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Why is it that the brightest stars sometimes fade the quickest? It’s with a heavy heart that we process the sudden loss of Liam Payne, whose death has left many in deep shock. At 31, the former member of One Direction passed away on October 16 after a fall from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina, leaving behind his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, and his son, Bear, whom he shared with ex-partner Cheryl Cole.

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Payne and Cole’s relationship, which began in 2016, may have been short-lived, but it was undeniably impactful. Their romance faced its share of challenges, ultimately leading to their split in 2018 after the birth of their son in 2017. In reflecting on their breakup, Payne expressed a deep sense of responsibility while maintaining respect for the 3 Words hitmaker.

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One Direction star Liam Payne died on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, after falling from the balcony of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Argentina. Payne had a troubled past and was open to speaking about the dark side of fame. Backstreet Boys member Aj McLean is quite familiar with the industry, and he offered Payne advice before Payne’s death. Here’s the wisdom that McLean shared with the younger star.

Backstreet Boys member Aj McLean told Liam Payne to surround himself with people who will tell him ‘no’

Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne are well-known as the men of One Direction. At the time, the young boys found their way to each other via the U.K. show The X Factor. They quickly found commercial success with their debut album — but the quintet struggled through the darker side of fame. Payne, who died on Oct. 16, 2024, opened...

The world is in shock after the news of the former One Direction member Liam Payne’s passing. Fans, especially the die-hard Directioners, are feeling the sting of loss, struggling to accept that their beloved idol is no longer with them.

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In the wake of this heartbreaking news, conversations about Liam Payne’s past are flooding the internet, particularly his candid struggles with mental health. Social media is buzzing with all things Payne, making this an incredibly tough time for Directioners around the globe as they come together to mourn and celebrate his life.

Liam Payne Opening Up About Mental Health Struggles and Suicidal Thoughts

The former One Direction star Liam Payne tragically lost his life after a fall from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, leaving fans around the world heartbroken. In light of this devastating news, clips...

Liam Payne‘s good friend Ant Middleton reacted to the news of his tragic passing live on TV.

The duo filmed the 2019 documentary together, Ant Middleton & Liam Payne: Straight Talking, and spoke often, according to the 44-year-old adventurer and TV personality.

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“I speak to Liam quite often, he’s a good friend of mine. And, wow, I’m shocked, this is obviously the first I’m hearing of it,” Ant said during an interview on the Australia news program Sunrise. “I don’t really know what to say about that. I’m going to have to make sure that I reach out to the relevant people to find out what’s happened to my good friend.”

He continued, “But I’m away filming at the moment as you can see, that’s why I’m wet and there’s a bit of noise around me.

The semi-finals of Dancing with the Stars on Channel 7 and 7plus delivered a dramatic night, resulting in a triple elimination and narrowing the competition to five finalists: Lisa McCune, Ant Middleton, James Stewart, Nikki Osborne, and Samantha Jade. The semi-final performances featured high-scoring routines and intense rivalry. Samantha Jade and Lisa McCune impressed the […]

Dancing with the Stars Semi-Finals: A Triple Elimination Leaves Five Contestants Standing...

Adopting a new challenge, former Special Forces soldier and Sas Australia’s Chief Instructor, Ant Middleton, is set to show a different side as he joins the cast of Dancing With The Stars. Premiering this Sunday on Channel 7, Middleton will trade his no-mercy attitude for glitter and graceful moves. Known for pushing others beyond their […]

Ant Middleton Swaps Adventure for the Dancefloor on 7’s Dancing With The Stars...

Exclusive: Channel 4 is resting Sas: Who Dares Wins for the foreseeable future as it “shifts focus” to the celebrity version.

An extended eight-episode run of Celebrity Sas will start filming in the coming weeks but the original ‘civilian’ version, which most recently aired its eighth season, will likely not return to screens for some time, if at all.

A Channel 4 spokesman said the decision was being made “due to the huge success of Celebrity Sas” and insiders stressed the move isn’t being made for cost-cutting reasons.

“We have shifted our focus to prioritise this strand,” added the spokesman. “As a result, a longer run eight part series is due to commence filming in the summer whilst ‘Civilian’ Sas will be rested.”

The latest season of Minnow Films’ ‘civilian’ version finished in February and was watched by around 1.5M viewers per episode, while last year’s celebrity version secured approximately 2M for each instalment.

Scott Vickers will write and direct, with the film shooting from July.

Ant Middleton, chief instructor on UK TV series Sas: Who Dares Wins, will make his film debut with action thriller Shelter.

Middleton will also produce with Mark Quinn through their Middleton Quinn Productions, alongside Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins producer Tiernan Hanby.

Qed International has acquired international sales rights to the title, which will be written and directed by Scott Vickers, writer-director-star of 2018 horror Matriarch.  

An eight-week shoot will start in July.  

Middleton, a former British Forces operator, will play a hitman trapped in a nuclear bunker with his two young daughters,...

Never judge a book by its cover, they say, and perhaps the same is true for TV. The BBC’s new Sunday night thriller – Sas Rogue Heroes, based on the book by prolific popular historian Ben Macintyre – is saddled with a name so naff that it conjures images either of video game stealth missions or Ant Middleton dangling celebrities off cliffs by their toenails. In point of fact, Sas Rogue Heroes is something of a prestige drama – albeit one imbued with a streak of deep tackiness that befits its title.

It’s 1941, Egypt, and this is the story of three men: David Stirling (Sex Education’s Connor Swindells), a toff burdened with horrific levels of self-confidence, Jock Lewes (Game of Thrones’s Alfie Allen), a “mad martinet”, and Paddy Mayne (Starred Up’s Jack O’Connell), an Irishman with a reckless propensity for chaos. Together, they will found the Sas, via a series of alcohol-fuelled shenanigans.

Viewers of The Great British Bake Off have criticised the latest episode for its “offensive” depiction of Mexican food and culture.

The popular Channel 4 reality series branded its latest instalment “Mexican Week”, and saw contestants try their hand at making food inspired by Mexican cuisine.

Fans of the series condemned the stereotypical placement of sombreros and maracas in the episode, as well as a cake decorated with a moustache. The show’s presenters were also criticised for mispronouncing Spanish words, and for making “tacky” jokes.

In one clip, which was used in the social media promotion for the show, Lucas is seen using the typically Spanish name “Juan” to pun on “one”.

The episode also saw contestants make tacos, which some viewers described as “butchering” the famous Mexican dish – while others suggested the segment was a needless abandonment of the show’s baking-first premise.

“I love Bake Off, but Mexican week was a mistake,...

Graham Norton has finally revealed the worst ever guest he had on The Graham Norton Show.

The talk show presenter, 59, was at an event in Dublin to promote his new book Forever Home, when he told the audience about one celebrity’s “chilling” behaviour.

The star in question was disgraced former Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence.

Before dozens of women came forward with allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein in 2017, the producer appeared in an episode of The Graham Norton Show in 2015, with fellow guests David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Jessie J.

“I often talk around who my least favourite guest was, but someone reminded me, I have a really good answer to this now,” Norton said at the event, according to Joe. “It’s Harvey Weinstein. He’s in jail, so he gets the prize for the worst guest ever.

Former Sas: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton has claimed that celebrities are turning down the show now he’s no longer a part of it.

It was announced in March 2021 that Channel 4 had cut ties with the former soldier turned TV personality, who had featured on the show since 2015,

A spokesperson for the channel released a statement at the time which said: “Following a number of discussions Channel 4 and Minnow Films have had with him in relation to his personal conduct, it has become clear that our views and values are not aligned and we will not be working with him again.”

Despite this, Middleton claimed it was his decision to step away from the series in a post he shared on Twitter and Instagram on Monday (1 March).

Days after Channel 4’s announcement, four women accused Middleton of making “lewd and suggestive” comments to them while working as crew members on the show.

Fox has ordered Special Forces: The Ultimate Test (w/t), based on a long-running British format — with short-lived Trump comms chief Anthony Scaramucci, Jamie Lynn Spears & Spice Girl Mel B among the 16 celebs facing a series of grueling challenges.

The show sees celebs endure harsh and grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process led by Directing Staff (DS) agents Rudy Reyes, Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham, Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox and Remi Adeleke, who comprise an elite team of ex-special forces operatives.

The series is based on Channel 4’s Sas: Who Dares Wins.

Joining Scaramucci, Spears and Mel B are two-time Super Bowl winner Danny Amendola, The Bachelorette star Hannah Brown, TV chef Tyler Florence, Kate Plus 8 star Kate Gosselin, NBA veteran Dwight Howard, R&b legend Montell Jordan, par skier Gus Kenworthy, Olympics Games gymnast Nastia Liukin, former soccer player Carli Lloyd, actress Beverley Mitchell, The Real Housewives of Atlanta...

Cineflix Rights Goes On Scripted Sales Spree

UK-based Cineflix Rights has unveiled a batch of scripted library series sales. Mx Player in India and Filmin (Spain) have acquired seasons one and two of Israeli police corruption thriller Manayek, which was originally for Yoav Gross Productions for Kan 11 Network, Israel). Mx Player has also bought the Syfy and Sci-Fi Channel Canada supernatural drama Wynonna Earp. Israel’s Hot is a buyer of dark comedy crime caper Happily Married and Icelandic political drama The Minister. Elsewhere, Talpa Network (Netherlands), Sky Italia and Rai (Italy) have acquired the latest season of CBC drama Coroner, while Acorn TV (India), Sky Italia, and BritBox (Africa) have bought Whitstable Pearl. Ireland’s TG4 has acquired French crime drama Rebecca, while Scotland’s Stv took UK and Ireland rights to Australian suburban psychological thriller Secrets and Lies.

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British broadcaster Channel 4 has said that it will no longer work with Ant Middleton, the star of its successful Sas: Who Dares Wins show, after his comments on the Black Lives Matter movement and the coronavirus pandemic.

