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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.
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.
By Ellie Henman
MARK Wright set up an Instagram account so fans could see the couple “create our dream home” from scratch in 2021.
Wrightyhome’s 663,000 followers were treated to dozens of interior and exterior photos and videos of the house, which boasts a swimming pool, luxury gym and bespoke kitchen.
There are also aerial “before-and-after” shots of the Essex property, which was completed in 2023.
Mark’s last post on the account was as recent as February 8, when he shared photos of the “mind-blowing” staircase.
Companies who worked on the property have also shared pictures and videos online.
Mark’s wife Michelle Keegan told last year of the “sacrifices” they made to get it done.
She said: “It still gets me emotional. Because we’ve worked really hard for it. We’ve had to make a lot of sacrifices. I missed lots of milestones in my life due to work. Mark went to LA and we spent months apart, which was hard. But, it’s worth it.
“And the house — it’s also about security. Because you never know when all this is going to end.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
LABOURITES have been rejoicing all week at the news that in the last five months, there have been an extra two million NHS appointments.
But before you pass round the quinoa sandwiches and hoist a red flag, it’s probably worth pointing out that actually, there have been two million more appointments than there were in the same period the year before.
When the junior doctors were on strike.
And also that the NHS is bound to run more smoothly if you cut the OAP heating allowance, so all the arthritic old people freeze to death, long before they need a hospital appointment.
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.
FARMERS were told by Treasury officials this week that the Government would not budge on its plans to make agricultural land subject to inheritance tax.
So I have a simple message for our friends in the checked shirts and sturdy boots. Between April 2026, when the new law comes into force, and 2029 when Starmer and Reeves are ejected from office, do not die.
And if you do, instruct your children put you in the freezer and keep schtum until the coast is clear.
A SITCOM icon has become embroiled in a bitter neighbour feud over “monstrous” plans for a seaside cottage.
The American actor and comedian has ruffled some feathers in North Somerset after asking permission to demolish a historic property.
Cheers and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, 70, and his wife Kayte are attempting to knock down a historic cottage near Portishead, Bristol.
After council planners rejected their initial application to build an extension, the couple decided they’d just pull down the entire property instead.
Horrified neighbours slammed the planning application as “rather monstrous” and said they “strongly object” to the proposal to demolish the 1980s house.
One neighbour wrote an objecting letter describing the plans as “not acceptable.”
They wrote: “We do not wish to stand in the way of this wonderful, historic cottage being modernised and future-proofed, made bigger and/or more suitable to modern living.
“We did not object to, or comment on, the previous planning application, despite the enormous scale of the proposed works.
“However, the possibility of this cottage which is at least 185 years old, being razed to the ground, is not acceptable.
“We would implore the local authority to ensure that this is not allowed to happen.
“A renewed and more moderate set of plans would be the sensible, respectful and appropriate course of action.”
Another disgruntled resident said the Grammers had completely “disregarded” the council’s comments.
They wrote: “How can such a pretty structurally sound cottage with such historical significance be demolished with total disregard for North Somerset Council’s comments?
“Other neighbouring properties have been built in different forms to the existing buildings but they have all replaced chalets which were in poor order and form.
“As the neighbour opposite this application, we strongly object to this proposal.”
Kelsey Grammer, also known for being the voice actor of Stinky Pete the Prospector in Toy Story 2, bought the cottage in 2023 with the intention of doing it up.
He and his wife Kayte, the daughter of Bristol City legend Alan Walsh, married in 2011 and were “pretty excited” about their new home.
They planned to build a large new extension that was up to twice the size of the original building, as well as put in a new basement.
In an interview at the time they made the purchase, Kelsey said: “I love the people in Portishead, and I love my time there.
“It’s a good spot – we’ve actually bought a house there. We bought a little place we’re going to be working on.
“We won’t be taking up residence for a while, but yeah we’re pretty excited about it.
“We have a little view of Wales from the channel there, it’s really nice.”
Little did he know, the work he had planned would upset the local planning authority and disturb multiple neighbours.
Their initial proposals didn’t receive any complaints from residents but were rejected six months ago.
The council stated they would be “conspicuous” from the road and “result in a large and disproportionate enlargement of the dwelling,” which would “harm the openness of the Green Belt.”
The cottage is not a listed building but North Somerset’s heritage experts have stated it’s a “non-designated heritage asset” with fabric which could be dated back to the post medieval period.
