News about Victoria Derbyshire

As a GP, Dr Fiona Baber felt sure she knew better than most how to recognise breast cancer symptoms. So when in 2012 the then 49-year-old felt a strange sensation in one of her breasts, she brushed it off as nothing. 'When you're a GP you're taught to examine breasts for lumps and I couldn't feel anything, so I assumed that it was fine,' she said. 'But when I leaned over in the shower and pressed my fingers against my breast, I could feel one area that seemed slightly denser.' Two months on, the sensation hadn't disappeared. So Dr Baber, who ran a surgery in Southampton, made an appointment with another local GP. He couldn't feel anything either - and simply told her to come back in a month if she still felt worried. But by this point Dr Baber was desperate for an answer, so she made an appointment with a private specialist. After a series of scans and tests, her worst fears were confirmed - she had breast cancer.

During her first interview since the BBC published the findings of its Strictly 'bullying' inquiry, Amanda Abbington revealed how she had suffered 'one of the worst years of my life'. Wearing black and with her hair scraped back into a bun, the actress told Newsnight's sympathetic host Victoria Derbyshire: 'I've been through a lot. Women go through a lot. But it has been a very unpleasant, turbulent, relentless time in my life.' The 'lot' that Ms Abbington alluded to undoubtedly included the toxic row with her former dance partner Giovanni Pernice.

Amanda Abbington has claimed Giovanni Pernice made a shocking sexual gesture at her after she got a dance move right during rehearsals for Strictly Come Dancing. The actress, 52, said she is considering further action against the BBC after the Corporation apologised to her following her complaints over Mr Pernice, 34. In an interview with Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight on Wednesday, Ms Abbington described her experience in the rehearsal room with Mr Pernice, where she said she 'lost all sense of reality'.

Liz and Damian Hurley made sure all eyes were on them as they put on a very fashionable display at the Future Dreams Ladies Lunch hosted by Estee Lauder Companies at The Savoy Hotel on Thursday.  Liz, 59, looked sensational as she posed up a storm in a bright pink off the shoulder midi dress.  Adorned with a dramatic neckline of pink ruffled flowers the actress looked positively radiant as she beamed in snaps beside her son. 

'I didn't say anything, I didn't scream. I just got up, went to the sink and washed it off.' That was how BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire reacted after her abusive father threw scalding soup over her as a child. The broadcaster has spoken of the traumatic abuse she suffered at the hands of her father which included her being beaten with a wooden spoon and hit with a belt. She described her reaction while being covered in scalding soup, saying:   'I just looked at him with contempt in my eyes - and he could see it.'

Oasis has hit out at Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing system after a furious backlash from fans - as they announced two extra Wembley shows.  The band took to social media this evening, revealing extra shows at the London arena on September 27 and 28 next year.  Oasis said of the dynamic pricing system: 'As for the well reported complaints many buyers had over the operation of dynamic ticketing: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used. 

The row over tickets for the Oasis reunion has escalated as Ticketmaster insists it was the band who introduced the £350 'dynamic pricing' fans are raging about. Many dedicated music-lovers queued for eleven hours battling to get their hands on the gold-dust passes yesterday.  An estimated 14million people had desperately vied to secure their spots at the gigs but many hit out at Ticketmaster over its 'disgusting' 'In Demand' prices reaching as high as £350, plus fees. Today, Cabinet minister Lucy Powell questioned the 'transparency' of Ticketmaster pricing for Oasis tickets after she managed to bag two tickets for the hotly-anticipated reunion tour - but at a steep price.

Celebrities have hit out at the Oasis ticket fiasco as they joined the 14 million fans vying for tickets to the band's sought after reunion tour. Thousands spent this morning waiting in lengthy online queues in the hope of securing a ticket for one of next year's shows. While some were kicked off Ticketmaster before they were able to make a purchase, others have shared their horror at inflated 'in demand' prices as high as £350. TV and radio presenter Dan Walker posted on X: 'There has got to be a fairer, simpler, more efficient way of selling tickets that isn't so open to touts, scammers, resellers & bots. #Oasis

As the BBC continues to tie itself in knots over who knew what about Huw Edwards, they might want to consult Victoria Derbyshire, who was working on an expose of Edwards for Newsnight. Meanwhile, reporting on Edwards's guilty plea last week on News at Ten, Clive Myrie made the unprecedented on-air claim that BBC News reports 'without fear or favour'. There are some in the BBC who wouldn't agree.

