21 h. ago Strictly star Shirley Ballas gives rare glimpse into romance with mystery ex

Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas prefers to keep her love life away from the spotlight despite being in the public eye.

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27 h. ago Strictly star Amber Davies' TV past revealed after X Factor stint

Strictly Come Dancing star Amber Davies first shot to fame on Love Island back in 2017, but she actually appeared on national TV months before her reality TV stint

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32 h. ago ‘We stick two fingers up at Henry VIII’: can the riotous all

The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. As that production now hits the UK, we go behind the scenes (and thrones)A singer and dancer in Japan, Marie Sugaya first heard about a musical featuring King Henry VIII’s wives through a friend on a cultural exchange in London. “She spoke of Six so highly that I thought if it were ever to come to Japan, I’d love to be involved. But it was a faraway idea, just a dream.”Similarly, Airi Suzuki, an actor and “pop icon” famed across Japan, travelled to Britain to watch the show last year, purely as a punter. Neither Sugaya nor Suzuki imagined they would ever take to the same stage to perform the Tudor-era musical-cum-rock concert themselves. But they are part of an all-Japanese lineup of queens who are taking over Vaudeville theatre for a week-long run which producers think is the first of its kind: a West End show, translated into Japanese and performed in Tokyo,...

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33 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 9 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he tells Republicans to take 'nuclear option'

Trump celebrated halloween by telling Republicans to scrap something truly momentous - and then he went out to give sweets to kids

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42 h. ago BBC announces exciting new supernatural comedy based on comic legend's book

The BBC has confirmed a new comedy series based on a much-loved book by a British comedy legend

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49 h. ago I Love LA review – Rachel Sennott’s HBO comedy finds itself but takes its time

The Shiva Baby and Bottoms star gets her own glossy sitcom which offers us a bumpy ride until it begins to take shape in the final stretchFor most of its public existence, I Love LA, HBO’s new comedy series created by Rachel Sennott, was known online as Untitled Rachel Sennott Project. One wonders if they should have kept the temporary moniker, which befits the show better than its actual title; though I Love LA does go to Erewhon, it’s less a love letter to the city, nor a portrait of its precarious creative class, than a glossy, prestige brand bet on Sennott, an internet It Girl with a distinctly modern indistinction between actor and celebrity, and the popular, chaotic, very online sensibility that she embodies.The logic of the project flowed downhill: Sennott, one of the few internet-bred comedians with real movie mettle (see: Shiva Baby, I Used To Be Funny and Bottoms), given eight whole episodes; HBO, continually losing younger viewers to YouTube, appealing to extremely online...

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51 h. ago Downton Abbey spoof Fackham Hall releases ‘actually funny’ trailer

Comedy seeks to mock British period pieces like the much-loved historical drama

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54 h. ago Choreographer Sharon Eyal: ‘I don’t like it when a dancer is comfortable – I want to see the struggle’

Her latest work is built on dark, minimal beats and groups of dancers moving in unison. It’s sensual, visceral and, she says, totally intuitiveA couple of summers ago I was in a club in Manchester, dancing alone in the dark, when bodies suddenly flooded the dancefloor. Androgynous men and women all dressed in skin-tight, skin-coloured lace. Their lithe limbs and torsos flinched and flickered; they slithered and strutted. They were alluring and unhuman, sexy and weird. I was in the middle of ROSE, an immersive dance collaboration between record label Young and Sharon Eyal, an Israeli choreographer now based in France, who has become one of the most in-demand on the contemporary dance scene over the last decade. In her works that have come to the UK – Killer Pig, OCD Love, Saaba and more – Eyal’s strangely intoxicating choreography taps into the sensibility of nightclubs and catwalks, as well as something much more primal in the gathering of bodies to move as one together.There is som...

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62 h. ago I dare not tell my best friend why we school mums all loathe her husband. She'd be mortified if she found out what we really think of him: ANNIE STEPHENS

There are certain kinds of obnoxious men I try to avoid whenever possible. Adam is one of them. He's rude, arrogant and loves forcing his boorish opinions on everyone he comes across.

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66 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Vicky Pattison declares love for dad in surprise message

Vicky and Kai appeared on Strictly: It Takes Two as they discussed Halloween Week

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3 d. ago Amber Davies' actor boyfriend addresses Strictly Come Dancing curse gossip

Love Island star Amber Davies has hit back at claims she's found herself in a 'love triangle' with her Strictly Come Dancing professional dance partner Nikita Kuzmin

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3 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Amber Davies addresses Nikita Kuzmin romance rumours

Strictly Come Dancing star and former Love Island winner Amber Davies has spoken out on the romance rumours surrounding herself and professional partner Nikita Kuzmin

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4 d. ago Thousands of families will be torn apart by Labour’s asylum crackdown

Exclusive: More than 6,000 children will be unable to reunite with their loved ones after government paused major route for refugees to come to Britain

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4 d. ago Strictly's Amber Davies breaks silence on Nikita Kuzmin romance rumours

Strictly Come Dancing star and former Love Island winner Amber Davies has spoken out on the romance rumours surrounding herself and professional partner Nikita Kuzmin

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5 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans send love to George Clarke amid 'heartbreaking' admission

The YouTube star found himself bottom of the leaderboard on the BBC show, and took to social media after results night

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5 d. ago Bob Mortimer reveals truth about his 'enhanced' new appearance after health battle

The eighth series of the much-loved BBC2 show, which sees comedians Paul and Bob travel the UK for a spot of fishing, returned to our screens last night (26 October 2025).

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5 d. ago Baby killer nurse Lucy Letby 'loves Come Dine With Me' and 'hoards Maltesers in cell'

Baby murderer Lucy Letby is said to watch Channel 4 marathons of Come Dine With Me and collect packets of Maltesers in her cell, according to one prison insider

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5 d. ago Simon Amstell review – time to move on after Hollywood party crush

Arches London Bridge New show I Love It Here is billed as a departure from the comedian’s familiar neurotic self-analysis, but it proves frustratingly unchallenging“An exciting departure from [his] previous work,” claims the publicity for Simon Amstell’s new standup show – but it’s a claim that proves hard to substantiate. Like any Amstell set, I Love It Here is self-analytical to an absurd degree – and this level of forensic solipsism, from this clever and funny a man, can’t help but be engaging. But departure it is not – and indeed, I found it frustrating how Amstell’s concerns have not moved on a jot in a show largely about his disappointment (“pain”, he would call it) that his crush on a famous singer isn’t reciprocated.The abiding impression, of a show set at a star-studded Hollywood party, is of an artist whose life (and creative output) might benefit from a little more friction. We encounter Amstell at the start of this set blissful with his partner of 14 years, increasingly ...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump issues warning to Vladimir Putin: ‘I’m not wasting my time’

Donald Trump has issued a warning to Vladimir Putin, telling the Russian president: “’m not wasting my time”.

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6 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans distracted by Alex Kingston's 'lovely' support in live studio audience

The actress was back in the ballroom having made it through to week five of the BBC dance contest with Johannes Radebe

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