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THE Brooklyn family drama seems to have spilled over into another famous clan.
Brooklyn Beckham made headlines last month with a bombshell statement saying he would never reconcile with his parents, David and Victoria Beckham.
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Brooklyn Beckham (L) has cut ties with his parents David (C) and Victoria BeckhamCredit: SplashHe may have also blocked friend Anais Gallagher (L) who is the daughter of Oasis rocker Noel GallagherCredit: GettyAnais shared a screenshot claiming she’d been blocked by someoneCredit: InstagramBut fans speculated it may have been Brooklyn BeckhamCredit: Instagram
They had grown apart in recent years, but Anaïs did attend Brooklyn and Nicola’s 2022 nuptials.
However, earlier that same year she slammed his photography book, What I See, despite attending its launch event in 2017.
She posted, “I genuinely find this book offensive,” under a TikTok mocking Brooklyn’s What I See photography book, but it is not known if she meant the comment in jest.
Even though she was at their wedding in 2022, she was not in attendance when Brooklyn and Nicola renewed their vows last year.
Brooklyn explained why they renewed their vows in his scathing statement against his family.
“We wanted to renew our vows so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment,” he wrote.
In new snaps shared to Brooklyn’s Instagram, the couple could be seen sitting on a chair together kissing in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass window with the Los Angeles skyline behind them.
He captioned one black and white snap “My girl x”, while a colour shot saw them sitting with their limbs entwined on the chair as they both wore shades indoors.
Brooklyn and Anais went to university together and have been friends for yearsCredit: InstagramBrooklyn is married to US actress Nicola PeltzCredit: Instagram
Altadena has never organized itself around a traditional civic center, like a city hall plaza or downtown square. Instead, this decidedly informal community has relied on an informal constellation of shared spaces — parks and playgrounds tucked into the foothills, popular mid-century libraries, an amphitheater carved into a slope, a handful of living room-like bars and cafés.
After last year’s Eaton Fire tore through town, incinerating community infrastructure and scattering residents across the region, the importance of such places has grown dramatically — not only as centers of gathering, but as sites of refuge, planning and healing. Thanks to a determined commitment from residents and officials, these communal sites are starting to return — in many cases better than before — revealing innovative thinking about the ways we can create and use community spaces.
Earlier this month, L.A.-based aid organization Community Organized Relief Effort, or CORE, founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee, broke ground on one of the hamlet’s newest local gathering spots: the Altadena Center for Community. Designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (who will be receiving the 2026 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal Award later this year), the 1,600-square-foot building, located on a county-owned lot on Lincoln Avenue, adapts a prototype that Ban — who has been designing lightweight structures for disaster victims for more than thirty years — first employed in Onagawa, Japan, following the 2011 Tōhuku earthquake and tsunami.
The vaulted, wood-beamed space, supported on its flanks by shipping containers, is designed to be put up quickly, affordably and with minimal waste, said Ban, who estimates construction will cost about $300,000 and be completed in two to three months once permits are approved.
“Every move we make has to be very cost effective,” noted Ben Albertson, the local project manager for Ban’s firm.
The center can host workspaces, meeting rooms, mental health facilities and community events, but programming is still pending, based on an assessment of community needs, noted CORE co-founder Lee.
An architectural rendering of Shigeru Ban’s design for the 1,600-square-foot Altadena Center for Community, located at 2231 Lincoln Avenue. Construction began in January and is set for completion this summer.
(Shigeru Ban Architects / CORE)
“What are the gaps? What do they want to name it?” said Lee. The center’s open, flexible design, she added, will allow programs to evolve over time — inside and out — with the goal of accommodating markets, religious services, yoga classes and other types of support.
Local officials, particularly L.A. County Parks and Recreation, immediately started to address the dearth of places to congregate after the fires. While parts of Eaton Canyon still burned, parks staff organized sheriff-escorted site visits to assess damage and determine which spaces could safely reopen first, said Chester Kano, deputy director of the planning and development agency at L.A. County Parks.
In May, Loma Alta Park was the first major spot to reemerge with significant upgrades, funded in part by an outpouring of donations from local residents and businesses as well as philanthropic sources like FireAid, the L.A. Clippers Foundation and the L.A. Dodgers Foundation.
“There’s been so much trauma. I think just building back the way things were would be insufficient,” says Kano.
County crews first addressed widespread damage, then installed new play facilities — including Landscape Structures’ towering “Volo Aire” jungle gym, featuring three tunnel slides — as well as two refurbished baseball fields, a new computer lab and a renovated pool and gymnasium. Several local artists, including Victor Ving, Eric Junker and Katie Chrishanthi Sunderalingam, have painted colorful murals.
Four-year-old twins Noah and Luke Stafford, who had to evacuate during the Eaton Fire, play on new equipment at Loma Alta Park in Altadena.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
The park addresses the need for communal gathering via a new cluster of colorful outdoor furniture known as the Alta Chat Space.
“People didn’t have anywhere to go,” says Kano. “They were meeting on their driveways, literally on top of ash and debris, bringing folding chairs.”
Perhaps the most significant transformation will be to Charles White Park, located a short drive from CORE’s future facility and named for the famed Altadena artist. Long a community focal point, the five-acre park is set to undergo a redesign thanks to a $5-million donation from the Walt Disney Company, and a $5.5-million outlay from California State Parks.
County Parks and Salt Landscape Architects are set to take the lead on the work. New facilities will include a play area and splash pad designed by Disney Imagineers, a community center (with meeting spaces and interpretive exhibits about White), pathways, bathrooms, a small amphitheater, a bronze of White and public art by White’s son, Ian White.
Ian White said his designs are still being finalized, but could include poetry, sculpture, landscape art, and information and quotes relating to notable Altadena residents, including artists, scientists and indigenous tribes.
“It will be a dramatic shift,” noted White. “I must admit every time we have a meeting about it, I’m excited about the potential.”
White is complimentary of Disney’s willingness to take input from the community, despite a flurry of concerns that arose last fall around the release of an early design sketch of the play area, depicting somewhat cartoonish, pinecone-shaped play structures that some locals felt didn’t reflect local identity.
“Disney’s been doing the work, trying to understand the legacy and history of Altadena,” said White, who recently hosted 17 Imagineers at his house. “I think there’s going to be an evolution of their design,” added Kano.
Challenges remain
Despite early victories, there are more than a few remaining “heavy lifts,” as Kano put it. The county has brought in about $60 million to restore parks damaged in the Eaton and Hughes Fires, but about $190 million is still needed.
Arguably no lift is bigger than Farnsworth Park, the beloved recreation space along Altadena’s northeast side. That facility, now largely overgrown and covered with opaque fencing, still needs electricity after the destruction of its power lines and an on-site utility building. Its centerpiece, the lodge-like Davies Building, was all but obliterated by the fire, and its amphitheater, while still intact, suffered notable damage.
A view of the closed and heavily damaged Farnsworth Park in Altadena, which needs about $69 million in repairs.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Thus far, the park — which needs about $69 million in repairs, said Kano — has only received $5 million from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to build a healing and reflection garden along its west flank; and $3 million from the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy to rebuild a restroom and restore some landscaping and other related work.
Liz MacLean, a principal at Architectural Resources Group, a preservation-focused firm that has been advising L.A. County Parks about repairs to Farnsworth’s amphitheater, lived less than half a mile from the park. She and her family are still undecided on whether they will return to the area, making her memories of the park particularly poignant.
“It was a real destination for the community, tucked up in the hills,” noted MacLean. “They’d have a musical in the summer, and people would picnic outside of the amphitheater on the lawn. And every type of sport you wanted to do, there seemed to be a field for it. My daughters have had a bunch of events for their schools up there. Graduations, performances, meetups. The community would vote there. Boys and Girl Scout troops would have events in the banquet hall.”
Altadena’s two libraries, both spared from destruction, have borne outsized responsibility for picking up the slack from these losses, and have hosted community events and workshops for those hoping to rebuild. But starting Feb. 1, the skylit, greenery-filled Main Library will undergo a long-planned renovation and expansion that will put it out of commission for about the next 18 months, officials said. Updates will include access improvements, new mechanical and electric systems, a seismic retrofit, and space reconfigurations.
“There have been people who have said, ‘Please don’t close. What are we going to do?’” said Nikki Winslow, director of the Altadena Library District. “But this has been a long time coming. Our Main Library really needs a renovation.”
As a result, the smaller, recently renovated Bob Lucas Memorial Library and Literacy Center will host far more activity. The district has also installed a temporary satellite library inside a multipurpose room at Loma Alta Park. Stewart noted that the district is looking for more spaces — including the Altadena Community Center — to host events.
Ian White, standing by the sign for Charles White Park, is the son of the park’s namesake and is working on creating public art for the project.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“We’ve become so dependent on all things virtual, but nothing can really replace the human connection, especially coming out of a disaster,” said Carolina Romo, director of the Construction and Asset Management Division of the Los Angeles County Development Authority, which is coordinating with CORE on its new center. “You can’t really address the psychological toll in a virtual environment.”
CORE’s Lee says that such spaces are particularly important in areas where digital expertise is less common. “There’s just so much bad information out there. You don’t know who to trust. So going to a physical space and seeing people that you know you can talk to can make all the difference.”
Rebuilding will take years, and many decisions remain unresolved. But the community, said Architectural Resources Group’s MacLean, needs something solid sooner: “There are things that were lost that were special to everyone. At the end of the day people just want their community back. They want to gather again.”
Tony Maudsley has played undertaker George Shuttleworth on Coronation Street since 2020
Joe Crutchley Screen Time Reporter
12:15, 04 Feb 2026Updated 12:16, 04 Feb 2026
Coronation Street’s Tony Maudlsey gives rare look at family life as fans left swooning (Image: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Coronation Street’s Tony Maudsley has delighted fans after giving them a rare look into his family life.
