Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman Launch COVID-19 Support Fund for U.K. Theater Freelancers

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.NEIL Gray MP has hit out at the UK Government’s move to end coronavirus financial support following the release of the June claimant figures for his Airdrie & Shotts constituency.The statistics revealed that those claiming unemployment related benefits had risen by 1730 from the start of March, before the Covid-19 lockdown began.Across Airdrie & Shotts, there were 2300 claims for the self-employed

The fund set up by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman to provide grants to UK theatre professionals facing financial hardship during the coronavirus pandemic is to receive a £500,000 boost from Amazon Prime Video.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAmazon has donated £1.5M ($2M) to two emergency relief funds aimed at supporting workers in film, TV, and theatre through the coronavirus crisis. The pledges are the first in a $6M commitment to help stricken production communities across Europe recover from an unprecedented pause in work.Amazon will donate £1M to a new COVID-19 Response Fund established by the UK’s Film And TV Charity.

Ben Shephard's sons certainly know how to have fun in the sun! The Good Morning Britain star took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a brilliant video showing Sam, 13, and Jack, 15, mud sliding with their friends in a marsh.MORE: Tipping Point and GMB host Ben Shephard's family home revealed In the caption, Ben wrote: "As the great lyric goes 'Mud mud glorious mud nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!' While we've been sweating in the studio filming here's my boys with their great mates

There’s a rather bizarre new plot gracing the cobbles and it centres around Mary Taylor, played by Patti Clare. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the Coronation Street character when it comes to love, but it seems there could be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Ben Shephard is leaving Good Morning Britain to concentrate on Tipping Point, which is set to begin filming for the first time since lockdown. On Wednesday’s GMB, Kate Garraway confirmed that it was her co-host Ben Shephard’s last day on the breakfast show.

She was an amazing woman. At the beginning, I worked with her on Light in the Piazza in Italy, which was extraordinary.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorFleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and producer Francesca Moody (Fleabag) are launching The Theatre Community Fund, which will provide grants to UK theatre professionals who have been struggling economically during the coronavirus pandemic.Donors will contribute through initial lump sums and, innovatively, through fixed, confidential percentages of their incomes over the next two years.

Episode 7 of Official Charts' live stream series The Record Club is available to watch back now on Facebook, featuring special guest Phoebe Bridgers.

Ben Shephard had a shock when he hit the golf course this week.

Olivia de Havilland, one of the biggest film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, has died at her home in Paris aged 104.Born in Tokyo to British parents in 1916, de Havilland and her sister Joan Fontaine became two of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood – as well as being the only sisters to win Best Actress Oscars.De Havilland was best known for her role in Gone with the Wind, as well as for eight mostly swashbuckling historical movies she made with Errol Flynn, including The Adventures