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In a glittery Northern Music Awards ceremony held in Liverpool on Thursday night alongside Blossoms and The Zutons, musician Nia Archives has been named the year’s artist of the year.

Nia Archives has been named artist of the year at the Northern Music Awards held in Liverpool. The 25-year-old Bradford-born singer, producer and DJ received her gong from YouTube star Charity Shop Sue, after releasing her debut album Silence Is Loud in April 2024.

The jungle artist said, “It’s amazing to make music in your bed or in your house and then witness young people and old people resonating with the music, singing, and dancing.”

Following a year in which she released her first single Matador and supported The Last Dinner Party on tour, rising singer Luvcat made a name with a number of gigs at Brixton’s The Windmill pub and won the breakthrough award from The Verve’s Simon Jones.

She said, “Being born by the water of Liverpool, I believe something magic is in the blood.” She then explained what it means to be a Liverpudlian performer.

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The Zutons, a band formed in 2001 and are both from Liverpool, won band of the year after releasing the album The Big Decider in 2024. They are best known for their cover of Valerie, which gained popularity when Amy Winehouse covered it.

The campaign that led to the release of their fifth album, Gary, which topped the UK albums chart, won the Manchester pop band Blossoms music moment of the year.

For their Mercury Prize-winning album, Indie band English Teacher, Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, won the innovator of the year award, while Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, won the same award.

For having “exceptional influence on the worlds of music, poetry, and beyond,” New Order bassist Peter Hook presented him with the Northern Music Award 2025. I Wanna Be Yours, I Wanna Be Yours, and I’ve Fallen In Love With My Wife were the songs he performed to start the show.

Ian Broudie, the guitarist for Echo And The Bunnymen and Ian Broudie, won the special recognition award in a previously announced award for having had a significant global impact with his music.

Hip-hop artist Chiedu Oraka won the award for “newcomer of the year,” Sarah Story won the award for “discovery,” and Liverpool Philharmonic won the music and culture for wellbeing award.

Hebden Bridge’s Trades Club won the award for a venue with a capacity of more than 2, 000, and The Piece Hall in Halifax won the same award for a venue with a capacity of more than 2, 000.

Sally Bryant, the A&R and artist manager, received the Nordoff And Robbins industry rising star award, and late live music promoter Chris York was honored by the audience and honored with an industry icon posthumously.

Emily Atack will take over from Johnny Vegas as the face of a well-known British tea company.

Emily Atack has secured a huge new gig as the fresh face of iconic tea brand PG Tips, taking over from comedian Johnny Vegas. Famous for its legendary ad campaigns featuring the beloved plush monkey, PG Tips is adding a touch of glamour with Emily at the helm.

Over the years, comic Vegas appeared on screens alongside Monkey, a stuffed cuddly toy for the iconic adverts. Monkey first appeared on screens in 2001. However, just last year, the beloved character was retired from the PG Tips adverts before making a brief cameo in the Comic Relief telethon in the same year.

In 2001, Johnny starred alongside Monkey in an AI-assisted commercial. The pair’s role for PG tips was reprised in 2007 with the title “The Return” in the first advertisement.

“The PG Tips campaigns are the stuff of TV legends, and execs wanted a bit of glamour for this one,” a source told The Sun. “Emily is a household name and straddles all demographics — plus she genuinely loves a nice cuppa — so they felt she’d be perfect.”

Later this year, the entertaining commercial is scheduled to appear on television, giving viewers a fresh take on the brand’s timeless charm. The source stated that the advertisement will be released later this year and is “really good fun.”

Emily, 35, is an actress, comedian, and TV personality, best known for playing Charlotte Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners. She has appeared on popular shows like I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, where she finished as a runner-up, and later launched The Emily Atack Show, a mix of stand-up and sketches.

She has also taken on roles in films and other TV projects, building a career in both comedy and acting. While Emily is a familiar face to many across the UK, it looks as though the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree as she has a famous mum.

Emily is the daughter of actress Kate Robbins, who starred in Death In Paradise. Kate. 66, first rose to fame after appearing on singing show Eurovision Song Contest in which she came third place in 1980, as part of the group Prima Donna.

After a humiliating meeting where executives made crude demands about her weight, Emily revealed that her hopes of entering Hollywood were shattered last year.

The actress, who has a number of UK roles under her belt, expressed her desire to establish herself in America, but she also acknowledged that it was a “brutal” process. She claimed that those around her believed she could cross the border, and that British caper movies like Get Luck and Outside Bet were meant to be her big break.

