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The 00s pop group Scissor Sisters are said to be working on new music and had 10 UK Top 40 tracks including I Don’t Feel like Dancin’ and Filthy/Gorgeous

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Huge 00s pop group Scissor Sisters are making a comeback and working on new music, thanks to the success of their reunion tour this summer. The band last made music together 14 years ago.

By the time the band broke up in 2011, they had amassed ten UK Top 40 tracks and two No. 1 albums. Their biggest hits, such as I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’, Take Your Mama and Filthy/Gorgeous are iconic songs of the Noughties.

14 years after the release of their last album, frontman Jake Shears, guitarist Del Marqui and bassist BabyDaddy (real name Scott Hoffman) are reuniting for another record. They are joined by current band members, Bridget Barkan and Amber Martin. The news was revealed at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, which celebrate the LGBTQIA community and its allies. According to the band, who were there to take home the Music Icon award, they were already back in the studio.

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Jake said: “Scissor Sisters has always been about coming as you are, coming together and celebrating what it means to be a human being. And it’s exciting to look back but it’s really exciting to look forward too. We’re back in the studio making new music after a long time and the next chapter feels like it’s well under way.”

As of yet, former vocalist Ana Matronic (real name Ana Kirby) does not seem to be involved. Ana did not rejoin the band when they first announced their in October 2024, and wrote on Instagram that the timing wasn’t right.

“People familiar with my story and career arc will know that in the heart of this Showgirl lies a giant Nerd,” she penned. “In the past decade my Nerd self has taken the wheel and is now driving my career. I am currently finishing production on the first season of my history podcast Good Time Sallies, which has grown into several long-term research and writing projects.

“With contracts signed and schedules agreed on these commitments, the timing of a Scissor reunion does not allow me to join my former bandmates for this tour. I wish the band and our fans all the best… I will be there in spirit to kiki with you!”

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Elsewhere during the awards night on Wednesday (8 October), Jake performed on stage in a bright jump suit. During his acceptance speech for the Music Icon award, he also cracked jokes about the band.

He told the crowd: “The most incredible thing about being back here after all these years is how little we’ve aged.” More seriously, he added: “I hope we continue to inspire others and those that come after us to create and express themselves freely and find the joy in not always taking yourself so seriously.”

Jake also said the UK has made him and the band, who are all from America, feel “loved and accepted”, even if their headline slot at Glastonbury this year was scheduled at the same time as Charli XCX and Doechii.

“The UK’s been a place that has made us feel so loved and accepted,” he shared. “Ironically though, the most homophobic thing that has ever happened in our career here was at Glastonbury this year — putting us against Charli XCX and Doechii this last summer. It’s terrible.

“But people showed up and they brought their friends and their boyfriends and their kids and their nannas and it reminded us why we do this all in the first place.”

Football star David Beckham thanked his wife, Victoria Beckham, for giving him ‘four beautiful children’ following the Netflix premiere of her new programme

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David Beckham has thanked his wife, Victoria Beckham, for giving him ‘four beautiful children’ amid the family feud with eldest son, Brooklyn. The Beckham family, minus Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz, celebrated the release of Victoria’s new Netflix documentary this week.

Given the ongoing feud in the Beckham family, Brooklyn was not expected to feature in this doc or be mentioned. But he does make a fleeting appearance. During the premiere, Victoria made sure to thank the aspiring chef and former aspiring photographer in her opening speech.

Speaking on stage, she said: “I’d like to thank the Spice Girls, Geri, Emma, Melanie and Melanie, I love you so much and thank you so much; my children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, Harper and David.”

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When the crowd laughed at Victoria implying David was her child, she gasped: “Oh my God, he’s not a child! I was doing so well without cards as well. It’s taken me this process to be proud of what I’ve achieved and to realise finally that I am enough.”

After the family affair at Curzon cinema, David took to his Instagram to share a video of him dancing with the love of his life to Whitney Houston’s hit song How Will I Know at the premiere’s after party.

He wrote: “I love you Mrs Beckham for many reasons, for being my wife, for giving me 4 beautiful children, for making my vitamins each day & for bringing your story to life.

