Sex Pistols’ John Lydon fights back tears on GMB as he opens up on wife’s Alzheimer’s battle amid Eurovision bid

Former Amazon Studios Canada originals boss Christina Wayne will be the new Managing Director of Saudi Arabia-based MBC Studios.

Perez is such a show queen!!!!

The Scottish Government is working towards delivering a new benefit that will start to replace Carer’s Allowance by the end of this year, with a full national rollout planned for Spring 2024, according to a new progress report on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.

Live Active Leisure (LAL) has announced the finalists for the Perth and Kinross Sports Awards.

Water charges for Lanarkshire householders will increase by five per cent from April.

Curtis Main is relieved he’s not involved in as many “ding dongs” with Stephen Robinson now he’s worked his way firmly into the St Mirren manager’s good books.

The Centre, Livingston and the West Lothian Courier have announced the third winner of our Volunteer Award.

EXCLUSIVE: Seven.One Entertainment Chief Content Officer Henrik Pabst has joined the board of German compatriot distributor/channel operator Quintus Media.

EXCLUSIVE! This may be the first ever season of The Bachelor that Perez watches!

Dwight Yorke. Aberdeen manager. In the cynical world of Scottish football, even uttering the words out loud sounds a bit too much like pie in the sky.

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Lawrence Shankland knows Hearts produced a performance against Rangers that would drive their fans to drink so he had no problem with them hitting the boos at half time on Wednesday.

Celtic fans were left a tad confused at the sight of dozens of extra stewards circling the pitch at the final whistle against Livingston the other night.

Dylan McGowan hopes Hamilton's resolute defensive line can be the catalyst to help catapult them up the Championship table.

It has been noted that new age master of suspense-wannabe M. Night Shyamalan has basically gone downhill since his heady beginnings with the Oscar-nominated classic, The Sixth Sense, then pretty good follow-ups like Signs and Unbreakable. Even detours in split-personality hits like Split, and Glass — the latter successful enough to let Universal trust him with small enough budgets to take a few more swings — or the intriguing Twilight Zone-ish film Old, that unfortunately wore out its welcome after a promising start, bolster that notion.

Ready for some more tossed salad and scrambled eggs! Frasier of the most celebrated comedies of the 1990s and 2000s — and the sitcom is finally getting the reboot treatment.

Two runaway thieves were caught on CCTV scrambling down a road in Fife with a stolen dirt bike.

The heartbroken mums of two girls who were savagely filmed while their bullies beat them have backed calls for social media firms to take action over violent clips shared on their platforms.

A Scottish council has launched an investigation after children were reportedly exposed to hardcore porn on school-issued laptops. Kids at a primary school in the Highland Council area saw the X-rated images after clicking on an advert in a webpage in their classroom.

A Scots mum has told how she frantically brought her wedding forward to ensure she had the same surname as her baby son before he lost his brave brain tumour battle. Kate Goodall, from Dumfries, welcomed little Jacob into the world in 2016 with husband Andy but soon noticed that he was struggling with acid reflux problems.

An IT worker sparked the evacuation of his street by threatening to blow up his house in a gas explosion after believing his relationship was over.

In what appears to be a new wave of layoffs, several senior scripted executives have left the broadcast network, including Gaye Hirsch, EVP, Development, who is departing after more than 15 years, and fellow CW veteran and head of department, Michael Roberts, who had been at the network (and its predecessor the WB) for 21 years, sources tell deadline.

Derek Jeter needed to get a hit REALLY badly, OK?!

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Real talk. LaNisha Cole shut down rumors that she was pregnant again after welcoming daughter Onyx with Nick Cannon — and shamed trolls for making judgments about her body. 

An unlikely bromance? Christina Hall’s (née Haack) ex-husbands Ant Anstead and Tarek El Moussa are seemingly on good terms — even celebrating each other’s major life milestones.

Heather Rae Young and Tarek El Moussa’s son is finally here!

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After expanding his role to include Nickelodeon Studios back in March, Paramount COO Andrew Gumpert is exiting the Melrose lot, effective this week. The announcement as just made by studio Boss Brian Robbins tonight.

Aldi has been crowned as the cheapest supermarket for January by the consumer champions at Which?.

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John Lydon has accused Jedward of “nicking” his hairstyle, but says he still “loves them very much”.You might be wondering to yourself now if Jedward’s distinctive hairstyle is really all that similar to Lydon’s own, but apparently he’s not the only person to have noticed some kind of similarity. In fact, some people apparently think that similarity could be genetic.“Let me clear this up once and for all”, he told the Irish Sun. “No, I’m not Jedward’s dad, but I am a Jedhead, and if I ever meet the lads all I want to ask is ‘why did you nick my hair?’”His affection for Jedward seems to have been compounded by the twins losing their mother to leukaemia in 2019.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Universal Music boss Lucian Grainge’s confirmation that a big old rejig of the way streaming monies are allocated to individual tracks by the digital platforms each month is a key priority for the biggest music rights company in the world, plus Dr Dre’s legal run-in with US Congress member Marjorie Taylor Greene.SECTION TIMES01: Lucian Grainge (00:06:51)02: Dr Dre (00:32:03)(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)SUBSCRIBE TO SETLISTListen to Setlist and sign up to receive new episodes for free automatically each week through any of these services…Acast | Amazon Music | Apple Podcasts | audioBoom | CastBox | Deezer | Google Podcasts | iHeart | Mixcloud | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInSTORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK• Universal boss says streaming needs to shift to an “artist-centric” model• Dr Dre sets lawyers on Marjorie Taylor Greene over copyright infringement• Marjorie Taylor Green responds to Dr DreALSO MENTIONED• Public Image Ltd vying to represent Ireland at Eurovision• Eurovision hopeful John Lydon brands competition “disgusting”MORE FROM CMU• Upcoming CMU webinars• Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon• Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin• Listen to the full Setlist theme tune

down to the final six being considered to represent Ireland at this year’s Contest in May, with the final decision set to be announced next month.Speaking to RTE’s Radio 1 about Eurovision, Lydon said: “It’s absolutely awful, the songs. The whole thing of it is disgusting to me. I’m a songwriter, I perform live, and these shows just come across as so dreadfully phoney to me.