THE NATIONAL Lottery results are in and it’s time to find out who has won a life-changing amount of money tonight (February 1, 2025).

Could tonight’s jackpot of £15million see you handing in your notice, jetting off to the Bahamas or driving a new Porsche off a garage forecourt?

You can find out by checking your ticket against tonight’s numbers below. Good luck!

Tonight’s National Lottery Lotto winning numbers are: 01, 13, 25, 30, 32, 35 and the Bonus Ball is 02.

Tonight’s National Lottery Thunderball winning numbers are: 19, 27, 30, 31, 33 and the Thunderball is 02.

The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.

The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.

Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.

Sue Davies, 64, bought a lottery ticket to celebrate ending five months of shielding during the pandemic — and won £500,000.

Sandra Devine, 36, accidentally won £300k – she intended to buy her usual £100 National Lottery Scratchcard, but came home with a much bigger prize.

The biggest jackpot ever to be up for grabs was £66million in January last year, which was won by two lucky ticket holders.

Another winner, Karl managed to bag £11million aged just 23 in 1996.

The odds of winning the lottery are estimated to be about one in 14million – BUT you’ve got to be in it to win it.

WITHIN hours of Rachel Reeves giving a speech about boosting economic growth, my hairdresser tearfully shut her salon after a decade in business.

She says Labour’s Budget destroyed her dream.

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Impending tax rises meant her hourly rates for her younger staff would soon double, the landlord had already put up her rent and the cost of commuting on the train was going to cripple her.

She was a hard-working young woman who had done everything she could to make her business work but thanks to Labour’s Budget, she knew she couldn’t.

Yet she is exactly the kind of person our Chancellor and her boss Sir Keir Starmer claimed they wanted to help when they came into power.

And that is why Rachel’s galling speech about the sparkly new future of the UK this week was so hurtful.

Rachel trampled over the feelings of all those people as she blatantly turned her back on them during a speech about economic growth where she announced huge plans for another runway at Heathrow, more houses, a fancy new Old Trafford and an upgrade of the northern train system.

They sound great.

But it could be 2050 before anybody jets off from Heathrow’s new runway or years before they buy tickets for the new Old Trafford (because most people don’t get freebies, unlike Sir Keir Starmer and some of his team).

Meanwhile, there are millions of people — just like my hairdresser — who are struggling right now.

Her salon stands empty alongside bars, restaurants and shops that are also battling day to day for survival already and fearful for the future when the crippling taxes flood in.

But Rachel still had the barefaced cheek to say: “This is a Government on the side of working people . . . everything I see as I travel around the country gives me more belief in Britain. And more optimism about our future.”

I would love to know which areas of the country she actually travelled through to see that optimism — because it certainly wasn’t mine.

She went on: “We as a country have huge potential. A country of strong communities, with small and local businesses at their heart.”

But if she had got off her high horse to speak to some of those working class people during her tour of the country, I am sure they would have given her some home truths.

Yes, we are a country with huge potential and we do have strong communities.

But they are packed full of people who are terrified for their future thanks to the tax hikes.

Rachel has turned her back on them as she embraces this shiny, grand vision for the future.

But she glossed right over that fact this week as though she was living in a different country to the rest of us.

Instead, she is trying to convince us that Britain is as bouncy as a model in a L’Oreal advert.

And that just won’t wash.

So long Marianne…

IF anyone captured the decadence of the Swinging Sixties it was Marianne Faithfull, the iconic rock chick who died this week.

Rock stars were obsessed with her, and when cops raided Mick Jagger’s house they found Marianne naked, wrapped in a fur rug.

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She symbolised the excesses of the decade and paved the way for the likes of Patsy Kensit and Kate Moss.

I doubt we’ll see her like again.

Evans Beeb’s error

I DON’T blame Wynne Evans for the latest Strictly drama – I blame the BBC for ever allowing him on the show.

They apparently knew that he was capable of telling some inappropriate jokes.