It was an unlikely career trajectory for the presenter once best known for her speed with arithmetic on Countdown - but Carol Vorderman's reinvention as a political commentator is all but complete. Vorderman, 63, went to war with the BBC 's Laura Kuenssberg at the weekend, accusing the veteran political journalist of bias during an interview with Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey on her Sunday show. Kuenssberg had qualified her congratulations to the Lib Dems for winning more than 70 seats with the phrase 'I suppose', prompting Vorderman to call for the BBC to replace her with fellow presenter Victoria Derbyshire. Responding to the clip, the maths whiz had written on X: 'Vic D is exceptional and gives them all a hard time if that is what's needed. She knows her detail and cuts through with any bias. BBC is lucky to have her.' And in the two days since that interview aired Vorderman has tweeted nothing but politics - praising Labour's new education secretary and congratulating the Lib Dems and the Greens on their new arrivals to Parliament

Kuenssberg is facing a backlash and has been accused of 'bias' after her grilling of  the Lib Dem leader, with people on social media branding her introduction of the MP as 'rude' and disgraceful. However, it was the veteran political journalist's use of the phrase 'I suppose' in the introduction which sparked outrage online - with many demanding the BBC sacked Kuenssberg. Wading into the backlash, former Countdown star Vorderman, 63, appeared to call on the BBC to drop Kuenssberg from her political show and replace her with veteran presenter, Victoria Derbyshire.'Time for #bbclaurak to become #bbcVictoriaD don't you think? @vicderbyshire Quite extraordinary,' she wrote on X, adding: 'Vic D is exceptional and gives them all a hard time if that is what's needed. She knows her detail and cuts through with any bias. BBC is lucky to have her.'

Investigative reporter Michael Crick has joined a backlash against changes to the flagship BBC2 current affairs programme as part of corporation-wide plans to save £500million. The show, currently presented by Victoria Derbyshire, is lined up to be cut from 40 to 30 minutes while losing more than half its staff - with a new approach involvement more Question Time-style live debates. Its team of dedicated reporters is being dropped and the show's own investigative films will cease, in a move ex-Newsnight political editor Crick today condemned - as he warned a 'grossly inferior' show is likely. Viewers of Newsnight, which launched in January 1980, have almost halved to 300,000 since 2020 - while Jeremy Paxman 's final show in 2014 was watched by 1.1million people, though this was double the average at the time.

Nima Moradi insisted the government's 'stop the boats' plan - which finally passed through Parliament on Monday night - will have hardly any deterrent effect. He admitted he had been granted asylum in Greece, then pondered a move to Germany before deciding on the UK. Asylum seekers who have made it have been receiving Home Office letters warning them they risk being flown to Rwanda because they failed to seek asylum in the first 'safe country' they passed through. But migrants camping in Dunkirk on the northern French coast have been declaring they will still try to cross to UK - and keep coming back even if deported.

Last night, the BBC's Newsnight descended into chaos after an eco-protester unfurled a 'protect our rivers' banner before being barred from attending Victoria Derbyshire's house. After being handed a microphone as Derbyshire progressed to pollution in the last minutes of the programme, Angela Jones said the River Wye is on the brink of ecological demise. Jones triggered a demonstration by releasing a banner, but Derbyshire politely told her, 'Thank You Angela.'

Newsnight will soon host more live debate shows as it takes inspiration from Question Time and chooses a new editor in a battle to reclaim lost viewers. Jonathan Aspinwall, who has worked with the corporation for 27 years and now runs BBC News Podcasts, will lead the news and current affairs program. He will be executive editor four months after the BBC decided to cut more than half of the show's 60 employees and minimize it to 30 minutes in order to save £7.5 million. While struggling to recover viewer numbers in recent years, the BBC is struggling to make £500 million of savings in the face of rising inflation and a licence fee freeze. Viewers have nearly halved to 300,000 since 2020, with Jeremy Paxman's final exhibition in 2014 bringing in 1.1 million, but this was double the normal at the time. Mr Aspinwall, who edited Laura Kuenssberg's Sunday newsnight, would 'lead Newsnight' as it progresses into a debate, discussion, and interview-based programme,' according to the BBC.

