Hundreds of cyclists visit Castle Douglas for Scottish Cyclocross Series

A new BBC documentary captured the moment King Charles joked about his "sausage fingers" with the Prince of Wales during coronation rehearsals.

Married At First Sight dating coach Mel Schilling said the UK should be “proud” of NHS workers as she issued an update on her cancer surgery. The 51-year-old reality star, one of three relationship experts on the UK version of E4’s hit show, had keyhole surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in her colon.

Bradley Cooper abruptly left a press conference for his film “Maestro” after he received a phone call about his daughter, Lea, on Thursday.“So sorry. The school nurse just called me,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.“Can I just leave the room for a second to call them back and you can keep going?” he asked.

Fantasia Barrino, “The Little Mermaid” star Halle Berry and five-time Grammy winner H.E.R. to bring the belting in “The Color Purple,” the new movie musical adaption of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that opens in theaters on Christmas Day.But Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson also flexes some surprise vocal chops as blues singer Shug Avery.And Executive Music Producer Stephen Bray already envisioned the former “Empire” diva in the role when she came to see the “Color Purple” musical on Broadway in 2005.“We were sitting together, and at intermission I said, ‘You know, you’d make a great Shug Avery,’ ” Bray — who co-wrote the songs for both 2005’s original stage production and its 2015 revival — told The Post.

Epic Games Store has changed its own rules to allow blockchain games to be sold on the platform.Epic Games Store had a blanket ban on all Adults Only titles, but it has recently adjusted its own rules to allow blockchain games.As it stands, all games based on blockchain technology or utilising NFTs are rated Adults Only by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) because of how they offer rewards that can be converted into real-world currency.“Products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on Epic Games Store [which also] treats unrated products as having a mature (18+) rating,” said the store’s rules but earlier this week, an amendment was added.

Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom has been released – check it out below.Directed by James Wan, the DC sequel sees Arthur Curry aka Aquaman (Jason Momoa) join forces with his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to protect Atlantis from an ancient power unleashed by Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).Other returning cast members for the sequel include Amber Heard as Mera, Nicole Kidman as Atlanna, Dolph Lundgren as Nereus, Randall Park as Dr. Stephen Shin and Temuera Morrison as Tom Curry.Rupert Gregson-Williams, who created the soundtrack for 2019’s Aquaman, returns for the sequel.

infamous “sausage fingers” during the coronation earlier this year, a new royal documentary reveals.The monarch’s meaty mitts have been a topic of discussion since the historic occasion, and have often made the King the butt end of the joke on several occasions.But it seems as though there are no hard feelings on his part, as even he joined in on the quips during a conversation with his eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince William.As William uses his hands to close a small clasp holding a lavish robe around his father in the coronation rehearsal, the King’s sense of humor shines through.“On the day, that’s not going to go in,” William can be heard telling Charles, who hilariously references his own hands by responding, “No, you haven’t got sausage fingers like mine.”The funny exchange was captured in the “Charles III: The Coronation Year” documentary, set to air on Dec.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Lior Ashkenazi has boarded Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory‘s Mosolov’s Suitcase, exploring the life and legacy of Ukrainian, early Soviet era, avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov.

EXCLUSIVE: British director Ken Loach has been suspended from holding a decision-making role at Bectu amid simmering internal tensions at the UK’s biggest film and TV union.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Just when players and investors had begun to believe that China was finished with major new regulations to the games industry, regulators have announced proposals for more curbs. The draft regulations, proposed by the National Press and Publication Administration appear to focus on in-game spending. The proposals revealed on Friday hit the shares of Chinese gaming giants Tencent and NetEase and dented those of other companies with operations n the Chinese market.

Twisted Sister‘s Dee Snider has hit out at Spotify, suggesting CEO Daniel Ek “should be taken out and shot” for unfairly compensating artists.The streaming platform has frequently come under fire for the low rates at which it pays artists, which has contributed to many artists struggling to make enough money directly from their music. Recently, Spotify controversially changed its royalty streaming threshold of 1000 plays before songs are able to generate royalties.According to Spotify data, there are around 100million songs on the service, yet only around 37.5million meet the new requirements to generate revenue.Snyder’s criticism for the platform and its CEO, who he didn’t refer to by name, came during an interview with the YouTube podcast The Jeremy White Show.“That guy from Spotify, I wanna tell you, he should be taken out and shot,” Snider said (via Consequence of Sound), presumably referring to Ek.

Over the years of Gordon Ramsay and Tana's 27-year marriage, the couple have been rocked by his alleged seven-year affair with a "professional mistress". The writer, alleged to have been the TV chef's mistress of seven years, has spoken out about why Christmas is the most miserable time to be a mistress as she reminisced on her alleged affair with the famous dad-of-six.

