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A band who announced a huge show at Finsbury Park for next year delighted a pub crowd as they got up on stage to play an impromptu set for those in attendance at the venue

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A legendary band, known for their numerous hits and having opened for Liam Gallagher in the past, were spotted playing a surprise gig in a London pub on the same day they announced a massive Finsbury Park show. The band, who are set to play a huge concert of their own next year, also revealed a new single and an album due for release.

The band confirmed not just the colossal Finsbury Park gig, but also a new single and an album, Act III, set to hit the shelves next year. To promote it, Kasabian made a surprise appearance in a local pub. Their impromptu pub performance has since gone viral, with footage showing the crowd bouncing along to a stripped-back set from the Serge Pizzorno-led group.

Fans have been quick to commend the band for their intimate gig, held on the same day as their Finsbury Park announcement.

A post on X reads: “Kasabian celebrating their massive Finsbury Park show announcement with a gig in a local London pub tonight.” The band were seen performing a pared-down version of their hit song, Fire.

One fan lauded the performance, writing: “Serge becoming the frontman is the best thing that happened to Kasabian. His energy is just something else.”

Another added: “Few bands could rock a pub like that.” While a third shared: “Acoustic Fire” followed by a face with hearts for eyes emoji.

Alongside the announcement of their show next year, the band also unveiled their new album, Act III. A new track, Hippie Sunshine, has also been released to promote Act III.

Pizzorono, the frontman who stepped into Tom Meighan’s shoes in 2020, has opened up about the inspiration behind their new track.

He said: “The track is about the restless energy of hyper individuals who struggle to slow down and face reality, searching instead for the illusion of escape.”

He continued: “It captures the fleeting moment where everything feels light and limitless, yet beneath it lies a deep sense of disconnection, something both beautiful and tragic.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Pizzorono revealed that being part of Kasabian and creating music now is more thrilling than ever before.

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He shared: “Everything at this point is on pure instinct, but I’m picking up the guitar every day and it’s making magic. The guitar is a huge part of where I am at the moment.

“The world just excites me, you know? I get up and I’m excited by what is possible, and I think that keeps things fresh when we’re nine albums in.

“Every morning, it’s like music is fuel for me. It’s scientifically proven that it makes you feel better; it touches a part of your brain and that gets ignited when you listen to a bit of music that you love.

Cheryl Tweedy’s stalker has been jailed for 12 months — and handed a fresh lifetime restraining order.

Daniel Bannister, 50, left the ex-Girls Aloud singer “stunned” and “terrified” when he turned up at her Buckinghamshire home for a fourth time in June, Reading Magistrates court heard.

He was sentenced to one year in prison today after being found guilty of breaching a previous restraining order. It is the third jail term handed to Bannister over his attempts to contact Cheryl, 42.

Sentencing, His Honour Judge Blake said: “You pose a high risk of reoffending and harm. Appropriate punishment can only be by immediate custody.

“You’ve shown little regard to Tweedy’s welfare.

“You need to draw a line under this behaviour otherwise you will find yourself returning to custody for longer periods.”

Cheryl did not attend court. But in a victim impact statement read by prosecution barrister Leandra Smith, the singer said she was “stunned” when Bannister turned up at her home near Chalfont, Bucks, for a fourth time on the evening of June 19 this year.

She added: “He’s been sentenced twice for this unwanted and scary behaviour toward me.

“Every time I leave my property I have to constantly look over my shoulder.

“No person should feel this way. The fear goes when he’s in prison.

“It’s had a huge impact — I have a young child to protect. It has made my young child scared.

“I have had to rely on security, family and friends for support.

“Why should I have to move because of Daniel’s behaviour? It’s unacceptable, terrifying and having a detrimental impact.”

Defending, Mr Allen Wellington said Bannister had shown “no violence or threat of violence” towards Ms Tweedy.

Bannister, who was convicted of manslaughter in 2012, was previously jailed for 16 weeks in March after returning to the singer’s home in December last year, breaching a restraining order.

He had previously been given a four-month jail term for targeting the star’s home.

The court heard how Bannister attended the address in January 2024, rang the intercom and said: “It’s Daniel, I’ve come to get Cheryl.”

And he returned again in July asking for a glass of wine.

Bannister, a former figure skater, denies having any mental health issues.

Cheryl, previously known as Cheryl Cole, was married to former Arsenal, Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole.

