By SABRINA PENTY, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Published: 11:47 EST, 12 February 2026 | Updated: 14:36 EST, 12 February 2026

A teenage thug who stabbed a 12-year-old to death at random as he walked home from school can today be named as Kian Moulton.

In a legal victory for the Daily Mail, a judge ruled the 15-year-old could be identified as the killer of Leo Ross, who was ambushed in a park in the Hall Green area of Birmingham last year.

Moulton was jailed on Tuesday at Birmingham Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 13 years for Leo’s murder.

The Mail spearheaded a legal challenge with two other news organisations to argue Moulton should be named as the perpetrator of a shocking three-day rampage which culminated in Leo’s death.

Moulton – who was 14 at the time – dealt a single stab wound to Leo’s stomach and then callously pretended to be a witness by helping to raise the alarm on January 21 last year.

He even spun a fabricated account of how he had come across Leo’s body to police as paramedics desperately worked to save him a few feet away.

In one piece of bodyworn camera footage captured by officers, he said: ‘He was lay there like that when I got here…I didn’t touch him because that could put me in the case.’

He also viciously attacked three other lone women in the park, including an 82-year-old woman whom he pushed into a river and beat with her own walking stick, telling her: ‘I tried to drown you, but now I’m going to kill you’. 

Mr Justice Choudhury agreed on Tuesday to lift anonymity restrictions, telling the court: ‘This is a matter of substantial public interest.

‘Knife crime, particularly amongst youths, is a matter of grave concern. This was an unusual and disturbing pattern of escalating violence against random strangers.

‘The importance of a name (in media coverage) cannot be overstated.’ 

He rejected arguments from the defence that naming Moulton would hinder his rehabilitation, saying ‘the evidence of any progress made thus far by the defendant is scant’. 

Indeed, he said Moulton himself had been involved in repeated episodes of violence since being locked up in youth detention. 

‘There was a period last year when the defendant was involved in violence and serious acts every few days,’ he told the court. 

The judge did, however, agree to delay Moulton’s name being released for 24 hours to allow for any appeals against his ruling to be lodged.

Birmingham Children’s Trust, which is responsible for Moulton’s care, sought an extension of 24 hours to a stay on reporting his identity, but said its application had been refused.

The trust said it intended to apply for a judicial review of the decision to name the teenager, but on Thursday afternoon it said it had not made that application.

Alistair Webster KC, representing Moulton, had tried to oppose the Mail’s application to name Leo’s killer.

He said: ‘These were shocking offences which have caused a great deal of sadness and ongoing sense of loss to the family of the victims involved.

‘We recognise that the public and the press will be very interested in how the court deals with the sentence and what the sentence is.

‘But it is sometimes easy to confuse the public interest with an interest on behalf of the public.’

The Mail previously revealed Moulton had a reputation for violent delinquency in the Hall Green area of Birmingham where he lived and was well known to police.

He is understood to have been booted out of mainstream education and even a specialist pupil referral unit after breaking a teacher’s nose and bringing a knife into class.

His expulsion meant he routinely spent his days marauding around his neighbourhood – usually on a bicycle or a scooter – causing trouble and vandalising property.

Moulton’s sentencing hearing heard this week that he endured a difficult childhood which saw him exposed to domestic abuse, while his mother walked out when he was aged just four. 

The court was also told he had shown behavioural problems since the age of two.

A family friend told the Mail that, in the months prior to his arrest, Moulton had been terrorising a woman who had fallen out with his father.

‘There were a load of hoax calls going on because his son was phoning the police and sending them to her door for hoax calls,’ the friend said. 

‘This had been going on for about eight months. The police had to come out, they were knocking on her door.

‘They were going boot a door in.’

The family friend added: ‘I don’t think he’s a bad lad, I think he’s been raised in a bad environment.

‘There was quite a lot of abuse in that household. Personally, I think this was all his way of getting out of the house.’

The police were said to be in regular attendance at his house due to his anti-social behaviour. 

Exclusive CCTV obtained by the Mail showed the moment Moulton threw a brick through the window of a corner shop near his house in 2024. 

In the weeks before Leo’s murder, police removed Moulton from railway lines where he ‘had gone with the apparent intention of ending his own life’, the court heard this week.  

Another family friend said: ‘His mother disappeared at Christmas. There was a big argument on Christmas Day and she was gone.

‘Kian had been fighting at school, behaving badly to his dad. He’s been fighting in the park with other kids. He used to knock around with a few kids from Billesley but I think around here they all took a step back because he wasn’t the nicest of lads. He was a loner.

‘I last saw him the day the kid was killed, around an hour before it happened. He was walking up the road, talking to himself, shouting to himself, saying to himself what he was going to do and stuff like that. He was on his way out. He was just mumbling to himself.’

Moulton was told on Tuesday his sentence meant he will be considered for parole when he is just 27 years old. 

Speaking after the sentence was handed down at Birmingham Crown Court, Leo’s heartbroken mother Rachel Fisher said: ‘I think the sentence is ridiculous and the country is an absolute joke.

‘Nothing will bring my lovely Leo back, but with just 13 years it will just keep on happening.

‘This is why kids are killing kids – because the sentences are a joke. He’ll be out in his twenties and he’ll have a big reputation.’

The murder on January 21 last year was the sickening culmination of three days of serious violence perpetrated at random by Moulton against strangers in Trittiford Mill Park.

It emerged on Tuesday that, two days before the murder, he had pushed an 82-year-old woman into a river and told her: ‘I tried to drown you, but now I’m going to kill you’.

He went on to attack two other lone women before he fatally stabbed Leo – including one whom he targeted just half an hour prior to the killing. 

Police believe Leo was singled out that day because Moulton was ‘much physically bigger’ than him and the schoolboy represented an ‘easy target’. 

Passing sentence, Mr Justice Choudhury told Moulton: ‘What you did in the park last January was horrific and shocking. You went around the park looking for people to hurt. You chose people who were weaker and smaller than you. 

‘I hope you realise how cowardly your actions were.’

Opening the case for the prosecution, Rachel Brand KC described attacks Moulton had carried out against an 82-year-old woman and a 72-year-old woman on January 19 and January 20.

