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The first teaser trailer for ‘Zoolander 2’ is here - and it’s as typically off-the-wall and irreverent as fans of the original film will no doubt be hoping.

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While celebrity cameos such as Justin Bieber and Cara Delevingne have been teased in the run-up to the film, what we weren’t expecting from the forthcoming sequel’s trailer was a voiceover from Professor Stephen Hawking.

Initially, he starts off discussing the dawn of mankind, as one might expect from one of the world’s greatest thinkers, before he begins pondering some of the universe’s great questions, such as “Is there intelligent life beyond our galaxy?” and “Why are we here?”

Ben Stiller returns as 'Zoolander'

Ben Stiller then delivers his first line in character as Derek Zoolander for over a decade, asking the more pressing question: “If God exists… why did he create ugly people?”

Before the two-minute clip wraps up, we even get to hear Professor Hawking losing his patience with Ben’s alter ego, declaring: “Jesus. You are so freaking stupid. It’s insane.”

After much speculation, the sequel to 2001’s ‘Zoolander’ was officially announced earlier this year, when the film’s leading actors Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson crashed a show at Paris Fashion Week, in character.

While the original film featured cameos from Victoria Beckham, David Bowie, Heidi Klum and Donatella Versace, it’s already sounding as though the sequel will be just as star-studded.

‘Zoolander 2’ will be arriving in cinemas next year.

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My favourite stories have no pages, no illustrations and no publisher. But for those treasured tales, I'd swap every book in my collection.

Growing up, my Dad didn't read to me at bedtime. Instead, he did something far better. He used to make up stories. Freestyle. Freestyle! And I took this completely for granted.

In my memory, there was a new one every night of my childhood but that can't be right that would equal thousands of stories over the years. I know there were a lot of them though. And I know they all came from the alchemy of imagination and memory.

A war baby, my Dad's childhood was one of running around the countryside to which his family had moved from the big city. It was a childhood of rationing and of friends whose dads never came home. It wasn't a wealthy childhood (I don't think many were in the immediately post-war period). But these were not sad stories.

They were generally tales of adventure and derring-do. Of MI5 and German planes and bombsites and secret tunnels. There were comedy farces involving bikes with no brakes, and there were complex spy sagas that ran across several bedtimes with endless twists and turns. I loved the Famous Five but my dad and his friends' capers would have left those dorks crying on Kirrin Island.

I clearly remember trying to record my Dad telling stories, so I could listen again on my own time, during the day, when my Dad was at work. Somehow, it wasn't quite the same. The recording flattened something, or maybe it was the lack of mannerisms, expressions. Perhaps he was on to me, and it dented the magic. Perhaps, though I don't want to admit it, part of that magic was in the way it was received. The ears of a Daddy's girl.

And now my Dad is "Grandad Seaside" to my kids. Who all love his stories, which no longer seem to feature his own childhood, but are instead real life missives about the people he's met, or more often the animals. My seven-year-old's favourite story from me is actually about the time Grandad Seaside mistook a dog in a car for a mean old man giving him evil looks. He went over to see what the old fella's problem was and ended up adopting the dog. Murphy lived with us until he was fifteen.

Everything that touches my dad becomes a story, but as far as I know, he's never written them down. But those stories stirred something, sowed a seed in me that never stopped growing. They shaped the way I saw the world, as a playground filled with secrets and adventure. Even now, I can't pass a bookcase without assuming there's a secret corridor behind it; an old tree with assuming there's a secret network of tunnels under it. My dad's stories are probably the reason I'm a writer now. They're definitely the reason I often used to take my kids to explore nearby a disused asylum close to our old home. We got chased off by a security guard once, but spent the whole walk home excitedly making up ghost stories and time travel adventures.

Stories don't have to cost anything, or come in fancy wrapping (though those are nice too), but you never know where a little bit of imagination can lead. Or the lifelong effect it might have.

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Tracy Barlow’s difficult year looks set to get a whole lot worse in ‘Coronation Street’, with the soap character about to get arrested for murder.

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Earlier this year, ‘Corrie’ had some of its most explosive scenes in a long while, when Tracy was responsible for starting a fire, which ultimately cost two Weatherfield residents their lives.

After breaking into Carla Connor’s flat, Tracy lit a candle so she could look around, not realising that Carla was home until too late - she ran out and left the candle unattended, eventually setting the place ablaze.

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Kate Ford, who plays Tracy

Although she’s been lying low and keeping her involvement in the fire a secret for the time being, The Sun have now reported that Tracy will find herself in handcuffs next month, when police arrest her on suspicion of murder in front of her friends and family… not to mention those she’s wronged along the way.

An insider tells The Sun: “Everyone will be cheering when Tracy gets arrested. Tracy’s greed and plotting has killed two people and ruined Carla’s life.”

