Legacy benefit claimants could trigger early move to Universal Credit if they report certain changes

FORMER Emmerdale star Ryan Hawley has issued a heart-wrenching plea to fans ahead of a tough mission for charity. Ryan is most remembered for playing fan favourite Robert Sugden in the ITV soap where his relationship with Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) had fans hooked.  Now Ryan is set to embark on a deeply personal mission to run the London Marathon in honour of his best friend who passed away.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor More investors are counting on the ability to count advertising dollars. Thompson Street Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Endicott Capital, an investment entity focused on information services, have made a strategic investment in MediaRadar, a tracker of advertising outlays. It is the latest transaction to have financial players gravitate to the discipline of measuring ad spending. Thompson will take a controlling stake in the business, though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In an interview, Todd Krizelman, MediaRadar’s founder and CEO, indicated the investments would be utilized to create more products around such areas as retail media and social media, but also to help gain scale in the marketplace. As more media entities start to offer their own methodologies for being measured, Krizelman said, the marketplace is likely to seek a single third-party entity to examine spending. “That’s a missing puzzle piece, for sure,” he said.

Universal Music has announced a new partnership with General Motors’ Buick brand to release music inspired by the car maker.The first song to be released under the deal is ‘Guang Zhi Suo Xiang’ performed by Liu Lingfei, a leading musical theatre actor in China. Oh yes, I probably should have mentioned that this is a deal between the Chinese divisions of the two companies.That song was actually unveiled last month, to coincide with this year’s Buick Owners Day in China, and an accompanying video was put out earlier this month.According to the two brands, “the song and its accompanying music video are crafted to depict Buick owners’ lives and deepen their pride of Buick ownership”.The news now is that there’s more of this sort of thing to come.

Ali Bastian is really excited to announce she is 20 weeks pregnant with her second child. But as well as being a time for celebration, there have been some worries along the way.The 40 year old, who also shares daughter Isla with husband David O'Mahony, revealed she had a scare early on in her pregnancy. "We had a bit of a bumpy start because I had some early bleeding, so I was sent to the early pregnancy unit," the former Hollyoaks and Doctors actress explained.

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp have added a new twist to their Sunday Lunch series, recruiting English singer and actor Chesney Hawkes for a cover of Hawkes’ own track ‘The One And Only’.This week’s edition sees the couple donning a festive look, with Fripp in lederhosen and Toyah sporting a red maid uniform and baseball bat alongside a much more conventionally dressed Hawkes. In another first for the series, Fripp has passed the guitar duties to Hawkes for the cover, while adding more of his vocals to the mix.As Fripp is currently on the road for his ‘That Awful Man & His Manager’ Q&A tour, the message on the couple’s kitchen cabinet proclaims that this edition is an ‘interlude’ – presumably to tide fans over until they can record fresh covers.Watch Chesney Hawkes join Fripp and Toyah as Sunday Lunch‘s first-ever guest below.The couple have been delivering Sunday Lunch episodes since 2020, when they began the series during the coronavirus pandemic, most recently delivering a cover of David Bowie‘s ‘Heroes’ in dedication to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Country star Kelsea Ballerini has changed some of the lyrics in her songs to reflect her messy divorce with Morgan Evans as she heads out on her Heartfirst tour.The 29-year-old country-pop singer changed lines in the songs What I Have and Get Over Yourself to reflect her new single life, according to Just Jared.In the first song, the line 'I got a warm body in bed' was changed to 'I got my own body in bed.' New lyrics: Country star Kelsea Ballerini changed some of the lyrics in her songs to reflect her messy divorce with Morgan Evans while starting her Hearfirst tour  (pictured September 2022)A line in the latter song was changed from 'I’m the crazy ex that wrecked your life' to 'I’m the crazy b**** that wrecked your life.' She showed off the changes in her songs during a performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City over the weekend.The stop is the first stop she's made along her Heartfirst tour.  Huge hits: The 29-year-old country-pop singer changed lines in the songs What I Have and Get Over Yourself (pictured September 24, 2022) Big show: She showed off the changes in her songs during a performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City over the weekend (pictured September 24, 2022)The Heartfirst tour is a short, 10-stop tour that will see the Roses star crisscross the United States. She will play shows in Denver; Washington, D.C.; and Los Angeles, among other cities, before finishing in Mashantucket, Connecticut, on October 14.On August 26, Kelsea filed for divorce from fellow country crooner Morgan Evans after more than four years of marriage.'Friends, I've always tried my best to share my life with you in a real and vulnerable way, while also protecting layers of my personal life as they unfold,'

Lise Pedersen Adapted from the popular Instagram comics by Belgian cartoonist Laura Janssens, “Hamsters” was one of several TV show projects aimed at young adults pitched at this year’s edition of Cartoon Forum in Toulouse.  The 2D series tells the story of Philippe and Gio­van­ni, a couple of gay ham­sters who look at and comment on the world from their cage. Born during lockdown, the characters were inspired by the Dutch word “hamsteren” which means hoarding, as people started panic buying household essentials when the pandemic broke out. The pair have very different personalities which make them complementary: While Giovanni wants to live an Insta-perfect life and is very concerned about what people think, Philippe is easy-going, enjoys eating, and is very supportive of his partner.

