51 h. ago Channel 4 Great Celebrity Bake Off: Roman Kemp wins Star Baker

Sarah Beeny, Maxine Peake, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Roman Kemp appeared on Celebrity Bake Off

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51 h. ago Channel 4’s Great Celebrity Bake Off viewers say ‘I need’ as they make Roman Kemp request

Viewers have praised the radio presenter

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51 h. ago Channel 4's Great Celebrity Bake Off viewers make prediction about Amelia Dimoldenberg

Chicken Shop Date creator Amelia Dimoldenberg is battling it out to be crowned Star Baker

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56 h. ago Countryfile's Matt Baker says 'they weren't cut out for it' as star quits new BBC series

Countryfile favourite Matt Baker has opened up about the harsh realities of filming his new BBC One series, National Trust: Our Dream Farm

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56 h. ago Amelia Dimoldenberg confirms 'the rumours are true' ahead of Channel 4's Celebrity Bake Off

She will be appearing in the second episode of Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C

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3 d. ago Countryfile's Matt Baker opens up on star quitting series 'they weren't cut out for it'

Countryfile star Matt Baker has opened up about the harsh realities of filming for his new show, National Trust: Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker

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3 d. ago Countryfile star Matt Baker admits 'they weren't cut out for it' after co

Countryfile star Matt Baker has opened up about the harsh realities of filming for his new show, National Trust: Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker

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8 d. ago Countryfile's Matt Baker admits 'double life' after making huge family decision

Countryfile star Matt Baker has opened up about life on his farm in the Durham countryside, where he lives with his wife, Nicola, and their two children, Luke and Molly

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9 d. ago Channel 4 Great Celebrity Bake Off fans all say the same thing as new series launches

The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up To Cancer returned to Channel 4 on Sunday night, with a new line-up of stars taking to the tent - but there was one key cast member missing

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9 d. ago Great Celebrity Bake Off fans all ask one question just minutes into Channel 4 show

As the first episode of the latest series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up To Cancer aired on Channel 4, TV viewers were left asking the same question about the line-up

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1 week ago Matt Baker opens up on ‘incredible’ new career after quitting BBC The One Show

Former Blue Peter star Matt Baker presented the BBC programme from 2011 to 2020, but his final show was filmed from his family home in Durham during the Covid-19 lockdown

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2 w. ago New Bake Off judge ‘completely terrified’ to take over from friend Prue Leith

She has joined Paul Hollywood to judge the forthcoming series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer on Channel 4.

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2 w. ago Celebrity Great British Bake Off first look as judge replaced on Channel 4 show

New The Great Celebrity Bake Off judge Caroline Waldegrave is seen in action for the first time in teaser pictures from the upcoming Channel 4 series as she replaces Prue Leith

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2 w. ago Customer hadn't even stepped foot in café, but still left its owner outraged

"The customer hasn’t even been in to review my business!"

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3 w. ago ‘I want to see that movie’: Brighton Beach residents on Anora’s Oscar triumph

Mikey Madison called out the Brooklyn seaside setting on Oscar night. How did locals feel the morning after?Anora’s Mikey Madison may have won the Oscar for best actress, but the real star of Sean Baker’s madcap anti-love story was New York’s Brighton Beach.Situated on the southern shore of Brooklyn, next to Coney Island, the tight-knit Russian and eastern European enclave retains a midcentury, pre-gentrification charm. In the film, it is the fairytale setting for Madison’s Anora, a sex worker who falls for and marries the childish son of a Russian oligarch. When the honeymoon period abruptly ends, Anora’s husband runs away and leaves her the hostage of his father’s goons – and Brighton Beach’s boardwalk begins to feel more sinister. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fearless and Free by Josephine Baker review – ‘ten lives in one’

For the first time in English, the sensational memoirs of Josephine Baker – cabaret star, activist and spy‘Who else could ever have had a story like hers?” writes Ijeoma Oluo in the foreword to Josephine Baker’s memoir. “The dancer, the singer, the ingenue, the scandal maker, the activist, the spy – Josephine Baker lived at least 10 lives in one.” Translated gorgeously into English for the first time by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis, Fearless and Free comprises stories and reflections in Baker’s own voice, drawn from conversations with the French writer Marcel Sauvage that began in 1926 and continued for more than 20 years afterwards. They cover her early life in St Louis, her adventures in Europe and eventual transformation into, as Sauvage puts it, an “actress and French citizen of worldwide renown”.Memoirs that span a lifetime can lack narrative drive. “Life, when you think about it later,” says Baker, “is a series of images a film in your heart.” And yet Baker’s matchless characte...

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