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BIG Brother viewers have claimed a kiss between two housemate was ‘forced’ and ‘absolutely rancid’.

Sunday night’s episode saw the Housemates dealing with the aftermath of the latest eviction.

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Big Brother viewers have claimed a kiss between two housemate was ‘forced’ and ‘absolutely rancid’[/caption]

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Baked Potato and Nathan locked lips[/caption]

On Friday night, Daze was banished from the ITV2 house after the public vote.

The remaining Housemates comforted each other, but two of them took that to a whole new level.

Baked Potato (Rosie) and Nathan have been growing closer in recent days, and shared a three-way kiss with Lily.

But tonight, the lovebirds were seen sharing a snog on their own, but not before staring at each other for an awkwardly long period of time.

They finally broke eye contact to lock lips on the sofa while no-one else was around, but the moment left many Big Brother fans horrified.

Taking to X – formerly Twitter – one wrote: “Genuinely feel sick watching that kiss. It felt soooo forced as if they were forced to.”

Another added: “That kiss was absolutely rancid, truly evil personified.”

A third commented: “Baked potatoes has kissed Nathan which genuinely disgusts me and probably increase his chance of being in the final of this season of big brother like last year.”

Meanwhile a fourth tweeted: “This kiss seems soooo forced. They really do have 0 chemistry.”

Rosie is called ‘Baked Potato’ after she completed a series of dares, one of which included changing her name.

Others took issue with the fact that Nathan had cold sores when he kissed Baked Potato.

One wrote: “I cant believe she kissed him with those sores on his lips, i feel sick.”

Another commented: “Nathan has a massive cold sore and he kissed Baked Potato. Christ.”

A third shared: “Baked Potato kissed that square head with a big ole COLDSORE on his lip!!!! Nasty work.”

Big Brother airs on ITV2 and is available on ITVX.

LIVERPOOL ace Curtis Jones went viral as he opened up about recently becoming a dad in a wholesome post-match interview after a man of the match performance against Chelsea.

Jones, 23, led the Reds to a 2-1 win over the Blues at Anfield as he won the penalty that was followed by Mohamed Salah’s opener and scored the winner after Nicolas Jackson’s equaliser.

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The midfielder dedicated his first goal of the season to his newborn daughter Giselle Delilah Jones and girlfriend Saffie Khan.

The couple made headlines with the joyous announcement in May that they are expecting their first child, with Saffie giving birth last week.

The pair shared photos of them holding their baby as they beamed with joy.

The ex-England youth international spoke to Sky Sports about his incredible performance against Chelsea and hinted it was a result of some extra confidence he acquired the last few days.

Jones said: “It’s the best thing ever, I’m playing with a smile on my face. It’s a different type of joy.

“I was in the spare room [last night]! But she’s a little dream, she wants a feed and change and back asleep.

“So I wouldn’t have missed much sleep anyway. But I thought it was wise [to sleep in the spare room]. So I had some energy. Sorry dads around the world!”

Social media went wild after the Liverpool ace’s heartwarming statement with many praising his inspirational words.

One tweeted: “Loved that Curtis Jones interview.”

Another commented: “That Curtis jones interview was f*****g mega! What a boy man, been a dad for a week and scores the winning goal and MOTM, killing it.”

A third wrote: “Curtis Jones genuinely seems like a top bloke. Doesn’t interview like he’s reading from a script and seems like a lad who’s just buzzing on life. Fair play to him!

This one said: “What a brilliant interview with Curtis Jones that was.”

That one stated: “I love that Curtis Jones came on to that interview and spent a quarter of it talking about his new baby.”

And finally this post read: “Happy dad Curtis Jones put up an amazing performance and an even better post match interview.”

JEREMY Clarkson joked that he is banned from emptying the dishwasher after having life-saving heart surgery.

The Clarkson’s Farm star told how he was days from death in the major health scare.

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Jeremy Clarkson has had life-saving heart surgery[/caption]

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Clarkson wears a bandage on right arm after his surgery[/caption]

Jeremy, 64, revealed he needed an operation to clear blocked arteries after feeling ill on a recent holiday.