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And, with all the scandals, that should have been enough to tell him to foxtrot off, long before he got anywhere near the dance floor.

The BBC has been plagued by scandals. Now Wynne.

There’s been grope-gate with dance partner Katya Jones, the “joke” to a make-up artist where he disgustingly likened the folds on his double chin to a vagina. Yuk!

And then a “spit roast” comment allegedly directed towards host Janette Manrara.

He has also been accused of making inappropriate comments while filming a new travel show.

He has stepped away from the tour and a BBC radio show.

This seems like Gregg Wallace II.

Wynne was apparently warned by “multiple” BBC execs last year about his jokes, sent for media training to help him cope with the spotlight without making any further mistakes.

They knew about Wynne, they knew about Gregg.

How many more are there?

Taxpayers are footing the bill for the training – and the investigations.

The BBC needs to clean up its act.

Because this is no joke.

Cheers to Lidl

THERE has been plenty of whinging about Lidl’s plan to open a pub within its supermarket in Dundonald, just outside Belfast, but now the High Court has ruled it can go ahead.

It would work for me and The Geordie.

He refuses to shop with me because apparently I spend far too long obsessing over calories and prices.

But if I left him in the pub for a while he could still come to the till to pack, pay and carry if he’s not too drunk by the time I’ve finished.

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I APPLAUD Charli XCX for pulling out of performing at the Brit Awards.

She is leading the nominations with five but decided to take the pressure off herself after agreeing to perform at tonight’s Grammy Awards.

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She still intends to go to the Brits, to hopefully pick up awards, and enjoy the evening with-out performing. Good on her.

We have seen too many British stars crash and burn with pressure put on them.

Put your feet up Charli, breathe it in and enjoy it. You deserve it.

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Great words Idris

IDRIS ELBA has said making kitchen knives with ends rounded off could protect victims of gang violence.

Thugs will find a weapon if they really want to but if we only started selling rounded knives, some lives could be saved.

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Like that of poor Scarlett Vickers.

She was killed by her own father, who stabbed the 14-year-old to death in the kitchen of their home in Darlington.

He tried to claim afterwards that it happened during a playfight with the knife but this week the cannabis-smoking father was found guilty of murder.

In houses where violence is a problem, or where young children live, knives with rounded ends are a good idea.

As Idris says: “You can still cut your food without a point.”

So true.

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THE announcement of a newborn royal baby is always a wonderful thing, isn’t it.

And I couldn’t wait to see the picture of Princess Beatrice’s second child.

But instead of a picture of a baby they released a picture of a … sleeve.

I totally get why they don’t want to thrust little Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi into the limelight.

But when babies’ faces change so much from day to day, it seems a little extreme.

And if you’re just going to put out a picture of a sleeve on Instagram, I don’t get the point of bothering with a photo in the first place.

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Close ’em up Becks

WE all love David Beckham. But if a woman – whatever her age – spread her legs and showed off her crotch for a photo shoot, we would be appalled.

To promote his new Boss One bodywear collection, Becks laid back in a leather chair, looking all sultry and legs akimbo.

We know he’s called Goldenballs but we don’t need them thrust in our face.

IT might be 2025, but with the shops full of baggy jeans, Oasis preparing to go on tour and, of course, Gladiators dominating Saturday-night TV, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d gone back to the glory days of the ’90s.

Since last January’s BBC reboot of the iconic family show, which originally aired on ITV from 1992 until 2000, Gladiators has become the channel’s biggest entertainment show in years, with around 8 million people tuning in to every episode to watch 16 Lycra-clad muscle mountains putting contenders through the ultimate physical tests (and leaving us wishing we had an oversized cotton bud and the strength to knock someone off a podium).

So, with the show now in its second series, we hang (tough) with Comet, Athena and Sabre to find out what it takes to be the most kick-ass women on TV.

