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Linda Robson issues statement after best friend Pauline Quirke’s dementia diagnosis Linda Robson has shared an emotional message after her Birds Of A Feather co-star Pauline Quirke revealed her dementia diagnosis. The actresses began working together decades ago when both of their careers began, but they’re best known as the combative sisters whose husbands go to jail in the sitcom, which first aired on the BBC in 1989. Last week, Quirke’s husband, Steve Sheen, said she will retire from ‘all professional and commercial duties’ and revealed her condition, which he said was diagnosed in 2021. Loose Women star Robson,…

Mark Wahlberg reveals he actually ‘shaved his head every day’ for Flight Risk role Actor Mark Wahlberg has revealed how he was required to shave his head every day for his role in the action thriller Flight Risk. The Hollywood star, 53, plays ‘pilot’ Dylan in the airplane-set thriller – leaving audiences shocked by hiding a completely bald head beneath the baseball cap his character initially wears. This isn’t the only surprise the film has in store, featuring a tense battle of wits between Marky Mark’s Dylan, a shifty fugitive (Topher Grace), and the Air Marshall (Michelle Dockery) tasked…

Dancing On Ice viewers brand show a ‘joke’ as second celebrity is eliminated We’re now three weeks into Dancing On Ice 2025, which means it’s time to say goodbye to another celebrity. Last week, fans expressed their rage across social media as Chelsee Healey became the first skating star to get the chop. She received the lowest total score after the judges’ points were combined with viewers’ votes and, in a shocking new twist, wasn’t able to save herself in a skate-off. Instead, she left the competition immediately. And now, the Hollyoaks star has company, as Ferne McCann has also…

Stephen Fry wins £250,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire… thanks to Jeremy Clarkson Sir Stephen Fry has bagged £250,000 in the hot seat on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?… with no small thanks to the help of Jeremy Clarkson. The former QI presenter, 67, appeared on the celebrity edition of the ITV gameshow, alongside comedian Richie Anderson and athlete Jeanette Kwakye. Unwilling to risk the £500,000 question on a guess, Sir Stephen decided to walk away with a cool quarter of a million—emerging as the highest-scoring celebrity since Richard Madeley managed £125,000 in 2022. However, Sir…

Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire risks scolding from BBC for ‘breaching guidelines’ Sarah Lancashire’s new TV advert could be a breach of strict BBC guidelines, according to reports. The Oldham-born actress has starred in dozens of major projects throughout her career, from Coronation Street to the recent Netflix hit Black Doves. One of her most beloved roles, however, is that of Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley. Lancashire, 60, portrayed the police officer in the Bafta-winning drama for three series, but it seems her willingness to maintain the character’s legacy could land her in hot water. Quite literally, if you will,…

Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure Alan Carr has revealed details of a health scare which left him worried he might be losing his eyesight, suffering through a terrifying treatment that involved having a ‘spike’ driven into his eyeball. The comedian and TV personality, 48, has astigmatism – a condition that means that the eyeball isn’t round as it should be. Instead, it is shaped more like a rugby ball, causing blurred vision and sight loss. Alan’s scare came as he began experiencing a sense of pressure behind his eyes, leading to a fear…

Top 10 tabletop games and TCGs to look forward to in 2025 GameCentral looks forward to a new year of board game and trading card releases, with news on Warhammer, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dungeons & Dragons, and more. 2025 is the year of the trading card game. In every gaming café across the country you have to fight through swathes of One Piece players just to get to the counter, while social media is rife with rumours of the new League Of Legends Project K. The trading card game calendar is filling up with big events, such as The Pokémon World…

Games Inbox: Will Nintendo Switch 2 have motion controls? Motion to includeNow a few weeks have passed, it’s kind of surprising how little we’ve really learned about the Nintendo Switch 2. So I just wanted to ask one question I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else and that’s whether the Switch 2 will have motion controls? Watching the reveal trailer, they go out of their way to show the Joy-Cons working in terms of pressing buttons and moving the analogue stick, plus the new mouse feature, but they never show them using motion controls. I know they have a bad reputation…

Israel on Monday began allowing Palestinians to return to the heavily destroyed north of the Gaza Strip for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, in accordance with a fragile ceasefire. Live: Displaced Palestinians start returning to northern Gaza

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Greece on Sunday The mass protests demand justice for rail crash victims demanded of the nation’s deadliest rail disaster in 2023. Demonstrations broke out in 97 cities in Greece and 13 locations abroad. Marches in the largest Greek cities of Athens and Thessaloniki had about 30,000 and 16,000 demonstrators respectively. “What is happening today is majestic,” Pavlos Aslanidis, the father of a victim, told the media in Thessaloniki. “This is now a global fight,” he added, referring to the protests abroad. Demonstrations broke out in 97 cities in Greece “My son’s…