Onlookers ‘strike gold’ after seeing Ed Sheeran gig outside King’s Cross station | Ents & Arts News

Ed Sheeran has wowed fans, onlookers and commuters by playing in a London street. The British singer and songwriter, 34, performed with his acoustic guitar outside King’s Cross station on Friday. Sheeran, wearing a bright pink t-shirt, sang his new track Azizam as well as hits including Perfect, Bad Habits and Shivers. The Shape of You and More...

Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia talked about modern masculinity before Gen Z was born | Ents & Arts News
Despite The Who’s Quadrophenia being set over 60 years ago, Pete Townshend’s themes of identity, mental health, and modern masculinity are just as relevant today. The album is having a renaissance More...

Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault | UK News
Russell Brand has been charged with rape and two counts of sexual assault between 1999 and 2005. The Metropolitan Police say the 50-year-old comedian, actor and author has also been charged with one count of More...

Tom Cruise leads moment of silence in tribute to ‘dear friend’ Val Kilmer | Ents & Arts News
Tom Cruise has paid tribute to Val Kilmer, wishing his Top Gun co-star “well on the next journey”. Cruise, speaking at the CinemaCon film event in Las Vegas on Thursday, asked for a moment’s More...

Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan revealed in line-up for Sam Mendes’ four Beatles films | Ents & Arts News
Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan will play Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the upcoming Beatles films – with a Stranger Things star also portraying one of the Fab Four. The two Irish actors will be joined More...

‘A genius actor’, ‘firecracker’, and ‘my friend’: Tributes paid to Top Gun star Val Kilmer | Ents & Arts News
Actors, directors and celebrity friends have paid tribute to Val Kilmer, after he died aged 65. The California-born star of Top Gun, Batman and Heat died of pneumonia on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, his daughter More...

Gary Glitter made bankrupt after failing to pay £500k compensation to victim | UK News
Gary Glitter has been made bankrupt after failing to pay more than £500,000 in damages to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old. She sued the disgraced singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, after he More...

Val Kilmer dies aged 65 – US media reports | Ents & Arts News
Val Kilmer, the actor who starred in Top Gun and played Batman and Jim Morrison, has died aged 65, the New York Times reports. His daughter Mercedes told the paper he died of pneumonia. Kilmer was diagnosed More...

Stalker who believed Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas was his aunt avoids jail | Ents & Arts News
A man who stalked Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas for six years has avoided jail. Kyle Shaw, 37, got a 20-month suspended sentence and a lifetime restraining order on contacting Ballas, her mother, More...

Sir Keir Starmer hosts creators of hit Netflix drama Adolescence – and tells them he’s ‘not found it easy viewing’ | Politics News
Sir Keir Starmer has met with the creators of Adolescence for talks on how to prevent young boys being dragged into a “whirlpool of hatred and misogyny”. The prime minister hosted a roundtable in More...