England forward Hannah Botterman speaks to BBC Sport’s Jo Currie as she gets her hair cut before the Rugby World Cup semi-final against France on Saturday.
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Annabel Croft, who won junior Wimbledon at the age of 17, has some reservations about players moving on too quickly.
“When I was playing juniors, I was exactly like Hannah,” Croft said.
“The year that I won the juniors [Australian Open and Wimbledon titles] I was playing in the seniors at the same time. I was playing my idol Chris Evert out on Court One at Wimbledon in the third round and I wasn’t focused on the juniors whatsoever.
“I was way more excited about the prospects of playing senior Wimbledon and going up against the best in the world.
“But in hindsight, it’s one of my proudest moments and I realise I am going to be in that trophy cabinet forevermore.
“I think that no matter what happens she [Klugman] has got plenty of time to be putting herself up against the seniors but the one thing you can say about juniors is that you will never ever get that time again.
“So I totally get it but I just hope she doesn’t regret it.”
The WTA’s age eligibility rules limit 16-year-olds to 12 professional tournaments each year, although anyone who finishes the year in the top five of the junior rankings can play an extra four.
And so next year the professional tour can expect to see much more of the pair, who have been playing each other since their under-10 days.
Stojsavljevic, who names Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic as her idols, is a clean and powerful ball striker while Klugman can serve and volley and – in her own words – “does not play like a usual woman”.
“I’ve got slice, I like to change the rhythm up, mess the player up a little bit – and I’ve got a big serve,” she said at Wimbledon this year.
“I used to love Ash Barty and I also really like Emma Navarro as well.”
JOEL Dommett first appeared on I’m A Celebrity in 2016 and has gone on to become a much-loved household name.
When he’s not busy hosting top shows including the National Television Awards, Joel can be found spending time with his wife Hannah Cooper and their young family.
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British model Hannah Cooper met husband Joel Dommett when she drunkenly messaged him with a cat emoji on Instagram, shortly after he appeared on I’m A Celeb in 2016.
She was born in Holland and also works as an Instagram Influencer.
Hannah has modelled for several high-street brands, including Boux Avenue, M&S and MissGuided.
She’s also appeared on the pages of Grazia, OK! and Sunday Express Magazine.
According to Metro Models, Hannah was discovered by a modelling scout outside Topshop in Oxford Circus at 16.
If that wasn’t enough, she also has a degree in Fashion Marketing.
The couple were first seen together in May 2017 and married two years later in a ceremony held in Mykonos, Greece.
Love Island narrator Iain Stirling performed their ceremony.
Discussing the wedding with OK! in February 2020, Joel said: “It was honestly so fun.
“I was fully prepared to say it was the best day of my life and pretend it was — because I’ve been lucky enough to do Bake Off and I’ve had these amazing experiences in my life — but it was genuinely the best day of my life!
“We had 28 people there. Some people have weddings where half the day is saying hi and bye to people.
“I wanted our closest friends and family to have a wonderful time.”
Not long after they began dating, Joel released a memoir – It’s Not Me It’s Them: Confessions Of A Hopeless Modern Romance – which charts romantic encounters with 40 women before he met Hannah.
At the end of the book, the comedian proposed to Hannah.
The mum guilt thing is real, definitely, and if I’m not feeling guilty, then Joel will be feeling guilty, so we’re probably not that helpful to each other.
Hannah Cooper
Speaking to The Sun about their marriage, Joel said: “It’s worked out all right, really. I’m very lucky.
“A lot of people call their wives ‘babe’ or ‘chick’. I go for Sexy Sexpot of Sex.
“But her nickname for me is just Joel. That’s as far as it goes.”
In an exclusive interview with The Sun on Sunday in July 2024, Hannah revealed why she would rather Joel never did Strictly Come Dancing, citing the infamous “curse”.
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She told us: “I have a rule with Joel that I’d rather, if there was a choice, he didn’t do Strictly.
