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Daily Mirror
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Florence Pugh and Yungblud leave onlookers baffled as they pour pints at pub
Hollywood actress Florence Pugh spent her Friday night pouring pints of Guinness in a very popular London pub alongside Yungblud Marvel star Florence Pugh delighted London pub-goers with an unexpected shift behind the bar at The Devonshire in Piccadilly on Friday. The 29-year-old actress was spotted pouring pints and mingling with customers as part of a surprise appearance tied to the release of Yungblud's new music video for his single Zombie. Dressed down and playful, Pugh received cheers after nailing the pour on a pint of Guinness, proudly asking: 'Whose is this?' Her next attempt didn't go quite as smoothly however after serving up a frothy glass, she laughed and admitted: 'I'm sorry.' In another clip, she jokes her first effort was 'a bit lumpy' while being coached by bar staff. Her appearance comes on the same day Zombie dropped - a raw, emotional track from Yungblud's upcoming album Idols, out June 20. Pugh stars in the video as a grief-stricken, emotionally exhausted health worker, donning angel wings in a symbolic portrayal of inner collapse. 'The song was written initially about my grandmother going through serious injury and trauma, leading her to become a different person to who she was before,' Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, explained. 'It's about the feeling of deterioration and ugliness… shutting out the world and the people we love out of fear of becoming a burden or an embarrassment. It's f****** scary.' Pugh, known for her powerful roles in Little Women, Don't Worry Darling, Dune: Part Two, and most recently Marvel's Thunderbolts, brings her signature emotional depth to the role. She previously appeared in Rachel Chinouriri's Never Need Me video, showing an ongoing interest in music collaborations. Yungblud, 27, is no stranger to public antics. Earlier this year, he pulled a similar stunt by serving drinks at the Hawley Arms in Camden. With two UK No. 1 albums (Weird! and his self-titled record) and a recent 'Disruptor of the Year' award from the Northern Music Awards under his belt, the artist continues to blend music with rebellion and raw emotion. It comes after the singer told The Mirror that he's coming out fighting with his new music. He's confronted his demons, taken up boxing and is battling against toxic masculinity. And what he delivers with album Idols really packs a punch. 'I really had to face myself… figure it out and face it,' he tells. And Yungblud reckons he has really grown in the process. 'I would use food and alcohol to distract myself and push things down,' he says. 'The album is a mirror to that. I have singing lessons. I don't drink as much and I've been getting better at sleeping. I've been getting better at being able to navigate this whole thing better – that's been epic.' Having previously opened up about his battle with body dysmorphia, the Doncaster rocker –told how he has now 'cut out people that were not good' for him, and that posing topless for his album promo is a 'kickback against those people'. He's not shying away from hard topics to climb the charts either. He says: 'Me and my friends were talking about sexuality. It was what young people were talking about but it wasn't being represented in music at all. It was kind of like, 'Oh, don't sing about that. It's too political to go on Radio One.' 'I was like, 'This is what people want to hear, this is what I want to say, this is what I want to sing about'.'
