11 h. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia legend dropped by TV channel and England announce first Test team

England eye a first away Ashes victory since 2010-11, with Australia hit by injuries to Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood

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12 h. ago Australia legend Glenn McGrath DROPPED by host broadcaster on eve of Ashes

Glenn McGrath has been a fixture in the media around the Ashes between Australia and England in recent years, but he will be absent from one broadcaster for the 2025/26 series

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57 h. ago MasterChef host Grace Dent shares true feelings on John Torode after scandal

Food critic Grace Dent is set to present Celebrity MasterChef alongside John Torode after former host Gregg Wallace was dropped from the hit BBC show

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1 week ago Third I'm A Celebrity star and EastEnders legend Shona McGarty arrives in Australia

The third celebrity has touched down in Australia ahead of the hotly-anticipated new series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here

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1 week ago Louis Lynagh inspires dramatic Italy win to ramp up Australia misery

Italy 26-19 AustraliaWallaby legend Michael Lynagh’s son inspires famous winItaly upset Australia with a come-from-behind 26-19 victory on Saturday with the son of a Wallaby great, Louis Lynagh, scoring one try and Australian-born winger Monty Ioane the other to snatch a famous win for the hosts.Lynagh, born in Italy when his father, Michael, played for Treviso, and Melbourne-born Ioane proved Italy’s heroes as they won for only the second time in 20 tests against the Wallabies. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mark Wood: ‘We’re going to the Ashes with an Australia blueprint to put their batters under pressure’

Fast bowler says England have confidence and belief as he prepares for what could be his final series against the old foe“My dad would be Australia and I’d be England,” Mark Wood says with a wry smile when remembering his first Ashes Tests as a boy in his back garden in Ashington, Northumberland. “I’d try to copy Darren Gough, Andrew Caddick, Matthew Hoggard and, later, Jimmy Anderson, who I’d go on and play with. My dad, who didn’t do the actions so well, had to be Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie and Shane Warne. He was most proud of his Gillespie but his Warne wasn’t great.”Wood snorts at the idea that his dad, Derek, might have let him win most of those matches. “No, no, no. It was proper cricket. You had to give each other lbw and every time I hit my dad in the leg he’d be going: ‘No, that’s going over’ or ‘That’s down the leg side.’ I was like: ‘Dad, that was plumb.’ I had to get my DRS right.” Continue reading...

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last month Disney+ and Hulu cancellation rates doubled after Kimmel suspension

Subscriptions dropped at an increased rate after backlash from late-night host’s temporary removal, new data showsDisney’s short-lived suspension of Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration may have had a permanent impact on the company’s subscription numbers.According to data released by Antenna, an analytics firm that tracks subscription and viewership data for major streaming services, cancellation rates for Disney+ and Hulu doubled from August to September – from 4 and 5% to 8 and 10%, respectively. So-called churn rates for Disney+ have hovered at 3-4% all year, with Hulu at 4-5%. Continue reading...

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