13 h. ago Wynne Evans addresses Strictly 'nightmare' as he admits he's 'paid the price'

The opera singer - who is best known for appearing in the GoCompare adverts - took part in the 2024 run of the BBC One dance contest

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14 h. ago BBC Strictly's Wynne Evans says he 'paid ultimate price' after scandal

Wynne Evans has spoken out after he was dropped from the Strictly Come Dancing live tour earlier this year following claims of inappropriate comments and behaviour

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14 h. ago Wynne Evans says ‘I paid the ultimate price’ after ‘creepy’ Strictly moment

Wynne Evans spoke to Good Morning Britain hosts Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid, months after the Strictly Come Dancing scandal.

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25 h. ago By giving 'comfort letters' to IRA terrorists while hounding SAS veterans, our shameless politicians are complicit with evil, writes GENERAL SIR MICHAEL ROSE

The people of Northern Ireland, the British Army and RUC paid a terrible price during the Provisional IRA terrorist campaign that lasted for over 30 years in terms of death, injury and mental trauma.

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8 d. ago The Breakdown | New Zealand stars Barrett and McKenzie show how skill and vision can flourish

The veteran All Black duo both grew up on dairy farms and may not have flourished in English rugby’s rigid systemThis week’s column is being compiled slightly differently. It’s not easy to type while looking upwards and smiling warmly at the bookshelf but, hey, that’s the price to be paid for method sportswriting. When you’re putting together a piece on Damian McKenzie, the All Blacks’ so-called “smiling assassin”, it’s important to try to get into character.The head bandage took time to apply as well, as did the fake-blood drizzle of ketchup down the cheek. Anyone who watched the later stages of New Zealand’s win against Scotland on television on Saturday, however, will appreciate why the extra touches felt appropriate. It is not every day a player preparing to kick the clinching points in a major Test resembles a happy, beaten prizefighter. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s football

Everton duo stake England claim, Jaydee Canvot steps up for Crystal Palace, and Benjamin Sesko struggles to settleAmid the headlines about Phil Foden and Jude Bellingham being recalled for England, there was a little less said about Nico O’Reilly being named in Thomas Tuchel’s squad. Myles Lewis-Skelly paid the price for his lack of game time and now the City man gets his opportunity to stake a claim for a World Cup spot. The 20-year-old now goes into camp having become the latest defender to shut out Mohamed Salah. That’s less of an achievement than it used to be, but O’Reilly still had to show tenacity and patience against this nuggety, late-era version of the Egyptian superstar. The City full-back nicked the ball off his man regularly – much to the delight of the home fans – and got forward to decent effect, too. If Pep Guardiola trusts O’Reilly in the biggest games and he can avoid injury there is no reason to think that the City academy graduate cannot make England’s most open ...

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1 week ago Katie Price bags huge pay cheque as she's set to perform at racy awards show

Katie Price is set to be paid £10,000 to perform at the UK Glamour Awards next Thursday, a source has said, adding that she will be performing I Got U and her new Christmas song

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2 w. ago Shoppers run to high street giant for £10 mystery bags as it prepares to shut 145 stores

"I got four bags– total price would be £622, and I paid £21"

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2 w. ago Sir Anthony Hopkins forced to sell home at a massive loss after devastating LA wildfires

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Hopkins is selling off the remains of his fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades estate for half the price he paid for it, after the devastating blaze tore through the region in January

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3 w. ago Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost review – Ben Stiller’s moving study on the price his family paid for showbiz

Stiller’s documentary about his parents, comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, is a tender reflection on marriage and what it costs to keep smiling in the entertainment businessBen Stiller has created a sweet, affectionate, unexpectedly poignant portrait of his parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara – and, perhaps without quite realising it, of himself as well. His mum and dad were two hard-working actor-comedians who had a very successful TV double act in the 60s and 70s and a long marriage. This has been the source of so much material, based on the quarrels and tensions to which Ben and his sister Amy were intimate witnesses.Both parents’ backgrounds were hard. Anne’s mother had taken her own life; Jerry’s dad was tough and unsupportive. Perhaps they never experienced the full status of stardom that their son has enjoyed, although Jerry had a new lease of late-life TV fame in the 90s with his superb portrayal of George Costanza’s dad in Seinfeld. The film is centred on Ben and Am...

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4 w. ago UK ‘probably did go too far’ with Covid rules, Boris Johnson says

Former prime minister admits children paid ‘huge, huge price’ as government responded to pandemic

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4 w. ago Boris Johnson denies UK failed to plan for Covid school closures

Former prime minister defends government’s response to pandemic but admits children paid ‘huge, huge price’

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4 w. ago Boris Johnson says children paid a 'huge price' when schools were closed during Covid but officials DID plan ahead of 'nightmare' decision

The former PM told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that it was 'obvious' there would need to be 'consideration of closing schools' and he believed education bosses were making a plan.

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4 w. ago Covid inquiry live: children paid ‘huge price’ to protect rest of society in pandemic, says Johnson

The former prime minister says method for adjudicating exam results ‘must have been bitterly disappointing to students’Former prime minister Boris Johnson tries to give the inquiry context around the decision making on the closure of educational settings. He says:Don’t forget that we didn’t know the effect this disease had on kids. We didn’t know much about the transmissibility of the disease. There were all sorts of things that were simply unknown and difficult to plan for. And the thing was moving very fast.And from the point of view of No 10, we were focused very much on trying to stave off, trying to avoid an appalling public health crisis, and we were focused on getting enough ventilators, on getting enough PPE, trying to avoid a significant number of casualties, and I think it’s important for the inquiry to focus, to remember that at the time that the school closures were first mentioned, they were seen as something you put in at the peak of the pandemic, and we didn’t think w...

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