Ferne McCann: 'I wanted fame - but TOWIE came with a price I wasn't ready for'

The Monty Python crew always looked on the bright side of life when it came to its classic film parody, Life of Brian.

Former Coronation Street star Jack James Ryan has shared a touching tribute after the sudden passing of an important family member. The actor, who played Jacob Hay on the soap, took to his Instagram stories to share the sad news that his family dog and ‘best mate’, Frank, had unexpectedly passed away.

thyme to garden after all.While visiting Northern Ireland last week on an official visit with her husband, King Charles, the 75-year-old revealed that she enjoys gardening – but it makes her “creak” if she tends to her plants for too long.“I love gardening,” The Queen said while visiting the historic Armagh Robinson library in Northern Ireland, according to The Independent. “I’m a passionate gardener,” she continued.

according to The Sun. “Taking a nap,” rang in Debbie but was told by Sajak that the answer was incorrect. The puzzle was solved a few minutes later by another contestant calling out “Hailing a cab.” “I like the ‘taking a nap’ one better,” teased Sajak.Debbie and her granddaughter — who appeared to be unsure this time — rang in with the wrong answer a second time claiming it was “catching a fish,” only for Sajak to once again decline the answer.

The Hollywood Reporter this week about the series moving from being a “limited series” to a drama. He continued, “If the show goes on for a couple of seasons, it would be fun to have an all-star season.”However, White explained that he doesn’t want to limit himself to just one kind of plot line – explaining that it could potentially go in all different kinds of directions.“There are so many ways that we want to reinvent the show each year,” he told the outlet.“Like, what is this show — other than people? A fresh mystery, people maybe expect that.

Two of a kind! Jenna Dewan has a special bond with daughter Everly, which even extends to fashion.

This is so scary. A two-year-old boy was hit in the head by a stray bullet while playing outside at daycare!

Queens Of The Stone Age have hinted that they’re set to make a surprise appearance at Glastonbury Festival 2023.The band, who will release new album ‘In Times New Roman’ next month, played their first live show in three years on Friday night in Ohio, and will continue their comeback across Europe in June.Three UK gigs in Halifax, Cardiff and Margate are already announced as part of the run, and today (May 28) the band teased a fourth gig in the run, at Glastonbury, on their Instagram Stories.In the three cities on their short UK tour, the band took photos of posters reading ‘long live the Queens’, before a fourth photo was shared of a poster stuck on the wall at Glastonbury Tor.Also included in the post was a location tag for Castle Cary, a nearby town to the festival and site of the train station attendees arrive in to.See the post below.Having been teasing their return this week with online videos and billboards in London, the band recently revealed details of the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Villains‘ with their eighth album ‘In Times New Roman’ arriving on June 8 via Matador Records.Described by QOTSA as “the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of us a sonic forum in which to congregate”, ‘In Times New Roman’ was recorded and mixed at Homme’s own Pink Duck studios, with additional recording at Shangri-La.

Architects have announced that guitarist Josh Middleton has left the band.In a statement posted to Instagram, the band said that they “remain close friends” with Middleton, who joined the band in 2017 following the death of founding member Tom Searle.“It is with a heavy heart that we announce Josh’s time in the band has come to an end,” Architects wrote in their statement. “It has gradually become apparent that we need to go our separate ways, but we remain close friends.”They added: “Josh was a life raft for the band after we lost Tom and he gave us a way to keep the band alive through the hardest experience or our lives.

With “Fast X” currently burning rubber at the box office, longtime franchise cast member Ludacris sat down with the “All the Smoke” podcast to discuss the new sequel.

Putting the past in the past. Katherine Heigl and Ellen Pompeo are coming together again for a new season of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” interview series.

Love Island star Maura Higgins was reportedly left shaken after three masked men attempted to raid her house on Wednesday.The reality star is said to be upping security after the incident, which saw three men in masks shaking and ramming her metal gates until they managed to rip them down, before entering her property and attempting to steal a number of vehicles. Police were called to the incident, which was captured by her neighbours’ CCTV cameras, and Maura has been said to be left feeling unsafe at home following the attempted robbery.

“I had a lot of life experience, understanding, and empathy,” she says. 

A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves.

It’s the question every fan wants answered: who will seize control of media giant Waystar Royco in tonight’s finale of the hit HBO show?

Billie Eilish is tired of her style critics. Morphing from baggy clothed teen to Met Gala fashion sensation has brought out the social media haters.

hit the streets of Paris in a vintage-inspired black halter dress with a corsetted bodice and a flouncy, full-length skirt that immediately brought to mind Marilyn Monroe's from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. Jenner fully leaned into the look's Old Hollywood glamour by leaving her at the mercy of the wind and keeping the accessories minimal. Yes, the same girl who wore on her shoulder at Paris fashion week in January kept things simple with a pair of pointed-toe slingbacks, a black clutch, and gold earrings.

