The scenes aired during Thursday evening’s episode of the BBC game of wink murder, in which a mission put the cat among the pigeons and left Miranda suspicious of Joanne.
During the challenge, the trio of Traitors were tasked with creeping around the Faithful to try and disrupt their construction of shields.
Given that the mission unfolded in a rickety lair, with creaking wooden floorboards, Miranda reported that she had felt the floor wobbling beneath her.
While actual Traitor Maya Jama was to her right, it was Joanne on her left that Miranda subsequently started eyeing up – something she raised ahead of the roundtable.
But Joanne was clearly unhappy with the assertion and turned it back to say it made her suspicious of Miranda.
The mission put the cat among the pigeons and left Miranda suspicious of Joanne (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
The comedian took to her Instagram to defend herself (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
When Miranda later told the roundtable her so-called floorboard theory had been ‘debunked’, Joanne took issue with her decision to raise it at all.
The exchanges prompted some BBC viewers to label Joanne’s reaction a bit much – but the comedian has since defended herself, and Miranda has said she never took issue with anything that unfolded.
Taking to her Instagram Stories after the episode aired, Joanne described the episode as ‘the one where I snapped at Miranda at the table’.
She went on to defend herself, saying: ‘Was it my finest moment? No. Did the tension of the roundtable and the general gaslighting get into my head in that moment? Yes it did.
Miranda has said she never took issue with anything that unfolded (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
‘What can you do? It is a game about gaslighting. It’s a funny game to navigate. Rest assured, me and Miranda have laughed about it since.’
Miranda also took to her Stories and wrote, ‘Love this woman’ over a clip of Joanne explaining her haphazard approach to the game.
In another post, Miranda wrote of the roundtable exchange: ‘It’s so funny to me that people are saying that you snapped. Next felt like that. Was never stressed. And actually we chinked glasses and laughed on the night,’ with kissing emojis to round it off.
Celebrity Traitors returns on Thursday at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
A gang that attempted to tunnel into a jeweller’s in south London was linked to more than £700,000 of burglaries.
Members of an organised crime group were caught digging into a jewellery store on Mitcham Road in Tooting just after 3am on July 17.
Video footage recorded from body-worn cameras showed how the gang had broken into a massage parlour with the intention of tunnelling their way into the jewellers next door.
One suspect, Laurentiu-Daniel Nitisoara, was arrested by officers in a nearby alleyway, while Ioan Asafeti was handcuffed after being found hiding on a rooftop.
A third gang member, Sergiu Plastin, was detained later the same day as he attempted to flee the country on a flight to Ireland from Stansted, having been tracked by a flying squad to the Essex airport via mobile phone data.
Officers discovered a tunnel dug by gang members between a massage parlour and a jeweller’s in Tooting, south London (Picture: Metropolitan Police)
Officers found tools and equipment discarded by the gang, which were used to dig the passageway between the two shops.
The group were linked to more than £700,000 of burglaries from shops across the capital.
Enquiries through Interpol found the group had possible links to similar offences in Europe.
The trio appeared at Kingston Crown Court today after admitting in August to charges of conspiracy to commit burglary with intent to steal and cause criminal damage.
Asafeti, 39, was jailed for four years and 10 months, while Plastin, 42, was given a sentence of three years and four months.
Nitisoara, 38, was handed a two-year jail sentence.
Sergiu Plastin, Laurentiu-Daniel Nitisoara and Ioan Asafeti were all jailed after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary with intent to steal and cause criminal damage (Picture: Metropolitan Police/Press Association)
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DCI Craig Magee said: ‘Today’s sentencing sends a clear message: if you target London businesses, we’ll catch you, and you will face justice.
‘Our crackdown on thieves is delivering results. We’re driving down commercial burglary across the capital, with offences falling by 11 per cent in the past 12 months.’
According to Met Police figures, commercial burglaries fell by 10.7 per cent in the year to September, compared with the previous 12-month period.
UK Pleasure Boys performed to a ‘very lively’ crowd in Banbury United’s clubhouse (Picture: John Woodward)
A semi-professional football club in a sleepy Oxfordshire town has been forced to apologise this week, after hosting a male stripper night which turned into a ‘Roman orgy’.
