Jake Wood has been forced to deny ever receiving dancing lessons as a youngster, following his triumph in week two of the 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The ‘EastEnders’ actor topped the leaderboard, receiving three nines from the judges, raising suspicions that he may have previously trained as a dancer.
Jake Wood
However, the snake-hipped star has taken to Twitter to deny the claims, insisting that he’d never got his (professional) dance shoes on before this year’s series kicked off.
While ‘Strictly’ viewers and judges were left stunned by Jake’s moves, one person who apparently isn’t too happy is Sir Bruce Forsyth, who apparently reckons the judges were too generous with their scores.
Sam Smith raised a few eyebrows yesterday night, when he tweeted that he was too tired to meet fans after his Nashville concert.
Hours after telling his Twitter followers that he was heading home as he was “still not feeling 100%” and needed to sleep, Sam shared a snap from a club, with the caption: “Best night EVER at a karaoke bar in Nashville!!!!!!!!!”.
Whoops...
This is basically the celeb equivalent of pulling a sickie from work and then checking in at a bar on Facebook. Oh Sam, you really should know better.
The cover of The Beach Boys’ track ‘God Only Knows’ features everyone from One Direction and Kylie Minogue to Brian May and Elton John.
Sam Smith
Sam’s also nominated for a number of Mobo Awards and later this year, he’ll go up against the likes of Tinie Tempah and Ed Sheeran in the Best Male, Best Album, Best R&B Act and Best Song categories.
The clip sees the likes of Kylie Minogue, Elton John and Stevie Wonder performing the song with a host of lesser-known faces from every corner of the musical landscape.
We managed to name 24 before giving in (we won't tell you who left us scratching our heads, but it's safe to say it wasn't One Direction), but can you do any better?
Anything over 20 and you can officially class yourself as a bit of a musical mastermind, and if you manage to name all 32 then, well, you're a musical genius, quite frankly (or a cheat).
So, if you haven't already, watch the video above (it really is rather good, and you helped pay for it if you own a TV) and then take a long, hard stare at the below pic and see how many you got right as we reveal who's who in the gallery below.
Relationship tip number one: if you want your other half to love something you love - say, a favourite book or movie - then why not try bombarding them with quotes from it?
That's what this British chap is doing - with memorable lines from Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings' film series.
"Even on holiday..." she says, wearily, at one point.
Yes, even on holiday. And now: all over the internet.
‘X Factor’ finalist Chloe Jasmine has been described as a “fashion model” on the show, however these pictures of the singer probably aren’t what Simon Cowell was imagining.
While Chloe has modelled for a number of fashion designers, she also appears on the LoveHoney website, sporting a series of x-rated costumes.
One of Chloe's tamer snaps...
The hopeful appears on LoveHoney - the UK’s most popular sex toy website - a number of times, sporting outfits including a mesh dress and a “sexy schoolgirl” ensemble.
Since appearing on the latest series of ‘X Factor’, Chloe has been at the centre of a plenty of controversies.
Jimmy Fallon fans will know that one of his regular sketches is a faux TeenNick programme called 'Ew!' - in which Fallon and a guest pretend to be teenage girls who find lots of things, well, 'Ew!'. Fallon's character, for example, is called Sara - without an 'h', because that would be 'Ew!'. You get the idea.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if you're familiar with the skit or not, because the very first 'Ew!' music video - starring Fallon as Sara and will.i.am as Mir.i.am - has just come out and it's pretty delightful and not at all 'Ew!'.
From "o em effing g" to Fallon's 'Princess' necklace and will.i.am's brace, it's our favourite take on teen girls' behaviour since Chris Lilley's Ja'mie King. And it might just be yours, too.
Decades ago we had a generation of women who solely relied on their husbands for income and physical comfort.
While the rise of the working woman has put paid to that, it seems there may be an unexpected danger: in the words of Gone Girl actress Rosamund Pike, we may be relying too much on our partners and husbands to be our entire emotional world.
Talking to press, Pike said: "People have ridiculous expectations of a mate.
