And the Wordle backlash begins: ‘Blaming this on the Americans’

Six months after stepping into her role as PrettyLittleThing's Creative Director, Molly-Mae Hague has revealed huge plans to make the brand more sustainable. The 22-year-old is set to make history this week as she makes her London Fashion Week debut with the online brand, and at a press conference where she teased that the show on Wednesday evening will 'blow people's minds', Molly-Mae addressed the hot topic of sustainability.

New York Times has purchased the online word-solving game, Wordle, it appears that the publication has altered the game despite claims it hasn’t.According to The Guardian journalist Alex Hern, the New York Times has changed its statement regarding the changes it’s made to Wordle after its acquisition. Recently, there have been discussions online from Wordle players who have explained that they felt the game has been altered since its acquisition, with some saying that it seems harder.At the time, the NYT said in a statement to The Guardian that “nothing has changed about the gameplay,” however, Alex Hern has noted that the NYT has now changed its statement.“Literally one day ago, the NYT denied in a statement to the Guardian that it had made any changes to the gameplay of wordle,” Hern said on Twitter.

bought it from creator Josh Wardle in January for an “undisclosed” seven-figure sum.For the uninitiated, the “Wheel Of Fortune”-esque brain teaser allows players six guesses to determine one new five-letter word each day. However, according to flummoxed Wordlers on social media, players were getting two vastly different “right answers” for Wordle 241, which we won’t spoil for you here.“Hang on, hang on.

THE BBC has refused to apologise amid backlash over Graham Norton's Ukraine joke - insisting 'nothing is off limits'. Graham, 58, always opens his BBC One late night chat show with jokes about current events.

Pussycat Dolls star celebrated the milestone birthday in September and earlier this month, rocked the BRIT Awards red carpet in a smoking cutout black dress with a dramatic thigh split.Her name has long been synonymous with the sexier side of celebrity, haven risen to fame as a member of glamorous girl group The Pussycat Dolls and speaking recently, Ashley said age had given her the confidence to deflect any negative criticism about her raunchy attire.She told The Sun: "As you get older, you start giving less f***s."You are more connected to yourself and wiser."I feel excited about the years to come because I feel better than how I felt in my twenties."Part of how I express my femininity is feeling sexy."Ashley regularly tantalises her 693,000 Instagram followers with sexy snaps and in 2019, reunited with her Pussycat Dolls bandmates.The group performed their comeback single React together on The X Factor that year with their raunchy routine sparking more than 400 Ofcom complaints.While the complaints weren't upheld, the PCD reunion was ultimately short-lived as the coronavirus pandemic cancelled their planned reunion tour several times over.On encouraging other women to put their sexiest foot forward, Ashley added: "It makes me sad to think about women not allowing themselves to feel that as we continue on."I’m like, 'Let's get our sassy, fierce, feminine sides out there'."Let’s embrace that part of ourselves. It doesn’t stop with age, right? I mean, we’ve all seen Jennifer Lopez at 52."Ashley will soon host The Real Dirty Dancing alongside Keith Lemon.

ITV.The TV chef has spoken out in a new interview about many "blaming" Covid for their failures, as his businesses go from success to success.Gino has insisted for many to "stop blaming Covid for everything" as he looks to a bright future in his business ventures.Speaking to The Mirror at his restaurant in Newcastle, he said: "It's becoming such a lousy and annoying excuse to say because of Covid I couldn’t do my job properly, or because of Covid we couldn’t do this and couldn't do that."He sympathises, however, admitting that he knows the restaurant industry has had to go through many changes but he has remained positive and adapted to the situation.He continued: "Throughout the pandemic at some points we had the chance to have guests sitting outside and the councils around us were extremely generous to give us the space to put tables."And we then realised, 'Wow, we should have done this from day one'."So, [let's stay] positive and let’s keep smiling, keep positive."Gino, listening to what his Covid customers need, now has a new terrace overlooking the river Tyne at his Newcastle restaurant.As well as this, the TV chef plans to open more restaurants across the country this year.These include restaurants in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.This comes after Gino had to speak out last month following reports his My Pasta Bar chain had gone into liquidation.Sharing a video from his kitchen at home, the Italian chef began: "When I got back I saw a lot of c**p about my restaurant."Apparently, my restaurant had gone into liquidation."Now, I don’t usually do stuff like this, but I thought, let me set the record straight here."About 10 years ago, I opened a business called Pasta Bar, which serves Italian food very fast

