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John Stamos shares health update on Beach Boys singer Mike Love: ‘He insists on being on stage’

John Stamos shares health update on Beach Boys singer Mike Love: ‘He insists on being on stage’

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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 John Stamos has shared an emotional message regarding the health of his longtime friend, Beach Boys frontman Mike Love. The band played its first public concert in three months Saturday in Cincinnati, following a series of delays and cancellations after 85-year-old Love said he needed to “recharge” amid the Beach Boys reunion tour. Stamos, who has performed as a guest with the group since the Eighties, addressed the crowd before the show and told them that Love “has been going through some health issues,” but he insisted on doing the show. Stamos then walked Love onto the stage, where he sat and remained for the rest of the performance. The Full House actor, 63, confirmed in an Instagram post Sunday that he would be in attendance for the night’s concert in Nashville and assured fans that Love planned to take the stage despite his health problems. “I’m boarding a plane …

How Bridget Jones was born on the pages of The Independent – and why she’s still a cultural icon today

How Bridget Jones was born on the pages of The Independent – and why she’s still a cultural icon today

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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 If you were ever in any doubt of the far-reaching cultural impact of Helen Fielding’s fictional diarist, Bridget Jones, I invite you to look no further than my own diary entries circa the early to late Noughties. The style – “Ran into Sam today: Doooom, hair was all mad peaks and horns! V. v. bad” – was ripped, wholesale, from my favourite unlikely romantic heroine (though my self-conscious attempts at emulating Fielding’s witty, feather-light prose fell woefully short of the original). As a whimsical, unworldly young woman, I found my northern star in Fielding’s hilariously messy creation. She was a thrilling portal into what my future grown-up life might look like once I’d successfully moved to London, got a job in media, started devouring self-help books and drinking wine from a bottle instead of a box and, most importantly, got my heart well and truly broken by some proper, real-life …

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 …

ABC News’ Will Reeve, 34, reveals testicular cancer diagnosis

ABC News’ Will Reeve, 34, reveals testicular cancer diagnosis

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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 ABC News national correspondent Will Reeve has spoken publicly about his “deeply personal health battle” with cancer. The Good Morning America star, who is the 34-year-old son of Superman star Christopher Reeve, announced on the morning show Tuesday that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the spring, which then spread to lymph nodes in his abdomen. After finding a lump in his testicle in April, Will went to the doctor at the urging of his wife, Amanda, who he married in January. He had the cancerous testicle removed in May, and then underwent a six-hour surgery in June to remove dozens of his lymph nodes and begin chemotherapy. Throughout the month of July, Will underwent …

Lauren Graham reveals the Gilmore Girls storyline fans disliked

Lauren Graham reveals the Gilmore Girls storyline fans disliked

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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 Lauren Graham knows which Gilmore Girls storyline didn’t resonate with fans. Graham, 59, starred on the beloved series as thirty-something single mother Lorelai Gilmore, navigating small-town living and solo parenting her teenage daughter Rory (played by Alexis Bledel). The show ran for seven seasons between 2000 and 2007 — plus a Netflix follow-up miniseries titled Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life — and has developed a massive following. Speaking to People, Graham recalled fans being displeased with the long feud between Lorelai and Rory that started at the end of season five and continued through half of season six. “There was that season when Rory and Lorelai were in a fight, and I would hear …

Salman Rushdie: I long for the demolition of Trump’s vanity ballroom and legacy

Salman Rushdie: I long for the demolition of Trump’s vanity ballroom and legacy

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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 free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he longs for the day when Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom and his proposed “Arc de Trump” are torn down. Sir Salman denounced the “horrifying” behaviour of the “thin-skinned” US president and claimed the “cult” he had created was beginning to crumble. In an exclusive interview with The Independent editor-in-chief Geordie Greig, he said he believed that once Trump was removed from power his beloved ballroom and triumphal arch would be removed too. The “demolition of Trump” would be a day to celebrate, he said. Sir Salman, who has lived in America since 2000 and holds British and American citizenship, said: “I look forward to the day when there is no more Trump …

Oasis once struggled to win over America. Now they’re filling stadiums – what changed?

Oasis once struggled to win over America. Now they’re filling stadiums – what changed?

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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 When Oasis walked onstage for their first-ever U.S. show at a tiny club called Wetlands in New York City on July 21, 1994, the 250 people crammed into the sweaty dive weren’t quite sure what to make of the youthful Brits. For a start, they weren’t moving. As the band roared through soon-to-be classics like “Live Forever,” “Cigarettes & Alcohol” and “Supersonic,” the five-piece remained defiantly motionless. “It wasn’t the kind of show Americans were used to,” remembers journalist Jon Wiederhorn, who was reviewing the show for Melody Maker. “In America, grunge was in its heyday and bands were jumping and bouncing all over the place. You didn’t just stand still with your hands behind your back to …

Dolly Parton to make posthumous appearance on new U2 album Carnaval De Luz

Dolly Parton to make posthumous appearance on new U2 album Carnaval De Luz

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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 Dolly Parton is set to feature posthumously on U2’s new album in a duet with Bono. The country song, titled “Torn”, explores broken family ties and was co-written by the Irish group, Parton, and Snow Patrol member Johnny McDaid. The late country icon Parton passed away in August at the age of 80 following a “brief battle with cancer”. Carnaval De Luz marks the band’s 16th album and their first collection of new material since 2017’s Songs Of Surrender. Its first single, “Street Of Dreams”, was issued in July. The 12-track record reportedly explores themes of spirituality, friendship, freedom and endurance “in the face of dark, encroaching forces”. The announcement comes 50 years after U2 formed when Larry …

Michelle Keegan says she ‘went in blinded’ to new ITV series after becoming mum: ‘It was really hard’

Michelle Keegan says she ‘went in blinded’ to new ITV series after becoming mum: ‘It was really hard’

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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 Michelle Keegan has opened up about her life as a working mum, revealing that she is “absolutely shattered”. The actor, 39, welcomed her first child with TV star husband Mark Wright last year. Keegan gave birth to daughter Palma in March 2025. In a new interview, Keegan spoke about the “tough” balancing act required of her a new mother navigating the demands of her job. She said she went in “blinded” when accepting her role on the newly released ITV crime drama The Blame prior to giving birth to Palma. In it, she stars as DI Emma Crane opposite co-star Douglas Booth. Keegan told Grazia that she did not realise how difficult it would be to adjust to her new life as a mother. “Listen, I think I went in blinded,” she said. “Obviously I agreed to the role before I …

Former Disney star opens up about ‘life-altering brain injury’ that left her ‘out of commission’

Former Disney star opens up about ‘life-altering brain injury’ that left her ‘out of commission’

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Debby Ryan is opening up about a brain injury that changed her life several years ago. The former Disney Channel star, 33, revealed during an interview on Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals that she is still dealing with the aftermath of the injury, which occurred after a long history of migraines as well as four other concussions. “I had a pretty crazy life-altering brain injury a few years ago, and I was out of commission for like six months,” Ryan said on the YouTube series episode, which was published Tuesday. Ryan went on to say that she went to a “neurological rehab” for six months, but that her symptoms only got worse until she tried a “fringe science treatment.” However, she said, “there are some …