Molly-Mae, 26, has now issued a statement on social media after a number of viewers complained about the National Television Awards result on social media.
Sharing a picture of herself on the stage, she then wrote: “Last night at the NTAs I shared a category with people whose stories will always be more powerful and inspirational than mine.
“I see that, I believe that and I want to acknowledge it again here.”
She continued: “It was only right to dedicate this award to the late Rob Burrow and his family and to the remarkable people in my category … this win belongs to them.”
However, even though the former reality star acknowledged that other nominees were ‘more powerful and inspirational,’ she thanked her fans for voting for her.
She added: “I’m so grateful for the recognition but even more grateful to have stood alongside such strength and inspiration. [White heart emoji]
“To everyone that voted … I am absolutely blown away. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
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At the time of the ITV ceremony broadcast, Fans slammed the ceremony as they thought that ‘more worthy’ nominees should have gotten the gong.
Taking to X, one fan fumed: “Molly Mae winning an NTA over Rob Burrow or Amy Dowden is everything that is wrong with the world.”
A second stated: “If you want to know the state of tv these days… Molly Mae documentary beat Rob Burrow documentary. What wild times we live in.”
“All those wonderfully powerful documentaries and Molly Mae won!?” wrote a third.
I shared a category with people whose stories will always be more powerful and inspirational than mine.
Molly-Mae HagueInstagram
While a fourth added: “Molly Mae winning an NTA over Rob Burrow really reminds me how much I hate society today. And the mid-speech dedication felt false and completely inappropriate. His family’s face said it all.”
Speaking on Lorraine, Vogue said: “I’m going to plan a break up because then I’m going to win an NTA myself,” before she burst out in laughter.
The star added: “Yeah there were quite a few shocked faces in the room because she was up against Rob Burrows, Freddie Flintoff, Amy Dowden, incredible documentaries.
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“I think there were a few shocked faces in the audience but she did pay tribute to Rob Burrows in her acceptance speech.”
She told the audience: “Oh my goodness. Honestly, just to be nominated for this award was such an honour.”
“I think as you guys saw, we were up against some seriously inspirational people in this category.”
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She then went on to thank her production team as she continued: “This team has been the reason why this experience has been so incredible for me.
“I think with nights like tonight it’s not just about the talent. It’s about the people that make shows like these.
“I’ve learned so much, I feel like I could start my own production company at this point.”
She then went onto thank her family who she labelled as the “best support system.”
I think as you guys saw, we were up against some seriously inspirational people in this category.
Molly-Mae HagueThe NTAs
Molly-Mae added: “And thank you to my own family who didn’t choose this life [of stardom] but came on the show for me because they knew how much it meant to me.
“You’re the best support system I could ask for.”
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Molly acknowledged that some of the other nominees were ‘more powerful and inspirational’Credit: Getty
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Vogue Williams took a savage swipe at Molly-Mae on LorraineCredit: ITV
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The star dedicated the award to the late Rob BurrowCredit: Splash
The Italian journalist who — for some reason — excluded Ayo Edebiri in a question about Hollywood and the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements has spoken out about the now-viral interview.
Federica Polidoro posted a statement Monday on Instagram defending her work, saying that she has been subject to “violent language, personal attacks, and cyberbullying” following the “question that, for some reason, was not well received by some members of the public.”
“Rather than focusing on the thoughtful responses of Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts, and Andrew Garfield, the discussion continues solely on how I should have phrased the question,” Polidoro wrote.
The exchange in question occurred at a press event with Edebiri, Roberts and Garfield at the Venice Film Festival, where their film “After the Hunt,” directed by Luca Guadagnino, made its world premiere. In a video that has been shared widely, Polidoro is heard asking Roberts and Garfield what they thought was “lost during the politically correct era” and what people can expect from Hollywood now that “the #MeToo movement and Black Lives Matters are done.”
After Roberts asks the journalist to clarify who the question is directed to, Polidoro reiterates that her question is for Roberts and Garfield. As the actors share a look, Edebiri raises her hand to respond instead.
“I know that that’s not for me and I don’t know if it’s purposeful that it’s not for me — but I am curious — but I don’t think it’s done,” the star of “The Bear” says. “I don’t think it’s done at all.”