Tony joined the ITV soap in 2020 as George Shuttleworth, the son of the late undertaker Archie (Roy Hudd). Since then, he’s become a firm favourite with viewers.
In 2022, George’s family grew with the arrival of his sister Glenda, portrayed by Jodie Prenger, on the soap. The former cruise ship entertainer quickly won over viewers with her close bond with her doting brother.
He also played a part in several big storylines – including his relationships with Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) – who left the soap last year – and his current romance with Christina Boyd (Amy Robbins).
As well as Corrie, Tony has appeared in Queer As Folk, Emmerdale and even the Harry Potter franchise in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He also starred in the hit ITV sitcom Benidorm playing hairdresser Kenneth Du Beke from 2011 to 2018.
The telly star is also no stranger to keeping his loyal legion of 77k Instagram followers updated on his everyday life. And this week, he had his co-stars and fans swooning after an adorable family update.
Giving fans a rare look at his private life, Tony uploaded several photos of his adorable dog after their groom. He captioned the post: “Took Bosie to a new groomers today in Worsley Village and they did a great job! They even cleaned his teeth (well the few he’s got left!)”
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He added: “New business so give them a try if you’re local! Idyllic setting so perfect for a lovely walk, post-pamper!! Oh by the way that chunk of fur out of his leg wasn’t done by the groomer he had blood tests last week so that was down to the vet!”
Unsurprisingly, his co-stars and were left swooning by the post with Sally Carman writing: “Blow OUT,” along with a love heart eyes emoji. Someone else gushed: “Beautiful boy! Looking fab Bosie.” A third penned: “Omg he is so cute! That face!” Another said: “What a cutie!!!”
Coronation Street airs Monday to Friday at 8:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX
Over 1,000 Love Island viewers have complained to Ofcom after Sean Stone and Scott van der Suis went head-to-head round the firepit in one episode, with Sean calling him a ‘bully’
You may have read recently how minions of the Trump administration removed an exhibit about slavery from the President’s House in Philadelphia (where George Washington lived, with slaves) as part of its ongoing sop to MAGA sensitivities and campaign to erase history in favor of a fairy tale in which the worst thing Washington ever did was chop down a cherry tree.
The study of history is by nature messy, replete with conflicting interpretations and incomplete puzzles, but it’s what you need to know in order not to repeat it. PBS, lately defunded by conservatives but not disassembled, is among the institutions working to bring it to the people — indeed, the only television outlet seriously devoted to it. (History Channel is just a name.) Premiering Tuesday and continuing weekly is the four-part series “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History,” presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., at the start of what happens to be Black History Month.
Gates, who also hosts the PBS genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” has presented such documentaries as “Africa’s Great Civilizations” and “Great Migrations: A People on the Move,” has made cameo appearances in HBO’s “Watchmen” series and “The Simpsons.” He teaches at Harvard and is a well-known public figure — a history communicator, scholar and storyteller and a minor TV star the world also knows as “Skip.” Even-tempered and even-handed, he’s a good guide through the minefields of racial history — he keeps you from blowing up. You might find yourself angry at the material, but not with Gates.
“Under the floorboards of Western culture run two streams, continuously,” he says. “One is antisemitism, one is anti-Black racism,” whose purpose here is to explore “the areas of overlap.” They aren’t the only victims of bigotry in American history and modern America; Italians and Irish immigrants had their turn, too. White supremacy, which is very much alive in the land — turn on the news — disdains every people of color. But as people who shared the experience of being “mocked and feared, blamed and banished, envied and imitated,” often allied, sometimes antagonists, theirs is a special case.
Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another. (Here and there he reaches a little outside his theme.) At 75, he’s lived through a good slice of the history illuminated here, including “our brief golden age” of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and though he structures his series as a pendulum swinging between worse and better news, he scrupulously bookends it in a hopeful mood, with a Seder to start and a discussion with students to end. His insistence that no one is safe until everyone is safe, can seem to portend a future in which no one will ever be safe, though as a teacher I assume he’s more sanguine. His manner, at least, is encouraging.
The Seder, which begins with a singing of “Go Down Moses (Let My People Go),” gathers a tableful of Black, white and biracial Jews — each distinguished enough to have their own Wikipedia pages — in a roundtable discussion. Participants include New Yorker editor David Remnick, author Jamaica Kincaid, journalist Esther Fein, rabbi Shais Rishon, Angela Buchdahl (the first East Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi); and culinary historian Michael Twitty, who provides the doubly meal — kosher salt collard greens, West African brisket and potato kugel with sweet and white potatoes and Creole spice.
Though both Jews and Black people faced (and face) discrimination, their American journeys were launched, says Gates, “on different trajectories,” one group chased from nominally Christian countries, the subject of durable medieval superstitions, the other dragged from their homes. Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights. (This presumably did not help the Jews of African descent Gates says were present here early on.) Black people, kidnapped and enslaved, had none, and as freedom was gained, new laws were written to hold them in place.
Gates posits a sympathy between immigrant and first- and second-generation Jewish Americans in the 20th century and disadvantaged Black people, based on a common experience of oppression; Jewish newspapers used the word “pogrom” to describe violence against Black people in the South. And Jews, many raised with a sense of social justice, were disproportionately represented among white activists in the Civil Rights Movement. This would change: Where Martin Luther King declared “I’m more convinced than ever before that our destiny is tied up with the destiny of our Jewish brothers and vice versa, and we must work together,” later Black activists, like Stokely Carmichael preferred to go it alone, promoting self-determination and even separation.
Still, many of the stories here are based on Black and Jewish friendships. We learn of W. E. B. Du Bois and Joel Spingarn, who sat together on the board of the NAACP and to whom Du Bois dedicated his 1940 autobiography “Dusk of Dawn.” Of Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, a president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., who built schools — more than 5,000 nationally, eventually — for systemically disadvantaged Black students. (Graduates included Maya Angelou and John Lewis.) Of Chicago rabbi Abraham Heschel, bringing 15 other white rabbis down to Selma, Ala., in 1964 at the request of King, where their arrest made headlines — which translated to political pressure.
In music, we meet Louis Armstrong, who as a boy worked and stayed with a Jewish family, and wore a Star of David, and his manager Joe Glaser. We’re told the story of Billie Holiday‘s lynching ballad “Strange Fruit,” written by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan), recorded by Milt Gabler for his Commodore label and performed regularly by Holiday at Barney Josephson’s Cafe Society, New York’s first truly integrated nightclub. And we hear Paul Robeson, daring to sing in Yiddish in a concert in Moscow, in support of Itzik Feffer, a Jewish poet imprisoned (and later murdered) by the Soviets.
As a social and political history covering two intersecting storylines for more than the length of the nation, it’s packed with incident and facts — the Klan resurgent after World War I (six million members, it says here); the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Jesse Owens triumphed and the U.S. committee pulled two Jewish sprinters from competition; racist Nazi policies, borrowed from American Jim Crow, and the Holocaust. Also the domestic destabilizing effects of wars in the Middle East. Jews and Black people will find themselves on the opposite sides of some questions.
Even at four hours, it’s a survey course, streamlined but not simplistic, and as such it will fly through some points and elide others; there are whole volumes dedicated elsewhere to what constitutes a single sentence here, and libraries dedicated to some of these figures. (Why not read some?) The view is not singular, and as such, there’ll be something for everyone to question, especially as Jews and Black people are often described as a community, when neither is heterogeneous. (Jews don’t even agree on what makes a Jew.)
But whatever goes back and forth between then, the world has its own ideas. “People who hate Jews,” says Gates, “uncannily hate Black people too. Because when the stuff hits the fan, they’re coming after both of us.”
The official Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday will feature Bad Bunny, the Grammy winner for album of the year, at the height of his powers and influence. Those upset by his onstage comments about the dignity of Latinos and immigrants, however, can turn to a competing bill featuring Kid Rock and Gabby Barrett.
Rock, the perennial MAGA raconteur and country-rock singer, will perform for the far-right activist group Turning Point USA’s counterprogramming event streaming across the conservative mediasphere. Turning Point USA is the activist group founded by the late Charlie Kirk, who was killed last year at a speaking event in Utah.
“We plan to play great songs for folks who love America,” Rock said in a statement announcing the bill. “We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath. Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible … or is it?”
“He’s said he’s having a dance party, wearing a dress and singing in Spanish? Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America,” Rock said, in an overt jab at the actual Super Bowl halftime show headliner.
Veteran country acts Lee Brice and Brantley Gilbert and Barrett, an “American Idol” alum with a 2019 Hot 100 hit in “I Hope,” will also perform.
While Rock’s right-wing politics have largely eclipsed his musical relevance in 2026, he’s recently tried to position himself as a power broker for MAGA-friendly concerts with just enough plausible appeal for more neutral country and rock fans. His planned 2026 touring festival, Rock the Country, is set to feature Blake Shelton, recent Grammy winner Jelly Roll, Creed and Miranda Lambert, but lost Ludacris and Morgan Wade following blowback from fans.
When Bad Bunny was booked for the Super Bowl in October, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said, “I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was. But it sounds like a terrible decision, in my view, from what I’m hearing. It sounds like he’s not someone who appeals to a broader audience.”
“There are so many eyes on the Super Bowl — a lot of young, impressionable children. And, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood, or role models, doing that. Not somebody like this, ” he added.
President Trump said a bill featuring the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican superstar — and the famously anti-Trump punk band Green Day — was part of the reason he would not attend the game this year. “I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice,” he said. “All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Today host Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy was last seen on Saturday night at her Arizona home – and now TMZ claim to have received a random note in relation to her kidnapping
07:56, 04 Feb 2026Updated 07:56, 04 Feb 2026
Savannah Guthrie’s mother was reported missing on Sunday(Image: savannahguthrie/Instagram)
There has been a new develop in the case of Today host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, with TMZ claiming to have received a “ransom note” in relation to her kidnapping. Savannah’s 84-year-old mother Nancy was reportedly taken from her home in Arizona’s Catalina Hills on Feb 1 before the alarm was raised by a family member later that day.
