40 m. ago ‘I hate that they show my bum in the first scene!’ David Duchovny on poems, podcasts – and his TV comeback

Playing Fox Mulder made him a global phenomenon then he walked away to save himself. As he stars in killer-nanny thriller Malice, David Duchovny talks art, his beef with Gillian Anderson – and being murdered by Jack WhitehallHalfway through our hour-long conversation, David Duchovny slumps in his seat a little then gently chastises me. “I got tired while you were talking,” he groans. In fairness, I had been talking a lot, but only because I was trying to list everything he’s managed to do in the past year.There’s his podcast, Fail Better, in which he’s wrung incredibly candid interviews from notoriously reticent stars like Alec Baldwin and Robert Downey Jr, more on which later. There’s his book of poetry, About Time, which came out last month. There’s his History Channel show Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny. As we speak, he’s just finished an eight-date tour, where he performed songs from the three folk-rock albums he’s released over the last decade. We are ostensibly here ...

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95 m. ago Who's Madeline? Lily Allen 'names girl who ex husband David Harbour cheated on her with' as fans compare her new song to Beyonce's viral 'Becky with the good hair' diss track

Lily Allen has seemingly named the girl who her ex husband David Harbour cheated on her with as Madeline in the release of her highly-anticipated new album West End Girl.

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2 h. ago ‘10 innocent people died’: The tragic history behind dark Springsteen album that inspired new biopic

In ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’, Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen during the writing of ‘Nebraska.’ Kevin E G Perry looks back at the creation of a haunting record that many, including Springsteen himself, consider the New Jersey songwriter’s finest work

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2 h. ago Facing Myself: 'Singing emotional songs moves me tears too' reveals Alfie Boe as tour heads this way

Powerhouse tenor Alfie Boe - ahead of his 2026 Facing Myself UK tour - has revealed that singing emotional Les Misérables classics doesn’t just leave the audience weepy...he’s often in tears too!

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3 h. ago Which cooking oil is best for you, how to use them... and which should you avoid

Used for everything from sautéing and deep frying to pouring into salad dressings, oil is the ultimate kitchen staple.

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3 h. ago UK's best place to retire has been named but there's a big catch

The best places in the UK to retire have been revealed in a new study by Legal & General, which ranked UK constituencies based on six key pillars of later-life happiness

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5 h. ago What week is it on Strictly Come Dancing? BBC stars to take on ‘Icons’ as songs confirmed

It is time for ‘Icons’ week on Strictly Come Dancing - but what songs will featured? 💃🕺📺

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5 h. ago Jennifer Walton: Daughters review – a stylish and painful debut

(Local Action)Fiction, folk and a devastating diagnosis feature in the producer and DJ’s literary penmanship, her gentle, gothic vocals thick with morbid, magical thinkingMiss America, the centrepiece of Jennifer Walton’s stylish, painful debut record, sits us down in a hotel room near JFK airport, watching on as Walton learns that her father has been diagnosed with cancer. The Sunderland-born musician had been touring the US for the first time, drumming with indie band Kero Kero Bonito, and now grief greys everything out. Faltering piano and hushed strings accompany gothic dispatches from the tour van: “Cattle farm and broke down shack / Strip-mall, drug deal, panic attacks.”Walton’s gentle vocals are deadpan, with the record’s tension brought by her penmanship (encompassing fiction, folksy sayings and blunt diary entries) and her sharp, surprising maximalism. Few songs this year have stronger novelistic flair than Shelly, which witnesses the killing of a deer and spirals into a pe...

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6 h. ago Lily Allen: West End Girl – a gobsmacking autopsy of marital betrayal

(BMG)Allen’s first album in seven years traces the fallout from an open relationship, but as well as being cathartic and candid, these stylistically varied songs have melodies that sparkleIt is seven years since Lily Allen last released an album. No Shame was Mercury-nominated and far better reviewed than 2014’s Sheezus – not least by Allen herself – but it was also her lowest-selling album to date. You could have taken that as evidence pop had moved on. In Britain, 2018 was a year that the well-mannered boy/girl-next-door pop of George Ezra, Jess Glynne and Ed Sheeran held sway; Allen seemed symbolic of a messier, mouthier era. Afterwards, Allen stepped away from music, concentrating instead on what you’d have to call a diverse portfolio of interests, including acting, podcasting, launching her own sex toy and selling photographs of her feet to fetishists on OnlyFans.But pop has a habit of developing in a cyclical way. When Olivia Rodrigo brought Allen on stage at Glastonbury in 20...

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8 h. ago Experience: I’ve been on television more than 2,500 times (but you won’t know my face)

My work as a TV and film extra was a dream come true. My look – skinny and not too good-looking – was in high demandI have always been a television addict. As a young boy growing up in Bath, I’d devour programmes such as Doctor Who, desperate to know how they were created. At 16, I dared to tell a school careers adviser that I wanted to work in TV; she laughed and said a career in television was for people who went to university. She suggested I get a job in retail. Dejected, I reluctantly took on a job at a supermarket, but made my way up through the ranks. They had a budget for making corporate films, and I ended up directing and producing their training videos.Then, in 1998, I saw an advert in a sci-fi magazine for unpaid extras for Auton, a Doctor Who spin-off. I dashed off an application and was thrilled to get a call weeks later, offering me a role as a villager. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Sisters 'key' players in £67million debt plot over insolvency avoidance

Joanna Seawright, 54, who lives in Dumfries, and Karen Mortimer, 67, who now lives in Tenerife, were instrumental in a scheme allowing struggling firms to wind up without facing massive liabilities.

Economics

16 h. ago Trump reveals the friends who convinced him to call off surging troops into San Francisco: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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17 h. ago Joe Rogan has a bonkers idea for Trump to troll liberals with a new job after leaving the White House

Podcaster says president could make an ideal next governor of California in place of Gavin Newsom

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17 h. ago Jessie J to perform at Royal Variety Performance after cancer surgery

Jessie J will return to the Royal Albert Hall for the ITV entertainment show to sing her new song I’ll Never Know Why.

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17 h. ago States worry about how to fill the gap in food aid ahead of a federal benefits halt

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown

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17 h. ago Meghan Markle suffers major blow after being named 'most disliked celebrity'

Meghan Markle has been hailed the "most disliked celebrity" by the public in a brutal ranking system

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18 h. ago Reba McEntire to host TV special that she’s ‘always wanted to do’

‘The Voice’ star will perform songs throughout the live event

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19 h. ago Trump won’t send federal troops to San Francisco after ‘friends in the area’ asked him not to: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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19 h. ago Foo Fighters announce 2026 stadium tour as Dave Grohl says band is ‘forever devoted’ to playing

New song ‘Asking for a Friend’ is available to stream now

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19 h. ago Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound

Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop• News: Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66By common consent, Soft Cell’s first Top of the Pops appearance, on 13 August 1981, ranks among the show’s most striking performances. It was impactful enough to send their single Tainted Love first into the Top Ten, then to No 1 – it ultimately became the second biggest-selling single of the year – and to provoke a number of complaints. The latter were caused by the duo’s frontman, Marc Almond, clad in eyeliner and jewellery, delivering his vocal with a weird combination of intense passion, high camp and occasional knowing looks to camera: he was clearly a gay man, but a gay man who declined to conform to the pantomime stereotype that still prevailed on British TV, a decision that first upset his own record company boss – who collared Almond backstage a...

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