2 w. ago Steve Coogan now screams back at fans with iconic Alan Partridge catchphrase

Legendary funnyman Steve Coogan found fame as hilarious newscaster spoof Alan Partridge, but now he is opting to yell his catchphrase back when people say it to him

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2 w. ago Meghan takes to stage again after being named Humanitarian of the Year

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have taken to the stage again at a World Mental Health Day festival in New York, hours after being named as Humanitarians of the Year.

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2 w. ago Emotional LeAnn Rimes reveals secret health struggles after her teeth fell out mid

The 43-year-old songstress talked openly in a new interview published on Tuesday about the emotional and mental toll the past few years have taken on her.

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2 w. ago Emotional LeAnn Rimes reveals secret health struggles after her teeth fell out midperformance

The 43-year-old songstress talked openly in a new interview published on Tuesday about the emotional and mental toll that past few years have taken on her.

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3 w. ago Daria Kasatkina, Australia’s No 1 women’s tennis player, takes career break citing ‘mental stress’

Russian-born star has ‘hit a wall and can’t continue’She promises to be back in 2026 and ‘ready to rock’Australia’s women’s tennis No 1 has put her career on hold for the rest of the year stating “mentally and emotionally I am at breaking point”.Daria Kasatkina, who switched nationality from Russia to Australia earlier this year, immediately becoming national No 1, blamed the “emotional and mental stress” related to that change, the strain of not seeing her family and the relentless schedule of the tennis circuit. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Alan Partridge is back at rock bottom – and it’s the funniest he’s been in years

After stadium tour success, the delusional broadcaster is back where he belongs: self-funding a series about the nation’s mental health. As comedy goes, it couldn’t be more pleasurableLike anyone who has grown up in the shadow of Alan Partridge’s three-decade dominion over British comedy, I want only the very best for Norwich’s most relentless broadcaster. By which I mean the absolute worst. For me, Partridge is at his finest when he’s scrabbling around the media’s outer fringes, rebranding past humiliations as glories and furiously name-dropping 1980s television personalities to the nonplussed acquaintances he genuinely believes to be his closest friends.Sadly, Alan has been riding (relatively) high in recent years. In 2022, Steve Coogan’s creation – now co-written by Rob and Neil Gibbons – embarked on a UK arena tour as a motivational speaker, imparting dubious advice to tens of thousands of adoring fans. Before that, he landed the job of a lifetime: a presenting gig on the BBC’s ...

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3 w. ago How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) on BBC One review: Steve Coogan's cringefest catches the cultural zeitgeist

Now's a great time to bring back problematic Partridge, and the new series is as bitingly good as ever

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3 w. ago How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) review – nothing else on TV has this many laugh

The fictional broadcaster remains the funniest comic creation in Britain, as he returns with this hilariously sloppy look at mental health. Is anything as joyous as watching his blunders? Surely notAlan Partridge is in crisis! But then, who isn’t these days? Last time he was on television, Alan was melting down live on air while hosting the light magazine show This Time, ending the series quite literally locked out of the BBC. At the start of his new, self-produced project, the light documentary How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), the broadcaster reveals he’s since hit another low by fainting into the lap of a female interviewee during a corporate event for Norfolk agribusiness stalwarts Bannroyd Animal Feed. Tough times, but personalities of Partridge’s calibre know how to bounce back: tie your troubles to a national trend and see if you can get a series out of it.How Are You?, then, sees Steve Coogan’s immortal alter ego in roving factual mode, looking into an epidemic of anxiety,...

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3 w. ago Alan Partridge takes on mental health – and the results are magnificent, excruciating and genuinely touching

From its depiction of midlife ennui to its satirical take on therapy-speak, ‘How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)’ is the best Partridge-related project in years, writes Phil Harrison

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