34 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans stunned as Coronation Street star 'spotted' in ballroom

Week ten of the BBC One dance contest arrived and saw the seven remaining couples return to the usual Strictly ballroom at Elstree Studios

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36 minutes ago OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue says she gets '300 death threats a day' from women

The controversial adult content creator, from Derbyshire, is famed for bragging about sleeping with 'barely legal 18-year-olds'. She told The Sun about the death threats she receives.

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36 minutes ago Strictly viewers all demand same thing after Pete Wicks’ touching performance

Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks has won over the hearts of the nation as viewers called for him to host a new TV show after watching him on the BBC show this weekend.

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44 minutes ago Walkable European city with six Christmas markets is 'underrated' alternative to Vienna

If you've tired of the UK's Christmas markets, you'll find some spectacular offerings across Europe, including in one 'underrated' city that's said to be just as good as Vienna

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50 minutes ago I'm A Celeb's Ant McPartlin accuses Alan Halsall of 'passive aggressive' behaviour in Dean row

BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough clashed with Coronation Street star Alan Halsall in the opening episode of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

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55 minutes ago Sir Bob Geldof fires back at Ed Sheeran after he slammed new Band Aid song

Sir Bob Geldof has hit back at Ed Sheeran after he slammed the latest Band Aid release and claimed he had not given permission to feature on the updated mix of the track

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57 minutes ago Wrestler, film star – and future president? Why we should all take Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson seriously

The WWE icon, already one of Hollywood’s highest-paid film stars, has shown himself to be ‘focus group-proof’It’s proving to be a busy period for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, sometime WWE professional wrestler and Hollywood film star. Well, another one. Red One, a Christmas-themed action movie (Johnson plays Santa Claus’s bodyguard), was released earlier this month. The Disney animation, Moana 2 (for which he voices the tattooed demigod Maui) is about to be released. He is also in the process of filming the new live-action version of Moana, and embarking on another Disney movie, Monster Jam.If anyone is surprised by Johnson’s repeated donning of the cinematic mouse ears, or by his general presence in children’s films, they shouldn’t be. While he is probably still best known for the Fast &...

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57 minutes ago The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassionMany of the 26 stories in William Saroyan’s 1934 debut collection – reissued this month with an introduction by Stephen Fry – take place in Depression-era San Francisco and explore the experiences of ordinary people trying to get by. California-born, the son of Armenians who fled the genocidal Ottoman empire, Saroyan draws on his own heritage. His narrators are often struggling young writers, such as the protagonist of the title story, who lives on a diet of “bread and coffee and cigarettes” and laments the lack of “weeds in the park that could be cooked”.Despite the focus on poverty, there is an ebullience to Saroyan’s punchy prose. Take...

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57 minutes ago Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want

Trump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect’s choicesIn the American heartland, they’re excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along.Even as leading Democrats decry Trump’s cabinet nominations as “agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance”, the former and future president’s supporters are interpreting the selections as evidence that he has finally broken free of the Washington establishment. Continue reading...

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57 minutes ago ‘Deep in my madness, witches gave me hope’: Elizabeth Sankey on motherhood, depression and witches

While battling through the darkness of severe postpartum anxiety, Elizabeth Sankey saw a light of solidarity in the stories of witchcraftFour years ago, when my son was only one-month-old, he and I were admitted to a mother and baby unit, a psychiatric ward that cares for people with perinatal mental health issues and their babies. I was diagnosed with severe postpartum anxiety and depression, and placed on medication. I had weekly sessions with the psychiatric team about my progress, and my son and I spent time with the other women on the ward and their babies. Every day, sometimes twice a day, my husband would come and see us and we would walk around Hackney as I tried to remember who I once was, tried to resist the temptation to step in front of a car. Gradually, horrifically, painfu...

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