Of course, we shouldn’t forget that this isn’t Tracy’s first time on the wrong side of the law. She was previously found guilty of murdering her boyfriend Charlie Stubbs with a blunt instrument.

However, she isn’t concerned about her previous history, and apparently won’t be worried at all when the police come knocking, as The Sun’s source adds: “Tracy isn’t fazed by the police. This isn’t her first brush with the law and she’s sure she can talk her way out of it.”

Tracy is currently mourning the loss of her mum, Deirdre Barlow, which came after the real-life death of soap actress Anne Kirkbride earlier this year.

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Sarah Harding has spoken about the negative criticism she received over her appearance on ‘Coronation Street’ last month.

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The former Girls Aloud singer enjoyed a short stint in the soap, playing Joni Preston, the new wife of Tracy Barlow’s ex-husband, Robert.

However, her debut episode wasn’t exactly met with the warmest reception and, despite talk of her staying in the soap for longer than her initial four episodes, it was confirmed last week that Sarah would not be returning to the cobbles.

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Sarah Harding on 'This Morning'

Addressing the negative response on Monday’s ‘This Morning’, Sarah admitted she was unfazed by it all, explaining: “I try not to pay any attention to that. If you're going in as a known face, you're always going to get flak. If anything, I turn all that into a positive energy. It just makes me more determined.

“It made me happy anyway, never mind what anyone else thought! Everyone's going to have an opinion at the end of the day.

“You can't please everyone but I had a laugh doing it. Everyone was so lovely to me and I enjoyed my time there and now I'm moving on.”

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Sarah on the cobbles

Last month, Sarah spoke to HuffPost UK about how she deals with negative criticism, saying: “As long as you’re happy in yourself, and your career and you’re doing everything you can to make yourself happy, why bother with anyone else’s negativity? I think more people should think like that.”

Having now put her brief soap appearance behind her, Sarah is currently gearing up for the release of her debut solo single ‘Threads’, which goes on sale on 7 August.

Watch the music video for the track below:

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'Humans' star Gemma Chan has become the latest actress to speak out on inequality in Hollywood, claiming she's had auditions cancelled because of her colour.

Her beef? The lack of Asian women on screen, which makes her think "you're more likely to see an alien in a Hollywood film".

Gemma Chan's star has risen with hit sci-fi drama 'Humans'

Gemma, who plays a domestic robot (or “synth”) Anita, with signs of sentience, in Channel 4's hit sci-fi drama 'Humans', tells the Telegraph that, while there have been advances in ethnic diversity on television, "there's definitely a lot of room for improvement".

She says, "I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people."

Indeed, one of the reasons Chan didn’t pursue an acting career previously was because “growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn’t feel like a viable option”.

She adds, "The statistics are really depressing. I remember reading some that made me think, ‘Oh, you are more likely to see an alien in a Hollywood film than an Asian woman.'"

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Gemma plays Anita, a synth with signs of sentience, in 'Humans', which has been recommissioned

Gemma Chan, who has previously appeared in 'Sherlock', 'Doctor Who', 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' and indie film 'Submarine', is originally from Kent, with a Chinese-Scottish mother, and her father from Hong Kong.

A law graduate, she reveals she initially felt there was no future for her on screen, because... "growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn’t feel like a viable option”.

Gemma is only the latest actress to speak out on this issue. Zoe Kravitz, daughter of A-listers Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, recently claimed she was excluded from auditions for 'The Dark Knight' because, in her words, "they weren't going urban".

Zoe added to Nylon Magazine that this whole concept confused her. "It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything? I have to play the role like, 'Yo, what's up Batman? What's going on wit chu?'"

Rose McGowan has previously spoken out on the curious process of auditions

'Grindhouse' actress Rose McGowan recently disclosed that, when she was set to audition for an Adam Sandler, comedy, she was told, 'push up bras encouraged, and form-fitting jeans'.

She later added that her agent had dropped her for coming out with these revelations.

And 'Honourable Woman' star Maggie Gyllenhaal previously revealed that she had been told that, as a 37-year-old woman, she was too old to play the love interest of a 55-year-old male star.

These revelations come on the heels of the hacked Sony emails, which revealed Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence's salary for 'American Hustle' to be significantly less than those of her male co-stars, only receiving 7% of the profits compared with the 9% of Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper.

Dame Helen Mirren has summed up the problem of sexism and outrageous in Hollywood as, "f***ing outrageous". No doubt she'd be thinking the same thing about Zoe's predicament.

Wonder what we'll be hearing next...

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Liam Payne has become the first member of One Direction to speak out about his bandmate Louis' impending fatherhood.

Here's what Liam has to say about the news, which came as a surprise to the band's millions of fans worldwide...

Liam told Magic FM that he's impressed by how well Louis has taken to it - "super well".

He says of Louis' situation, "He’s very excited with what’s going on with him at the moment and I feel that stuff like that happens sometimes…..he’s taking it very seriously."

