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<p>Rick Astley: ‘When people get a record deal, they should be given psychological help’ </p>

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Rick Astley: ‘I didn’t want fame. I wanted to not live with my dad’

The man whose sonorous voice made ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ a global hit speaks to Louis Chilton about the absurdity of fame, his unprecedented comeback, and why now was the right time for his candid new memoir, ‘Never’

<p>Coldplay are back with new album ‘Moon Music'</p>

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Chris Martin mangles his metaphors on Coldplay’s very banal Moon Music

<p>From left to right: Rob Lowe, Dule Hill, Stockard Channing, Allison Janney, Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Janel Maloney and Bradley Whitford</p>

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Walking, talking and brash pranks: Inside the making of The West Wing

<p>Hannah Reid: ‘I used to tie myself up in knots over the art that I would make. Now I don’t’ </p>

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London Grammar: ‘I worried motherhood would change me as an artist’

<p>Hannah Gadsby: ‘Comics are unwilling to call out their peers – and that’s where the rot sets in’</p>

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Hannah Gadsby: ‘I’m not Taylor Swift. I’ve got grit and I will use it’

The genderqueer comedian talks to Louis Chilton about life after the Netflix special ‘Nanette’, their new show, online attacks from ‘bitter people’ and ‘stirring the pot’

<p>Anthony Ramos: ‘At the end of the day, it’s a blockbuster movie. People come to see some s*** get torn up'</p>

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Twisters’ Anthony Ramos: ‘We were in the middle of tornado season’

<p>A man crowd-surfs at End of the Road 2023</p>

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Beyond Glastonbury: The joy of smaller festivals

<p>Jack Black in the much-criticised trailer for ‘Minecraft'</p>

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2024 is the year everyone turned on Jack Black – it’s been coming

<p>Donald Glover’s is retiring Childish Gambino with an ambitious final album, ‘Bando Stone & the New World'</p>

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Childish Gambino’s Bando Stone is an enormous, overgrown opus

<p>Adrian Grenier as Vincent Chase in ‘Entourage'</p>

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Entourage’s legacy was more complicated than just money and sexism

<p>The Zeus is loose: Jeff Goldblum in ‘Kaos’</p>

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Jeff Goldblum is an obnoxious Greek god in Netflix’s Kaos

<p>There’s something heartening about seeing Crowe live out his rock-star dreams in front of a large and adoring crowd </p>

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Russell Crowe’s dodgy singing is exactly what Glastonbury is all about

<p>Shania Twain performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2024</p>

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Shania Twain overcomes sound issues with euphoric Glasto performance

<p>JK Rowling pictured at the ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ premiere in 2022</p>

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Arresting JK Rowling wouldn’t make her comments any less harmful

<p>Walton Goggins: ‘When I first started acting, I was deeply insecure. I didn’t enjoy it'</p>

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Walton Goggins interview: ‘Now I don’t need approval from anyone’

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John Grant: ‘Some of this trauma stuff is like a chronic disease’

<p>Van Morrison performing onstage in 2020</p>

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Van Morrison at the Royal Albert Hall is good, bad, and often baffling

<p>Richard Gadd: ‘When you go through quite a relentless ordeal of stalking, it does imprint itself upon your soul a little bit'</p>

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Richard Gadd on Baby Reindeer, his true story of stalking and trauma

<p>Ian McShane: ‘When you make big movies like John Wick, it’s like you’re a small army that takes over town'</p>

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Ian McShane on Deadwood, Twitter, and growing bored with American Gods

The star of ‘John Wick’ speaks to Louis Chilton about intimacy coordinators, playing an ageing hitman in his new film ‘American Star’, and drawing the ire of ‘Game of Thrones’ fans

<p>Ernie Hudson: ‘We can say it’s a racial thing, but I think if Eddie Murphy had played the role I played, he would have been paid very well’ </p>

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Ernie Hudson on the new Ghostbusters sequel and ‘disappointing’ reboot

<p>Got it licked: Steve Martin in ‘The Man with Two Brains’ </p>

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Steve Martin says he ‘has no talent’ – no one has ever been more wrong

<p>The Mary Wallopers: (From left to right) Róisín Barrett, Ken Mooney, Andrew Hendy, Sean McKenna, Charles Hendy, and Finnian O’Connor </p>

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Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers: ‘U2 pretended not to be Irish’

The raucous traditional folk outfit are touring the UK, causing mayhem. They stopped off to unload to Louis Chilton about Bono, the royals, posh festival audiences and why folk music shouldn’t be ‘safe’

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Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers: ‘U2 pretended not to be Irish’

The raucous traditional folk outfit are touring the UK, causing mayhem. They stopped off to unload to Louis Chilton about Bono, the royals, posh festival audiences and why folk music shouldn’t be ‘safe’

<p>Viswanathan: ‘I have such a baby face... you can dress me up, dress me down, do whatever you want’</p>

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Geraldine Viswanathan on Drive-Away Dolls and race in romcoms

<p>Hinata Hiiragi and Sōya Kurokawa in the award-winning Japanese drama ‘Monster’</p>

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Inside Monster, the groundbreaking new film exploring queer childhood

<p>Duking it out: Theo James in ‘The Gentlemen'</p>

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The Gentlemen is class satire, Guy Ritchie style – loud and muddled

<p>Man about town: Levi Brown as Dante Williams in ‘This Town'</p>

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This Town shows that TV’s musical ‘cheat code’ can only go so far

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This Town shows that TV’s musical ‘cheat code’ can only go so far

<p>Prin-cesspit: Millie Bobby Brown as the put-upon royal-to-be in Netflix’s ‘Damsel’</p>