She said of the first attack, against Valerie Mann, 82: ‘(The defendant) approached her from behind and pushed her forcefully down and forward, she fell into the River Cole and into a ditch by the river.

‘He said to her “I tried to drown you, but now I’m going to kill you instead” and he struck her several times with her own walking stick.’

The teenage attacker then told her: ‘I would like to get some help, but you will tell on me.’

He went on to tell someone nearby: ‘There’s an old lady in the water and she needs help.’

She was left seriously injured and told police she thought she was going to die.  

The following day, Moulton attacked Christine Canty, 72, as she walked through the park, causing her to bleed ‘profusely’ from a head wound.

Then, on January 21, the delinquent teenager also attacked Diana Copplestone, 79, just half an hour before Leo was stabbed.

Leo had been walking home from Christ Church of England Secondary Academy School at around 3pm, wearing his school uniform with his jacket hood turned up against the cold. He planned to meet a friend of his by a tree in the park.

After attacking Ms Copplestone, Moulton was circling around the park on his bicycle ‘hunting’ for another victim to assault and spotted Leo. 

It is unclear precisely what happened next, but police believe Moulton pulled a four-inch kitchen knife out and stabbed Leo without much of a wider struggle.

Once he had inflicted the fatal blow, Moulton immediately pretended he had just come across Leo’s body and ran over to alert a member of the public who called the police.

He was arrested later that night on suspicion of assaulting Ms Copplestone, which led police to test his clothes for DNA – finding Leo’s blood on his t-shirt. The murder weapon, which was recovered near the River Cole, also had Moulton’s DNA on it.

Mr Webster, in mitigation, said Moulton, now 15, had ‘formidable mental health problems’.

He told the court that the teenager ‘shows recurrent episodes of self-harm’ and other ‘bizarre’ behaviour – such as hitting himself in the face and then storing his own blood.

The defendant was said to have been diagnosed with childhood conduct disorder and ADHD.

Mr Webster said: ‘The fact that Kian has these severe disorders is of no comfort at all to the family of the deceased and his victims, but it is important when looking to understand why this happened that it lay to a degree, even a significant degree, in the neurodevelopmental disorders from which he suffers.’

The court also heard emotional statements from Leo’s family and the foster family with whom he was living when he was killed.

Through tears, Leo’s mother set out the devastating effect his death had taken, telling the court: ‘Everyone has lost the most beautiful young soul – for what? We will never know why such an innocent young boy minding his own business, walking home from school, was robbed of his life for no reason whatsoever. It should never have happened.

‘To any mother, losing a child is the worst thing you can ever experience and losing my boy the way I did will haunt me forever.’

His father, Chris Ross, told Moulton to ‘look at me’ before reading out his own statement, saying: ‘You killed my son Leo Ross, I will never be the same again. It breaks my heart knowing Leo was alone and I wasn’t there to protect him, because of you.’

Amy Weston, one of Leo’s foster family, told the court the schoolboy loved crystals, Pokemon and animals. Referring to how Moulton had lingered at the scene pretending to be a bystander, she said it was evidence of a ‘complete lack of humanity and shows what a dangerous individual you are’.

Moulton previously pleaded guilty to Leo’s murder, as well as two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of possessing a knife. 

Sir Keir Starmer has said it was ‘offensive and wrong’ for Sir Jim Ratcliffe to claim that the UK ‘has been colonised by immigrants’.

The Prime Minister has told the Manchester United owner to apologise ‘immediately’, declaring: ‘Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country’.

As well as criticising UK immigration levels, Sir Jim also questioned whether Sir Keir was the right man to lead the country in an interview yesterday.

He said that the PM ‘may be too nice’ for the job and that ‘difficult’ decisions were needed by those in power to rescue the economy, which grew by just 0.1% in the final quarter of last year, official figures revealed today.

Responding to his immigration comments in a post on X, the Prime Minister wrote: ‘Offensive and wrong. Jim Ratcliffe should apologise.’

Sir Jim is also facing a backlash from Manchester United fans. Protest group The ’58 called him ‘a total embarrassment’. The Manchester United Supporters Trust said he was ‘marginalising’ the club’s fanbase.

But there has been some support for his comments, with Nigel Farage tweeting: ‘Britain has undergone unprecedented mass immigration that has changed the character of many areas in our country. Labour may try to ignore that but Reform won’t’.

Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe said: ‘Ratcliffe is right. And I respect him for having the balls to say it’, adding: ‘It [the UK] has been colonised by immigrants. That’s just a fact. No point pussyfooting around it’.

But Downing Street said Sir Jim’s remarks ‘play into the hands of those who want to divide our country’ and called on him to ‘immediately’ apologise.

A No 10 spokesman said: ‘Jim Ratcliffe should immediately apologise.

‘His offensive remarks are wrong and play into the hands of those who want to divide our country.’

In an interview with Sky News, the Ineos owner said: ‘You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. 

‘I mean, the UK has been colonised by immigrants really, hasn’t it? It’s costing too much money. The population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.’ 

The 73-year-old businessman also questioned whether Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is the right man to lead the country forward in a bombshell new interview, arguing ‘he may be too nice’. 

He added: ‘I don’t know whether it’s just the apparatus that hasn’t allowed Keir to do it or, or he’s maybe too nice – I mean, Keir is a nice man.

‘I like him, but it’s a tough job and I think you have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track, because at the moment I don’t think the economy is in a good state.’ 

The population of the UK was estimated to have been 70 million in mid-2024, according to the Office for National Statistics, three million higher than that recorded during 2020. 

A massive 65,922 illegal migrants have reached the United Kingdom since Sir Keir’s time on Downing Street began in July 2024 – that’s more than under any other PM in history.  

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who has been working closely with United on its stadium project, says Ratcliffe’s words ‘go against everything for which Manchester has traditionally stood’. 

‘Footballers who have arrived from all over the world to play in Greater Manchester have enhanced the life of our city region as have the many people working in Greater Manchester’s NHS and other essential services and industries’.

And Sir Keir’s Justice minister Jake Richards claimed this morning that the Ineos billionaire is ‘hypocritical’ to criticise the Government on migration, because he has ‘moved to Monaco to save £4billion in tax’.

