Category: Entertainment

Jeremy Clarkson made light of his suspension by the BBC, as an online petition for him to be reinstated topped 500,000 signatures.

An online petition calling for the BBC to “reinstate” Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been signed by more than 300,000 people.

Scottish virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and US country singer Emmylou Harris have been named 2015 Laureates of the Polar Music Prize.

Albert Maysles, whose 1970 film Gimme Shelter followed the Rolling Stones on their US tour, has died aged 88.

A man who normally performs as a Mick Jagger tribute act will compete for the UK in May’s Eurovision Song Contest.

The doctor who pulled Harrison Ford from the wreck of a plane crash has described how he feared a fireball from the aircraft’s leaking fuel.

US actor Harrison Ford has been injured in a small plane crash in Los Angeles. The 72-year-old star of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films reported engine failure and crash-landed his vintage plane on a Venice golf course. He…

James Bond star Daniel Craig will appear in a “special one-off sketch” for Comic Relief, to be broadcast as part of Red Nose Day on 13 March.

Will Smith’s crime caper Focus has debuted at number one on the North American box office chart, knocking Fifty Shades of Grey off the top spot.

One of Turkey’s best-known writers, Yasar Kemal, 92, has died in an Istanbul hospital following respiratory and organ failure.

US actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr Spock in the cult sci-fi series Star Trek, has died at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family has said.

A Los Angeles judge has told Lindsay Lohan to do 125 more hours of community service after decreeing that activities she performed while appearing in a West End play last year did not count.

Pop star Madonna has fallen off the stage during her performance at the 2015 Brit Awards.

The US TV broadcast of this year’s Oscars ceremony on Sunday scored the event’s lowest ratings in six years, averaging 36.6 million.

Rolf Harris has been stripped of his Australian honours after his conviction last year for child sex offences.

British actor Eddie Redmayne has won the best actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, while Julianne Moore picked up best actress for Still Alice.

The campaigning is over. The red carpet is rolled out. And Hollywood is braced for its starriest night of the year.

Kristen Stewart has become the first US actress to win a Cesar award, the French equivalent of the Oscars.

EastEnders’ latest murder mystery storyline has reached its climax, with viewers of the BBC One soap finally learning who killed Lucy Beale.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith on the orange carpet at the royal premiere of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Tuesday.

Erotic film adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey sizzled at North American box offices this weekend, taking an estimated $81.7m(£53m).

The French actor Louis Jourdan, best known for his role in the multi-Oscar winning 1958 musical Gigi, has died in California aged 93.