sharing that I'm pregnant…. "I know this kind of news can be difficult to read for some so I understand if you would rather scroll past on this. I wanted to share though as my journey with endometriosis and infertility is something I finally felt confident to start speaking about more openly last year - realising how many other women were going through similar experiences. "Feeling part of a community - especially when it comes to women's health can really make a difference. Even at the very start of this year I was gearing up for yet another endo procedure and trying to come to terms with the mental & physical impact they can have. "It has been quite the emotional rollercoaster. The news of falling pregnant really came as a massive surprise to both of us. We still can't quite believe it. "And so in October, the start of a new chapter begins for @benryan7s and I, albeit with nervous and cautious excitement." Ben and Michelle have a 13-year age gap and had been dating for years before they got engaged in 2023. They then went on to tie the knot in 2024 where Michelle looked stunning in a silky halter-neck gown. Ben is best known for being a former rugby star and coaching the Fiji National rugby team when he helped them win a gold medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Michelle has risen to fame over the years for her impressive TV career. Her most recent roles include hosting Morning Live as well as previously working on The One Show, World's Strongest Man and Watchdog.
Spectator
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Comfort reading for the interwar years
A prospective reader who chanced upon Recommended! without its subtitle might be forgiven for thinking that the six grim-looking portraits on the cover depict the Watch Committee of an exceptionally puritanical interwar-era seaside town. This would be a misjudgment, as, rather than being charged with censoring films or evicting courting couples from cinema back rows, Nicola Wilson's galère – Hugh Walpole, Clemence Dane, George Gordon, Edmund Blunden, Sylvia Lynd and J.B. Priestley – turn out to have made up the selection panel of the early 1930s Book Society. The subtitle is, of course, a wild exaggeration. Even at its high-water mark, the Society's membership was in the low five figures. Victor Gollancz's propagandising Left Book Club had many more subscribers and shifted thousands more copies. On the other hand, the bestselling Walpole, Priestley and their colleagues had undeniable cachet. Gordon was the Oxford Merton Professor of English; Blunden a poet-don; and mesdames Lynd and Dane well-known figures of their time. To the average middle-class subscriber of middlebrow tastes they offered a failsafe route into the mainstream literary culture of the day. Wilson, who teaches publishing studies at the University of Reading, where many of the relevant archives are stored, might have been expected to take an academic tone. On the contrary, her style is informal to the point of chatty. Everyone is referred to by their Christian names, and James Joyce and Nora Barnacle's wedding party is described as a 'proper do'. Happily, when she isn't coming across like a guest on The One Show, she offers a fascinating guide to bygone concepts of 'taste' and how you went about bringing them to the wider public. Naturally, the tocsin of commerce sounds loudly. While the Society tried very hard not to look like a publishers' cartel, there were bitter disputes about the panel's keenness on books issued by Gollancz, William Heinemann and Jonathan Cape. At the same time, all those present were conscious of their duty to broaden their subscribers' sensibilities, and genuinely left-field choices such as Kate O'Brien's Without My Cloak (1931) could sometimes be found rubbing shoulders with less challenging work by A.J. Cronin and the popular historian Arthur Bryant. That said, E.M. Delafield's The Diary of a Provincial Lady and its sequels looks far more representative of the Society's approach than, say, J.M. Denwood and S. Fowler Wright's Red Ike: A Novel of Cumberland. There were times, as Wilson acknowledges, when a selection could save a writer's career. Graham Greene, in lowish water after the failure of his second and third novels, had his prospects transformed