‘One might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue’, he said.

Kick It Out – the anti-discrimination football campaign group – criticised Sir Jim’s comments, including the claim that the UK population has swelled by 12 million since 2020.

In a statement to the Press Association, Kick It Out said: ‘Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s comments are disgraceful and deeply divisive at a time when football does so much to bring communities together.

‘In addition to the inaccurate figures mentioned, it’s worth reminding him that Manchester United has a diverse fan base and plays in a city whose cultural history has been enriched by immigrants.

‘This type of language and leadership has no place in English football, and we believe most fans will feel the same.’

Sir Keir Starmer has come under mounting pressure and this week endured the toughest stint of his 18 months in office amid the scandal which saw Lord Peter Mandelson resign from government. 

He faced calls to resign from opposition leaders and, in a damning turn of events, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar also pleaded with him to walk away on Monday. 

But at a meeting with his Parliamentary Labour Party later that evening, the Prime Minister affirmed that he has no intentions to give up. 

Earlier on Monday he had received backing from both Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves which strengthened his position. Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham has also since shared his support for the under-pressure PM. 

In his new interview, Sir Jim revealed that he has met with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who he describes as ‘an intelligent man’.  

He added: ‘I think he’s got good intentions. But, in a way, you could say exactly the same about Keir Starmer. 

‘I think it needs somebody who’s prepared to be unpopular for a period of time to get the big issues sorted.’ 

One of Britain’s richest men, Ratcliffe has been widely unpopular with Man United fans since purchasing his stake in the club on December 24, 2023. His group also owns Ligue 1 side Nice after completing a takeover deal in 2019.

He is estimated to be worth around £17billion, according to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2025, making him the seventh wealthiest person in the country. 

However, in the last year alone, the Lancashire-born business owner has seen his riches decline by some £6billion, likely due to the expenses of running United.

‘I’ve been very unpopular at Manchester United because we’ve made lots of changes,’ he admitted. ‘But, for the better, in my view. I think we’re beginning to see some evidence in the football club that that’s beginning to pay off.’ 

The 219 migrants who reached British shores on Sunday, February 8, saw the total who have entered Britain during Sir Keir’s leadership surpass that under Boris Johnson.

One of Sir Keir’s first acts in office after the 2024 general election was scrapping the previous government’s Rwanda asylum deal.

The programme had been designed to deter crossings – and save lives – by sending migrants to the east African country to claim asylum there rather than here.

Labour’s flagship policy is a ‘one in, one out’ deal with France which allows a small number of migrants to be sent back across the Channel. 

The Lord Mandelson scandal brought Sir Keir’s tenure in government to the brink of disaster and preceded the resignations of a number of his most senior figures. 

After the disgraced Mandelson walked away to ‘avoid further embarrassment’, the PM’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney handed in his resignation on Sunday. 

McSweeney had been influential in the appointment of Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US – a decision he admitted was ‘wrong’ in a farewell statement. 

Later, Sir Keir’s communications director Tim Allen quit on Monday to ‘let a new team’ take over in Number Ten, he said. 

Despite the Labour leader seemingly strengthening his position following a meeting with his party later that day, fresh doubts have since been cast over his judgment. 

Sir Keir’s woes deepened amid claims he went ahead with a peerage for Lord Matthew Doyle despite knowing about his ties to paedophile councillor Sean Morton.  

Doyle has apologised for campaigning for Morton in 2017 – after the latter had been charged over indecent images of children – saying he believed his friend’s assertions of innocence.

Party chair Anna Turley is calling for Lord Doyle to be kicked out of the Upper House, insisting he did not tell the truth before being elevated by Sir Keir.

No 10 is adamant Lord Doyle’s actions were not known when the peerage was announced on December 10 last year.

However, there are mounting questions about the timeline, with the Sunday Times having claimed that No 10 looked into the issues beforehand.

The situation has been likened to that of Mandelson, with the PM’s allies blaming the vetting system for letting him down. 

Asked about the situation during a tour of broadcast studios this morning, education minister Georgia Gould said: ‘I think the decision, the announcement was made on December 10. I think the story was later in the month.

‘But I think the Prime Minister has looked at this afresh, given the commitment that he has made to ensure the highest standards in public life.’

In an earlier statement, Lord Doyle apologised ‘unreservedly’ for supporting Moray councillor Morton before the case against him had concluded.  

He said he also had ‘extremely limited’ contact with Morton after his conviction.  

The Scottish National Party had objected to Lord Doyle’s peerage and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch called on Sir Keir to publish ‘vetting advice and due diligence’ reports provided before his appointment to the Lords.

Labour had suspended Morton after he appeared in court in connection with indecent child images in late 2016.

Lord Doyle campaigned for Morton when he ran as an Independent in May 2017.

Morton admitted having indecent images of children in November 2017.

By ISABEL BALDWIN, US ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Published: 18:25 EST, 11 February 2026 | Updated: 22:58 EST, 11 February 2026

Investigators have discovered a black glove near Nancy Guthrie’s home that looks similar to the one her abductor wore in the chilling doorbell camera footage. 

The item was recovered by detectives about one and a half miles from the 84-year-old’s home on Wednesday, the 10th day into the search for her. 

The Daily Mail understands the lone glove, found lying in a small shrub, was bagged up and taken by authorities. They did not give a definitive answer on who it belonged to. 

On Tuesday, the FBI released shocking footage of a masked man wearing thick latex gloves as he tried to obscure the camera on Nancy’s front porch. That clip was the latest development in the missing persons case in over a week.  

The latest evidence retrieval comes as TMZ received a third ransom note earlier in the day, demanding one Bitcoin in exchange for information on Nancy’s kidnapping. 

Nancy, the beloved mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, was last seen on January 31 after returning home from dinner and a game night with her other daughter, Annie. 

She was reported missing on February 1 after her church friends grew worried when she failed to show up for services. Nancy has not been seen or heard from since. 

TMZ received the fresh note before 5am Pacific Time, and said the correspondence stated the sender has tried unsuccessfully to get in contact with Camron Guthrie, Nancy’s son, and Annie, her eldest daughter.  

