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Ruth Langsford pays emotional Instagram tribute to dog Maggie: ‘We will treasure our memories forever’

Ruth Langsford pays emotional Instagram tribute to dog Maggie: ‘We will treasure our memories forever’

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Ruth Langsford has announced that her border collie cross Maggie has died at the age of 16. The TV presenter adopted Maggie from a Dogs Trust rescue centre in 2011, together with her husband at the time, broadcaster Eamonn Holmes. Langsford, 66, took to Instagram on Wednesday to share the news with her 1.1 million followers. She posted a picture of Maggie smiling with a chew toy shaped like a bottle of champagne, alongside an emotional message. The former This Morning presenter revealed “with a heavy heart” that her beloved pet has “gone to sleep forever”, and paid tribute to her “beautiful” dog, adding: “We will treasure our memories forever.” She said: “It is with a heavy heart that I tell you our beautiful Maggie has gone to sleep forever. She was 16 years old and sadly this was her time. Her passing was painless and peaceful and we were …

Sharon Osbourne reveals grim advice Ozzy’s doctors gave days before rocker’s final concert

Sharon Osbourne reveals grim advice Ozzy’s doctors gave days before rocker’s final concert

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Ozzy Osbourne was given medical advice not to take the stage for his farewell show in Birmingham, according to his widow Sharon Osbourne. The legendary musician did, however, end up reuniting with his band Black Sabbath for the “Back to the Beginning” concert at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5, 2025. He died weeks later on July 22. A film of that final show, titled Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning will be released in theaters October 28. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Sharon Osbourne recalled the grim advice her husband received from doctors ahead of the gig. “He was in hospital in America before he left,” said Sharon. “We moved back to England, and we had a whole new team of doctors. His new doctors didn’t want to take doctor’s notes from America. They wanted to make their own assessment on him. He was in hospital for a …

Pedro Pascal says he took on biggest challenge of his career for new film

Pedro Pascal says he took on biggest challenge of his career for new film

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Pedro Pascal has described learning the cello for Behemoth! as the “most challenging” task he has encountered in his acting career. The 51-year-old star of The Last Of Us plays Alex Serian in the upcoming feature film, portraying a gifted, classically trained musician who returns to Los Angeles and film scoring after touring globally. In order to depict the character believably, the actor had to pick up the cello under strict time constraints. Appearing on the red carpet at the UK premiere for the BFI London Film Festival, Pascal confessed that learning the instrument was “the most challenging” endeavor he has managed across his entire career. The actor noted that he would rather “choose fighting the Mountain”, referencing the brutal warrior in HBO’s Game Of Thrones which he previously featured in, “over learning how to play the cello convincingly”. He added that he would also prefer being tossed “off a …

You Can See Everything hailed a ‘masterpiece’ as it receives perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

You Can See Everything hailed a ‘masterpiece’ as it receives perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The reviews are in for Nathan Fielder’s highly-anticipated documentary about convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes ahead of its US premiere – and critics are calling it “the film of the year”. Directed by Fielder and Primetime’s Lance Oppenheim, You Can See Everything sees Holmes invite the filmmakers into her home just days before being sent to prison, with filming taking place in secret over three years. Holmes, 42, was convicted of fraud in 2022 after claiming that her startup, Theranos, had developed a revolutionary medical device that could diagnose a range of conditions with just a few droplets of blood extracted from the tip of a finger. After being found to have duped investors with technology that never worked, she was sentenced to 11 years in prison and started her time at a Texas facility in May 2023. The film is set to land in US theatres on 16 October and …

The dark side of K-pop’s global success: How bullying and death threats gripped fandoms

The dark side of K-pop’s global success: How bullying and death threats gripped fandoms

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The transformation of K-pop from a niche subculture to a global phenomenon has given its fans rare collective power in popular music: they can raise money for charity, mobilise political campaigns and turn unknown performers into global stars. They can also turn those same networks into engines of online harassment against anyone they accuse of crossing a line. And the consequences can be deadly. In August, a 26-year-old Japanese fan of boy group Enhyphen was found dead in her rented apartment in Seoul. She was well-known within the fandom, attending concerts and meet-and-greets and running social media accounts about the group. She became the centre of a controversy after trying to catch a group member’s attention at a US concert. Footage of the moment quickly travelled through the fandom, and many construed it as attention-seeking behaviour and a breach of idol-fan boundaries. The backlash quickly devolved into personal attacks and …