The explosion of shows featuring her in a prominent role demonstrated that 40-year-old Sheridan has come a long way since her early days as Janet Keogh in Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.Many viewer comments suggest that, in spite of criticism, she has been largely successful at winning over the hearts of the public.One fan tweeted: @Sheridansmith1 thought I might have been all Sheridaned out after "Four Lives" and "The teacher" which were both awesome BTW but just finished watching "No Return" what a brilliant actress you are, such heartfelt and emotional scenes, keep up the good work."(sic)Meanwhile, another added: "She's on literally every channel at the moment and I'm here for it @Sheridansmith1."Recently the focus has been on Starstruck, the new contest which began last Saturday, seeing guests compete to become stars for one night only in front of the judging team.As the would-be stars undergo an epic transformation to embody their stage idols for the night, they are judged by a panel including not just Sheridan and Jason, but also Queen frontman Adam Lambert and show-stopper Beverley Knight.ITV summarises: "Leaving their day jobs behind, members of the public will be transformed into their most beloved music star for one night only."But they won’t be on stage alone."Instead, they’ll be teaming up as trios who all share the same love of a music icon to give the performance of a lifetime."With an expert glam team to oversee their extraordinary transformation, impressive staging and a spectacular sound and light show, our singing stars will be getting the complete ‘superstar experience'."Each episode will culminate in an exciting finale which sees the winning trio compete against each other for a place in

last month that they’d purchased Wordle — in which players have six guesses to determine one new word each day — from creator Josh Wardle on Jan. 31 for an “undisclosed” seven-figure sum.

The return of popular American sitcom Friends to streaming services in China has provoked a significant online backlash after viewers noted numerous changes that had been made to the show, including the removal of LGBTQ references.

artificial intelligence expert has been criticised for saying that AI used for finance, research or medicine could have already developed a consciousness.OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever claimed on Twitter that: "It may be that today's largest neural networks are slightly conscious."Sutskever did not mention any specific developments but was likely referring to mega-scale neural networks, which is the language processing system built by OpenAI for translations, missing words and question answering.The expert was also unclear what "slightly conscious" means for the manmade machines, because the concept of consciousness in artificial intelligence is still considered a controversial idea.While AI has performed impressive tasks like driving cars, flying aircraft and creating an artificial voice or face, many believe machines having conscious thought is just "hype".AI researcher Toby Walsh at UNSW Sidney responded to Sutskever's claims, saying: "Every time such speculative comments get an airing, it takes months of effort to get the conversation back to more realistic opportunities and threats posed by AI."Thomas G Dietterich, an AI expert at Oregon State University in the US, said that he hasn't seen any evidence of consciousness in AI and suggested Stuskever could be "trolling" those on the social media platform.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.He tweeted: "If consciousness is the ability to reflect upon and model themselves, I haven't seen any such capability in today's nets.

Molly-Mae Hague has written an autobiography, aged 22, on her success story – something that comes after her controversial comments about "everybody having the same 24 hours in a day".Rising to fame on Love Island back in 2019, Molly-Mae has been a hit with her fan base after storming the world of fashion and becoming the creative director of brand PrettyLittleThing. In her next career move, the 22-year-old social media star has announced that she has written a book named – Becoming Molly-Mae – which will apparently take "oversharing to a whole new extreme." The book is priced at £20 and signed copies sold out almost instantly, making the book an instant hit with her fans – although some people weren't too thrilled with the news of her forthcoming book.

Work on Ayrshire's giant Greggs store is now underway.

Death In Paradise actor Ralf Little, 42, has jumped to Sheridan Smith’s defence after viewers joked she is “on TV more than the adverts”. On Saturday night, Sheridan made her debut as a judge on ITV’s new singing competition, Starstruck, where contestants transform into their favourite stars for the chance to win £50,000.Some viewers took to Twitter to share their frustrations that three of Sheridan’s shows had aired in the space of a few weeks.As well as Starstruck, ITV drama, No Return, and Channel 5’s The Teacher were also on screens recently.Twitter user, Emily said: “Sheridan Smith is on TV more than the adverts.”Lee joked: “The year is 2031.Sheridan Smith is now on every programme on British television.TV has been renamed Smithbox.The licence fee has been scrapped, but we all have to pay a Sheridan Tax instead.”Dee said: “Seen more of Sheridan Smith than my family recently.”And David quipped: “Hi, you’ve reached Sheridan Smith’s agent.

