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F1-inspired fashion searches have surged by almost 1000%, and we’ve rounded up the very best Formula 1 fashion buys from Reiss, Hollister and more ahead of the British Grand Prix

Searches for Formula 1 fashion have surged by 1000% thanks to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend, and with the recent release of Brad Pitt’s F1 movie.

The F1 craze has been building and building over the past few years, with the sport becoming more popular than ever. With TV shows like Drive to Survive and Formula 1 collaborations with all kinds of brands from Nutribullet to PUMA and TAG Heuer.

And if you’re planning on watching the Grand Prix on Sunday and looking to get in on the action, we’ve found the coolest F1-inspired fashion to shop right now.

From varsity style cardigans, stylish bomber jackets and slouchy long sleeve t-shirts, check out our top style buys from Reiss, Hollister and more.

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REISS

Reiss has teamed up with the McLaren Formula 1 team for a second collection of fashion forward motocross-style pieces. The range includes stylish buys for men, women and children including graphic print hoodies, elevated knitwear and cool co-ords.

SHOP OUR TOP PICKS: McLaren F1 Team Cropped Logo T-Shirt, £38 here; McLaren F1 Team Technical Logo Jacket, £198 here; and McLaren F1 Team Crop Varsity Cardigan, £188 here

HOLLISTER

Hollister have a whole range of race car-inspired clothing, and although, they are technically menswear, we think they could work as unisex pieces as well. Simply size down from your usual if you’re looking for a slimmer fit. From Red Bull racing jackets to vibrant McLaren orange hoodies and cool graphic tees, this F1-inspired range is full of reasonably afforable fashion buys.

SHOP OUR TOP PICKS: Oracle Red Bull Racing Jacket, £99 here and Relaxed McLaren Graphic Hoodie, £49.95 here

F1 OFFICIAL STORE

Another place to find F1 buys includes the Formula 1 official merch store. With limited edition 2025 buys, the store has everything you’d ever want, and can even be shopped depending on which driver or team you support.

It was hailed as the greatest rock’n’roll reunion of the decade. But as the Gallaghers might say, it was much bigger than that.

Cardiff town centre was ground to standstill aside from packed bars hours before the show, and thousands came without tickets, such is the power and love for the band.

Before they had spoken or played a note, Liam and Noel linked hands and held them aloft to show their war was over and Oasis really were back.

Then they let their music do the talking initially with Hello and then Acquiesce, which saw the brothers sharing vocal duties.

The lyrics couldn’t be more timely for the comeback: “Because we need each other, we believe in one another”

That was a close as we would get to a real embrace They found their stride with Morning Glory and Some Might Say.

And Liam even found time to ask the crowd to do a Man City Poznan mosh celebration up and down to Cigarettes and Alcohol.

He later joked about the cost of the tickets and thanks fans for sticking with them too.

Noel got plenty of time to shine too, with his own mini gig in the middle slowing things down a little with singalongs to Talk Tonight and Half The World Away which seem to even make Noel teary.

The rest of the band also sounded solid with the month long stint of rehearsals paying off. Bonehead got his own shoutout which he deserves for being the glue between the Gallaghers on and off stage at times.

The back catalogue of huge hits keep coming, and keep taking different members of the audience down memory lane. Nights out with friends, birthdays and wedding receptions.

They chose songs from early in their era and the audience mainly in their forties and fifties were transported back to the Nineties.

Liam had promised beforehand to blow the roof off the venue and judging from the reaction of thousands of fans jumping around and shouting every song back at him unison, he wasn’t far wrong.

Of course there is no new music here and the set list mainly consisted of songs from two albums that were released in 1994 and 1995.

So there is a heavy dose of nostalgia and many people in the crowd are not just loving the Gallagher and the music, but the place it takes them too.

For many, the nights out filled with Cigarettes and Alcohol are in short supply these days, now they are married with children.

When the reunion was announced, amongst the short statement and a black and white photo the Gallaghers had said: “The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. “

In Cardiff the wait was finally over, and it has taken 16 years, but this is a reunion gig that will live forever in the memories of the fans who were here.

