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A CONTESTANT on Come Dine With Me reveals how strict show bosses confiscated their booze after catching them secret drinking during the show.

Plymouth based, support worker Lea Dobson loved her time on the cooking show but explained that lots of things were cut from the show because the contestants were drunk.

Slain McGough Davey, Lea Dobson, Jazza Fandango, Katie Coates and Stephen Connolly appeared on Come Dine With Me as part of the programme’s 20th anniversary.

Lea who loved being on the show revealed exclusively to The Sun that she didn’t realise how strict the bosses were before she took part in the show.

Lea explained: “We didn’t realize that we were gonna get monitored on what we were drinking.

“It’s like they try and encourage you to have, like, a glass of alcohol with a meal but not much more.

“And, obviously, like, everyone from down my area, we do like to drink and have fun.

“So we were a bit like, oh, this this is shit, we want to drink a bit more than that.

“So we were like were having a look around the house and and we literally found a bottle of his moonshine, and we stole it.

“When we found the moonshine, we just all started swigging it.

Lee explained that they tried to be sneaky so that the producers didn’t see how much they were drinking.

“We’re trying to be sneaky and hiding it under the dinner table and passing it between us.

Lea laughed: “Every time one of them left, we were having more swigs.

“And then they actually caught me doing it and confiscated the bottle from me.

But the producers didn’t hide it too well because the hilarious Lea found it again.

“They hid it in a little food bag but as soon as he left the room, I just took it again, and we just pretty much necked the whole bottle.

In her final interview, Lea admitted that she could feel the room swaying around herself and that her speech was slurring.

She added: “On the last night of the show, which is Katie’s night, she served us shots.

“They said to us you’re not really supposed to drink spirits and, Katie told them that there’s only one shot in each drink.

“But there wasn’t and I didn’t realize until after I had drunk it, that there were about seven shots instead of one in each.

“And I drunk Slain’s too who was sat next to me as well.

“So I’m sat there drinking both of them thinking, god, I’m feeling a little bit wavy already.”

The self confessed fitness fanatic concluded by saying that she’s made friends for life and that being on the show was a great experience.

“You see other people crying on shows like Love Island and you think that’s dramatic as they have only known each other a few days.

“But you don’t realise how quickly the bond forms on reality shows.

“We spent so much time with each other off camera and have become very close to each other.”

Come Dine With Me airs on Channel 4.

BRAZILIAN icon Ronaldo has revealed his worst ever team-mate.

The former Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan and Inter superstar played with some of the world’s finest players.

From Ronaldinho and Kaka at international level, to the likes of Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham in club football – Ronaldo performed alongside an All-Star cast.

Chatting to another former superstar team-mate in Romario, however, Ronaldo revealed that Everton cult hero Thomas Gravesen wasn’t quite so good.

The Dane became a hugely popular figure at Goodison Park for his committed, tough-tackling displays.

But following his £2.5million switch to Real Madrid, his skills didn’t quite translate as he attempted to replace Claude Makelele at the Bernabeu.

Discussing Gravesen, who aged 49 has now earned a reported £100million fortune and played poker professionally Las Vegas, Ronaldo said when asked to name his worst-ever team-mate: “There are a lot of them.

“There was one at Real Madrid who was a joke… Gravesen.

“He was a Danish midfielder. He was a really cool guy, good guy.

“A little while ago he won a $50million (£40m) poker tournament or something.

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“But in football he was very bad, he scored and he beat the hell out of people.”

Dubbed “Mad Dog”, Gravesen reportedly got into a bust up with team-mate Robinho during his time in Spain.

He went on to last 18 months at Real Madrid, joining Celtic in 2006 after 49 appearances and no trophies.

After a season in Scotland, he re-joined Everton on loan, finishing his football career in 2008.

After several successful investments, Gravesen packed up and moved to Las Vegas.

He had several high-profile neighbours in his star-studded Sin City private community, including the likes of Nicolas Cage and tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.

He is now said to have returned to Denmark following eight years in Vegas.

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AOIFE MANNION has admitted that she was stunned by the decision to sack Eileen Gleeson and Colin Healy.

But she is looking forward to working with Ireland’s new boss Carla Ward, particularly having an idea of what to expect from her no 2 Alan Mahon.

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Gleeson and her assistant Healy were ditched by the FAI following their Euro 2025 play-off defeat to Wales, something Mannion did not see coming.

The Manchester United defender – who missed those games through injury – said: “I really liked Eilo and I really enjoyed camp, so it was a surprise for me when she wasn’t kept on.

“It wasn’t something that was on my radar.

