Actress Blake Lively attends the Swarovski Crystallized Concept store grand opening at on June 25, 2009 in New York City. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
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Jessie Wallace has dropped two stone and three dresses after seeing footage of herself on Strictly. The former EastEnders actress is, coincidentally, preparing for a theatre role where she plays a woman who can’t lose weight. She knows exactly how this feels after fearing she looked like a man on the BBC dance show! Showing off her new figure to Reveal, the Essex mum told them: “I thought I looked great at the time but when I watched it back, it looked like Darren was dancing with a big bear! Those dresses I wore just accentuated my big back, like a coffee table!” Now she looks like a demure ironing board...
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Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively has had to eat her words after berating her co-star, who she’s now dating! Her on screen beau Penn Badgley crossed her path when she was 11 in an acting class where she felt he was cold and “obnoxious”. Ten years later she told Glamour that she was so horrified on hearing that her former classmate would be playing her love interest that she hatched a plan, saying: “At first I was so upset they hired him for Gossip Girl. I actually poisoned the whole cast against him. But then they realised he wasn’t a jerk and was actually a really nice, charming person. Almost immediately I realised that too, but it took me about a week to admit it.” He must be thrilled!