In the message, the sender reportedly said they had information on the identity of the suspect who was seen at Nancy’s $1milion Tucson home the night she vanished.

‘If they want the name of the individual involved then I want 1 Bitcoin to the following wallet. Time is more than relevant,’ the note allegedly read.

The Bitcoin address listed in the note is reportedly legitimate and different from the one in an original ransom note that TMZ and two local news stations in Arizona also received.

TMZ host Harvey Levin appeared on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom earlier on Wednesday to confirm the outlet had received the third letter.

‘An hour and a half ago, we got, kind of a bizarre letter, an email from somebody who says they know who the kidnapper is and that they have tried reaching Savannah’s sister Annie and Savannah’s brother, to no avail,’ he said.

‘And they said they want one Bitcoin sent to a Bitcoin address that we have confirmed is active.

‘It’s a real Bitcoin address, and as they put it, time is more than relevant. So we have no idea whether this is real or not. But they are making a demand,’ he added.

The latest note came after the Pima County Sheriff’s Department detained a man for questioning in connection with Nancy’s disappearance. 

Delivery driver Carlos Palazuelos, the man taken into custody, later declared his innocence and revealed he had been questioned for hours on Tuesday night and into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

It is unclear why police focused on Palazuelos, but it came hours after authorities released the first surveillance images of a suspect seen lurking near Nancy’s home on January 31, the night she was taken.

The suspect was seen in an all black outfit, including a mask, backpack and black gloves. Police have yet to identify who the person in the camera is. 

The device was missing by the time sheriff’s deputies arrived that morning. 

After his release around 1am local time, Palazuelos said he didn’t know about Nancy’s kidnapping. 

‘They told me I was being detained for kidnapping. I asked them, “Kidnapping of who?”,’ he told KNXV after he was set free. 

Federal authorities said they were looking at more than one ‘person of interest’ after receiving a deluge of tips following the release of doorbell camera footage. 

FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News that the bureau’s outreach to the private sector has shown ‘there might be persons of interest in and around the area related to this event.’

Patel did not elaborate on who may be under suspicion, but said authorities were working to eliminate anyone who might not actually be involved.

He added that the agency’s first priority was finding Nancy and ‘right behind that is to find any others involved in this kidnapping case to make sure they’re brought to justice.’ 

TMZ is one of three outlets that received alleged ransom notes in connection with Nancy’s abduction. 

Unidentified sources involved in the investigation had earlier told the outlet that officers believe the ransom notes that were sent to the networks were, in fact, written by the kidnapper. 

The notes also reportedly provide clues on where the suspect lives, with sources noting that the person who sent the letters was intimately familiar with the media in Tucson, and included specific references to damage at Nancy’s home and the placement of some of her possessions – details that have not been shared with the public.  

After spending time with her daughter and her husband, Tommaso Cioni, on January 31,  Nancy was driven back home by her son-in-law. 

By 1.47am, Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected, with the newly released footage showing the suspect ripping the camera from its holder on the door frame.

Another video released by officials showed the masked individual attempting to cover the lens with a clenched fist, then searching the area around the door, ripping a bunch of flowers from the entranceway, and waving them at the camera.

Less than 30 minutes later, her security camera detected movement. Her pacemaker stopped transmitting data to her Apple Watch and phone shortly afterwards, suggesting she had been taken out of the devices’ range.

Since her disappearance, Savannah and her siblings have taken to social media pleading for their mother’s safe return home. They continue to hold onto hope that she is still out there. 

Danniella Westbrook has been on a journey to rebuild her face and confidence after her tumultuous history with substance abuse.

The actress, 52, became hooked on drugs at 14 after shooting to fame as Sam Mitchell in the BBC One soap EastEnders.

At the height of her addiction, it was reported she would take up to five grams of cocaine a day, blowing close to £250,000 on the drug.

Years of substance abuse caused severe facial damage, including the collapse of her nose after her septum deteriorated.

On Tuesday, Danniella, who is now sober, revealed she had gone under the knife once again as part of her ongoing bid to rebuild her face.

From reconstructive operations to cosmetic tweaks, the TV star has never shied away from sharing the full extent of her surgeries with fans. 

Earlier this week, Daniella underwent the knife for a full face, neck and brow lift in addition to a lip and nose reconstruction.

New pictures showed her wearing a hospital gown in her room before going for the surgeries. 

A full recovery from a face, neck and chin lift can take up to nine months.

The surgery was performed by Danniella’s trusted Surgeon Dr Parviz Sadigh, who has carried out operations on her in the past.

In an Instagram post shared last month, Danniella said: ‘A massive amount of love and respect to my Amazing surgeon @parvizsadigh for all his hard work.

‘Everyday I grow and glow xxxx thank you and roll on Feb for the next operation.’

Her latest operation is just one of many interventions she has had over the years. 

The soap star previously revealed she nearly died following a botched surgical procedure in 2015.

She suffered from severe facial bone degradation, which she attributes to osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become weak and brittle.

Danniella was left with screws for teeth as her cheekbones ‘wasted away,’ and revealed she now wears a whole denture that sits on the roof of her mouth.

In 2018, she told The Mirror: ‘They need to take a piece of bone out of my skull and put a plate into my face but they’ve got nothing to stick the plate on at the minute because the bone’s not strong enough.’

While she was appearing on Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, she was rushed out of the house for emergency surgery on her teeth.

‘The bone hadn’t closed around the screws so they took me out of the house three times to a dentist, which they’re not meant to, because the pain was so bad,’ she said.

She ended up staying in hospital for seven weeks, during which she developed septicaemia.

‘I did nearly die, I had two lots of IV drips in each side and then they took all my teeth out again and gave me this denture which has broken my heart because I didn’t need all of my teeth out in the first place,’ she explained.

In 2022, the star revealed her desire to have her rib placed into her cheek to help reconstruct her face. 

‘I hate the way I look. I’m constantly made fun of, and trolled for it,’ she told The Sun.

‘People message me, saying: “You’re so ugly, you’re a junkie, you should just go and kill yourself.”

