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School dropout ditched university for carpentry apprenticeship, now earns £50,000 at 21, targets £100,000 in five years and says AI won't replace his job

A 21-year-old school dropout who rejected university for a carpentry apprenticeship now earns up to £50,000 a year. Hugo Helms says his trade offers financial independence and peace of mind from AI replacing his work. He is saving for his first home, runs a business supporting apprentices and hopes to…

The Times of India

Tom Holland sets himself huge challenge for Fred Astaire biopic: ‘I have so much work to do’

Actor shares an update on long-planned biopic, first announced in 2021

The Independent UK

Tom Holland Revealed The Next Project He Wants To Do With Zendaya, And I Need This ASAP

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Elton John feels ‘connected’ to Billy Elliot and says film ‘struck a chord’

Sir Elton believes the musical shares many similarities with his life and his relationship with his father.

Evening Standard

‘Lets me believe in myself’: why Billy Elliot is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films is a personal tribute to the inspirational British drama

The Guardian - US

‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?

As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century. But a certain macho dismissiveness remains …

The Guardian - UK

Gemma Collins fools fans with secret wedding picture as she leads the celeb April Fool's pranks

Many fell for it, but one fan commented: ‘I only knew this is April Fools because your dress is too basic for the GC’

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Lewis Cope looks back: ‘I never got bullied for wearing a dress. My brothers did boxing!’

The Strictly star and Emmerdale actor on growing up with 13 siblings, holding on to hope between roles, and why he never got bullied for wearing a dress

The Guardian - UK

Forget ‘the UK’s answer to Rocky’ — new Pierce Brosnan movie Giant is the Billy Elliot of boxing

If you've seen a poster for the new boxing movie Giant, you'll have seen it marketed as 'the UK's answer to Rocky' – but the label is doing it a disservice.

TechRadar

I Traded Deadlifts For Downward Dogs. My Golf Has Improved And I Now Play Pain-Free Golf

Find out how yoga moves have helped golfers boost their mobility and play better golf

Golf Monthly

Elton John on The Devil Wears Prada album: 'It's great to write musicals'

Elton John and producer Kevin McCollum reveal the songwriting process - and sheer fun - which has driven The Devil Wears Prada to huge success

Evening Standard

Ex-Billy Elliot ballet star suing Met Police for £600,000 after 'officer stamped on foot wrecking career'

Alexander Loxton says his career was ruined when a Met Police officer stamped on his leg during a ‘unreasonable and unnecessary’ stop-and-search

Evening Standard

Will Arnett reveals whether he’ll tackle Scouse accent for Bradley Cooper’s John Bishop biopic

The ‘Arrested Development’ star revealed the film won’t be set in UK as producers ‘didn’t want it to be too “Billy Elliot” or “Full Monty”’

The Independent UK

Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’

The director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classics and his double act with Stephen Daldry

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Billy Elliot writer’s new play swaps West End for church hall in County Durham

Adaptation of Brecht’s Mother Courage will train people from the north-east to take on their first ever acting roles

WhatToWatch

Half Man: cast, plot, first looks and everything you need to know

Half Man is a BBC1 and HBO drama starring Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd plus Billy Elliot actor Jamie Bell.

The National (Scotland)

Award-winning Scottish writer of Baby Reindeer announces new series for BBC

BABY Reindeer creator Richard Gadd’s new drama series will be fronted by him and co-star Jamie Bell ...

The Guardian - UK

Choreographer Qudus Onikeku: ‘I want to mirror the real world – vibrant, chaotic, problematic’

As a child in Lagos, he felt like Billy Elliot, following a passion for dance despite his family’s disapproval. Now, having found success in France, he’s returned to his native Nigeria to mastermind a pan-African creative awakening

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The Independent UK

Carlos Acosta: ‘It’s hard to talk about weight in ballet’

The Havana-born superstar may have retired from dancing nearly a decade ago, but he has no plans to slow down. Currently the artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he talks to Charlotte Cripps about ballet and Black Sabbath, middle-aged spread, and his plans to bring ballet to the masses

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more

This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical

The Guardian - UK

Layton Williams looks back: ‘For the first decade of my life I was not being myself. I had a straitjacket on’

Actor Layton Williams on becoming the first black Billy Elliot, Strictly stress, and being a proud Bury lad

The Guardian - UK

Haydn Gwynne obituary

Stage and screen actor known for her TV roles in Drop the Dead Donkey and The Windsors, and as a star of musical theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not easy for me!’: Layton Williams on Strictly, joy, glitter – and the myth of his unfair advantage

The actor starred on stage as Billy Elliot at 12, then on TV in Beautiful People, before crashing out of drama school and heading back home to Bury. He talks about second chances and extraordinary dances

Newcastle Herald

A star is born: young talent steals the show at Billy Elliot the Musical

The cast excels in popular coming-of-age musical at the Civic.

Evening Standard

Sir Elton John called to give evidence in Kevin Spacey sexual assault trial

The Rocketman superstar was called on Monday as a witness as part of Spacey’s defence case

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