In a statement on its website, Banbury United FC addressed circulating video footage of a UK Pleasure Boys show held in its Spencer Clubhouse on Saturday.
‘The images suggest that part of the performance towards the end went beyond what we find acceptable at our venue,’ it explained. ‘We apologise to anyone in attendance who was offended.’
Billed as the ‘ultimate girls’ night out’, the group’s 18+ Wet ’n’ Wild event promised ‘sizzling dance routines, ‘raunchy sets’ and audience participation.
However, it seems some took the final element a little too far, with clips shared on social media apparently showing ‘inappropriate’ sexual acts between performers and crowd members.
While we’re not prudes here at Metro, in our bid to work out exactly what went down on that fateful night, we keep coming up against roadblocks; as evidence is removed or deleted within moments of appearing online, we can only assume things got pretty X-rated.
The club has apologised to ‘anyone in attendance who was offended’ (Picture: Getty)
One local who claims to have witnessed this wrote on Facebook: ‘I was expecting the Full Monty with maybe a little flash of something at the end, but honestly I left traumatised.’
‘It actually went too far,’ added another. ‘Some women are feral.’
Others were more positive, including one female attendee who described the evening as ‘an absolute laugh,’ writing: ‘Yes, some parts of it were like wooah, but it clearly stated strippers. The lads were absolutely fantastic.’
UK Pleasure Boys’ promoter John Woodward told The Sun this weekend’s Banbury audience were admittedly ‘very lively’, but although things had been ‘more heated than usual,’ ‘there was a great atmosphere.’
‘It isn’t clear how or what got out of hand, or if it was the women or the men who got too heated,’ he added. ‘We are looking into it.’
Double standards?
While certain people may wish what happened in the clubhouse could have stayed in the clubhouse, online commentary over it has only ramped up in the days since.
But where some called scenes ‘grim’, ‘horrendous’ and ‘awful’, many took a different outlook on this risqué revue turned ‘Roman orgy’.
‘At the end of the day, they were all consenting adults,’ commented one Banbury resident, while another wrote: ‘I’m just sorry I didn’t go.’
Where women may have once seen male striptease shows as campy, low-budget sleaze, the industry has undergone a huge makeover in recent years, with over 900,000 tickets sold for Magic Mike Live in London and companies like Dreamboys and Forbidden Nights running weekly events around the country.
According to psychologist Emma Kenny, this trend is partly driven by the fact these environments actively encourage women ‘to express desire and enjoy themselves without feeling they have to be restrained or demure.’
‘Marketing matters, too,’ she tells Metro. ‘Packaging sexual entertainment within a familiar social occasion helps make attending feel more ordinary and acceptable.’
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Emma explains: ‘People take cues from those around them. If somebody does something increasingly outrageous and receives laughter, cheers and encouragement, others may start to interpret that response as permission to go further.
‘The apparent boundaries of what is acceptable can shift within the room.’
Alcohol naturally also factors into a dynamic where lines can be crossed here — not to mention the ‘persistent stereotype that men always welcome sexual attention, while women are assumed to be less threatening.’
Things can get out of hand when alcohol and peer pressure are involved (Picture: Getty Images)
‘That can lead people to interpret unwanted behaviour towards a man as flattering, funny or harmless,’ Emma continues.
‘If someone is being grabbed, pressured or touched without consent, describing it as a bit of fun does not make it acceptable.
‘Being paid to perform does not mean being paid to have no boundaries. That principle should apply equally to men and women.’
That said, Emma does add that ‘consensual audience participation should not automatically be treated as misconduct simply because an observer finds it shocking’.
What’s actually allowed at strip shows
In terms of UK Pleasure Boys specifically, promoter John Woodward told Oxford Mail: ‘It’s pretty clear to the guys that no sexual activities are acceptable at our show, and that’s not standard stuff we would expect to happen.
‘If there’s a specific performer that’s done something you’re not supposed to, the performer would be taken out of the show.’
A number of similar performing groups have policies like this. However, where licensed ‘sexual entertainment venues’ (SEVs) are subject to a local authority’s rules for what’s allowed, this isn’t the case with those that tour.