Danniella continued: ‘I’ve got to a point where looking like this upsets me, so I’m going to make a change — not because of what others think but so I can be happy with the way I am.’

She also noted at the time that it would help her breathing and sinus issues.

In 2023, Danniella had a thread lift, liposuction into her cheeks and lips, and fat grafting on her chin and jawline in Turkey.

In gruesome surgery photos, the actress is bloodied and bruised in her hospital bed and said when she first woke up, she looked ‘like she had done 10 rounds with Tyson Fury’.

Danniella said she has wanted to have the reconstruction done for the last seven years, but was unable to find a surgeon who would operate because her septum had completely collapsed.

She told The Sun: ‘I was very fearful. My mum and my son Kai were on the phone constantly – I wrote up a will before I left and my son is the executor of that.

‘But luckily I’m still here and I’ve come through the other side. Someone is looking over me. I looked like I’d gone 10 rounds with Tyson Fury.

‘But the swelling has actually gone down really quickly. I’m already happy with the results.’

Danniella said she paid for the surgery all herself despite being offered freebies from clinics all over the world, after a health scare the year before left her in intensive care because she struggled to breathe through her nose.

She previously revealed she needed five operations to correct her ‘collapsing’ face due to a previous cocaine addiction and osteoporosis, and was planning to have it done on the NHS.

She previously told The Sun in 2023: ‘I’ve spent the last seven years trying to get somebody to do it, but they said no in case it failed and they got struck off.

‘Plastic surgeons wanted £500,000 to change my face, so I thought I was never going to get it done. It was only because I went into intensive care before Christmas.

‘I couldn’t breathe because I had a cold. There was a build up of fluid and after I fell asleep I couldn’t wake up properly and ended up in ICU.

‘I was sent over to Aintree Hospital in Liverpool and it’s only because I was put in front of the right doctors, or else I’d still be waiting now to find someone. They’re doing it for me under the NHS now.’

However, just months after the surgery, the actress shared her regret over her fifth facial reconstruction in Turkey, which left her in agony.

Danniella, who cannot take pain relief medication due to her past cocaine addiction, because it contains codeine, said she woke up in agony and was left fearing for her life. 

She told OK!: ‘I had a surgical thread lift where they put over 1,200 threads into my face. They were also supposed to reconstruct my nose, which is what I went there for, but they haven’t done that.

The star said she was going back to her surgeon in Liverpool to get her nose fixed – saying they will rebuild all the bridge in her mouth and build up the front of her nose.

She said: ‘They’ve taken the fat out of my back, my sides and my stomach, and put it into my face to make it more symmetrical. But I feel like they’ve taken too much fat from my stomach. I’ve always had a six-pack, and I’ve woken up, and I’ve lost it.

‘I also have big lumps of fluid all over my belly. They’re like big tennis balls. It’s ruined my body. It’s going to take a lot of work to get it back to how I was. I’m 50 this year, and I wanted to be in the best shape ever.’

In June 2025, the actress revealed she’s finally getting her face rebuilt as she headed into ‘very long’ surgery after it was reported that she hated the result of her previous facial reconstructive surgery.

Taking to Instagram, she shared an image of herself clad in a hospital gown, noting that it was a ‘big day’ for her as she prepared to go under the knife once again.

She penned: ‘Big day for me heading down for a very long surgery right now to rebuild my face. Then I can get back to work and we can get on with our life together @chasarealtal. I love you x.’

Danniella is also no stranger to a boob job, having admitted to undergoing at least seven in the past.

Appearing on Channel 5’s Celebrity Botched Up Bodies, she told how she went from a 34B to a 34D, and up again to a 34DD.

The actress said she ignored her surgeon’s warnings when she asked him to boost her bust, as she wanted ‘huge footballs’.

‘He said this isn’t going to look right, you’re too small, your body frame’s not right… but I didn’t care, I literally begged him to do it,’ she explained. 

‘I went huge like footballs, I thought they were great.’ 

In 2018, Danniella disclosed that she’s had surgery she never needed, including liposuction on her knees.

‘I’ve had cosmetic surgery I haven’t needed, including seven boob jobs, an eye lift, a face lift, Botox and liposuction on my knees,’ she told The Sun.

‘I’d like to say that I wouldn’t have plastic surgery again in the future, but I probably would,’ she added.

Danniella’s latest surgery comes after she was rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties in December.

She was due on set for her new movie role Tales From The Trap but was then recast in the film amid health issues – which came after years of complications due to her collapsed septum.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail at the time, insiders revealed the star, who has not starred in a film or TV show since mid-2016, was forced to seek medical attention due to her respiratory struggles.

Tales From The Trap, where she was set to star opposite Love Island star Liv Hawkins, marked Danniella’s return to the screen, having scooped the role of a gun-selling, gangster granny – yet she has been recast by Slow Horses star Kim Tiddy.

A source close to Danniella said in December: ‘Danniella was rushed into hospital on Friday with breathing difficulties which meant she had to pull out of filming Tales From The Trap…

‘She was due to make her movie comeback as a gangster granny selling AK47s to the gangsters. It’s really disappointing as I am sure everyone was looking forward to seeing her play that part.’

Danniella last appeared on TV on Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, where she reached the final, finishing in first place.

She also competed on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2003, before going on to star on Dancing On Ice in 2010, and appearing on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks three years later.

Britney Spears has quietly cashed in on her pop legacy, selling off the rights to her iconic music catalog in a blockbuster deal.

The 44-year-old pop superstar put pen to paper on a sweeping agreement that hands over her ownership stake in decades of chart-topping hits – including …Baby One More Time and Toxic.

Legal documents show the catalog was sold to music publishing powerhouse Primary Wave, though the exact price tag has not been disclosed, TMZ reported on Tuesday.

The outlet’s sources described the transaction as a ‘landmark deal,’ with estimates placing it in the same league as Justin Bieber’s reported $200 million catalog sale.

The records reveal Britney signed off on the agreement on Dec. 30 – and the insider said she’s happy with the decision and celebrating by ‘spending time with her kids.’

Daily Mail has not received a response to its request for comment from reps for Spears.

