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FROM Brat Summer to Bridgerton Boobs – it’s been a cracker of a year in the fashion world, says Fashion Editor Clemmie Fieldsend.

From best revenge dress to best trend setter, we reveal the winners of Fabulous’ Fashion Awards.

BODY POSITIVITY AWARD

NICOLA COUGHLAN

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Derry Girl-turned-Brigerton leading lady Nicola Coughlan became an icon this year[/caption]

THE Bridgerton leading lady became an icon this year — and not just for those steamy sex scenes in series three of the hit Netflix period drama.

During a press junket in June, the 37-year-old had a perfect response when told she was “very brave” for daring to bare her very normal-sized body on screen.

“You know, it is hard because I think women with my body type — women with perfect breasts — we don’t get to see ourselves on screen enough,” she fired back, as ladies around the world fist-pumped in admiration.

Later speaking about her sex scenes, Nicola said it felt like the ideal retort to the endless conversation surrounding her size, and we couldn’t agree more.

Her cleavage is so magnificent no wonder sales of balcony bras were boosted this year — up 61 per cent — as we all clambered to recreate Bridgerton Boobs.

BEST REVENGE DRESS

J-LO

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Jennifer Lopez bounced back from her divorce with a knockout revenge dress[/caption]

IN August, Bennifer called it quits for the second time, with Jennifer Lopez filing for divorce from Ben Affleck.

In September, she did what any self-respecting woman would do — and bounced back with a knockout revenge dress.

Not content with posting a series of sexy snaps on social media, the 55-year-old actress wore a Tamara Ralph couture gown at the premiere of her film Unstoppable at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The dress featured hundreds of small mirrored discs that made J-Lo shine like a disco ball.

With large cutouts along each side held together by black velvet bows, it was a seri­ously show-stopping number.

Even if Ben, 52, wasn’t seething with jealousy, we were — over how amazing she looked.

SERVICES TO LINGERIE

RIHANNA

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Singer Rihanna is still the queen of our smalls[/caption]

IN a year that saw the return of the legendary Victoria’s Secret catwalk show, after a six-year absence, Rihanna is still the queen of our smalls.

Now a mum of two, the 36-year-old ­creator of undies brand Savage X Fenty has been refreshingly upfront about the changes her body has been through post-children.

In April, she told Interview magazine: “You just see ripples coming from places you never knew, and it’s all in your thighs, because your thighs are carrying the weight of your baby and uterus.”

Creating sexy lingerie for every body shape, the singer is single-handedly making us feel better about our own wobbly bits — one pair of knickers at a time.

BEST TREND SETTER

Charli XCX

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The Brat look reigned supreme this year, named after Charli XCX’s sixth album[/caption]

TIKTOK trends change faster than the weather, and this year we’ve seen everything from demure to “mob wife”.

Reigning supreme, however, was the Brat look, named after Charli XCX’s sixth album, released in June with an iconic slime-green cover. A celebration of youthful hedonism, Brat Summer was about being carefree, cool, chaotic and unashamedly yourself.

Think laddered tights, no bra, and what (slightly older) folk would call 90s grunge.

The trend became so ubiquitous that MP Emily Thornberry played a song from the album during her Labour conference DJ set, and TikTok was taken over by Charli’s hit song Apple, which amassed over 1.4million #brat TikTok videos.

BEST METHOD DRESSER

ZENDAYA

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Zendaya took things to a whole new level on the red carpet[/caption]

IT’S been one hell of a year for the 28-year-old American actress, with lauded roles in two of 2024’s biggest movies — sci-fi epic Dune, and sexy tennis romp, Challengers.

But on the red carpet, she took things to a whole new level with what her stylist Law Roach dubbed “method dressing, kind of like method acting”, AKA wearing outfits inspired by her films.

In February, to promote Dune, it was a futuristic hooded gown and cyborg catsuit by Mugler, while Challengers in April featured tennis whites and stilettos with tennis balls.

