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Manchester United have officially unveiled their new Adidas away shirt ahead of the start of the 2022/23 campaign in Melbourne.

Miss Candee, one of Melbourne’s iconic drag queens, who was known as the “Matriarch of Melbourne Drag and a Living Legend”, died on Saturday morning, aged 68. Miss Candee aka Ron Walker was admitted to the ICU last month and underwent two life-threatening surgeries following  an unknown infection in her lower back and spine. A GoFundMe page set up to raise funds to help Miss Candee with her medical and other expenses had raised around $30,000 in a matter of days.“It’s with great sadness that we let you know that Miss Candee (Ron Walker) passed away just after 1.30am this morning.

Manchester United winger Anthony Elanga has welcomed the competition for places that is being generated during pre-season following Friday's 4-1 win over Melbourne Victory.

Erik ten Hag has confirmed he will change the majority of his Manchester United side at half-time of their second pre-season match against Melbourne Victory.

Manchester United fans were left licking their lips as life under Erik ten Hag got off to the perfect start with a 4-0 demolition over bitter rivals Liverpool.

For Alejandro Garnacho and his fellow Manchester United academy graduates, the 2022/23 campaign will be a big season.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have cancelled three shows in Australia due to unspecified “health issues”, according to a statement provided by Splendour In The Grass, the festival the band were due to play next week.On Friday (July 15) Splendour announced that the New York indie icons were pulling out of their July 22 set at the New South Wales festival and planned sideshows for Melbourne and Sydney on July 20 and July 24 respectively.“We are so sorry to announce that due to health issues we will be cancelling our upcoming shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Splendour in the Grass,” the band wrote. “The disappointment weighs heavily on us, we apologize for such disappointing news.

WATCH: Sam Frost and Jordie Hansen's road tripAnnouncing the exciting milestone on her podcast on Thursday, Sam confessed Jordie actually popped the question back in May while one a trip to the Northern Territory together."It is a very important time of our lives, we recently got engaged and to celebrate we thought we would go on a 14-day road trip," she revealed.It's understood Jordie got down on one knee during a visit to Uluru and naturally Sam said yes, though chose to keep the news quiet until now.She was spotted wearing a huge ring in early June, sparking rumours that the pair had decided to take the next step.Sam and Jordie are engaged after five months of dating.“We have taken the next step and it’s nice,’’ the actress told the Herald Sun at the time, though she didn’t mention any engagement or marriage plans.“I feel so happy and being able to travel again is great … it’s going well. I’m happy being in Melbourne.”READ NEXT: A definitive guide to Sam Frost's love lifeSam met the Survivor star through her brother, though he wasn’t too keen on them dating at first.“I called my brother up and I said, ‘so, is he single or what?’ He’s like ‘oh, don’t be weird … that’s so embarrassing’,” the actress told Nova FM’s Fitzy and Wippa in March.The happy couple met through Sam's brother.The couple moved quickly from there, sharing a series of sweet milestones together including Jordie’s birthday in May.Posting a number of tributes to her man, Sam wrote: “Funniest human I’ve ever met.

Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush is at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) this week to receive its Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the closing ceremony on Saturday (July 10).

These are your evening Manchester United headlines for Wednesday, July 6.

Manchester United are unsure when Cristiano Ronaldo will return to training after he was absent from Carrington for the second day in a row on Tuesday.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced a six-date tour of Australasian stadiums, for which they’ll be joined by Post Malone.It’ll be the first tour for both acts in 2023, kicking off in the New Zealand city of Auckland on Saturday January 21. They’ll play in Dunedin next, before heading over to Australia for shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.Tickets for all shows can be found here.

Kanye West fan in Melbourne who named his burger restaurant after the rapper has reportedly been sent a cease and desist by his legal team, requesting its logo and burger names be changed.Mark Elkhouri noticed that West had begun following his College Dropout Burgers business – named after the rapper’s 2004 debut album – on Instagram and was watching stories posted through the account, initially believing it to be a mark of approval. West is still currently following the business on Instagram.However, a letter from West’s lawyers soon arrived, The Age reports.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBrian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment is adding firepower to two industry and talent development programs in the Asia Pacific region.One is the third edition of the Impact Australia screenwriter accelerator event which will operate an eight-week program from September. The other is the first edition of Emerge, a 20-week development program intended to raise the game of premium Taiwanese TV series.Impact Australia was founded by Grazer and Howard and led by CEO Tyler Mitchell. The event is delivered by Gentle Giant Media, the Melbourne-based production company headed by former Village Roadshow Entertainment Group executive Greg Basser.

