EXCLUSIVE: Liam Gallagher could be preparing to take a huge risk as Oasis prepares for their first hometown show at Manchester’s Heaton Park this weekend
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Liam faces a huge risk ahead of the Heaton Park gigs this weekend(Image: Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Liam Gallagher faces a major risk ahead of the first Oasis gig at Heaton Park, Manchester this weekend. Liam, 52, faces getting a rocky reception at the Oasis homecoming Manchester gigs – if he continues asking the crowd to “do the Poznan”.
The frontman urged all fans at both Cardiff gigs to turn around and bounce up and down during the anthem Cigarettes & Alcohol. He said on Saturday: “I don’t ask you to do the Mexican wave or sh*t like that, but I want you to do the poznan so everyone turn around and put your hands on each other. It’s 2025, don’t be shy. When the tunes start, you jump up and down, it’s very easy, you don’t need GCSEs.”
And he also posted a clip of the Poznan on his official social media with his comments from Friday night where he similarly said: “I want you to do the Poznan, so turn around and put your hands on each other.” This gives the impression it could become a tour staple move for fans to jump around during that song.
Oasis will headline Heaton Park this weekend(Image: Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
But the Poznan is a celebration used by Manchester City and at Heaton Park he would be asking a crowd to do it which will contain many thousands of Manchester United football fans.
One music source told the Mirror: “Liam loves seeing the crowd do it, but it will be a higher risk strategy at Heaton Park. It will be no surprise if he does do it or gives City a shout-out on stage because he and Noel are such big fans. Bonehead is the only red(United fan) in the lineup.”
The two brothers haven’t performed in Manchester since the Bank of Burnage gigs in June 2009(Image: Big Brother Recordings / PR Handout)
On social media, Manchester United fans are already debating the prospect of the Poznan this weekend. One suggested her could never watch Oasis live because they are City fans. But on X, formerly known as Twitter, one said: “I’ll be there at Heaton Park and won’t be doing the Poznan but doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the music?”
Another user called Fenton said: “Oasis surely won’t ask the crowd to do the Poznan at Heaton Park will they? Will end in disaster.” One fan called Sam said: “You can quite easily support Utd and love Aasis. Just won’t catch me doing the Poznan.”
The gig will be the first since Noel finally revealed why he and his younger brother decided to end their feud, which started when Noel quit the band in 2009. Before performing at the Rock en Seine festival, he dramatically walked out and said he couldn’t work with his brother anymore.
It’s the concert nobody ever expected to happen – but it is(Image: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Speaking last weekend, he said that Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs was the mastermind behind the reunion. Noel introduced the band, whilst also joking about the high turnover of drummers Oasis had in the past. He said: “On drums, our 13th official drummer, Joey Waronker.
“On guitar, if it wasn’t for him none of this would have f**king happened in the first place, Mr Bonehead.” Meanwhile, Liam apologised to fans for the 16-year wait following their last concert. he said: “Hello people, it’s been too long.” As they broke into fan-favourite Champagne Supernova, their final song of the evening, the lead singer said: “Right you beautiful people, this is it. Nice one for putting up with us over the years, we know we’ve been difficult. Champagne Supernova, nice one.”
The band are supported by 90s group Cast, and former frontman of The Verve, Richard Ashcroft.
Ahead of the publication of their new book, Fiona Phillips and her dedicated husband, Martin Frizell, have spoken candidly about the realities of life with Alzheimer’s Disease, including the former presenter’s heartbreaking plea
In a candid admission, Fiona Phillips’ devoted husband, Martin Frizell, has opened up about the desperate plea she’s made as the couple deals with the everyday realities of living with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Fiona and Martin first locked eyes on the set of GMTV, back when he was chief correspondent. Although independent-minded Fiona had never intended to marry, they fell in love quickly and tied the knot in a 1997 Las Vegas wedding.
In the years since, Fiona and Martin, who share sons Nathaniel and Mackenzie, have stuck by each other through thick and thin. When Fiona, 64, was given a shock Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2022, after months of suffering from brain fog and anxiety, Martin made sure to be there for her every step of the way.
Now Martin has offered a devastating insight into how their lives have changed, with his “glamorous, glittering star” of a wife now vulnerable and in need of constant reassurance.
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Fiona Phillips and Martin Frizell have spoken out about the realities of life with Alzheimer’s Disease(Image: Getty Images Europe)
In a joint piece penned for the Mail Online, producer and editor Martin shed light on the “isolating” nature of Fiona’s illness, admitting, “the dinner-party invitations have dried up”.
