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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Announce a Pet Parade for a Sunday afternoon on the Midland Beach promenade and they will come — dogs of all breeds and ages, from 11-year-old rescues like Molly, a sweet bichon from Pleasant Plains, to Zook, a blue-eyed, gray-coated American Staffordshire terrier, not yet 5 months old, from Charleston.

The Sunday afternoon event — part of the ongoing summer Staten Island Beach Fest — brought together super-friendly dog owners from all over the borough, and one of the most notable things about it was the overwhelming number of rescue dogs in attendance.

Leticia Remauro of the Von Public Relations Agency was there with Sophie, 3, her black Labrador retriever-chow mix.

“We rescued her from a rescuer,” said Remauro. “She’s a good girl, and July 20 was her birthday. This is the first time she’s been to the beach.”

Grant City resident Kerry Weeks arrived with Tally, an 18-month-old tan-coated dachshund-beagle mix that the family rescued from South Carolina at 4 months old. Tally was colorfully dressed “as a taco,” Weeks said. “Just look at her!”

Elegantly dressed Lola, 5, another rescue, was found in Brooklyn. “I got her two years ago — she’s the best dog ever,” said owner Maria Feld, of Dongan Hills.

Midland Beach resident Nicky Delapi showed up with Bella Mavis, 11, his companion since she was 6 months old. “She’s a great dog, smart and playful. And she’s wearing her best summer dress,” he pointed out.

Arriving from Pleasant Plains with a trio of females was Jose Acevedo. “One of them was rescued from the shelter on Arthur Kill Road,” he explained. “The other two we adopted after the owners died. They’re all good dogs.”

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The oldest, Evy, is an 11-year-old bichon. White-coated Nicci, 4, is a Maltese-poodle mix. The youngest of the trio — gray-coated Molly, 3 — is a Yorkshire terrier-poodle mix.

PEANUT, THE ‘CELEBRITY’

State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis was there with her beloved Peanut, a 10-year-old Chihuahua — weighing in at around 7 pounds — that she adopted when he was about a year old.

“I bring him to Albany with me for Animal Advocacy Day,” she said. “He’s very quiet in a big crowd but at home he’s a rascal.”

And on Staten Island, “Peanut is a little bit of a celebrity, a little bit of a rock star,” Malliotakis said, explaining that she brings him along to some local events and many residents know her little dog by name.

The youngest dog we met was 4-month-old, blue-eyed Zook, who came in the company of owners Melissa and Tom Hawkins from Charleston on the South Shore.

Zook is a pure-bred American Staffordshire terrier from a breeder in Maryland, but with a difference. He’s a “Bully Pocket” pit bull, meaning that he will not weigh more than 45 to 50 pounds when full grown, Hawkins explained.

Dr. Rodney Jerger of the Dongan Hills Veterinary Practice also attended the event and discussed pet care.

The Staten Island Beach Fest is presented by the Staten Island Yankees, and sponsored by Mort & Ray Productions. The ongoing summer festival is produced by The Von Agency, Inc. Public Relations, with the goal of attracting visitors to the Island’s East Shore waterfront to enjoy the all the improvements since Hurricane Sandy.

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Love feeling fierce in a killer outfit but not sure if your picks are the most flattering for your body type? Fear not!

Stacy London, the style guru and host of TLC’s “Love, Lust or Run,” stopped by TODAY Thursday to help us choose the best clothing options for our shape.

After all, she says, just 8 percent of women are symmetrical on the top and bottom. For the rest of us, that means we can use styling tricks to help create the appearance of having a proportional, balanced shape. Remember, the hourglass shape is always the goal!

“That is the classic cut for women’s clothing,” London told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie. “So if you don’t have that body shape, you’ve got to figure out a way to work with the clothes to create it for yourself.”

It’s all about symmetry and geometry, knowing where to add and subtract volume in our clothing.

On the show, London offered tips to find the best choices for four body shapes.

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Larger on top

“You definitely want to do darker color on top, a brighter color or print on the bottom,” London said. “The idea always is to create a classic, feminine shape, which is to create a waistline.”

For this top-heavy shape, she chose a solid blue top and a full, printed skirt with a little bit of extra length. Volume on the bottom? Yes!

