PRIVACY ISSUE Matt Matt Goss
Lag has rant after being forced to buy oats
says he dumped a girlfriend after she kept asking him “When Will I Be Famous?”.
The Bros lothario – who penned the hit tune – says he has been crying in the shower ever since. Asked when he last cried, he says: “This morning. I’ve recently come out of a relationship. Partly because they wanted it to be public and it was tumultuous. It has to be solid for a year, where I know I’m safe, and you’re safe. It’s troubling.”
Matt, who has previously dated Melanie Sykes and Daisy Fuentes, insists now he won’t ever lose his private life “for anybody”.
He adds: “It’s very frustrating because unless you know exactly what comes with allowing too much of your life to be out there, it will only have an adverse effect on what you really want.”
For Matt that includes a relationship that is “cerebral, full of love, full of sex, full of happiness” as well as “full of good food and wine”. He doesn’t want much then…
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INFAMOUS lag Charles Bronson has done plenty of porridge in his time... now he’s got to pay for the stuff.
The villain was forced to stump up after governors removed oats from the breakfast at Category A Woodhill jail.
It follows a similar menu shake-up at other prisons.
Serial hostage-taker Bronson, 67, orders his from an outside supplier and has it shipped into the Buckinghamshire prison at the cost of 79p per packet.
Bronson revealed his woe in a message to supporters. He said: “I’m ashamed to have to say this, but it’s now 2021 and I’m buying my own f ***** g porridge. If I was walking round an exercise yard 40 years ago and said, ‘You know what, in 2021 I’ll be buying my own porridge’, they’d look at me and say ‘Charlie, you need to go back to Broadmoor, mate’.”
In 2019, he filed a complaint after being served croquettes instead of chips on Fish & Chip Friday. Bronson was sentenced to seven years for an armed post office hold-up in 1974.
But he is still inside after having numerous terms added to his tariff for violence in jail.
Last month, he became the first British lag to have a No1 hit when his song Only Mad Men Crawl topped the charts in Cyprus, made number three in Sweden and 31 in the UK.
Bronson hopes to finally be released later this year.
He told the YouTube podcast Anything Goes with James English: “I could be out at the end of this year. I’ve got a public parole hearing. I’m just waiting for the date.”
Against all odds I have Valentina, my miracle baby... I am so happy KAYLEIGH DONNELLY ON SURVIVAL AND BEING MUM
FIVE years ago, Kayleigh Donnelly was planning her own funeral... at the age of just 13.
One of the youngest people in the country to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, survival seemed a faint hope – and motherhood an impossibility.
But today she is well and is seen cradling her own bundle of joy – gorgeous daughter Valentina, aged five months.
Kayleigh, still only 18, says: “It’s been absolutely amazing.
“I was told that I would never be able to conceive, but now I have a miracle baby against all the odds and the awful situation I went through.”
Gruelling chemotherapy was thought to have left Kayleigh infertile. She feared her route to motherhood would be through adoption. Then, against all odds, she conceived Valentina.
Little wonder, then, that she adds: “I look at her sometimes and just cannot believe she is mine. She is such a beautiful, happy, smiley baby.”
Kayleigh, from Blackpool, first hit the headlines after revealing doctors had mistaken her huge tumour for constipation when she began feeling sick and bloated. She was days from death when doctors sent her for a scan and found a 12inwide tumour weighing 7lb.
The cancer – which normally affects women over 50 – had rampaged through her spleen, liver, bowel and into her pelvis. She needed several operations and chemotherapy. Fearing the worst, she started planning her funeral. But in August Kayleigh will celebrate her five-year all-clear from cancer – with Valentina by her side.
Mum Lorraine, 42, who has six other children aged five to 24, says: “The worst part of the whole journey was when she sat on the end of the bed and asked me: ‘Mum, am I going to die’?
TOGETHER
“I had to tell her ‘I don’t know’. It’s the worst thing a mother can ever say to her child. I told her whatever happened, she was brave and we’d be in this together.”
Thankfully, Kayleigh did pull through. And Lorraine adds: “Since getting pregnant, Kayleigh had to go to all her appointments by herself due to Covid – and I think it has really helped her realise that she can do things herself.
“I knew she was pregnant before she did – I could just tell. I was over the
TUMOUR HELL Having chemo at age 13
moon to realise she could have children after everything we have been through.” Now, to celebrate her five-year “all-clear”, Kayleigh plans to make a bracelet for Valentina out of the “Beads of Courage” she was given in hospital.
Covid-permitting, she is also hoping to travel to Paris with her sister Ella, 20, to celebrate surviving cancer.
Kayleigh jokes that she isn’t yet sure about having more children due to suffering so badly with morning sickness while pregnant with Valentina.
“It was so severe, doctors thought she might be carrying twins,” Lorraine says.
That would have been particularly poignant – as Kayleigh’s own twin died in the womb four months into Lorraine’s pregnancy in 2002.
Despite everything she has been through, Kayleigh feels blessed. And she adds: “I love children and I feel so lucky.
“I am just so happy that my cancer hasn’t stopped me from being a mum. Valentina is my little miracle.”