Mel B could be saying Goodbye to The X Factor after just one series on the judging panel, with reports suggesting Simon Cowell is seeking a replacement as he continues his shake-up of the ITV talent show.
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While her fate is not yet sealed, the outspoken singer would be the seventh judge to leave the show in the last five series, just weeks after presenter Dermot O’Leary announced his departure after eight years as host. Read More...
Guess what reader, it did pan out. It’s been an astonishing rise since we first met when she worked as a personal assistant at Comic Relief in 2003. Check these figures: she was the first woman to sell out all 14,000 seats of the O2 this year on her 40-date stand-up tour. She’s received five Bafta nominations, won three British Comedy Awards, sold over half a million copies of her first book Is It Just Me? Read More...
The story opens in the sleepy seaside town of Peacehaven in the 1990s. Marion (Gina McKee) receives a bedridden invalid into her gloomy home, becoming his carer despite the unspecified objections of her husband, Tom (Linus Roache). Robbed of speech by a stroke, the patient, Patrick (Rupert Everett), seems angry and uncomfortable.
It’s all very mysterious: why is he there? Marion doesn’t seem to like him much. Worse, Tom refuses to even look at their visitor; instead, he spends hours away from the house, furiously walking his dog. Read More...
