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Mattel has been forced to apologise over an x-rated gaff on new Wicked dolls. The iconic toymaker has released a series of dolls to tie into the beloved musical’s upcoming blockbuster film adaptation, but eagle eyed customers noticed a rather unfortunate mistake on the packaging. Instead of directing people to the official Wicked movie website, there was actually a link to Wicked.com, which is actually a site for a porn studio’s new offering. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Mattel said: ‘Mattel was made aware of a misprint on the packaging of the Mattel Wicked collection dolls, primarily sold…

Strictly Come Dancing stars Tom Dean and Nadiya Bychkova are said to be comforting each other after their own break-ups. The pair became the first to be eliminated from this year’s competition, but still remain close, according to reports. Olympian Tom, 24, split from his girlfriend Charlotte Phillips, just two weeks into his Strictly experience, it’s claimed, while Nadiya, 35, suffered her own heartbreak after splitting from her boyfriend of two years and fellow pro Kai Widdrington. It’s now been claimed Tom has been a ‘rock’ for Nadiya and they’ve been enjoying lunch dates together, with a source saying: ‘Nadiya…

Let’s face it, girl groups have all but vanished from the pop scene despite icons like No Doubt, Spice Girls, and Destiny’s Child dominating the charts for decades. Female popstars have made a huge comeback this year so where are all the groups? If you’ve been waiting for someone to fill that Little Mix-shaped hole in your playlists, Flo are effortlessly ticking all the boxes even before they drop their seductive debut album, Access All Areas. First ever single, ‘Cardboard Box’, firmly placed them on our playlists with 2022’s EP The Lead securing festivals, TV appearances, and a Brit Award…

It was an eventful Saturday night for Katie Price, who surprised London fans by taking the stage to perform her 2017 track I Got U – and reignited a feud while she was at it. The former glamour model, 46, looked to be in good spirits as she took centre stage at Clapham Grand during a drag competition night, flaunting her impressive singing capabilities. However, it was her reported comments about Emily Atack that had fans talking. Wearing tight camo print leggings, a matching tank top and a cap, the star paired her look with black heeled boots and bounced…

Leonardo DiCaprio was surrounded by his long-time Hollywood pals as he celebrated turning 50 this weekend. The Titanic icon ditched the club on Saturday and hosted an intimate dinner at his Los Angeles home, reportedly catered by celebrity favourite Nobu. Guests included Katy Perry, Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Robin Thicke, Mark Ruffalo, Edward Norton, Paris Hilton, and Brad Pitt. Spiderman’s Tobey Maguire, 49, was also said to be in attendance, hardly surprising given how close the duo are — they even spent a summer travelling around Europe together. This fancy dinner was followed by performances from Anderson .Paak and DJ…

Good Morning Britain star Narinder Kaur has apologised for offence caused after sparking backlash over a tweet she posted about Kate Middleton. On Sunday, the Princess of Wales joined other members of the royal family to attend the annual Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph war memorial in Westminster, to commemorate members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces who have died while fighting in wars. Following her appearance at the ceremony, Narinder wrote a tweet commenting on Kate’s ‘ageing’ and questioning if she’s a smoker. The TV personality was criticised for her remark, with people pointing out that the…

Olivia Rodrigo has just been announced as the headliner for BST Hyde Park 2025, a gig which helpfully falls right on Glastonbury weekend. The Brutal hitmaker is currently on a break from her Guts World Tour, having just finished a string of Australian shows. Her two widely popular albums have produced three Grammys, three number-one hits and 14 charting songs, with over 2.3million monthly listeners. After being forced to cancel her Manchester concerts earlier this year, Olivia will be returning to the UK in June for a headlining moment at BST as well as Co-op Live gigs. How to get…

