Months after being rushed to hospital following a horrific fall, one Marvel star has issued a heartbreaking health update that revealed her brain is operating at a “decreased capacity”
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Lost and Marvel star suffering ‘brain damage’ after horror accident(Image: Getty Images)
One star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and hit series Lost has shared that she received a brain damage diagnosis following a horrific accident that left her bloodied and in hospital.
Evangeline Lilly, who played Hope Van Dyne in the Ant-Man films and Kate Austen in Lost, had a face-first fall in May that gave her a concussion. After months of tests, Evangeline posted a video to Instagram where she explained how bad the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) really was.
“It’s late on January 1. The first day of 2026. I’m entering into this new year, the year of the horse, with some bad news about my concussion,” she said to the camera.
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“The results came back from the scan, and almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity. I do have brain damage from the TBI and possibly other factors going on. My job now is to get to the bottom of that with my doctors.”
Cognitive decline can occur following a head injury, particularly where a concussion is involved. The decreased brain function can cause issues with thinking, memory, and concentration.
Evangneline added: “[I will] embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I’m not looking forward to. I feel like hard work is all I do. But that’s okay. My cognitive decline is because I smashed my face open.
“It’s helped me to slow down and helped me to have a more restful finish to my 2025… Feeling extraordinarily grateful and blessed to be able to play one more day, one more year on this beautiful living planet.”
Back in May 2025, just under a year after Evangeline retired from acting to focus on her family, the former Lost star shared photos on Instagram of her face, which had dried blood caked under her nose. Evangeline revealed she had been rushed to hospital in Hawaii after fainting.
“I fainted at the beach. And fell face first into a boulder,” she wrote in the caption. “At the hospital, the nurses and doctor went straight into action, more determined to find the cause of my blackout than to stitch up the hole punctured into my face by the rock.” She added in a Substack article that she had been having fainting spells since she was a child.
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In the comments of her latest video, several people sent messages of support, including Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Lilly’s onscreen mum in the Ant-Man films. “You are a warrior. Nothing-not even this will defeat you my friend,” the actress wrote.
Likewise, in May, David Dastmalchian wrote: “Oh Noooo!!! Hope you’re okay!” Nathan Fillion added: “Oh my gosh. I first thought this was for a role! I’m now confining myself to “sand only” beaches. Please recover quickly.” And Walton Goggins said: “Hey hey… alright… making sure you’re ok.”
Fans are hoping Kev Townsend will return to the village soon enough despite the fact that Emmerdale’s Chris Coghill has confirmed that he’s leaving the soap.
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In Emmerdale, Chris Coghill portrays Kev Townsend.
Emmerdale star Chris Coghill has revealed that his last moments as Kev Townsend have already been broadcast, though viewers (and his co-stars) are desperately hoping for his return.
Kev initially fled the village soon after his arrival when he realised he couldn’t split up Robert Sugden and Aaron Dingle. But he made a comeback during the Christmas period alongside Aaron’s villainous former flame John, with the pair apparently joining forces in a chilly partnership.
He refused to go through with John’s most recent scheme, choosing instead to alert Aaron about the peril he faced. Kev also paid a visit to his son Lewis Barton, who still has no clue about his true parentage.
Nicola King delivered him a final ultimatum, demanding that Kev either step up as a proper father to Lewis or disappear permanently.
Kev reportedly abandoned his son, leaving Lewis without the knowledge that he would perform better without him.
Coghill has now revealed that his stint on Emmerdale has come to an end, posting on Instagram : “Right. In a bit Emmerdale. Been an absolute joy. Thanks for all the love for Kev”, followed by “#kevout”.
Fans made it abundantly clear in the responses that they are desperate to see Kev make another comeback, and not just because of Lewis’s potential plots.
One viewer pleaded, “Please come back, Chris.” “Kev was the best thing that ever happened in Emmerdale,” said Kev. Complete nonsense, but bloody hilarious xx.
You made Kev a fan favorite instead of a dislikeable character. Please do it if you ever get the chance to visit again for the viewers who love you, a second fan remarked.
A third viewer lamented, “I absolutely love Kev and I need him to know his son,” while a fourth expressed, “I wish they were keeping him.” Additionally, Bradley Riches, who is well known for his role in Lewis, made the comment, “MISS YOU dad XX.
Danny Miller, who portrays Aaron, continued, “I’m gonna start a petition.”
Could one of Emmerdale’s biggest stars’ public pleading indicate a potential return for Kev? Only time will tell.
