Actress Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79, her family have confirmed.
In a statement shared with PEOPLE, Diane’s loved ones shared that she had died in California as a spokesperson asked for privacy as the family navigate their grief.
The Oscar winning actress was best known for her work in films like The Godfather, Annie Hall, The First Wives Club and Something’s Got To Give. Keaton also worked with director Nancy Meyers multiple times on projects like the Book Club series.
She received numerous accolades throughout her career, including an Oscar, a BAFTA, Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
The late actress was romantically involved with Hollywood stars like Woody Allen, her Godfather co-star Al Pacino and Warren Beatty.
She never married but became a mother at the age of 50 when she adopted two children. She said of becoming a parent after the death of her father: “Motherhood has completely changed me. It’s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I’ve ever had.”
The Duchess of Sussex made her debut at Paris Fashion Week, following in the shadow of other royals before her, with former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond highlighting how Meghan’s trip marks the beginning of her foray into the fashion world
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Jennie Bond believes Meghan could break into the fashion world(Image: Getty)
Meghan Markle made her debut at Paris Fashion Week at the Balenciaga show for their Spring/Summer 2026 womenswear design showcase, which she attended to support her fashion designer friend Pierpaolo Piccioli.
The Duchess of Sussex ’s appearance turned heads for several reasons, from her divisive outfit to her seemingly awkward encounter with former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Now, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond has shed light on Meghan’s first trip to Europe in two years, noting some major likenesses from Meghan’s trip, to other royals’ appearances at glitzy fashion events. Meghan has long shared her love of fashion, becoming a style icon for many fans online, and Jennie believes that her invitation to the high-profile runway show could signify her foray into the fashion world.
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She told the Mirror : “Well, it’s a long way to go for the chance to dress up, but she obviously thought it was worth the effort. You can see from the interest in her at the show, including a greeting from Anna Wintour, that the fashion world values Meghan.
“And she is likely to become more and more interested in the fashion world, with all the collaborations and commercial opportunities it can offer. And that’s fine. She’s a pretty woman and is now free to do as she pleases.”
Jennie pointed out how both the late Queen and the late Princess Diana also attended past fashion week events, but under very different circumstances than Meghan’s surprise trip to the French capital.
The royal expert said: “As a working royal she could obviously have openly supported British fashion, but without any fringe benefits like complete freebies or paid endorsements. The late Queen made a front row appearance at London Fashion Week in 2018 and seemed to enjoy it very much, sitting next to Anna Wintour.
“Diana, with her statuesque figure and global adoration, was an even bigger draw. But, even after she separated from Charles, she wasn’t a regular at fashion shows. When she did go, as in London in 1995, it was obvious that the massive media interest in her (far greater than the interest in Meghan) was intrusive and embarrassing.”
While in Paris, Meghan drew a lot of criticism for posting a video of her being driven through the city, which many royal fans pointed out was close to the site where Princess Diana died in 1997.
Meghan posted the video after attending a Balenciaga fashion show, in which she had her feet up on the car seat and then showed off the nearby sights, which included the Pont Alexandre III and the Pont des Invalides bridges, which are on the iconic River Seine.
From the clip, it seems she was heading towards the Pont d’Alma bridge, which is next to the Pont d’Alma tunnel where Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul died in a car crash in August 1997.
According to Jennie, while Meghan’s video may not have been intentional, it still struck the wrong cord with many royal fans and she should issue an apology.
“I think Meghan’s Instagram post of being driven at night so close to the tunnel where Diana died was highly insensitive — but unintentionally so,” she said. “She should have thought about it harder but, like so many people these days, it’s all about sharing your life instantly without considering the implications.
“I’m sure it’s the last thing Meghan meant to do, why would she want to upset her husband? But perhaps she should have posted a follow- up explaining her mistake, and apologising.”
National treasure Bill Roache has played Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow for 65 years – but did you know he actually lied to land his first professional acting role?
