Fern Britton says she left This Morning over her gastric band

Fern Britton has revealed the initial secrecy surrounding her weight loss via a gastric band was largely behind her shock departure from This Morning back in 2006. The 62-year-old TV personality became a full-time presenter on the ITV staple in 1999, before departing in the summer of 2009 amid persistent rumours of a feud with … Read more

From Ethiopian girl band to Kenyans listening to toads… how staff at Dfid spent YOUR millions

Boris Johnson’s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development (Dfid) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue.  Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain’s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP, scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed UK taxpayers’ money being shovelled into dubious … Read more

The Sweet founder Steve Priest dies aged 72, band confirm  

The Sweet founder Steve Priest dies aged 72, band confirm   By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 20:52 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 20:52 BST, 4 June 2020 The Sweet founder Steve Priest has died aged 72.  The band announced the musician had passed away on Thursday morning, in a statement issued on their Facebook … Read more

Take That fans go wild as Robbie Williams REUNITES with band for virtual gig

Robbie Williams delighted fans as he reunited with Take That for a virtual performance from their homes on Friday night.  Fans went wild as the Rock DJ hitmaker joined forces with his former bandmates Gary Barlow, 49, Mark Owen, 48, and Howard Donald, 52, for the charity gig, hosted by Compare The Meerkat on YouTube.  … Read more

Powderfinger reunion: Bernard Fanning hints at tension in the band

Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning hints at tension in the band by saying they can’t be in the same room as each other… after reuniting for a YouTube concert By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:30 BST, 22 May 2020 | Updated: 03:36 BST, 22 May 2020 Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning has hinted there is some … Read more

Former Bardot singer Chantelle Barry reveals what happened when she left the band

‘I’d betrayed the trust of the group’: Former Bardot singer Chantelle Barry confesses to stealing money from Sophie Monk – and reveals what happened when she left the band By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:20 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 00:20 BST, 19 May 2020 She was booted from Bardot mysteriously in 2001 … Read more

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle reveals the band could REUNITE for their 20th anniversary in 2022

Girls Aloud could be set to reunite for their 20th anniversary in 2022, according to Nadine Coyle. The Irish singer, 34, has hinted that the girl band, who split in 2013, could be set to come together once more to mark two decades since they burst onto the music scene. And it’s said the five … Read more

That Thing You Do band will reunite for a livestream party as a fundraiser for MusiCares

After 24 years, the fictional one-hit wonder group The Oneders are reuniting, along with Liv Tyler, for a special live-stream viewing party of the 1996 hit That Thing You Do. Tom Everett Scott, who played Guy Patterson in the movie, announced the event on Twitter Monday, along with his co-stars Ethan Embry, Jonathon Schaech and … Read more

Engineers in America create vibrating band to stop you touching your face

A bracelet that vibrates each time you touch your face could help stem the spread of the coronavirus. Designed by engineers in Seattle in the U.S., the £40 wristband buzzes gently when you go to scratch your nose, rub your eyes or wipe your lips. It is hoped this will not only stop you in … Read more

Aussies band together to help doctors and nurses through coronavirus crisis

‘Dear superheroes in scrubs’: Kids leave adorable note and sacrifice their pocket money to buy gift bags doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus Kaleisha Pilkington said her children wanted to help Australian doctors, nurses They put together gift bags for the ‘superheroes in scrubs’ and penned a poem  Other Australians have banded together to help … Read more