Just last year, Chris told The Mirror that when he was first offered the part, something about the role made him not want it initially. He learned the big news that Kev would at some point be killed off and possibly soon.
With that in mind, actor Chris decided against accepting the position because he wanted something to last a lifetime. That is until Chris decided to continue working with Kev after being told by his bosses who were aware of who she was and what kind of fun she could have with the character.
He stated to us, “When I was offered it and I was told he died, I thought, I like Emmerdale and I’d like to be around a little bit, so I’d want to come and do something that had some potential longevity.”
Actually, this sounds like a lot of fun when I was told who the character was and I arrived to find out they weren’t meeting anyone else.
Joel Dommett, a mask singer, excels at keeping secrets, but not Jonathan Ross, a panelist’s secrets.
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Joel Dommett presents ITV’s The Masked Singer on Saturday nights.(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Berkley London)
Joel Dommett is trusted to keep the identities of celebrities competing in The Masked Singer secret.
But, ahead of the new series starting on ITV tonight, he reveals some hilarious gaffes from past series and exposes the dressing room secrets of panelist Jonathan Ross.
He tells The Mirror: “His dressing room is like a boutique. He gets a whole van to arrive at his house the day before filming, picks up all of this stuff. It’s different stuff every time.
It’s entertaining for us to enter and think, “Oh, he’s decided to bring this chair.” His armchairs. Additionally, he has magazine racks abound. He has a ton of different wall art, posters, and vinyls. He has a gorgeous boudoir when I’m just sat there in a plain dressing room.
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However, Jonathan’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the showbiz world is an asset when it comes to guessing the identities of the stars taking part, alongside fellow panelists comic Mo Gilligan, Love Island presenter Maya Jama and TV presenter Davina McCall, who Joel calls his “TV mum”.
He’s like an encyclopedia of business knowledge, Joel says. I can’t imagine the conversations his wife and his wife must have in bed. She is an incredible writer. He also shares some untold tales about Jonathan’s boudoir.
Joel, 40, states, “I visited Jonathan’s home. In his dressing room, Jonathan had a raised floor made of Perspex, which must have been fantastic when he installed it in the 1990s, and I’m guessing that each pair of shoes will be contained in separate boxes.
He presses a “little button” to make each pair of shoes rise up. The Perspex box then descends when you take the shoes out. When I arrived, the box had broken, so he had to take the shoes out one by one.
Jonathan has a bar and an art collection that Joel claims are “worth nothing to anyone other than him,” in addition to his extensive collection of suits. He continues, “Davina [McCall] has become sort of my TV mother who looks like she’s my sister,” blatantly referring to another co-star. She appears fantastic. She looks incredible no matter what age she is.
The Masked Singer has attracted around 4.5 million viewers since its launch in 2020 thanks to its cast of enigmatic celebrities dressed as Pufferfish, Wolf, Moth, and Arctic Fox. Joel admits that his first thought when he first started joining the podcast was, “What is this nonsense?”
But, delighted to be part of the “nonsense,” he also says there have been some hilarious bloopers. He laughs, remembering one moment during an arena show with Rita Ora. He says: “She genuinely thought one of the singers was Muhammad Ali. And she didn’t know that Muhammad Ali has left us. And also the fact that she thought Muhammad Ali would be there!”
He also searched the audience for the man’s daughter to discover who she believed to have seen on another occasion. He claims that it was the O2 in London in reference to the young woman’s confirmation that Whitney Houston was the subject. Because Whitney was dead, immediately 12, 000 people were merely laughing at the six-year-old. She deserves all praise. He claims, “Bless her heart.”
Joel, who is now a household name, describes it as a far cry from his early years on his family’s farm in Gloucestershire, thanks to shows like The Masked Singer. He states, “I was raised in the middle of nowhere on a very small farm. The closest person, who was my age, was quite a distance away. I basically sat on a hay bale.
And he eventually found his voice in comedy after moving to London, where he met comic James Acaster, who inspired him to pursue his stand-up dreams. He recalls how he used to frequent comedy clubs, recalling that he had a “little bike” that he had bought in a charity shop every night. And so, I had the chance to do more gigs because I had a bike.
So I’d spend two or three nights riding my bike from place to place until I was sweaty before going on stage again, going home, and taking notes. I sublet my friend’s tiny apartment in Elephant and Castle [south London] for a while. Really, really, really cheap.
“And then all the comedians used to come back to my house and we would just watch YouTube, which was a very new thing at that time, until like 4am – watching these American acts in the Laugh Factory. The generation before us, they just had to buy DVDs. But suddenly, we had a wealth of comedy, good, bad, different styles. It just felt like such an exciting time.”
