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Ed Sheeran has said that he is working on new music but it’ll likely be a while before it’s released.The singer-songwriter put out two albums last year, releasing the conclusion to his ‘mathematical-themed series’ ‘-‘ last May and following it up with ‘Autumn Variations’ in September.This year, however, Sheeran has maintained his focus is on touring. He is currently in the middle of the US dates on his ‘Mathematics’ world tour, which will finish in September, and told People that while he worked on new music, it won’t see the light of day for a while.“Nothing’s going to come out this year,” he said [via MusicNews].

Gary Neville believes Erik ten Hag should be given another season in charge at Manchester United.

The 2024 Lovers & Friends Festival has sadly been cancelled mere hours before it was supposed to commence.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees ended its first week of “general” negotiations on a new contract on Friday, and will resume next week. The union spent most of the week focused on its benefit plans, which are facing a $670 million shortfall over the next three years. The Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans extended health coverage to members who were out of work due to last year’s strikes, leaving an unusually large funding gap.

Sad news for Jonas Brothers fans.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Maggie Rogers is headlining arenas for the first time this fall, but she didn’t want it to feel like moving into bigger spaces for her concerts would mean a more impersonal experience. So for 11 shows that just went on sale in late April, she went out and personally manned the box office on opening day to help sell tickets for those big shows.

Jordan Moreau All hope seemed to be lost when the zombie cowboy faced off against the putrid walrus in the final boss battle of “Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern,” which opens at Stage 42 on May 5 in New York City. The cowboy, played by actor Madelyn Murphy, only had one health point left — the result of some unlucky dice rolls and a run-in with a group of dagger-wielding thieves in the first act.

Singer Olly Murs was left apologising to Take That fans on Friday night after an EIGHT hour airport drama meant he missed his slot supporting the manband on their ongoing tour. Olly was due to play the first of three nights with Take That at Glasgow's OVO Hydro on Friday night.

A Scottish singer has taken to the stage as an opening act for Take That - after Scottish presenter Ross King heard him performing in a hotel bar before the show.

Glastonbury Festival has clarified whether or not punters can expect the Euros football matches to be shown at this year’s instalment.The has been some debate from music lovers over recent years on whether or not the Worthy Farm festival should broadcast football matches for punters attending the event over the summer.Generally, organisers have opted against the decision, although some exceptions have been made in the past.Now, with the Euros in mind, the festival has shared a statement discussing the stance it will be taking for the 2024 edition.“Should England or Scotland’s men’s teams qualify from the group stages of this summer’s European Football Championships in Germany, their matches in the Last 16 of the tournament could take place on the Saturday or Sunday evening of this year’s Festival,” read a post on the festival’s website.“In previous years, we have endeavoured to show notable matches on big screens where possible, particularly on days before the main stages have opened.“However, with England and Scotland’s Last 16 matches potentially clashing with headline sets at this year’s Festival, the decision has been made that – as in 2014 and 2016 – should England or Scotland qualify from their groups, their Last 16 matches will not be shown at the Festival.”The post continued, explaining why they have shared the news so far in advance, and sharing their best wishes to the teams.“It won’t be known until the week of the Festival whether or not England or Scotland will actually play a match during the Festival.

Olly Murs has left Scots fans gutted after announcing he will not be performing at the Hydro this evening - just as doors were set to open.

A motorist has described how he 'talked down' a man threatening to jump from a motorway gantry. The drama brought traffic to standstill on the M56 on Thursday afternoon.

Kym Marsh has shared her gratitude at being thought about by those close to her as she was struck down after sharing a big career update. The actress recently shared how she was feeling under the weather and her friend and makeup artist was among those helping her get better.

Inside No.9 has been adapted for the stage and is coming to London’s West End next January.Writers Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith will star in the show, titled Stage/Fright, which is set to be a mix of new material and familiar characters from the award-winning black comedy anthology.The stage adaptation of the BBC series will run for 12 weeks from January 18, and will take place at Wyndham’s Theatre. Tickets for Stage/Fright are set to go on sale on May 8 at 7pm.According to WhatsOnStage, the duo have been asked about doing a live show since the series first started in 2014.

Naman Ramachandran The Royal Shakespeare Company‘s theater adaptation of “The Buddha of Suburbia” had hard acts to follow, coming after an acclaimed novel and TV series. Hanif Kureishi‘s Whitbread Award-winning 1990 novel is one of the seminal works of British literature.

