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This summer, rocker Ronnie Wood and his pal Sir Rod Stewart will be performing on stage at Glastonbury.

Fans will once more visit Worthy Farm in Somerset on June 25 through June 29 when Maggie May will play the “legends” slot on Sunday afternoon. Neil Young will also appear on the Pyramid Stage, according to a recent confirmation from the band Bosses.

Ronnie has also been booked, it has been claimed, and they won’t be the only ones who roll back through the years. According to insiders, Rod and the former Stones star were photographed together in Mayfair last month for Rod’s 80th birthday bash.

Rod was Ronnie’s best man at his 2012 wedding to theatre producer Sally Humphreys. He confirmed his performance at the Pyramid Stage last year on social media, saying, “I’m proud and ready and more than happy to take the stage once more to delight and titillate my friends at Glastonbury.”

A festival source has stated to The Sun that Rod is “really excited about his big Worthy Farm gig” and that Ronnie “won’t be too appropriate to be there.” He is aware that putting them together will be very popular.

Could a superstar appear in the green room alongside them? With the announcement of her Cowboy Carter tour, Beyoncé’s odds of appearing at the Glastonbury Festival have been slashed.

The Texas Hold ‘ Em singer, 43, last performed in the UK in 2023 on the Renaissance World Tour, which saw her play five dates at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. And this summer, she’s returning to the stadium to perform on the 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th June this year.

After her gigs in London, Beyoncé is flying over to Paris 19 and 21 before returning to Houston for a gig on 28. That leaves the star a few days to possibly surprise fans at Glastonbury, which is happening between 25 and 29 June. If she were to perform on Friday, June 27, it might be a tight squeeze, but it’s something a megastar hasn’t done before.

Leading bookmaker Coral reports that Glastonbury 2025 has received strong support for her and that Coral has reduced her odds from 10-1) to 2-1 to confirm her as one of the artists playing the festival this summer. “We know Beyoncé will be heading across to London for her Cowboy Carter tour this summer, and that may not be her only visit, as we have seen strong support for Queen B to be one of the headline acts at Glastonbury”, said Coral’s John Hill.

Other odds include 1-5 for Charli XCX, 4-5 for Stevie Wonder, 5-4 for Nile Rodgers, 6-4 for Olivia Rodrigo, 7-4 for Chappell Roan, 2-1 for Ed Sheeran, 2-1 for Foo Fights, and 9-4 for Harry Styles. Beyoncé was originally going to announce her tour in January but postponed it due to the “devastation” of the California wildfires.

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Bear Grylls and Russell Brand were compared to one of his shows, and Russell Brand later admitted to never judges, despite the shocking allegations made months before Brand’s baptism.

Bear Grylls has shared why he attended Russell Brand’s baptism despite multiple claims of sexual assault arising against the star months earlier.

Brand shocked fans when he revealed the Celebrity Bear Hunt star was present as he got baptised in the Thames in May 2024, sharing a photo of himself in the water hugging both Bear and another man. “Me, Bear Grylls, the River Thames, and of course, The Holy Spirit,” he wrote on Instagram at the time.

The duo first seemed to strike up a friendship when Brand travelled across the Hebrides Islands with the survivalist for the series Running Wild With Bear Grylls, which aired in August 2023. They even spoke about religion at one moment – with Bear having come closer to God as an adult by taking the Alpha Course – and Brand admitted that he’d felt disconnected from faith. “When you stop drinking and stop taking drugs, you’re confronted with the nature of the problem. I was a disconnected person, certainly from any sense of higher purpose or God,” he said to Bear during the show.

At the weekend, Bear explained that his faith, alongside his link to Brand from the show, meant that he was happy to support the controversial comedian. “I try and live in a way that I never judge and I always try and love – and that principle doesn’t just apply to perfect people with perfect lives,” he told the Evening Standard.

“He was a Running Wild guest, I’m friends with many of our Running Wild guests. And I always try to think of that phrase, ‘ WWJD ‘ – what would Jesus do? That’s been a guiding principle for me”.

Prior to his baptism, Brand explored many ways of life, including Buddhism and staunch atheism. However, he converted to Christianity just months after a joint investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, The Times and the Sunday Times in September 2023 saw multiple women step forward to accuse him of sexual assault.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed they were investigating allegations about the comedian, and he was later questioned. Brand has always denied the allegations made against him, while detectives sent a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service in November last year so that they could consider filing charges against him.

