Why the Brit Awards ditching gender categories makes perfect sense

EMILY Atack showed off her toned abs in a black crop top for boozy night out with pals. The 32-year-old comedian looked sensational as she posed in a low-cut flared sleeve top which tied at the centre.

Armed police have cordoned off a street after a man was stabbed to death with six suspects arrested in connection with the incident.

KATE Lawler has admitted she felt "regret" over starting a family as she was haunted by "terrifying, dark thoughts" after giving birth. The 41-year-old was honoured with a GLOMAMA award last night following her open and honest journey into motherhood.

An independent Scotland would be better off staying out of the NATO military alliance, the Scottish Greens have said.

A Lanarkshire MSP visited a East Kilbride-based hospice to discuss the challenges of the COVID pandemic.

THE BBC has been slammed for reportedly paying Katie Price to appear in a show airing after she avoided jail for a drink-drive smash. Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next was commissioned before the crash, which saw the reality star flip her BMW after taking cocaine and downing vodka.

Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo, which was heavily publicised after pictures were leaked to a newspaper of the pair kissing amid strict lockdown rules.Steven Bartlett regularly records podcast chats, speaking to big names in society, with his most recent chat being with Matt Hancock.Matt dominated the news last year when snaps emerged of him kissing Gina at work, despite social distancing measures being in place.He stepped down from his role as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and spoke to Steven about his affair.Ingrid took to her The Sun column to compare the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host's affair with Matt's, claiming infidelity is never sparked by love.Ingrid said: "Hancock said: 'I haven’t had casual sex with anybody — I fell in love with somebody.'"Using the loaded word 'love' whiffs of the classic scenario of the guilty party trying to make himself — or herself — feel less guilty."The reality is that, in most cases, an affair is about having your cake and eating it."Ingrid then spoke about her own experiences when she found out about her husband."I split from my former husband, the television host Chris Tarrant, 15 years ago after his long-standing affair with a teacher."I’d had my suspicions. I just thought he had changed, the shape of our marriage had gone wonky."In the Press he said the affair 'didn’t mean anything' and he still loved me.

Britain's Got Talent, the cute curly-haired kid with an impressive mane and a whole host of dance moves captured the hearts of the nation.He also had the opportunity to meet the Queen at the Royal Variety Show, alongside other musical stars such as Lady Gaga, who Perri was captured on camera eyeballing as she arrived in her bright red latex costume.Much has changed since his early rise to fame - but the one thing that has remained constant is his close friendship with Jordan."I've known Jord for years and years and years now and honestly it's so cool because we spend every day together as it is," he enthused."Whether we're dancing or we have a day off, I'll be at his or he'll come to mine."Literally every single second of every single day is spent together so to find another job that allows us to do that is so cool."He added: "[When] we turn up, we're listening to music, we make pranks, we get told off together..."Though Perri admits he has felt the pressure to mature earlier than an average person of his age, due to the constant work commitments required by fame, the fun and whimsical side to his job makes up for it.He's also been able to fulfil a long-time ambition - interviewing his idol Tom Holland."Until recently [he was] my dream guest because I'm a big Spiderman fan," Perri explained."He's been on the show like twice now, so I feel like I need a new one!"I don't even know who that needs to be because that was like my absolute golden ticket and it's happened. I was buzzing!"However, when probed further, he did admit to relishing the idea of Beyonce performing 'Bootylicious' on his show."Everyone wants the Queen B," he enthused.

– Pippa, KentYour letter arrived in my inbox on the same day that I was covering the whole issue of so-called ‘fat shaming’ on TV – so I’m bang up to date with the subject.One in four people in England are overweight, but research has shown that even the words ‘obese’ or ‘obesity’ can make them feel shame. Far from galvanising them into losing weight, it has the opposite effect.

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money-saving community LatestDeals.co.uk she said: “I've always had really painful periods, to the point where I'm literally crippled over in pain most months.“I went to the GP and got diagnosed with endometriosis. I’d tried everything - from simple things such as paracetamol to taking 2-3 hot baths per day to ease the pain.”Beki said she found an unlikely solution to finally ease her pain.“After doing some research online, there was a link between painful periods and the chemicals in certain sanitary towels and tampons,” she said.“I saw some people had tried reusable sanitary towels and saw a massive difference in their cycles.

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Jake Paul was quick to goad Jorge Masvidal after the UFC fighter was defeated by Colby Covington.Masvidal put Covington to the canvas in the fourth round at UFC 272 on Saturday but Covington emerged victorious by unanimous decision, with Paul taking to social media to mock his foe.Paul tweeted to the beaten competitor: "First of all Masvidal you ain’t rich."The YouTube star was referring to Masvidal’s own fiery comments he had made following Paul’s rematch with Tyron Woodley in December, a bout in which Paul said got 650,000 pay-per-view buys.Masvidal said at the time: “"B**** boy can’t afford the big boys. "Never again do I want to hear my name associated with the fake.

giant rats and her street has become a hotspot for drug dealers.The woman from Finglas, Dublin has claimed that she cannot sleep properly because she can hear rats scratching in her room during the night.She fears that she cannot spend any more nights in her own home as she worries that one of her three little children might end up touching rat droppings or a discarded needle left outside their home.Speaking to Dublin Live, the mum who chose to remain anonymous said: "We are infested with rats, damp and mould. There are small children in this building from three years up to eight years of age."There's nowhere for the children to play. We live facing the drug clinic, and when you are walking out your door to bring your children to school, you have people from the clinic coming up to you asking you 'are you looking for stuff' in front of your small children."There are people smoking crack outside my front door when I'm bringing my child to school.

