Filed under: Celebrity, News, TV — Jess March 26, 2009 @ 6:41 am
Fern Britton has handed in her notice on ITV’s This Morning, and will leave her much loved presenting job at the end of this series.
The 51-year-old presenter has said that her family and the need to “explore other things” as her reasons for leaving the show.
She’s presented the daytime programme for ten years, six of those have been spent alongside co-host Phillip Schofield.
In a statement, mum-of-four Fern said:
“I have decided to leave the show at the end of the current series. I will present my last show on 17th July, my birthday, which seems somehow appropriate.
“The This Morning team are simply the best and I will miss them all very much but I am looking forward to the freedom of exploring other things I want to do, and also spend more time with my wonderful family.
“So many thank yous to all our viewers who have shown me so much kindness and loyalty,” she ended.
As much as I like Fern, I have to admit this is sensible timing due to ITV cutting her salery because of money issues. Earlier this year ITV said in a statement that This Moring may be taken off the air completely.
But spending time with the family is a much nicer excuse.
Danielle Lloyd has made distressing claims that an employee of Carphone Warehouse stole, and then tried to sell personal pictures downloaded from her mobile to five newspapers in March 2008.
The man took copies of the private photos after the 25-year-old glamour model bought a new phone, and asked for data from her old mobile to be transferred.
A statement from the Carphone Warehouse said, ‘The download of customer content is entirely unacceptable and we can confirm that this content was not published.’
The statement continued, ‘When the matter was brought to our attention we immediately conducted an investigation and the employee is no longer working within the business.’
‘Their actions are not indicative of our usual standard of service and we absolutely apologise to Ms Lloyd.’
Danielle’s lawyer told the Daily Mail she was ‘astonished’ the company had said sorry, and that she’d been ’seeking an apology for over a year’.
Britney Spears has considered cancelling her new Circus tour after receiving death threats.
Britney has become very worried that the lives of her sons, Sean Preston aged three, and two-year-old Jayden James could be in danger following the threatening messages.
“Britney received some anonymous death threats over the phone and in the mail, and her worst fear is a kidnap plot against Sean or Jayden. She’s been having terrible nightmares ever since then and she wakes up in the middle of the night crying out for her boys,” a source said.
“She told her head of security and he thinks it’s a lone stalker. Her paranoia has reached fever pitch and she’s wracked with fear,” the source added.
The 27-year-old singer is said to be upset after she was criticised for not singing live during recent performances, and making some very dirty comments to the audience during one of her concerts in Tampa.
Britney’s family are concerned for her health after rumours that behind the scenes of one of her recent concerts, she cracked up and shouted, ‘I can’t do this any more, why are you all torturing me?’ Then she ran out of the room crying.
Rihanna has taken back her woman beating boyfriend, Chris Brown. Last Month Chris beat up Rihanna so bad she went to the police and a domestic violence case ensued.
Now it seems that Rihanna has taken back this thug, and have tried to build on their relationship at Puff Diddy’s Miami home.
A friend of Rihanna’s said, “She’s not listening to anyone,” they continued, “And of course Puff got involved in this.”
The Los Angeles County District Attorney is expected to make a decision soon on whether to charge Chris Brown for the domestic violence case on February 8.