“I think maybe hashtags might not be used as much,” she continues, “but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people, every day, that’s beautiful, important work that’s not finished. That’s really, really, really active for a reason. Because this world is really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all. Maybe there’s not mainstream coverage in the way that there might have been, daily headlines in the way that it might have been, eight or so years ago, but I don’t think it means that the work is done. That’s what I would say.”
“The movements are still absolutely alive,” Garfield says in agreement. “Just maybe not as labeled or covered or magnified as much in this present moment.”
In her statement, Polidoro pushed back against accusations of racism, saying she has “interviewed people of every background and ethnicity” over the course of her 20-year career.
“My own family is multi-ethnic, matriarchal, and feminist, with a significant history of immigration,” wrote Polidoro, who in her Instagram bio mentions being a Golden Globes voter and awards season analyst. “In my view, the real racists are those who see racism everywhere and seek to muzzle journalism, limiting freedom of analysis, critical thinking, and the plurality of perspectives.”
Polidoro’s statement also said, “Censoring or delegitimizing questions considered ‘uncomfortable’ does not fall within the practice of democracy. … Journalism’s role is to ask questions, even on delicate topics, with respect and responsibility.”
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This Morning star Alison Hammond has issued a brutal response to cruel trolls who have called for her to be axed from an ITV show.
13:19, 23 Aug 2025Updated 13:19, 23 Aug 2025
Alison Hammond has hit back at trolls(Image: ITV)
Alison Hammond has delivered a blunt three-word message to critics calling for her axe from an ITV programme – “deal with it”.
The host has responded to demands from online trolls over her position on For The Love Of Dogs.
The 50-year-old broadcaster took over hosting the ITV programme after Paul O’Grady’s death in 2023 and two years on she continues to face scrutiny.
Yet, the This Morning favourite has served up a brutal comeback. Chatting to The Guardian, Alison declared: “People say Pete Wicks would be better than me at presenting For the Love of Dogs.
“He might be, but I’m doing it. Deal with it! I know my worth. Besides, my mum would have been so proud. That’s why I do this. She’s my guiding light.”
Alison addressed juggling all her TV roles and turning down opportunities(Image: Getty Images)
Additionally, Alison referenced a TikTok clip showing a woman slamming her involvement in Celebrity Gogglebox,” reports Birmingham Live.
Alison revealed she is “good at saying no” and will reject opportunities if they don’t fit her schedule or when she requires downtime.
She went on: “It may seem like I’m on TV a lot, but I stand out partly because it’s still not common to see a Black woman doing this.
Alison took over hosting For The Love of Dog after Paul O’Grady’s death(Image: ITV)
“I don’t want to bring race into it but nobody says that about Davina or Ant and Dec. I’ve worked hard for 22 years to get here.”
Alison emphasised she is merely “doing a job that I adore to the best of my ability, trying to be better than I was yesterday”.
Previously this year, Alison was stunned when a vicious online bully branded her “repulsive”. She shared a light-hearted video of herself driving a tractor in a cornfield on social media, with the caption: “Rolling into my holidays.”
Alison delivered a brutal response to people who want her replaced(Image: Getty)
However, a comment from a 77-year-old man named Peter left her almost speechless. Peter’s comment read: “People say Pete Wicks would be better than me at presenting For the Love of Dogs.
“Any time we see you are on TV we switch channels as you turn our stomachs being so fat and repulsive with a huge mouth.”
Clearly distressed, Alison retweeted his comment with a single word – “Wow”.
One fan, rallying behind the presenter, commented: “Alison you know how special and fantastic you are.”
LOVE Island’s Dejon has clapped back at “false” slurs on his character after his step sister branded him a “narcissist.”
The ITV2 show alum, who was voted out with partner Meg ahead of Monday’s show final, took to TikTok to address the allegations in his first ever video.
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Love Island’s Dejon has responded to hos step-sister’s claims that he’s a ‘narcissist’ and ‘manipulative’Credit: Tiktok
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Dejon, who was paired with Meg on the show, address ‘false’ speculation following his time in the villaCredit: ITV
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He clapped back at his step-sister Niah’s video on what she called the ‘real Dejon’Credit: tiktok
Niah, who is not biologically related to Dejon but shares a brother with him, took to TikTok to give fans an unfiltered glimpse into the ‘real Dejon’ and insisted he is “manipulative” and “narcissistic”.
She has even gone as far as to write her own account in a tell-all book named ‘Surviving Dejon’, which is already available to buy.
