HELLO! magazine 1717

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Standing beside a huge Christmas tree, James and Ola Jordan are getting into the festive spirit as they look forward to celebrating with daughter Ella. Joining HELLO! for our exclusive photoshoot, the former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancers can’t wait to experience the big day through their little girl’s eyes now that she is old enough – she will be two in February – to enjoy it. “You get to a certain age, as an adult, where Christmas is lovely but it gets boring; you don’t have the same excitement you did when you were a child,” says James. “When you’ve got a kid, that’s going to come back for us – to see her excitement.” The festive season will be especially poignant for the couple after a year that saw James, 43,…

They may have five children between them but last week Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, together with Zara’s husband Mike, proved they’re big kids at heart themselves as they were spotted at Legoland in Windsor, just three miles down the road from their grandmother the Queen’s castle. Zara and Mike posed in front of a 33ft Christmas tree, built with 364,000 Duplo bricks, as they checked out the attraction’s new festive makeover, with twinkling lights and snow-dusted trees. Zara also posed for a snap with brother Peter, who has daughters Savannah – 11 later this month – and nine-year-old Isla, with his ex-wife Autumn. Zara and Mike live on the Princess Royal’s Gatcombe estate in Gloucestershire with their children Mia, seven, Lena, three, and eight-month-old Lucas, and the outing came just a fortnight…

Shovel in hand as she gets down to business, Harper Beckham and her father David support the Queen by planting trees to mark next year’s Platinum Jubilee. The former footballer, 46, and his ten-year-old daughter shared images of them giving one of the saplings a solid grounding as they made their contribution to the Queen’s Green Canopy, an initiative that encourages people, businesses and community groups across the country to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”. Both dressed in country gear suitable for a chilly English day, David looked on as Harper filled soil around the tree’s roots. Sharing the image on Instagram last week, David wrote: “Daddy’s little helper… Harper and I planted some trees to join @queensgreencanopy in celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.” The project aims to create a legacy of…

And just like that… they were back. Looking as fabulous as ever, the cast of iconic TV series Sex and the City – most of them, at least – reunited in New York last week for the premiere of the sequel to the original hit show. Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis – who play Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte – channelled their stylish characters at the gala screening of the first episode of the eagerly anticipated new series, which came 23 years after the original programme first hit our screens. Sarah Jessica, 56 – who, in a rare joint public outing, brought along her actor husband Matthew Broderick and their 19-year-old son James Wilkie – wore a custom grey and pink silk and tulle gown by Oscar de la Renta,…

Wearing a beautiful red ballgown as she’s surrounded by snow-dusted Christmas trees, Martine McCutcheon is the very picture of festive cheer as she poses for our exclusive photoshoot in scenes that look as though they are straight out of her hit film Love Actually. “I really am feeling festive – I think this year it’s been embraced more than ever,” smiles the star as she teams up with HELLO! to guest edit a special digital issue for Christmas. Her role alongside Hugh Grant as Natalie in Love Actually catapulted her to Hollywood fame back in 2003 – and the movie, hailed as the UK’s favourite Christmas film, will be watched in homes across the nation in the coming weeks. “It’s almost like people go: ‘Oh yeah, I associate Martine with this time…