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Bill Roach has played Ken Barlow for 65 years.(Image: Getty Images)
Now 93, Bill, who has been a fixture on the cobbles since the first episode of Coronation Street on December 9, 1960, recalls being invited to an audition at an address in London’s Belgrave Square.
He says: “This guy asked me to talk about myself and he said he had a part for me. He handed me the phone and the guy at the other end said there were two days work at £49 a day. He said, ‘You are a member of Equity (the actors’union) aren’t you?’ I heard this voice tell me to say ‘yes’.
“Two days later I got the contract and then I went to the Equity head office and I told them I had been offered this part and I was not a member. They told me to fill this form in.
“Normally you had to be from a drama school or had gone to theatre school. From then on, I met real actors for the first time and found out about a magazine that had all the contacts in and I wrote lots of letters.”
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Before acting, Bill, whose dad was a doctor, had a place to take up at medical college after he completed two years’ National Service in the Gulf with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he reached the rank of captain.
But he wanted to act, saying: “I was in the drama society at school and my mother directed, so I wanted to get into it. Every film I went to see I would take the name of the director and I would write to him. I did not get many replies!”
But after blagging his Equity card, Bill’s bravado knew no limits. He admits: “I went straight into an agent’s office one day and told a pack of lies. I knew there was a Colwyn Bay rep, I knew the names of the actors and I had been to see one or two plays there, so I said that I had been in Colwyn Bay rep.
“This agent said ‘Oh that sounds very good. I have got a job if you like it? It is a juvenile lead in Clacton-on-Sea’. I said ‘Yeah, great thank you’. “ With his foot in the door, Bill then turned to acting legend Laurence Olivier for career advice.
He says: “I knew Olivier had just formed a company of his own and knew he was playing in the West End, so I wrote a note to him. Amazingly, I got a letter back from Sir Laurence, saying ‘come to the stage door at 7.15pm and I will see you’.
“I thought ‘wow,’ so at 7pm I was there. I went in and while he was getting made up, he was telling me about how he was going to America to make a film with Marilyn Monroe. “He said to me ‘What can I do for you?’ I told him I was 35 and was finding it difficult to get work. I said ‘a word from you would be worth a million more than anything from anybody else’.
“He said to me ‘don’t give up’. I can’t tell you how wonderful that was from a man who I thought was the greatest actor in the country. His words telling me not to give up buoyed me and I left there feeling as if I was walking on air.”
Soon Bill landed a role on a weekly Play of the Week series on ITV. Then just weeks later, Corrie creator Tony Warren wanted him for a new northern soap he was writing. Bill says: “I was filming at Granada and unbeknown to me Tony Warren took the Coronation Street casting director down to the studios and pointed to me and said, ‘he is the one I want for Ken Barlow’.
“At the time, I had a little flat in Notting Hill (west London). My agent rang and said ‘I think they want you. It is for a northern comedy’. “I thought ‘I have got this lead in a play coming out. I don’t want to go back up to Manchester’. So, he rang a few days later and said ‘look, this series is only going to run for 11 weeks. It is going to go out on a Monday and a Friday, so on the Wednesday you can do your play. It is great publicity.’ I thought ‘ok, I will do it. It is only 11 weeks’. I am still waiting to go back and pick up my career!”
In Coronation Street, Bill has worked with greats like Violet Carson, who played the fearsome Ena Sharples, Doris Speed who was the original Rovers Return landlady Annie Walker and Pat Phoenix, who played fiery Elsie Tanner.. “Doris Speed was a real character,” he says. “We used to have a bridge room in the rehearsal room and if she ever had a good hand she would stand up. That would not be very good in poker, but she had the authority which was very good.”
“Also, when the show first started it was supposed to be called Florizel Street. They had to get the right title and they changed it to Coronation Street. I mean Florizel? That sounds like a sanitary detergent.”