Joel is gearing up for the rest of his Happy Idiot UK tour next month while he continues to perform stand-up. Why was the tour called “Happy Idiot,” he asks. It kind of sums up what I believe. Actually, I believe it pretty much sums up my comedic style. Off-stage, Joel claims that his two-year-old son Wilde and his wife Hannah keep him grounded.
At the end of last year, Joel and his family spent six weeks in Australia, joining Ant and Dec, for the last series of I’m A Celebrity – where he bonded with Ant as his one-year-old son is called Wilder. Joel, who hosts I’m a Celebrity…Unpacked, laughs: “The whole family went. It’s just nice to have Wilde and Wilder together.”
However, Joel claims that fame has been known to stifle family life when drunken students in Shepperton, Surrey, cheekily yelled “Take it off, take it off” before he built a gate and raised a hedge.
He claims that the couple relocated five years ago. The house was very welcoming and welcoming, but then someone knocked on my door, ran away, and yelled “Take it off, take it off, take it off” several times. They’re funny, but my wife is really scared by it. So we needed a hedge and a gate. What impact does that have on deliveries? It does, however, make life more difficult. However, it’s good because a few packages have been taken from outside our door. “
The Adolescent star teases a role in the upcoming James Bond movie with friend and collaborator Steven Knight, calling it “shiny b*******s.”
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Stephen Graham slams awards as ‘b******s’ as he teases James Bond role(Image: Variety via Getty Images)
Stephen Graham, star of awards circuit favourite Adolescence, has called awards “shiny b******s”, as he teases a role in the next James Bond film. Stephen had a knockout year in 2025, after starring in and co-creating Netflix’s hit psychological series.
Adolescence was released in March last year and followed Jamie Miller, a 13 year-old who murdered a female classmate. Stephen, who played Jamie’s father, co-wrote the series about toxic masculinity in teenage boys with Jack Thorne. He has already won a Best Actor and Writer award at the Emmys and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award.
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In an interview with The Guardian, Stephen said he didn’t care about the awards – the impact on viewers was the real prize. “Having a fella come up in Tesco and say: ‘I just want to thank you. I had a really good chat with my son the other night after we watched your programme.’ No disrespect but you can keep your awards and all that shiny b*******s. That’s the real accolade.”
The announcement comes just one day before Stephen’s announcement that he won the Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Actor in a Limited Series and Best Actor in a Limited Series.
Erin Doherty, who played a psychologist, and Christine Tremarco, who played Jamie’s mother, are both nominated for Supporting Actress, while Owen Cooper, who plays Jamie, and Ashley Walters, who play the detective in charge of the case, are also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The show has also received an abundance of praise, including from political figures. Shortly after it was released on Netflix, MP Annaliese Midgley said it’s exploration of the impact of the manosphere meant the series should be shown in schools to combat the rise in misogyny in young men and boys. The call was backed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who made the show free for viewing in UK secondary schools.
Elsewhere in the interview, Stephen discussed his collaboration with screenwriter and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Stephen and Steven worked together on boxing period drama A Thousand Blows in 2025 and are now collaborating on a new film for the Birmingham gangster series, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
The next James Bond movie’s screenplay is also being written by the screenwriter. Daniel Craig has most recently played the iconic martini drinking spy, but he will not be reprising his role in the movie after leaving No Time To Die.
The Guardian asked Steven and Stephen if they were a “scouse 007,” and who would play the role has not yet been revealed.
Stephen claimed that being a villain would be “more enjoyable.” The screenwriter concurred that the majority of the “great” actors he’d spoken to did the same. Many well-known Bond villains have been portrayed by well-known actors, including Mads Mikkelsen’s Le Chiffre, played by Mads Mikkelsen, Max Zorin from A View To A Kill, Max Zorin from A View To A Kill, Janus from Goldeneye, played by Sean Bean, and Le Chiffre from Casino Royale, played by Mads Mikkelsen.
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In terms of 007, several British actors have been cast as potential replacements. Idris Elba, Callum Turner, and Harris Dickinson are just a few of them. Some people have suggested Aussie actor Jacob Elordi, despite the fact that British or Irish actors have yet to play Bond.
Although David Bowie passed away ten years ago, the world still remembers his legacy as one of the most influential and adored musical icons of all time.
