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Daily Record
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
ITV Lorraine host shares wedding announcement live on air
Christine Lampard shared some exciting news about her marriage to ex-footballer Frank Lampard while fronting ITV's Lorraine on Thursday Christine Lampard made a welcome return to our television screens on Thursday (7 August) as she took the helm of ITV 's Lorraine, stepping in for the regular host Lorraine Kelly. She delivered the latest entertainment and lifestyle updates to viewers, alongside an emotive interview with Kelsey Parker and some valuable health insights from Dr Hilary Jones. Kicking off the programme, Christine was accompanied by broadcaster Nicola Thorp and ITV's UK editor Paul Brand, as they delved into the day's top stories. During the show, Christine discussed findings from a recent study indicating that less than half of the adult population in the UK are married, highlighting a trend away from formalising relationships. The conversation led Christine, Nicola, and Paul to share insights into their own marital lives, with Christine disclosing that she and her husband Frank Lampard are approaching a significant anniversary, reports Belfast Live. "We're 10 years married this Christmas. A whole decade!" exclaimed Christine to her colleagues. "We're going to do a party. We might do a party, so there you go, you're all invited!" Christine and Frank's romance began in 2009 after Piers Morgan introduced them at the Pride of Britain Awards. It culminated in their wedding in 2015 in London. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 2018 and a son in 2021. Additionally, Christine plays a loving stepmother role to Frank's two daughters from his previous relationship with Spanish model Elen Rivas. Christine's announcement was followed by Nicola's sharing some joyous news about her own nuptials at the beginning of the segment. She disclosed that she, too, is approaching a significant milestone in her marriage. "I say this as somebody whose wedding anniversary is next week - my first anniversary! Yes, very much freshly married," she confided to Christine and Paul. Christine hailed the update as "magnificent" and then lavished praise on a snapshot from Nicola's wedding day, noting how she will forever "cherish" the memory of her own matrimonial celebration. Delving deeper into her wedding details, Nicola shared: "For us, it was a party. We didn't change our names, I don't actually know to this day, what our legal status change is. I said that in my wedding speech! I said 'I don't really know!'". Nicola married Nikesh Patel in 2024. The duo began dating in 2021 and made their engagement public in 2023. Nikesh and Nicola, who once graced the set of Coronation Street, embraced parenthood with the arrival of their first child last year. Nikesh has made a name for himself as an actor, featuring in productions such as the BBC sitcom Starstruck, Prime Video thriller The Devil's Hour, and Hulu's miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral. In 2023, he teamed up with Nicola for Celebrity Hunted.
Time of India
26-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
UK's ITV half-year comes in ahead on advertising beat, shares rise
British broadcaster ITV said its first-half performance beat forecasts, boosted by better-than-expected total advertising revenue, and strong content demand at its Studios business, pushing its shares higher. ITV is Britain's biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, with two divisions, Media and Entertainment, which includes its broadcast channels and streaming service ITVX, while Studios makes content such as 'The Devil's Hour' for Amazon Prime Video, and 'Run Away' for Netflix. Shares in ITV traded up 9% in early deals, hitting their highest for a year, after it said it was on track to meet targets, and had outperformed in a tough advertising market, given the comparison against the same period last year when the Men's Euros soccer tournament sent revenues soaring. "We've been able to mitigate a softer market," CEO Carolyn McCall told reporters on Thursday. ITV was also positive on the cost outlook, saying it had found an additional 15 million pounds ($20.4 million) of permanent non-content cost savings for this year, and added it would spend 1.23 billion pounds on content in total in 2025, lower than the 1.25 billion pounds previously guided. ITV has for some time been the subject of takeover speculation. In April, reports said it could sell its Studios business or merge it with a rival. "We won't comment on any of the speculation that has been going on for, I don't know, years," McCall said. "This whole sector, everyone talks to everyone, and everyone is talking to everyone. And you know that the board will keep all options under review." The group posted total advertising revenue (TAR) down 7% for the first six months, beating a consensus forecast for a fall of 8%. At ITV Studios, where profits will be weighted to the second half due to the timing of high-margin sales such as Rivals season 2 for Disney+, the company said its outlook was unchanged after revenues grew 3% in the first-half.
RTÉ News
15-05-2025
- Business
- RTÉ News
ITV assessing US tariffs after in line first quarter
Britain's ITV has today reported a first-quarter performance in line with guidance and said while it was assessing the impact of tariffs, it did not expect its television-making unit to be hit by US President Donald Trump's proposed film levies. For the first quarter, the group, which is made up of two units, said its Studios production business reported a 1% rise in revenues, and its Media & Entertainment broadcast and streaming unit, posted total advertising revenue down 2%, as expected. Trump's tariffs have made the economic outlook more uncertain for most businesses with international revenues, and ITV Studios said it was continuing to assess the possibility of trade tariffs in the US. "While the macroeconomic environment is uncertain, we remain confident," chief executive Carolyn McCall said in a statement today. The outlook for Studios, which made "Rivals" for Disney, and whose output in the first three months of 2025 included "Run Away" for Netflix and "The Devil's Hour" for Amazon Prime Video, remains unchanged, ITV said.