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Louis is taking the prospect of fatherhood very seriously, according to bandmate Liam

It seems Liam is also a fan of the mum-to-be Brianna Jungwirth, who is preparing for the birth with the support of both her own and Louis' families, saying, "Yeah she’s really nice, she’s a lovely girl."

Liam uses the opportunity to pour cold water on reports of a feud between One Direction alumnus Zayn Malik and its remaining members.

"I haven’t spoken to him recently and he’s off doing his own thing and taking his time….. it is a difficult thing to leave the band…. but his heart wasn’t in it and you have to go with your heart and say I can’t do this anymore and there is something out there that I do want to do that is different…and that’s fine."

Zayn's heart just wasn't in it any more, reveals Liam, but he wishes his former bandmate well

Zayn used the hashtag #realmusic when he announced his new signing to RCA Records last week, but Liam refuses to see this as a dig at One Direction.

"I don’t think he meant it that way…at least I hope he didn’t mean it that way …and the way that he congratulated us on the single I think covers it.

"He’s got a great voice and he’s a very talented young man and we wish him all the best of luck.

Liam is probably feeling quite generous at the moment, with the success of One Direction's sneaky new single 'Drag Me Down'. The song caught fans on the hop, ahead of a proposed new album later in the year, but has already broken Spotify records and topped the charts in an impressive 82 countries, proving the band may have bent with Zayn's departure but is by no means broken.

Listen to the full interview with Liam by Jo Parkerson on Magic Radio Saturday 8 August from 3pm.

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One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson has hit back at suggestions that the pop group’s new single, ‘Drag Me Down’, is about departed bandmate Zayn Malik.

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Last week, Directioners fans were delighted when a brand new 1D track appeared online, just days after Zayn confirmed the news he had signed a solo record deal, and was looking forward to putting out “real music”.

However, some fans suggested that the song’s lyrics about not being held down could be about Zayn’s departure from the group. Now, Louis has been quick to dispel those rumours.

The four remaining members of One Direction

Speaking on the Capital Breakfast Show, he said: “Are you trying to look for some kind of controversial answer here? You're not getting it. The song is not about that... obviously.

“[It’s] just saying no one can drag you down, you'll be alright, don't worry - as long as we're with each other that's all right.”

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Louis, who co-wrote the track, famously fell into a Twitter row with Zayn after he quit the group, though they later patched things up.

Zayn has since tweeted about the song, branding it “sick” (in a good way, we assume) and telling his former bandmates he’s “proud” of them.

Louis also spoke to Darryl Morris, of Manchester's Key 103, about life in the group after Zayn, admitting: "It was a different dynamic at first and I think that’s just another challenge and another adjustment that we’ve had to make. I think we’ve done that and I think we’ve proved that with this single.

"We always made a habit of sharing out the vocals anyway so we just said to ourselves we’ve got to make this work and I think we did."

He went on to talk about his aspirations as an 'X Factor' judge, admitting that - having found success on the show five years ago - he would be keen to impart his expertise on a future generation of hopefuls.

He added: "You can’t deny the opportunity that it gave to us boys and for that reason I’ll always be fascinated with the process and the chances it can give to people.

"I’d love to judge but as it stands we’re working on this next record and we’ve got to sort that out, so until I’ve done that I’ll wait and see."

Despite appearing online without any fanfare, ‘Drag Me Down’ has proved to be 1D’s most successful offering to date, topping the iTunes chart in a staggering 82 countries since its release last week.

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Simon Cowell has revealed that he’s keen for the new series of ‘The X Factor’ to improve on last year’s, admitting he felt there was something amiss with the most recent series right from the beginning.

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Last year saw Simon and Cheryl return to the show after a three-year absence, alongside Mel B and Louis Walsh, but he now claims he didn’t exactly enjoy the experience of being on the show.

Simon Cowell

Speaking to The Sun, the music mogul reveals: “I don’t know what it was about last year. It just didn’t feel right to me from the minute I started recording it.

“I never felt it was going to be that fun.”

We're sure Ben Haenow, Fleur East and... erm... Stereo Kicks are just thrilled to hear him say that.

However, he says that this year’s series, which sees Louis and Mel replaced by new recruits Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora, has a completely new atmosphere, adding: “This year, it feels different. I’m not putting it down to Cheryl but she’s in a different place and I’m in a different place.”

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Last year's panel

Simon was also full of praise for the newbies to the panel, calling Rita “adorable” and “a bit of a ditz”.

He said of Nick Grimshaw: “Nick can talk for England and is very funny and very likeable. I think you’re going to see a side of him you may not have seen.

“He’s great, although I don’t like that word, ‘Grimmy’. I don’t know what it is - I just don’t like the word ‘grim’. No, it’s ‘Nicholas’ on our show.”

Nick has even joked about his close relationship with Simon since joining the show, claiming: “Me and Simon love each other. David [Walliams] is out and I’m in.”

