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Sarah-Jane Crawford claims the BBC made her work for "seven days a week, 10 weeks straight".
The 34-year-old presenter left her show on BBC Radio 1Xtra earlier this year following more than six years with the station and has revealed she had to leave because she needed a break.
She exclusively confessed to BANG Showbiz: "It was very full on, and there was one point when I was doing seven days a week, 10 weeks straight. I didn't know whether I was coming or going."
The former 'The Xtra Factor' host has now moved to Los Angeles where she is trying to work on her TV career and hopes it will be more appropriate as she'll be able to have time off.
She continued: "In life it is good to have the yin and the yang. It is nice to go full steam ahead, it is nice to take your foot off the break, and it is nice to leave the country. So, for me, I need a bit of variation."
Meanwhile, she has supported her Radio 1 pal Nick Grimshaw following the harsh criticism he has received during his stint as a judge on 'The X Factor'.
She said: "I was thinking about this last night - I think it is a show that is so big that a lot of people have their opinions of it and I think he is doing a great job, he does not need my help.
"We are both cut from the same cloth, we have come from a similar background: E4, BBC Radio, he is doing his thing, and I think he was doing really well."
Sarah-Jane Crawford worked too hard at BBC
Sarah-Jane Crawford claims the BBC made her work for "seven days a week, 10 weeks straight".
The 34-year-old presenter left her show on BBC Radio 1Xtra earlier this year following more than six years with the station and has revealed she had to leave because she needed a break.
She exclusively confessed to BANG Showbiz: "It was very full on, and there was one point when I was doing seven days a week, 10 weeks straight. I didn't know whether I was coming or going."
The former 'The Xtra Factor' host has now moved to Los Angeles where she is trying to work on her TV career and hopes it will be more appropriate as she'll be able to have time off.
She continued: "In life it is good to have the yin and the yang. It is nice to go full steam ahead, it is nice to take your foot off the break, and it is nice to leave the country. So, for me, I need a bit of variation."
Meanwhile, she has supported her Radio 1 pal Nick Grimshaw following the harsh criticism he has received during his stint as a judge on 'The X Factor'.
She said: "I was thinking about this last night - I think it is a show that is so big that a lot of people have their opinions of it and I think he is doing a great job, he does not need my help.
"We are both cut from the same cloth, we have come from a similar background: E4, BBC Radio, he is doing his thing, and I think he was doing really well."
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Jess Wright has "always been self-critical."
The 'Only Way is Essex' star, who underwent a boob job in 2011, may have a figure most would dream for but she has admitted she's always been one to nitpick at the minor details because she's plagued with self-doubt.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, she said: "I wouldn't say I have much confidence. I've got insecurities like most girls. I'm always self-critical. Everyone tells me off but that's just who I am."
However, since the brunette beauty turned 30 late in September, she has realised she has no choice but to work with what she's got and to embrace her assets.
She explained: "You kind of just have to work with what you've got as well and there comes a point where you just have to embrace what you have."
Meanwhile, the reality star believes 'TOWIE' is the biggest cause for her lack in confidence but she tries not to take the negative comments she's received via social media sites to heart.
She explained: 'TOWIE' can make you feel less confident. Or, in other ways, I guess it does make you feel confident. It depends on the circumstances.
"I just brush off the negative comments. I don't really let it get to me. I might take it to heart, depends, say you have a storyline in the show that you're involved in and it's not shed you in a good light, it does get to you."
Self-critical Jess Wright
Jess Wright has "always been self-critical."
The 'Only Way is Essex' star, who underwent a boob job in 2011, may have a figure most would dream for but she has admitted she's always been one to nitpick at the minor details because she's plagued with self-doubt.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, she said: "I wouldn't say I have much confidence. I've got insecurities like most girls. I'm always self-critical. Everyone tells me off but that's just who I am."
However, since the brunette beauty turned 30 late in September, she has realised she has no choice but to work with what she's got and to embrace her assets.
She explained: "You kind of just have to work with what you've got as well and there comes a point where you just have to embrace what you have."
Meanwhile, the reality star believes 'TOWIE' is the biggest cause for her lack in confidence but she tries not to take the negative comments she's received via social media sites to heart.
She explained: 'TOWIE' can make you feel less confident. Or, in other ways, I guess it does make you feel confident. It depends on the circumstances.
"I just brush off the negative comments. I don't really let it get to me. I might take it to heart, depends, say you have a storyline in the show that you're involved in and it's not shed you in a good light, it does get to you."
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Caroline Flack "cried" after the first live weekend on the 'X Factor'.
