The I’m A Celebrity cast were split into pairs on Wednesday as they ‘went to war’ to battle it out for treats and food in camp, and the stars certainly took it seriously
22:11, 26 Nov 2025Updated 22:14, 26 Nov 2025
The I’m A Celebrity cast were split into pairs on Wednesday as they ‘went to war’ to battle it out for treats(Image: James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)
Someone who took the battle very seriously was Vogue Williams, who took some savage swipes at her rival Kelly Brook. The duo had been paired up and faced tasks against each other.
Initially the stars took on ‘Mind Games’ where they had to race to be the first to eat a pig’s brain. It was pretty grim, while Vogue beat Kelly rather quickly.
Later on there was a rematch, and it’s then that Vogue hilariously took aim at Kelly. Telling her to leave, she advised her there was no point in her even being there, suggesting she was going to win once more.
Kelly said: “Fancy seeing you here!” Going head-to-head in a ‘Paint The Town’ challenge, the treat on offer was cheese and biscuits for their group. Kelly also laughed off Vogue’s suggestion that she should walk away, telling her co-star: “Listen, everyone loves an underdog Vogue, you know that.”
Vogue wasn’t done with the put-downs though, as she told Kelly she “wasn’t good enough”. She said before this: “Me and Kelly used to be friends but not anymore.” Kelly quipped: “I’ve never seen you cry but I’m about to.”
Just before the battle commenced, Vogue said: “You’re good, you’re just not good enough.” Vogue managed to win the challenge for her group, leaving Kelly defeated once more.
It was all fun and games though as the jungle war continues across the week. After the task Vogue and Kelly laughed away and hugged it out to show there were no hard feelings.
Fans were a bit stunned though after hearing Kelly call Vogue “a b***h”. One fan posted: “Kelly calling Vogue a b***h?!?” Another fan said: “lowk getting tense between Vogue and Kelly.” Others were amused by the moment and the battle between the pair.
It comes as two of the jungle stars joked to hosts Ant and Dec that they were planning on stealing their jobs. Aitch and Angry Ginge took part in a trial in front of the hosts on Wednesday.
As they were about to get on with proceedings, the pair joked with the hosts about replacing them. Musician Aitch told them: “We’re coming for your jobs after this!”
Ant and Dec were rather amused by the claim, amid the pair being tipped to become the next big celeb duo once they leave the jungle.
Fans even suggested then they could be the new Ant and Dec, as others begged ITV to give the pair their own show. One fan said: “Aitch and Ginge could possibly be the new Ant & Dec.”
Another viewer posted: “Aitch & Ginge seriously need their own show.” A third fan agreed: “Dear ITV… please give Ginge and Aitch their own tv show… what a duo.”
A fourth fan commented: “Give Ginge & Aitch their own chat show,” as another said: “Aitch & Ginge could easily be the next Ant & Dec.” A final comment read: “Careful Ant and Dec, think Aitch and Ginge are the new comedy duo.”
Great documentaries are sometimes lucky accidents, the product of being at the right place at the right time and then having the wherewithal to produce something extraordinary out of those unlikely circumstances. When director Julia Loktev traveled to Russia in October 2021, all she wanted was to chronicle a handful of smart, dogged journalists trying to tell the truth who, for their trouble, had been branded foreign agents by Vladimir Putin’s vindictive government. She didn’t know she would be arriving mere months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But thanks to a quirk of coincidence, she ended up having a front-row seat to history.
She made the most of it: Running five-and-a-half hours without a minute wasted, “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow” takes us inside TV Rain, one of Russia’s last independent television channels. Divided into five chapters, the documentary begins as Loktev, who was born in the former Soviet Union before leaving when she was 9, returns to her homeland armed with an iPhone to shadow veteran TV Rain reporter and host Anna Nemzer. Over the next four months, a period that ended shortly after the invasion began, Loktev embedded herself not just with Nemzer (who is credited as the film’s co-director) but several other journalists as they fear being arrested for their reporting.
Loktev hasn’t completed a film since 2011’s “The Loneliest Planet,” which starred Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as soon-to-be-wed lovers backpacking through the Georgian countryside, their seemingly close bond shattered after a harrowing encounter. In that movie and her previous feature, 2006’s “Day Night Day Night,” a spare procedural about a nameless suicide bomber in New York, Loktev explored the mysteries of human behavior under pressure. But with “My Undesirable Friends,” she takes that fascination to a new level, introducing viewers to a group of compelling subjects, many of them women in their 20s, who open up in front of her camera while hanging out at TV Rain, their apartments or in cafes, candidly processing their country’s terrifying descent into authoritarianism in real time.
These intrepid journalists couldn’t foresee the invasion that was coming, nor the brutal local crackdown on free speech in its wake, but Loktev makes those dire certainties clear from the start, solemnly intoning in voice-over, “The world you’re about to see no longer exists.” Since its premiere at last year’s New York Film Festival, “My Undesirable Friends” has been compared to a horror movie and a political thriller but perhaps more accurately, it’s a disaster film — one in which you know the characters so intimately that, when the awful event finally occurs, you care deeply about the outcome. (“My Undesirable Friends” bears the subtitle “Part I” because Loktev has nearly finished a second installment, which catches up with the women after they fled Russia.)
In its avoidance of interviews with experts or historians, the documentary offers a kind of personal scrapbook of Loktev’s subjects, showing what everyday life is like in an oppressive society: strikingly banal with a constant background hum of paranoia. Each woman comes into empathetic focus. Nemzer, who is a little older than her colleagues, balances her demanding job with marriage and motherhood. Meanwhile, her younger co-worker Ksenia Mironova keeps diligently filing stories despite her fiancé, journalist Ivan Safronov, being imprisoned for more than a year. (He would subsequently be sentenced to 22 years.) Investigative reporter Alesya Marokhovskaya has a girlfriend, whose face we never see, and eventually details grim memories of a violent childhood. And then there’s Marokhovskaya’s best friend and partner Irina Dolinina, who combats anxiety while her politically unconscious mother harangues her about not being able to find a man now that she’s been labeled a foreign agent.
The stress and uncertainty of these conversations is palpable but, remarkably, so is a spiky sense of humor. When a co-worker is temporarily locked up, Mironova cracks jokes outside his prison while awaiting his release. The journalists wear their foreign-agent designation as a badge of honor, mocking the comically lengthy disclaimer text they’re forced to run with their broadcasts, a pitch-black coping mechanism to make sense of their tense, surreal moment.
“My Undesirable Friends” captures dark times with some of the funniest people you’d ever hope to have as sisters-in-arms. Defiant, emotional and life-affirming, the film presents us with endearing patriots who love their country but hate its leaders, sucking us into a riveting tale with a powerful undertow.
The audience anticipates the frightening future that awaits these journalists, which makes their relentless advocacy all the more moving. If our 20s are a period of unbridled optimism — a hopefulness that slowly gets beaten out of us as we grow older — “My Undesirable Friends” stands as a touching display of the resilience of youth. There is nothing naive about these women who came of age during Putin’s cruel regime, but they nonetheless believe they can change things. While Loktev rarely inserts herself into this epic, we feel her admiration from behind the camera. The film inspires while it challenges: What were any of us doing at that age that was comparably heroic or meaningful? What are we doing now?
Those questions should stick in the craw of Americans who watch this masterwork. Loktev has made a movie about Russia but its themes spread far beyond that country’s borders. During a year in which the worst-case scenarios of a second Trump presidency have come to fruition, “My Undesirable Friends” contains plenty of echoes with our national news. The canceling of comedy shows, the baseless imprisonment of innocent people, the rampant transphobia: The Putin playbook is now this country’s day-to-day. Some may wish to avoid Loktev’s film because of those despairing parallels. But that’s only more reason to embrace “My Undesirable Friends.” Loktev didn’t set out to be a witness to history, but what she’s emerged with is an indispensable record and a rallying cry.