Before going into detail about a terrible meeting where someone rejected her because of her size, she said, “This is going to be the movie that will change your life forever, that will send you to Hollywood.” She said, “We’re not even going to think about seeing you again until you’re a size two [the UK equivalent of a size six,” she said at one meeting.

Emily continued, “I was so thin, and I was so hungry, and it wasn’t good enough.” I then decided, “I need to go home and have a cheeseburger.”

Thankfully, she recovered after appearing on I’m A Celeb in 2018 and receiving public support for her career. After Harry Redknapp became King of the Jungle, the actor came in second.

After sharing her three-year-old daughter Aurelia’s unintentionally broken nose, Millie Mackintosh posted photos of her bandaged nose on Instagram.

Millie Mackintosh has revealed she’s undergone surgery after her three-year-old daughter Aurelia accidentally broke her nose. The 35-year-old former Made In Chelsea star took to Instagram to show her nose covered in bandages after the mishap at home.

Apologising to her 1.3 million followers for being quiet lately, the mum-of-two – who also shares daughter Sienna, five, with husband Hugo Taylor – explained what happened and wrote: “If I’ve been quiet on here recently, there’s a reason why…

My nose was accidentally fracturing by Aurelia three weeks ago! When she threw her head back at me while I was holding her, her skull struck me in the middle of my nose. I discovered a crack after going to check it, and I had to have surgery to correct it by the end of last week. Has another parent ever experienced this? You kind of have to laugh, though, but parenting is a serious low.

However, Millie’s daughter Sienna’s playing up and recent events appeared to have caused her to panic, which she claimed she hadn’t experienced in months and assumed she had them under control.

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Millie’s post continued, “Sienna is almost five and has been having enormous meltdowns and violent tantrums,” revealing what life has been like lately. She seems to be moving along with us as we’ve been establishing new boundaries at home and providing support as she adjusts. She believed she had all the power, and it just wasn’t a good dynamic, and I realized I wasn’t being firm enough.

She then explained how her own health was struggling, saying, “I hadn’t had one in a while, but I had a panic attack this week.” For about three hours, it kept coming in waves like I was going to pass out.

I was aware of what it was, which is the difference. I kindly addressed myself, absorbed the discomfort, and applied ice to my neck, which was very helpful. This would have destroyed my entire day, or even my week, a year ago. I can see how far I’ve come.

“Lately I’ve been worrying about my social media — is anyone seeing this? Is it good enough? Lots of comparison and self-doubt creeping in. I’d love your feedback — what do you want to see more of on my page?“And Aurelia is in a real tricky phase. Everything’s wrong — clothes are too itchy, the bath is too bubbly, pasta is too wobbly, her smoothie isn’t pink enough… You get the picture. Most nights I end up in her bed to get her back to sleep and fall asleep there too. I love the cuddles, but I miss sleeping through the night!”

Fans responded with support in the comments below, some expressing their own unintended injuries to their children. One person wrote, “Yes, my daughter, when she accidentally scratched my eyeball while grabbing at my face, and ripped off the top layers. I had the feeling that I was going to pass away because of how much pain I was getting.

One person expressed “so much love Millie and bravo for the honesty. This is always appreciated by us mothers. “Ah, I’m sorry, sending you love,” a third person said. My two-year-old threw her head back and I believed her eye socket had broken. It immediately went black and was extremely painful. I sobbed because it hurt so much. While a fifth added, “Parenting is not always simple, xxx, but I’m glad you’re okay.”

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Rebecca Wilcox, the daughter of Dame Esther Rantzen, has shared a heartbreaking health update about her mother, who was receiving new medication to help her.

Dame Esther Rantzen is no longer responding to her medication, her daughter revealed. The veteran broadcaster, campaigner and journalist is battling terminal lung cancer. Initially, Dame Esther found a lump under her armpit after feeling tired over the Christmas period in December 2022. Just weeks later, a biopsy confirmed she had stage four cancer.

Since her diagnosis, Dame Esther, 84, has spoken openly about the Assisted Dying Bill, which is currently being debated by Parliament. However, the law could take several years to be implemented due to additional safeguarding being put in place as the bill continues to go through the MPs. Meanwhile, Dame Esther has even shared her views on dying at Dignitas, due to assisted dying currently being illegal in the United Kingdom.

However, Dame Esther is aware that her family might suffer repercussions if she did visit Switzerland. If I go, my family might face charges, she previously said.

Rebecca Wilcox, Dame Esther’s daughter, recently shared a heartbreaking health update in a new interview. When Dame Esther was questioned about a new medication that was initially thought to be able to improve her condition, Rebecca explained that this was untrue. She continued, “I really wish that was true,” adding, “I don’t believe that’s the case any longer,” she told 5 News.

