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Thousands of Liam Gallagher fans are set to join ticketing queues on Friday as his new Definitely Maybe tour offficially goes on sale. There is set to be a ticket buying frenzy after Liam announced he would be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Oasis' debut album with a solo tour in 2024.

Sheffield United manager Paul Heckingbottom has refused to play down the task of attempting to overcome Manchester United ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash at Bramall Lane.

Stacey Solomon joked she was 'retiring' from mum life after her planned craft to please her kids for Halloween fell short of being completed. The Loose Women star is known for getting creative on all kinds of occasions with the latest being the upcoming spookiest day of the year.

Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has sweetly opened up about the day her life 'changed forever' as she made a rare post about her daughter. The actress is a doting mum to daughter Freya Smith, who she shares with ex-husband Matt Smith.

Dramatic pictures show a car left mangled following a crash on the M56 earlier.

Channel 4 has decided to pull the plug on Steph's Packed Lunch after just three years.The broadcaster announced that the show will wrap up in December. Staff on the show were informed of the cut earlier today, with the channel describing it as a "difficult decision".

It’s time to start preparing your party outfits as the festive season is fast approaching, and there’s no better time to add a little sparkle to your look than during party season. If you’re not one for sequins and can’t bear the trail that glitter leaves behind, then metallic fabrics are the ultimate way to add a little glitz and glamour to your ensemble, and they can instantly elevate any outfit into something chic without looking like you’ve tried too hard.

Helen Skelton has announced a surprising new role, voicing farmer Annie Morris in the popular Channel 5 cartoon, Fireman Sam. Better known as a presenter on Countryfile and more recently through her stint on Strictly Come Dancing, the 40 year old is certainly mixing things up with this latest job. Helen's new character will be introduced in the upcoming 15th series of the animated show, which consists of 26 episodes and premieres on Saturday, October 21.

Exactly a week after her ex-husband Peter Andre revealed that he and new wife Emily Macdonagh are expecting another baby together, Katie Price has opened up on plans to herself welcome another child. Speaking on The Katie Price Show podcast, the mum-of-five, 45, claimed to be "very maternal" and claimed she's desperate to add another tot to her already-large brood. Asked by sister Sophie - with whom she fronts the podcast - if she would ever like to welcome another baby, former glamour model Katie enthusiastically replied: "Yes!" "I would love another baby or more, that's just a no-brainer.

Never one to hold back when it comes to her brutally honest opinion, Katie Price has today slammed the stars of Loose Women, branding the ITV panellists "disrespectful". Katie's son Junior, 18 - whom she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre - recently made an appearance on the much-loved lunch-time show to promote his brand new music, with the series regulars asking him about growing up with famous parents.

Meghan Markle is reportedly “frustrated” by Prince Harry’s desire to move from California to New York. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent time in the Big Apple earlier this month, as they attended the World Mental Health Day Festival to host a discussion held by their Archewell Foundation about mental wellness in the digital age. And now a source has claimed that Prince Harry, 39, ‘really wants to move’ to the bustling city - with Meghan, 42, not so keen on the idea.

Jamie Redknapp has shared a picture showing his romantic wedding anniversary celebrations with wife Frida Andersson. The ex football star turned Sky Sports pundit, 50, tied the knot with the Swedish model, 38, in October 2021. And this week the couple marked their second anniversary with a meal at Japanese restaurant Zuma in Knightsbridge, London.

First Dates star Cici Coleman has shown off her incredible body transformation, after deciding to cut down on caffeine and sugar. The 36 year old, who is best known for starring as a waitress on Channel 4's First Dates, took to Instagram to share before and after pictures of her body, revealing she's lost 3kg since April. Cici credited the "littlest things" for helping her to lose weight, including cutting out cookies and only having three coffees per week, instead of multiple per day.

Phasmophobia for consoles for the second time as a result of “unforeseen challenges”.Posting to the game’s Steam page, Kinect Games shared how the fire from the summer has changed the way that the team work together on Phasmophobia.“As we still try to adapt to our new remote working life after the fire incident and to establish a new office, we’ve encountered unforeseen challenges in adapting the game for consoles,” it said, ascribing these “combined factors” to the extended development time for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.Additionally, the entirety of the Maple Lodge Campsite map has been reworked in the interest of optimisation for the PlayStation VR2.It now has a “new reception building, more hiding spots, new decorative assets and better performance across the board”, with the developer offering a brief look at the revised layout in screenshots.Last but not least, Phasmophobia‘s Halloween event – scheduled for on or around October 26 – will task players with the crafting of a potion in Maple Lodge Campsite’s new cauldron. Recipe cards will be scattered in the rest of the maps with instructions on how to brew the potion.“While we had hoped to present you with a special launch alongside the Halloween event, the complexity of our current challenges means we need more time,” continued Kinect Games.“We will keep you updated on our progress and provide a revised release date as soon as we have more information to share.