‘Losing Dad made me tough’

Comet, AKA Ella-Mae Rayner, 29, on how grief shaped her, and learning to walk again after that horrific Hang Tough injury.

Three episodes into filming Gladiators series one, and Comet feared her TV career was over before it had begun.

During a round of the Hang Tough swinging event, a contestant dropped 3.6m on to her, breaking her right ankle and foot in multiple places.

“As soon as the injury happened, I feared I’d be off the show, but the producers were amazing,” she says.

“One of the first things they said to me was: ‘You’re not going anywhere.

“We just need you to get better, recover, get back on your feet and get stronger.’ So that’s what I did.”

After surgery in June 2023 to stabilise her broken bones with two metal plates and 10 screws, Comet faced seven months of recovery, including learning to walk again.

But by the time filming for series two started last summer, she was ready, albeit petrified of returning to the rings.

“I was really nervous, worrying: ‘What if it happens again?’” she says.

“When you’ve had trauma and surgery, you’re always aware that you’ve hurt that body part, so it’s about trusting your body again.

“But once I did that first run, I was fine.”

It wasn’t the first time Comet had bounced back from the brink.

After quitting gymnastics aged 13, because her 5ft 8in height became a disadvantage, she was inspired to start high-diving by watching Olympian Tom Daley compete.

While at university, she did cheerleading at a national level until, in 2017, she shattered her left foot during a tumble and was told she could no longer do the high-impact sports she loved.

“I ended up in a bad place. I wouldn’t use the word ‘depressed,’ but it was close. It was a really low point,” says Comet, who has a degree in sports science.

Until then, she had never trained “to lift or look a certain way” but when she began using weights to strengthen herself back on to two feet, she discovered a love for training that led her to qualify as a personal trainer during the pandemic.

Taking voluntary redundancy from her job in aviation, she became a fitness influencer and now has a combined TikTok and Instagram following of almost 1 million – a presence that got her noticed by Gladiators.

“It’s a big group friendship,” she says of her show “family”.

“We’ve got a big Gladiator group chat, then a separate girls’ chat to discuss things we don’t want the boys involved in, like: ‘What knickers are you wearing under your outfit?’ or discussing who’s on their period that week and feeling bloated.

“That’s something people don’t really think about!”

Comet, who has been in a relationship with fitness and PT business entrepreneur James Exton, 36, for the past three years, insists there’s no romance brewing between the other cast members.

“A lot of us have partners and it’s just not that sort of environment. We’re all sporty people and like a family. Giant is the dad of the group, Sabre’s the mum because she’s very wise, and Dynamite is like the little sister that I always wanted,” she says.

Comet credits her real-life mum Suzanne, who works as her PA, for helping her get where she is today.

She supported Comet and her elder brother Max, 31, through their grief after their dad Stuart died at the age of 44 in October 2009. Ella-Mae was just 14.

“Dad was unwell and it was out of the blue, a shock. It was tough,” she says.

“Nothing had ever hit that deep in my life, so that was rock bottom, but I genuinely think that made me the toughest.

“I had counselling, but Mum guided me and my brother through the whole thing and always gave us everything.

“She sacrificed her whole life for us.

“I think that’s why I am so driven today.”

‘I started powerlifting and the bullying stopped’

From bullied schoolgirl to powerlifting champion, there’s no stopping Athena, AKA Karenjeet Kaur Bains, 28.

As a Team GB powerlifter, Athena is no stranger to breaking down barriers.

The first Sikh woman to represent Britain at European and world levels, she’s shattering stereotypes of what women can achieve in a male-dominated sport.

Now, the Warwick-based athlete is crushing it again, as the first-ever South Asian Gladiator.

“I’m living my dream,” she says.

“I literally get to be a superhero.”

Athena credits her “forward-thinking” parents, mum Manjit and dad Kuldip, an ex-powerlifter and bodybuilder who’s also her coach, for encouraging her to chase her sporting goals instead of taking the “stereotypical pathway” of many South Asian girls, who sacrifice their dreams for marriage and motherhood.

