5 h. ago Sir Ben Kingsley ‘never dreamt’ that he would play a Marvel character four times

The Oscar-winning actor first played Trevor Slattery 15 years ago

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5 h. ago Emmerdale icon shares Cain Dingle death fears as fans will see 'very different' character

Emmerdale actor Jeff Hordley has spoken out for the first time about his character Cain Dingle's prostate cancer diagnosis on the ITV soap, revealing his character will change

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5 d. ago ‘A new aristocracy’: Jonathan Anderson muses on eccentricity at Dior menswear show

Musée Rodin was the venue for the designer’s second men’s show for the house, and he sought to shun normalityHe is one of fashion’s greatest ruminators so where better than the Musée Rodin in Paris to stage Jonathan Anderson’s second menswear show for Dior. Guests including the actors Robert Pattinson and Mia Goth, and Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton wandered past Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker as they made their way to their seats on Wednesday afternoon.Speaking backstage before the show, Anderson, dressed in his signature faded Levi’s jeans and a navy cashmere sweater, described the collection as “another character study”, explaining that this time he set out to explore “the idea of a new aristocracy”, questioning “what it means today” and “what can it be?” The-41-year old designer said when it came to the social hierarchy he wanted to “ignore the aspect of money” and instead home in on “their eccentricity”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Coronation Street fans heartbroken as they 'can't believe' time since character loss

They were dealt a reminder about one of the most upsetting deaths Weatherfield has ever seen

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1 week ago Hollyoaks John Paul star tells Coronation Street 'schedule is clear' in exit admission

The beloved character is leaving the Channel 4 soap for the third time since his debut 20 years ago

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2 w. ago Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?This year marks 100 years since the first demonstration of television in London. Elizabeth II sent the first royal email in 1976. The first meeting of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers took place in 1876. All notable anniversaries. But I’m going with 2026 as the 85th anniversary of a great short story: Jorge Luis Borges’s The Garden of Forking Paths (1941). It’s about chance, labyrinths and an impossible novel. Ts’ui Pên, an ancestor of the narrator, sets himself the task of writing a novel with a cast of thousands: “an enormous guessing game, or parable, in which the subject is time”. In most novels, when a character reaches a fork in the path, they must choose: this way, or that way. Yet in Ts’ui Pên’s novel, all possible paths are chosen. This creates “a growing, dizzying web of divergent,...

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2 w. ago Emmerdale's Oliver Farnworth issues 'wish' in John Sugden's deadly exit

The actor departed for the final time in Emmerdale as his character was killed off in Corriedale

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