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ITV weather presenter Ruth Dodsworth has shared her fears over the release of her abusive ex-husband from prison. The 46-year-old broadcaster has spoken out about the coercive control she endured and her own experience in a controlling marriage in a new TV programme. In Controlled By My Partner? The Hidden Abuse, previously unseen police footage

Toddlers and Tiaras star Kailia Posey died after taking her own life, the 16-year-old’s family have confirmed. Ms Posey starred in the TLC reality series which ran from 2009 to 2013 and featured families who prepared their children to compete in beauty pageants. She became a popular GIF when a clip of her ear-to-ear grin went

Welcome to Backstage – the film and TV podcast from Sky News. This week with entertainment reporters Claire Gregory, Stevie Wong and Sky News arts and entertainment editor Amy Hitchcock we discuss: Subscribe to the Backstage podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker • The upcoming TV Baftas • Dr Strange In the Multiverse

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death. The 62-year-old rapper, born Nathaniel Glover, was found guilty of manslaughter last month for the death of John Jolly, who was stabbed twice in the

The man accused of attacking Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl will not face felony charges. Prosecutors have decided that while criminal conduct occurred, the evidence did not constitute felony conduct. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office referred the case to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, which will consider possible misdemeanour

The outgoing head of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has said that only disabled actors should now be cast as Richard III. Gregory Doran, who announced he was stepping down as artistic director last month, said that choosing able-bodied actors for the role “would probably not be acceptable”. Richard III, often referred to in the

Not many Eurovision acts can say that instead of rehearsing for the biggest performance of their life, they have grabbed an AK47 to fight off Russian aggressors on the streets. But that’s exactly what Ukraine’s act, Kalush Orchestra, have done ahead of their appearance at the contest. The glitzy arena in the Italian city of

Actress and Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis is to become the first celebrity to sign a CBeebies bedtime story. The 27-year-old soap star will make her debut on the show on Sunday to mark the end of Deaf Awareness Week. Using British Sign Language (BSL), the EastEnders actress, who has been deaf since birth,

Dave Myers, known for being one half of the Hairy Bikers, has revealed he has cancer. The 64-year-old TV chef said he’s undergoing chemotherapy and might be a “baldy biker” for a while. Myers has starred in numerous cookery shows over the years, alongside friend and fellow Hairy Biker Si King, with the pair frequently

Actress Amber Heard broke down on the stand as she recounted a trip to Australia in 2015 that resulted in three days of alleged extreme violence and abuse at the hands of her former husband, Johnny Depp. On the 15th day of the multimillion-dollar libel trial brought against her by Depp, Heard detailed alleged sexual

Broadway box office was down 15% last week, with even some of the biggest hit shows reporting slips for the week ending May 1. In all, the 36 shows grossed $29,072,410. Likely reflecting a slimming down of spring break and Easter tourist business, attendance was off by 10% last week from the previous week, coming

Ariana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards, organizers announced today. DeBose, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and was Tony-nominated in 2018 for Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, will host the Tonys live from New York’s Radio City Music Hall

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway playwright and American Rust TV writer Adam Rapp has signed with CAA in all areas. Rapp, whose many plays have been staged at regional and Off Broadway venues, made his Broadway debut in 2019 with The Sound Inside starring Mary-Louise Parker. The drama was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, and

The Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been canceled, the theater company announced today, citing a two-year pandemic-caused delay. In a statement to ticket-holders, theater management wrote: Following its postponement due

EXCLUSIVE: The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest producer Geoff Keighley has partnered up with Imax to level up the two annual gaming events. On Thursday, Imax announced that it will air the two buzzy gaming occasions live across its theaters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. “We are thrilled to be

The red bucket brigades so long-familiar to Broadway spring audiences were back this year after a two-year pandemic absence, and the results were heartening: donations across Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS totaled $4,288,994. One musical in particular outdid itself: The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, raised

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Morgan, creator of award-winning The Crown, has shifted focus from royals to zoom in on Russian oligarchs as the topic of his new stage play Patriots. It has been fast-tracked to have its world premiere at London’s Almeida Theatre in July with Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) cast to portray Boris Berezovsky, a

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the last time before Monday’s nomination announcements, making some final eligibility determinations for shows including the stars of American Buffalo, Hangmen and How I Learned To Drive, among others. Among the rulings: American Buffalo actor Darren Criss will be considered eligible as a featured player in a play,

An organization representing Asian American performers, a labor union for scenic designers and a popular Manhattan nightclub-cabaret are among this year’s special Tony Award honorees announced today in advance of Monday’s awards nominations. Also among the honorees: Emily Grishman, a music copyist who provides written instrumental parts and full scores for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional

A very busy Broadway season comes to a close with its final production, and Sam Gold’s staging of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga is nothing if not a dynamic attempt to cap an unusual and often extraordinary theater season. Uneven – if not so much as Gold’s 2019 King Lear with Glenda Jackson