Bear has addressed the claims against Brand, asserting this month that he didn’t perform the baptism, but the actor was a “friend” and Bear “never judges”.

“You know what, whoever it is, you can’t only stand beside people who have had perfect journeys. It was for him a real moment of humility and repentance and genuine heart-felt finding of quite a faith in his life.” he told The Telegraph.

Bear added: “People say to me, ‘ What about the victims?, ‘ if they’re victims. And I go, ‘ Of course I stand beside everybody. We are commanded to love everyone and not hold anyone accountable.

Gordon Ramsay, a husband and father, is a devoted husband and father despite having a fiery temper.

The Hell’s Kitchen star, 58, tied the knot to wife Tana, 50, in 1996 and went on to welcome Megan, 26, twins Holly and Jack, 24, Tilly, 22, five-year-old Oscar and baby Jesse, who was born in 2023. However it almost wasn’t meant to be as when they first met at a party of a mutual friend, Tana, a former schoolteacher, was already dating someone else.

Soon afterward, their paths crossed again, and the pair has since committed. As Gordon reached international stardom, earning an impressive accolade from Michelin restaurants, Tana held the fort at home, raising their six children.

And it hasn’t been easy as they split their time as a family between LA and London thanks to the restauranteur’s demanding career, with their marriage once rocked by a cheating scandal in 2008, and more recently, overcoming the tragic loss of their stillborn son, Rocky.

Cheating claim

When a woman claimed to have had a seven-year affair with Gordon, their romance was roiled. When Sarah Symonds claimed to have met the TV chef at London’s Chinawhite Nightclub in the winter of 2001 while working in sales for an events and limo company in London at the age of 31.

Gordon vehemently refuted the claims made in the now-defunct News of the World in 2008, telling a Birmingham-based cookery audience: “If I was going to cheat it wouldn’t be with a complete slapper.

Writing for MailOnline, Sarah claimed: “At 37, our relationship was the longest, albeit unwisest, I’d ever had with a man (and is, in fact, still the longest relationship I’ve ever been in).

she added:” Christmas is soul-sappingly miserable when you’re involved with a married man. On this most magical day of the year, they always return to their wife, despite your best guess that they care about you. “The Mirror contacted Gordon’s reps for comment at the time.

According to Sarah, who wrote a book called Having an Affair? Gordon never once inquired about her festive plans in A Handbook for the Other Woman, which Gordon gave her as a gift ten days before Christmas 2007.

However, Gordon allegedly assured Tana that he had only met Symonds four times before the report was published, and that the outcry was reportedly his.

‘Resentment’

Like most couples, the division of labour around the house can be a source of contention. Tana has also acknowledged that she disliked doing their household’s majority of the childcare.

The former teacher, 50, discussed this with Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, where she claimed she found it difficult to watch her husband relax after working despite the pair agreeing that she would assume most of his responsibilities while he was a chef and TV star.

Asked if their prior agreement made it easier for the couple, she replied:” Yes, but it doesn’t mean that sometimes you didn’t resent it. When I say resent, it’s just sometimes I’d be like, ‘ oh, for God’s sake, you can’t, you know… do you need to sit on the sofa and sort of rest and watch the news and have ten minutes to yourself? Because I can’t do that. ‘

“And I think I’d be lying if I said: ‘ No, it’s fine, I took this on. ‘ And there were times when it was very difficult, but you eventually get over it.

Baby loss heartbreak

While Gordon and Tana are proud parents of six children, they tragically lost a third. Rocky was stillborn, Rocky’s mother had to give him to his mother at 20 weeks of gestation, with her partner by her side.

In a candid admission, Tana revealed that son Oscar, five, who was born three years later, often asks about his older “brother in the sky”. She revealed she harbors guilt over what transpired during a conversation with Lorraine Candy and Trish Halpin on the Postcards from Midlife podcast in July.

The 50-year-old questioned whether she could have “done something differently” while sharing that she and Gordon, 57, will never get over the heartbreak. “I still suffer so much guilt”, she said, before going on to ask whether she “should have known something”.

The mum-of-six added: “I still suffer so much guilt. Did I, should I have known something? Should I have done something differently? It’s one of those things where you can kind of just justify being okay on some days.

Tana went on to add: “Other days, for some reason, whether it’s because you’re overtired or something triggers you, I can have a day where I just feel really emotional. Knowing that a baby won’t last more than an hour makes it difficult to anticipate holding one. That is always gonna be something I can never, never get over”.