SEVs in Bromley, for example, must agree to ensure no ‘indecent behaviour, including sexual intercourse’ takes place on their premises.
Meanwhile, North West Leicestershire Council stipulates ‘no audience participation shall be permitted’, nor should any physical contact between customers and dancers, ‘with the exception of shaking hands with a customer and/or leading a customer by the hand from a seated area to a booth for a private dance.’
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Walford’s resident lothario has been making enemies for decades due to the countless families he’s torn apart and various affairs he’s conducted behind loved ones’ backs.
The lates in a long line of women he’s wronged is Cindy, who has a proven history of taking revenge on those who attempt to get one over on her – and therefore she wasn’t planning on letting Max away with turning her life upside down.
With Cinders standing in the way of him securing an annulment, Max tasked Oscar (Pierre Counihan-Moullier) with getting her admitting on tape that they never consummated their marriage.
Oscar reluctantly accepted the challenge but his efforts were thwarted when Cindy instead discovered that Max was the one who left Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) to die.
If you’re eager to know what’s next then you’re in luck as I’ve got a breakdown of tomorrow’s episode.
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With Cindy having Max right where she wants him, the question is: just what will she do next? In tomorrow’s episode, she demands answers from him.
Will Max confess? And regardless, will Cindy take the information to grieving Kat, who will no doubt want revenge on Max after what he’s done?
The episode in question proves a tough one for Max as problems mount for the businessman when HMRC catches up with him over his New Zealand property.
Will Cindy get the answers she needs? (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)
Elsewhere, Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) has a new outlook on life due to his friendship with Ned Hawkins (Jamie Bamber) but Lauren remains suspicious of the influence the newcomer has on her stepdad and thus she does some digging
What will she uncover?
Denzel Danes (Jaden Ladega), meanwhile, starts to question Amy Mitchell’s (Ellie Dadd) version of events after she claimed that she leaked his private pictures.
A student who waited for his housemate in hiding before stabbing him has admitted to killing him.
Jamie Collins, 21, died in the garden of the home he shared with housemate Zack Coughlan, 23, in Filton, South Gloucestershire.
The robotics student at UWE Bristol was ambushed in the alleyway and stabbed repeatedly on the evening of April 8 by Coughlan, dressed in all-black and wearing a mask.
The attack, described as a ‘carefully planned and cold-blooded execution’ by the prosecution, was caught on CCTV, which Mr Collins’s brazen killer showed to the police after they arrived.
Bristol Crown Court heard how Coughlan left him dying outside at about 6pm as he cycled away on his housemate’s bike.
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Jamie Collins, 21, was about to finish his robotics degree and return home to Swansea when he was murdered (Picture: Avon and Somerset Police / SWNS)
Coughlan, also a robotics student, had first denied the murder charge before changing his plea to guilty today.
It comes after Mr Justice Linden ruled that Coughlan’s partial defence of manslaughter by reason of loss of control could not be left to the jury to consider as part of their murder charge deliberations.
The two students lived in the £300,000 three-bedroom house owned by Coughlan, and were both in their final year.
After cycling away from the crime scene, Coughlan dumped the ride at a retail park and bought a change of clothes.
His bloodstained clothes were stuffed into bags weighed down with bricks before he threw them into a pond.
He returned to the shared house on Cleve Road at about 9pm, where he popped a pizza in the oven before gaming with friends.
CCTV captured the moment Zack Coughlan cycled away on Mr Collins’s bike after the killing (Picture: Avon and Somerset Police / SWNS)
Eventually at about 2am, he called 999 claiming he just discovered his housemate in the rear garden.
The 23-year-old was first treated as a witness before detectives found his blood on Mr Collins’s bike, and his mobile phone data matched the killer’s movements.
Clothes recovered from the lake were found containing blood and Coughlan’s DNA.
Bloodsoaked clothes were found in a duck pond around one-and-a-half miles from the crime scene (Picture: Avon and Somerset Police / SWNS)
Zack Coughlan was dressed in all black and worse a mask while waiting in hiding for his housemate (Picture: Avon and Somerset Police / SWNS)
The brazen killer told a university friend he wanted to organise a memorial for Mr Collins after the murder.
