WE’VE had Richard and Judy and Eamonn and Ruth — now another pair are hoping to become telly’s latest golden couple.
I’ve learned that Jade Thirlwall and Jordan Stephens have been having meetings with production companies in hopes of launching a TV career together.
Jade, who was in Little Mix, and Jordan, known for being one half of Rizzle Kicks, started dating in 2020 and now want to start working as a double act.
A TV insider said: “Jade and Jordan are looking for a TV project to do together.
“They have been having discussions with production companies about what they think could work and exploring their options.
“At the moment they have been swaying more towards the idea of a documentary than a chat show, but it’s still early days.
“They have good chemistry and are very well connected so the world is their oyster.”
Jade became a regular on the box in 2020 on the prime-time BBC One series Little Mix The Search, where she and her bandmates went on the hunt for new talent to support them on tour.
But it didn’t return for a second series after the group decided to go on hiatus.
During the first lockdown she also hosted mini-series Served! for MTV which saw her have dinner with drag queens.
Jordan has more experience when it comes to presenting, as he is the host of the ITV2 panel show Don’t Hate The Playaz, which started in 2018 and is now in its fourth series.
A job on telly could be great for Jade but after a lengthy break from the limelight since kicking off Little Mix’s hiatus last May, it might be a shock to the system.
She will soon have to juggle that with the launch of her solo music career after signing a deal with RCA Records, which also released the group’s most recent two albums.
If her solo stuff sounds as good as her tunes with Little Mix, she should have no problem getting back in the charts, as well as on screen.
SHY GOES SEXY
SHYGIRL has more music on the way for the cult following she got since her debut album Nymph came out last September.
Asked at an event for Mercury Prize nominees if she has started working on new tunes, the singer revealed: “I just have.”
She will perform at the Mercury Prize ceremony on September 7 in London and said of her act: “It’s got to be sexy. Then you can’t go wrong.”
Sam’s in a Barbie world
BARBIEMANIA has taken hold, I can’t seem to walk 30ft without hearing someone going on about it.
And it seems the hit film has got Sam Smith’s attention.
The singer channelled an inner Ken doll on tour in the US by wearing this pink bomber jacket with a pair of blue checked shorts.
To note, reader, I have double checked and they’re definitely not just Sam’s pants.
Sam has a big week after dropping new song Desire, with Calvin Harris last week.
‘Evil’ slur on trans star Kim
KIM Petras says trolls told her she was going to hell after last year’s No1 collaboration with Sam Smith, Unholy.
German singer Kim, who is transgender, was also told online that she was “evil”.
She said: “The whole Unholy thing, all the controversy it caused, it took me back to my childhood.
“People were telling me that how I am is wrong and evil and that I’m going to go to hell because I am the way that I am.
“I’ve always felt that to some people I’m just going to be this evil creature that lives so unorthodox, that it’s not acceptable.”
Insisting she isn’t trying to “promote” being transgender, Kim continued: “I’m happy for people when they find however they can get through this life.
“I’m not promoting people to be how I am. I just want people to be able to be true to themselves and not be told that they’re evil for that.”
But the singer, who has just released her debut album Feed The Beast, said it was tough because it took a long time to realise she wasn’t “wrong” for being herself.
She told The Zach Sang Show on US radio: “I remember the first time I went to see doctors and psychologists and it was like, ‘You are wrong, how do we fix this?’ They tried everything to fix me.
“Like, ‘What if we put you on this, this and this, so maybe what’s wrong with you goes away?’.
“Realising that nothing is wrong with you is the most important thing.”
KEVIN Costner’s very public marriage split is rolling on.
The actor reckoned his wife was refusing to move out of their enormous California mansion.
Christine Baumgartner was ordered to shift by July 31 but now People magazine says she has relocated to a separate part of the complex.
A source said: “She will stay at a smaller house on the property that’s been used as a staff quarter.
“This is a temporary solution. She is still looking for another house.”
Mardy Cardi’s micro-thrown
MICROPHONES were flying during Cardi B’s visit to Las Vegas over the weekend.
