Ed Sheeran 'expands property empire to £61m' after buying houses in lockdown

A Ukrainian cameraman has been named as one of the five people who died during a Russian missile strike on a TV tower in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Coronation Street hasn't been Charlie's only soap role - as he also appeared in EastEnders as PC Jaz Jones for a total of five episodes.He has also appeared in both Casualty and Doctors in his extensive acting career, along with appearing as a regular character in the 2015 series The Interceptor.

Teen thugs armed with fearsome meat cleavers targeted delivery drivers during appalling armed robberies.

Katherine Ryan and her husband Bobby Kootstral oozed glamour as they rocked The National Comedy Awards for Stand Up To Cancer red carpet.The couple were among the stars in attendance at Roundhouse, London, and looked ready to celebrate the UK’s most brilliant comedy content and creators.Katherine was wearing a silky yellow dress with a plunging V-shaped neckline, with her partner Bobby dressed to the nines in a white shirt that featured leaves embroidered in black thread, and a black blazer.The couple, who entered into a civil partnership in 2019 and welcomed a son last year, posed for pictures as they entered the event, with Katherine wrapping her arm around her other half.The Duchess star’s appearance on the carpet comes just weeks after she admitted she really didn’t want to promote her tour, but was contractually obligated to do so.In a post shared to the comedian’s Twitter, she said: ‘Hi it’s me, Katherine Ryan, author of The Audacity, also available as an audiobook, here to fulfill my contractual obligation of promoting my tour.‘I don’t promote things because I just feel like if anyone wants to be there they will go.’Elsewhere, Greg Davies walked the carpet at the National Comedy Awards and flashed a stern look at the camera.Munya Chuwawa, who is on the shortlist for the comedy breakthrough of the year award, was also in attendance and beamed from ear to ear.The comedian wore a black polo neck top of the occasion, with a colourful blazer featuring anime characters.Elsewhere, comedian Rosie Jones dazzled in a floaty green tulle maxi dress. The Would I Lie to You? and The Last Leg star looked over the moon on the red carpet and punched the air in sheer delight as she had her picture taken.

Darren Criss‘ brother Charles has sadly died by suicide at age 37. Darren shared the tragic news with his fans with a moving Instagram post, which included a touching memorial on Wednesday March 2. The Glee actor mourned his brother’s passing, while speaking about the impact he’d had on him and the rest of the family. “His loss leaves behind a debilitating fracture in the lives of his mother, his brother, his three small children, and their respective mothers. I have spent what already feels like a small eternity trying to wrap my head around it, something I suspect I’ll be attempting to do for the rest of my life,” he wrote.

Jennifer Hudson, 40, is getting the talk show treatment. News broke on Wednesday, March 2 that The Jennifer Hudson Show will premiere in Fall 2022 on Fox Television Stations following the end of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Jennifer’s daytime show will be one-hour long, according to Variety, and will come from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Ellen production company Telepictures. The test show was reportedly shot in November 2021 with Ellen executive producers Andy Lassner and Mary Connelly as showrunners.

Julia Lemigova has no regrets from her first season on The Real Housewives of Miami, including her beef with co-star Larsa Pippen. The two women haven’t exactly been the best of friends since meeting on the hit reality series, and it doesn’t help that Julia’s BFF Adriana de Moura has continuously picked on Larsa for her former friendships with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. During this week’s new episode of the Pay Attention Puh-Lease! podcast, Julia told us if her and Larsa’s drama will carry into the two-part reunion that kicks off March 3 on Peacock.

Zoe Kravitz has risen to the top of the Hollywood A-list with her turn as the iconic Catwoman in the highly anticipated superhero film The Batman. With her extremely busy schedule in Tinseltown — including starring in HBO’s Kimi and directing the upcoming Pussy Island with her boyfriend Channing Tatum — it’s a wonder she finds time to add to her impressive collection of tattoos. The beauty has somewhere near the 50 + range of body ink! Zoe even admitted to losing count!

Coronation Street's original Adam Barlow actor is now totally unrecognisable 21 years on from his stint in the soap.Fans of the long-running hit ITV soap may recall that Ken Barlow's young grandson was originally played by Iain De Caestecker before eventually being recast as current actor Sam Robertson.Glaswegian Iain - now 34 - was just 14 years old when he was cast in the role appearing for an impressive 54 episodes before he was replaced by an older incarnation of the character in 2003.Iain, however, hasn't faded into insignificance over the years and has in fact since appeared in a string of big-name roles both in the UK and across the pond in the USA.The actor now sports a healthy display of facial hair alongside a cropped hairdo and has been seen in shows including BBC One's BAFTA-winning series The Fades and mini-series Us.He has also secured roles in the political thriller, Roadkill. as well as branching out into movies with parts in Shell, Lost River and Overlord.Perhaps his most notable achievement is becoming a series regular in Marvel TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D appearing in 126 episodes over seven seasons of the hit show.The popular series is set in the same universe as Avengers Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, with key characters from the box office smash movies crossing over into the show regularly.

