Blog posts about Martin Kemp

Celebrity Big Brother star Martin Kemp reveals he lives “one week at a time” after docs fail to remove second brain tumour!

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Fans of Celebrity Big Brother will no doubt recall that former EastEnders star Martin Kemp took part in the show last year, finishing in third place while comedian Julian Clary went on to win…

But during his time on the show, Martin gave little hint about the fact that he lives with the knowledge that he might at any time learn that the brain tumours, with which he was diagnosed in 1995, could return and be inoperable.

And in fact, during an interview with Weekend magazine this week, Martin explained that during the last operation to remove the tumours, medics told him there was a portion of one that they couldn’t take out, so consequently, it has to be closely monitored for any potentially dangerous growth. Read more & comment »

Celebrity Wedding Planner: Martin Kemp and MC Harvey join forces for ‘Great Gatsby’ dream day!

They seem like two of the most unlikely wedding planners imaginable, but former Spandau Ballet and EastEnders star Martin Kemp and MC Harvey have managed to pull off the wedding of one couples dreams in tonight’s Celebrity Wedding Planner!

Lisa Frank and her boyfriend, Mark Spence decided to apply to the hugely popular Channel 5 wedding show having been together for four and a half years.

Marriage had always been on the cards for them, but when their little boy, Flynn, came along, their plans were put on hold.
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Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Martin Kemp says of his time in the house, “The biggest challenge is the downtime”

As fans of Celebrity Big Brother will know, former EastEnders star Martin Kemp finished in third place in this summer’s series, and today, he’s been speaking exclusively to omg! about his time in the house and his housemates.

First, Martin revealed that he’s not upset that he didn’t win, adding, “For me there wasn’t any difference between coming out sixth or coming out third or second.

“I think it is wonderful if you are the winner- I was very pleased to make it to the final.

“It’s just nice when the doors opened and you felt the fresh air and saw other people rather than the final five that I was talking to.”

Of the fact that Julian Clary won, Martin said, “All credit to Julian because he was funny all the way through it and grew into the show… Read more & comment »

Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Coleen Nolan thinks Julian Clary, Ashley McKenzie or Martin Kemp will win

Coleen Nolan doesn’t have much faith in herself it would seem, that or she’s pretending in the hope that she’ll win Celebrity Big brother tonight.

It’s the final night of the Channel 5 reality TV show and the Loose Women star made it to the end, along with Martin Kemp, Ashley McKenzie, Julian Clary, MC Harvey and The Situation. Speaking to Julian a few hours ago, the mum of three confessed that she expected to be the first to leave the house and made her predictions on who would be crowned the champion.

She said:

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Celebrity Big Brother 2012 Final Poll: Who should win? Martin Kemp, MC Harvey, Coleen Nolan, Julian Clary, The Situation or Ashley McKenzie?

Celebrity Big Brother draws to a close tonight and we have to admit, we are pretty sad. It’s been a great BB summer and we have totally enjoyed the normal series and the subsequent celeb run more than we ever expected to.

Channel 5 have got their lineups right and balanced the drama with the fun perfectly for the last three months…..we’re going to find it hard to wait until January for the next outing.

However, before everything draws to a close we have one last big show to come and on tonight’s grand final one housemate will be crowned the second Celebrity Big Brother winner of 2012 (following in the footsteps of Denise Welch who won her series in January of this year).

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Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Ashley, Martin, Coleen, Julian, Mike The Situation & Harvey share The Last Supper (VIDEOS)

Last night was of course the final night that our six remaining celebrities will spend in the Celebrity Big Brother house, and as such, there was reminiscing and a few tears as the housemates participated in The Last Supper task.

In a nutshell, the task saw the final six sharing a slap up meal that was provided by Big Brother, during which they were required to discuss topics the big guy set.

Click ‘Read more’ to see what those topics were as well as clips from last night… Read more & comment »

Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Housemates get fun 80’s party, but MC Harvey ruins it!

This post was written by guest blogger and reality TV showbiz observer Daniel Cohen. Catch up with him on Twitter here!

Over the last few days MC Harvey has changed. The kind peaceful man has changed into a strange, wild eyed shoutey erm … idiot?

Prince Lorenzo said it all when he found that Harvey suddenly appeared not ten, but twenty years younger then him – add another five to that I’d say.

Running around screaming for no reason, tipping over the sofa, stirring situations that don’t need stirring, he appears like a child with younger Ashley appearing much, much quieter.

It is quite a contrast with the calm, easy going man we saw at the start of the show. I really liked him the first few days, but the last few days I’m not sure anymore… Read more & comment »

Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Martin and Julie reckon Harvey’s bum flashing antics last night “crossed the line!”

Last night, the Celebrity Big Brother housemates enjoyed a party that BB laid on to celebrate their passing the BBTV shopping task, and a good time was had by all…

Until things got a tad raucous, thanks to the application of copious quantities of booze apparently, and naughty Harvey flashed his bottom.

As my mother used to say, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye…”

And it seems though no eyes were actually lost, there was some eye popping action as Harvey attempted to board the good ship Coleen, sans pants.

So this morning, while the HAM boys – Harvey, Ashley and Mike the Situation – were sleeping off the over indulgence of the night before, the older housemates gathered over cereals to tut loudly… Read more & comment »

Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Martin Kemp cries over parents’ deaths – Julie Goodyear thinks she’s being ‘bullied’

Martin Kemp showed his softer side in the Celebrity Big Brother house yesterday, as he broke down in tears in front of his fellow housemates.

The former Eastenders actor got into a serious conversation in the garden and in a heart to heart, revealed that he is still struggling to cope with the death of his parents, after they both passed away not long ago.

The TV hardman and former Spandau Ballet musician wept openly, as he told his new pals:

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Celebrity Big Brother 2012: Shopping task BBTV gets underway as Martin and Ashley become Growlers & Julie has bitchy news to tell (VIDEOS)

Yesterday, the final shopping task of this series of Celebrity Big Brother got underway, and as has become the norm with this year’s tasks – again, bravo Task Team – the new task encompassed fun and mind games…

Entitled BBTV, the task has seen the celebs taking part in TV shows including news bulletins, a quiz show and a childrens’ show.

But for me, by far the most entertaining bits so far have been the news bulletins, which must be read by a housemate each time the news programme’s theme tune sounds.

Yesterday, Julie was the newsreader du jour, and part of her bulletins required her to read out some of her fellow housemates’ jibes or digs at other housemates.

Click ‘Read more’ to see clips of Julie imparting the not so good news… Read more & comment »