Brooke Vincent has been flooded with messages as she declared she was a 'geek' as she revelled - and rightly so - being on the big screen as she made her next theatre stop.

Cheryl has given a glimpse at her 'late night' with her Girls Aloud bandmates ahead of many late nights to come as they prepare to tour the country for the first time in 11 years. The singer along with Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts were on stage at the Music Week Awards on Thursday night (May 2).

A road in Stockport was cordoned off this morning after a crash.

Liam Gallagher has said he'll play a gig at Lidl in June if the new crisis-hit Coop Live cannot host him - and the supermarket has accepted.

Former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel would reportedly be open to a return to the Premier League amid uncertainty over Erik ten Hag's future at Manchester United.

Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy are set to share the screen with Salma Hayek and Brendan Fraser in an exciting new movie called Sacrifice from director Romain Gavras.

Patti LuPone is heading back to Broadway this summer in the new comedy The Roommate, just two years after she gave up her Actor’s Equity membership card.

Emily Longeretta It was a day of support and encouragement among women — peppered with some hope for change — at Variety‘s Power of Women, presented by Lifetime, on Thursday. The event, which took place at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, honored Shonda Rhimes, Anitta, Mariska Hargitay and Amy Schumer, and was hosted by comedian Amber Ruffin. Before the honorees took the stage, Denise, Dominique and Tanya Brown, the sisters of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, paid tribute to their sister following the debut of the trailer for Lifetime’s upcoming docuseries, “The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.” The four-part special won’t linger on the crime or the “trial of the century,” in which Brown’s ex-husband, O.J.

Fawlty Towers.Confirmation of the new incarnation of the beloved comedy came in February, when Cleese revealed he had written a two-hour play based on three episodes from the series – ‘The Hotel Inspector’, ‘The Germans’ and ‘Communication Problems’.The production will debut at London’s Apollo Theatre on May 15, nearly five decades after the first episode was filmed at the BBC Television Centre in December 1974. Tickets can be found here.And now, Cleese has said that the slurs from the original version of ‘The Germans’, which he co-wrote with Connie Booth, will be taken out of the new adaptation.In one scene of the original, the army veteran Major Gowen uses the N-word when referring to a Caribbean cricketer, and another racial slur to describe an Asian cricketer.At the press conference launching the stage show, Cleese said: “Those scenes where the Major used a couple of words you can’t use now, racial slurs they would come under, we took them out.”“There’s always a problem with comedy that you deal with the literal-minded,” he continued.

Maddy Baloy, a TikToker who had documented her life with terminal cancer, has sadly passed away on Wednesday (May 1). She was only 26 years old.

Cher is a living legend, and at 77, she continues to make headlines. The singer has been dating 38-year-old singer Alexander Edwards, since 2022, and their age gap has fascinated many.In a recent interview with Jennifer Hudson, the “Believe” singer, revealed the hilarious and straightforward reason why dates younger men.

Alex Ritman Anthony Hopkins is taking on yet another iconic figure, this time from the world of music. The stage and screen legend — a two-time Academy Award winner — is attached to star as George Frideric Handel in “The King of Covent Garden,” set during the period the famed opera composer worked on his choral masterpiece “Messiah.” Embankment Films has launched global pre-sales on the project, which is scheduled for a late fall 2025 release.

Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will return to Broadway starring in new comedy The Roommate by Jen Silverman this August, producer Chris Harper announced today.

Naman Ramachandran The London West End stage adaptation of “Fawlty Towers” will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said. “Fawlty Towers – The Play” is based on the classic 1975 sitcom and is written by Cleese and Connie Booth and adapted for the stage by Cleese. Cleese, who co-wrote the original 1975 TV series with Connie Booth and starred as Basil Fawlty, has written the two-hour play based on three of the original TV episodes – “The Hotel Inspector” and “The Germans” from Season 1 and “Communication Problems” from Season 2.

Dua Lipa has said she “manifested” headlining Glastonbury with her third album early on in her career.The pop star is due to top the bill on the Pyramid Stage at the legendary Worthy Farm event next month alongside Coldplay and SZA. She previously played on the John Peel Stage (now Woodsies) in 2016 and 2017.Lipa’s set will follow the release of her “psychedelia, trip-hop, and Britpop”-inspired third album ‘Radical Optimism’, which is out tomorrow (May 3).During a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the singer explained how she “believe[s] in manifestation big time”.