TV tonight: a documentary about penis enhancement surgery
But is he offering solutions to male insecurity or simply leeching off it? P H Stacey & Joe: In Too Deep 8pm, BBC One "Despite what the press say," confirms Stacey Solomon, "we're still together." This latest run of the…
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‘It was hard coming after the shallow, egocentric YBAs’: brilliantly bolshie artist Ryan Gander lambasts practically everyone
"People are going to hate me when you write this up." The 50-year-old conceptual artist has just finished telling me why, not only does he dislike drawing or painting, he finds the very act "futile and dumb". He…
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Bill's Included review: Rob Brydon's sitcom isn't groundbreaking - but it is sweet and funny
In case it hasn’t clicked immediately, Rob Brydon stars as Bill, a recently dumped 60-something who comes up with a novel way to beat loneliness and cover his costs – rent out his spare rooms to four incoming university…
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U2 reunite with Brian Eno to launch ‘Carnaval De Luz’ at intimate London gig at The Modern for the BBC
Check out photos, the setlist and what went down below. The one-off show was held and recorded at an intimate gig in the underbelly of the Tate Modern Museum inside The South Tank last Tuesday (November 3). The select…
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8 Coronation Street spoilers for next week: Jodie Ramsey’s fate in peril as Bethany Platt fears secret in danger
The action kicks off when unruly Jake Windass (Bobby Bradshaw) overhears his classmate Lily Platt (Grace Ashcroft-Gardner) moaning about her vulnerable step-grandfather Doug Ramsey (Steve Evets), and before long, he…
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7 EastEnders spoilers for next week: Suki Panesar-Unwin risks losing everything and Max Branning proposes to Linda Carter
Despite a chaotic few weeks for the Carter family; including the return of conniving Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks), Nancy’s (Maddy Hill) pregnancy and Lee’s (Danny Hatchard) struggle with alcoholism, Max gets down on…
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5 Emmerdale spoilers for next week: Thea Ramsden tracks down Steve Marchant and Dingle feud deepens
God forbid somebody crosses her, as ex-hubby Steve Marchant learnt that the hard way back in 1999 when she framed him for attempted murder and robbery. It’s been 27 years since he last stepped foot in the eponymous…
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M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize
She called it "a historic win, for a writer whose decades of work are lightly worn on every page". Harrison, who has been publishing for six decades, overtakes Margaret Atwood, who was 79 when she shared the prize in…
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Mums v Big Pharma review – the ‘bored, hysterical housewives’ who exposed a horrifying scandal
Documents destroyed, witnesses untraceable, endless obfuscations and legal intricacies invoked. If the people doing the uncovering are ordinary folk, unarmed with fancy lawyers or untrained in the ways of big business or…
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Paul McCartney becomes a billionaire and world’s third richest musician
Forbes has valued the former Beatle's net worth at $1.4bn (£1.04bn), making him the world's third richest musician behind Jay-Z at $2.8bn (£2.01bn) and Taylor Swift at $2bn (£1.49bn). The magazine attributed McCartney's…
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