4 h. ago Dermot O’Leary reveals he's turned down reality TV shows as 'I’ve got a job'

Dermot O'Leary is one of the UK's biggest telly presenters and has some huge shows on his roster including The X Factor and Big Brother's Little Brother

Culture

5 h. ago Dermot O'Leary says 'you've only got one life' as he explains big career decision

Former host of The X Factor Dermot O'Leary has slightly different life goals at the age of 51

Politics

18 h. ago ‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch

Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how it came aboutTwo years ago, Deborah Levy came across a cartoon that sparked her imagination. It featured a Freud-like figure sitting opposite a rabbit on an analyst’s couch. Levy, a three-times Booker nominated novelist and award-winning author of nonfiction, had began her career as a playwright but had not written a script for 25 years until she came across the image. “As soon as I saw it,” she says, “I heard dialogue in my mind: a conversation, a serious, difficult conversation between a professor and a rabbit, about contemporary anxiety. I knew it was a play,” says Levy.The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved, in the wider world, divisive and even explosive to debate. Because the two-hander includes a rabbit, it ma...

Events

3 d. ago This Morning's Dermot O'Leary defends over Bruno Tonioli's 'nasty' comment

Simon Cowell and Bruno Toniolo were discussing the live semi-finals for Britain's Got Talent

Politics

4 d. ago Dermot O'Leary confirmed for major move away from This Morning and he 'can't believe luck'

And his new show is produced by a famous face

Politics

5 d. ago The most gripping thing I’m watching on my phone? Swedish moose migrating in real time | Claire Cohen

No music, no script, no narration, no editing – slow TV like this is exactly the balm we need these daysDo you reach for your phone first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up? Me too. Only, for the past week, it’s not my WhatsApp, email or social media I’ve been desperate to check, but how many moose have managed to swim across the Ångerman river overnight.I know. I need more going on in my life, right? How else to explain my fascination with watching dozens of Swedish moose (yes, moose is the plural of moose, sadly not “meese”) undertake their annual spring migration to summer pastures? Continue reading...

Politics

5 d. ago CBB's Angellica Bell sobs as she breaks silence on ITV show exit

Angellica Bell was seen breaking down in the Celebrity Big Brother Diary Room as she reflected on her career and decision to enter the CBB house

Culture

7 d. ago John Simm says finding out dad wasn’t biological father on DNA series felt ‘vindicating’

‘It explained a lot,’ said ‘Life on Mars’ and ‘Doctor Who’ actor

Politics

7 d. ago Dermot O'Leary reveals real reason he and Alison Hammond weren't chosen to replace Holly and Phil

Dermot O'Leary, who presents This Morning with Alison on Fridays, explained why they didn't put themselves forward for the slot, which Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley ultimately filled

Politics

7 d. ago Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking readIt was one of the biggest talking points of the 19th century: whether a galloping horse lifted all four hooves off the ground simultaneously. Painters struggled with the notion, often wrongly depicting the animals doing a sort of leap, their limbs outstretched front and back. Then, in the 1870s, the great British adventurer Eadweard Muybridge closed the debate, devising photography with quick enough exposure times to isolate the horses in motion – and airborne.“Lots of people didn’t accept it,” says Guy Delisle. “When they saw a photograph of the horse gathering its hooves, they said it looked like a dead spider. But when the photographs were projected in sequence, they said, ‘It’s true!’” Continue reading...

Events

7 d. ago Greg Larsen: Geggy review – a very funny standup on why he’s quitting comedy

Melbourne international comedy festival, then SydneyAssured performer leads a chaotic journey through his career’s highs and lows – and the decisions that led him to a McDonald’s drive thru Greg Larsen is broke. Having his card declined at a McDonald’s drive thru just weeks before this year’s Melbourne international comedy festival was a watershed moment for him. He is 41. He’s been performing comedy for more than a decade. This, he says, is his last festival show. He’s done.Geggy is his swan song, a chaotic journey through his career’s highs and lows and the decisions that led him to that drive thru. For those who have followed Larsen’s career, this show is a treat, offering a hilarious insight into the chaos behind the scenes of the various projects he’s been involved in. It includes a cast of others who rose through the circuit with him, many of whom are doing pretty well for themselves, including Larsen’s early collaborator Sam Campbell.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown...

Politics

8 d. ago Dermot O'Leary defends The X Factor after complaints but says show would be 'done differently' today

The former presenter of The X Factor has defended the ITV show after a flurry of mistreatment allegations

Society

8 d. ago Dermot O'Leary defends X Factor against negative claims following Liam Payne death

Dermot O'Leary has spoken out in support of the X Factor claiming that if the show was on now it would 'be made differently' following the tragic death of Liam Payne

Economics

1 week ago Expert claims you've been storing bread wrong due to reason it goes mouldy

One food expert has revealed how to store bread properly - and doing so could extend its shelf life by up to seven days. The baker has explained how it all works

Politics

1 week ago This Morning's Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary in tears as they pay tribute to late colleague

This Morning stars Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary were left in tears after speaking to the parents of their late colleague Matthew Lock on the ITV show.

Politics

2 w. ago Dermot O'Leary reveals 'massively painful' health battle that crept up 'out of nowhere'

On Monday's instalment of ITV 's This Morning the presenter, 51, revealed he had started to experience pain in his jaw 'out of nowhere'.

Events

3 w. ago The science behind the UK’s first baby born from a womb transplant

Grace Davidson, 36, gave birth to daughter Amy Isabel in February

Politics

3 w. ago Universal Credit childcare support explained as claimants due £29 more

Some parents could get nearly £30 more

Economics

3 w. ago Mickey Rourke has made a number of horrific career decisions – Celebrity Big Brother is the worst yet

The long-running reality show has always welcomed fallen US names like the Oscar nominee, but there is a gentle sensitivity to the star of ‘The Wrestler’ and ‘9½ Weeks’ – and a frustrating propensity for self-sabotage – that makes his rumoured appearance on the new series acutely depressing, writes Adam White

Politics

3 w. ago Harvey Elliott faces £40m transfer decision after reaching Liverpool crossroads

Harvey Elliott has been limited to just four starts at Liverpool by Arne Slot and he is facing a big decision in his career

Economics