To quote Liam, it was biblical.

Full set list from the opening show in Cardiff on Friday night was:

Hello

Acquiesce

Morning Glory

Some Might Say

Bring It on Down

Cigarettes & Alcohol

Fade Away

Supersonic

Roll With It

Talk Tonight (sung by Noel)

Half the World Away (sung by Noel)

Little By Little (sung by Noel)

D’You Know What I Mean?

Stand By Me

Cast No Shadow

Slide Away

Whatever

Live Forever

Rock ’n’ Roll Star

Encore

The Masterplan (sung by Noel)

Don’t Look Back in Anger (sung by Noel)

Wonderwall

Champagne Supernova

Black Sabbath are a legendary band that helped define the genre of heavy metal, but in a career that has spanned more than 50 years they have had their fare share of scandal.

Black Sabbath is one of the biggest bands in heavy metal history. Front manned by the iconic but temperamental Ozzy Osbourne it’s fair to see the band is no stranger to scandals. The band lived and breathed the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle often taking it to the extreme.

But after more than 50 years playing for fans, the Birmingham-born band will be hanging up their guitars for good with one last farewell performance at a jam-packed Villa Park Stadium on Saturday (July 5).

But with more than five decades touring the world, the band’s history is full of controversy, rolling the clock back, here are some of the biggest scandals to hit Black Sabbath.

Rockstars or Satanists?

First forming in 1968 in an era of flower power, Black Sabbath stood from something all around very different. They didn’t pretend to be of the Woodstock era and instead embraced the grungy darkness.

However, different things often scare people, and Black Sabbath soon fell into that category. The band’s dark imagery played a part and their self-titled song also featured some lyrics that perhaps didn’t help their cause.

“Big black shape with eyes of fire. Tellin’ people their desire. Satan’s sittin’ there, he’s smilin’. ‘Watches those flames get higher and higher. Oh, no, no, please, God, help me,” the band sing.

For many this just proved they dabbled in the satanic, but the song’s lyrics, written by Geezer Butler were misunderstood. They came from a night when he was lying in bed with upside-down crosses hanging on the wall when he claimed to have seen a ghost. “It frightened the p**sing life out of me,” he said.

So he wrote the song about the dangers of messing with the paranormal. Meanwhile, Ozzy was an atheist and instead just enjoyed the dark. Talking about the controversy, drummer Bill Ward is paraphrased as boiling it down to being just a bunch of blokes from Birmingham.

Drugs battles

It’s no secret that Black Sabbath and particularly frontman Ozzy Osbourne indulged in the white stuff in their heyday. Cocaine in particular became an almost constant companion on the road. In an interview on The Madhouse Chronicles Podcast, Osbourne talked about his history with addiction.

He said: “In Sabbath, when we discovered cocaine, it was like the meaning of life… We had a dealer on the road with us.

“We had this guy, he was a bit strange, And he’d have these f*****g bags with these big f*****g chunks of coke. Big bags of coke. ”

There are even reports that during the recording of their album Vol. 4, many sessions had to be cut short because of drug use. This continued to escalate tensions throughout the 70’s which in 1979 eventually led to Ozzy’s firing from the band for his erratic behaviour.

Bill Ward’s battle

While Ozzy opted for cocaine, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath’s drummer, has spoken out about his struggles with alcohol particularly during their heyday. His drinking began to spiral to the point where he was heavily drinking during gigs. By the late 70’s the lifestyle caught up with Bill, whose mental health took a hit which led to his departure in 1980 after their album Heaven and Hill.

The drummer left very abruptly, shocking the band at the time. He famously told new singer Ronnie James Dio: “I’m off then, Ron,” before disappearing with the band not seeing him for months.

Managerial Mayhem

Beyond their internal struggles, the band found themselves embroiled in complicated legal battles with their management throughout the 1970s. The issues began with the first main manager Patrick Meehan who the band claims ripped them off as they were “clueless about finances” according to Butler.

They eventually switched to infamous and brash music manager Don Arden, the father of Sharon Osbourne, and although he secured a better deal for the band, the relationship was often tested. When Sharon took over the solo management of Ozzy it even led to some family friction with her becoming estranged from her dad for 20 years after the split.

