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BBC Proms 2026 reveals ‘American’ line-up with tributes to Paul Simon and Marvin Gaye

BBC Proms 2026 reveals ‘American’ line-up with tributes to Paul Simon and Marvin Gaye

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The line-up of this year’s BBC Proms will feature a season-long celebration of American music to mark 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. It will include the Proms debut of The Met Orchestra and the highly-anticipated return of the Los Angeles Philharmonic after nearly 25 years, while it will premiere new work from American composers Wynton Marsalis and Jessie Montgomery. The world’s biggest classical music festival will also see debut performances by the Spanish National Orchestra and the Mahler Academy Orchestra from Italy, along with the return of the Berlin, Munich and Oslo philharmonic orchestras. Audiences can also expect appearances from conductors and star soloists including Marin Alsop, Angel Blue and Joyce DiDonato, as well as internationally-renowned pianists Martha Argerich, Kirill Gerstein, Yunchan Lim and Yuja Wang. A performance at the BBC Proms (Mark Allan/BBC) (PA Media) Although …

Finding Gertrud Kauders | Simon During

Finding Gertrud Kauders | Simon During

Published by José Betancourt

In the last years of his life my father wrote a memoir. Born in 1916 in Munich to Bohemian parents—his father Jewish, his mother not—he had spent his boyhood at a Bavarian boarding school, until the Nazis made it impossible for him to stay on in Germany. At that point he fled to Czechoslovakia, then to England and finally to New Zealand, where I was born and raised. For reasons I don’t quite understand, I didn’t immediately look at the fifty or so typescript pages he produced for family consumption only. But, in 2019, after my partner and I had bought an apartment in Berlin and I’d applied for German citizenship, I fished out his reminiscences and read them, newly curious about the life into which he had been born. The memoirs were more engaging than I’d expected. Though he had been dead for fifteen years, my father’s bleak, anachronistic worldview—a mix of old haute European class consciousness, bitterness, and civic-mindedness—became vivid again. One section left an especially strong impression on me. He devoted several …

Simon Cowell’s ex-Sinitta makes rare comment on ‘unfaithful’ music mogul’s fiancée Lauren Silverman and son Eric

Simon Cowell’s ex-Sinitta makes rare comment on ‘unfaithful’ music mogul’s fiancée Lauren Silverman and son Eric

Published by Sam Flores

Simon Cowell’s former girlfriend and TV star Sinitta made a rare comment about the music mogul, whom she said she dated for  “off-and-on” for 40 years. Talking to her fellow campmates in the I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, jungle, the singer and actress said that the X-factor creator was unfaithful to her throughout their decades-long relationship and brought up his current fiancée, Lauren Silverman and their son Eric. In the conversation, which was with TOWIE star Gemma Collins, Sinitta said: “He wasn’t a faithful boyfriend. He wouldn’t mind me saying it because he knows, and I was very possessive, but he kind of likes that. ‘Women act crazy about Simon, especially in American Idol. I’ve been burned on the shoulder with a cigarette when we were dancing in the club because some woman, gorgeous, model sort of thing, was trying to get to him. I feel like Simon loves me and cares about me, but it’s just, I think I romanticise everything.” Simon and Sinitta had a 40-year ‘off and on’ relationship (ITV) Talking …

Farage Wrongly Says Simon Dudley Was Only Reform Housing Contact For Two Weeks

Farage Wrongly Says Simon Dudley Was Only Reform Housing Contact For Two Weeks

Published by Sam Flores

Nigel Farage has wrongly claimed that a senior Reform UK official sacked for offensive comments about the Grenfell tragedy was only in his post for two weeks. Simon Dudley was dumped by Farage as the party’s housing spokesman following a furious backlash to his remarks. A major overhaul of building regulations took place after 72 people were killed in Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017. But in an interview with trade publication Inside Housing, Dudley said the pendulum had “swung too far the wrong way”. He said the Grenfell fire was a “tragedy” but added: “Sadly, you know, everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right?” Farage announced his sacking during a press conference on Thursday. He said: “He’s no longer a spokesman for the party. That has been dealt with.” In a bad-tempered interview afterwards with Sky News, Farage said: “He was appointed two weeks ago, he’s made these comments, he’s no longer there.” But Reform actually announced Dudley had been handed the role on March 10. In a press …

Where else you might know Simon Baker from beyond the Nicole Kidman starrer Scarpetta

Where else you might know Simon Baker from beyond the Nicole Kidman starrer Scarpetta

Published by Daniella Wilson

Simon Baker is a face that many in Hollywood may recognize, one that’s getting another career upswing thanks to his role in Scarpetta. The Australian actor, 56, plays Benton Wesley, an FBI profiler with a dark childhood and the husband of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the series’ title role, played by Nicole Kidman. However, for those just discovering the suave Aussie star for the first time on the Prime Video crime-thriller, we guarantee you’ve seen him on your screen, at least once. From Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated performances in TV dramas, to roles in some of the most iconic comedy films of all time, here are our five favorite Simon Baker roles that we’re sure you’ve seen at least one of… © Alamy Stock Photo Matt Reynolds in L.A. Confidential Can you believe Simon’s first movie role was back in 1997 with the Oscar-winning L.A. Confidential? While the film is now primarily remembered for a searing supporting turn from Kim Basinger, who won an Academy Award for her work, it gave Simon his first Hollywood break. …