This week, Buckingham Palace officials will consult with aides to Prince William to discuss how to cope with the fallout from anti-racism allegations following the publication of Omid Scobie's book Endgame. According to one source, the two families would gather to discuss all aspects of responding, with 'time and care' being taken before any decisions are made. Following allegations that King Charles and the Princess of Wales remarked on the skin colour of Prince Archie, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son, in the Dutch version of the novel, all options are thought to be 'on the table,' including court action. Charles, who returned to the United Kingdom after many days at the COP28 environment summit in Dubai last week, is reported to be taking the book's furore seriously.' Charles is expected to discuss the situation with senior advisors during the week, as well as doing his duties with aides, saying it would be 'business as usual' with royals to be seen as 'rising above' the row.

The King is taking the controversies over the Omid Scobie book'very seriously' and will consult senior advisors next week on the family's next move. In a Dutch-language version of the ill-reviewed Endgame, two senior royals - rumored to be the King himself and his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales - were listed as having been identified by Meghan over a 'concern' being expressed about her future son's skin colour.' It includes the possibility of court action. It comes as Scobie, who appears on BBC's top Newsnight show, was 'hurt' and 'frustled' by the week's events.

Since other media outlets revealed their names last night, Good Morning Britain named the two in the show's opening credits. 'The Princess of Wales made no comment at the Royal Variety display in London last night, and it was business as normal for the King at the climate conference in Dubai,' the royals who wondered what color skin Prince Archie would have,' said.'

Since the Dutch translator of Endgame announced the pair were named in the manuscript she was sent, Omid Scobie has decided not to apologize to the two senior royals' over Prince Archie's skin colour. Scobie said, 'It's not for me to apologise because I still want to know what's happened in a dramatic BBC interview with Victoria Derbyshire:' The book, which he was 'completely overshadowed by an event that's caused me a lot of anxiety,' the royal author said. The two royals Meghan was accused of having 'concerns' over 'how dark' Prince Archie would be,' according to Scobie's Dutch-language book, and presenter Piers Morgan followed them on live television last night.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The random selection of two royals convicted of bigotry could make King Charles' task of retaining foreign thrones more difficult. Barbados is no longer a republic, but other Commonwealth nations, Jamaica, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda all have a growing republican sentiment. A referendum in Saint Kitts and Nevis is currently underway. This new anxiety from a Sussex cheerleader will not be welcome by the monarch.

Ms Kuenssberg (left) returned to her flagship programme with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday morning after being out of the show for four weeks. She last appeared on the political talk show on October 1 when she interviewed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Conservative Party conference, but she took some time off after her father, Nick Kuenssberg (pictured right) died later that evening. The BBC journalist missed four episodes of the programme, with her colleague and Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire filling in while she was absent. Ms Kuenssberg tweeted ahead of her return to the show this morning: 'Looking forward to being back on #bbclaurak this Sunday - thank you very much for all the kind messages in the last few weeks, and to @vicderbyshire for holding the fort!'

During the tense discussion with Naftali Bennett on Sunday, she began, "I know the BBC has taken the Gazan side because all your questions concern the Gazan civilians, not the Israeli ones,' Host Victoria Derbyshire says.' When the politician continues, he says 'I suspect you care very little about them." Ms Derbyshire then protests: 'Before I talked to you, Mr Bennett, I spoke with a veteran Palestinian politician, and I asked her about the massacre of Israeli civilians in southern Israel.' Moments later, the dramatic interview is abruptly cut short as Mr Bennett, who is based in Tel Aviv, abruptly stops mid-sentence.

AMANDA PLATELL: Is there proof, aired on the BBC, that Brand exposed himself to Olivia?That there was nothing conceivably 'consensual' about Brand pulling out his wares after blocking her in a lavatory saying he wanted to f*** her?Could it be the BBC radio clip that finally sinks Russell Brand?

LIZ O'RIORDAN: I noticed it in the mirror four weeks ago when washing my hair after a shower. Just to the left of my mastectomy scar, I have a little red mark on my chest. I might have sworn it was not there the day before. It didn't hurt, but I could feel a tiny firm nodule-like lump under the skin as I went for it. I knew exactly what it was. For the third time, my breast cancer came back. Over me, a chilling, nauseous sensation washed. I went to see my husband, Dermot, and he gave me a hug. But was it a local recurrence, where the cancer returns in the same area as the initial tumour? Three years ago, I had one of these, three years after my first breast cancer diagnosis.