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Netflix’s Damsel is a terrifying metaphor for marrying into royalty

<p>Wizards in training: Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint in ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ </p>

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Miriam Margolyes is right – adult Harry Potter fans need more shame

<p>Jason Isbell: ‘I’m not Adele, people aren’t paying to hear my beautiful voice’ </p>

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Americana star Jason Isbell: ‘I can handle rednecks but not Nazis’

The Grammy-winning artist speaks to Louis Chilton about his latest album ‘Weathervanes’, and working with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

<p>Smiling evil: Sandra Hüller as Hedwig in ‘The Zone of Interest’</p>

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The Zone of Interest stars on the making of a radical Holocaust film

<p>‘Saturday Night Live’ host Shane Gillis as seen in the stand-up special ‘Beautiful Dogs'</p>

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SNL host Shane Gillis may be offensive, but he isn’t the devil

<p>‘I consider myself to be grounded and intact with reality'</p>

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Kevin Hart: ‘Awards shows are cold. I don’t consider them good gigs’

<p>The legend of Griselda: Sofia Vergara as drug baron Blanco in Netflix’s new miniseries</p>

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In Griselda, drug dealing is now as thrilling as a tax return

Netflix’s latest miniseries looks at the story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug baron who took over the Miami cocaine scene in the 1980s. It’s nothing but crime story clichés, says Louis Chilton – when did drug dealing become so tedious to watch?

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In Griselda, drug dealing is now as thrilling as a tax return

Netflix’s latest miniseries looks at the story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug baron who took over the Miami cocaine scene in the 1980s. It’s nothing but crime story clichés, says Louis Chilton – when did drug dealing become so tedious to watch?

<p>Listen up: Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country’</p>

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The True Detective debacle shows Rotten Tomatoes is becoming useless

<p>About a Roy: Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy in the ‘Succession’ finale</p>

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Succession’s finale cemented Shakespearian tragedy as a masterpiece

<p>Bella Ramsey: ‘I don’t think I’ve met anyone who’s in Chicken Run with me’</p>

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Bella Ramsey on Chicken Run 2, neurodivergence and child acting

<p>‘I wish I had a million dollars’: William Edmunds and James Stewart in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life'</p>

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Not such a wonderful life: The grim story behind the Christmas classic

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Not such a wonderful life: The grim story behind the Christmas classic

<p>Oh boy: Mahito is the young protagonist of ‘The Boy and the Heron’</p>

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Behind The Boy and the Heron: The myths and magic of Hayao Miyazaki

<p>Davidson performing in his new Netflix special </p>

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There’s more to comic Pete Davidson than incest jokes and toilet gags

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Roald Dahl’s big threat isn’t ‘cancellation’ – it’s corporate greed

<p>Harry Shearer: ‘When you’re very influential, you can’t avoid the fact that some of the people you’ve influenced aren’t that good’ </p>

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The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer on Spinal Tap 2 and ‘loathing’ SNL’s boss

<p>Colman Domingo: ‘Chadwick Boseman’s impact will be felt for generations’</p>

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Colman Domingo: ‘A lot of young actors may not be up for the task’

<p>Graham Linehan photographed at a Let Women Speak rally in September 2023</p>

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The problems with Graham Linehan’s memoir Tough Crowd

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The Frasier reboot is dismal and unfunny. We need more shows like it

<p>Don’t get the long idea: Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’</p>

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Get shorty! Stop complaining about films being too long

<p>Becks and the city (of Manchester): The midfielder’s wonder goal is relived in the new Netflix documentary ‘Beckham’</p>

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‘I felt like David Beckham’s therapist’: Inside Netflix’s Beckham

<p>Tony (James Gandolfini) and Carmela (Edie Falco) air their grievances in the coruscating ‘Whitecaps' </p>

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The 10 best episodes of The Sopranos, ranked

<p>David Cross: ‘Netflix paid for Arrested Development and they can do whatever the f*** they want with it'</p>

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David Cross: ‘My daughter is spoilt and I resent her for being rich’

The ‘Arrested Development’ star speaks to Louis Chilton about life, politics and everything in between, ahead of his new UK stand-up tour, ‘Worst Daddy in the World’

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David Cross: ‘My daughter is spoilt and I resent her for being rich’

The ‘Arrested Development’ star speaks to Louis Chilton about life, politics and everything in between, ahead of his new UK stand-up tour, ‘Worst Daddy in the World’

<p>‘I wanted to make a movie where a man who really has nothing to offer becomes a movie star, just by virtue of time and place, and how he looks’ </p>

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Charlie Day: ‘Some critics act like you’ve murdered their grandmother’

<p>Time bandits: Mobius (Owen Wilson) and the god of mischief (Tom Hiddleston) in ‘Loki’</p>

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After Loki season two, even Tom Hiddleston can’t save Marvel

<p>Brought to the boil: Stephen Graham as Andy in the culinary drama ‘Boiling Point’</p>

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Boiling Point’s smartest decision was to ditch the film’s big gimmick

<p>Author Tom Crewe (and Oscar Wilde): ‘People think about clothes, buildings, ideas before they think about someone having an erection in 1894’</p>

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Did Oscar Wilde set back the cause of gay rights?

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Did Oscar Wilde set back the cause of gay rights?

<p>The troll man: Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds in ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia'</p>

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How is the sitcom ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ still so good?

<p>No country for rich men: Oliver Anthony performing his song ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’</p>

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Do Republican anthems have to be as awful as viral hit ‘Rich Men’?

<p>Kelsey Grammer: 'Tolerance is a beautiful concept – but not particularly realised in our country’</p>

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Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane

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Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane