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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Cilla black - The Untold Story

Blind Date is making a comeback – with Love Islander as host

Disney+ is the latest broadcaster attempting to revive the much-loved format

The Independent UK

She’ll have to buy a hat – Maura Higgins to host Disney+ reboot of Blind Date

The Irish model, 35, rose to fame on the 2019 series of Love Island and recently became known in America for reaching the final of The Traitors US.

Evening Standard

‘My first drag turn? As Karen Carpenter in hotpants!’ La Voix on swinger cruises, Strictly – and blazing into musicals

From Drag Race to Eurovision to Strictly, La Voix is going stratospheric. And Chris Dennis, the man behind the crimson coiffure, is thrilled. He talks about his cruise ship highs, doing panto with Cilla – and starring in Annie

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Please Please Me review: Clumsy look at Brian Epstein's sexual obsession with John Lennon

2/5 Tom Wright’s play at the Kiln takes on the life and times of The Beatles’ manager in a stripped-back production

Evening Standard

Champagne, tears and bizarre riders: Behind the scenes of the UK’s biggest chat shows

IN FOCUS: Producers whose credits include ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’ and ‘Chatty Man’ tell Lauren Morris their talk-show secrets

The Independent UK

Emily Atack gives fans a glimpse of new 'dream' home after swapping London for the countryside

The Rivals actress shared snaps of her new ‘dream home’ with her 1.9million followers on Instagram

Evening Standard

Emily Atack's fans rally around star after claims she is using weight loss jabs

The Rivals actress, 36, faced questions about her weight loss after sharing pictures of her Christmas celebrations

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Emily Atack 'wanted for Blind Date reboot by Disney bosses'

Filming for the show, which hasn’t been on screen for 22 years, is set to happen in the New Year

Evening Standard

‘The epitome of amazingness’: how electroclash brought glamour, filth and fun back to 00s music

Witty, foul-mouthed, camp and punky, it was the 00s answer to slick superclubs and the rock patriarchy. As its rough, raw sound returns, the scene’s eyeliner-ed heroes, from Peaches to Jonny Slut, relive its excesses

The Guardian - UK

Cilla Black’s Blind Date set to be rebooted on Disney+

The iconic series was hosted by the late Cilla Black for nearly twenty years

The Independent UK

‘The ultimate dating series’: Blind Date is back – as an absolute Frankenstein’s monster of a show

Disney is reincarnating the ITV classic, and updating it for the era of Married at First Sight. It sounds almost nothing like the original – what would Cilla Black think?

The Guardian - UK

Blind Date to make shock return on Disney Plus

Classic Cilla Black show is getting a new look

WhatToWatch

“That was the last straw, really. I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs”: How a frosty band meeting in a fish and chip restaurant signalled the end for the Smiths

The Smiths story came to a close shortly after completion of 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come, and a tense exchange of words over fish and chips…

MusicRadar

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“He said, ‘Oh, stage fright? I had terrible stage fright.’": How Paul McCartney, Johnny Marr and Pharrell Williams cured Hans Zimmer’s performance nerves

Zimmer has a new tour planned for 2026, but playing live hasn’t always been easy for the soundtrack superstar

The Independent UK

Holly Willoughby eyed for BBC reboot after quitting ITV game show

Willoughby is reportedly fielding offers from Netflix and the BBC

The Guardian - UK

Comedian Duncan Norvelle, famed for ‘chase me’ catchphrase, dies aged 66

The comic, who was a staple of 80s British TV, was described by his partner as ‘the last of the legends of true variety comedy’

The Guardian - UK

The Scouse Red Riding Hood review – Grandma gets high in raucous adult panto

Wolf-like property developers are set to evict the grandmother, who is on a night of drug-fuelled abandon, in this enjoyable show

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Election 2024: the fight for Gen Z's vote is closing in on TikTok — but could the platform really swing it?

The UK’s first election with TikTok as the key social media platform is nearly at its climax. Maddy Mussen investigates its ability to make or break a candidate

The Guardian - UK

Dionne Warwick: ‘Britain has always been very good to me. I feel its wonderful embrace’

The legendary singer, 83, on coping with loss, fighting sexism, taking on the Snoop Dogg – and what she really thought of Cilla Black

The Guardian - UK

The Joy of Six: commentators losing themselves in the moment

From a Norwegian whose gleeful words are still aped today, to some brilliant rugby league apoplexy, via golfing disbelief and more

The Guardian - UK

‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?

The Tories and Labour are forking out more than ever on social media ads, but going viral isn’t easy. We speak to influencers and strategists about the messages and memes

International Business Times

UK Parties Face-off On TikTok Battleground

On the face of it, the villain from "Shrek", British singer turned TV presenter Cilla Black, and national service have nothing in common.

The Independent UK

National Service and Cilla Black memes: Do Labour or the Tories have a better TikTok game?

Which party has had the better of the first exchanges on the new social media election battleground?

WhatToWatch

Jinkx Monsoon on playing new Doctor Who villain Maestro

Jinkx Monsoon reveals everything about the latest Doctor Who villain Maestro who ruins the Swinging Sixties for the Beatles and Cilla Black!

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