Ex-Chelsea star and popular BBC pundit quit football to become full-time pastor

Amber (Alison Brie) is stuck in year nine of a dead-end job managing a Bakersfield franchise of a beloved Italian restaurant chain called Tuscan Grove. Waking up next to her cat, her day-to-day includes training new employees on the cash register, breaking up fights in the kitchen, and reheating the chain’s signature Alfredo sauce in the microwave.

The stars are stepping out for the night!

ITV's Starstruck and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will not air next weekend.Ant and Dec's dose of evening fun and gags usually airs on Saturdays at 7pm, with Starstruck following at 8.30pm.It comes as the Six Nations coverage will commence on the channel on Saturday, March 19 from 7.15pm.The rugby coverage is taking priority over the usual Saturday night evening slots in the TV schedule. The Geordie duo opened the first half of their hit show on Saturday (March 12) and announced that the next instalment of Takeaway would be in two weeks time.Ant told the studio audience: "You may have heard some of you there's no show next week because of the rugby."Both programmes will continue the following week on March 26.Ant and Dec's hit programme has remained a firm favourite since the show returned to our screens last month.

Jessica Kiang There are different types of quiet. There’s the quiet of peace and serenity, and the quiet of repression and shame. There’s the quiet of contented, absorbing work.

Amber Ruffin has a bone to pick with Marvel Comics.

Jethica opens with Elena (Callie Hernandez) and her one-night stand having a conversation. She’s not interested in forming a connection with him, but he wants to get to know her. After convincing her to talk about her past, she explains that she ran away to New Mexico to hide because she killed someone while texting and driving. This is how Pete Ohs new film Jethica gets moving by dropping viewers right in the middle of the drama. With its world premiere at SXSW, this supernatural dark comedy offers a refreshing take on the concept of ‘ghosting’—literally and spiritually. 

A police helicopter has been hovering over Urmston looking for a "wanted male".

EMILY Atack is dressed to kill in miniskirt and thigh-scraper boots. The TV host and comic, clearly up for a good night, wrote under the Instagram photo: “C’mon then Friday, yer fit b*d”.

PADDY McGUINNESS spent years helping people spice up their love life as the host of dating show Take Me Out. But the comic and presenter has revealed how he inadvertently turned the heat up on his own passions when he accidentally sat on a pile of chopped chilli peppers during a kitchen romp with his wife.

TWO stars of The Apprentice have secretly grown close — but are scared of their romance becoming public as it is against the show’s rules. Semi-finalist Brittany Carter, 25, has fallen for her posh co-star, finance manager Nick Showering, 31.

ACTOR Dominic West had to be helped into a hotel by a mystery friend at 4 am after a nine-hour bender. The married dad of four, 52, was held upright by the night porter and a cropped-haired woman he had been out with earlier.

KILLING Eve fans have been left baffled as the new series took a very "strange" turn in tonight's episode. In the latest instalment, fans were confused by a bizarre plot twist which saw Villanelle manifests herself as Jesus.

STARSTRUCK judge Jason Manford sparked uproar on the show last night - with a dig at Prince Harry. The comedian prompted gasps from his co-stars Sheridan Smith and Beverley Knight after they watched three Harry Styles impersonators perform.

Despite “Stranger Things”‘ long-awaited fourth season being right around the corner, fans, including the cast of the popular Netflix sci-fi series, are saddened by the recent news of the show ending with its subsequent fifth season.

Selome Hailu “Life imitates art” has become uncomfortably true in the two short years between the first and second seasons of Greg Daniels’ sci-fi comedy “Upload.”The series follows recently deceased computer programmer Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) as he attempts to navigate Lakeview, the digital afterlife space created by a company called Horizen. The first season debuted in 2020, when rumblings of the “metaverse” had yet to make it into the zeitgeist. Since then, the company previously known as Facebook has rebranded as Meta — even taking a few pages from Daniels’ book.“It’s kind of hilarious that Facebook is now calling their metaverse Horizon a couple years after we did,” Daniels told Variety, referencing the company’s free virtual reality game Horizon Worlds which was released in December 2021.

