28 minutes ago Dancing on Ice's Charlie Brooks was 'desperate to get out' of Welsh town she grew up in

Charlie Brooks, who is best known for playing Janine Butcher in EastEnders, will be taking to the rink for Dancing on Ice when the ITV show returns this weekend

Politics

4 hours ago Coronation Street's Jim McDonald actor Charlie Lawson 'can't afford to heat his home' after being 'cancelled'

Coronation Street legend Charlie Lawson, who played Jim McDonald on the ITV soap, has admitted he is struggling to get work and can't afford to put the heating on in his home

Society

6 hours ago Andrew Tate's millions 'were laundered through four British bank accounts run by woman based in the West Country', court documents reveal

The woman, whose accounts were linked to a property in the West Country, transferred as much as $12million (almost £10million) through four accounts, an investigation has found.

Economics

30 hours ago Terrifying Netflix thriller You releases final season trailer – and fans 'lose their minds'

Popular Netflix show You will return for its fifth and final season this year after their showrunner stepped down from the role – leaving fans conflicted over the news

Sport

81 minutes ago ITV Love Island's Casey confronted over ending romance with Tina in awkward scenes

Casey O'Gorman has felt the wrath of some of his other Love Island contestants after joining the cast of this year's Love Island All Stars in his third appearance in the villa

Events

42 minutes ago ITV The Chase fans fume as popular quiz show is replaced in schedule shake

The Chase has been pulled from its regular slot on ITV and fans of the popular quiz show are fuming

Culture

5 hours ago TikTok Influencers from across the world react to US ban as app 'goes dark' for its 170million American users

The Chinese-based video app has officially shut down its services for 170 million American TikTokers after the Supreme Court allowed the ban in a shock ruling on Friday.

Technology

8 hours ago Dancing on Ice's Jayne Torvill shares health issues ahead of retiring with Christopher Dean

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have announced their retirement from skating, with them set to perform for the final time on live TV on the new series of ITV's Dancing on Ice

Science

35 minutes ago Ange snaps at reporter for 'familiar story' comment as Tottenham boss proves he HASN'T 'lost his prickliness'

The Aussie boss is struggling to turn things around in London with fans running out of patience after another loss

Politics

28 hours ago Coronation Street star reveals he's so skint he can't turn his heating on as he claims BBC cancelled TV job due to anti

The Irish actor, 64, who is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the ITV soap, revealed that 2024 was his worst ever year in the entertainment industry.

Society

41 hours ago Revealed: The terrible events that have befallen French woman after she was duped into handing over £700,000 to fake AI Brad Pitt scammer

Paris-based lawyer Laurène Hanna, told how her client has been branded 'dumb', 'naïve' and 'stupid' - and been harassed so mercilessly online that she's deleted social media.

Economics

41 hours ago 'Fury' of Bonnie Blue's rugby player husband after she slept with 1,057 men in 24 hours as friends expose real story

Bonnie Blue embarked on a sleazy mission to bed 1000 men in 12 hours last Saturday. I can exclusively reveal, that those shocked by her antics include, it is believed, her estranged husband Ollie Davidson.

Sport

97 minutes ago The bizarre story of the boy who posed as a spy online to incite his own murder

A schoolboy of 14 plotted his own death in an internet chatroom in a dizzying case described at the time as one of the most bizarre murder plots in British legal history

Events

1 hour ago ITV Dancing On Ice's 'uncertain future' after launch night ratings show huge decline in viewers

Dancing On Ice returned to screens for its seventeenth season on January 12 but bookmakers have already predicted that the show may not be around for much longer.

Culture

1 hour ago ITV The Masked Singer fans convinced Girls Aloud star is Snail after fresh accent clue

ITV viewers are convinced they have rumbled the identity of Snail

Politics

31 hours ago James Martin's Saturday Morning turns awkward as new chef refuses to share secret recipe live on air

ITV chef James Martin was joined by a new face on his Saturday morning cooking show - but things took an awkward turn

Society

42 hours ago 'I defy any woman not to fall into the trap': Full inside story of scam that saw wealthy divorcee hand £700,000 to Brad Pitt conmen

Blonde, tanned and beautiful, Anne had a sensational secret. For the past year and a half, she had - she believed - been in an online relationship with Brad Pitt.