The police confirmed yesterday that they are treating Nancy’s disappearance as a crime after making a “very concerning” discovering in her home. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said: “We do in fact have a crime scene.
“We do in fact have a crime. She did not leave on her own. We know that.”
Now, American news outlet TMZ is claiming to have received a ransom note from Nancy’s kidnappers, asking for millions of dollars in Bitcoin to be sent to a specific Bitcoin address. In a video posted to TMZ’s X page, host Harvey Levin told the camera: “So we got something in our email that looks like a, is written like, a ransom note for Savannah Guthrie’s mother.”
Co-host Charles Latibeaudiere added: “Specific requests for specific amounts of money, bitcoin.” Harvey added: “And also they say at the bottom, there are certain things they are saying about what she was wearing and damage to the house.
“We have contacted the sheriff’s department, and we want to get them this letter. We had a little trouble getting through to the right person. We spoke with someone who is now forwarding this to somebody in the detective bureau. If my phone rings, I may have to stop.”
Charles added: “What’s interesting is, you know, there was just a news conference that just ended with the sheriff, and he was asked about—we’re going to do this segment in a few minutes—but he was asked about a ransom note, and he just said, ‘We are following all leads.'”
Harvey warned viewers that they don’t know whether the note is “authentic or not”, but noted that it did contain details about the crime scene. “They are acting as if, ‘Yeah, only we would know these things and we’re serious.’
“And there’s a dollar demand and an ‘or else’ in there, so we will let you know as this develops.”
They revealed that the Bitcoin address listed in the note is a legitimate address. Meanwhile, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department wrote on X, writing that they are “aware of reports circulating about possible ransom note(s) regarding the investigation into Nancy Guthrie”.
In light of her mother’s disappearance, Savannah announced last night that she would be dropping out of hosting duties at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony as “she focuses on being with her family during this difficult time,” an NBC Sports spokesperson said.
“Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant,” she wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté said Tuesday that he may be able to skate his Minions-themed program at the Olympics after all. He shared on Instagram that Universal is allowing him to use the music from its popular animated franchise for the “special occasion” and said he is working to clear the remaining hurdles.
“There are still a couple things to be tied up with the other 2 musics of the program but we are so close to accomplishing it!” Guarino Sabaté wrote in his update thanking his supporters. “I’m so happy to see that the minions hitting Olympic ice is becoming real again!! I’ll keep you posted!”
A six-time Spanish national champion, Guarino Sabaté said on Monday that he had been informed Friday — exactly a week before the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games — that the medley of “Minions” music he had skated to, while dressed in blue overalls and a yellow shirt, through the entirety of the season could not be used at the Olympics due to copyright issues. This meant that Guarino Sabaté, who had been set to make his Olympics debut with his Minions-themed short program on Feb. 10, would need to change his plans last minute. How bananas.
The cheery yellow creatures are a signature of Universal and Illumination’s “Despicable Me” film franchise. NBCUniversal owns the U.S. media rights to the Olympics.
“Finding out about this … so close to the most important competition of my life, was incredibly disappointing,” Guarino Sabaté wrote in his post sharing the initial news. “This season I competed with my Minions short program to bring joy and playful style to the ice while still meeting every required element to show that skating as a male Olympic figure skater can be fun. … Nevertheless, I will face this challenge head on and do my best to make the best of it.”
The Olympian said then that he had followed the proper procedures and submitted his music through the International Skating Union’s recommended rights clearance system in August. The situation has brought to attention to the complexities of music licensing and how it affects artistic sports like figure skating. Contemporary music is not in the public domain and skaters are responsible for clearing their own music.
For now, fans will just have to remain hopeful that Guarino Sabaté’s dream of bringing joyous Minion mayhem to the Olympic ice will come true in the end.
The harrowing trial of Lucy Letby is explored in a new Netflix documentary, titled, The Investigation of Lucy Letby, which includes rare updates from her life in prison
Defiant Lucy Letby has insisted she will ‘not give up’ defending her innocence(Image: PA)
A letter sent by killer nurse Lucy Letby reveals a grave account of her life behind bars. The child murderer said ‘there are no words’ to convey her current ‘situation’ in a handwritten letter as she vowed to never give up on defending her ‘innocence’.
The new comments come via a letter to a friend shared as part of a chilling new Netflixdocumentary about her court case and ongoing appeals. Letby gives details of her prison conditions for the first time and speaks about how much she misses her pets, after she is seen on screen stroking a cat goodbye during her home arrests by police.
The friend, who has been anonymised in the programme, was given the onscreen name of Maisie. And in a letter she reads out, Letby said: “Maisie, there are no words to describe my situation, but knowing that I have your friendship regardless, is so important and special to me.”
She continues: “I have my own room and toilet. I’m able to shower each day and go outside for a walk. Getting outside is so important, even though it’s bit chilly. I miss Tigger and Smudge so much, it’s heartbreaking that they cannot understand why I’m no longer there. They must think I’m a terrible mummy.
“Mum and Dad are taking good care of them, though, and are, no doubt, spoiling them.” Poignantly, Letby added: “I’m trying to do all that I can to remain strong and positive. I’m determined to get through this. I will not give up.”
After sharing the note aloud, Letby’s friend Maisie then begins to cry on screen. She says that she no longer knows what to say to her friend who has been dubbed ‘The Angel of Death.’ “Up until the trial and verdict I would write to Lucy and she would write back. Now I don’t know what to say.”
Later in the film she says she still believes her friend even though there are some small doubts in her mind about her innocence.
Maisie said: “There’s always doubt, because as much as you know someone, you never know the whole of someone like they can still have things that you don’t know about them, but unless I saw actual evidence, I can’t believe it. I know that people think that I support a baby murderer, but she’s my friend and currently, in general, forever.”
Letby, 36, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.
She continues to plead her innocence and has a legal team working on a way to challenge her sentence.
In The Investigation Of Lucy Letby on Netflix viewers will see for the first time when she was first arrested in 2018, as police approached her whilst she was still in bed. She looks stunned as she is led away in a dressing gown after being told: “I’m arresting you on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.”
Police also set out in the documentary how they found evidence and used it to successfully prosecute Letby. She has failed twice in appeal.
The film may also show a more human side to Letby as she is also shown stroking her pet cat and in a police cell.
Mark McDonald who took over as Letby’s barrister in September 2024, also explains in the film why he thinks she should be freed. He was approached by Letby’s parents to help her and is now fighting to try to get her a retrial.
He tells the documentary: “We have to remember, no one saw her do anything wrong. There’s no CCTV. There was no motive.
“This was a unit in crisis. Nurses were crying at the end of this shift because of the stress, because of them being overworked, because of having so many babies on the unit and not having the staff or the resources to run it.”
* The Investigation Of Lucy Letby will be released globally on Netflix on February 4.
MARGOT Robbie sparkles again at a Wuthering Heights premiere — with a diamond necklace and matching ring.
She wore a red Chanel velvet ballgown in Paris, then changed into a black corset dress for the after-party.
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Margot Robbie sparkles again at a Wuthering Heights premiere — with a diamond necklace and matching ringCredit: GettyMargot wore a red Chanel velvet ballgown in Paris, then changed into a black corset dress for the after-partyCredit: EPAMargot was seen warmly greeting fans despite the rainCredit: Splash
He even filled his married co-star’s dressing room with roses for Valentine’s Day while shooting the tragic love story.
His fellow Aussie Margot, who posed in a minidress for the latest cover of Vogue Australia, said she was bowled over by the romantic gesture — despite having only had her first son with husband Tom Ackerley, 35, four months earlier.
Interviewing each other for the magazine, Margot said: “You made my day and, as Heathcliff, filled my room with roses. It was so cute.
“I remember thinking on Valentine’s Day, ‘Oh he’s probably a very good boyfriend, ’cause there’s a lot of thoughtfulness in this’.
“You did a lot of very thoughtful things — it wasn’t just the gesture of the roses.”
Margot strikes a pose in her red Chanel velvet ballgown in ParisCredit: GettyMargot plays Cathy in upcoming Wuthering HeightsCredit: Getty
Love Island All Stars has descended into chaos after Belle Hassan confronted Lucinda Strafford in a heated villa clash
Love Island’s Lucinda and Sean branded ‘fake’ in explosive All Stars row(Image: ITV)
Love Island stars Lucinda Strafford and Sean Stone have been branded “fake” in an explosive All Stars row.
The third instalment of the popular spin-off returned to ITV2 last month, bringing back familiar faces from previous series for another shot at romance.
Over recent weeks, audiences have been treated to explosive rows, surprising eliminations and numerous bombshell entrances. The latest shake-up saw six American contestants arrive, alongside the unveiling of villa USA.
However, conflict wasn’t far away as Belle Hassan and Sean found themselves at loggerheads after Sean opted to pursue Lucinda whilst Belle was in the other villa. Tensions reached boiling point on Monday (February 2), when Sean and Lucinda shared their first kiss in the secret garden, reports OK!.
During Tuesday’s (February 3) instalment, an angry Belle confronted Lucinda as she attempted to make amends. Belle interjected, stating: “I don’t want to hear that because it’s not true, is it? You’re not sorry.”
Lucinda responded: “I feel like what’s happened with me and Sean, when I came in, he was my top pick and there’s no doubt about that.”
Belle wasn’t convinced, particularly given Lucinda’s decision to couple up with Ciaran Diaries when she first arrived, after she wanted to “throw the girls off” regarding her preferences.