Last night he told The Sun: “I’m very grateful to everyone who sent supportive messages but I’m fine.

“I just have to not do any manual labour or dishwasher emptying for the next four years.

“At least I think that’s what the doctor said.”

Clarkson first felt unwell while on a break on an Indian Ocean island.

He wrote in The Sunday Times: “I was at the breakfast table and when I stood up to leave, I had to take a moment to make sure my limbs were working properly.”

He later had issues trying to dive, swim and walk which continued after his holiday.

One day he felt “clammy and there was a tightness in my chest”.

And later, after working on his Cotswolds farm — which features in his Amazon Prime hit series — a doctor was called when he noticed “pins and needles” in his left arm.

Jeremy was then taken by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

He said: “It seems that of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way.

“The question was this.

“Were the arteries so ruined that I’d need an emergency heart bypass?

“Or could he use Dyno-Rods and ultrasonic battering rams to loosen them up before inserting a stent?

“Mercifully, this turned out to be possible.”

Jeremy, who also hosts ITV’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, went on: “I was off to the operating theatre.

“Because my bankruptcy was most definitely just around the corner. Days away? ‘Maybe’, he (a doctor) said.”

A stent was then inserted into the blocked artery to keep it open and restore blood flow to the heart.

Jeremy said: “It wasn’t especially painful. Just odd.”

He returned home the next day, and said he thought: “Crikey, that was close.”

He previously said he is worried about his health and admitted: “I don’t have long left.”

Jeremy has also shared fears over developing dementia, admitting his “memory is shot”.

And he was fitted with hearing aids last year.

But the star has shown no signs of slowing down, with a new book about life on Diddly Squat Farm.

Series four of Clarkson’s Farm is also in production.

Earlier this year Jeremy opened a refurbished pub — The Farmer’s Dog — near Burford, Oxon.

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Jezza, 64, revealed he needed an operation to clear blocked arteries after feeling ill on a recent holiday[/caption]

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Series four of Clarkson’s Farm is also in production with Lisa giving fans a behind-the-scenes look[/caption]

Spirit-raiser

THERE may be precious few reasons to raise a glass when Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils her Budget next week.

But she could lift spirits by pulling out all the stops to give the hospitality trade some help.

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After brutal years of Covid, a near-recession and the wholly unnecessary threat of banning smoking outside, pubs and restaurants in the UK are already on the brink of bankruptcy.

But they now face another collective £1billion hit.

Failing to extend their 75 per cent business rate discount — due to end in April — would be a fatal mistake by the Chancellor.

It would decimate already-fragile takings and put thousands of jobs at risk.

Ms Reeves would do well to maintain that protection and by doing so throw a lifeline to an industry vital to so many in our depressed communities.

It could also give her something she so desperately needs — some economic growth.

French fiasco

LAST week another 979 migrants arrived illegally in Britain on 16 new boats.

They will join the big-city-sized group of asylum-seekers now being housed in hotels at a cost of £4million per day before most are inevitably allowed to live here permanently.

Among those trying to cross this weekend was a baby boy who drowned after falling overboard as his dinghy sank.

“He slipped out of my hands,” says his shattered father.

Families desperate to get to Britain are still prepared to ignore the obvious dangers.

Which is why these journeys must be stopped before boats even leave the beaches.

In Belgium police are doing just that.

Only one boat has arrived in Britain from there this year.

In neighbouring France — handed £500million by Britain to tackle the problem — cops stand and watch as the migrants gamble with their lives.

What are we paying them for?

Sir Chris’s grit

IT is scarcely believable that a man with such superhuman strength and fitness as Sir Chris Hoy should be struck by terminal cancer.

Sir Chris conquered all his rivals in the Olympic velodrome.

It must have been a crushing blow to this born winner to be told he can never beat his illness.

Yet his courage — and that of his wife Sarra, now diagnosed with MS — remains undimmed.

We salute his bravery as he now no doubt proves a huge inspiration to all those affected by this cruel disease.

A MORTUARY worker has lifted the lid on her job and some of the bizarre requests she gets.

