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Friends cast share tribute to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary
"Seems like yesterday."
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The Big Bang Theory stars reunite for new show, but there's a twist
Amy opens a cat cafe?
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Channel 4 to join in with ‘world’s largest’ climate strike
The channel's usual evening weather report will be subjected to a 'special takeover'.
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Hollyoaks' Joel Dexter and Goldie McQueen to have wedding mix-up
Marriage mayhem is in store next week.
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Hollyoaks reveals Maxine Minniver's lies WILL be exposed
The truth will finally catch up with her.
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Body positivity activist Charli Howard’s new podcast: What you need to know
What you need to know about the timely new podcast from one of the body positivity movements biggest stars.
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Hollyoaks reveals what's next for Yazz after bomb blast
She has been in hospital since Jonny Baxter's attack.
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Liam Gallagher reveals plans for first dance at his wedding
The ex-Oasis star is marrying girlfriend Debbie Gwyther.
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From Dave's deserved win to anti-Boris chants, this was a classic Mercury prize
Dave was a worthy winner on a night stuffed with bold, chaotic performances and challenging music born of a vital, thrilling scene. Media efforts to galvanise a bit of public interest in this year’s Mercury prize included a newspaper website’s story about bookmakers’ odds that seemed to think the 10/3 favourite was Sampha – who admittedly did win in 2017 but hasn’t actually released an album since – and a baffling broadsheet piece that unappealingly described 2018’s champions Wolf Alice as “archetypal indie introverts … like a Sylvia Plath poetry circle struggling to be heard over a Pixies tribute act”, but somehow still concluded “they were worthy winners”. There seems to have been general agreement, however, that this year’s shortlist was the first in history to be dominated by music of a sociopolitical bent. This might have been a conscious decision on the part of the judging panel: an attempt to suggest a new vitality and relevance in an award ceremony that seems to have spent recent years relinquishing whatever grip it once had on the nation’s imagination. Whatever the reason, it worked. The awards show itself, normally an hour-long televisual bore that invariably manages to make a lot of genuinely worthwhile artists look substantially less interesting than they actually are, this year felt genuinely unpredictable and exciting. It’s hard to remember a Mercury show with that many performances that seemed unbridled, powerful and chaotic – from Idles to Fontaines DC to Black Midi – and it’s harder still to recall the last time TV directors had to cut away from a Mercury prize performance for fear of causing offence, as happened with rapper Slowthai, who appeared on stage brandishing an effigy of Boris Johnson’s severed head. It says something about how potent his fellow nominees’ performances were that Dave’s Psychodrama seemed like a safe choice: no spitting, no flailing guitar noise, no chants of “fuck Boris”. But it really isn’t a safe choice: the 21-year-old’s debut is anything but the kind of comfortable listen you could play in the background of a dinner party, something in which the Mercury has specialised in the past. Heard in the context of the Radio One playlist, its lead single Black – a thoughtful but provocative examination of race in modern-day Britain – sounded like a bomb going off: it provoked so many complaints from listeners that the station’s DJs felt impelled to publicly defend its place on the playlist. The album’s centrepiece, Lesley, spends 11 compelling but extremely harrowing minutes depicting an abusive relationship and its horrific fallout. Elsewhere, the album deals unflinchingly with mental illness and the story of the rapper’s older brother, currently serving a life sentence for his involvement in the murder of Sofyen Belamouadden at Victoria Station in 2010. As complex and challenging a piece of work as the British rap renaissance has produced, it is precisely the kind of thing the Mercury should be championing. Moreover, it won in a year when watching the Mercury prize made British and Irish music seem alive and thrilling, angry and vital: something the Mercury hasn’t done in years.
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Dave thanks mother and brother for Mercury Prize win
The rapper won for his album Psychodrama.
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First Dates Hotel's love triangle gives viewers their new favourite couple
Who needs Love Island?
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Mercury Prize 2019 reveals Top Boy star as winner live on BBC
Annie Mac announced the winner live from London.
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The rise of Dave: From unknown teenage rapper to Mercury Prize winner
The 21-year-old has been honoured for his critically acclaimed debut album.
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Michael B Jordan-produced Netflix superhero series gets first trailer
From Wakanda to Raising Dion.
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Mercury Prize 2019: Rapper Slowthai holds fake decapitated head of prime minister and yells 'f*** Boris Johnson'
Rapper Slowthai held up a model of Boris Johnson's severed head as he performed at Thursday night's Mercury Prize ceremony.The 24-year-old shouted: "F*** Boris Johnson! F*** everything! And there ain't nothing Great about Britain!" – a reference to the name of his award-nominated album 'Nothing Great About Britain'.
