Liam Payne's membership of One Direction tragically put him on the road to destruction. And it is for that reason that music industry executives had been expecting Simon, 65, to ditch the project.
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It was the moment that Strictly heart-throb Pete Wicks had been impatiently waiting for.
After spending weeks 10,000 miles apart, he and Maura Higgins were finally reunited in London.
They were once the best of friends, whose cheeky on-screen banter helped keep Britain's Got Talent among the best-rated shows on television for the ten series they appeared on it together.
At a recent trip to the opera, Alison Hammond stunned her friends with just how happy she looked. She arrived hand-in-hand with her unlikely suitor, 27-year-old Russian masseuse David Putman.
When the I'm A Celeb evictees gathered for a photograph along with their friends and family on Wednesday, there was one notable absentee - Tulisa Contostavlos.
On Instagram, the usually glamorous singer looked a shadow of her former self as she described the after-effects of her shock exit from the reality show on Monday night.
The two men were once so close that Frizell would 'take all the bullets fired' at Schofield, say This Morning staff. But their friendship collapsed. Frizell was fed up of clearing up Phillip's mess.
Over the last two days there has been a queue of people coming forward to share their tales of humiliation, bullying and downright rudeness at the hands of Gregg Wallace.