Economics

99 minutes ago Dancing On Ice's Holly Willoughby has an 'awkward dynamic' with Stephen Mulhern as she's lost 'confidence'

ITV's Dancing on Ice returned to screens last weekend for its 2025 series of the show but a body language expert has already picked up on some 'awkwardness' between co-hosts Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern.

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2 hours ago ITV Dancing on Ice's Steve Redgrave dealt major blow hours before live show

Dancing On Ice 2025 is set to continue on Sunday 18th January, with the second set of celebrities taking to the ice and one star in particular could be at risk of leaving

Culture

1 hour ago Devastated LA residents see outpouring of support: ‘One of the more beautiful things I’ve seen’

Overwhelmed by loss but buoyed by friends and strangers alike, Angelenos who lost their homes prepare to rebuild their livesUntil last Tuesday, Ryan and Endea Marrone lived with their two young sons in Altadena, California, in a picturesque two-bedroom home tucked into the base of the San Gabriel mountains. Behind the house, Ryan, a music producer, had created a mini recording studio, where he adorned the walls with pictures that his kids drew for him. Their wooded neighborhood was tight-knit: it was a community that wasn’t populated by the ultra-wealthy, where many homeowners had lived for decades and still exchanged holiday presents and housewarming gifts.Now, a week later, the Marrones’ home – and their surrounding neighborhood – are all ash. The only thing that remains of their house is the chimney, singed black from flames and smoke. The front steps lead to a huge, leveled expanse of charred debris. Everything, from their sons’ Legos, to a school art project, to a photo from Ry...

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33 hours ago ‘It’s a PR battle’: inside the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuits

The director and star of hit summer romance It Ends With Us are facing off with lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and defamationIt Ends With Us should have been a success story. The long-awaited film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, a tale of cyclical domestic violence, premiered in August to decent reviews and wide audience interest; it grossed $350m, against a $25m budget, despite a tide of press and social media speculation over an alleged rift between its director, Justin Baldoni, and its star, Blake Lively. Most of the ire was trained on Lively – for glossing over the subject of domestic violence with florals, for simultaneously promoting her haircare and alcohol lines, for being gruff with reporters in the past, while Baldoni, who played the abuser in the film, championed abuse survivors. But the movie was a hit, demonstrating the viability of female-led, mid-budget melodramas at the box office.Not that anyone remembers that now. The film has become embroile...

Society

2 hours ago The Loves of My Life by Edmund White – sex on the brain and in the bathhouse

The American author’s anthology of his many physical encounters is a spiritual quest as much as a sensual oneDon’t expect to read Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life with one hand. True, it is subtitled A Sex Memoir, and it hotly reminisces about a few dozen of the 3,000 partners White, who is 85 and still counting, has so far totted up. It does contain some glances at the more esoteric specialities of gay sex, including a scene in which White kneels in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse to imbibe six cans’ worth of warmly recycled beer “from the tap of my date’s microbrewery”. There is also a fortunately terse reference to what in medical shorthand is called a BM. But this coital anthology turns out to be about love and its dreamy spirituality, despite the risque and often risky rutting it describes.Above all, White’s preoccupation is language, since for him sex initially ignites in the head and is consummated on the page, with bodily pleasure or pain as a merely ...

Events

4 hours ago I spotted something unusual in this photo of my baby – it led to a cancer diagnosis

'Had I not spotted it at the time the pictures were taken and had I not pushed for her to be looked at properly it would have been a different story'

Culture

1 hour ago ITV Masked Singer fans believe pop icon is behind Snail costume after fresh accent clue

The Masked Singer fans are convinced they have worked out the identity of one character

Politics

3 hours ago ITV The Masked Singer's seven big secrets exposed from backstage chaos to strict contracts

The show is hosted by comedian Joel Dommett

Events

5 hours ago Holly Willoughby's producer husband triumphs in Saturday night ratings battle as his BBC shows Gladiators and Michael McIntyre beat ITV rivals with collective 8 MILLION viewers

While The Masked Singer, hosted by Joel Dommett, peaked with 4.1million viewers, Baldwin's Michael McIntyre's Big Show got 4.8 million.

