Entertainment

20 April 2024

Paul Hollywood signs six-figure promotion deal

Paul Hollywood has signed a six-figure deal to star in the Compare the Market adverts. The 'Great British Bake Off' star will follow in the footsteps of Hollywood stars including Arnold ...
20 April 2024

Amanda Holden says Simon Cowell can never sack her

Amanda Holden says Simon Cowell can never sack her from 'Britain's Got Talent'. Simon, 64, swapped his London mansion for a country house near Amanda, 53, in the Cotswolds last ...
20 April 2024

David Bowie collaboration for climate change album

Brian Eno is reworking his “powerful” David Bowie collaboration ‘Get Real’ for a new climate change album project. The 75-year-old musician and songwriter first recorded the song with Bowie - who ...

20 April 2024

Lulu: 'Men have come and gone, but the music goes on'

Lulu doesn't mind being single as she has her music. The 75-year-old singer insisted that being alone doesn't bother her anymore as she gets all the fulfilment she needs from performing ...
20 April 2024

Crowded House's Neil Finn had to 'audition' for Fleetwood Mac

Crowded House's Neil Finn had to audition to be Fleetwood Mac's guitarist. The 'Weather with You' hitmaker, 65, replaced Lindsey Buckingham, 74, in 2018, after the 'Dreams' hitmakers fired the latter, ...
19 April 2024

Baldur’s Gate III dev boss says next game is its 'best work ever'

Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke has teased their next game will be its “best work ever”. The company developed the 2023 smash-hit role-playing-game ‘Baldur’s Gate III’, but will be moving away ...

19 April 2024

Bethesda’s Todd Howard wanted Fallout show to be connected to games

Bethesda Game Studios’ director and executive producer Todd Howard was determined to make the ‘Fallout’ TV show canon to the company’s games. The new Amazon Prime show is set in Bethesda’s ...

19 April 2024

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II to be ‘twice as big’ as first game

‘Kingdom Come: Deliverance II’ (‘KCD’) will be “twice as big” as its predecessor. The upcoming role-playing-game was officially revealed by Warhorse Studios - the developer behind the title - yesterday (18.04.24) ...

19 April 2024

Surnames have a huge influence on student grades

Pupils with surnames at the end of the alphabet get lower grades at school. Experts from the University of Michigan found that Walkers and Youngs are also more likely to be ...

19 April 2024

The fry-up is under threat

The fry-up is in danger of extinction. A poll of 1,000 adults between the ages of 18 and 34 found that one in ten never tuck into the traditional British dish ...

19 April 2024

Josie Gibson lands new Iceland role amid huge rebrand for supermarket chain

Josie Gibson’s new role as the face of Iceland has coincided with its decision to drop the word ‘mums’ from its strapline. The TV host, 39, who gave birth to her ...
19 April 2024

Marc Maron ‘to star alongside Owen Wilson in upcoming golf show’

Marc Maron has reportedly been cast alongside Owen Wilson in an upcoming golf show. The podcaster and comic, 60, will star with the Hollywood actor, 55, in the as yet untitled ...
19 April 2024

Kym Marsh joins cast of ‘101 Dalmatians’

Kym Marsh is “over the moon” to have been cast in the stage production of ‘101 Dalmatians.’ The former ‘Coronation Street’ actress landed the lead role of Cruella de Vil in ...
19 April 2024

Richard Gadd relives horror stalking ordeal that inspired ‘Baby Reindeer’

Richard Gadd struggled to “shake-off” a female stalker who “heckled him at gigs” and “abused his parents”. The Scottish actor and writer stars in the Netflix drama ‘Baby Reindeer’ playing a ...

19 April 2024

Covid patient dies after record 613-day infection

A man has died after suffering from continuous Covid for 613 days. The 72-year-old patient was hospitalised with the virus in February 2022 and never recovered before he passed away in ...

19 April 2024

Jack Antonoff 'overwhelmed' by the reaction to The Tortured Poets Department

Jack Antonoff is “overwhelmed” by the reaction to Taylor Swift's new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, on which he worked on as a producer. The 40-year-old songwriter co-produced the LP and ...
19 April 2024

Purple planets should be searched for aliens

Purple planets could be hiding extraterrestrial life. Scientists are convinced that planets which are home to other lifeforms give off a purple hue as a result of the bacteria associated with ...

19 April 2024

'Ilsa was becoming a team player': Rebecca Ferguson on why she left Mission: Impossible

Rebecca Ferguson decided to leave the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise because her character Ilsa Faust was becoming a "team player". The 40-year-old star's alter ego was killed off in 'Mission: Impossible – ...
19 April 2024

Glen Powell had Richard Linklater fooled with wacky Hit Man alter egos

Glen Powell fooled Richard Linklater with his crazy 'Hit Man' personas. The 35-year-old actor stars in the movie as Gary Johnson – an undercover police officer who adopts various alter egos ...
19 April 2024

Grimes promises to ‘cap the disarray’ at Coachella this weekend

Grimes has promised fans she will “cap the disarray” at Coachella this weekend following her disastrous show at the festival last week. The 36-year-old singer took to the stage at the ...
19 April 2024

Mark Williams feels blessed ‘Father Brown’ is making a comeback

Mark Williams feels blessed ‘Father Brown’ is returning for two more series. The BBC has revealed filming for the 12th run of the show has started – with a 13th ...

19 April 2024

Amanda Holden says Simon Cowell told ‘BGT’ judges to break show’s rules

Amanda Holden says Simon Cowell told his ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judges to break the show’s rules this series. The 53-year-old presenter returns on Saturday (20.04.24) night on the ITV show’s judging ...
19 April 2024

Rylan Clark ‘has raunchy sex show axed by Channel 4’

Rylan Clark has reportedly had his raunchy sex show axed by Channel 4. The 35-year-old presenter was fronting discussion series ‘Sex Rated’ but bosses are said to have ditched it after ...
19 April 2024

Billie Eilish reveals tracklist for new album Hit Me Hard and Soft

Billie Eilish has unveiled the tracklist for her upcoming album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’. The LP will feature 10 tracks, including ‘Skinny’, ‘Lunch’, ‘The Diner’, ‘Birds of a Feather’, ‘Chihiro’ ...