Susan Boyle is to sing for the Pope. The ‘Wild Horses’ singer is expected to perform for Pope Benedict XVI – who is making his first visit to Britain in September – as part of a public mass in Glasgow, Scotland.
Art critic Beyonce Knowles
Jay-Z’s wife Beyonce Knowles controls his art tastes. In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the hip-hop superstar reveals he wanted to purchase a black and white photo taken by renowned American artist-and-photographer Laurie Simmons of a “a noirishly lit pistol with a pair of women’s legs emerging from the handle”.
Scissor Sisters reveal festival essentials
The Scissor Sisters’ festival rider always has to include towels and lighters. The band – who will play at the Glastonbury Festival this summer – insist the two items are essential for outdoor performances because of the unpredictable weather and more casual attitude to smoking.
Shania Twain’s divorce finalised
Shania Twain’s divorce has been finalised.
Gary Coleman had secret will
Gary Coleman made another secret will, it has been claimed.
The late actor – who died after suffering a brain haemorrhage on May 28 – reportedly had a lawyer draw up a document which is “substantially different” from that detailed by papers from 1999 that were filed yesterday (08.06.10).
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Bad Romance’ hopes
Kylie Minogue hopes her new album is as good as Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’. The pint-sized Australian singer has revealed that she would be pleased if any tracks on her new record, ‘Aphrodite’ are in the same league as Lady Gaga’s huge hit, which went to number one in both the UK and the US.
Bondi Rescue star Kobi Graham to profit from injury
Kobi Graham is believed to have approached magazines to sell the story of his recent surfing accident.
Rochester dumps agent in US career bid
Ajay Rochester has dumped her manager in a bid to improve her chances of a successful US career. The former Biggest Loser presenter, who left Australia for America last year after being accused of benefit fraud, revealed that she is “going [her] own way” without the representation of Max Markson.
Brooke Elliott takes Drop Dead Diva seriously
Brooke Elliott has admitted that she tries to ensure that her show Drop Dead Diva will not offend viewers. The series follows a blonde model, Deb, who dies and is reincarnated in the body of an overweight lawyer called Jane.
In Full: BAFTA TV Awards 2010 – Winners
The full list of winners at the Phillips British Academy Television Awards 2010, held yesterday at the London Palladium, is as follows:
Leading Actor
Kenneth Branagh – Wallander (BBC One) – WINNER!
Brendan Gleeson – Into The Storm (BBC Two)
John Hurt – An Englishman in New York (ITV1)
David Oyelowo – Small Island (BBC One)
Leading Actress
Helena Bonham Carter – Enid (BBC Four)
Sophie Okonedo – Mrs Mandela (BBC Four)
Julie Walters – A Short Stay in Switzerland (BBC One)
Julie Walters – Mo (Channel 4) – WINNER!
Supporting Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch – Small Island (BBC One)
Tom Hollander – Gracie! (BBC Four)
Gary Lewis – Mo (Channel 4)
Matthew Macfadyen – Criminal Justice (BBC One) – WINNER!
Supporting Actress
Rebecca Hall – Red Riding 1974 (Channel 4) – WINNER!
Sophie Okonedo – Criminal Justice (BBC One)
Lauren Socha – The Unloved (Channel 4)
Imelda Staunton – Cranford (BBC One)
Entertainment Performance
Stephen Fry – QI (BBC One)
Harry Hill – Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV1)
Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly – I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV1) – WINNER!
Michael McIntyre – Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow – BBC One
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme
Jo Brand – Getting On (BBC Four)
Rebecca Front – The Thick of It (BBC Two) – WINNER!
Miranda Hart – Miranda (BBC Two)
Joanna Scanlan – Getting On (BBC Four)
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
Simon Bird – The Inbetweeners (E4)
Peter Capaldi – The Thick of It (BBC Two) – WINNER!
Hugh Dennis – Outnumbered Christmas Special (BBC One)
David Mitchell – Peep Show (Channel 4)
Single Drama
A Short Stay in Switzerland – Liz Trubridge, Simon Curtis, Frank McGuinness, Ruth Caleb (BBC One/BBC Productions)
Five Minutes of Heaven – Guy Hibbert, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Eoin O’Callaghan, Stephen Wright (BBC Two/A Big Fish Films and Ruby Films Production)
Mo – Jeff Pope, Neil McKay, Lisa Gilchrist, Philip Martin (Channel 4/ITV Studios)
The Unloved – Samantha Morton, Tony Grisoni, Kate Ogborn, Andrew Eaton (Channel 4/Revolution Films) – WINNER!