Simon Loos grows its electric semi truck fleet to over 200 units

Simon Loos grows its electric semi truck fleet to over 200 units

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Dutch logistics specialist Simon Loos announced a major order with Daimler Trucks’ Mercedes brand, purchasing 75 Mercedes‑Benz eActros 600 electric semi trucks and growing its BEV fleet to more than 200 units. With more than 1,200 trucks operating at over 60 locations throughout the Netherlands, Simon Loos is one of the country’s leading logistics service providers – and, with over 200 battery electric HD trucks set to be deployed in the coming months, the company is set to become one of the country’s leading electric vehicle operators, as well. “The acceptance of electric transport depends heavily on the practical experience gained by such pioneers (as Simon Loos),” Eric Brok, CEO of Daimler Truck Nederland BV. “Their decision to opt for the eActros 600 on this scale demonstrates just how well proven the vehicle already is in everyday use. The close cooperation between Simon Loos, its contractual partner GomesTrucks and Daimler Truck, combined with a shared determination to succeed, is a real asset.” The decision to purchase the eActros 600 today instead of waiting for some promised, …

Simon Farnaby talks movie spin-off and acting opposite Queen Elizabeth II

Simon Farnaby talks movie spin-off and acting opposite Queen Elizabeth II

Published by Daniella Wilson

Ghosts fans have been rejoicing ever since the news that everyone’s favourite supernatural and often sassy beings would be returning to Button House once more. Ghosts: The Possession of Button House will make its silver screen debut later this year, three years after the show’s creators confirmed it’d be coming to an end – a conclusion that was watched by 7.2 million viewers. While the shenanigans of Button House seemed well and truly over, co-writer Simon Farnaby recently opened up on the decision to return to the beloved characters. Speaking to Radio Times in an upcoming interview with Stephen Kelly, Farnanby said: “We knocked it on the head at its height. But I think we were just not finished with Ghosts. We thought about a stage show for a bit and then eventually had a great idea for a movie. It’s the right sort of different flavour to the TV show.” Details on the plot are currently under wraps, but it has been teased that it’s an exciting one, with the creators/writers behind Ghosts previously …

Where are Simon Baker’s The Mentalist co-stars now, 11 years after the show ended?

Where are Simon Baker’s The Mentalist co-stars now, 11 years after the show ended?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Primetime-nominated psychological thriller The Mentalist has found a new audience since its recent debut on Netflix. Starring The Devil Wears Prada‘s Simon Baker as a Sherlock-like sleuth who uses his observational skills, developed in his previous life as a “psychic” con-man, to hunt down Red John, the serial killer who attacked his family. But what have the stars been up to since Patrick Jane left a life of crime-hunting behind?  With two of The Mentalist stars reuniting in Prime Video’s thriller Scarpetta we’re checking in on the rest of the cast to see what they’ve been up to on-screen and off.  © Patrick McMullan via Getty Images,Variety via Getty Images Robin Tunney captured audience attention as Teresa Lisbon in The Mentalist Robin Tunney Robin Tunney might be most familiar as new-girl Sarah Bailey in cult-classic The Craft (1996) and Veronica Donovan in Prison Break. She starred in multiple episodes of Prison Break between 2005 to 2006 before meeting a unfortunate end. Two years later joined The Mentalist cast for a run of 151 episodes. Since then, Robin has starred …

Simon & Schuster Names Former Amazon Executive Greg Greeley as CEO, Succeeding Jonathan Karp

Simon & Schuster Names Former Amazon Executive Greg Greeley as CEO, Succeeding Jonathan Karp

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster has named a former Amazon.com executive, Greg Greeley, as its new CEO. The publisher announced Monday that Greeley’s appointment is effectively immediately. The 62-year-old Greeley succeeds Jonathan Karp, who announced last year that he was stepping down to head his own imprint at the company, Simon Six. Simon & Schuster, which celebrated its centennial in 2024, is home to Stephen King, Colleen Hoover and Bob Woodward and many other bestselling and prize-winning authors. While Karp is a longtime editor and publisher, Greeley has a background in business and investment. He spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, where his positions included vice president of Amazon Prime. In 2018, he left to serve as president of Airbnb’s Homes division. More recently, he was president and COO of the biotechnology startup Opentrons and CEO of Thrasio, a consumer goods company. “Greg Greeley is a talented and strategic leader with wide-ranging experience managing enterprises across physical and digital markets,” Richard Sarnoff, chair of the publisher’s board of directors, said in a statement. …

Simon Baker reveals mom’s surprising reaction to his joining new show Scarpetta: ‘Nearly jumped out of her skin’

Simon Baker reveals mom’s surprising reaction to his joining new show Scarpetta: ‘Nearly jumped out of her skin’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Simon Baker revealed that one of the biggest fans of his new TV show, Scarpetta, is his mother, who was so excited when she heard of his casting that she “nearly jumped out of her skin”. The Australian actor shared on the Today show that his mom, Elizabeth Labberton, adores the Scarpetta book series created by Patricia Cornwell, which spans 29 books and follows the life of forensic pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta. “My mom’s a huge fan of the books. She’d read all of them. And so when I mentioned it, she kind of…she nearly jumped out of her skin, her voice went very high,” Simon recalled. © Today/NBCSimon detailed his mother’s reaction to his new role “I think since I’ve shot the thing, she’s read all of them again, which is kind of unbelievable,” he continued. “And she sort of quizzes me constantly about like, ‘Well, how are they dealing…’ and I’m like, ‘Mom, please.’” The 56-year-old added that she was always supportive of his work and even gave notes on his projects in …