[ad_1] Newcastle will host the MOBO Awards for the first time in 2025, it has been announced.The awards have celebrated black musicians since 1996, honouring artists such as Little Simz, Stomzy and Beyoncé.Ahead of the ceremony, organisers will run the MOBO Fringe Festival, series of activities and events celebrating black music and culture with Newcastle City Council and members of the local community.The 2025 event will take place at the
[ad_1] BBCBBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg's scheduled interview with Boris Johnson has been cancelled, after she accidentally emailed the former prime minister her briefing notes. Boris Johnson: The Laura Kuenssberg Interview was due to be broadcast on Thursday evening on BBC One.However, the BBC's former political editor said it was "not right for the interview to go ahead" after sending him an email which had been intended for her colleagues.Kuenssberg described
[ad_1] BBCThe 2024 Kabosh theatre production of Callings will tour throughout the UK and IrelandAmongst the noise of chaos that dominated the soundscape in Northern Ireland during the 1970s, peace for some could be found at the end of the telephone line.Cara-Friend is a befriending and support service set up by volunteers in 1974 to help LGBTQ communities find connection within the conflict. A Belfast theatre company is marking the
[ad_1] Amanda Abbington: 'None of that needed to happen'Amanda Abbington has told the BBC she has "no regrets" about making complaints against her 2023 Strictly dance partner Giovanni Pernice. The Sherlock actress said she had suffered "one of the worst years of my life" in an interview with BBC Newsnight, and that she had received "hundreds" of rape and death threats in the past eight months, with her teenage daughter
[ad_1] A doctor charged in the drug-related death of actor Matthew Perry has pleaded guilty in the case. Dr Mark Chavez changed his plea to guilty in a Los Angeles court to a charge of conspiring to distribute the surgical anaesthetic ketamine. Chavez, 54, operated a ketamine clinic and sold ketamine lozenges to Dr Salvador Plasencia, who supplied them to Perry, the star of NBC sitcom Friends. Chavez is one
[ad_1] Naomi Campbell's charity Fashion for Relief was reported by Unicef to a watchdog, it has emerged, after it claimed to be working with the global children's charity.Unicef UK told BBC News it had never been a partner of Fashion for Relief, and had not received any funds from an event that was held in 2019 purportedly to raise money for it.The Charity Commission confirmed it received a "serious incident
[ad_1] A film about the life of 'Iceman' Wim Hof has been put on hold following allegations made by his former partner in a Dutch newspaper.Actor Joseph Fiennes was slated to star in the biopic as the famous extreme athlete who advocates cold exposure. But development of the film, which has not yet started shooting, has been paused after his ex-partner Caroline claimed Hof physically, sexually and verbally abused her
[ad_1] Lauryn Hill is being sued for breach of contract and fraud by her fellow Fugees bandmate, Pras Michél.The lawsuit, filed on Monday in New York, claimed that Hill mismanaged the budget of the band's 2023 comeback tour and it became "so bloated with unnecessary and, most likely fictitious, expenses, that it seemed designed to lose money."Michél said the tour was going to be "a huge commercial success, since most
[ad_1] A taxi containing British journalist Ian Hislop was reportedly shot at in central London.The editor of Private Eye was in a black cab just after 10:00 BST on Tuesday when a bullet hit and damaged his window, The Guardian first reported.The incident, which was reported to the police by the cab driver, occurred in Soho on Dean Street, near where it meets Oxford Street, close to the Private Eye
[ad_1] The Great British Bake Off contestant Georgie has said filming for the show's latest episode was "exceptionally hard" after the necklace she wore to remember her late daughter broke.Georgie told her Instagram followers "you're not alone" after revealing that her life changed forever in 2021 "when my little girl was stillborn at 25 weeks".“During the showstopper challenge, my necklace that I wear daily with her hand and footprint, and