“Do volume on the bottom, stay closer to the actual shape on the top,” London says. “That way you get a much more balanced frame all together.”

Curvy on the bottom

If you’ve got a booty, slip on a jacket.

“The jacket is a woman’s best friend when you’re trying to kind of consciously camouflage a little bit of your bottom half,” London says.

But don’t use the jacket to completely cover up. “You want something that cuts across it.”

She dressed our model in a jacket that nips in at the waist over a printed jumpsuit.

“The jumpsuit, that’s a vertical line,” London says. “It forces our eye up and down, so she looks taller, longer and leaner.”

Bigger in the middle

Try a trendy fit-and-flare dress.

“This is a look that is actually flattering on every figure,” London says. “The idea is that it fits more at the top, it creates a very small waist and again flares at the bottom.”

Petite

When it comes to clothing for petite women, it’s not just about size but the ratio and making sure the clothes are proportional and appropriate.

“You really have to use petite clothing,” London said. “You don’t want to look childish. You don’t want to look too old. You have to look for things that are very modern.”

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“I was always the goody-two-shoes,” actress Coleen Gray often said, “but I wanted to be a sex symbol.” She had grown up on corn and dairy farms in the Midwest, and her doe-eyed beauty and unaffected style drew the notice of Hollywood directors.

She won featured roles in much-admired crime dramas of the late 1940s and 1950s, notably “Kiss of Death,” “Nightmare Alley” and “The Killing” — but not, to her regret, as a femme fatale or hard-bitten dame.

Instead, film scholar Eddie Muller wrote in his book on the film noir genre “Dark City Dames,” Ms. Gray’s most frequent role was “the slumming angel of reason and redemption, ably wrestling straying men away from the precipice.”

Ms. Gray was 92 when she died Aug. 3 at her home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, said a friend, David Schecter. The family did not disclose the immediate cause.

If Ms. Gray did not become a household name, it is probably because she was eclipsed by the general thrust of film noir and its emphasis on cynicism, toughness and sometimes outright sadism.

As the force representing innocence, salvation and blind love — whether for victimized parolee Victor Mature in “Kiss of Death” (1947), thorough heel Tyrone Power in “Nightmare Alley” (1947) or heist mastermind Sterling Hayden in “The Killing” (1956) — she seldom had the most memorable scenes.

Ms. Gray’s rise was sudden. She graduated in 1943 from Hamline University in Minnesota, where she had been involved in theater, followed a boyfriend to Los Angeles and swiftly won a seven-year contract at Twentieth Century-Fox.

After four years of uncredited minor parts, she was formally introduced to movie audiences in “Kiss of Death.” She narrates the film warmly, telling of her marriage to Mature, a crook who turns state’s evidence and is preyed upon by a cackling, cold-blooded killer named Tommy Udo.

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But Richard Widmark, in his screen debut as Udo, stole the show from its nominal stars and garnered an Oscar nomination.

In the film’s most memorable scene, he gleefully ties an old lady (Mildred Dunnock) into a wheelchair and shoves her down a staircase. Ms. Gray’s real-life husband at the time, Rod Amateau, a wannabe director who was then moonlighting as a stuntman, had the burden of taking the tumble.

“Mildred Dunnock starts down the stairs,” she told Muller, “but Rod Amateau finishes the trip.”

“Nightmare Alley” cast Power against type as an amoral carnival roustabout who steals a mentalist’s technique. Ms. Gray runs away with the handsome Power, becoming his loyal wife and accomplice. Their phony mentalist act becomes a top nightclub attraction, but a turn of fortunes — including his deepening alcoholism — lands him back at the carnival as a sideshow geek who bites heads off live chickens.

The film was not a hit. But over the decades, “Nightmare Alley” reaped renewed interest among film devotees for its hard-boiled dialogue and bleak portrayal of an opportunist who gets his just deserts. Writing in the New York Times in 2000, film critic Elvis Mitchell called Ms. Gray, who must balance avarice and conscience, “luminous.”

Meanwhile, Ms. Gray went on to a variety of parts: as the love interest of John Wayne in the western “Red River” (1948), warbling with Bing Crosby in“Riding High” (1950) and playing a graveyard-shift nurse who succumbs to drug smuggling in “The Sleeping City” (1950) opposite Richard Conte.