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David Bowie performs live on stage at Earls Court Arena on May 12 1973 during the Ziggy Stardust tour.(Image: Redferns)
A decade since Bowie’s death, younger artists, from Lady Gaga and the Last Dinner Party to Charli xcx and Arctic Monkeys, are open about how indebted to Bowie they are.
The musical icon has inspired everyone from politicians to filmmakers including Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese, who both cast him in their pictures alongside a steady stream of reissues, live albums and biographies which are keeping his name alive.
Bowie probably trails only the Beatles in terms of personal and cultural influence in Britain, and he has long since overtaken them.
He was against public fawning over him because he rejected the knighthood, but he continues to be one of the most well-known rock stars that the nation has ever produced.
A proud Londoner whose many years living in Switzerland and New York never diluted his love for his home country, nor the affection the British feel for him today. It was a very different story three and a half decades ago.
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The music critic Jon Wilde ended one especially damning review with the words, “sit down, man, you’re a f***ing disgrace”, and as Bowie struggled to interest the world in the dire hard-rock act Tin Machine that he founded in the late 80s, it seemed as if The Man Who Fell To Earth was now the man who was washed up.
But 25 years later, Bowie could release his final album, in the form of the magnificent swansong Blackstar, two days before his death, and know that he would be remembered as a god among mere mortals as long as his music is listened to, and loved. What exactly changed and what ultimately went exactly right?
Bowie initially came to fame in 1969, after several false starts, with his hit single Space Oddity. Released on July 11 that year, it became far more prominent when the BBC used it as background music 10 days later to accompany their footage of the Apollo 11 moon landings. A top five hit, it ensured the former David Jones, regarded by many as a novelty pop singer and yet to achieve the success he thought he deserved, soon became a household name.
Following the success of Hunky Dory, which gave rise to one of his best-known and most-loved songs, Life on Mars, album after album? – and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, a lavish concept album revolving around the idea of Bowie as the eponymous Ziggy, a “rock ‘ n ‘ roll messiah” who comes to Earth when the planet is doomed.
He presented himself as a master of reinvention, a man ‘ ‘ who would switch bands, collaborators and musical styles from one year, even one month, to the next”. With Brian Eno, he co-wrote the boundary-pushing new-wave rock in Berlin, creating the dazzling Station to Station while apparently surviving on cocaine, red peppers, and milk, and storing his urine in jars for fear that witches might steal it.
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), one of his greatest-ever albums, was released in 1980, and the rock star’s 1983 album Let’s Dance successfully made a pop idol out of himself. Idea after idea flowed from him and he devil, received adulation that his to jealous peers could only dream about. Then it malfunctioned. Satan came to collect at some point in 1987, when his client released his first truly terrible album, Never Let Me Down, if Bowie had sold his soul to the devil in order to achieve earthly album success.
His previous release, Tonight, had been rocky too, but was saved by its singles. This release, which sold surprisingly poorly and was criticized by critics and music lovers alike, had no such redeeming effect. In an effort to reclaim the Ziggy era of restless creativity, Bowie made the announcement to form Tin Machine. Yet even as he kept telling the world that he was just a guy in a band now, not the all-conquering icon of music he had once been, few believed him.
In the 1980s and 1990s, I imagined Bowie as a middle-aged man who could produce the kind of tasteful but boring music that aspirational estate agents might play on their CD player in a car.
Bowie’s misses, in fact, were worse than that. Tin Machine produced two albums which nobody much liked, and then his big 1993 comeback album, Black Tie White Noise, may have been produced by Nile Rodgers but its ragtag collection of covers and songs earnestly criticising the evils of racism failed to chime with the mood of a country emerging into the Britpop era of Blur and Oasis.
Marriage to the model Iman gave him personal fulfilment and a reunion with Eno on the 1995 album Outside saw him produce his best work in over a decade, but the mainstream had moved on by then. His drum ‘n’ bass album Earthling was actively embarrassing, like seeing your father in hot pants, despite his attempts to reclaim the era. The world was still so fond of Bowie when he triumphantly performed at Glastonbury in 2000. As he played the greatest hits set that he swore he’d never play again, and gave festival-goers the experience of their lives.
After releasing Heathen and Reality, Bowie seemed content with taking up his position in the rock industry as a reticent visionary who enjoyed delight in having a new parent and capturing audiences’ attention once more in the process. Tragedies struck when he nearly died from a heart attack while on tour in 2004 and abruptly stopped playing music for the next ten years. He acted in Nolan’s The Prestige, sang on a Scarlett Johansson album and made guest appearances with the likes of Arcade Fire and David Gilmour.
