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KATIE Price’s new husband Lee Andrews has shared ‘proof’ he’s not banned from leaving Dubai, despite reports claiming otherwise. 

The businessman has been accused of being unable to leave the United Arab Emirates city after allegedly forging his ex-girlfriend Dina Taji’s signature to secure a £200,000 loan.

But today Lee took to Instagram to address the rumours, sharing a grab allegedly from an app which shows if someone has any travel bans in Dubai. 

He said: “Oh guys, I’ve never really been one to explain myself but there’s a lot of fake news going around so I better say something. 

“I’m going to share on the next story, after this one, that there is no travel ban, directly from the police UAE application. 

“It’s my profile. You can check those statuses, you can check any fines you’ve got, relating to traffic, and also if you’re allowed to travel. 

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Katie Price’s husband Lee insists they’ve found first home together

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“Allow me to share that. It’s not fabricated, I’m going on my honeymoon in a few days guys so definitely not on a travel ban.” 

It comes after Lee told The Sun he and Katie have found their first home together – and teased details of their “remote” honeymoon. 

He said: “Yeah, we’ve got the house, thank you. We’ll be flying out for our honeymoon together, remotely.

“I’m not going to tell you where we’re going but it is in the next 72 hours. So, I can fly and you’ll see us snapped somewhere.”

He and new wife Katie claim to have hit it off on social media last month, just days after her split from JJ Slater.

They moved fast to get matching tattoos before Andrews popped the question inside the luxury Burj Al Arab.

Two days later they married, with Lee insisting it is legally binding, despite their officiant claiming he only performs ceremonial weddings.

Lee later made a U-turn after claiming he would be flying to the UK to be with Katie.

Just days after telling followers he would be travelling to meet his new wife, he said: “I’m waiting for Katie to come out here, love you so much Katie.”

LIKE theatre, gigs and festivals but hate the price tags that go with them?

There are plenty of little-known sites that offer heavily discounted or even FREE tickets to top-name events to fill empty seats. This even includes recordings for TV shows that have audiences.

With London West End shows easily setting two people back £100, heading to the theatre may seem possible only once in a blue moon.

But thanks to the following sites, you could save hundreds on tickets – we’ve tested all of them, and got incredible tickets to some huge shows for a fraction of what everyone else is paying.

TodayTix 

If you don’t already have the TodayTix app, you should download it now. 

It is an app for booking theatre and stage shows, including the London West End performances. 

It’s especially great for anyone looking for last-minute shows.

There is a feature called ‘Rush Tickets’, which offers a chance to get discounted tickets on the day of a performance. 

Shows this offer is applied to include MJ The Musical (£30), The Producers (£30), Titanique (£30), Stranger Things The First Shadow (£25), Back to the Future (£29.50), Six (£25), The Book of Mormon (£25) and Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (£25). 

I recently watched The Mousetrap on a £25 Rush Ticket and managed to get the first row of the upper circle – a seat that usually costs considerably more than £25. 

The app also has a ‘lottery’ feature for some shows, where you can enter a lottery for tickets from as little as £10.  

Under this feature, you do have to be resilient, as the likelihood of getting lottery tickets is slim.

However, after a few months of entering the lottery every week, I managed to bag £40 tickets to both parts of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child – tickets which can usually set you back over £400 for the stalls or dress circle. 

Other shows that have lottery offers include Hamilton, which, if you won, you’d only pay £10 for. 

Some shows also have their own offers on the app, for example, Moulin Rouge offers Bohemian Seats, which are reduced tickets (£30) for same-day performances. 

Applause Store 

Applause Store claims to be the world’s best television audience company and gives out tickets to a range of shows. 

I have been using Applause Store for about four years now, and in that time, I have seen a couple of shows, including QI.

The one major downside, though, is that you get tickets and then queue for a long time and don’t necessarily get in. 

This has put me off using Applause Store as frequently, though it is great if there is a show you really want to see being filmed for TV. 

For example, at the time of writing, Applause Store is booking tickets for the BAFTA Awards fan areas, something that I would love to see, and so I have applied for two tickets. 

Other shows often available include Britain’s Got Talent, Love Island Aftersun, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win. 

Tickets are free, but just because you get tickets doesn’t mean that you are guaranteed entry, so if you are desperate to see the show, make sure you get there early. 

SRO Audiences 

SRO Audiences is similar to Applause Store.

For SRO Audiences, you don’t need to sign up – simply head onto the website, look at the shows available and request tickets. 

Current shows available include The Martin Lewis Money Show Live, Mock The Week and The Jonathan Ross Show. 

