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LOVE Island’s Leanne Amaning has broken her silence on her feud with Whitney Adebayo.

The pair fell out after they both appeared on this year’s series of the ITV2 dating show’s spin-off All Stars.

Some “snakey” behaviour in the villa led the two to fall out and the drama continued when the pair returned to the UK after the programme.

Leanne, who shot to fame on series six of the show, lifted the lid on if they were pals in a recent get ready with me video on her YouTube channel.

She read out a question from a fan which asked: “Will you ever speak about any of the fall outs post show? Whitney said that you and her are friends again. Is this true?”

Leanne said: “Honestly, I have no plans to whatsoever. I probably would take it to the grave with me.

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“I feel like, I personally don’t feel a need to comment on something that to me is so clearly from a place of spite, bitterness.

“Clearly a continuous attempt to try and humiliate me. I feel like a lot of things speak for themselves. A lot of things are very obvious.

“When there is a pattern of continuous fall outs and whatever, it’s just clear what the issue is.

“I know myself, I know my truth, I know what is true. Other people’s perception of me and how other people view me, it’s just not my business.

“It’s actually above me. I just try to keep positive, even through the negativity, I just don’t want to give out low vibrational vibes or negative energy.

“I just don’t want to do that. I just don’t want to reciprocate that energy.

“I don’t want the negativity to make me someone that I am not.

“I do think though, quite a lot of things have been said since the villa, mind you it is November, we are still going, at what point does it class as harassment?

“I probably would have responded if I thought anything productive would have come out of it.

“To me, it’s very clear a productive conversation isn’t going to come out of people spewing lies from a place of bitterness or misery, with the clear intention to humiliate me, embarrass me, humble me.

“That is not going to be a productive conversation.

“So I don’t even give it the time of day.

“Me and Whitney are not friends. We’re fine in the sense of if we were in the same room I can co-exist, we’re not fine in the sense of I would go up and say hello.”

She then went on to explain how they did cross paths at a brand trip – and were able to “co-exist” together.

Leanne continued: “I had a flash forward moment, I’m picturing 2032, we’re still going on about the same thing.

“I would honestly just describe it as cordial, the only reason I would say cordial, if that, is because we were on a brand trip together.

“As much as I did try to avoid, you know what brand trips are like, we do a lot of things together, you know brand trips are quite intimate.

“The first day I did successfully manage to avoid.

“The second day I was confronted. We did speak, we did have a bit of a back and fourth which was not ideal. I am a professional and I know how to keep it professional.

“I found the confrontation not professional whatsoever.

“There was also another situation in the brand trip that was very uncomfortable, we had mutual friends.

“The situation was uncomfortable for the mutual friends and it was unprofessional for the trip.

“For the sake of the trip, I put everything to the side and we just was able to co-exist.

“For the trip. Emphasis on the trip, I am not friends with people who try to humiliate me, act spitefully towards me, spread misinformation about me.

“That is not someone I am friends with, or cool with.

“But again, we can co-exist at the end of the day.

“I think there was some progress made. Her and Scott did speak and an apology was made from her side, however, you can’t publicly try to spite someone, you can’t publicly do that, and then privately apologise.

“That’s not how it works. I think had there been some public acknowledgement of the situation, maybe there could have been a conversation, or something to move forward. There wasn’t. So there isn’t.

“That’s literally it. This is the only time that I am going to address it. It’s only because a New Year is coming up and I don’t want to keep talking about the same things.

“After the villa there was no friendship. There was a friendship in the villa.”

The Sun has contacted Whitney’s rep for comment.

Leanne wasn’t happy when Whitney told her best pal Scott Van-der-Sluis, who she met back in 2023 on Love Island, that he was more suited to US bombshell Sher Suarez while he was getting to know Leanne.

During the series, Whitney – who originally took part in series 10 – didn’t hold back as she shared her views on their romance.

To make matters worse, Leanne also showed an interest in Whitney’s man Yamen Sanders.