Ozzy’s bat biting antics

During performances in the 80s Ozzy began a strange ritual where he would pummel the crowd of his shoes with raw meat and they in turn would throw back whatever strange objects they managed to sneak in. But in 1982 during a show in Des Moines, one fan threw a live bat onto the stage – creating the now infamous moment.

Speaking to Rolling Stone Ozzy said: “I thought it was a rubber bat, I picked it up, put it in my mouth, crunched down, bit into it, being the clown that I am. ”

“Bats are the biggest carriers of rabies in the world, and I had to go to the hospital afterwards and they started giving me rabies shots. I had one one each rear and I had to have that every night. ”

He caught the attention of animal rights activists yet again in lockdown where he revealed he would pass the time by shooting birds and cats with an air rifle after setting up a makeshift firing range outside his Los Angeles home.

A sitcom star who rose to fame over a decade ago made a surprise appearance at Wimbledon this weekend – but will fans of the series be able to recognise the comedic actor?

A sitcom star has been seen looking completely different as he made a Wimbledon appearance this week. The Office US star Rainn Wilson blended into the tennis fans as he enjoyed the annual sporting event.

The actor wore a khaki-coloured bucket hat and navy blue jacket as well as a bushy beard and moustache which isn’t the look fans will remember from The Office US.

The US actor is best known for his iconic role of Dwight Schrute where he appeared on NBC for nine seasons. Other famous faces such as Steve Carell and John Krasinski also appeared on the series.

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Rainn’s character was a paper salesman and regional manager who is known for his comical habits. Rainn has a clean shaven look for his role but it looks like he’s now gone for a different style.

He starred in the sitcom from 2005 to 2013. Despite the show finishing more than ten years ago, The Office became the most watched show on Netflix during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Rainn is best known for his comedy role but has also opened up in the past about his difficult childhood. He appeared on Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of A CEO podcast and talked about the abuse and trauma he faced as a child.

“I experienced a lot of pain in my life and a lot of suffering with anxiety and depression and addiction,” he explained. “As I dove into recovery and the therapeutic process, I can pin that squarely on a lot of gross imbalances and trauma that I suffered as a child. “

The star also revealed he was in therapy for more than 22 years to learn to undo the trauma that has haunted him for so long. “It’s important to excavate and honour the pain we went through, the lies that we were told, the gaslighting that we might have undergone, religious trauma as well, all kinds of different traumas that we suffer,” he added.

Rainn told the podcast host that his mother “took off” before he was two years old and left him with his father and eventually his stepmother as well. The actor said his father made a move and took him to “the jungles of Nicaragua when I was three years old,” as he said. Rainn eventually settled in Washington just as he started kindergarten.

When his father remarried, Rainn said he was raised in a “loveless shell of a house” and encountered “lots of different kinds of abuse” full of rage and “gaslighting. ” The actor said his home life pushed him into acting and comedy.

“There’s a reason why so many comedians come from painful backgrounds because comedy is what you plug in to shift your perspective away from pain and trauma just like gratitude takes you away from depression,” he explained.

Oasis was supported by Richard Ashcroft ahead of their epic reunion gig in Cardiff last night, but one fan was caught using Shazam during one of The Verve star’s iconic songs

An Oasis fan watching the reunion gig in Cardiff last night has gone viral after being caught using Shazam to identify what many reckon is one of the greatest songs of all time. The Britpop sensations were supported by Richard Ashcroft at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff who treated fans to The Verve’s classic Bittersweet Symphony.

The iconic track from 1997 has been named one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, but one fan in the stadium appeared to have never heard of the masterpiece. In a clip shared on TikTok, in which a woman can be seen using the app to identify the song, one irate fan wrote: “Did they just Shazam the national anthem? Imagine not knowing the greatest song of all time. “

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Quickly flocking to the comments section, others sensationally fumed that the woman didn’t deserve her ticket to the gig, which has been sold out for months.

