Samoa Prime Minister has apologised after a video of him resurfaced, showing him leading a Nazi salute and saying ‘Heil Hitler’ at a family gathering.
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TAYLOR SWIFT appears to have changed tack with her songwriting now she’s married to Travis Kelce.
On her new longer version of 2025 LP The Life Of A Showgirl she seems to have started detailing friends’ failed loves instead of her own.
Fans are convinced one new track, Patient Zero, is about Joe Jonas, her ex-boyfriend and the now former husband of her pal Sophie Turner.
Taylor sings on the track, her new single: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the Devil on his shoulder under his halo . . . When the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go.
“But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was Patient Zero. I’ve been there, felt the reeling, done the healing, said the curses and prayers when the fever turns a dreamer into a pathetic ghost.”
Taylor has revealed that the track resulted from a get- together with friends where one of them told how she had been contacted by an ex’s new girlfriend, asking if she had had the same experiences with the guy.
She added: “And everyone in our group just immediately started saying, ‘Oh, I’ve been through that too’.
“And I thought to myself, ‘If this has happened to all of us, it’s such an interesting angle on humanity and on relationships.
“And I wonder if I could write something from the perspective of getting this phone call, and really only from the perspective and the side of the phone call of the ex who’s been through it before.”
The extended album also includes an open apology to one of Taylor’s exes, who most fans are sure is Tom Hiddleston.
Their two-month romance played out very publicly in 2016, when the Night Manager actor became a laughing stock after wearing an “I heart TS” T-shirt.
On Pink Clouding, Taylor sings: “Years later, I still wonder how to tell you sorry.
“I didn’t wanna let you down. So I left you up there on a pink cloud.”
She adds: “I hope you realised my kind of trouble wasn’t worth it and the way I treated you, you never deserved it.
“And I swear to God, to this day, I wake up scared that I left scars on a good person.
“And I gave you zero reason to believe it. So be it. But it didn’t mean nothing. Just ’cause I could leave it.
“I hope you landed safely on the ground. And I hope you’re so happy now.”
Tom definitely is, but I’m not so sure Joe will feel the same, now he is trending all over social media again.
FLORENCE PUGH looks like she’s ready to go to a disco in this fabulous silver gown on the cover of Vanity Fair.
The Dune actress wore the backless dress with a futuristic headpiece for the mag cover.
During the chat, Florence broke her silence on her romance with Peaky Blinders actor Finn Cole, who I revealed in September 2024 she was dating.
Florence said: “I don’t want to be a secret, but I also don’t want everything to be divulged.
“The important thing is that we’re happy, and I feel solid and safe and sturdy. And that’s worth its weight in gold in our lives.”
VIRAL Turkish girlband Manifest are taking over the UK after landing in London to meet their fans.
The band hosted a VIP boat party on the Thames with Bizarre hanging out with them as they took in the sights of the capital, complete with Union Jack umbrellas.
During the boat ride, the girls treated us to an exclusive first performance of their as-yet-to-be-named debut English single.
They were also filming a Netflix documentary special, with Bizarre’s Jack set to make a cameo.
They will headline their first UK show next month, skipping smaller venues to headline at OVO Arena Wembley.
From what we have seen of Manifest so far, I’m sure it will be one to remember.
IF you like a tucking into the occasional tube of Smarties, this picture of Dua Lipa will hit the sweet spot.
The singer posed in a top that looked like it was made up of hundreds of the sugar-covered chocs. tied together with string.
Dua has been hard at work on a new record, the follow-up to her No1 album Radical Optimism which came out two years ago.
Fans should expect an announcement some time next year.
DOLLY PARTON’s final vocal performance is being released as a duet with Bono on U2’s first album in nine years.
The Irish band have announced Carnaval de Luz will be out on November 12.
It includes Torn, which Dolly started before handing it over to U2 to work on, with the help of Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid.
Bono told Rolling Stone: “When she got ill, she got out of her bed to sing this song. And you can hear that. I can’t even listen to it now. She sang her heart out, and I cannot believe that’s an 80-year-old woman.”
Bono said it came about after Dolly, who died last month, turned down an Irish folk-themed side project he was working on.
Brian Eno, Ryan Tedder, Martin Garrix have also been involved in the album.
ELTON JOHN is opening the Apple Music Hall at Battersea Power Station in London on Monday.
Tickets go on sale at 9am the same day at applemusichall.com.
The opening series for the 600-capacity venue will also include Charli XCX, Chase & Status, Burna Boy, Arlo Parks and Troye Sivan.
Sets will later be available to watch on Apple Music.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS asked Noel Gallagher if he could join Oasis after the band split in 2009.
On stage in Bogota, Colombia, where he is on tour, Robbie said: “I am a massive Oasis fan, so two years after they broke up I thought, ‘I’ll phone Noel Gallagher’.
“I phoned Noel and said, ‘Noel, you need a new lead singer. Let it be me’. He laughed and put the phone down. That was the last time I spoke to Noel and it makes me sad.”
Given the beef between Robbie, Noel and Liam over the years, I think it was probably a wise move.
Rob, above with Liam at Glasto in 1995, will be hoping he can get tickets for next year’s reunion tour.
I’ve still not had my code for ticket sales this weekend and the wait is killing me.
KATHERINE Ryan has issued a public apology to Victoria Beckham after the BBC upheld complaints over a rude slur that was taken off of iPlayer.
The comedian, 43, made the offensive joke about Posh Spice while hosting an episode of Have I Got News For You last year.
