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Lily Tomlin, Morgan Fairchild and Ben Stiller have led tributes to “one-of-a-kind” actor Dabney Coleman following his death aged 92.Coleman made his career playing comedic villains, mean-spirited bosses and villains in films including 9 to 5 and Tootsie, as well as playing Commodore Louis Kaestner in Boardwalk Empire. Lily Tomlin, who starred alongside him in 9 To 5 with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, said: “We just loved him.”In her post to X, the actress shared a photo of her character Violet Newstead dressed in a Snow White costume beside a tense-looking Coleman as her egotistical boss Franklin Hart Jr.…

Bosses at Revolut, Britain’s biggest fintech, are drawing up plans to allow employees to cash in with a sale of stock valued at hundreds of millions of pounds.Sky News has learnt that the banking and payments services provider is lining up investment bankers to coordinate a secondary share sale worth in the region of $500m (£394m). Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street bank, is expected to be engaged to work on the proposed stock offering, which will take place later this year.Money blog: How to sell your home without an estate agentCity sources said this weekend that Nik Storonsky, Revolut’s co-founder…

The Northern Lights could light up our skies again as early as next month.Skies over the UK turned pink and green last weekend as the Northern Lights produced incredible displays for skygazers. The spectacle came after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US issued its first severe solar storm warning since 2005 as a series of solar flares combined to form a huge burst of solar plasma.”We had a quite enormous sunspot, about 15 times the size of the Earth, on the Earth-facing side of the sun,” said Krista Hammond, a space weather expert at the Met…

Blue Peter’s youngest ever presenter has claimed disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris sexually assaulted her when she was a teenage host of the children’s show.Yvette Fielding, who joined the long-running BBC programme aged 18, told the Sun newspaper how the paedophile predator squeezed and patted her bottom after finding herself alone with him in a TV studio. The now 55-year-old also recalled an uncomfortable experience with “grotesque” Jimmy Savile, who was later revealed to be one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.Fielding has questioned the role of the BBC in allowing their behaviour, arguing people in the industry “must have known”.…

Girls Aloud have taken to the stage for the first gig of their reunion tour with emotional tributes to their late bandmate Sarah Harding.A 30-minute delay to the show blamed on “Dublin motorway closures”, did nothing to dim the delight of fans when Nadine Coyle, Cheryl, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh appeared on stage, standing on individual podiums singing their 2008 song Untouchable. The comeback tour has been dedicated to Harding, who was diagnosed with cancer and died in September 2021 aged 39. Image: The group’s late bandmate took centre stage. Pic: Tom Dymond/Shutterstock During the show, the group performed…

As Olivia* was picking her wedding dress, she and her partner Leo were also discussing divorce.Despite being in love and ready to commit, having a prenup, they both agreed, was simply the sensible thing to do when starting married life. “You go into it with love and hope for the future,” Olivia says. “But also realism.”They are not alone. Once the preserve of Hollywood celebs and the super-rich, prenuptial agreements are on the rise among “normal” people too, with legal and marriage experts saying numbers have increased dramatically in recent years; around one in five weddings in the UK now…

It looks like 2024 might just be the year of Anya Taylor-Joy.The 28-year-old actress has already featured in one of the biggest film releases of the year – Dune: Part Two – and now she leads the cast in the next instalment in the Mad Max franchise. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga serves as the prequel to its 2015 counterpart Mad Max: Fury Road and tells the origin story of Furiosa, first depicted by Charlize Theron.Director George Miller contemplated using de-ageing technology in the prequel to allow Theron to continue on with the franchise but instead opted for a new…

Rishi Sunak has overtaken the King in the latest Sunday Times Rich List.The personal fortune of the prime minister and his wife Akshata Murty has soared by more than £120m over the past year – to a total of £651m, according to the newspaper’s calculations. In contrast, the King’s wealth grew from £600m to £610m over the same period.However, The Sunday Times claimed the UK’s mega rich are dwindling and that Britain’s “billionaire boom has come to an end”. Published on Friday, the list reveals the largest fall in billionaires in the guide’s history – from a peak of 177…

On Ian’s show, Mark Allan, the CEO of the UK’s biggest listed commercial property company Land Securities, talks about valuations are beginning to stabilise.Colin Godfrey, chief executive of Tritax Big Box REIT, discusses the company’s merger with UK commercial property REIT. And, there’s Ruth Mortimer, global president at Advertising Week Europe.:: Listen and subscribe to The Ian King Business Podcast here. Source link

The Post Office scandal inquiry has said it will “urgently” review dozens of new documents it has received from former chief executive Paula Vennells.The inquiry heard her legal team had conducted further searches ahead of her appearance next week and found 50 additional documents that had previously not been shared. A spokesperson for the inquiry told Sky News: “Lead counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC confirmed this morning that the document was received by the inquiry at 11:17pm last night.”The inquiry expects to receive further documents from Ms Vennells today, which it will review urgently.”Mr Beer has previously raised…