Singer Duffy breaks silence 4 years after revealing she was kidnapped

A road in Perth city centre has been shut down after a serious crash involving a police car.

A Tipping Point winner has been left seething after being 'banned' from enjoying a £2,500 holiday prize won on the ITV quiz show.

Police and fire chiefs have remained silent on why they raised safety concerns about Manchester's new Co-op Live arena before venue bosses were forced to postpone Peter Kay's two launch gigs.

Erik ten Hag's future at Manchester United continues to be a controversial subject following Sunday's FA Cup semi-final win over Coventry City.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is coming under increasing pressure to launch a review of the way it handles Carer's Allowance, after it emerged that thousands of people who care for others are regularly being overpaid - and then months or years later receiving demands for repayment.

just yet. Fashion declared and, for Gomez at least, the trend is still going strong.The actor and pop star wore a berry red leather trench to watch the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on April 22, where she was photographed sitting court-side alongside . Gomez styled the jacket, which featured structured shoulder pads and an oversized fit, with a black skirt and knee-high, snakeskin black boots.

Zoë Kravitz sure turned heads with the announcement of her directorial debut, a crazy island thriller initially titled “Pussy Island.” Eventually changed to the less provocative, more-marketable “Blink Twice” —a reference to being kidnapped and blinking to convey you’re in danger—the film is a psychological thriller about a cocktail waitress who becomes infatuated with a tech billionaire and travels with him to his private island, where things begin to go wrong.

The Peabody Awards are revealing their 2024 nominees in two batches this year and today was an opportunity to shine the spotlight on the non-narrative works. Among the Documentary, News, Public Service, and Radio/Podcast nominees were a slew of Oscar-nominated films including “The Eternal Memory,” “Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” and “All The Beauty and the Bloodshed.” Oh, and this year’s Academy Award winner, “20 Days in Mariupol.” READ MORE: 10 pressing questions for the 2024 Emmy Award Season This year’s narrative nominees will be revealed on Thursday.

Tori Spelling and Shannen Doherty are reconnecting after a falling out decades ago — and using this time to hash out why things went south in the first place.

Kellie Pickler is back.

Frank Turner has announced a UK headlining tour set to begin later this summer.Turner and his band The Sleeping Souls will kick off the tour at Glastonbury on June 28 where they are set to perform on the Avalon stage. They will then make their way across the UK with stops in Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Southampton, Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff, Oxford and Norwich.

American Idol judge was performing at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada as part of the Coast City Country Festival last Saturday (April 20) when he took a tumble.Bryan was seemingly unhurt, quickly lifting both arms into the air and laughing as he sat up. He then picked up the smartphone he had appeared to slip on and showed it to the audience.“Hold on! Did anybody get that?” the musician asked.

Hozier has reacted to becoming the first Irish act to top the US Billboard Singles chart since Sinéad O’Connor with his song ‘Too Sweet’.The song reached the peak of the Billboard 100, making him only the fourth Irish artist ever to reach the summit of the chart.O’Connor spent four weeks at Number One in 1990 with her iconic single ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. The only other Irish acts to pull off the feat are U2, with ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ and ‘With Or Without You’, and Gilbert O’Sullivan with ‘Alone Again (Naturally)’.In a video posted on his X account, Hozier said: “I’ve been both thrilled and taken massively by surprise by such a staggering reaction.

Twenty One Pilots have announced they are delaying the release of ’Clancy’ so they can make music videos for every track on the album.The Columbus duo’s sixth LP – which is the follow-up to 2021’s ‘Scaled and Icy’ – was originally due to drop on May 17 via Fueled By Ramen.But in a new video posted to frontman Tyler Joseph’s X account, it is confirmed that the date has been moved back a week to May 24.pic.twitter.com/HjabljqeIo— tyler jøseph (@tylerrjoseph) April 23, 2024“When I first told Josh and Mark and everyone on our team that I wanted to do a music video for every song on the album ‘Clancy’ that’s coming out, I told them it’s because I love these songs and I believe in them enough to pretend to sing in front of a camera for each one,” he said.“But in order to accomplish that, we need a little bit more time, that’s why I’m making this video. We’re going to push the album back by one week to May 24.

Paul McCartney & Wings are set to release their 1974 live studio album ‘One Hand Clapping’ for the first time.The album was recorded back in August 1974, while the band were enjoying their seventh week in a row at the top of the UK album charts with ‘Band On The Run’. It was recorded when McCartney and Wings headed to Abbey Road Studios for the recording of a documentary and possible live studio album – ‘One Hand Clapping’.Filmed across four days and directed by David Litchfield, the album was never officially released despite overwhelming demand, although various bootleg versions emerged over the years.Set to arrive on June 14, the upcoming version of the LP marks the first time in 50 years that it has received an official release.“’One Hand Clapping’ showcased Wings‘ new line-up, fresh off their return from Nashville where they recorded the classic single ‘Junior’s Farm’,” read a press release.