After the rumours swirled – and coming under fire for his controversial behaviour on the show and being branded a “gaslighter” by fans – he has spoken out.
Dejon appeared topless in his new clip, donning a bling diamond necklace.
He strolled around a room with crisp white walls and exposed black beams and initially thanked fans for their support.
He said of the good wishes: “It really means the world to me, honestly especially in times like now.
“I feel like there’s a lot of false stories out there about me which are very untrue, unfair and I feel like from that, really big up to my supporters.
“I’m excited and looking forward to showing you guys who I really am.
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“For now, lets go play some table tennis.”
The end of the clip showed him reunited with Meg as they played table tennis.
SHOCK CLAIM
In her scathing six minute video, his step sister Niah claimed that what viewers have seen on TV is an accurate reflection of how Dejon behaves in real life.
She began: ” So I’ve decided to speak out because I’ve been silent for way too long and I know that I will be receiving probably a lot of backlash from my family for this.
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However, Toni and Cach were triumphant andwon the summer seriesafter surviving a love triangle just two weeks before the final.
A results table shared on Love Island’s Instagram account this afternoon showed Toni and Cach were the runaway winners on the night, taking over a third of the votes, with 33.5% of viewers backing them for the crown.
However, Shakira and Harry drew a sizeable 26.2% of the votes, and Yas and Jamie were not far behind taking 22% on the nose.
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“You guys are all clearly very traumatised from seeing Dejon on TV and seeing everything that he’s doing and watching everything play out it seems as though no one is holding him accountable.
She went on to say: “Dejon is a narcissist, he’s manipulative. I’ve been telling everyone this for the past 10 years now but no one believed me. And it’s just crazy now that the whole of the UK can see what I’ve been trying to explain to people for so long.
She continued: “I didn’t want to speak out on this. That’s why I haven’t made any videos directly explaining anything about him because I know that it can affect my family in a bad way.
“And I do completely understand if they are upset with me for this post.
She added: “One thing I will say is, I knew from the beginning, from the first episode I knew exactly what was going to go down.
“It’s just a shame because I don’t want him to be seen like this, but I genuinely don’t think that he sees that he’s a narcissist, you know? and I actually do feel bad for Meg in a sense.”
Speaking about the book alongside a trailer for it, she penned: “This book answers everything. reasons why I spoke out. Why fear kept me silent for so long. How I lost everyone and everything I ever cared about.
“It reveals the truth behind the rumours I never wanted to address. I need to tell my truth in the way that I feel in control. This is not for attention, creating this book was like therapy for me.
“I would never put my reputation on the line or lose the people I loved if I didn’t have a powerful reason to finally speak.”
Niah even posted a trigger warning for the book as it contains: “emotionally intense and potentially distressing content”.
DEJON’S TAKE
Speaking to the Daily Mail previously, Dejon has hit back at claims of him being a ‘narcissist’, he said: “I do take full accountability for how I communicated at times in the villa.
“The girls who were on the show with me say I’m not a narcissist, I’m not a gaslighter, all of these things they have seen online, it means a lot to me because they spent 24 hours a day with me.
“I could have handled situations better but when it comes to being a ‘narcissist’ and these words, empathy is definitely something that I have, it’s something I had for Meg, for Harry, and when Meg was upset, I was there for her, and when Harry was upset it would break my heart.
“Me and Harry had a thing, we called it fitness and feelings where we would go to the gym and I would say “don’t worry H, we can be free here, our tears, people will think they’re sweat.”‘
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Fans had accused the businessman of being a ‘gaslighter’ on the seriesCredit: ITV
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He failed to reach the series final with MegCredit: ITV
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Dejon vowed to show fans ‘who I really am’Credit: ITV
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SACRAMENTO — In fighting President Trump, Gov. Gavin Newsom reminds me of actor Gene Hackman’s hard-nosed character in the movie “Mississippi Burning.”
Hackman plays a take-no-prisoners FBI agent, Rupert Anderson, who is investigating the disappearance of three young civil rights workers in racially segregated 1964 Mississippi. His partner and boss is stick-by-the-rules agent Alan Ward, played by Willem Dafoe.
The 1988 film is loosely based on a true story.
The two agents eventually find the victims’ murdered bodies and apprehend the Ku Klux Klan killers after Anderson persuades Ward to discard his high-road rule book in dealing with uncooperative local white folks.