‘X Factor’ returns to screens this autumn.

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In the latest in our WISE WORDS interview series - where stars from a whole range of fields share the important life lessons they've learned along the way - we’re posing some of the big questions to Joss Stone.

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Since her debut album made the Mercury Award shortlist, the Kent-born Grammy winner has sold more than 14 million albums worldwide, besides singing for, and befriending, royalty, and appearing on screen in 'The Tudors'.

As the British soul sensation returns with her seventh studio album ‘Water For Your Soul’, she talks to HuffPostUK about following her instincts, discovering that people can be mean, and the surprising recent act of kindness she received...

Joss Stone's back, and she's following her instincts

What do you do to switch off from the world?
I don’t go anywhere near my phone. I don’t have a television box. There are a lot of people around, but my internet never works at home. I can’t download anything easily, which means I'm often completely out of touch with what's going on.

How do you deal with negativity?
I normally just remove myself from it, in any way possible. I do respond if I can’t remove myself, and I can be fiery if someone’s being horrible to the person next to me. If it’s something somebody’s written horrible about my music, I just don’t open it and I don’t read it. It’s not good to eat that 'food'. It's easier said than done, but it’s what I practise.

When and where are you happiest?
When I’m with my dogs. I have four dogs, five cats. I just feel happier when I’m with them, because I know they’re cool. When I’m not with them, I worry.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Go where it’s warm, and not just literally. The singer Melissa Etheridge told me that the day before I went to record my third album, which was getting difficult. I was trying too hard. Going where it's warm isn't necessarily where it's easy, but where it feels good. For example, if somebody speaks about money before the art, that’s a dark sign. I would tend to run in the opposite direction.

What has been the hardest lesson you’ve learned?
That people can be mean and not think twice about it when they go to bed at night. It’s quite rare, but they are out there, and they do exist.

What would you tell your 13-year-old self?
Trust your gut. There have been a few times when I’ve gone with somebody else’s advice, because I’ve not been sure, even when I thought the opposite. Every single time, it’s always been wrong. I don’t know everything, but I know what I need. People can be very convincing as well, and often older and authoritative.

What 3 things are at the top of your bucket list?
Play a gig in every country of the world.
Spend some time with orangutans, they’re so cute I can’t take it.
Bring back Otis Redding.

What do you think happens when we die?
I don’t know. In fact yesterday I was thinking about reincarnation, I had a flash of thinking it would happen, and I was wondering if I would be pissed off generally - with the state of the earth. I was asking myself, would I be disappointed with the state of world?

When do you feel a sense that we live in the presence of something bigger than ourselves?
I feel like that every time I’m in a plane. Maybe I just feel like that because I’ve been nervous and started telling myself stories to make myself calm, but I do feel Iike I’m being looked after.

What do you try to bring to your relationships?
Any type of relationship has to be fun. When it’s too serious with anyone, I hate it. If it’s always deep or too intense, I don’t want to talk to them any more. There’s so much I want to have a conversation with somebody likeminded, and if they’re looking at the world in such a dim light, that rubs off on me. Any friendship or relationship has to be an exchange of energy.

What keeps you grounded?
I remind myself very constantly that I make noises that people happen to like, that’s all I do, nothing more. The truth keeps me grounded. I’m not saving anyone’s life, I’m just singing songs.

What was the last good deed or act of kindness you received?
My drummer helped me across the road, it was really busy, I was about to nip across the road, and he said, no, you’re not. And he helped me, he didn’t have to do that.

Joss Stone's new album 'Water For Your Soul' is out now. Watch the video for 'Stuck On You' below... what Joss calls the scariest thing she's ever done...

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One of the world's most acclaimed techno DJs, Dubfire will bring his most ambitious achievement to date to this month's bank holiday SW4 festival - dubfire:liveHYBRID.

This innovative live show seamlessly weaves together elements of 2D and 3D animation with live audio and lighting to explore the intersection of science and technology - of man and machine - and their resulting evolution and inevitable fusion.

Check out our exclusive clip of HYBRID above...

On the eve of his arrival in London, Dubfire talks to HuffPostUK about his latest creative offering, why it's different from other shows, and why he laments the 'plug and play' DJs that promoters have got used to...

What makes your show unique?
Well, first of all my show isn’t a DJ show. It’s a meticulously developed, live audio / visual performance; using state of the art 2D / 3D technology and some of the best visual and stage design that the “techno” genre has seen to date.

My only lament is that most promoters in our genre (and beyond) have gotten so used to the “plug and play” performer and DJ that they don’t see the value of what we’re bringing forth. So getting it into as many festivals as possible has been an ongoing battle. Which is a shame because the fans from around the world who’ve been the MOST supportive of all - literally BEGGING us to bring it to their turf - are the ones who are being denied this level of entertainment.