Daily Record
8 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Record
'Doctors said my daughter had anxiety - but what she had was my worst nightmare'
Skye was later diagnosed with cancer. A mum has told how she suffered every parent's worst nightmare - as the pain in her daughter's side turned out to be cancer. Christina Harris took Skye to their GP when she complained of the sharp pain, which was accompanied by a fever and breathlessness that came out of nowhere. And the 46-year-old said that medics told her initially that her 10-year-old was actually suffering from anxiety. But Christina knew that it was unlike her 'bubbly and active' daughter and that there was more to it. But she was not prepared for what was about to come after acting on her mother's instinct and taking her to A&E a few days later. Christina, of Essex, told The Mirror: "Sometimes you just have to go with your instincts when you know something is wrong". Determined to know what was causing her daughter to be in pain, doctors then did several scans, including an X-ray and noticed shadowing on Skye's ribcage. "They initially thought it may be an infection or something and gave her some antibiotics to clear it up," Christina recalled. "I hoped this was the case, and we went home with antibiotics." But after a few days, and still unsure, Christina rushed her daughter back to A&E after Skye had another temperature in the middle of the night. She knew deep down her daughter wasn't getting any better. "You just go into a pilot mode, I was blocking out any type of negative thoughts I was having, and just wanted what was best for my daughter." During this visit, doctors then found Skye's lungs full of mucus. She was diagnosed with pneumonia, which was the reason for her excruciating pain. And after further investigation and more blood tests, it turned out to be something much worse. On December 7, 2021, the keen dancer was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), a rare type of blood cancer and was blue-lighted to Great Ormond Street Hospital to begin her chemotherapy treatment. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. She said: "I knew something wasn't right, she kept complaining of this pain, even in her sleep, it wasn't normal". But after a few days, and still unsure, Christina rushed her daughter back to A&E after Skye had another temperature in the middle of the night, and she knew deep down her daughter wasn't getting any better. The Mirror reports she said: "It was scary when they told me she had pneumonia. Obviously I did not anticipate what was to come. It's every parent's worst nightmare." Christina, a mother of two, sadly lost her job as an estate agent because she needed to support her daughter and became a full-time carer. Her son Marley, 13 at the time, was able to spend time at his dad's house more frequently as Christina cared for Skye. She said: "You just know deep down when something isn't right, but I never thought it would be that Skye had leukaemia, you just have to go with your instincts in these moments and I am so glad I did. "When we got the news, I just went into flight mode and I couldn't think of anything other than the fact my daughter had cancer. I cried so much when we got to Great Ormond Street, but in a strange way, I finally felt safe. I was just so pleased that they had found out what was wrong." Skye then spent 11 days in Great Ormond Street, where she began her chemotherapy treatment. "We were at Great Ormond Street multiple times a week, as well as appointments at our local hospital too. She was having such aggressive chemotherapy which went on for six months. I had to also make sure I was keeping an eye on her temperature, as if it went to 38 degrees I'd need to rush her to hospital. I knew when she wasn't right." Skye was put on strong antibiotics every time she had a high fever due to her weakened immune system and was having chemotherapy given in multiple ways, including into her thigh, as well as into her spine. She added: "This type of leukaemia is one of the longest cancer treatments for children and it made Skye really poorly." Skye finished her treatment after a year, and then moved on to maintenance chemotherapy, designed to help keep cancer from coming back after it has disappeared following the initial therapy. While she felt extremely unwell during her treatment, Skye said she enjoyed going to Great Ormond Street as she had become friends with all of the doctors and nurses. She was also treated to takeaways and feasted on food when she felt up to it. Skye said: "I wasn't at school and I wasn't making any friends so it was hard, but I got to know all of the nurses and they were really nice to me. It wasn't a nice experience but I managed to find some joys in between. "My mum let me have any kind of food I wanted so we would always get a Nando's or a Pizza Express. This type of leukaemia is one of the longest cancer treatments for children and it made Skye really poorly." Skye finished her treatment after a year, and then moved on to maintenance chemotherapy, designed to help keep cancer from coming back after it has disappeared initially. Recalling the time spent in hospital, Chrisina said it was "horrendous" and detailed: "It was really hard. You never want this for anyone, let alone your own children and it was really difficult. I think you just sort of switch off from everything else and just go into this type of pilot mode. "You have to give her everything she needs and I got to a point where I had this diary where I'd tick off hour by hour which medication I was giving her. She needed certain medications at exact times so it was a lot to do - I was basically a nurse looking after her. I was trying to just block out any negative thoughts and just focus on giving her what she needed. "The first nine months, when she was having the most intensive part of the treatment, we couldn't leave the house and the only people that could come in were the nurses. My parents live in Denmark so I was doing it all alone, and my son Marley had to get dropped at his dad's a lot of the time, especially when Skye needed to be rushed into hospital quickly." Skye was finally able to ring the bell on March 30 last year and has been in remission since. She also celebrated with an end of treatment party, something she had been looking forward to for the past three years." Now 13, Skye is doing really well and says she wants to be a nutritionist at GOSH. She said: "I really want to be a nutritionist, my time in treatment has really inspired me to help others like the way the doctors and nurses have helped me. GOSH Charity is currently raising £300m to build a new Children's Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street, which will help thousands of children like Skye. Skye and her mum Christina say the new centre will be "amazing" for patients like her.
