Leeds and Reading festival goers party in scorching sun as temperatures hit 26C

Helen Skelton dished out some "fighting talk" during her first Strictly Come Dancing appearance in a frosty exchange with judge Craig Revel Horwood. The mum-of-three, 39, who presents Countryfile and previously hosted Blue Peter, said she was not afraid of Craig's "tantrums".

Google Ads appeal that even used the names of a genuine doctor and hospital to add authenticity to their ruse even though neither were in anyway involved. The fraudsters claimed that India's Bangalore Baptist Hospital was asking for volunteers to sell their kidneys for life-changing sums of money to be supposedly used for transplant operations with Dr Antony Robert Charles named as the surgeon to further con people into believing that the advertisements were legitimate.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Netflix dismissed a copyright lawsuit on Friday that it had filed against the creators of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.” The court filing did not indicate whether the streaming service had reached a settlement with Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow, the creators of the musical. However, the pair had earlier canceled a performance of the musical at Royal Albert Hall in London, which was to take place this week. Netflix sued in July, alleging that Barlow and Bear had infringed on its copyrights by putting on a for-profit stage show at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The service argued that their conduct “stretches ‘fan fiction’ well past its breaking point.”

Cameron Diaz is opening up about husband Benji Madden in an upcoming interview on The Rachel Ray Show.

It looks to be over for Julia Michaels and JP Saxe.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, Features The rooftop terrace of Hollywood’s Neuehouse was abuzz Thursday night at a fete celebrating Scripted Israel, a social summit promoting Israeli television on the global stage. The inaugural four-day event, which ran Sept. 19-21, paired 28 Israeli delegates – selected by partners at Jerusalem’s esteemed Sam Spiegal Series Lab and the Israeli Producers Association – with development and content executives in Hollywood, served as a de facto workshop experience for TV writers and producers angling to make their splash Stateside.  Tchelet Semel, Director of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, Los Angeles, and Daniel Susz, Director of Film & TV in North America, Israel Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, were chief on-the-ground organizers of the summit. 

OK, OK, OK… We’re all thinking it, right? We’re at the end of a work week of this Adam Levine scandal — these five days of hell must have wrecked his marriage, right?

Vladimir Putin makes to carry out a nuclear strike against Ukraine and the West could lead to him being killed by his own generals, an expert has claimed.Professor Peter Duncan at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) shared his views with the Daily Express as sham referendums were staged by Moscow in large areas of Ukraine that are now expected to be annexed by Russia. Putin's thinly-veiled nuclear threats accompanied the state address earlier this week in which he confirmed that 300,000 reservists would be conscripted for the war in Ukraine.READ MORE: Russia's forbidden military testing region filled with bears, volcanos and missilesBut, whether the Russian president is bluffing or does not understand the peril of his own situation if he commanded the pulling of the nuclear trigger, is unclear with Prof Duncan saying: "The bottom line is that Putin is isolated from reality.

READ MORE: Model 'upgrades' to huge 32L boobs and flaunts jaw-dropping transformationAnd the 18-year-old loved the character’s “cool” image so much he planned out 42 different plastic surgery procedures.Felipe, from Sao Paulo in Brazil, wanted rib removal surgery and silicone implants to look more like the hunky doll.But after landing a surprising new job in the construction industry, he decided to stop “hiding behind the character” as it was putting him in a dark place.He said: "With all the difficulty to work and urgently needing a job, I ended up taking advantage of the opportunity they could give me.

Holly Willoughby is set to continue as the face of Marks & Spencer in the wake of "queue-gate" after the brand confirmed it had extended the This Morning presenter's contract. Fans of the ITV show were left incensed after Holly and co-presenter Phillip Schofield dodged the huge queues waiting hours to pay their last respects to the Queen as she lay in state at Westminster Hall because they were filming a segment for the show.

How Coco Austin saves time while getting herself and her daughter ready to go is 100% her call — but still, it has fans divided!

Elton John was all in on a plan to perform at the White House before the world-famous rockin' piano player hangs it up — he says — for good. John is stopping by the South Lawn on Friday night for a show he's calling "A Night When Hope and History Rhyme," a reference to a poem by Irishman Seamus Heaney that President Joe Biden often quotes. It will be John's first White House gig since he performed with Stevie Wonder at a state dinner in 1998 honoring British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Selome Hailu Three of Dick Wolf’s franchises — “Law & Order,” “One Chicago” and “FBI” — were the most-viewed broadcast series of their respective season premiere nights on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. en they premiered. “FBI” brought in 6.8 million viewers while airing its Season 5 premiere on CBS at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, making it the most-watched broadcast series of the week excluding sports programming. The Season 2 premiere of “FBI: International” followed at 9 p.m. and was the second-most-watched program of the night with 5.3 million viewers. The last Wolf premiere of the night was “FBI: Most Wanted” Season 4 at 10 p.m., bringing in 5.1 million viewers, a time period high.

President Biden on Friday night will host a concert by superstar Elton John on the White House lawn — providing the exclusive venue for the filming of a TV special.Biden and first lady Jill Biden will speak at the 8 p.m. concert put on by A&E Networks, which will then air the special at an undisclosed future date.“Tonight, as you all know, we will be welcoming Sir Elton John,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at her regular press briefing — after journalists heard mic checks from the adjacent driveway.

Apple TV+ has released a handful of new images from their upcoming holiday movie, Spirited!

A political row has erupted after a revelation in the Scottish Parliament that a patient waited 84 hours before being transferred to an inpatient bed at an Ayrshire hospital.

Shania Twain is all for doing a duet with Harry Styles. ET's Cassie DiLaura is with the iconic country star in Las Vegas, and Twain shares that she's definitely down to put out a song with the One Direction alum after her surprise appearance during his Coachella set earlier this year.«We just have to ask.

star Vanessa Lachey sat down with ET's Kevin Frazier on the soundstage Friday to discuss the recent return of her procedural, which airs Mondays on CBS.«We literally kicked off the season premiere with a two-hour crossover event with one storyline,» she said, looking back on the Sept. 21 season opener that began with longtime flagship series, . «It's really amazing that we can do that.»Next week's episode, «Blind Curves,» finds the team, led by Lachey's Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant, investigating the world of illegal street racing after a Marine staff sergeant's body is discovered in a junkyard.«It's like meets.

wildfires as barbecues are expected to return for the three-day weekend.According to Jim Dale, a meteorologist for British Weather Services, he said: "Temperatures in southern and eastern Britain could reach 30C over the bank holiday as it now looks like high pressure will take control of the weather.READ MORE: Bank holiday weekend weather on knife-edge between scorcher or washout“It will follow another dry week across much of southern England with temperatures starting to rise from mid-week."“However, because there won’t be any rain across the south and with temperatures going back up, we are back into a wildfire situation."“People will be out and about, in forests and parklands, lighting barbecues and doing things that we haven’t seen much of over the past few weeks.“So, the wildfire risk is the one that sticks out for me the most over the weekend.”Wildfires were occurring throughout the consecutives heatwaves and according to Mr Dale, the subsequent rise in temperature could cause a return of the wildfires.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.“It is a combination of the ground still being very dry, despite the limited rain we have had and non-routine activities, such as barbecues in public spaces, that brings the risk.”Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: “Rain will last into Wednesday evening and then we are looking down to the far south for the possibility of some heavy outbreaks drifting up from France and affecting East Anglia and parts of the southeast."“Looking into the weekend, it looks as though the dry weather will return with some sunny spells.”A heatwave is unlikely this weekend despite the high pressure which Weathertrending meteorologist