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Love Island star Wes Nelson rushed to hospital just days before UK tour starts

The reality star and singer is due to head out on a UK tour from tomorrow.

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 8th May 2023

Former Love Island star-turned-musician Wes Nelson has revealed he has been rushed to hospital over the bank holiday weekend.

The 25-year-old singer said that he ‘randomly started to lose vision/consciousness’ while at home on Sunday.

His health scare has happened just days before he heads out on a UK tour, which includes a show at the Manchester Academy 2 on 12 May.

Wes said that he managed to make it to his neighbours’ house, who got him an ambulance.

He shared a selfie from hospital in his update to fans on his Instagram page.

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Thankfully, the reality star-turned-musician has been given the all-clear to carry on with his tour, and wrote that he feels ‘LOADS better’ today.

Wes wrote on Instagram: “So yesterday I randomly started to lose vision/consciousness in my house!

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Wes Nelson in hospital
Wes Nelson in hospital. Credit: Instagram, @wes.nelson
Wes Nelson
Wes Nelson. Credit: Publicity picture

“Managed to get to my neighbours’ who took care of me and got me to hospital in the ambulance.

“Won’t go into detail but we did a bunch of tests throughout the day and they’ve told me I’m all good now.

“I feel LOADS better today. Got the green light for tour tomorrow. See you in Glasgow.”

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Wes rose to fame on the fourth series of ITV2’s Love Island, where he coupled up first with Laura Anderson and then bombshell Megan Barton-Hanson.

He’s since appeared on shows like Dancing on Ice, The X Factor: Celebrity, Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and The Games.

Wes released his first single See Nobody with Hardy Caprio, which peaked at number three in the UK singles charts.

You can book tickets for Wes Nelson’s gig at the Manchester Academy 2 through See Tickets.

Featured image: Instagram, @wes.nelson

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One of the 2025 Oscar winners was a favourite at a recent film festival in Manchester

Danny Jones Danny Jones A Real Pain wins Oscars UK Jewish Film Festival Manchester

It’s not often we get to say that Greater Manchester can lay any sort of claim to Oscars fame, but once in a while it happens and in this case, we’re only a few degrees of separation away from the latest Academy Award-winning film thanks to a recent film festival.

Being most recently hosted in Manchester once again, the 2024 edition of the UK Jewish Film Festival saw a number of shorts, student films and indie projects associated with the religion spotlighted – one of which just won not one but two bits of bronze.

Picking up not only the award for this year’s award for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ for the film itself but with Succession favourite and Home Alone child star, Kieran Culkin’s role winning him ‘Best Supporting Actor’, the much-celebrated A Real Pain has now won an Oscar.

But the part of all this that we’re especially happy about is that one of the first times it was seen in the UK happened right here in Manchester city centre late last year.

This year’s ‘Best Original Screenplay’ award winner at the Oscars, just a few months after screening in Manchester. Have you seen it yet?

The now Oscar-winning picture, which just so happens to be the second original feature film from Jesse Eisenberg (Social Network, Zombieland, Justice League), has been delighting audiences ever since its debut at Sundance in January 2024 and went on to premiere at several international film festivals.

However, the second time it was screened here in Britain prior to its official UK release nearly a full 12 months later (8 Jan 2025) at the UK Jewish Film Festival, was in 0161, returning for another consecutive year across multiple Greater Manchester venues.

Based at the main hub in the HOME theatre, cinema, arts and social space on First Street, A Real Pain was part of the event’s 28th annual programme of movie and TV programme.

Without giving away too much about the plot itself, the synopsis of the film reads as follows: “Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.”

Shown to us Mancs for the first time at Cineworld Didsbury on Thursday, 17 November last year, you won’t be surprised to hear it was one of the most popular picks of this festival too.

A Real Pain has been largely described as a buddy comedy and a road trip movie by lots of critics but there’s also tonnes of drama and serious subject matter that it gets stuck into.

Touching not only the obvious themes of Judaism and Zionism but also family, the Holocaust specifically and theology in general, the film has gone down as a deeply important piece of cinema for a whole community and plenty of people beyond it.

Admittedly, the Greater Manchester connection to the film might only be a slight one but given its new Oscars fame and how well-reviewed the film has been ever since we saw it at the UK Jewish Film (UJFF) Festival, we’re absolutely jumping on the bandwagon and we’re glad to keep supporting events like this.

Make sure you check out the UJFF the next time it comes to our neck of the woods. Applications to enter a film into the 2025 festival are now open.

Side note: it also led to arguably one of the best acceptance speeches in years:

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Featured Images — Searchlight Pictures/HOME Manchester

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New trailer and images have dropped for BBC series Ten Pound Poms, starring Michelle Keegan

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Michelle Keegan in Ten Pound Poms on the BBC. Credit: BBC/Eleven Film/Lisa Tomasetti

A new trailer and images have been dropped for the BBC’s Ten Pound Poms, starring Michelle Keegan.

The Stockport-born actress has been filming Down Under for the drama, which will return for a second series on Sunday 9 March.

Ten Pound Poms comes from the same BAFTA-award winning writer as Fool Me Once and Brassic, Danny Brocklehurst, and follows a group of Brits leaving post-war Britain to embark on a life-changing adventure on the other side of the world.

As we head into season two of the BBC drama, it’s now 1957 and our stars are trying to make their Australian dream a reality.

The cast includes Michelle Keegan as nurse Kate Thorne, who’s trying to forge a future for herself; Faye Marsay and Warren Brown as Annie and Terry Roberts.

A new trailer and first-look images for the return of the BBC series have been released this week ahead of its return to our screens next week.

Ten Pound Poms is back on BBC for season two. Credit: BBC/Eleven Film/Lisa Tomasetti
Ten Pound Poms is back on BBC for season two. Credit: BBC/Eleven Film/Lisa Tomasetti
Ten Pound Poms is back on BBC for season two. Credit: BBC/Eleven Film/Lisa Tomasetti
Ten Pound Poms is back on BBC for season two. Credit: BBC/Eleven Film/Lisa Tomasetti

In the trailer, we see Robbie (Nic English) share a tender moment with Kate as they rekindle their friendship, as well as meeting a new character for the first time.

All episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer from 6am, with weekly BBC One transmission from 8pm on Sunday 9 March.

It’s made by Eleven (Sex Education, Red Rose) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One in a co-production with Stan, which airs the series in Australia.

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Featured image: BBC/Eleven Film/Lisa Tomasetti

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