Spears shares her two sons, Sean, 18, and Jayden, 17, with ex-husband Kevin Federline, whom she was married to for just under three years before their 2007 split. 

The pop princess now joins a growing wave of superstar artists cashing in on their catalogs, following major names like Bieber, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Shakira, KISS, Sting and Phil Collins. 

The trend has exploded in recent years as legacy acts lock in massive payouts for their music rights. 

Notably, Stevie Nicks sold an 80 percent stake in her publishing catalog to Primary Wave in 2020, with her copyrights reportedly valued at around $100 million at the time.

Spears’ catalog is widely regarded as one of the most valuable in modern pop, built on a hitmaking run that began with her 1999 debut.

Since 1999’s Baby One More Time, which sold over 10 million copies worldwide and spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, she has racked up 11 No. 1 singles, more than 30 Top 10 hits, and nine studio albums. 

Hits like Toxic, Oops!… I Did It Again, Gimme More, Circus, and Womanizer have all gone multi-platinum, with cumulative album sales exceeding 100 million worldwide.

Her songs have earned multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Video Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards, and they continue to generate massive streaming revenue, with billions of streams across Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. 

In addition, her tracks are in constant rotation on radio, film, commercials, and TikTok trends, giving the catalog long-term commercial earning power that few artists can match. 

The catalog sale comes as the singer has reignited tensions with her family, taking fresh aim at those closest to her amid the lingering fallout from her conservatorship battle. 

Spears claimed she is ‘scared’ of her family and ‘lucky to be alive’ in a bombshell new social media post.

In a bombshell social media post, the pop superstar claimed she is ‘scared’ of her family and ‘lucky to be alive.’

Four years after ending her 13-year conservatorship, largely controlled by her father Jamie Spears, 73, Britney slammed her relatives for ‘isolating’ her and insisted they will ‘never take responsibility’ for their actions.

‘I’m incredibly lucky to even be alive with how my family treated me once in my life and now I’m scared of them,’ the singer wrote in a lengthy caption.

‘They will never take responsibility for what they did,’ she wrote, adding, ‘We can forgive as people but u don’t ever forget.’ 

Spears also revealed her latest health setback, explaining she hasn’t been able to dance after breaking her toe twice – just four months after suffering a ‘horrible’ leg injury.

Nancy Guthrie’s family has said they do not recognize the terrifying masked figure caught on camera outside her home as investigators started combing through bushes near her daughter Annie’s home.

Federal officers finally released doorbell camera footage from the home of Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother on Tuesday, after ten days without any leads into the 84-year-old’s disappearance. 

The images show an armed figure clad in a ski mask and carrying a backpack, wearing black latex gloves. The suspect can also be seen tampering with the mother-of-three’s Nest doorbell camera.

In the footage, the suspect rips the camera from its holder on the door frame. The device was missing by the time sheriff’s deputies arrived that morning.

The individual also attempts to cover the lens with a clenched fist, then searches the area around the door before ripping a bunch of flowers from the entranceway and waving them at the camera.

Nancy’s three children have since said they do not recognize the suspect in the video and are pleading with the public for help catching the kidnapper, NBC News reports.

‘We believe she is still alive,’ Today Show host Savannah Guthrie wrote as she shared the images to Instagram. ‘Bring her home.’ 

Just hours after the disturbing footage was released, officers were seen going door-to-door in the neighborhood around Annie Guthrie and her husband Tommaso Cioni’s home, also asking nearby businesses for surveillance footage. 

Other agents were seen searching a junkyard, bushes behind Annie and Tommaso’s home as well as another house at the far end of their street. 

Neighbor John Grove even told the Daily Mail that investigators asked to search a dry river bed on his property.

‘The cops wanted to know if they could go through that wash next to my house – I said they could,’ he recounted. ‘I asked if it was related to the kidnapping and they said “We can’t tell you that.”

‘They’re playing their cards close to their chest,’ Grove added.

‘I just hope she didn’t get into any difficulties around here – it’s very harsh terrain,’ he said. ‘We had a guy the other day who just moved here and got lost and died.

‘For someone like her, well, it wouldn’t end well.’ 

Annie and Tommaso were the last people to see Nany before her disappearance on January 31, after she went to their house for dinner.

Tommaso then dropped her back off at her house at around 9.48pm and her garage door closed at approximately 9.50pm, according to police.

By 1.47am, Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected, with the newly released footage showing the suspect ripping the camera from its holder on the door frame.

Another video released by officials showed the individual attempting to cover the lens with a clenched fist, then searching the area around the door, ripping a bunch of flowers from the entranceway, and waving them at the camera. 

Another clip shared by the FBI showed the individual hunched over as they made their first approach to the door, bowing their head. 

The terrifying footage was finally recovered on Tuesday after FBI agents and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department conducted a deep dive into Nest’s backend systems, as Nancy did not have a Nest subscription – which would have automatically uploaded the images and saved them to a cloud storage platform. 

Savannah Guthrie has since shared the haunting stills on Instagram, saying: ‘We believe she is still alive. Bring her home.’ 

Nancy was reported missing after failing to attend a virtual church service with friends, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said.

Since then, law enforcement has continued to comb over the home, which sits on a large lot on a street with no lights, while Guthrie and her two siblings, Annie and Camron, plead for help in finding their mother. 

Annie and Tomaso have said they realized Nancy was missing around 11.10am last Sunday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office said.

They reported her disappearance to police at 12.15pm. Her phone, wallet, vital daily medications and car were still at her Catalina Foothills home. 

Cioni said he saw his mother-in-law enter her home through the garage before driving off the night before at around 9:45pm MT.

Investigators found drops of blood on Nancy’s front porch that were later confirmed to be hers and that her doorbell camera was disconnected at around 1.45am. 

Less than 30 minutes later, her security camera detected movement. Her pacemaker stopped transmitting data to her Apple Watch and phone shortly afterwards, suggesting she had been taken out of the devices’ range. 

Nancy requires medication every 24 hours and it is unclear if whoever abducted her has ensured she has access to her medication. 

A ransom note sent to multiple news outlets last week set an initial deadline of Thursday evening and a final deadline of Monday evening. 