Daily Record
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Loretta Swit dies aged 87 as tributes paid to MASH star
M*A*S*H star Loretta Swit, who has won two Emmys, died aged 87 earlier today, May 30. M*A*S*H icon Loretta Swit has passed away, it has been announced. The iconic actress died of natural causes at her home in New York City. Her representative Harlan Boll said that the New York police reported that the actor died earlier today, May 30, of suspected natural causes. Loretta is best known for playing Major Margaret Houlihan on M*A*S*H, which ran for 11 seasons on CBS from 1972 to 1983. She took over the role from the late Sally Kellerman, who starred as the character in the film M*A*S*H (1970), reported The Mirror. Loretta won two Emmy Awards for her performance as head nurse Margaret, who was also known as Hot Lips, on the long-running TV spin-off. She won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Or Variety Or Music Series in 1980 and then again two years later. The actress also managed to give a more feminist and three-dimensional quality to Major Margaret as the show progressed, downplaying her sexualised 'Hot Lips' character. The growing awareness of feminism i n the seventies spurred Houlihan's transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit's influence on the scriptwriters. 'Around the second or third year I decided to try to play her as a real person, in an intelligent fashion, even if it meant hurting the jokes,' Swit told Suzy Kalter, author of The Complete Book of M.A.S.H. 'To oversimplify it, I took each traumatic change that happened in her life and kept it. I didn't go into the next episode as if it were a different character in a different play. She was a character in constant flux; she never stopped developing.' Loretta's decades-long career also included roles in shows like Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible and the Love Boat in the 1970s. She had continued to act in the years since M*A*S*H, with her latest credit said to be the film Play the Flute (2019). She also originated the role of police detective Christine Cagney on-screen in the pilot movie for Cagney & Lacey in 1981. She didn't appear in the subsequent TV series though, reportedly due to contractual obligations to M*A*S*H. Meg Foster replaced her in the first season in 1982, starring alongside Tyne Daly, who remained in the role of Mary Beth Lacey. Sharon Gless is most associated with the role of Cagney though, after taking over from Meg in the second season and appearing until the final season in 1988. Loretta, who's also considered an animal activist alongside her acting work, is being remembered in tributes following the news of her death. Many fans have referenced her role on M*A*S*H in their posts about the acclaimed actor. One fan wrote on X earlier: "Rest in peace [Loretta]. A truly phenomenal actress who will be deeply missed…" Sharing their reaction, another person said in a post: "May you Rest in Peace Loretta. You are off duty now." Someone else wrote: "This is absolutely devastating news... Loretta Swit was an amazing human being. Exceptional on-screen and off-screen. Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen Loretta." Whilst one fan said: "R.I.P [Loretta], thank you for the memories." Another person commented: "No character evolves more across 11 seasons of M*A*S*H than Major Margaret Houlihan. Loretta Swit made it believable."