They divorced more than a decade ago.

Controversial adult star Bonnie Blue has spoken out for the first time after her heated exchange with a partygoer was caught on camera. The woman accused her of ‘setting feminism back’

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Bonnie Blue has addressed the heated argument she had in a nightclub with a woman who claims she’s ‘setting feminism back’.

The adult star, real name Tia Billinger, was caught on camera having a tense exchange with the stranger who confronted her about her controversial job, which sees her profit from sleeping with ‘barely legal’ teens for adult content.

The sweary argument boiled over just minutes before Bonnie was allegedly “punched in the face” by another woman as the Freshers event descended into chaos.

Bonnie was at Sheffield’s Onyx nightclub last Thursday as part of her disturbing ‘barely legal’ UK university tour which features her “Bang Bus” with events planned across multiple cities.

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Things took a turn 40 minutes after Bonnie arrived at the event at 1am, when a woman queued up to meet the adult film star before allegedly punching her in the jaw.

But tensions grew in the club even before the alleged assault, with Bonnie getting into a fiery discussion with another partygoer before the incident.

A woman has now taken to TikTok to share the argument she had with Bonnie at the event. In her initial video, the clubber, known online as Ffi, can be seen filming herself while she talks to the adult star in the background.

Bonnie says at the start of the clip: “Your hair looks so cool,” to which pink-haired Ffi replies: “Thank you, but do you know how many years you’ve set back feminism?”

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Bonnie then says “get out, I haven’t” before Ffi claims “You’ve made so many women’s lives s****.” The debate continues, and Bonnie insists she’s “not made anyone’s life s****”. The clip ends with Bonnie saying “Get these fat f******s out”.

In response to her video going viral, Ffi has now spoken out in another video about the exchange, clarifying that she wasn’t the woman who allegedly punched Bonnie.

“I obviously confronted her and posted a video about it. It wasn’t me who punched her,” the woman said. “I don’t agree with what she’s doing, I can happily say that I said nothing wrong.

She continued: “I said what I wanted to say and then she obviously chose to call me fat and my friend, which I think just says it all really.”

Ffi says in the clip that she chose to confront Bonnie about her controversial job – which involves sleeping with ‘barely legal’ teens and filming it for adult platforms – because “nobody else says it”.

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And now Bonnie has issued a statement of her own, telling The Mirror: “Feminism is about choice. My choices might not be for everyone, but they’re mine.

“Men get praised for what women get shamed for – I’m just refusing to play by that double standard. Someone feeling uncomfortable about their interpretation of feminism not aligning with mine isn’t the same as me doing harm.”

A witness who claims to have seen the exchange between Ffi and Bonnie reportedly revealed: “A girl had said something to Bonnie about how she was setting feminism back. We were behind them in the queue, and we overheard Bonnie telling her security to ‘get those fat f**** away from me.'”.

Bonnie Blue entered Onyx Nightclub at around 1am on Friday morning with the Bang Bus parked further down Fitzwilliam Street.

Video footage emerged showing the massive queues and numerous security guards present at her arrival. Another onlooker described the atmosphere as “incredibly tense” prior to the alleged assault.

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The 26-year-old was taking selfies with fans when the alleged incident broke out. An eyewitness claimed: “I saw a woman talking to their friend while standing next to Bonnie Blue. They turned to Bonnie, turned back to their friend, and then punched Bonnie square in the jaw.”

Videos taken by fans at the scene show police outside the club dealing with the suspects. South Yorkshire Police said in a previous statement: “At 1.22am today (Friday 19 September), we were called to reports of a disturbance at Onyx nightclub on Portobello Street, Sheffield.

“It is reported that a woman was assaulted at the nightclub, suffering no injuries. A woman was detained at the scene and later released. The incident has been filed pending further information coming to light.”

Elvis Presley, who she met for the first time when she was just 14 years old, has revealed that the first time she had sex with him was when she was just 14 years old.

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Priscilla Presley has opened up about her first sexual encounter with Elvis Presley.

At a party held at Elvis’ rented villa in West Germany on September 13, 1959, Priscilla, 14, and Elvis, 24, met at his wedding.

On the night of their first meeting, when Elvis was in the ninth grade, Elvis was said to feel “awkward” and “embarrassed” in Priscilla’s company. Before he left Germany in March 1960, the two kept in touch and didn’t rekindle their relationship until 1962, when her parents allowed her to visit him in Los Angeles for two weeks.