Ukrainian couple confronted armed Russian soldiers after they broke into their home.The clip shows three armed Russian soldiers walking towards the distressed Ukrainian couple's property before the guards attempt to force an entry.In heartbreaking scenes, the Russian soldiers manage to force open the gate and walk into the Ukrainian couple's home with their weapons drawn.Many have commented about the couple's bravery and courage during the tense moment.Barking dogs can be heard shrieking in the background of the video, and then an elderly couple appears to confront the armed men, which leads to high levels of shouting.The US embassy in Kyiv has shared the clip on social media and it has since gone viral.A fourth soldier then enters their property as the couple continues to shout, urging them to leave.The soldiers are eventually seen turning around and leaving the property after the commotion.The couple are then seen walking the guards towards the gate before shutting it behind them. It is understood that incident happened in Mykolayiv Oblast, about 80 miles east of Odessa in southern Ukraine.

J. Kim Murphy The Kyiv-based Molodist International Film Festival has penned an open letter to the film community calling on other festivals to join in a boycott of Russian films as a response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces.The festival’s statement cites an ongoing effort by modern Russia to “separate culture from politics” and to “[use] that same culture to distract the West from Russia’s wars, human rights violations, censorship and persecution of political dissidents.”“There are Russian filmmakers and intellectuals who have been truly vocal in their dissent and criticism of Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine throughout these years, and we know some of them personally,” the statement reads.

Hilary Duff is taking a trip down memory lane.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIn a move that befits the streaming era, Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Television is looking to make itself more of an international force. It will invest in more international shows and strike new coproduction partnerships.The company unveiled its new strategy on Friday at the South By South West (SXSW) festival in the U.S.It followed ten months on from the launch of TBS’s Vision 2030 program which sought to increase content spending, launch a new division and expand into related areas such as licensing.

Tipping Point host Ben Shephard broke down during the latest episode as one player made a huge Bible-related error.Tuesday's edition of the ITV quiz show welcomed contestant David, an accountant from Reading, alongside three other competitors.The first round saw David struggle to get his bearings as he became the final contestant left to play his counter.He was then asked a question solo by Tipping Point host Ben Shephard, meaning he wouldn't have to use his buzzer - which is when the epic blunder occurred.For the question, Ben asked: "Because of its ability to run on water, the basilisk lizard is sometimes known by the name of which religious figure?"David answered 'Gandhi."In response, his fellow competitors could be seen shaking their heads and grimacing as Ben himself broke down into laughter."It's not Gandhi, no," Ben quipped. "It was Jesus Christ."It is a religious figure; just not the one we needed.

full English breakfast.There is something about the traditional fry up that touches the hearts of British men and women that leads them to defend the rightful plating of the big breakfast.So when this Canadian had a go at whipping up their version, they were brutally mocked for their efforts.Forgetting all of the trimmings apart from lightly toasted bread, beans and sausages, the Canadian was off to a bad start.The three piece fry up was bound to rile Brits without evening looking at a picture of it.Shared onto Reddit the Canadian bravely asked Brits: “Am I doing this right? Can I put the sausages in with the beans? I used Heinz!”Attached to the post was the questionable ‘full English’ breakfast which consisted of unbuttered toast that was smothered with a whole can of dry baked beans.Plated separately, two sausages sat beside alone from the big plate of beans and toast - a far cry from the eggs, bacon, hash browns and everything in between that is usually seen on a fry up!Many Brits saw this as a perfect opportunity to mock the Canadian for their attempt - and even branded the toast “anaemic.”One person slammed: “Dude sausage segregation is not cool.”Another user added: “Toast looks raw.”A third person mocked: “Illegal to have toast that raw, and unacceptable to have separate bangers, get em on the plate son.”Someone else voiced: “Jesus Christ! How many tins of beans do you have there?!Toast needs to be more golden and covered in butter. Sausages should be on the same plate.“The individual components are almost there.