In true ITV tradition, Samantha Mumba appeared on This Morning today to speak about leaving Dancing On Ice.

However, instead of the normal polite chit chat and vows to keep skating, Samantha actually managed to have a go at Dancing On Ice judge, Jason Gardiner.

As we all know, Jason has tried, unsuccessfully, to model himself on the original Mr Nasty, Simon Cowell. However, Jason has neither the quick wit, nor the likeability factor to pull it off.

It’s not just for the cameras either, as Samantha Mumba revealed today that Jason can be just as rude off air as on.

Whilst Mumba was enconsed on the comfy couch, Fern Britton asked her:

“Is there anything you would like to say to Jason whilst he is sitting next to you?”

Samantha replied: “I’ll save that for off camera”

But Fern wasn’t going to let this one go: “Oh no! Say it on camera!” She exclaimed.

Jason added: “Why? I’m out of here darling so you might as well say it now”

So Samantha let rip:

“So here’s my thing with Jason, this has been my issue from day one. I think his character on the show is fantastic, it needs it and it makes it wonderful. I think his thing is backstage, even from the first show, backstage you would smile at him and you would get nothing back. And it’s like, ok, which is fine but then today coming into my dressing room and saying ‘how are you’ it’s like ‘he talks? To us?’ it’s just weird”

Jason quickly responded: “In my defence, you have to remember, I have to keep myself from you as a judge”

But Samantha wasn’t going to be won over, she continued: “None of the other judges do, they are all very lovely”

Jason defended himself, saying:

“Well that’s the way they work”

Samantha answered: “Which is fine. I find him [Jason] vile but at the same time, also, with a bottle of wine I know we would have a ball”

Jason tried to get the last word, saying: “Well, I don’t drink so it won’t happen”

Samantha finished with: “you need to, maybe that’s the problem”

Nice one Sam!

This week on Ladette To Lady, the girls embark on yet another drunken party! Of course they are discovered….but what will their punishment be?

Simon Cowell has threatened to sack warring X factor judges, Sharon Osbourne and Dannii Minogue if they can’t learn to put up with one another on the show.

Last years show was plagued by rumours of a massive feud between the pair, and this year things aren’t looking any more pleasant.

“It’s nearly contract time again. Sharon said she doesn’t want to come back with Dannii – and Dannii said she doesn’t want to work with Sharon,” an insider told The Sun.

“But Simon has banged both their heads together and told them, ‘If you don’t shut up – I can replace you both’. They don’t have to be best friends – but they do have to work together.” Read more & comment »

You gotta feel sorry for the UK’s ‘most talented’ young people, who are currently residing in the Celebrity Hijack house.

They all accepted a place on the Big Brother spinoff show, believing that it would kick start their career. Instead as viewing figures fall lower and lower, it looks like when they emerge into the real world, people still won’t know who they are!

A show insider told The Daily Mail: “They all went in there thinking they could use the series to showcase their talents and make a career for themselves.

“But the harsh reality is the show has failed to capture the nation’s imagination and they will leave complete nobodies, just as they were when they went in.”

Tonight the third act to be voted off BBC One’s The One And Only… was Tara Stafford-Allen after she failed to impress with her tribute to Britney Spears.

In the third live show of the series, the remaining ten tribute acts each sang a solo song as they set out to prove that they were every inch the musical superstar that they were paying tribute to.

Following candid feedback from vocal experts Carrie and David Grant the acts waited patiently for the results of the all-important viewers’ vote.

After a tense wait the two tribute acts with the least number of viewers’ votes were Tara Stafford-Allen as Britney Spears and Victoria Jones as Kylie Minogue.

Singing for their survival, Victoria and Tara had to perform once again in the Superstar Sing-off to keep their place for another week. Read more & comment »

Fresh from the cobbles of Coronation Street, actress Zaraah Abrahams joined Dancing on Ice this week, to replace GMTV’s Michael Underwood who crashed out of the competition after breaking his ankle during training.

Platinum selling group Westlife performed on the show as Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean danced to their hit song “World of Our Own”. The compulsory manoeuvre for all the contestants this week was the pairs spin.

It was an emotional night, and Michael and his skating partner Melanie came back onto the show to be interviewed and both of them as well as Jayne Torvill broke down in tears when they watched the tape of Michael’s accident.

Meanwhile, after doing the splits during her routine, Samantha aggravated a hamstring injury she already had and was taken off the rink after her routine for immediate physio treatment. Read more & comment »

Coronation Street star Zaraah Abrahams is the latest contestant in ITV1’s Dancing on Ice, replacing GMTV’s Michael Underwood who was forced to pull out of the competition earlier this week after breaking his ankle.

Twenty year old Zaraah is best known for playing factory girl Joanna Jackson on the Street and has now taken up a role as school girl Michaela in the BBC1 drama Waterloo Road.

Having been practicing on the ice as a stand-in since November, Zaraah nevertheless had mixed feelings when she took the call and heard she was in the competition.