Tensions reached boiling point during Movie Night when the girls went head-to-head after Whitney accused Leanne of “egging” on the drama between the other girls.

Whitney had also fallen out with Leanne’s man Scott – who shared an update on their feud in June after her olive branch.

Leanne and Scott are still going strong after placing third on this year’s All Stars series – and even broke their silence on their relationship status after weeks of split rumours back in August.

Meanwhile Whitney and Yamen, who placed fifth on the spin-off, are no longer together.

In his jaunty new memoir, Dustin Hoffman describes himself as “a guy with a bawdy sense of humor who is obsessed with sex and is always looking for attention.”

Yet in “Look at Me,” the two-time Oscar-winning actor maintains that “when a reckoning started making its way around the internet, and tearing through Hollywood, I thought it was a very good thing.” Until, in 2017, he found himself in the crosshairs of #MeToo, accused by several women of sexual misconduct from decades earlier.

Hoffman denied the allegations at the time, issuing only a vague apology. In the memoir, he admits to having “made some women uncomfortable” and perhaps being “guilty of insufficient empathy.” But “taking something from someone sexually that they didn’t want to give,” he writes, “it’s just not something I’ve ever done.”

He also says: “Different times have different rules. The way we perceive what’s appropriate all depends on the air we’re breathing.”

Draw your own conclusions.

Co-authored with New Yorker staff writer and “60 Minutes” contributor Ariel Levy, “Look at Me” is a gossipy, entertaining compendium of stories assembled in a nonchronological mosaic. It makes clear that Hoffman wasn’t the most congenial of colleagues. His intense combination of self-confidence and insecurity led to repeated clashes with directors and sometimes costars. He even quarreled with his Method acting teacher, Lee Strasberg.

About all this, he is mostly unapologetic. “I’m really not that difficult,” he insists, only partly tongue in cheek. “It’s not my fault I’m right all the time.”

Hoffman, as the unemployable actor Michael Dorsey, famously lampooned his own perfectionistic tendencies in the 1982 film “Tootsie.” He reproduces one comic scene in the memoir. Director Sydney Pollack, as Dorsey’s agent, George, tells him: “You argue with everyone. You’ve got one of the worst reputations in this town.” Dorsey indignantly defends his refusal to sit down while portraying a beefsteak tomato, declaring: “Nobody does vegetables like me!”

There is just enough candor and self-reflection in “Look at Me” to make the actor seem, on balance, sympathetic, even endearing. Certainly, Hoffman’s childhood in Los Angeles was not easy. His father, the onetime head of the Columbia Pictures prop department, aspired to directing but became instead a perennially bankrupt businessman. When Hoffman was about 12, his mother urged him to get a nose job. “No one suspected I might have any kind of intellect or talent,” he recalls. “I was designated to be the failure in the family, and I accepted my role entirely.”

A distracted student, he found focus in an acting class. There, he writes, “for the first time in my life I had girls whom I considered to be attractive approaching me.” Later, when he became famous, he recalls women waiting for him on his Manhattan doorstep.

Like many young New York actors, Hoffman struggled for years to get roles and make rent. He lost one big break — a 1964 Broadway debut in Frank Gilroy’s “The Subject Was Roses” — after suffering severe burns in a kitchen accident. He stoically showed up for rehearsals anyway but ended up in the hospital and was fired. That misfortune left him free to accept an Obie-winning part off-Broadway that led, circuitously, to his career-making 1967 role as Benjamin Braddock in “The Graduate.”

Hoffman’s philosophy of acting inevitably caused conflicts. “You can’t force me to do something that feels inauthentic to me,” he writes. “Truthful acting has to do with understanding a character’s inner life, not forcing outward expressions of emotion.” Until an actor finds his character, “blindly obeying the director isn’t going to fix anything.”

Hoffman was so stymied by his autistic character in “Rain Man” (1988) that he almost quit the movie. Director Barry Levinson’s collaborative spirit kept him engaged. But he tangled with other directors, including Pollack and Nichols, who directed “The Graduate.” Working on that film was “a terrible experience,” Hoffman remembers, but Nichols’ later praise mollified him.

