Reality TV heartthrob reveals secret second job as a naked butler for hire
Freddie Powell may not have found The One on dating show Love Is Blind, but he won the nation’s hearts with his charm.
However, I can reveal the Bolton funeral director — who turned down his bride-to-be Catherine Richards at the altar on the Netflix show — has had a secret second job as a naked butler for hire.
His photo is listed on a website called Butler Bookings and he is also seen topless, wearing just a bow tie and an apron, advertising a Buff Bingo Bottomless Brunch.
A source said: “Love Is Blind viewers were relieved when Freddie turned down Cat on their wedding day over concerns that their lives were too different.
“He’s by far the show’s most popular boy and will have offers from women and for work coming left, right and centre.
“Freddie has come across as a real homebody who loves his family — but the photos of him working as a butler in the buff tell a completely different story.”
Last night Netflix unveiled the cast reunion for the show, which is presented by Emma and Matt Willis, with other participants sharing updates on their stories after the cameras stopped filming a year ago.
Netflix has already confirmed a second series is on its way too.
In its first week on the platform, 34,400,000 hours of the programme were streamed — presumably that’s not all down to Freddie’s pecs appeal.
Aldo encounters baby wails
TV hardman Aldo Kane was so committed to filming with fearsome beasts for Disney’s OceanXplorers he had to watch his son being born on WhatsApp.
One episode in the six-part National Geographic series, which started on Sunday, follows him and a team of explorers as they dive in the Atlantic Ocean to swim with whales.
Ex-Marine commando Aldo said: “The morning of the scene I was free-diving with humpback whales, I came out and watched Atlas being born on a WhatsApp call from the science lab somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
“I got home 17 days later. It was hard but he doesn’t remember it!”
On camera, the team capture a mother defending her calf in a battle with orcas.
Aldo added: “If you’re in the water with a big animal and move the wrong way, you’re one swipe from a flipper. A whale could kill you easily.”
Elsewhere in the show, which is also streaming on Disney+, they dive into the warm waters of the Caribbean before heading north to the Arctic shores of Svalbard in Norway.
Olivia to tame her bad lads
Dumped Love Islander Bayley Mummery is lining up for another helping of reality TV humiliation.
He failed 2023’s winter Casa Amor but is now part of the cast for Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends.
The new ITV2 series, which begins on Sunday, tricks eight naughty lads into attending a relationship boot camp on a Greek island to improve their behaviour. Then their other halves arrive . . .
Bayley’s girlfriend Anya Carter, who described him as “careless, heartless and didn’t give a f***”, said he was on his last chance.
Bayley added: “I’d lie quite a lot and I don’t think I thought about how she felt in situations.”
Host Olivia, who was on Love Island in 2017, said: “I have got the dating experience to hopefully guide these girls and boys to better relationships.”
Ahead of her appearance on Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One tonight Christine McGuinness said: “Being autistic I do have sensory issues around food.
“I can find the smell, taste and textures overwhelming, so this is definitely the most daunting thing I have ever done.”