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Kayla Harrison has been ruled out of her bantamweight title defence against Amanda Nunes at UFC 324 in Las Vegas next week after suffering an injury.

The UFC has not yet revealed the extent of the injury, but American media are reporting Harrison requires surgery on herniated discs in her neck.

The bout, which was set to be the co-main event at the T-Mobile Arena on 24 January, has been “postponed to a later date”, the UFC says.

The promotion has not announced a replacement bout and has instead promoted former bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley’s contest with Song Yadong to the co-main event.

Harrison, 35, was set to make the first defence of her title against returning former double champion Nunes in a bout UFC president Dana White had described as “the biggest women’s fight of all time”.

Former two-time PFL lightweight champion Harrison beat Julianna Pena in June to win the belt in only her third UFC fight.

Brazil’s Nunes, who many regard as the greatest women’s mixed martial artist of all time, was set to compete in her first bout since retiring from the sport in 2023.

The 37-year-old former bantamweight and featherweight champion is the only woman in history to hold UFC titles in two separate divisions.

The card on 24 January will be headlined by Britain’s Paddy Pimblett, who is set to face American Justin Gaethje for the interim lightweight title.

AMANDA Holden cheekily spanked her work pal Ashley Roberts as they reunited after a lengthy Christmas break.

The stars work together at Heart FM on the Breakfast show and have formed a firm friendship away from the airwaves.

Now, having got back together in the studio, the two blonde bombshells shared a very cheeky video which saw Amanda spanking Ashley’s behind.

The stars could be seen dancing to Cardi B as they recorded the playful video around the radio station’s offices.

They both donned sunglasses for the light-hearted clip which saw Amanda spanking Ashley before jumping on top of a member of staff’s desk.

Clearly in a fun-filled mood, Amanda went onto take a bite of her co-worker’s banana in the cheeky clip.

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Ashley later followed suit in the raucous video.

The stars were left in fits of giggles as they added the caption to the video: “Second week back and it’s like we’ve never left.”

Amanda looked as chic as ever in a smart black suit with Ashley opting for a tan number featuring a leather jacket and similarly-coloured flared trousers.

The BGT judge is the co-host of the Breakfast programme alongside Jamie Theakston.

Ashley has served as the show’s Entertainment Correspondent and cover presenter since 2023 as well as hosting her own solo show elsewhere on the station.

Their return to the studio comes after Ashley jetted away for Christmas and New Year.

The Pussycat Doll opted to ditch the chilly UK temperatures in favour of soaking up the sun in a bikini on holiday.

Ashley spent time with her toyboy lover George Rollinson, 26, in Dubai and Mauritius over the holiday period.

The singer and dancer began dating George in 2023 and shared a slew of bikini snaps from their sun-soaked holidays together.

AMANDA Holden has admitted her boobs have grown and shared the very unusual reason why.

Standing in the shade in Corfu with her close pal Alan Carr for their BBC series Amanda and Alan’s Greek Job, Amanda’s chest became the topic of conversation.

Alan says: “Your breasts have got bigger since the last one.”

Amanda, wearing a low-cut summer dress, replies: “They have. It’s because of the Saganaki cheese.”

Funnyman Alan quickly quips, “Have you just been rubbing it straight in?,” prompting Amanda to burst out laughing.

One viewer wrote on Instagram: “Amanda’s laugh is pure filth and I’m here for it.”

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Another posted: “Love these two, and Amanda’s cackle cracks me up.”

A third said: “Love these 2 and their renovations. Just what we all need – love and laughter!”

Just days ago Amanda, 54, wowed in a plunging dress, alongside Alan, as they rang in the New Year in Scotland with her husband Chris and lookalike daughters Lexi and Hollie.

Ageless Amanda wowed in the figure-hugging navy frock that showed off her cleavage and cinched at the waist.

She wore her hair down in her signature curly waves and beamed from ear to ear.

Daughters, Lexi, 19, and Hollie, 13, dressed up in sparkly gold and silver dresses which they both paired with matching boots.

Meanwhile, proud dad Chris stood with his family and opted for an all-black suit with a black shirt.

Amanda captioned the post: “Happy New year. From our family to yours…”

Her loyal followers flocked to the comments section to wish her and her family an early happy New Year.

Amanda also took to her stories to reveal that the family were joined by Celebrity Traitors winner Alan.