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The only way to change the perception that mainstream electronic music organizers and audiences have towards our music is by allowing a platform for shows like HYBRID to exist. I’m tired of being a part of one lone stage with an embarrassing amount of production dollars allocated to it and tucked into the end corner of a massive 10-stage festival. And the lineups on the main stages deserve a more balanced approach.
 
What’s been the biggest change in the rave scene in the past 15 years?
I’m not even sure what the word “rave” means anymore; raves were born out of the early electronic music scene in the UK, being an illegal gathering place for young fans who were made to jump through hoops and follow vague directions to ultimately arrive at a field or warehouse with a generator, strobe lights and a sound system. It is the blueprint of the current worldwide festival scene and created the superstar globetrotting DJ.

How has it changed? For starters raves are now legal; backed by huge corporations, funded by mainstream sponsors and drawn hundreds of thousands of fans to a single event! But I’m guessing that the most shocking change has been in the amount of money a DJ can command nowadays. And the fact that dance music has overtaken traditional pop and rock music, becoming a cultural phenomenon.
 
What’s been your reaction to that in terms of what you include in your show?
These thoughts did not weigh on my mind when working on HYBRID. I simply set out to create the best Dubfire “experience” that I could. Not only was it a personal goal and challenge that I had set for myself, but something exciting and new to give the fans. A uniquely personal musical statement that I needed to make. HYBRID presents some of the best material I have produced over the past decade in a new and exciting way. And I’m just getting started!

Dubfire will be performing 'dubfire:liveHYBRID' at the SW4 Festival - info here.

Check out our exclusive clip above...

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It was Walt Disney who discovered them, but it was Andy Williams who properly introduced the Osmond family to the world – they were invited onto his hit show for a one-off guest spot, they stayed eight years. Jimmy is always remembered as the littlest of the little Osmonds, and he first joined his brothers on stage when he was three.

47 years later, he bought Andy Williams’ Moon River theatre in Missouri, and this year Jimmy’s fulfilling a promise he made to the family’s champion, and bringing the late entertainer’s legendary Christmas spectacular to the UK for the first time.

“Our family were supposed to perform with Andy in 2012, but he passed away the night before, and his family asked if we would do the Christmas Show. It went over so well, we carried on, with his family’s blessing,” he tells HuffPostUK.

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Three Osmond brothers pay tribute to their champion Andy Williams following his death

“He made me promise to continue his legacy. People come from all over the world to experience the nostalgic variety show. We’ve had so many people coming from the UK, please bring it, I’m closing the show early in the US, and bringing it to your fair isle where, every Christmas, there’s Andy Williams on the TV. This year, they can hear them live.”

For nostalgic fans of the Osmonds’ TV shows that dominated primetime in the seventies, it may come as a surprise that it’s little Jimmy who’s ended up running the show, as he puts it, “the clean-up guy”. He says himself, “As I was growing up, I did not take myself very seriously. I was the mascot, so I was always asking myself, ‘What am I going to do when this is over?’ So I learned about all aspects of the business. I still enjoy being on stage best, but now I have a foot in both camps.”

The Osmonds are a famously harmonious bunch of siblings, who appear to have avoided many of the pitfalls experienced by other child stars thrust into the spotlight. For this, Jimmy credits their parents.

“We’ve had our share of stuff,” he admits, “but we had great parents, and they never celebrated or sweated the big stuff, there was no ego allowed.

The Osmonds remain "intact emotionally" says Jimmy, despite their long time in the spotlight

“The truth is Donny and Marie and I wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been for the older ones. We have always been a team. When one person is thinking ‘Look at me, thinking I’m number one,’ we’ve always let them have it.

“And we celebrated each other’s successes and failures. We knew what we stood for before we got it into it.

“We had a big family reunion a short while ago at Donny’s house. And it was great to see everyone so intact emotionally.”

Even Jimmy admits though, it can be “interesting” working alongside brothers – Donny and Marie aren’t part of their show. Jimmy says of one conversation, “One of my brothers was feeling down. I said, ‘Hey, people still want to hear us sing, see us perform, if you’re feeling down about that, you’re an idiot.’

He adds honestly, “But I’ve had my share of being on the other end of those conversations.”

After a lifetime on stage, Jimmy and his siblings could be forgiven for taking it easy but, as he tells it, “it’s not about you anymore”.

“It’s about the people who want to see you. And they want to hear songs that transport them back to a particular time in their life. And the way I see it, we’re there to perform that service.”

This reminds him again of his great mentor, Andy Williams.

“When Andy built his theatre, I asked him why he bothered,” remembers Jimmy.

“He told me, ‘Jimmy, I was dying, I was golfing. I felt like a pianist with no hands. This is what I do.’

“And it’s what we do.”

Finally, last time I spoke to Jimmy Osmond, he was vehement and articulate about why he wouldn’t be going to see ‘The Book of Mormon’. Before we say goodbye, I ask for an update.

