2 h. ago Outlander star Sam Heughan unrecognisable in unearthed snaps from early soap career

Sam Heughan was originally a soap star before landing his breakout role in Outlander.

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4 h. ago Sophie Willan lands new role on popular BBC series in major career update

The comedian is taking over one of the broadcaster's most popular competitions

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10 h. ago The only way Celtic dissenters can force change aired and Raskin's only shot to win battle with Martin at Rangers

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13 h. ago Great British Sewing Bee announces new host as Sara Pascoe replaced after three years

Sophie Willan has been praised for her ‘boundless enthusiasm and energy’

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14 h. ago Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in MarchFifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is to play a raging rock star in a West End revival of Teeth ’n’ Smiles by David Hare.It will take Taylor back to the Duke of York’s theatre, where she performed a four-night “theatrical presentation” of her third album, A Complicated Woman, in April. In Hare’s 1975 play she takes the lead role of a singer, Maggie, in an imploding band who put on a concert for a Cambridge University May ball at the end of the 1960s. The mood is summed up by the band’s closing number, Last Orders on the Titanic. Taylor will contribute additional music and lyrics to original song by the brothers Nick and Tony Bicât respectively. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Wayne Rooney lands new role as Man United icon says 'I'm surprised you've got Rio'

The former Manchester United captain has signed up for the new charity match concept in Asia

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34 h. ago Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page lands exciting role hosting brand new BBC series

Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page has landed a brand new BBC One series, less than a year after she bowed out of her signature role on the beloved sitcom

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35 h. ago The Great British Sewing Bee makes huge decision days before final as host replaced

The Great British Sewing Bee is making a huge change 🧵👀😱

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36 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing hosts declare 'wonderful news' as they reunite in major 2025 series update

Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly were among those who headed back to the ballroom for the BBC show's 2025 run

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56 h. ago Zosia Mamet says she quit major TV series after showrunner ‘screamed’ at her in front of entire crew

The actor recalls leaving the TV program after filming only a few episodes

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58 h. ago Major UK motorway closed for 'several hours' after serious crash

It is not yet known what caused the crash, with the National Highways reporting 'the M57 northbound is closed between J2 (Prescot/Huyton) and J3 (near Knowsley) due to a serious collision'

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66 h. ago Coronation Street's Sydney Martin makes 'lucky' admission over new role away from ITV soap

The Besty Swain actress said she is 'lucky' as she revealed she's landed a new role away from the famous cobbles

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3 d. ago Olivia Attwood brands This Morning 'the dream' in major career update

Olivia was one of a number of presenters who filled in for the show's regular duo

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3 d. ago Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple, 21, lands first 'nepo' role

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple is fronting a new campaign with London-based fashion house self-portrait at the age of 21

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3 d. ago BBC Escape to the Country's Steve Brown on how show influenced his family home

Escape to the Country presenter Steve Brown has made a rare personal admission after landing his role on the BBC show

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3 d. ago Famous potato seller Spudman furious after major airline refuses to accept luggage for serious medical condition on plane

The legendary jacket potato seller, AKA Ben Newman, took to social media on Saturday to reveal that Dutch airline KLM refused to let him board his flight to Croatia with his dialysis machine.

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3 d. ago Spudman furious after major airline refuses to accept luggage for serious medical condition on plane

The legendary jacket potato seller, AKA Ben Newman, took to social media on Saturday to reveal that Dutch airline KLM refused to let him board his flight to Croatia with his dialysis machine.

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3 d. ago BBC announce huge change to voting systems ahead of new Strictly Come Dancing series

Strictly Come Dancing will be back on our screens later in September - but there will be a major change to previous series

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3 d. ago ‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life

The 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, starring Colin Firth, has its own fan group, has inspired university courses and was even featured in the Barbie movie. What’s behind its enduring appeal? I was born in the wrong century – or so my mother says, while I protest from my writing bureau, wax seal in hand, ready to dispatch an Austen-style letter to a friend. But as I put out the candle flame with my antique snuffer, I wonder if she might be right. For me, the past has always felt like home – I grew up on a literary diet of classic fiction, seasoned with a love of my Regency hero, Jane Austen.So when the BBC dramatisation of her most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, first aired in 1995, it was manna from heaven for me, especially as an A-level English literature student. My pre-binge-era classmates and I delighted in the weekly suspense. We chattered of Mr Darcy’s intense looks, so sizzling they could fry an egg; laughed over the unfiltered comments of a dramatic Mrs Benne...

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4 d. ago The Guest's Gabrielle Creevy on 'neutralising' her Welsh accent as before landing BBC smash hit and huge Netflix role

Port Talbot actress Gabrielle Creevy says Wales 'has her heart' after leaving 'lonely' London

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