By that time, with her star on the wane, Twentieth Century-Fox had dropped Ms. Gray’s contract. She spent the next several years cobbling together freelance work in grade-B crime dramas such as “Kansas City Confidential” (1952) and “Las Vegas Shakedown” (1955) and westerns including “Arrow in the Dust” (1954) and “The Black Whip” (1956).

Her last film of enduring regard was “The Killing” (1956), a masterly early showcase for director Stanley Kubrick. The drama focused on a meticulously planned racetrack heist and the gang members whose various weaknesses complicate the crime. Ms. Gray’s is her desperate attachment to Hayden, to whom she tearfully confesses: “I’m no good for anybody else. I’m not pretty and I’m not smart, so please don’t leave me alone anymore.”

Increasingly, Ms. Gray turned to guest roles on TV series such as “Perry Mason,” “McCloud” and “Days of Our Lives.” She also spoke candidly about some of the more-ridiculous roles she took. Topping the list, she said, was“The Leech Woman” (1960), a horror film about a scientist’s aging wife who siphons fluids from men’s brains to regain her youthful looks.

“No matter the part,” she told Muller, “I always went at it with complete sincerity. It was a lot of fun making that one. We blew a lot of takes because we were all laughing so hard.”

Ms. Gray was born Doris Bernice Jensen in Staplehurst, Neb., on Oct. 23, 1922. She described her childhood, mostly in Hutchinson, Minn., as cheerless and isolated. She found escape in Hollywood fan magazines, which sparked her ambition to attain movie fame.

Her first marriage, to Amateau, ended in divorce. Her second husband, business executive William C. Bidlack, died in 1978 after more than 25 years of marriage.

The next year, she wed Joseph “Fritz” Zeiser, with whom she participated inCharles W. Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries. Zeiser died in 2012.

Survivors include a daughter from her first marriage; a son from her second marriage; two stepsons; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

For much of her life, Ms. Gray was devoted to conservative and evangelical causes, including promoting prayer and Bible reading in public schools in the 1960s.

Reflecting on her career, she told the Los Angeles-based movie blogger Laura Grieve: “I didn’t like being a sweet, wholesome type. I wanted to be sexy. I wanted to be evil and do all those juicy parts. I realize now that the good Lord was protecting me. Better to stay where you are and be good at it.”

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The TV presenter was among a number of stars who watched Dec and his new bride Ali Astall said ‘I do’ yesterday.

Fearne Cotton has described Declan Donnelly’s wedding day as “a dream”.

The radio and TV presenter was among guests to gather in Newcastle yeterday to watch the Britain’s Got Talent presenter tie the knot to Ali Astall.

Gushing about the big day, Fearne wrote on Twitter: “Watching someone you love get married is magic. Ali and Dec, your wedding yesterday was a dream.”

Pregnant Fearne Cotton looked blooming lovely as she joined guests including Holly Willoughby, Leigh Francis and Paddy McGuinness at the bash.

She was glowing as she chatted to friends dressed in a printed shift dress and block-heeled sandals.

Meanwhile, the bride and groom looked completely gorgeous on their big day.

The bride’s silk zibeline full A-line dress was designed by Phillipa Lepley. She also wore a silk three-quarter length veil with hand worked duchesse satin bound edge.

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Donnelly’s blue suit was made by London tailor Tom Baker.

Cheers rang out from inside the church as the happy couple, who have been dating for two-and-a-half years, became Mr and Mrs.

Dec’s best man and TV sidekick, Ant McPartlin, joked people clapped and cheered at the wedding because his best pal “finally got married”.

Dec and his bride looked delighted as they waved to the hundreds of wellwishers gathered outside St Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Elswick, Newcastle.

Earlier in the day, the groom had cheekily tweeted: “Morning! I know I’ve got somewhere to be today but I can’t for the life of me remember where…”

The Britain’s Got Talent host chose to marry at St Michael’s Church in Newcastle, near where he grew up with his six brothers and sisters.

The church holds a special place in his heart as it’s where the funeral of his beloved dad Alphonsos was held in 2011.

More than 200 guests attended what was dubbed “the Geordie Royal wedding”.

Dec’s brother Father Dermott Donnelly, Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral, led the ceremony.

