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Manchester United interim boss Ruud van Nistelrooy says he is ‘convinced’ summer signing Manuel Ugarte will prove to be a ‘great player’ for the club under the guidance of Ruben Amorim. Ugarte arrived at Old Trafford with weighty expectations on his shoulders following a high-profile £42million move from Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain in August. Van Nistelrooy feels similarly about Joshua Zirkzee, United’s £36.5m signing from Bologna, despite the Dutchman failing to score since his dramatic debut goal against Fulham way back in mid-August. ‘Josh is similar to Manuel Ugarte’s situation. Josh came in, he’s a young player with a…

Ruud van Nistelrooy will be in the dugout when Manchester United host Chelsea in Premier League this afternoon. While Ruben Amorim will officially take over in November, the United legend will have three more games as interim manager following Wednesday’s thrilling Carabao Cup win over Leicester City. The Dutchman will remain without Kobbie Mainoo and Harry Maguire for the visit of Chelsea with the pair still recovering from respective thigh and knee injuries. Christian Eriksen, enjoying an impressive campaign after coming close to leaving in the summer, missed the 5-2 win over the Foxes through injury and with United not…

Alison Hammond has been left less than impressed after her son revealed she ‘farts in the cinema’. The This Morning presenter, 49, was one of the guests on Romesh Ranganathan’s new quiz show, Parents’ Evening tonight. The panel show sees three famous faces team up with their sons, daughters, mums or dads, with their family members then having to determine how many answers to questions their loved one might know. The premiere episode saw Alison and her son Aidan, 19, appear alongside Iain Stirling and his mum Alison and Carol Vorderman and her son Cameron. During one of the segments,…

Carol Vorderman has been slammed by her son after spoiling a game show they were appearing on. The TV and radio presenter, 63, began her media career on the Channel 4 game show Countdown, appearing with Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and subsequently with Des Lynam and Des O’Connor, before leaving in 2008. The series’ involved word and mathematical tasks, however Carol appeared to forget how the format of quizzes and how they work this week. One of the guests on Romesh Ranganathan’s new quiz show, Parents’ Evening, she paired up with her son Cameron, while…

A reader suspects that the average age of Call Of Duty players is rapidly increasing and suggests it’s made Black Ops 6 a more enjoyable game. It was mentioned the other day that Call Of Duty has been dominating the games industry for 17 years now, which I took to be a reference to Call Of Duty 4. That was certainly a milestone moment for the series, and gaming in general, but Call Of Duty has actually been around since 2003 – which is a bit odd because I don’t remember them really making a fuss about the 20th anniversary…

The term ‘nepo baby’ has been bandied about a lot over the past few years. Disgruntled discussions have subsequently followed from people expressing their annoyance about those who are born into privilege – particularly with famous parents – who might use their well-known relative to get a leg-up in their own careers. Derived from the word ‘nepotism’, famous so-called ‘nepo babies’ include the likes of Hailey Bieber, Brooklyn Beckham, Zoe Kravitz, Jack Quaid, Maude Apatow, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lily Allen and many more. So what happens when one of these nepo babies decides to test how society treats someone differently if…

Mick Hucknall was snapped on a dog walk around North London and was completely unrecognisable as he covered his iconic red hair under a bucket hat. The eighties pop star best known for being the frontman of Simply Red flew under the radar as he took his dog for a walk in a rare public appearance. The Holding Back The Years singer wore a layered look consisting of beige trousers, a green long-sleeve t-shirt, a brown leather gilet, and a grey bucket har. He also made sure to keep a low profile with a large pair of sunglasses that protected…

It’s been claimed Eamonn Holmes and his new girlfriend Katie Alexander began sending flirty messages to each other 12 years ago. The GB News presenter, 64, revealed his new relationship with the counsellor, 42, just months after announcing his split from Ruth Langsford. The couple have since been pictured together and embarked on a luxury Mediterranean cruise, with previous reports claiming that they first met on social media in 2015. It has now however been alleged that they began to send flirty online messages more than a decade ago, and that Katie’s then-husband George was involved. According to The Sun,…

Domestic abuse survivor: ‘My partner secretly drugged and filmed me – I still don’t know what he did to me’ It took a year for Hannah’s* abuser to start to show his true colours – when he began telling her to lose weight and banning her from cutting her hair, or dyeing it particular shades. But at the beginning of the relationship, she thought everything was perfect. Her partner had love-bombed her, told her she was his dream woman and called her an amazing mother. “He would make you feel really secure and you like were the one,” Hannah tells…

Post-Brexit red tape puts classical music industry under threat, top soprano warns A top soprano has warned Britain risks losing its entire classical music industry due to post-Brexit red tape blocking UK artists from touring in the EU. Labour’s election manifesto promised to “improve trade and investment relations with the EU… to help our touring artists”, after years of chaos since the UK crashed out of the bloc. But Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of not moving fast enough as UK artists are still grappling with post-Brexit barriers to performing in the EU. The prime minister is facing calls…