“I hate to say it, but the Strictly curse and all that stuff.
“And it makes me sound awful because Joel says, ‘Don’t you trust me?’.
“He can practise the Tango at home with me, it’s fine.”
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Hannah and Joel announced in May 2023 that they were expecting their first child together.
In a sweet Instagram post with photos of her growing bump, she wrote: “Does anyone know how to change a nappy? Because Joel has s**t himself.”
They then welcomed their son Wilde in September 2023.
Speaking to The Sun about being a mum for the first time, Hannah told us: “The mum guilt thing is real, definitely, and if I’m not feeling guilty, then Joel will be feeling guilty, so we’re probably not that helpful to each other.
“There are times when he’ll say, ‘I’ll look after Wilde. Go out and have fun’. Then he’ll send me a message saying, ‘Look at this photo of Wilde’, and I’ll go, ‘Damn it, I was in the zone with the girls’.
“It is difficult managing it but you’ve got to switch off and take an hour for yourself, then you’ll feel better for it.”
Talking about the possibility of another child, she added: “I really would love to, but Joel before was like, ‘one is good’.
“One means we’re in control, and we can totally manage that.
“But now Wilde is here, I would totally love another one.
“I feel like Joel is Wilde’s sibling. I feel like there is enough fun in the house, and there is enough drama and energy going on.”
Joel started out as an actor, landing small roles in shows including Casualty, Inspector Lynley and Skins.
But the funnyman has also presented or taken part in other big shows, such as:
I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (2016 – runner up)
I’m a Celebrity: Extra Camp (2017-2019)
Celebrity Juice (2018-2022)
Hey Tracey! (2019-2020)
The Masked Singer (2020-present)
The Masked Dancer (2021-present)
In With a Shout (2023-present)
The National Television Awards (NTAs) return for their 30th anniversary in 2025, taking place on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
The Masked Singer UK host Joel is returning for his fifth year in a row hosting the National Television Awards (NTAs) after replacing comedian David Walliams back in 2021.
Opening up on fronting this year’s ceremony, he said: “The NTAs are 30 years old and the party planning starts here!
“Star guests? Check. All our best-loved shows? Check. My payment? Cheque. Join us at London’s O2 to mark this extra special evening!”
And on what he thinks about 2025’s prize shortlist, he added: “It’s the best the shortlist has ever been since I’ve hosted it. I genuinely don’t know which way it’s going to go.
“That’s what’s really exciting about the NTAs — it’s shows, those things that are loved by the public.
“It’s not decided by a panel or a committee. It’s the people at home — it’s what they like, it’s what they watch.”
“Long Story Short,” premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to the 2020s. For all its exaggerations — and unexaggerated portrayals of exaggerated behaviors — it is remarkably acute, and surprisingly moving, about relations between parents and children and brothers and sisters and about the passage of time and the lives time contains. The eight-episode season is bookended with funerals.
On a plane ride home, Avi Schwooper (Ben Feldman), his last name combining his parents’ Schwartz and Cooper, plays new girlfriend Jen (Angelique Cabral) a recording of Paul Simon’s “The Obvious Child,” in which a character goes from a baby to a married man in the space of a verse. “That’s time, right?” he says, setting a theme and a strategy. In the episodes that follow, we’ll see relationships begin and end; children born and grown, not necessarily in that order. Things change, things fall apart, things last.
Created by “BoJack Horseman” creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg — Avi is drawn to resemble him — and designed by Lisa Hanawalt (who inspired and designed the “BoJack” characters and created “Tuca & Bertie”), it has the look of a children’s book, bright, colorful and busy, aggressively two-dimensional, with wobbly bold lines and squiggly patterns. Deceptively sophisticated and wonderfully expressive, it is full of lifelike details, without being made to resemble life.