Rebecca has previously spoken about the heart-wrenching possibility of facing prosecution for accompanying her mother, to the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.

Rebecca recalled her mother’s words in a personal interview with Hello!: “My mother said that she lost her mother, her husband, and her dog within a very short time, and that the dog had the most wonderful death, while the others didn’t.”

In response to the grim reality, Rebecca expressed hope that the trip to Dignitas won’t be imminent, but she also acknowledged the legal ramifications: “We’re just hoping that flight to Dignitas won’t have to happen any time soon. I’m not sure if I would choose to go with her because it would be so difficult to defend myself from a possible charge of infidelity.

She continued, “But letting her go alone would be a very strange version of me.”

In December, TV presenter Angela Rippon, a close friend of Dame Esther, also revealed that Dame Esther felt “relieved” when her assisted dying bill received support from Parliament.

By 330 votes to 275, the proposal to end a terminally ill person’s life was defeated. Dame Esther, who has lung cancer, revealed last year that she had joined Dignitas, a Swiss assisted dying facility.

Angela, 80, and Esther, both of whom have been friends for more than 30 years, still speak on the phone frequently. Angela praised her as “an amazing person.” She has used her platform to effect change throughout her entire life. She has done everything, including Silver Line, Childline, and many others. She has now used that influence and power that she has because it is so deeply personal to her. She has once more done it.

She is thrilled about what transpired, I believe. She seems happy and relieved, in my opinion. Dame Esther, who has terminal cancer, has expressed her desire to end her life when her quality of life declines. The bill was introduced as a result of her tireless campaigning on the subject.

Angela continued, “Esther has made a big impact, but she has always had her life,” at the Television and Radio Club Christmas lunch. She has lived her entire life and has been a source of inspiration for many people.

And I believe she values this very highly. The wonderful thing about Esther is that when she starts a campaign, she finds that thousands of people will support her and join her.

And I think that every single thing she has done, whether it was for Leadbeater, Silverline, or now, is one of those instances where she has played a significant role in a campaign, and I think that’s absolutely brilliant.

People living with cancer and their loved ones can receive private support from The Macmillan Support Line. If you need to talk, call us on 0808 808 0000.

The actor had a great success on US sitcoms Cheers and Frasier-&nbsp, but his life was ruined by tragedies off-screen.

Fans of Kelsey Grammer’s anticipation of her return to the MCU’s upcoming movie has been enthralled.

Kelsey’s last appearance in the MCU was in The Marvels, during which their character Hank McCoy was revealed to be part of an adjacent universe.

The Frasier star will appear in Avengers: Doomsday.

Fan-favourites Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston are returning as Thor and Loki while Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan are returning as Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man is also making a comeback for the movie, alongside David Harbour’s Red Guardian and Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova.

Kelsey’s acting career includes a number of awards, but his most notable accomplishment is her portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane, a Seattle-based radio shrink who offers guidance to troubled listeners.

Away from the screen, noone’s life history could be more troubled than Kelsey’s.

When Avengers Doomsday is released, the 70-year-old actor will contribute to creating a fantastic fantasy world while his own life would make the most eerie horror film.

So much tragedy has befallen Kelsey enduring the violent deaths of those closest to him.

These include his father, who was shot to death by a madman, his sister was brutally raped and murdered and his two half brothers who were eaten by sharks. He also carries with him the scars of a broken childhood, three failed marriages, several miscarriages, a heart attack and a recurring battle with drink and drugs.

It’s no wonder his grandfather once confided in him that his family had been cursed, just a few years before he himself passed away from cancer. Yet despite all the misfortune, Kelsey’s four decades-long career has never faltered and, as one of America’s greatest comedy actors, he never lost the ability to make us laugh.

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In 2019 the legendary actor, who has won five Primetime Emmys, three Golden Globes and on Tony award, starred in legal drama, Proven Innocent.

After her brother and her own attorneys were wrongly found guilty of the murder of her best friend, the story is about an attorney who makes an effort to prove her own innocence.

At the time, he was attempting to stop the men who had murdered his sister from being imprisoned.

Karen was 18 when she was forced into a car by four men, who raped her for four hours before dumping her in a trailer park and stabbing her to death in 1975.

The ringleader, Freddie Glenn, was on parole six years ago after two of her killers’ death sentences were commuted to life sentences.

At his last parole hearing in 2009, Kelsey intervened with an emotional statement, telling the board: “She was so smart and good and decent. We could have a long conversation. I was unable to protect her because I was supposed to.