"In my grandmother's day, you wouldn't expect your husband to fulfill the same need in you as your sister, or girlfriends, or colleagues at work. You'd have different needs met by different people. Now we want all our needs met by one person, and I don't believe that's possible."
While I wouldn't go so far as to use the word ridiculous, Pike has a point.
Our partners don't really stand a chance against the romanticised version of what love and marriage is meant to be.
In this idealised world, they are meant to be our soulmates - a word that is inherently daft because it implies destiny and if you're thinking on those lines, you might well join the type of people who clip their toenails on a Tuesday because their horoscope said so.
They are also meant to be our best friends, our sounding board for work problems even if they don't work in the same field as you, they are meant to be psychics and understand your every thought and feeling, and they are meant to unconditionally love you, even if you're in a horrible mood.
If you actually manage to find someone who meets the tall and long list list of criteria then great, but the pressure doesn't stop there.
So much emphasis is placed on having the perfect wedding day that anything that goes wrong (and it's a certainty that something will) will feel like a blight.
In your first year of marriage everyone asks you 'how is it going' with excited, shining eyes, and you buy into and perpetuate the lie that marriage is a transformative state filled with unicorns and rainbows, when the reality is that you're two steps away from flinging his dirty socks in his face and he's going crazy at the number of social engagements you've signed him up to.
Figuring out the first year is hard enough without thinking you have to ascribe to some hymn sheet of perfection set by other people.
The fact is that life with a long term partner - married or not - is hard. You're dealing with your own commitments, preferences and difficulties, and you then find yourself having to multiply that by two because that's the promise you made to each other.
Don't get me wrong - being in a good relationship is the most wonderful thing but all too often, I see people who, once married, make their spouse their whole universe. No relationship - whether it's your mother, father, best mate, best work mate - can sustain that level of intensity.
My husband isn't my best mate - I already have one, and had one long before we met. I'm not going to ask him for dress advice (he's a punk rocker and until I shave my head we'll probably never see eye to eye), and I know that when I'm sick, although he'll do his best to look after me, it won't be the same as a cuddle from my mum.
Does that mean we have a terrible relationship? No, of course not. He can't replace my mum or my best mate, and rightly so, because there are two people already doing that job.
In fact it's the time we spend away from each other with other people and the difficulties we undergo and help each other through that makes our bond stronger day by day.
You will never find out how much someone loves you via red roses and romantic gestures, rather it's the measure of what they do and how they react when you are down on your knees.
And that's a lesson they just don't teach you in Hollywood.
'Love Actually' star Bill Nighy will take the role of Sergeant Wilson, originally played by John Le Mesurier, while 'Singing Detective' actor Michael Gambon, will play Private Godfrey.
The original cast of 'Dad's Army'
CZJ will play Rose, a glamorous journalist who is sent to report on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard before MI5 discovers that there is a German spy in the fictional British town.
Toby Jones, whose film credits include 'Harry Potter', 'The Hunger Games' and 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy', will play the bespectacled Captain Mainwarin.
Catherine Zeta Jones and Bill Nighy
Other stars who have signed up to appear in the film include Sarah Lancashire ('Happy Valley'), Sir Tom Courtenay ('Doctor Zhivago'), Blake Harrison ('The Inbetweeners') and Danny Mays ('Mrs. Biggs').
The original sitcom, which ran for nine series between 1968 and 1977, followed a hapless World War II Home Guard platoon.
The film begins shooting later this month in Yorkshire with director Oliver Parker ('Johnny English Reborn', 'St Trinian's', 'Othello') at the helm.
The script is being written by Hamish McColl, who also wrote 'Mr Bean's Holiday' and 'Johnny English Reborn'.
Theresa is set to cause a stir in ‘Hollyoaks’, when she reveals the identity of her baby’s father in a typically dramatic fashion.
The McQueen sister is already in labour when the expectant father shows his face, after being tricked into going to the hospital by Mercedes McQueen.
Teresa goes into labour
Theresa in the throes of labour in next Wednesday’s episode (15 October), when the door burst open and in walks… Dodger!