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Piers Morgan agrees to go on I'm a Celebrity on one condition
From morning shows to munching toes.
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Patti Smith reveals how Bob Dylan made her lose her composure on stage
Patti Smith isn’t usually one to lose her composure on stage – in fact, she says it has only happened to her twice, each time in circumstances involving Bob Dylan.Smith shared the anecdote while discussing her inclusion in Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, which chronicles Dylan’s Seventies tour of the same name, with Variety.
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Rapper’s four-letter rebuke to Boris Johnson from Mercury Prize stage
The performance was met with applause by the crowd in London.
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Kim Kardashian West opens up on psoriasis diagnosis
The reality TV star suffered her first outbreak 13 years ago.
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Mercury Prize 2019: Dave wins for Psychodrama
Dave has been announced as the winner of this year’s Mercury Prize 2019.The Streatham, London-born rapper received the award for his debut album Psychodrama, which was released on 8 March 2019.
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The Sinner season 3's first teaser trailer offers bad news for fans
But at least there's a first look at series newcomer Matt Bomer.
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Taylor Swift: 'White supremacy is repulsive. There is nothing worse'
The singer has used a Rolling Stone interview to explain her pro-Democratic politics and disavow her adoption by the far right. After years of keeping herself at a largely indifferent remove, Taylor Swift has elaborated on her political ideology in a new interview with Rolling Stone. Harkening back to the perceived better times of the Obama years, Swift said, among other things, that she regrets not getting more involved in the 2016 election, and the way her allegiances or lack thereof have been manipulated by bad actors. For years her reluctance to stake out a claim one way or the other made her something of a useful political totem, including, notably, when neo-Nazis and alt-right trolls adopted her as an Aryan ideal. “Firstly, Taylor Swift is a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry. Athena reborn,” Andre Anglin of the white supremacist blog the Daily Stormer wrote in 2016. The admiration is not mutual, although Swift clarified she was not aware of her adoption for the racist cause at the time. “There’s literally nothing worse than white supremacy. It’s repulsive. There should be no place for it,” she told Rolling Stone. Now she’s trying to learn as much as she can about politics, calling it something she’s become obsessed with. “I was living in this sort of political ambivalence, because the person I voted for had always won,” she explained, echoing the thoughts of many liberals who never felt obliged to pay attention before the Trump era. “We were in such an amazing time when Obama was president because foreign nations respected us. We were so excited to have this dignified person in the White House. My first election was voting for him when he made it into office, and then voting to re-elect him. I think a lot of people are like me, where they just didn’t really know that this could happen.” Now she’s focused on the 2020 election, she said, hoping that her involvement might help more than it hurts the Democrats’ cause. “I also don’t want it to backfire again, because I do feel that the celebrity involvement with Hillary’s campaign was used against her in a lot of ways,” she said. In 2012 she told Time magazine that she didn’t “talk about politics because it might influence other people”, and that she didn’t think she knew “enough yet in life to be telling people who to vote for”. Then in 2018 she had surprisingly come out for Phil Bredesen, candidate for Senate, and Jim Cooper for the US House in her home state of Tennessee. Bredesen would ultimately lose, but Cooper, who won, said Swift’s endorsement was like “manna from heaven” and called it “one of the great honors” of his life in an interview with the Associated Press. At the time of the endorsements many of her fans on the right said she had made a huge mistake career-wise. Donald Trump said he now liked her music “about 25% less”. Lest any voters on the left think it’s now safe to adopt Swift into their ranks, as of now she maintains the ideology of a centrist Democrat. “I do think, as a party, we need to be more of a team,” she said. “With Republicans, if you’re wearing that red hat, you’re one of them. And if we’re going to do anything to change what’s happening, we need to stick together. We need to stop dissecting why someone’s on our side or if they’re on our side in the right way or if they phrased it correctly. We need to not have the right kind of Democrat and the wrong kind of Democrat. We need to just be like, ‘You’re a Democrat? Sick. Get in the car. We’re going to the mall.’”
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Sir Paul McCartney weighs in on Brexit debate
The former Beatle admitted he did not vote in the 2016 referendum.
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Piers Morgan denies letting Donald Trump off the hook in interviews
The GMB host was speaking at the Royal Television Society’s conference in Cambridge.