The singer was seen lobbing hers at a DJ during a gig in Sin City after she accused him of cutting off her songs too early.
And a fan got a taste of the treatment too – when Cardi threw her mic at them after being soaked with a drink that had been thrown on to the stage at the venue, Drai’s Beachclub, as she performed her 2018 hit Bodak Yellow.
As you can see here, a video showed Cardi looking furious before she angrily threw the microphone at them.
Can we all please just put a stop to this ridiculous craze of throwing things on the artists who we’ve paid to see perform?
Whatever happened to just clapping?
JESS IS IN FOR THE TRIL
JESSIE Ware has made two disco albums with her past two records and a third is on the way.
The singer told me: “The thing that’s worked for me for the last few records is I get to the end and I go, ‘Now I know the next record I need to do and where I want to be’.
“It’s potentially the final piece of the puzzle after my LPs What’s Your Pleasure? and That! Feels Good!, that could be the end. A trilogy.
“I’ve got ideas. I’ll be back in the studio ASAP.”
Jessie released the video to her latest single Freak Me Now, a collaboration with Roisin Murphy, on Friday – but things didn’t go to plan when they shot it.
She explained: “Roisin is an icon to me. I lost my voice on the day of the video so I couldn’t tell her how much I adored her.”
A Slow burn for Anne-Marie
AFTER keeping her romance with Slowthai out of the spotlight, it seems Anne-Marie is finally ready to bring him up – but only in song.
The Psycho singer, who released new album Unhealthy on Friday, explained: “The album goes through phases of love.
“The first part of the album is leaving an ex, which was not a good relationship, and then meeting someone new and becoming obsessed, which is obviously not healthy.
“And the end song is a love song.”
She said of emotional tracks Never Loved Anyone Before and You & I: “I don’t normally write pure love songs.”
The singer teamed up with Khalid for the latter and said that, despite her success, she was still worried about getting other musicians to work with her.
She told Rebecca Judd on Apple Music: “I was quite nervous about collaborating.
“I was like, ‘Why would people be on a song with me? I make average music’.
“I think when you make your own music, you always feel like that. Or I did. And then, when I came out of lockdown, I was like, ‘Nah, I’m actually really good’.”
Anne-Marie will head out on tour next – and teased her fans by revealing she was upping the production values like never before.
She added: “I’m excited about this tour because I think a lot of the time throughout my career, it’s been a fight to be more creative.
“Because when you get people involved in a project like a pop artist, they know and they see a certain thing.
“So my shows have mainly been screen content and dancers and all this flashy stuff.
“And I’m like, ’Mate, I grew up in musical theatre and I love Kanye West’s and Tyler the Creator’s shows and all of these really amazing things’.
“So I’ve gone in and it’s very different to any other show I’ve ever done.”
Sophie puts on a knees-up
SOPHIE Ellis-Bextor shakes a leg as she warms up the crowd at Y Not Festival.
The Murder On The Dancefloor singer is a must-watch if you ever get the chance to see her live, and wowed the crowd in this gold sequin playsuit with an orange tassel jacket.
She took the audience in Matlock, Derbys, on Saturday through a medley of her greatest hits after revealing she believed festivals should be treated differently by artists.
Sophie said: “I’m a music fan. I’ve been that person, stood in that field thinking, ‘OK, how does this one go?’
“So I like to feel as if I’m in it together with them.
“I’ve been doing what I do for a long time now and you have to keep earning your right to be part of something.
“If people have given me their time, I don’t want to waste it.”
I watched Sophie again this year at Glastonbury and she had a massive crowd all up on their feet.
She definitely has the right idea.
POTTER GOLD
BACK To Hogwarts will return to King’s Cross Station in London on September 1, with Harry Potter fans descending to visit Platform 9¾ at 11am.
Tomorrow the search starts to find the fan who will be invited to help the iconic countdown on the concourse.
Entrants must be aged between five and 17 and submit a video of their countdown by August 7 at wizardingworld.com.