Paul Simon reveals hearing loss, reflects on mortality: ‘My generation’s time is up’

Hailey Bieber to relaxed activewear championed by Olivia Wilde, there are plenty of sartorial themes to tap into this season. June is the hottest month for horseracing, Midsomer, and royal birthdays, so we can expect a blanket of stars to descend for each occasion. From Hailee Steinfeld to Emily Ratajkowski and Beyoncé, we’ve rounded up the best dressed celebrity for you to enjoy and hopefully gain a style trick or two from.

Simon Pegg has revealed that he kept his alcoholism secret on the set of Mission: Impossible.Speaking on BBC4’s Desert Island Discs recently, Pegg says that he hid his reliance on alcohol while on film sets in the early 2000s.“You become very sneaky when you have something like that in your life,” he told the show’s host, Lauren Laverne.He continued: “You learn how to do it without anyone noticing because it takes over. It wants to sustain itself and it will do everything it can to not be stopped…But eventually it just gets to a point when it can’t be hidden, and that’s when, thankfully, I was able to pull out of the dive.”Pegg had spoken before about how his mental health problems began after he experienced depression as a teenager after his A-level exams and before studying at the University of Bristol.It later returned unexpectedly in 2006, while he was working on Mission: Impossible III, and Pegg recalls using alcohol to help numb his pain.

And that’s a wrap … with an exclamation point. After weeks of teasing a “bombshell” set to drop on part 3 of the Vanderpump Rules reunion, fans learned new information about the timeline of Scandoval from Raquel Leviss on the Wednesday, June 7, conclusion of season 10.

Rebecca Ferguson, a former runner-up on The X Factor, has criticized ITV after the UK broadcaster failed to investigate her “traumatic” experience on the Simon Cowell entertainment show.

Putri Ariani wowed the “America’s Got Talent” judges — one in particular — as her audition was shown on Tuesday’s show.

The Repair Shop star Suzie Fletcher has opened up and revealed her heartbreaking loss of her husband as she appeared on Tuesday’s This Morning to chat about her new book. Suzie sadly lost her husband due to throat cancer in 2013 and said it was her co-star Jay Blades who helped her relive her memories of him when writing her book.The book is called The Sun Over The Mountains: A Story of Hope, Healing and Restoration and was published this month.

Nearly 15 years after Susan Boyle first performed "I Dreamed a Dream" on the "Britain's Got Talent" stage, the Scottish singer returned and revealed her past health struggles. The 62-year-old was joined by the West End cast of "Les Misérables" and performed the song she is known for, while also revealing she had recently suffered and was recovering from a stroke. Acknowledging that her return to the competition show "feels great," Boyle announced the significance of the homecoming.  "It's extra special for me, actually.

performed “I Dreamed a Dream” with the West End cast of “Les Misérables” 14 years after she shocked the world with the same show tune during her audition in 2009.“It feels great [to be back],” Boyle said Sunday after the full-circle performance.“It’s extra special for me, actually. Because last April there, I suffered a minor stroke,” she said.“I have fought like crazy to get back onstage and I have done it,” she added to the audience’s applause.The show’s creator and panelist Simon Cowell, 63, also had sweet words for Boyle, telling her: “Susan, we owe you so much.”“And I knew you weren’t well, but if anyone was going to come back, you were going to come back because we wouldn’t be the same without you,” he told her.

Josh Dallas is looking back at his time on Once Upon a Time.

Susan Boyle suffered a minor stroke in April that left her doubtful over whether she could perform again, the singer told fans. The Scottish singer rose to fame in 2009 after competing on the third season of the ITV competition Britain’s Got Talent. She impressed the judges with her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical Les Misérables, in one of the show’s biggest viral moments.

Britain’s Got Talent is no longer the ratings banker it once was.

