By Steve Hopkins “We really are like brothers.” Spider-Man trio Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire have a special group chat so they can all keep in touch. Holland, who has played the role seven times, says the leading men have stayed connected since they all played Peter Parker together in the 2021 multiverse […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins The University of Nottingham has confirmed that two of the people killed in the attacks were its students. Two of the victims killed in Nottingham were students walking home from a night out, reports claim. The Mirror states that the man and the woman are understood to have lived in the same […]

2 years ago

A van also attempted to run over three people Three people have been found dead in Nottingham, three others are in hospital, and a man has been arrested. The development comes after police declared a “major incident” in the city earlier on Tuesday. Police were called to Ilkeston Road just after 4am where two people […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins “He’s been the heart of Hollywood since the late 1970s.” Treat Williams had died in a motorcycle accident. He was 71. The Everwood and Hair star’s family announced his passing in a statement, saying: “It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved Treat Williams has passed away tonight in […]

2 years ago

‘If this ain’t me leaving Ibiza I don’t want it’ Flying budget can often be an uncomfortable experience, but for one traveller conditions were a little more confined. The unnamed traveller appeared to have woken up in an overhead storage bin on a flight leaving Ibiza. In a video that has gone viral on TikTok, […]

2 years ago

‘So cruel, so sad and so unfair’ At least 10 people have died and more than 20 others are in hospital after a wedding bus crash in New South Wales. The tragic incident that has led to the driver being arrested. The passengers were reportedly returned from a wedding at a winery in Australia’s Hunter […]

2 years ago

And the results speak for themselves A woman has proved just how wrong her husband is after he claimed she did nothing around the house. Rather than taking the comment on the chin, or arguing about it, Lindsay Donnelly decided to stop cleaning for a few days and film the results. In a TikTok that’s […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins She has no children or grandchildren. A 108-year-old woman has revealed some rather surprising advice on how to life a long life. Ada Daniel says the secret to longevity is to raise dogs instead of children. Ada “had a lot of greyhounds” in her younger days. The centenarian was surprised with nearly […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins Turns out Clarkson might know more about farming that driving For a man who has made a living out of knowing everything about cars, it turns out Jeremy Clarkson has some blind spots. Namely, the Highway Code. Who Wants to be a Millionaire audience members were shocked when the former Top Gear […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins ‘A devastating loss of a huge life – Mike Batayah, you were everybody’s friend’ Breaking Bad actor Mike Batayeh had died age 52. The actor passed away on June 1 from a heart attack while sleeping at his home in Michigan. He did not have a history of heart issues, his sister […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins It has been described as a remarkable ‘example of survival’ that will ‘remain in history’. Four children have been found alive five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in the Colombian jungle. The kids, siblings aged 13, nine, four, and 11 months, were rescued by the Colombian military not […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins Tupac was described at the event as “a symbol as visible and important as Malcolm X and Che Guevara and an inspiration for activists today”. Tupac Shakur has been honoured with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, nearly 27 years after his murder. The legendary rapper and actor, who […]

2 years ago

The baby girl died in 2018 A former X Factor contestant has been charged with murder. Mitchell Callaway, who appeared on the Australian version of the show, was arrested following a five-year police investigation after emergency services were called out to treat an unresponsive child in 2018. The performer was pictured being led from his […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins The Sanderson sisters are coming back once again. Disney has confirmed there will be a third Hocus Pocus movie. Just months after Hocus Pocus 2 debuted on the Disney Plus streaming service, Sean Bailey, President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, confirmed another movie was planned. Although he did not reveal […]

2 years ago

Turner said she had refused to ‘face the reality’ surrounding her health troubles Tina Turner urged her fans to take their health seriously weeks before her death, admitting she put herself in “great danger”. On Wednesday night, writes Steve Hopkins, it was announced the superstar singer had died “peacefully” at her home in Switzerland. She […]

2 years ago

The police officer was charged on Wednesday. A 95-year-old woman who was tasered twice by a police officer in a care home has died. Clare Nowland was tasered by police in Cooma, a town in New South Wales, Australia in an incident that has caused widespread outrage. The grandmother, who suffered from dementia, had been found […]

2 years ago

ITV has responded to speculation. ITV has issued a response to claims around Phillip Schofield’s exit from This Morning and speculation that Holly Willoughby, his co-presenter, was involved. Last week, the 61-year-old announced he was leaving the programme with “immediate effect”, after more than 20 years. The news came after weeks of headlines around his […]

