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HOLLYOAKS star Lucy Jo-Hudson has landed a new acting job – after addressing ‘ the pinch’ in summer holidays while her kids are off school.

The actress, 41, said she was “absolutely buzzing” to have landed a part in an unspecified production.

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Hollyoaks’ Lucy-Jo Hudson revealed she’s landed a brand new acting role[/caption]

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She portrayed Donna-Marie Quinn from 2018 to 2023[/caption]

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Viewers best know Lucy-Jo for her roles as Katy Harris in Coronation Street and Donna-Marie Quinn in Hollyoaks.

She wrote on Instagram: “Oh have I been dying to tell you this….

“Remember that face to face casting I had a couple of weeks ago? Well I only went and got the job.

“Ahhhhhhhhh I can’t believe it!!!! I am absolutely buzzing!!!! I honestly can’t believe it…. I am still in shock….. but so blumming happy I can’t tell you…. I am so grateful that I still get to do what I love to do.

“Thankyou for all the gorgeous messages from the last post I did about this “face to face casting” it meant the world to me.

“So I just wanted to share this news with you, not sure if can tell you what it is yet, but as soon as I can I will.”

She previously posted a humorous video on Instagram appearing to illustrate her depleting bank balance.

Lucy-Jo could be seen in her car as she captioned the video “mums bank balance during the summer holidays”.

The mother-of-two shares daughter Sienna with Coronation Street ex Alan Halsall.

She then told her followers: “Anyone else feeling the pinch? and it’s only half way through the 6 week holidays.

“Honestly if the weather was more consistent it would be “Park and Picnics” most of the time…. That simple, that easy and more importantly… affordable!

“I have to take a loan out just to feed my 2.”

However, the soap star made clear to fans through emojis that she was joking.

Elsewhere, the former Coronation Street cast member revealed how a recent audition process marked a major milestone.

She wrote on Instagram that the acting industry “has changed massively” since Covid – with in person meetings now very rare.

Lucy-Jo admitted she isn’t the biggest fan of self taping, which entails recording an audition from home to send in.

Therefore, she was thrilled by the opportunity to be face-to-face with a producer, director and casting directors.

The star added: “Like most people in my industry we don’t get this privilege… not anymore….

“Infact it’s been 7 years, since I was in an actual room with a casting team!!!!”

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EMMA RADUCANU’s former coach has alleged that the stalker given a restraining order in Dubai followed her across the globe to multiple tournaments.

Roman Kelecic – who has worked with Raducanu on a temporary basis – has claimed the man stalked her in Singapore, the UAE and Qatar over the past month.

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Emma Raducanu’s stalker followed her across the world[/caption]

Kelecic, who is based in Dubai, says the “admirer” got “physically close to her” on Monday and started to hug the Brit when they posed for selfies.

In an article in Croatian media, Kelecic said: “So, it’s a creepy story.

“This man followed her back to Singapore, to Abu Dhabi where I was with her, again in Doha, now in Dubai and we noticed him.

“But initially we thought he was a fan, an admirer, because Emma is a really big tennis star with a huge fan base.

“Until he got physically close to her, started having contact in the form of selfies, hugging, etc.”

The man – who the WTA say “exhibited fixated behaviour” – was arrested by Dubai Police on Tuesday night after he was spotted in the stands for her second-round defeat to Karolina Muchova.

When Raducanu first noticed him, she burst into tears and hid behind the umpire’s chair before he was ejected from the premises by security staff.

Charges were later dropped but Dubai Police say the “tourist” went on to “sign a formal undertaking to maintain distance from her and has been banned from future tournaments”.

There is confusion about where exactly Raducanu was approached on Monday by the man who left her a note and took her photograph.

Croatian media reports that the incident occurred when the former US Open champion was eating alone in a restaurant.

The WTA dispute that this restaurant was connected to the tournament and highlighted that there are eating establishments and cafes outside of credentialed areas and in public spaces.

Kelecic – who coached Raducanu when she was a junior – said: “That was the only moment in a month where I, the fitness coach, the security guard who was with us, was not with her.

“So, that man was assessing the situation and looking for the best moment to get closer to her.

“He had a strategy that was terrifying, he thought everything through, calculated it.

“It’s terrifying how much he, in essence, thought about it all and planned it. His strategy worked, and it was to get closer to her.”

SunSport has approached Raducanu’s camp for comment but it is understood Raducanu had seen the man a number of times previously.