The 36-year-old presenter - who hosted the ITV show alongside singer Olly Murs - admits she found the criticism "overwhelming" but insists she has got used to it after 12 years in the industry.
She said: "I cried after the first live Sunday night. The reaction was quite overwhelming because I didn't think people would be talking about how I look, how I stand, how I walk, or how I laugh. But I've been in this industry for 12 years, and you get used to the criticism. I know how the game works.
"Not everyone is going to like you all the time, not everyone is going to think you're beautiful, but there is a difference between opinion and abuse. Opinion is fine but I need to stop giving the negative people air time because they love it."
And Caroline admits it is her own choice to put herself on prime time television and insists the criticism is outweighed by the positives of her job.
She added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I put myself out there and can't moan. I have a really good job, and a really good life. The good bits outweigh the bad by a mile. I don't ever want to feel ungrateful. If I couldn't handle any more, I would go home and get out of the media industry."
Caroline Flack’s X Factor tears
Caroline Flack "cried" after the first live weekend on the 'X Factor'.
The 36-year-old presenter - who hosted the ITV show alongside singer Olly Murs - admits she found the criticism "overwhelming" but insists she has got used to it after 12 years in the industry.
She said: "I cried after the first live Sunday night. The reaction was quite overwhelming because I didn't think people would be talking about how I look, how I stand, how I walk, or how I laugh. But I've been in this industry for 12 years, and you get used to the criticism. I know how the game works.
"Not everyone is going to like you all the time, not everyone is going to think you're beautiful, but there is a difference between opinion and abuse. Opinion is fine but I need to stop giving the negative people air time because they love it."
And Caroline admits it is her own choice to put herself on prime time television and insists the criticism is outweighed by the positives of her job.
She added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I put myself out there and can't moan. I have a really good job, and a really good life. The good bits outweigh the bad by a mile. I don't ever want to feel ungrateful. If I couldn't handle any more, I would go home and get out of the media industry."
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Koo Stark has reportedly pulled out of 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The 59-year-old actress - who previously dated Prince Andrew - is said to have departed from the show only days before she was due to enter the house.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Koo has remained discreet about her fling with Andrew but bosses hoped the other celebs might get her chatting and she would spill some juicy royal secrets."
And whilst Koo - real name Kathleen Dee-Anne Stark - is set to miss out, the other housemates will be treated to a "theatrical and dramatic" theme.
Of the Vaudeville team, host Emma Willis previously revealed: "It's going to be quite a theatrical and dramatic theme. The house will look theatrical and plush. And the garden is like an old Whitechapel street, Jack the Ripper-style, which will be amazing.
"We're going to basically see an amazing period drama play out over the weeks. It's about testing how good they are as actors. Will their masks slip? There's always going to be a sinister side to any 'Big Brother' theme and I'm sure there was a sinister side to Vaudeville. So it's going to be Big Brother being naughty and messing with them."
Koo Stark pulls out of Celebrity Big Brother?
Koo Stark has reportedly pulled out of 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The 59-year-old actress - who previously dated Prince Andrew - is said to have departed from the show only days before she was due to enter the house.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Koo has remained discreet about her fling with Andrew but bosses hoped the other celebs might get her chatting and she would spill some juicy royal secrets."
And whilst Koo - real name Kathleen Dee-Anne Stark - is set to miss out, the other housemates will be treated to a "theatrical and dramatic" theme.
Of the Vaudeville team, host Emma Willis previously revealed: "It's going to be quite a theatrical and dramatic theme. The house will look theatrical and plush. And the garden is like an old Whitechapel street, Jack the Ripper-style, which will be amazing.
"We're going to basically see an amazing period drama play out over the weeks. It's about testing how good they are as actors. Will their masks slip? There's always going to be a sinister side to any 'Big Brother' theme and I'm sure there was a sinister side to Vaudeville. So it's going to be Big Brother being naughty and messing with them."
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Sam Faiers says being a mother is the best 25th birthday present.
The former 'The Only Way Is Essex' star and partner Paul Knightley welcomed their first child - a baby boy - into the world on Tuesday (29.12.15), just two days before she turned 25.
Sharing a picture of a birthday cake in front of her newborn son on Instagram, she wrote: "Waking up a mummy on my birthday is the best Present anyone could ever wish for. (sic)"
Meanwhile, Sam previously revealed she feels "blessed" to have had such a nice pregnancy.
She told BANG Showbiz: "I've had absolutely nothing and I feel really blessed actually. I'm lucky. Obviously I hear a lot of symptoms that mums-to-be have but I've managed to kind of override it all and I've had a nice pregnancy, which is good.