Without the go-ahead for their extension, the Brammers chose to simply pull down the property and start afresh.
They submitted the application to demolish the cottage last week, including a report confirming there are no bats living there – but for locals this is not enough.
A third objection letter read: “The concept that the property could be demolished in its entirety as some kind of alternative to the previous planning proposal, is entirely contradictory to all the points raised within the initial refusal.”
The Sun has reached out to Kelsey Grammer for a comment.
THE man accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushie in New York has been found guilty.
Hadi Matar from New Jersey faces a sentence of more than 30 years behind bars for the bloody attack on the British-Indian author that left him with life-changing injuries.
Rushdie has been left with a damaged liver and the loss of sight from one eye and the use of one of his hands.
He was stabbed by the 27-year-old 15 times on stage in front of a shocked audience.
He suffered wounds to his right eye, cheek, back, chest, torso and thigh.
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MATHYS TEL has revealed his farming pastime — as Tottenham prepare to take on the Tractor Boys.
The 19-year-old, signed on loan from Bayern Munich for the rest of the season, was born in Paris but his family hails from Guadeloupe.
Tel goes over to the French colony in the Caribbean every year to see them.
And the striker — whose side face Ipswich at Portman Road on Saturday — is happy to get his hands dirty helping his grandpa out with growing fruit and vegetables.
The France Under-21 star said: “That’s my country. My parents and my sister come from there. I was born in a small part of Paris.
“Every year I go — one week, two weeks — but I need to go there, for myself, for my confidence.
“Just to see my father happy, my little cousin happy, it brings me a lot of energy.
“I help out my grandfather with agriculture.
“I take some gloves and big shoes, so that’s good!
“It doesn’t matter where I play my football, you have to be humble. That’s why I go to Guadeloupe to see my family whenever I can.”
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Tel ended up being one of the most exciting transfers of the January window.
He completed a deadline-day loan move from Bayern to Spurs, who hold a £45million option to sign him permanently.
Given Spurs’ horror injury crisis since November – Tel was thrown straight into the deep end in North London.
Despite being a Tottenham player for only 21 days, the teen has already played three times.
He was subbed on during the club’s 4-0 Carabao Cup second leg defeat at Anfield and started in their 2-1 FA Cup exit to Aston Villa.
The forward was then handed a full Prem debut in Tottenham’s 1-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday.
LEICESTER welcome Brentford to the King Power Stadium for a huge Premier League clash on Friday Night Football.
The Foxes can climb out of the bottom three with a win as Ruud van Nistelrooy‘s side look to avoid an immediate return to the Championship.
Brentford sit comfortably in midtable, but victory this evening could ignite their aspirations for a spot in Europe next season.
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POP fans are convinced that one of the biggest bands of the noughties is reuniting.
Eagle-eyed followers spotted that the group Five have wiped their official Instagram account – and uploaded a rather telling post.
They shared a clip from Euston Station with the lyrics to their best loved song – Keep On Movin’ – running along the ticker board.
It was captioned “27.02.25 Loading…” and included a link to their website.
Fans rushed to speculate about what it might mean, desperate to find out if all five members would be returning.
The original line-up included Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, Abz Love and Jason “J” Brown.
And fans now think they could all be back, with one person commenting: “If J comes back this is the best thing to happen since the 5 piece Spice Girls Olympics performance in 2012.”
Another wrote: “Please say you’re ALL getting back together.”
While someone else commented: “We getting a tour with Five of them.”
Others pointed out that all band members have wiped their profiles – in a hint they are all on board.
And fans have also uncovered a new company was created last year – called All Five Ltd – with all five band members listed as directors on Companies House.
The boys split on 27 September 2001, but have reunited several times over the years.
In 2006 they performed without Sean briefly, and then in 2012 tried again – this time with Sean but without J.
Most recently Sean, Ritchie and Scott, performed together again a trio.
J was left gobsmacked as his bandmates accused of him of being a bully when they appeared on The Big Reunion, in 2013
He later hit back, saying: “I thought, ‘I actually can’t believe what I’m hearing and who I’m hearing it from’. I was loud and a bit aggressive at times, and I was physically bigger than them so I can see how that could have been taken a certain way.
“But never in my mind was I so-called bullying people.”
On the show, fans were gobsmacked as the band rowed about their split, with Ritchie raging: “There were two obnoxious people who ruined it for us – Sean and J.”
