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MAFS UK star Holly Ditchfield announces heartbreaking death of premature twins

MAFS UK star Holly Ditchfield announces heartbreaking death of premature twins

Published by Daniella Wilson

Holly Ditchfield, who featured on Married At First Sight (MAFS) UK, has announced that her twin sons have died nine days after being born prematurely. In a statement shared on Instagram, the reality TV personality and her partner Aaron Summers confirmed that the infants passed away within hours of one another. “It has been the hardest, most heartbreaking, yet most magical 9 days of our lives,” Ditchfield wrote alongside a series of photos. “At 1pm on 03/09/2026, our darling Georgie peacefully passed away. Then, at 5am on 04/09/2026, his beautiful brother Marley followed him. “My boys both took their final breaths in the arms of me and their daddy. There is no greater privilege, and no greater pain, than holding your children as they leave this world.” Ditchfield with her partner Aaron Summers (Instagram) The couple had previously revealed the boys were born prematurely at 23 weeks and five days, posting pictures of the twins in the neonatal intensive care unit. She continued: “They gave us the most precious week of our lives. A week …

Judi Dench: Best bits of her new documentary with Ian McKellen, from honest Cats review to heartbreaking regrets

Judi Dench: Best bits of her new documentary with Ian McKellen, from honest Cats review to heartbreaking regrets

Published by Daniella Wilson

After welcoming Sir Kenneth Branagh to her Surrey home in the first instalment of Tea with Judi Dench, the legendary James Bond actor has another starry houseguest: Sir Ian McKellen. Dench has shared the stage and screen with the Lord of the Rings star multiple times during their illustrious careers, and they have plenty of awards between them – but in this Sky Arts show, the pair seem like any other regular pals as they sit down to chat over tea and tiffin. From reminiscing about their early days on stage together, to sharing their honest thoughts on one of their most controversial projects, here are the best bits from the documentary… Ian reveals how Judi saved him onstage McKellen and Dench have shared the stage together countless times, and there’s one moment from early on in his career that The Lord of the Rings actor has never forgotten. In 1975, the pair were starring in George Bernard Shaw’s comedy Too Good to Be True, with Dench playing a nurse masquerading as a countess and …

The heartbreaking family struggles that shaped Hayden Panettiere’s life off screen

The heartbreaking family struggles that shaped Hayden Panettiere’s life off screen

Published by Daniella Wilson

A tricky relationship with a stage “mom”, addiction, depression and a custody row – all of these were storylines that the actor Hayden Panettiere had to grapple with during her stint on the TV show Nashville, playing a talented but troubled young country singer. Off screen, the Golden Globe nominee was dealing with similar conflicts. “My character, Juliette, and me as Hayden, I didn’t know where one person began and the other one ended,” she later admitted. Having to act out episodes that were being mirrored in her personal life, and serve them up for the viewing pleasure of an audience, can’t have been easy. But these fictionalised struggles only ever really provided a surface look at what the star, who has died at the age of 36, was going through behind the scenes. On Monday morning, her father Skip Panettiere announced her “tragic passing”, describing the former child star, best known for her role as a high school cheerleader with superpowers in the TV drama Heroes, as “an incredible light and a force of …

‘Desperately’ sad Jason Donovan announces heartbreaking news

‘Desperately’ sad Jason Donovan announces heartbreaking news

Published by Sam Flores

Neighbours star Jason Donovan has announced the passing of his father, British-Australian actor Terence Donovan, in a heartbreaking post. Jason, 58, shared an “extremely emotional” message on social media on Sunday morning (GST), confirming his dad, who also starred on Neighbours and the successful Australian soap opera Home and Away, died in Melbourne at age 90.   “It is with great sadness but also a sense of celebration of a long, full life that myself and my brother Paul announce our father Terence died peacefully last night here in Melbourne,” Jason penned on Instagram, followed by family photos of him and his brother with their late father.  “Obviously this is an extremely emotional time and we ask you to respect our privacy. We want to pay tribute to all the wonderful staff at Cabrini Hospital, Melbourne who looked after him in his final days.” The statement continued: “Our dad was a huge character. Larger than life. He was our best friend… Our world. We will desperately miss him but we take comfort knowing we were …

Babies review | Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen are heartbreaking

Babies review | Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen are heartbreaking

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 4 out of 5. This article contains mention of pregnancy loss and miscarriage that some readers may find distressing. It’s rare that I can say a drama absolutely won’t be for everybody, but perhaps should be – that is the case with Babies. It won’t be for everybody for two reasons. The first is that it is a new drama from Stefan Golaszewski, the master of unerring slice of life drama. I gave his last series, Marriage, a five-star review, believing, as I still do, that it was an exceptional piece of work. Once it was released into the wider world, many viewers disagreed, and took against it fervently. Babies has a similar pace, tone and structure to that series, so I can already say with some degree of certainty that those who were unimpressed by Marriage will have similar feelings here. The second reason is that it deals with the subject of repeated pregnancy loss and miscarriage, and does so in a way which is raw and unflinching. This topic …

Lesley Manville stars in exclusive sweet moment from heartbreaking new film

Lesley Manville stars in exclusive sweet moment from heartbreaking new film

Published by Daniella Wilson

In a clip from her upcoming film, Midwinter Break, exclusively shared with Radio Times, Lesley Manville and co-star Ciarán Hinds’ characters share a tender moment in an Amsterdam bar. The clip – which you can watch above – shows Manville and Hinds as they each drink jenever, a Dutch gin that is traditionally preceded by a beer. Hinds watches on as his wife handily polishes off both the beer and the gin before holding his face and kissing him in a heartwarming moment that is tinged with a sense of sadness, hinting at the larger themes of love, faith and memory the film will go on to explore. Midwinter Break is based on the 2017 novel by Bernard MacLaverty and sees Manville and Hinds playing Stella and Gerry, a married couple who travel to Amsterdam to rekindle the passion that seems to have all but disappeared from their increasingly comfortable relationship. The couple fled their home of Belfast during the Troubles after Stella had a traumatic experience that the film slowly reveals across its 90-minute …

Patrick Dempsey gives heartbreaking update about Eric Dane amid ALS diagnosis

Patrick Dempsey gives heartbreaking update about Eric Dane amid ALS diagnosis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Patrick Dempsey has claimed it was “virtually impossible” to get former Grey’s Anatomy colleague Eric Dane on his new show, Memory of a Killer, because of the progression of the latter’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Dane, 53, who played fan-favorite plastic surgeon Mark Sloan on Grey’s Anatomy, announced in April that he was diagnosed with ALS, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder. He’s spoken openly about the condition since, and even played a patient with ALS on a November episode of NBC’s Brilliant Minds. His former Grey’s Anatomy co-star Dempsey, who played top neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd, has now opened up about staying in touch with Dane amid the ALS diagnosis. “I spoke to him a few weeks ago. I’ve been texting with him. We were trying to get him in [Memory of a Killer],” the actor, 60, said during an interview with Parade, referring to his new Fox thriller series. “Unfortunately, the progression of his disease made it virtually impossible. But I was happy to see that he was here in Toronto working on, I think, another medical …