” It very nearly destroyed me. The suffering resurfaced when we learned that this man might be granted parole.

Indeed, he could have been discussing his own family turmoil when he mentioned his television show Proven Innocent. And they bend and manipulate the truth to show that their version of the story is the truth.

“And that’s why justice is so crucial because of it.” Nothing can thus obscure the truth, and all of us strive to achieve that. The truth”.

The world first heard of Kelsey in 1984, when he arrived in season 3 of hit TV series Cheers as psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane, staying until the series finale in season 11.

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From 1993 to 2004, he remained as the actor who played the doctor as Frasier, a well-known spinoff series.

However, his path to success took a difficult one, beginning when his parents divorced at the age of two, and he and Karen were taken out of their San Francisco, US, home to be raised by their mother and grandfather in New Jersey.

Their grandfather died from cancer aged 63 when he was just 12.

Then, two years later, a man who had conned him outside of his house at night by lighting his car shot him dead.

However, Arthur Niles, a man, was later found not guilty of murder and taken to a mental health facility.

After the back-to-back tragedies, Kelsey decided to focus on his love of performing and attended Pine Crest preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before applying to the prestigious Julliard School of performing arts in New York.

But even worse happened when Karen, a 20-year-old, was taken from the Red Lobster restaurant in Colorado and employed as a waitress.

She was taken four hours of rape by her attackers at her apartment.

They then put a cloth over her head, promising to take her home, but instead took her to trailer park where they stabbed her in the back and neck before leaving her to die.

Before she could ring the doorbell, she collapsed and died on the porch of a nearby home.

A week after Karen was brutally murdered, Kelsey was forced to visit Colorado Springs to find the body.

Of all the tragedies that had befell him, losing his sister and only sibling hit Kelsey the hardest, and he later admitted he “lost it. I gave up trying to find a reason to be alive.

Kelsey stopped attending classes and started using alcohol and drugs shortly after graduating from Julliard.

He later told Oprah that his first bouts of alcoholism were fuelled by the depression he felt because of her murder.

He responded, “I liked it. It made me feel good, too. Maybe it was because I was running away from the feelings that weren’t, you know, as comfortable as I wanted them to do be, and maybe I do have a self-destructive part of me”.

In the early 1980s, he reprised his acting career, playing Stephen Smith in the Kennedy miniseries, and eventually made his way back to reality.

But just as his family was beginning to prosper, two of his half brothers were also affected by tragedy once more.

Stephen and Billy Grammer were scuba diving off the coast of St Thomas in June 1980, when Stephen tragically suffered an embolism after surfacing too quickly, but no one knows what happened to Billy.

He was most likely eaten by sharks, according to rescuers.

Kelsey’s big break came in 1984 with the sitcom Cheers, but he continued to suffer from bouts of alcoholism and addiction to drugs and over the years had a number of brushes with the law.

Between 1988 and 1991, he was detained three times for using cocaine and driving while intoxicated, and he served one jail term of 30 days.

The actor’s success onscreen was unaffected, and by 2001, he was earning $ 700,000 per Frasier episode.

Away from the screen, though, Kelsey’s love life was tainted with the same bad luck he had by now grown used to.

He met dancer Doreen Alderman in 1982, and they soon got married, and Spencer became the father of Spencer.

After a one-night stand with a make-up artist, Kelsey and her daughter Kandace were divorced in 1990.

Two years later, he married a former exotic dancer, Leigh-Anne Cshuany, but their relationship quickly turned toxic, and Kelsey claimed she would spit in his face, tear up pictures of his loved ones and even threaten to kill him.

When Csuhany was three months pregnant, he ended up divorcing her, leading to the miscarriage of their baby. Soon after, in 1995, Kelsey was hit by damaging claims of statutory rape of his child’s babysitter in 1995, as she was only 15 at the time. The grand jury decided not to indict him, despite the fact that the case was going to go to trial.

After years of abuse, legal issues, and dramas in his personal life, Kelsey finally decided to check himself in the Betty Ford Center in 1996.

But tragedy seemed to be just around the corner.

David Angel, Kelsey’s close friend and former Frasier producer, passed away in the terrorist attacks of 2001. On American Airlines Flight 11, the first aircraft to strike the World Trade Center, Angell and his wife Lynn were flying.

Another failed marriage and another miscarriage followed, after in August 1997 he married former Playboy model Camille Donatacci.

Before the couple divorced in 2010, the couple eventually had two children, both of whom were surrogates. While Kelsey cited “irreconcilable differences” Camille claimed it was because he was cross-dresser.

