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Wimbledon 2025 is due to come to an end this weekend, with both the men’s and women’s finals taking place over the next two days, and a string of celebrities dazzled onlookers today

Ant McPartlin, Maya Jama, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock are among the celebrities arriving at Wimbledon today. The women’s final is due to take place at 4 p.m. this afternoon, and some well-known faces have turned up to watch the event on centre court.

Amanda Anisimova and Iga Świątek are going to go head-to-head to see who can lift the Wimbledon 2025 trophy. Ant McPartlin was seen at the event, arriving with his wife Anne-Marie Corbett, ready to enjoy the day.

They both dressed up for the occasion as Any went for a striped linen shirt along with white trousers. He made sure he had his sunglasses on ready for the UK heatwave.

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Meanwhile, Anne-Marie looked as stunning as ever as she wore a white and blue patterned dress. She accessorised her look with sunglasses and a brown bag.

Little Mix star Leigh-Anne certainly looked the part as she posed with a tennis racquet and wore a maxi dress with matching heels. TV presenter Maya Jama took a break from the Love Island drama to watch the drama on the court instead.

She looked gorgeous in purple as she wore a dress with matching heels. She added black sunglasses and a bag along with styling her black locks in loose waves.

Plenty of other celebrities have been spotted arriving for the day, including Ian Wright alongside Emma Hayes. Opera singer Katherine Jenkins looked a vision in bright purple as she also soaked up the sun.

Actor Stanley Tucci was spotted shaking hands with Olympic legend Mo Farah before they sat down to watch the action. Cara Delevingne walked along the venue in black trousers, which she paired with a black and white striped top.

Nicky Hilton and James Rothschild walked side by side as they got ready for the tennis as well. Wimbledon has shaken things up this year by altering the longstanding start times for its finals.

Traditionally, the women’s and men’s finals have started at 2pm on Saturday and Sunday respectively. The usual schedule would see the women’s final followed by the men’s doubles final on Saturday, with the men’s final on Sunday followed by the women’s doubles final.

However, in a change for 2025, this order will be reversed at Wimbledon, with the winners also set for a hefty pay packet. US broadcasters have been keen for the change in order to cater to North American viewers.

This means the upcoming schedule for Saturday, July 12, saw the men’s doubles final commence at 1pm on Centre Court, with the women’s singles final scheduled for 4pm.

On Sunday, July 13, the women’s doubles final starts at 1pm, leading up to the men’s singles final at 4pm. This adjustment means that tennis fans in New York and across the eastern US can tune into the main event finals at 11am EST, reports MyLondon.

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Jeff Lynne has been forced to cancel his planned BFT Hyde Park concert this weekend after falling ill. The team working with the 77-year-old music star had previously revealed he was suffering from ill health.

A statement issued on Saturday confirmed the news, announcing: “Jeff Lynne is heartbroken to report that he will not be able to perform at tomorrow’s BST Hyde Park show.

“Jeff has been battling a systemic infection and is currently in the care of a team of doctors who have advised him that performing is simply not possible at this time nor will he be able to reschedule.

“The legacy of the band and his longtime fans are foremost in Jeff’s mind today — and while he is so sorry that he cannot perform, he knows that he must focus on his health and rehabilitation at this time.”

A spokesman had previously vowed that the concert would be going ahead as planned for this Sunday. They claimed there were “no concerns”. The sold-out headline slot at the London music festival on Sunday had been described by the organisers as their final “goodbye”.

The news comes after the band cancelled their Thursday night performance at Manchester’s Co-Op Live due to “illness”. A fan who was at the ELO gig a day before the cancelled explained to the Mirror: “At the start of the set he came on and couldn’t play the guitar because he has injured his hand.

“He sounded shaky to begin with but his singing and energy picked up and was great until the last 10 minutes of the show.

“A chair was brought onto the stage and he had to sit down to sing the last few songs, he appeared to be unsteady on his feet at the end and was helped off the stage by staff. He really wasn’t well, it was obvious to fans at the gig he wasn’t himself and it is sad to see.”

Jeff had previously battled with a broken hand whilst performing with the group on his farewell concert.

The band was founded in the 1970s in Birmingham by Jeff and keyboardist Roy Wood. He later left the band and was replaced by Richard Tandy, who performed until he died last year aged 76. The group split in 1986 and is known for fusing classical music, Beatles-style pop and futuristic rock visuals.

They were also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. The group is best known for hits such as Livin’ Thing, Mr Blue Sky, Telephone Line and Evil Woman.

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One of the crowd was future Royle Family star Craig Cash, who said Liam Gallagher had ‘that same swagger when nobody was watching him’

A whopping 80,000 fans are predicted to flock to each of Oasis’s homecoming gigs in Manchester. Noel and Liam Gallagher returned as Oasis to Heaton Park, Manchester last night – 16 long years since they last performed in their hometown. The Britpop band kicked off the first of their Heaton Park comeback shows.

