BBC Ready To Renew JK Rowling’s ‘Strike’ After Apologizing To Author Over Her Trans Views

A devastated hairdresser has lost everything she owns in a house fire caused by a candle. Tash Lyall, 28, who lives with her mum, was enjoying a day off work when the fire broke out at their home in Bootle.

EXCLUSIVE: The British Film Institute, one of the UK’s most powerful movie funding bodies, admitted to a filmmaker of color last year that it is “systemically racist” after apologizing for how it handled his long-running complaint over alleged discrimination.

This Morning favourite Alison Hammond is reported to have handed over several thousand pounds to a blackmailer that she once believed was her friend. The ITV star - who previously found fame on reality series - Big Brother claims that a blackmailer had vowed to "end her career" by planning to run fake stories on her.The unidentified man allegedly threatened to "ruin" Birmingham-born presenter Alison, 48, after she’d already purchased a BMW car worth an estimated £5000 for him.

Katie Price has revealed she is officially back together with her former fiancé Carl Woods and refused to rule out marriage. The former glamour model, 44, and reality star Carl, 33, had split last November after more than two years together. The used car salesman had accused the mother-of-five of cheating on him, but later rumours began swirling the pair had reconciled.

Paris Hilton is opening up about expanding her family.

Roman Kemp has begged fans for help after accidentally eating a special edition Cadbury's Creme Egg that was worth 10k.The 30 year old Capital FM radio host took to Twitter on Sunday to share his incredulity at the unusual chocolate treat, which was half white chocolate and half milk chocolate. He could be seen holding up the cream egg whilst enjoying a duvet day and watching TV, as he wrote: "What is this??? HALF WHITE HALF MILK CHOCOLATE?? @CadburyUK." But he quickly discovered his mistake.

ITV star Gino D'Acampo has quit a popular show as he tries to safeguard his relationship with his co-stars after they had a series of "stressful" rows about contracts.

Rosalind Wiseman is taking matters into her own hands.

BreAnna Bell For the second consecutive week, Joe Goldberg continues to lead the competition on Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10 list following the release of “You” Season 4, Part 1. During the Feb. 13-19 viewing window, the thriller picked up 1.47 billion minutes viewed following its Feb. 9 release. That’s a slight fall from the previous week’s opening at 1.73 billion minutes viewed, but remains a solid performance. Part 2 of Season 4 was released on March 9, so it’s expected that the show will continue to stay among the top 10 titles for some time. Following closely behind is “New Amsterdam” with 1.05 billion minutes viewed. Netflix and Peacock both share the title’s catalog. Netflix added two seasons of the series in January. Previously, the show was only available for streaming on Peacock.

U2 performed orchestral renditions of ‘Vertigo’ and ABBA‘s ‘S.O.S’ for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room – check out the videos below.The Irish rock band are gearing up for the release of new album ‘Songs Of Surrender’, out tomorrow (March 17), which will feature 40 of their past songs “reimagined and re-recorded”.So far, they have shared new versions of ‘Beautiful Day‘, ‘One’, ‘With Or Without You‘ and ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)‘.For a special Radio 2 Piano Room performance, which aired today (March 16), frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge also performed ‘One’.Listen to the full episode here and watch the performances below.“There is something about ABBA. I can remember ABBA as like the national anthem for young mothers,” Bono told Radio 2’s Gary Davies.

J.K. Rowling believes Harry Potter fans angry over her anti-trans views have misunderstood the bestselling book series.

Former Love Island star Anna-May Robey has predicted that the Love Island reunion is "going to kick" off, after the jaw-dropping "snake" and "liar" comments made my Farmer Will. Anna-May, 20, was one of this year's winter series' original Islanders, but she was dumped from the villa after new arrivals Aaron Waters and Jessie Wynter had to choose someone to leave.The show ended on Monday, and it's been packed with drama, including Will Young branding his former pal Casey O'Gorman a "snake" and a "liar" after he and Jessie were dumped from the villa. Ahead of the show reunion, which will see all of the Islanders from this year's show come back together, Anna-May said that things might "kick off".

BBC World News anchor Laura Trevelyan has announced that she is leaving the BBC after 30 years to play a role in uprooting the legacy of colonialism in the Caribbean.

UPDATE: BBC employees will stage their biggest strike in 13 years on Wednesday after eleventh-hour talks with management failed. The walkout will force coverage of the UK government’s Budget off air and heap more embarrassment on Director-General Tim Davie, who has apologized for scheduling chaos over the Gary Lineker saga.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has scrambled to avoid further disruption to its schedules after a walkout over Gary Lineker’s suspension canceled Premier League output.

Armed police swooped on a cul-de-sac after a man was 'hit over the head with a bottle of Grey Goose vodka'. A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of GBH following the incident in Heywood on Saturday morning.

Mo’Nique is opening up about her high-profile feuds. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 55-year-old comedian discusses both the origins and current standings of her public feuds with Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.

Mo'Nique is opening up about her high-profile feuds. In a new interview with , the 55-year-old comedian discusses both the origins and current standings of her public feuds with Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.Everything started in 2004 when she met Daniels. The following year, she appeared in his directorial debut, From there, Mo'Nique says, she and Daniels «never stopped communicating,» all the way up to her starring role in the 2009 film .The film quickly earned critical praise and was part of the awards season discussion, something that Daniels, along with producers Winfrey and Perry, wanted to capitalize on.

Rihanna and JAY-Z are showing some love to the members of the Arcadia Senior Living facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky! ET has learned that Rihanna and JAY-Z sent flowers to the facility after catching wind of their viral TikTok video, which features members of the community recreating Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime performance.The reveal was made on Feb. 27, on the Arcadia Senior Living's Facebook account.

Ashley Banjo has hit back at trolls after they slammed him for his comment on his ex-wife Francesca's birthday post on Instagram. Francesca, now 36, shared a stunning snap of herself posing by a stage, which she captioned: "30… + 6" followed by a pair of emojis.