Game, set and match to Zendaya.

BEST MALE

Paul Mescal

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Paul Mescal rocking athleisure-wear and ankle-swinging tailored trousers[/caption]

FROM his off-duty Gaelic football shorts, to his fashion-forward red-carpet clobber, Irish heart-throb Paul Mescal, 28, reached style-god status this year.

We had an inkling of his fashion power when Normal People hit screens in 2020, with Connell’s chain getting its very own Instagram account and sparking a wave of jewellery-wearing blokes.

Come 2024, and the Gladiator II star is in a league of his own, rocking athleisure-wear and ankle-swinging tailored trousers with equal panache. And it’s not just us who think so — GQ crowned him their Most Stylish Person Of 2024, too

BEST NEWCOMER

LABOUR LAIDES

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Deputy PM Angela Rayner swapped sensible suits for a series of block-colour looks[/caption]

LABOUR’S return to power in July saw Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s impeccably dressed wife Victoria thrust into the spotlight.

The NHS worker loves British fashion brand ME + EM — which duly sold out of anything she wore.

Deputy PM Angela Rayner swapped sensible suits for a series of block-colour looks from the brand. It turned out the 44-year-old had got the £2,000 haul for free.

A shout-out goes to ex PM, Tory Rishi Sunak for nearly killing off the Adidas Samba trainer, when he wore a pair during a video promoting tax policies.

HIGH STREET HERO

ABBEY CLANCY

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Abbey Clancy wins our High Street Honey award for her collections with F&F at Tesco[/caption]

THIS year, A-listers swapped Bond Street for the high street, with a slew of big-name collaborations.

From Kate Moss at Zara to Victoria Beckham at Mango and Claudia Winkleman at Marks & Spencer, we’ve been blessed with a variety of price ranges and tastes.

But it’s model Abbey Clancy who wins our High Street Honey award for her collections with F&F at Tesco.

The 38-year-old mum of four released a Christmas capsule collection in October which quickly went viral.

Sell-outs that shoppers couldn’t get in their trolleys quick enough included a sequin cardigan with black bow ties, £29.50, and a gold long-sleeved sequin mini dress, £35.

More please, Abbey!

LEGEND AWARD

PAMELA ANDERSON

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Pamela Anderson has found herself at the top of every invite list in fashion[/caption]

FROM Baywatch to a critically acclaimed turn in new film The Last Showgirl — to say Pamela Anderson has come a long way is an understatement.

Finally taken seriously as an actress, the 57-year-old has also found herself at the top of every invite list in fashion as she continues to ditch make-up and champion bare-faced beauty on the red carpet.

This year, she has rocked impeccably chic looks from top designers including Elie Saab, Oscar de la Renta and Loewe.

In November Beyonce dressed up as two of Pammy’s characters — from Baywatch and her 1996 flick Barbwire — with a platinum blonde wig and ’90s brows in an Instagram video.

If that’s not the perfect homage, then we don’t know what is.

BEST SLOBRITY

KATIE HOLMES

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Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes really flew the flag for mums worldwide[/caption]

A-LISTERS including Jenni­fer Lawrence and Megan Fox embraced scruffy dressing (despite their bulging bank balances), as so-called slobrity style peaked.

But it was Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes who really flew the flag for mums worldwide, by nailing laid-back style.

When not on the red carpet, the 46-year-old actress was often spot-ted shuffling around New York in baggy jeans, with an oversized bag, clutch-ing a coffee and her packed lunch.

Can we relate, or can we relate?

Katie’s street-cred rose even further when she was spotted wearing some low-key arm candy from British high street brand Dune, this October.

Needless to say, the XL Deliberate brown tote bag sold out before we could nab one.

But we still salute Kate for making dressing-down look so good — and for being the reason our iron is now gathering dust.

BEST TOURDROBE

THE SWIFTIES

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A sparkly, bejewelled army of Swifties dressed for the superstar’s Eras tour[/caption]

TAYLOR SWIFT’s epic Eras tour boosted our economy by £1billion, and saw ticket-holders spend an average £56 on a new outfit to wear for it.

