20 h. ago Eamonn Holmes' lavish spending on his girlfriend Katie Alexander 'was sparked by a rocky patch between them amid fears he's dragging his heels in divorce from Ruth Langsford'

The broadcaster has been splashing out on a string of gifts for his new partner, including tickets to a Manchester United game and a romantic weekend away in his native Belfast.

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21 h. ago Comedian Susie McCabe to bring new show to Stirling as part of 2026 tour

The Glasgow comic will hit the road next April and May following her successful run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

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28 h. ago The funniest, strangest, and most brilliant things from this year’s Fringe

From established Edinburgh legends to breakout comedy stars, these are the 2025 shows everyone will be talking about

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3 d. ago Comedy legend and Golden Balls star spotted at pub months after turning 80

Comedy legend Jasper Carrott, who shot to fame in the 1970s and hosted shows like Carrott's Lib and Golden Balls, was spotted on a double date at a Birmingham boozer

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3 d. ago Comedy legend Jasper Carrott seen with TV star pal months after celebrating 80th birthday

The comedy and TV star was seen enjoying a break from his current tour to catch up with one of his TV star pals

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4 d. ago Why Hollywood legend Liz Hurley wanted to work with Rob Rinder on Chanel 4's The Inheritance

The American star is best known for appearing in comedy films such as Austin Powers

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5 d. ago Michael Palin claims Monty Python’s Life of Brian wouldn’t get made today due to cancel culture

Monty Python star claimed modern-day comedy has ‘no feelings’ and ‘no surreal humour’

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5 d. ago Ted Lasso star worlds away from Apple TV+ comedy in trailer for acclaimed romance movie

Ted Lasso fans are going wild as one of the show’s biggest stars is taking on a brand new role that’s worlds away from the plucky football comedy

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8 d. ago Star Trek and comedy icon unrecognisable in new thriller with Game of Thrones star

Atomic is a new Sky drama starring Alfie Allen - but he's not the only famous face in the cast

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8 d. ago Star Trek and comedy icon looks totally unrecognisable in new action

A familiar face from the world of Star Trek looks totally unrecognisable in a tension-filled new thriller coming to Sky

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1 week ago Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2025: Here are all the shows that won prizes this August

There are no shortage of prizes on offer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - here’s who won them this year.

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1 week ago Voices: I went to the Edinburgh Fringe in disguise to avoid my exes

As the Edinburgh Festival winds down for another year, Victoria Richards relays the desperate measures she took to avoid bumping into people she knew on her first visit to the Fringe

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1 week ago Trans woman scoops award for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe

The show Baby Doomer explores life as a trans woman and won the Taffner Family best comedy show prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

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1 week ago First trans woman wins at Edinburgh Fringe as 'burgeoning trans icon' scoops prize

Sam Nicoresti was described as "a fresh, bright voice that we need in 2025".

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1 week ago Show on life as trans woman scoops best comedy show award at Edinburgh Fringe

Sam Nicoresti’s Baby Doomer show won the Taffner Family best comedy show prize.

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1 week ago Sam Nicoresti’s Baby Doomer wins best comedy show award at Edinburgh fringe 2025

Playful set about Nicoresti’s life as a trans woman wins main award, with Ayoade Bamgboye named best newcomerThe Edinburgh comedy award, the annual “Oscar of comedy” given to the best show at the fringe, has been won by Sam Nicoresti for Baby Doomer, which is based around a humiliating experience in a department store changing room.The Birmingham standup becomes the first transgender winner of the prestigious award after near-misses for Jordan Gray in 2022 – and Eddie Izzard 34 years ago. Nicoresti pockets £10,000 in prize money and, on accepting the award, joked they had promised their partner the win a year ago to help pay for their upcoming wedding. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Edinburgh Fringe has become 'behemoth of industry', comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti says

Nicoresti said the Fringe had “changed fundamentally”

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1 week ago The Scotsman Fringe First awards: The best photos from Fringe First awards as final four winners revealed

The ceremony featured special guest presenter Miriam Margolyes

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2 w. ago Hamlet by New York Circus Project review – a flashy, dreamy spin on Shakespeare

Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThere’s a hint of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet in the cocksure, poppy aesthetic of this charismatic display of acrobatics, tumbling and clowningIt wouldn’t be the Edinburgh fringe without at least one new spin on Hamlet. This spunky 60-minute version created by Sam Landa and Emma Owens combines a radically trimmed text with aerial acrobatics, tumbling and clowning. Sensitively delivering Shakespearean verse and executing sophisticated circus requires a niche skill-set; some lines fall flat but Landa and Danielle Diniz’s choreography often deepens a story limited to the personal not the political. The enterprise is executed with panache by a charismatic cast of 10.Who’s there? A ghost in white, twisting and turning to the song Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, later returning to use an aerial pyramid. The show casts Old Hamlet (Arthur Morel Van Hyfte) and Hamlet (Maddox Morfit-Tighe) at a similar age, which movingly emphasises how they see themselves in each oth...

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2 w. ago 'I love autumn, right after the Fringe ends' – comedian Laura Davis on Edinburgh’s other 11 months of the year

For Edinburgh-based Australian comedian Laura Davis, Auld Reekie isn’t just for Fringe time, it’s for life

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