Drama Series
Being Human – Rob Pursey, Toby Whithouse, Matthew Bouch, Colin Teague (BBC Three/Touchpaper Television)
Misfits – Production Team (E4/Clerkenwell Films) – WINNER!
Spooks – Production Team (BBC One/Kudos Film & TV)
The Street – Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer, David Blair (BBC One/ITV Studios)
Drama Serial
Occupation – Peter Bowker, Derek Wax, Nick Murphy, Laurie Borg (BBC One/Kudos Film & TV) – WINNER!
Red Riding – Production Team (Channel 4/Revolution Films)
Small Island – Paula Milne, Alison Owen, Vicky Licorish, John Alexander (BBC One/Ruby Films and Television in association with AL Films)
Unforgiven – Sally Wainwright, Nicola Schindler, Karen Lewis, David Evans (ITV1/Red Production Company)
Continuing Drama
The Bill – Production Team (ITV1/Talkback Thames)
Casualty – Production Team (BBC One/BBC Productions)
Coronation Street – Production Team (ITV1/ITV Studios)
EastEnders – Production Team (BBC One/BBC Productions) – WINNER!
International
Family Guy – Seth Macfarlane (BBC Three/Twentieth Century Fox)
Mad Men – Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher (BBC Four/Lionsgate) – WINNER!
Nurse Jackie – Evan Dunsky, Liz Brixius, Linda Wallem, Richie Jackson (BBC Two/Lionsgate, Showtime Networks, Inc., CBS Studios)
True Blood – Alan Ball, Brian Buckner (FX/HBO)
Factual Series
Blood, Sweat and Takeaways – Mark Rubens, Tim Quicke, James Christie-Miller, Jo Bishop (BBC Three/Ricochet)
The Family – David Clews, Beeja-Maya Patel, Jonathan Smith, Sanjay Singhal (Channel 4/Dragonfly Productions)
One Born Every Minute – Production Team (Channel 4/Dragonfly Productions) – WINNER!
Who Do You Think You Are? – Elizabeth Dobson, Colette Flight, Lucy Carter, Alex Graham (BBC One/Wall To Wall)
Specialist Factual
Art of Russia – Andrew Graham-Dixon, John Hay, Silvia Sacco, Karen McGann (BBC Four/BBC Productions)
Chemistry: A Volatile History – Jim Al-Khalili, Helen Thomas, Sacha Baveystock, Kim Shillinglaw (BBC Four/BBC Productions)
Inside Nature’s Giants – David Dugan, Julian Thomas, Alex Tate, Yvonne Bainton (Channel 4/Windfall Films) – WINNER!
Yellowstone – Production Team (BBC Two/BBC Productions)
Single Documentary
Katie: My Beautiful Face – Jessie Versluys, Dan Goldsack, Kate Collier, Samuel Santana (Channel 4/Mentorn)
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles – Louis Theroux, Emma Cooper, Guy King, Nick Mirsky (BBC Two/BBC Productions)
Tsunami: Caught on Camera – Tom Brisley, Janice Sutherland, Sarah Swingler, Alex Kiehl (Channel 4/Darlow Smithson Productions)
Wounded – Sara Hardy, Jane Aldous, Gwyn Jones, Roger Courtiour (BBC One/BBC Productions) – WINNER!
Features
The Choir: Unsung Town – Production Team (BBC Two/Twenty Twenty Television)
Heston’s Feasts – Production Team (Channel 4/Optomen Television)
James May’s Toy Stories – Will Daws, Stuart Cabb, James May, Ian Holt (BBC Two/Plum Pictures)
Masterchef: The Professionals – Karen Ross, Carla-Maria Lawson, Antonia Lloyd, David Ambler (BBC Two/Shine Television) – WINNER!
Current Affairs
Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines (Dispatches) – Najibullah Quraishi, Jamie Doran, John Moffat, Paul Woolwich (Channel 4/Clover Films)
Generation Jihad – Peter Taylor, Leo Telling, Sam Bagnall (BBC Two/BBC Current Affairs)
Gypsy Child Thieves (This World) – Liviu Tipurita, Sam Bagnall, Lucy Hetherington (BBC Two/BBC Current Affairs)
Terror in Mumbai (Dispatches) – Dan Reed, Eamonn Matthews (Channel 4/Quicksilver Media) – WINNER!
