Take That are working on their first album in five years

Metric have spoken about how their new album ‘Formentera’ helped the band move forward through the uncertainty of the pandemic – while also reflecting on their two decades in music and the indie sleaze phenomenon.Speaking to NME in the run-up to the release of their eighth album, frontwoman Emily Haines described the new release, which arrives on Friday (July 8), as “probably the most important record that we can make other than our first album”.“Logistically, we could not get our band across the border and that was the longest we’ve gone without playing a show since we started,” Haines explained of working on the record during the pandemic. “There was a sense that this could actually be it – a lot of people are not going to bounce back in our industry.

A teenage rapist who turned up late at house parties to prey on vulnerable schoolgirls was ordered to be detained for five years. Jordan Pearson raped two drunken 13-year-old girls he targeted at addresses in Dundee.

Adele has given her first public concert in five years at London’s Hyde Park, performing at the venue over the weekend.The shows — which took place on Friday July 1 and Saturday July 2 as part of BST Hyde Park — were the singer’s first ticketed performances since her 2017 shows at Wembley Stadium.Adele performed a number of classics during her two-hour set, including ‘Hello’, ‘Someone Like You’, ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’ and ‘Rumour Has It’, as well as ‘Easy On Me’ and ‘Oh My God’ from her latest album ’30’. Find footage of the performances and the full set list below:‘Hello’‘I Drink Wine’‘I’ll Be Waiting’‘Rumour Has It’‘Water Under The Bridge’‘One And Only’‘Skyfall’‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’‘Easy On Me’ ‘All I Ask’ ‘Make You Feel My Love’ (Bob Dylan cover) ‘Someone Like You’ ‘Oh My God’ ‘Set Fire To The Rain’ ‘Hold On’ ‘Rolling In The Deep’ ‘When We Were Young’ ‘Love Is A Game’ The shows held an estimated 65,000 people each, with support acts playing throughout the day.

Phillip Schofield couldn't have looked any happier as he attended his first Pride event since going public with his sexuality two years ago.The host of This Morning, 60, attended the London celebrations on Saturday, 2 July, along with his ITV colleagues.The capital's streets were awash with rainbows, glitter and sequins as the parade began at Hyde Park Corner and carried on into Trafalgar Square, before finishing at Whitehall Palace. It's believed more than a million people joined in on the event and, judging by Phil's collection of snaps, it's likely he'll be joining the same people next year.

Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan-Blyth has shared a sweet throwback video with fans that revealed the exact moment her husband Jacob Blyth predicted their future five years ago. The loved up couple, who recently tied the knot in a small but intimate ceremony in Ibiza, shared the adorable clip on Instagram on Saturday.

Gallery: Glastonbury is back! These are the legends and music stars who WOWED Worthy Farm. . . (BANG Showbiz)Her performance came after speculation it may not go ahead following the cancellation of her delay-plagued Las Vegas residency.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA24, the indie studio behind TV shows and movies like “Euphoria,” “Minari,” “Moonlight” and “Lady Bird,” signed a first-look deal with Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg’s audio production company.Under the new deal, A24 has the right of first refusal to develop film and TV projects based on Pushkin’s intellectual property. The companies are already in development on “a few” projects including a documentary series based on Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia,” to be directed by filmmaker Morgan Neville.Pushkin Industries CEO Weisberg and president Gladwell will executive produce projects developed through the A24 pact.Pushkin Industries, founded in 2018, has produced several podcasts that have broken into the top 10 on Apple’s Top Podcasts chart, including Gladwell’s “Revisionist History,” as well as “Against the Rules,” “The Happiness Lab,” “Broken Record,” “Cautionary Tales,” “The Last Archive,” “Deep Cover,” “Lost Hills” and “A Slight Change of Plans.” Pushkin’s audiobooks include Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Netanyahus” by Joshua Cohen and Gladwell’s “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon.” In “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War,” Gladwell uses original interviews and archival footage tell the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard.In the years leading up to World War II, most military strategists saw the airplane as an afterthought.

Hit reality talent show The X Factor is reportedly set to return to our TV screens next year, almost five years after it ended. Show creator Simon Cowell is said to be in the driving seat to bring the once popular show back after “landing a big-money deal”. An industry source told the Daily Star: “It has been decided that the time is right to bring X Factor back.

Chris Evans might be one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but it’s been years since he has upgraded his iPhone!

Honoring her father. Alabama Barker shared a loving — and telling — tribute to dad Travis Barker on Sunday, June 19.

Diddy – aka Love – is back with his first new song in five years, teaming up with Bryson Tiller on the feel-good anthem ‘Gotta Move’ – listen to it below.The seductive, groove-laden track is the first preview of Diddy’s fifth studio album – his first since 2006’s ‘Press Play’ – which is set to be released via the hip-hop mogul’s new label, Love Records. It’s his first track as lead artist since 2017’s ‘Watcha Gon’ Do?’ featuring The Notorious B.I.G.

Perrie Edwards is getting married!

received his well-deserved Honorary Oscar before this year’s ceremony, but many fans have argued that he should’ve won for his role as the foul-mouthed Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction. In the Oscar winner’s opinion, there’s another Tarantino film he should’ve been nominated for - 2012’s Django Unchained. A decade after that movie's release, Jackson was honest about that Oscar snub for the Western film.

It’s good news for Beyoncé fans.

Beyoncé! Early Thursday morning, it was announced that on July 29, Queen Bey will be releasing, her long-awaited seventh studio album and her first solo album in six years.The news broke on the social media accounts of Columbia Records, Tidal and Spotify. The announcement was simply a black square with «act i» and «RENAISSANCE» written in white on each side.Additionally, Beyoncé updated the bios on her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages to reflect the release.On Beyoncé's website, fans can already pre-order the album, with four box sets available, some of which include a CD, T-shirt, mini-poster and a 28-page photo booklet.

The family of a man who was found dead in his cell are set to finally get answers over how he died.