Avi’s parents are Naomi Schwartz (Lisa Edelstein), intense and serious, and Elliot Cooper (Paul Reiser), laid-back and humorous. Avi, who writes about music, will go on to marry Jen (blond, gentile); Hannah (Michaela Dietz) is their smart, socially isolated daughter. Avi’s sister Shira (Abbi Jacobson), the angry middle child, will start a family with Kendra (Nicole Byer), a Black woman who is Jewish by choice. Younger brother Yoshi (Max Greenfield) is a bit of a lost soul — “sometimes I just feel like the extra one,” he’ll say — diagnosed as an adolescent with ADD, dyslexia and executive function disorder. (“I never gave him enough attention,” Naomi says, rushing to claim the guilt. “Now he has a deficit.”)
Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and designed by Lisa Hanawalt, the series has the look of a children’s book, bright, colorful and busy, aggressively two-dimensional, with wobbly bold lines and squiggly patterns.
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Though each episode is a piece in the mosaic, each has its own story to tell: Yoshi selling mattresses that come in a tube; Avi mixed up with self-righteous parents as he campaigns to remove wolves from Hannah’s school (the wolves, by contrast, are drawn realistically); Kendra at work at a birthday arcade called BJ Barnacles; Yoshi on a nocturnal adventure in San Francisco — the show is set around the Bay Area — with a former friend of his sister, attempting to retrieve a lost bag; Shira attempting to make her mother’s knishes; an improvised shabbat in a desert motel. There are inside family jokes (“Is not a schnook,” Cousin Moishe) that will pay off after a while; a school holiday pageant (“Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa too / We tolerate them all, but there’s nothing like Christmas,” runs a song in the background). Yoshi has a bar mitzvah; Naomi is honored for her charitable work. Occasional weird inventions are folded in: a “hambulance” delivering ham; food trucks selling potato ice cream and soup on a stick; something called Pacifier Shirt Syndrome, caused by rubbing a dropped pacifier on a short.
Although I suspect this subject is interesting only to (us) Jews, it took a long time for any sort of Jewish specificity to make it to the screen, especially given who built the movie business. (Assimilation was the name of the game for a people blamed for a scapegoated race.) Even now, it doesn’t happen all that much. You could sense it on “Seinfeld,” see it on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” a lot. There are the current Netflix rom-com “Nobody Wants This,” with Kristen Bell in a relationship with Adam Brody’s rabbi, and the recent Adam Sandler-produced “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.” And there is the odd Holocaust drama.
But in this moment, with its confounding mix of classical antisemitism, fake anti-antisemitism brandished as a weapon against universities and what gets called antisemitism simply because it’s critical of Israel, it’s not a bad thing to get a relatively straightforward look at a contemporary American Jewish family. Together, the characters represent the spectrum of religious attitudes — from atheist to convert, selectively to very observant — but all are steeped in the culture.
Hannah, whose gentile mother makes her “not Jewish,” wonders if her wanting a bat mitzvah might be “cultural appropriation.”
“Look, if Adolf Hitler saw you, I don’t think he’d be doing the math on technically how halachically Jewish you are,” says her father. “He’d throw you in the oven with the rest of us. … If you’re Jewish enough for Hitler, you’re Jewish enough for me.”
That the show can be a little obscure from time to time — I had to look up “Moshiach” to get one joke — just deepens its world. But anyone who’s ever shared a family joke, or wanted to ask a question of someone no longer around to answer it, or compared notes with a sibling on a parent never fully understood will recognize themself here.
Hannah Seabert made the most of her first NWSL start.
The veteran goalkeeper, who starred at Woodcrest Christian High in Riverside and Pepperdine University, made five saves as she helped Angel City FC to a 0-0 draw against the Utah Royals in Sandy, Utah.
Seabert was signed by Angel City in May and joined the club July 1 after playing professionally in Norway, Denmark and Portugal for the past seven years.
Sveindís Jónsdóttir had both shots on goal against Utah goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn.
Angel City beat the Royals 2-0 on May 9 and remain unbeaten all-time with a 2-0-2 record against Utah.
Angel City improved to 4-7-5. The Royals are 1–11–4.
