11 h. ago TV stars' astonishing link to the Titanic disaster: Famous acting brothers reveal great

Jimmy McGann was one of just 705 survivors of the 1912 disaster. He served in the ship's engine room. His famous great-nephews are revealing the story of his life in a new podcast.

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45 h. ago REVEALED: Harry's Sentebale crisis 'started with Meghan': Insiders believe she 'never liked' charity chief

One subject monopolised conversation when Lesotho's wealthy and powerful gathered at their favourite haunts in the capital Maseru last week.

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57 h. ago ‘It was filthy, horrible work’: actors Paul and Stephen McGann reveal how their great uncle survived the Titanic

New podcast series will show what coal-trimmers had to endure as they powered the ill-fated ship in 1912Clinging to an overturned raft in the perilous, frozen waters of the north Atlantic, Jimmy McGann witnessed the horror of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. He was one of its soot-covered coal-trimmers, toiling in blazing heat, shovelling coal into furnaces that powered the mighty vessel.Jimmy stayed aboard with the captain until the ship’s last moments and, although he survived history’s most famous maritime disaster, he died a few years later from pneumonia. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Inside Patsy Palmer's life with taxi driver husband and kids after swapping UK for Los Angeles

EastEnders legend Patsy Palmer will be swapping Walford for the Celebrity Big Brother house in a matter of days but actually lives in Los Angeles with her family

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3 d. ago Mickey Rourke and 'Britain's hardest man' ran like 'scared rabbits' after hooligan brawl

Hollywood superstar Mickey Rourke is set to open up about his extraordinary life on Celebrity Big Brother and below a former gangster reveals the night the actor bizarrely encountered football hooligans

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4 d. ago Tom Hanks’ daughter recalls actor having to ‘track down’ her and brother amid mother’s mental health troubles

Hanks was married to Susan Dillingham from 1978 to 1987

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4 d. ago Mickey Rourke's astronomical payday for Celebrity Big Brother is revealed amid major fears that action icon could bow out of series early

The 80s action star, 72, was the final star to sign up for the hotly-anticipated reality TV show, which is coming to screens on April 7 for just over two weeks until April 25.

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5 d. ago Celebrity Big Brother 'signs up huge Hollywood actor just days before launch'

Celebrity Big Brother launches next week and, ahead of the line-up being announced by ITV, it's been reported that actor Mickey Rourke has signed up to be part of the show

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5 d. ago Steven Gerrard signs up for Liverpool reunion with stroppy star weeks after astonishing Anfield meltdown

The 43-year-old was furious after being substituted in a recent charity game against Chelsea last month but there are no hard feelings

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1 week ago Astonishing moment Bangkok skyscraper infinity pool starts swaying violently with tourists still in it as Brit shouts 'what the f**k' during huge 7.7

The scale of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake which hit Myanmar and Thailand , and the destruction it has caused, has been laid bare in shocking footage.

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1 week ago So long, Scorsese! Is The Studio the TV show that will finally kill off Hollywood?

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new satire of Tinseltown is astonishingly starry, wildly intelligent and – just possibly – the perfect encapsulation of the film industry’s death croakIt’s never exactly a done deal when Hollywood decides to take itself on. The film industry is such a roiling combination of wealth, jealousy, fear and obliviousness that, when the right person decides to send it up, the results can be spectacular. Look at Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink – or even Bowfinger – and you’ll see work that knows when to go for the jugular to inflict maximum damage.On the other hand, Hollywood satires can all too readily fall into the cliches they’re deliberately trying to send up. They’re romanticised. There are too many chummy cameos. They lose their nerve. Look at Charlie Day’s film Fool’s Paradise, or 1997’s An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (a movie about the name used when a film is so bad the director wants to remove his name from the credits, which was in turn so b...

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1 week ago Mariah Carey's brother launches legal action claiming she conspired with fan to 'destroy' his reputation

Morgan Carey launches fresh legal action over deep-dive YouTube video created to ‘damage’ him

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1 week ago Lando Norris reveals astonishing takeaway order as McLaren star offers rare glimpse into diet of Formula One drivers

Being a Formula One driver is one of the most intense jobs in the entirety of professional sport, never mind as a standalone occupation. As a result, drivers have to be in peak physical condition.

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1 week ago Why bloated budgets mean open world games are starting to think small – but mighty

After years of soaring costs and ever-expanding maps, open world games are getting smaller, and developers are creating richer landscapes in the processFor more than 20 years the action adventure genre has been dominated by open-world games. They started in quite a constrained way, with titles such as Shenmue and Driver offering miniature cities to wander about, but during the 21st century, they grew to encompass whole kingdoms. Now we have titles such as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring and Death Stranding that contain vast and highly varied environments; Minecraft worlds are reportedly 60,000km wide. And let’s not forget space sims such as Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky, which effectively contain whole galaxies.This whole design model, however, is starting to seem a teeny bit unsustainable. Not only is it astonishingly expensive to build giant worlds (it’s rumoured that the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost in the region of $2bn), but the market is also sat...

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1 week ago The Studio review – Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire is fast, furious and beautifully fun

An unimpeachably brilliant cast, plus astonishing guest stars (Efron! Theron! Scorsese!) create wonderful chaos in this tale of a movie studio executive’s calamitous attempts to climb the greasy poleThe war between art and commerce is an ancient and bloody one. The chair of Continental Studios, Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston) is keen to deliver a decisive blow with the hammer of his newly acquired IP. Because “if Warner Bros can make a billion dollars off the plastic tits of a pussyless doll, we should be able to make TWO billion off the legacy brand of Kool-Aid.” He has just fired his long-serving studio head, Patty Leigh (Catherine O’Hara), for her preference for art and is on the verge of promoting studio executive Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) to the big job. What’s a guy – even if he is a devoted cinephile who dreams of adding his contribution to the illustrious roll call of meaningful movies, even if Patty has been his friend and mentor for years – to do? He kisses the ring, takes th...

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2 w. ago The White Lotus Season 3 episode 6 review: is this the boldest (and grimmest) episode ever?

More brother-on-brother action, plus a suicidal Tim, makes this one of the show’s boldest episodes ever

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2 w. ago Nico Raskin blows Belgium fans away as Rangers star marks milestone with astonishing standing ovation

The 24-year-old handed his first start at full international level and didn't disappoint as he delivered an inspired performance

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2 w. ago The White Lotus Season 3 episode 6 review: have we reached the realms of bad taste yet?

More brother-on-brother action, plus a suicidal Tim, makes this one of the show’s boldest episodes ever

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2 w. ago Larry Tamblyn death: Founding member of The Standells and brother of actor Russ Tamblyn dies at 82

The Standells were known for their 1966 hit, ‘Dirty Water’

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2 w. ago Snoop Dogg offers to help heal the rift between Princes William and Harry and says 'life is too short to not make things right': 'They're brothers, man'

The American rapper, who lives close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in LA, has said he would be more than happy to act as a peacemaker between the brothers.

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