Grand National 2022: Behind the scenes at Aintree where the celebs watch the racing

EXCLUSIVE: Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel: The Series), Naomi Ackie (I Wanna Dance with Somebody) and Rupert Friend (Homeland) have been set to star in rom-com musical podcast series Cupid.

ITV Britain's Got Talent star has admitted she is embarrassed after airing her dirty laundry about her cheating husband on national TV. Francine Lewis shared how her husband has been cheating on her with his best friend's girlfriend The BGT favourite has admitted she is "devastated.

Wandavision writer Chuck Hayward is penning comedy Brothers With No Game based on the popular UK YouTube series for Stuart Ford’s AGC Television.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO’s The Gilded Age is adding two more Tony winners to its cast for Season 2. Laura Benanti and Robert Sean Leonard are set to recur on the period drama, created, written and executive produced by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

Queen Elizabeth II, and his wife, Sophie, announced the change of plans on the eve of a seven-day trip to the region to celebrate the queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking her 70 years on the throne. They will go ahead with plans to visit the island nations of St.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Smile — a trio comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner — will release their debut album, “A Light for Attracting Attention,” on May 13on XL Recordings.The 13-track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.The group has previously released four singles: “You Will Never Work in Television Again,” “The Smoke,” “Skrting on the Surface” and “Pana-vision,” the latter of which appeared in the finale of “Peaky Blinders” — and premiere a fifth, “Free in the Knowledge,” with today’s announcement, accompanied by a video directed by Leo Leigh.

Hugh Grant has reportedly launched a new phone-hacking claim against The Sun newspaper. The actor, 61, previously brought a case against the News of the World accusing it of phone-hacking in the 2000s; the case was settled in 2012. Now Grant is apparently launching a fresh claim against the Sun, which, like the defunct News of the World, is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK.

Benedetta on Good Friday.The film, directed by Paul Verhoeven, is based on the real-life 17th-century nun Benedetta Carlini, and is released this Friday (April 15).“This movie is a fraud and nothing more than a blatant attack on the Catholic faith,” Damien Murphy, a spokesman for the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation told Belfast Telegraph.Despite the film being released across Ireland and the UK this Friday, Murphy pointed at the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast, saying: “To launch this film on Good Friday is a calculated insult to Christians everywhere.“And shame on the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast for permitting this showing at any time, but especially on this highly significant religious occasion.”The petition, addressed directly to the film’s producer and to MUBI, the distributor, reads: “I strongly oppose and condemn your distribution and promotion of Paul Verhoeven’s film Benedetta. It offends God, and countless Catholics all over the world.”They go on to hit out at the fact that the film “blasphemously” features “several Jesus-on-nun intense ‘make outs’”, “a statuette of Mary Most Holy used as a sex-toy”, and “voyeuristic lesbian nuns’ ‘pornography’”.

James Bond franchise for not including any sex scenes in No Time To Die.The Benedetta director shared his thoughts on the 007 films following the news that Daniel Craig will be retiring from the role, saying many Hollywood studio films today are sexless.“It’s about crashing and blowing up,” Verhoeven said of franchises like 007, in an interview with The Sunday Times.“Sometimes these movies are fun, but the narrative tells you nothing about us now. I don’t see any other thought in Marvel or Bond movies.”Verhoeven shared his thoughts on what his own Bond film would look like, saying “I’d go back to reality” with “cars that don’t leap up into the sky.”The filmmaker went on to criticise No Time To Die for scrapping any intimate scenes between Bond, after praising the ones in Craig’s debut as 007 in Casino Royale.“There was always sex in Bond!” Verhoeven said.

an op-ed published in The Washington Post in December 2018. While Depp wasn’t named in the article, he claims in his lawsuit that it implied he abused her, which he says negatively impacted his career.Depp and Heard married in 2015 but split in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him and accused him of abusing her.

Former Edinburgh University student and dental tycoon Sam Waley-Cohen was riding high yesterday after guiding 50-1 shot Noble Yeats to victory in the Grand National.

Millions tuned in once again for this year's Grand National - the 174th running of the world's most famous horse race. This year saw 50-1 shot Noble Yeats take the title, beating favourite Any Second Now into second place.

Judging by their appearances at Royal Ascot and their love for polo matches, it’s clear that the royals are big fans of horses. In fact, their passion for the animals is so huge that Kate Middleton has spoken about using exposure therapy to help overcome her horse allergy. And, as noted by the team at British Racecourses, the Queen is one royal in particular who has a special place in her heart for the creatures.

The Grand National is Britain's largest horse racing and one of the most prestigious in Europe. The event will soon be underway as thousands of racegoers attend Aintree for the first time since lockdown restrictions have been lifted.