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee continued into its second day on Sunday, as around 85,000 revellers descended on Camperdown Park.

Jane Fonda is spilling the tea about one of her former co-stars!

Amy Dowden is leaning on her nearest and dearest following her breast cancer diagnosis. The Strictly Come Dancing professional announced earlier this week that she had cancer at the age of 32.

Jennifer Lawrence is definitely not down for any real-life Hunger Games. She’s known for her no-BS approach to health that certainly doesn’t include ‘dieting’ (as she told Glamour, ‘You can’t work when you’re hungry, you know?’), but she doesn’t mess about when it comes to training for a movie role. In prep for X-Men, she recruited PT Dalton Wong (also trainer to Amanda Seyfried and Vogue Williams), who she now credits for ‘changing her life’.

Marc Bahan announced in a Facebook post. No cause of death has been announced.A graduate of the Actors Studio in New York, Maharis got his start in acting in off-Broadway productions before getting his first television role in 1958.

Katherine Heigl and Ellen Pompeo are coming together again for a new season of «Actors on Actors» interview series.The reunion comes 13 years after Heigl left — due to reported behind-the-scenes conflicts and public remarks that divided fans — and just a few months after Pompeo's exit from the series after 19 seasons.While the drama unfolded back in 2010 — with Heigl decrying what she said were subpar working conditions and seemingly criticizing the show's writing at the time — Pompeo reflected on Heigl's remarks and defended her former co-star in April 2022, during an episode of Pompeo's podcast, .During a 2009 appearance on , Heigl, who exited her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens in 2010, blasted the medical drama for having a «17-hour» workday, which she called «cruel and mean.»«I remember Heigl said something on a talk show about the insane hours we were working. And she was 100 percent right,» Pompeo said.

report from AP. The protest comes just days after Berlin authorities announced Waters was under investigation for a Nazi regime-themed performance that took place earlier this month at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena.

Zayn Malik has been conspicuous by his absence on Twitter, where until recently he hasn’t issued any posts this year.

Charles Barkley has the uncanny talent of making double entendres without realizing it, and he did it again this week when he was challenged to do his best Boston accent on “NBA on TNT.” Barkley was at the TD Garden, home of the Boston Celtics, following Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat. Along with fellow analysts Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith, Barkley tried his best attempt at a Boston accent by reading the phrase, “Saw Ernie at Fenway Park eating chowder on top of the Monster.” After his expectedly terrible attempt, Barkley noted to host Ernie Johnson that he had never been to a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway and always wanted to sit on top of the Green Monster, the famous left field wall.

Aaron Rodgers and Miles Teller are certified Swifties! The NFL star and the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor were spotted at Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour in New Jersey on Saturday.

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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Wim Wenders, whose immersive 3D portrait of artist Anselm Kiefer, “Anselm,” had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as a Special Screening, is a passionate advocate of the 3D format, which he believes engages the human brain in ways that 2D fails to do. “You could just as well be brain dead in some movies, because the amount of brain activity is minimal. In 3D, however, your whole brain is aflame,” he tells Variety. “Parts of your brain are working to establish the space – which is something you’re doing yourself: you get two separate images on the screen and your brain is putting them together, just like you do in life with your two eyes. So, your brain is enormously active, but other parts of your brain are active as well – you are emotionally more involved as you are more ‘there’.

Kaley Cuoco is looking back on the moment she knew she wanted to have a baby with Tom Pelphrey. 

“Fast X” is doing blockbuster business at the box office, not just in North America but worldwide.

The ‘Bringing Them Home’ report acknowledged that the first step in healing is addressing the truth head-on.

for the new season—and that's where lazy girl waves come into play.Lazy girl waves are slightly more lived-in and effortless-looking than your classic flat, . They're looser and feel almost wispier and grown out but with a glossy finish. “It’s the perfect second-day, summer hair look,” says hairstylist .

Britain's Got Talent stars Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden spent the bank holiday weekend together as they dined out with their families. Simon was joined by his fiancee Lauren Silverman, while Amanda had husband Chris Hughes in tow.The couples were not alone as they were joined by their children, including Amanda's daughters Alex, 17, and Hollie, 11, as well as Simon and Lauren's son Eric, who is very rarely seen on social media.

Former Celebrity Big Brother star Lauren Harries has given her worried fans an update on her health after undergoing emergency brain surgery last month. On Saturday, a post was shared on Lauren’s Twitter account by her mother, Katy, who let Lauren’s fans know that the actress was recovering well following the emergency operation. The reality star was admitted to hospital in April after suffering from horrendous headaches and blackouts, with no obvious cause of the issues.

Forget the expensive gifts! Kim Kardashian has a touching way she likes to celebrate her four children’s birthdays.