The notes are said to have made specific reference to damage to Nancy’s home and the placement of a possession, both details that have not been shared with the public.

It is unclear if those specific pieces of information were accurate. 

Guthrie said she and her family were taking the demands seriously but there has been no official update on whether the notes’ contents have been verified and if their senders really are holding Nancy captive. 

Efforts to negotiate with the alleged captors also stalled, as a digital wallet referenced in the first letter for a potential transaction remained empty, according to TMZ, which was sent a copy of the note.

Once the payment was made, the alleged kidnappers claimed they would return Nancy to Tucson within 12 hours, the outlet reported. 

After Monday’s deadline passed, the FBI said it ‘is not aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers.’ 

The bureau is now leading all elements of the investigation in connection with Nancy’s kidnapping, including alleged ransom notes. 

Louise Thompson’s partner Ryan Libbey has admitted he has struggled to come to terms with the fact they are planning to use a surrogate to have another child.

The TV personality, 35, has been documenting her experience on social media after revealing her plans to expand her family, after almost dying while giving birth to her son Leo in 2021 following an emergency caesarean. 

After Leo’s birth, Louise went on to suffer with PTSD and post-natal anxiety due to her near-death experience and has since been diagnosed with Lupus, Asherman’s syndrome, suffered a second haemorrhage, and has also had a stoma bag fitted.

The couple recently explained how they are embarking on IVF and plan to use a surrogate to add to their family. 

Ryan has admitted though that it has taken him a long time to accept that Louise wants to have another child, and the fertility treatment his partner will have to endure. 

Louise broke down in tears in a recent episode of their podcast He Said She Said as Ryan explained: ‘I am still struggling to accept it.

‘My motivation to enter this journey with fertility and surrogacy is because you were effectively robbed of being a mum to a newborn because you were so unwell.

‘Regardless of what I’m about to say next, I think that is really, really sad and unfair, and not how it should be at all for any woman.

‘That alone is enough of a reason for me to… I don’t want to say go along with because that makes it sound like I haven’t considered it, but that’s enough pull for me to say yes to the idea of IVF and surrogacy.’

He then added though that surrogacy is ‘still a really f**king bizarre thing for me and I am still struggling to accept it but that does not detract from the reason for it’.

Louise told him that ‘nothing makes me happier than hearing you say that’, because she said that it helped her to hear him open up on his thoughts as previously he would shut down any conversation about adding to their family. 

‘If I tried to talk about it before, like in the car or something – I remember when we were going down to the Cotswolds – and you were like “I don’t want any of this, I can’t do it, you’re forcing me into something I don’t want to do”,’ she said.

‘I know now that you’re saying those things from a place of fear, and you’re pushing away the conversation because what you’re actually carrying is the fear that maybe we can’t make this work, because we’ve got a long journey ahead and also that you’re 50% of this, and there’s a contribution from both sides.

‘It’s going to require an awful lot of work in order for us to have another baby. But I feel like we have turned a corner with it. I feel like we are now really aligned.’

‘Surrogacy, and I don’t think we’ve really like said that out loud publicly, but that is going to be the only way that we will be able to have another baby and as you said it’s something that I think as like a man you really really struggle to to understand.’

Ryan explained though that his fears lie with the fact that Louise will be ‘voluntarily putting yourself back into’ hospital environments again.

‘When you put on a gown and have a blood test, that’s enough to send me off into a bad space,’ he admitted.

‘And then, seeing you laying in a bed after a procedure, like the egg retrieval, which is nothing compared to what you’ve previously had, still hurts me.’

‘It’s a very different thing being in it yourself and then witnessing someone you love going through something like that.’ 

Louise got tearful as she agreed, saying ‘it’s it’s a very different thing, isn’t it? Being in it yourself and then witnessing someone you love go through something like that.’

Taking to Instagram on Friday, Louise shared an update on her fertility journey as she announced herself and Ryan have one embryo ‘in the freezer’ after undergoing IVF. 

Sharing the news, Louise posted a picture of a bouquet of flowers Ryan gave her with the message: ‘You did it. One in the freezer for safe keeps x.’

She captioned the picture: ‘One in the freezer for safe keepy’s. ✨ Inside that sentence is a universe. If you’ve listened to the latest episode of our podcast then you might already know what this stands for.

‘For those of you that haven’t – Ryan isn’t always comfortable communicating about this fertility stuff at home… sometimes he’ll even threaten that it’s too much for him to handle, but this bunch of flowers was all I needed to reassure me that we’re reading from the same hymn sheet. And he is VERY good at using words when it’s really needed. 

‘This was NEEDED. You can imagine how much this bunch of flowers meant to me… even when exchanged in silence at the end of a very long grey working day.’

Louise continued: ‘In truth those words hold years of planning, weeks of needles (years including the biologic-jak inhabitor-biologic switch), scans, waiting rooms, clenched jaws, forced optimism, and tears, lots of tears. 

‘It’s the kind of bravery nobody gives you a medal for – and why would they because we’re chosen to pay to go through this process when we could just… not. We could just accept the cards we’ve been dealt. But I don’t want our past trauma to dictate our future.

‘For those who know this road well, it needs no explanation. Staring at wee sticks. Counting follicles like prayer beads. Tracking bloods meticulously. Learning a whole new language in the hope that it will help us edge closer to our goal.

‘By educating I thought I could control the outcome. But this isn’t predictable like other areas of my life. There is no playbook.’

Detailing their IVF journey, Louise added: ‘From our first cycle we went from seeing 20+ gooood looking follicles on the scan, to getting 8 eggs retrieved to holding onto hope that many of them would make it to day 5. 

‘I did a lot of research and looked at many many stats for people in a similar situation to me (and us), but every case is SO individual and we ended up with just one. One embryo. One possibility. Not the perfect outcome. Especially with an amh averaging 25.

‘It makes me wonder if something else is wrong. Not enough to say “we’re done”. But a chapter where something worked. And that feels like an ok place to start. So we’re letting ourselves process that.

‘One in the freezer. One in our hearts x.’

Molto panico in Downing Street yesterday. Wickets were falling. Master strategists were gobbling cyanide pills. Aides scurred right and left and further left, white-faced, trousers flapping.