Since their brief fling, a lot has gone on and while Teresa was imprisoned for killing Calvin Valentine, Dodger has finally found happiness with Maxine - who’s been planning to propose.
Long before he became the world's most popular film action man, Robert Downey Jr was a master of character acting, something he brings to bear in his latest film 'The Judge', of which we have an exclusive clip above.
WATCH ABOVE: Robert Downey Jr and Billy Bob Thornton Discuss Father Issues In Our Exclusive Clip From 'The Judge'
A classic father-son struggle drama, 'The Judge' sees Downey Jr playing a hotshot city lawyer, Hank Palmer, whose mother's death forces the return to his childhood town, where his estranged father Joseph is the local judge. When Joseph, played by Robert Duvall, is accused of murder, Hank must work out how he should best defend his father, or if he even wants to.
Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall are a father and son at odds in 'The Judge'
22 years after his portrayal of silent movie star Charlie Chaplin won him his first Oscar nomination, it is a blessing to see Robert Downey Jr on the screen, without any of the Marvel wizardry with which he's become associated. 'The Judge' is the first film from the production company the superstar runs with his wife Susan, and is an unashamedly sentimental family drama in between the mysterious elements.
The actor told Vanity Fair of the project, "I’d find myself tearing up during every work session, because of constellations being lit by the subject matter, this idea of going home, what it is to return, fractured relationships, the drama of it. It was a big experiment."
Fans of his 'Iron Man' look needn't despair, however, with the actor revealing this week that he's in talks for a fourth screen outing of his Marvel superhero. He broke the news on Ellen DeGeneres' chat show, saying, "I know there’s going to be a bunch more Marvel movies, and they have big ideas of how to do it best, and we’re in the middle of negotiations.”
'The Judge' is in UK cinemas from Friday 17 October. Watch the trailer below...
Sarah Jessica Parker has added fuel to the rumours that a third ‘Sex and the City’ film could be on the cards, with a cryptic post on Instagram.
The actress sent fans of the iconic HBO series into a frenzy when she shared a picture of herself sitting on what appeared to be Carrie Bradshaw’s step, surrounded by her shoes from her collection, adding the caption: "It was take your @SJPCollection shoes to work day #LongDayForCarrie."
Sarah Jessica Parker's cryptic Instagram post
Earlier this week, Sarah Jessica sent the rumour mill into overdrive once again when she tweeted her former co-star, Kristin Davis - who played Charlotte in the series - asking if she’d “heard the news?”
Kristin was quick to reply that she had, but was “afraid to get TOO excited yet”, adding: “You let me know when we can celebrate.”
@SJP Yyyeessssss..... But I'm afraid to get TOO excited yet - You let me know when we can celebrate. XO
Meanwhile, Jennifer Hudson has also hinted that ‘Sex and the City 3’ might be coming soon, telling an interviewer that she could be about to reprise her character, Louise from St. Louis, from the first film.
Although the first ‘Sex and the City’ film was well-received when it was released in 2008, ‘Sex and the City 2’ remains a sore spot with most fans of the show, and was even slammed for being “borderline racist” over its portrayal of the Middle East.
Hugh Grant reveals that he feels like a 32-year-old man inside a 54-old body.
The popular rom-com star, whose new film ‘The Rewrite’ is in cinemas this week, tells HuffPostUK:
“One of the reasons I’m so nice is that I got success late in life. The ones who get really screwed up are the ones who get success when they’re Michael Jackson’s age.
Hugh Grant reveals his belief that his life got "frozen" at 32 when he found big screen success
“There’s a very interesting theory about success and emotional development. They say that people tend to freeze their life at the exact moment when they become very successful or well-known, and that’s why Michael Jackson continued to live as a kid throughout his life."
Asked if that has happened to him, Hugh agrees.
“I still live the life, almost identical, to how I lived when I was 32," he says. "Certainly the lifestyle hasn’t changed at all."
