Government minister says there are 'questions to answer' over Daniel Abed Khalife's prison escape

Tenacious D have announced a UK and Ireland arena tour for next year – find all the details below.The comedy rock duo – aka Jack Black and Kyle Gass – are due to hit the road in Europe next spring. Dubbed the ‘Spicy Meatball Tour’, the upcoming run of shows includes stop-offs in Stockholm (April 29), Oslo (30), Copenhagen (May 1) and Luxembourg (3).From there, Tenacious D will head to Dublin for a headline concert at the city’s 3Arena on May 5.

EastEnders fans have been floored by a link to Little Mo in a scene with Freddie Slater during Tuesday night's episode as "history repeats itself." In dramatic scenes which aired on 3 October, Freddie raced to the rescue as he walked in on Theo Hawthorne attempting to rape Stacey Slater in the kitchen.Theo had pinned Stacey to the ground and covered her mouth to prevent her from shouting for help as Freddie returned to the house. Freddie made his way to the kitchen, and in some distressing scenes, pulled Theo off Stacey before repeating the actions of his mum, Little Mo, in a huge twist.

Love Island stars Casey O'Gorman and Tom Clare are set to finally address their ‘feud’ with fellow islander Will Young.The three men were close when they appeared on the ninth series of the popular ITV dating show, as they were affectionately referred to as the "Three Musketeers." But despite seeming inseparable, Tom and Casey have since distanced themselves from the TikTok-famous farmer, who found love with Jessie Wynter in the villa. Now Casey and Tom have been asked about the alleged falling out in the trailer for the latest episode of the Nikkie & Brie show, with the pair teasing that they are ready to 'go there.' Appearing on the podcast, the Love Island duo were quizzed by the wrestling twins on the breakdown of the trio.

Good Morning Britain star Susanna Reid was compared to Victoria Beckham as she continued to rock her new hairstyle on the show. The brunette host recently unveiled her sleek bob, a style also favoured by Posh Spice over the years. While discussing David and Victoria's new Netflix docu-series on Wednesday morning, (October 4) entertainment editor Richard Arnold couldn't help but point out Susanna's resemblance to the Spice Girls star.

Rachel Zegler has come to the defence of Taylor Swift, and called out a podcast for making sex tape comments about her rumoured relationship with Travis Kelce.The actor and singer took to social media to condemn the media for their long-running slew of inappropriate comments made towards Swift.Zegler’s response was written following comments made on a podcast recently, which saw Dan Katz question the rumours of Swift’s latest relationship with NFL player Travis Kelce.“If Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift release a sex video, I’ll consummate this relationship and be like, ‘Fine,’” Katz said during an episode of the Pardon My Take podcast.The comments also come after the pop singer appeared at two Kansas City Chiefs games to root for Kelce, and spurred a wide discussion about their rumoured relationship online.“It’s not news that the media is particularly (and unwarrantedly) cruel to Taylor Swift,” wrote Zegler on Twitter/X. “But the way men feel entitled to speak about women, their bodies, and their sex lives needs to be seriously evaluated.”it’s not news that the media is particularly (and unwarrantedly) cruel to taylor swift but the way men feel entitled to speak about women, their bodies, and their sex lives needs to be seriously evaluated https://t.co/0KxXEfHIC0— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) October 3, 2023“You will never see people speaking this way about a man.

Strictly Come Dancing's Bobby Brazier has been dealt a huge blow just days before he takes to the dance floor for Movie Week.The popular EastEnders actor and his professional partner Dianne Buswell are amongst the favourites to walk away with the Glitterball trophy in December. In week one, Bobby showed exactly what he's made of debuting with a score of 29 from the judges and he received the same amount of points the following week.

BBC).The subject is tackled in Netflix documentary series Beckham, where Victoria speaks for the first time about how the highly publicised allegations affected their marriage.“It was the hardest period for us because it felt like the world was against us,” Victoria said. “Here’s the thing – we were against each other, if I’m being completely honest.”While the couple don’t discuss specifics around the allegations, the former Spice Girl described the media circus as a “nightmare”.“You know, up until Madrid sometimes it felt like us against everybody else but we were together, we were connected, we had each other,” Victoria said.

IDLES have teased a raucous new single on their social media channels. Check out a snippet of the track below.The Bristol indie heavyweights took to their Twitter/X page this morning to surprise fans with news of a forthcoming track, titled ‘Dancer’.“Hip to hip.

The latest season of Married at First Sight UK is in full swing, and since mid September, we've been getting heavily invested in all of the couples looking to find love in the most unconventional way.That is, marrying someone they've never met. For some context, the show involves a social experiment whereby couples are matched "scientifically" by a panel of experts. In the UK version's case, these are Australian dating and relationship expert Mel Schilling, Celebs Go Dating 'love doctor,' Paul Brunson and sex and relationships therapist, Charlene Douglas.