Similar to Applause Store, tickets do not guarantee entry, so it is best to get there early on the day.

Central Tickets 

Central Tickets is primarily for London theatre events – and by this I don’t necessarily mean London West End shows.

You have to sign up, but it is free of charge to do this, and then you get access to heavily discounted or even free tickets to shows.

Before Christmas, I nabbed two free tickets with a £6.50 admin fee (so £13 total) to see Burlesque: Unwrapped instead of a minimum of £45 per person. 

The festive-yet-saucy burlesque performance was, of course, adults only and featured performers twirling around and undressing to Christmas tunes – I’m talking Rudolph nipple tassels and lots of glitter. 

It was no London West End show, but for £6.50, my friend and I had a great laugh and a fun evening out.

A lot of the events and shows will most likely be things you haven’t heard of before, but all have a description, meaning you can learn what the show is about before booking. 

Sometimes there are some real gems, though; for example, at the time of writing, you could head to Phantom Peak’s immersive experience for £10 instead of £35, or you could head to Sabrage, “featuring international circus elites and theatrical misfits”, for £15 instead of a minimum of £30. 

Show Film First 

Similar to Central Tickets, Show Film First offers heavily discounted tickets to shows and events.

You do have to sign up for an account, which is free, and their newsletter to get the offers.

Some of the current offers include seeing the London Lions basketball team playing against the Niners Chemnitz team, and you would only pay the access fee. 

They have also had tickets to top London day festivals, featuring international popstars as headline acts – for an access fee of just £7.95 (but we won’t say who, to spare their blushes).

Other offers include travel conferences and comedy shows. 

Age-bracketed tickets

When living in London, it is often easy to forget that theatres, cinemas, and so on offer age-related discounts, and it isn’t necessarily always for youngsters.

For example, the National Theatre offers 16-25/18-25 tickets.

The Young Vic then offers £12 tickets for under 25s, and the Barbican and Almeida Theatre both offer £5 tickets for 25s and under.

A bit older than that? Well, if you are under 30, joining the mailing lists for the Royal Albert Hall and Donmar Warehouse allows you to grab £20 tickets.

At The Royal Albert Hall, past events have included Barbie: The Movie in Concert, Video Games in Concert and BBC Proms: The Traitors. 

There is also Kids Week, which usually takes place in the summer, and allows children under the age of 18 to visit many West End shows for free with a paying adult.

Restricted view

One way to get cheaper tickets at pretty much any show is by opting for the restricted-view seats. 

Sites like SeatPlan and A View From My Seat help to show what sort of view you would get, so you can always check a restricted seat’s view before actually booking it. 

If you do book this kind of ticket, you can expect to save between 30 and 50 per cent compared to a seat with a non-restricted view. 

Standing tickets 

It is unusual to find standing tickets but Shakespeare’s Globe in London does. 

Whilst this offer isn’t available at the moment, it will be in the summer again, every Friday at 11am when tickets are released for the following week. 

And each ticket only costs £5. 

Last summer I watched The Winter’s Tale on a standing ticket.

Half of the show was conducted inside, where I did stand but had a barrier to lean on, and then the other half was outside, and thanks to the show not being fully booked, I got a seat. 

It is worth checking the length of the show and thinking whether you can stand for that long, though, before committing. 

Disney discounts

If you head to the ‘Disney Tickets’ website, you can grab tickets to Disney’s West End shows for less than usual. 

For example, you can grab tickets to The Lion King and Disney‘s Hercules on Mondays at noon for that week’s performances for £29.50.

Known as Magical Mondays, it means you could see The Lion King for considerably less than the usual ticket price, which sits around the £70 to £110 range.

All you need to do is create a MyDisney account, which is free to do.

For more cheap days out, here are 10 days out in the UK that cost less than a pint, from free-to-visit lidos to cheap cinema mornings.

Plus, here are four savvy ways to enjoy cheap days out with the family in summer 2026.

MYLEENE Klass proved the ultimate multi-tasker as she stripped to her gym kit for a series of cartwheels and handstands while presenting her radio show.

The Smooth FM anchor, 47, took a break from the mic to show off her flexibility in-between tracks.

The broadcaster, TV star and campaigner donned a black crop top and matching leggings, paired with white socks and trainers.

She brushed her poker-straight brunette locks back with her hands after laying down her earphones.

The Hear’Say songstress then pulled off an impressive cartwheel before transitioning into a handstand against the door frame.

Myleene even managed to flash a huge smile as she posed upside-down.