‘The Rewrite’ finds Hugh in rom-com mode, playing a screenwriter whose best, Oscar-winning days are behind him, and who must start again as a university teacher, tempted by the affections of young students and inspired by a mature student, played by Marissa Tomei.
20 years later, Hugh's still getting the love, this week at the premiere of his new film 'The Rewrite'
Despite his success playing this sort of character – hapless, hopeless screen lead, whose charm eventually wins out and gets him the girl - Hugh admits he still works extremely hard to bring it all together on screen.
“I am quite nervous so I do a lot of prep, even characters like this,” he explains.
“I’ve got pages and pages of biography of the character. The script is full of little notes, and alternative lines and things like that.
“I worry a thing to death, even after we’ve made it, I worry all through the editing process.”
Understandably, he doesn’t believe that playing a romantic lead is any less difficult than the kind of more intense character roles that invariably get the gongs come Awards Season.
“I’ve never pretended to have a high opinion of my own acting, but I never quite understood why people equate deep, dark emotion with good when it comes to acting.
“After all, what Cary Grant was doing in 'The Philadelphia Story' was pretty difficult and there are lots of deep, dark actors who can’t do that, and they look pretty silly when they try.”
'The Rewrite' is in UK cinemas now. Watch the trailer above...
One Direction star Harry Styles has set the rumour mill alight after being spotted with Erin Foster, the 32-year-old best friend of Nicole Richie, in LA.
The duo were seen picking pumpkins ahead of Halloween, sparking discussion over whether Harry has scored himself another older woman.
Harry and Erin
Harry and Erin looked comfortable in each other’s company as they selected a pumpkin and even sported matching buns.
Harry has quite the romantic history and famously dated Caroline Flack for three months, despite their 14-year age gap.
Matching. Buns.
He also reportedly enjoyed a fling with a 32-year-old Radio DJ, when he was just 17.
As well as being pals with plenty of celebs, including Nicole Richie, Erin has her own acting career and previously starred in ‘The O.C’ as Heather.
Barry Martin, a Goldsmiths graduate with artworks in the Tate collection, and Samir Ceric, the director of the Debut Contemporary art gallery in Notting Hill, decided to join forces to highlight an issue that unfortunately is still quite relevant in a society in the 21st Century. Human Suffering at Times of Crisis has just open and shows the response by artists to a problem that should have solved ages ago. Political activism is becoming more and more the core of creativity in a world that seems to be getting worse rather than better. Ciara Phillips, this year's Turner prize favourite nominee, works with community groups using prints as a medium to express discontent in working conditions and other concerns. Even Karl Lagerfeld organised a demonstration led by Cara Delevingne at the latest Chanel catwalk. Politicians and business leaders should take note.
Death and Starvation in Somalia Mindful of My Position 1992 by Barry Martin. Courtesy the artist.
Martin and Ceric kindly agreed to respond to the following questions. Starting by Martin:
1. Why "Human Suffering at Times of Crisis" as the title of an Art show?
I had just moved into my newly restored studio in Chiswick House grounds, West London in 1990, and was feeling good about my position. Then in 1992 we were shown the destruction, slaughter, and carnage of civilians in Somalia, the results of civil war. Those images were shown in the media every day for weeks on end! I felt I had to respond as an artist, from my position and place from my studio. That's how the sculpture ' Death and Famine; Mindful of My Position', came about. I gave a talk about my work to Debut artists and stated that I was feeling the same now as I did back in 1992, about the human suffering in today's world and we should do a show called' Human Suffering at Times of Crisis'.
2. Movement and time seems to be very important elements in your works. Can you please explain us why?
During my student days the college course was centred on the figure, clothed and naked. Life painting and sculpting from the figure were ' de rigeur'. I painted numbers of works in a pointillist style, and these raised questions relating to perceptual psychology and cognitive consistency, and how the brain interpreted these sensory stimulations. Peripheral vision was excited by movement and the way coloured spots could link together to form trails and lines of movement in time. This developed and I made spot abstract paintings and kinetic sculptures. ( Damian Hirst was 20 years too late in the spot painting department!).
3. You graduated from Goldsmiths in the 60's. What do you think are the biggest changes you have seen in the art world in the last years?
The difference from the past to now, between a student building their identity and authorship through a learning process of hands-on making, and building a self-critique, and just stealing other artists' images and styles, and pretending they created them.( Damian Hirst has been sued several times for plagiarism and settled out of court), is the biggest change! This has been accompanied by a blatant and crass commercialisation of the arts supported by the power of super global galleries, themselves fuelled through a super rich elite.
Addictions by Daniela Raytchev. Purling London Chess Set. Courtesy the photographer, Lorenzo Belenguer, and the artist.
Ceric kindly responded to the following questions:
1. Gallerists are often accused of easy topics when curating to please the bourgeoisie, but Barry and you have chosen a thorny issue - Human Suffering - for this show. What moved you to do so?
Since our London 2012 Summer exhibition I co-curated with an independent curator Sara Rasa, I've been thinking of doing another theme-based exhibition and when Barry suggested it to me a couple of months, I took no time in convincing. The theme is very current however it is not necessarily war driven. Human suffering is found all around us and as far as the art industry is concerned, Debut is very much in the role of a professional coach dealing with personal suffering and struggle in artists' individual careers. And that is what Barry and I hope to achieve with this show which we hope to turn into a travelling exhibition. The theme is truly global.
2. Can you please let us know the biggest achievements by Debut Contemporary in the last three years?
That's a difficult question. Perhaps winning a HCLUB.100 as one of the top 10 pioneers, visionaries and innovators in art and design last year and winning an innovation award with London Fusion which led to an exciting project with Goldsmiths Computer Science PhD department. As far as the artists are concerned, there are many success stories.
Human Suffering at Times of Crisis features: Alice White, Mara Alves, Annie Terrazzo, Aziz Anzabi, Caroline Lowe, Chantal Gillingham, Crystal Isabel Fischetti, Connor Teague, Daniela Raytchev, Ella Prakash, Emanuele Taglieri, Frederic Gedovius, Hector Sandoval, Ireneo Frizzarin, Chris Dear, Gabriela Tolomei, Klara Cecmanova, Lia Ikkos, Liran Fisher, Lucy Namayanja, Marina Ard, Mary Osinibi, Michelle Hold, Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar, Toby Brown, Valnius Naurekas, Guy Portelli, James Chinnery, Barry Martin, Surbhi Modi and Rajesh Srivastava.
Jennifer Garner has spoken about her husband, Ben Affleck’s nude scene in the new film, ‘Gone Girl’, and made it clear she had no problems with him sharing his manhood with the world.
Ben is currently starring as Nick Dunne in David Fincher’s film adaptation of ‘Gone Girl’, and while audiences have been taking to social media in their droves to comment on the disturbing nature of the film after seeing it in cinemas… they’ve also commented on Ben’s impressive “talent”.
Yep. We’re talking about his penis.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
During an interview on Ellen Degeneres’s talk show in America, Jennifer addressed viewers directly, joking: “I try to consider myself a charitable person. You give me so much and I wanted to give something back to all of you.”
When asked how she first reacted when she heard her husband would be going full frontal in the film, Jennifer added: “It was a discussion. He came home and was like ‘Hey, uh, at work today, Fincher talked me into walking out of the shower’, and I was like ‘Oh, cool. I hope he had a wide lens.'’'
Rosamund Pike - who plays Amy in the film - admitted that filming her intense sex scenes with both Ben and Neil Patrick Harris made a welcome change from the hard-hitting dialogue, admitting that one scene in particular was quite “corrupt” and “not a sex scene like you’ve ever seen before”.
Gerard Depardieu's love of a drink or ten appears to have taken its toll on his waistline, judging by these latest snaps of the French star.
The actor showed off his fuller figure on the set of 'La Vallee de l'Amour' (The Valley of Love) in America's Death Valley.
The 65-year-old recently revealed he drank up to 14 bottles of booze a day, binging on wine, beer, champagne and pastis.
Gerard Depardieu
He told French magazine So Film: “I can’t drink like a normal person. I can absorb 12, 13, 14 bottles per day.
“In the morning, it starts at home with champagne or red wine before 10am, then again champagne.
“Then food, accompanied by two bottles of wine.
“In the afternoon, champagne, beer and more pastis at around 5pm, to finish off the bottle.
“Later on, vodka and/or whisky."
But despite his huge alcohol intake, the 'Green Card' star says he can handle his booze and never gets 'totally drunk' despite claiming to exercise caution after undergoing five bypass surgeries.
“But I’m never totally drunk," he added. "Just a little pissed. All you need is a 10-minute nap and voila, a slurp of rose wine and I feel as fresh as a daisy.”
Former 'TOWIE' star Charlie King has come out as gay during an emotional interview on 'This Morning'.
The 29-year-old said he was being honest about his sexuality to help other people in the same situation to feel more comfortable talking about it.
Charlie King
Speaking to Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden on Thursday's ‘This Morning’, Charlie said: “Firstly I feel the time is now and it’s been a long time coming. For the last few months I’ve been sitting on the fence a little bit.
"Even though I’m nervous now talking about it, I know the time is now because anyone that might know me knows that I came off The Only Way is Essex and on that show, they followed my storyline which was very much about that subject because I never really knew where I belonged.
"I never really knew where I fitted in and it was something that I had to address and it’s taken me a good few years to get here now and be able to say ‘I’m Charlie, I’m 29 years old, I’m a gay man and I’m very comfortable with that.’”
Charlie – who had previously insisted he was straight whilst appearing on 'The Only Way Is Essex' - said he finally came to terms with his sexuality when he was in a relationship with a woman.
“I had a girlfriend, she was the first person I spoke to and told," he explained.
“It was a proper relationship but I was very aware when I was seeing her that things weren’t quite right. If something doesn’t click, it doesn’t click.
Charlie recently stripped off to model for underwear brand Bang & Strike. The reality star showed off the results of all the hours he'd put in at the gym in the flesh-flashing photoshoot...
For the past two weeks, we’ve seen a very different side to Jake, tango-ing and salsa-ing his way to the top of the ‘Strictly’ leaderboard with a double-punch of dances to some pretty cheesy hits.
Jake Wood and his professional partner, Janette Manrara
However this weekend, he’ll be doing a much more subdued and serious routine, hitting the dance floor for a waltz, set to ‘The Godfather’ theme tune as part of Movie Week.
Luckily, Jake won’t need much preparation in getting into character, he can just tap in to his inner Max Branning, his 'EastEnders' character who is famed for his shady dealings and womanising ways.
Other films receiving nods during Movie Week include ‘Be Our Guest’ from ‘Beauty and the Beast’, which Pixie Lott will be waltzing to, and ‘Mamma Mia’, which will get Jennifer Gibney - who was in the bottom two last week - foxtrotting for the judges.
Alison Hammond will be performing an energetic jive to ‘Footloose’, from the Kevin Bacon film of the same name, while former ‘TOWIE’ cast member Mark Wright will be doing his best Paso Doble to the ‘Superman’ theme.
Check out the full list of what the celebrities - and their professional partners - will be dancing to below…
Sadly, fans will have to wait a while longer for more details and the movie doesn’t have an expected release date yet.
There’s certainly no shortage of casting options and earlier this year, original ‘Ghostbusters’ star Bill Murray suggested an all-female team could be the way to go.
Bill Murray in the original 'Ghostbusters'
"There are a lot of women that could scare off any kind of vapour,” he told the Toronto Star. "Melissa [McCarthy] would be a spectacular Ghostbuster and Kristen Wiig is so funny – God, she’s funny!"
"I like this girl Linda Cardinelli a lot. And Emma Stone is funny. There are some funny girls out there."
In 2013, Paul and Katie’s comedy ‘The Heat’ raked in over $225 million at box offices worldwide.
The upcoming film is thought to have been stalled by the death of writer Harold Ramis earlier this year.