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In late 2012, I wrote a three-part series on Uniqlo, Zara and H&M. All three fashion leaders were already well-established internationally and had initiated strategies for penetrating the U.S. retail market. In my 2015 update, I have been assessing their progress and what it means for investors.

Having already taken a look at where Uniqlo and Zara are today in parts 1 and 2 of this “revisit,” I’m now examining H&M, which can be seen as a hybrid between the fast fashion model of Zara and the long-view approach of Uniqlo. This combination has proven itself to be a winning approach, to the delight of H&M and its investors.

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And with its quick and nimble supply chain, smart pricing, an expanding product line and optimized mix of great stores and e-commerce, H&M continues to look like a pretty safe bet for retail investors.

The best of both worlds

H&M releases two main collections each year: one for the spring and one for the fall. But throughout the year, the company releases many sub-collections that allow it to jump on new trends that appear during any season. It breaks down like this: the primary collections are the long-lead items with more enduring looks (a la Uniqlo), while the sub-collections are trend chasers with short lead times (a la Zara).

This hybrid approach gives H&M the ability to be deliberate with its heavy-hitters, while allowing it to be agile enough to score quick wins with the trendy items. Either way, the key to success here is that H&M takes very few, if any, chances when it releases a new product. They have a strong focus on using the reams of customer data they have, using it to nail exactly what it is consumers want from each item and delivering it at the right times.

Both the long-lead time and fast fashion offerings rely on an agile supply chain to be delivered at prices that customers will pay. Through complete IT integration between its partners/suppliers and core offices, the entire organization can quickly get on board to quickly produce clothing that is on-trend.

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Morgan Woodard of Morgan Joy Photography shoots 35 or more weddings per year in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Often, the weddings are elaborate and expensive.

So when it came to her own recent wedding, she kept it small and easy. In her experience, “Most of the time the bride does everything to impress her friends instead of focusing on the meaning of her wedding,” she said. “I think a wedding should be a joyful, happy celebration.”

And that’s just what she had, with a venue that cost next to nothing, flowers she bought the night before and no wedding party or wedding planner.

“I kind of winged everything,” she said. “I just knew it would all come together, and it did.”

Morgan married Seth Woodard on May 23, at Baldwin County Bicentennial Park in Stapleton. He really wanted a church wedding, and she wanted a vintage setting, she said. When one of her friends suggested the park, which includes the historic, circa-1895 Montpelier Methodist Church, a 19th century general store, a blacksmith’s shop and other buildings, Morgan fell in love with it right away.

“I almost cried when I realized it was free,” she said, adding that there’s now a nominal fee to rent the space.

The couple met about four years ago, when she went to Lowe’s to buy some paint. Seth was working there at the time, in the receiving area, but on that day “he walked by and saw me at the counter and decided he’d work in paint,” she said, laughing. He followed her out to her car, but the usually outgoing Morgan “shut down” and didn’t talk to him.

“I was anti-guys at that time,” she said.

Later, when she told her friend about him, the friend took Morgan’s business card up to Lowe’s and gave it to Seth. Sure enough, he called her, they went on their first date and have been together ever since.

After Seth graduated from the University of South Alabama with a degree in chemical engineering in May, he got a job with Evonik – in Indiana. Since their wedding, Morgan has flown back and forth, spending increasingly more time with Seth in Indiana as she finishes the weddings she’s shooting here over the next few months.

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Here are some of the details of their beautiful wedding day.

How they met: “We met at Lowes in Daphne, I recently bought a house in Loxley and i wanted to go pick up some paint and paint the walls. He worked at Lowe’s,” said Morgan.

How he proposed: “He proposed at Blakely State Park, by the huge tree that you can walk inside of. He blindfolded me and walked me down the pier.”

Wedding date: May 23, 2015

Wedding/reception location: Baldwin County Bicentennial Park, Stockton

All about the dress: “I knew about The Timeless Bride from some of my brides. I wanted something different for my dress, but I had no clue what I meant by ‘different’ until I walked into the shop. Naomi (Maurer) picked out a few vintage dresses. I found my awesome 1970s dress and could see that after alterations it was going to be exactly what I wanted. My mom was able to alter it for me. When I saw myself in the camera in the dress with my hair and makeup done, I thought, ‘This is it.’ It was exactly what I had envisioned.”