Martin wrote: “It’s not that Fiona would even want to go out for dinner, but sometimes it would be nice to be asked. I don’t think people are deliberately trying to exclude us; they’re just not sure what to say, and so they say nothing at all.
“And it does feel lonely. It feels selfish to say that because this is not about me – it’s about Fiona and she’s the one who is really suffering in all this. She’s the one who feels lonely and scared and is often in pain.”
Martin has revealed that ‘vulnerable’ Fiona now struggles to be left alone
Sadly, when Martin does try to head out alone, Fiona finds it difficult to be left, sometimes even begging him to stay. He continued: “Sometimes when I’m going out, she will say, ‘Please don’t leave me,’ because she wants me to be close by. And it breaks my heart that my strong, independent wife has become so vulnerable.”
In the same piece, Canterbury-born Fiona spoke of the challenges she faces as her “memory skips away”, with even her most precious memories now difficult to grasp – a feeling that she’s likened to “trying to chase a £5 note that’s fallen out of your purse on a gusty day”.
Fiona has enjoyed a glittering career as a presenter and journalist(Image: Daily Mirror)
Paying tribute to her supportive husband, Martin, the mum of two shared: “I couldn’t be writing this at all without my husband Martin, and my closest friends, who are helping me articulate more clearly the thoughts I once had that are now harder for me to reach.
“I used to be able to talk to anyone about anything (a skill inherited from my mum), and then I made a career out of chatting to people on television. Nowadays, I can find talking about my life agonisingly difficult. Sometimes I get halfway through a sentence and I can’t remember where I was heading with it or the word I was looking for. It feels awful.”
Fiona was only in her early 60s when she learned she had Alzheimer’s – an illness she had assumed she wouldn’t have to think about for another 20 years. She had initially attributed her symptoms to going through menopause, but further tests revealed the devastating diagnosis.
Speaking previously with the Mirror, former breakfast TV host Fiona divulged: “It’s something I might have thought I’d get at 80. But I was still only 61 years old. “I felt more angry than anything else because this disease has already impacted my life in so many ways; my poor mum was crippled with it, then my dad, my grandparents, my uncle. It just keeps coming back for us.”
With Martin’s assistance, Fiona has penned a book called Remember When: My Life With Alzheimer’s, which is set to be published later this month.
Remember When: My Life With Alzheimer’s by Fiona Phillips (Macmillan, £22), is to be published July 17.
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Bridgerton actor Corey Mylchreest, who played King George / Farmer George in the spin-off show is set to star in a steamy Netflix drama set in Oxford University alongside Sofia Carson
My Oxford Year’s trailer is officially out and we cannot wait for its launch(Image: Netflix)
Netflix heard our demands for a return of Bridgerton’s King George and, this summer, they’ve promised to deliver. Known for his dreamy role as King George in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Corey Mylchreest is set to return to our screens in a new Netflix romcom set in Oxford. Corey will act as the charming love interest of our academic dreams.
My Oxford Year will star the talented Sofia Carson as the American lead Anna. Following Anna to Oxford for her British dream of studying at Oxford University, viewers can fall as deeply in love with the witty Jamie – and yes, he is still just as handsome as he was a Farmer George.
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Bridgerton: Queen Charlotte’s actor Corey Mylchreest is set to return as Netflix’s newest love interest(Image: Netflix)
Coming out August 1, the film guarantees us the summer romance we’ve been craving. The show was directed by BAFTA nominee Iain Morris, famed writer of British cult classic, The Inbetweeners. Sofia, who’s also acting as an executive producer for the new Netflix offering, praised Iain, telling Netflix Tudum: “Comedy is his language, so his vision of this film beautifully created a timeless, heart-breaking, sweeping romance, grounded in laughter”.
And whilst an intense love story from within the walls of Oxford’s halls might not be the fun-filled fling Netflix viewers prefer, Sofia insists that whilst “you may fall madly in love, you may cry” in one scene, Iain “will always make sure the joy of laughter is present”.
Only the second of Sofia’s productions, after 2022’s hit Purple Hearts, this bookish romance “steeped in literature and poetry” is a perfect match for #Booktok lovers.
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Calling her role an honour to “walk the halls of Oxford,” Sofia quoted poet Alfred Tennyson. “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all” – two hundred years after Tennyson so beautifully uttered those words, they ring truer than ever — in the halls of Oxford, and within the heart of our film” she shared, affirming the foundation of the project was “the belief that life is too short to not live it in love, in joy”.
