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Kelsey Grammer has teased a possible Only Fools and Horses reunion in an upcoming episode of Frasier, insisting that it ‘makes sense’. Fans went wild last year after it was announced that Nicholas Lyndhurst, who starred as Rodney Trotter in the classic BBC sitcom, had joined the cast of the Paramount+ revival of Frasier. He steals every scene as lazy Harvard professor Alan Cornwall, a colleague and close friend of the stuffy psychiatrist. It’s fair to say that the second the revival was announced, fans began calling out for Sir David Jason to get involved in some way, reuniting Nicholas…

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Liam Payne’s friend Rogelio Nores has denied abandoning the late pop star before his death. The former One Direction star died last month aged 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, and now Nores – known as Roger – has spoken out in an emotional statement and denied being a suspect. Three suspects have been arrested and are under formal investigation over Payne’s death, with one of them being an unnamed ‘friend’. Nores had been with the singer in the days before his died, but he has rubbished suggestions he is the individual charged with ‘abandoning a…

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X Factor winner Sam Bailey has revealed the tough times her and her family have been going through following her son’s epilepsy diagnosis, saying that the past year has been ‘traumatic’. In a post shared on Instagram, the singer – who won the ITV series in 2013 – emphasised the need to spread more awareness about the condition, which the NHS explains is a ‘common condition that affects the brain and causes frequent seizures’. ‘This month is epilepsy awareness month! So here I am, showing you how traumatic it has been for us the last year!’ wrote the 47-year-old. Sam…

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Mark Wahlberg’s new restaurant caught fire just hours before hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 53-year-old Hollywood star – who also owns the Wahlburgers chain with brothers Paul and Donnie with 90 locations – opened Mexican restaurant Flecha Cantina in Las Vegas, Nevada almost two months ago. On Wednesday evening emergency services rushed to the venue after flames engulfed the outdoor patio, with videos on social media showing the blaze as firetrucks arrived on the scene and quickly reacted to put out the flames. The Clark County Fire Department had responded to reports of the fire at around 5:30pm, with the…

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Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie has accused Blur’s bassist Alex James of ‘social climbing’. The frontman, 63, has long been outspoken about his working-class Glaswegian perspective and socialist-leaning views. ‘I find myself in the strange position of being both inside and outside of [class],’ he wrote in an essay alongside the announcement of Come Ahead, Primal Scream’s 12th album, explaining this straddle is something he ‘wrestles with’. When asked about what he meant by this in an interview with The i, Bobby explained that when you’re ‘in a successful band, you get invited to things, know people from different classes, you’ve…

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ITV viewers were left shocked after hearing Delia Balmer explain her harrowing experience escaping a serial killer. Over the past week, the four-part series Until I Kill You has told the real-life story of former agency nurse Delia, who in the 1990s discovered her boyfriend of three years, John Sweeney, had a much darker side. Based on her 2017 memoir Living with a Serial Killer, it starred Motherland ‘s Anna Maxwell Martin as Delia and Vigil actor Shaun Evans as serial killer John. It followed the beginning of the pair’s relationship after meeting at a pub in London in 1991…

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SHOPPING – Contains affiliated content. Products featured in this Metro article are selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, Metro.co.uk will earn an affiliate commission. Click here for more information. Buying Christmas gifts for the gamer in your life is no easy task but we can make it easy for you with this breakdown of the hottest consoles and games. It’s that time of year again. The mince pies have gone on sale (great!), Christmas songs are playing non-stop in every shop you enter (not so great!), and you’ve no idea what…

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David Baddiel is worried that if he continues to do stand up comedy forever it could ‘kill him’. The comedian, 60, has opened up on Good Morning Britain about stand up being an ‘all consuming’ job, to the point where he worries one day it will be the end of him. ‘Stand up and making people laugh live is psychologically very all-consuming, and you sometimes think, I don’t think I can keep doing this until I die because it’s going to kill me,’ he said on Friday morning. However, the author – who co-wrote football anthem Three Lions with fellow…

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It was billed as revolutionary but now Netflix appears to be abandoning plans to make interactive Entertainment a staple of its content offering. These titles allowed viewers to participate in the story by making a series of choices that determined the outcome of the overall narrative, but the streaming giant is very quietly removing 20 of their 24 interactive movies and shows from their platform. The only remaining interactive titles that will still be available to watch on Netflix are the very popular Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the star-studded Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend, and the Bear Grylls survival…

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EU leaders tell Trump to stand up to ‘bully’ Putin as Starmer is warned Britain can’t rely on US for defence Sir Keir Starmer and fellow European leaders have urged Donald Trump to stand up to the “bully” Vladimir Putin as they digest the potential consequences of the historic Republican election victory in the US. Volodymyr Zelensky made a desperate appeal at the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Budapest for leaders to continue their support for Ukraine in its war with Russia amid fears that Mr Trump will try to force a deal involving concessions. It came as Sir…

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