Victoria Beckham has hit back at claims she was ‘too Posh to push’ when she gave birth to son Brooklyn. The 49 year old former Spice Girl, who went by the nickname Posh, addressed the taunts on her husband David’s new Netflix series BECKHAM - revealing how she was told it would be unsafe for her to go into labour with their first child.

Toploader are facing criticism after performing at the Tory Party Conference – check out the footage and a range of reactions below.The Eastbourne band – who count former PM Liz Truss as a fan – played their 1999 hit version of ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ at the Blues Kitchen in Manchester yesterday (October 3).According to Politico, the live appearance was hosted by UK Music. The organisation was hosting a conference in the city yesterday, titled ‘How Can A Conservative Government Boost Our Music Industry’.The third day of the 2023 Conservative Party Conference also saw Home Secretary Suella Braverman receive backlash for saying that a “hurricane” of migration is coming to the United Kingdom.Braverman promised to do “whatever it takes” to stop small boat crossings, adding that immigration was “already too high”.Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is among those to have called out the Home Secretary, saying that she had used “utterly despicable language straight out of the far-right playbook”.Toploader have since been criticised over their decision to perform as part of the Tory Party Conference.Sharing a clip of the brief gig, music critic Simon Price wrote: “I once hit the guy from Toploader with a champagne cork at the Q Awards, from right across the room.“Hell of a shot, but I felt slightly guilty afterwards.

Square Enix shared the official pronunciation of Cait Sith, a character in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, but Scottish fans are upset as it is actually incorrect.Cait Sith is inspired by the cat-sìth (plural cait-shìth) in Scottish folkore, sharing his appearance with the fairy creature in his black and white coat. In Scottish Gaelic, cat-sìth is pronounced “ket-shee” and this is reflected in the Japanese katakana for the character’s name – ケット・シー or “Ketto Shī”.We saw many of you were asking so we hope this helps! #FF7R pic.twitter.com/ZC4WAu9IpE— FINAL FANTASY VII (@finalfantasyvii) October 3, 2023However, Square Enix announced on social media that Cait Sith’s name is in fact pronounced in an Anglicised way, “Kate Sihth”.

Elon Musk has streamed Diablo 4 through X in an effort to show off his website’s capabilities for gaming streams as well as the rest of his goals for the revamped social media site.Per PCGamer, Musk appeared on a verified account named “cyb3rgam3r420” to share a session of him completing a tier 69 nightmare dungeon with his level 100 werewolf druid on October 2. The beginning was besieged with technical issues which were resolved within 15 minutes of the start of the stream, however, the stream stayed live for around 50 minutes all in all.Musk chatted to the audience about the druid build that he was using in the dungeon and invited players to try to kill his character in the PvP arena of Diablo 4.The business magnate had previously said that he wanted to stream “some silly stuff” to test the livestream scaling of X on September 27, but cancelled because work was proving problematic, and so he rescheduled.Then, the second stream of Diablo 4 featuring Musk completing a tier 100 nightmare dungeon was hosted on his official account for approximately 40 minutes, and it was not smooth sailing.Assumedly thanks to the significant increase in traffic to the stream as opposed to the other account, the video output struggled with flickering, frame rate issues and audio cutting in and out.His voice also sounded a lot higher as a result of a technical trouble with the stream making him “sound like a chipmunk”, he joked.Elsewhere, news broke yesterday (October 3) that Grimes is supposedly suing Musk for the custody of their third child, Techno Mechanicus.

The man who struck major Channel 4 deals for the likes of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Great is headed to BBC Studios to head up commercial for scripted.

‘Big Brother‘ Unveils Duty Of Care Protocols

EXCLUSIVE: Actors Vanessa Kirby And Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch) have signed on to narrate the audiobook version of Good Material, the second novel from writer and journalist Dolly Alderton.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video is eying a UK version of hit format LOL: Last One Laughing.

The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, running from October 18 to 24 in the Spanish island’s capital of Palma, has unveiled its full line-up.

EXCLUSIVE: Sex Education is top of the class in the UK.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based genre specialist Reel Suspects has boarded sales on Japanese horror director Takeshi Kushida’s My Mother’s Eyes and will launch the title at the upcoming MIA Market in Rome.

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has ordered Britain’s Human Zoos, a doc about a shocking but forgotten Victorian era entertainment practice.

K.J. Yossman There’s no better way to encapsulate David Beckham’s unbridled star power than the story of how Fisher Stevens ended up directing his Netflix docuseries “Beckham.” “I got a call from Leo DiCaprio’s office,” recalls Stevens, who directed the DiCaprio-produced 2016 climate change film “The Flood.” “Leo and David were hanging out, and David [had] been looking for a director of his documentary — and Leo suggested me.” The anecdote doesn’t end there. Stevens, a multi-hyphenate who won an Oscar for producing the 2009 dolphin documentary “The Cove,” and appeared on three seasons of HBO’s hit series “Succession” as Waystar Royco publicist Hugo, wasn’t sure he wanted to take on the job directing the Beckham project.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile’s Storyboard Media is making its first foray into series production by joining forces with Chilean actor-producer Pablo Díaz del Rio of Rios Estudio and Argentina’s Juan Pablo Gugliota of MagmaCine to co-produce a historical fiction series, “Habitación 205” (“Box 205”). The deal with MagmaCine was closed during the Madrid forum Iberseries & Platino Industria on Oct.

David and Victoria Beckham have been at the centre of the showbiz world since 1997 when the Spice Girl and Manchester United player first met.

People looking to renew their driving licence in Scotland and the rest of the UK are being issued a warning after a technical error increased both the time it takes to apply for and the price of new documents.

The September Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate will be announced on October 18 and forms part of the Triple Lock policy which is used to determine the annual State Pension uprating. Under the Triple Lock, the State Pension increases each year in line with whichever of these three measures are the highest - average annual earnings growth from May to July (currently 8.5%), CPI inflation in the year to September (currently 6.7%) or 2.5 per cent.

Meghan Markle is "clinging" to her royal title "for dear life" as her dreams of becoming a successful US politician are torn apart by a royal expert.

The latest coronavirus variant spreading in the UK, known as Pirola or BA.2.86, has sparked fresh concerns for those vulnerable to the virus.

Drinking a certain type of hot beverage every day can reduce the risk of developing diabetes by over a quarter, a new study has found.

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has warned that struggling families face being substantially worse off than they were five years ago if benefits are not uprated with inflation. The campaign group voiced concerns that the UK Government has not yet said it will be uprating benefits next April by this September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate - due to be announced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on October 18

to Instagram Tuesday, the singer — who has collaborated with John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band — shared the airline’s statement with his followers.“​​To summarize our investigation…we and our flight attendant realized that our policies regarding suspected human trafficking were not followed, and through coaching and counseling,” the statement read.“Our flight attendant realizes that their interaction and observations did NOT meet the criteria that human trafficking was taking place.” “Our flight attendant in question wanted to make sure that you were aware that they sincerely offer a heartfelt apology to you and your family for their actions, and the results that their actions generated,” the airline concluded.Alongside screenshots of the airline’s apology, the singer said the ordeal “has been a teachable moment for all involved.”“All I was looking for was an apology and/or an explanation of policy. From the beginning, I didn’t (and still don’t) think that a slow or tentative response from a 7 year old on an early morning flight should be enough criteria to have the authorities called,” he wrote.

Stevie Nicks has once again spoken of her love of Daisy Jones & The Six.The soloist and Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter said on social media in August that she had watched the Amazon Prime Video series twice. “[It] soon became my story,” she wrote at the time, adding that the show “brought back memories” from her younger years.Nicks continued: “It was very emotional for me. I just wish Christine [McVie] could have seen it.

AC/DC have announced that they will be opening a pop-up dive bar in celebration of them headlining Power Trip festival.Located 10 minutes away from the festival grounds in Indo, California – the Empire Polo Club which is the venue for Coachella – the bar will open every day from October 5-8 from 11am PST until 10pm PST. The address for the pop-up is 82971 Bliss Ave.The band’s headlining set at the festival will mark their first live performance in seven years.The dive bar was announced via a dedicated Instagram account named “AC/DC Dive Bar” as well as an official website.

MAMAMOO‘s Hwasa over her alleged “indecent” performance.Today (October 4), the Seongdong Police Station in Seoul said it would not be referring Hwasa’s case to the prosecution, per Yonhap News Agency. It comes after the MAMAMOO singer was questioned in early-September over the alleged “indecent” performance.In July, the Student Parent’s Rights Protection Union had filed a complaint against MAMAMOO’s Hwasa over an alleged “indecent performance” the singer had staged in May at the Sungkyunkwan University Festival.At the time, the union claimed that the K-pop idol made a gesture that “suggested a perverted sexual act”, saying that that incident was “enough to bring embarrassment and shame to the public who witnessed it”.Last month, Hwasa spoke about the controversy during a guest appearance on South Korean television personality Sung Si-kyung’s YouTube channel.

Beckham, a new documentary series following the life and career of former footballer David Beckham, has arrived on Netflix.The series was directed by Fisher Stevens, who previously helmed the Academy Award-winning documentary Cove. Meanwhile, it was produced by John Battsek, best known for his work on acclaimed documentary films One Day In September and Searching For Sugar Man.An official synopsis reads: “Beckham tells the inside story of a global football star and cultural icon.

Peter Kay has defended Little Britain creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams, saying that comedy can be “such a minefield”.The comedian discussed the series in his new book TV: Big Adventures On The Small Screen, where he described criticism of the show in recent years as a “shame”.“It was all very far from being politically correct but that’s what made it funny,” Kay said, while recalling his cameo in the show’s special Little Britain Abroad (via LadBible). “It probably wouldn’t get made now.“Sadly, Matt and David have taken a lot of flak in the past few years for the work they did.