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MANCHESTER CITY must do “something extraordinary” if they want to sign £50million-rated Eintracht Frankfurt forward Omar Marmoush this month.

The Egyptian, 25, is the top target for Pep Guardiola as he looks to replace Julian Alvarez and provide some support for Erling Haaland.

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However Eintracht are reluctant to sell their star players as they are going well in both their domestic league and the Europa League this season.

Frankfurt have no plans to let Marmoush leave following 18 goals in 24 games this term.

Director of football Markus Krosche said: “Our basic intention is to keep the squad together.

“Something extraordinary would have to happen for us to move away from this position.”

In the meantime, City are also looking to finalise an agreement with Lens for defender Abdukodir Khusanov.

The Uzbekistan international has been targeted by a host of clubs and is rated at around £30m by his current employers.

Meanwhile, Galatasaray are keeping close tabs on Ilkay Gundogan’s situation at the Etihad.

The former skipper returned to Man City in the summer – just a year after leaving to join Barcelona.

He signed a 12-month deal with the option of a further year but the move has not worked out as well as all parties hoped.

The 34-year-old has been needed more than expected due to Rodri’s injury but has struggled during a difficult season for the champions.

He has been on the bench for the last three matches and City are on the lookout for midfield reinforcements in the January transfer window.

Guardiola does not want to lose players this window so a move to Turkey is more likely in the summer.

KERRY Katona has shared one of the heartbreaking reasons that is behind her recent drastic weight loss.

The mum-of-five has shed the pounds in recent months and has been flaunting her newly trimmed-down figure.

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Kerry put the results of her impressive weight loss on full display just this week as she stepped out at the series launch party of Geordie Shore.

However, Kerry has admitted that one of the reasons behind her shock transformation is the “stress” she has been under since splitting from her fiancé, Ryan Mahoney.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Kerry said: “I just look thinner in real life.

“I have no idea how many stone I’ve lost. I’ve been doing Panto and the separation – you name it, I’ve done it.

“It’s probably the stress, I’ve been very stressed.”

Kerry and Ryan called it quits towards the end of last year after six years together after the Atomic Kitten singer felt unsupported by her long-term partner.

Adding of her outlook for the year ahead after her weight loss, the reality star added: “There’s no New Year resolution for me, I’m always trying to be a better version of myself.

“I don’t really drink, no dry January, it’s just me always trying to better myself.

“In 2025, I’m just being in love with myself, knowing my worth.”

But one thing which is seemingly off the cards for Kerry this year is dating.

She admitted that she was very much single in the wake of her split and appeared to suggest she wasn’t looking for love again anytime soon by deciding to focus on herself.

Kerry told us: “Life is amazing at the moment. I’m enjoying single life – but I’m not single, I’m in a relationship with me.

“No [dating] … just me and my kids. That’s it.”

It comes after the 44-year-old confessed she was no longer “heartbroken” over the split and had begun to move on.

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In her latest New! magazine column, she wrote: “‘I’m feeling really good going into 2025 – it’s going to be a great year. I’m not heartbroken anymore and feel like I know that Ryan wasn’t the one for me.“

Kerry and Ryan got engaged four years ago during a romantic holiday to Spain.

The star has been married three times – tying the knot with Brian McFadden in 2002, then Mark Croft in 2007 and George Kay in 2014.

Kerry Katona's cosmetic surgery timeline

Here we look at the star's changing face - from fresh-faced pop singer to the latest £3,000 tweakment.

Kerry first went under the knife in 2004 for a boob job, and again in 2008 for another breast enhancement and liposuction.

In 2010 she also revealed she had tried to turn back time with some facial tweaks.

Kerry was bitten by the vampire facial bug in 2013 and feared she would die after a shocking reaction to the procedure, popularised by Kim Kardashian.

In 2019, Kerry sparked outrage by endorsing a ‘Katona Package’ at a London clinic offering “2ml face filler and one area fat dissolving” for £699.

When the mum-of-five approached her 40th, she celebrated with fillers and fat-dissolving injections in her chin to “enhance my natural beauty”.

Two years later Kerry joked she’d got a “brand new face” after a procedure called CoolSculpting, which freezes fat cells under the skin and destroys them. She had some fat removed from her chin and Botox injections.

In 2023, the TV star revealed a tighter jawline after treating herself to a “non-invasive facelift”.

In early 2024, Kerry had a much more invasive eye lift and brow lift in January, at a cost of over £3,000.

ELMA Pazar has shut down the rumours that she and her TOWIE co-star are loved up.

The Essex star, who first appeared on Love Island in 2019, has also shared whether or not she’ll get busy in the bedroom while on national television.

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Elma, 31, will enter the Love Island: All Stars villa on Monday, with the stunning reality star gearing up for her second-ever stint on the show.

After lasting just a week in the villa when she was on the show the first time around, Elma seems keen to find love this time, with her quick to bat down any romance rumours between herself and one of her TOWIE co-stars.

When Elma left Love Island, she soon went on to become a cast member of ITVBe’s The Only Way Is Essex.

Striking up a romance with TOWIE star Diags, viewers were hooked as the couple had an on-and-off relationship.