Challenging her directly, Belle demanded: “What’s real, Lucinda? What is real?” to which a taken-aback Lucinda replied: “Don’t start coming at me.”
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Belle didn’t hold back, saying: “What’s real? If we’re going to have a conversation, let’s be open and honest. What’s real? And let me get one thing straight, you’ve not once gave a f*** about my feelings or [made] me feel comfortable in this, so don’t expect that same thing from me cause that isn’t gonna happen.”
She added: “So, if this conversation you’ve wanted to have all day was for me to validate your s*** behaviour, that’s not gonna happen… This nice girl image just doesn’t wash, I see through it.”
Lucinda hit back, responding: “I don’t really respect you talking to me like that.”
Undeterred, Belle went on: “I don’t respect the way you’ve behaved since the first day you got here, so evidently we’re not going to be on the same page ever… I don’t need to know you for any longer… All you think about is yourself and that has been evident.”
Hinting at her suspicions about Lucinda’s romance with Sean being disingenuous, Belle wrapped up: “We aren’t going to be cool… You do want you need to do, I’ll keep out of your way and that’s where we’re at. I think the whole situation is very fake.”
Viewers flocked to X (formerly Twitter) to applaud Belle’s no-nonsense approach, with one fan posting: “I wish I could handle conversations the way Belle does. I’m actually in awe watching her say it how it is with Lucinda.”
Another viewer observed: “Belle has officially clocked Lucinda’s behaviour and Lucinda couldn’t even defend herself,” whilst a third declared: “Belle calling out Lucinda for her nice girl act finaalllyy someone has had the courage to say it all to her face.”
Meanwhile, one confused fan commented: “What has Lucinda done wrong. I’m still trying to understand.” Will Belle and Lucinda be able to patch things up?
Love Island All Stars airs Sunday to Friday on ITV2 and ITVX at 9pm
JESY Nelson has described the terrifying moment her mum raised the alarm about her twins’ SMA struggle.
The pop star secretly moved to Cornwall after giving birth to the two little girls following a high-risk pregnancy.
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Jesy Nelson with her mum Janice WhiteOcean and Story have been diagnosed with SMACredit: Instagram
She says her mum Janice noticed Ocean and Story’s lack of leg movement on a trip to visit them.
Speaking on Jamie Laing’s podcast Great Company with Jesy Nelson, the former Little Mix star said: “Me and Zion decided we wanted to move to Cornwall because our babies had been through all this trauma, and we just wanted them to grow up in a peaceful setting and just be around the sea and live like a kid.
“I honestly was not even taking notice of their legs because they’re my first set of children, so I don’t know how they should be moving their legs, or what they should and shouldn’t be doing anyway.
“Because we had just moved six hours away, my mum wasn’t with me every day.
“I think she noticed how much it had deteriorated, and she said, ‘Jesy, they don’t move their legs very much. Have you noticed that?’
“She kept comparing them to my nephew, but I said George was a full time baby and because the twins were premature you can’t compare them.
“She said, ‘I know Jesy, but something’s not right’.
“My mum is such a such a worrier. She worries about everything – a bit like me, she thinks the worst in every situation.
“And so I just thought that was her over-worrying then a week went by, and I remember changing their nappy and just thinking ‘oh, god, they actually don’t move their legs at all’.
“For some reason they just stopped.”
Jesy with her now ex-partner Zion gave birth in May 2025Credit: jesynelson/Instagram
Fearing her mum was right, Jesy booked to see a paediatrician straight away.
After being told the babies needed blood tests and a brain scan, Jesy left the doctors in tears.
She was later told the identical twins have Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1— the most severe form of a rare disease affecting muscle strength and movement.
Jesy is now working tirelessly to raise awareness ofSMAandcampaigning for the conditionto be added to the NHS newborn heel-prick test, which currently screens for ten other conditions.
She spoke to The Sun about the diagnosis and her new new six-part docuseries on Prime Video, which follows her journey intomotherhoodas she reflects back on her time inLittle Mix.
It’s the first time she’s opened up about quitting the band in 2020.
Read our full interview with Jesy about hope of reconciling with her former Little Mix friends and mending her relationship with Simon Cowellhere.
Jesy Nelson: Life After Little Mix will be aired on Prime Video from February 13.
Listen to Great Company with Jesy Nelson whereever you get your podcasts.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Signs and symptoms
Spinal muscular atrophy is a disease which takes away a person’s strength and it causes problems by disrupting the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord.
This causes an individual to lose the ability to walk, eat and breathe.
There are four types of SMA – which are based on age.
Type 1 is diagnosed within the first six months of life and is usually fatal.
Type 2 is diagnosed after six months of age.
Type 3 is diagnosed after 18 months of age and may require the individual to use a wheelchair.
Type 4 is the rarest form of SMA and usually only surfaces in adulthood.
What are the symptoms?
The symptoms of SMA will depend on which type of condition you have.
But the following are the most common symptoms:
• Floppy or weak arms and legs
• Movement problems – such as difficulty sitting up, crawling or walking
• Twitching or shaking muscles
• Bone and joint problems – such as an unusually curved spine
• Swallowing problems
• Breathing difficulties
However, SMA does not affect a person’s intelligence and it does not cause learning disabilities.
How common is it?
The majority of the time a child can only be born with the condition if both of their parents have a faulty gene which causes SMA.
Usually, the parent would not have the condition themselves – they would only act as a carrier.
Statistics show around 1 in every 40 to 60 people is a carrier of the gene which can cause SMA.
If two parents carry the faulty gene there is a 1 in 4 (25 per cent) chance their child will get spinal muscular atrophy.
New Netflix documentary, The Investigation of Lucy Letby, airs unseen footage of the former nurse’s arrest before she was charged with the murder of seven infants
00:01, 04 Feb 2026Updated 00:21, 04 Feb 2026
An explosive new Lucy Letby documentary by Netflix features unseen police footage(Image: Courtesy of Netflix)
An explosive new Lucy Letby documentary by Netflix features unseen police footage and new evidence which will make some viewers question her conviction.
The former nurse, 36, has been dubbed the Angel of Death, after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016. But not everyone is convinced of her guilt and there will be more debate with the release of this film. Here are the most shocking moments of the film…
Lucy Letby’s six-word comment to crying parents on arrest
The documentary starts with a hugely emotional scene showing Letty’s arrest by police as she tells her parents: “You know I didn’t do it.”
Letby’s mum Susan wailed in pain as police entered the family home in Hereford in June 2019. It is Letty’s second arrest and her mum says: “Please no, not again no!”
Police ignore her though and continue up the stairs to arrest Letby in her bedroom where she is in a dressing gown.
Letby then walks down the stairs with officers and begs “Please can I see my cat?” and is allowed to stroke the cat before she is handcuffed.
Off camera Letby is picked up by a mic and tells her parents: “You know I didn’t do it.”
And her mum replies: “I know you didn’t. We know that!” Her dad John’s voice can also be heard agreeing.
Letby then refers to her cats when she walks out the front door and says: “It’s alright, look after the boys.”
As Letby leaves the house in a dressing gown her mum can be heard starting to sob at the front door again.
“Just go in mum,” Letby tells her. “Don’t look mum just go. Mum just go in.” The car then drives her to the police station where she faced further questioning.
Parents have criticised the decision for footage of their home to be given to Netflix by Cheshire police, calling it a “complete invasion of privacy”.
The couple raised concerns the documentary might make their home “become a tourist attraction”.
In a statement to The Sunday Times, the couple said: “The previous programmes made about Lucy, including Panorama and the almost nightly news showing her being brought out handcuffed in a blue tracksuit are heartbreaking for us.
“However, this Netflix documentary is on another level. We had no idea they were using footage in our house. We will not watch it – it would likely kill us if we did.
“We have, however, stumbled on pictures of her being arrested in her bedroom in our house and her saying goodbye to one of her beloved cats, which are even more distressing.
“Heaven knows how much more they have to show. All this taking place in the home where we have lived for 40 years. It is in a small cul-de-sac in a small town where everyone knows everyone.
“It is a complete invasion of privacy of which we would have known nothing if Lucy’s barrister had not told us.”
Letby speaks out on Post It note “confession”
For much of the documentary when Letby is shown in police custody she is seen saying “no comment” to questions and looking emotionless. That changes when she is shown post it notes and paper and asked about comments she has made on them.
Letby says: “I just wrote it because everything had got on top of me. It was not long after I had been removed from the unit.
“I felt like I might have hurt them without knowing. That made me feel guilty.
“I felt like in my practice I might have hurt them without knowing through my practice. And that made me feel guilty.
“I was blaming myself. But not because I had done something, because of the way people were making me feel. I felt like I had only done my best for the babies, trying to say that my practice wasn’t good or I had done something, I just couldn’t cope.
“I did just not want to be here anymore. I felt It was all spiralling out of control. And I didn’t know how to deal with it all.
“He was trying to imply it was something I had done.
“It crossed my mind at time whether they were trying to blame me for something somebody else had done.”
Mother of victim speaks for first time
The mum of one of the babies attacked by killer nurse Letby speaks for the first time in the documentary. It tells how Zoe (not her real name) was born on June 20, 2015, but died two days later.
Her mum, given the name ‘Sarah’ in the doc, revealed she watched helplessly as doctors desperately tried to save her daughter.
She says: “It was hard looking at her in the incubator. I couldn’t take her out, but I was able to hold her hand. She was so fragile, small and precious, I became a mummy.
“The doctors were telling us that she was responding very well, that she was responding as expected, and there were no concerns.”
But she tells the documentary of the hoor which followed: “I was fast asleep when a nurse turned a light on. She said, ‘You need to come right now’. I asked, ‘what’s going on?’ And she said, ‘there’s no time we need to go’.