"There's a little bit of tiredness here and there and obviously as I'm getting bigger now, doing things like putting your shoes on aren't as easy, but everything else is fine. It's been absolutely fine. Honestly, I feel better now than I ever have done before. I feel fabulous! I just can't wait to see her or his little face."
New mother Sam Faiers turns 25
Sam Faiers says being a mother is the best 25th birthday present.
The former 'The Only Way Is Essex' star and partner Paul Knightley welcomed their first child - a baby boy - into the world on Tuesday (29.12.15), just two days before she turned 25.
Sharing a picture of a birthday cake in front of her newborn son on Instagram, she wrote: "Waking up a mummy on my birthday is the best Present anyone could ever wish for. (sic)"
Meanwhile, Sam previously revealed she feels "blessed" to have had such a nice pregnancy.
She told BANG Showbiz: "I've had absolutely nothing and I feel really blessed actually. I'm lucky. Obviously I hear a lot of symptoms that mums-to-be have but I've managed to kind of override it all and I've had a nice pregnancy, which is good.
"There's a little bit of tiredness here and there and obviously as I'm getting bigger now, doing things like putting your shoes on aren't as easy, but everything else is fine. It's been absolutely fine. Honestly, I feel better now than I ever have done before. I feel fabulous! I just can't wait to see her or his little face."
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Kim Woodburn wants to turn to acting.
The 'How Clean Is Your House?' star would love to play a "silly old bag" in a comedy series or show off her more dramatic side in a period piece.
She admitted: "I'd love to be in a sitcom - I'd like to play the silly old bag.
"I'd love to have a part in a costume drama too - like Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' or the part that Maggie Smith plays in 'Downton Abbey'. I'd be a right old biddy!"
The 73-year-old television personality hasn't embraced all aspects of modern life and admitted she is hopeless with technology.
Asked if she ever Googles herself, she said: "I'm 73! I was brought up with a pen and pad. I can't even turn on a computer. I can't text, I can't Google, I can't take selfies. The 21st century has passed me by."
Though she thinks she's a "good homemaker", Kim doesn't think she has many talents away from domesticity.
She said: "I'm good at housework, crochet, knitting and sewing.
"I'm a good homemaker, but apart from that, not really. I'm flaming useless."
Kim Woodburn wants acting role
Kim Woodburn wants to turn to acting.
The 'How Clean Is Your House?' star would love to play a "silly old bag" in a comedy series or show off her more dramatic side in a period piece.
She admitted: "I'd love to be in a sitcom - I'd like to play the silly old bag.
"I'd love to have a part in a costume drama too - like Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' or the part that Maggie Smith plays in 'Downton Abbey'. I'd be a right old biddy!"
The 73-year-old television personality hasn't embraced all aspects of modern life and admitted she is hopeless with technology.
Asked if she ever Googles herself, she said: "I'm 73! I was brought up with a pen and pad. I can't even turn on a computer. I can't text, I can't Google, I can't take selfies. The 21st century has passed me by."
Though she thinks she's a "good homemaker", Kim doesn't think she has many talents away from domesticity.
She said: "I'm good at housework, crochet, knitting and sewing.
"I'm a good homemaker, but apart from that, not really. I'm flaming useless."
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Ben Collins thinks a reinvention will be good for 'Top Gear'.
The 40-year-old stunt driver - who was the show's masked mystery driver The Stig from 2003 until 2010 - believes the show will benefit from Chris Evans taking over and altering the format as it has been running in the same way for so long.
He said: "It was an absolute riot coming up with this off wall stuff but it's very hard to be new and innovating when you're producing that many shows every year and the audience becomes wise to your tricks and they expect more with bigger and better all the time and it does become very hard.
"I think there are very few formats that survive. It's usually three or four years max. 'Top Gear' had that format for about 12 or 13 years so it was a very long time and I think that definitely everyone gets to come back with something different."
With Chris taking over the BBC show, former hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will front a new motoring series of Amazon, and Ben thinks that's great news for viewers.
He told BANG Showbiz: "I think that will be true of both shows.
"Fans get the best of both worlds because if they want to follow the original trio they can and still get something new on BBC."
Ben Collins: Top Gear needs change
Ben Collins thinks a reinvention will be good for 'Top Gear'.
The 40-year-old stunt driver - who was the show's masked mystery driver The Stig from 2003 until 2010 - believes the show will benefit from Chris Evans taking over and altering the format as it has been running in the same way for so long.
He said: "It was an absolute riot coming up with this off wall stuff but it's very hard to be new and innovating when you're producing that many shows every year and the audience becomes wise to your tricks and they expect more with bigger and better all the time and it does become very hard.