Jack Johnson has announced he’ll be embarking on a run of Australian and New Zealand shows later this year.The tour comes in support of his latest album ‘Meet The Moonlight’, which arrived last Friday (June 24). It’ll see Johnson and his band arrive in Australia in late November, playing shows in Perth, the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, before heading to New Zealand’s Auckland and Napier.He’ll be supported by Emily Wurramara and Ziggy Alberts for the Australian dates, with The Black Seeds joining him in New Zealand.Tickets for the shows go on sale Friday July 1 at 10am local time, and will be available to purchase here.A post shared by Jack Johnson (@jackjohnson)It’ll be the first time the singer has visited Australia since 2019’s Byron Bay Bluesfest, and his first New Zealand shows since 2017.‘Meet The Moonlight’ marks Johnson’s eighth studio album and his first LP release in five years.

City Football Group (CFG), the owners of Manchester City, are hoping to add an 11th club to their resume.

Vivienne Chow To Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Ngan Chi-sing, seeking asylum in the U.K. is going to be one of his priorities in the coming year. That’s because he has made a film about the 2019 protests that he fears would endanger his security, should he ever return to his home city.“Hong Kong cannot tolerate documentary films like mine anymore,” Ngan, the director of “Love in the Time of Revolution,” which premieres this week at the inaugural edition of the Melbourne Hong Kong Film Festival running from June 12-19 in Australia, told Variety.

Ed Sheeran has announced three new dates for his upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2023 – find tickets here.The new shows, which have been added “due to overwhelming demand”, will take place on February 1 at the Sky Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand; February 11 at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand; and February 19 at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.Additionally, more tickets have been released for the singer-songwriter’s concerts in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth.Tickets to the newly announced shows will go on sale on Thursday, June 23. Tickets to several of the previously announced concerts are also currently available.

The Project host and out gay journalist Hamish Macdonald has shared his thoughts on the treatment of Rebel Wilson and the backlash received by the Sydney Morning Herald over the attempts to out the actress.During Monday’s episode of the Project, Macdonald compared it to his own coming out journey, the gossip he endured surrounding his sexuality, and how “scary and intimidating” it was.Hamish Macdonald and Jacob Fitzroy share a kiss in a photo booth in 2019.Macdonald (41) said he himself had been through the experience of the media wanting to out him.“I don’t think it’s for anyone else to determine the point at which they talk about that. I’ve been on the end of this sort of thing with a couple of journalists before. And it’s scary and intimidating and frankly terrifying when a journalist starts saying to you that they know this about you, and they want to put it in print.”The Project hist Hamish Macdonald and with his partner Jacob Fitzroy (right).Macdonald then addressed the Sydney Morning Herald journalist’s apology. “I take at their word what this journo said about learning from it.

Julia Jacklin has shared a new single titled ‘I Was Neon’, the second to be lifted from the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album ‘Pre Pleasure’.In a statement, Jacklin explained that the new song was originally written for a short-lived side project, Rattlesnake, that she played drums for in 2019.“I rewrote it for my album in Montreal, during a time when I was desperately longing for a version of myself that I feared was gone forever,” she continued. “I was thinking of this song when I made the album cover, this song is the album cover really.”‘I Was Neon’ arrives alongside a video directed by Jacklin herself and shot in Melbourne.

The Kid LAROI brought out an unusual set of special guests: beloved children’s entertainers The Wiggles.The show took place at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena last night (June 12), coinciding with the Victorian dates of The Wiggles’ own national tour. It was originally scheduled to take place on June 4, but was rescheduled after LAROI came down with severe cases of both influenza and rhinovirus.After performing his ‘F*ck Love (Savage)’ cut ‘Tragic’ with a fan, LAROI sent his Melbourne crowd into a frenzy of cheers by announcing, “This next guest is the fucking Wiggles! Shit!” He performed three of the group’s songs with them: ‘Fruit Salad’, ‘Hot Potato’ and ‘Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car’.