GOALIE Hannah Hampton was England’s penalties hero with two saves as the Lionesses roared to Euros glory over Spain last night.
Hannah starred in the 3-1 shootout win after the sides drew 1-1 in Basel, Switzerland.
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The King hailed their historic victory, three years after winning Euro 2022. He said: “The next task is to bring home the World Cup in 2027 if you possibly can!”
They are the first senior England football team to win a major tournament on foreign soil and the first to retain a trophy after victory in 2022.
It was striker Chloe Kelly who sealed the win — repeating her feat from Wembley three years ago when she took off her jersey in celebration.
She brought it home this time by scoring the crucial penalty, sparking scenes of joy in Basel, Switzerland.
Manager Sarina Wiegman — winning her third consecutive Euros after victory in 2017 with the Netherlands — ran on to the pitch punching the air as she joined the mass of players and staff mobbing Kelly.
The Arsenal ace was in tears as she joined thousands of delighted fans singing Sweet Caroline.
Moments later, Kelly said: “I am so proud of this team. So grateful to wear this badge. So proud to be English. I was cool, I was composed.
“I knew I was going to hit the back of the net. Unbelievable. All the staff and Sarina Wiegman — she has done it again! Unbelievable.
“It is going to be crazy. I hope the whole of England comes out to support us and shows their love to these girls as they deserve it.”
Supersub Michelle Agyemang, the breakout star of the tournament, sank to her knees and wept as Kelly’s penalty went in.
In the stands, Prince William and daughter Princess Charlotte roared with delight at the victory.
Just before kick-off, a snap of the pair was posted on the Prince and Princess of Wales’s X account with the caption: “Let’s go, Lionesses.”
Jubilant Wills later greeted them, giving skipper Leah Williamson a hug, before they were presented the Euro 2025 trophy on the pitch.
King Charles told the Lionesses: “You have my whole family’s warmest appreciation and admiration. The next task is to bring home the World Cup in 2027, if you possibly can!”
The team will be at a Downing Street reception today hosted by Deputy PM Angela Rayner and sports minister Stephanie Peacock.
Ms Rayner said: “Our Lionesses are absolute champions. Not only are they bringing it home for England again, but they’re inspiring the next generation of champions too.”
PM Keir Starmer added: “The Lionesses have once again captured the hearts of the nation.
“Their victory is not only a remarkable sporting achievement, but an inspiration for young people across the country.”
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Former England striker and footie pundit Gary Lineker wrote online: “They’ve done it again. She’s done it again. Kelly’s heroes. Fabulous.”
Dutchwoman Wiegman said after the win: “I can’t believe it! We said we can win by any means and that’s what we have shown again today.
“I am so proud of the team and the staff. It is incredible.”
Spain were favourites on the back of an impressive run of ten straight victories in all competitions, scoring 38 goals in the process.
But England, despite a shaky start to the tournament, were confident after seeing off Sweden in the quarters and Italy in the semi-final.
A crowd of 34,203 watched as England enjoyed a bright start, with the first chance after three minutes.
But as the match wore on, Spain began to dominate and England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton was forced into several crucial saves.
Mariona Caldentey put Spain ahead on 25 minutes, with Alessia Russo heading England level on 57 minutes.
Then, with neither side making a breakthrough in extra time, the match went to a penalty shootout.
Hero Hampton saved twice before Kelly’s trademark hop, skip and run penalty went in to secure the victory.
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Hampton, who has been playing her first major tournament as England’s first-choice goalkeeper, had big shoes to fill in Switzerland.
Earps – twice named as the best women’s goalkeeper in the world – had played significant roles in England’s victory at Euro 2022 and on the way to the 2023 World Cup final.
But Hampton, who looked likely to start at the Euros even before Earps’ retirement, has proved she deserves the number one shirt.
“At the start of the tournament did you think Hannah Hampton would be the star? Perhaps not. You wondered how she was going to do,” ex-Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha said.
