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Audrey Withers championed recycling clothes and was instrumental in WW1 austerity designs. Source – For more click here...

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jordan Belfort was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013 film Jordan Belfort, the former stock broker whose story inspired the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street, is suing the filmmakers for $300m (£229m). Belfort was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film,......

Image copyright Getty Images Laurence Fox has apologised for comments he made about the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in a World War One film. The actor had previously referred to “the oddness in the casting” of a Sikh soldier in Sir Sam Mendes’ movie 1917. “Fellow humans who are......

Image caption Simon May’s music is one of the most recognised theme tunes of all-time The man who wrote the EastEnders theme tune has bought back his own handwritten manuscript after parting ways with it 21 years ago. Simon May donated the theme’s musical score to charity in 1999 but......

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The star says she is a healthier weight now than in the mid-2010s when she “starved” herself Taylor Swift has opened up about her struggle to overcome an eating disorder in a new documentary about her life. In Miss Americana, which premiered at the......

Image caption Flintoff, Harris and McGuinness boosted the Top Gear audience from 2.2 million to 3.8 million Paddy McGuinness has spotted someone rather important in the audience at the premiere of Top Gear’s 28th series. “Sir Tony! Get the Sambucas in son!” the presenter yells at the BBC’s outgoing director-general......

The celebrated artist has put together a new exhibition of some of his earliest works. Source – For more click here...

Image copyright @jeaninecummins In an author’s note for hit new novel American Dirt, author Jeanine Cummins says she wished “someone slightly browner than me” had written it. “But,” continued Ms Cummins, a white writer with Puerto Rican forbearers, “then I thought, if you’re a person who has the capacity to......

Image copyright Andrew Brooks Image caption Jessica Andrews: “Lots of young northern working-class women have said, ‘That’s like my life'” A debut novel exploring the “poetry and power” of the female experience has won a literary award that rewards the best books about the north of England. Saltwater by Jessica......

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Eminem said his album was not for people who are “easily offended or unnerved” Eminem has responded to the recent criticism of his lyrics, saying his new album was “not made for the squeamish”. The rapper was criticised for the track Unaccommodating, which references......

Image copyright CBS Image caption Deborah Dugan was placed on administrative leave 10 days before the Grammy ceremony A crisis at the Grammy Awards has deepened after the chief executive of the organising body, who is currently suspended, said she had evidence of “serious” irregularities in the voting. Deborah Dugan......

Film writer and director Chris Butler, who has been nominated for an Oscar, has said anyone who wants to be an animator needs to be prepared for “hard work”. His film Missing Link is up against Toy Story 4 in the Animated Feature category, but Butler, from Maghull, Merseyside, has......

Image caption The presenter said she was “gutted particularly for our brilliant, young, ambitious, talented team” Broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire has said she is “absolutely devastated” by the news her BBC Two show is ending. She said she first learned of the plan in The Times newspaper on Wednesday. The presenter......

The French designer has said goodbye to his 50-year runway career in Paris but says he will not stop working. Source – For more click here...

Image copyright Getty Images A medical examiner has ruled Juice WRLD died after an accidental overdose of powerful painkillers. The rapper – whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins – died in December 2019 at the age of 21 after having a seizure. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says:......

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jessica Simpson has appeared in films including The Dukes Of Hazzard and Employee Of The Month US singer Jessica Simpson has revealed how being sexually assaulted as a child led to a reliance on drugs and alcohol. The 39-year-old had top 10 UK chart......

Monty Python’s John Cleese has paid tribute to his co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77. He told the BBC’s entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson that Jones was “the most multi-talented of the Pythons”. Cleese said: “He was a very, very good director and I think Life......

Image copyright Mehdi Rajabian Image caption Mehdi Rajabian: “In the Middle East, an instrument can be as powerful as a gun.” Mehdi Rajabian could be arrested at any moment. The 30-year-old has already been imprisoned twice for making music the Iranian authorities considered unacceptable. The first time, he was kept......

Image copyright Inpho Image caption Alan Partridge on the red carpet in Norwich at the premiere of Alpha Papa in 2013 An Alan Partridge fan said he has spent hours scouring for “hundreds and hundreds” of second-hand props for a festival honouring the comic creation. Paul Wassell, 34, said he......

Image copyright Stu Maddux Image caption Jonathan Cutbill studied natural sciences at Cambridge and was also a keen bird watcher and photographer An LGBT book collector “passionate about justice” has left his 30,000-piece collection to a university. Jonathan Cutbill, a founder of Gay’s The Word bookshop in London’s Bloomsbury, died......