And more recently, Elma was romantically linked to TOWIE co-star Sammy Root when he was seen flirting with her.

But Elma is certain that there was nothing more to her and Sammy’s bond other than some harmless flirty banter.

“We were flirty and Sammy is always flirty,” she told The Sun in an exclusive chat.

“If he was a bombshell, he’s still quite young. I know I always say that I’m not fussed about age to a certain extent, I can flirt with Sammy but I don’t think I can see anything with Sammy.

“I want a geezer that’s going to want what I want and I don’t think I can see Sammy wanting what I want.”

ELMA WANTS TO FIND A GEEZER IN THE VILLA

She went on to say: “I don’t there is one guy that’s my type. There are so many qualities from different people, there has been no Islander who I think ‘him’.

“I can’t give a name, a lot of the people I know from a long time ago and I’ve not watched the recent Love Island’s.

“I’ve changed so much and I can’t base it until I’m in there and I know them.

“Thinking that I know someone’s personality off social media would be very naive of me.”

SELF CONTROL TO NOT ROMP ON TV

Then, revealing whether or not she’d get busy in the bedroom on national television, Elma responded by saying: “God forbid, I’m a woman.

Love Island All Stars 2025 official line-up

Love Island All Stars is returning to TV for season 2.

Here we take you through the line-up of Islanders’ who are set to go into the villa so far.

• Scott Thomas – season 2 (2016).
• Marcel Somerville – season 3 (2017).
• India Reynolds – season 2 (2017).
• Gabby Allen – season 3 (2017).
• Elma Pazar – season 5 (2019) – born in 1993.
• Curtis Pritchard – season 5 (2019).
• Kaz Crossley – season 5 (2019).
• Olivia Hawkins – season 10 (2023).
• Nas Majeed – season 6 (2020).
• Luca Bish – season 8 (2022).
• Catherine Agbaje – season 10 (2023).
• Ronnie Vint – season 11 (2024).

Bombshell rumours

Each series brings with it a string of hot single bombshells making their epic entrance into the villa.

Here’s who is rumoured to be going into the villa so far:

• Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu – season 8 (2022).

“I don’t think I would. I wouldn’t want to do that.

“I like to think I have a bit more self-control and I can wait more than five weeks.”

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VICTORIA Beckham earned £1million from music in the past year — despite not singing a note since 2012.

The former Spice Girl, 50, made the fortune through royalties from her solo career and time with the chart-topping group.

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But despite not touring or recording, Posh Spice has pocketed enough from pop to help offset the £2.9million losses reported at her fashion and beauty firm — Victoria Beckham Holdings — in the same year.

According to documents lodged at Companies House for the period ending March 2024, she now has £2.4million in her firm Moody Productions, which she set up in 1997 to look after her music earnings.

Victoria has not set foot on stage since she performed with the Spice Girls at the Olympics closing ceremony in London in 2012.

Paperwork for the singer said the earnings are due to “recoupment of music recording and publishing royalties and endorsement activities”.

As well as her three studio albums with the Spice Girls, Victoria released a self-titled solo album in 2001.

She now has 19,900 monthly listeners on Spotify, compared to 659,800 for her bandmate Melanie C, 50.

The Spice Girls still have 12.6million monthly listeners on the streaming platform.

In 2022, Victoria said she hadn’t joined the Spice Girls’ lucrative 2019 reunion tour in UK stadiums because she was focusing on her fashion and beauty brand.

Victoria, who has been married to husband David, 49, since 1999, explained: “I had so much fun being in the Spice Girls.

“But I think that now, with everything else that I’ve got going on with my fashion and beauty line, and four children, I couldn’t commit to that.”

The Brit Awards want to give Sabrina Carpenter a chance to celebrate her phenomenal achievements over the past 12 months with a huge performance at the ceremony, I can exclusively reveal.

She spent 21 weeks at the top of the singles chart, got six Grammy nominations and kicked off her first arena tour, in support of No1 album Short N’ Sweet.

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Now insiders tell me that organisers have been locked in talks for weeks with the Please Please Please singer’s team in an attempt to make it happen.

A source said: “The Brit Awards is all about celebrating incredible musicians and Sabrina dominated 2024.

“They are in advanced negotiations to get her on stage at the show on March 1 and are pulling out all the stops to make sure it can happen.

“Sabrina’s had a phenomenal year, and broke the record in the charts in the UK by becoming the youngest female artist to hold the No1 and No2 spot in the charts in the same week.

“She is a musician the Brits want to champion and they know that her performance would be a real ratings winner with all the viewers watching the ceremony at home on ITV.”

If the Brits do manage to nail down Sabrina we could be in for one hell of a night.

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On Monday, we revealed that Chappell Roan, above, had been approached about performing at the bash, which is being held at London’s O2 Arena.

Like Sabrina, fellow US singer Chappell had a stellar 2024, with her album The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess topping the charts.

Our moles told us she was being teed up to perform a medley of her hits from the record, and Sabrina is wanted to do the same thing.