The student’s family described him as a ‘caring young man’ who was deeply passionate about equality and that ‘his unapologetic inclusivity will be his legacy for all of us.’
He was just two pieces of coursework away from graduating at the time of his death.
The family said: ‘Our family has been sickened that Zack Coughlan pretended to help Jamie when in fact he is responsible for killing him.
‘We even felt sympathy for Zack at the start, and asked police if he was okay, because of how he had initially deceived everyone.’
A have-a-go hero managed to fend off a man armed with a samurai sword using only his spirit level.
Aaron Messenbird, 32, was caught on camera swinging a sword and threatening members of the public in Milton Keynes on July 30.
Carrying the sword, he approached a small group of people who hanging out by a van.
He made threats towards them and ‘raised the weapon in a threatening manner’, police said.
One brave member of the public tried to wrestle the blade off him to protect his friends but suffered serious injuries to his hands, including a damaged tendon and a rib injury.
Builder is seen wielding a spirit level as a weapon to scare off Messenbird (Picture: Thames Valley Police)
Soon, two other men ran at him, one holding a spirit level forcingMessenbird to flee.
A short time later, Messenbird was seen walking along Silbury Boulevard while still carrying the sword.
He was arrested on August 5 and charged the following day.
Aaron Messenbird was jailed for a year (Picture: Thames Valley Police)
Investigating officer PC Jordan Buchanan-Kay, of the Central Milton Keynes Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: ‘This was a violent and unprovoked incident in which Messenbird threatened members of the public with a potentially lethal weapon before assaulting a man who had stepped in to protect others.
‘The victim suffered painful injuries, including damage to a tendon in his hand, as a result of Messenbird’s actions.
‘I would also like to acknowledge the bravery of the members of the public who intervened and helped prevent this incident from becoming far more serious. Their actions undoubtedly contributed to protecting others from harm.
‘However, we would always urge people not to put themselves in danger when confronted with somebody carrying a weapon. The safest course of action is to move to a place of safety and call 999 immediately, providing as much information as possible to help officers respond quickly.
‘I am pleased that Messenbird has been given a custodial sentence and hope this outcome provides reassurance to the victims and the wider community that violent offending involving weapons will not be tolerated.’
Messenbird, of Wandsworth Place, Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment at Aylesbury Crown Court.
The teenage sensation was expected to kick on this season but has found first-team minutes hard to come by and is yet to start a game in the Premier League.
‘As a young player, all you want to do is play football,’ Sinclair told Andy’s Bet Club. ‘In my experience, having been on loan six times during my spell at Chelsea, you just want to be playing for your parent club.
‘But when you aren’t, you have to go out on loan to gain experience and game time.
‘The longer you go without playing, the less match-fit you become, which makes it even harder to get into the side when an opportunity arises and that leads to doubt.
Chelsea beat Everton last time out (Picture: Shutterstock)
‘Only Estevao can decide what is best for him, but because he is so young, getting consistent game time is essential and having been in the same position, I’d say he should go and play.’
Chelsea hero Pat Nevin can also envisage a scenario in which Estevao agitates for a move away from Stamford Bridge.
‘I wouldn’t be surprised,’ he told GOAL. ‘Now it’s not exactly “you should leave, go now”.
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‘But your career only lasts a certain amount of time and you need a lot of games under your belt. And by the time you’re 20, 21, you kind of want a couple of hundred.
‘If you’re really top level, that’s who you are. You’re not getting bits of games here and there, you are an established player. And the real great players tend to have that.
‘Started very early, which he did, have great talent, which he has, and then play a lot of games and understand the importance of life within a game. And it’s a bit of a shame because it’s not happening.
‘So I wouldn’t be shocked if he looks elsewhere to get a game. On the other hand, if you’re Chelsea, you think, “what happens if Rogers or Palmer get injured? We need somebody.”
‘And it’s the classic difficult situation that players in the modern game find themselves in. But a player of that talent, don’t waste it on benches all your life. I get a feeling he won’t.’
Alonso has attempted to play down the growing speculation over Estevao’s future at Chelsea, insisting he will ‘have his moments and more minutes’.
Chelsea suffered a wobble before the international break but thrashed Bournemouth 5-1 last weekend before Saturday’s win at Everton.