Middleton has become a major television star in the UK after first appearing in military survival show Sas: Who Dares Wins in 2015. Since then, he has gone on to front solo projects for Channel 4, including Escape and Extreme Everest. He recently fronted Ant Middleton & Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking for Sky.

But Middleton raised eyebrows last year over comments he made about Black Lives Matter and Covid-19. In a now-deleted tweet posted last June, Middleton wrote: “BLM and Edl are not welcome on our streets, absolute scum. What a great example you are to your future generation. Bravo.”

Middleton later posted an apology video, in which he said he was not referring to the movement as “scum.

Actress Rebel Wilson says she feels sad that she did not love herself the right way, which led to her putting on weight. Wilson, incidentally, lost over 10 kilos of weight over the past year.

"I wasn't loving myself in the way that I should from 20 to 40 -- that's 20 years. I feel so sad that I did that to myself, just not loving yourself in the right way," she said.

Wilson began to gain weight in her late teens, putting on 25 kilos when she went to college, courtesy "comfort and emotional eating", an unhealthy diet, and polycycstic ovary syndrome (Pcos), reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"I'd eat with any emotion. If I was stressed or had exams coming up. But then I'd also eat if I was really happy, like I went out on an awesome night and had a great time. Other people would just go home and go to bed but I'll be like,...

Rebel Wilson, the next Jane Bond? That's what you might think after hearing this unexpected story from the actress. In an upcoming episode of Sky's Straight Talking, to air on Thursday, Jan. 14, the Pitch Perfect alum reportedly revealed to Ant Middleton, who traveled to Mexico with her on the show, that she was once kidnapped at gunpoint while in Africa.  "It was in rural Mozambique," she recalled in the episode, according to The Sun. "We were on this cattle truck and these men came on another truck with a lot of guns. [They pulled up beside us] with the big guns and they were like, 'Yeah, you've got to get off your truck.'" According to Wilson,...

Rebel Wilson just got candid about a terrifying experience she had while on a holiday in Mozambique, Africa.

The 40-year-old actress, best known for films like 'Bridesmaids' and 'Pitch Perfect,' revealed she was once kidnapped at gunpoint and held overnight while staying in Africa, per Metro.

The Australian starlet made the shocking revelation during a chat with Ant Middleton on the latest episode of his Sky One series 'Straight Talking.'

She also posted a photo of herself posing with Middleton on her Instagram.

"This is what I look like 3 days into the Mexican wilderness with @antmiddleton catch Straight Talking on @skytv Thursday 14th at 9pm UK time," she captioned the post.

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When asked about the dreadful ordeal, Rebel Wilson said: "There was one time in Africa where I got kidnapped."

“It was in rural Mozambique.

Rebel Wilson Stars In Sky’s ‘Straight Talking’

Pitch Perfect actress Rebel Wilson has signed up for Sky’s wilderness interview format Straight Talking, hosted by Sas: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton. Produced by ITV Studios-owned Potato, Ant Middleton & Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking airs next year and features the pair traveling across Mexico with only a 4×4, a backpack, and each other’s company. Phil Mount and Michael Kelpie are the show’s executive producers and Craig Pickles is the series director. The previous Straight Talking was recorded with One Direction star Liam Payne.

Red Arrow’s Revenue Drops Amid Coronavirus

Love Is Blind production group Red Arrow Studios’ external revenues dropped 7% to €166M ($195M) in the third quarter of 2020 as it continued to be hampered by production shutdowns. Red Arrow’s parent company, the German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, said that coronavirus restrictions were particularly acute in the U.

Singer Liam Payne says fame "nearly killed" him, adding that he feels 'quite lucky' to be alive.

The former One Direction singer opened up about the darker side of fame during a chat in "Ant Middleton And Liam Payne: Straight Talking", reports www.thesun.co.uk.

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Payne propelled to fame at aged 16 with One Direction.

"For some certain circumstances I'm quite lucky to be here still. There are times when that level of loneliness and people getting into you every day, it's like, 'When will this end?' That's almost nearly killed me a couple of times," he said.

Asked if Payne had wanted to act on it, the singer replied: "Yeah, when I've been in a bad place. It's one hundred per cent, you know. There's no point denying it ? it's definitely been on the menu a couple of times in my life.

‘Between Two Worlds.’

When James Warburton was appointed CEO of Seven West Media succeeding Tim Worner he vowed to revitalise the Seven Network’s entertainment programming, focusing primarily on Sunday-Thursday primetime.

Warburton looks like delivering on that promise next year with a raft of initiatives including refreshes for My Kitchen Rules and House Rules, Endemol Shine Australia’s action-drama Rfds and Cjz’s four-part investigation of the disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio.

The line-up includes Esa’s revival of Big Brother, Screentime’s endurance competition Sas: Who Dares Wins, Eureka Productions’ extreme mini-golf competition Mega Mini Golf and Seven Studios’ Plate of Origin, billed as the “Olympics of cooking.”

Fremantle and Eureka will co-produce a new version of Farmer Wants a Wife, a format which previously aired on the Nine Network, while Fremantle’s Australia’s Got Talent has been renewed for a second season.

“I’ve been clear...