Scott Maslen opens up about his difficulty with intimate EastEnders scenes

CILLIAN Murphy once went full frontal nude in a movie and has insisted he's "completely comfortable" stripping off on camera. The 45-year-old returns tonight as Tommy Shelby in the final season of Peaky Blinders - but his career in front of the camera started long before the hit series debuted in 2013.

TRIGGER Point viewers were left unimpressed as the explosive ITV drama concluded on Sunday night. The series - starring Line of Duty's Vicky McClure - had fans gripped from the very first episode, but they were left with a hard choice ahead of the final episode.

SCARLETT Moffatt has confessed that her poor spelling led to her friend getting an embarrassing tattoo while they were on holiday. The I'm a Celebrity winner, 31, made the revelation on Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable - the show that sees famous faces share their most outrageous sins.

As the Russian invasion escalates, Maksim Chmerkovskiy opened up some more about his experiences in Ukraine.

The season finale of “1883″ is just hours away, and Tim McGraw is reflecting on his favourite moments from the “Yellowstone” prequel.

The biggest names in Hollywood are ready to celebrate their peers as the 2022 SAG Awards kick off.

Ruth Wilson is looking back on her time working on “The Affair” before her sudden departure in 2018. 

SECOND UPDATE: 3 PM PACIFIC: World Cup producers FIFA will allow the Russian national soccer team to participate in World Cup qualifying games, the organization said today.

Ralf Rangnick believes Manchester United have a striker shortage after drawing for the fifth time out of the last seven games against Watford.

Pep Guardiola has hailed Manchester City's away support as "extraordinary" after he and his players celebrated with them following the crucial win at Everton.

Twisted Sister‘s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as their rallying cry as they fight off the Russian invasion.On Thursday (February 24), Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on Ukraine, its neighbour to the southwest, marking a dramatic escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014.The invasion has resulted in nearly 200 deaths so far, including civilians, three of whom were children, according to Ukraine’s health minister.It’s been reported that Twisted Sister’s 1984 song ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ – taken from the heavy metal band’s third studio ‘Stay Hungry’ – is being used as a battle cry for the Ukrainians.Yesterday (February 26), frontman Snider took to Twitter to support its use by the Ukrainians.“I absolutely approve of Ukrainians using ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as their battlecry,” he tweeted. “My grandfather was Ukrainian, before it was swallowed up by the USSR after WW2.

A fight broke out in Bolton between a man and a 'group of young people'.

The 2022 SAG Awards are set to kick off in just a few hours and the red carpet arrivals are gearing up!

Laverne Cox and Yvette Nicole Brown are first up on the red carpet at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards!

ITV's Trigger Point is returning for a second series in 2023 after Sunday night's explosive finale. Vicky McClure will reprise her role as bomb disposal operative, Lana Washington, for the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Squad in the new six part series. The ITV thriller series, written by Daniel Brierley and produced by Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television, hit screens last month and sees Line Of Duty legend Vicky, 38, take centre stage with nearly 11 million viewers watching the first episode.

Motsi Mabuse has updated fans on the welfare of her husband’s parents, who she previously announced were stuck in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 40, who is married to Ukranian dancer Evgenij Voznyuk, previously shared how her mother-in-law has been in floods of tears over the phone to them since Russia invaded her country on Thursday 24 February.The TV star explained how she felt helpless as there's "absolutely nothing we can do" in the situation.

Big Sean was trending all weekend over some leaked photos.

American Idol is upping things for the 20th season of the show, and introducing Platinum Tickets for those auditioning for the show.

Conservative Egyptians are once again in an uproar over a critically acclaimed new film, by a Queer Egyptian filmmaker, which explores gay relationships and polyamory.Bashtaalak sa’at (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?), which premiered at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival this month, has been the target of angry critics who accuse the director, Mohammad Shawky Hassan, of “promoting homosexuality.”Omar Abdel Aziz, the head of the Federation of Art Syndicates, told Al-Watan that the film “highlights the worst of us.”The outrage over the film has led to one Egyptian lawyer, Ayman Mahfouz, demanding that Hassan be stripped of his Egyptian citizenship.The film, a German-Egyptian-Lebanese co-production, was nominated for the GWFF Award for Best First Feature, as well as a Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the Berlinale.Hassan, who wrote and directed Bashtaalak sa’at, shot the film entirely in Berlin with a largely Egyptian cast, including Ahmed Awadalla, Nadim Bahsounn, Hassan Dib, Donia Massoud and Ahmed El Gendy.Bashtaalak sa’at (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)Film critic Tarek El Shinnawi  in an interview with El-Kahera Wal Nas said, “Apart from the fact that some actors speak in the Egyptian dialect in the movie, the setting is unidentified,” and the film “neither positively or negatively tackles homosexuality.”While it is unlikely that the film will be screened in Egypt due to its sexual content and strong censorship in the country, Bashtaalak sa’at has yet to be formally banned by the Egyptian government.Bashtaalak sa’at (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)According to the Arabic website Fil Fan, “The film will not be shown commercially in Egypt for several reasons, the first of which is the

Charlie Cox is opening up about witnessing the reaction to his cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home – and it wasn’t what he was expecting at all.

Better Nate Than Ever is coming!

The Ukraine invasion is costing Russia on the home front as well as in combat.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Season 6 premiere of Peaky Blinders. Surprising as it sounds, it has been 889 days since BBC One aired the Season 5 finale of period gangster saga Peaky Blinders. With anticipation at a fever pitch, the first episode of the sixth and final season debuted tonight local time in the UK, providing a first glimpse of how things may tie up for the Shelby family — and importantly paying tribute to star Helen McCrory who passed away last year following a battle with cancer. The premiere episode is dedicated to her.

Maisie Smith has shared how she takes inspiration from her younger self when it comes to acting after growing up onscreen starring in EastEnders.The 19 year old soap star first made her appearance as a young Tiffany Butcher when she was just six years old and said in the BBC's Secrets of the Square she forgot how much confidence she used to have. Appearing as a flame-haired youngster Maisie, who was recently linked with her co-star Zack Morris, said she was so fiery because she was basically a "mini Bianca".

‘You were in a dark place and did some dark things,’ Ayda recalled.

Scott Maslen has the picture perfect life away from his EastEnders' character Jack Branning, who has had his fair share of ups and downs on the BBC soap. Since arriving in Albert Square in October 2007 by splashing Ronnie Mitchell with a puddle after he drove past her, he then went on to tragically lose her after they got married, when she drowned at their wedding.

Jake Wood has shared a peek at his very first appearance on EastEnders during his episode of Secrets of the Square.The actor, who has played Max Branning for 15 years on the long-running BBC soap, didn't always play the bad boy of Walford and first appeared 30 years ago as a fresh-faced teen.Taking a trip down memory lane alongside his on screen brother Scott Maslen, who plays Jack Branning, Jake reminisced about his original role. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK's daily newsletter .