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Val Kilmer, the actor who starred in Top Gun and Batman while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died aged 65.His daughter Mercedes told the Associated Press he died of pneumonia on Tuesday night in Los Angeles surrounded by family and friends.California-born Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 but later recovered, she said.The actor, who played Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky in Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise […]

Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan will play Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the upcoming Beatles films - with a Stranger Things star also portraying one of the Fab Four.The two Irish actors will be joined by London-born performers Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. The cast for the Sam Mendes project was revealed at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, with all four appearing […]

A man who stalked Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas for six years has avoided jail.Kyle Shaw, 37, got a 20-month suspended sentence and a lifetime restraining order on contacting Ballas, her mother, niece, and former partner. Liverpool Crown Court heard that he thought Ballas was his aunt and "began a persistent campaign of contact"."He believed, and it's evident from what he was told by his mother, that her late […]

Gary Glitter has been made bankrupt after failing to pay more than £500,000 in damages to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old. She sued the disgraced singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, after he was found guilty of attacking her and two other schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980. Glitter, 80, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 and released in 2023 but was recalled to […]

For those who're on modest means, the cost of the licence fee going up by £5 on 1 April of all days is a bit of a bad joke.Certainly, for residents at St Crispin Retirement Village, it's hard to see the funny side. Among them is 83-year-old Stan Fritton who, since last November, has been embroiled in a battle over how much he and his neighbours should be paying for […]

Sir Keir Starmer has met with the creators of Adolescence for talks on how to prevent young boys being dragged into a "whirlpool of hatred and misogyny".The prime minister hosted a roundtable in Downing Street with co-writer Jack Thorne and producer Jo Johnson to discuss issues raised in the series, which centres on a 13-year-old boy arrested for the murder of a young girl and the rise of incel culture. […]

Richard Chamberlain, who starred in the TV medical drama "Dr Kildare" and the 1980s mini-series "Shogun", has died at the age of 90, his publicist said.Chamberlain became a heartthrob as the handsome Dr James Kildare in the medical drama that ran from 1961 to 1966. Photoplay magazine named him "most popular male star" three years in a row from 1963 to 1965.His breakout role in Dr Kildare marked the start […]

The Who's Roger Daltrey has told fans he's going "blind" while performing live at a charity concert.The 81-year-old lead singer was performing alongside his bandmate Pete Townshend on Thursday in the first of a series of gigs at London's Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Daltrey told the 5,000-strong audience: "The joys of getting old mean you go deaf. I also now have got the joy […]

From the beginning, the intention was clear. "Five bad boys with the power to rock you," came the shouty introduction in their first video, all hoodies and hair gel, the bandmates swaggering through a dim, strobe-lit corridor that suggested they might be trespassing - or at the very least, flouting a health and safety rule or two.Signed by a then little known Simon Cowell to create "chaos", Five (or 5ive) […]