“I remember being wheeled down the long corridor thinking, what’s going on. I felt the panic in the room.
“The doctor was trying everything to keep her heart pumping. He wasn’t giving up. I wanted him to keep fighting. But the other doctor put her hand on his shoulder and said, ‘You need to stop, you need to let her go’.
“The doctor was still holding Zoe, but he stopped what he was doing. That was it. It was finished. It was over.”
Zoe’s mum later tells the show how she later received a call from the police telling her someone had been arrested in connection with the baby’s death: “All of a sudden I realised someone could have purposely targeted my child. We were just completely lost for words.”
When she saw Letby’s picture on the news, she said: “As soon as I saw her face I recognised the nurse straight away. When I visited Zoe for the last time she had a clipboard but she wasn’t really doing any jobs. She was just there, watching us.”
She tells the show: “Preparing for the trial was very challenging. There wasn’t a day I wasn’t thinking about Zoe. I wanted to do her justice, but I didn’t want to go to trial and be biased. I knew Lusy Letby was going to take the stand so I needed to face her.
“For the first time since Zoe’s death I was seeing Lucy Letby. I sat three metres away from her. She looked at me a dozen times, staring. Every time she looked at me I’d have to look down.”
When she appeared in court Letby recalled details of almost all of the 17 children she was accused of harming – except baby Zoe.
Sarah ends the doc saying: “There’s no getting over any of this, there’s the sorrow but there’s the hope and love we have for her.
“Ultimately we’re still here and I want to count my blessings and appreciate what I have. I was strong enough to try again. My husband and I have a beautiful son. He is our reason for everything.
“I have always talked to him about Zoe. He knows she died when she was a baby. He knows she’s in heaven. It’s been storm after storm and it’s not over. But I want to make it through.”
Letby reveals her prison conditions and plans for future
In the doc her friend Maisie reads from a letter she has received from Letby whilst she is in prison.
Letby said: “Maisie, there are no words to describe my situation, but knowing that I have your friendship regardless, is so important and special to me.
“I have my own room and toilet. I’m able to shower each day and go outside for a walk. Getting outside is so important, even though it’s bit chilly. I miss Tigger and Smudge so much, it’s heartbreaking that they cannot understand why I’m no longer there. They must think I’m a terrible mummy. Mum and Dad are taking good care of them, though, and are, no doubt, spoiling them. Poignantly, Letby added: “I’m trying to do all that I can to remain strong and positive. I’m determined to get through this. I will not give up.”
Friend Maisie then begins to cry on screen. Just before reading the letter aloud she had admitted: “Up until the trial and verdict I would write to Lucy and she would write back. Now I don’t know what to say.”
Doctor admits “tiny, tiny guilt” they have got wrong person
Dr John Gibbs was a consultant paediatrician was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital when the baby deaths occurred and suspicion grew around Letty’s involvement.
He concludes his interview in the doc by saying: “Some people are claiming that we consultants had a vendetta against Lucy Letby. Where’s your evidence for that?
“I have been accused online of killing babies, which is shocking.
“I live with two guilts, guilt we let the babies down and tiny, tiny, tiny guilt did we get the wrong person? Just in case.
“I don’t think there was a miscarriage of justice, but you worry that no one actually saw her do it.”
By contrast Letby’s friend Maisie is standing by her even though she has some small concerns she might not be innocent.
Maisie says: “Over the last few years, I’ve got through questioning has she presented one side to me and a different side to other people.
“There’s always doubt, because as much as you know someone, you never know the whole of someone. They can still have things that you don’t know about them. But unless I saw actual evidence, I can’t believe it.
“I know that people think that I support a baby murderer, but she’s my friend and currently, in jail, forever.”
Letby barrister continues to fight for “last chance” retrial
The final twenty minutes of the documentary are given over to how Mark McDonald joined Letby’s legal team after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.
He insists she has “no motive” and that the evidence used to prosecute her is flawed.
One academic paper co-written by Dr Shoo Lee was used as part of Letty’s conviction. But Dr Lee, a Canadian neonatal care expert, said there were alternative explanations for each of Letby’s convictions for murder or attempted murder.
He tells the documentary: “A young woman could be in prison for crimes that she didn’t commit,” and describes work he has been doing as her “last chance”.
Dr Lee and a panel of international medical experts reviewed the case and McDonald is hoping to use this as new evidence. McDonald says: “I put it into the criminal cases Review Commission, the CCRC, who, with any hope, will send it back to the Court of Appeal, to push for retrial.”
The Investigation Of Lucy Letby is out now on Netflix.
Netflix Inc. Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos pledged to maintain a 45-day theatrical window for Warner Bros. films during a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
Sarandos also tried to dampen concerns about potential job losses and U.S. production declines related to the companies’ proposed multibillion-dollar deal.
During a two-hour hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Sarandos told lawmakers the proposed merger would not run afoul of antitrust concerns and would, instead, “strengthen the American entertainment industry.”
About 80% of HBO Max subscribers also have Netflix subscriptions, which he said showed the two services were “complementary.” Netflix also plans to increase its film and television production spending to $26 billion this year, with a majority of that happening in the U.S., he said.
“We are doubling down, even as much of the industry has pulled back,” Sarandos said, according to a written transcript of his opening remarks. “With this deal, we’re going to increase, not reduce, production investments going forward, supported by a stronger combined business and balance sheet.”
Sarandos was joined at the hearing by Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer Bruce Campbell.
When asked by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) whether senators should expect a “round of layoffs” or consumer price increases as a result of the deal, Campbell said no. He pointed to Netflix’s lack of comparable film and TV studios, or the distribution infrastructure that Warner Bros. has.
“We believe, based on our discussions with them in the negotiation process, that they’re not only going to keep those operations intact, in fact, they’re going to invest in those operations and invest in continued production, including on our lots in Burbank and elsewhere,” Campbell said.
Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison was also invited to appear as a witness, but declined because he did not believe it would be useful or helpful since the company’s bid for Warner had been rejected, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said during the hearing. Ellison did, however, meet with him and other senators privately to answer questions, Booker said.
Sarandos also tried to assuage concerns about the deal’s potential effect on theatrical distribution.
“I know I’ve earned some skepticism over there over the years on this because I was talking a lot about Netflix’s business model, which was different from that,” he said. “We didn’t own a theatrical distributor before. We do now, and a great one.”
When asked if the 45-day window would be “self-enforced,” Sarandos agreed, saying that was an industry standard. He did, however, note the general caveat that “routinely, movies that underperform, the window moves a little bit” but is still referred to as a 45-day window.
And in a sign of the growing role politics has played in the perception of the deal, Sarandos tried to sidestep questions from Republican senators about perceived “woke” content on the streaming platform, as well as inquiries from Booker about President Trump’s involvement in the merger. Trump previously said he “would be involved” in his administration’s decision to approve any deal.
The hearing comes just two months after Netflix prevailed in a hotly contested bidding war for Warner Bros. The $72-billion deal would dramatically reshape the Hollywood landscape and give the streamer control over Warner Bros.’ storied Burbank film and TV studios, its lot, HBO and HBO Max.
Netflix also agreed to take on more than $10 billion in Warner Bros. debt, pushing the enterprise value of the transaction to $82.7 billion.
But Paramount has continued to pursue the company, fighting to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its cable networks.
The company, led by Ellison, has made a direct appeal to Warner shareholders to tender their shares in support of a Paramount deal. A deadline for that offer was recently extended to Feb. 20.
Paramount has also filed proxy materials to ask Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal at an upcoming shareholders meeting.
“Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie will not head to Milan for NBC’s 2026 Winter Olympics coverage as she deals with the ongoing police investigation into the suspected abduction of her mother.
“Savannah will not be joining us at the Olympics as she focuses on being with her family during this difficult time,” an NBC News representative said Tuesday in a statement. “Our hearts are with her and the entire Guthrie family as the search continues for their mother.”
Guthrie was scheduled to co-host NBC’s telecast of the Friday opening ceremonies for the Milan Cortina Games alongside Terry Gannon of NBC Sports. The network representative said alternative plans will be announced shortly.
June 2023 photo of Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie. (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
(Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
Law enforcement officials believe Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen at her home outside of Tuscon, Ariz. on Saturday night. Police were called after relatives were told she missed the Sunday church service she regularly attends and did not find her at home.
Police found Nancy Guthrie’s cell phone, wallet, car and medication were left behind, indicating she did not leave voluntarily. She has no cognitive issues, but has limited physical mobility and could not walk far on her own, family members have told police.
On Tuesday, Lima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said at press briefing that authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will. He also said the department is aware of “reports circulating about possible ransom note(s)” in the case. TMZ reported on the existence of an alleged ransom note Tuesday, but Nanos did not verify the account,
According to law enforcement sources not authorized to speak about the case publicly, there was blood at the scene and someone appeared to have forced their way inside.
Guthrie, a “Today” co-host since 2012, has been off the program since Monday. She was scheduled to head to Milan early this week.
Guthrie’s mother, who lived on her own, has been an occasional on-air guest at “Today.” Her appearances made her a favorite of Guthrie’s co-workers and staff at the program.
TODAY bosses have beefed up police and security presence at the NBC morning show’s NYC studio after co-anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother was allegedly abducted from her home.
Multiple sources have exclusively told The U.S. Sun that the network made the decision for the health and safety of their Today talent and crew members out of an “abundance of caution.”
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Savannah Guthrie is seen on the set of Today on November 29, 2017 in New York CityCredit: GettyThe Today show studios are located in midtown ManhattanCredit: AlamySavannah is very close to her mom Nancy, who was declared missing on SundayCredit: Instagram/savannahguthrie
Beloved Today host Savannah‘s mother Nancy, 84, was reported missing from her Tucson, Arizona home on Sunday morning, February 1.