"I think there are very few formats that survive. It's usually three or four years max. 'Top Gear' had that format for about 12 or 13 years so it was a very long time and I think that definitely everyone gets to come back with something different."
With Chris taking over the BBC show, former hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will front a new motoring series of Amazon, and Ben thinks that's great news for viewers.
He told BANG Showbiz: "I think that will be true of both shows.
"Fans get the best of both worlds because if they want to follow the original trio they can and still get something new on BBC."
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Louis Walsh will only watch American soaps.
The former 'X Factor' judge, 63, has been able to free up his weekends for the first time in 11 years after being dropped from the primetime show earlier this year but he has admitted he's not interested in supporting UK programmes.
He said: "I'm a TV addict. I only watch American soaps. I don't like the UK soaps at all. I've never watched any of them, ever! I don't even know who's in them.
"I'm watching 'Orange is the New Black,' I'm on series two. And I've just finished 'Empire' - series one - it's the best. 'Empire' is the best. And I watch the 'Good Life' and all that. I'm a bit of an addict if I'm honest."
However, despite stepping away from his 'X Factor' chair, the music manager - who mentored the likes of Westlife and Boyzone through success in the 90s - is still rushed off his feet with various projects in his native Ireland.
He explained to BANG Showbiz: "I still love coming over to London. After all these years, I still love doing it. But I love living in Dublin. I'm working at the moment with a new boy band called Home Town and I'm working with Shane Filan from Westlife."
Louis Walsh: I only watch American soaps
Louis Walsh will only watch American soaps.
The former 'X Factor' judge, 63, has been able to free up his weekends for the first time in 11 years after being dropped from the primetime show earlier this year but he has admitted he's not interested in supporting UK programmes.
He said: "I'm a TV addict. I only watch American soaps. I don't like the UK soaps at all. I've never watched any of them, ever! I don't even know who's in them.
"I'm watching 'Orange is the New Black,' I'm on series two. And I've just finished 'Empire' - series one - it's the best. 'Empire' is the best. And I watch the 'Good Life' and all that. I'm a bit of an addict if I'm honest."
However, despite stepping away from his 'X Factor' chair, the music manager - who mentored the likes of Westlife and Boyzone through success in the 90s - is still rushed off his feet with various projects in his native Ireland.
He explained to BANG Showbiz: "I still love coming over to London. After all these years, I still love doing it. But I love living in Dublin. I'm working at the moment with a new boy band called Home Town and I'm working with Shane Filan from Westlife."
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Spencer Matthews is in Tanzania building an ophanage.
The 'Made in Chelsea' star is reportedly on a charitabe trip in the East African country to "give something back", after he was booted out of the 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!' jungle last month when producers discovered he'd been taking steroids.
'I'm a Celeb' series winner Vicky Pattison revealed Spencer's whereabouts in her column for new! magazine, and said: "I haven't seen Spencer yet because he's away in Tanzania teaching kids English and building an orphanage. He obviously felt really bad about everything, and wanted to get away and give something back."
The news comes after the 27-year-old hunk mysteriously left the jungle before even making it to the main camp and later announced that he'd "screwed up".
But it is thought that he has since been working hard to fight his addiction and reportedly went into rehab immediately upon his return home from Australia, with a source saying at the time: "He has one of the best teams in the business around him and they are having talks about how they can save his career.
"Their main priority is looking after Spencer and making sure he is on the straight and narrow."
Meanwhile, rumours are rife that the TV star will be back home in time to enter the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house, when the show returns to screens on Tuesday 5 January at 9pm.
Spencer Matthews in Tanzania building ophanage
Spencer Matthews is in Tanzania building an ophanage.
The 'Made in Chelsea' star is reportedly on a charitabe trip in the East African country to "give something back", after he was booted out of the 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!' jungle last month when producers discovered he'd been taking steroids.
'I'm a Celeb' series winner Vicky Pattison revealed Spencer's whereabouts in her column for new! magazine, and said: "I haven't seen Spencer yet because he's away in Tanzania teaching kids English and building an orphanage. He obviously felt really bad about everything, and wanted to get away and give something back."
The news comes after the 27-year-old hunk mysteriously left the jungle before even making it to the main camp and later announced that he'd "screwed up".
But it is thought that he has since been working hard to fight his addiction and reportedly went into rehab immediately upon his return home from Australia, with a source saying at the time: "He has one of the best teams in the business around him and they are having talks about how they can save his career.
"Their main priority is looking after Spencer and making sure he is on the straight and narrow."
Meanwhile, rumours are rife that the TV star will be back home in time to enter the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house, when the show returns to screens on Tuesday 5 January at 9pm.