He recalls Frank Pemberton, who played his father Frank Barlow, struggling with some of the live scenes. He says: “In the early days, we did the first show live and the second one was recorded, but it was done as live. Frank often used to get into trouble with his words. “One day he wrote a word on his hard boiled egg on the living room table on the set. But I saw him smash it before he got to the word he needed to remember. Thankfully, he managed to get through it!” And he reveals how he thinks Corrie’s success is down to its realism.
He says: “When I joined the cast there were only about 15 of us and nobody was really that well known. It really hit the pulse of the nation. It was a time when realism was sweeping through the theatre. Like we had Marlon Brando and James Dean in the films and Look Back in Anger in the theatre. It was kitchen sink drama, so that was it. We zoomed to the top of the ratings and we have not been out of the top 10 in 65 years.”
Ken Barlow’s popularity has also never waned. Something of a ladies’ man, he‘s enjoyed romances with a string of characters, played by stars including Dame Joanna Lumley, Denise Black and even Hollywood icon Stephanie Beacham. But his favourite was, of course, the late Anne Kirkbride, who played Deirdre for 21 years – who he married twice.
Paying tribute to Anne, who died aged 60 from cancer in 2015, Bill says: “I was so lucky. I remember a writer once saying ‘Ken and Deirdre should be together’. There was always a laugh when she was around. She was a brilliant actress. Absolutely spot on with her lines and her comedy timing was immaculate. She was a perfect acting partner and was a lovely person too. I really miss her.
“Anne Reid played my first wife and she has done incredibly well. We met recently for my birthday and all we did was laugh. She was such a good wife and Ken really loved her.” Bill also has fond memories of working with actress Julie Goodyear, now 83, who played Street firebrand and ex Rovers landlady Bet Lynch for almost 37 years.
In 2023, Goodyear’s husband Scott Brand revealed she had dementia. Bill says of Julie: “She did some wonderful scenes. She was a powerhouse and that came out of the camera and into your homes. ” Meanwhile, Bill says he would like to keep working on the cobbles until he is 100 – if the director is prepared to put up with him laughing while he tries to remember his lines. .
He says: “Once the director upstairs said to me ‘now, just stop it. It is unprofessional. I am coming downstairs’. I remember he came down and someone had a paper hat and they put it on my head. So I am sitting there with a paper hat on and he lectured us on how we were being unprofessional, but once you start (giggling) you can’t stop. The more angry someone gets the more you do it. I am absolutely terrible.”
His Corrie family will certainly be happy to raise a pint to Ken in The Rovers on his centenary – and the more laughs the merrier!
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Lostprophets’ singer Ian Watkins was killed in jail this weekend after a fellow inmate ‘ambushed’ him and stabbed him in the neck with a ‘shank’ – causing hi to die due to blood loss
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Ian Watkins was killed behind bars over the weekend(Image: PA)
Lostprophets’ paedophile Ian Watkins accurately predicted his own death after being jailed for vile sex crimes. The disgraced former star was stabbed to death in jail on Friday while in the midst of serving a 35 year sentence for his crimes.
Reports have revealed he was stabbed in the neck by a fellow inmate in an attack that was described as “pre-planned”, “shocking”, and “gruesome”. Watkins had previously survived a stabbing incident in August 2023 – and he had previously predicted he would be attacked.
In 2019, he was put on trial for secretly having a mobile phone in prison – and had his sentence increased when found guilty of breaking this rule. When the verdict was read out, the former chart-topping star explained that “known murderers” in his prison had told him to keep the phone after leaving it on his bed.
Speaking about possible repercussions following his trail over the incident, he said: “Chances are someone would sneak up behind me and cut my throat. It’s not like one-on-one. Stuff like that, you don’t see it coming.”
On Saturday, news broke that Watkins had indeed been stabbed in the neck and killed while behind bars. He was “ambushed” after inmates were released from their cells in the morning.
Watkins was stabbed in the jugular, causing him to die from blood loss. The violent scene is said to have left those that work in the prison shaken and horrified.