“In my culture, girls don’t do what I do,” explains Athena, who was a high-achieving teen sprinter before discovering a passion for powerlifting at 17.

Within two years of training in the gym in her back garden, she was Junior Commonwealth Powerlifting Champion and then became a five-time All England Powerlifting Champion.

She also set a Guinness World Record for the most bodyweight squats in one minute.

“I’m all about shattering glass ceilings and showing that women can be strong.

“We’re not just destined for the kitchen.”

Athena says she receives a lot of messages from parents, thanking her for the positive influence she’s having on kids, but sadly, she’s no stranger to trolls either.

“[They] see a woman with a muscly back, and they’re like: ‘Transsexual!’ I just laugh and joke: ‘Clearly I’m stronger than you and you’re weak. It must bother you.’”

Athena also attracts “hate” from her own community, including disapproval of her Gladiators costume.

“I think: ‘Why have you decided that you’re going to objectify me? You don’t see my gold medals, you don’t see the hard work that I put in, you’ve just decided that the shorts are a crime,’” she says.

“It’s wrong. Every woman should be able to embrace their true selves.”

This mindset was Athena’s shield as a teen, when she was targeted by bullies.

A former head girl, she also set seven school athletics records and became three-time Warwickshire champion in hammer-throwing as well as the 300m sprint.

“School wasn’t easy, as I experienced a lot of jealousy.

“I had hate campaigns against me on social media.

“When I raced on sports day, kids from my own school house would say: ‘I hope you fall over at the start line,’ and pen hair on their arms to make me feel self-conscious about mine.”

Only when Athena began powerlifting did the bullying stop.

“No one touched me because they knew I was strong.

“I let it go a long time ago, but it’s made me a lone soldier.

“I just rely on myself and my family.”

Now, Athena is busy planning her next triumphs.

“I’d love to be a TV presenter.

“I love motivational speaking and would like to have a platform at the UN to talk about female empowerment or children’s rights or even do a TED Talk. The sky’s the limit!”

In the meantime, she’s relishing her foray into the glitzy showbiz world.

“I’ve met Holly Willoughby – she’s very sweet.

“Recently, at an awards ceremony, I was in a room with Simon Cowell, the Strictly judges, Carol Vorderman and the Prime Minister.

“I thought: ‘Wow, I’ve really come far in life!’”

Meeting her childhood hero Dame Kelly Holmes was the ultimate pinch-me moment.

“As a kid, I watched her and Jessica Ennis-Hill. I draw inspiration from them.”

Now, she’s doing the same for a new generation.

How does that feel?

“Totally surreal, but amazing.”

‘I turned up at Women’s Aid begging for help’

Sabre, AKA super-athlete Sheli McCoy, 36, survived almost a decade of domestic abuse before finding strength and success beyond her wildest dreams.

A Scottish weightlifting and CrossFit champion and coach, Sabre can deadlift 160kg (the weight of a chest freezer), trains six days a week and hill hikes on rest days.

Yet, just over a decade ago, the tattooed, tough-as-nails Gladiator was at rock bottom after escaping a violent relationship.

“He couldn’t handle his anger and would express it physically,” recalls Sabre, who went up five dress sizes while dating her abusive ex.

“I went from a size eight to a size 16.

“I wasn’t allowed to go to the gym.

“I felt I wasn’t good enough.

“I was worried he’d leave me as there were plenty of girls who were prettier, nicer and cleverer than me.

“I felt inadequate all the time.”

Thankfully, Sabre managed to escape her ex in her early 20s, turning to Women’s Aid for help.

She was so grateful for their support that, last month, when she triumphed in a Gladiators special of BBC’s The Weakest Link, she donated her £6,450 prize pot to the domestic abuse charity.

