Rochelle Humes Slams Influencers Social Media Tears

caused an outcry earlier this year when a baker revealed that she had been asked to make a cake for the son of the former star's birthday as he turned three.

Instead of being paid, the bakery was offered online promotion, with a photo that Binky would have posted to her 1.4million Instagram followers.

Now, pop star turned TV presenter has taken a swipe against online 'influencers'.

She is sick of them filming themselves crying as they react to sad news.

'When people do those videos and they're crying, I actually don't like it, I'm going to be honest, I don't get it,' says Rochelle, who has three children with her husband, former JLS singer .

'I don't like watching it. What world are we in where you think, 'OK, I am going to pick up my phone and cry for the strangers online'.

Such confessional videos have become a regular feature online among influencers keen to win sympathy and attract new followers.

Speaking to beauty journalist Sarah Jossel, Rochelle, 37, adds: 'There's a part of me that feels that that's sad. Maybe this is the privilege of a person who has a girlfriend or a husband to talk to. I don't know whether it feels performative, but I don't feel that I should be consuming it, like I've interrupted something personal.'

Binky said she had suffered 'relentless' abuse after the baker, Reshmi Bennett, exposed her desperation for freebies. She insisted the approach was a 'standard' collaboration request made by her assistant while she was on holiday.

The public shaming then prompted another company, Funfetti, to reveal that it had taken up such an offer by Binky, agreeing to make her wedding cake, only for her not to follow through on her promises.

Lady Margarita shows can-do with bamboo

Her father, Lord Snowdon, was adjudged by his tutor at John Makepeace's woodwork college the most inventive student he'd ever taught. So it's heartening to see the same creative zest flourishing in the next generation.

Armstrong-Jones, 24, Snowdon's daughter by his former wife Serena. 'Salvaged sea bamboo necklace,' asserts the caption beneath her latest design for her bespoke jewellery brand, Matita.

How refreshing to hear of a royal treading lightly and innovatively – without any apparent need to jet across the planet to lecture us, bare-foot, about how to live...

Sacked by Sir Keir Starmer from his Cabinet last September, Lucy Powell went on to win Labour's deputy leadership, defeating his preferred candidate, Bridget Phillipson. She won't, however, seek the top job if Starmer is forced out.

'I don't want to [be leader],' she says. 'I've gone through all the pain of having children and bringing them up to being teenagers. I'd quite like to see them again.' Speaking on Matt Forde's Political Party podcast, she adds: 'On a Sunday afternoon, [I'm] trying to pair up 400 different odd socks – Keir Starmer doesn't do that.'

Why blood-soaked Corrie is a turn-off for former star

Amanda Barrie, who played Alma Halliwell in Coronation Street for a total of 15 years, is distressed by how grisly the soap has become. 

'The trouble is that they've had to make it more like a northern Midsomer Murders,' says Amanda, 90. 'Which is sad – because the Street used to be a place where the viewers wanted to live, and come and join us in the Rovers.'

Amanda left the Cobbles in 2001 when Alma died of cancer. There were just five violent deaths in the 43 years between the show's launch in 1960 and 2003, compared with more than 20 in the 23 years since.

It's never tattoo late for Felicity

Felicity Kendal turns 80 this year and the milestone could leave a permanent mark.

For The Good Life star has revealed that she plans to add to her collection of tattoos.

She already has a small star on her left foot, as well as two feathers wrapped around a crescent moon above her right ankle.

'I really wasn't drawn to them, and then I thought, 'I'd better try this before it's too late',' says the actress, whose second husband, Michael Rudman, died in 2023. 'I thought, 'Maybe now is the time to almost cover myself in tattoos. Because it doesn't matter, does it? I have a feeling that there's one more in me. It would give me a private thrill. No one would give a monkey's.'

She explains: 'Michael didn't like tattoos.'

Brian Cox hits 80 with two-day boozy shindig

His alter ego, the fearsome Logan Roy in Succession, delivered the immortal – if not fully repeatable – line, 'What next? Stick his c*** into my potato salad?' But Brian Cox suffered no such indignity when celebrating his 80th birthday at the weekend.

'It started on Saturday and carried on on Sunday,' a guest tells me. The opening act was at The Park, part of restaurateur Jeremy King's empire. 'Brian took over the whole thing. The dress code was 'Dress To Impress'. He was kitted out, with his sons [Torin and Orson, by third wife Nicole] in full Scottish regalia.'

Most of London luvviedom piled in, including Charles Dance – 'entwined with Italian lover Alessandra Masi' – Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Trevor Nunn and Gemma Jones.

Those still standing on Sunday headed to St James's Church, Piccadilly, for a 'silver wedding service' for Cox and Nicole, joined by Ronnie Wood. 'We had champagne, red wine, white wine and food,' I'm told. And the Holy Spirit?

Steve Richards, who used to present politics programmes for the BBC, seems to be fraying at the edges. On social media he lashed Michael Grade for standing up for GB News. Lord Grade was 'hard-Right', alleged Richards. This will come as a surprise to friends of the decidedly liberal and even louche fellow once called 'Britain's pornographer in chief'. Is Richards, whose son and son-in-law are Labour ministers, and whose daughter is a top aide to Sir Keir Starmer, starting to panic that his family might soon lose its Government salaries?