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Wife of Repair Shop TV star Jay Blades sobs ‘I don’t believe this is real’ after announcing split
The Repair Shop TV presenter Jay Blades’ wife has said, “I don’t believe this is real”, after announcing they had split up.
2-min read - CelebrityThe Telegraph
Kevin Spacey’s accusers speak up: ‘He rubbed his groin in my face with families in the room’
The Old Vic’s pantomime production of Cinderella, written by Stephen Fry in 2007, was memorable for a few reasons. It had a moustachioed Sandi Toksvig holding forth as a flamboyant narrator and combined Plato’s meditations on happiness with bawdy bottom jokes. Despite some sniffy reviews, Kevin Spacey, then the theatre’s artistic director, described the risqué gags as being “a perfect celebration of the Old Vic’s vaudeville history and a great deal of fun”.
10-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
The councillor who took on Clarkson’s Farm: ‘You couldn’t get ambulances down the road’
Dean Temple never wanted to become Jeremy Clarkson’s local councillor. A committed Tory in the Cotswolds, he only stood for the Chadlington and Churchill ward of West Oxfordshire District Council – which includes Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm – as a “paper candidate” in 2021 because the party needed to fill a vacancy.
10-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
London theatre: the best musicals and plays to book now
London has a world-leading theatre scene, offering everything from plays, musicals and comedy to immersive and family-friendly entertainment. In the West End, and beyond, you’ll find both beloved long-running shows and cutting-edge new work, featuring A-list actors alongside rising stars.
22-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
‘They were in a hole – but carried on digging’: The fatal decisions that damned ‘Co-Flop Live’
It was at around 4pm on Saturday April 20 that bosses of Manchester’s new Co-op Live arena realised they had a problem. An issue with the electrics in Europe’s biggest indoor music venue meant that they had to cancel 6,000 tickets for a Rick Astley test concert just hours before it was due to start.
9-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
The 20 greatest stunts in cinema history – and how they were done
In the late 1990s, Steven Spielberg invited Jackie Chan to his office at DreamWorks to discuss whether the two might one day work together on a film. They were both already mutual fans – and Chan, who described the meeting in his 2015 memoir, began by quizzing the director on the new digital technology that at the time were changing how Hollywood movies were made.
23-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
What’s on TV tonight: Clarkson’s Farm, Welcome to Wrexham and more
Clarkson’s Farm Amazon Prime Video It’s all doom and gloom at Diddly Squat Farm as season three of Jeremy Clarkson’s unlikely – but all the more entertaining for that – agricultural odyssey gets under way. Not only has a closure notice been served on the farm restaurant, but the council has set its sights also on the farm-shop’s car park. Which means, somehow (loud as the howls of protest are, detail is not the series’ strong point), that half the cow herd must be dispatched. And to add to the p
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