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MARK Wright has shared a very rare snap with his pregnant wife Michelle Keegan as they went on a lunch date today.

The pair put on a brave face after four masked raiders broke into their £3.5million mansion – leaving them terrified.

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It is the first time Mark has shared a picture of his wife Michelle since they announced she was pregnant last year.

Actress Michelle, 37, showed off a glimpse of her bump in a white shirt as she cuddled up to Mark, 38.

The star has recently wrapped filming Brassic ahead of welcoming their first child, which is thought to be just weeks away.

The Sun told this week how the couple locked themselves in a bedroom when they heard a window smash and the alarm go off at their home.

It was understood four suspects were inside the property for around a minute but left when they heard Mark yelling.

Police were also alerted via the state-of-the-art security system, and arrived at the couple’s Essex mansion within minutes.

By then the gang, said to be wearing balaclavas and all dressed in black, had fled empty-handed in a getaway car.

Mark and Michelle, were said to be relieved but “very shaken up” by the ordeal.

A source told The Sun: “It was a traumatic experience for both of them but they are relieved that neither of them were injured.

“Mark did the sensible thing and stayed with his wife to make sure she was OK and they waited for police to arrive before leaving the room. It was a horrible thing to go through, particularly for someone who is heavily pregnant.

“They are understandably very shaken up by what happened.”

Mark and Michelle began building their dream home in 2020 — inspired by Hollywood properties and Georgian architecture — and it took two years to complete.

Experts said the villains could have been attracted to the house by the couple’s Instagram page, which details how they created their “dream home.”

The account, Wrightyhome, has 663,000 followers and has been viewed by millions.

Last week the couple and their home also featured in a glossy spread in Hello! magazine.

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A FOOTBALLER’S girlfriend has revealed the healthy snack she whips up for him that still satisfies a sweet tooth.

So if you’re trying to up your protein or watch what you eat, then you’ve come to the right place.

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Nicola Claassen lives in Aberdeen with her boyfriend Jack Mackenzie who plays for the Dons.

When she’s not working her corporate job, she enjoys cheering on her beau at matches and coming up with new recipes for him to enjoy.

In a TikTok video, she said: My boyfriend is a professional footballer but there is no private chef around here. It’s me, I am the private chef.

“So I love playing around with recipes to create something that exactly suits his needs and his taste.”

She added: “Eating healthy and meeting protein goals does not mean boring and it also doesn’t mean tasteless.

“I love meal prepping different snacks and different meals so that when he gets home from training he does not have to worry about cooking at all.

“Being a supportive girlfriend means that I do what I can to make his life easier when he gets home and he looks after me.”

And the footie WAG has hailed one of her recent creations as the “yummiest, healthy snack”.

Nicola made her high protein cheesecakes using Graham’s yogurt as the topping and crushed Weetabix mixed with oat milk for the base.

She made three flavours – vanilla cookie, raspberry and lemon cheesecake – and melted some biscoff spread on top as well as fresh raspberries and blueberries.

She added: “These are so easy to make and honestly you just pop them in the fridge and they’re ready to go whenever.

“You have to try these if you’re looking for something sweet without the guilt.”

Social media users were in full agreement about how yummy the snack looked, as one gushed: “This looks gorge!!”

Meanwhile, a second echoed: “Yum that looks so tasty, hope Jack’s getting on well at Aberdeen.”

Jack Mackenzie, 24, is a left-back with Aberdeen and won his first senior Scotland call-up last year after his impressive form.

His contract is set to end this summer, with him already being linked to Championship clubs Preston, Sheffield United and Stoke City.

ONE of the things you notice if you travel round the world’s off-the-beaten-track backwaters is that some cultures see nothing wrong with throwing anything they don’t want out of the front door, and on to the pavement.

Vegetable peelings. Broken cookers. Dead pets. The street is where you put the lot.

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Some say that Manila in the Philippines has the world’s most disgusting litter problem, but I’d have to say Bolivia is up there too. And India.

But having seen a news report this week, it’s possible that Handsworth in Birmingham now trumps the lot.

It’s not just the occasional empty Coke can or burger wrapper, the pavements look like they’ve hosted an all-comers fly-tipping competition.

I’m sure there are those who’ll blame the immigrant community, saying that if you come from a country where such behaviour is normal, then you’re going to do it here too.