Kate Garraway appeared on The One Show to talk about her new programme Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway.The new BBC 2 show will marvel at how incredible the human body is and show people with real-life health issues see what is really going on underneath their skin.Talking about the new show, which airs on Wednesday (March 2), Kate said: "All of these people who we went on this journey with, they had big decisions to make and they were frightened of making them."She then laughed and added: "It was originally going to be called Kate Garraway's Body Uncovered."I was like 'please don't, no one will put that on BBC 2 at 8 o'clock!'"It would be like watching Dr Who through your fingers."The GMB star continued: "My body is not uncovered in any way but lots of other people's are and they're great examples of very serious things abut also those niggling things that really impact your life."The One Show host Alex Jones then concluded the segment and said:" Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway.To which Kate then interjected: "Yes, with Kate Garraway..."Alex then joked: "That's a whole different series which I would love to see - it starts tonight on BBC 2 at 8 o'clock."This comes after Kate opened up about how she won't be able to afford her husband Derek Draper's 24-hour care fees forever.On Thursday (February 24), the GMB presenter joined This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield as she gave an insight into her upcoming documentary Caring For Derek.With a long road to recovery still ahead of him, the mum-of-two spoke candidly about his future as she continues to provide round the clock care for him since he contracted Covid-19 and suffered major complications.

Vladimir Putin's aggressive invasion of the country isn't going entirely to plan.A week has passed since Russian troops entered the country and resistance from the Ukrainians has been fierce. Today (March 2), Russia’s Defence Ministry's casualty report revealed that 498 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine, with 1,597 wounded since they invaded.

Amanda Holden seemed to take out her frustrations on her Heart radio producer as she celebrated Pancake Day in a very unconventional way.In video shared on Heart’s official Instagram the 51-year-old presenter can be seen wearing a bright red apron and white chef hat as she chased her producers around the studio with an egg after a pancake flipping competition.She smacked an egg on one of their heads as they screamed and laughed at her.One of them said he was “eggy” as Amanda walked off saying she “don't know why she did that.”All seemed in good spirits as everyone laughed together while she exited the studio.Amanda posted her own video with co-star Ashley Roberts as they competed against each other, titled: "Flippin’ furious".Jamie Theakston commentated on their battle as they fought it out to see who could flip the most pancakes and be crowned “Heart Breakfast’s queen flipper”.He instructed them to take hold of their pans and gave them 30 seconds on the clock.The presenters, dressed in aprons and hats, took to the table to try their hand at the competition, but Amanda quickly noticed a problem.As soon as the stopwatch started, Amanda’s pan fell from its handle with a loud thud on the floor.She exclaimed as Jamie and Ashley looked on and laughed while she tried to pick up the frying pan from the floor.Amanda then attempted to flip a pancake, which she soon realised was superglued to the bottom of the pan.She said that her pals had “been in through the night”, to which Ashley replied with a side-eye and a sarcastic: “What do you mean?”The star accused the others: “You’re sabotaging, you’re cheating!”Ashley eventually scored an impressive 18 while Amanda left with zero.There's MUCH more where that came from! Want all the

Emmerdale fans think they have worked out a plan for Laurel Thomas to keep Mulberry Cottage after Kim Tate announced she was selling it. Only recently, Laurel has been struggling to look for a new property after she was unable to get a mortgage to buy her home off Kim due to Jai Sharma forging a loan application in her name.

Love is Blind star Abhishek 'Shake' Chatterjee says he’s ”not sorry” about his time on the reality show, after fans slammed his treatment of Deepti Vempati on the show.The 33 year old vet got engaged to 31 year old information analyst Deepti on the Netflix series, where contestants get to know each from behind a wall before deciding whether to get engaged or not, despite never seeing their partner in person. Although the couple fell in love in the pods, Shake came under fire after he made negative comments behind Deepti’s back in several scenes, including telling his friends and family that he wasn’t physically attracted to her.

“woke-washing” on social media — was announced Wednesday by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, a company founded by the family of the famous children’s book author — whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel — after his death in 1991. The sketches will serve as the basis for a new line of books that will be written and illustrated by the group — and follows his recent “cancellation” after six of his children’s books were yanked from publication because of alleged racist imagery.Now, a new set of up-and-coming authors and illustrators are set to create “inclusive” storylines inspired by the drawings with the aim to “represent a diverse cross-section of racial backgrounds to represent as many families as possible,” according to reps for Dr.

Ed Sheeran’s attempt to break the ice with his hero resulted in him getting the cold shoulder, a pal says.

Katie Price 's new single in the hopes of propelling the music further into the spotlight.

Ed Sheeran’s property empire is now worth £61.5m after he 'bought new houses worth £4.5m in cash lockdown', according to reports.The Divide hitmaker splashed out on his new pads according to new documents from the singer's firms Maverick Properties Limited and Maverick Commercial Properties Limited.It looks like Ed paid cash up front for the homes as the documents don't show any mortgage payments.In February Ed reportedly owned 27 homes- including his sprawling estate estate in Suffolk, restaurant Bertie Blossoms and a mansion in London.The grounds in his Suffolk estate is made up of a £850,000 modern home, and 16th century farmhouse worth £450,000.There's also a £925,000 four bed house also on the property, plus a £525,000 bungalow and a

Former EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison has called upon the services of award winning singer-song writer Ed Sheeran to help get her pop career off the ground.