“Colin was a really, really lovely person to have in camp. He was a really liked member of the squad, as was Eilo of course. It was really sad for him and Eilo not to be involved anymore

“As players these decisions are made above us and not something we have a say in. 

“As a player, we always have to turn up and appreciate the honour it is to play for the Ireland team regardless of who the management staff is, and it’s for Carla now to put her stamp on it, it’s her fresh start, and to continue that good feeling and the excitement it is for the players to be involved.”

Despite the pair being injured, Mannion and Louise Quinn were at the Aviva Stadium when Ireland were beaten by Wales to miss out on this summer’s tournament.

Mannion – who also missed out on the World Cup through injury – said: “It’s nerve-racking enough to be a player, it’s harder to watch it.

“It’s something that my parents always tell me, it’s like heart-attack central to actually watch me play. You don’t really understand that until you’re watching a team from the sideline.

“You’d much rather be involved because you feel like you can contribute and help in some way to a scoreline or a performance. In some ways you feel helpless.”

But she is looking forward to a fresh start under Ward, whom she met after a club game.

And she said: “She seems to be wanting to hit the ground running. She seems fresh with ideas and ambitions for us a team.”

The 29-year-old has experience of former Ireland midfielder Mahon who, along with Amber Whiteley, has been brought in by Ward.

She said: “So I worked with Alan – it’s weird calling him that because I know him as Mahony – for two years when he was the assistant at Manchester City to Nick Cushing.

“Playing under a City model is very technical and possession-based and at that time that was really cutting edge in the league actually.

“So it was a real challenge and growth point for me, trying to get onboard and up to speed with that, having come from Birmingham before which was much more traditional in terms of one v one tackling and duels, putting your body on the line.

“It felt like playing under coaches like Alan and Nick Cushing took it to the next level in terms of technical detail and what you do on the ball.

“So I can only hope that he will bring some of that experience to our camps and that will obviously be also complimented by the other coaching staff in Amber and obviously Carla as the head coach.”

SHE’S a 10-year-old internet sensation with more than a million fans on Instagram.

From chocolate cake to lentil soup and homemade bread, Renad Attallah creates recipes with the most basic of ingredients.

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But watching the chatty youngster, who dreams of opening her own restaurant, it’s hard to imagine how she gets her videos out at all – because her backdrop is the concrete rubble of war-torn Gaza.

Renad is one of around 94,000 children whose playground has become a sea of devastated buildings and bomb sites.

As Israel wages war against Hamas after the October 7 attacks – which claimed the lives of 1200 innocent people – children in Gaza face unimaginable horror, living cheek by jowl in apartments and tents as missiles fly in the skies above.

Renad features in a new BBC2 documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, which tells the story of the conflict through the eyes of children.

As politicians try to find solutions to hold on to the current delicate ceasefire, Renad along with 13-year-old Abdullah and 11-year-old Zakaria tell how they have coped with the war – witnessing bombs and death as well as losing family.

Renad, who lives in the designated safe zone, told The Sun: “From my wider family more than six people have been killed, babies, parents and older relatives.

“I made a video with one of my family but didn’t post it after they were killed in the north.

“One of the most terrifying moments was when a neighbour’s house was bombed at 2am and some of the displaced people were injured. 

“I am scared, with all the news around the ceasefire, that it might not hold and war will return.”

When the war began, Renad was already living in the area which Israel determined a safe zone but dozens of displaced relatives began arriving and, at one point, 300 people were living in the family’s four floor home.

Renad, who has to rely on parcels of food aid to make her traditional Gazan recipes, said: “I had some engagement with school online and that’s how I understood my friends were alive.

“It’s been hard because one day we went three days without enough water but everyone around me was living the same way, facing the same things.

“Whenever I feel stressed or worried I cook and if I am afraid I look at the positive comments I get on social media and it makes me feel better.”

At one point in the film, which follows the kids shortly after the start of war, Renad gives a nervous giggle as she tells how a bomb went off close to her without going off – only for a second to land nearby which detonated it.

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As the months roll on, viewers see Renad become hardened to the terrors of the conflict when explosions go off and she says: “We’re not afraid. We’re used to it.

“At the start of the war, even in daytime, every bomb terrified me (but now), not even in the middle of the night am I scared.

“We all think about the war, how we will survive each day and get through it.

“You have to find something to distract you from the constant pressure and I love creating food content.”

‘Hiding in the ground’

The documentary is narrated by 13-year-old Abdullah whose opening line is: “Have you ever wondered what you’d do if your world was destroyed?”