“Even Oscar now, he talks about Rocky, his brother in the sky or his star”, she said. She continued: “And he’ll come out with things like ‘ I really don’t like him being there. Why can’t he just come here? ‘ After I had Oscar, which had to be around three weeks old, one of the hardest times actually occurred. And I had a day where I felt so emotional. I believe it was because I had a new baby and didn’t feel enough of it. And that threw me, and Gordon warned me, “You’re always going to hit you like this right now, because we’ve been so trapped in this bubble.”

And then you suddenly realize that I had a bad time not sort of thought it through. You can never know what’s around the corner with grief, and we’ve never had anything like that. Although it was difficult for Gordon to reveal Rocky’s loss, Tana’s admission comes just one year later. On the seventh anniversary of Rocky’s death, Tana explained he had been born with a strong heartbeat but was sadly” too little to survive”.

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Kendrick Lamar commanded one of the world’s most high-profile stages Sunday as the Super Bowl’s halftime headliner, yet another feather in the cap of the rap laureate&nbsp, who has ascended to new heights of pop stardom.

Lamar toyed with his audience, who had one big question: Would he perform “Not Like Us,” the searing diss track that served as the decisive blow in his eyebrow-raising rap battle with Drake?

In a word? Yes.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Lamar, who is the first solo rap artist to play a halftime show at the Super Bowl this year and saw the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, uses his punchlines to accuse Drake of paedophilia in the highly infectious hit released in May 2024.

“I wanna perform their favourite song”, he said at one point during the 13-minute set — the Grammy-winning track’s ubiquitous, instantly recognizable bass line resounding — “but you know they love to sue”.

He started the set atop the Buick Grand National it’s named after before turning heads with fans with a knife-twisting rendition of “Not Like Us” and classics like “Humble” and “DNA” as well as tracks from his most recent album “GNX”

Lamar cut the profanity and the word “pedophile” but didn’t stop short of the money line, rapping “tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A-minoooooor” on live television in front of tens of thousands of spectators and an estimated 100 million viewers.

In delivering the lyric “say, Drake, I hear you like ‘ em young”, Lamar stared right into the camera, dancing on the Canadian rapper’s rap-battle grave while sporting a chain with a massive pendant — a lower-case a.

The performance is all but sure to kick off more legal wrangling: Drake, &nbsp, the reigning highest-grossing rapper, recently filed a bombshell defamation suit against his own record label Universal Music Group, which also represents Lamar.

Although Drake is notably suing UMG and not Lamar himself, questions persisted leading up to the Super Bowl about whether performing the song on one of the biggest international stages might lead to more legal action.

– Uncle Sam, surprise protestor –

“Not Like Us” dominated the set but it was also a performance that paid homage to the 37-year-old rapper’s expansive oeuvre.

The composer, who was born in Compton, California, is one of the most influential writers of contemporary music, with his verses providing personal reflections on structural poverty and systemic issues like race relations.

The Black Lives Matter movement was sung by his powerful lyricism, which made many people feel like the voice of their generation.

Samuel L. Jackson, the actor who portrayed Uncle Sam, a character that has frequently been depicted in military propaganda, was one of the stars who brought some of that energy to the Super Bowl stage.

Lamar used the platform to make a more symbolic critique of the marginalized treatment of both hip-hop and Black Americans as a whole rather than directly mentioning Donald Trump, who had just begun his second year of presidency.

“No, no, no, no, noooo. Too loud, too reckless, too ghetto. Mr Lamar, do you really know how to play the game? The costumed Jackson jeered at one point as they “then tighten up”.

At one point, dancers dressed in red, white, and blue and formed a formation representing the American flag.

The artist brought SZA, who he is scheduled to tour with, onstage before his climactic rendition of “Not Like Us,” which just one week earned Lamar five Grammys.

Their duet included a performance of “All the Stars”, their hit off the “Black Panther” soundtrack.

Serena Williams, a tennis legend who also hails from Compton, made another notable comeo and is thought to have briefly dated Drake.

A protestor who raised a flag in support of Gaza and Sudan while performing on the set also punctuated the set, according to production company Roc Nation, who told AFP that the scene had not been practiced.

The NFL reported that the protestor was a member of the 400-person field cast and that “the person hid the item on his person and unveiled it late in the show.”