If you were lucky enough to get to one of the 15 UK concerts between June and August, you would have seen a sparkly, bejewelled army of Swifties dressed for the occasion.

Fans flocked to eBay to find pre-loved looks, with searches for “Eras Tour” seeing a 400 per cent increase, and a 60 per cent rise in online hunts for “sequin dress” in just a week.

And it wasn’t just the kids — TikTok videos of “Taylor Swift Older Fan Outfit” amassed 9.7million posts, too. Swifties, we salute you.

CYNICS said 2024’s television could only get worse after it started with ITV’s landmark drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office. But you know the funny thing?

They were absolutely right.

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Smoggie Queens was one of the worst sitcoms of the year… maybe ever[/caption]

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Football Focus was among this year’s worst television[/caption]

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Two weeks after the brilliant Toby Jones series finished, Love Island All Stars was filling the same slot and a pattern had been established for this rollercoaster TV year.

For every Clarkson’s Farm, there was a Dating Naked. For every ­Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams, an Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends.

And for every Sharron Davies, who spoke out about the obscenity of ­biological men beating up women at the Olympics, there were half a dozen Clare Baldings at the BBC who stared at their feet and said nothing.

In between times, Gladiators made a triumphant return, Phillip Schofield gave self-pity a bad name on Cast Away, Chris McCausland saved Strictly, the art of the sitcom died with the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm and the BBC’s obsession with drag acts reached its bloody conclusion with Smoggie Queens.

With awards for the following:

BEST QUIZ SHOW ANSWER 2024: The Chase, Bradley Walsh: “Which leader was exiled to islands in the Mediterranean and South Atlantic?” Sophie: “Tony Blair.”

If only, if only, if only. 

BEST SHOW: Any of the following could’ve won, or deserve a namecheck: Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, Industry, Clarkson’s Farm, Helmand: Tour Of Duty, Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams, Slow Horses, The Wrong Man: 17 Years Behind Bars, Enemy In The Woods, Wolf Hall, BBC1’s faithful and brilliant Gladiators reboot, ­Ludwig, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Hell Jumper, Shogun and Gavin & Stacey.

But it’s the size of the gap left by Larry David’s sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, after its 12th and final series, that sets it apart from everything else.

With a couple of honourable exceptions on the streaming channels, such as Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle, there is no mainstream comedian now who dares to say the unsayable and I will miss this show for ever.

WORST SHOW: Dishonourable ­mentions for Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends, Buying London, Piglets, Rylan’s Hot Mess Summer, Gino And Fred: Emission Impossible, BBC1’s criminally irresponsible documentary The Chris Kaba Shooting, The Pet Psychic, Josh Must Win, Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg, Parents’ Evening, The Fortune Hotel, Red Eye, Love Island All Stars, Football Focus, The Way, with Michael Sheen, C4’s zombie disaster Generation Z and BBC1 thriller Nightsleeper.

None were as bad, though, as BBC3’s Smoggie Queens, a sitcom so witless, repellent and woke I’m certain the drag-fixated Beeb will give it at least another three series. 

BEST LIVE TV MOMENT: I greatly enjoyed Israel briefly leapfrogging everyone and ­getting 12 from Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest, when the public vote was opened, and also Stephen Mulhern inviting Ricky Hatton to “hit me,” at Dancing On Ice.

Which he did, very very hard. But ­neither was quite as funny as the meltdown Emily Maitlis, Susanna Reid, Ed Balls and the rest of Britain’s breakfast TV luvvies suffered in the early hours of November 6, when Donald Trump won the US election.

With the killer line belonging to GMB work experience lad Noel Phillips, at Kamala Harris’s “victory party”. “The mood, despite there being nobody here, is one of hope.” 