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“I’m very proud of the journey you have been on and continue to go on and to show people the struggles that helped get you here… you should be very proud.

“And for the record you can make a Ham&Cheese sandwich very well. We love you x @victoriabeckham.”

An emotional Victoria wrote: “I’m crying happy tears. I love you so much.” Not long before, David shared snaps from the red carpet as he praised his wife.

He wrote: “Such a special evening celebrating Victoria Beckham on Netflix. We love you so much and can’t wait for people to watch and see just how much of a warm, loving and hard working person you are… we are so proud.”

Meanwhile, nepo baby couple Brooklyn and Nicola managed around five seconds on screen in the new Netflix series as they were shown arriving for Victoria’s fashion show in 2024 in Paris shortly before the rift began.

It is a heartbreaking glimpse of the son Victoria and David are now estranged from following a rift which has continued throughout 2025.

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Celebrity Traitors star Charlotte Church has found a new passion in life practicing witchcraft and offers a course at her retreat to help others ‘heal the witch wound’ and connect to magic

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She is currently on TV screens starring in Celebrity Traitors with 18 other celebrities, including Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross and Paloma Faith, but off screen Charlotte Church has turned to a very different pursuit.

The Voice of an Angel singing sensation set up a wellness centre in Wales a couple of years ago at a beautiful country house where she guides guests through immersive experiences such as breathwork, forest bathing and creative expression.

She has been working as a sound healer at the retreat for some time but has just branched out into a whole new area – witchcraft.

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The Dreaming’s website offers a variety of experiences for guests to enrol in, with the newest being Witch. The “enchanting” five-day retreat is for “17 souls ready to embody their magic through ritual, nature and deep witchcraft practices”.

Charlotte, 39, is one of two high priestesses who lead the course which is described as an “immersive retreat designed to activate the witch within: blending ancient wisdom, elemental magic, and deep self-exploration.”

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The website goes on to explain how it works: “Led by singer and spiritual guide Charlotte Church and High Priestess and author Tree Carr, this retreat is an opportunity to rekindle your craft through ritual, herbalism, dream-work, plant-spirit connection, meditation, sound and sacred art.

“We’ll awaken our witch’s voice through sound rituals woven with the rhythms of nature. Chanting at dawn, humming at dusk, invoking breath and tone, we align our magic with the sun, the land and the unseen. These are not songs to perform but spells to cast, prayers to plant and vibrations to stir the wild world awake,” it reads.

In an accompanying video Charlotte is seen staring in wonder up through the trees while walking barefoot through mud in the forest. “I need you to remember, listen closely, listen deep,” she whispers mystically. “Do you hear the whisperings of your blood?”

As a haunting tune is sung in the background, presumably by Charlotte, she sings, “the ancient understanding in your bones” and asks, “do you remember beloved? Can you feel her? The priestess is rising.” At the end of the video she can be seen dancing in a circle with others who are wearing headdresses, flowing tunics and face paint while they play instruments.

Charlotte has completely embraced her new life working at The Dreaming where she also works as a sound healer “I’m doing stuff at The Dreaming, which is really about pulling out the strands of how sound can be used for healing, how voice can be used for healing. I wanna sort of try and meld this idea of music and healing, and voice and healing, with that joy and ecstasy.”

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She has previously discussed how taking magic mushrooms helped her get in tune with nature. She revealed she first took the hallucinogenic drug which can be eaten or made into a tea, in her 20s. “When I was about 27, I took magic mushrooms for the first time,” she told The Skylark. “That experience created a different sort of connection, a deeper understanding, far more intrinsic and connected to patterns. You can never unsee or unfeel that connection once it happens. Ever since then I’ve been diving deeper and deeper into my spiritual journey – the idea of the unseen world, the wonder, awe, and power of nature.”

Recently she spoke to Martha Kearney on her BBC Radio 4 podcast about the drug. “My relationship with nature started to blossom partly when I had kids and then partly when I first took magic mushrooms for the first time,” she said. “When I took magic mushrooms, everything, everything in nature just opened up and began communicating. When you see that you can’t unsee it.”