SHERIDAN Smith has been furiously defended by her Starstruck co-star after backlash from fans. Some viewers last night pointed out the actress, 40, has dominated television in recent weeks.

Celebrity MasterChef back in 2020, but the star has since shared how the show encouraged her to take her cooking one step too far.The comedienne detailed the horrific moment she “smashed her jaw” in her own kitchen at home, in a candid interview with Express.co.uk.Crissy will be taking on a whole new challenge this February when she steps into the world of musical theatre with an all-star cast for Cruising Through Menopause.Arriving as a sequel to Menopause the Musical, which has been hailed as the “ultimate girls’ night out”, the show is set to embark on a six-month tour of the UK and Ireland this Spring with Crissy leading the charge.However, last year, things took a turn for the worse for Crissy, when she was forced to undergo surgery following a terrible accident she had shortly after her stint on Celebrity MasterChef.Crissy admitted that she loved competing in the BBC programme, but also quipped that the show was at fault for her accident.Inspired by her stint on the challenging programme, Crissy started to experiment in the kitchen, which is what led to her hellish cooking injury. “I’ll blame MasterChef, I was alright with a tin opener. It made me become adventurous!” she joked.Remembering her time on the show, Crissy explained: “Oh, that was a disaster for me, MasterChef.“When I got back though, because I’m not really a cook or nothing, I really got into it.

The New York Times is being taken to the woodshed on social media for using the term “overrepresented” in an article on Asians in figure skating.

Rihanna looked incredible as she showed off her growing baby bump in a flesh-baring outfit, weeks after announcing her pregnancy.She walked the red carpet at her Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin photocall in Los Angeles on Friday (February 11) accompanied by her boyfriend A$AP Rocky.The pair couldn't have looked any happier as they posed for photos cuddling up with him lovingly touching her bump of their unborn child.Rihanna, 33, oozed confidence in her embellished outfit as she beamed at the cameras, her pregnant figure fully on display.Wearing a green sequin strappy backless halterneck top Rihanna teamed the revealing top with a pair of trousers crafted from the same sparkling material but in a silver and purple colour palette.Wearing her long dark hair down and straight, she slicked one side back behind her ear to show off her large amethyst chandelier earrings.She added further glamour to her look with bold red lipstick, and an array of sparkling jewellery including several rings and an eye-catching amethyst and diamond snake-themed bangle.Keeping her eye-makeup simple the Fenty businesswoman's look was complimented perfectly by beau A$AP Rocky.He sported a purple and white baseball jacket and jeans, with a matching purple cap featuring images of Care Bears as he embraced his love on the red carpet.Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were seen regularly touching her bump as they posed, embracing one another and laughing.Meanwhile, she admitted that they didn't even plan to coordinate their outfits and that sometimes it just happens unintentionally.Speaking with PEOPLE at the event she said: "I didn't know what he was wearing. I didn't even see him!" she said.

Katherine Ryan has revealed she has potty trained her eight month old son Fred.The 38 year old comedian is a proud mum to her daughter Violet, 10, and her baby son Fred. Katherine is no stranger to getting candid about her parenting decisions with both her children and has previously discussed her son's prompt birth after she took castor oil and asked her fans for advice on her daughters pony. Now, Katherine has admitted she is anticipating "backlash" with her latest revelation as she explained she has managed to potty train her eight month old son.

Rita Ora has shown off her intricate tattoos during a walk down the blue carpet as she opted to reveal her back in a slinky top. The 31 year old singer was proud to pose for the cameras as she revealed the detail in her ink at the 11th Annual NFL Honors Post-Party: The Chairman's Party, which was taking place at SoFi Stadium in California. On her right side, Rita had an incredible sketch design of a 1920s woman going across her ribs.

dropped in 2002 and 2011 on the channel.The new adaption of “Lingo” will have two-person teams attempting to guess words on a grid after being given the first letter. Wordle, which uses a similar format, was recently purchased by the New York Times for a reported seven figures.

President Joe Biden is advising Americans.