A drug dealing 'family man' with an EncroChat alter ego hid a gun under his patio. John Duffy, 41, was part of a gang which helped to import huge amounts of cocaine and heroin into the UK.
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Leigh Francis has announced that for the first time in decades he is ditching his Keith Lemon alter ego for his first ever UK tour. The 50-year-old Celebrity Juice star will embark on an 18-date tour entitled My First Time, which kicks off in Bath on March 6, 2024.
He will then visit Guildford, Bournemouth, London, Cambridge, Sheffield, Halifax, Salford, York, Glasgow, Hull, Bradford, Buxton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Liverpool, Birmingham before finishing in his home town of Leeds. Famed for his sketch shows, Francis will be bringing his favourite chracters to life in a live environment for the very first time, including Bear and Avid Merrion as well as his Bo’ Selecta! take on David Dickinson, Ant and Dec and Myrtle.
Keith Lemon will also make an appearance, but it’s Francis who will take centre stage rather than the flamboyant presenter. There’s no word, however, about whether the Back Then When podcast host will be reviving his controversial Craig David persona.
Speaking in a press release, Francis said: “Hey, really exciting news! Well exciting for me! I hope it’s exciting for you! Or at least provokes some sort of interest! I mean, just look how many exclamation marks there is in this quote! It’s definitely news with exciting intent!“So what is this exciting news? I’m doing my first ever tour! Never done one before. It’s gonna have masks in it! The Bear, Avid Merrion, Amanda Holden’s Gran, not her actual gran but me playing her.
A drug dealing 'family man' with an EncroChat alter ego hid a gun under his patio. John Duffy, 41, was part of a gang which helped to import huge amounts of cocaine and heroin into the UK.
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Star Wars franchise has its first ever transgender actor, who will star in forthcoming spinoff series The Acolyte.According to DisneyDining.com, Abigail Thorn has been cast as Ensign Eurus in the forthcoming Disney+ series alongside Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith, Dafne Keen and others.Thorn has yet to confirm the news publicly. NME has contacted Disney+ for comment.Thorn is a British actress, writer and director who produces the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent NBC has announced its panel of coaches for “The Voice” Season 25, with Grammy-winning artists Dan + Shay joining the show as the first-ever coaching duo. Dan + Shay will serve as coaches alongside RebaMcEntire, John Legend and Chance the Rapper. Season 25 will air in the spring of 2024. The network’s announcement comes ahead of the show’s 24th season, which airs this fall with the previously-announced coach lineup of Niall Horan, Gwen Stefani, Legend and McEntire in her debut season as coach. Season 24 will be the first season without veteran coach Blake Shelton, who has been with “The Voice” since it premiered in 2011 and took his final bow with Season 23, which wrapped up last month.
season 25 will feature the first-ever double coaches' chair on the American version of the singing competition, and on Thursday, we learned who will be filling those seats!Country duo Dan + Shay will be joining the show for the first time as coaches, sitting alongside Reba McEntire — who is stepping in for longtime coach Blake Shelton in the upcoming 24th season — and returning coaches John Legend and Chance the Rapper.The coaches lineup for this fall's season 24 has already been set — with Reba taking over Blake's spinning chair, alongside Legend and fellow returning coaches Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani -- so Dan + Shay's double chair won't be making its debut until 2024. But thankfully the duo are already familiar with, having served as Team Blake's Battle Round Advisors in season 20 back in 2021.ET spoke with Reba at 'slive season 23 semifinals earlier this year, where the country music legend shared why now was the «perfect» time for her to join the show — after turning it down when was first in development in 2011.«The first time I ever heard of I saw the tape from Holland's [version of the show],» she recalled.
Baroness have announced ‘Stone’, their first new album in four years, shared its first single ‘Lost Word’ and announced a string of US tour dates for this year – find all the details below.The band’s sixth studio LP will arrive on September 15, 2023, followed by a US tour kicking off in October – you can pre-order the record in a variety of physical formats or pre-save here.The ‘Sweet Oblivion Tour’ will start in Baltimore on October 13, with dates in Tampa, Austin, Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Montreal, New York and many more, before wrapping up on December 1 in Philadelphia.Pre-sale for select dates is live now, while general sale starts this Friday (June 23) at 10am local time – you can buy your tickets here.The tour will also feature a huge roster of support acts from Jesus Piece, Portrayal of Guilt, Primitive Man, KEN Mode, Wayfarer, Chat Pile, Vile Creature, Soul Glo, Sheer Mag, Escuela Grind, Midwife, Hoaxed, Empire State Bastard, Cloud Rat, Imperial Triumphant, Uniform and Agriculture, with more set to be announced.‘Lost Word’, the first single from the forthcoming LP, is available to listen to now. Listen below.“An important through line in Baroness is we don’t like to repeat ourselves,” Baizley said in a press statement.“It’s all about the willingness to take risks.
In the second and final season of Showtime series Your Honor, Bryan Cranston reprises the role of disgraced judge Michael Desiato. At the end of Season 1, Desiato’s son was murdered by the Baxter crime family, and fresh out of prison himself, Desiato not only seeks to avenge his son’s death but to rediscover his own moral compass and find some kind of redemption. It’s another nuanced performance in a storied career that includes such roles as the inimitable Walter White in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, the titular character in Trumbo, Hal in Malcolm in the Middle and Stan in Little Miss Sunshine. Here, Cranston muses on his French country retirement plans, explains the glaring absence of karaoke in his life, and reveals his dreams of making a Broadway musical and why his desert island TV picks definitely won’t include Breaking Bad.
Bo’ Selecta!.As part of the 2024 My First Time tour, Francis will be bringing out many of his well-known characters including Lemon, Avid Merrion, ‘David Dickinson’, ‘Ant and Dec’ and Myrtle, with the set also including a number of sketches as well as audience interaction.A post shared by Keith Lemon (@keithlemon)The tour will start on March 6 in Bath, continuing throughout the month around the UK before concluding in Francis’s hometown of Leeds on April 6.The full dates are below, with tickets set to go on sale on Friday (June 23) at 10am:“I’m doing my first ever tour!” Francis said, announcing the live dates. “Never done one before.
Former TOWIE star Ferne McCann has given her followers a glimpse into her “special” day as her friends threw her a beautiful baby shower at a rooftop restaurant in London. Ferne, 32, is already a mum to her daughter Sunday and is expecting her second child with her fiancé Lorri Haines this summer.The mum of two to be shared a sweet glimpse into some baby shower games that the group played, as well as some delicious looking food.The reality star also showed off her stylish attire for the occasion. Ferne looked glowing as she proudly displayed her blossoming baby bump in a fitted orange dress with an on-trend slit in the side.
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Brian Eno has announced details of his first-ever solo tour. The run of European dates, scheduled for October, come in support of his 2016 album The Ship. Tickets will be available from Thursday, June 8.
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