“Things are tense at the studio, and that as a result, NBC has stepped up security for on-air talent,” a source told The U.S. Sun, though it’s unclear if Savannah, 54, or any Today hosts were also targeted by the perpetrators.
“NBC has partnered with the NYPD to make sure their staff remains safe, out of an abundance of caution.”
A separate insider confirmed both cops and private security are stationed at the midtown studio and offices.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to the NYPD and NBC for comment.
Timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home on February 1, 2026.
Timeline:
January 31: Family members dropped off Guthrie, 84, at her home in Tucson, Arizona, at around 9:45 pm.
February 1: The Pima County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 missing person call at noon.
Pima County Sheriff Christopher Nanos said the scene found at Guthrie’s home caused “grave concern.”
February 2: Nanos said investigators are probing Guthrie’s case as a crime, adding that officials do not believe the 84-year-old voluntarily walked out of her home.
The Pima County sheriff said Guthrie has “limited mobility” and is in dire need of her daily medication, which if she does not take could be “fatal.”
Savannah Guthrie released a statement to her co-hosts at Today, saying, “On behalf of our family, I want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers and messages of support. Right now, our focus remains on the safe return of our dear mom.”
Savannah missed the February 2 edition of Today as she flew to Arizona to assist in the search for her mother.
SAVANNAH’S SUPPORT TEAM
Savannah’s Today colleagues have been sending her love and prayers as they address the devastating case on air.
“Sending our love, my friend,” Sheinelle Jones said on Monday.
“On behalf of our family, I want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers, and messages of support,” the statement read.
“Right now, our focus remains on he safe return of our dear mom.”
Jenna Bush Hager, Savannah’s longtime close friend, held back tears as she discussed the news on live TV.
“We are thinking of our dearest, dearest Savannah and her whole family this morning,” she said.
MYSTERY DEEPENS
The FBI has joined the search for Nancy, and addressed the public at a press conference on Tuesday.
Special Agent Jon Edwards insisted the FBI is doing “everything in their power to bring Nancy Guthrie home to her family.”
“We’re downloading and analyzing cellphones, obtaining cell tower information, conducting interviews, and providing any and all investigative support that the sheriff’s department needs,” he said.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos then admitted “we’re stumped,” adding they do not currently have any strong leads in the case.
A possible ransom note was reported by TMZ, and cops said they are “taking all tips and leads very seriously.”
Though there were reportedly signs of forced entry at Nancy’s suburban Tucson home, police have said they don’t believe a robbery was behind the abduction.
“I wish somebody would call us and say, ‘Hey,’ because that’s what the family wants,” Sheriff Nanos told Us Weekly.
“They just want her back. ‘Hey, no questions asked, call us where to come and get her, and we’ll do that.”
Nancy reportedly left her iPhone, watch, car and wallet at home.
A splatter of blood belonging to Nancy was also found on the property.
Savannah Guthrie’s full statement on mom’s disappearance
We believe in prayer. we believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. we believe in goodness. we believe in humanity. above all, we believe in Him.
thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant. raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment.
we need you.
“He will keep in perfect peace those whose hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.” a verse of Isaiah for all time for all of us.
Bring her home.
‘BELIEVE IN PRAYER’
Savannah recently posted another statement to her Instagram, asking fans to continue their prayers.
“We believe in prayer. We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. we believe in goodness. we believe in humanity. above all, we believe in Him,” she said.
Savannah’s husband, Michael Feldman, also spoke out about the tragic case.
Michael told Page Six that he feels “mostly unhelpful” in the disappearance.
He thanked the media’s “thoughtfulness” in their coverage.
Members of the public with any information are urged to call 911 or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department at 520-351-4900.
Nancy’s neighbors showed their support near her Tucson-area homeCredit: The U.S. SunSavannah posted with mom Nancy on Thursday, June 15, 2023Credit: GettyPima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has given press conferences to update reportersCredit: WINK
A Love Actually actress looks worlds away from her iconic character in this ‘must watch’ thriller fans couldn’t get enough of
Where’s Wanda? is available to binge watch right now (Image: Apple TV+)
A Love Actually actress is completely unrecognisable in a “extraordinary” thriller that left fans on the edge of their seats.
German actress Heike Makatsch is best remembered for her portrayal of Mia, the flirtatious secretary who tempted her boss Harry (Alan Rickman) in the 2003 festive film.
Though the romcom is hugely iconic, its 65% Rotten Tomatoes score pales in comparison to Heike’s perfectly-rated 2024 show, Where’s Wanda?
Currently streaming on Apple TV+, the dark comedy follows desperate parents Dedo (Axel Stein) and Carlotta Klatt (Heike) as they search for their missing daughter Wanda, months after her disappearance.
Frustrated by the police’s inability to find her, the couple take matters into their own hands and begin spying on their neighbours to find answers.
Love Actually fans may take a minute to recognise Heike in the drama as she ditches her dark bob for long blonde hair.
The Apple TV drama quickly won over critics upon its debut, earning a stellar 100% score from seven reviews. Casual viewers were equally impressed, though they awarded it a less generous 68% rating.
One fan shared a glowing review, penning: “I was overwhelmingly pleased. It was genuinely funny, aesthetically gorgeous, stupendously well acted, and decidedly fresh, making a story that I don’t think has ever been told before. 11/10 well worth a watch.”
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Last Tuesday, Philip Glass withdrew the delayed premiere in June of his latest symphony, No. 15. Originally meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2022, it is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, but the composer decided the values of the current Kennedy Center were “in direct conflict to the message of the symphony,” which is inspired by Lincoln’s 1838 Lyceum Address.
In rebuke to Glass, Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi’s quick response was: “We have no place for politics in the arts.”
Two nights later, the chairman of the Kennedy Center board (who also happens to be president of the United States) hosted at the “no place for politics” center a bevy of Republican politicians and donors for the gala premiere of “Melania,” a documentary about and produced by his wife, the first lady.
Three days after that, the president, with no warning to Congress (which administers the Kennedy Center), center staff or the public, announced on his social media platform that he would close the facility July 4 for two years to undertake a major renovation. This may get the center off the hook for putting together a new season, what with all its departures (voluntary and not) of competent artistic directors, but it also means the center’s one remaining major institution, and its crown jewel, the National Symphony, is suddenly homeless.
The fact is, the Kennedy Center has always been political. The same goes for orchestras. And Lincoln’s seeming role as a symphonic football is nothing new, either.
But political doesn’t — or, at least, once didn’t — necessarily imply partisan. In March 1981, two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan turned up at the Kennedy Center for the premiere of a new production of Lillian Hellman‘s “The Little Foxes,” and was photographed happily congratulating a smiling Elizabeth Taylor backstage. Also present was the gruff playwright.
Hellman, who had been a member of the Communist Party and was called up in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and Reagan, an avid anti-Communist, couldn’t have had much use for each other politically. But there they were, soaking up art and glamour (if maybe not in that order) together. It was also in 1952 and thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts that the first inklings of a national performing arts center in Washington, D.C. developed.
Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” for speaker and orchestra, written in 1942 in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack, had been slated for a performance at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inauguration in 1952. Complaints about Copland’s leftist leanings pressured Eisenhower to cancel the performance, but left inklings in Ike’s mind that the nation needed a performing arts center in Washington, D.C. In 1955, he instituted a District of Columbia Auditorium Commission and that led to the National Cultural Center Act of 1958.
Bipartisan support became a no-brainer. Kennedy was an enthusiast and, in his presidency, both First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower worked together to support the cultural center. In 1963, just days before his assassination, JFK hosted a White House fundraiser for the center. A year later, President Lyndon B. Johnson broke ground for what was to become “a living memorial to John F. Kennedy” with the gold-plated spade that President Taft had used for the Lincoln Memorial.
President Lyndon B. Johnson lifts a shovel full of dirt during ground-breaking ceremonies for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1964 while members of the Kennedy family look on.
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The Kennedy Center proved political from Day 1. Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a theatrical piece for the center’s opening in 1971, which turned out to be an irreverent “Mass” — musically, liturgically, culturally and, most assuredly, politically. Most of all it was an unmistakably protest against the Vietnam War. In his own protest, President Nixon stayed home.
“Mass” was ridiculed by critics and sophisticates. And so was the Kennedy Center in its monstrosity. But the composition ultimately came to be seen as a precursor of musical Postmodernism and possibly Bernstein’s greatest work, a monument in its own right. The Brutalist monumentalism of the Kennedy Center also grew over time to be loved, increasingly bringing cachet to a diverse nation’s artistic needs.
All of that has, however, been called into question by a new administration noisily remaking the center as partisan and politicizing even renovation and Lincoln.
You don’t take on renovation of a single concert hall overnight, let alone an entire performance center with several theaters, including a major concert hall and opera house. This requires architects and acousticians deeply schooled in theaters, and each has its own acoustical needs. You touch anything, and it will affect the sound. Both the opera house and concert hall could use acoustical work, but that is a very big deal. If this sudden renovation comes as a surprise to staff, that means there have been no consultations, no proposals, no models, no feedback. Best to add to the budget some hundreds of millions of dollars to fix mistakes.
Before even considering anything else, a space has to be found for the National Symphony. It is possible to create temporary structures or renovate existing buildings into acoustical wonders, as architect Frank Gehry and acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota have proved. In Munich, the temporary Isarphilharmonie, which has Toyota acoustics, is so successful that some are saying the city doesn’t need a new concert hall after all.
So, given the timing of this precipitous announcement, it is hard to believe that something isn’t also going on with attitudes toward Lincoln and Glass’ displeasure with the Kennedy Center administration. For what it’s worth, Presidents Ford, Carter, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama have all narrated Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.”