Yet one figure appeared – at the time of writing, anyway – to be going nowhere. Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, was safe in his roost. Why? Of all No 10’s advisers, he was arguably the most culpable for the disarray of the Starmer Government.

You may not have heard of Jonathan Nicholas Powell. He prefers it that way. Whereas Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney long seemed to relish their demonic reputations, Mr Powell is one of life’s spectral figures. He is an eminence grise, a flitterer in the shadows, a half-sensed shape that shifts in the gloaming to whisper words in ears, impart viscous advice and ease his own survival prospects.

It is now widely accepted that Mr Powell was one of the two vital sidekicks who encouraged Sir Keir Starmer to appoint Lord Mandelson as our ambassador to Washington DC. The other was Mr McSweeney and he, accepting the dreadfulness of the mistake, has departed. Pouff! Gone in a puff of hemlock.

Like a midge on the windscreen of an accelerating car Mr Powell clings on for dear life, and so far his suction pads are working.

Although the title of National Security Adviser may not sound exciting, some at Westminster call Mr Powell ‘the real Foreign Secretary’. Yvette Cooper occupies that great office of state in name, yet it is said she has little influence over policy or the major appointments.

It is to the tousle-haired Powell that Sir Keir defers on geopolitical strategy. It was he, not Ms Cooper, whom Sir Keir had at his side when he met China’s president Xi Jinping in Beijing a fortnight ago. Powell was a picture of patrician languor that day, pushing back his chair from the table and crossing his legs. How conceited he looked. A year ago he was at the White House, too, carrying an enormous briefcase when Sir Keir met Donald Trump.

If Mr Powell, 69, looks to-the-manner born, it may not be surprising. His much older brother Charles was Mrs Thatcher’s foreign affairs adviser. Jonathan himself joined the Foreign Office in 1979 and held various middle-ranking positions, possibly intelligence related, until he had a lucky break. In the early 1990s he was on a posting to Washington when he was told to get close to a ‘no-hoper’ presidential candidate Bill Clinton. When Mr Clinton entered the White House, Powell suddenly became the Foreign Office’s hottest expert on US affairs.

That good fortune brought him to the notice of Tony Blair, newly elected leader of the Labour Party, who was eager to muscle in with President Clinton. Blair asked Mr Powell to become his chief of staff. He remained in that job during the decade of Blair’s premiership. When we handed Hong Kong over to the Chinese, Powell was there. When we did a deal with the IRA to stop their war, he was in the thick of things – it was almost as if he derived a thrill from meeting gnarled Provos who had led the terrorist campaign.

And after Manhattan’s Twin Towers were destroyed, and as George W Bush’s neo-cons took the US to war in Afghanistan and then Iraq, it was very much Powell who was supervising our involvement. The then British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, asked Downing Street how it wished him to proceed. Back came the message from Powell: ‘Get up the a*** of the White House and stay there.’

If the instruction was coarse, simplistic, self-lowering, it was perhaps instructive. Mr Powell is one of those Left-wing baby boomers who has a low opinion of his own country. He is so ashamed of our history – so warped by post-imperial guilt – that he thinks we should grovel to foreign powers, or in the case of the IRA, to Ulster hoodlums.

In those Blairite days he worked closely with Peter Mandelson. Mandelson was so amused by Mr Powell’s shimmering efficiency that he nicknamed him ‘Jeeves’, after the ‘gentleman’s gentleman’ in PG Wodehouse’s comic novels. The fictitious Jeeves has the ability to enter a room unnoticed. Jeeves always knows how to get his chinless wonder of a master out of scrapes.

Wodehouse’s Jeeves is a benevolent figure. The same cannot be said of Powell. The Iraq War was an enormous mistake, costly in blood, treasure and historical consequences. It only emboldened Islamism. Hundreds of British service personnel died, as did hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

When Blair left No 10, his successor, Gordon Brown, did not retain Mr Powell’s services. The Blairites and Brownites had got along badly, as Powell detailed in a joltingly indiscreet book.

When he published that bitchy account of the Blair-Brown struggles, he perhaps little suspected he would ever return to Downing Street. But when Sir Keir won the 2024 election, he soon appointed Mr Powell as his envoy to negotiate the so-called deal that has come to be called the Chagos Isles surrender. Britain offered to give away the ownership of its strategically vital air base in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, which had no historical connection with the Chagos Isles.

More than that, Mr Powell agreed that we would pay billions of pounds for future use of this base – which we already own! The driving emotion behind this dreadful idea was, again, our old friend post-imperial guilt. When Donald Trump regained the US presidency in 2024, Britain had an excellent, professional ambassador, Karen Pierce. She knew the Trump team well. She was colourful, congenial and able to put the case of British interests without offending Mr Trump. But Downing Street – more particularly, Jonathan Powell – developed the view that Ms Pierce would not do. It was decided that a politician was needed. A man. Someone who could speak Trump’s locker-room language.

Trump is admittedly a rum piece of work, but would Ms Pierce not have been a better choice? The usual procedure is to trust the professional diplomats. And ‘usual procedure’, as we know, is Sir Keir’s default setting. But someone talked him into defying civil service convention.

If you will permit me to join the dots, it may be worth recalling that when Powell became No 10’s chief of staff in 1997, special arrangements had to be made to allow him and Alastair Campbell (both political appointees) to work in positions that should have been held by impartial mandarins.

The Blairites, most notably Powell, have never had time for civil service convention. They regard the rules as an inconvenience. They place greater premium on personal connections, ‘who you know’, on the nod-and-wink approach, politics as the milieu of rich men and schmoozers and pals. This is the foetid swamp in which the Mandelson appointment was made, with the connivance of both the fallen Brother McSweeney and the still-untoppled Powell.

Had Sir Keir only had more belief, in himself and his country, he would have kept Karen Pierce in place. A prime minister with some national pride might also have told international lawyers to take a running jump when they pressed him to surrender the Chagos Isles.

Instead we have a National Security Adviser (National Self-Loathing Adviser, more like) who reveres our country’s critics and caves in to our opponents. And somehow, when so much else is falling to pieces, he survives. It is baffling. And wrong.