A source told The Sun: “The bloke who got him this time went for his jugular and it looks like a pre-planned attack. Watkins was obviously high-profile and in for the most disgusting crimes… Despite who he was, it was really shocking and gruesome.”
They added: “Experienced officers and a lot of the other prisoners were in absolute shock after what happened and a lot of them saw the awful scene. The inmate who attacked him used a ‘shank’ knife and he was apprehended pretty quickly.”
In 2013, the Welsh native pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to 13 child sex offences. He also admitted to the rape and sexual assault of a child who was under the age of 13.
Watkins also admitted conspiring to rape a child, three counts of sexual assault involving children, seven involving taking, making or possessing indecent images of children and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.
Sentencing Mr Justice Royce said the case broke ‘new ground’ and ‘plunged into new depths of depravity’. He said Watkins had a ‘corrupting influence’ and had shown a ‘complete lack of remorse’. He added Watkins posed a significant risk to the public in particular to women with young children.
The musician was later handed an extra 10 months after he was discovered to have a mobile phone in his possession while behind bars. During the hearing, Judge Rodney Jameson QC said: “I am very conscious of the fact you are serving a very long time and you will be well into middle age by the time you are released. The fact of the matter is if there is not an appreciable penalty for having had a mobile phone in these circumstances then of course you would draw from that the lesson you could have another one and that is not a position I would want to encourage.”
He was said to be sharing his wing with murderers, killers, rapists and paedophiles, who he described as “the worst of the worst”. Asked to describe his music career during an earlier appearance, Watkins told the court his band had sold between five and ten million records across the world between 1999 and 2012. Watkins said the Lostprophets had toured all over the world, headlining at Wembley Arena and the MEN Arena in Manchester.
Paris Fury opens up to Notebook magazine about how Tyson has struggled after Ricky Hatton’ death as part of a wide-ranging interview
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Tyson Fury struggling after Ricky Hatton’s death – ‘It hit him hard’
Paris Fury has told how the death of boxer Ricky Hatton affected her husband Tyson, saying: “It hit him really hard.”
Her husband is currently on a hiatus from boxing since a rematch defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in December. And it is during these quiet times away from the sport, that Tyson has sometimes struggled mentally.
This time around, however, Paris has said how her husband had been “doing really well and keeping himself fit and healthy.” But she says the news of Ricky Hatton passing suddenly aged 46 earlier this month was a tough moment.
“He had a low few days,” Paris admits in a wide ranging interview with Notebook. “He was a friend of Ricky and could really relate to him — seeing similarities in their journeys as retired boxers who have faced challenges with life after the ring.”
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Opening up about the bond between the two men, she added: “The boxing community is close in general. Tyson actually knew Ricky; they’d done training together, and Ricky let him use his gym when Tyson made his comeback. They weren’t best friends on the phone all the time, but they knew each other, and in boxing, it’s a close-knit world.”
Their marriage has endured despite Tyson’s well-documented battles with depression, addiction, and bipolar disorder. And Paris admits: “Tyson will always have these issues; they don’t just disappear. We’ve just learned how to work with them. So he has been actively training, running—even if it’s just a really long run, these are the things he’s been doing to cope and he’s in a great place.
“If he actually just stops, it affects his mental health. So even though he’s ill with a cold right now, he’s still going for a long walk just to keep himself going.”
Despite her long-held wish for him to hang up his gloves for good, Paris admits she will stand by him whatever he decides. “Even as his wife, I don’t know if he’ll ever fight again,” she says. “He tells me no, but then something happens, he gets that glint in his eye and does a bit of a Jerry Maguire ‘Show me the money!’ moment. I’ve told him I will support him 100 per cent in whatever he does.”
While Tyson contemplates his future, Paris’s own star continues to rise. Her straight-talking and dedication to her children have won her a legion of fans, not to mention a string of lucrative endorsement deals, including a new partnership with Eternal Collagen.
Given her hectic pace of life, it’s perhaps no surprise that her wellness regime is also performed at break-neck speed. “I’ve always been one for vitamins and skincare, but I’m usually quick—wash my face, put cream on, and get out the door,” she says.
