'I was born poor and it looks like I'm going to die poor': The hard reality of the cost of living crisis on the estate with a motorway in the middle

EXCLUSIVE: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set for the female lead opposite Kevin Hart in the Netflix action thriller Lift. Rounding out the cast is Vincent D’Onofrio, Billy Magnussen, Úrsula Corberó, Yun Jee Kim, Viveik Kalra, and Paul Anderson F. Gary Gray will direct the pic with Dan Kunka penning the script. Netflix landed the highly coveted package last fall.

She & Him have announced thier ‘Melt Away Tour: A Tribute To Brian Wilson’, which kicks off this summer – tickets are available here.The duo, comprising M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, will play original songs from their six-album catalogue as well as classics written by the Beach Boys’ founder.The 11-date trip kicks off in Denver, Colorado on June 13 with stops in Utah, California, Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver.

Energy providers are struggling to keep up with the demand from Scots eager to log meter readings ahead of a 54% rise in the energy price cap.

Lee Chambers was excited for the birth of his second child when, a week after his 29th birthday, his wrist randomly began to swell up. Within days the symptoms had spread to his legs, and he was confined to a hospital bed and unable to walk. Now, after using his daughter's pram to help him learn how to walk again, he's running an award-winning wellbeing business.

Benefits Street star White Dee has slammed the Channel 4 show’s producers for ‘exploiting’ the cast. The TV series, which ran for two seasons, followed the lives of Birmingham residents on ‘one of Britain’s most benefit-dependent streets’ including White Dee (real name Deidre Kelly), Samora Roberts who was known as Black Dee, and James Clarke. It gained immense popularity when it premiered in 2014, which White Dee described as a ‘Benefits Street explosion’, saying that she and her fellow James Turner street residents were suddenly ‘on the front page of many national newspapers.

Naman Ramachandran Universal Pictures‘ “Jurassic World Dominion” stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have launched a competition for young U.K. fans of the dino franchise to design a British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) black card. The black card is the card that has the film’s rating and BBFC approval for cinematic screenings.

There likely won’t be a red carpet rolled out in front of the Fairfax County courthouse, but some big names are coming to Johnny Depp’s now $100 million defamation battle with ex-wife Amber Heard when the long delayed trial starts next month.

Whether you're looking for a last-minute Mother’s Day gift, or an awesome experience for yourself, there’s plenty to look forward to in the music sphere this year.

Manchester United duo Edinson Cavani and Facundo Pellistri have been named in the Uruguay squad for their upcoming 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Chile.

Netflix’s The Power of the Dog was named Best Film and won Best Director and Best Screenplay for Jane Campion while Neon/Participant’s animated documentary Flee won a leading four awards Thursday at the 13th annual Dorian Awards, presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

Ethan Shanfeld Dua Lipa got hit with dual lawsuits this month surrounding her mega-hit song “Levitating.”The first of the copyright infringement suits comes from Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System, which accused Lipa of copying its 2017 song “Live Your Life.” The second hails from songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who allege that Lipa stole from two of their songs — “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” (1979) and “Don Diablo” (1980).Variety spoke with musicologists E.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWilliam Hurt, who died Sunday at 71, had a look and an aura that appeared, at first, to fit all too snugly into Hollywood’s conception of what a movie star should be. Tall and broad-shouldered, with a silky shock of wheat-colored hair, his handsome features set off by a cleft chin and a faraway gaze, he was, at a glance, the quintessence of the old-fashioned WASP he-man ideal.

Defending his art. Benedict Cumberbatch is taking ownership over his work in The Power of the Dog after Sam Elliott criticized the film’s “allusions of homosexuality.”

Gordon Brown has called for Vladimir Putin to face a Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal.