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The BAFTA Awards are back, with glitz and glamour filling the red carpet on Sunday afternoon.

Host David Tennant was one of the first big names to grace the event as he joined red carpet host Clara Amfo . Looking as swave as ever in an embroidered suit, matching tie and carefully coiffed hair, he appeared to be delighted to join Clara, who looked effortlessly stunning in a sleeveless white gown.

Not one to arrive late to a party, Jeff Goldblum brought his usual Hollywood charm in a feathered waistcoat peaking out from under a tailored dinner jacket. Completing the look with a pair of coloured shades and a white bow tie, he held onto his gorgeous wife Emilie Livingstone’s hand as they made their way into the event.

Reality TV star Molly-Mae Hague looked sensational as she made an unexpected appearance on the red carpet. The star who found fame on Love Island recently starred in her own Amazon Prime documentary. Her striking black ruffled dress featured a plunging neckline.

Molly-Mae, 25, who has broken the barriers of reality stardom when it comes to celebrity status looked sensational as she completed her look with a bronzed make-up look. Her signature blonde tresses were swept back off of her face and styled in an up-do look. Molly added to her look with a pair of small silver earrings, hooped earrings going up her ear and a pair of pointed gold heels.

Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie made a dramatic entrance in a striking black gown gathered at the neck and torn sleeves reaching down to her wrists. As she strolled along the red carpet, her long blonde hair, which appeared to be partially braded and curled, reached down to her hips.

American actress Kelly Rutherford gave a peak at her toned stomach in a pleated cut-out dress, adding a bit of sparkle with a diamond necklace and matching earrings. Meanwhile, actress Monica Barbaro opted for a sequinned halterneck fishtail gown that complimented her curves.

Wallace and Gromit made their own surprise appearance on the red carpet, complete in their best attire as they posed next to evil Norbot. The pair (well, their creators…) are up for best annimated film and best children’s and family film for Vengeance Most Fowl.

While the ceremony begins at 7pm tonight, the red carpet kicked off at 2pm, giving stars plenty of time to pose for photos and cosy up to celeb pals before making their into the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre. It also gave red carpet hosts Clara and Alex Zane to grab A-Listers for a quick natter before sending them on their way.

Tennant will once again be hosting this year’s BAFTAs after his successful stint last year. He described the experience in 2024 as “so much fun” and is excited to be a part of the event again. “It’s a lark! The night went past in a bit of a blur last year, but it was so much fun,” he said. “It feels like a real privilege to be part of it, and to get another crack at something so exciting is a real joy.”

Pope drama Conclave – adapted from Robert Harris’ 2016 novel with the same name – leads the BAFTA nominations at 12, including best actor for Ralph Fiennes. Following closely behind is Spanish language musical Emilia Pérez with 11, though its awards chances have been damaged after Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive historic tweets.

Unlike previous years, it is less clear who will win best picture after an unpredictable awards season, with six films in the running. While The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez won best film in the Golden Globes’ drama and musical/ comedy categories, Anora has taken the top prizes at the Critics Choice Awards and the the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards, which are considered key Oscars indicators. The drama – which follows the story of a New York stripper who falls in love with the son of a wealthy Russian – also won best original screenplay at the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards.

Wicked and Dune: Part Two are up for seven awards, A Comple Unknown and Kneecap up for six, and Nosferatu and The Substance are up for five.

Demi Moore (The Substance), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) are the Oscars frontrunners and while they have the potential to triumph at the BAFTAs, the British awards ceremony can deviate away from Academy Awards winners.

Take That will be performing their 2008 single Greatest Day, which features in Anora, during the ceremony. Jeff Goldblum, who stars in Wicked, will be playing the piano during this year’s In Memoriam in tribute to film industry stars who have died over the last year.

Warwick Davis will also be awarded the highest honour of the BAFTA Fellowship for his work in the industry. It comes after an incredibly difficult year for the actor and TV presenter after the death of his beloved wife Samantha in March 2024 at just 53 after she contracted sepsis.

While there are a string of huge stars attending this year, Prince William, the President of the BAFTAs, and Kate, the Princess of Wales, will not be attending this year. This marks another year without their presence, as they missed the ceremony in 2021 due to the death of Prince Philip and were unable to attend in 2022 due to scheduling conflicts.

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Drake is set to play three huge concerts in London this summer – marking his first UK gigs in six years.

The One Dance rapper will reportedly headline Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, which runs the weekend of Friday July 11 to Sunday July 13 and celebrates it’s 20th anniversary in 2025. It is thought the 38-year-old will perform on the main stage for all three nights in a deal said to be worth millions.

He last performed in the UK back in 2019, playing seven nights at London’s O2 Arena as part of his Assassination Vacation tour. Though he popped up at Wireless during a surprise appearance during Future’s set in 2021, this is the first time Drake will have played one of his own gigs since.

Other rumoured headliners for this year included Lil Wayne, Burna Boy and Vybz Kartel, but it seems Drake is the big name organisers were after. Last year saw Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat, Future, J Hus and 21 Savage take to the stage as headline acts.

A source told The Sun: “It’s been months in the making and initially no one thought they could pull it off, but Drake is all signed on to headline all three days of Wireless. Bosses are naturally overjoyed and expect tickets to sell out in record time.

“Exact set lists are still to be worked out but one idea that has been passed about is that Drake will perform some of his albums in full for the first time.”

Tickets for this year’s Wireless Festival go on sale next week, priced at £113 per day. Those who have signed up to the Wireless presale will have a chance to get tickets from Tuesday February 18 from 12pm. Fans with the Three mobile network can try and get one slightly earlier when tickets go on sale at 12pm on Monday February 17.

The announcement comes days after rapper Kendrick Lamar made a savage dig at Drake during the Super Bowl halftime show. The 37-year-old made history as the most-watched halftime act of all time last week. During the show, Kendrick – who has been feuding with Drake since 2013 – took shots at his rival multiple times, even referencing their rivalry in his diss track and bringing his ex-girlfriend Serena Williams onto the stage.

Now, Drake has responded with a dig at the singer, fuelling the ongoing tension between the two artists. Releasing a new track, Gimme a Hug, from his latest album, Drake seemingly calls Kendrick a “small fish” like “Nemo” in the song.

In his opening verse, he raps: “Drake elimination, fake intimidation / Take a minute, take a deep breath, have a little bit of patience / ‘Drizzy, you amazing, you the inspiration / You set the bar for the next generation / You Neo in The Matrix, these ****** just Nemo in the ocean / Small fish, making kids feel emotion / Using you for promotion,’ truer words have never been spoken.”

Drake has also taken issue with Kendrick’s songs, and in January this year decided to head to a lawyer’s office rather than the studio and began legal action regarding Kendrick’s diss tracks.

He launched a federal defamation lawsuit over Kendrick’s Grammy Award winning hit Not Like Us. Drake is taking Kendrick’s music label Universal Music Group to court, alleging they are part of spreading a “false and malicious narrative” that he is a paedophile.

However, the lawsuit clarifies that it is not targeting Kendrick Lamar himself. “This lawsuit is not about the artist who created Not Like Us,” the suit declares. “It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize” a song containing untrue allegations. Drake has also expressed concerns over his safety, citing the numerous shootings near or at his Toronto mansion since the release of the controversial song.

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A YouTube star who looks unrecognisable after losing 17 stone has shared the ‘truth’ about his weight loss.

Nikocado Avocado, who shot to fame posting extreme ‘mukbang’ videos of himself eating excessive amounts of fast food while talking to viewers, shocked the world when he revealed his dramatic transformation last year. He previously weighed 30 stone, but dropped to 13 stone in just two years.

The 32-year-old, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, shared the news he’d had a facelift in January to fix his “drooped neck” and big gobble, gobble turkey neck” after he dropped the weight. But now the content creator, who is American but was born in Ukraine, has shared he’s had further surgery in a bid to be free of what he calls a “horrendous” amount of loose skin around his stomach area.

In a YouTube video posted this week, Nikocado told his 4.6 million subscribers: “We’re going to start this video off with the truth. I have not been telling the truth. Well I haven’t not, not been telling the truth – I’ve just omitted a fact.” He then went on to say: “Okay, so I’m just going to come out with it… I did a procedure, another one. So y’all know about the face one. I couldn’t stop there.”

Standing up to show his followers what was under his T-shirt, the vlogger showed he was wearing a brace round his torso. He continued: “So, the truth is, when I came back to the internet… I was concealing something.

“Now, everyone was like, ‘Show us your loose skin’. Most people around that time already thought that I’d had skin removal surgery. I didn’t want to address is, and the reason was because I didn’t have skin removal surgery and I had a lot of loose skin. I knew I would have some and I was hiding it. I was hiding it in my clothes.”

Sharing further details of his weight loss journey, the social media star continued: “I lost 250lbs (17 stone) and it took a very long time. It took 2.3 years. And I did it very slowly, we’re talking about eight pounds a month.

“I’m just going to come out with it – I plateaued for some months. Sometimes I lost nothing or I gained two pounds, then the next month I lost 10 or 11, so averaged around eight pounds a month.”

Nikocado continued: “And at the end of it I had a lot of loose skin on my belly, my arms, my thighs, my torso, everywhere. There was loose skin all over my body. When you take out the fluid and the fat, it’s just skin. You can kind of tuck it under your pants and hide it, and that’s what I decided to do. I did not want to get skin removal surgery at that time, I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can handle it.’ I was really nervous for it.”