Hoffman’s relationship with Steve McQueen, his costar in the 1973 film “Papillon,” followed a similar trajectory. Furious when McQueen chased a friend of his from the set, Hoffman gave McQueen the silent treatment and then ranted at him on a live microphone as the rest of the cast and crew listened in. But he concludes the story on an upbeat note, quoting a letter, four years later, from McQueen that said: “We were good, weren’t we?”

Hoffman lavishes his own encomia on friends and costars, including Tom Cruise (“Nobody worked harder”), Robin Williams (“the fastest brain I’ve ever encountered”), Gene Hackman (“hilarious”), Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and others. As the director of “Quartet” (2012), he worked with “the incomparable Maggie Smith,” known for her curmudgeonly temperament. In a backstage encounter in London years later, she greeted him warmly as “Dustin! My favorite Jew.”

The nonlinear, anecdotal structure of “Look at Me” presents some challenges. The narrative ping-pongs somewhat confusingly between Hoffman’s two wives — dancer and actor Anne Byrne, whom he divorced in 1980, and his longtime spouse, Lisa Gottsegen. It also skips around freely among his films, including “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), “Lenny” (1974), “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Marathon Man” (1976) and “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979).

Even now, at age 89, Hoffman’s restless self-doubt persists. “I’ve never allowed myself to feel truly gratified by a positive review or deserving of a trophy,” he confesses. “But I can remember every negative review I ever received.” Only in his family life — he has six children and eight grandchildren — does he seem to permit himself unalloyed joy.

The memoir’s title, “Look at Me,” drawn from a conversation with Laurence Olivier, suggests a profound, narcissistic neediness that may be endemic to the profession. What distinguishes Hoffman, along with his unconventional leading-man looks, is the magnitude of his talent and his unyielding faith in his own instincts. No doubt many egos, and maybe hearts as well, were bruised along the way. But the camera loved him, and it is hard to argue with the results.

Klein, a cultural reporter and critic in Philadelphia, has been a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

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Banished Traitors star Hannah Fry revealed she is actually related to one of her co-stars and shared her true opinions of them after leaving Ardross Castle

The aim of the game is for faithfuls to hunt out the Traitors, but for one contestant, they discovered more than they bargained for in the latest series of Celebrity Traitors.

Recently ousted traitor Hannah Fry was part of the group of famous faces battling it out to bag a big lump sum for charity in the second celeb offering of the BBC show.

Thursday’s episode of the saw Hannah feel the force as fellow Traitors Maya Jama and James Acaster turned on her in a bid to save themselves. The mathematician and author, 42, discovered she is related to one of her co-stars.

When she was asked who she was closest to in the Ardross Castle, Hannah said: “I really like Joanne. We actually discovered that we’re cousins, by marriage. So her cousin is married to my cousin.”

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She then joked: “We’re basically sisters. I really loved her so much. She described herself as how she came out of the womb as a show pony.

“That’s the perfect description of that woman. She is phenomenal. She knows exactly who she is, and she is totally unapologetic about it. I cannot tell you how much I admire her. She’s phenomenal.”

In the same episode as Hannah being banished, comedian Rob Beckett was also murdered. He admitted he found being murdered funny. but Hannah she’d cried more during her five days of playing the game than at any other point in her life.

Speaking in the immediate aftermath of her leaving the castle, she said she found the whole experience a rollercoaster of emotions. Hannah said: “I laughed more, cried more and got more excited than I ever have in the entirety of the rest of my life combined.

“I really preferred being Faithful. I think it’s just a much more authentic experience.” She went on to say hat one of the lessons learned was that she hated “lying to people’s faces”.

She continued: “I think there’s actually some pride in being a rubbish Traitor.” And she admitted she knew she wasn’t destined to last long in the game.

“On the first day, I asked Michael Sheen who he would murder, and he said, ‘You’. At that point I knew I was really in trouble,” she said.

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