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PALOMA Faith shocked fans after announcing she’s pregnant with her third child – but did we just miss the signs?

The Only Love Can Hurt Like This songstress, 44, dropped several subtle clues before revealing her big news on Friday.

Firstly, fans might have noticed that Paloma had been wearing lots of baggy clothes in her recent social media activity.

In a video filmed after being eliminated from The Celebrity Traitors, the singer wore a massive, puffy winter jacket.

Another clip shared on Paloma’s Instagram showed her talking to Niko after he got banished at the round table.

Floating babies appear around the screen with no context whatsoever, another clue the mum-of-two was expecting.

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On TikTok, Paloma filmed several clips over the last few weeks, hiding her stomach from the view of her followers.

One video sees her sit behind a table, while another shows the singer strategically covering her stomach with a pillow.

Another dead giveaway was a caption on Paloma’s Instagram.

In the recent upload, she joked that “mumma” was “recharging”.

Anyone looking back at Paloma’s social media will see the string of hints in posts since she was eliminated from The Celebrity Traitors.

On Friday, she shared a snap of her baby bump on Instagram.

Paloma wrote: “Plot twist, mother is mothering (again).”

She then used the hashtags #morethangeriatricpregnancy #oappregnancy #oapmilf in jest, along with #18weekspregnant.

Paloma is believed to be expecting with her boyfriend Stevie Thomas.

The director of a music venue in Birmingham also once appeared on Channel 4 reality show Shipwrecked back in 2007.

The couple went public with their relationship in March, but it’s thought they had been dating secretly for more than a year.

Paloma shares two daughters with her ex-partner, artist Leyman Lahcine.

The pair split three years ago, and their children were born in 2016 and 2021.

Paloma was axed from this year’s Celebrity Traitors season after being killed in plain sight by her close friend Alan Carr.

Unbeknownst to her, Jonathan Ross, Cat Burns, and her pal Alan, were all recruited by host Claudia Winkleman as Traitors.

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“These are like three of my favourite people that I was sure… I hope they never call me again,” the singer said after finding out.

“Bang out of order. Bang out of order. I feel really even more betrayed now. I feel betrayed by Jonathan and Alan.”

Millions of TikTok users in the United States will be relieved to hear President Donald Trump say that China had agreed to approve a deal on the future of the social media platform in the US.

With US politicians worried that TikTok poses a national security threat and spreads propaganda, Congress passed a bill last year that banned the short video app unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sold its US business.

But Trump had extended the deadline by which ByteDance was to divest from the platform or face the promised ban, and even went so far as to raise the matter with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call on Friday.

So, why does a deal on this app matter so much to Trump?

Presenter: Tom McRae

Guests:

Richard Weitz – senior non-resident associate fellow at the NATO Defense College

Einar Tangen – senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Maria Curi – technology policy reporter for Axios, focusing on government oversight of social media platforms

Six of seven board seats for TikTok’s US operations will be held by Americans, White House press secretary says.

A deal between Washington and Beijing for the Chinese parent company of video-sharing app TikTok to sell its US operations would see the formation of an American-majority board, the White House has announced.

“There will be seven seats on the board that controls the app in the United States, and six of those seats will be Americans,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Saturday.

According to Leavitt, a deal could be signed “in the coming days”.

Leavitt’s comments come one day after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks in a bid to finalise an agreement that will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States amid threats of a ban.

While Trump described the conversation as being a “very good call … appreciate the TikTok approval” on his Truth Social platform, China did not confirm any agreement between the two sides.

It has been reported that Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of tech firm Oracle, is part of an investor group whose companies are looking to buy the app.

Leavitt on Saturday seemed to confirm Oracle’s participation in purchasing TikTok.

“The data and privacy will be led by one of America’s greatest tech companies, Oracle, and the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well,” she told Fox News.

“So all of those details have already been agreed upon. Now we just need this deal to be signed.”

TikTok boasts about 175 million users in the US, making it one of the top five social media apps.

However, the platform has been beset by controversies when lawmakers under the Joe Biden administration passed legislation to force the platform to divest itself of its ownership by the Chinese internet company ByteDance.

Both Democrats and Republicans supported the legislation due to security concerns that Beijing could have access to TikTok data and could spread Chinese propaganda through TikTok’s algorithm.

Trump himself proposed banning TikTok during his first term as US president, signing two executive orders in August 2020 that were aimed at restricting the app. However, the US president did a U-turn, pledging to “save” the popular app during his 2024 re-election campaign.

China has consistently denied claims by US lawmakers that Beijing pressures apps like TikTok to collect personal information for the state.