Also a fan of the Bridgerton spin-off, the actress claimed she knew Corey would be her Jamie from the beginning. Opening up about the instant sparks during their chemistry read, she recalled: “I watched Queen Charlotte in awe of Corey. He’s an extraordinary force of an actor. I always knew it would be Corey. As soon as he walked into the room for our chemistry read in London, Anna and Jamie came to life. Instantly”.
Corey’s close connection to the film comes from his personal ‘Oxford year’. A born-and-bred Londoner, Mylchreest told Tudum: “I have a friend that studied for uni[versity] in Oxford, and so there was a period of my life where I was going up and getting the train to Oxford quite frequently”.
My Oxford Year will be released on August 1, 2025(Image: Netflix)
Enjoying what the prestigious world of Oxford had to offer, Corey’s familiarity with the location was the polar opposite of his co-star, who opted to save her fresh eyes for filming. Carson admitted that she purposefully abstained from exploring the historic landmarks as she “wanted to save [her] honest reaction to witnessing the magic of Oxford for the first time, for once the cameras were rolling”.
With the release of Jurassic Park, starring Jonathan Bailey – forever our Anthony – and the filming of Bridgerton’s Season Four concluding in April, predicted to launch between later this year and 2026, it is clear to see that Netflix’s viewers cannot get enough of the Bridgerton cast.
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In the minutes before the Lions ran out to play the Queensland Reds in Brisbane, Maro Itoje gathered his players together in the dressing room and appealed to their inner grunt.
The captain made a point about wanting to play hard and direct rugby. “Get us through the front door,” he demanded of his team. “Forwards – set the tone with our physicality.”
And that’s the ongoing confusion with these Lions. They have all the artillery they need to blast through the guts of any team in Australia, but they just haven’t done it nearly often enough.
Head coach Andy Farrell has said regularly that the Lions are absolutely at their best when driving at the heart of the opposition and then, when they have them beaten up, playing from there. It’s like that old line about the first step to making chicken soup – catch a chicken.
And yet against the Waratahs they were still shovelling the ball out the backline without doing the hard yards up front. They should be better than this. They are better than this.
Last month, Itoje addressed some of the side-to-side stuff the Lions delivered in the defeat by Argentina and called it “tippy-tappy”. And it’s still a bit tippy-tappy.
Now that the Test series is looming on the horizon, maybe they’re about to unload. Maybe now is the time the hounds of hell are unleashed and the gameplan shifts to a more balanced and more belligerent version of what we’ve seen so far.
Before the Brumbies game, Itoje was asked if more direct rugby was in the offing. “That’s definitely the ambition,” he replied.
“Rugby doesn’t change too much, whether it’s under-14s rugby or the Lions. You have to go forward. You have to earn the right – the famous saying – to go wide. And that is definitely the case for us. We need to punch holes, get forward, then space opens up, wherever that may be.”
Does he feel they’ve been too lateral in their attack on this tour?
“At times, perhaps. At times we’ve been very good in playing direct and playing through teams. But at times we probably look to go wide before we earn the right.”
Now it’s the Brumbies’ turn to have a crack at them. Given rugby league’s State of Origin decider is on at the same time, the match will exist in a parallel Australian universe. Not that the Brumbies will see it like that.
They’ve been reared on stories of how their predecessors – Tevita Kuridrani and chums – beat the Lions in 2013 and how the 2001 Brumbies – Justin Harrison and all that – came so agonisingly close to beating them. They’ll know that legendary status awaits them if they can pull this off.
The problem is the brutal realities of modern-day rugby are getting in their way. The Brumbies are a good side, the best in Australia. But this is not the best of the Brumbies the Lions will be playing.
They have 10 players with Joe Schmidt’s Wallabies and only two have been released. Meanwhile, the Lions are going full metal jacket with what looks like the Test team, or very close to it.
It might not have the heft of the brilliant 2017 Lions in New Zealand, but there’s a sense that if this team can put it all together then we’re going to see something memorable.
At the heart of this, of course, is Finn Russell – championed on Tuesday in Canberra by Johnny Sexton who, you suspect, is now allowing himself to see a whole lot more in Russell as his coach than he ever did as his rival. That’s been a nice sideshow.
“He’s been very good, hasn’t he?” said Sexton. “He’s controlled things really well. He’s been composed, place-kicked very well, defended remarkably well. He’s been probably our best defender in the backline and that’s great to see.