Heaton Park fans saw the impossible happen last night, in the first of five nights of the Gallagher brothers’ homecoming gig, as the former rivals walked out to the packed, sweltering crowd hand in hand.

While thousands of fans missed out on tickets those at home poured over live streams of the historic night on social media. Some even accused the crowd of being ‘too tame’, while others blamed the apparent lack of chaos in the park on the scorching heat.

However, writer, actor and comedian Craig Cash recalls a time when an Oasis gig could only muster two or three spectators – one of whom was Liam and Noel Gallagher’s brother, Paul.

Cash, who starred in The Royle Family, was another attendee at the Boardwalk gig where Oasis were supporting Northwich band The Cherrys. Speaking to the BBC, he reminisced that despite the sparse crowd, Oasis “blew him away” and their star potential was evident.

Cash shared: “You knew from early on they definitely had something about them, so it was absolutely no surprise when they were huge.”

Liam was singing like a rock and roll star, Cash remembers to the BBC. “He had that same swagger when nobody was watching him.” The show also gave Cash a glimpse into Liam’s fiery nature. He recalled how Oasis were “going on a bit too long” before The Cherrys took to the stage as the main act.

“They were great… but the Cherrys actually pulled the plug and switched [them] off.” And then it all kicked off. “Liam was offering them out from the stage and all sorts of chaos ensued.

“But they plugged them back in and [they] finished the set.” Now aged 64, Cash fondly remembers hitting it off with Noel after the singer-songwriter’s first ever radio interview.

When their recording session was interrupted, they headed to The Pineapple Inn, near KFM Radio’s studio, and “bonded” over pints and their mutual love for Manchester City. “We ended up having a skinful and going back to finish the recording half cut,” he said. “The laughs we had… they were heady days and fun times.”

Cash’s fondness for Oasis led to the B-side Half The World Away being chosen as the theme song for the BBC sitcom The Royle Family, where Cash portrayed Dave, the dim-witted, devoted boyfriend of the late Caroline Aherne’s Denise.

Cash expressed: “I just love that song. It really fit the mood. You’re kind of stuck here but you love it all the same.” Noel says now it feels like it’s not even their song now, its ours,” he added.

When the iconic rock band Queen performed at Live Aid in 1985, Freddie Mercury refused to sit with Charles and Diana in the royal box at Wembley Stadium for one reason

Princess Diana charmed millions of people across the world, including celebrities – but Freddie Mercury seemingly had no interest in schmoozing with royalty.

In 1985, thousands of people gathered at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid: a charity concert to raise money for those struggling with the famine in Ethiopia.

The concert, which was broadcast to more than one billion people around the world, was also attended by royal couple Princess Diana and the then Prince Charles, who watched on from the royal box.

One of the day’s most anticipated performances came from iconic rock band Queen, who have since gone on to perform for royalty many times. Band members Brian May and Roger Taylor went on to headline the late Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee concert in 2022, and both received OBEs throughout their career.

However, during Live Aid, the late Freddie Mercury had no such desire to mix with the royals, opting not to join Taylor and May in the royal box to watch the performance in the company of Charles and Diana.

In an interview with The Express, Freddie’s close friend and long-term assistant, Peter Freestone, revealed that Freddie simply had ‘better’ things to do backstage at Live Aid than mingle with the royals.

He said: “Even at Live Aid, you see Brian May and Roger Taylor in the royal box. Freddie didn’t go. He was more interested in being with friends backstage, talking with Elton John, hanging out with his people. His friends were always the most important to him.”

Despite choosing not to spend his time with Charles and Diana, there has long been a rumour that Freddie Mercury did have a level of friendship with Diana, with the pair allegedly having a wild night together at a gay bar in South London.

According to urban legend, Freddie and Diana struck up a friendship and bonded over their love of the sitcom The Golden Girls, along with celebrities like Rupert Everett and Kenny Everett.

Kenny’s friend Cleo Rocos said: “The group spent the afternoon drinking champagne in front of reruns of The Golden Girls with the sound turned down and improvising show dialogue with a much naughtier storyline.”

The evening quickly got wilder, with Diana allegedly wanting to tag along with the rest of the group as they planned to party the night away at a famous South London gay bar, the appropriately named Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

According to Rocos, they disguised the princess as a man in a baseball cap, sunglasses and army bomber jacket, as she said: “When we walked in … we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute. But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it.”

Despite the years of rumours over the wild night, Peter Freestone debunked the claims as he told Express: “No, not at all. Maybe Diana went with Kenny but Freddie wasn’t there. He never met her.”