It’s why Eternal Collagen appealed to me so much. “It’s a really strong dose of 15,000milligrams in one shot in the morning, it’s packed full of your essential vitamins like Vitamin D, biotin, K2 , and it tastes good,” she says.
“It’s also got Echinacea, and B12 in it, which is great for immunity, I think this has kept me from getting the cold that the rest of the house has.” She’s noticed other side effects too having taken it for three months.
“After having Rico and a miscarriage, my hair went a bit limp and fine, which really bugged me,” she says. “But my hairdresser just said my hair feels lovely, and for the first time in 20 years, my own natural nails are finally growing.”
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Disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was killed behind bars aged 48 on Saturday while serving time for a string of vile sex crimes – including assaulting children
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Ian Watkins has been stabbed to death in prison
Lostprophets’ pedophile Ian Watkins was previously stabbed in prison before his murder behind bars. The disgraced musician was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in 2013 after being found guilty for a string of sex crimes – including assaulting children.
News broke on Saturday that the former singer had been stabbed to death by a fellow inmate after cell doors were unlocked. But it is not the first time the musician, who was 48 when he died, had been stabbed behind bars.
Back in August 2023, the Lostprophet’s star, from Pontypridd, was left with non-life threatening injuries after he was attacked in HMP Wakefield. He was taken to a nearby hospital at the time and an investigation was launched into the incident.
It was later revealed he had been taken hostage by three other inmates and it took prison officers six hours to get him released. His injuries were found to be not life-threatening and the motive for the attack was later explained as an unsettled £900 drugs debt.
On Saturday, it was revealed that Watkins had been killed on Friday while behind bars. Reports stated that he was “ambushed” by fellow inmates, who slashed his throat. A source told The Sun: “Watkins has been killed in the most brutal way possible – and the attack was shocking, even by prison standards.
“He was targeted by another inmate who shanked him in the neck. Guards were nearby and raced to the scene pretty quickly – but there was nothing they could do, and they could not save him.”
The attack has been described as “really shocking and gruesome” and reports suggesting that the incident was ‘pre planned’ by the culprit. It is not the first time that Watkins had been attacked behind bars – leading to a suggestion he was on borrowed time while in jail.
In 2013, the Welsh native pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to 13 child sex offences. He also admitted to the rape and sexual assault of a child who was under the age of 13.
Watkins also admitted conspiring to rape a child, three counts of sexual assault involving children, seven involving taking, making or possessing indecent images of children and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.
Sentencing Mr Justice Royce said the case broke ‘new ground’ and ‘plunged into new depths of depravity’. He said Watkins had a ‘corrupting influence’ and had shown a ‘complete lack of remorse’. He added Watkins posed a significant risk to the public in particular to women with young children.
The musician was later handed an extra 10 months after he was discovered to have a mobile phone in his possession while behind bars. Initially, he denied having a three-inch GSTAR phone in his cell. As the verdict was read out, Watkins claimed that “known murderers” in his prison told him to keep an eye on the phone after chucking it on his bed.
During the hearing, Judge Rodney Jameson QC said: “I am very conscious of the fact you are serving a very long time and you will be well into middle age by the time you are released. The fact of the matter is if there is not an appreciable penalty for having had a mobile phone in these circumstances then of course you would draw from that the lesson you could have another one and that is not a position I would want to encourage.”
Speaking about possible repercussions, he said: “Chances are someone would sneak up behind me and cut my throat. It’s not like one-on-one. Stuff like that, you don’t see it coming.”
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He is said to be sharing his wing with murderers, killers, rapists and paedophiles, who he described as “the worst of the worst”. Asked to describe his music career during an earlier appearance, Watkins told the court his band had sold between five and ten million records across the world between 1999 and 2012. Watkins said the Lostprophets had toured all over the world, headlining at Wembley Arena and the MEN Arena in Manchester.
