Showing posts with label Ricky Groves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ricky Groves. Show all posts
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Former EastEnder Ricky Groves looks a little sheepish at being snapped up West with a mystery new girlfriend.
Perhaps Ricky, 42 the soaps Garry Hobbs had forgotten he'd officially split from wife Hannah Waterman,35, in January.
Or maybe the actor, who puffed on a ciggie, felt under-dressed in jeans and casual top as he took the stylish blonde to see a musical in London's theatreland. An onlooker said: Does he still get his gear from Walford market? He is still smart enough to pull such a leggy lovely.
Hannah Waterman is seven months pregnant but can't stop smoking despite winning praise for 'healthy' diet
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She won praise for her healthy lifestyle when she shed nearly three stone with a dramatic diet and exercise regime.
Yet now, at seven months pregnant, Hannah Waterman admits she can’t give up smoking.
The former EastEnders actress was last week seen lighting up a cigarette on a car journey with the father of her unborn baby, actor Huw Higginson.
Higginson, 47, who played PC George Garfield in The Bill, seemed unconcerned and also chose to enjoy a few cigarettes while driving the couple’s blue Land Rover near their home in Shepperton, Surrey, on Tuesday.
Last night Hannah, 35, said: ‘Smoking is a terribly difficult habit to quit and sadly I just fell off the wagon. I have been fighting the addiction during my pregnancy but I have sometimes slipped and had the occasional cigarette, but I am trying to quit.’
It is Hannah’s first baby and she added: ‘My advice to people would be not to start smoking in the first place as it is so tough to stop.’
It is not the first time Hannah – who endured a very public split from husband and former EastEnders co-star Ricky Groves – has spoken about her desire to quit smoking.
Speaking at the release of her fitness DVD in 2009, the daughter of Minder star Dennis Waterman said: ‘Smoking’s definitely aged my skin. I’ve got to give up.’
Her smoking habit was criticised by medical experts, who warned that it is hazardous to the health of an unborn baby.
Dr Malcolm Vandenburg, a consultant and pharmaceutical physician, said: ‘Even one cigarette during pregnancy has to be considered an absolute no-no for mothers because of the increased health risks smoking brings.
‘Almost everything that can go wrong with a baby, such as being stillborn or the victim of a cot death, is significantly increased if the mother smokes during pregnancy or is subject to passive smoking.
‘The risk to the baby’s health is increased further if the cigarettes are smoked in a confined space as this leads to the baby receiving less oxygen, and what oxygen it does receive is of a poorer quality. This is why it is vital for all mums-to-be to give up smoking straight away.’
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of campaigning charity Action on Smoking and Health, said: ‘Every year maternal smoking causes about 300 completely avoidable still births, 2,200 premature births and 5,000 miscarriages.
‘It may also increase the risk of congenital abnormalities of the heart, limbs and face. That’s why it’s so sad to see a pregnant woman smoking.
‘But it is important to recognise that it’s a sign of how addictive smoking really is.’
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Heartbroken Ricky Groves has been quick to lay the blame for his split from Hannah Waterman after 10 years together on her radical diet. But the truth he's hiding is that the diet wasn't anything to do with the break-up.
‘Hannah and Ricky had been together for a long time even though they were only married for three years,' a friend tells Now.
‘She desperately wanted
a family and they'd been trying for a baby, but it just didn't happen. Hannah felt that Ricky wasn't supportive enough.
‘She fell out of love with him about a year ago. Hannah was very hurt that Ricky's talked so much about their marriage breakdown, especially as the reasons he gave don't represent the full picture in her view.'
She's been very vocal herself about her desire for children, publicly declaring: ‘I work to live, not live to work and we did get married for a reason - to have children one day.'
Hannah, 35, went from 10st 4lb to 7st 8lb in five months, prompting Ricky to say: ‘Our marriage was the price.'
He blamed his wife's newfound confidence for the rows that eventually tore them apart, adding: ‘I wish she'd go back to being my Hannah. The girl I met is not the girl we see now.'
But Ricky, 41, did shed some light on the real reason for
the split, admitting that he hadn't been supportive enough of her desire to get pregnant, and now wishes he'd done things differently. ‘I was scared,' he said.
According to one of Hannah's friends: ‘She wanted to get healthier and out of the rut she was in.
'She'd been unhappy with the way things were for a while and hoped that if they were both fitter, they might be in better shape to conceive, especially as neither of them was getting any younger.
'But Ricky seemed determined to stay in that rut and she felt she was running out of time.'
Hannah Waterman has broken her silence over her separation from husband Ricky Groves.
The actress, who met the 41-year-old while working on EastEnders, says it's been a difficult time.
'It's really sad because we'd been together for ten years,' she said.
But Hannah, 34, has rubbished rumours she's already moved on.
'It's really sad because we'd been together for ten years,' she said.
But Hannah, 34, has rubbished rumours she's already moved on.
She was snapped hand-in-hand with actor Simon Bowman earlier this week.
'A very good family friend has been dragged into the melee,' she told Loose Women.
'We went out to dinner and were crossing the road holding hands. We didn't leap apart. He is a friend.'
'A very good family friend has been dragged into the melee,' she told Loose Women.
'We went out to dinner and were crossing the road holding hands. We didn't leap apart. He is a friend.'
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