The pair posed for pictures, with Amanda planting a kiss on her pal’s cheek and the pair clinking champagne flutes.

Her hubby Chris’ arm was visible in the shot as she jokingly captioned: “Me and my husband, oh whoops, we managed to cut him out!”

Amanda and Alan host their own BBC travel show together which sees them travel to different locations including Italy, Spain and Greece and renovate a house from scratch.

Both presenters have also been in the running to take over from Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman on Strictly Come Dancing.

The Sun previously revealed that ten well-known faces had been selected by the BBC to undergo look tests, with Alan, Bradley Walsh and Alex Jones being the frontrunners.

Aside from Amanda, the other stars reportedly in the running are Rylan Clark, Rob Rinder, Zoe Ball, Holly Willoughby, Alison Hammond and Angela Scanlon.

However, we reported that Alan has had to pull out of the race as he cannot shift his tour dates.

A source revealed: “Alan is out of the Golden Ten possible hosts and won’t be taking part in the tests — the BBC are gutted.

“He was their favourite to take on one of the positions but he’s spoken with the BBC and basically he cannot move his tour.

“The dates which are scheduled for 2027 are not able to be rearranged and Alan has had to choose.

“The BBC understand his position but they are hugely disappointed.

“They thought Alan would be such a great choice for the job. Rylan has now replaced Alan as one of their top choices.

“It will come down to how Rylan gets on in the chemistry tests.”

Alan Carr, who won Celebrity Traitors last year, is in a new series with Amanda Holden — and fans have already taken to social media, including X and Instagram, to express their love

Alan Carr fans believe the comedian has already made one of the TV moments of the year.

The star, who won Celebrity Traitors last year, was seen falling headfirst down a waterslide last night during his new show, Amanda & Alan’s Greek Job on BBC One. The scene, recorded at a water park during the duo’s break between renovating their latest property in Greece, left viewers in hysterics.

Fans liked it so much they dubbed the clip the best TV moment of 2026 so far, less than one week into the year. One X user said: “Alan Carr with the highlight of the year already?!” Another posted: ” know it’s only January 5th but Alan Carr falling out of a rubber ring on a water slide is TV moment of the year”.

It follows Alan’s successful 2025, during which he won Celebrity Traitors, was tipped to become a new Strictly Come Dancing presenter and the third series of his sitcom Changing Ends aired.

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Amanda persuaded Alan, 49, to take a turn on a slide called The Black Hole, warning: “It’s pitch black, you won’t see anything”, to which he nervously replied: “That sounds awful!”

But Alan accepted his friend’s challenge, asking the lifeguard to “pray for him”. The presenter then pushed himself down the long tube, while sat in a large rubber ring. Before long, the Chatty Man star was flipped head over heels out of the inflatable and came hurtling out of the tunnel, to Amanda’s guffaws.

And viewers at home were amused too. They heaped praise on the host, who beat Ant and Dec, Graham Norton and Sarah Millican to win a BAFTA for Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Alan, born in Weymouth, Dorset, emerged adored by the nation after creating TV gold on Celebrity Traitors. He was linked with the Strictly vacancies but it emerged last week his 2027 tour clashes with that year’s season of the BBC show.

The clip showing the slide escapade has been widely shared on social media. In the programme, he is then comforted by Amanda, 54, who wraps the distressed comedian in a towel. The programme, on the BBC, is Alan’s first TV gig of 2026, during which he will also appear in a Channel 4 competition series with Susie Dent, and compete in Amazon Prime’s LOL: Last One Laughing UK.

But last year, Alan was picked as the Traitor by Claudia Winkleman, 53, in the dramatic first episode of the star-studded version of the BBC show.

Joking he had a “sweating problem”, openly laughing at banishments and unable to call himself Faithful with a straight face, it seemed unlikely that he would be able to keep up appearances until the bitter end.

WITH her steamy shower scenes and sexy outfits, you might assume the much-hyped Sydney Sweeney is the centre of attention in new thriller movie The Housemaid.

Instead, critics are raving about her older co-star Amanda Seyfried as the standout of the film that hit UK cinemas yesterday.

Mamma Mia! actress Amanda, 40, is tipped for an Oscar nod for The Testament Of Ann Lee, which is out in February and sees her play the founder of the Christian fundamentalist Shaker Movement in the 18th century.

