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Extra.ie
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Line of Duty's future confirmed four years after disappointing finale
The news Line of Duty fans have been waiting for has finally been revealed and we finally have confirmation as to whether or not the hit series is coming back for a new season. The crime drama was a massive hit for the BBC, but many fans felt a little let down by the series finale, and have begged for the team since 2021 to reunite and give it another go. Now we have confirmation from Superintendent Ted Hastings himself, as Adrian Dunbar confirmed that the show is definitely coming back for a seventh season and even shared when we could expect new episodes to hit our screens. Adrian Dunbar as Ted Hastings with Vicky McClure as Kate Fleming in Line Of Duty. Pic: Bernard Walsh/BBC Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, the 66-year-old shared: 'Oh, it's definitely coming back. Some time next year. We're just waiting for the BBC to announce it. 'I know Jed [Mercurio] is writing. And Martin and Vicky [Compston and McClure, who play Hastings's anti-corruption colleagues, Steve and Kate] are very keen.' In another interview, the Enniskillen native shared that he hasn't gotten his hands on any scripts yet and is in the dark as to the plan, but he can only imagine what twists and turns Jed will come up with. Adrian Dunbar in Line of Duty Pic: Aidan Monaghan/BBC The rumour mill has been swirling for a while now as to what a new season of Line of Duty might look like, and a TV insider told The Sun that the plan is to have a six-part instalment start shooting in January, 2026. Dunbar isn't the only cast member who has spoken about the show's return either, with Christina Chong revealing she had been asked to return for season seven of Line of Duty as Nicola Rogerson. Watch this space…
Telegraph
17-07-2025
- General
- Telegraph
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Spectator
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Why we worship the Wimbledon Wags
Strangely, it was the Sunday Telegraph, not the red tops, that in 2022 coined the acronym Wags after staff in a Dubai hotel used it to describe the wives and girlfriends of England football players. Little did they know that the term would have the traction that it still does nearly 25 years later. Of course, when most people summon core Wags to mind, they think of the glorious bitchiness of the football Wags in their 2006 Baden-Baden Euro glory – all fake tan, Ugg boots, hair and sunglasses like Barbies on speed. Sadly, they don't make them like that anymore. These days, Wags don't need the papers to pap them; they are Instagram celebrities before they have even got the GHD hair straighteners out – they're not trying as hard. But I'm not here for the football Wags. I'm here for the tennis Wags and, in Wimbledon fortnight, they are here for me. The Wimbledon Wags are winking at the camera from the players' box, their faces pained by every break point, their posture guarded as the coach leans over to whisper something, sometimes their expressions are unknowable behind the Ray-Bans. To me, they are a study in a kind of courtly femininity that we rarely see anymore – a masterclass in presumed reverence, poise and, crucially, silence. Tennis, with its highly intense, individualistic psychological makeup, invites this pose as no other sport can. More than anything, I think it is their silence that invests them with such power, since we can only ever ventriloquise their thoughts. Symbolically raised above the arena where their paramour jousts, they are the subject of deep scrutiny. I'm not sure how many times the BBC cameras pan towards them during the course of any one match, but the dyad between player and Wag is clearly of enormous fascination to the commentators and, I might add, to me, the viewer. Commentators like McEnroe and Henman point the Wags out dutifully – 'and there of course is so and so' – but naturally, the brilliantly priapic Becker was the greatest at the tennis Wags, often opining on them with fabulous sexism, famously starting a row in 2021 after calling quarter-finalist Marton Fucsovics's Wag 'very pretty'. Not all tennis Wags are the same. Back in the Fab Four heyday of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, they knew the drill and had no social media to feed or augment their position. Think Federer's lovely, bosomy wife Mirka, who sat and watched with the greatest decorum, giving very little away even at match points and getting to her feet only for the win. Eventually, Mirka became – as all tennis Wags do – a study in maternity, bringing any one of their four immaculate children into the players' box as a symbol of Federer's all-round family man status and virility. Sometimes, the tennis Wag finds it hard to maintain composure, a trait that is almost always cast in terms of nationality. Djokovic's wife, Jelena – known to the