When Charlotte acquired The Dreaming she spoke about wanting to have a change of path and how she knew she wanted to buy the property as soon as she saw it. “I didn’t want to have to make a living from showbusiness any longer,” she explained. “I wanted to make art and music, but not be reliant on celebrity; to live more in line with my values.”

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Charlotte and second husband Jonathan Powell bought Rhydoldog, the former idyllic home of designer Laura Ashley, back in 2021 and opened it as wellness centre, The Dreaming, in 2023. It is set in 47 acres of ancient woodland, which is described as, “a haven nestled in magical lands of Wales” which is, “the perfect setting for witches to reconnect with the old ways”.

A four-night stay costs £3,000 in what is called luxury accommodation. Home cooked food and drinks are included in the price as is access to the home, gardens, land and plunge pools. According to the centre’s Instagram the first retreat in June this year sold out so more dates were added. The next Witch retreat runs in early December, with two more scheduled for 2026.

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Despite this, The Dreaming is reported to be struggling to make a profit. After making a whopping £25million from her singing career, last year Charlotte admitted she is no longer a millionaire. She was said to have been forced to sell her home and downsize to a semi-detached house.

She and her family lived in a huge mansion, The Spinney, in Dinas Powys, Wales. She is believed to have paid £1.3million for it in 2010 and made almost a million profit when it sold for £2million. Charlotte had previously told Closer about the school she ran from the “beautiful” property. “We had a school there for a bit and a studio,” she said. “When it is used by the community, it makes sense, but when it is not used, it doesn’t.”

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Loose Women broadcaster Kaye Adams has opened up about her heath fears after an experience with a Pilates class left her ‘really scared’

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Loose Women star Kaye Adams has opened up about her recent health scare after attending a Pilates class that left her “really scared” she was having a stroke.

Kaye, 62, explained that at a reformer Pilates class she went to over the weekend, she was hit by a wave of dizziness and lost her balance.

Opening up about the experience on the How to be 60 podcast, she shared that the “horrible” physical feelings made her fear the worst was happening.

“Do you know what I’ve had recently, it’s the funniest thing,” she started. “I went to my Pilates last Sunday, the reformer Pilates, I call it disco Pilates, because it’s all bright lights and music.

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“I got off the reformer and my goodness the world began to spin. Like a Tom and Jerry cartoon when there’s birds going around the head. I thought, ‘Oh my God I’m having a stroke’.”

She added: “I was really scared actually, it was horrible. I just couldn’t get my balance.” Kaye continued to admit that what was actually happening was “really weird”.

“I’ve checked it out and apparently it’s vertigo,” she shared. “Apparently it’s crystals in your ear that get dislodged and you can be prone to it. It’s a really weird thing.”

According to the NHS, vertigo is a feeling that you or your environment are moving, when you’re not. It can cause a loss of balance and dizziness, as Kaye described, as well as nausea.

Vertigo is thought to be a symptom of something bigger rather than a condition itself. The most common causes are inner ear problems, which can be helped with gentle movement and medications.

Kaye confessed that her vertigo attack was ironic as she’d previously been skeptical of a friend who suffered from it last year. “Funnily a friend of mine had told me last year that she had it and I remember at the time thinking that’s a load of nonsense! And then when it happened I was like ‘Oh I’m going to call her, because she knows how I feel’.”

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This is the second health scare Kaye has suffered from in recent years. In January 2024, she was terrified she had a tumour after a “traumatic” incident resulted in hearing loss.

Taking to Instagram, she explained that she couldn’t hear anything in her right ear when getting ready for an episode of Loose Women. “I thought, “Oh my god, what has gone wrong?'” she said after rushing herself to A&E.

Kaye praised the nurses at the hospital for calming her down as she started to panic. They sent her for an audiogram which confirmed that the hearing loss was harmless, after which she said she was “embarrassed” by the situation.

“I am embarrassed to say this because, honestly, my head was going to some terrible terrible tumour, I am very melodramatic. But [the audiologist] pulled out the biggest bit of wax you have ever seen.”

If untreated, a build up of ear wax can lead to temporary hearing loss, tinnitus, earaches and dizziness. It can also put you at a greater risk of infection. The NHS advises putting two or three drops of “medical grade olive or almond oil” in the affected ear three to four times a day for up to five days to treat it yourself.