“I turned up [at Women’s Aid] and said: ‘Help me’,” she says, describing how she “rose like a phoenix from the flames,” moving home with her mum Kaz, and getting a restraining order against her ex.

She spent six months going “all guns blazing” into daily CrossFit workouts and dropped to a size 6 – but it led to unhealthy behaviours.

“I didn’t eat to punish my body, and I trained to punish my body.

“I stayed away from friends to punish myself.”

Fortunately, she learned how to switch her mindset and found a healthier approach.

“Within a year of starting CrossFit, I was inspired by strong women to gain weight and muscle strength and celebrate everything that my body could do,” says Sabre, who went on to set records in Olympic weightlifting at the Scottish Championships, as well as becoming Scottish Champion in five British Weightlifting Championships plus a CrossFit Champion.

“A lot of therapy” over the years has transformed her too, and she is now devoted to building a thriving fitness community at her Dundee-based gym and online training platform where she says “everybody feels welcome”.

Of course, in the Gladiators arena in Sheffield, there’s only room for her alter-ego, the kick-ass Sabre.

“‘Sabre incoming’ is one of the biggest sayings. I get my hair and make-up done, I put my suit on and I’m gone,” she laughs.

“Sabre is the girl that all girls like and all men want.

“I really push into that role, because they’re my demographic!”

Describing her own love life as “complicated”, Sabre is no stranger to admirers sliding into her DMs.

“I get asked out all the time. I get dinner proposals and people want to send me gifts,” she says, recalling the time she mentioned an £895 trench coat she liked on Instagram.

“Five minutes later, I had around 10 DMs from people saying: ‘What size do you want? I’ll get it for you’.

“The willpower it took to say no!” she laughs.

Sabre initially thought her invitation to try out for Gladiators was a hoax.

“I ignored them, because I thought: ‘That’s not possible!’

“Gladiators was the greatest show in history.

“Women were running around a studio like superheroes and being celebrated at a time when they weren’t as celebrated as athletes.

“These women were breaking the mould, which is something that I have always aspired to do.”

Sabre is now living that dream.

But in a cruel twist of fate, she believes she might not have done so had her army sergeant father Sean survived a car accident that killed him when she was three.

“My dad doted on me, apparently.

“I can imagine him having done everything for me – fixing the tyres on my car, getting my first apartment at uni, beating up any boys who were mean to me.

“One of the greatest things that has ever happened in my life is that I do all that for myself.”

• Watch Gladiators, Saturdays, 5.50pm, BBC1 and iPlayer.

LUKE LITTLER is taking on James Wade at the World Masters in Milton Keynes RIGHT NOW!

Littler cruised into the second round of the competition with a whitewash win over Andy Baetens – and the world champion is again favourite for the tournament.

Former world champion Luke Humphries and in-form Stephen Bunting made it into quarter-finals after decent wins in the afternoon session.

Michael van Gerwen faces Dimitri van den Bergh in the final match of the night after Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinal progressed to the quarters.

• Start time: From 7pm GMT
• TV channel: ITV4
• FREE live stream: ITVX

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COPS have launched an urgent probe after a body of a man was found in a river by a horrified walker.

Emergency services rushed to Blackley, Manchester, at around 9am this morning after a member of public made the grim discovery in the River Irk.

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The walker had found the body in a stretch of water off Middleton Road.

Emergency services then recovered the body with multiple cops, paramedics and fire services all at the scene.

Images show a blue forensic tent erected in the area as police cordoned off the tragic scene.

Forensic officers were seen scouring the area for clues following the grim discovery.

Meanwhile, uniformed officers were reported to be knocking doors along the estate.

An investigation has now been launched by the force.

Detectives are said to be unsure at this stage if the death is suspicious and are awaiting the results of a post-mortem.

The cordon remains in place tonight as inquiries continue.

Greater Manchester Police have been contacted by The Sun for comment.