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’
Ron, 25, from Glasgow thought his lads’ trip would be carefree fun – but when a drunk friend lost jewellery and accused everyone of theft the holiday ended in a disaster – ruining the whole friendship
Ron from Glasgow fount out the hard way(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
What began as a relaxed lads’ holiday took an unexpected twist when one mate’s drunken panic set off a chain reaction that no one saw coming.
It’s not a unique scenario – disagreements abroad are far more frequent than most people think. Yet, group holidays continue to be one of the UK’s favourite ways to travel, with over half of adults planning a getaway with friends each year.
These trips are often viewed as an opportunity to bond and escape the everyday life, particularly among Brits who frequently favour holidaying with friends over partners or family.
However, this intimacy can bring its own pressures, and UK surveys suggest that holiday disputes are far more common than people confess. One nationwide study discovered that 51% of adults have quarrelled with a friend whilst overseas, typically over money, drinking or daily activity decisions.
Another survey by Babbel found that 21% have severed ties with a friend due to a holiday disagreement, highlighting the harsh truth that trips intended to solidify friendships can instead reveal fractures – something a young man from Glasgow learned first-hand.
Ron, 25, from Glasgow, experienced a chaotic turn during a quick lads’ trip when two members of his friendship group got drunk.
He told Betches that his friend misplaced a piece of jewellery that was significant to him. Instead of confessing he’d lost it, he turned on the others, accusing them of theft. As their flight home drew nearer, he kept confiscated everyone’s passports and refused to hand them back.
Ron says the situation spiralled much faster than anyone had anticipated. and with tensions already sky-high and just hours before their scheduled departure, panic began to take hold.
“He eventually admitted he was just too embarrassed to say he’d lost it,” Ron said, “but the passport drama and accusations of theft completely ruined the friendship.”
What should have been a fun lads’ break ended with mistrust, arguments and a friendship group that never bounced back – despite his mate eventually owning up to his mistake in the end. The holiday transformed how he views group getaways, and he’s now much more choosy about his travel companions.
His experience mirrors what countless Brits experience – whilst holidays can forge fantastic memories, they can also expose just how delicate some friendships truly are.
When things go pear-shaped abroad, the fallout doesn’t always remain on the trip – and for some, like Ron, it’s sufficient to destroy a friendship completely.
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You are not going to like all your children’s friends and sooner or later, your child will bring home a friend you just don’t warm to.
Maybe they’re rude, overconfident or have a habit of helping themselves to snacks without asking. Or maybe it’s deeper than that and you feel they bring out the worst in your child.
It’s easy to just tell your child they can’t hang out with a friend, but that often won’t solve the problem.
Parenting coach Sue Atkins and mum-of-four and comedian Ria Lina share three ways you can navigate this without driving your own kid away.
1. Consider why you don’t like them
Is it something serious like disrespect, bullying or risky behaviour, or is it just that the child rubs you up the wrong way?
Atkins says it’s worth doing a little self-audit before reacting as it’s important to separate what’s annoying from what’s harmful.
If it’s a genuine risk like dangerous behaviour or bullying then it’s time to step in more firmly, but if the issue is something like manners, you can model the behaviour you want to see.
This is something Lina, whose comedy is often about the trials and tribulations of raising four children, often does.
“When a child is under my care, they follow my standards,” she explains.
“I tell my children off for putting their feet on bus seats and if other kids under my care are doing that, then I’ll tell them to take their feet off too.”
Lina says that the reason you may not like your children’s friends is often because of a “clash of values” with other parents.
“I’ve had moments where I thought, this kid makes my kid worse but often it’s not really that child’s fault.
“For example, I don’t allow gun play at home at all, no finger guns or playing with toy guns, but lots of boys do that and that’s caused tension when I’ve told my kids they couldn’t join in.”
Sometimes talking to the child’s parents can help find a middle ground that both parents are happy with, she says.
2. Talk, don’t ban
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Identify the behaviour you don’t like in your child’s friend and talk to them about it directly
The worst thing you can do is just ban your child from seeing a friend as “you’re not helping them engage in better friendships nor are you explaining to them why they can’t spend time with that child,” says Atkins.