News Coverage
BBC News Channel – The Haiti Earthquake – Kevin Bakhurst, Ben Brown, Matthew Price, Matt Frei (BBC News Channel/BBC News)
Channel 4 News – Haiti Earthquake – Production Team (Channel 4/ITN)
ITV News at Ten – Haiti – Mark Austin, Bill Neely, David Harman, John Irvine (ITV1/ITN) – WINNER!
Sky News – Pakistan: Terror’s Frontline – Production Team (Sky News/Sky News)
Sport
F1 – The Brazilian Grand Prix – Production Team (BBC One/BBC Sport)
FA Cup Final – Simon Moore, Paul McNamara, John Watts (ITV1/ITV Sport)
World Athletics Championships – Production Team (BBC Two/BBC Sport) – WINNER!
UEFA Champions League Live – Tony Pastor, John Watts, Paul McNamara (ITV1/ITV Sport)
New Media
Antony Gormley’s One & Other – Sari Blom, Laura Green, Steve Boland, Antony Gormley (Sky Arts/Headshift)
Life Begins (One Born Every Minute) – Production Team (channel4.com/Airlock/Dragonfly)
Primeval Evolved – Production Team (ITV1/ITV.com/Hoodlum/Impossible Pictures)
The Virtual Revolution – Dan Gluckman, Julian Philips, Dominic Crossley-Holland, Dan Biddle (BBC Two/BBC Productions) – WINNER
Entertainment Programme
Britain’s Got Talent – Production Team (ITV1/Talkback Thames) – WINNER!
The Graham Norton Show – Graham Norton, Jon Magnusson, Graham Stuart, Steve Smith (BBC One/So Television)
Harry Hill’s TV Burp – Harry Hill, Spencer Millman, Peter Orton (ITV1/Avalon Television)
Newswipe with Charlie Brooker – Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Nick Vaughan-Smith, Al Campbell (BBC Four/Zeppotron)
Comedy Programme
The Armstrong and Miller Show – Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller, Caroline Norris, Dominic Brigstocke (BBC One/Toff Media) – WINNER!
The Kevin Bishop Show – Lee Hupfield, Kevin Bishop, Dominic Brigstocke, Sam Martin (Channel 4/Objective Productions)
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle – Stewart Lee, Tim Kirkby, Richard Webb (BBC Two/BBC Productions)
That Mitchell and Webb Look – David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Ben Gosling Fuller, Gareth Edwards (BBC Two/BBC Productions)
Situation Co
medy
The Inbetweeners – Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, Ben Palmer, Christopher Young (E4/Bwark Productions)
Miranda – Jo Sargent, Nerys Evans, Juliet May, Miranda Hart (BBC Two/BBC Productions)
Peep Show – Sam Pain, Jesse Armstrong, Phil Clarke, Becky Martin (Channel 4/Objective Productions)
The Thick of It – Armando Iannucci, Adam Tandy (BBC Two/BBC Productions) – WINNER!
YouTube Audience Award
Britain’s Got Talent – ITV1/Talkback Thames
Glee – E4/Twentieth Century Fox
The Inbetweeners – E4/Bwark Productions – WINNER!
The One Show – BBC One/BBC Productions
Unforgiven – ITV1/Red Production Company
The X Factor – ITV1/Talkback Thames/Syco
Special Award
Simon Cowell
Academy Fellowship
Melvyn Bragg
Kanye West’s car involved in major accident
Kanye West has been super MIA lately, but his car made a very public appearance this past weekend. Kanye reportedly gave his cousin permission to borrow his Porsche Panamera on Saturday night. Just a few hours after he picked up the car he drove it straight into someone’s home at 4AM in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mariah Carey shows off fuller figure
Mariah Carey reportedly revealed a fuller figure while performing this weekend.
Ruby Rose: Kristen Stewart is a lesbian
Ruby Rose has revealed that she believes that Twilight actress Kristen Stewart is a lesbian.
Sandra Bullock Jokes About Personal Life
Sandra Bullock made a surprise appearance at the Spike TV Awards last night. Sandra hasn’t really been to any work functions since her husband’s cheating scandal was made public.
Jennifer Love Hewitt plans Broadway debut
Jennifer Love Hewitt has revealed plans to star in a Broadway play.
Alex Curran: I’ll go to the World Cup
Alex Curran has revealed that she will go to South Africa if husband Steven Gerrard reaches the semi-finals of the World Cup.