Mercury Prize shortlist announced – what a list (apart from that one act)!

Jared Haris has revealed he was not the first choice for his Bafta-winning role in Chernobyl and bosses had wanted Daniel Day-Lewis instead.

Dive right in! Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherFormer England cricket captain Sir Ian Botham is to join the House of Lords, the government has confirmed.The 64-year-old, a strong supporter of Brexit, is among 36 new peers, who also include former Chancellors Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond.Sir Ian, who played 102 Test matches for England between 1977 and 1992, is an advocate of field sports and a prominent Brexit supporter who was knighted in 2007, in recognition of his services to charity and cricket.Botham is considered one of England’s greatest ever cricketers, with 5,200 Test runs and 383 wickets.After breaking into the Test side aged 21, Botham wasted little time in establishing his star quality.He

supports HTML5 videoKatie Price’s son Junior Andre was on hand to give her a push as they enjoyed an evening out in Turkey.The mum-of-five broke both her feet just days after jetting on holiday, and has been wheelchair bound ever since.The 42-year-old is still managing to make the most of her holiday, with her 15-year-old son on hand to help her get around.In a video shared on boyfriend Carl Woods’ Instagram story – which Katie then reposted on her own – the teenager could be seen pushing her along the street on Friday night.‘Thanks for pushing me, son,’ she told him as he joked: ‘I’ll let you go downhill.’Laughing, she added: ‘No don’t, I’ve got no seatbelt on.’Katie didn’t let her cast get in the way of having a good time, rocking a

coronavirus rate in each UK region – and reveals six badly-hit areas with no new lockdown rules. The UK's Department of Health banned members of separate households from meeting each other indoors in Greater Manchester, parts of east Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight on Friday after they each experienced spikes in the number of coronavirus cases being reported.

Katie Price 's new teeth are so white they glow in the dark after her latest dental op in Turkey.

Liverpool fans are not happy with their new home kit. Jurgen Klopp and his Premier League champions will need the full support of their fans should they retain their title next season, but the kit release has got them off to a poor start.

There's nothing like the bond between humans and their beloved pets, especially when said human is as handsome as Park Seo-joon and the beloved pet is as adorable as the What's Wrong With Secretary Kim star's bichon frise named Simba. Thanks to the 31-year-old actor's Instagram page, his millions and millions of followers are treated with countless photos and videos of the adorable pooch and it's an endearing sight when Seo-joon cuddles up to Simba.

walking shoes/sandals (proper, as in woefully unattractive), and breathable socks, you don’t need anything special, apart from common sense.The nouveau walkers, however, are stocking up on their 65-litre Osprey Ariel rucksacks and Platypus Hydration packs – vital if you’re hiking from Land’s End to John O’ Groats. Less so for an amble through Richmond Park.

William Sitwell why he is making  a fresh start selling fish on the A35.  Photography by Emli BendixenFive months ago, Mark Hix MBE, seasoned restaurateur, chef and all-round food-industry legend, was at the helm of five restaurants employing some 130 people. He is a man whose name has been attached to some of London’s most iconic restaurants, from The Ivy to Le Caprice, and establishments from extravagant Mayfair to trendy Shoreditch.Today, all tousled hair, unshaven face and eager grin, he’s standing on the A35 behind his new venture: a food truck, just a few miles from Bridport where Hix grew up, and close to Lyme Regis where he ran the much-loved Hix Oyster & Fish House.

The Netflix/Channel 4 series End of the F***ing World won the best drama series at the 2020 BAFTA Television Awards, its second honor of the night after Naomi Ackie landed the best supporting actress statuette. HBO/Sky's Chernobyl, meanwhile.

Phillip Schofield could quit his job tomorrow and enjoy a life of luxurious early retirement – according to reports about his growing personal wealth.

Lying close to Loch Rannoch, there have been a few people keen to restore the once majestic building, however, so far, none of them have met the current owner's own standards.However, it's been stated that they do not wish to see the 'fairy tale' ruin demolished.

According to the rapper, Logic, when he was at the height of his fame, he was the most depressed. Hot New Hip Hop picked up on comments from the recently-retired artist today in which he talked about how brutal social media users are when a performing artist becomes a public figure.

Britney Spears didn’t show up at her conservatorship hearing. Perhaps she did not want to???? This and much more on our latest podcast. Listen to The Perez Hilton Podcast with Chris Booker on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or directly at http://PerezPodcast.com

Kanye West has returned to Twitter yet again to call out abortion after crying about potentially aborting his first-born child.The star shared a figure in an attempt to back up his beliefs on abortion after previously claiming he and wife Kim Kardashian-West were thinking of ‘aborting’ eldest daughter North during a presidential rally.‘Over 22,500,000 black babies have been aborted over the past 50 years,’ he tweeted.The Stronger rapper also shared a link to an article which explained that Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is ditching the name of founder Margaret Sanger from its lower Manhattan clinic.The clinic said Margaret had ‘harmful connections to the eugenics movement.’Kanye’s tweets come a few hours after he returned to the

Families begged to be freed by police after hundreds became trapped in a car park for hours.

Katie Price isn't letting being in a wheelchair spoil her holiday.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDespite having the Oscar winning Reversal of Fortune made from his book of the same name, it seems Alan Dershowitz this week had the difference between fact and fiction painstaking explained to him by one of ViacomCBS’s top lawyers over Jeffrey Epstein.“If we understand your letter correctly, you are complaining about a line spoken by a fictional character, in an episode of the fictional series The Good Fight,” wrote the company’s Jonathan Anschell to the cable news regular’s attorney Imran Ansari on July 28 (READ IT HERE).“You make this complaint on behalf of Professor Alan Dershowitz, a public figure who has long been associated with Jeffrey Epstein, and who has admitted on television to

lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that the state’s policy prohibiting nonbinary people from obtaining documentation with an accurate gender marker violates Saba’s right to equal protection under law, and infringes upon their free speech rights by forcing them to state a gender identity with which they do not identify.

Manchester Evening News reports. Mervyn spat in one of the officer's faces soon after.She pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly; and assaulting an emergency worker.

Hot New Hip Hop has learned that Naya Rivera has officially been laid to rest. Friends and family of the Glee actress laid her to rest at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills area of LA after she died in a horrible drowning accident approximately 14 days ago.