crowd as a fiery, fiercely devoted Iron Curtain Serb – performs expressions of such pain and anguish that one feels that the stage could have been her true calling. This year, the media has gone wild for the presumed romance between Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu But the tennis Wags do have a stage and use it to its full advantage. Once in a decade, to the unadulterated delight of the media, the crowd and the BBC, a unicorn Wag appears. A unicorn Wag is both courtly lady of the players' box come to watch her man in combat, and a professional tennis player herself. This year, the media has gone wild for the presumed romance between Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu. Most accounts of this union draw on fictional, sexed-up castings of tennis in films like Challengers or the spectacularly awful Wimbledon starring Paul Bettany, inviting us to consider the steamy underside of the professional tour. But I think that the unicorn Wag delights – and disturbs – because she offers a study in multiple selves. Look at Steffi Graf cheering on husband Andre Agassi or Chrissie Evert championing Jimmy Connors back in his heyday – women with the ability to be both reverent and aggressive all at once. Watch Agassi look up to his players' box and silently commune with Steffi over a missed break point or bungled smash and you will see a highly coded gaze that takes in romance and strategy like no other. But which two lucky tennis Wags will sit in the box on Sunday? For maximum dramatic pietà, I am hoping that it will be Jelena Djokovic and unicorn Wag Raducanu poised to cheer on Alcaraz. One always hopes that they might turn on each other, Wagatha Christie-style, in the heat of the match with only the Ray-Bans as weapons – but of course they don't. These are tennis Wags, after all. They stand elevated, heads bowed, willing their men to victory.
Daily Mirror
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Chris Tarrant blasts Phillip Schofield as 'the most overexposed man ever'
Former TV and radio star Chris Tarrant is no fan of Phillip Schofield and says he was 'overexposed' on ITV Chris Tarrant has blasted Phillip Schofield as 'the most overexposed man ever'. Tarrant, 78, is known for hosting hit TV shows like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Tiswas. But he is not a fan of fellow former ITV star Schofield. Schofield quit ITV in 2023 after he admitted lying about an 'unwise but not illegal' affair with a man 34 years his junior who had worked on the daytime show. At the time he said his TV career was finished but he attempted to resurrect himself on screen with a Channel 5 series called Cast Away in 2024. Referring to the Cast Away show, Tarrant said: "There was not a hint of apology or 'maybe I was a little bit out of order'. Christ Almighty." He then told the Sunday Telegraph he thought Schofield "lost the plot" after fame went to his head. Tarrant added: 'He was the most overexposed man ever, maybe apart from Wogan at his peak. 'But Terry was on all the time because he was very good, funny and likeable, and bright as a button. I loved him. Schofield, they always said, 'Oh, but he's a safe pair of hands.' Did anyone ever say, 'Ooh, it's five to eight, got to get home quick because the safe pair of hands is on?' Dear oh dear. Those shows he did - Dancing On Ice, The Cube, everything - were mainly crap." Nature loving Tarrant, who was giving the interview to promote a new book he has written about bears, also moaned about too many adverts on ITV where he used to work on quiz show Millionaire. He said he mainly watched streaming services now for this reason and added: "We always used to say, 'See you in a couple of minutes,' but how long are the breaks now? Five or six minutes! 'I watch Netflix and Amazon Prime. Then I turn on an ITV drama and say, 'What? It's only been on three minutes and we've got a break!' And the sponsors and all that. When will it happen that the commercials are longer than the programme?' Tarrant insisted he had now watched Jeremy Clarkson on quiz Millionaire who was his replacement. He claimed he had no interest in watching because he knew the format so well and he had 'the best of it, the glory years'. Tarrant now lives in a posh Berkshire property with his partner Jane Bird of 20 years. He has six children, including two stepchildren and six grandchildren aged three to 13 and rather than looking for any more work loves going on holidays. Sometimes two in quick succession. 'There is a glorious freedom in being able to travel without planning around work schedules,' he said. "I'll tell you the sort of thing. This winter, after Christmas, we went on holiday to the Caribbean for five or six weeks. "We got home about mid-February and it was bloody freezing. It went on and on, so I was like, 'F*** this, let's go back again. That's called enjoying retirement.' * Tarrant's book 'For the Love of Bears' (Great Northern, £25) will be published on July 11.