And then he was prepared to return, as he did with the triumphant The Next Day in 2013. He never gave a live performance or an interview, but he occasionally made teasing appearances, like when he persuaded Kate Moss to accept a Brit award and arranged for her to deliver a union-supporting message just before the Scottish independence referendum.
He would then record and release Blackstar, one of his greatest albums, but he knew it was a last gift to his fans, as he was diagnosed with terminal cancer during its creation. In a final creative slog, he co-wrote the musical Lazarus and even planned a sequel, The Spectator, which was accompanied by thousands of other objects, including costumes, documents, and other artefacts, when the David Bowie Center opened in V&, A East in September 2025. When he passed away, grieving fans flooded London and New York to play his songs and offer their support. A sign said, appropriately enough:” The Starman has returned home. “
I’ve been wanting to write about Bowie my entire life, but I never knew what to tell. Finally, the response arrived. In my book Lazarus, I explore what it was to have once been acclaimed and hugely successful, then to struggle and, finally, to attain a level of respect and love that is unmatched. Many interviewees with him reveal some powerful words and irrational conclusions about a man who always had his desires, but I hope this is the definitive account of his later life and career.
And the best part is that I now listen to his music with renewed respect and admiration, not by distancing myself from his music. Starman, hero, poet – Dave from Brixton was all those things, but above all else, he was a legend, and that, I am sure, is how he would like to be charts later remembered a decade on.
While noticeably absent from his own family’s celebrations, Brooklyn Beckham stated that he is “grateful” to spend the New Year with his wife and Nicola Peltz’s family.
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Brooklyn and his inlaws already celebrated Christmas.
Brooklyn Beckham has shared that he is “grateful” to have spent New Year ’s Eve with his wife Nicola Peltz ’s family, a move that has once again shone a spotlight on his ongoing rift with his famous parents, David and Victoria Beckham.
The 25-year-old took to Instagram Stories to mark the start of the new year, reposting snaps that his wife Nicola had posted. The picture was captioned: “i’m so grateful to start the year with these humans” and then an array of tags which also included Brooklyn and Nicola’s brother Bradley. Noticeably absent from his posts were any references to his own family, amid growing speculation that relations remain strained.
The latest update comes as rumours of a feud between Brooklyn and the Beckhams refuse to die down. Fans have been quick to notice that Brooklyn has been missing from several recent family gatherings and social media posts, including David Beckham ’s New Year recap, which initially failed to include his eldest son.
As 50 Cent took to the stage after the bells rang out, Brooklyn, 26, and Nicola, 30, both of South Florida, seemed to be having a blast. As they introduced 2026 in style, they were spotted raising their arms and posing with joy.
It comes as Brooklyn’s parents appeared to make another attempt to heal the rift between the family that has been simmering away publicly for months. Taking to Instagram , David initially posted 20 images that saw him reflect on what he called unforgettable moments. Clear in the images were former Spice Girl Victoria and three of the couple’s children, Romeo, Cruz and Harper. There was no space for a shot of Brooklyn.
However, the former England captain later shared a throwback photo of himself and Brooklyn, who were standing ensemble in happier times. The father’s emoji reads, “I love you all so much,” and the father adds, “I love you all so much.”
He also shared a black-and-white photo of Victoria, the mother of Harper, and all of his children. You are my life, he wrote. I cherish Daddy X and love you all. On to 2026″.
And while Victoria reshared her hubby’s post on her own platform, Brooklyn appears to continue to snub his family for his life stateside in the images obtained by TMZ .
On the eve of David’s 50th birthday, the fallout first appeared in public. Brooklyn was missing from a number of family gatherings as soon as people realized it. He also snubbed both of his parents’ birthdays on Instagram, something he had never done before.
Despite avoiding significant family events like Sir David’s long-awaited knighthood earlier this year, Brooklyn and Nicola remained unmoved. Without the presence of any of Brooklyn’s immediate family, the couple also renewed their vows.
The Beckham clan may not all be willing to offer an olive branch as the conflict continues to simmer. Romeo chose not to do the same despite David and Victoria’s public position.
Brooklyn was omitted from the model’s Instagram post, which included his parents, brother Cruz, 20, sister Harper, 14, and girlfriend Kim Turnbull, 24. Romeo’s family photos were shared on social media, and the images included sweet snaps.
Thanks 2025, off to a better 2026, he captioned his upload, “Love you all @davidbeckham @victoriabeckham @cruzbeckham @kim_turnbull @harperbeckham.”
