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• From Megan McKenna To Hayley Hughes: 8 Reality Stars Who Ended Relationships Before Signing Up For A Show

  12-06-2018 19:34
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• Has TV Finally Gotten Over Its Daddy Issues?

  12-06-2018 18:21
  When did dads get so good?
  
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• Childish Gambino Performs 'This is America' For Free To School Kids In Chicago

  12-06-2018 18:03
  “My next guest needs no introduction” – Chance the Rapper
  
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• Superfly review – a sleek, swaggering blaxploitation remake

  12-06-2018 18:00
  Director X’s take on the 1972 crime drama is a brutal, visually indulgent saga of extravagance and racial tensions The new remake of blaxploitation staple Superfly starts to feel like a pornographic film somewhere around the shower-set threesome, the steamiest sex scene that a major American studio has allowed in years. But even before that refreshingly indelicate display, Director X adopts pornography’s absolute commitment to the pleasure principle in his fixation on the spectacle o
  
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• Robbie Williams 'selling soul to dictator Putin' in World Cup gig

  12-06-2018 17:33
  Singer handing Russian leader PR coup by performing at opening ceremony, say criticsRobbie Williams has been accused of selling his soul to the “dictator” Vladimir Putin after it emerged he will be performing in Russia for the football World Cup.The singer will headline Thursday’s opening ceremony, which will be attended by the Russian president prior to the tournament’s first game, between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...
  
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• OMG, Paris Hilton Could Be Making Her TV Comeback

  12-06-2018 17:01
  Paris Hilton’s marriage to actor Chris Zylka could mean a brand new show
  
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• Claire Foy Looks Unrecognisable In First Trailer For 'The Girl In The Spider’s Web'

  12-06-2018 17:00
  Check out Claire Foy as Lisbeth Salander in the first trailer for The Girl In The Spider’s Web.
  
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• Lord Of The Rings TV Show Gets An Official Release Date

  12-06-2018 16:28
  Thank the Lord!
  
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• Gruff Rhys and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales review – lush, epic frontiers of Welsh pop

  12-06-2018 16:22
  Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  New album Babelsberg was well-suited to the grand occasion, with flavours of Glen Campbell among spacious melodiesAs celebrations of modern Welshness go, a gig featuring Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys with Wales’s 72-piece national orchestra, next to the country’s government HQ, is a tough one to top – especially as it’s part of Cardiff’s ever-expanding Festival of Voice. Rhys’s music is getting more ornate and political as he g
  
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• The 5 Days of Charli XCXmas

  12-06-2018 16:03
  Charli XCX dropping new music, remixes and other surprises over 5 days!
  
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• Lady Gaga Speaks Out About Her Struggles With Mental Health

  12-06-2018 15:46
  Lady Gaga spoke about her struggles at the Children Mending Hearts fundraiser
  
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• Private funeral held for Avicii in Stockholm

  12-06-2018 14:41
  Ceremony for Swedish DJ, 28, attended by only his family and closest friendsThe funeral of the Swedish DJ and music producer Avicii, one of the biggest stars in electronic dance music, took place in a private ceremony in Stockholm last week, his publicist has said.The musician, whose real name was Tim Bergling, “was buried [on] Friday at the Skogskyrkogården cemetery in Stockholm”, Ebba Lindqvist said on Tuesday. “Only his family and closest friends were present.” C
  
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• Chloe Ferry Reveals Plans To Give Birth On TV And Lets Slip How Many Kids She And Sam Gowland Are Having

  12-06-2018 14:38
  The Geordie Shore lass even knows all of their names.
  