Lincoln has been central to Glass’ work for more than four decades. The composer first used Lincoln in Act V (known as “The Rome Section”) of Robert Wilson’s 12-hour opera, “the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down” (a prescient title for current Kennedy Center thinking), which had been intended for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in L.A. but was never produced here for lack of funds.
Lincoln shows up in Glass’ 2007 opera, “Appomattox,” commissioned by San Francisco Opera and later revised and expanded for Washington National Opera in 2015. The opera offers a look at how the Civil War ended with high-minded statesmanship. The first act of Glass’ 2013 opera, “The Perfect American,” about the last days of Walt Disney, ends with a flashback of Walt, who idolized Lincoln, visiting Disneyland and getting into an argument about slavery with the animatronic Lincoln, which gets so worked up it attacks Walt.
Politics are rarely far away from orchestral or operatic life. At a recent appearance of the Chicago Symphony at the Soraya, Italian conductor Riccardo Muti followed an impressively grand performance of Brahms’ Fourth Symphony by telling the audience how the arts keep us honest and played as an encore the overture to Verdi’s “Nabucco,” as an example of how an opera could motivate public support for Garibaldi’s nationalist movement. Garibaldi also makes an appearance with Lincoln in the Glass/Wilson “Rome Section.”
A few days later at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, the thrilling Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería from Mexico City revealed an inspiring model of Latin American cooperation. On the program was Cuban composer Paquito D’Rivera’s “Concerto Venezolano,” featuring the fearless improvising Venezuelan trumpet soloist Pacho Flores. The concerto also featured solos on the Venezuelan cuatro by Héctor Molina, but his name was only announced last minute, due to current travel uncertainty.
One of the greatest recordings of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, his grab-you-by-the-gut answer to Stalin and celebration of Russia, is by the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich, recorded in 1994 at the Kennedy Center. Stalin saw the symphony as his deification. Rostropovich exuded, in the Kennedy Center aura, the expression of an overwhelmingly triumphant celebration of the end of the Soviet repression. You can take the symphony and the opera out of the Kennedy Center, but you can’t take the essence of the Kennedy Center, the living memorial to the ideal of something larger than political ego, out of the symphony and opera.
HE has more than two decades of hits under his belt and worked with everyone from Amy Winehouse and Dua Lipa to Adele and Miley Cyrus.
Now I can exclusively reveal Mark Ronson will get his flowers at the Brit Awards later this month, as he will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Music award.
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Superstar DJ Mark Ronson will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Music awardCredit: Getty
And, in even more good news for viewers, Mark will also take to the stage for a performance at the ceremony, being held at Manchester’s Co-op Live arena on February 28.
The superstar DJ, producer and songwriter said: “This is the most meaningful honour of my career.
“I think of the times I’ve watched artists I revere accept this same award.
“The idea that I’m now standing in that lineage feels impossible.
“I left England as a kid, but this country runs through everything I’ve made.
“The UK artists I’ve worked with — their brilliance and refusal to compromise — shaped not just my work but how I understand what music should do.
“And more than anything, it’s the crowds here who’ve sustained and showed up for me.
“The fans, the festival crowds, the record buyers and streamers — the love has always been overwhelming. I’m beyond grateful for all of it.”
The gong is richly deserved for Mark, who has helped guide some of my favourite artists to superstardom.
It is a poignant year to receive the award, as it marks 20 years since Mark produced Amy’s Back To Black album, which is widely considered one of the greatest records of all time.
Details about his performance are being kept under lock and key, but I imagine he will be treating us to a medley of his hits including the Bruno Mars classic Uptown Funk and Miley Cyrus’ Nothing Breaks Like A Heart.
He joins a stellar list of performers, with Harry Styles, Olivia Dean and Wolf Alice already announced. In receiving the gong, Mark is following in the footsteps of other British favourites including Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and Blur.
Jack Whitehall is returning to host the biggest night in UK music for the sixth time.
And I am expecting my story about Maura Higgins’ kiss with married McFly singer Danny Jones at last year’s Universal Music after-party to feature heavily in his jokes.
Bring it on.
Nicole strikes a blue note
Nicole Scherzinger wore a stunning blue gown to the Love Life: West End Unites Against Cancer eventCredit: Getty
NICOLE SCHERZINGER looked belting in blue after performing at a charity concert.
She wore this stunning gown to the Love Life: West End Unites Against Cancer event at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane just as I revealed her ex Lewis Hamilton, who she dated from 2007 to 2015, is secretly seeing Kim Kardashian.
Nicole is now engaged to former rugby union player Thom Evans – but I won’t be surprised if this gives her a nudge to get on with her wedding planning.
Ben and Benson’s goalden gags
BEN STILLER and Benson Boone play brothers who can’t stop fighting in a new ad.
In the guise of an Eighties Europop duo, the pair argue after comedian Ben tries and fails to copy Benson’s famous backflips.
Ben Stiller and Benson Boone appear together in an advert for InstacartCredit: YouTube/@advaultBen confuses American football with soccerCredit: YouTube/@advaultBen and Benson play brothers who can’t stop fighting in the new adCredit: YouTube/@advault
He says: “We are excited to sing for you in this football game. Hopefully many, many goals.”
Singer Benson corrects him: “This is a different football – they touch down,” prompting yet more bickering.
Their double act is for online grocery service Instacart’s ad, which will air during the US sporting event on Sunday.
I feel like they need a whole film together.
Kooks show on Sail soon
Luke Pritchard of The Kooks, who are set to play at the Old Royal Naval College in GreenwichCredit: Getty
THE KOOKS will play a huge show at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, South East London, on July 31 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their incredible album Inside In/Inside Out.
It comes as Luke Pritchard releases a live version of his brilliant 2014 tune See Me Now, which he wrote for his musician dad Bob, who died when he was three.
The new version was recorded at London’s O2 Arena last year, with Luke, telling me: “I didn’t think I would be able to finish the song.
“I just thought how much that this would blow my dad’s mind – that I played the song to that many people in London, you know.”
Bob, who once supported The Rolling Stones on tour, helped Luke first pick up a mic, with the star explaining: “My mum dropped off a load of tapes of me and my dad that I’d never seen.
“He was teaching me to use a microphone, play guitar, pose like a rock star, all when I was three.”
Tickets for the show go on sale at noon on Monday.
I’ll see you there.
Queue up for a cub sandwich
WHEN it comes to weird things famous people have consumed, Ozzy Osbourne once munched the head off of a bat while Dua Lipa likes necking Diet Coke mixed with pickle and jalapeno juice.
Now Blur’s Graham Coxon has joined those at the top of the list after admitting he once tried bear.
The guitarist appears alongside singer Rose Dougall on chef Gizzi Erksine’s new music and food YouTube series Messy Lunch.
The show, which launched this week, saw Graham and Rose chatting about their most memorable meals, with Graham saying: “If you’re interested in a bit of bear, we’ve got some bear in. Bear lumps.”
I dread to think…
Molotovs’ No1 battle
Punk rock siblings Matt and Issey CartlidgeCredit: GettyLily Allen is battling The Molotovs for No1 album spotCredit: Alamy
THE MOLOTOVS have thrown down the gauntlet to Lily Allen as they battle her for the No1 album spot this Friday, warning: “We’re coming for you.”
Punk rock siblings Matt and Issey Cartlidge, who make up one of the most exciting and disruptive new bands I’ve seen in years, are at No2 in the midweek charts with their debut record Wasted On Youth.
Meanwhile, Lily has shot up to the No1 spot with West End Girl, after she released physical copies of the record for the first time.
The race is tight, and in an exclusive chat, Matt told me: “Watch out silly Lily, we’re coming for you.
“We’d love to beat you. We wish you all the best but f***ing, come on! We’ll have you!”
Issey adds: “Battling with Lily Allen proves bands are coming back. People still have an appetite for our music.”
Lily, right, is more than happy to hand over the mantle and, on Monday night, issued a public statement to the siblings, writing on Instagram: “It’s all love baby, I hope you win the war.”
Matt and Issey have worked tirelessly to get their album heard and have played 600 live shows to date, while simultaneously championing grassroots venues.
Their campaigning, alongside the Sex Pistols and Frank Carter, helped save the iconic Bush Hall in West London, after a fundraising drive brought in £45,000.
Issey adds: “We’re now ambassadors for the Music Venue Trust too. The 30-date tour we’re on now has been in small, grassroots venues – we wanted to champion them.
“These venues and institutions are so important.”
The pair will support their pal Yungblud on his UK arena tour in April, before they embark on their own 13-date tour across the UK in September, taking in venues including London’s 2,300-capacity O2 Forum Kentish Town.
Matt said: “It’s a big step up. We’ve always had the same level of confidence, we’re just getting bigger.”
The Molotovs deserve a No1 for Wasted On Youth – it is fantastic.
CAUGHT LIVE
Suede @ Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
★★★★☆
Brett Anderson of Suede as the band kick off their UK tourCredit: Getty
SUEDE kicked off their sold-out UK tour in blistering form over the weekend, promoting latest album Antidepressants which topped The Sun’s album poll in December.
Brett Anderson teased us fans by inviting us into their world, before warning: “It’s not very nice and full of barbed wire.”
But in reality, the set is packed with new tunes and a sprinkling of classics from the Nineties, with Brett’s voice stronger than ever as he treats us to an off-mic a capella tear jerker among the thundering hits.
With 14 of the 21 songs coming from their post- 2010 comeback albums, it’s proof that being the self-dubbed “anti-nostalgia band” is a pretty perfect world after all.
THIS Sunday Bad Bunny will take to the stage for what I imagine will be an epic Super Bowl half-time show.
But before that, rapper Lil Wayne will also have his own half-time show . . . virtually, at least. The five-time Grammy winner is set to perform his 2008 hit A Milli on mobile game Clash Royale on Friday.