Being too heavy-handed can “backfire and your child will probably hang out with that friend more just to spite you.”
You should ask your child why they like that friend – what do they have in common? What do they enjoy doing together?
Listening to them share this doesn’t mean you approve of their friendship but it helps build trust between you.
“When you talk, choose your moment carefully,” says Atkins. “Watch your tone and body language because if you go in aggressive or judgemental, they’ll shut down.
“You want to build bridges, not walls.”
Lina says that it’s important to tell your child “you don’t approve of a particular behaviour and you don’t want to see them copying it,” she adds.
“That way you’re not stopping the friendship or forbidding the interaction but you’re drawing a line about what shouldn’t be repeated or endorsed.”
3. Widen the circle
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Joining a sports group can be a good way for children to meet new people
If your child seems stuck in a friendship you’re uneasy about, subtly expand their social world.
“Introduce other friends into the mix,” suggests Atkins. “Invite cousins over, make them join a sports club or try after-school activities – anything that helps them meet new people.”
It’s also important to remember that not every friendship is forever and kids often move through phases, so it’s best to see how the friendship changes over a few weeks or months before intervening.
“Sometimes it’s just a friend for the summer holidays or it’s a teenage kid trying to spite you,” says Atkins.
The best thing you can do is model the kind of friendships you hope your child will form.
Talking to them about your own relationships can show your child what respect, kindness and healthy boundaries look like and in turn, they are more likely to mimic that.
Living in London for eleven years made me realise the differences between the Spanish and British lifestyle, and this one thing still hits me the hardest – and it’s not the weather.
Moving from Barcelona to London made me realise this
When I was a teenager, my parents uprooted our lives, trading the sun-drenched streets of Barcelona for the grey drizzle of London —a thousand-mile pivot that changed everything.
The adjustment was brutally challenging. I spent the first few months paralyzed by homesickness, feeling completely out of place. Eleven years later, I’ve grown to love this city, but the learning curve never really ends. Certain London quirks still baffle me, and no, I’m not just talking about the famously bipolar weather.
The one thing I still can’t wrap my head around is the “after-work lifestyle.” Why do Britons — and even us immigrants — accept a schedule that seems to steal our day, leaving no time to enjoy the city we work so hard in? There’s a systemic reason for this, and I think everyone who commutes here will agree it’s the ultimate London tax.
The one thing that has shocked me the most over the years has been how long it takes to get from one place to another. For example, commuting to work in central London can take up to an hour, depending on the area you live in. Even worse, the journey back home. During rush hour, it can take up to two hours.
It doesn’t apply to work, but also to making plans with friends or doing errands. A total of three hours of journey, “meet me in the middle”… and can we talk about how expensive public transport has become? It’s a £100 day spent, no joke.
Unless you live in central London or ten minutes away from your workplace, it’s impossible – and those with a Monday to Friday and a 9-5 schedule can relate to this. Getting home, shower, dinner, a little scroll on social media and being in bed by 10 pm is a sport.
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In the times I’ve had the opportunity to work remotely, I’ve noticed the difference. After work, I’ve been able to meet up with friends, go to a bar for a coffee or a drink, have dinner, and be back home before 9pm. In London, that’s impossible.
Nonetheless, I think it’s still crucial to make some time for yourself and breathe some fresh air, hang out with your work colleagues or friends, instead of getting into the habit of ‘work-home’. I think the trick is finding a balance between socialising with friends, prioritising your mental health and getting enough hours of sleep for your next working day.
Although it might feel draining at times, a laugh with your loved ones whilst catching up can brighten up your hard day at work!
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Before she came to USC, it had never occurred to Jazzy Davidson how charmed her basketball upbringing had been. Growing up outside of Portland, nearly all of her years playing the game were spent with the same tight-knit group of girls — girls who’d been best friends since before the fifth grade and who, after all that time, could anticipate her every move before she made it.
“They’re basically my sisters,” Davidson says.
They’d been that way pretty much as far back as she could remember. Allie, she met in kindergarten. She and Sara joined the same squad in second grade. By 10, Dylan, Reyce and Avery were on the club team, too. For the next eight years or so, up through March’s Oregon girls 6A state championship, they were inseparable, the six of them spending almost every waking moment together.