Why trophy daughters are better than husbands – and the new fashion plus one

Why trophy daughters are better than husbands – and the new fashion plus one

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in This Paris Fashion Week, nothing has stood out more than who sits front row with whom – and the biggest trend seems to be taking your daughter as your plus one. At the gold-drenched Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2027 open-air show last week at the Trocadéro, with the Eiffel Tower shimmering behind the runway, Kate Moss, 52, was in the front row with her plus one daughter Lila, 23. It’s become a ritual over the last few years for the Moss women to attend Saint Laurent shows together in Paris, as well as to be inseparable on the ‘frow’ at endless other fashion shows over the years. In 2025, they famously held hands at the Gucci Cruise fashion show at London’s Tate Modern. And in February, the mum-daughter duo were spotted sitting front row at the Burberry Fall/Winter 2026 show during London Fashion Week, looking like twins. The former supermodel also …

Queen’s Brian May issues warning to Andy Burnham over ‘evil’ AI data centres

Queen’s Brian May issues warning to Andy Burnham over ‘evil’ AI data centres

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Sir Brian May has urged Andy Burnham to block AI “before it’s too late” and dubbed data centres “a massive evil” that “have to be fought”. The British guitarist, 79, revealed that he designed a Queen immersive experience, similar to ABBA’s virtual concert ABBA Voyage, but wouldn’t move forward with the show until it was possible without AI. “I have serious misgivings about that,” the musician told The Times. “We all like AI. It helps us write emails. It’s even saved a few lives. But the harm it is bringing to the world is immense,” he said. May shared that he’d even nixed a video for his recent song “My Angels Are Calling” after its directors admitted they’d …

Stephen Graham in tears on live radio as he’s reunited with first-ever director

Stephen Graham in tears on live radio as he’s reunited with first-ever director

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Stephen Graham is no stranger to moving audiences with his emotional performances, but this time, the Adolescence star found himself wiping away tears during an interview on Capital’s breakfast show. The actor became emotional after being surprised by a video message from Gerry Potter, his teacher at Liverpool’s Everyman Youth Theatre. Potter, who is also known as Gerry Pantomime, directed Graham in his first play at the theatre company, with the young actor taking on the role of a boy who contracted HIV from a one-night stand at a party. Appearing in a video message on the Capital Breakfast Show on Thursday (1 October), Potter told Graham that he was “over the moon” to have been …

Princess and Junior Andre to star in new series of Celebrity Race Across The World

Princess and Junior Andre to star in new series of Celebrity Race Across The World

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Media personalities Princess and Junior Andre, singers Ella Eyre and Sam Ryder, and broadcaster Jeff Stelling are among the famous faces joining the upcoming series of Celebrity Race Across The World. Four pairs will give up their smartphones and everyday luxuries in a bid to travel to their final destination as fast as possible without taking flights. Princess and Junior, who are the children of singer Peter Andre and former glamour model Katie Price, will race as a team. Eyre is pairing up with her childhood friend Nana, Stelling is taking part alongside his son Matt, while Ryder has teamed up with his tour manager Kaz Coles. Princess and Junior Andre will both star in the …

Marvel star mocks MCU as ‘well-funded and glorified WWE’ with actors in ‘ridiculous outfits’

Marvel star mocks MCU as ‘well-funded and glorified WWE’ with actors in ‘ridiculous outfits’

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Nicolas Cage has taken aim at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, arguing that its increasingly crowded superhero films risk becoming little more than a “well-funded and glorified WWE”. “It started out, in my view, terrific. Some of the early stories were marvellous, the way that they wove all the threads together and told the different character stories and backstories,” Cage, 62, said at the Fan Expo Dallas. The MCU began in 2008 with Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr as billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, and what initially looked like a standalone superhero film became the starting point for an interconnected film universe. Marvel followed it with The Incredible Hulk that same year, before introducing or developing characters …