The Libertines have spoken to NME about how a sense of sobriety, togetherness and the desire “to write beautiful songs” helped shape their long-awaited new album. Watch our video interview with the band above.Announced last week with the launch of the single ‘Run Run Run’, ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ arrives in March as the long-mooted follow-up to 2015’s ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’.With the opening lyrics of ‘Run Run Run’ describing “a lifelong project of a life on the lash“, singer Carl Barat described the track as a somewhat “self-referential” statement about where The Libertines are today, ahead of their fourth LP.“I was trying to work out if it’s a song of hope or a song of fear,” Barat told NME.

Pillars Of Eternity and Pillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire, has said he would develop a third game if it was on a Baldur’s Gate 3 budget.Sawyer talked to Touch Arcade about the anniversary of Pentiment, Obsidian Entertainment‘s medieval murder mystery game, and how the developer’s technology and goals for its games have evolved over the years.Presently, the team is split between the development of Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, however, there is still a lot of love for Obsidian Entertainment’s older games and a resurgence of enthusiasm in classic role-playing games after the success of Baldur’s Gate 3.When asked whether Sawyer would want to work on Pentiment 2, Pillars Of Eternity 3 or Fallout New Vegas 2 if there were no time or budget restrictions and he was able to recruit anyone he liked, he answered Pillars Of Eternity 3.“I think if it truly was an unlimited budget, I think I would try Pillars 3 because I know what the budget was for Deadfire, which was not a whole lot,” he said.“I have heard from multiple people what the budget was for Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’m not gonna talk about numbers, but if I got that budget, sure, I’ll make Pillars 3.”He added that while he’s pleased with the way that the previous two Pillars entries turned out, it would be “a lot of fun” to make the next Pillars Of Eternity game with no limits.Regarding the hypothetical third game’s combat structure, Sawyer would follow what the fans wanted, but he shared his bias towards turn-based combat.“I just think it’s easier to design more intricate combats. I like games with a lot of stats, obviously,” he elaborated.

Steve Coogan meeting Jimmy Savile for the first time – check it out below.Coogan plays the disgraced presenter in BBC series The Reckoning, which follows Savile’s upbringing, career and history of sexual abuse over decades.Following the show’s release last week, footage of Coogan meeting Savile from 1988 on The James Whale Radio Show was unearthed from the archives on Talk TV.In the clip, Coogan does an impression of Savile opposite him. “That was turning the clock back to when I was first on the radio, my first week in showbiz with a very young Cliff Richard,” Savile replies.

Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin has shown off its fourth and final faction ahead of its launch in November: the Disciples of Tzeentch.“Favouring intellect over brute strength, Tzeentch’s minions are gifted with arcane powers and eldritch mutations,” explained Frontier Developments in the announcement on Steam. Check out the video deep dive from the developer below:Though these units are not particularly physically strong, these characters are chaotic, wielding “raw magic, insidious cunning and the worst kind of change”.As spellcasters, the Disciples of Tzeentch are specialised in magical attacks and debuffs.

Johnny Marr has said in a new interview that The Smiths‘ break-up was “mostly a personal thing”.Speaking to MusicRadar, the musician reflected on how the Morrissey-fronted band parted ways back in 1987 following the release of their fourth and final studio album, ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’.“It was mostly a personal thing,” Marr told the outlet. “We were working at such a breakneck pace – 50-odd tracks in four years – that I thought I was going to end up repeating myself.”He continued: “Also, I was frustrated with what people expected me to come up with.

Becky Hill has shared details of a huge UK headline tour for next year. Find ticket details below.The 2024 run of dates marks the largest-ever headline shows for the British singer-songwriter, and spans across nine UK cities.Running through the course of October, the live shows kick off on October 12 with a show at the OVO Hydro venue in Glasgow, before continuing with a stop at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena the following day.From there, Hill will make stops at arenas in Nottingham, Leeds, Exeter and Birmingham, before playing shows at Manchester’s AO Arena and Cardiff’s Utilita Arena on October 20 and October 22 respectively.The tour will conclude with a final stop at the OVO Arena in Wembley, London on October 24.

Slade vocalist Noddy Holder has revealed that he was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer five years ago.Suzan Holder announced the 77-year-old music icon’s diagnosis and battle with the disease in her column for Great British Life magazine.“Five years ago we were given the devastating news that he [Noddy] had oesophageal cancer and only had six months to live,” she wrote towards the beginning of her piece.She went on to describe the diagnosis as a “total bombshell”, adding: “We coped with it the only way we could, by hunkering down, sticking together and doing everything we could to survive it.“We told only immediate close family and friends and I will never apologise to those we did not confide in, only to those who were forced to suffer pain and anguish alongside us as we attempted to navigate our way through this new and horrifying world. They held our hands and kept our confidence.

Chris Sutton has unleashed on Todd Cantwell as he branded the Rangers star "away with the fairies" after he let rip on the pundit this week.

Gareth Southgate may well be asked to stay on as England manager beyond the Euros - with Eddie Howe turning the chance to manage the Three Lions down.

Steph’s Packed Lunch has been axed by Channel 4 after three years on air.

Anyone heading off on holiday to Spain anytime soon has been warned that strike action may impact their travel plans.

Prince Harry is believed to be house hunting in the UK as he reportedly wants to divide his time between his home country and the States with his shock decision causing tension between him and his wife Meghan Markle.