But it is The Housemaid, based on the same-named bestselling 2022 novel by US author Freida McFadden, that will be putting bums on seats first.

In the sexy flick, Amanda plays deranged housewife Nina Winchester, who hires 28-year-old Sydney’s Millie Calloway to take care of domestic chores and her daughter.

But nothing is what it seems in this psychological potboiler as Amanda — also famed for 2004 teen movie Mean Girls, as a student who believes her breasts predict the weather — steals the show.

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Revelling in the role, she teases: “It’s dark as s**t. But when you get opportunities like that — to go nuts, go anywhere — I’m so happy I can still do it.

“There were ample opportunities for me to play unhinged, and playing unhinged is delicious. I had so much fun.”

In The Housemaid trailer, the two co-stars appear to be at each other’s throats. There is shouting, screaming and knives are reached for.

But in real life, fellow Americans Amanda and Sydney became great pals while making and promoting the film.

‘She’s a sweetheart’

For a bit of fun together, they even took a lie-detector test for Vanity Fair magazine, with a very animated Amanda asking Sydney whether her breasts were real.

Sydney is now caught in a storm over her recent “great jeans” ad, as some claimed its pun on “genes” hinted at white supremacy.

But Donald Trump, hailed it “the hottest ad out there”.

There have also been online rumours of her having romances with co-stars including Housemaid actor Brandon Sklenar and Glen Powell, who Sydney got steamy with in 2023 rom com Anyone But You. None of it was true.

Amanda knows about falling for a co-star, having dated Dominic Cooper from 2008 film Mamma Mia! for three years before the British actor reportedly broke her heart.

But asked about all the hype around pin-up Sydney, she told Vanity Fair: “I don’t envy anything she’s going through.

“I’ve spent a lot of time with her, we just hit it off immediately. She’s a sweetheart. I did not have a moment like she’s having, ever.”

If Sydney ever wanted to know more about the ups and downs of fame, Amanda would be a great person to chat to.

People would run into me and kids would be like, ‘Hey, can you tell us what your boobs are thinking?’ I got that so often, but I didn’t mind it’

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Her pharmacist dad Jack and mum Ann, an occupational therapist, brought her up on a college campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

At school, Amanda started modelling then, in her teens, broke into acting with roles in US soap operas As The World Turns and All My Children.

This led to the “liberation and freedom of living on my own in New York City”, as her career took off.

She says: “I was having so much fun — paid a thousand dollars a day and working, like, three times a week — for a 17-year-old.”

The dream seemed to be over when the TV work dried up, and she enrolled at college.

But then an audition for mega-hit Mean Girls, which starred Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, saved her career.

Amanda says: “I was just happy to be working — big cheque.”

But playing that student who believes her boobs have superpowers led to some pointed questions from admirers.

She recalls: “People would run into me and kids would be like, ‘Hey, can you tell us what your boobs are thinking?’ I got that so often, but I didn’t mind it. I did my job, good enough, I guess.”

Four years later, she got the lead role of Sophie in Abba-inspired smash-hit movie musical Mamma Mia!, alongside Meryl Streep.

Amanda says of the much sought-after part: “I can’t f***ing believe I got that role but it felt like something I should be doing, could be doing.”

She was on a roll as further box-office success followed, including 2009 comedy-horror Jennifer’s Body with Megan Fox, 2010 romantic drama Dear John with Channing Tatum, and 2012 hit Les Miserables.

But not all of her career choices turned out well. She passed on the role of green alien Gamora in 2014 superhero blockbuster Guardians Of The Galaxy, only for it to take nearly £600million worldwide and spawn a pair of sequels.

The part was played instead by Zoe Saldana. Amanda says: “The offer came in and I was like, ‘I should take this, right? But this is going to be Marvel’s first bomb and I do not want to be ruined for the rest of my life. Who the f is going to see a movie with a talking raccoon?’”

But her later decision to star in an off-Broadway play in New York called The Way We Get By in 2015 was to have a major impact on her personal life. Co-star Thomas Sadoski would become her husband two years later.

She says: “We met, we came very, very close, and then we started seeing each other a year later — and now we have kids [a daughter born in 2017 and son born in 2020].”

Amanda had never intended to be a mum because she feared it might ruin her career.