Bridesmaids/groomsmen? “None! I wanted it to be as simple as possible. I feel most of the time bridesmaids and groomsmen just cause more chaos.”

Wedding cake by: Evelyn Phelps (251-661-9200). “I found her thorough a friend on Facebook. The cake was fabulous and exactly what i wanted for way cheaper than the cake shops. It was a three-tier messy white cake, which I decorated with flowers from The Fresh Market on the top.”

Groom’s cake: Four cheesecakes made by Seth’s grandmother

Flowers by: The Fresh Market. “I just went the night before the wedding and picked up a couple of bouquets of flowers and baby’s breath.”

Photography by: SoLife Studios (solifestudios.com)

Videography by: “One of my photography friends, Brooke Helms, surprised me and videotaped the wedding and reception for me.”

Reception food: “We served hamburgers, hot dogs and crawfish. My brother-in-law, Tolly Nassar from Louisiana, bought and cooked the crawfish.”

Officiant: Morgan’s uncle, John Faciane

Music: “Seth’s grandmother played the piano while I walked down the aisle. My sister, Lydia Bru, sang Christina Aguilera’s ‘I Turn to You’ during the ceremony.”

Special dances: “Our first dance was to ‘Feels Like Home’ by Chantal Kreviazuk. The daddy dance song was ‘I Will Always Be Your Baby’ by Natalie Grant. The mom and groom song was ‘You Raise Me Up’ by Josh Groban.”

Honeymoon: “We spent a few days in Gulf Shores.”

Advice for other couples planning a wedding? “Keep it simple, and exactly what you want. Don’t do traditional things if you do not want to – we didn’t.”

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Being a bride is meant to be one of the most important days in a woman’s life – and it’s certainly the most photographed, so a perfect appearance is essential.

So imagine how you would feel if you had a beauty disaster ahead of the big day.

One bride-to-be posted a desperate plea for help on Reddit after she refreshed her dye-job less than a week before walking down the aisle.

Known only as Amesann, she wrote: ‘Last night I touched up my hair roots (I always do it myself with great results) but this time they decided to turn YELLOW! Oh and some ORANGE mixed in there too. Oh yeah, beautiful! Not.

‘So I’m sporting yellow and orange hair and the wedding is in 5 days! I’m praying for a miracle.

‘I’m out of town right now and trying to find a salon around me that can fix it without making my hair look like the Sahara Desert. I’ve bought purple shampoo but I think my hair is beyond that. Help! Help! Help!’

But she is not the only one who has had to battle with hair horrors and make-up mishaps on her big day… Here, a number of disgruntled British brides share their beauty blunders with FEMAIL.

Mother-of-three Lianne Kolirin, from London, soon found her dream of picturesque shots on the beach of her 2001 destination wedding were thwarted by both her hairdresser – and the weather.

She said: ‘My hairdresser took an unbelievable four hours to do my hair in his salon – while still seeing various clients in between.

‘The whole process dragged on for so long that we ended up not having time to do our official pictures, there was also a torrential storm so my dress got soaked. We were going to have lovely outdoor shots on the beach but by the time we were finally out and ready it was dark.

‘We had to go back and do them the next day – minus the wedding outfits. My hair looked amazing and the pictures the next day were beautiful, but it could have been any time as we weren’t in our wedding clothes.’

Disgruntled bride Steph Duell, from London, had to take matters into her own hands during her nupitals in 2014.

The 25-year-old deputy project manager ended up styling her hair herself after an unqualified stylist failed to follow her brief and decided to just ‘slick it back my hair with wax’.

She advertised herself as a wedding hairstylist and her portfolio looked fine. A few months before the big day I sent her a collage of photographs of the style I wanted,’ she said.

‘I wanted something quite casual – a loose bun with a braid along one side and a few small strands of hair falling out.

‘Nice and relaxed for a summer wedding. She said she’d be able to do it without a worry. She couldn’t.

‘She didn’t seem to know how to do a French braid and her idea of a messy bun was not the same as mine. It looked nothing like the photos and was all sleeked back with wax! Awful.

‘I was standing in my underwear, without hair or make-up on and the wedding was due to begin in 30 minutes! I did my hair myself, as best I could and had the best day ever.’