£9.2 billion wealth because she has grand schemes to eliminate extreme poverty.Melanie Perkins, 35, co founder and CEO of graphic design platform Canva, said "who needs all that money?" as she and her co-founder/husband Cliff Obrecht made the amazing choice.Perkins, who started out selling spray-on tattoos at fairs, currently owns 30% of the company, which is valued at around £30 billion.The businesswoman has signed up to Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge, planning to give away her wealth during her lifetime through charitable donations and other endeavours. In a pledge letter, Melanie wrote: “We have this wildly optimistic belief that there is enough money, goodwill, and good intentions in the world to solve most of the world's problems, “We feel like it's not just a massive opportunity, but an important responsibility, and we want to spend our lifetime working towards that.“Who needs all that money? Personally?”On their pledge, Obrecht told The Australian: “Mel and I are committed to giving away all our money to make the world a better place.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.“I think with running such a large company with such a significant valuation now, it's an obligation on us to use that to be a force for good and make the world a better place, rather than just hoard s**t."“We live pretty modestly, and we don't really see the need to just accrue wealth.“The priority for the company is education, because we really feel educating underprivileged people gives them the opportunity to break the cycle.”Perkins and Obrecht met whilst studying at the University of Western Australia and started out selling spray tattoos at local fairs.

Leonard Cohen is the latest artist whose song rights have been bought, after his estate reached a deal with the Hipgnosis Songs Fund for an undisclosed sum.According to Rolling Stone, the deal includes all 278 songs that Cohen wrote, including his most popular songs ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Suzanne’, ‘So Long, Marianne’, ‘First We Take Manhattan’ and more.The investment company obtained the “songwriter’s share” of 127 songs from Cohen’s Stranger Music catalogue, which covers the period of the inception of late musician’s career through to the year 2000; derivative works pushes the total to 211 songs.Hipgnosis also acquired the ownership of 100 per cent of the copyrights, “publisher’s share” and “songwriter’s share” of royalties of the latter part of his catalogue, spanning from 2001 to his death in 2016.“To now be the custodians and managers of Leonard Cohen’s incomparable songs is a wonderful yet very serious responsibility that we approach with excitement and fully understand the importance of,” Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis said in a statement.“Leonard wrote words and songs that have changed our lives, none more so obvious than ‘Hallelujah’ but there are so many more that we look forward to reminding the world of on a daily basis.

The Power Of The Dog, calling it “very odd”.Cumberbatch was referencing criticism of the film from Sam Elliott, who recently referred to the film as a “piece of shit”.Speaking as part of BAFTA’s Film Sessions on Friday (March 4), Cumberbatch discussed why it’s necessary to portray characters like Phil Burbank, who he plays in the movie, in order to “look under the hood” of these type of characters and “see what their struggle is and why that’s there in the first place”.Going on to reference Elliott’s criticism directly, he added (via Digital Spy): “I’m trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here.He added that he didn’t want to “stir over the ashes” of the comment, as “I haven’t heard it so it’s unfair for me to comment in detail on it,” but that “someone really took offence to the West being portrayed in this way.”Cumberbatch then went back to his character in the film: “These people still exist in our world. Whether it’s on our doorstep or whether it’s down the road or whether it’s someone we meet in a bar or pub or on the sports field, there is aggression and anger and frustration and an inability to control or know who you are in that moment that causes damage to that person and, as we know, damage to those around them.“There’s no harm in looking at a character to get to the root causes of that.

The BRIT Awards have announced the three finalists for the BRIT Rising Star for 2022. 

Queen‘s Brian May has criticised the BRIT Awards‘ decision to scrap their traditional gendered system for awards categories, calling it emblematic of a “frightening” trend.This week, the BRITs announced details of their 2022 ceremony, including the news that Artist of the Year and International Artist of the Year awards are replacing the traditional Male and Female categories from previous years.Back in 2019, it was reported that the BRITs were planning to scrap their gender categories in a bid to include non-binary artists.

The BRIT Awards has announced that it is dropping gendered prizes from next year’s ceremony, filling the gaps with four new genre-based categories. This comes after several years of calls to stop splitting artists up along binary gender lines at industry award events.There were reports in late 2019 that BRITs organisers were considering dropping male and female categories, partly in response to Sam Smith coming out as non-binary.

THE Brits have announced genderless categories for the first time in the awards’ 42-year history. It comes after Sam Smith, who identifies as non-binary, was excluded from the gendered categories in this year’s ceremony which took place in May.