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In her caption, she wrote: “My producer always goes the extra mile.

“Come off air then cartwheel into the door frame”.

Back on solid ground, Myleene then posted a sultry snap showing her posing on her radio presenter seat.

In another clip of her acrobatic feat she joked: “What do you get up to when the music plays?”

In another recent video, the Pure and Simple hitmaker flashed her abs in a tight two piece as she flipped into her plush vehicle.

She was snapped doing a handstand before flipping into a six-figure plush white Mercedes G Wagon.

The action-packed ad campaign was made for American footwear brand Skechers, who have been partnered up with her for more than three years.

Posting the promotional clip on her Instagram, Mylene wrote in the caption: “Slipping into 2026”.

She also added details of her leather co-ord to the post, which was also Skechers branded.

Myleene entered a long-term deal with the sneaker makers in August 2022 acting as a brand ambassador for the UK and Ireland branch of the company.

MY OH MYLEENE

Myleene recently told how her iconic white bikini – worn on her debut I’m A Celeb stint – has been her money-spinner.

It came after she posed in a similar swim two piece to recreate her iconic waterfall moment 20 years on.

The classical music performer and Loose Women panelist sizzled in the striking two piece in a new Instagram snap – and joked the hype around the sexy garment had “put my kids through school”.

She starred in the ITV jungle series back in 2006 and became known for donning the item during her showers Down Under.

She has re-created the look many times since the swimwear’s on-screen debut on I’m A Celeb 20 years ago, with the star even previously stating “the white bikini is my business”.

Last month, the mum of three flashed her abs in the Freemans product as she struck a series of poses while on holiday.

It all started with a direct US attack on Venezuela earlier this month.

Back then, US President Donald Trump made it clear that he was only interested in the country’s substantial oil reserves.

On Thursday, the government in Caracas announced a massive overhaul of the petroleum sector.

Venezuela’s interim president has signed a law easing state control and opening the door for private firms to invest in the country.

For many, it paves the way for US oil giants to return to Venezuela with significant investments.

But who will stand to gain from the changes, Venezuela or the United States? Or both?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests

Elias Ferrer – founder and director of Orinoco Research

Andrew Lipow – president of Lipow Oil Associates

Phil Gunson – senior analyst at the International Crisis Group

The sight of Noni Madueke flying past defenders and putting dangerous crosses into the penalty area will have been a welcome sight for Mikel Arteta.

And Madueke’s performance in Arsenal‘s 4-0 hammering of Leeds will have been even more well received, given that he was drafted into the starting line-up minutes before kick-off after Bukayo Saka picked up a hip injury in the warm-up.

The 23-year-old created Martin Zubimendi’s opener, before seeing his corner punched into the Leeds net by goalkeeper Karl Darlow for the Gunners’ second, as Arteta’s men moved seven points clear at the Premier League summit.

Madueke was signed by Arsenal from Chelsea this summer – with some fans questioning the move – in a bid to strengthen their squad depth and provide cover should key man Saka pick up injuries.

And the England winger showed in his 60 minutes on the pitch just why the club made that decision.

Arteta said: “He was ready. Because you cannot do that in two minutes. The way he prepares, the way he’s waiting for opportunity, I think paid off today because he really impacted the team.”

While Arsenal are waiting for a diagnosis on the extent of Saka’s injury, Madueke will be hopeful he has earned another start for Tuesday’s EFL Cup semi-final second leg against former club Chelsea.

Saka and Madueke are also competing for a place for England as the summer’s World Cup approaches. So will the latter now get the chance to start staking his own claim?

“Noni Madueke was really good, especially when you come so late into the game,” former England midfielder Fara Williams told the BBC’s Final Score.

“It is an opportunity for him and he has performed well. When he went in at Arsenal and Saka got injured, he had an opportunity to get some games, then he got injured himself.

“When he has been playing for England, he has shown what he can do. He will be a headache for both managers, Mikel Arteta and Thomas Tuchel, in the summer.”

Ex-Manchester United striker Dion Dublin added on Final Score: “Bukayo Saka and Noni Madueke are both internationals, and both doing an incredible job.

“Saka will likely start [for Arsenal and England] because he is the better of the two, and he is more consistent. But it is a great headache to have.”

CHILD star Amanda Bynes looks slimmer than ever in a new video after revealing she has been using weight loss jabs.

At the end of last year, Amanda, 39, revealed that she had been using a GLP-1 to shed weight – and now she is flaunting the results.

She posted a paparazzi photo on her Instagram stories and revealed she had lost 28lbs since starting Ozempic.