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HAIRDRESSER DIDN’T TURN UP

One outraged bride – nurse Laura, 24, from Southport – was left sobbing outside of the hair salon after her stylist failed to show up.

She said: ‘My hairdresser was a complete no show.

‘We waited outside the salon for 45 minutes desperately trying to call the stylist until she eventually answered her phone. She sounded like she’d just got out of bed.

‘When she did eventually turn up her excuse was that she thought it had been booked the month before and I simply hadn’t turned up for the appointment.

‘I was given a voucher for a free cut and blow dry but it’s safe to say I won’t be using her again.’

HAIRDO DIDN’T HOLD UP

Writer Juliette Wills, 42, from Brighton, recalls how she ended up with a sagging hairdo on her wedding day seven years ago.

She said: ‘I turned up at the hairdresser’s on the morning of my wedding. Place closed.

‘Idiot hairdresser arrived 15 minutes later muttering about how hungover he was.

‘I sat in chair and he hairsprayed the back of my hair instead of pinning it up.

‘The style was a bit 1940s-meets Cinderella – two rolls on either side with a low side-sweep – and it started to drop before I even got to the ceremony. I was so stressed but I still paid him.

‘There’s a photo where you can see wisps falling out. Plus I couldn’t find my bra (it was in my bag, but I was so stressed about my hair that I lost the plot) and my garter (borrowed from my best friend) was too big.

‘I am still traumatised by it now!’

BACKCOMB NIGHTMARE

Travel writer Olivia Greenway, from Hampshire, had to style her own hair after her stylist made her look like a pantomime character.

She said: ‘I was married in 2013. It was in a castle in the far north of Scotland and I just accepted the hairdresser that was arranged for me.

‘She was from the local village. I don’t know whether she had ever left the village or even been to hairdressing school, but she proceeded to backcomb my hair and put in curlers.

‘When she had finished and showed me the mirror, I looked like Widow Twankey.

‘I had hideous ringlets on either side of my head not unlike Jane Austen’s and a beehive type creation in the middle.

‘I was too embarrassed to say anything as I was shocked. I shuffled her and the makeup artist out, having given them their tips (irony) then set to work attacking the bird’s nest and ringlets, all the time trying not to cry as I had my contact lenses in.

‘Somehow, I managed to brush it all out, as ten minutes later there was a knock at the door and I had to go to be married.

‘At that moment, I decided something as ridiculous as a bad hair day was not going to ruin my wedding. No one knew, not even my husband, until about a year later. Now I can laugh about it.’

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Monday 27 July

Ziggy realises that Tegan loves him more genuinely than Leela and decides to go away with her. Elsewhere, Diane and Tony overhear DS Thorpe saying he’s got a lead on Rose and they follow him to Southport.

Louis is heartbroken about Simone pushing their daughter away and reveals that he has always blamed her for Lisa’s kidnap. Louis is about to leave when ‘Wayne’ arrives and tells them he knows where they can find Lisa.

Pete tells Jack about Harry and Cleo’s whipped cream fight at the coffee shop and Jack tells Cleo that she hasn’t got the job. Cleo breaks up with Harry. Harry thinks Cleo must be seeing someone else and convinces Holly to help him spy on her. He’s relieved when he sees Cleo with Pete, unaware he’s the other man.

Tuesday 28 July

Wayne takes the Lovedays to a drop-in centre. Lisa spots them and makes a run for it, with Zack in hot pursuit. They all catch up with her and Simone begs her daughter to come home. They return to the village without Lisa, but are delighted when she later turns up at their front door.

Cindy is spending excessively again and buys an expensive wedding dress.

Robbie offers to babysit Charlie and Oscar so Nancy can go to a job interview. He thinks it’ll be a piece of cake until Charlie locks him out of the house.

Wednesday 29 July

Zack is stunned when he sees Lisa and Wayne kissing.

Cindy is sexually frustrated. Dirk surprises her with a new writing desk but her focus is on a hot, sweaty Jason who has helped Dirk carry the table up the stairs. Later, Cindy thinks Jason has invited her to the Roscoe’s to sleep with him. She climbs into his bed but Robbie is there instead.

Ben and Carly move into their new house, but Ben finds some drugs in her bag and washes them down the sink. He locks Carly in the house.

