The Silent Treatment: Sarah-Louise Young on the trauma and stigma of losing her voice

Neil Young has announced his plans to release ‘Noise & Flowers’, a live album and film compiled from material recorded during his most recent tour of Europe and the UK.Young embarked on the nine-date run with Promise Of The Real as his backing band, taking in four shows in Germany – as well as one each in Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, England and Ireland – across July of 2019. The album and film will feature recordings from all of the shows; the CD and two-disc vinyl release will sport 14 tracks, but it’s unclear if the film (which was co-directed by Bernard Shakey and DH Lovelife) contains the same content.Both iterations of the release will land on August 5 via Warner Records, with pre-orders available here.

Louise Thompson has opened up about her post-traumatic stress disorder battle. The Made in Chelsea star, 32, and her fiancé Ryan Libbey, 31, welcomed their son Leo-Hunter in December 2021, however due to complications, Louise was left in intensive care for five weeks. After the traumatic experience, Louise was diagnosed with severe anxiety and has been open about her journey with PTSD.Taking to her Instagram stories, the star told her 1.4million followers that her day on Tuesday 21, June was going perfectly fine, until she had a breakdown that "came out of nowhere".

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRising Egyptian star Amir El-Masry (“Limbo”) has been cast as the young Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed, the former Harrods owner, in the upcoming fifth season of Netflix’s “The Crown,” Variety can reveal.Netflix confirmed the casting but declined to provide further details.As previously reported by Variety, Salim Daw (“Oslo”) has been cast as the older incarnation of Mohamed al-Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed, who was romantically linked to Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris, France on Aug. 31, 1997.Born in Cairo and raised in London, Amir El Masry broke out internationally in 2016 with a small standout role as a hotel chef opposite Tom Hiddleston in Susanne Bier-directed mini-series “The Night Manager.” He more recently garnered critical praise for his role as Syrian asylum-seeker living on a small Scottish island in Ben Sharrock’s drama “Limbo” for which El Masry won a BAFTA Scotland acting award.

Ghost were forced to cut short their headline set at Hellfest over the weekend after their frontman Tobias Forge lost his voice.The Swedish band topped the bill at the Clisson, France festival on Saturday (June 18), with Deftones and Gojira also headlining the event’s first weekend (the second will take place from June 23-26).According to Setlist.fm, Ghost ended their headline show 17 songs into the set on Saturday. The band’s 2022 live set has typically consisted of at least 20 songs, including the usual closing track ‘Square Hammer’.Fan-shot footage from Hellfest shows Forge (AKA Papa Emeritus IV) thanking the crowd after performing ‘Dance Macabre’, before adding: “My voice is completely fucked.

Celebrity Gogglebox viewers were left confused as actress Denise Van Outen failed to mention her own starring role in a TC show featured on the programme.

A student from Auchterarder who lost her mum to Huntington’s disease has spoken out about the impact of the rare neurological condition on families.

Mark Ronson has partnered with the BBC to launch an online course in which he will share some of his production secrets.BBC Maestro is an 18-class virtual course that will show aspiring producers and musicians exactly how Ronson creates a new track, from writing a song to laying down instruments and playing with digital effects.Ronson said that the goal of the course, which will be released in full on July 5, is to show students “everything I do, and then you can apply this to your own process”.In addition to sharing tips about how to craft a song the ‘Uptown Funk’ hitmaker will talk through the process of collaborating with others and deconstruct some of his own records including Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’.Episodes of BBC Maestro will feature Ronson working with rapper Jon Bellion, singer Niya Norwood, engineer/mixer/producer Ricky Damian, and the Frighteners’ Richard Terrana.“Forget about all those things – commercial constraints, who will listen to this,” Ronson says at the end of the trailer for the course. “Just concentrate on making something that you truly find exciting, and that you would listen to.

Shaman Durek made sure he received Gwyneth Paltrow’s "stamp of approval" before he proposed to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway. The Los Angeles-based "spiritual guide and gifted healer," whose celebrity clientele includes Paltrow, as well as Nina Dobrev and James Van Der Beek, among others, confirmed last Tuesday that he and the royal are engaged.

We know that James Martin loves his food, but what is it the secret ingredient to his 11 year relationship? The Saturday Kitchen Live star has been welcoming us into his kitchen every weekend for the past five years, but remains notoriously private about his romance with girlfriend Louise Davies. James, 49, has been in a long-term relationship with his PA partner for seven years, and the pair live together in a seven-bedroomed detached country home in Hampshire. James, who previously hosted the BBC's Saturday Kitchen Live for a decade, managed to keep his dating life with Louise a secret for nearly five years.

Young Thug lost his bid for bail last week, but was allowed to continue working with his current lawyer, as he fights various charges relating to his alleged involvement in the Young Slime Life gang in Atlanta.The rapper – real name Jeffery Williams – was charged last month, alongside fellow rapper Gunna and 26 others, with numerous counts of racketeering. He is accused of co-founding the gang that went on to commit murders, shootings and carjackings – crimes he then allegedly bragged about in his music videos.Williams is being represented in the criminal case by his longtime attorney Brian Steel.