Charlie XCX’s upcoming drama film, The Moment, will feature a number of huge A-list names, including billionaire Kylie Jenner

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Charli XCX has confirmed the huge new cast for her new drama film, The Moment. The A24-backed film is based on an original idea by the brat singer, who also stars in the upcoming movie about a rising pop star navigating the difficulties of fame and the intense music industry.

She will be producing the film, which will be released next year, under her Studio365 label alongside David Hinojosa. Some of the A-list cast members include Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott, Aidan Zamiri, and Alexander Skarsgard. Others joining the cast are Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Demetriou, Arielle Dombasle, Hailey Benton Gates, and Trew Mullen.

Mel Ottenberg, Richard Perez, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah, Tish Weinstock, Michael Workéyè, Shygirl, A. G. Cook and Kate Berlant will also be featured.

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A teaser for the film, uploaded onto her Instagram page, showed the names of the stars featuring in the movie flashing across the screen in blinding lights.

Fans, friends and brands were over the moon with the announcement, with Grinder’s page writing: “She’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she IS the moment,” while one fan commented: “Counting down the seconds!!!”

“Amazing!!! I can’t wait to see it,” one said and another person posted: “Seizuring but slay.”

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It comes as fans were convinced the Brat singer could be plotting revenge against Taylor Swift, who appears to reference a feud in her new album.

Reception to Taylor’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has been mixed. And there’s been plenty of conversation about who the Eras Tour super-star could be referring to in her track, Actually Romantic.

Actually Romantic features the lyrics: “I heard you call me Boring Barbie when the coke’s got you brave / High-fived my ex and then said you’re glad he ghosted me.

“Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some people might be offended / But it’s actually sweet.”

Meanwhile, fans are convinced the shade was thrown at Charli, with some pointing out that the 365 singer is back in the studio again.

It lead some to speculate whether or not she will be releasing a diss track in response to Actually Romantic. A picture of Charli in the studio has garnered more than 18.7million views on X – and people are very excited at the prospect of new music.

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A popular Irish rock band announced they made the decision to split after a decade performing together, with the group writing one more album before they part ways

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Kodaline, the beloved Irish band, has announced their split after a decade-long journey together. The group, comprising Steve Garrigan, Vincent May, Mark Prendergast and Jason Boland, have assured fans that they will be hitting the studio “one last time” to create their fifth and final album.

The Dublin-based band shared the news via a video on their Instagram page on Thursday. The caption accompanying the video read: “After over a decade, it’s time to say goodbye. With all our love VSMJ,” along with the hashtags: #ThankYou #KodalineLastAlbum #KodalineOneLastTime.

In a voiceover for the video, the band members expressed: “After over a decade together we’ve made the difficult decision to say goodbye to Kodaline.”

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“It might come as a surprise, and it’s definitely bittersweet for us too. What we’ve shared has changed our lives forever. From busking on the streets of Dublin to playing shows across the world, it really has been the stuff that dreams are made of.

“We want it to end on a high, so before we say goodbye, we’re heading into the studio one last time to record our fifth and final album as Kodaline.

“We are, and always will be, forever grateful for your love and support.

“It’s been a journey that we’ll never forget and we hope that the music stays with you long after we’re gone.”

They concluded the video by saying: “With all our love Vinny, Steve, Mark and Jay,” reports the Irish Mirror.

Fans rushed to the comment section of their post on social media to share their shock, with one user writing: “When you said your last goodbye, i died a little bit inside.. never hit harder than today.”

“This is my biggest heartbreak for the year,” another fan commented while one friend said: “Ah lads. You brought me on my first ever tour and completely changed my life. Will always be the best

Originally known as 21 Demands, the band was formed in Swords, north county Dublin and rebranded themselves as Kodaline in 2012 to reflect their new musical direction.

They have released four albums to date: In a Perfect World (2013), Coming Up for Air (2015), Politics of Living (2018), and One Day at a Time (2020).

The last time Kodaline performed in Ireland was when they headlined the Electric Picnic festival in 2024.

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