29 m. ago The Great British Bake Off fans share major concern moments before first episode

The Great British Bake Off has returned to our screens for a new series and fans were quick to share their reaction.

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44 m. ago Alison Hammond says ‘change is beautiful’ as Great British Bake Off presenter admits to ‘starting afresh’

Alison Hammond spoke of “starting afresh” as the new series of The Great British Bake Off, returned to our screens on Tuesday (2 September).

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47 m. ago Channing Tatum questioned acting career for sad reason during break from films

Despite being in huge Hollywood movies like Deadpool and Wolverine, Channing Tatum has admitted he wondered if he should have gone into acting during his break from the screen

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49 m. ago Jury comes to decision in 'tragic case' of man accused of 85

The couple had been together for over 60 years

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68 m. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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68 m. ago Noel Fielding makes triumphant return to TV on The Great British Bake Off after he quit Dick Turpin series amid health woes

Noel Fielding returned to screens on The Great British Bake Off on Tuesday night for the first time since he quit Apple TV's Dick Turpin amid health woes.

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77 m. ago Criticism grows over Father Ted creator Graham Linehan arrest for ‘anti

JK Rowling and Elon Musk among high-profile critics as Irish comedian, 57, detained by armed officers moments after stepping off an American Airlines flight from Arizona

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83 m. ago Olivia Attwood admits 'it's really hard' as she opens up on filming Bad Boyfriends

Bad Boyfriends is back on our screens this month and host Olivia Attwood has opened up on the new line-up and how she finds it difficult to remain impartial as a presenter

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97 m. ago Tantrum transfers, hysteria and endless cash: the greatest window ever had it all | Barney Ronay

An emotional, strategic, plot-driven entertainment product was all wrapped up in a single epic three-month tracking shotBy the time the clock hit 7.30pm the main presenter on Monday’s Sky Sports Window Slam Countdown looked not just frazzled, but oddly heroic, like a man who has ingested a potentially fatal overdose of late-breaking excitement and is now being encouraged to keep talking in a low, dogged voice about massive deals and unexpected snags just to keep himself awake until the paramedics arrive.There was something of the Situation Room about the whole tableau, five nobly dishevelled talking heads leaning in around the curved tables, lists of names earnestly reeled off. Eberechi Eze. Randal Kolo Muani. We’re hearing that Coventry has fallen. In the bottom corner of the screen a picture of Marc Guéhi would flash up now and then reproachfully, wearing a strange, lost smile. And below it all the countdown clock replaced with the simple end-of-days message: WINDOW CLOSED. Contin...

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98 m. ago Sad sign Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear pals won't be making more TV shows together in future

Top Gear trio Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May formed a legendary TV partnership that lasted years, but it seems they won't be reuniting on screen anytime soon

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98 m. ago Olivia Attwood makes awkward confession about 'not perfect' Bradley Dack marriage

The presenter has opened up about her marriage to footballer Bradley Dack after celebrating their second anniversary back in June

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98 m. ago Bake Off star Noel Fielding's love life from Courtney Love to Pixie Geldof age

Great British Bake Off host Noel Fielding has been with longterm partner Lliana Bird for over a decade, but the comedian has been linked to a number of high profile women over the years

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1 hour ago Jason Manford issues candid update on health 'nightmare' after hospital collapse

The comedian underwent surgery in August after suddenly falling ill before his tour was due to start

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2 h. ago Swansea City transfer ins and outs in full as 29 players come and go in hectic summer

It's been a really busy, but largely successful, summer for the Swans

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2 h. ago Falling asleep in front of the telly is doing two bad things to you

Scientists found sleepers exposed to light levels equivalent to the glow from a television screen are more likely to develop depressive symptoms and extra weight

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2 h. ago Trump faces new Epstein headache as Congress returns from recess

Lawmakers plan pressure campaign for release of Epstein files as victims meet with speaker and oversight committeeUS politics live – latest updatesCongress returns to session on Tuesday, and with it will come a political headache for Donald Trump in the form of renewed attention on the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeff Epstein and his death, a subject that the president has sought to avoid in recent weeks.While the president got a month-long break from the Epstein issue when lawmakers left town for the annual August recess – with the House of Representatives wrapping up a day early because of the controversy over Epstein – the calm is likely to end quickly. On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from both parties have planned press conferences and legislative maneuvers intended to put pressure on the Trump administration for more transparency over Epstein, whose suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019 has been the subject of conspiracy theories t...

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2 h. ago UK in advanced talks to build warships for Denmark and Sweden

Discussions come as London deepens alliances with Scandinavia in face of Russian threat in the Arctic

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2 h. ago Stacey Dooley lands major new BBC series investigating online health hacks

The investigative presenter will sort fact from fiction when it comes to internet claims about miracle cures, fitness boosters and fat busters

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3 h. ago Downing Street tells Met to focus on 'serious' crime in veiled swipe after force arrests Graham Linehan over 'anti

The Irish comedy writer, whose successful career was derailed by his 'anti-trans' views, says he was treated like a 'terrorist' before being quizzed by police over 'three tweets' he posted in April.

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3 h. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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