Actors’ Equity Slams “Dithering” Mitch McConnell Over Unemployment Benefits Hold-Up

VIEWERS watching Good Morning Britain fumed as host Richard Madeley called an Olympic legend "useless". Richard, 65, hosted Monday's show alongside Ranvir Singh who had stepped in to replace Susanna Reid.

LAST night's instalment of Antiques Roadshow introduced a guest with items of clothing from the seventies - but viewers had a complaint. While the clothes allowed the guest to have a jaw-dropping valuation, viewers of the BBC One show were left puzzled by the valuation. Airing weekly on Sundays, BBC's Antiques Roadshow is a goldmine for any antiques enthusiast.

Shoppers who have purchased some products from Quorn Foods are being urged to return them to stores if they suffer any dairy allergies or intolerances.

Dancing On Ice fan favourite Bez opened up about the time he was almost killed after being caught in the middle of a drug row.

Engage Renfrewshire has dished out more than £500,000 to communities in a bid to boost post-pandemic mental health.

Bold proposals could hand Scottish councils the power to ban most types of fireworks in back gardens.

The European heads of Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and Paramount+ have talked up their autonomy from the U.S., with Amazon Studios Europe boss Georgia Brown stating: “In my head we’re a European streamer.”

Jamie Lang Penzing Studios is in expansion mode, and has begun hosting film and TV shoots in the former airbase 30 KM west of Munich.The refurbished airplane hangars already feature a full-scale virtual production stage with additional sound stages set to open in June and a major investment planned.Developers plan to invest an additional €100 million ($113 million) over the next three years to expand the facility to 12 sound stages with 25,000 square meters of production space and 15,000-square-meters of workshop and office spaces, they announced in a statement on Monday. The new hub will also house post-production, visual effects, gaming, digital media, and technology companies, educational opportunities.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTrustNordisk has sold “Nothing to Laugh About,” Petter Næss’s Norwegian drama comedy which played at the Zürich Film Festival in 2020. Næss is best known for his Oscar-nominated film “Elling” and has been working in TV and theatre in recent years.

Call the Midwife fans have been left in limbo after much-loved main characters Dr Turner (Stephen McGann) and Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) were involved in a devastating train crash. In scenes that aired on BBC One on Sunday 13 February, Dr Turner and Sister Julienne were seen boarding a train after attending a conference alongside young nurse Nancy Corrigan (Megan Cusack). However, as their train travelled from Chelmsford to Liverpool Street, the driver suffered what appeared to be a brain haemorrhage, which led to a fatal crash.

Kanye West has been photographed looking visibly bored as he attended the Super Bowl with his daughter North and son Saint on Sunday.The 44 year old Donda rapper had seats close to the pitch as he spent some time with two of his children from his marriage to ex Kim Kardashian. Kanye, who legally changed his name to Ye recently, shared a video of his view of the game, as he was thrown a pair of white gloves tossed to him by Los Angeles Rams player Odell Beckham Jr.

With over 120k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers. Every week thousands turn to her to answer their questions (no matter how embarrassing), and her funny, frank approach to love and relationships has made her the ultimate feel-good guru.

Dani Harmer has given birth to her baby boy, whom she has named Rowan Leon James Brough.The Tracy Beaker actress, who already shares daughter Avarie-Belle Betsy, five, with her boyfriend Simon Brough, posted the exciting news on her Instagram page. Sharing a snap of her little man wrapped in a blue blanket, she wrote in the caption: "Rowan Leon James Brough 7.2.22 10:49am 8lbs 3oz xx," with two blue heart emojis and a baby emoji. Many of her 145,000 followers were quick to share their congratulations as one person wrote: "Awww he’s so cute congrats to you all, and I hope you had a good birthday x".

Kaye Adams tends to keep her personal life away from the spotlight. But she gave a rare insight at the weekend when she shared a candid confession with her fans.Loose Women star Kaye, 59, took to Twitter on Saturday with a funny question for her followers.WATCH: Loose Women's Kaye Adams and Denise Welch clash during furious debate on showShe wrote: “Is it a bad thing when you start to eye up your (male) partner’s pants and think ‘they look really comfy?’” Myleene Klass was among those to reply.

London to move off-grid with her boyfriend.Lauren Youngs, 28, met Mathew Plumb at Glastonbury in 2014 and was instantly fascinated by his lifestyle.The 43-year-old woodcutter, from Abergavenny, north Monmouthshire, resides in 15 acres of woodland in a shepherd's hut instead of a traditional house.He has no wifi, bath, television of office space in the forest – but prefers living this way as he’s saved a fortune.Mathew told WalesOnline: “It’s mental how much money you can save. I spend nothing on rent, zero on electric as we get all we need from solar panels, and about £25 every six weeks on propane gas.

