4 h. ago Brit pop icon Adele thanks Netflix hit Adolescence for 'changing her relationship with her son' in heartwarming letters

Brit pop star Adele has written letters of thanks to the creators of the Netflix hit series Adolescence. 

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16 h. ago Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism

Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Addison Rae: Addison review – 2025’s most refreshing star revels in pop’s shallow pleasures

(Columbia)The one-time TikTok dancer’s remarkably cohesive debut spans Jersey club to R&B, and defies an obsession with ‘lore’ to suggest that the best pop isn’t that deepWhen Madonna came to the height of her powers in the late 90s and early 00s, it felt as though she had perfected a new mode of pop stardom, making icy, complex and uncannily incisive records such as Ray of Light and Confessions on a Dance Floor. Those albums are powered by a gripping interplay between detachment and intensity; they sound, to me, like attempts to make pop albums without any sense of ego. As if she’s saying: this isn’t a Madonna record, it’s a pop record.Addison Rae’s exceptional debut album reminds me of that unimpeachable run of Madonna records, understanding that supreme confidence and exceptional taste can sell even the most unusual album. It’s both familiar – Rae is an artist who unapologetically lives and dies by her references – and totally bold: I get the sense that she is less trying to ...

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42 h. ago Jessie J issues fresh message to fans following 'early' cancer diagnosis

The 37-year-old pop star went public with her health issues earlier this week revealing she is battling an "early" form of the disease

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43 h. ago Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton dismissed skin cancer as a ‘mosquito bite’

‘Originally, it had just been a dark freckle that I’ve had on my back for many years,’ said the pop star

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45 h. ago 90s pop star opens up on health scare after mistaking skin cancer for insect bite

Natasha Hamilton is now cancer-free after a worrying diagnosis.

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46 h. ago 90s pop star admits to mistaking skin cancer for mosquito bite 'I didn't think much of it'

Natasha Hamilton is now cancer-free after a worrying diagnosis.

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48 h. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

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63 h. ago Rev Richard Coles says weight loss jabs helped him resist ‘midnight kebabs’ and tackle pre

Coles revealed he took weight loss injection Mounjaro before his appearance on I’m a Celebrity

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2 d. ago ITV Love Island star Helena Ford reveals surprising link to pop star Justin Bieber

Love Island 2025 is set to hit our screens next Monday and one of the new bombshells has a link to a pop star

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3 d. ago Coachella threatens Steps star Ian 'H' Watkins for 'Cowchella' name of his tiny Welsh pop festival

The 49-year-old had been happily organising his 'Cowchella' festival in Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, when the 250,000-capacity music venue got in touch.

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4 d. ago Taylor Swift fans fall for pregnancy rumors after singer steps out with 'baby bump'

Taylor Swift fans convinced themselves that the pop star was pregnant this week thanks to an optical illusion.

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4 d. ago Justin Bieber sparks concern with online rant as fans urge troubled star to 'take a social media break'

The 31-year-old pop star took to Instagram in a bizarre post to share his thoughts about telling other people what they do or do not 'deserve.'

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4 d. ago Hailey Bieber's friends sound the alarm about her marriage... and make grim prediction about what Justin could do next

Long gone are the days when Hailey Bieber lived in her pop star husband Justin Bieber's shadow.

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5 d. ago EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy claims huge pop star 'bullied her at school' and they have spoken about it since

The EastEnders actress, 42, and the pop singer, 43, both attended Islington Green School with Paloma in the year above Natalie.

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5 d. ago Why this pop star is being cancelled by fans because of one seemingly innocent photo

Karina of South Korean girl group aespa stirred controversy when she posed up a storm in a trendy windbreaker and facemask.

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6 d. ago Robbie Williams’s first Britpop show in Edinburgh veers from electrified showmanship to plain awful

‘My dream is to be the best entertainer on the f***ing planet,’ the pop star tells a suitably wowed Edinburgh, and he certainly seems to mean it

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6 d. ago I'm now sticking all my money in Isas rather than up my nose, says REVEREND RICHARD COLES

Coles is an author, radio presenter and Church of England vicar. He shot to fame in 1986 as half of the pop duo The Communards.

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7 d. ago Rihanna's heartbreak as dad Ronald Fenty dies following 'brief illness'

Pop star Rihanna has suffered heartbreak as her dad Ronald Fenty died aged 70 after a brief illness. The family have gathered in Los Angeles to pay their respects.

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7 d. ago Being a bestselling author is like being a pop star again, says REVEREND RICHARD COLES

Coles is an author, radio presenter and Church of England vicar. He shot to fame in 1986 as half of the pop duo The Communards.

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