Hollyoaks’ Sarah Jayne Dunn says Mandy’s ‘desperation’ to protect Ella will ‘split the audience’

Hollyoaks star Sarah Jayne Dunn has revealed that Mandy Richardson will ‘split the audience’ in the coming weeks as she desperately tries to protect her daughter Ella from being thrown behind bars. In an exclusive interview with MailOnline the actress, 39, said that as a parent herself she sympathised with her character’s decision to keep … Read more

Katie Couric faces backlash from Jeopardy’s ‘conservative’ audience over ‘cult of Trump’ comments

Katie Couric recently sounded off on Donald Trump‘s impeachment and Twitter ban, before the one-term president left office. And the acclaimed journalist is now facing backlash from the mostly ‘conservative’ audience of Jeopardy!, ahead of her guest hosting gig. It came after she appeared on the first 2021 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher last … Read more

Thin Places review: This memoir may speak to an even wider audience than it first imagined 

Thin Places Kerri ní Dochartaigh                                                                    Canongate £14.99  Rating: Derry/Londonderry – where even the choice of name reflects ‘which foot you kick with’ … Read more

The Voice UK EXC: Sir Tom Jones wows the virtual audience with a powerful rendition of Cry To Me

Sir Tom Jones wows the virtual audience in Saturday night’s The Voice UK with a powerful rendition of Cry To Me.  The music legend and judge, 80, performed the Solomon Burke song as his fellow judges watched on.  Tom sang the number between auditions during the second Blind Auditions show on Saturday night while acting … Read more

Amanda Holden says not having a live audience on Britain’s Got Talent ‘makes no sense’

Amanda Holden has claimed having no audience on Britain’s Got Talent ‘makes no sense’, after it was revealed the 2021 edition was scrapped. On Thursday it was announced the show had been postponed until the autumn as COVID-19 lockdown scuppered plans for nationwide auditions. Speaking about the decision on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston on Friday, … Read more

Ellen DeGeneres will return to the studio to do her show without an audience on hand

Ellen DeGeneres is headed back into the studio. DeGeneres, 62, will be back at work next week on the Warner Bros. lot for film her daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, without an audience on hand. According to Variety, the program, which is produced by WB’s Telepictures Productions, will be back in studio Monday … Read more

Four-year-old innocently flashes the V-sign at nativity audience

A cheeky little boy was far from angelic in his first nativity play after he spent it swearing at his mortified mother- innocently flashing a ‘v’ while singing about counting two shepherds.  Mary-Anne Campbell claims her ‘comedian’ son George Sznober, now five, was innocently putting up two fingers as an angel while acting out a … Read more

Royal Variety Performance viewers irritated by ‘overused’ canned laughter and ‘miserable’ audience

Like many TV broadcasts this year, The Royal Variety Performance utilised a virtual audience in place of a real one, thanks to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis. But viewers of the annual event were left unmoved on Tuesday night, as it aired on ITV. While the seats of the Blackpool Opera House contained screens showing … Read more

Virtual audience on the Royal Variety Performance is compared to Black Mirror

‘I thought Black Mirror was supposed to be fiction?’ Virtual audience on the Royal Variety Performance is likened to the hit Netflix show as viewers brand it ‘the most dystopian thing they’ve seen’ Virtual audience on the Royal Variety Performance compared to Black Mirror TV screens lined seats of the Blackpool Opera House due to … Read more

Great British Bake Off finale draws the largest EVER audience

Great British Bake Off finale draws the largest EVER audience in its three year Channel 4 history with an eye-popping 10.3m viewers tuning in The episode saw Peter Sawkins be crowned the winner of the 2020 Great British Bake Off as he became the show’s youngest ever champion The accounting and finance student, 20, impressed … Read more