1994 “SNL” parody that mocked the show at the time involved a prosthetic nose. The skit saw actress Melanie Hutsell playing Bialik as her character, Blossom Russo.In an essay for Variety, the “Big Bang Theory” alum penned: “The actress portraying me was dancing and mugging for the camera and she was hilarious.”“But. She wore a prosthetic nose.

. in September, but only just now unveiled the whole thing on her Instagram, without comment, in the middle of a lengthy photo dump.The tattoo itself looks like a tree bark pattern, and runs along the singer-songwriter's spine from top to bottom. In the reveal pic, Eilish lies on her stomach in the tattoo studio to show off her new ink, which appears to have been completed just moments prior.

Julia Fox is sharing more tea about Kanye West now that she’s released her memoir, ‘Down the Drain.’ The artist and author sat down with Drew Barrymore Wednesday on her show, where she opened up about her relationship with West, describing it as overwhelming.Fox and West made headline news when they began dating in January 2022 after his marriage with Kim Kardashian ended. But it became too much for Fox, who had just welcomed her first son, Valentino, in January 2021. “My son has to be first.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Korean sales agency, Finecut has picked up international sales rights to dance drama film “Victory,” which it will launch during the Asian Contents & Film Market that sits alongside the Busan Film Festival. The film, currently in post-production, is an upcoming title by Park Beom-su, a director known for a promising debut film “Red Carpet” in 2014. The story of “Victory” is centered around a high-school dance duo and an underdog school soccer team on a remote island. Two girls initially create a cheerleading club to pursue their love for dance, but they soon find themselves passionately cheering for the soccer team, eventually becoming a source of support for the entire island. The film stars Lee Hye-ri, a member of K-pop girl group Girl’s Day, who has become a popular actor with roles in “Monstrum” and TV’s “Reply 1998,” and Park Se-wan (“Life Is Beautiful,” “6/45,” “Collectors”) as the two protagonists.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Anthony Chen (“The Breaking Ice”) is attached to direct and Shinho Lee to write “Sunset Park” for Barunson C&C, a film and TV production subsidiary of Barunson E&A, the Korean company that produced Oscar-winning hit “Parasite.” “Sunset Park” recounts a surprising journey in the U.S. made by a Korean father with his son’s room mate, after the man receives tragic news about his son.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A trio of local films released in time for the Chuseok holiday season dominated the South Korean box office over the latest weekend. Comedy fantasy “Dr Cheon and the Lost Talisman” dominated. It earned $5.98 million between Friday and Sunday with a more than 48% market share.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief TIFFCOM, the rights market that sits alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival, is celebrating its return to an in-person format for the first time since 2019, with a move to another venue and the launch of the new Tokyo Story Market. The three-day market (Oct. 25-27) will relocate from Ikkebukuro to the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center (aka Hamamatsucho-Kan) in Hamamatsucho district.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The 2023 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, the project market that accompanies the Golden Horse film festival and awards in Taiwan in November, has laid out a huge 64-title selection for its 2023 edition. These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th birthday, a little more than a year after the release of his last film “An Autumn Afternoon” – celebrated throughout 2023 at places as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles’ Margaret Herrick Library and the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute. But it falls to October’s Tokyo International Film Festival to put on this year’s biggest and most comprehensive reconstruction of Ozu’s surprisingly varied career. Working in conjunction with the National Film Archive of Japan, the festival will present an extensive retrospective that covers almost all the films that Ozu directed (TIFF/NFAJ Classics: Ozu Yasujiro Week) from Oct. 24-29. Ozu spent his entire career, from camera assistant in 1923 to renown director in 1962, as an employee of major Japanese studio Shochiku, with all the advantages and disadvantages such an arrangement brought. While Ozu is best known for his stripped-down dramas, often centered on family relationships, sometimes troubled or contentious, involving parents and young or grown-up children, many hinging on questions of marriage, generational misunderstandings or the loneliness of the elderly, the director’s register may not entirely have been of his own choosing. “The apparent consistency of the post-war films surely owes as much to this production situation as to Ozu’s aesthetic choices,” wrote critic Tony Rayns in a recent Sight & Sound portrait.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Steven Yeun has bucked stereotypes and carved a new niche as sexy Asian leading man with his roles in “Burning” and “Beef.” Justin Chon transitioned from a supporting role in “Twilight” to directing “Gook,” “Jamojaya” and half of Apple TV+’s “Pachinko.” And Busan-born Daniel Dae Kim has expanded from “Lost” and “Hawaii” to becoming one of Hollywood’s leading producers. The stateside successes of Korean-born and Korean American talent are growing and are worth celebrating. But the Busan International Film Festival’s planned party is being dialed down a notch under the impact of the twin writers’ and SAG Actors strikes in the U.S. Busan’s ‘Special Program in Focus: Korean Diasporic Cinema’ will go ahead with a screening schedule including six films, public talk sessions that include Oscar-winning actor Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Isaac Chung, director of Oscar-winning film “Minari,” and John Cho, the Seoul-born “Star Trek” and “Searching” star.