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Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon on Bethany’s pregnancy by mum’s ex: ‘It’s not going to end well’

Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon on Bethany’s pregnancy by mum’s ex: ‘It’s not going to end well’

Published by Daniella Wilson

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 Coronation Street star Bethany Fallon has warned fans her latest storyline is “not going to end well” after her character’s bombshell pregnancy news. Tuesday (14 October) night’s episode ended with the revelation that Bethany Platt is pregnant after a one-night stand with her mum Sarah’s boyfriend, Kit Green (Jacob Roberts). “It’s not going to end well, because it’s her mum’s ex-boyfriend’s baby!” she said. “I don’t actually know what Bethany was thinking when she slept with Kit – I think they both were in quite a bad place at the time.” The surprise pregnancy comes at an already difficult time for the Platt family, as Sarah (Tina O’Brien) is about to stand trial for murdering Theo Sliverton (James Cartwright), having been revealed as the killer after a murder mystery storyline earlier this year. Fallon as Bethany Platt (ITV) Fallon, 30, also shared her shock at learning of the pregnancy storyline …

The Archers star ‘angry’ at BBC axing Birmingham studio: ‘We’re worried about the cast’s wellbeing’

The Archers star ‘angry’ at BBC axing Birmingham studio: ‘We’re worried about the cast’s wellbeing’

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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 One of the stars of the long-running BBC radio drama The Archers has said that the cast are “angry” about the BBC’s decision to abandon plans for a new studio in Birmingham. It was announced last week that the BBC have nixed plans for a radio drama theatre at the BBC’s new Midlands headquarters in Digbeth, as part of wider cost-cutting measures that intend to save the corporation £500m in spending. Production staff for The Archers will still relocate to the new facility, but the Beeb are seeking a separate existing studio for the show to be recorded. While the BBC director general Matt Brittin has said they will attempt to find a location in the West Midlands, there remains a possibility that the cast will have to go further afield. The Archers has been based in the West Midlands for 75 years, since its first episode debuted on BBC …

Original Avengers star reveals he won’t be appearing in Doomsday: ‘They didn’t call me’

Original Avengers star reveals he won’t be appearing in Doomsday: ‘They didn’t call me’

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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 Jeremy Renner has confirmed he will not appear in the forthcoming Avengers instalment Doomsday, and joked that the superheroes are “gonna lose” because they left Hawkeye out. The actor has played Clint Barton/Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011, first making his debut as the skilled archer in Thor. He went on to reprise the role in The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He voiced the character in Black Widow (2021) and returned to play Barton in the Disney+ series Hawkeye (2021), with Hailee Steinfeld as fellow archer Kate Bishop. Speaking at Comic Con Liverpool, Renner ruled out Hawkeye’s return, saying: “Doomsday, I’m not in, so the Avengers will probably lose, just so you know.” “They didn’t call me, so it’s their fault they’re gonna lose,” he added, laughing. The Mayor of Kingstown star said he was “actually …

Zombies Star Mekonnen MK Knife Interview on Disney Worlds Collide Tour

Zombies Star Mekonnen MK Knife Interview on Disney Worlds Collide Tour

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Mekonnen “MK” Knife is currently entertaining fans of all ages across the country as part of the cast of Disney‘s Worlds Collide tour. The actor-singer-dancer, who plays Vargas in Disney’s Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires and is returning for the upcoming fifth installment, joined forces with fellow stars from Disney’s Zombies, Descendants and Camp Rock franchises for a high-energy, three-hour show that’s traveling around the country before going global later this year. His tourmates are Malachi Barton (Zombies 4, Camp Rock 3), Liamani Segura (Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, Camp Rock 3), Dara Reneé (Descendants: The Rise of Red), Hudson Stone (Camp Rock 3), Swayam Bhatia (Zombies 4), Kiara Romero (Descendants: Wicked Wonderland) and Alexandro Byrd (Descendants: Wicked Wonderland). The show features songs from each of those franchises along with some surprises. Amid tour dates, Knife recently took time out to talk to The Hollywood Reporter about the show, his favorite songs to perform, the fans and his hopes for what’s next. What’s your favorite part of the show? Honestly, there’s so many moving factors in …

Outlander star joins Kit Connor in trailer for new film from All of Us Strangers director

Outlander star joins Kit Connor in trailer for new film from All of Us Strangers director

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Outlander star Caitriona Balfe’s new film alongside Heartstopper’s Kit Connor and The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach finally has a first full trailer. The moody first look for A Long Winter sets the stage for what lies ahead for this new drama, set in the depths of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The story, set in 1951, is told through the eyes of Mike (Fred Hechinger), a timid man whose world is turned upside down when his troubled mother Louise (Balfe) disappears into the wilderness. As the search for her begins, Mike needs to rally the community and work alongside his farmstead father Lester (Moss-Bachrach), with an unforgiving winter coming in that leads to its own complications. In the trailer, Mike can be heard reminiscing about about his mother and what she was thinking and feeling before disappearing, before noting “folk always find a way to cope”. Caitríona Balfe and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in A Long Winter. MUBI He’s also seen smelling a glass his mother has been drinking out of, suggesting she may have an alcohol problem, and commenting about …