Robbie drives Nancy to her next interview but when it doesn’t go well, she takes her anger out on him. He nearly drives into Wayne, who is looking at the envelope of reward money from the Lovedays. Later, Wayne is mugged by Robbie who wants the cash to help Nancy pay for childcare. Robbie is unaware he’s left his sunglasses at the scene.

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Thursday 30 July

Jason reveals too much to Robbie about him and Cindy. Meanwhile, Kyle and Aiden offer Holly a legal high, which she refuses. Cindy turns up at the Roscoe’s and tries to undress Jason. He decides to tell Dirk she’s not taking her medication. The wedding dress Cindy ordered has arrived and she tries it on while fantasising about Jason. She turns up at the police station in the dress.

She meets up with Kyle and Aiden who take her to a party and give her pills. Robbie gives Nancy the £6k he stole from Wayne and lies that it’s his savings. She reluctantly accepts. They go to the park and Robbie is alarmed when he spies two police officers at the site where he mugged Wayne, and they’ve found his sunglasses…He asks Jason to get the glasses back, or he’ll tell Holly that he kissed Cindy.

Ben returns to the village and tries to speak with Sienna. She doesn’t believe that Carly is a ‘friend’. Ben asks Jason to do some surveillance for him, Jason is unaware he’s watching Ben’s house to make sure Carly stays out of trouble. He tries to chase her when she uses a coat hanger to unlock the door and escapes, but he loses her. Nico pushes Sienna to give Ben another chance, so she goes to the station and kisses him. However, Sienna overhears Ben on the phone and thinks he’s cheating on her with Nancy.

Friday 31 July

Sienna spots Ben leaving The Dog in the morning, wearing the same clothes from last night. Sienna and Nico break into Ben’s flat and find some perfume, which Sienna believes belongs to Nancy. She storms into the pub, throws the perfume bottle at Nancy and the two women fight. Later, Sienna sneaks into Nancy’s bedroom.

Pete asks Frankie for a job at the pub, she’s startled when a hooded figure runs past her and grabs her handbag. Pete stops them and reveals Carly as the mugger.

Celine finds Holly passed out behind the bins in The Loft yard after her night of partying. She makes Holly promise not to take anymore pills. At the hospital, Cindy gives Celine some advice on how to be creative in the bedroom. However, Pete is quick to destroy Celine’s confidence before her date with Cameron.

Robbie is furious that Jason can’t get access to the evidence room and retrieve his sunglasses.

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Amy Poehler has had more awards nominations (and a few wins sprinkled in) than you could shake a selfie-stick at. Her latest nod came earlier today with the announcement thatAmy Pohler is up for an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation.

Now, I’m no mathematician, but if we’re talking about ratios, Poehler has been up for an Emmy eight times already — and has won exactly zero times. (although she has won a Golden Globe for the role, so all is not lost). She playfully calls herself a “loser,” and in 2013 she co-hosted a “losers-only” party with fellow non-winner Jon Hamm.

She’s up against some stiff competition in her category this year as women continue to take over the comedy game (and, the world) including fellow Amy, Amy Schumer. Luckily, Poehler has proven that she’s a gracious (and hilarious) loser, whether she’s hosting a ceremony or contending, she always brings her A-Game to every red carpet the newly-minted red head is on. Whether she wins or not, it’s pretty much a given that she’ll steal the spotlight at some point or another.

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Hey, if you can’t beat ‘em, you can still outshine them, right?

So in the spirit of upstaging every other nominee at the ceremony this September, here’s what Amy Poehler should wear.

1. High Drama

Yes, she’s nominated for a comedy category, but I think she should bring the dramz to the Emmys with this scantily cut Vera Wang gauze creation. The side cut-outs would add height, and she’s already shown cleavage before (remember the shirtless Stella McCartney tux she wore to the Golden Globes a couple years back? A style switch-up might bring her some luck.

2. Plucky Colors

I love-love-loved her in Peter Som last year at the Vanity Fair Oscar’s After Party, and this highlighter-chic strapless gown could really work with her flaxen hair. Plus, you don’t get more quintessentially fall than an orange gown on a red carpet. Instead of an Emmy, maybe someone can just hand her a Pumpkin Spice Latte.