by the surprisingly narrow (three votes to two) emergence of Stamboul Train (1932). Even then there was a corking row when Priestley, by this point no longer a selector, read a proof copy and imagined himself libelled by the portrait of the bluff, pipe-smoking, Dickens-obsessed northern novelist Mr Savory. Thirteen thousand bound copies had to be unstitched so that Greene could make the necessary changes. Wilson is careful to salt her history with biographical sketches of the major players. Lynd was always obliged to balance the demands of her professional life with looking after her hard-drinking journalist husband Robert; Blunden frequently had to take the measure of an increasingly complex emotional round. Much of the tension which enveloped the Society as the 1930s wore on had a political subtext: Cecil Day-Lewis, who joined the committee in 1937, was a paid-up communist; Blunden, once war was declared, found his pacifist sympathies seriously in question and had his college rooms turned over by MI5. The postwar years were less hospitable to the kind of literary culture that Walpole & Co had peddled in the era of Stanley Baldwin. Daniel George caught something of the changing atmosphere in his review of Brideshead Revisited in the Society's newsletter of May 1945. Evelyn Waugh, he noted, seemed 'determined to wring our hearts with lamentations for a past shared by a precious few'. Recommended! is an engaging piece of publishing history, even if Wilson has an irritating habit of scrambling the names by which her subjects were known at the time. Thus Heinemann's majordomo A.S. Frere appears as 'Arthur S. Frere'; Margaret, Lady Rhondda, the feminist proprietor of Time and Tide, is 'Lady Margaret Rhondda'; and F.R. Leavis's redoubtable wife Q.D. masquerades as 'Queenie D. Leavis'. Critics often complain that books of this kind are too soberly academic for the general taste. This one could have done with more sepia and less gloss.
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Jeff Brazier recalls son Freddie's 'challenging' diagnosis at age 10
Jeff Brazier has opened up about his son Freddie's ADHD diagnosis, as he spoke to families and those diagnosed with the disorder on The One Show Jeff Brazier made a heartfelt appearance on The One Show this Wednesday, opening up about his personal experiences with ADHD as he met individuals living with the condition. The familiar face from This Morning engaged with families to understand the impact of ADHD on their lives. Nicky Campbell, who found out he had ADHD at the age of around 60, was also featured in the enlightening segment. Before meeting a mother and her ADHD-diagnosed daughter, Jeff shared insights into his own son Freddie's early diagnosis. "My son was diagnosed with ADHD at 10 years old. School was really challenging," Jeff admitted. "But, his diagnosis helped me understand better that he needed support." In a candid conversation with a guest, Jeff reminisced about how someone once described Freddie, now 20, with a memorable analogy. "My son was described, compassionately, as a Ferrari engine in the chassis of a Mini," he chuckled, finding common ground with the guest's experience. Jeff, also dad to 22 year old Bobby, previously discussed Freddie's ADHD when they both took part in Celebrity Race Across the World, reports Wales Online. On the BBC programme, Jeff expressed his unwavering belief in his son's potential: "I couldn't hazard a guess on how Fred's mind works but I know he's going to do something amazing in his lifetime. "We need the pioneers, we need the people that give a completely different opinion. That's what Fred's role is gonna be. And I see it. I've always seen it and I look forward to him realising it, one day it's all gonna click and fall into place." Freddie recently disclosed his Bipolar Disorder diagnosis. In a TikTok video discussing his mental health, the 20 year old shared his epilepsy experiences and offered advice. "Just coming on to say that seizures - or any illness - shouldn't be made a joke or something to laugh about," he advised viewers. Freddie then confessed: "Me myself, I suffer from serious mental health, and I've got ADHD and bipolar. And it's not nice when people want to belittle you or talk down on you because of it."