“I usually don’t like paparazzi pictures bc I was 180lbs but now I’ve lost 28lbs on ozempic!

“I’m down to 152lbs.

“I know I still look big but this photo is really inspiring to me!”

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But now Amanda looks far slimmer after proudly showing off her weight loss in a new video shared on her Instagram page.

In the video, Amanda looked slender as she flaunted her flat stomach in a tiny pair of shorts, a pattern-adorned cropped top and some knee-high boots.

She wore a face mask, a hood and a blue sparkly sheer jacket to complete the look.

Amanda also held onto a black Dior handbag.

Showing off her outfit, Amanda posed up a storm as fans were left gobsmacked by her new look.

One fan commented, “YOU LOOK AMAZING LOVE! The fit is perfect.”

“GIRLLLL U GETTING SKINNNYYYYY,” said another.

A third added, “OMG YOU LOOK SO GOOD!!!!!!”

“I see side abs!! Keep up the good work,” penned a fourth.

“Looking fantastic girl,” wrote a fifth.

“Your eyebrows look good and what you’re wearing is cute,” added a sixth.

While a seventh penned, “We are so proud of you Amanda. We love you.”

And an eighth said, “You’re actually looking gorgeous, I hope you can see that too.”

Amanda, who shot to fame in The Amanda Show, She’s The Man and Hairspray, had a troubled life after shooting to stardom.

She was arrested for a DUI in 2012; she has alleged that she was abused by her father; she was put under a conservatorship from 2014 to 2022; and she checked into a mental health facility in 2020.

Despite her struggles, Amanda has recently been determined to get her life back on track.

In 2018, the former movie star attended and graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising but decided not to go down that road.

In 2022, she announced that she was headed to cosmetology school.

Unfortunately, Amanda revealed that she did not pass her manicurist license exam.

But her weight loss seems to be a success, which could lead to improvements in other areas of Amanda’s life.

Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before, since I’m admittedly something of a broken record on the subject, but I very much prefer Marvel’s television series, which tend to be fleet, original and unpredictable, to its movies, which tend not to be. “Loki,” “Ms. Marvel,” “Moon Knight,” “Echo,” “WandaVision” and its spinoff “Agatha All Along” — all (among others) are worth watching, even the ones that are dumped after a season.

Developing longer stories with less money, the TV shows makers need to be inventive, creative with their resources, so they invest in characters and ideas rather than special effects and action. They focus on secondary or ensemble figures who would never be given a theatrical feature of their own to carry, are particular about culture and family and place, and are often less contingent on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with its phases and stages, its crossovers and cross-promotions and long-range marketing plans. At once higher concept and more grounded than the movies, they’re interesting on their own, to the point where, when they finally hitch on to the Marvel multi-mega-serial train, I find them disappointing.

“Wonder Man,” whose eight episodes premiere all at once Tuesday on Disney+, is perhaps the most grounded of these series. Created by Destin Daniel Cretton (“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”) and Andrew Guest (who has written for “Community” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), the series is a (generally) sweet, disarming tale of actors in Hollywood, tricked up with picture-business details that you don’t need to be au fait with the MCU to appreciate. There are things it might be helpful to know, but you can work out everything that matters through context. (Locals will enjoy playing Spot the Locations.)

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Simon Williams, who as a child became a fan of a B-movie superhero called Wonder Man — not a “real” superhero, in this reality, merely a fiction. Now in his 30s, he’s a struggling actor in Hollywood, good enough to land a small part in an “American Horror Story” episode, but not clever enough to keep from slowing down the production with questions and suggestions when all he needs to do is deliver a couple of lines before a monster bites his head off. He loses the part and a girlfriend directly afterward.

Taking in a revival house matinee of “Midnight Cowboy,” he meets Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), who is back from having played the Mandarin — that is, he acted the part of a terrorist called the Mandarin, believing it was just a job — in “Iron Man 3” and providing appealing comedy relief in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” The character here is more fleshed out, something of a mess (but 13 years sober, he likes to point out), serious but not a joke. Before it all went wrong, Trevor played King Lear (in Croydon), appeared in “Coronation Street” and in a movie with Glenda Jackson, was off-off-off Broadway in “The Skin Our Teeth” and briefly had the lead in a hospital show with Joe Pantoliano, who’s very funny playing himself.

Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), left, and Simon Williams (Yahya Adbul-Mateen II) team up in “Wonder Man.”