Celebrity Traitors star Charlotte Church forced to close wellness retreat after ‘complexifying crises’

Celebrity Traitors star Charlotte Church forced to close wellness retreat after ‘complexifying crises’

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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 Charlotte Church has announced the closure of her The Dreaming wellness retreat amid “exponentially complexifying crises that have been spreading out ahead of us all like cracking ice”. The Celebrity Traitors star opened The Dreaming at Rhydoldog House, Wales – the former home of designer Laura Ashley – in April 2023. Church, now 40, had purchased the sprawling property in 2021 and its renovation was the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary series. However, after four years in operation, The Dreaming will be going into “hibernation” to “reassess what it is we should be offering”. A statement posted on social media explained: “Through the harvest season, it is important to discern what requires attention from that which is falling away, what needs to be put to compost. “We need the chance to compost, mulch, go fallow, listen deeply to the earth, so that we can germinate new dreams for the …

Orlando flipped the script on gender in film – and made Tilda Swinton a star

Orlando flipped the script on gender in film – and made Tilda Swinton a star

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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 On paper, Orlando seems to be one of those unfilmable texts. Virginia Woolf’s tale of an Elizabethan nobleman who time travels across four centuries of British society, and wakes up one morning as a woman, is a lot to put on screen. Even tougher to capture is Woolf’s voice: witty and ravishing, and frankly too leisurely for cellulose. Harvey Weinstein, then one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers, recognised the ambition of such a task, saying he admired “the guts” of Sally Potter, who had pitched her adaptation to him back in the 1980s. He ended up rejecting it. The film is screening at London’s ICA next week (25 October) as part of the Celebrating Free Thinkers festival, marking The Independent’s 40th anniversary. In 2026, Orlando – inspired by Woolf’s romance with the writer Vita Sackville-West, whom the author once admiringly described as “mustachioed” – feels more germane than ever, a …

The Mystery of the Jardine Star Brooch

The Mystery of the Jardine Star Brooch

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“As long as I can remember, my family have talked about the Jardine Star Brooch and were aware of the fact that our beloved late queen wore it publicly on several occasions,” says the current Lady Jardine, Gemma, who is married to Sir William Jardine, the 13th baronet and 24th chief of Clan Jardine. Lady Gemma tells VF that the brooch may have once belonged to Lady Eda Jardine of Applegarth, a Scottish aristocrat, wife of the 9th baronet, Sir William Jardine, and “something of a lively character and quite a woman in her day,” she says. Another relative of Lady Eda’s, Tim Wright, also links the brooch to her. Wright shared in a 2021 letter to The Telegraph that Eda was born into the Younger’s brewing family. She was a keen sportswoman and race car driver in the 1920s and 1930s, and was once described by a family member as “someone who would have commanded an armored division with distinction.” She won the Monte Carlo Ladies Cup in the large cars division in 1931, …

Two and a Half Men creator reveals star who nearly replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men creator reveals star who nearly replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men

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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 Charlie Sheen’s exit from Two and a Half Men paved the way for Ashton Kutcher to join the sitcom, but not before others were considered for the role. Sheen starred on the show from 2003 to 2011 before he was infamously fired after exhibiting erratic behavior and making disparaging remarks about the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre. He was replaced by Ashton Kutcher, who took on a different leading role to keep the show afloat. However, Kutcher may not have been the first choice to replace Sheen. In a new interview with E! News, Lorre revealed: “We had several meetings with Hugh Grant and Lee Aronsohn and I, my partner on that project, wrote several scenes to show him what we thought might be a character that he would play — very much like a Hugh Grant type of character.” Lorre also noted in his new memoir, Sitcom, that Grant was …

Star Trek icon on why “fantastic” sequel to Nemesis was scrapped

Star Trek icon on why “fantastic” sequel to Nemesis was scrapped

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Star Trek legend Brent Spiner has opened up on a spin-off series that sadly never made the light of day. The Star Trek franchise has now been running for 60 years, with Spiner part of the world of the USS Enterprise and beyond since he made his first appearance as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. After seven seasons of Next Generation, Data has maintained a consistent presence in the Star Trek universe, with Spiner appearing in two spin-off series and four films – even getting a writing credit for 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis – as well as lending his voice to five video games. But speaking in New York ahead of the new Star Trek documentary, The Sixty-Year Mission, Spiner said there was even more of the story to be told. The actor has revealed a sequel to Star Trek: Nemesis was initially planned, which was “going to be fantastic”, bringing together multiple characters from throughout every part of the franchise in a story around the Mirror Universe and time travel. …