S Club 7 singer Paul Cattermole died from multiple health issues, his death certificate reportedly states.The band member tragically died in April aged just 46, with his passing coming as a huge shock to the rest of the group, his loved ones and S Club's legions of fans.The Express reports that his death certificate states the cause as 'cardiac arrhythmia, acute myocardial ischaemia and severe coronary artery atheroma and intraplaque haemorrhage'. According to the NHS, an arrhythmia is an “abnormality of the heart's rhythm” which may cause it to beat too slowly, too quickly, or irregularly and can make it difficult to pump blood around the body.

Britain’s Got Talent legend Paul Potts has hit out at new judge Bruno Tonioli for his choice of colourful language, after Bruno turned the airwaves red with his swearing during this weeks semi-finals. Paul, who famously won the very first series of the show as an opera singer back in 2007, took issue with Bruno’s swearing, as he insisted the former Strictly Come Dancing star needed to “ring it in.” The swearing furore first kicked off on Tuesday, when 67 year old Bruno accidentally swore live on air as the judges were watching daredevil Andrew Stanton perform a series of gruesome tasks.

Just two months on since the tragic death of much loved entertainer Paul O’Grady, his husband has been hit with a second round of heartbreak as he confirmed two of the late star's pets have also died. Andre Portasio, Paul’s husband of 17 years shared the heartbreaking news on Thursday, as he revealed that the couple's pet goats, Maleficent and Beebo, sadly died on the same day.Taking to Instagram to share the news, Andre posted a photo of Paul alongside the adorable animals as he wrote: “Bad news that keeps on coming... a very sad day at our house.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tallulah Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has penned an emotional essay for Vogue in which she recounts her family coming to terms with Bruce’s dementia. The actor’s family announced in March 2022 that Willis has aphasia diagnosis, a language disorder caused by brain damage that affects a person’s ability to communicate, and would be retiring from acting as a result. In February, the family confirmed that Bruce’s aphasia was the result of frontotemporal dementia. Tallulah writes that her family is in the “beginning of grief” due to Bruce’s condition. “I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah writes. “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss: ‘Speak up! “Die Hard” messed with Dad’s ears.’ Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally.”

Raven-Symoné is opening up about the reality of dating as “a celebrity in Hollywood.”

Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil has shared an update on new albums from Marmaduke Duke and Tippie Toes.Back in August 2020, the musician said he said he had four albums lined up with his various musical outfits – Biffy Clyro, Marmaduke Duke, Empire State Bastard and Tippie Toes.Now, the Scottish musician has told NME exactly what stage the new albums are currently at.“Well believe it or not, I did just spend two weeks working on Tippie Toes. We do have an album’s worth of material, we just need to edit it,” he said in a recent In Conversation chat.“I don’t want to be flippant with music and would never put it out because it’s almost ready.

The Times of London.The 16-time Grammy winner, who penned some of the biggest tracks for the duo Simon & Garfunkel, said he began to lose his hearing while working on his new album “Seven Psalms” — released last week.The hearing loss will likely take a toll on touring, he says, and will force him to avoid performing songs he doesn’t like.“The songs of mine that I don’t want to sing live, I don’t sing them,” he explained. “Sometimes there are songs that I like and then at a certain point in a tour, I’ll say, ‘What the f— are you doing, Paul?’ Quite often that would come during ‘You Can Call Me Al.’ I’d think, ‘What are you doing? You’re like a Paul Simon cover band.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent If São Paulo state were a country, its 47 million population would make it the third largest in South America: Only the rest of Brazil and Colombia are larger.  From the turn of the century, it has consolidated ever more as Brazil’s artistic powerhouse, growing to represent 50% of Brazil’s creative industries GDP, said Secretary of Culture and Creative Economy Marília Marton at Cannes Marché du Film.  Audiovisual production is in São Paulo’s DNA, she told Variety. “As some other sectors decline, creative industries have a large potential of returns, employment and a market future, so our idea is to grow and broaden the audiovisual market,” she explained. 

Paul Simon's health has taken a drastic change in the last few years — but he's still pushing through. During an interview with, the 81-year-old musician revealed that he recently suffered from unexpected hearing loss that has changed how he approaches his music career.While recording his latest album,, Simon noticed the hearing in his left ear was deteriorating. «Quite suddenly I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it,» he says in.