2 years ago

Holly Willoughby will be taking the next two weeks off from the show following recent events. Phillip Schofield is reportedly “completely broken” after announcing he has left This Morning after more than twenty years. According to The Sun, the 61-year-old has been given six months’ wages as a parting gift. He was reportedly on around £700,000 […]

2 years ago

‘The end of stalking.’ A Facebook glitch saw the app auto-send friend requests when users viewed other people’s profiles, in what was a nightmare scenario for some users. ‘Profile-snoopers’ were caught out when Meta fixed a bug and inadvertently created another problem. It dispatched friend requests to any profiles users had viewed. Some users were […]

2 years ago

‘Largely unrealistic’ Artificial intelligence has produced what the “ideal” man and perfect woman look like according to social media data. The images, writes Steve Hopkins, were created through engagement analytics on social media, using tools to look at billions of images of people. Not surprisingly, the images are somewhat, “unrealistic”, much like what is projected […]

2 years ago

‘Much of what we know thanks to Hollywood is pure rot’ Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra docudrama has been heavily criticised for its casting, but it has also bombed with viewers and critics. Adele James, who plays the famous monarch, along with the director and producers, has been forced to defend her casting which even prompted an Egyptian lawyer […]

2 years ago

‘I would issue that licence to Idris Elba.’ Tom Hanks has said that 007’s licence to kill should be handed down to Idris Elba, and the Britsh actor should be the next James Bond. Speaking to the BBC, the Hollywood icon made clear that he thinks the Luther star should take over the mantle from Daniel […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins ‘We don’t want to lie awake terrified for our children’s mental health’ Kate Winslet won Best Leading Actress at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday and used her speech to make a heartfelt plea over social media, urging “the people in power to criminalise harmful content”. “We don’t want it and we […]

2 years ago

By Steve Hopkins “Can I sing you one song before I go?” Ed Sheeran took to the streets of New York to surprise fans with an impromptu performance after coming out victorious in his copyright lawsuit last week. The singer-songwriter was taken to court over accusations that his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copied harmonic progressions […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins She graduated high school at 8 and is now working towards a masters degree. A child prodigy, who has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, is studying for a master’s degree in engineering – age 11. Adhara Pérez Sánchez reportedly finished elementary school at five, according to Goalcast, then finished […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. ‘Losing to him and then it being posted on FB would have to be the top 5 worst non-health related things that can happen in life.’ Mark Zuckerberg has proved he’s got more than just a grip on social media. The Facebook founder and Meta CEO has shocked martial arts fans, and […]

3 years ago

‘They are models, it’s their job! What’s wrong with a mother-daughter campaign?’ Heidi Klum has been shamed for posing in a lingerie advert with her daughter, writes Steve Hopkins. However, many have come to the model’s defence. The 49-year-old former supermodel features in a new campaign by Intimissimi along with her 18-year-old daughter, Leni. Since […]

3 years ago

‘You feel like you’re drowning and can’t get out from under it’ Ed Sheeran broke down after his wife admitted she feared she would die after being diagnosed with cancer, writes Steve Hopkins. Doctors discovered Cherry Seaborn had a tumour in her arm in February last year. At the time, the 30-year-old was pregnant with […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins ‘You don’t die from Parkinson’s – you die with Parkinson’s’ Michael J. Fox has given a heartbreaking insight into his life with Parkinson’s and predicted he won’t make it to age 80. The Back to the Future star told CBS News Sunday Morning that he’s been thinking about mortality associated with the disease he’s […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins “The one thing I would not want is for Gamora to go away.” Zoe Saldaña wants a new actor to play Gamora after the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The actress has said that the Marvel blockbuster – released in Irish cinemas on Wednesday, 3 May – is likely […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins “It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.” A sequel to the hit 2004 sports comedy Dodgeball is in early development at 20th Century Studios, according to reports. The original grossed over $168 million worldwide. It tells the story of Average Joe’s Gym owner Peter LaFleur (Vince […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. ‘He’s irreplaceable.’ Jerry Springer had died aged 79. The famous US talk show host’s passing was confirmed by his family in a statement on Thursday. He died Thursday morning, peacefully at his home in the Chicago area. Spokesperson Jene Galvin said: “Jerry’s ability to connect with people was at the heart of […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins “Farewell, Barry Humphries, you comedy genius.” Barry Humphries, who played Dame Edna Everage, has died at the age of 89. The Australian comedian had been readmitted to hospital days after being discharged from surgery due to complications. Humphries tripped on a rug while reaching for a book in February and was taken […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins Raab claimed the findings of a report into his conduct set ‘a dangerous precedent for the conduct of good government’. Dominic Raab has resigned as the UK’s justice secretary and deputy prime minister. The senior Tory MP quit on Friday (21 April) after months of allegations about bullying behaviour in the Ministry […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. Your family might be a bit bigger than you realised. All blue-eyed people descend from a single human who lived around 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, scientists believe. While 70-79 per cent of the world’s population have brown eyes – the most common colour – just 8 to 10 per cent have the […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. She got back in the water and continued swimming. A video shows the terrifying moment a 220-pound shark clamped its jaws around a swimmer in the Maldives. Carmen Canovas Cervello was diving at Vaavu Atoll in the island paradise nation with a friend when the eight-foot-long nurse shark came up alongside her […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins Ashley eats between three and six eggs a day A dad is forced to live on a diet of Easter eggs – and has already scoffed down more than 200 this year. Ashley Kean says he can only digest chocolate, mashed potato, Yorkshire puddings and fruit. So, from January to April each […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins “We are truly devastated.” S Club 7’s Paul Cattermole has died days after the group announced it was going on a major reunion tour. He was 46. The band’s management said: “We are truly devastated by the passing of our brother Paul. There are no words to describe the deep sadness and […]