WORST LIVE TV MOMENT: Saturday Kitchen Live’s Pride special “in honour of the LGBTQI+ community” was a cult meeting so terrified of offending the alphabet people it cancelled the usual “heaven or hell” recipe feature in case anyone got the impression there was any negative side to the event.

But it was still less sinister and woke than the $130million Olympic Games’ opening ceremony with its headless women, Last Supper fat lass, environmental bleats and musical segment in honour of the EU.

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Chris McCausland won Strictly with partner Dianne Buswell[/caption]

MOST GRIEVOUSLY MISLEADING TITLE: C5’s Sue Perkins: Lost In Alaska.

BEST DRAMA: The mesmerising Wolf Hall, Slow Horses, Industry, Shogun and Until I Kill You may all have been technically better, but none of them had the same emotional impact as Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which led to questions in Parliament, new legislation and King Charles forcing former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to return her CBE for “bringing the honours system into disrepute”.

Yet still the newly knighted Sir Alan Bates hasn’t received any ­compensation. Extraordinary. 

WORST DRAMA: It would take a ­special kind of disaster to beat BBC1’s Nightsleeper, which seemed to be heavily based on Thomas The Tank Engine’s Rusty And The Boulder episode. But Michael Sheen’s utterly deranged drama The Way, about a left-wing Welsh workers’ uprising, was that special kind of ­disaster.

It featured a Masonic sex orgy, a talking teddy bear and was very much like the Two Ronnies’ old Worm That Turned sketch with Diana Dors, but took itself incredibly seriously. Most chillingly, it was “produced with the support of the Welsh Government”. Get out now, my Welsh friends. Get out while you still can.

BEST OLYMPIC NAME: Li Shiting in the Chinese kayak, which the IOC urgently needs to stamp out.

COCK-EYED OPTIMIST OF THE YEAR: Alleged political satirist Adam Hills, the day after the General Election, proudly declaring: “Keir Starmer has given us all a promise of hope.”

And how’s that working out for you, Adam? 

WORST TALENT SHOW: Made In Korea: The K-Pop Experience. Vocal coach Jin Young-Jan teamed up with choreographers Seung Hyun Yu and Do Yun Wun to polish a British ­boyband before a performance for Hee Jun Yoon. Only one problem. Kun Fuh-Kin Sing. 

WORST LOVE SCENE: Gary Neville with Keir Starmer before the England v Spain Euro final. Get a room, guys. 

HEALTH AND SAFETY WARNING OF THE YEAR: Amazon Prime’s screenings of Holocaust film Zone Of Interest, which arrived with a warning it contains: “Alcohol use and smoking.” ’Cos that’s the eternal worry isn’t it. A death camp commandant exceeds his 14 units while committing genocide. 

ABOUT-TURN OF 2024: One week in March, The Last Leg host Adam Hills was joking about the Princess of Wales’ death and fanning the flames of the Photoshopping controversy by saying: “I’ve never seen our office as excited as it was by this story.”

The next, Kate had announced she had cancer and Adam Hills was claiming: “We watched the news together, as a production team, and it’s fair to say a lot of people were really emotional. Our thoughts go out to the Princess and her family.” Too late, Adam. 

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Clarkson’s Farm has continued to impress into its third season[/caption]

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Larry David’s sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm reached its 12th and final season[/caption]

OLYMPIC FILTH GOLD MEDAL: Weightlifting, Jono Farr: “Duangaksorn Chaidee made us sweat in the snatch, she made us sweat in the clean, it took a while to get into position, but that jerk was very ­powerful.”

THE AIR MILES ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD 2024: Serial Panorama p**s- taker Richard Bilton, who flew from Iceland to the Alps to Sydney to the Barrier Reef to Southern Carolina to California and back again to Britain, via Arizona, to answer the question Can Scientists Save The World? Only to tell us: “Cutting carbon use is vital.”

You first, Richard. 

OLYMPIC HEROES AWARD: While others, like Clare Balding, avoided the destruction of female sport issue and the grotesque spectacle of men taking part in women’s boxing, other BBC employees didn’t cower.