But now, a few days before the start of her freshman season at USC, Davidson is in Los Angeles, while her former teammates are scattered across the Pacific Northwest playing with various other Division I schools. It’s an odd feeling, she admits, but a thrilling one, too — to be here with a new team, continuing her basketball journey without the girls who’d been there the whole way.
Reyce Mogel, left, Avery Peterson, Dylan Mogel and Jazzy Davidson played together on youth and high school teams.
(Courtesy of Reyce Mogel)
“Being here made me realize how comfortable I was with them,” Davidson said. “It’s definitely different now, definitely a learning experience.”
Within that well-worn dynamic, Davidson developed into one of the top women’s hoops prospects in the nation, all while she and her friends led Clackamas High on an unprecedented, four-year run of success. Now, early in her freshman season at USC, Davidson steps into circumstances that no one would have anticipated when she signed with the school.
At the time, the expectation was that she could be brought along as a talented No. 2 while the Trojans’ generational star JuJu Watkins commanded all the outside noise and nightly double teams. But then Watkins injured her knee in March, forcing her to sit out the 2025-26 season. Suddenly, the Trojans’ top prospect also became their saving grace.
No one, for the record, is saying that out loud at USC. Nor does anyone in the building expect Davidson to step seamlessly into Watkins’ shoes.
“Those are very unique shoes,” USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb says. “But the fact that Jazzy can step into our program and already just make a really unique and incredible impression on everybody is pretty wild.”
By her own admission, Davidson has never been the fastest to warm up with new people. Most outside of her circle would probably describe her as “quiet” or “reserved.” It’s only once you get to know her that you really see who she is and what she’s capable of.
USC got a brief glimpse Sunday, with the Trojans trailing by a point to No. 9 North Carolina State and 10 seconds on the clock. Coming out of a timeout, the 6-1 Davidson cut swiftly through two defenders toward the basket, caught an inbound pass and, without taking a step, laid in the game-winning bucket.
The stage gets even bigger on Saturday, when No. 8 USC meets No. 2 South Carolina at Crypto Arena in the first of several grueling tests awaiting on a slate that includes four games against the top three teams in the Associated Press preseason top 25 poll. Any hope of the Trojans reaching the same heights as last season hinges in part on their star freshman quickly finding her potential.
No one has seen Davidson fulfill that promise like the girls who have been there since the start. As far as they’re concerned, it won’t be long before the world sees what they have.
“If you know Jazzy,” says Allie Roden, now a freshman guard at Colorado State, “you know she can do anything she wants, pretty much.”
When Davidson’s mother saw that her 5-year old daughter was unusually tall, she signed Jasmine — who would later be known as Jazzy — up for basketball. Roden was on that first team. She has seen the video evidence of the two of them, both still in kindergarten, launching basketballs over their heads at the backboard.
“We were terrible,” Roden says with a laugh, “but we thought we were really great.”
Davidson moved down the street from Roden in the fourth grade, and by that point, she’d figured something out. Enough at least to catch the attention of Clackamas High coach Korey Landolt, whose daughter played for the same club program.
“I saw [Davidson] working with a trainer and just thought, ‘Huh, this kid is different,’” Landolt says.
From left to right, Avery Peterson, Sara Barhoum, Dylan Mogel, Jazzy Davidson, Reyce Mogel, Allie Roden played together for years, leading Clackamas High in Oregon to a state championship.
(Courtesy of Reyce Mogel)
Once the others joined forces a year later on the club team Northwest Select, there wasn’t much anyone could do to stop them. The six girls seemed to fit seamlessly together on the court. Off it, Roden says, “we were inseparable pretty much as soon as we met.” She doesn’t recall their team losing a game against their age group for two full years at one point.
It was around that time that Davidson separated herself from the pack as a prospect. She’d grown to 5-foot-10 by the seventh grade, only for the pandemic to shut down essentially the entire state, including all high school sports.
