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Mother-to-be Peace and her husband Q bravely spoke out about their two miscarriages.

A mother-to-be was left overcome with worry as she prepared for the birth of her twins following two losses.

Documentary hit One Born Every Minute is back with a new season full of emotional stories on E4 and the latest episode saw Peace and her husband Q arrive at the hospital for an elective C-section, where she opened up about her multiple miscarriages before conceiving twins. She described her shock when she found out during her ultrasound scan she was expecting twins, as she has no immediate twins in her family.

Peace recognised she was considered a “high-risk” pregnancy, revealing her babies were “on the small side” and their growth needed to be closely monitored. “It has been an emotional rollercoaster these past nine months,” she admitted. “But I have been around a lot of positive people, I come from a very positive family.”

“There are so many things that can change in the flicker of an eye,” she shared, opening up about her anxiety ahead of the birth of her son and daughter as she explained her previous baby loss experience.

“The magic of pregnancy kind of goes away when you have losses,” she disclosed, before Q revealed the couple had been through two miscarriages. “I went in to A&E and they were just like ‘Yeah, there’s nothing there’. We were like OK, we will try again, and it happened again. It was a very emotional time,” Peace recalled.

Q said he could not afford to experience sadness, as “I have got to be the one she can lean on”. The couple had initially decided not to try a third time, but later found out they were expecting twins and were over the moon.

Q shared: “This third one is really special, to know you are having twins. It feels like the first baby and second baby both came at the same time. God just said I took them away but you can have them back now.”

Despite his excitement, Q admitted, “I’m really scared about the birth, I don’t want anything to happen to Peace, I just want her to be OK.” Before her c-section, Peace said “I’m absolutely panicking” as she got emotional about how her babies were “going to be so small”, and she broke down in tears.

Her mum was present to reassure her, and thankfully, she went on to have a successful c-section and welcomed her two babies, as Q cried with happiness. The couple met on Instagram, with Peace admitting she put up “a bit of resistance” before letting her guard down and the pair went on to get married.

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The episode also featured Maxine, who found out she was pregnant shortly after the baby’s father left her, and it broke her trust in relationships. She had been scheduled for a C-section, but as her waters broke early, she required an earlier theatre slot.

“I had the date with the baby’s father, we had a really good time, we had been dating for about four months but he sort of said to me, ‘I don’t think you are the right person for me'”, she recalled.

“And then it was probably three weeks after that I realised ‘Hang on a second, I’ve not had my period, it’s late’. And then I thought I’m going to have to tell the father, but we weren’t going to get back together because I don’t want to be with someone who is not 100 per cent for me. He said to me whatever you decide, I will support you.”

She went on to have a successful C-section and welcomed a baby girl, saying: “This is something that I have always wanted, and if I didn’t decide to continue with the pregnancy, I would forever regret not having this baby.”

One Born Every Minute airs on Sunday nights at 9pm on E4

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Rachel was on holiday with her husband when everything went terribly wrong

A 42-year-old Brit mum died suddenly in Spain while on holiday – what you need to know

• A British mum collapsed and died on holiday in Spain despite the best efforts of paramedics to save her life.
• Rachel Weston, 42, from Bury, Greater Manchester, had been to see a pharmacist about what she thought was just a cold, but her condition later worsened significantly – and she suddenly collapsed in her hotel room in Puerto del Carmen in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
• Local reports said she suffered a cardiac arrest, although no underlying cause has been confirmed. Hotel staff and paramedics tried to save her but tragically she couldn’t be saved.
• Her husband, Mark, said: “My world was completely turned upside down with the sudden and heartbreaking loss of my gorgeous wife, Rachel.” Rachel was a loving stepmum to his three children and he described her as “the absolute heart of our home”.
• Mark has launched a fundraiser to help cover funeral costs and has asked mourners to wear purple, Rachel’s favourite colour, at her funeral on November 6.