“Don’t drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson,” Ward sternly tells his underling initially.
Anderson shouts back: “These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter’s where we oughta be.”
And it’s where they go. Only then do they solve the case.
Democrats need to gain just three net seats to retake control of the House and end the GOP’s one-party rule of the federal government.
Trump is trying to prevent that by browbeating Texas and other red states into gerrymandering their Democrat-held House districts into GOP winners.
Republicans currently hold 25 of Texas’ 38 House seats. Democrats have 12.
In California, it’s just the opposite — even more so. Out of 52 seats, Democrats outnumber Republicans 43 to 9, with room to make it even more lopsided.
“We could make it so that only four Republicans are left,” says Sacramento-based redistricting guru Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc.
Mitchell already is crafting potential new maps in case Newsom follows through with his threat to retaliate against Texas by redrawing California’s districts to help Democrats gain five seats, neutralizing Republican gains in the Lone Star State.
Newsom and the Legislature would be seizing redistricting responsibility from an independent citizens’ commission that voters created in 2010. They took the task away from lawmakers because the politicians were acting only in their own self-interest, effectively choosing their own voters. As they do in Texas and most states, particularly red ones.
But the governor and Democrats would be ignoring California voters’ will — at least as stated 15 years ago.
And Newsom would be down in the political gutter with Trump on redistricting. But that doesn’t seem to bother him.
“They’re playing by a different set of rules,” Newsom recently told reporters, referring to Trump and Republicans. “They can’t win by the traditional game. So they want to change the game. We can act holier than thou. We could sit on the sidelines, talk about the way the world should be. Or we can recognize the existential nature that is the moment.”
Newsom added that “everything has changed” since California voters banned gerrymandering 15 years ago.
That’s indisputable given Trump’s bullying tactics and his inhumane domestic policies.
“I’m not going to be the guy that said, ‘I could have, would have, should have,’” Newsom continued. “I’m not going to be passive at this moment. I’m not going to look at my kids in the eyes and say, ‘I was a little timid.’”
Newsom’s own eyes, of course, are on the White House and a potential 2028 presidential bid. He sees a national opportunity now to attract frustrated Democratic voters who believe that party leaders aren’t fighting hard enough against Trump.
Newsom continued to echo Hackman’s script Friday at a news conference in Sacramento with Texas Democratic legislators.
Referring to Trump and Texas Republicans, Newsom asserted: “They’re not screwing around. We cannot afford to screw around. We have to fight fire with fire.”
But yakking about redrawing California’s congressional maps is easy. Actually doing it would be exceedingly difficult.
“Texas can pass a plan tomorrow. California cannot,” says Tony Quinn, a former Republican consultant on legislative redistricting.
Unlike in California, there’s no Texas law that forbids blatant gerrymandering.
California’s Constitution requires redistricting by the independent commission.
Moreover, a 1980s state Supreme Court ruling allows only one redistricting each decade, Quinn says.
Trying to gerrymander California congressional districts through legislation without first asking the voters’ permission would be criminally stupid.
Newsom would need to call a special election for November and persuade voters to temporarily suspend the Constitution, allowing the Legislature to redraw the districts.
Or the Legislature could place a gerrymandered plan on the ballot and seek voter approval. But that would be risky. A specific plan could offer several targets for the opposition — the GOP and do-gooder groups.
In either case, new maps would need to be drawn by the end of the year to fit the June 2026 primary elections.
Mitchell says polling shows that the independent commission is very popular with voters. Still, he asserts, “there’s something in the water right now. There’s potential that voters will not want to let Trump run ramshackle while we’re being Pollyannish.”
“The reality is that a lot of Democrats would hit their own thumb with a hammer if they thought it would hurt Trump more.”
Mitchell also says that California could out-gerrymander Texas by not only weakening current GOP seats but by strengthening competitive Democratic districts. Texas doesn’t have that opportunity, he says, because its districts already have been heavily gerrymandered.
Democratic consultant Steve Maviglio says Newsom is “trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube” and doubts it will work. “Unilaterally disarming was a mistake.
“But Newsom’s not wrong. They play hardball. We don’t.”
Newsom and California Democrats should fight Trump and Texas Republicans in the MAGA gutter, using all weapons available.
As Hackman’s character also says: “Don’t mean s— to have a gun unless you (sic) ready to use it.”
