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The mother of Cassie Ventura has told a court she felt "physically sick" when her daughter told her Sean "Diddy" Combs had threatened to "release two explicit sex tapes" after discovering his long-time girlfriend was dating someone else. Giving evidence on Tuesday, the seventh day of the trial, Regina Ventura said she did not initially understand the email Cassie sent her in December 2011, saying, "The sex tape threw me, […]

The creator of the hit political satire The Thick of It has revealed which scene in the series cabinet ministers have confessed to experiencing in real life. Armando Iannucci told Sky News' Electoral Dysfunction live event with Beth Rigby that the writers would make up scenarios to be "as stupid as they can" - only to be asked later by Whitehall officials how they had found out about it. One […]

Netflix and Sesame Street have agreed a deal that will bring the children's show to the streaming platform's wider audience after President Trump cut federal funding for the free-to-air TV network Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).Later this year, new episodes will be shown on Netflix as well as PBS and the PBS Kids app on the same day. Select past episodes will be available on Netflix worldwide. No specific start date […]

A sculpture of Dame Judi Dench is being auctioned off to raise funds for lymphoedema research.The acting legend sat for royal sculptor Frances Segelman in front of an audience at Claridge's in London on Monday night. Speaking to Sky News, Dame Judi Dench said she wanted to do something to help her friend, photographer Gemma Levine, who was diagnosed with the disease 15 years ago and organised the event."Gemma photographed […]

Did having a social conscience force Gary Lineker off the BBC? Or was becoming increasingly vocal politically just too problematic?The former England captain was given an exemption, as a freelancer working outside of news and current affairs, from impartiality rules the BBC's staff have to abide by - despite being the broadcaster's highest earner at £1.35m. That meant he was even handed BBC primetime coverage recently, in which he critiqued […]

A former pop star has told a court Sean "Diddy" Combs was "frequently" violent with his ex-partner Cassie Ventura, and that he threatened her life if she spoke out about it.Dawn Richard told the jury in Manhattan federal court that Combs made the threat after she allegedly witnessed him trying to hit Cassie with an egg skillet. She said the Bad Boy Records founder told her and another woman who […]

Gary Lineker, the BBC's highest-paid on-air presenter, is to leave the corporation in a matter of days.The Match Of The Day host will step away from the broadcaster at the end of this month, with his last appearance expected on 25 May, the last day of the Premier League season. His exit comes after he "apologised unreservedly" for sharing a social media post that featured a rat - used in Nazi […]

The Who's drummer Zak Starkey has been sacked by the band, marking the second time he has left in the past month.The band's guitarist Pete Townshend made a statement on Instagram on Sunday, saying: "After many years of great work on drums from Zak the time has come for a change. "A poignant time. Zak has lots of new projects in hand and I wish him the best."The announcement comes […]

In 1990s and early 2000s New York, Sean "Diddy" Combs was the person to be seen with. Now on trial in Manhattan, his hair grey, his beard grown, it's hard to imagine that he was "the Pied Piper… of the most elite level of partying of that time" - but that's how Amy DuBois Barnett describes him. She was the first Black-American woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the […]