Beckett Rex was one of the finalists on American Idol but viewers won’t get to witness his talents as the singer dropped out of the competition.
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40 miles from Central London — wasn’t the kind of place to keep police on the edge of their seats in suspense. But in the early hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a call came in that rocked local law enforcement — and shortly after, an entire nation.
Kent Police rushed to a nondescript Securitas depository near the Tonbridge rail station, only to find that the largest bank heist in the history of the United Kingdom — 53 million pounds — had just been pulled, the perpetrators gone without a trace.Moments before, a motley crew of criminals had charged in with assault rifles, submachine guns and pump-action shotguns. Some employees had been tied up inside the money cages, while others were forced to help load the stolen cash onto a truck.Police were stunned.“It was executed flawlessly. Nobody was hurt.
You just don’t see this stuff happening in real life,” Pat Kondelis, director of “Catching Lightning,” a new Showtime docuseries exploring the incident, told The Post. “To hold 14-plus people hostage for over an hour and get away with [the equivalent of] $92.2 million in cash, not firing a weapon, is pretty damn remarkable.”The execution was indeed remarkable.There were elaborate and pricey disguises created by a London makeup artist with theater experience; a plan that involved installing one of the criminals as an employee at the depot weeks in advance to film the setting through a belt loop camera; and even the kidnapping of the depot manager. The heist began hours before the main event.
Beckett Rex was one of the finalists on American Idol but viewers won’t get to witness his talents as the singer dropped out of the competition.
Sam Heughan seems to have dipped into a little bit of everything recently, from writing his award-winning memoir and filming the upcoming season of Outlander to starring in a film alongside Celine Dion.
APPOINTMENTSAEG Europe has appointed Lynsey Wollaston as Vice President and General Manager for European Festivals. “With her extensive industry leadership and experience, Lynsey brings huge value to our team”, says CEO of AEG European Festivals division Jim King.
Kylie Jenner is back with a new makeup essential as the reality star recently released her first ever mascara as part of her Kylie Cosmetics line.
Limp Bizkit have announced a massive outdoor gig in London’s Gunnersbury Park for this summer – find full details below.After a show at the capital’s Wembley Arena tonight (April 17), the nu-metal icons will return to London on August 13 to play the massive show.Supporting them at the new gig will be Pendulum, KennyHoopla, Joey Valence & Brae and Deijuvhs.Others to play the summer series at Gunnersbury Park include Boygenius, who will play one of their first UK gigs at the venue alongside MUNA and Ethel Cain.More 2023 shows at the venue come from Kygo, Joji and N-Dubz.Tickets for Limp Bizkit’s new show go on sale on Friday, April 21 from 10am BST.You can buy your tickets here.JUST ANNOUNCED // @limpbizkit will play a HUGE London show with very special guests @Pendulum, @KennyHoopla, @JoeyValence & Brae and @Deijuvhs this August.Tickets for the Gunnersbury Park go on sale at 9am this Friday via
ITV is launching a brand-new true crime drama that recalls the manhunt for Raoul Moat, a huge search that involved a bizarre intervention from a footballing legend. Premiering on Sunday (April 16), The Hunt for Raoul Moat shines a light on the human tragedies that lay behind Britain’s biggest manhunt, told through the eyes of those who sought to bring a violent killer to justice.
Tesco has reduced the price of a key shopping essential, with other retailers following suit.
Alongside his brother, Jordan and other recognisable faces like Perry Kiely from the iconic dance troupe, Diversity, Ashley Banjo has become quite the national treasure. From his performance at the Royal Variety show following their 2009 Britain’s Got Talent win to his current place on the Dancing on Ice judging panel - even his MBE - the 34 year old has come a long way in terms of his career.
What do you do with your beauty empties? Chuck them in the bin and move onto the next one, diligently take apart, wash and sort the packaging – or something in between? However good your recycling habits, Greenpeace has suggested that less than 10% of plastic actually ends up getting recycled in the UK. Notoriously one of the biggest contributors to plastic waste, the beauty industry is now making a conscious effort to tackle its environmental impact – and one of these ways is by swapping single-use packaging for refillable options.
Lana Del Rey's Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd is the best-selling vinyl album of the year so far, the Official Charts Company can confirm today.
BreAnna Bell “Murder Mystery 2” was Netflix’s top film title after its March 31 debut. In its first three days of availability, the film took the title for Netflix’s second biggest opening weekend for a comedy film with over 42 million views. The sequel starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston earned 64.42 million hours viewed total during the viewing window and also appeared in the Top 10 in 91 countries. The first film in the franchise also joined the list of film titles at No. 2 with 24.7 million hours viewed. On the English TV side, “The Night Agent” continued to stay ahead of the competition taking the No. 1 spot for the second week. The action-thriller has pulled in an 385 million total hours viewed in its first two weeks and now has more than 47 million views. Netflix calculates total views by taking the total hours viewed and dividing that by the show’s runtime hours, which in this case was 8.2 hours. The streamer also recently renewed the series for a second season.
Ahead of the Easter bank holiday, budget supermarket Lidl has confirmed it will be closing for part of the long weekend. The retailer is expecting a rise in customers over the weekend - and has now revealed the best time to shop to bag a bargain.
Paul Mescal said he hoped his win at this year’s Olivier Awards , the biggest night in British theatre, would give his mother “a little bit of a lift” amid her current cancer battle. At the annual theatre awards ceremony on Sunday, Paul, 27, won the Best Actor prize for his leading role as Stanley Kowlaski in the West End revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. During his acceptance speech, the Normal People star thanked his colleagues and co-stars before giving a shout-out to both his parents.
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Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has debuted another striking new look as the band played their first gigs of 2023 this week.On Thursday (March 30), the band began their rescheduled UK and European tour in Munich, playing hits from across their career.The show also saw a new wardrobe for Durst, who surprised fans in the summer of 2021 by debuting a dramatic new look that defined the band’s most recent era.While that style revolved around long lighter-coloured hair and a new handlebar moustache, the start of the new tour saw Durst embrace a country aesthetic, wearing dungarees and sporting a short-sleeved shirt, a red beanie and a long beard.See the new look below alongside footage from the Munich show.A post shared by Fred Durst (@freddurst)Loving Fred Durst's new look pic.twitter.com/fYBOqZYZmk— Scott Colothan (@scottcolothan) March 31, 2023Limp Bizkit were initially set to return to the UK last September for a run of dates, including a two-night billing at the O2 Academy Brixton in London. However, those gigs were ultimately postponed due to Durst’s “personal health concerns”.Over the summer, Limp Bizkit told their fans that the frontman had been advised to take an “immediate break from touring” on medical grounds, and said the dates would be rescheduled.After two concerts in Germany, Limp Bizkit are due to make stop-offs in Vienna, Prague, Frankfurt and Tilburg before visiting Manchester on April 12.Tickets for the original 2022 dates remain valid – you can find any remaining tickets (UK) here and see the dates below.APRIL 202312 – Manchester Academy, Manchester 13 – O2 Academy, Birmingham 17 – Wembley Arena, LondonLimp Bizkit released their sixth and latest studio album, ‘Still Sucks’, in October 2021.
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EXCLUSIVE: The BFI is to involve Bectu with its Skills Task Force after being slammed for the “disappointing” decision to initially exclude the union.
As the 2023 Amazon Spring Sale gallops into the final furlough, the online retail giant is still expected to pump out flash deals until it concludes at 11.59pm tonight (Wednesday, March 29) but with thousands of deals to choose from it can be hard to know where to look.
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