Speaking in an episode that aired on November 7, Katherine made reference to a 2013 private email sent by David Beckham, where he allegedly used the word ‘c****’.
She said on the show: “I don’t know that we are allowed to broadcast the c-word, but you did reference Victoria Beckham earlier and we’ll allow that.”
The BBC‘s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) have issued it’s ruling on the matter and have revealed there was no justification for Victoria being labelled with the offensive word.
Now Katherine has taken to Instagram in a new reel to apologise for the comment.
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She began: “Hi I’m comedian Katherine Ryan and today the BBC announced their decision to uphold a complaint made by two very influential viewers about a joke that I tried to make on an episode of Have I Got News For You eleven months ago.
“At that time, though there is no defence, I was suffering from a condition called matrescence.
“I was in that building with a 10-day old baby. Should I have left the house?
“This is gonna be a tough one for the feminists because I was a woman going to work but I did call another woman a c***.
“Sometimes I forget that celebrities are not my friends. If I had called Jimmy Carr a c***, he wouldn’t have minded.
“Joanne McNally, c***, she wouldn’t have minded but this was described by the BBC as a slur.
“As though c**** are part of a protected group,” Katherine said in her trademark sarcastic way.
“The trouble is now that section’s been taken off iPlayer so the incident only exists in printed media, online media and then you lost the context because on the day, if you watched it, it was clearly a joke and the whole audience went ‘huhhhh’ and I said ‘whoaaaa’.”
She then plugged her new book before adding: “I love Victoria Beckham so much that I actually included her in one of my celebrity firstborn daughter chapters.
“I’d like to read you that now whilst remaining very sorry.”
Katherine went on to read the specific chapter about Victoria as she praised her for her work over the years.
She continued: “Yes, I sort of jokingly called her a c*** in the BBC and she messaged me afterwards.
“I apologised unreservedly because though she is a c***, Victoria Beckham couldn’t be further from a c***.”
Katherine shared a screengrab of the apology she sent to Victoria via an Instagram DM.
The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit said today: “There was no such justification for a comment which presented Victoria Beckham as equivalent to a particularly offensive word.”
They stated that the word was justified in relation to David’s alleged use of it, but not in reference to his wife.
It added: “The relevant BBC editorial guidelines do not require programmes to avoid giving offence but do require that any offence should be editorially justified.”
According to the ruling, two viewers had complained about the remark, which was “gratuitously offensive”.
Now an edited version of the episode has replaced the original on the BBC’s streaming service.
ED Sheeran has broken down in tears onstage as he bowed to pressure and apologised over a Palestine row.
The singer broke his silence onstage last night after Macklemore was pulled from his tour and his own band quit in protest.
Protesters mounted a demo outside his Philadelphia gig at the Lincoln Financial Field.
Sheeran said he had questioned whether he “wanted to be an artist at all” after the huge row.
The singer-songwriter said onstage last night: “I’ve had to take, and make, difficult decisions, and I am making mistakes and I’m so, so sorry for them.
“I don’t want to disappoint fans, and I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician, but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet.”
He said he had tried not to be a “political commentator” because he wanted his music to be about “unity”.
But after days of increased pressure threatening the future of his US tour Loop, the singer admitted onstage: “I cannot hide how I feel about it anymore.”
“What happened in Israel and at the Nova music festival on October 7 was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
“What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
“My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, children’s lives.
“And the systemic injustice we are seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.”
The controversy started when US rapper Macklemore was banned by Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft from performing at the venue at a gig planned for later this month.
Kraft said he would not “provide a platform for hate speech” after the rapper spoke out about Palestine onstage.
BY Jeremy Clarkson
IT’S always difficult to predict who’s going to get cancelled next.
No one saw JK Rowling coming, that’s for sure.
A penniless author writes a series of books that children adore and then, one day, she casually mentions that men shouldn’t be allowed to use women’s lavatories.
And that was that.
We were all instructed by a braying mob to burn her books — and even the actors and actresses she’d propelled to fame in the Harry Potter films were quick to denounce her.
She was done. Finished. Cancelled.
So who would be next? Moira Stuart? Judi Dench? Nicholas Lyndhurst?
Nope. It turned out to be Ed Sheeran.
He literally said nothing at all and, for that, his fans are trying to offload tickets for his forthcoming tour, his support acts have all walked and, from what I hear, even his band is refusing to play with him.
They want him to sound off on Palestine, and because he’s not really that sort of person, the keyboard warriors have sent him to Coventry.
It’s bullying. There’s no other word for it.
But when Macklemore was pulled from the tour, several other support acts quit in solidarity – including Sheeran’s own band.
Other acts who dropped out included Grammy award-winning musician Finneas, Irish singer Aaron Rowe and Danish singer Lukas Graham.
Thousands then cancelled tickets and the musician was unsure if he’d be able to carry on with performances at all.
Emotional Sheeran last night thanked fans for still coming out to his gig, saying: “This concert is still a place where everyone is welcome and everyone here can stand beside people that have opposing views, and everyone can stand beside people that they don’t agree with on everything, but they can all agree on singing these songs.”
He ended the gig by saying: “The world is a scary place right now. America is a scary place right now. This gives hope.”
After losing his warm-up acts, Sheeran’s concert start time was pushed back from 5.30pm local time to 8pm.
The tour began in Auckland, New Zealand, in January and is set to finish in Mexico City in December after 16 more dates across America.