The Wallabies are in poor shape, but the Lions can’t distract themselves with the modest nature of what they will probably be facing in the series. They need to start getting it right. So, no sloppy beginnings, no tippy-tappy, no mountain of handling errors because they’re forcing things. We need to see a cohesive unit coming through the fog now, a team with an identity and a ruthlessness.
“We want to be as dominant as we possibly can,” said Itoje. “We want to build and build and build. We want to get better and better. We want to start big and we want to maintain that throughout the whole game.
“That’s always the ambition. We want our big ball carriers to get over the gain-line, to aggressively attack holes. When you do that, opportunities tend to open up thereafter.
“People like Bundee (Aki), Ellis (Genge), Jack (Conan), big Joe McCarthy etc. We want these guys to be punching at the line.”
There are several stages to Lions tours – the initial selection, all happy clappy; the jolly japery about stealing the Lion from its young protector (Henry Pollock, this time); the thrill of the early games and new combinations; the honour of the debutants wearing the jersey; the speculation about who’s making the Test team.
We’re through all of that now. This week in Australia has felt like the turning of a page. “From now on, the kid gloves are off – it’s bare-knuckle stuff.” Jim Telfer’s words from the epic 1997 tour in South Africa.
A three-day warning strike is being held by Ondo State’s government medical staff starting on July 14, 2025, under the direction of the National Association of Government General and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP).
The Ondo State Government is acting in response to what the doctors described as gross disregard for the health industry and the welfare of medical professionals.
The state chapter of NAGGMDP, Richard Obe, the president’s representative, and Adekunle Owolabi, the secretary, both signed a statement outlining their grievances with the government.
The grievances include, according to the statement:
– Medical staff shortage, with some general hospitals only providing one doctor per local government area. Additionally, the doctors criticized the doctors’ refusal to consult with them about a sudden increase in taxes starting in April 2025.
– Eight newly hired doctors who have been working since October 2024 have not received salaries or benefits.
– Unpaid hazard allowances for January 2024 and October 2023.
– Outstanding promotions from June to December 2024
– Unpaid allowances and salary gaps for other members
The state government must immediately address these issues, according to the NAGGMDP.
Among them are:
– Rapid recruitment of additional doctors in the Ondo State.
– Full reimbursement for statutory benefits and salary arrears
– Changes to the new taxation structure
– Payment of newly hired officers’ outstanding salaries and benefits
– Payment of eligible members’ owed hazard allowances and payment of promotion arrears
The doctors warned that ignoring these demands during the warning strike would lead to an unfavorable strike that would have a long-term impact on the state’s already fragile healthcare system.
They expressed their commitment to providing healthcare to the general public, stating that they were unable to work in such challenging circumstances.
The deeply religious South Caucasus nation of 3 million appears to be becoming more and more divided as a result of a confrontation between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Armenia’s top Christian clerics.
The Armenian Apostolic Church’s main office has been “taken over by the anti-Christian, immoral, antinational, and antistate group and has to be liberated,” according to Pashinyan, who wrote on Facebook on Tuesday, adding: “I will lead this liberation.”
On June 27, bells rang out over St. Echmiadzin to signal the conflict’s escalating bells late last month.
The loud and alarming sound typically indicates a significant event, such as a foreign invasion.
However, the noise rang out on that scorching-hot June day to announce the arrest of a prominent cleric who, according to Pashinyan, was a member of a “criminal-oligarchic clergy” who was engaged in “terrorism” and plotted a “coup”
Karekin II, the Church’s head, has reportedly fought with Pashinyan in a months-long personal dispute, among the “coup organisers.”
However, according to observers, the conflict shouldn’t be seen as a conflict between secular authorities and the entire Church.
According to Richard Giragosian of the Regional Studies Center think tank in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, “it’s a personal conflict.”
In the apostolic Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat, Armenia, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II held a memorial service in November 2020 to honor the Armenian soldiers killed in the conflict there. [File: Hayk Baghdasaryan/Photolure Handout via Reuters.
However, some Armenians continued to use almost apocalyptic language to describe the ferocity of the situation.
Being a member of the Church was equivalent to being an Armenian, according to Narine Malikyan, a 37-year-old mother of two from Guymri, Armenia’s second-largest city, in an interview with Al Jazeera. The phrase “attacking the Church is like an Armenian attacking every Armenian” applies.
While Iranians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, Turks, and Russians ruled their lands, the Church, whose doctrine differs from that of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox views, has for centuries helped to preserve Armenians’ identity.
