HELLO! magazine 1758

‘I miss the English countryside and I miss old churches and church bells ringing’ For the past 20 years, Tilly Bagshawe has been regularly criss-crossing the Atlantic, flying from the home she shares in Los Angeles with her American financier husband Robin Nydes and their three children to her native UK – a place she misses desperately.“I long for home. I miss my parents, I miss the English countryside and I miss old churches and church bells ringing,” she says, with real yearning. Now the best-selling author, 49, is finally putting down roots at River Cottage, a picture-postcard house in an idyllic village in the Cotswolds – and the setting for our exclusive shoot with Tilly, Robin, 65, and Zac, 17, Theo, 15, and Summer, 11. The family are moving here permanently next…

It’s only been a matter of weeks since the vivacious singer Fleur East was paired with Italian dance pro Vito Coppola in Strictly Come Dancing, but already it seems like they’ve been friends for years. “Meeting Vito for the first time, I experienced the strangest feeling,” 34-year-old Fleur tells hello!. “When it was revealed that we’d be dancing together, I screamed and ran to hug him. As we started talking it was as if I knew him already.” This extraordinary sense of familiarity was mutual. “I told her: ‘Fleur, I have this feeling about you,’ and she said she had it, too,” recalls Vito, an 11-time Latin and ballroom champion who recently moved to the UK from his native Naples to join Strictly. “I knew her music and danced to her songs,…

Dazzling in gold, Amal Clooney turned heads as she arrived on the arm of her handsome husband at a glittering awards ceremony last week. The golden couple were hosting the first ever Albie Awards, created to shine a spotlight on defenders of justice, at the New York Public Library, just two days after celebrating their eighth wedding anniversary. International human rights lawyer Amal, 44, opted for a fringed Versace gown. Her Oscarwinning husband wore a classic black tuxedo. On the red carpet at the ceremony, which was created by the couple’s Clooney Foundation for Justice to honour human rights leaders and journalists who have devoted their lives to justice, George said he and Amal “collaborate on everything – we collaborated on twins!” He continued: “This is an exciting one because Amal’s gotten journalists…

PRINCESS BEATRICE IS ROYALLY WELCOMED AT LADIES LUNCH Making her first public appearance since the funeral of her beloved grandmother the Queen, Princess Beatrice showed her support for the Lady Garden Foundation last week at its annual Ladies Lunch at Langan’s Brasserie in London. Set up in 2014, the women’s health charity, which raises awareness and funds for gynaecological health, is a family favourite, with Beatrice’s mother Sarah, Duchess of York acting as honorary chairwoman of its gala fundraiser in 2019. Keen to do her bit, the 34-year-old Princess mingled with her fellow guests and chatted with some of Lady Garden’s cofounders, including Astrid Harbord, Jenny Halpern Prince, Josephine Daniel and Tamara Beckwith Veroni (all right), who called it “an enormous honour” to welcome the royal. Giving the green light to the event’s…

At a magnificent marble temple overlooking the azure waters of the Mediterranean, Good Morning Britain presenter Alex Beresford and his fiancée Imogen McKay said “I do” in a dream wedding ceremony witnessed by 100 of their family and friends. This panoramic clifftop location – the historic Son Marroig estate in Majorca – boasts views of the island’s rugged coastline and could not have been a more romantic place to tie the knot. “I was blown away by the beauty of it all,” says the 41-year-old TV weatherman in this exclusive interview and photoshoot with hello!. “One of my cousins said it was like being in a movie and it really was. It was incredible from start to finish. “But most importantly, it was where I was marrying the woman I love.” NO WAITING…

Lisa Snowdon has had many memorablemoments during her long and successful career. She has travelled the world as a top model and mastered ballroom and Latin skills on the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor, as well as fronted some of the UK’s most popular TV and radio shows. But, she says, it’s her victory as winner of this year’s Celebrity MasterChef that will be the most life-changing for her. “I think I’ve proved to myself that if you want something, you can go out there and get it, and if you try hard enough, things can go your way,” the newly crowned champion tells hello! in this exclusive interview and photoshoot. “I’m the sort of person that doesn’t always have that much confidence in myself – I’m often very hard on myself – so…