Culture

1 hour ago TikTok ban: Donald Trump 'likely' to use first day as President to give app extension on ban

President-elect Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order that would give the China-based parent company of the popular video-sharing platform TikTok more time to find an approved buyer

Politics

5 hours ago Dancing on Ice's Dan Edgar denies cheating on ex Kate Ferdinand ahead of awkward reunion

The Only Way Is Essex's Dan Edgar has admitted to "some stupid mistakes" ahead of a potential meeting with ex-girlfriend Kate Ferdinand on ITV show Dancing On Ice,

Events

22 hours ago ITV Masked Singer fans speculate over contestant's accent as they say 'definitely'

The Masked Singer fans notice that Snail has an Irish accent

Culture

1 hour ago Donald Trump 'likely' to use first day as President to delay TikTok ban

President-elect Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order that would give the China-based parent company of the popular video-sharing platform TikTok more time to find an approved buyer

Politics

5 hours ago Ceasefire comes into force as Israel awaits return of hostages and displaced people come to terms with devastation in Gaza – live

Hamas says it will free Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher after Israel delayed start of ceasefireFull story: Gaza ceasefire begins after delayHow will the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal work?Israeli tanks continued to shell areas in Gaza as the scheduled time of 8.30am (0630 GMT) for the ceasefire to take effect passed, Reuters reports.Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a brief televised address on Sunday that the political echelon had directed the military to delay implementation and that it retained freedom to continue attacks in the Gaza Strip as long as the ceasefire had not taken effect. Continue reading...

Events

35 hours ago 'Best Denzel Washington movie by a country mile' that is 'iconic' on TV tonight

The 'iconic' gangster film which is also based on a true story, will be airing for free on TV this weekend and can't be streamed anywhere - so mark the date in your diary

Culture

8 hours ago I spent 48 hours retracing Pilates' dark past in a WWI prison camp near the UK

Pilates is a demanding physical workout that not only strengthens the muscles and promotes flexibility, but also enhances the mind-body connection - but many do not know about its origin story

Events

5 hours ago Iran unveils 'secret' underground naval base 500 metres below sea level for chilling reason

Iran has unveiled a 'secret' underground naval base that gives the country the ability to protect itself from "enemies big and small", with footage of the facility shared across state broadcast channels

Politics

10 hours ago Paul Lambert: ‘Zinedine Zidane just looked at me and said “bloody hell”’

Broke and out of contract at Motherwell, the Scot took a risk in seeking a trial at Dortmund only to become an European Cup winner within 12 monthsThis is a story in three parts. The unlikely tale of how Paul Lambert signed for Borussia Dortmund in 1996. Why Lambert is still revered there, despite making only 64 appearances. And the sad story of why he had to leave Germany in 1997, although not everyone would describe a Glasgow-born footballer signing for Celtic in such gloomy terms.That’s not to say Lambert hasn’t achieved a lot elsewhere. He won a Scottish Cup with St Mirren, helped Motherwell into Europe and captained Scotland and Celtic, where he won four league titles. He has managed some of England’s biggest teams: Aston Villa, Norwich City and controversially their rivals Ipswich. He has four children and seems happy away from management with his second wife, Kara, their two large Belgian Malinois dogs and numerous chickens at their home outside Nottingham. But we’re here to ...

Events

5 hours ago Meghan Markle is 'like a Mean Girls teenager' and would become 'cold' and 'throw staff to the wolves' when 'something went poorly, often due to her own demands', bombshell article claims

Meghan Markle, based in Montecito with Prince Harry, has been described as acting 'like a Mean Girls teenager' and becoming 'cold' towards staff in a damning profile in Vanity Fair .

Politics

10 hours ago ‘Animals can feel good and evil’: film puts new perspective on Ukraine war

Collection of seven shorts due out in 2025 tells story of conflict from perspective of animalsThe occupying Russian soldiers paid little attention to the elderly woman shuffling through the farmland surrounding the villages outside Kyiv, taking her goat to pasture. But she was focused closely on them. After locating their positions, she headed back home with the goat, and later called her grandson, a soldier in the Ukrainian army, to give the coordinates.The story is one of seven episodes, based on real events from the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion but lightly fictionalised, that make up a feature film about the war in Ukraine, due out later this year. All seven of the shorts have one thing in common: they tell the story of the conflict from the perspective of animals. Continue reading...