With special mentions for Nicola Adams, Matthew Pinsent and the supremely brave Sharron Davies, who accused the IOC of “Legalising beating up females.”

She deserves a damehood for services to women’s sport. 

WORST REALITY/TALENT SHOW CONTESTANT: Just ahead of Dean McCullough from I’m a Celebrity, Joey Essex and the entire cast of Love Island and Dating Naked?

All- singing, all-dancing celebrity flasher John Barrowman, who had one shot at redemption on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, but quit just 32 minutes after the contestants arrived at their New Zealand base. 

GASLIGHTER OF THE YEAR: Dating Naked, the Paramount+ channel: “Strict hygiene and dignity protocols were in place during filming.”

• Column returns January 10. 

Dumbest quiz show answers

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One Mastermind contestant thought Jocky Wilson was a cyclist[/caption]

CELEBRITY Mastermind, Clive Myrie: “Which English naval captain lost his right arm in 1797 during an attack on the town of Santa Cruz on the island of Tenerife?”

John Whaite: “Captain Hook.”

Mastermind, Clive Myrie: “In the 1980s, Jocky Wilson, right, John Lowe and Keith Deller all won the world championship of what indoor sport?”

Emma: “Cycling.” The Weakest Link, Romesh Ranganathan: “In geology, the White Cliffs of Dover are principally formed out of what substance, chalk or cheese?”

Helen Flanagan: “Cheese.”

The Finish Line, Roman Kemp: “Which late football manager was known as Cloughie?”

Emily: “Sir Alex Ferguson.”

And Romesh: “In sport, the US tennis player who won all four grand slams in the 1990s and an Olympic gold medal is Andre who?”

Vicky Hawkesworth: “The Giant.”

Best actor

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Mark Rylance has been mesmerising in Wolf Hall[/caption]

A BLANKET finish between Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer), Toby Jones (Mr Bates Vs The Post Office), Lesley Manville (Sherwood), Marisa Abela (Industry), Anna Maxwell Martin (Until I Kill You) and my favourite, mesmerising Mark Rylance, who wasted not a single gesture in Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light.

Worst actor

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Phillip Schofield’s performance in C5’s Cast Away was abysmal[/caption]

THE Day Of The Jackal’s Lashana “Bianca” Lynch was narrowly beaten by Phillip Schofield for his performance in C5’s Cast Away and delivery of the line: “I’ve been chucked under the bus and I could drive the same bus over so many people.

“But I’m not that sort of person, I never have been.”

Ones that god away

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THEY may well be works of TV genius but, without apology, I just didn’t get the appeal of The Traitors (it’s a game of blink murder), Bridgerton or Rivals, which was the Disney+ channel’s ironically s**t adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel, without the “ironically” bit.

Longest career suicide

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Joey Essex proved to be a bit unpleasant on Love Island[/caption]

Joey Essex, who spent 55 days on Love Island thoroughly convincing us that, far from being just an amiable fool, he is in fact a short-tempered, pot-stirring opportunist with a nasty passive-aggressive manner and an incredibly high opinion of himself. 

Best subtitle for the deaf

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A subtitler put this on a cooking programme featuring Carol Vorderman[/caption]

With thanks to chef Tony Singh who got Carol Vorderman to cook lamb pie, and the subtitler who attached these words just below her: “It’s mutton. OK.” Fine with me.  

Best job application

NO candidates from Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales on this year’s series of The Apprentice, but the ever “diverse and inclusive” BBC did pick a vile bigot called Doctor Asif Munaf, who denounced Zionism, on social media, as “a Godless Satanic cult.” Asif, you’re so fired.

Worst collaboration

BBC2’s Boybands Forever concluding with the cheerful news “911 have had a massive hit with Vietnamese superstar Duc Phuc,” while the rest of us were mourning the fact he didn’t team up with Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen and give the world Phuc That.

Lookalikes of the year

FANS fumed at Liverpool’s “unwatchable” game against Leicester.