Wales Online
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Jeff Brazier opens up on son's 'challenging' diagnosis at just 10 years old
Jeff Brazier opens up on son's 'challenging' diagnosis at just 10 years old Jeff Brazier has candidly opened up about his son Freddie's ADHD diagnosis, recalling how he had found things 'challenging' beforehand Jeff Brazier returned to TV screens in a segment on The One Show on Wednesday (18th June), where he discussed ADHD and met with those who have been diagnosed with the disorder. The TV star, who is a regular on shows such as This Morning, met with families whose children had been diagnosed with ADHD. Broadcaster Nicky Campbell, who was diagnosed with ADHD herself at around 60, also featured in the segment. As Jeff geared up to meet a mum whose daughter had been diagnosed with ADHD, he spoke about his son Freddie's diagnosis, which came at a young age. "My son was diagnosed with ADHD at 10 years old. School was really challenging," the dad-of-two said. "But, his diagnosis helped me understand better that he needed support." Jeff Brazier opened up about his son's ADHD diagnosis (Image: BBC ) Article continues below Later on, while speaking to a guest, Jeff recalled what he'd been told about his son Freddie, now 20 years old, when he was diagnosed. "My son was described, compassionately, as a Ferrari engine in the chassis of a Mini," Jeff laughed, as the guest shared a similar story. Jeff, who is also father to Bobby, 22, spoke about Freddie's diagnosis when the father and son duo appeared on Celebrity Race Across the World last year. Speaking about his son on the BBC show, Jeff said: "I couldn't hazard a guess on how Fred's mind works but I know he's going to do something amazing in his lifetime. "We need the pioneers, we need the people that give a completely different opinion. That's what Fred's role is gonna be. And I see it. I've always seen it and I look forward to him realising it, one day it's all gonna click and fall into place." Jeff with his youngest son Freddie (Image: BBC ) Freddie recently revealed he's also been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. The 20-year-old appeared in a TikTok video where he spoke about his mental health struggles and shared advice for those struggling with epilepsy as he does. "Just coming on to say that seizures - or any illness - shouldn't be made a joke or something to laugh about," he said in the clip. He then revealed: "Me myself, I suffer from serious mental health, and I've got ADHD and bipolar. And it's not nice when people want to belittle you or talk down on you because of it." Article continues below The One Show airs on weekdays on BBC One at 7.30pm
Daily Record
2 days ago
- General
- Daily Record
College lecturer becomes first Scot to win Silver Award for Further Education Lecturer of the Year
New College Lanarkshire's Neil McMullen honoured at this year's Pearson National Teaching Awards. A beloved Coatbridge college lecturer has become the first Scot to scoop a top accolade in the profession. New College Lanarkshire's Neil McMullen was honoured with a Silver Award for Further Education Lecturer of the Year at this year's Pearson National Teaching Awards. Chosen from thousands of nominees across the UK, Neil now has the chance of winning the prized Gold Award, which will be announced at a prestigious awards ceremony in London and on BBC's The One Show later this year. The first Scottish lecturer to win this award, Neil first arrived at the then Coatbridge College in 1985. Just 18-years-old, he was part of the first hairdressing class taught at the college. Forty years later, he has helped thousands of hairdressers and barbers learn their trade and to support their clients through their lives. His innovative approach to community-based learning has involved students working with cancer survivors and victims of domestic violence, putting those who need it most at the heart of education. Neil is one of 94 deserving teachers, lecturers, leaders, support staff and institutions recognised as a silver winner in this year's awards for the lasting impact they have had on shaping the lives of young people. Neil said: "I can't believe this. I'm absolutely bamboozled by it. "I've been so fortunate to work with so many amazing colleagues and students. "I think this is really recognition for all of them as well." Professor Christopher Moore, principal and chief executive at New College Lanarkshire, added: "Neil's career here at New College Lanarkshire clearly demonstrates the deep impact one person can have in their community. "He is an inspiring teacher, a convivial colleague and someone who really energises our college. "We're incredibly proud of him; this is such a fitting recognition of his outstanding contribution." Sir Michael Morpurgo, author, former Children's Laureate, and president of the Teaching Awards Trust, said: "The dedication and impact of those involved in educating young people is truly remarkable. "Their influence extends well beyond the classroom - offering encouragement, inspiration, and unwavering support that can shape lives for years to come. "That's why National Thank a Teacher Day is an important opportunity to pause and celebrate all that they do. "I'm also delighted to be able to congratulate this year's Silver Award winners. "Your passion and commitment to shaping the next generation is extraordinary.