However, they were subject to strict rules, including that Elvis would have to pay for a first-class round trip and that Priscilla would always need to be accompanied. Additionally, she was required to regularly write to her parents. Just one year later, two months before turning 18, she was permitted to relocate to Memphis on a full-time basis.

Elvis had to consent to marry Priscilla, who was a student at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral School and lived with his father and step-mom several streets away from Graceland, where she eventually settled in May 1963. In her bombastic memoir Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, she has now revealed details about their first sexual encounter.

Although Elvis and I first dated when we were 14 years old, they didn’t start dating until we were 17 years old. We waited for sex before he married me at the age of twenty-one,Priscilla continued. However, it is still true that our relationship lasted ten years.

The legal age of consent in the United States was 16 when the pair spent two weeks together in 1962. According to Priscilla, there is “some logic” behind their 10-year age difference, with men being a “good husband” because they were more mature and “well established,” and Southern men choosing younger women because it made it easier to assume the role of household chef and criticize their young wife’s behavior and opinions.

She claims that her ex-husband, who she divorced in 1973, had a “his woman,” who she described as “pretty, submissive, and charming, 24 hours a day.” After Elvis snuck in, she claims to keep her hair on with toilet paper. Before he woke up, she wrote, “I’d get up early to fix my hair and eye makeup.”

Unfortunately, Elvis’s marriage became challenging to maintain because he had grown to be in charge, according to Priscilla. She did “her best to meet all of his expectations” during their time, but because Graceland had a large staff, she had never learned to cook.

And while Elvis had rumor that he had an infess, Priscilla never raised the alarm because she was “trust him and ignore whatever” she heard.

In another chapter of her memoir, Priscilla revealed how Mike Stone’s marriage to Elvis’ disintegration had caused their union. She claims that the King of Rock and Roll “made love” to her “forcefully, not forcibly” when he felt the need to “prove himself.”

Priscilla is still grieving and grieving over their final sexual encounter with him as a result of this incident.

Model Jodie Kidd’s pub, The Half Moon, has closed for a few days after its staff were subjected to physical and verbal abuse

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Jodie Kidd’s pub, The Half Moon, has temporarily closed after staff complained about being subjected to physical and verbal abuse at the establishment. The 46-year-old model has shut the West Sussex pub’s doors for a couple of days, with the pub releasing a statement on their Instagram page.

Along with cosy autumn snaps of the pub, they said: “We’ve worked hard to create more than just a pub — we’ve built a home. A place for people to come together, enjoy good times, and make memories. While we know we won’t be to everyone’s taste, it saddens us that in recent weeks we as a team have faced abuse — both verbal and physical.

“We’d like to remind everyone that behind The Half Moon is a team of people who care deeply about what we do. We are human. Independent businesses like ours work tirelessly, 7 days a week, driven by passion, love, and integrity to give our best. All we ask in return is respect.”

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The statement added: “If you ever feel the need to complain, please do so in a calm, constructive, and polite way — we’re always open to feedback that helps us improve. “Let’s continue to make The Half Moon a place where kindness, community, and good memories shine the brightest.”

Customers immediately rushed to share their support for the pub, with one patron writing: “That’s really sad to read. We love you guys,” and another posting: “Literally the most wonderful place, looking forward to seeing you again on Friday night if not before!”

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One person commented: “That’s awful to hear that! You are all amazing! The best pub you will ever find!”

In a follow-up post, the pub said: “Our core team will be taking a well-deserved short break this week.

“As many of you know, the work never truly stops behind the scenes, so taking some time to rest and recharge is essential.

“We will be closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and will reopen on Thursday 25th September at 12 Noon as normal. Can’t wait to welcome you all this weekend!!”

The Half Moon pub in Kirdford is a 15th-century Grade II listed pub and Jodie purchased the establishment in 2017.

In 2021, Jodie revealed the pub was struggling after three Covid lockdowns. Speaking to Sussex Live, she said: “When we got the pub in 2017 I started to really understand just how tough it is, how the taxes are so extraordinarily high and how the margins you make are really, really tiny.

“Things were tough then, never mind now with a pandemic and three lockdowns, yet still many don’t realise just how bad it really is.”

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