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Richard E Grant’s shock confession sends Celeb Traitors reeling – live

Between Ross Kemp’s rampant paranoia and Richard E Grant’s game play blunder, Celebrity Traitors is off to an action-packed start

<p>Glastonbury fans are facing the usual scramble for tickets</p>

Glastonbury 2027 live: Coach tickets sell out in 30 minutes

The biggest headline rumours for Glastonbury 2027

The Independent and ICA London announce free-thinking film festival

Florence Pugh is magnificent in Netflix’s poetic East of Eden

The actor who willingly tanked his own Bond audition

<p>Gillian Anderson (Martha) in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’</p>

Gillian Anderson’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is must-see theatre

Anne Hathaway in 'Verity'

Interview

Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett on the sexy, spooky and completely ridiculous Verity

Editor’s picks

Anne Hathaway en 'Verity'

Anne Hathaway can’t save this second-rate copy of The Housemaid

Tom Cruise isn’t the revelation he set out to be in Digger

<p>Jesse Tyler Ferguson: ‘I think if Modern Family was shot today, it would be a different show’</p>

Jesse Tyler Ferguson: ‘I thought the Modern Family rift was a secret’

<p>‘Seascape, L'Estaque’ by Georges Braque, 1906</p>

This French Riviera exhibition is a near-miracle of light and colour

Television & Radio

<p>Ross Kemp in ‘Celebrity Traitors’</p>

Celebrity Traitors is so good it’ll restore your faith in the universe

<p>Richard Armitage in ‘Winter’</p>

ITV thriller Winter aims for mediocrity, and doesn’t even manage that

Strictly 2026 review: Josh Widdicombe is a problem that needs solving

<p>Claudia Winkleman on 'The Traitors'</p>

The three stars we want picked as Celebrity Traitors in the new series

<p>It's a hun-derful life: Olivia Attwood, Coleen Rooney, Gemma Collins, Alison Hammond and Alan Carr (left to right) have swapped memeification for the big time</p>

Huns on top: How Coleen and co. went from a joke to cultural icons

<p>Captain ‘ASAP’: Michael Gove as a fictional prime minister in ‘The Wargame’</p>

The Wargame shows how lucky we are that Michael Gove was never PM

Film

<p>Daisy Edgar-Jones in ‘Sense and Sensibility’</p>

The new Sense and Sensibility isn’t meant for Jane Austen purists

<p>Austin Abrams in Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’</p>

Resident Evil review: People who are terrible at games will love it

<p>Andrew Scott in ‘Pressure’</p>

Andrew Scott shines in the nerdy yet ordinary wartime drama Pressure

<p>Sylvester Stallone's new memoir 'The Steps' recounts his early life up until the success of 'Rocky'</p>

The 5 biggest revelations from Sylvester Stallone’s memoir

<p>Bulletproof: Brad Pitt at an event for ‘Heart of the Beast’ this month</p>

No scandal can bring down Brad Pitt

<p>Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘Some people are very good at accepting restrictions. It’s just not really for me’</p>

The director of Drive died for 25 minutes. Now he’s making films again

Music

<p>Taylor Swift speaks to a woman dating her ex-boyfriend on ‘Patient Zero’</p>

Taylor’s new songs contain some of her worst writing. What went wrong?

<p>Blondshell expands her songwriting into something more abstract and poetic on new album 'Violins'</p>

Blondshell is bloody and unsparing on her third album Violins

<p>Hilary Duff performs at the O2 Arena in London</p>

Hilary Duff at the O2 Arena is actually what dreams are made of

<p>Ready for her close-up: Singer-songwriter Joy Crookes is preparing to announce her third album</p>

Joy Crookes is finally poised to get her moment

<p>More than a decade on from ‘Thrift Shop,’ the guy who was singing about rocking a granddad’s second-hand clothes in 2012 has become an unlikely face of the music industry’s Palestine movement</p>

How Macklemore became an unlikely face of the Free Palestine movement

<p>Liam Gallagher of Oasis performing at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California in September 2025</p>

Oasis have finally cracked America – 32 years after their first US gig

Books

<p>‘I will always choose earnestness over coolness’</p>

John Green on writing America’s most banned book

<p>The shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize </p>

This Booker Prize shortlist is a long way from Rushdie and Golding

<p>Dr Erin Kinney specialises in balancing hormone and improving energy</p>

Here’s why everything you think you know about cortisol is wrong

<p>A copy of the book "C'etait ca ou mourir", a novel by author Thelyson Orelien</p>

The bestselling novel pulled from literary prize after AI allegations

<p>Peter May has died in the south of France</p>

Scottish crime author Peter May dies in south of France

<p>Ian McEwan</p>

Ian McEwan to release first major nonfiction collection Between Books

<p>Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, Luke Kennard, M John Harrison, Marlon James and Rebecca Perry are the shortlisted authors for this year’s Booker Prize</p>

This Booker Prize shortlist could produce award’s oldest ever winner

Theatre & Dance

<p>Natalia Osipova and Rory Kinnear in ‘The Standard of Living’</p>

This play about economist John Maynard Keynes is as dull as expected

Josh O'Connor in 'Golden Boy'

Josh O’Connor shines in the lacerating anti-capitalist play Golden Boy

<p>Tilda Swinton reunites with her original director and designer in ‘Man to Man’</p>

In Man to Man, Tilda Swinton is a woman at war with gender norms

Maria Friedman: 'In this country, musical theatre is the poor cousin of the "great play"'

Maria Friedman on playing a 16-year-old at 66

<p>Indhu Rubasingham, artistic director of National Theatre, announces her second season in charge of the Southbank venue</p>

National Theatre boss Indhu Rubasingham: why we don’t need an NT North

Allison Janney, Tom Hiddleston and Rosamund Pike are just a handful of the stars coming to Broadway stages this fall

The must-see Broadway and off-Broadway shows coming this fall

<p>Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales appearing in the fifth season of The Crown (Netflix/PA)</p>

Elizabeth Debicki to become first woman to play Richard II in RSC show

<p>MLB All-Star Jose Iglesias stars in ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ on Broadway</p>

How Mets star Jose Iglesias went from shortstop to Broadway actor

<p>Julianne Hough is returning to Broadway in 2027 in one of the most iconic dance roles in Broadway history</p>

Julianne Hough shares the two DWTS skills she’s bringing to Broadway

Rachel Zegler announces intimate new London concert residency

Art

<p>Kira Freije, ‘Unspeak the Chorus’</p>

Otherworldly Turner Prize show is one of the best in recent memory

<p>A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which is on display at the British Museum</p>

The Bayeux Tapestry in Britain is an epic, once-in-history experience

Henry Hering, 'Portrait of Richard Dadd', c. 1857. Photographic print, 20 x 15.5 cm

The Victorian artist behind some of Britain’s most haunting paintings

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Van Gogh painting among collection set to fetch £338m at auction

<p>Sotheby's employees pose with British artist Turner's artwork "Rome, from Mount Aventine"</p>

Turner’s Rome masterpiece unveiled in Italy before London auction

<p>Peter Max</p>

Peter Max, who epitomised ‘flower power’ art movement, dies at 88

Tracey Emin pays emotional tribute as she shares brother’s death

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Elon Musk’s Starlink: A timeline of its role in Ukraine

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