Despite saying he “feared surgery”, having seen the impressive results of his facelift – which he “recovered from in four days” – Nikocado decided to go ahead with the more complicated procedure.

He also told how he was “shopping for clothes for a wedding, nothing fit, and I had to keep pushing my stomach into my pants. It was so annoying and gross and I just I was like, ‘I have to get this off.'”

So he enlisted the help of Dr. Timothy Katzen, who is regarded as one of the best plastic surgeons in America, to peform the surgery to remove 10 pounds of skin from his body in what is known as a ‘360 body lift’, which Nikocado says is a “superior version of a tummy tuck”.

The downside was post-op he couldn’t shower for a month and he can’t show his scars in the sun for a year. But Nikocado says it’s all been worth it. He gushed: “I am loving my results. I feel so good. I haven’t felt this good for, like, ever in my entire life.”

He added: “I’ve never felt this good … I can’t wait to go to the beach and watch the sunrise and meditate and feel that sun and feel that breeze and breathe that air.” He now hopes his weight loss journey will inspire others who are in a similar position to him.

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South Korean star Kim Sae-ron has been found dead at her home at just 24 years old.

The actress, who was a rising star and found fame on Netflix show Bloodhounds, was found by a friend who alerted the police on Sunday. Cops are investigating her death but do not expect any foul play.

Kim Sae-ron has appeared in a number of film and TV shows since beginning her acting career at just nine years old. She grew in popularity as a child star in 2009 film A Brand New Life and 2010’s The Man From Nowhere. She went on to be cast in more leading roles in 2014 film A Girl At My Door and 2011 TV drama series Listen To My Heart. 

She obtained her first adult lead role in 2016 TV drama Secret Healer, the same year she signed with YG Entertainment. After appearing in 2018 thriller The Villagers and campus web drama Love Playlist, she left YG Entertainment and joined Gold Medalist with actors Kim Soo-hyun and Seo Yea-ji in 2020.

Kim Sae-ron took on the lead female role of a 12-episode web series called The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim in 2021, before being cast in SBS drama Trolley. Sadly, she left the project just months later after suffering a DUI incident after drunk driving charges were filed against her.

At the time, her agency had released a statement saying: “Kim Sae-ron is deeply reflecting on her apparent mistake. The damage caused by the crash is being compensated as much as possible. I will do my best to take responsibility until the end.” She later apologised on her Instagram account with a handwritten note which read: “First, I am sorry to inform you of the position after arranging the accident and damage situation. Yesterday May 18, 2022 around 8 am in Gangnam, I had an accident that damaged public property. I made a big mistake while drinking.

“I caused damage to so many people, including merchants, citizens, and those who restored it. I should have acted more carefully and responsibly, but I couldn’t. I sincerely apologize.

“We are working out the damage caused by the accident together with the company. I will do my best to communicate and actively resolve the matter until the end. I am very sorry to my fellow actors and staff as well as the production team for disrupting the production of the work that was being filmed and prepared.

“Once again, we deeply apologize and apologize for causing concern. There is no excuse for this unfortunate incident. I am disappointed and very ashamed of the mistakes I have made.”

She was fined ₩20 million (around £11,000) by the prosecutor of Seoul Central District Court in 2023. However, she later asked for leniency due to financial difficulties. 

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Georgia Tennant, David Tennant’s spouse and mother of five, faced a nightmarish ordeal before she could even share it with her hubby.

Married to the Doctor Who legend – who is hosting the BAFTAs this evening – since 2011, Georgia often vocally urges women to stay on top of their cervical cancer screenings, following a scare that hit too close to home.

The actress, 40, was haunted by thoughts of her children when her smear test threw up red flags. She confessed to immediately fearing the worst; a dire mindset that led her to mentally choreograph her own funeral in the moments before breaking the news to David.

Back in 2018, to draw attention to the menace of cervical cancer and herald the lifesaving potential of regular smear tests, she chronicled her journey on her personal blog. Accompanying a selfie clad in a hospital gown, she posted: “Here I am on 22nd February 2018. Although ’tis indeed a fetching look, if you’d like to learn more about why you should never miss a smear test please read the story attached in bio.”

In heart-wrenching detail, Georgia revealed: “Before I’d made it up upstairs to tell my husband, I’d started planning my funeral. Having kids takes you to that place pretty quickly I find.”

Georgia, who faced a daunting health scare, recounted her visit to the doctor’s office where she received the distressing diagnosis of CIN 2 – a precancerous condition. The situation escalated when doctors performed a cervical excision and found that it had developed into cancer.

In an emotional account, the mother-of-five previously shared, “The lovely doctor called yesterday. Results are back. It was cancer. They’ve got it all but it was cancer. Survived cancer without ever realising I had it. The lovely doctor called yesterday. Results are back. It was cancer. They’ve got it all but it was cancer. Survived cancer without ever realising I had it.”