“I always said I’d only ever want to go in if someone couldn’t take the pressure of the competition not if someone hurt themselves. I really loved watching Michael and ironically he is the only one of the contestants I knew already, so I couldn’t believe it when I heard I would be replacing him.” Read more & comment »

Hell hath no fury like an angry chef, and no chef has a sharper temper than Gordon Ramsay when things go wrong in the kitchen. Now Gordon has taken Kitchen Nightmares across America, giving some of the worst restaurants Stateside a wake-up call they’ll never forget.

The venue for this week’s programme is the Seascape restaurant in the seaside village of Islip in Long Island, New York. Owner Peter Matthews has been struggling for seven years to make the business viable and now – nearly $1,000,000 in debt – he’s nearly reached the end of the line. Meanwhile head chef Doug presides over a kitchen where unprotected meat and fish sit next to mouldy pesto jars, all surrounded by walls hidden in layers of grease so thick that they need to be scraped clean. Cue Gordon, whose radical plan to resuscitate Seascape requires an instant shutdown for staff and diners alike. Will his clean sweep bring it back to life, or is Seascape already past saving?

Channel 4, Wednesday 30 January 2008 9PM

With two terms of transforming some of Britain’s most extreme ladettes into respectable ladies under their belt, the revered tutors at Eggleston Hall thought they had seen it all. But a third intake is set to be – by their own admission – their biggest challenge yet.

The famous finishing school opens its doors for a new term as its indomitable staff attempt to transform the most obnoxious and unrepentant ladettes they have ever seen.

In Programme Two the girls prepare to host a dinner party for their new acquaintances, the eligible bachelors, but a trip to the pub brings disastrous consequences and several of the girls are left questioning if they have what it takes to complete the course. Read more & comment »

BBC Two’s The Restaurant is set to return for a second series later this year.

In the show, world-renowned chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc offers one couple the opportunity of a lifetime – to go into business with him, opening their own restaurant..

The production team are now looking for potential applicants.

Application forms will be available from Tuesday 29 January via bbc.co.uk/restaurant.

Raymond Blanc comments: “I started with nothing, but hard work and passion have got me my dream so it is a privilege for me to be able to give this chance to others. Read more & comment »

Fussy eaters put up a food fight in the feeding clinic as Superskinny Yasmin Smith is forced to swallow a gargantuan diet of snack foods and diet drinks, while Supersize Darryl Weston weighing in at a whopping 33 stone and one pound suffers on Yasmin’s lactose, wheat, sugar and fat free diet.

Dr Christian Jessen referees the match. Journalist Anna Richardson takes the nip and tuck route to slimming by investigating the world of cosmetic treatments, but she meets with unforeseen complications during the procedure. Gillian McKeith is sent to Coventry as part of her nationwide campaign to turn bountiful bottoms into bums of steel. Read more & comment »

Freddie appeared This Morning today, to promote Celebrity Wife Swap with Sam Fox, but gave a confusing and rambling interview, culminating in a bizarre comment about wanting to get Sam pregnant at the final meeting where both couples discuss their experiences from the past week.

“Really?” asked an incredulous Phillip

“Yeah, surrogate father” Freddie replied, in reference to Sam having a female partner.

“There you go, you’ve got an offer” Ruth said to scared Sam

“Myra, help!” Sam joked calling out to her partner

Last summer, after a nation wide search to find a husband, Jodie Marsh married Matt Peacock live on MTV. But the showbiz wedding of the year soon became the scandal of 2007. Dogged by rumours that the couple were already an item before filming for Totally Jodie Marsh had begun, the couple were ‘on a break’ and living apart after only three months together.

Was their marriage a complete sham? Did Matt and Jodie deliberately set out to make a mockery of MTV and its’ viewers? We’ve already heard Jodie’s side of the story. Now it’s time for Matt to hit back and finally speak out, putting the record straight once and for all on Totally Jodie Marsh: Peacock Pulls Out, Sunday 10th February at 9pm on MTV ONE. Read more & comment »

Former page three girl Sam Fox has admitted to feeling broody after taking part in Channel 4 TV show, Wife Swap.

In the show Sam moves in with Comedian, Freedie Starr and helps to care for his baby daughter, Ebony and his two older step children. Her partner Myra lived with Freddie’s wife Donna.

Sam told The Sun: “I’ve always had a maternal instinct. It’s something I’ve always thought about, babies, and that I’d always want a baby.”

Sam admitted that she and her lover and manager Myra Stratton, 53, had been thinking about having children for a while.

She added: “It’ something Myra and I have spoken about, but as for when, and how, and if, it’s something really personal to us. But I know I’d make a good mummy. Read more & comment »

Simon Cowell has spoken to UK Star magazine this week about X Factor runner up, Rhydian Roberts.

Cowell believes that although the singer didn’t win the ITV talent show, he still has big potential. I suppose thats why he offered him a £1 million record deal just days after the show finished!

Simon told Star magazine: “He could make £20 million over five years. He has got something about him.

“He has got that look in his eyes, that steel that every good artist needs. He’s a showman.” Read more & comment »