John Cleese backtracks after saying he and ‘Monty Python’ co-star Eric Idle ‘despised’ each other

Families in Scotland could be due more than £209 each month for every child under the age of 16 from next month due to the annual uprating of benefits. Scottish Child Payment is a devolved benefit, not available south of the border, and is currently worth £25 each week, but will rise to £26.70 in April.

Ellie Leach and Bobby Brazier have continued to play coy in regards to the relationship, but it has become harder and harder to deny with the pair snapped looking cosy on date nights. And with the high profile nature of their romance, some have accused the new couple of embarking on a "PR stunt." However, PR expert Dermot McNamara has suggested that this may not be the case, telling OK! that they likely bonded over the "pressure cooker" that is Strictly Come Dancing.

Jenne Casarotto, who co-founded leading British talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates in 1989 and repped some of the nation’s greatest talents, died Thursday following complications from a short illness. She was 77.

Alex Ritman Jenne Casarotto, co-founder of the London agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates which represents some of the leading names working behind the camera, died on Feb. 29. She was 77.

Queen Camilla was seen chatting to Tom Hiddleston and Sir Lenny Henry at star-studded Buckingham Palace event to celebrate the final of a prestigious children’s writing competition, the BBC’s 500 Words.The wife of King Charles, who is currently battling an undisclosed type of cancer, looked lovely in a navy blue dress with appliqué detailing on the front, to which she had also pinned a brooch. Camilla, 76, was in great spirits as she greeted the celebrity guests at the event, including actor Tom Hiddleston, who briefly dated Taylor Swift in 2016, comedian and actor, Sir Lenny Henry, and Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville.

Rebecca Ferguson has got Dwayne Johnson in her corner in a grudge match with a former co-star.

An Uber driver from Edinburgh, whose wife is expecting a baby, has been left unable to work after his car was wrecked by a hit-and-run driver.

Yesterday, Lionsgate pushed back its “John Wick” spinoff “Ballerina” a year from its initial June 7 release date to June 6, 2025. Why the delay? Well, franchise fans already knew that Chad Stahelski was back in the fold as creative supervisor to shoot additional action sequences for the film.

Olivia Rodrigo and Noah Kahan have announced a joint Record Store Day 2024 release that features covers of each others tracks.The two singers have teamed up on a limited-edition special live recording 7″ vinyl pressing titled ‘Olivia Rodrigo ‘Stick Season’/Noah Kahan ‘Lacy’ – FROM THE BBC RADIO 1 LIVE LOUNGE’ is set for release on April 20 via Geffen/Mercury/Republic. It will be available at participating independent record stores as part of the celebration of Record Store Day.‌The coloured vinyl features Rodrigo’s viral cover of Kahan’s hit track ‘Stick Season’ on side A along with Kahan’s cover of Rodrigo’s ‘Guts’ track ‘Lacy’ on side B which were both part of BBC Radio 1‘s Live Lounge.

The Berlin Film Festival was rocking Wednesday afternoon as Adam Sandler rolled into town with Spaceman, his latest feature for Netflix. 

Tom Sandoval has released a new statement following backlash on Tuesday (February 20).

Rachel Leviss is making her voice heard on a very important matter — and specifically because it is something she says her disgraced former did not do several months ago. Of course, Rachel and Tom Sandoval

Naman Ramachandran Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £6.9 million ($8.7 million), according to numbers from Comscore. Universal’s animation “Migration” dropped a spot to second place with £2.7 million in its third weekend and now has a total of £13.5 million.

The Trip despite calls from Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan to film one in America.The show, which sees the pair play fictional/exaggerated versions of themselves and indulge in their love for celebrity impersonations, ran for two series on BBC Two between 2010 and 2014. Two more followed on Sky Atlantic and Sky One, with the most recent being 2020’s The Trip To Greece.Last summer, Coogan said that he and Brydon should make another series ahead of a meeting with Winterbottom.“I think certainly there will be more stuff to say, because middle age is different to just getting old,” said Coogan at the time.

Alex Ritman It’s been five years since “Chernobyl,” HBO’s phenomenally successful miniseries about the catastrophic 1986 disaster and a show that garnered both widespread acclaim and a whole host of Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTA TV awards. Its creator Craig Mazin has since brought us zombies galore in the video game adaptation “The Last of Us,” but now “Chernobyl’s” BAFTA and Emmy-winning director Johan Renck is about to unleash his next project.

K.J. Yossman Gerard Butler‘s long-awaited “Greenland” sequel is finally set to go into production in April, Variety can confirm. The disaster film, titled “Greenland: Migration,” will see Butler reunite with director Ric Roman Waugh and “Greenland” writer Chris Sparling.

Monty Python famously performed a sketch about a joke so funny, it was lethal. Well, it turns out that John Cleese‘s latest attempt at a gag has been somewhat lost in translation.

K.J. Yossman Scooter Braun, Emmy Rossum and Helen Mirren are among 400 celebrities and industry executives who’ve signed an open letter supporting Israel’s inclusion in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Although there has been no suggestion the European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the annual singing competition, has any intention of barring Israel from the event, the open letter has been published in response to a handful of fringe voices calling for a ban.

made comments on social media which criticised manager Holly Gilliam – also the daughter of Python co-founder Terry Gilliam – for the decreasing finances of the comedy troupe, formed in 1969.Idle wrote on X/Twitter on Saturday: “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously.”“But I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager you should not be so surprised,” he continued. “One Gilliam is bad enough. Two can take out any company.”He added: “I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded.

John Cleese is making it clear that he – and a few other Pythons – are in complete disagreement with long-ago co-star Eric Idle, who last weekend slammed manager (and daughter of Python co-founder Terry Gilliam) Holly Gilliam for what Idle suggested were the troupe’s dwindling finances.