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Dame Julie Walters has been forced to leave the cast of the forthcoming Channel 4 drama Truelove, due to ill health.

The veteran star of stage and screen, 73, was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer in 2018.

In 2020, she gave an interview in which she revealed that she had got the all-clear and said that she felt like a “different person” after having cancer.

Walters’ role as Phil in the drama Truelove was set to be her return to TV after a seven-year hiatus (she was last seen in the acclaimed 2016 Channel 4 drama National Treasure).

Walters will be replaced on the show by Lindsay Duncan, who now stars opposite The Wire’s Clarke Peters.

The pair play former teenage sweethearts who reunite at a friend’s funeral after many years, and make a pact to help each other experience dignified deaths, rather than slow declines.

Filming on Truelove was initially last year...

Opioids have killed thousands of people in America — newlyweds, honor students, grandparents and many more — and experts say the rate of fatal overdoses has accelerated in recent years. Alongside a special report on the epidemic in this week’s issue, on newsstands now, People is publishing several first-person essays online from those who have lost loved ones to addiction, to put faces and names to the statistics and bring their stories to light.

This account is from Maryland mother Suzanne Domagala about her 22-year-old son, Zachary “Zak” Domagala, as told to People’s Alexandra Rockey Fleming earlier this year. It...

She used to be known as a beautiful blonde actress but these days Jenny McCarthy is more of a punching bag for both sides of the vaccine debate.

The “View” babe published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Times in which she lamented her false “anti-vaccine” classification, insisting that she’s actually pro-vaccine.

McCarthy pleaded, "This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position I have recently adopted. I've never told anyone to not vaccinate. My beautiful son, Evan, inspired this mother to question the 'one size fits all' philosophy of the recommended vaccine schedule.”

“I embarked on this quest not only for myself and my family, but for countless parents who shared my desire for knowledge that could lead to options and alternate schedules, but never to eliminate the vaccines. I believe in the importance of a vaccine program, and I believe parents have...

Jenny McCarthy's son Evan, now 11, was diagnosed with autism in 2005. Since then, The View co-host has spoken at length about what she believes is a link between the behavioral disorder and vaccinations given to children. But in a Chicago Sun Times op-ed published Saturday, McCarthy wrote that she's "pro-vaccine," claiming she's been "wrongly branded as 'anti-vaccine.'" "This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position I have recently adopted," she wrote, adding, "I've never told anyone to not vaccinate." "My beautiful son, Evan, inspired this mother to question the 'one size fits all' philosophy of the recommended vaccine...

Responding in kind to a Chiacgo Sun-Times column, Jenny McCarthy claimed she has always been in the gray when it comes to vaccinations.

"I am not 'anti-vaccine," the 41-year-old wrote. "This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position that I have recently adopted. For years, I have repeatedly stated that I am, in fact, 'pro-vaccine' and for years I have been wrongly branded as 'anti-vaccine."

Continuing, the "View" host discussed her 11-year-old son Evan, who was diagnosed with autism, writing, "My beautiful son, Evan, inspired this mother to question the 'one size fits all' philosophy of the recommended vaccine schedule."

After coming up against an avalanche of criticism via Twitter for her opinion during a controversial episode of "Larry King Live" in April 2008, and last month, Jenny wrote, "What happened to critical thinking? What happened to asking questions because every child is different? I...

Melissa Leo is enjoying one of her busiest years yet, but she's making time for a reunion with her Oscar presenter, Kirk Douglas.

"It hasn't happened yet, only because I have been leaping and bounding," this year's best supporting actress for "The Fighter" tells Zap2it of her lunch date with the Hollywood legend, "and I don't want to go leaping and bounding through that. I want time for a nice tea with him, and I'm scheduled for a September visit. I definitely do not want to miss that opportunity."

Leo's colorful Oscar acceptance speech is widely remembered, and she maintains regret -- but only partially -- about the language she used, which sent ABC censors into immediate action.

"There are some people who don't want that in their homes," Leo acknowledges, "and network television has always respected that. And network television paid almost every one of my bills until...