Earlier this year - and after a huge amount of drama, recouplings, and being dumped from the villa - Zachariah Noble and Molly Marsh emerged from the latest series of Love Island as a loved up couple. Since leaving the iconic Majorcan villa at the end of July, 26 year old Zach and 22 year old Molly seem to be going from strength to strength, and have been documenting their relationship on their respective social media accounts.

N-Dubz star Tulisa Contostavalos has revealed she's undergone a dramatic lip transformation as she took to social media to show off her plump new pout.The singer, 35, opted for a casual glam look for the beauty treatment as she shared a glimpse at her aesthetics makeover with her 641,000 Instagram followers.Tulisa perfected the ultimate pout pose to show off her newly-injected lips as she shot her camera a sultry look and a close up look at her new lips.The star looked radiant and glowing post-beauty treatment as she stopped to take a glamorous selfie in the car before heading on her way. Tulisa looked stunning as she posted her selfie to Instagram on Thursday afternoon. She revealed she'd undergone a beauty treatment as she wrote over the snap: "lips," followed by the lips emoji.

TV presenter Kate Garraway was flooded with support from Good Morning Britain viewers as she missed the show to be by her husband’s bedside after his recent heart attack. Kate has now cancelled all her work commitments across TV and radio to look after Derek Draper, who has been unwell following his recent heart attack, amid his ongoing battle with long Covid.

It's been a busy few months for professional dancer, Nikita Kuzmin, who just missed out on winning the iconic Glitterball trophy with his partner, Bad Education star Layton Williams, during this year's Strictly Come Dancing. However, since the grand final, the 25 year old has been enjoying some well-deserved down time with his girlfriend, as they both jetted off to Dubai for some winter sun just before Christmas.

Former Emmerdale star Kelvin Fletcher and his wife Liz Marsland have opened up on their "whirlwind" two years after they moved their family life to a farm in the Peak District. Kevin, Liz and their four young children – Marnie, six, Milo, four, and 18-month-old twins Mateusz and Maximus have documented their journey on the new ITV1 show Fletcher’s Family Farm.

AJ Tracey has returned with his first new solo music of the year in the form of ‘Wifey Riddim 4’. Check out the video below.The track is the latest instalment in the West London rapper’s ‘Wifey Riddim’ series, which began in 2015, and also arrives with a techno-futurist video shot in Tokyo.At the end of 2022, Tracey said that he was going into “album mode” for 2023, hinting that he would be spending the year working on his third studio record.

Bring Me The Horizon have announced that keyboardist and percussionist Jordan Fish has left the band.Fish had been part of the Sheffield rock band since 2012 and had been instrumental in shaping the band’s songwriting approach and modern sound by adding more electronic elements – particularly on 2013’s landmark record ‘Sempiternal’. He was also part of the band for 2015’s ‘That’s The Spirit‘, 2019’s ‘amo’ and 2020’s ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’.The band revealed the news in a statement, which read: “Bring Me The Horizon has decided to part ways with Jordan Fish. We want to thank him for the musical journey he took with us and wish him luck with everything in the future.

Dave Grohl has opened up about the death of his mother Virginia, who he has described as his “best friend”.Virginia Grohl passed away in July 2022, and she has since been immortalised in the ten-minute song ‘The Teacher’, which was included on Foo Fighters’ newest album ‘But Here We Are’, released in June this year.In an appearance on the Song Exploder podcast, Dave Grohl spoke in great emotional detail about the experience of being with his mother as she was dying, and his attempts at using music as a way to express his grief.“I was with her for all of the time leading up to her passing,” he said. “Every day during that period, I would write something on the guitar, because I felt that if I didn’t have that release, I would explode.”“I would spend the day at the hospital and then try to translate it musically, with no clear intention of what I was trying to achieve.

Spotify has pulled out of two music festivals in France after the country changed its tax laws in relation to streaming services.The company confirmed that it was withdrawing its support from Francofolies de La Rochelle and Printemps de Bourges as of next year.Earlier this month (via EuroNews), French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the country was introducing a new tax measure on music streaming services that would be “based on a very low rate of levy on the turnover” of the services.The country’s Ministry of Culture confirmed the details on December 13, saying that the tax contribution would be “at a rate of 1.2 per cent of [streaming services’] turnover in France”, although platforms with turnover of less than €20 million would be exempt.In response, Spotify have argued for a voluntary contribution instead of the tax. “This is a real blow to innovation, and to the growth prospects of recorded music in France,” said a representative of the company.