Events

5 hours ago ‘Fear of what’s to happen’: Haitians in Ohio city brace for Trump’s return

Community baselessly demonized by Republicans dread what Trump’s return means for TPS and immigrantsWhen then president Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security attempted to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians in 2017, Gilbert Fortil had just arrived in Springfield, Ohio.Fortil, from Gonaïves in northern Haiti, has spent the years since then working to make a new life in Springfield. He has opened a radio station to serve the growing Haitian community, bought and renovated abandoned properties, and been joined by thousands of other Haitians who have helped revive a once-struggling town in western Ohio. Continue reading...

Politics

11 hours ago ‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

Brooke Shields, sexualised child star at just 11, is no stranger to tabloid controversy. Now 59, perhaps now she can tell us how she ended up so normal?Brooke Shields was at a party, drifting off. The host, a small man with bare feet, was giving her a tour of his wine cellar and she was losing interest, if she’s being honest – which she is now as a matter of principle, after a lifetime of smiling politely and pretending everything’s fine. Her mind was wandering. They say wine gets better with age, she was thinking, “but isn’t there a moment when it turns to jam? And I said to him, ‘I’m 58 and I’m wondering if ’ I didn’t even get the rest of the sentence out before he said, ‘Oh, I wish you hadn’t told me that.’”That’s curious, she replied. “I asked him, ‘Did my age make him older?’ I was interested in the psychology of it, that kneejerk reaction.” It was partly, she thinks, her fame – people imprint on a child star, and when they grow up they take it personally. “It felt so indicativ...

Events

7 hours ago Zlatan Ibrahimovic reveals AC Milan's true stance on Kyle Walker transfer

Kyle Walker wants to leave Manchester City during the January transfer window and AC Milan chief Zlatan Ibrahimovic has given his few on a possible move for the England international

Politics

11 hours ago Horror of county lines drug warfare is laid bare in shocking ITV drama with Martin Clunes

Martin Clunes stars in ITV1 drama Out There, which explores the very troubling issue of county lines drug dealing and a crime wave sweeping the nation

Events

7 hours ago TikTok Influencers from across the world react to US ban as app 'goes dark' for its 170million American users over concerns about its links to the Chinese government: 'Come back soon!'

The Chinese-based video app has officially shut down its services for 170 million American TikTokers after the Supreme Court allowed the ban in a shock ruling on Friday.

Politics

13 hours ago 'I worked with Andy Murray on TV show – his true personality caught me by surprise'

Sir Andy Murray's personality has been an enigma throughout his sporting career, so much so that another famous face was caught by surprise by the British tennis legend

Events

7 hours ago Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet

New research into the single-celled organism is providing clues about what the early planet looked like – and raising the prospect that we may not be alone in the universeFor scientists, our earliest ancestor wasn’t Adam or Eve but Luca. Luca didn’t look anything like us – it was a single-celled bacterium-like organism. A recent study by a team of scientists based in the UK has delivered rather shocking news about this illustrious forebear. Despite having lived almost as far back as seems possible, Luca was surprisingly similar to modern bacteria – and what’s more, it apparently lived in a thriving community of other organisms that have left no trace on Earth today.Luca – short for the last universal common ancestor, the progenitor of all known life on Earth – seems to have been born 4.2bn years ago. Back then our planet was no Eden but something of a hell on Earth: a seething mass of volcanoes pummelled by giant meteorites, and having recovered from a cosmic collision that blasted ...

Politics

16 hours ago Love Island: All Stars contestant has been DUMPED and already left the villa in shock eviction after latest recoupling

The second series the ITV show kicked off on Monday night, and the drama is already in full swing with three bombshells entering the South African villa within days of the launch.