A mum has shared a handy trick which may provide parents with much-needed comfort and relief on a long-haul flight.

Arctic Monkeys have announced a trio of headlining shows in Australia, expanding their previously announced visit as headliners of the Falls Festival.The shows, announced today (June 9), will take place in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. All three shows will take place in outdoor venues: The Domain in Sydney, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne and the Riverstage in Brisbane.

WATCH: Sam Frost says she loves boyfriend Jordie HansenThe pair moved in together in Melbourne after just five months of dating and now the former Home And Away star has been spotted sporting a ring on her left hand.Photos snapped at a hens party attended by the likes of Bachelor alum Anna Heinrich showed Sam wearing a large opal ring on her left ring finger.But does this mean she and Jordie are ready for marriage?READ NEXT: A definitive guide to Sam Frost's love lifeSam was spotted with a ring on her left hand.“We have taken the next step and it’s nice,’’ the actress told the Herald Sun, though she didn’t mention any engagement or marriage plans.“I feel so happy and being able to travel again is great … it’s going well. I’m happy being in Melbourne.”For now it looks like Sam just put a regular ring on the wrong finger, but we can’t blame fans for thinking there may be an engagement on the horizon for her and Jordie.Sam met the Survivor star through her brother, though he wasn’t too keen on them dating at first.The actress met beau Jordie through her brother.“I called my brother up and I said, ‘so, is he single or what?’ He’s like ‘oh, don’t be weird … that’s so embarrassing’,” the actress told Nova FM’s Fitzy and Wippa in March.The couple moved quickly from there, sharing a series of sweet milestones together including Jordie’s birthday in May.Posting a number of tributes to her man, Sam wrote: “Funniest human I’ve ever met.

Married At First Sight cheating scandal after being in the centre of her own with Daniel Holmes on the show.WATCH: Carolina weighs in on the Jackson and Olivia cheating scandalTaking to Instagram on Tuesday, the fiery bride didn’t mince her words when fans asked her what she thought of Jackson Lonie supposedly cheating on girlfriend Olivia Frazer.The MAFS alum was filmed kissing another woman on a night out in Melbourne, a situation Carolina branded “so embarrassing”.“Right now I think that Jackson is a piece of s—t.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAs viewers gear up for the final seasons of “Stranger Things,” “Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical” is launching new productions this fall in London and Australia. It will also mount an Off-Broadway revival, where the show was a hit during its initial 2021 run.The London production gets points for atmosphere — it will set “Stranger Sings!” within a maze of disused railway arches underneath Waterloo Station.

Jackson Lonie's boozy pash with another woman on Friday night. But Olivia Frazer still has bills to pay. The Married At First Sight star, 28, was back on OnlyFans just hours after footage of Jackson kissing a tattooed brunette went viral on Saturday morning.

Married At First Sight fans have been left reeling after season nine couple Jackson Lonie and Olivia Frazer’s relationship seemed to implode when he was caught kissing another woman.WATCH: MAFS' Jackson Lonie caught kissing another womanFootage of Jackson locking lips with the mystery woman – later identified as Hannah Hughes – went viral over the weekend, after they were spotted making out in a bar in Melbourne.READ NEXT: MAFS fans threaten to leak Olivia Frazer’s racy OnlyFans photosThe clip sparked plenty of drama, with other MAFS alums weighing in and one even calling it a “publicity stunt”, while Olivia herself was left “speechless” by Jackson’s act.So are the couple still together after the scandal? And what does Jackson have to say for himself? Read on to find out.Olivia's not happy about it.Jackson was on a night out in Melbourne when someone caught him on video with his arms around a brunette woman, Hannah, kissing her passionately.Hannah shared the clip to social media where it quickly went viral, with plenty of MAFS fans wondering where Olivia was.The couple appeared to have been out together in Melbourne on Friday night, sharing multiple snaps to Instagram, but Olivia was nowhere to be seen when Jackson was pashing Hannah.READ NEXT: MAFS' Domenica Calarco and Olivia Frazer clash over OnlyFans jokeSpeaking to So Dramatic!, the young woman said: “I didn’t even know if they were still together. I was just having a good night out I did not expect this.”She also confirmed the kiss was mutual, telling the Daily Mail: “The kiss was innocent, a two way street.

