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YouTube footage bears this out: frontman HR, born Paul D Hudson, is equal parts straining sinew and raw electricity as he bucks and contorts, punctuating rapid-fire snarls and otherworldly croons with impeccably timed…
Larry and Marian have been in a will-they-won’t-they romance for years, and following a night of drinks and dancing, their journey home runs awry when the carriage breaks down. The pair stay in a hotel and end up sharing…
The accompanying, now almost obligatory, high-prestige screen actor is Keira Knightley , presumably whipping up ticket-selling frenzy and stage-door brouhahas. Except this production is helmed by theatre wunderkind…
Television and radio producer Chuck Thomas wondered on X whether it could be a Derren Brown-style psychological experiment; a Ghostwatch-esque stunt; or even a dark TV comedy in the vein of the genre-bending series…
It is a new natural history show narrated by the 100-year-old David Attenborough, so there cannot be many more of those to enjoy. It is a Sunday-night showcase on BBC One, which is nothing like as significant a shared…
The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades's performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity. The 18-year-old is from Leicestershire, and…
Our terrifying 10 now progress to the seventh live show, a mercifully non-themed affair which marks the halfway point of the contest. Blackpool is nearly in sight (he said, already regretting using the B-word so soon).…
For the first time in the BBC show's history, the Halloween Week results show saw three couples land in the dreaded dance-off . Joining the Emmerdale actor in the bottom three were Bethany Antonia and Jaime Winstone, who…
His agency, Greensmith Artists, confirmed the news to the dance music website Resident Advisor , saying Atkins had been found unresponsive in a hotel room in Mexico City prior to a performance there, and was pronounced…
The episode was watched by about 12.3m people on Christmas day and saw Hartland's character serenade the crowd at the wedding of his on-screen dad Smithy, played by James Cordon. But that was just the start for Hartland…