“Still, no,” he confirms. “But they haven’t done us any harm. We have no protests. We’re very inclusive, even of those who mock us. I just think, now you’ve seen the play, why not read the book?”

The Osmonds will star in The Andy Williams Christmas Spectacular at venues across the UK this December. Click here for info.

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Rihanna appears to be having the time of her life, while partying at a festival in her home country of Barbados.

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As anyone who follows her on Instagram will know, Rihanna isn’t exactly shy about posting photos on the social media site, and since attending the festival on Monday, she’s shared a deluge of photos with her fans.

Taken at the Crop Over festival, the pictures show RiRi sporting a stunning, bejeweled outfit.

In one photo, which she has captioned ‘black iz beautiful’, a scantily-clad Rihanna is seen posing with two of her friends, all wearing sequined bikinis, as well as feathers, bright colours and a whole lot of glitter.

She also has the same red-tinted hair colour she recently showed off in the advert for her latest perfume, ‘RiRi’.

In another of the new-photos-that-we’re-not-even-jealous-of-one-bit-nope-not-even-a-little-bit, she looks like she’s living up to her ‘Bad Gal RiRi’ moniker, holding a drink in a bedazzled cup, wearing a peacock-esque headdress and an infectiously huge smile.

Rihanna also shared a photo of herself and a friend getting ready for the festival, where they’re shown looking into a bathroom mirror, shortly before heading out for what looked like a seriously fun day of partying.

Seriously, though. If these photos are anything to go by, Rihanna’s idea of what constitutes a decent Monday puts ours to shame.

RiRi, if you’re reading this, we’ve already got our sequins and feathers at the ready for next year - keep us in mind, yeah?

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As a rule of thumb, when I'm feeling depressed Pixar movies usually do a good job of cheering me up.
So, fed up over rubbish weather and assorted life matters, I'd hoped Inside Out would lift my spirits.
Given the media saturation and ad budget capable of clearing Greece's debt, chances are you know the story.

Elements of the key characters' personality power them from control rooms overlooking assorted islands, whether it's family, goofball or otherwise.

Two of the key protagonists are Joy and Sadness. The former, as you might expect, is super positive and cheery, while the latter is depressed. Little wonder I wanted to slap her. (I don't normally condone violence against personified cartoon conditions but in this case I'll make an exception).

The first act we see a little Minnesota girl form memories which are stored in different coloured spheres like a huge collection of marbles. She also forms core memories which reside in a special area of her brain, soul, personality, whatever.

After moving to San Francisco, our young heroine is out of her comfort zone and starts experiencing the usual conditions of first world kids dealing with first world problems, like how to get by in one of America's most desirable areas.

The problem is, Sadness winds up infecting some super happy memories so Joy kicks off, and after a convoluted plot twist, she and Sadness are projected miles away from their control room. A bit like Wreck It Ralph.

Getting the core memories back to where they need to be forms the backbone of the story. Which is fine.
Along the way we meet an imaginary character reminiscent of a Dr Seuss creation, and the trio encounter assorted perilous problems to get "home".

Classic story structure then, so why did the movie annoy me so much?

Was it the fact the 'Inside' characters looked so generic and uninspired?
Was it the plastic character ears which looked like they'd not been developed since The Incredibles 11 years ago?
Could it be that The Numskulls comic strip had done this all 40 years ago?

All of the above.

It's not a bad movie, and little kids should love it, but, like Finding Nemo, it's essentially an adventure wrapped around a ball of middle aged neuroses.

Can't a kids' adventure just be fun instead of projecting anxiety, fear and grown up traits onto its young heroine?

There is one sucker punch moment in the third act which made it semi worthwhile, but while it wasn't as bad as Cars 2, this was light years away from the Toy Story trilogy and The Incredibles.

Worth a look, especially for that final cat shot, but far from classic Pixar.

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If you love literary fiction in translation, travelling to different times and other worlds, three must reads for late summer include One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck and The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud. All three embrace big themes - existentialism, identity, love, loss and grief - cover huge swathes of 20th century history and interweave the personal and political to great effect.

In Jenny Erpenbeck's The End of Days (deftly translated by Susan Bernofsky) we follow the fortunes of a Jewish family, in particular one woman who manages to keep escaping death. We travel with Erpenbeck's character from her birth in a small Galician town in the early 1900s, through Vienna and Moscow to East Berlin and finally a reunified Germany. As a baby she is rescued from a cot death by a handful of snow; as a young woman she is saved from suicide by taking a different route home; later she is spared Stalin's gulags by a propitious act of fate. She survives various horrors of the last century and becomes a successful writer. Her numerous possible deaths reflect the transitory nature of life and the fragility of the human condition. At the end of the novel, her weeping son wonders 'whether these strange sounds and spasms are really all that humankind has been given to mourn with.' This slim novel, winner of this year's Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize, packs a mighty punch and richly deserves its numerous accolades.