The Brits is the biggest event in our music calendar. And the idea of two of pop’s biggest players taking to the stage has seen excitement levels on our desk reaching fever pitch.

So Please Please Please, Brits, make this happen.

Ariana bewitched by Ethan

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Ariana Grande appears to be in dreamland with a rare public display of affection towards her boyfriend Ethan Slater.

The couple, who got together on the set of Wicked in 2023, posed at the National Board of Review Gala in New York, two days after she attended the Golden Globes without him. The hit movie sees Ethan’s character Boq make repeated passes at Ariana’s good witch Glinda, which she bats off in favour of dating Fiyero.

But away from the film, it looks like she only has eyes for Ethan.

Elt’s new bee side

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Sir Elton John is the latest big name to discover the buzz of making honey.

Pals of the Rocketman tell me he has become a keen beekeeper and was getting it from his own hives to dish out to famous friends.

One of his mates told me: “Elton has some hives at his family home in Berkshire and he’s been making his own honey.

“It’s been a passion project for some time and over Christmas he sent his honey out in a hamper to his friends.

“The bees are kept on their land and it’s been a wonderful project for Elton. He loves being at home with his husband David Furnish and their sons and this is something lovely they’ve made.”

In 2020, Elton started creating fruit juice from apples grown on trees in the garden of his estate. And like the juice, Elton’s pal said he wouldn’t be flogging his honey, telling me: “This is just something special for his friends.”

Given celebrity honey is all the rage at the moment, with Jeremy Clarkson and his Bee Juice and David Beckham, above, making his Sticky Stuff, I think Elton is missing a trick. But then again, he did bank £170,000 a day last year, so it’s not as if he needs the money.

Daniel Craig will be honoured with the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.

The former James Bond actor, who will collect the prize at the annual ceremony in London on February 2, said it was “such an immense honour and I’m incredibly grateful”.

The movies Anora and The Brutalist lead nominations at the event, with six each.

Latest album is Lumin’

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The Lumineers are back and will release their new album Automatic on Valentine’s Day.

It is the first release from the American folk duo, made up of Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, in three years.

“This album marks 20 years of songwriting between Jeremiah and me,” Wesley said.

“The album explores some of the absurdities of the modern world, like the increasingly blurry line between what’s real and what’s not.”

The pair recorded the album, including first single Same Old Song which is out now, in less than a month and laid down the tracks at Woodstock’s Utopia Studio in New York.

Wes, above, and Jeremiah will play tracks on their UK tour, which has dates at arenas in Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Glasgow in May.

Strictly champion Chris McCausland is nominated for the Media Champion in the Public Eye category at this year’s British Diversity Awards.

The blind comedian is up against celebrities including Ian Wright, Kate Garraway, Tom Daley, Tasha Ghouri and Roman Kemp.

The awards, now in their fourth year, celebrate the people and businesses who champion diversity, equality and inclusion, and will be held on March 19.

Yachting 80th for hot Rod

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Sir Rod Stewart is sailing into his 80th birthday tomorrow by hiring a £120million superyacht to host the celebrations.

The Maggie May great, above, who will play Glasto’s Legends slot in June, has headed to Barbados with his family to mark the milestone.

Sir Rod’s boat is now moored in St Barts, where temperatures will hit 30C today, and he’s been making the most of it by sunbathing and swimming.

His family have gone all out for the celebrations, and dressed up in Celtic kits in a nod to his love of the footy club. They have also been spotted partying at cabaret club Le Ti in St Barts – where the cheapest bottle of bubbly costs £500.

We are massive fans of Rod here on Bizarre and can’t wait to have a late birthday celebration with him down at Worthy Farm.

Jennifer Lopez is keeping her £4million green diamond engagement ring in the split from Ben Affleck.

Their divorce was finalised this week and paperwork said the actor “disclaims and waives all right, title, and interest in and to the following assets hereby confirmed and transferred” over her clothing and jewellery.

Jacko’s girl: quitting drugs saved my life

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Michael Jackson had a much-publicised battle with drugs that eventually killed him – and now his daughter Paris reveals she almost suffered a similar fate.

In an emotional post online, the singer said she is “an alcoholic and a heroin addict” but is now celebrating five years of being sober.

Paris, above, shared images of the sobriety coins picked up from AA.

She also reflected on the possibility of not being alive if she hadn’t got herself clean.

Paris wrote on Instagram: “Today marks 5 years clean & sober from all drugs and alcohol. To say that I’m thankful would be a poor euphemism. Gratitude hardly scratches the surface.

“It’s because I’m sober that I get to smile today.

“My god, I can’t believe I almost missed it all.”

At the end of an accompanying video showing her smoking and drinking, followed by far happier times, Paris added: “To those that helped me on this journey, if only for just the beginning, middle, or the whole time so far, you know who you are and I owe you my life.”

Good on her.

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Elvis actor Austin Butler is checking into the Heartbreak Hotel after breaking up with model Kaia Gerber.

People close to the busy couple, above, said they ended their three-year relationship over Christmas, with Kaia heading on a holiday to Mexico to get over the split.

They hadn’t been seen together since October and a source said: “There is no bad blood between them, it ended as amicably as it could.”

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