The actor suffered a sudden heart attack while paddleboarding on vacation in Hawaii during his marriage to Camille in 2008. Kelsey later revealed that his heart had stopped completely and that he was just a few minutes away from passing away, despite his representatives’ claims that it was a mild heart attack.

He later told Oprah that his near death experience “was a good event in my life” because it forced him change his lifestyle and confront the tragedies that had marked his life. He said, “I just put that pain] where it used to be: in the past.

However, there have been some tragic deaths, and it’s a pain you can always experience again because it’s with you 24/7.

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Former air stewardess 25 his junior Kelsey and British Kayte Walsh, who he married in 2011, have a long-lasting relationship.

As well as new drama Proven Innocent, he is also set to star in 1965 musical Man Of La Mancha at the West End.

But he admits that the “family curse” his grandfather had warned him about is never far away from his mind, even though he appears to be at peace with himself, content in love, and content with a rebirth in his already magnificent career.

Telling the Daily Mail he frets if his loved ones don’t call him, he said: “I get nervous something horrible has happened.

With Machine Gun Kelly, Megan Fox gave birth to her first child.

The Transformers star, 38, and Australian rocker, 34, are reportedly speaking hardly ever and broke up over Thanksgiving last year. They have just become parents, though, according to the musician, who posted the happy news on Instagram. The family’s daughter’s adorable video and sweet song were shared by MGMK.

She’s finally here, I tell you! Our tiny Celestial Seed 3/27/25″. A piece of “Original Audio” was included in his video. The musician has now revealed the true meaning of the track, which is very sweet. On Instagram, he wrote, “We created the birth score.” Born into 432HZ. What a journey in . Give thanks to God. Travis Barker, Big Slim, Truck Norris, No Love for the Middle Child, Shaan Singh, and MGK himself wrote the song.

Soon, messages from fans and famous friends flooded MGK’s post, which has been liked more than 63, 000 times. “The princess is here!” “Congratulations Kells” Emma Rosen remarked. “My sincere congratulations!! This news really makes me so happy. One fan said, “I hope you, the baby, and Megan are doing well.” “I’m so happy for you guys,” added a second. Congratulations, dear daddy! “!

Megan’s ex, Brian Austin Green, attacked MGK just before the news of their newborn daughter. The musician had previously sent Brian a message on Instagram asking that he “stopped asking” when their child was due. MGK yelled, “Quit calling TMZ, and concentrate on that apology you owe me for speaking in public.”

He continued, “You chose the wrong person to work with Mr. Child Actor.” Return to cereal advertisements. Brian responded, “I didn’t know that being a child actor was bad.” Be cautious, Leo. He might be waiting for you the next.

In the weeks leading up to the birth of their child, Megan and MGK, real name Colson Baker, reportedly had no communication. Sources earlier this month asserted that their relationship was “god good.” They exchanged a few texts, according to the source, who spoke to Us Weekly. Machine Gun Kelly, 34, continued, “wants to get back together with Megan, but she’s done for a long time,” adding: “.

Although the actress, 38, no longer wants him to be a part of their child’s life, but she does not want to be with him.

Before getting engaged in 2022, the pair made a public statement about their relationship in 2020. Hollywood actress Megan made the pregnancy announcement in November.

However, things started to splinter shortly after. The controversial couple, known for having extravagant PDAs on the red carpet, reportedly split up several times over the years. However, insiders predict that this may be the last time. After spending Thanksgiving together in Vail, Colorado, the couple allegedly broke up, according to sources, and haven’t spoken to one since.

According to TMZ, people close to the pair claim that Megan and MGK are having no conversation because of their bad behavior. The source added that despite Megan’s pregnancy, there hasn’t been any communication, and it’s unclear how closely MGK will be with the child and how they’ll navigate parenting.

An insider reported shortly after the split that “She’s previously left him, but this time it seems final.” They added that Megan’s friends had begun to “dislike” MGK, and that they were overwhelmingly supportive of the split.

They continued, “They operate in a dramatistic manner, like a never-ending high school relationship.” Everything was fine for weeks and months, but now they’re locked in a fight, it’s all or nothing. During Thanksgiving, things turned a turn for the worse.

Despite the fact that she was “done” with his behavior and “the way he treated her,” a source added that MGK assumed they would continue to be together despite the fact that their relationship was “done” as a result of their pregnancy.

The actress has three children with her ex, Brian Austin Green, who married the Till Death star in 2010 before they divorced in 2021, along with Megan’s child with MGK, who has a daughter.

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