The owner of a gentlemen's club in Australia where a Manchester-born dancer's body lay for hours has told a hearing he trusted managers to run the business while he focused on another venture. Owner of the Dreams Gentlemen's Club in Melbourne Salvatore Aparo told a liquor licensing hearing he is now a hands-on owner, running the club with his fiancé.

Nick Cave has spoken out for the first time since the death of his son Jethro Lazenby.  The model and actor died on May 9 at the age of 31, seven years after the death of another of Cave’s sons, Arthur, in 2015 after he fell from a cliff in Brighton at the age of 15. At the time of the announcement, Cave, 64, asked for privacy to grieve his loss but has now shared a lengthier message after being flooded with messages of support from fans.

Nick Cave has sent a thank-you note to his fans in the wake of his son’s death.Jethro Lazenby died aged 31 earlier this month, with Cave issuing in a statement to NME: “We would be grateful for family privacy at this time.”A fan has now written to Cave, as featured on the artist’s The Red Hand Files blog, saying that they were sending “collective love” on behalf of all his fans amid the recent tragedy.“I have no question for you today,” Teresa from Australia wrote. “I just wanted to send my heartfelt condolences on the tragic loss of Jethro.

Daniel Ricciardo would be welcome with open arms in the V8 Supercars Championship world should he choose to leave Formula One, as long as he's prepared to take a significant pay cut. The Australian's future in the sport looks increasingly in doubt, amid reports McLaren are already planning for life without him. Ricciardo finished 12th at the Spanish GP in Barcelona on Sunday and has scored only 11 points through the first six rounds of the championship.

WATCH: Anthony Albanese's personal messages to partner Jodie and son Nathan during his victory speechWhile she doesn’t really have an official title as it stands, we can expect to see a whole lot more of Jodie over the coming months and years as Mr Albanese settles into his new role.RELATED: Abbie Chatfield lashes out over election results - read here.She’ll most likely be living with him between the PM’s residences in Canberra and Kirribilli, NSW, attending flashy events and meeting important people on his arm.So who is Jodie and why is she going to be a woman to watch in the next few years? Keep scrolling to find out.Jodie and Mr Albanese (who shall be affectionately known as Albo for the rest of this piece) met in 2020 at an event in Melbourne, where they bonded over a love for the Rabbitohs.He called for any South Sydney NRL supporters in the crowd to make themselves known and Jodie called out “up the Rabbitohs!”.Not the most romantic way to start things, but soon after Jodie “slid into his DMs” on Twitter and made the first real move.“I knew that we both followed the same footy team, we both have a love for the Inner West and I think I said in that direct message: ‘hey, we’re both single’,” she told news.com.au.Can you believe Jodie “slid into his DMs” on Twitter?Albo, who had split from his wife of almost 20 years in 2019, wasn’t looking for love when he agreed to meet Jodie for a drink – but that’s what he got.“We had what I thought would just be a drink at Young Henrys in Newtown, and we got on really well.

A man who posted himself from Australia back home to the UK in a wooden crate is looking to thank that two men who helped him - and nailed the box shut.

A new cocktail bar from a former bars manager for Gordon Ramsay opens today, and is aiming to bring ‘seasonal’ cocktails to the city. Dan Berger grew up in Heaton Mersey, but has spent the bulk of his career working in some of the best cocktail bars in Melbourne and London.

Epik High have announced an Asia Pacific tour that so far spans five stops in Southeast Asia and Australia.This July, the Korean hip-hop group will head to Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, Bangkok and Jakarta for the Epik High Is Here Tour, they announced today (May 14). A tour poster hints at four more stops that have yet to be revealed.The tour will kick off in Singapore on July 9 then head to Australia for stops in Melbourne (July 11) and Sydney (July 12).