In AFP photos, the protestor was seen posing with the flag with the words “Gaza” and “Sudan” on top of Lamar’s center car.

After the reality star’s partner Curtis Pritchard showed an interest in co-star Danielle Sellers earlier in the series, Arabella Chi has since apologized for her pal Ekin-Su Cülcülolu’s actions on Love Island: All Stars. Despite appearing to be a perfect match, Curtis and Ekin-Su got into trouble when Curtis decided to get to know Danielle despite being “closed off” to each other, leading to the latter becoming upset and hurt by the circumstance.

While the couple are now back on track, former Love Island star Arabella says she understands why Ekin-Su wasn’t best pleased. She claimed in a statement to the Mirror that she had a conversation with Curtis [Pritchard] while watching my first series, and that she believes he is being sincere because he admitted to being worried about getting too excited about Ekin-Su and that there are times when you do need a test there. However, he shouldn’t have said he wasn’t closed off before being, because doing so would only hurt the other person. He made a mistaken decision. Ekin-Su handled that situation really well though. I would have reacted a lot worse”!

Arabella admits she is “obsessed” by the All Stars series this year, and she supports her close friend Elma Pazar’s decision to join her partner Sammy Root. “I’m good friends with Elma, so I was really happy when Sammy came in for Elma,” she said. She put a lot into Ronnie]Vint] but I actually think Sammy is a better match for her, so it’s all worked out really well. I’d love to see them win. We’ll definitely be going for a catch-up when she gets home”.

Arabella and Billy Henty are expecting their first child, despite only having been on the show for a year. “If you’d told me this time last year I’d be expecting a baby with the love of my life, I wouldn’t have believed it at all”, she admitted. Arabella and Say It With are working on their new Mother’s Day collection while looking forward to welcoming their daughter this May. “I know I’m not a mum yet, so it’s not a proper Mother’s Day this year, but I still feel like I’m a mum even though she’s not born yet. Because she’s growing in me and I can feel her, I definitely feel like a mum already”.

The Say It With collection features a range of stunning jewellery, including a necklace which reads ‘ Mummy’, which is a personal favourite of Arabella’s.

“Everyone is aware that I wear jewelry all the time, and everyone is aware of that.” Even now, I still have my full pair of earrings in despite a chilly day. The “Mummy” necklace is my favorite because I’ve always called my mother “Mummy,” and I can wear it on her or give it to her. My little girl would be a great addition to my Mummy name.

Following her agonizing breakup with fiance Ryan Mahoney in November, Kelly Katona revealed in her weekly column for OK! that she intends to start dating once more. The former Atomic Kitten star admitted to trying to join the celebrity dating app Raya now that she’s embracing the single life and is also reporting that she is taking a mother-daughter vacation in sunny Thailand this week with her 17-year-old daughter Heidi.

“It’s Valentine’s day on Friday and i’m quite glad i’ll be away on holiday for it since it’s my first one single in a long time”, she revealed, adding, “It will be a bit strange without Ryan, but he was never great at Valentine’s gifts anyway. i’ve never been really into Valentine’s day so i’m feeling OK – i think it’s a bit gimmicky, although i did get married once on 14 February”!

She added: “i’ll get the kids a card and maybe one for myself because i need a bit of self-love. I’ve tried to sign up for the Raya app, but I’m not yet in. i don’t think i’d like to do the other apps again”.

Kerry had previously discussed the agonizing split from her six-year fiance and claimed that the 36-year-old, who she had once believed would tie the knot with Ryan in Las Vegas, was “like a dad” to her young children, which has made the breakup more difficult.

Speaking in her OK! column at the time, she said:” I never in a million years thought this would happen. There has been a breach of trust between us, without going into too much detail… We just need to see what happens, because I’ve experienced break-ups before and come out the other side.

Since becoming a member of the popular pop group Atomic Kitten, the former I’m A Celeb winner has had a turbulent love life. Her first marriage to Westlife star Brian McFadden, who famously cheated on her with a lap dancer on his stag do, lasted only four years. In a ceremony in Gretna Green in 2007, she wed Mark Croft, but rumors claimed that he had allegedly had sexual relations with a former flame the day after their engagement, and that marriage eventually ended.

Kerry and George Kay tied the knot in 2013, and the two eventually separated in 2013 after years of dating. George, father of Kerry’s youngest child Dylan George, 10, tragically died in July 2019 from a cocaine overdose.

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