It shows thousands of Gazans fleeing their homes at the beginning of the war, carrying bags and children in their arms, mattresses on their heads and one woman even drags her small son behind her in a shopping basket.

Another shouts ‘May God curse you Sinwar”, in reference to the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the attack on Israel.

A toothless man tells the cameraman: “They’ve (Israel) killed our children, killed our women while Sinwar is hiding under the ground.”

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Teenager Abdullah, an eloquent, intelligent boy who was educated at an English-speaking school, describes how getting water “is a very hard task”, saying: “Everything has changed. 

“I was in the best school in Gaza, a British school in the north…now I’m living here (in the safe zone) in a tent.”

Abdullah tells how the safe zone was hit by a massive bomb in the Israeli battle against Hamas terrorists.

He said: “I was sleeping and heard the bombing and we got covered in dirt. The smell was horrible. The camp was filled with tents, they got buried underground.

“It’s indescribable, 19 people were killed. When we saw body parts we couldn’t speak and felt sick. They (Israel) said it was a secret room for Hamas.”

Hospital bombing

The film also features eleven-year-old Zakaria who tends to the wounded and dying at Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital.

He is seen escorting badly injured, bloodied patients from the back of ambulances after leaving his home to help.

Zakaria says: “When I hear the ambulance sound I get people out of the way and I tell them there is a very serious injury.

“I help transport the dead, the injured, the kids. I love helping people. I’m not scared.”

Zakaria is looked after by hospital paramedic Said, who took the youngster under his wing as he refused to go home.

When the hospital was bombed in October last year as the Israeli air force targeted a Hamas command centre, killing five and injuring at least 70, Said was one of the few paramedics who remained behind to help despite evacuation orders.

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He said: “Headphones (music ) are the most important things that help me escape the war, the hospital gloom, the bombings, the dead and the injured.

“Zakaria loves the hospital more than anything else. He works tirelessly, he pushes a stretcher at least eight times a day.

“I sometimes forget he is just a child, it’s weird.”

The documentary is one of the few that records daily life for Gazans after Israel banned international press from visiting the country without the military.

Co-producers Jamie Roberts and Yousef Hammash, who comes from Gaza, directed two local cameramen inside the war zone over nine months to make the unique documentary inside the humanitarian safe zone.

Yousef told The Sun: “I left Gaza a few weeks before we started the film and the biggest challenge we faced was the logistics and how to deal with daily communication issues.

“We wanted to make a film on the ground that felt real, something that wasn’t recorded on phones, but shot properly.”

Yousef said it was important to tell the story of war through the lens of kids because half of Gaza’s population are children.

He said: “They are one hundred percent in survival mode, their window of thinking is limited and they live just for today.

“The children are subjected to continuous trauma and there were things we left out of the documentary because they were too graphic.

“It’s been like living in a horror movie for these children for the past 16 months, yet life goes on for them. Renad makes her content, Zakaria goes to the beach when he can. They are extremely resilient and brave.”

OLIVIA Attwood has taken a savage swipe at Liv Hawkins after she voted best mate Ronnie Vint to be dumped from the villa.

Ronnie and Harriett Blackmore were sent home – just missing out on the Love Island All Stars final – last night.

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It came after axed Islanders returned to vote between them, Elma Pazar and Sammy Root and Catherine Agbaje and Omar Nyame.

Harriett ended up in an explosive clash with Liv, as she attempted to shade her and Ronnie’s romance.

Liv also claimed Grace Jackson is in it to win it and not genuine in her relationship with Luca Bish.

After Ronnie and Harriett were sent home, Love Island icon Olivia took to Instagram to have her say.

She wrote: “Call the police a CRIME has been committed.

“We are so bloody proud of you @ronnievint. The man you are – you had us laughing and crying all the way through.

“And @harriettblackmore – girl she ATE those expired Islanders upppp!

“Can’t wait to see you both soon.”

Way back at the start of this series of All Stars – before Harriett arrived as a bombshell – Liv claimed Ronnie sent her messages while he was still in a relationship with her.

And Olivia later addressed Liv’s claims, saying: “[Liv] was very engaged in the messaging back and forth.

“He wasn’t talking to himself and I think the picture of him holding Harriet’s hand, she photoshopped her face onto it and sent it back to him.”

Harriett backed Olivia’s comments during her clash with Liv last night.

She quipped: “The girl literally photoshopped her head onto mine and sent it to Ronnie and he still didn’t want you on the outside or in the villa…”

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A WOMAN had admitted having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy.

Elle Aiton, 20, met the youngster and chatted online before they met up and engaged in cuddling and kissing.