The “Karabakh clan”
The Armenian-Azerbaijani war that put an end to a decades-old “frozen conflict” has the origins of the conflict between Pashinyan and Karekin.
Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian-dominated mountainous Azeri enclave, disintegrated in a bloody conflict that had already caused a million people’s displacement.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s political elite attracted support from Moscow, established ties with the Church, and received support from Moscow.
Two presidents who ruled Armenia for 20 years were sacked as a result of the so-called “Karabakh clan,” but they were accused of corruption, cronyism, and money theft from Armenian diasporas in France, the United States, and Russia.
Former lawmaker and well-known publicist Pashinyan led massive protests that sparked the “Karabakh clan’s” demise in 2018. With more than 80% approval, he was elected prime minister.
Some protesters eluded Karekin’s resignation as he pleaded for him to step down due to his fondness for expensive vehicles and parties in the past.
An unmarried child
In a 44-day war that demonstrated the superiority of drone attacks and hi-tech stratagems, Armenia lost Nagorno-Karabakh two years later.
Tens of thousands of its residents emigrated to Armenia in 2023, when Azerbaijan reclaimed control of the entire Dubai-sized territory.
Even though observers have suggested that Pashinyan is to blame for the defeat, Karekin claimed that his predecessors were to blame for the errors.
Pashinyan responded.
He claimed that Karekin, 73, who was ordained in 1970, who studied theology in Austria, Germany, and Moscow, violated his oath to become the Church’s head in 1999, should resign from his position.
On June 9, Pashinyan wrote on Facebook, “If Karekin II tries to deny this fact, I’ll prove it in all necessary ways.”
Armenian media “discovered” that Karekin’s alleged daughter works in Yerevan, despite the fact that he did not provide specifics.
Karekin accused Pashinyan of dividing Armenians, but he refrained from disputing the claim.
The grey-bearded clergyman, who donned a ceremonial robe decorated with crosses and wore a ceremonial robe, declared on June 22 at a ceremony at St. Echmiadzin, “The anti-clerical campaign unleashed by the authorities is a serious threat to our national unity, domestic stability, and is a direct blow to our statehood.”
A priest called Pashinyan “Judas” and claimed he had been circumcised a day later.
Pashinyan apologized by offering to confront the priest and Karekin.
A detention that went wrong
Difficulty intelligence officers forcibly interrogated another Pashinyan critic, Archbishop Mikael Adjapakhyan, during a conference in one of St. Echmiadzin’s tawny, centuries-old buildings on June 27.
However, during the Soviet-era crackdown on religion, the tocsin summoned priests and parishioners to fight them off, while critics compared the incident to the 1938 murder of Armenia’s top cleric in St. Echmiadzin.
Archbishop Adjapakhyan confessed to reporters that he “was being persecuted illegally” and offered to do an interrogation a few hours later.
Along with 14 alleged “coup organisers,” including another archbishop, Bagrat Galstanyan, opposition figures, and “Karabakh clan” figures, he was detained for two months.
According to the Civic, the coup was supposed to take place on Armenia’s Independence Day on September 21. daily .
Samvel Karapetyan, a construction magnate who owns Armenia’s largest power company and made an estimated $3.6 billion fortune in Russia, was also detained.
Pashinyan was threatened by Karapetyan, saying that we would take part in the conflict with Karekin in our own unique way, if it did not end.
According to Giragosian, the arrests were “a move by the Armenian government to prevent any potential Russian interference in the upcoming [parliamentary] elections scheduled for June 2026.”
It’s difficult to get past “Pashinyan ,”
Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party is accused of supporting Turkiye and Azerbaijan.
However, Pashinyan has its reservations.
According to Emil Mustafayev, chief editor of Baku’s Minval Politika magazine, “Pashinyan is by far not a peace dove.” He is difficult to bargain with.
However, Pashinyan “began to takeheed of Baku’s position” after Nagorno-Karabakh’s defeat, Mustafayev said. He’s the least problematic partner one can have a conversation with, regardless of how challenging it may be, according to Yerevan.
Gigarosyan, an analyst, concurred.
Because of predictability and because he wants to turn the page, Pachinyan is the best interlocutor [Baku and Ankara] could hope for, he said. He doesn’t seek retribution.
And even though Pashinyan’s approval rating is currently only 20%, his party may emerge as a political phoenix and win the election in June 2026.
Either two former “Karabakh clan” presidents are deeply mistrusted, or they are too split to form sizable coalitions and exert influence on the 107-seat unicameral parliament’s decision-making power.