Hollyoaks and pursued roles playing villains subjected a stranger to a "brutal and ruthless" sexual assault in his home.Daniel Jones was jailed for 16 years after sexually assaulting a woman he had lured into his house on the premise of aiding an injured dog. The wannabe actor then trapped a female police officer in his living room as she tried to rescue the victim, The Liverpool Echo reports.

Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to spoil her children with gifts, dinner and an expensive weekend away.Australian PR maven Roxy Jacenko, 42, likes to regularly treat her children Pixie and Hunter Curtis – aged 10 and seven.Valentine’s Day is usually a day when people spoil their partner but unfortunately this year Roxy’s Husband Oli will be away for work.While a partner working on his holiday may upset others, this just means the mother-of-two has the perfect opportunity to shower her children with love.“So funnily enough, I have organised some cute gifts for the kids from Fiora Cakes and will be going to dinner with them,” Roxy told Daily Star.“Oli will be working in Tasmania so we are headed to Wolgan Valley for this weekend with the kids instead.”Wolgan Valley is a small valley located along the beautiful Wolgan River in New South Wales, Australia.Roxy is used to a life of luxury, so it’s safe to say that she would be opting for five-star accommodation, which averages at £1,434 in this region.Or perhaps she has opted for them to stay at the Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa which ranges from £1,588 to £6,300 a night.Roxy has also bought each of her two children a Beary Extravagant Package, which set her back $279AUD (£148), $558AUD (£296) all up.Each package includes a hand-piped ring box cake with a pastel heart candle, packaged in a clear box and tied with satin ribbon.It is a chocolate chiffon cake with chocolate buttercream and raspberry compote filling, which serves two.The package also comes with a Valentine’s Day teddy bear, a 24 stem bouquet of premium red and pink roses and a card.While Roxy didn’t disclose where they’ll be going to dinner to celebrate, the PR maven often frequents fine dining establishments in

Spiderman scene.Francia James and Mikayla Saravia from Miami, who have a combined following of 18.1 million on Instagram, @francety and @kkvsh respectively, left fans of the Marvel Comics character stunned with their racy routine and look.In a series of posts shared over the last week, the pair can be seen standing at what appears to be a gas pumping station.However, rather than dressing up in clothes to emulate superheroes, the duo were seen 'wearing' cleverly-placed blue, red and white body paint.The Spiderwomen were also joined by a third person in a green bodysuit, who appears to be the villain the Green Goblin.In the photos, Francia can be seen steadying herself as the green villain approaches.He launches himself at the model, who ushers for back-up from fellow spiderwoman, Mikayla.People seemed baffled as an unsuspecting civilian watched on while pumping gas in the background.Mikayla and Francia succeed in taking down the Green Goblin, who becomes trapped under cobwebs on the ground.The models, clearly delighted with their work, jump up and down together, cheering."Let's get out of here," Mikayla says, as the pair run off.""Thoughts on the new Spider-boooty No Way Home movie?," the Instagram post, which has since racked up nearly 400,000 likes, reads."Save me spider bootay," exclaimed one fan."Oh to be the guy pumping gas," wrote another user."Yesss this was better then the actual new movie lol," added a fourth person.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Phantom of the Opera might not have left the London theater scene for good after all, assures composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.Responding to a newspaper column written by Phantom producer Cameron Mackintosh stating that both the London and UK touring productions are “permanently shut down” due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Webber tweeted early this morning, “As far as I’m concerned Phantom will reopen as soon as is possible.”Mackintosh has been a harsh critic of the UK government’s slow response to support the devastated theater industry. Like Broadway, the West End has been shut down since March, with no firm reopening date yet determined.

Ted Johnson Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled a coronavirus relief package that reduces the size of enhanced unemployment benefits — in the short term to an extra $200 per week, from the current $600.Their proposals also include COVID-19 liability protections for businesses so they “can spend their next months actually reopening rather than fighting for their lives against frivolous lawsuits,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The protections would be in place as long as businesses made reasonable efforts to comply with public health guidelines and did not engage in “grossly negligent” behavior.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticUp characters Russell and Dug the dog are out — and so are the Actors’ Equity members who played them — in a revamped version of a bird show attraction at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom.As the union and Walt Disney World in Orlando enter into discussions about a grievance filed by Equity over the resort’s COVID-19 safety protocols, Disney has quietly revised what was previously known as ‘Up! A Great Bird Adventure’ into an actor-less ‘Feathered Friends in Flight.’As first reported by the Orlando Sentinel, the revised bird show (with socially distanced audience members) replaces the acted, onstage costumed characters of Russell and Dug (from Disney’s 2009 animated movie Up), along with