They complained: “Seriously! I couldn’t get a ticket because of these people. ” Another ranted: “This is the people who got our tickets. ” While a third said: “If you don’t know Bittersweet Symphony we can’t be friends. There’s no way I lost tickets to someone Shazamming one of the most popular songs of the Britpop era. “

Despite the mad rush for tickets when Oasis announced their reunion last year, with many fans complaining they couldn’t get one or were being asked to pay through the nose, 70,000 lucky people did manage to go to the glittering gig last night.

The special evening at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium marked the start of the Gallagher brothers’ epic world tour – and it didn’t disappoint.

The crowd were blown away by both Richard and Oasis as the Supersonic stars delivered an electrifying set, packed with energy and nostalgia.

Taking to social media to share their reactions, many reckoned the gig was the ‘greatest rock n roll show of all time’ as they praised the ‘momentous’ occasion.

Comments included: “LIAM SOUNDS SO F****G GOOD! ! ! OASIS ARE BACK. THIS IS BETTER THAN JESUS’ RETURN! ! ” as another dramatically declared: “I died and ascended to a new plane. “

Also enjoying the gig was Noel’s daughter, Anais, who looked like she’d had a whale of a time as she posted a snap of herself with a pint of beer, wearing an Oasis shirt.

Captioning the photo, she simply wrote: “It’s great to be back” as many other fans agreed.

However, the 25-year-old’s mum, Meg Matthews, who was also at the concert, left before Noel came back on stage to perform Wonderwall, which was written for Meg by her ex when they were together.

Noel had originally claimed he’d written it on a rainy Tuesday night for his then girlfriend. Back in 1996, he said: “It’s about my girlfriend, Meg Mathews. She had a company which folded and she was feeling a bit sorry for herself. The sentiment is that there was no point in her feeling down, she has to sort my life out for me because I was in bits at the time. “

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Stories about Liam and Noel have been circulating online as their Oasis Live ’25 tour kicked off in Cardiff, and one fan shared an Oasis story which they claimed was the ‘best of all time’

Noel Gallagher is known for his dry sense of humour, however some Oasis fans are only just finding out about a cheeky prank the musician played on his brother Liam Gallagher for years.

Stories about Liam and Noel have been circulating online as their Oasis Live ’25 tour kicked off in Cardiff last night (Friday July 4), and one fan shared an Oasis story on X which they claimed was the ‘best of all time’.

The fan, named Paul, shared a screenshot from an article which revealed Noel spent years moving furniture around to ‘make Liam believe in ghosts’.

Captioning the post, Paul said: “Fairly certain that no Oasis story will ever be better than this. “

The Vice article referenced a story from The Mirror back in 2016. It reported that Noel had decided to play the prank on Liam and have ‘decades of fun’ as Liam is ‘terrified of evil spirits’.

Noel recalled at the time: “It’s highly amusing and if we were ever anywhere remotely spooky, we’d tell Liam that the house was haunted, particularly his bedroom.

“We convinced him his bedroom was haunted, so when he’d get up in the morning and go and have his breakfast, someone would go in and turn the pictures back to front, or f***ing move a lamp beside his bed across the other side of the room.

“He’d arrive pale: ‘Have you been in my f***ing room? ’ ‘No, why? ’ ‘You’ve been in my room, because now the f***ing lamp is in the toilet. ’ ‘No way, f***ing hell. Wow. ’

“Yeah, that was amusing. That was worth it. ”

The X post about the story has gone viral in the last few days, racking up more than 600,000 views.

One person called the tale “so good”, while another quipped: “The things people do to keep their spirits up! “

A third chimed in: “It’s just the sort of thing an older sibling would do! “

Noel and Liam’s first show at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium saw the pair out on stage together after ending a row which has lasted over a decade.

The brothers, from Manchester, came out to a roaring crowd and walked to the stage with their song “F**king in the Bushes” playing. They then performed their hit “Hello,” a thousands of pints were thrown into the air by fans.

Oasis played some of their biggest hits from the show, with the tour setlist featuring tracks such as Acquiesce, Morning Glory, Some Might Say, Bring It On Down, Cigarettes & Alcohol and Live Forever.