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67 m. ago Brits star Sam Fender's tough health struggles that leave him 'heartbroken'

Seventeen Going Under singer Sam Fender revealed that he was "heartbroken" last year after he was forced to cancel a string of shows or risk creating "lasting damage" to his voice

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75 m. ago BRIT Awards 2025: Zara McDermott walks red carpet for first time since Sam Thompson split

Stars from across the music industry have headed to London's O2 Arena for the 2025 BRIT Awards as Sam Fender, JADE, Sabrina Carpenter and The Last Dinner Party take to the stage

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4 h. ago Sam Fender's love life – from Raye dating rumours to romance with Netflix star

BRIT Awards performer Sam Fender, who is set to take to the stage for the 2025 awards ceremony this evening, has been romantically linked to a string of famous women

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5 h. ago Sam Fender fans in stitches over cheeky tour tickets detail on his website

With the new album and tonight's BRITS performance on the horizon, many people will no doubt be searching for Sam Fender tour dates later – and you might notice a quirky detail on his website

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A throwback photograph of a stunning Harry Potter star attending a Wimbledon tennis match alongside Tom Holland and his father Dominic has gone viral after it resurfaced on social media

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11 h. ago What time do the BRIT Awards 2025 start tonight and what TV channel is it on?

Sabrina Carpenter, Sam Fender and Jade are amongst the artists confirmed to perform at the awards ceremony

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22 h. ago BRIT Awards nominee Sam Fender makes historic record held by Harry Styles

Sam Fender has hit the number 1 spot following the release of latest album People Watching - putting him in a league with One Direction star Harry Styles thanks to the amount of sales

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24 h. ago Sam Fender scores biggest opening week for British album since Harry Styles

It comes as the singer prepares to perform at the Brit Awards this weekend.

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Premier League darts fans were left in stitches as Rod Studd made a cheeky Mick McCarthy reference during Stephen Bunting's walk-on

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2 d. ago BRIT Awards 2025: Two more performers confirmed to take to the stage alongside Sabrina Carpenter and Jade Thirlwall

They will join already announced Jade Thirlwall, Sabrina Carpenter, Sam Fender, Lola Young, and The Last Dinner Party to perform at the star-studded awards night on March 1.

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4 d. ago Netflix Virgin River fans in stitches over pregnancy timeline blunder

Virgin River fans have taken to Reddit to share their thoughts after re-watching the series ahead of season 7 being released in a few months.

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4 d. ago Brit Awards 2025: When are they on, presenters and live performances

From Sam Fender to Sabrina Carpenter, here is everything you need to know about the Brits - the annual celebration of the best music

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7 d. ago The soaps' most outrageous live episode blunders as EastEnders leaves fans in stitches with glaring Sonia Fowler gaffe

Soap fans love a live episode because they get to see their favorite stars show off their acting prowess in real time.

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8 d. ago Sam Fender: People Watching review – a lonely yet brilliant document of fame

(Polydor)The North Shields singer-songwriter wrestles with how far life has propelled him away from his roots on his musically adventurous third albumOver two albums, Sam Fender has cast an increasingly astute eye over the working-class struggles of his native North Shields while wrangling with his own parallel narrative. But after his acclaimed 2019 debut, Hypersonic Missiles, and its hugely successful follow-up, Seventeen Going Under (2021), the 30-year-old clearly feels the weight of other people’s attention. On his troubled yet brilliant third album, People Watching, that shift hangs heavy.The lead-single title track is a natural continuation from the widescreen Springsteen-isms of Seventeen , on an adventurous record that takes in rootsy fingerpicking (Wild Long Lie) and a subversively breezy duet with singer Brooke Bentham (Arm’s Length). Lyrically, however, the sad yearning of the opener signposts the turmoil to come, whether it’s new parents back home who “can’t heat the pla...

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8 d. ago EastEnders live episode blunder: Fans react to Sonia's unrealistic baby scene

EastEnders fans were left in stitches as they noticed a blunder with baby Julia during a live episode of the BBC soap, as they also voted on the baby's name

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9 d. ago Sam Fender: People Watching review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Polydor)On his third album, produced by the War on Drugs, the North Shields singer-songwriter shows just how gifted he is at pairing stadium choruses with sharp, bleak vignettesSam Fender’s third album ends with a track called Remember My Name. It’s clearly a very personal song, about its author’s late grandfather – even revealing the address of his council house, 11 Walk Avenue. The northern British references – “Chasing a cross in from the wing / Our boy’s a whippet, he’s faster than anything” – are amplified both by Fender’s Geordie vowels and the backing, provided by the Easington Colliery brass band. It’s all very specific and individual – you really don’t hear brass bands, or indeed the mention of whippets in pop very often – and yet Remember My Name seems to have something of the self-fulfilling prophecy about it. You can immediately imagine its soaring melody being sung en masse by a huge festival audience, which is, one suspects, precisely the destiny that awaits it.It’s a...

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9 d. ago Sam Fender’s message gets lost amid hazy production on People Watching

North Shields’ answer to Bruce Springsteen is back with stories of his tattered heart and the pride and poverties of his country – but the songwriting on his latest album plods more than it ricochets

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1 week ago Champions League star suffers ‘ultimate headloss’ in red card that leaves fans in stitches

Atalanta captain Rafael Toloi suffered a moment of complete and utter ‘headloss’ as he embarrassed himself by comically falling over attempting to commit violent conduct on an opponent

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1 week ago BRIT Awards 2025: Sam Fender announced as one of two final performers at this year's ceremony

The final artists have been confirmed 🎶

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