But she says: “If you’re lucky enough to accidentally get pregnant, which was me twice, I’m just like, thank God. I would have been, ‘I’m too busy’, ‘I’m gonna disappear from Hollywood and it’s gonna be hard to get back on track.’”

If you’re lucky enough to accidentally get pregnant, which was me twice, I’m just like, thank God. I would have been, ‘I’m too busy’, ‘I’m gonna disappear from Hollywood and it’s gonna be hard to get back on track.’

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In reality, after getting pregnant, Amanda took only a few months off and discovered she was being offered “mum” roles by casting directors.

She says: “There’s something that happens to you when you become a mother or a father.

“You know, when your life no longer matters as much and you can’t live for yourself any more.

“That sacrifice also is very enriching and the roles got better. But it was funny how fast that happened. They’re like, ‘She’s pregnant. Is she pregnant? Oh, she had a baby. Oh, yeah, no, she’s a mom. She’s a mom now.’

“But I did play one character where I was not a mom, since then.”

One mum she played was silent film star Marion Davies in Gary Oldman’s 2020 movie Mank, about alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz railing against 1930s Hollywood society while completing the screenplay of 1941 movie classic Citizen Kane.

That led to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in 2021, which in turn secured a starring role in the Disney+ series The Dropout, for which she won an Emmy and Golden Globe.

‘Weird dance’

Amanda says: “Going to the Oscars, you’re like, ‘I’m just happy to be here’, honestly. But it brought me up the casting list. I got the offer for The Dropout the next day.”

But there were restrictions on playing real-life character Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout because the medical fraudster was not convicted until January 2022.

The programme’s lawyers even advised against sex scenes.

Amanda says: “Every script went through a team of lawyers.

“We couldn’t say certain things, we couldn’t do certain things. We couldn’t show them making love, so we had that weird dance scene because that was their foreplay.”

Every script went through a team of lawyers. We couldn’t say certain things, we couldn’t do certain things. We couldn’t show them making love, so we had that weird dance scene because that was their foreplay

Amanda Seyfried

Fast-forward to now, and her title role in upcoming period drama The Testament Of Ann Lee, about the UK-born Shaker Movement being taken to the US by Manchester lass Ann in 1774.

It sees Amanda shake ecstatically as the ultra-puritanical sect, which avoided earthly pleasures such as sex, celebrated the Almighty.

Also known for their pacifism, the Shakers’ number peaked in the mid-19th century but then declined with industrialisation, with only one active community remaining today, in Maine. Amanda says of Ann: “Nobody could have sex because sex, she thought, was the root of all evil — the root of why she was in so much pain.

“She had got pregnant and lost her babies.

“The idea that taking sex away could make you closer to wholeness is kind of beautiful. I think she’s nuts and also very cool.”

But despite her impressive credits reel, Amanda still reckons she must battle to stay on the “list” of most-wanted actresses in Hollywood.

She says: “These f***ing lists. Every time I’m auditioning it’s like I fluctuate. I fall down the list, I go to the top of the second list or keep going back to the bottom of the first list, and it’s like, I’m lucky to be on the list at all.”

But after The Housemaid, she shouldn’t need to worry about being on that Tinseltown A-list.

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A GLOSSY, erotic thriller that is as hilariously camp as it is suspenseful.

Adapted from Freida McFadden’s smash-hit novel by director Paul Feig and screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, Sydney Sweeney stars as Millie, a young woman fresh out of prison.

She takes a live-in maid job at the lavish home of wealthy couple Nina and Andrew Winchester (Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar).

What initially promises a fresh start for the young woman, quickly turns into something far stranger as Nina’s wildly erratic behaviour borders on the theatrical, while Andrew’s “perfect husband” routine grows increasingly unrealistic.

Feig, usually known for his work in comedy, brings an over-the-top energy to this adaptation that makes for a fun, if slightly ridiculous, ride.

While his shift into psychological drama feels a bit bumpy, the film’s knowingly silly vibe is exactly what makes it so entertaining.

But it struggles with its own shifting tone and at 131 minutes, the pacing sags and several twists are made a little too obvious.

Sweeney does her best with the script but it is Seyfried who ultimately comes out on top here, putting in a brilliantly unhinged performance as Nina.

The Housemaid may lack subtlety and genuine menace but no one can deny that it is a great deal of fun from start to finish.