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KATIE Price has issued a heartbreaking update on her seriously ill mum Amy after previously revealing fears she had just days left to live.

The former glamour model, 48, discussed her mother’s condition with sister Sophie during an emotional conversation on their joint podcast, The Katie Price Show.

Katie insisted her mum was still fighting despite her ongoing health struggles, declaring: “But mother is strong.” The sisters also discussed visiting Amy, with Katie revealing she’d picked up a thoughtful present for her.

She said: “They had a bright pink cardigan so I bought it for mum because I know she’ll love it.” Sophie then asked whether Katie was planning to visit their mother in the coming days.

She said: “Are you going up there this week? I’m going up Thursday or Friday this week.” Katie replied: “Well when she goes, you know, what we know is happening, I’ll be there all the time, staying over. So I’ll do that.”

Sophie responded: “Yeah, nice.” The emotional exchange comes after Katie told Lewes Crown Court earlier this month that her mum had only days left.

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She said at the time: “My mum’s dying at the moment and I haven’t been able to see her (because) I’ve got a cold… she’s got days.” Katie added: “I did promise my mum I’d see her tomorrow.”

Amy, 74, was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2017, a rare condition that causes irreversible scarring of the lungs. She underwent a lifesaving lung transplant in 2023 after falling into a coma and coming close to death.

Katie previously revealed her mum was in hospital and “very poorly”, and begged her to “find the strength to stay” in an emotional Instagram post.

The mum-of-five also admitted she feared losing Amy while filming her Sky documentary Katie Price: Nothing to Hide earlier this year.

Katie recently sparked concern after sharing a cryptic Instagram message revealing she had received “devastating news”.

However, she was quick to reassure followers that the upsetting news was not about Amy, writing: “No it’s not my mum.”

OLIVIA Attwood has had one of her tattoos reworked – having previously admitted that her mother hated it.

Back in the summer of 2024, the reality star got a matching tattoo with her stylist, while the pair visited Ibiza.

The pair, however, have since had a very public falling out, and it seems Olivia has gone to great lengths to erase all traces of him from her life.

At the time, stylist Ryan Kay proudly showed off the matching red cherries that had been inked on his arm and on the side of Olivia’s torso.

He posted a snap of the former friends together and captioned the shot: “Matching for life now!”

It would seem, however, that’s not the case.

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Olivia also shared snaps at the time and wrote in the caption under the photos: “I got a tattoo yesterday and my mums not a fan!”

She shared screengrabs of a message from her mum, who asked her to “just stop now”, saying “its gone way too far… give me a break!”

Mrs Attwood also said she wished Olivia had asked for the inking to be somewhere her parents wouldn’t have to look at.

Olivia’s mum will no doubt be delighted to know that the cherries have now been covered up.

In a post to Instagram by a tattooist named Jesus, Olivia is seen showing the side of her body, with a red cross in the place of the cherries.

The design features a rose, entwined around the cross.

Last September Olivia broke her silence about the feud between her and her former best friend – and explained what really happened.

The former Love Island star revealed the reason on social media during a Q&A with fans.

One asked “What happened with your mate?” referring to Ryan, who was also Olivia’s assistant.

She responded: “I am just very hurt if I’m honest. Prior to what you might have read.

“I had to respect myself and enjoy a line. It was something that played out over a few months.

“And I guess I hadn’t seen things that I should of… I think? “

She continued: “I give everything (in every sense of the word) to friendships and don’t let very many people in so it suckkkkks.

“It’s not something I can really explain on a story but I will at some point?”

Shortly after this, she took a huge swipe at an “attention-seeking” friend, not specifying who she was talking about but referring to them as a “tick”.

“We all know this person who can’t keep a job, they can’t keep a friend, they have no long-term friends that they can keep for more than a year,” she said on TikTok. “But it’s never their fault – they’re always the victim.

“You watch the cycle play out and you can now see the people who were before you and see your part in the cycle.”

The star went on: “I always think that with these kinds of people, they don’t move on to new friends, but instead they move on to new hosts.