The Premier League leaders hosted the Foxes at Anfield amid heavy fog in Merseyside.

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Fans fumed at Liverpool’s ‘unwatchable’ game against Leicester.[/caption]

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Fans could barley watch the game[/caption]

Things were so bad that fans complained at not being able to watch the game properly as fog filled their screens.

One said: “Spending my night watching fog on Amazon prime.”

Another added: “Fog is increasingly getting worse. Game should be abandoned any second now.”

One fumed: “This game is unwatchable.”

Another moaned: “Weather is crazy. I can’t see anything.”

Even Specsavers chimed in with: “Hi @primevideosport your camera is behind a cloud.”

Leicester took a shock lead on six minutes through Jordan Ayew before Cody Gakpo levelled.

There were concerns over whether the game would go ahead after Liverpool’s neighbours Tranmere abandoned their game with Accrington Stanley.

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But Liverpool said in a statement: “If you are coming to the match today, please ensure you set off earlier than usual due to foggy conditions in and around Anfield stadium.

“Please take care when travelling.”

The Masked Singer Christmas special winner has been unmasked.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer Holly Johnson won the festive special after they were revealed as the voice of Nutcracker.

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Moments earlier, Davina was unmasked as Star[/caption]

It came as Davina McCall came second as she stunned the panel by revealing she was the person hiding in the Star costume.

“I’ve enjoyed performing, I don’t ever have to do panto now,” Holly said.

A DAD was attacked and killed in his own home in early hours of Christmas Day as a woman has been arrested.

Father-of-one Louis Price, was attacked and killed in his home in Staffordshire at 3.35am on Christmas Day.

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Louis Price was attacked and killed in his home in Staffordshire early on Christmas Day[/caption]

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Cops were called at 3.25am today to Elm Road in Norton Canes but Louis died shortly after[/caption]

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Louis’ parents heard the shattering news while on holiday[/caption]

Staffordshire Police arrived at Elm Road in Norton Canes but unfortunately he died at the scene.

The heartbreaking news was relayed to devastated Louis’ parents, Graham and Eleanor Price, while they were relaxing on a trip abroad.

A shocked neighbour told the Daily Mail: “His poor parents were away on holiday when it happened, they usually go away to the Maldives for Christmas and that may have been where they were.

“They will be absolutely devastated and my heart goes out to them.

“I cannot imagine anything worse than being overseas on holiday and finding out your child has been murdered in the family home, and on Christmas Day.”

The neighbour said the whole community has been shocked and saddened by the event.

Louis lived with his parents in the quiet village of Norton Canes where he worked front of house at a local Toby Carvery, according to a neighbour.

Cops were called around 3.25am today to Elm Road after a report of a man in his thirties in cardiac arrest.

A 33-year-old woman from Cannock has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

She remains in police custody, said Staffordshire Police.

The investigation is expected to remain for a number of days.

A Staffordshire Police spokesperson said: “Officers were called to a report of a man in his 30s in cardiac arrest on Elm Road, Norton Canes, at around 03:25 on Wednesday

“Despite medical efforts he died shortly afterwards and a post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place on Boxing Day.”

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THE MASKED Singer’s Davina McCall conned the Christmas special’s judges by sneaking inside a costume herself.

The panel were left agog when Star was revealed to be one of their own on tonight’s festive show.

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Davina McCall tricked her fellow judges to be unmasked as Star[/caption]

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The cheeky character crooned two festive tunes in the special[/caption]

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Judges Mo Gilligan, Jonathan Ross and guest panellists French and Saunders were stunned by the reveal[/caption]

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Davina underwent brain surgery last month, with the Christmas special filming back in July[/caption]

Now Davina, 57, has revealed how she pulled a sickie to fake the big reveal.

Davina said: “I was texting the bosses at eight o’clock, who were obviously in on it, but I had to text them and to tell them I had to miss the recording of the Christmas special.

“They had to text the whole production team and tell them.