“Look how well she has done on the biggest stage. To save those penalties – and these were really good saves. She backed herself 100%.
“An amazing moment to see her be that important to the team.”
Just months after England’s Euro triumph in 2022, Hampton was dropped from the squad.
Reports suggested it was because of her behaviour, and she had to wait until March 2023 for a recall, when Wiegman said Hampton had “sorted out personal issues”.
Speaking to BBC One following her shootout heroics in the 2025 final, Hampton said: “All I can really say is thank you to Sarina [Wiegman] for all the belief and faith that she’s had in me.
“She knew what I was capable of and she really put that in me to really go and showcase what I can do.”
Hampton, who helped Chelsea win a domestic treble this season, has shown exactly what she is capable of throughout the tournament.
After losing their opening game against France, Hampton was instrumental in helping England bounce back against the Netherlands – with a sublime defence-splitting pass starting the attack for England’s first goal and setting the tempo for a statement 4-0 performance.
Then, in their quarter-final against Sweden, she pulled off two brilliant saves in the shootout to help keep England’s title defence alive.
“The girls have run around for 120 minutes, so the least I can do is save a couple of pens here and there and help the team out in any way I can,” Hampton told BBC Radio 5 Live after the final.
She added on BBC One: “There’s still a lot more to come from me. For my first major tournament, to win it is not too bad.”
Like all young players thrust into the limelight, White admitted Hampton was a “little immature” when they first played together at Birmingham.
“Her emotions would take hold of her a lot, which they would do for any 16-year-old, and it was about dealing with the ups and downs.
“You won’t save a goal every time. Managing her emotions needed time, experience and understanding.
“I tried to take her under my wing a little bit and give her that guidance. I felt at that time she would be a very good goalkeeper but she needed some help.”
Hampton rose through England’s ranks, making her senior debut against future world champions Spain in 2022.
She made the squad for Euro 2022 but months after celebrating victory – often seen dancing with White during laps of honour – her career hit a stumbling block.
Reports suggested she was dropped from the England squad because of her behaviour and she had to wait until March 2023 for a recall, when manager Sarina Wiegman said Hampton had “sorted out personal issues”.
Speaking about that time, Hampton said the stories were “hurtful” and she revealed on the Fozcast podcast, external recently that she had considered quitting football.
“I was a very young girl when all the stories came out and you’re not really prepared for that. You don’t expect it,” she told reporters on Tuesday.
“There have been moments when everyone [in the squad] has probably thought they were in a tough position, but you get each other out of it.
“You can’t let all the media scrutiny win. If you do that it just adds fuel to the fire and I wasn’t willing to accept that.
“I wanted to show who I am as a person and show that wasn’t always true. I thought ‘just dig in’. I think I can say that I’ve proven people wrong.”
Ward managed Hampton at Aston Villa at the time, having brought her with her from Birmingham.
She fielded questions about Hampton’s situation in news conferences and left the goalkeeper out of the squad against Chelsea for the “best interests” of the team.
“We had an aligned agreement between Sarina, myself and Hannah on how we would help her with it,” said Ward, reflecting on the time.
“It was a difficult time for Hannah but it was probably a moment that really helped her. It was the moment she realised she had good support around her.
“She was a young kid that just really needed support.”
White, who captained England for Hampton’s debut, retired from international football just before she was dropped from the squad.
But White believed Hampton “just needed time” to mature and felt she did that under former Chelsea manager Emma Hayes when she joined them in 2023.
Having “an arm around her shoulders” helped, said White, as well as the drive to become Chelsea’s number one and get another shot on the international stage.
“It’s obviously not ideal not being selected for England. A lot of things transpired. Fair play to her because she did just get her head down and work hard,” said White.
“She just had to rebuild some of those relationships and gain them back in the England squad. I feel like she let her football do the talking.
“Everyone goes through ups and downs, rollercoaster emotions and going in and out of the squads. I am really proud of her. I’m excited to see her at the Euros.”