3 years ago

“He was very, very kind to the husband.” Brad Pitt let an elderly neighbour whose wife had passed away stay on at a property in his $40 million estate rent-free. The Oscar-winner purchased the 1.9-acre property in 1994 for a reported $1.7 million from Elvira, Mistress of the Dark star Cassandra Peterson, People reported, adding […]

3 years ago

Diddy got stung big time. P Diddy pays Sting $5,000 (€4,590) a day for sampling one of The Police’s songs without permission more than 25 years ago. Diddy, real name Sean Combs, sampled the band’s 1983 hit, ‘Every Breath You Take’, in his 1997 tribute to The Notorious B.I.G, ‘I’ll Be Missing You’. The mogul […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. ‘I wouldn’t want someone who has failed over five times to be on the same road as me.’ A South Korean woman finally passed her driving test, on her 960th attempt. It meant Cha Sa-soon spent over €12,500 securing permission to drive. The 69-year-old first attempted the written test in April 2005 […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. Still one of the greatest of all time. Dr Dre has posted an Insta video reminding us why Eminem is one of the greatest rappers of all time. The US rapper – real name Marshall Mathers – may have vacated the top spot at the supremacy of rap some time ago, returning middling receptions […]

3 years ago

“The most insane crash…” This story originally appeared on JOE UK. The terrifying scene was caught on a Tesla’s dashcam and has been viewed millions of times since being posted on social media, as a car was launched several feet into the air on a motorway after a tyre came loose and rolled under it. The […]

3 years ago

‘I can’t pretend that the last year hasn’t had its dark moments’ Sam Neill has revealed that he is being treated for stage-three blood cancer, writes Steve Hopkins. The Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor broke the news in his book, Did I Ever Tell You This?, which he spoke about to the Guardian. The 75-year-old’s […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. “I value the friendship with Gordon and Fred more than arguments with the contract.” Gino D’Acampo has announced that he has quit the TV show Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip following contract rows. The popular ITV show first aired in 2018 and saw Gino travel the globe with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay […]

3 years ago

By Steve Hopkins. “I need you to take me seriously.” Alison Hammond was repeatedly called out by a guest on This Morning on Friday – a very special guest, the world’s last ‘leprechaun whisperer’. Hammond and co-host Dermot O’Leary were joined on the couch by Kevin Woods, who had to tell Hammond off before he […]

3 years ago

It just wasn’t for him. The currently very in-demand Dave Bautista once turned down the chance to be in the Fast and Furious franchise. On top of the wrestler-turned-actor recently earning acclaim for his more dramatic roles in Glass Onion and Knock at the Cabin, he is set to appear in the massive blockbuster sequels […]

3 years ago

In a new live Netflix special this weekend, Rock will reportedly speak out about the night Smith stormed the Oscar stage. Chris Rock has hit back at Will Smith with a particularly cutting remark following the infamous Oscars slap – saying that the only reason he watched the actor’s movie Emancipation was to watch him […]

3 years ago

Sizemore collapsed at his LA home on 18 February. Heat and Saving Private Ryan star Tom Sizemore has died in his sleep in hospital weeks after collapsing and suffering a brain aneurysm. He was 61. His manager Charles Lago confirmed the news, telling US outlets: “I am very saddened by the loss of not only […]

3 years ago

‘He’s just so good at what he does and actors recover from things like this.’ Pirates of The Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer has lauded Johnny Depp’s work and hinted the two might again work together. Depp first starred as pirate Jack Sparrow in 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, he then […]

3 years ago