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Slattery tells Simon that European art director Von Kovak (Zlatko Burić) is rebooting Wonder Man, a role Simon feels born to play. He makes an end run around his unconvinced agent, Janelle (X Mayo), and wheedles an audition — where he again meets Trevor, auditioning for Barnaby, Wonder Man’s pal, or sidekick or something. There are wheels behind wheels in this setup, some of which could use a little grease, but for most of the series they do their squeaking off to the side. It’s a love story, above all — “Midnight Cowboy,” not an accidental choice, is more of a touchstone than any Marvel movie.

Simon does have powers — things shake, break or explode around him when he’s upset, and his strength can become super in a tight spot — which puts him in the sights of the Department of Damage Control, embodied by Arian Moayed as P. Cleary, who would like to contain him. But he struggles to keep them secret, especially in light of something called the Doorman Clause — its history established in a sidebar episode, a cautionary Hollywood fable with Josh Gad as himself — which prohibits anyone with super powers from working in film or television, all Simon lives for.

There is little in the way of action, and you won’t miss it. The fate of the world is never in question, but a callback for a second audition means everything. The only costumed characters are actors playing costumed characters; the only villains, apart from the bureaucracy that seeks to bring him in, are Simon’s own self-doubt and temper. As things progress, Trevor will become a mentor to Simon. As is common in stories of love and friendship, a betrayal will be revealed, but if you have seen even a few such stories, you know how that’s going to go, and will be glad it does.

Whether discussing acting techniques or the traffic they’re stuck in on Hollywood Boulevard (Trevor: “Probably the Hollywood Bowl.” Simon: “It’s too late for the Bowl.” Trevor: “It’s usually the Bowl. I remember seeing Cher there once — breathtaking. Chaka Khan, now there’s a woman”), Abdul-Mateen and Kingsley work well together; their energies are complementary, laid back and loose versus worked up and tight and, of course, each will have something to teach one another about who they are and who they could be. I was genuinely anxious for them, as friends, more so than just wondering how such and such a superhero (or team) might defeat such and such a supervillain (or team).

“Our ideas about heroes and gods, they only get in the way,” says Von Kovak, putting a room of hopeful actors through their paces, and essentially speaking for the series he’s in. “Too difficult to comprehend them. Let’s find the human underneath.”

When “The Great British Baking Show” returns for another season later this year, the tent will welcome a new judge alongside the freshest batch of competitors.

British cookbook author and TV personality Nigella Lawson will join the beloved baking competition as a judge, succeeding Prue Leith, who announced her departure from the series last week. “The Great British Baking Show” (alternatively titled “The Great British Bake-Off” in the United Kingdom) unveiled Lawson’s appointment Monday on Instagram. She will co-judge alongside longtime “Bake Show” fixture and bread expert Paul Hollywood.

“I’m uncharacteristically rather lost for words right now!” Lawson said in a joint Instagram post. “Of course it’s daunting to be following in the footsteps of Prue Leith and Mary Berry before her, great dames both, but I’m also bubbling with excitement.”

“The Great British Baking Show” first aired on the BBC in 2010, with Hollywood judging competitors’ bakes alongside Mary Berry. Berry departed the series when it moved from the BBC to commercial broadcaster Channel 4 and Leith began her tenure in 2017.

During her “Baking Show” days, Leith became known among fans and competitors for her affinity for boozy bakes and colorful fashion and accessories. Notably, she and Hollywood co-judged the series in its 11th season, which was filmed and aired amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leith, announcing her exit, said “Bake Off has been a fabulous part of my life for the last nine years” and looked forward to a new chapter in her life.

“But now feels like the right time to step back (I’m 86 for goodness sake!), there’s so much I’d like to do, not least spend summers enjoying my garden,” she wrote, adding later in her caption that she believes her successor will “love [the show] as much as I have.”

Lawson, a former journalist and Margaret Thatcher cabinet member Nigel Lawson’s daughter, comes to “Baking Show” with some history with Channel 4. The broadcast aired her series “Nigella Bites” in the late 1990s and early aughts in tandem with the release of her book of the same name.

Her television credits also include hosting her series “Nigella Feasts,” “Nigella Express,” “Nigella Kitchen” and “Nigellissima” and judging on shows “Iron Chef America,” “The Taste” alongside Anthony Bourdain and “MasterChef Australia,” among others.

She has penned more than a dozen books, most recently 2020’s “Cook, Eat, Repeat.”

“The Great British Bake Off is more than a television programme, it’s a National Treasure – and it’s a huge honour to be entrusted with it,” she said on Monday. “I’m just thrilled to be joining the team and all the new bakers to come. I wish the marvellous Prue all the best, and am giddily grateful for the opportunity!”