3. Just Be The Statue

Because if Pohler can’t get an award, she can at least dress like one.

You’ll always be a winner in our eyes, Poehler!

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My favorite part of attending a wedding is finding a dress to wear. It’s fine if you don’t share the same excitement, but it’s still important to make sure you don’t dress in a way that might offend the people who are getting married; it’s their wedding, after all. Beyond the obvious “rule” of not wearing white, what is and isn’t appropriate at weddings has become somewhat of a grey area, much like workplace fashion guidelines. So what should you never wear as a wedding guest?

As more and more dresses in stores have cutouts, sparkles, and crazy prints, it can be hard to know what works at a wedding and what doesn’t. And when you throw in the struggle of trying to find something that you actually like, will want to wear again, and is appropriate per the wedding’s dress code — it seems like the options are few and far between. But don’t worry, as long as you remember some simple guidelines, it’ll make your shopping quest a whole lot easier.

Remember, weddings have dress codes for a reason. If you’re unsure of what “country club chic” or “black tie” really means, ask a bridesmaid or a family member of the bride to help you clarify. Better safe than sorry!

1. Anything White (Or Blush, Champagne, Ivory, Etc.) — Well, For The Most Part

I said this list wouldn’t include anything obvious, but hear me out. As wedding dresses start trending towards colors, it’s more important than ever to avoid colors even remotely similar to white. Blush gowns in particular pose a problem. Exceptions include some printed dresses, such as a blush dress with a black print paired with the right accessories. If you’re not sure, just wear something else. Generally speaking, always err on the side of caution with this one. If the bride is a trendsetter and wearing red or blue, obviously avoid those colors, too. Of course, there are major exceptions to every rule, and every bride is going to have different taste. For example, perhaps you are a member of Solange’s wedding party. That changes everything.

2. Anything That Is Over-The-Top Revealing

Even if this is an 8 p.m. wedding on a hotel rooftop, your friends’ wedding is not an opportunity to wear your favorite backless, sequin dress. No matter how hot some of the bridal party members may be, don’t try to attract attention with an inappropriate dress. Anything too short, too tight, too loud, it may be a safer bet to save it for another weekend. There’s nothing wrong with dressing your sexiest, but if what you’re wearing may take attention away from the bride even for a bit — it may not be the best choice.

3. All Black

Some consider wearing black to a wedding to be a bad omen. I’m not sure about that, but black just isn’t a happy color. This kills me, because 90 percent of my own wardrobe is black. If you just aren’t into bright colors, try a cranberry or eggplant dress. Some dark reds and purples can be stunning! Although, personally speaking, I think that if this is your ex’s wedding and you’re attending for some reason (why, though?), you have my full permission to wear as much black as you want. Channel your inner Jenny Humphrey/Taylor Momsen and just go for it.

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4. The Same Color As The Bridal Party

This isn’t something I thought about until I attended a wedding and saw a guest in the same color as the bridal party — the dress was even a similar style as the bridesmaids’ dresses. It made me think that she wanted to be a bridesmaid and was making a statement, but it was also confusing because it seemed like she was in the group at times, which was a bit awkward. If you’re not sure what the wedding colors are, just ask. If they’re going with a cornflower blue, stick with navy. You don’t want to match the centerpieces.

5. Office Attire

There’s nothing wrong with wearing a nice suit or a pair of wide-legged trousers to a wedding (both looks can be super fierce), but you don’t want to wear the same thing you might wear to a corporate office. A wedding is supposed to be a happy, joyous event, not necessarily something that evokes feelings of Excel spreadsheets. Feel free to get creative, but keep it more formal and less professional.

6. Inappropriate Undergarments

Clear bra straps: We can all see them. They are not invisible. Ever. Beyond that, I found some excellent advice from SkinnyMom: Don’t wear new Spanx! So true. Wear your tried and true shapewear to avoid any bathroom mishaps or painful wardrobe malfunctions.

7. An Apple Watch

What? An Apple Watch? Yes, you heard me. I’m sorry, but wearing an Apple Watch to a wedding is like having your phone out constantly (which is rude, in case you didn’t get the memo). Don’t try to convince me that you won’t be distracted by all those Candy Crush notifications! Leave your high-tech gear at home, and enjoy a fun night with your date.

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