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: “Just after 9am this morning (Saturday 1st February), two fire engines from Manchester Central and Whitefield, along with the Technical Response Unit from Ashton, attended an incident on Victoria Avenue, Manchester.

“Firefighters were in attendance for around an hour.”

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JHON DURAN is planning a 600-mile commute from Bahrain to his new Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr.

The Colombia striker completed a £70million move from Aston Villa  at the end of last week — but has told Al-Nassr he wants to live in Bahrain.

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Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderson were both based in Bahrain rather than Saudi when with Al-Ettifaq, who parted ways with Gerrard last week.

Al-Ettifaq’s Dammam training ground is an hour’s drive from Bahrain — but Al-Nassr is on the outskirts of Riyadh and more than 300 miles away.

A scheduled flight from Bahrain International Airport to the capital Riyadh takes one hour and 20 minutes, so Duran will have to get used to a gruelling travel schedule.

The 21-year-old’s decision has been partly influenced by confusion over whether he would be permitted to live with his girlfriend in Saudi Arabia.

Under Islamic law co-habitation by unmarried couples is discouraged — and private landlords often demand proof of marriage before agreeing to rent out property.

In practice, the law is not always enforced, however.

Cristiano Ronaldo lives with girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez in a luxury compound in Saudi’s capital.

But Duran will be more than able to afford the crazy commute.

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The striker, who only signed a new contract with Villa last October, is set to earn a whopping TAX-FREE yearly salary of £16.7million.

That equates to a staggering £1.4m per month, £321,000 per week, £46,000 per day and £1900 an hour.

The now former Villa striker now also earns £31 a minute and 52 pence per second.

He has been given the No 9 shirt at Al-Nassr, which is the same number he wore for Villa.

Duran joined Villa from MLS side Chicago Fire in January 2023 for a fee of £18m.

In just October 2024, Duran signed a new deal with Villa, which was set to keep him at the club until 2030.

He leaves Villa Park having scored 20 goals in 78 appearances for Unai Emery‘s side.

Villa confirmed Duran’s departure in a brief statement thanking him for his efforts during his time in the Midlands.

It read: “Aston Villa can confirm that Jhon Durán has joined Al-Nassr for an undisclosed fee.

“The striker moves to Saudi Arabia having scored 12 goals for Villa this term, including the winner against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

“Everyone at Aston Villa would like to wish Jhon all the best in the next step of his professional career.”

His exit might free up funds for Villa to sign Marcus Rashford permanently in the near future.

The Man Utd academy graduate, who has been exiled by Ruben Amorim, is reportedly on the brink of signing a six-month loan with Emery’s side.

Duran could make his Al-Nassr debut next Friday when they welcome Al Feiha to Al-Awwal Park.

His move came as a surprise after establishing himself as the most lethal sub in the Prem this season.

The Colombian has developed a reputation for being a game-changer for Unai Emery’s men.

Since his debut in January 2023, Duran scored more goals as a substitute than any other Premier League player.

Despite his impressive form, he has found first-team starts hard to come by throughout the campaign, with Emery often preferring Ollie Watkins, who Arsenal saw a bid rejected for this week, as the lone striker in his side.

THE MASKED Singer’s Snail has been revealed as a huge 90s star – and they haven’t aged a day.

Andrea Corr, 50, stunned the judges after being unmasked during tonight’s installment.

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The Corrs singer said she “loved” the costume, gushing: “I had such a good time, everyone’s been lovely, it’s been really joyous. I wanted to do it for the children.”

Andrea added after the show that she hadn’t told a soul she was doing it.

The judges, particularly Davina, was gobsmacked not to have guessed, particularly because the Irish star’s music is so well-known.

But viewers had previously claimed it was her behind the elaborate costume.

The Irish songstress shot to fame nearly three decades ago with her brothers and sisters in the band The Corrs.

Andrea and her siblings were best known for songs like Breathless, So Young, and Runaway.