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Another prizewinner, Kamel Daoud's debut The Meursault Investigation (in a limber translation by John Cullen) re-examines Albert Camus's The Outsider from an Arab perspective. Harun resides in Oran and drinks every night in his local bar. He regales a literature student with his version of Meursault's murder of a nameless Arab on a hot summer's day in Algiers in 1942. The victim was Harun's older brother, who he names Musa. Harun describes the impact Musa's death had on his family and just as Meursault struggles with feelings of indifference after his random act of violence, Harun confronts his own lack of faith: 'As far as I am concerned, religion is public transportation I never use.' During his trial, Meursault is effectively condemned for not mourning his mother's death. By contrast, Harun's murder of a Frenchman, twenty years later, is deplored by the Algerian authorities because it happens after Independence and had not been a deliberate act of resistance. Daoud has created his own memorable fiction in which he brilliantly exposes the rise of Islamism in Algeria and his nation's failures post-independence. At the end of the novel Harun describes an overwhelming desire to climb up his local 'prayer tower' in order 'to cry out that I'm free, and that God is a question, not an answer and that I wanted to meet him alone, at my death as at my birth.' Chillingly, Daoud's indictment of religious authoritarianism has led one cleric to call for his death.

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's accomplished debut, One Night, Markovitch, opens in the British mandate of Palestine on the eve of the Second World War, and spans many years in the lives of two friends Yaacov Markovitch and Zeev Feinberg. They could not be more dissimilar. Zeev is a fearless fighter and womaniser whose mustache 'was famous in the entire area and, some said in the entire country'. Yaacov is immediately forgettable - the sort of man who is 'gloriously average', his face 'remarkably free of distinguishing features.' They forge an unlikely alliance after Yaacov saves Zeev's life. The pair join a group of men en route to Europe to rescue Jewish women. They marry them so that they will be allowed into Palestine, on the understanding that once there they will divorce. But Yaacov's partner is Bella, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and he refuses to give her up on their return. Their loveless marriage, Yaacov's obsession, Bella's cold distain, is in sharp contrast to the devotion and passion enjoyed by Zeev and his one love, Sonya, a lioness of a women who smells of oranges. Yaacov and Zeev's friendship endures through war and peacetime. They bring up children, suffer pain and loss, and grow old together. Expertly translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston this is an unforgettable tale of love, hope, desire and friendship.

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Rita Ora has jetted off for hotter climes, enjoying a luxury holiday in Ibiza, ahead of the next round of ‘X Factor’ filming.

The new judge recently completed work on the show’s first auditions stages, and bootcamp rounds, and now she’s swapped Blighty for The White Isle.

Rita kept her outfit simple, with a white bikini and cap

The star has been spotted kicking back with pals on a luxury yacht, making the most of the sunshine before returning to her gruelling schedule.

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It’s not just ‘X Factor’ that has been keeping Rita busy, as she was recently revealed as the cover star for September’s Glamour magazine.

In between the talent show’s auditions, she also squeezed in time to attend Paris Fashion Week, and played a part in Chanel’s amazing, casino-themed show.

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The 'RIP' singer larks about with pals

Rita will reunite with her fellow judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Nick Grimshaw in early September for the Six Chair Challenge round of the ‘X Factor’ (and no, we have no idea why they didn’t ditch the bizarre format either).

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We haven’t heard from the Rizzle Kicks for a while, but the hip hop duo from Brighton has burst back into action, with a re-worked, very British version of ‘Summertime’, first recorded by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince aka Will Smith, back in 1991.

The Rizzle Kicks are such fans of the original song, Harley Alexander-Sule inked some of the original lyrics from ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ onto his arm, while Jordan Stephens got to wear Will Smith’s very own ‘Go Speed Racer Go’ T-shirt while they were recording.

The Rizzle Kicks and Jazzy Jeff teamed up for a modern makeover of 'Summertime'

The good news for fans of the original is that Jazzy Jeff contributed his famous ‘Drums Please’ intro to the new track.

And he was so impressed with the result that he flew over to join the boys for the video, shot in Greenwich Park, with Very brand ambassador Rochelle Humes turning up for a cameo.

Can you spot the new lyrics to the song in the Rizzle Kicks’ video above?

Jordan tells HuffPostUK of their decision to take on this classic number, “We’d been very quiet this year, busy being ordinary 23-year-olds for a while following our time in the proverbial spotlight, but this was too good to turn down.

“People are still loving that Summertime tune two decades later, so it was a bit daunting meeting Jazzy Jeff, when he flew over for the video.

“But he was so cool, playing us beats, showing us sounds he’s been making, and since then we’ve been talking about another, original collaboration. It’s been a great, organic thing.”

The Rizzle Kicks can next be heard on the soundtrack for the ‘Bad Education’ movie, something else that came about without the boys seeking it out.