Lil Wayne said: “Music, sports, and gaming all in one place – y’all know how much I love being at the centre of the culture. I’m turning the Clash Royale Arena into the most lit concert of the week.
“Tap in on February 6 to see what we got in store for y’all.”
CHAPPELL ROAN has defended the “nipple ring” Thierry Mugler dress she wore to the Grammys on Sunday, insisting she had no idea it would cause controversy.
Sharing images on Instagram of the frock, which had fabric hanging from prosthetic pierced nipples, the singer wrote: “Giggling because I don’t even think this is THAT outrageous of an outfit.
“The look is actually so awesome and weird. I recommend just exercising your free will – it’s really fun and silly.”
I am pleased to see Chappell can laugh about it.
Every red carpet could do with a bit more silliness in these troubled times.
WIN: Tickets to Eurovision live tour
BREAK out the bunting and dig out your kookiest outfits because Eurovision is coming to London – and I’ve got five pairs of tickets to give away.
The annual song contest has announced its first official tour, to celebrate its 70th anniversary, and you could be at the opening night at London’s O2 Arena, before it heads across Europe.
Katrina, who won for the UK in 1997, is on the line-up alongside a load of other memorable acts from over the years including Johnny Logan, Guy Sebastian, Finnish heavy metal winners Lordi and Ukrainian comedian Verka Serduchka, who dressed up as a glitterball and finished second in 2007.
There will also be ten of this year’s finalists on the bill, who will be announced closer to the time.
The show will take place on June 15, giving you a whole month to learn all the songs following the final in Vienna on May 16.
To be in with the chance of winning one of five pairs of category one tickets, head to thesun.co.uk/eurovisiontour.
The competition will close at 23.59pm on February 18, 2026.
If you aren’t one of our lucky winners selected at random, tickets will go on sale at 9am on Friday at eurovision.com/tour.
T&CS: 18+ UK residents only (exc. NI, IoM & CI).
Online access required. Contest closes February 18. For full T&Cs, see thesun.co.uk.
Lee and Alana got engaged last September – just months before he proposed to Katie Price in exactly the same wayCredit: Click News and MediaAlana has been speaking out about her experience with LeeCredit: InstagramShe has now accused him of sending her a very vile emailCredit: Instagram
Fitness enthusiast Alana has been speaking out about her experience with Lee, with her now seemingly sharing a vile email he sent her ‘wishing her dead’.
Alana, 32, took to Instagram to share the correspondence she allegedly received from Lee.
In an Instagram post, Alana said: “Also anyone who knows me will know that I went through a really tough time with someone that was not only my partner but also my best friend that sadly took his own life when we were younger.
“This impacted me so massively I was in hospital for a whole of my life and had a huge impact on my mental state and health and still does,” she explained.
Alana continued: “This is something I told Lee Andrews out of confidence about what I had been through and he sent me this email, along with many more, wishing me dead.”
In the screen grab of the email, Lee allegedly said: “Now go join Carl in the fucking ground where you both belong!”
Also on her Instagram page, Alana shared another slew of accusations.
She said: “It makes me so sad when I look at this all now and I realise how much Lee put me through and how many people I cut off and ignored when I should have listened!!”
Alana then proceeded to share an extensive list of “things I felt throughout” her relationship with Lee.
The list was long and included “financial abuse” as well as “controlling behaviour” and “constant lies to maintain dominance”.
Speaking to The Sun last week in an exclusive interview, Alana issued a stark warning to Lee’s new wife Katie.
“Once I tried to leave him, he told me had a heart condition and was living on borrowed time.
“Lee doesn’t know what’s fact and what’s fiction.
“It’s worrying because I think he believes his own lies.”
Also in the exclusive chat, Alana said Lee showered her with gifts, and she recognises the significance of Katie and Andrews’ matching 11:11 handtattoos.
She said: “I’ve never had someone basically tell me that they love me the way he does.
“That 11:11 thing with Katie, that was our thing. He’d ring me at 11:11, he even bought a horse I called 11:11. He puts 100 per cent effort into you. He bought me Cartier bangles, Cartier rings, and clothes.
“He sent a Louis Vuitton handbag to my office. He would transfer me cash — £5,000, £2,000, it was a lot.”
Katie got married to Lee last monthCredit: wesleeeandrews/InstagramHe proposed to Katie in an identical way as he did to AlanaCredit: Click News and Media
Legendary star Jeff Hordley admits that his latest dramatic storyline has been his “hardest ever” and has vowed to get a special blood test, checking for warning signals, for his own peace of mind.
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Legendary Emmerdale star Jeff Hordley
Emmerdale’s Cain Dingle is told tomorrow night that he has prostate cancer. With 64000 new cases diagnosed in the UK predominantly in men over the age of 50, Jeff Hordley – who has played hardman Cain for 25 years – tells the Mirror: “This is the hardest story I have ever worked on throughout my time on Emmerdale because I want to make sure I get it right for the many men who are sadly affected.”
The most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, a family history of the disease also increases the risk of prostate cancer, which effects one in eight men – with the risk doubling for Black men. Often without symptoms in the early stages, a special PSA blood test, can, however, detect abnormalities that can lead to early diagnosis and a far better survival rate.
Jeff, 55, explains: “Prostate cancer can have such an enormous effect on both the person diagnosed and their family. I feel fortunate because my family has not been affected by the disease and thankfully a health check I had a few years ago, that included my prostate, was fine.
“But filming this storyline has made me realise how sobering the disease can be and how it affects so many. It’s so important if you are in a higher risk category to get tested. As soon as I have my next day off, I am going to be making an appointment with my GP to have a PSA test.”
Unfortunately, Cain, 51, like so many men in real life, failed to take a test because he lacked symptoms. But in January during the explosive Corriedale special, the Dingle fan favourite was shocked to learn he had a mass on his prostate gland after being rushed to hospital when he was shot at by evil John Sugden. Scanning his wound, the tumour was detected and doctors ordered further tests.
Now after an agonising month-long wait, Cain will be told he has cancer. It is localised but aggressive and he will require urgent surgery. He is also warned there could be serious surgical side effects including incontinence and erectile dysfunction. It leaves the family man, whose wife, Moira, is currently locked up in prison charged with two murders she didn’t commit, terrified he won’t be able to protect those he loves the most if he tells them the truth.
“Cain is frightened of telling anyone,” says Jeff. “Everything is falling to pieces and he doesn’t deal with his diagnosis at all well. He has never found it easy to talk about his feelings anyway but after learning of his diagnosis, he snaps at everyone. He worries that if he tells anyone and with Moira in prison, nobody will be around to look after their children. He is terrified he is going to die.”
A very likeable actor who is worlds away from the hardman he plays on-screen, Jeff – happily married to fellow Emmerdale star Zoe Henry, 52, who has played Rhona Goskirk for 22 years – is keen to use his soap role to raise awareness. He says: “We’ve been working together with Prostate Cancer UK on Cain’s story and we are going to explore the enormous impact it has on everyone’s lives. Soaps can play a hugely powerful part in raising awareness and if it encourages one man to get tested and find out they have this illness before it is too late – then that has to be a positive thing.”
Secretly told about Cain’s cancer storyline last September, his first reaction was understandably to take a big gulp when he heard the word ‘cancer’. Fearing it might mean the end of his character’s time in the soap, he confesses: “When I had my meeting, our producer, Laura, told me Cain was going to get shot in Corriedale. I was like ‘oh gulp’. But she said: ‘it’s ok you will survive the shooting’. It was then she told me doctors would find a mass from a scan in the hospital and that it would be cancer. I had to do a double gulp.”
Reassured the storyline would pan out for quite some time, Jeff remains tight lipped about what lies ahead but teases: “Cain is told surgery could make him incontinent and/or he could have an erectile dysfunction afterwards. “For some men, this can be short term but for others, it is forever. What if Moira won’t want him? This will be a story about how ultimately their love for each other is so strong.”
He admits the surgical side effects were something he had no knowledge of before he started filming, adding: “I found them really sobering and I think it is important we do make men aware, so they do feel more knowledgeable.”
Working flat out on the huge storyline, it is the latest of many powerful plots he has been involved in during his stellar 25-year soap career including discovering Cain was the illegitimate son of Zak Dingle and being diagnosed with a brain injury in 2015.
Jeff confides it helps enormously that Zoe, who he has two grown-up children with, understands the pressures of filming a big storyline. To unwind, they enjoy country walks near the family’s home in Yorkshire. He says: “Zoe totally understands and I’m so lucky that if I have had a big day and she gets home before me, she will cook something nice. Walks with my dogs are also a good way to switch off too, as is watching a film. I also DJ a bit which I really enjoy.”
And as someone who abstains from drinking alcohol in January and February, he says a ‘clear head’ helps him cope too. Going on to praise the entire Emmerdale cast and crew, he feels ‘blessed’ to be working alongside Natalie J Robb, who plays Moira. He adds: “We have a great shorthand and it is easy to be in Cain and Moira’s world when you are acting alongside Nat. To work on the Corriedale special was also an honour and my one day on ‘the cobbles’ was like the best ‘work placement’ day ever. To see Bill Roache walking the Emmerdale corridors was surreal, he’s such a legend and a gent.”
While Jeff acknowledges he is lucky to not have cancer, he does, however, live with Crohn’s disease. As a result, he is very health conscious, grows his own vegetables on an allotment and cooks from scratch. Jeff, an ambassador for Crohn’s & Colitis UK, says: “It is a different debilitating disease to cancer. I had a big operation in my final year at drama school at the age of 26 and since then, I have mainly been ok. I have been able to navigate it with my diet thankfully.”
For now, Jeff hopes by giving a rare interview, it will help to save lives, adding: “I hope after watching Cain’s storyline, it will encourage men to get tested. It could save their life.”
*If you have been affected by the Cain storyline, help can be sought at prostatecanceruk.org