BBC News
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Peter Capaldi: I've come back to music again after 40 years
You would think the star of Doctor Who and The Devil's Hour would be used to time looping back upon as Peter Capaldi prepares to launch his first album with indie label Last Night From Glasgow, it's hard not to hear the echoes of the music he played in the city in the late 70s and early a student at Glasgow School of Art, he fronted punk band The Dreamboys in a line-up which included another actor on drums, Craig Ferguson."Like a lot of kids in the 70s, I was in a band," he says. "As long as you were committed to the idea, it was quite easy to do. You borrowed instruments, you borrowed an amp, recorded yourself live and took a cassette round local pubs to persuade them to listen, and give you a gig."Glasgow was a great city to be in, full of places to play and there were so many great bands around. I remember seeing Simple Minds but we were never that successful and we all went our separate ways." Music was always a passion but it was acting which took precedence as Capaldi moved to London and appeared in a string of films including Local Hero, The Lair of the White Worm, Dangerous Liaisons, and television shows such as The Thick of It and Dr Who, where he famously launched into a guitar solo in his first episode as the Time Lord."I was never a great player, I didn't spend all that time writing and I wasn't the guy who brought a guitar to a party and got everyone to sing songs but I was always keen on it," he that changed a few years ago when he met Robert Howard - aka Dr Robert of the 80s band The Blow Monkeys."He's fantastic, he IS the guy at the party with the guitar," he says."He has a beautiful voice and he can play anything and he encouraged me to play, and then to start writing stuff, just to see where that would go."The result was Capaldi's first album St Christopher, released in 2021, and that set in motion a return to Glasgow for the latest release, Sweet Illusions. Dr Robert had signed to a small Glasgow indie label which was set up by Ian Smith in Night From Glasgow takes its name from a line in ABBA's song Super Trouper – "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow."Ian, despite not working in the industry before then, was similarly fed-up with the way musicians were treated."The music industry doesn't care about musicians, it's all about making a profit. We wanted to change that," he enlisted 60 friends to give £50 each to establish a not-for-profit business. Their focus was primarily unsigned artists who were paid fairly and retained their intellectual since added a strand called Past Night From Glasgow, which reissues older albums. Their first was Glasgow band The Bluebells' 1984 debut album now have around 100 artists signed to the label, with a turnover of half a million pounds a year."We're not commercial, we don't pursue profit and any money we do make is put back into grassroots talent," Ian says. Peter Capaldi may not be a grass-roots performer but his music has intrigued customers in LNFG's headquarters and shop in the Hidden Lane quarter in the Finnieston area of Glasgow."We've been playing it in the shop most days," Capaldi says. "People seem to recognise the voice, but they can't place the singer. I say, if you can guess, you can have a free copy. Someone guessed Bob Dylan, but no-one has got it right so far."Capaldi is happy for his music to be enjoyed, without album cover for Sweet Illusions - from which Bin Night will be the first single - features Peter at a bus stop in London, thinking about home."I've come back to music again after 40 years, so it seems apt that's in Glasgow.""I'm not doing this to become a pop star. I'm not hoping to change my career. It's just something that I really enjoy. I take it seriously in the sense that I work at it and try and develop it as a craft but I don't expect to be at the Emmys, or to be in the charts."He may not have any say in that. Sweet Illusions is due for release on 28 March and with the first run of 1,200 albums already earmarked, it's likely to score highly in both the UK vinyl and Scottish charts. The Tranent pressing plant is on standby for another order. Capaldi says he's already working on another album, carving time in his acting career to write songs."When I was making the film The Suicide Squad in Atlanta I was there for three-and-a-half months so with all that down time, I just wrote songs," he says. "And they were all terrible but it gave me a start and while I was there, I was able to go to Nashville and that was brilliant. It was like coming home."I think I just picked up where I left off 40 years ago. I often have visions of these characters in this rain-drenched, neon-lit city where there are proto Goths hanging on street corners looking for something to do. It's clearly inspired by the Glasgow I knew 40 years ago."And while he's a reluctant pop star, he is enjoying performing live again."We did a gig about a month ago because I hadn't done a gig for 40 years. I just wanted to see what that was like, if I could still do it, if I could even do it."Stand in front of a band, play in time, stay in tune. But it seemed to work, we enjoyed it."We were asked to play at the Belladrum Festival at the end of July, and I hope we can do a few other gigs too."He adds: "I know I confound people in the music business."I've been approached by a few record companies once they know someone off the telly is making music, but there are obligations attached to that which I don't want to have."I want to do what I want to do, and I want to be true to whatever my music is and that's about keeping it in a certain controllable scale."I don't want to be a pop star. If people like the record, I'm thrilled and that's a reward because it's something I never expected to happen to be making music."Sweet Illusions is due for release on 28 March
