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Sir David Jason has discovered he has a 52-year-old daughter and grandchild he knew nothing about. The Only Fools And Horses actor has spoken of his joy at discovering he is a father to actress Abi Harris and grandfather to Charlie, 10, saying he has welcomed them into his family and is making up for

Selena Gomez’s character in Disney Channel’s Wizards Of Waverly Place was meant to be bisexual, the show’s producer has revealed. Peter Murrieta suggested the programme makers were not allowed to give Gomez‘s character a same-sex love interest on the teen sitcom. The actress and singer had her breakthrough role on the show, which she starred

Gary Lineker has won his £4.9m tax appeal against HMRC. The Match Of The Day host was pursued for the cash by tax authorities, who said it should have been paid on income received between 2013 and 2018. HMRC said Lineker, 62, should have been classed as an employee of the BBC and BT Sport

Gail Porter was someone you would see regularly on big TV shows such as Top Of The Pops and Live & Kicking in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as on the cover of lads mags – famously the FHM cover that saw her naked image projected, without her prior knowledge, on to the Houses

EXCLUSIVE: House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock tells me that she will make her professional theater debut for London’s National Theatre playing the vengeful Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller’s powerful drama The Crucible. The 22-year-old admits that she’s “mortified” at the prospect of treading the boards at the Cameron Mackintosh-owned Gielgud Theatre for a strictly limited season from

BAFTA-nominated Mike Faist and Oscar-nominated actor Lucas Hedges will star in a London stage adaptation of Annie Proulx’s best-selling novel Brokeback Mountain. The production is described as a play with music and will run at the Sohoplace Theatre in the West End for a 12-week season from May 10. Theater owner and producer Nica Burns

Broadway’s Room stars Adrienne Warren and Ephraim Sykes, along with choreographer Galen Hooks, are speaking out on the the bizarre, last-minute “indefinite postponement” of the much anticipated spring production. “We do not know what happened,” says Warren, the Tina star who was to play the lead role in the Room stage adaptation that was to

The  Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel Hamnet, a tale of love and heartbreak concerning Agnes Hathaway and her beloved one William Shakespeare, has taken the unheralded step of announcing its West End transfer before it has has even opened in the famous playwright’s place of birth. The play, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti

Danny DeVito will return to the Broadway stage this October in a new play by Theresa Rebeck called I Need That. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor will star alongside his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of what the company describes as “a deeply human new

Broadway’s old and new teamed up last week to boost total box office nearly 20%, with The Phantom of the Opera (the old) posting a best-ever $3 million weekly gross and The Jonas Brothers (the new, to Broadway anyway) taking in $1.6 million for their five-concert residency. In all, Broadway’s 29 productions grossed a total

Smash is finally heading to Broadway. In an announcement long awaited by fans of the 2012 NBC series, a stage musical adaptation is planned tol arrive on Broadway during the 2024-25 season, with a lead producing team of Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron and Steven Spielberg. A top flight creative team is attached, including director Susan

Your first thought after seeing Bad Cinderella, the latest musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is, well, she isn’t that bad. For better and worse. The musical, energetically directed by Laurence Connor, opens on Broadway tonight with quite a reputation: We’ve heard it was lambasted by critics in London (it wasn’t). That Andrew Lloyd Webber himself

Back to the Future: The Musical will launch a North American tour in the summer of 2024, producers announced today. The tour will start less than a year after the show’s Broadway opening, scheduled for August 3 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical will open its tour at Playhouse Square in Cleveland in June

Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti will star in an Off Broadway production of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters for a (very) limited run: The production at the Irish Repertory Theatre will run from May 30 to June 4 for eight performances. The Gurney play will be the second of two parts of Irish Rep’s The Letters

While many people have unfulfilled dreams of being a rock star, the cast of the new TV adaptation of Daisy Jones And The Six were required to pull off being a world famous band in order to make the show. It’s based on the best-selling novel from 2019 – which is itself thought to be

Actor Tom Sizemore has died in his sleep in hospital weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm, his manager has said. Charles Lago said: “I am very saddened by the loss of not only a client but a great friend and mentor of almost 15 years. “Tom was one of the most sincere, kind and generous

Comedy is what we need right now, says Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), who ran London’s National Theatre for a decade. It’s fine to have heavy-lifting dramas by Ibsen or Schiller, but boy-oh-boy laugher is an increasingly uplifting necessity. Which is where Guys & Dolls and James Corden, post his life on The

Disgraced reality TV star Stephen Bear has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for sharing a revenge porn video of him having sex with his ex-girlfriend on his OnlyFans account. The 2016 Celebrity Big Brother winner, 33, shared CCTV footage of him having sex with The Only Way Is Essex star Georgia Harrison, 28,