19 h. ago WWE wrestler set to make her acting debut alongside former Marvel star Jonathan Majors

Jade Cargill will play a villain in new action-thriller ‘True Threat’

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61 h. ago EastEnders' Zoe Slater star's private life as actress 'set to return' after 20 years

Michelle Ryan is best known for her role as Zoe Slater in EastEnders, and it's now been reported that the actress could be returning to Walford

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61 h. ago Andy Serkis wants to keep his Animal Farm adaptation full of ‘innocence’

The 58-year-old actor and filmmaker is set to helm an animated take on George Orwell's dystopian fable

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63 h. ago UK tourists to be affected by major strike action in Tenerife during July and August

The proposed strike action is set to commence on July 4

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67 h. ago Consecration review – creepy nuns deliver the classic moves of holy terror very effectively

Purest hokum, of course, but what hokum! Real pride has gone into crafting this set of shocks, and it’s very well acted in beautiful locationsThis is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a wimple. In this well-crafted horror movie, a young woman called Grace (Jena Malone) finds herself up against a bunch of nuns who may or may not be trying to do something extremely dodgy with an unknown relic, and as with last year’s Omen prequel, there’s a nice line in casting here from the Ladybird Book of Horror Nuns. There’s dotty young nun who pops up going “peekaboo” (Eilidh Fisher), an arrogant mother superior (Janet Suzman), a hardliner weapon-of-Christ sort (Jolade Obasola), and the rather rarer spooky nun with one eye hidden behind an ominous white bandage (Alexandra Lewis). Their acting is uniformly excellent, as is that from Danny Huston, who plays a priest who introduces himself thusly: “I’m Father Romero, I’m here from the Vatican,” which announces him as probably up to no good...

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3 d. ago Man City ignore valid excuses to make key change after damning Pep Guardiola verdict

Manchester City had plenty of mitigating factors to fall back on for their decline in set-pieces, but have taken action instead

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4 d. ago Pentagon to reportedly deploy hundreds of US marines to Los Angeles

Reports say battalion to be sent to LA ‘temporarily’ but Trump reportedly not set to invoke Insurrection ActHundreds of active-duty US marines are to be deployed in Los Angeles, it was reported on Monday, making good on Donald Trump’s threat to send more troops to the city to quash protests against government immigration raids and deportations.A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told news agency Reuters that a battalion of 700 marines, reportedly from the Twentynine Palms base in southern California, would be sent to Los Angeles “temporarily”. This was despite a relatively quiet day of protests in the city. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'Freedom flotilla' doubles down and says 'we will not turn back' as Israel issues chilling warning after vowing: 'Greta Thunberg won't make it to Gaza'

Taking to Instagram , freedom flotilla member Yasemin Acar defiantly said the activists would not be returning to Catania, Sicily, from where they set off last Sunday.

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5 d. ago ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writersBack in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Last month, the hit TV adaptation Mr Loverman, about a 74-year-old gay Caribbean man set in Hackney, east London, won two Baftas, including leading actor for Lennie James, making him the first Black British actor to win the TV award in its 70-year history. “I checked Wikipedia!” Evaristo exclaims of this shocking fact when we meet in London.Evaristo’s long career is one of firsts and creating them for others. In 2019, at the age of 60, she became the first Black woman to win the Booker prize – shared with Margaret Atwood –...

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5 d. ago Rivals actor arrested on set in front of crew hour after filming with Danny Dyer

Avon and Somerset police are said to have turned up on set to arrest the bricklayer-turned-actor soon after filming scenes

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5 d. ago Shock as police arrest actor on set of Disney+ hit show Rivals moments after performing in scene with Danny Dyer

Officers swooped on Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, where TV extra Nigel Adams, 45, was hauled away in handcuffs by six cops in front of shocked cast members.

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6 d. ago Holidaymakers face summer of strikes at major British airport as 800 workers are set to be balloted for industrial action over pay

Unite the Union said that if there is no successful resolution to the disputes in the coming days, it will move towards holding votes on industrial action within two weeks.

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8 d. ago Chilling video shows King of the Hill star Jonathan Joss' final moments

Holding a pitch fork and shouting about deportations, King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss can be seen in new video in a confrontation with neighbors before he was shot and killed.

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8 d. ago Birmingham bin strike horror could carry on until Christmas, union bosses warn

Nearly 400 workers facing brutal pay cuts have voted to continue industrial action in Birmingham, Unite said today, with action set to carry on until December 5 at the earliest

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8 d. ago Tom Felton to reprise role as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Actor to make Broadway debut in play set 19 years after events of the final book in JK Rowling’s fantasy seriesMore than a decade after casting his last spell, Tom Felton, best known for playing Harry Potter’s bleach-blond nemesis, is returning to the wizarding world.The actor will reprise his role as Draco Malfoy in the acclaimed stage production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, making his Broadway debut. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago First look at next James Bond in the 007 franchise is released

Four years on from Daniel Craig 's hugely dramatic exit from the world of James Bond, an Irish actor is set to step into the frame as the world's most famous spy.

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8 d. ago Film crew descends on major Scottish city for remake of beloved 90s classic

The streets of Edinburgh have been transformed into a vibrant Bollywood film set, with film crews and actors spotted filming at Princes Street Gardens and Portobello Beach

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8 d. ago Walton Goggins reveals the real reason he unfollowed White Lotus co

The actors have given a joint interview in which they have set the record straight on their reported ‘feud’

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8 d. ago Barbaric dad set sleeping daughter, two, on fire in desert in 'despicable' act

Murderer Shawn Grell, 50, killed his two-year-old daughter in the most "heinous, cruel and depraved way" after setting her alight in the desert, according to the Arizona Supreme Court

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9 d. ago Marvel fans erupt after new Black Panther is revealed as white

Marvel fans are in uproar after the debut of a controversial new storyline that reimagines Black Panther's legacy-with a shocking twist: his successor appears to be white.

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