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Barbie star Ryan Gosling swaps Hollywood for rainy Southsea in new film Hollywood star Ryan Gosling has been spotted in drizzly Southsea, filming his latest project. Fans flocked to South Parade Pier in Southsea, Hampshire, where the Barbie star, 43, is filming Project Hail Mary – a science fiction film about a school teacher-turned astronaut on a mission to save the world from total extinction. Based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir, Ryan stars as Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a mysterious coma afflicted with amnesia, only to gradually remember that he’s a man on a mission. Swapping…

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Brendan O’Carroll apologises over ‘clumsy’ racial joke Irish actor Brendan O’Carroll has apologised over a ‘clumsy’ joke where a ‘racial term was implied’ during rehearsals for the upcoming Christmas special of Mrs Brown’s Boys. The BBC temporarily paused rehearsals to investigate the incident urgently, which have since resumed in Glasgow at the broadcaster’s Pacific Quay studios in Scotland. Shows are now going ahead as planned, Metro understands. Mrs Brown’s Boys creator and star O’Carroll, 69, will return to his role as mischievous matriarch Agnes Brown in the Christmas Day and New Year’s Day specials. ‘At a…

The UK’s most fiery and outspoken 90s group are returning for huge tour 90s UK rock band Skunk Anansie have announced that they are to tour again in Spring 2025. Founded in 1994, the group takes its name from Akan folklore, after the figure Anansi the spider-man of Ghana. The ‘skunk,’ meanwhile, was intended to make the name sound ‘nastier.’ Fronted by singer Skin – real name Deborah Anne Dyer, 57, the band currently consists of Cass, Ace and Mark Richardson – with former drummer Robbie France having died in 2012, age 52. Typified by their brash combination of heavy…

 Matt Smith unrecognisable with fiery mohawk filming alongside Austin Butler Former Time Lord Matt Smith is sporting a shocking new look on the set of his latest film – sharing a scene with Elvis Presley himself, Austin Butler. The actor, 41, is more commonly known for his tweed jacket-wearing Doctor Who, or as cardigan-clad Prince Phillip in The Crown. However, in filming his new movie, Caught Stealing, the actor has unveiled an all-new look – rocking a flaming mohawk, black-and-red striped jumper and tartan trousers. His eclectic outfit makes co-star Austin Butler, 33, look positively normal for a change, relaxing…

Strictly star’s husband ‘asked to show proof that baby is his child’ at border control Oti Mabuse has revealed someone at border control demanded ‘proof’ from her husband that their baby is his child. The Strictly Come Dancing star and her husband Marius Iepure – who she married a decade ago – announced on Christmas Day last year that they had welcomed their daughter into the world. Oti admitted her partner – a Romanian dancer – was stunned by the exchange he had, and as a white man it made him reevaluate how he thinks about certain conversations when…

Games Inbox: Will Nintendo Switch 2 games be cross-gen? Multi-generational gamingI think the most interesting thing from that Pokémon hack is the information that the next game is going to be cross-gen, which is probably the only substantial news we’ve had about a Nintendo Switch 2 game so far. Unfortunately, because Game Freak are known for being so backwards in terms of technology, it’s hard to know whether this will be commonplace when the Switch 2 comes out or if it’s just for Pokémon. Other than that, what was it all for? To know about a bunch of movies that…

Vladimir Putin ordered Novichok attack on my life, Salisbury victim Sergei Skripal tells Dawn Sturgess inquiry Salisbury poisoning victim Sergei Skripal believes Vladimir Putin personally ordered the Novichok attack on him and his daughter Yulia, the former spy has told the inquiry into Dawn Sturgess’s death. In a new witness statement made public at the hearing in Salisbury on Monday, Mr Skripal said he believed the Russian president “must have at least given permission for the attack on Yulia and me” in March 2018. Mr Skripal, a former Russian GRU military intelligence agent convicted in Russia in 2004 on charges…

Rachel Reeves boosts big business as she caps corporation tax at 25% and woos investment in Britain Rachel Reeves announced her fourth big tax freeze on Monday, pledging to cap corporation tax at 25 per cent for the lifetime of this parliament as she made a bold offer to the world’s largest businesses to invest in Britain. It leaves her with little space to manoeuvre in this month’s Budget, having already promised not to raise income tax, VAT, or employee contributions on national insurance. And it will increase speculation that she will try to fill a £25bn gap in her…

Afghan special forces to be brought to Britain as minister finally admits troops were employed by UK Hundreds of Afghan special forces soldiers and their family members will be allowed to resettle in the UK after ministers admitted that new evidence has confirmed they were paid by the government. Luke Pollard, the armed forces minister, told the Commons on Monday that a Ministry of Defence review, sparked by campaigning MPs and a joint investigation by The Independent, Lighthouse Reports and Sky News, has found that members of Afghan specialist units were directly employed by the UK government, despite previous denials.…

Yvette Cooper jokes husband’s advice was to ‘shake it off’ after Taylor Swift police protection questions Yvette Cooper has joked her husband’s advice was to “shake it off” days after she faced questions over Taylor Swift’s VIP police protection at her London concerts. The home secretary also told journalists at Westminster that “haters gonna hate, hate, hate”. Last week ministers denied claims that a police escort for Ms Swift was the result of “undue influence” from senior politicians, including Ms Cooper. It followed reports the Metropolitan Police had initially been reluctant to give the pop star the kind of protection normally…