Johnny Cash, titled ‘Songwriter’, will be released later this year – check out the single ‘Well Alright’ below.The recordings are taken from a series of sessions the country legend played in a Nashville studio in 1993, but which have been shelved ever since.Now, Cash’s son John Carter Cash has unearthed the recordings, isolated the original vocals and recruited a group of Cash’s former bandmates to create the new set of songs.‘Songwriter’ will be released on June 28 via Mercury Nashville/UMe, and you can pre-order it here. Check out the first song to have been released from it, ‘Well Alright’, below:At the time of the original recording sessions, Cash was between contracts, but the tracks were put to one side after he met Rick Rubin and embarked on the now-legendary ‘American Recordings’ series of albums.After coming across the tracks, John Carter Cash and producer David ‘Fergie’ Ferguson brought together musicians including guitarist Marty Stuart, bassist Dave Roe, drummer Pete Abbott, to the ‘Cash Cabin’ in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where the tracks on ’Songwriter’ finally came together.The album is comprised of 11 Johnny Cash originals, one of which, ‘Spotlight’, will feature a guitar solo from The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.In other Johnny Cash news, Paul McCartney recently credited him for inspiring him to form Wings.“We were in bed one night,” he said, “newly married, when Johnny Cash came on the telly with a new band he’d formed with Carl Perkins, a big hero of mine.

Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes has opened up about the moment Taylor Swift performed in her office.In a special interview with People magazine, Rhymes recalled meeting the global superstar before she became famous, when she performed her 2008 hit ‘Love Story’.The Bridgerton executive producer shared about the moment: “I remember she was an interesting artist. It’s so funny because back then, she showed up in my office with bare feet.

Taylor Swift.In her double album drop of ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ on Friday, Swift released a track called ‘thanK you aIMee’.The style of the song’s title, with the capitalised letters spelling out ‘KIM’, and its lyrics about a “bronze, spray-tanned” high school bully, have led some fans to speculate over whether it is related to the singer’s feud with Kardashian.While neither party has addressed or confirmed the speculation, the reality star’s Instagram follower count has dropped from 364.3million to 363million over the weekend, and Swifties have been leaving comments on her page related to the song.The lyrics of the song describe the way Swift was positively impacted by the way she was treated by her bully, with the chorus reading: “All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’ / And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel / Screamed, ‘Fuck you, Aimee’ to the night sky as the blood was gushin’ / But I can’t forget the way you made me heal.”The pair’s relationship has been a topic of public scrutiny since 2016, when Kardashian defended her then husband Kanye West’s mention of Swift in his track ‘Famous’.When West released the track, in which he said he “made that bitch famous” about Swift, and referred to the two artists having sex, Kardashian insisted that Swift had given him permission to include her in the song.Kardashian released footage of a phone call between Swift and West about the inclusion of similar lyrics to those that were released, which Swift has since said was recorded “illegally” and “edited”.Meanwhile Kardashian told GQ magazine: “She totally knew that that was coming out.

It was, said a police chief, an 'exceptional' weekend for gun crime. Two people killed and four left injured in four shootings across Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester's Metrolink tram system is celebrating a Personal Best - recorded on the day of the Manchester Marathon.

A young man was murdered after trying to act as a peacemaker when a fight broke out following a row over a car, a jury has heard. Badri Issa, 22, had been on his way to an exercise class with his pal Omar Jeylaani when Raami Mohamed, the driver of another car, gestured for him to pull over, a court was told.

Naman Ramachandran “Homeland” actor David Harewood thinks that actors should be able to “Black up” for roles, but warns “it’d better be fucking good.” Speaking to The Guardian, Harewood, who also serves as president of prestigious British drama school the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, said: “We’re at this strange point in the profession where people go: ‘Oh, you can’t play that role because you’re not disabled, or you can’t play that because you’re not really from there.’ The name of the game is acting.” He added, “Yes, we’ve got to be representative, but I do think we have to be careful. That even extends to ‘Othello’ in Blackface. I say, if you want to Black up, have at it, man.

The trailer for Zoe Kravitz‘s directorial debut, Blink Twice, has debuted online!

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Tyler, the Creator, the Killers and Sturgill Simpson have been tapped to headline the upcoming Outside Lands Festival, taking place on August 9-11 in San Francisco. The festival, which is entering its 16th year, will take over Golden Gate Park for the three-day event.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

Kim Kardashian made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night (April 22) and fans were wondering if she would comment on any of Taylor Swift‘s new music.

Rebel Wilson is making some claims about a royal.

People heading to Egypt have been warned against all travel to certain parts of the country - or risk invalidating their insurance.

Prince Philip is said to have been worried about Meghan Markle when she first appeared on the scene and issued a warning about her to the late Queen, according to a royal expert.

Miss USA Cheslie Kryst has published her first memoir with the help of her mother. The beauty queen died two years ago at the age of 30. Her mother, April Simpkins, is the co-author of the memoir, titled “By The Time You Read This,” which explores Kryst’s battle with depression and mental illness.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large PBS landed 11 nominations, by far the most of any outlet, as Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced this year’s 41 nominees across its documentary, news, public service and radio/podcast categories. The pubcaster’s Peabody noms include “20 Days in Mariupol,” which recently won the Oscar for best documentary feature film.

Gary Goodman has signed a new multi-year deal to continue in his role as exec VP of worldwide production. He’ll continue to oversee production on the studio’s slate of scripted series as well as East Coast television production facilities in Yonkers, N.Y., Atlanta and a new site opening soon in Newark, N.J.

Kim Kardashian just did her first interview since Taylor Swift dropped her thanK you aIMee diss track via The Tortured Poets Department double album, and we’ve gotta say, this was a MAJORLY missed opportunity!!

David and Victoria Beckham had no idea what to expect when Tom Cruise turned up to the party!

Charles “Todd” Hill of HGTV is going to the big house! And no, we don’t mean one of his flipped houses!

Yikes! S**t has hit the fan on the set of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City!