“That was another bit of weird energy,” Jordan agrees. “We spoke to Jack Whitehall, and we’d actually already written a tune called ‘Bad Education’ and it’s ended up on the soundtrack.

“We must definitely be getting the itch to come back and be creative again. It’s a sign!”

Rizzle Kicks’ ‘Summertime’ with Jazzy Jeff is available now. To watch the Very Summertime video, download the track, or even shop the look visit www.very.co.uk/summertime. The first 10,000 visitors to the website can download the track for free.

Behind the scenes here...

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One of Cilla Black’s signature tunes, ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’, looks set to return to the charts this week, following the news of her death at the age of 72.

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Although probably better known to the younger generation for her work as a TV presenter, hosting ‘Blind Date’, ‘The Moment Of Truth’ and ‘Surprise, Surprise’, Cilla first became a household name as a pop star in the 1960s.

Before making the jump to TV work, Cilla enjoyed a string of hits, including ‘Step Inside Love’, ‘You’re My World’ and ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’, which reached the number-one spot in the UK singles chart back in 1964.

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Cilla Black in 1964

Following the news of the veteran entertainer’s death, her music has seen a resurgence in popularity, leading to ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’ making an appearance in the mid-week charts.

The Official Charts Company has announced that the song currently stands at 59, jumping up an impressive 32 places overnight.

They also said on Tuesday that the track needs fewer than 1000 more sales to crack the official UK top 40, which would give Cilla her first top 40 hit in four decades.

‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’ previously gained a whole new wave of fans last year, when a biopic about Cilla’s life aired on ITV, featuring Sheridan Smith in the leading role, where she performed the track in character.

Sheridan was one of the stars to pay her respects to Cilla on Sunday, admitting she’d been left “absolutely devastated” by the news of the entertainer's death.

ITV have announced plans to repeat the three-part biopic, alongside a previously-aired special ‘The One & Only Cilla Black’, which will feature a newly-recorded tribute from her friend, Paul O’Grady.

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WARNING: This story contains an actual penis...

Rock n' roll legend Lenny Kravitz had a rather unfortunate wardrobe malfunction during a show in Stockholm on Monday night.

If you think you can stomach it, click the image below to reveal the uncensored version.

Awkward.

The 51-year-old rocker's todger was exposed to the world when his leather trousers ripped during his first song at the Gröna Lund theme park on 3 August.

Kravitz was forced to leave the stage for a few minutes to change into some... roomier trousers. And maybe put some underpants on.

“The producer stepped up and said that they had some problems on stage. A bit later Kravitz came out wearing other trousers. He said 'sorry, I ripped my trousers',” a fan named Sara told the Expressen.

“It was insane, I killed myself laughing. And then I called my mum who was there at the show as well. Her reaction was the same and she almost killed herself laughing too."

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It's been a jaw-dropping 40 years - yes, I know! - since the release of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'.

Yes, the unique turn on the legend of The Knights of the Round Table, that spawned such enduring lines as "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" and "strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government", is shortly to enter its fifth decade - and to celebrate, the screen classic will be screened in 500 cinemas across the UK, in its brand new sing-a-long version.

The remaining members of the comedy troupe who broke the mould for surreal comedy in the 1970s, will also be filming a special introduction for this one-off night - which is taking place on 14 October 2015 - with fans encouraged to dress up as their favourite character.

Original Monty Python member Graham Chapman, who appeared in the film, died in 1989

'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' came out in 1975, and was considered the first proper "film" made by the group, in comparison with the collections of sketches that had come before. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Holy Grail the fifth greatest comedy film of all time, in a poll topped by the same team's 'Life of Brian'.

Of the enduring appeal of the group's offbeat, quirky humour, Michael Palin a while ago told HuffPostUK that he really didn't know why so many people still found them funny. He said, "I don't know why 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition' should be funny. I don't know why Margaret Thatcher got such a laugh in parliament when se likened the Liberal Party to a dead parrot..." He shrugs and smiles... "But there we are. Something clicked."

To celebrate the theatrical re-release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a brand new sing-a-long version of the film will be shown in 500 UK cinemas on Wednesday 14 October 2015. For bookings please visit: www.parkcircus.com

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"Adios, motherf*ckers!” That was Jon Stewart’s parting shot to his long-time nemesis Fox News on Monday, even though "The Daily Show" host doesn’t end his 16-year run fronting the nightly Comedy Central offering until Friday.

In recent days, Murdoch’s network has rounded on the comedian for being a "tool" of the Obama administration, calling him a "propagandist" for the White House. In response, Stewart played a collection of clips in which the media arm of the Republican Party praised the host for attacking Obama and his policies.

“My hunch is this show’s been harder on the Obama administration and this president per capita than you ever were in your eight years of Bush finger banging,” said Stewart, concluding the segment by yelling, “How's that motherf*cking taste?”

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