“They’re like a tick – a tick has to be attached to you and drink your blood – and it has to have a host body.

“So, once it leaves your body it’s going to go and host on another body.”

Olivia has also had a very public divorce from ex-husband Bradley Dack.

The two split at the start of 2026, having been together since 2015 and getting married in June 2023.

PRINCESS Andre has been left in stitches of laughter as she pulled a hilarious prank on her mum Katie Price.

The daughter of Peter Andre and Katie has been cropping up on red carpets and celeb-filled events over recent years as she carves out a career for herself in showbiz.

Now, fans have loved the prank she pulled on her mum — and how clearly it showed the closeness between them.

Taking to TikTok, Princess said: “I’m going to call my mum and ask her if she was in the delivery room when she gave birth to me.”

When she rang, Katie asked why she wasn’t on video but Princess explained: “I’m at the doctors, and they’re asking if you were in the delivery room when I was born.”

“Was I?” exclaimed Katie as Princess giggled quietly in the background.

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Katie continued: “Well, of course, because you came out of me. Are you taking the p***?”

Princess replied: “No, they just wanna know were you definitely in the delivery room?

“Well I’m your mother, so of course I was in the delivery room. I had a caesarian. Then they put you on me and I didn’t leave your side,” said Katie.

Princess then broke down in fits of laughter as Katie asked again: “Are you actually taking the p*** Princess?”

“I’m joking honestly,” she replied.

Katie then asked if she was really at the Doctors and Princess said: “No, I just wanted to play a prank on you.”

“You’re such a b***,” joked Katie.

A smiling Princess then told her she’d FaceTime her now, as Katie giggled a loving goodbye.

Fans flocked to comment and one wrote: “Why aren’t you on video’ shows how close you both are coz there’s clearly never a voice call.”

A second said: “Go on Katie!! that woman is an absolute legend.”

A third added: “Katie is just f***ing class.”

A fourth wrote: “Katie’s laugh at the end.”

While a fifth said: “This has really tickled me lol.”

This comes after Katie issued a word of thanks to her ‘biggest supporters’ while her mother has been incredibly unwell.

The star’s mum Amy, 74, is terminally ill with a lung condition called Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).

Taking to Instagram, Katie posted a series of snaps smiling with her daughter Princess and her sister Sophie.

She also included a number of photos with her mother on trips with her as well as on the red carpet.

Saira Hayati and her daughter wanted a ‘better lifestyle’

A British mum moved abroad to afford a better lifestyle and said she saves £2,141 a month as well as enjoying weekly £20 massages, polo lessons, a cleaner and a pool.

Saira Hayati, 50, from Gravesend, Kent, relocated in 2024 after years of navigating financial uncertainty and learning to prepare for economic downturns. The mum-of-five said her monthly household budget in the UK was around £3,612 to £3,929 and stretched to the rare massage, a gym membership and access to a lake in the summer.

She now estimates she spends £1,788 to £1,874 a month in Melaka, Malaysia, and gets more luxuries – including a weekly massage and a cleaner. Her plan was originally to retire, but she has found work doing social media and doesn’t stress about inconsistent earnings as she doesn’t “need” it.

Saira, a content creator and entrepreneur, said: “The problem is in England no matter how much you earn it’s not enough. I’m swimming, juicing, enjoying the sunshine. I feel healthier, happier, and more relaxed. My kids have said they noticed a difference.”

About more than money

The move has been more than just money saving for Saira, who is now embracing a new chapter with her youngest child while working to rebuild connections with her older children after spending most of her time focused on her career. Her other children are still living and working in England.

After a 22-year marriage ended, she found love again in Malaysia and remarried four months ago. The former director of a national mortgage brokerage says the lower cost of living has given her more freedom to enjoy everyday luxuries without the same financial pressure she experienced in England.

She said: “Over here for me to have a two-hour massage is £20. So I go for massages every week.”