So Davidson threw herself into basketball. She and Sara Barhoum, who’s now a freshman at Oregon, started working out together during free time between online classes, doing what she could to add strength to her spindly frame. Then they’d shoot together at night, each pushing the other to improve.
“It was a big time for me,” Davidson says. “That was when I honed in on everything.”
Two or three times per month, the team would travel out of state to test themselves. On one particularly memorable trip, just the six of them entered a tournament in Dana Point. They ended up winning the whole thing, beating some of the nation’s best teams, despite the fact they’d stayed up late playing Heads Up and were sunburned from a beach visit the day before.
Those middle school trips only cemented their bond — as well as Davidson’s place as a top prospect. By her freshman season, with all of them together at Clackamas High, the secret was out. College coaches came calling. Gottlieb, who had just taken the job at USC, was one.
Even then, there was a certain grace with which Davidson played the game — as if it flowed from her naturally. “She’s so fluid,” Gottlieb explains. “She glides.” But there was also a fearlessness in getting to the rim against much older, stronger players.
“She had to hold her own,” Landolt says. “But people couldn’t stop her inside. They couldn’t stop her outside. She was just so versatile. She could do everything.”
As a gangly freshman, Davidson stuffed the stat sheet with 22 points, eight rebounds, four steals, three assists and one block per game on her way to being named Oregon’s Gatorade Player of the Year. She won the award again as a sophomore … as well as the next two years after that.
When those four years were up, Davidson was the all-time leading scorer in Oregon Class 6A girls basketball history with 2,726 points. Still, some of her teammates contend she was even better on the defensive end.
“Jazzy is good at everything she does,” Barhoum said. “But she’s probably the best defender I’ve ever seen.”
USC guard Jazzy Davidson blocks a shot by North Carolina State’s Devyn Quigley on Nov. 9 in Charlotte, N.C.
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The girls played on the same team for six years when Clackamas made a run to the 6A state championship game. They’d spent so much time with each other, their coach says, that it could be “a blessing and a curse.” Sometimes, they bickered like sisters, too.
Landolt would urge them to hang out with other friends, only half-kidding. But all that time together made their connection on the court pretty much telepathic.
“There were so many passes I threw to Jazzy that no one else would’ve caught, but she was just there.” said Reyce Mogel, who now plays at Southern Oregon. “We were always on the same page. And not just me and Jazzy. Everybody.”
Davidson was on the bench, in foul trouble, for a long stretch of the state championship game against South Medford. But she delivered two key blocks in the final minute as Clackamas won its first state title.
Two years later, when they returned to the state championship as seniors, Davidson was again forced to sit for a long period after twisting her ankle. This time, her absence “took the wind out of everyone’s sails,” Landolt says. Clackamas blew a 19-point, third-quarter lead from there, even as a hobbled Davidson tried to give it a go in the final minutes.
The six girls found each other after the final buzzer, heartbroken. They knew it would be the last time.
Their final record together at Clackamas: 102-14.
“We all were hugging,” Barhoum says, “and just saying to each other, we’re all off to do better things. We all made history. And now everybody is going to make history somewhere else.”
They may live apart now, but the six girls, all now playing on separate for college basketball programs, still talk all the time.
“I FaceTime one of them at least every day,” Davidson says.
Her Trojan teammates are still getting to know her, still learning her tendencies. That will come with time. But the reason she ultimately chose USC, over every other top program, was how much it felt like home.
Through two games, Davidson seems to have settled seamlessly into a starring role at USC, inviting the inevitable comparisons to Watkins that Gottlieb would rather avoid.
USC guard Jazzy Davidson puts up a three-point shot against North Carolina State on Nov. 9 in Charlotte, N.C.
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“You do not need to be anything other than what your best self is,” Gottlieb insists.
Her friends have seen up close how far Davidson can take a team at her best. But no one, not even the six of them, understand the circumstances Davidson has stepped into quite like Watkins.
Her advice was simple. But it still resonated with Davidson on the doorstep of the season.
“She just told me not to be anxious about any of this,” Davidson says. “You’re good. Just go play how you play, and you’ll be fine.”