Events

8 hours ago Ruud van Nistelrooy pays tribute to Manchester United great Denis Law with emotional story

Denis Law passed away, aged 84, as the Man United and Scotland great is fondly remembered by Leicester City manager and former Old Trafford favourite Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Politics

19 hours ago David Beckham says his 'heart is heavy' as he breaks silence on death of friend

David Beckham described Denis Law as 'a true gentleman,' after the Hall of Fame footballer died at the age of 84

Events

8 hours ago ITV Masked Singer's Teeth leaves viewers speechless as they 'work out' true identity

The Masked Singer fans were left stunned during Saturday night's episode as they thought they'd worked out the identity of one contestant, Teeth - who they now believe is a woman.

Politics

20 hours ago Royal 'secret weapon' Duchess Sophie celebrates 60th birthday with stunning new portrait

Sophie looks happy and relaxed in the Palace-released image, captured by London-based portrait, fashion and commercial photographer Christina Ebenezer at Bagshot Park this month

Events

9 hours ago The Masked Singer viewers speechless as they 'work out' Teeth is a woman

ITV viewers were left stunned this weekend as they learned the celebrity inside Teeth on The Masked Singer isn't a man.

Politics

21 hours ago Emmerdale fans 'work out' who kills Anthony Fox as they spot major hint before murder

Emmerdale fans saw a character clearly scheming revenge ahead of Anthony Fox's murder next week on the ITV soap, but with a whodunnit approaching fans don’t believe it’s Caleb Miligan

Events

10 hours ago Coronation Street star reveals he can't afford to put heating on after 'worst year'

Coronation Street legend Charlie Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the ITV soap, has opened up about his financial struggles and revealed he can't afford to put the heating on in his living room

Politics

25 hours ago ITV's The Masked Singer: All the clues revealed so far as hit show returns

ITV's The Masked Singer season six is well underway and here is all the clues we know so far about the people under the masks

Events

10 hours ago Is baldness a thing of the past? Or will it grow on us again? | Eva Wiseman

As hair-loss treatments improve, one wonders if we’ll start to get nostalgic for a good comboverIt is with mixed emotions that I announce the end of baldness. Rest in pates, old friend. This year will see the very last generation of men who, having arrived at the threshold of their 30s, are forced to accept the loss of their hair, with all their future sons and grandsons nipping instead to Turkey for a little implant and some kofta. Gone today, hair tomorrow.It’s true, look around. Compared with the Sean Connerys and Bruce Willises of yore, the number of bald celebrities on screen today can be counted on a single fist. The surgical technology has evolved, the transplants have become more accessible, the preventative drugs have improved, the death of bald is nigh. Like combovers, the hair plugs bring their own acts of faith of course, with hairlines so straight and thick it appears sometimes as if they are creeping down the face at night like a mask – every time I see one on telly I’...

Politics

26 hours ago ITV The Masked Singer's Kingfisher identity rumours addressed by Paul Whitehouse as he 'exposes' real celeb

The Masked Singer's Kingfisher has fans of the ITV show wondering exactly which celebrity is behind-the-mask - and comedian Paul Whitehouse has finally addressed whether it's him

Events

10 hours ago ITV Out There Johnny star has very famous parents who 'never pushed him into acting'

Exclusive: Louis Ashbourne Serkis has opened up about his movie star parents as he appears in a gripping ITV drama opposite Martin Clunes

Politics

26 hours ago Keon West: ‘You can’t tell that racism is or isn’t happening because you know a Black person who earns a lot of money’

The author and academic on mistaking feelings for facts, the importance of education and why Kemi Badenoch will do nothing to help ethnic minoritiesRead an extract from The Science of Racism by Keon WestKeon West is professor of social psychology at the University of London. He was born in Trinidad, grew up in Jamaica, and studied in the US and France before coming to the UK as a Rhodes scholar in 2006 to do a doctorate at Oxford University.Why do you think we need a book about the science of racism? What I find frustrating, shocking and worrying is that as a society, when we talk about racism we express feelings about it and emotions and opinions, but our conversations aren’t based on facts – or science. Not only that, we make the mistake of misinterpreting our feelings as if they were facts. This leads nowhere: one person will say: “Well, I don’t see any racism, so racism is over.” And another person will say: “Well, someone didn’t hire me for a job, so racism is alive and well.” ...

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