Vernon Kay reveals massive career update as BBC Radio unveils star-studded lineup of guests

Radio 1‘s Big Weekend will be held in Luton this year, it has been announced.Stockwood Park will host the annual festival from May 24-26 2024, where over 100,000 music fans are expected to attend.For the first time, this year will see all four stages – Radio 1 Main Stage, Radio 1’s Future Sounds, Radio 1 Dance and BBC Introducing – running across all three days.The festival will showcase around 100 acts, with the full line-up and ticket details set to be announced in the coming months.#BIGWEEKEND NEWS‼️We'll be heading to Luton and taking over Stockwood Park for THREE DAYS on Friday 24th, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May.Full lineup and ticket info coming soon. pic.twitter.com/iW2juixeF2— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) January 29, 2024In a statement, Breakfast Show host Greg James said: “Radio 1’s Big Weekend is our favourite time of the year and we love taking it somewhere new every year.

Loose Women's Kaye Adams has opened up on the terrifying moment she completely lost her hearing in one ear just before a live show, admitting she thought her career was over.The ITV daytime star had been listening to her producers in an earpiece before the show last Friday, but without warning she lost her hearing in her right ear, believing she had gone deaf. Kaye, 61, shared a clip of the moment showing her looking confused and then worried, and told this Friday's viewers: "That's what you call a brave face, because behind that I was seriously panicking.

Rylan Clark is being replaced on his BBC Radio 2 show by Paddy McGuinness. Rylan will be off for four weeks in February, while Paddy promises to bring an "endless supply of dad jokes" to the Saturday afternoon radio show. This news comes as Rylan has revealed a surprise career change – he'll be performing at Henley Festival in July with stars including Gladys Knight, Sam Ryder, and Nicole Scherzinger.

BBC The Traitors star Charlotte Chilton has revealed that she almost took her own life when she was battling with an agonising pain disorder known as 'suicide disease'.The recruitment manager was the latest contestant to be banished from the show as her fellow contestants falsely accused her of playing the role of a Traitor. Since leaving the show, in scenes which aired last week, the 32 year old has candidly opened up on the chronic condition -trigeminal neuralgia, which has caused her to miss out “on a lot of things in life”.

Coronation Street star Sean Wilson chose a very different career path after turning his back on acting and exiting the ITV soap in 2005. Sean, 58, played Martin Platt in the soap from 1985 until 2005, and was involved in some big storylines including his marriage to Gail Platt (Helen Worth) and becoming dad to David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd).

Kate Berlant had the support of many celeb friends at the opening night performance of her one-woman play Kate!

Alison Hammond admitted that she is "gutted" as she announced the end of her current venture in her career as the ITV presenter took to social media and gave her followers a 'heads up' on the news.

So many celebrities were in attendance at the Dior Haute Couture show during Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2024 held at the Musee Rodin on Monday (January 22) in Paris, France.

A celebrity edition of The Traitors is allegedly being considered by the BBC, following the huge success of series two of the murder-mystery reality show. The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, 52, returned to screens in January with a second series, which has proven to be even more successful than the first series, with around four million people tuning in to watch each episode.

Adele Roberts is set to take to lace up her skates as one of the 12 celebrity contestants competing in this year's Dancing On Ice. Her debut skate on Sunday, 21 January will be one for the history books, as she'll be the first contestant to skate with a stoma bag, as she's vowed to “reclaim her body” after surviving colon cancer. She was diagnosed in October 2021, before undergoing chemotherapy and having her tumour removed.Three years after her life-altering diagnosis, Adele, who first rose to fame in 2002 as a contestant on Big Brother 3, where she finished in seventh place, said: “I think it’s a privilege to be alive.

Antiques Roadshow expert Theo Burrell has marked eleven years with her partner Alex, two years after being diagnosed with incurable brain cancer.The 36 year old antiques expert, who joined the BBC show in 2018, was tragically diagnosed with a grade four brain tumour - known as a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) - one year after the birth of her son.Theo celebrated eleven years with Alex as she shared a black-and-white photo of the pair to her Instagram. She penned the caption: "The last week has been quite a big one - my partner, Alex, had his birthday and we celebrated 11 years together.

news of the broadcasting legend’s death, which was shared earlier today (January 12) in a statement by her family. She was aged 83.“Annie was a pioneer, trailblazer and an inspiration to many.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Pioneering BBC DJ Annie Nightingale — the first (and for 12 years, only) female DJ on the network’s Radio 1 station, whose embrace of multiple genres of music cast a vast influence on the country’s music fans — died Friday after a brief illness, according to The Guardian. She was 83.

Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter of a BBC Radio 1 show and co-host of The Old Grey Whistle Test, has died after a short illness. She was 83.

The second series of The Traitors is currently on our screens and has gripped viewers yet again after the success of the first season. Throughout the show, a select few 'Traitors' picked by presenter Claudia Winkleman 'murder' one Faithful every night so they can try and walk away with all of the £120,000 prize pot earned in the team's daily missions. In turn, at round tables each evening, the whole group votes individually to 'banish' one of the cast members, hoping that they will discover it was a Traitor to whom they gave their marching orders.

Prince Harry is being inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation. The Duke of Sussex, along with fellow inductees Fred George, Marc Parent and Steve Hinton, will be honored at the 21st Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards on Jan.

One of TV's most gripping series has returned, and it's already brought some serious shade from some of The Traitors. One contestant that fans were sad to see go was Sonja, 66, who looked dramatically different before appearing on the BBC show, following her staggering five-stone weight loss. Sonja became the first star to be banished from the castle after her co-stars wrongly suspected her to be a Traitor.

Marlee Matlin is sharing her story.

A portion of the 2024 Golden Globes seating chart has been revealed…and this is one star-studded table!

A Faithful from the The Traitors UK shared a major clue which hints at one of the show's most shocking twists. Kyra was a Faithful murdered in the first episodes of the 2023 BBC series, hosted by Claudia Winkleman.The 21-year-old, who was one of the youngest contestants on the second instalment, has now reflected on her elimination and the contestants who survived. Speaking on the new podcast, The Traitors: Uncloaked, Kyra said that she was shocked to find out the twist that Diane is the mother of fellow contestant Ross.The group foreseen a twist and guessed that two family members might be hiding in plain sight.