Her Malaysian monthly budget includes £150 for a cleaner, £300 for her daughter’s online tuition and £87 for weekly massages. She pays £20 a month in local charges, compared with £280 in UK council tax, while her electricity costs around £100 a month – three times less than her gas and electricity in England.

Her water bill is just £5 a month, compared with £150 in the UK, while her mobile phone costs £10, rather than £50. Saira spends around £639 a month on eating out and takeaways in Malaysia, covering breakfast and dinner for three every day rather than food shops.

In England takeaways and eating out was a treat, at £100 to £200 per month. Buying her 3,700sqft five-bedroom, six-bathroom, home outright in Malaysia cost her £165,000 and Saira benefited from a better exchange rate in December 2023. In Kent, her monthly mortgage was £1,400 a month for a four-bedroom detached house.

How Saira’s outlook was shaped

Saira’s financial outlook was shaped by experiencing four major recessions and the impact of the 2008 crash on her property management business. At the time, she was working as a director of a property management agency and had a professional portfolio of 350 properties, alongside around ten properties in her personal portfolio. She spoke about the fear of falling into negative equity and having to “tighten the purse strings” on her family’s finances during the credit crunch, including pulling her children out of private school.

She said: “The cost of living is making people squeezed from every angle. The burden is heavier now than it was and people just aren’t in a position to do what they strive to.”

She said the pressure facing households in England had become increasingly difficult, regardless of how much people earned. Saira began selling properties from her personal portfolio before leaving the UK, eventually putting more than £100,000 into a Singapore vault with gold to give her family a financial safety net.

The fund means she no longer feels compelled to keep earning more money simply to feel secure. She said the £100,000 was enough to protect her family for years in an emergency living in Malaysia.

She said: “I’m comfortable in the sense that I don’t need any more emergency fund and I don’t need to earn any more than I need.”

For Saira, moving abroad was not just about cutting bills, but about finding somewhere she could enjoy a better quality of life and spend more time with her family without constantly worrying about money.

She said: “I’ve positioned myself somewhere that I know I can have a decent lifestyle that isn’t going to cost me a lot of money. That’s the kind of guidance I’m giving people having done it myself.”

Saira’s costs

Mortgage/rent

UK: £1,400

Malaysia: £0 – home owned outright

Council tax/local collection charge

UK: £280

Malaysia: £20

Service charge: grounds, pool and gym

UK: Not included

Malaysia: £30

Gas and electricity

UK: £300

Malaysia: £100 – electricity only

Water

UK: £150

Malaysia: £5

Internet

UK: £50

Malaysia: £50

Mobile phone

UK: £50

Malaysia: £10

Groceries

UK: £650 to £867

Malaysia: £80 – fruit, juicing supplies, and toiletries

Eating out/takeaways

UK: £100 to £200

Malaysia: £639 – breakfast and dinner for three daily

Fuel

UK: £217

Malaysia: £87 to £173

Car costs: insurance, tax, service, repairs

UK: £200

Malaysia: £110

Home insurance

UK: £75 – buildings and contents

Malaysia: £20 – buildings

Cleaner

UK: Not included

Malaysia: £150

Child tuition

UK: £0

Malaysia: £300

Gym

UK: £40

Malaysia: Included in service charge

Clothes, toiletries, haircuts and dental

UK: £100

Malaysia: Toiletries above; other costs not totalled

Weekly massages

UK: Not included

Malaysia: £87

Monthly totals

UK: £3,612 to £3,929

Malaysia: £1,788 to £1,874

Annual totals

UK: £43,344 to £47,148

Malaysia: £21,456 to £22,488

EXCLUSIVE Coronation Street’s Lisa Connor-Swain actress Vicky Myers speaks to me about Swarla, Lisa’s backstory and how Betsy’s storyline saw her reflect on her childhood

It’s been five years since Vicky Myers took on the guest role of Coronation Street detective Lisa Connor-Swain.