Daily Mirror
15-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
Air India victims' relatives make emotional plea over bodies
Anger grows as relatives plead with authorities to return bodies of their loved ones after the flight from Ahmedabad to Gatwick crashed in a fireball with 270 killed There is growing anger today as relatives of the Air India crash victims demand the bodies of their loved ones are returned. There were distressing scenes at hospitals as mums and dads and sons and daughters pleaded with the authorities to release remains for burial. Among them was Abdullah Nanabawa, the father of Akeel Nanabawa, who died alongside his wife Hannaa Vorajee and their four-year-old daughter Sara. Mr Nanabawa, who grew up in Newport, South Wales, was flying back to his home in Gloucestershire with his wife and child. Abdullah told the Sunday Telegraph: 'Release the bodies of my relatives. This is unfair. They won't let me inside the mortuary. I'm his father. It's my right to see him, no matter how broken, how burned. I have to face this.'I should have died instead, he was taken away.' He spoke of the shock of watching graphic footage which appeared to show body parts strewn across a large room inside a morgue. Ayub Sheikh was pictured gesturing angrily as he waited for the bodies of four relatives to be released. Hannaa Vorajee's cousin, Ameen Siddiqui, 28, from Surat in Gujarat, said their home had been 'alive with laughter' at Eid, reunited with their British relatives. He said: 'We've been coming to the hospital every day since the crash, morning till midnight, and no one tells us anything. It's as if we're invisible. They won't even confirm if their bodies are inside. Officials keep repeating, 'wait 72 hours.' Seventy-two hours for what? We're not even allowed past the gate. Even the people at the helpline don't answer our queries. There is a wall of silence while our dead lie inside, worst pain is not just that we lost them, but that we can't even see them, can't say goodbye, can't know. 'None of us imagined it would be our last Eid together or that the next time we'd gather, it would be to wait outside a hospital, begging for answers.' The identities of more of the victims is started to emerge today. Recently married Lawrence Daniel Christian, 26, was in India after the death of his dad He posed for a heartbreaking final picture with his mother, Raveena, at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, moments before boarding the flight to London, where he lived with his wife. His aunt said: 'We tried calling him repeatedly after seeing the news. We rushed to the plane crash site and saw the plane completely destroyed. We lost Lawrence Christian in this crash, just days after we lost his father.' A family friend said his widow, who had stayed in London, was shattered, adding: 'She keeps saying this must be a mistake.' Kamlesh Chaudary, 27, from London, was described by a friend as the 'sole bread winner' for his family in Ahmedabad. He was killed alongside his wife Dhapuben, who he was bringing back to settle in the UK with him. There was also a minute's silence at a village fete in memory of a shopkeeper and 'pillar of the community' who died in the crash. Ketan Shah, 43, one of 53 Britons on the doomed flight, ran the community store in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire. He is survived by his wife Megha, teenage son and daughter. Staff at the shop said: 'It is a very difficult time for us as we need to process this tragedy. Ketan loved this village and its people.' Nearly £500,000 have been raised for too young sisters left orphaned after their father died in the Air India plane crash. Arjun Patoliya, from Harrow, London, had travelled to India to fulfil the dying wish of his 42 year old wife Bharti who died of cancer in May. He had scattered her ashes in Gujarat before boarding the doomed flight to Gatwick t o return home to his two daughters Jiya, eight, and four year old Roya. A GoFundMe campaign launched by family and friends has raised £493,000 for the girls to 'secure their future' with the cash being put into a legal trust.