“I know this is all going on in the building next door, but there I am sitting in a please Don’t Speak To Me t-shirt with a balaclava on!

“It was just the maddest ruse I have ever done.

“I got the text from the executive producer [asking me to do it] and I literally read the first three words and I’d typed back yes!

“It was one of the greatest experiences of my life so far.”

Davina filmed the special this summer, some months before she discovered a brain tumour during routine health checks.

Last month she underwent surgery to remove the rare but benign lump, and is now in recovery.

But she relished fooling her fellow judges Jonathan Ross and Mo Gilligan and host Joel Dommett, 39, as well as guest panellists Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders after crooning two festive tunes, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and This Christmas.

Her expertise forged across five series gave her the edge.

Davina said: “I thought Jonathan was wondering, because he’s just so good at guessing but I’m not sure if Mo knew at all.

“I don’t know if Joel did either, but the way I ran into Joel’s arms every time I went on to stage might have been a bit of a clue.

“But you know what, I couldn’t wear the deodorant that I usually wear, I couldn’t wear any perfume, I couldn’t smell like myself.

“I put on a voice and I was channelling my sister in law who is from Virginia.

“And when anyone asked me if I could sing and I said, ‘absolutely not, I’d never do this show.’”

Davina returns to the panel on the brand new series of The Masked Singer, next Saturday (Jan 4) at 6.30pm on ITV1.

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The new series of The Masked Singer kicks off in January and sees Maya Jama join the panel[/caption]

CHOCOLATE lovers have been left stunned as Superdrug offers boxes of Celebrations and Ferrero Rocher for just £1.

With Maltesers down to just 25p, and boxes of Ferrero Rocher, Celebrations, and Quality Street priced at only £1, shoppers are racing to snag these sweet deals.

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Popular beauty retailer Superdrug has slashed prices post-Christmas[/caption]

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Quality Streets and Celebrations priced at just £1[/caption]

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Maltesers Mini Reindeers are just 25p[/caption]

Shoppers have been quick to spread the word, with social media lighting up as people share their excitement over the jaw-dropping deal.

One thrilled user exclaimed: “Get into Superdrug and get me 5!”

Another joked: “At this price, we should postpone Christmas for two days.

“We’d pay hardly anything!”

Shoppers can take Giant Ferrero Rochers home for just £1 – the hollow milk and chocolate ball has long been considered a Christmas treat and now it’s a budget friendly one too.

In Tesco, a Maltesers Mini Reindeer is marked at £1.50 but at Superdrug the price has been slashed down to a mere 25p.

This means chocoholics can pick up six Mini Reindeers at the bargain beauty retailers for the same price at one in Tesco.

For those hoping to pick up something for the family, a Quality Street share box is only a pound.

This includes 220g of individually wrapped chocolates ready to get you over the post-holiday blues.

The product is so popular it has sold out online and you’ll have to head into a store if you want to get your hands on one.

Luckily, discounts don’t stop there – Superdrug has a range of offers ready for when shoppers hit the high street again .

The retailer is providing a free gift with selected Cosmetics.

It’s offering a free Rimmel lip oil in Pink Flush when you spend £12 on Rimmel products.

You can pick up a L’Oréal Paris Infallible 3-Second Setting Spray for free when you spend £15 on selected L’Oréal Paris Cosmetics.

The Pout Clout Lip Plumping Pen is available when you spend £16 on selected e.l.f. Cosmetics, but this oly for online customers.

Similar to Aldi Specialbuys or the Lidl Middle Aisle, Superdrug offers This Week’s Star Buys.

These are weekly deals and offers on selected items for shoppers, with extra discounts for those with a loyalty card.

Most Superdrug shops have a pink display case which will sometimes have a range of yellow sticker bargains. 

When products don’t sell from the clearance area, the retailer will slash the price to shift it quicker. 

If you can hunt down the clearance shelves or display when in-store, you might be be able to pick up some products for pennies. 

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