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On one occasion, the pair undressed each other in his bedroom, and she put her hand down his underwear.

Aiton, then aged 18, also allowed the youngster to touch her before they decided sexual contact between them was ‘unwise’.

The affair came to light when the boy was reported missing and later discovered inside her home.

He told police about the relationship between July and September 2023 and a probe was launched.

She later told officers it had been an act of ‘stupidity’.

Aiton, of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted engaging in sexual activity with the boy.

Depute fiscal Lewis Devoy told the court: “The accused began visiting the complainer at his home address where they would spend time with each other.

“The accused was aware that the complainer was 14.

“The relationship continued across summer 2023 and on one occasion they were together and undressed each other in the complainer’s bedroom and the accused placed her hand into his trousers.

“The accused has thereafter allowed the complainer to insert his hand into her trousers and touch her.

“In August 2023 the complainer attended at the accused’s house and they were again kissing each other but as the relationship continued both came to the realisation that the sexual contact between them was unwise and that it should end.”

The prosecutor added: “The complainer was reported missing to police and had been experiencing mental health issues and was traced at the accused’s home address.

“The following day he attended the police station and told them about the relationship he had been in with her and she was later traced and told she was under arrest.”

Ian Scott, defending, said: “She understands there are consequences to a conviction in these terms.”

Sheriff Louise Gallacher deferred the sentence on first offender Aiton until next month for reports and continued bail.

She added: “I want to get further information on your background and circumstances.”

Aiton was placed on the sex offenders’ register.

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SNOOKER star Mark Selby has revealed what he plans to spend part of his £100,000 Welsh Open prize money on.

Selby, 41, beat Stephen Maguire 9-6 to win his second Welsh Open title on Sunday.

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With the score at 6-6 in the final session, the Jester from Leicester managed to seize control and take the final three frames to secure the victory.

In doing so, Selby also took home the huge £100,000 jackpot.

And he vowed to spend some of the money on a new Kindle for his daughter, Sofia.

Selby’s wife, Vikki, and daughter were both in attendance at Venue Cymru for the event.

After the match, he said: “The red I missed she (Sofia) probably would have potted that as well. I’ll get one [a Kindle] if she wants.

“The clearance Stephen made, it was ridiculous, one of the best clearances I have seen. But it didn’t surprise me.”

Speaking to BBC Sport, he also explained: “Obviously I’m delighted.

“It’s great to see Stephen back in finals, four years is way too long, he’s a class act and I’m one of his biggest fans.

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“This week I won a lot of key frames when I’ve been 40 or 50 points behind, that’s been the difference.”

Meanwhile, Maguire said: “I had a good week, I’ve enjoyed myself, and I have just come up short in the end.

“There’s nothing you can do when he’s potting all the balls, all credit to Mark.”

DUNNES Stores shoppers are rushing to the tills over a new range of clothes that are perfect for the spring.

One piece in particular has shoppers in a frenzy and it’s perfect for layering over just about any outfit.

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One shopper has taken to social media to share a look at the piece.

Isobel Wall shared a short video to TikTok for her followers, showing off the new piece.

In the caption of the post, she wrote: “Not normally a Dunnes girl but how cute is this fleece!!”

In the video, she can be seen wearing the stunning white fleece, which she pairs with black leggings.

The fleece is not currently on the Dunnes Stores website, but may still be stocked in your local store.

And it’s not the only thing that shoppers are rushing to the tills in Dunnes Stores for.

Shoppers can pick up the perfect pair of jeans to complete the outfit.

The Gallery Barrel Jeans are available in stores and online now.

They are priced at just €30 and come in sizes 8 to 18.

The retailer said: “Crafted from a cotton-blend denim, these Gallery blue jeans are constructed in a trend-forward barrel shape.”

“They are finished with a five-pocket design and belt loops.

“Gallery is available exclusively at Dunnes Stores.”

The jeans can be easily styled with cute tops for a casual spring look.

And for layering, shoppers can pick up a must-have jacket from the retailer.

The Savida Black Faux Leather Jacket is available in stores and online now.

It is priced at €45 and comes in sizes XXS to XXL.

The retailer said: “Made from a high-shine faux leather, this cropped jacket from Savida is guaranteed to become a staple of your outerwear rotation.

“It features a classic collar, a zip-through design, and two welt pockets.

“Savida is available exclusively at Dunnes Stores.”

The jacket is a wardrobe staple and can be worn with everything from jeans to dresses.

Dunnes styled the dress with wide-leg jeans, heels and a grey top.

The jeans and jacket are available in stores now, but are set to fly off the shelves.