One tweeted: “Snail is Andrea Corr- violins playing, clue package mentions Irresistible straight away (Corrs song), soft Irish accent, clue about being up in space- her solo album was called Ten Feet High.”

While another said: “Ok so Snail on #MaskedSingerUK sounds very much like Andrea Corr and that is what I’m sticking with.”

This one agreed: “Snail sounds a bit like Andrea Corr…”

Someone else commented: “I’m still adamant that Andrea Corr is Snail.

“Certainly sounds like her and the hand/arm movements match too.”

Also unmasked was Kingfisher, who was revealed to be artist Sir Grayson Perry, 64.

Perry said he wanted to be “something cute” and that he’d had a “lovely time embracing the spirit of the show”.

His initials, GP, fooled the judges who thought it was a link to comedian Harry Hill‘s former career as a doctor.

In reality, it was a lot more straightforward than that and Perry joked he’d done his best Hill impression.

Teasing what he would have done next, Perry said after the show: “I was gutted when I got knocked out. I had two really lovely songs lined up for next week.  

“I was going to sing, ‘Feed the Birds’ from Mary Poppins and there wouldn’t have been a dry eye in the place! I’d already been practising. I could hardly get through without blubbing. 

“And then I was going to do ‘Stick Season’  by Noah Kahan. That’s a great song. Lots of words though. Very hard to learn but I had it nailed and I was really looking forward to it.”

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ALDI is selling a bargain replica of a fan-favourite hot chocolate maker from a premium brand – and fans don’t have long left to wait.

The discount chain is selling their Milk Frother at just £15, compared to Hotel Chocolat’s nearly £100 Velvetiser, but they effectively do the same thing.

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Aldi‘s product releases in days, leaving little time for Britain’s chocoholics and coffee addicts to get themselves to their nearest store.

The Ambiano Milk Frother allows customers to prepare hot or cold milk foam, as well as the ability to heat milk, making it ideal for a mug of hot chocolate or coffee.

It’s also simple to use, with a sleek single-button operation, automatic switch-off and protection against over-heating.

The Milk Frother also lets its user choose from three distinct colours: black, cream or grey.

With an approximate capacity of 240ml, the budget product is coming to shelves for £14.99.

Customers should note that the product only prepares milk, and will have to be bought with coffee or hot chocolate powder separately.

People on social media who have already used the Ambiano have previously shared their reactions to the device.

One person commented on X: “My ambiano milk frother is the best ever thing I’ve bought, the whole family use it daily, it’s brill.”

Another shopper said: “Finally used the Ambiano Milk Frother after 3yrs in the box – it makes the most amazing Greek Frappes, tonight it’s with Baileys, there’s no going back now!”

Comparatively, Hotel Chocolat’s £99.95 version charges customers more for a similar experience, with some aspects notably weaker than the Aldi frother.

The Velvetiser has a 200ml capacity compared to Aldi‘s 240ml, which is the difference between being able to pour a whole extra cup.

Hotel Chocolat’s product takes two and a half minutes to prepare a coffee that the website describes as “barista-grade”.

Several reviews on the company’s product page have expressed delight with the Velvetiser, but do suggest that it works better if you buy Hotel Chocolat’s separate chocolate sachets.

One person said: “I wanted to give 10 stars. If you’re debating buying this, just do it, do it now!

“I wake up every morning happy since purchasing the velvetiser and the unreal chocolate sachets.

“I tried using milk and my own dark cooking chocolate and it did not taste anywhere near as good as the chocolate sachets.”

Another customer wrote: “I used the velvetiser for the first time before a night shift and was really surprised at how quick and easy it is to use.

“No cons to the device at all.

“My only con would be the price of the multipack sachets.”

Depending on which product customers prefer, they could be in with a saving of £84.

Only days remain until Aldi releases their alternative, as the Ambiano Milk Frother hits stores on Thursday.

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Hotel Chocolat describes the drinks made with the Velvetiser as “barista-grade”[/caption]

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