But a planned four-episode stint turned into the job of a lifetime for the actress, who has no plans to leave the famous Cobbles anytime soon. As long as she challenges me, then I’ll stay forever,” Vicky, 50, tells us.

“It’s unfamiliar territory for me because of the previous roles that I’ve played. She wasn’t a character that needed to be written for, and so as time has progressed, so has she.” Very little was planned for the character before she moved to Weatherfield full-time in 2024.

Since then, fans have seen Lisa at the centre of huge storylines, including her ex-wife Becky Swain faking her death, and Lisa’s teenaged daughter Betsy suffering a stroke, as a result of non-fatal strangulation.

Happier times have seen Lisa’s wedding to factory boss Carla Connor [Alison King], with Swarla, as they are known by adoring soap fans, being the first lesbian couple to marry on the soap. Vicky is thrilled to represent so many people with her character.

“There are so many women who can relate to what Lisa’s been through,” she says. “Also women that are in what used to be a male-dominated profession. For fans to be so loyal and to support Lisa and Carla, I think that’s a testament to how much these two have been needed by viewers. As is with all representation and visibility, it’s very much needed.”

Vicky hopes her latest storyline, which sees Lisa caring for her daughter Betsy [Sydney Martin] who is recovering from a stroke, will shine a light on accessibility issues. As Betsy faces challenges in her rehabilitation, Vicky says she’s reminded of her own experiences, growing up with her brother, Fran, who has cerebral palsy.

“I can relate to my mum,” she tells us. “She was a working mum, but in particular, when my brother was young and with his disability, she had to fight for everything. I watched her, and only as an adult now, and as a mother myself, I realise just how hard she had to fight.

“I’m in awe of her. She still continues, and she’s in her early 70s, but she has this drive and determination that seems endless. And even through exhaustion, she still pushes on, because she has to.”

Reflecting on the challenges faced by her brother Fran, who was born at 28 weeks, Vicky adds: “Looking back, I was a young child, but I remember seeing how she was relentless in her pursuit for accessibility, for understanding, for support, and also so determined that he was going to live as mainstream a life as she could possibly provide for him, her and my dad.

“It was a different generation, my dad worked all hours, we grew up in a pub, and they grafted really hard. I watched my mum, fight to get my brother into a mainstream primary school, they didn’t have accessibility like they have now, it was extremely poor.

“She’s a wonderful woman who I respect massively, and I admire. Lisa moving Betsy’s wheelchair around on set and things, I really wanted to make a point of how cumbersome it can be, but these are necessities, these are how people can navigate life.”

Vicky is grateful for the huge support she and her character have had during her time on the cobbles. Something else she’s grateful for is turning 50 earlier this year, with her sure it will be her “best decade yet”.

“I think as I’ve got older, a lot of my views have changed and I’m a lot calmer. 50 is the best! A lot of things happened in my 40s which were brilliant, but I have this thought process of don’t trip over something that you left behind.

“Take each day as it comes and embrace it, because you never know what’s around the corner. Treat every day as if it’s your last, and just go for it! I’m glad I’m not living my 20s and 30s now. I really wouldn’t like it.

“When I was growing up, we had the 80s, the music, the era, the times, there was freedom. There wasn’t always the thought process of getting my phone out. We were living in the moment, and there’s a real beauty in that.”

As for Lisa’s past, Vicky hopes it’s something the soap will explore. She shares: “I think it will be interesting to explore her family backstory, and why she’s not in touch with any of them. What happened to her as a child, what’s her story, and what was her journey with her sexuality?

“When did she realise that she was queer? All of these things intrigue me with her. I’ve got my ideas. I’ve sort of built things up, but they all need to align together with the storylines. Lisa’s a bit of an enigma. We don’t know everything about her.

“There are things that I know. She’s had a past, we’ve all had a past. Not everybody gets her, not everybody likes her. I’m not sure if I’d want to play somebody that everybody likes, and Lisa’s a challenge for me to play.”

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