Lise Pedersen Hotly anticipated LGBT-inclusive superhero animation project “My Superhero Husband” didn’t disappoint at this year’s Cartoon Forum, where the team delivered a pitch perfect pitch that drew enthusiasm from the large crowd gathered at the event. A witty, heartwarming superhero romcom in 2D about the troubles of juggling a job as a superhero, a husband, and a cat, the 10 x 22-minute series is the brainchild of Greek authors Alex Tagali and Mikaela Deligianni. “Whenever you see queer characters on TV nowadays, it’s all about how they’re scared about it, or how they are coming out, or it’s centered around their queerness, and we wanted to make a series that had a lot of love and casual everyday life between a queer couple, but where the focus was not the fact that they are gay,” Tagali told Variety.

The number of sanctions issued against Universal Credit claimants in Scotland has almost doubled in the last three years.

Trent Reznor reunited with several early members of Nine Inch Nails for the band’s belated Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction celebration.Two years after a virtual ceremony for their initial induction, a live performance took place at Blossom Music Center in Reznor’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday (September 24).There, Reznor was joined by Chris Vrenna, Richard Patrick, Danny Lohner, and Charlie Clouser, members in an early Nine Inch Nails line-up.The group – who haven’t played in Ohio since 2013 – performed six songs from their ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ era; ‘Sin’, ‘Wish’, ‘Gave Up’ and ‘Eraser’. The band also performed a cover of Filter‘s ‘Hey Man Nice Shot’ before closing out the set with their seminal hit, ‘Head Like A Hole’.Check out fan-shot footage of the show below:In 2020, Nine Inch Nails were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Iggy Pop.During the virtual ceremony, Pop likened listening to the industrial rock outfit as “hearing the truth”.

Kelsea Ballerini kicked off her Heartfirst tour with some lyrics changes to her songs.

It's been 82 days of some of the most controversial and divisive gameplay in recent memory, but Season 24 has finally crowned a new champion.Sunday's two-hour finale all came down to the final three houseguests — who, coincidentally, were also all members of the defunct Leftovers Alliance, which ruled the house for several weeks before falling apart in dramatic fashion during the Split House Twist midway through the season.The whole season came down to Taylor Hale, Matthew «Turner» Turner, and Monte Taylor.  So who won the title of champion?  Otherwise, here's how everything played out during Sunday's jampacked finale!After last week's eviction of Brittany Hoopes, the pressure was on for the final three, who would have to face off in a series of three Head of Household competitions to see who would be the final HOH, and have full power to decide which houseguest joined them in the final two.As always, this late in the game, feeling out alliances can be tricky when there are only two people left, and Monte has been playing both sides of the field — making promises to his close friend Turner and similar promises to Taylor, with whom he's seemingly gotten close to in recent weeks.Taylor's place in the final three is a miracle in its own right and has had one of the most undeniably incredible comeback stories in the history of the show. Early in the season, everyone (including Monte) seemed to have it out for Taylor, to a level that many viewed as problematic and racially motivated.

Two of the most venerated actors in Hollywood history, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, attended A Celebration of Film gala Saturday at The University of Texas at Austin, which included an endowment dedicated in De Niro's name.De Niro was clad in a dark navy blue shirt with a grey tie and glasses. Streep was clad in a dark brown lace coat over a green top with dark brown pants and her hair pulled back.

Meryl Streep is honoring her longtime friend Robert De Niro.

England fans travelling to the World Cup in Qatar - on a network of 250,000 security cameras.The Gulf state’s CCTV system includes state-of-the-art facial-recognition technology which can track supporters around stadiums and fan zones. Those who ignore Qatar’s strict anti-booze laws could find themselves arrested.Public drunkenness carries a six-month jail sentence.

Gigi Hadid graced the Milan Fashion Week runway, walking in the Versace show on Friday, September 23 and a perhaps too familiar face was sitting front row — Leondardo DiCaprio's ex-girlfriend, Camila Morrone. Morrone was photographed enjoying the Italian fashion house's latest collection while Hadid took the catwalk by storm. This week, a source told ET that DiCapriojoined Hadid in Italy for fashion week. «They are fully seeing each other,» the source revealed.

Mykhaylo Mudryk has been rated as one of the best wingers in Europe as Shakhtar sporting director Darijo Srna puts him up there with Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior.

Making a change. Amid Kelsea Ballerini and Morgan Evans’ ongoing divorce, the country songstress has tweaked several of her lyrics.

The Super Bowl rumblings are getting louder.