But you find the same problem here in the Cotswolds, where most locals can trace their ancestors back to the Piltdown Man.

Every hedgerow round my farm is full of crap and it makes me so angry as I drive along, my hair starts to steam.

If I were in charge, there would be snipers up every pylon and in every tree, with orders to blow the head off anyone who chucks even so much as a Bounty bar wrapper out of their car window.

I don’t believe in the death penalty but for littering, I’d make an exception.

Sadly, however, I’m not in charge. The Labour Party is.

Labour councils, like Handsworth, would far rather spend their money on plant-based diets for people in the transgender community than emptying bins or cleaning streets.

And the Labour government in Westminster isn’t that bothered either.

In fact, while it spends exactly no pounds, no shillings and no pence on snipers in trees, the last time I looked, it was spending half a billion on the Blue Planet Fund which helps developing countries protect their marine ecosystems from the plastic thrown into the sea by Far right extremists.

Yup, they are more worried about the wrong sort of barnacle floating in a Flora margarine tub boat on to a pristine beach in Svalbard, and Fulmar sea birds getting tummy ache for all the biro tops they’ve eaten, than they are about this country being turned into a rat-infested cesspit.

MONEY WASTE A CRIME

YOU might think that if there’s a shortage of prison space in the UK, it’d make sense to maybe build some more.

It’s not like we don’t have the cash.

This week, we learned that there’s so much money swilling around in the Government coffers, they have to spend it on studies into TikTok dance lessons, AI robots that make a company more trans-friendly, and even a quarter of a million quid on research into “queer animals”.

And still there was enough left over to buy the Albanian prison service 15 brand new electric Porsches.

Prison reformists, however, say new prisons are not necessary and that it would be better if judges handed out more lenient sentences.

They say that in the early 90s, the average sentence was 16 months and that today, it’s 22.5 months.

But the rate of reoffending is still at nearly 40 per cent. So the crims may as well be let out earlier.

Why? So they can do their reoffending more quickly.

TRUMP WORLD WORRY

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I’VE got to be honest; when Trump first entered the White House this time round I was pretty impressed.

Removing the ban on plastic straws, for instance, made me very happy because while he’s incorrect to say paper straws “explode”, they definitely can’t get a tasty beverage from the glass to your mouth.

However, his recent foreign policy announcements suggest he’s a bit weak on world affairs. He seems to think that America should become an isolationist state, concerned only with itself.

Forgetting perhaps that the countries it’s supported in the past will simply turn to China for help.

And then there’s this Ukraine business. All we can do is be thankful Donald wasn’t in the White House in 1939.

“Look, the French started this bigly war and de Gaulle’s a big-nosed idiot, so I say we let Hitler keep what he’s conquered so far and move on.”

GLARE STORY

MOTORISTS are complaining in increasing numbers about the brightness of modern-day LED car headlamps.

They say that even on dipped beam, they often blind drivers going in the other direction. And they’re right. They do.

To make matters worse, many new cars have a feature that automatically dips the headlights when a car’s going the other way. And it rarely works.

They dip when you’re approaching a reflective sign warning of dangerous bends ahead, or if they detect the glint from the eyes of a startled animal in the road.

But they don’t dip when they detect oncoming headlights. And modern Range Rovers are the worst offenders.

LONG ROAD AHEAD ON GREEN LORRIES, ED

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Demand for zero-emission electric lorries has slumped[/caption]

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THERE was alarm in the sustainable Net Zero community this week when new figures showed that demand for zero-emission electric lorries has slumped.

In 2024, very nearly 50,000 new lorries were registered but only 217 were zero emission. That’s a market penetration of just 0.5 per cent.

Naturally, people who think green energy is simple and should be adopted by everyone are baffled by this.

They reckon that as a truck driver has to take a break every few hours, he could use the time to charge up his batteries before moving on. Simples.

Yes, but there’s only one electric charging station for lorries in the whole country. And as it’s on the M61 between Preston and Bolton, it’s not much use if you’re in, say, Kent.

There’s another issue too. Lorries are heavy so it takes a lot of power to make them move.

So much in fact that the average weight of the battery pack in an electric lorry is four tons. Which doesn’t leave that much spare room for, you know, stuff.

Still, with Ed Miliband, in charge, I’m sure all these problems will be ironed out by the time diesel-engined lorries are banned in 11 years’ time. Clock’s ticking Ed.

You’d better put down that bacon sandwich mate and get to work.