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• Angélique Kidjo Sings Talking Heads review – turns up the Afrobeat

  12-06-2018 14:17
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Cultural appropriation has never sounded this good as the Benin-born singer transforms the Remain in Light albumInspired by nascent hip-hop, Fela Kuti and the trance-like rhythmic rituals of Haitian voodoo, Talking Heads’ 1980 LP Remain in Light – and its lead single Once in a Lifetime – served as a gateway into African music for many of us. It thus makes perfect sense for the Benin-born singer Angélique Kidjo to further “Africanise&rdqu
  
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• Shakira review – she-wolf still has sharp teeth

  12-06-2018 13:13
  O2 Arena, London
  Resurgent after re-embracing Spanish-language pop, the Colombian superstar still gives her all to her anglophone hitsThere is no shortage of alpha women filling the world’s big venues this summer. As Shakira arrives for her first British date since 2010, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Beyoncé (performing with Jay-Z) are in the UK this week, and Britney Spears is here in August. Of them all, though, only one gave a speech at the World Economic Forum last year, after re
  
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• Kendall Jenner And Ben Simmons Hang Out After That Anwar Hadid Kiss

  12-06-2018 13:06
  Kendall reunites with the NBA player after that snog with Anwar Hadid.
  
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• Holly Hagan Completely Rips Into Love Island's Hayley Hughes For Not Knowing What An Earlobe Is

  12-06-2018 12:36
  The Geordie Shore lass isn't impressed with the "dumb" act.
  
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• Nick Jonas Took Priyanka Chopra To His Cousin's Wedding And We're Freaking Out

  12-06-2018 12:03
  Because meeting the family is a total sign that these two are now official, right?
  
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• The month's best mixes: Eris Drew, Afrodeutsche, Sharda and more

  12-06-2018 12:00
  In the first of a new monthly Guardian series picking out the best DJ mixes, radio shows and other musical ephemera, we explore Afrofuturistic UK techno and Colombian sound design This is the first in a new monthly column that will look at new music beyond the usual round of albums and singles, sharing the latest DJ mixes, digital releases, radio shows, recorded conversations, documentaries on music and any other ephemera. The sheer volume of cutting-edge music online means that it can be, even
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Totally Forgot She Had A Three-Way Snog With Love Island's Adam Collard

  12-06-2018 11:52
  The Geordie Shore lass didn't recognise the Love Island lad at all.
  
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• Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin Spark Romance Rumours As They Pack On The PDA In Miami

  12-06-2018 11:03
  What does it mean?
  
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• Dirrty or Disney: which Christina Aguilera are you?

  12-06-2018 10:59
  With her new album Liberation on the way, it’s time to discover your inner Xtina, from her assless chaps era to her retro throwback persona and beyonda) Well, I’m covered in lube and engine oil but, aside from that, pretty damn fantastic. Actually, maybe I am just a little bit … cold?Continue reading...
  
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• Ariana Grande And Pete Davidson Might Be Engaged Already And Here’s The Evidence

  12-06-2018 10:01
  This is moving so fast and we are here for it.
  
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• Neal E Boyd, opera singer who won America's Got Talent, dies aged 42

  12-06-2018 10:00
  Singer who was inspired by the Three Tenors and won the contest in 2008 suffered heart and kidney failureNeal E Boyd, the opera singer who won America’s Got Talent in 2008, has died aged 42.He died at his mother’s home in Sikeston, Missouri, on Sunday night. A coroner ruled the cause of death was heart and kidney failure, compounded with liver disease. Continue reading...
  
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• Is Elijah Wood's Newest Role in This Horror Game his Most Terrifying Yet?

  12-06-2018 09:58
  It's what virtual reality was made for!
  
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• Here's When We'll be Able to Swing Around Manhattan Like Spider-Man

  12-06-2018 09:40
  New E3 footage blows fans' minds.
  
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• Assassin's Creed is back and This Time we Can Play as a Female Assassin

  12-06-2018 09:22
  E3 2018's worst kept secret finished Ubisoft's conference with a bang.
  
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• Capcom's Remaking Resident Evil 2 and it's Going to be the Most Terrifying Horror Game Yet

  12-06-2018 08:52
  Twenty - yes, twenty! - years after it first terrified us, Capcom is remaking Resident Evil 2.
  
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• Yes, Ubisoft Really Did Announce Just Dance 2019 with a Marching Band and a Dancing Panda

  12-06-2018 00:31
  This will be the best thing you've seen all day.
  
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• Here's Our First Look at Shadow of the Tomb Raider in Action

  12-06-2018 00:03
  Lara gets stealthy in this latest video.
  
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