Nintendo is being a big tease (Nintendo)As the world awaits news on the Switch 2, Nintendo continues to troll fans with another Direct presentation on something completely unrelated. Ever since Nintendo confirmed its next console will be shown at some point before April 2025, every new announcement from the company has come with added anticipation. Nintendo has resorted to putting disclaimers on subsequent Direct presentations to control expectations, but there’s been a string of surprises in recent months which has bordered on troll behaviour – including a museum, the Alarmo clock, a new music app, and a Switch port of…

Footballing legend Paul Gascoigne has revealed he failed the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! psychiatrist test not once or twice, but five times. Later this month, the likes of Danny Jones, Maura Higgins, Coleen Rooney, Tulisa, and Oti Mabuse are rumoured to be heading into camp for the hotly anticipated new series. Gazza, 57, has been due to head Down Under with Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly on several occasions; however, the medical assessments ahead of the series placed obstacles in his path. He has been open about his addiction battles since retiring in 2004, having struggled…

Jamie Oliver has apologised and withdrawn a children’s book he wrote after it was criticised for causing offence to First Nation Australians. The TV chef and father-of-five is among a long list of celebrities to have produced their own book for youngsters. It comes after the Australian subplot in Jamie’s 400-page fantasy novel, Billy and the Epic Escape, was criticised for being damaging and disrespectful. As reported by The Guardian, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation (Natsiec) blasted the book, which tells the story of a First Nations girl living in foster care, for contributing to the ‘erasure,…

 GTA 5 – not for kids (Rockstar Games) After Grand Theft Auto is banned in one country a reader admits that he wouldn’t be upset if the same happened here, in order to protect his son. Earlier this week there was a news story about the country of Tajikistan banning Grand Theft Auto, as well as Counter-Strike. This was met with much patronising comment by a lot of gamers, but I have to say it doesn’t sound that incomprehensible to me. I don’t know why they banned it, maybe their reasons weren’t good, but as a father of a seven-year-old…

There’s nothing like a good debate about your favourite TV shows to spark up a fiery discussion that could go on for days on end. People will always disagree about which series they love and hate – but, in some cases, critical acclaim can end up being pretty much universal. In a recent Reddit post, a user called phildunpheee – aptly named (we’re assuming) after Ty Burrell’s character Phil Dunphy from Modern Family – they asked others what sitcom they would deem perfect in every way. ‘What’s a sitcom that started as a 10, stayed a 10, and ended as…

Phillip Schofield said his final goodbyes to his beloved mother this weekend as Pat’s funeral took place at St. Michael’s Church in Newquay, Cornwall. The former This Morning presenter announced his mother’s death at the age of 88 on October 14, writing in a statement at the time that her final moments were ‘calm peaceful, beautiful and dignified.’ On Friday, Schofield was joined by close friends and family for the funeral and had the full support of his wife, Stephanie Lowe, and their two daughters, Ruby and Molly. The 62-year-old looked devastated as he carried his mother’s casket, which was carefully…

For leading men in the world of Hollywood, showbiz, and TV, a killer moustache can complete a famous look and make it truly iconic. Would Friends be the same if Richard Burke hadn’t been blessed with Tom Selleck’s iconic nose neighbour? Would Ned Flanders be the same without his? Charlie Chaplin had a career that lasted 75 years but his most famous looks come from his black tash era. Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat inspired Halloween costumes for decades. And the joy of having one isn’t just limited to film and TV either, with rockstars like Freddie Mercury, wrestlers like…

Eamonn Holmes has made a rare comment about the ‘tough year’ he’s faced. The GB News presenter, 64, has been struggling with his health and suffering from chronic pain over the last few years, and has been pictured in public using crutches and in a wheelchair. Earlier this year, he opened up about his mobility issues, after saying that he was on ‘borrowed time’ and ‘not OK’. Eamonn has also faced a difficult year after splitting from wife Ruth Langsford after 14 years of marriage. He’s now opened up about the past few months, and shared gratitude for other parts of his…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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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…

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…

Argentinian authorities have charged three individuals in connection with the death of Liam Payne. Among those charged is a person who accompanied Payne at the hotel, and a hotel employee and another individual have also been charged with drug-related offences.