71 m. ago Strictly's Amy Dowden breaks down in tears as she shares emotional cancer update

BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has opened up about her emotional cancer battle, as she shared a video online of the moment she hit a huge health milestone

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1 hour ago Strictly's Amy Dowden marks emotional cancer milestone as star breaks down in tears

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has shared an emotional update with her fans

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2 h. ago Strictly's Amy Dowden shares emotional cancer update as star breaks down

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has shared an emotional update with her fans

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2 h. ago BBC Strictly's Amy Dowden breaks down in tears as she shares emotional cancer post

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has shared an emotional cancer post with her Instagram followers just days after she underwent her second mastectomy

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2 h. ago Stabbing suspect and 'child sex offender' on Crimestoppers' London most wanted

Stabbing suspect and 'child sex offender' on Crimestoppers' London most wanted  Wimbledon Guardian

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2 h. ago Strictly's Amy Dowden shares heartbreaking cancer post as she breaks down in tears

Earlier this week, Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden had a second mastectomy

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2 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans say star was 'stitched up' by ropey performance

Strictly Come Dancing viewers were left disappointed when they felt that one fan-favourite performer was 'stitched up' for their latest effort on the show

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2 h. ago Ghislaine Maxwell gleefully boasts that she's happier than ever in low

Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend has bragged about her life behind bars after being transferred to a new low-level facility in July that has made her feel 'safer' and 'more comfortable' compared to her old digs.

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2 h. ago Monster's lair for sale: Axel Rudakubana's family home set to go on the market as neighbours say they're stuck in 'never

The suburban house where Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana stored ricin and planned mass murder at a dance class is set to be sold.

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3 h. ago BBC shuts down reports of plans to axe Strictly Come Dancing’s Sunday results show

In recent weeks, the results have leaked ahead of the Sunday night broadcast

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3 h. ago 'Monster' paedophile who filmed himself abusing kids hit with lengthy sentence

Child sex offender Connor Wright, of Middlesbrough, has been handed an extended prison sentence - this is a breaking news story

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3 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans call out 'mistake' as leaked result reveals exit spoiler

The latest dance-off results were leaked early as one couple exit the BBC One dance contest

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5 h. ago I’m a committed introvert – but no AI will take away the joy I get from other people | Emma Beddington

While it might be soothing to think you could replace social interactions like book clubs with ChatGPT, subcontracting human thought out to a bot will never bring happiness This is depressing: according to the Cut, people are using AI to solve escape room puzzles and cheat at trivia nights. Surely, that is the definition of spoiling your own fun? “Like going into a corn maze and just wanting a straight line to the end,” says one TikToker quoted in the article. There’s also an interview with a keen reader who uses ChatGPT as a book club replacement, scraping the internet and aggregating “stimulating opinions and perspectives”. All well and good (actually, no, it sounds bleak as hell) until he had a character’s death spoilered in the fantasy epic he had been enjoying.Meanwhile, Substack seems to be clogging up with AI-generated essays. The nu-blogging platform is an earnestly artisanal space where writers craft their stuff; subcontracting that to a bot seems like the acme of pointless...

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5 h. ago BBC shuts down 'plans to axe Strictly results show' after shake

The BBC has issued a statement after reports Strictly Come Dancing bosses were under pressure to make a change

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5 h. ago 'Absolutely disgusting and blasphemic' cartoon returns for second series despite parents begging for it to be BANNED for 'sex, violence and profanity like they've never seen before'

The musical cartoon has been criticised for their depictions of violence, social issues and sexuality.

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5 h. ago Amy Dowden watches Strictly Come Dancing from home as she recovers from second mastectomy

‘Strictly’ star has confirmed the surgery is ‘not to treat a new cancer diagnosis’

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5 h. ago A notorious gangland figure convicted of sex crimes has been released from prison early

The 61-year-old was already doing jail time when he was convicted of 13 historical sex offences against four boys

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6 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing elimination leaked hours before the results show as devastated BBC fans fume 'no way'

Strictly Come Dancing fans are left gutted once again as the results of Saturday's show were leaked.

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6 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans left shocked as 'wrong person' axed in results spoiler

A spoiler has revealed the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly, and fans are outraged.

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7 h. ago ‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation

What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchyMaggie Nelson is an unapologetic Taylor Swift fan. She knows the discography, drops song lyrics into conversation and tells me she took her family to the Vancouver leg of the Eras tour. So she’s a dyed-in-the-wool Swiftie? Nelson seems not entirely comfortable with the breathless connotations of that term but yes, the love is real. So much so, she has written a book about the billionaire singer-songwriter, or rather, a joint analysis of Swift and Sylvia Plath, who recurs in much of Nelson’s oeuvre.The notion of uniting these two cultural titans, who are seemingly poles apart in sensibility – one a melancholic American poet, the other an all-American poster girl – came to her when she heard Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department. Alongside its literary references to F Scott Fitzgerald...

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