Reflecting on the life-altering experience, Georgia expressed her shock, saying, “As you can tell I’m still processing this, it’s quite a thing to get your head round. My betraying little cervix had begun an attempt to kill me off and by a stroke of baffling luck I had stopped it, beat it, cut it out before it had a chance to make it out of the starting gates (that’s dog racing speak for ‘hadn’t spread beyond the layers they’d already removed’).”

“As you can tell I’m still processing this, it’s quite a thing to get your head round. My betraying little cervix had begun an attempt to kill me off and by a stroke of baffling luck I had stopped it, beat it, cut it out before it had a chance to make it out of the starting gates (that’s dog racing speak for ‘hadn’t spread beyond the layers they’d already removed’).”

In the hopes of raising awareness, Georgia strongly encouraged others to undergo the smear test. She conveyed the critical nature of early detection, stating, “If the first part of the story didn’t hit home, I hope this bit does. From borderline changes to cancer to cancer-free in mere months.

“It really could have been a different story. One I will be forever grateful I didn’t have to tell. If the first part of the story didn’t hit home, I hope this bit does. From borderline changes to cancer to cancer-free in mere months. It really could have been a different story. One I will be forever grateful I didn’t have to tell.”

Georgia has been married to David since 2011, and together they are raising their family which includes Ty, 21, Olive, 12, Wilfred, 10, Doris, eight, and Birdie, three. Ty, Georgia’s son from an earlier relationship when she was 17, has been adopted by David and is carving out his own acting career, following in the footsteps of his parents.

*For information and support for cervical cancer, please visit www.jostrust.org.uk or call 0808 802 8000.

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Demi Moore has spoken openly about her support for her ex-husband, Bruce Willis.

Since the news of Bruce’s diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) was shared, Demi has been very vocal about supporting the star. Demi, who was married to Bruce between 1989 and 2000, shares three daughters, Rumer, 36, Scout, 33 and Tallulah, 31, with the star. But while they may be divorced, she’s stressed it’s important to be on hand for the actor.

“We will always be a family, just in a different form,” she said previously. She also said that as their lives continue to develop, their bond will continue to evolve but they have agreed to remain a firm family unit. Demi commented: “I’ve shared this before, but I really mean this so sincerely: It’s so important for anybody who’s dealing with this to really meet them where they’re at. And from that place, there is such loving and joy.”

Speaking about Bruce’s diagnosis in December last year, Demi told Town & Country magazine: “Finally getting to a diagnosis was key so that I could learn what fronto­temporal dementia is and I could educate our children. I’ve never tried to sugarcoat anything for them.

“They’ve grown up with Bruce declining over the years, I’m not trying to shield them from it.” The “Ghost” actress, 62, says it’s important for her to be in the “present” when she is with the ‘Die Hard’ actor so they can enjoy their time together. Speaking on CBS Sunday Morning in September she said: “The important thing is just to meet him where he’s at, as opposed to being attached to who he was, how he was.

“Because, again, that only just puts you in a place of loss versus being in the present, meeting him where he’s at, and finding the joy and the loving of just all that is where he is.” The “Substance” star – who has daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30, with Bruce – is very much focused on the things that bring her “joy” in life and doesn’t feel it’s necessary to set goals for her career.

She said: “I think that I’m sitting in a different place in my life than I’ve ever been. I have the most autonomy. My children are grown. I have the most independence that I’ve ever had. And so, I just am really trying to focus on what really brings me joy. I don’t like to project and say, ‘Well, this is where I want to be,’ because I don’t know. I don’t know where I’m gonna be. But I know that it’s an opportunity for me to actually have a good time!”

Demi was recently asked about the advice she has given her daughters when it comes to communicating with their father, and in a similar response, she shared how she “treasures” the family’s time together. She told “The Drew Barrymore Show”: “What I say to my kids is you meet them where they’re at.

“You don’t hold on to who they were or what you want them to be, but who they are in this moment. And from that, there is such beauty and joy and loving and sweetness. When I’m in LA, I go over every week, and I really treasure the time that we all share.”

In 2022, Bruce Willis’ family, including his wife Emma Heming and their children Mabel and Evelyn, shared the tough news about his health, revealing his retreat from acting due to aphasia, and later confirming his dementia diagnosis. A few days ago, the actor was seen out and about in California while being driven around Brentwood wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, as he showed off his support for the baseball team.

His daughter Tallulah spoke about Bruce on the Today Show, as she discussed how he’s coping since being diagnosed with dementia. She said: “He’s doing stable, which in this situation is good, and is hard. There’s painful days, but there’s so much love.” She said Bruce’s blended family have been “appreciative” of the time spent with their father.

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