Daily Record
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Record
Prince William has 'strained' relationship and 'grudge' against Prince Andrew
A royal expert claimed William wants the disgraced Duke of York to 'vanish' from the public eye. A royal expert has claimed that Prince William has a very "strained" relationship with his uncle Prince Andrew, and even holds a real "grudge" against the disgraced Duke of York. They also suggested that when Prince William eventually wears the crown, he is likely to "banish" Andrew from even family events. Andrew stepped back from official royal duties and was stripped of his 'HRH' styling back in 2019, after a car crash interview with Newsnight regarding his long-term friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, reported The Mirror. Andrew hit headlines again more recently, due to his connection with an alleged Chinese spy, which saw him "banned" from attending the House of Windsor's Christmas celebrations. But King Charles has still allowed his younger brother to attend a number of family affairs, including the Royal Family's recent Easter festivities, which sources have said is a point of contention between Charles and William. The royal expert, Hilary Fordwich, said to Fox News that during William's reign, Andrew should not expect to be invited to royal events. "Prince William has long had a strained and distant relationship with Andrew," the expert said, adding that he holds "a grudge against his disgraced uncle. "Andrew's future within the Royal Family is beyond bleak, since Prince William is firmly opposed to any public rehabilitation with no foreseeable path back. He wants Andrew to vanish from public view". The Mirror's Royal Editor, Russell Myers, recently echoed these sentiments on True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat, remarking: "Is it a convenient truth that Andrew was going? William has no time for him. "And indeed, William was overruled by the King when he said, I mean, William was absolutely influential in banishing him at that time, when he was forced to step back from duties. But when the King decided, after the Queen's death, that he was going to be brought back into the family fold, William said absolutely not, and the King overruled him. "We have this sort of interesting power struggle going on, and I imagine you know that hopefully in a long time in the future, when William is King, he [Andrew] will be nowhere to be seen around the family." Whilst Andrew attended the Easter celebrations, William and Kate spent the holiday elsewhere with their three children, Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, seven. A royal source told The Mirror, "William has no time for his uncle. This Easter was about spending time with his own family, but he would far prefer a situation where he doesn't have to spend time with him." King Charles may be willing to include his brother in some family events, but he is reported to be at loggerheads with Andrew over the Duke of York's refusal to vacate his 30-room mansion, Royal Lodge, after being offered a smaller home on the royal Windsor estate. The two brothers have reached something of a stalemate, with Andrew insisting he has a 75-year "cast iron lease" with the Crown Estate—not the King himself —that he signed in 2002. He's said to have told friends he "is going nowhere" and even begun managing the undertaking of much-needed renovations of the property himself in an attempt to save money, with a source explaining: "The Duke has been walking around the estate a lot recently, speaking to staff and asking for tips on managing the grounds. 'The whole place has fallen into disrepair and needs a lot of attention. He's been asking about different kinds of trees and shrubs and whether it would be possible to move or relocate certain trees. He's certainly got a spring in his step and is a lot cheerier of late, which is surprising given everything he has going on." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!
Daily Record
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Taylor Swift finally buys the rights to all her music in 'dream come true'
Swifties will be glad to hear that Taylor's 'greatest dream' of buying the rights to her music has come true at long last. Taylor Swift has announced that she now owns "all of the music" that she has has ever made. The star has spent the last few years releasing re-recorded versions of albums from earlier in her career, naming them 'Taylor's Version', following a dispute over her back catalogue. She told fans in a message on her website: "All of the music I've ever made ... now belongs ... to me." Taylor said it includes all her music videos, concert films, album art and photography, and unreleased songs. She added: "The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life's work." Taylor said: "I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slidehow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news. "All the times I was thiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that's all in the past now. I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening." She added: "To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it. To my fans, you know important this has been to me - so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released 4 of my albums calling them Taylor's Version. "The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned the Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music. I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now. "All I've ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy. I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. [...] This was a business deal to them but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: my memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams." She also shared an update on Reputation (Taylor's Version), reported The Mirror. She said: "Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it." Taylor said that she "kept putting it off" but suggested that there "will be a time," if fans want it, for the unreleased Vault tracks "to hatch". She added: "I've already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about". Taylor said it wouldn't be from a "place of sadness and longing" though, with it instead "a celebration now". She concluded by writing: "I'm extremely heartened by the conversations this saga has reignited within my industry among artists and fans. Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their own master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen." Taylor thanked fans for their support and said: "Every single bit of it counted, and ended us up here. Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine ... finally actually are." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!
