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• Featuring Kanye West And Kris Jenner: 8 Rumours The Kardashian-Jenner Family Shut Down In Public

  29-04-2018 18:26
  No, Kim Kardashian doesn't wax North West's eyebrows...
  
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• Harry Potter At The Royal Albert Hall With A Live Orchestra Is Exactly As Amazing As You’d Imagine

  29-04-2018 17:12
  THAT John Williams score live, plus all the nostalgic feels...
  
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• From Kaia Gerber To Kendall Jenner: 8 Celebrities Who Look Like Clones Of Their Famous Parents

  29-04-2018 16:58
  The resemblance is uncanny
  
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• Vicky Pattison Pens Powerful Feminist Message About ‘Shattering Glass Ceilings’

  29-04-2018 13:38
  The former Geordie Shore lass is encouraging her fans to chase down their dreams.
  
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• Akala review – humility and harmony from history-making hip-hop poet

  29-04-2018 13:00
  Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
  As he unpicks the marginalisation of black people, the rapper and cultural commentator seems to draw ever more strength from his own messagesRapper, musician and cultural commentator Akala is becoming one of the UK’s foremost critical thinkers, having recently spoken on everything from Grenfell and Corbyn to the entire span of human history in his televised epic poem The Ruins of Empires. This all-encompassing scrutiny is clear from the get-go of his so
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Admits She Had To Be Tricked Into Attending Her Own Baby Shower

  29-04-2018 12:48
  The bash was hosted by Kris Jenner and featured some major A-List names.
  
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• Gary Barlow review – uncool is the new cool as star channels panto and Alan Partridge

  29-04-2018 12:11
  Blackpool Opera House
  There’s an almost music-hall atmosphere as this gig from the singer’s smaller-stage tour delivers a crowd-pleasing portfolio of Take That hits among solo numbers Where Take That’s stadium and arena tours have become visual extravaganzas, featuring mechanical elephants and giant robots, the band’s singer-songwriter’s theatre tour takes him back, if not for good, to intimate gigs heavy on traditional stagecraft and audience interaction. “Ga
  
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• Holly Hagan Reveals The Biggest Party Animal In Geordie Shore And You Might Be Surprised

  29-04-2018 12:03
  Who should we be keeping our eye on in the upcoming series?
  
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• Caroline Flack Announces Her Engagement To Celebrity Big Brother’s Andrew Brady

  29-04-2018 11:25
  The couple have been dating for three months and their families are said to be thrilled.
  
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• On my radar: Win Butler’s cultural highlights

  29-04-2018 11:00
  The Arcade Fire singer on his love of the Caribbean, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and the student-led gun control movement taking hold in the USBorn in California and raised in Texas, Win Butler is the frontman of Canadian rock band Arcade Fire. Their debut album, Funeral (2004), was a critical and commercial success, ranking 151st on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Their third, The Suburbs (2010), won two Brit awards and a Grammy. Butler has been married to bandmate
  
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• Tangled up in booze: Bob Dylan launches his own brand of whiskey

  29-04-2018 09:00
  For a man whose Bootleg Series now runs to 13 albums, distilling his own Tennessee liquor seems like a logical next stepBob Dylan will next month launch a range of whiskeys, hoping to capitalize on growing demand for all things celebrity-tagged.Related: Bob Dylan sings about gay love on LGBTQ wedding songs collectionContinue reading...
  
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• Jon Hopkins: ‘Psychedelic experiences inspired this album’

  29-04-2018 09:00
  The musician on film scores, technological developments and the natural highs behind his new album, SingularityBorn in Kingston upon Thames in 1979, the musician and producer Jon Hopkins studied piano at the Royal College of Music before turning his hand to electronic music. He has released four studio albums, including the 2013 critical smash Immunity, and has collaborated with artists as diverse as Brian Eno, King Creosote and Coldplay. Hopkins’s mind-bending fifth album, Singularit
  
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• Françoise Hardy: ‘I sing about death in a symbolic, even positive way’

  29-04-2018 09:00
  Françoise Hardy was the face of 1960s French pop, with the likes of Dylan and Jagger falling for her enigmatic allure. Now 74, the style icon talks about her new album and why she always sings from the heartFrançoise Hardy is reciting the first lines of Serge Gainsbourg’s song La Javanaise for my benefit. We are sitting at a small table in the middle of an otherwise empty room in a stylish Paris hotel. Eyes closed, her hand tracing a repeated arc in the air, she enunciates ev
  
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• Blossoms: Cool Like You review – sleek and sweet Mancunian pop rock

  29-04-2018 09:00
  (Virgin EMI)What if the Killers hadn’t grown beards after Hot Fuss, and had instead set about writing 11 new versions of Mr Brightside? Mancunian pop-rockers Blossoms’ second album is your answer. The quasi-indie quintet may harbour none of the euphoric spite and savagery of countrymen Oasis and the Stone Roses, and rarely summon New Order’s wistful truculence, but their occasionally derivative songs come bolstered with as many hooks as a Peter Pan audition. Lead
  
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• Leaving Lost Vagueness: how Glastonbury left bohemia behind

  29-04-2018 01:05
  Documentary recording the rise and fall of the anarchic festival-within-a-festival goes on releaseIt was the after-midnight naughty corner of the Glastonbury festival, a tucked-away stretch of the Somerset fields where tens of thousands of revellers flocked when the bands stopped playing.They called it Lost Vagueness – an ironic pastiche of a Las Vegas strip with casinos, theatrical bars, naked burlesque, even an “unholy” wedding chapel and a boxing ring.Continue reading...
  
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