Gary Goldsmith: Princess of Wales’s uncle appears on Celebrity Big Brother
The Princess of Wales’s uncle has joined the new series of Celebrity Big Brother.
Gary Goldsmith has joined the celebrity reality show, which returned to UK television for the first time in six years tonight.
The 58-year-old businessman, and younger brother of Kate’s mother, Carole, attended the wedding of his niece and Prince William at Westminster Abbey in 2011.
It comes as Kate continues to recover from “planned abdominal surgery” in January. She was photographed for the first time since the medical procedure on Monday afternoon.
She was last seen out in public on Christmas Day when she walked to church in Sandringham, Norfolk, with the rest of the Royal Family.
The Princess of Wales was seen in Sandringham on Christmas Day. Pic: PA
She is “recovering and continues to be doing well”, according to a statement from Kensington Palace.
During Monday night’s show, presenter AJ Odudu asked Goldsmith: “The nation needs to know, will Kate be watching?”
He replied: “If she is it will be behind a sofa, I guess.”
Former X Factor judges Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh also reunited in the Big Brother house, and will appear alongside TV presenter Fern Britton, Strictly Come Dancing professional Nikita Kuzmin and Love Island winner Ekin-Su Culculoglu.
Coronation Street actor Colson Smith, Dragons’ Den businessman Levi Roots and Heartstopper star Bradley Riches are also among the other contestants on the show.
Who is Gary Goldsmith?
Goldsmith is a London-based businessman who made his money in IT and recruitment.
As the brother of Carole Middleton, he is the uncle of the Princess of Wales, as well as her siblings, Pippa and James Middleton.
In 2017, he was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 20 sessions of rehabilitation, as well as a fine of £5,000, after striking his wife with a “left hook” to the face during an argument.
Gary Goldsmith, leaving Westminster Magistrates’ Court in 2017. Pic: PA
He knocked Julie-Ann Goldsmith to the ground after she accused him of taking drugs during a drunken fight outside their home in central London, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard at the time of the hearing.
Goldsmith pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating.
Celebrity Big Brother returns
Celebrity Big Brother has been broadcast live tonight on ITV for the first time.
The show, and its non-celebrity version, originally found fame on Channel 4, before moving to Channel 5, where the final season aired in 2018.
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Last year, ITV announced plans to revive the show after striking a deal with production company Banijay, who own the rights.
Big Brother returned in October last year for its 20th civilian season
The celebrity version, fronted by presenters AJ Odudu and Will Best, began at 9pm.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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