Mortician Hayleigh appeared on the Tea At Four podcast and revealed how she even does acrylic nails and fake lashes on dead bodies.

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Speaking to hosts Lauren and Billy, she revealed what it’s like to work with the dead.

She shared: “I basically prepare the deceased.”

Lauren asked her if people can request to be placed in certain poses in their coffin, and Hayleigh revealed you can.

Demonstrating her hands crossed in front of her, she answered: “We have girls who want their hands.

“And we get the lid on you as well, so we don’t want to be hammering your knees down, really.”

Hayleigh shared how she also does beauty treatments on corpses so they look their best.

She added: “I mean, I can do acrylics, eyelashes, eyebrows.”

Billy was amazed and asked if she does teeth whitening on deceased individuals.

The mortician replied: “Why would you want your teeth on show when you’re dead? That’d be terrifying.”

Billy agreed saying: “I didn’t think of it like that.”

The host then joked how he wanted to be buried with his hands crossed on his chest and with his face in an open-mouthed smile.

Hayleigh laughed: “I was gonna say, I’ve never had that one before. 

“I think I would be like, oh no.”

The mortician said that one of the only treatments that doesn’t work so well is fake than as it “doesn’t sit right.”

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Host Billy asked if Hayleigh whitens the teeth of dead bodies[/caption]

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Lauren asked her if people can request to be placed in certain poses in their coffin[/caption]

She explained: “You look like a drumstick. 

“It won’t sit right, I’m afraid, ’cause there’s no moisture in the skin, it just sits.

“Even if you do a bit of mousse, it doesn’t look great.”

Billy came to the conclusion that he didn’t want to be embalmed and perhaps would opt for a closed coffin instead.

Hayleigh revealed: “Yeah, that’s what I’m going with.”

Many people were amazed at the revelations, with one person writing: “This is soooooo reassuring cos I dare my family to let ONE person see me without lashes.”

Another added: “This was so insightful and emotional to watch.”

Morticians or undertakers prepare a deceased’s body for funerals, and can assist with urn or coffin selection and aid with the transport of the body from the funeral home.

They also may help cremate or preserve the body, making it presentable with makeup, clothing, and hair styling.

A LASER for RAF planes to dazzle heat-seeking missiles has been successfully tested for the first time against a swarm of incoming rockets.

The Ministry of Defence said the lasers hit multiple targets with pinpoint accuracy.

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The Miysis laser missile guidance system is designed to ‘confuse’ missile guidance systems and steer rockets away from their targets[/caption]

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Miysis is expected to be fitted to a range of RAF aircraft, including the A400M Atlas transporter[/caption]

It claimed the missiles were “defeated faster than the time it takes to read this sentence”.

The Miysis lasers “confuse” missile guidance ­systems and steer rockets away from their targets.

They need only 1,300 watts of power — the same as a microwave oven.

The trials in remote northern ­Sweden were the first time the ­Miysis lasers had “defeated a range of infrared heat-seeking missiles being fired simultaneously”.

The MoD said: “RAF pilots are one step closer to being equipped with a cutting-edge laser self-protection ­system, following 100 per cent successful live-fire trials.”

It is expected to be fitted to a range of RAF aircraft, including the A400M Atlas transporter.

Miysis, made by aerospace company Leonardo, was originally designed to save helicopters from shoulder-launched heat-seeking missiles.

They are an upgrade to old-fashioned flares, also known as chaff, which burst out of aircraft like fireworks to confuse heat-seeking missiles.

A Connecticut police sting operation ensnared a 47-year-old Bronx lawyer who thought he was arranging a sexual tryst with a teenaged girl, only to get a hefty prison sentence instead.

It's a winner-take-all Game 5 on Sunday night at Barclays Center as the Liberty look to win their first WNBA title on their home court.

Daniel Jones was swamped from start to finish in another unproductive, listless and inept MetLife Stadium showing that got him benched.

A New Zealand airport has sparked global outrage after implementing a three-minute limit on hugs in its drop-off zone, telling travelers with a sour new sign: "For fonder farewells please use the car park."