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The Latest Breaking News from Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot writer’s new play swaps West End for church hall in County Durham

Adaptation of Brecht’s Mother Courage will train people from the north-east to take on their first ever acting roles

The Guardian - UK

Half Man: cast, plot and everything you need to know

Half Man is a BBC1 and HBO drama starring Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd plus Billy Elliot actor Jamie Bell.

WhatToWatch

Award-winning Scottish writer of Baby Reindeer announces new series for BBC

BABY Reindeer creator Richard Gadd’s new drama series will be fronted by him and co-star Jamie Bell ...

The National (Scotland)

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Choreographer Qudus Onikeku: ‘I want to mirror the real world – vibrant, chaotic, problematic’

As a child in Lagos, he felt like Billy Elliot, following a passion for dance despite his family’s disapproval. Now, having found success in France, he’s returned to his native Nigeria to mastermind a pan-African creative awakening

The Guardian - UK

Carlos Acosta: ‘It’s hard to talk about weight in ballet’

The Havana-born superstar may have retired from dancing nearly a decade ago, but he has no plans to slow down. Currently the artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he talks to Charlotte Cripps about ballet and Black Sabbath, middle-aged spread, and his plans to bring ballet to the masses

The Independent UK

The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more

This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical

The Guardian - UK

Layton Williams looks back: ‘For the first decade of my life I was not being myself. I had a straitjacket on’

Actor Layton Williams on becoming the first black Billy Elliot, Strictly stress, and being a proud Bury lad

The Guardian - UK

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Haydn Gwynne obituary

Stage and screen actor known for her TV roles in Drop the Dead Donkey and The Windsors, and as a star of musical theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not easy for me!’: Layton Williams on Strictly, joy, glitter – and the myth of his unfair advantage

The actor starred on stage as Billy Elliot at 12, then on TV in Beautiful People, before crashing out of drama school and heading back home to Bury. He talks about second chances and extraordinary dances

The Guardian - UK

A star is born: young talent steals the show at Billy Elliot the Musical

The cast excels in popular coming-of-age musical at the Civic.

Newcastle Herald

Sir Elton John called to give evidence in Kevin Spacey sexual assault trial

The Rocketman superstar was called on Monday as a witness as part of Spacey’s defence case

Evening Standard

Byker Grove cast: Where are they now?

Remember these faces? We look at the cast then and now ahead of the show's reboot

GoodToKnow

Emmerdale star Lewis Cope dodged boxing career by taking up dancing

While his brothers Adam, Danny and Peter all won the Northern area title as professional fighters, Lewis was appearing in Billy Elliot: The Musical

Daily Mirror

Max Bowden — things you didn't know about the EastEnders star

Discover these little-known facts about Max Bowden who plays Walford's Ben Mitchell...

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This is England … and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: where to find the UK’s greatest film scenes

From aliens cruising Glasgow to punks rocking Belfast, most regions of the UK have had their big-screen moment. Our critics take us on a tour of some of their favourite locations

Daily Mirror

Parents of quintuplets 'devastated' after 'amazing angel' three-day-old son dies

Henry James, was the fifth of two boys and three girls, born through caesarean section on Sunday, before sadly passing away at three days old

The Guardian - UK

Brian Tufano obituary

Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

The Guardian - UK

What an English degree did for me, by Tulip Siddiq, Sarah Waters and more

As universities close their English literature courses, we celebrate 40 influential British graduates

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Daily Mirror

Newcastle star dubbed 'Billy Elliot' given pick of Championship clubs ahead of loan move

Elliot Anderson dazzled out on loan at Bristol Rovers last season, helping Joey Barton's side clinch promotion from League Two - and now looks set for another temporary spell away from St James' Park

Daily Mirror

Football's 'Billy Elliot' who has dozens of EFL clubs chasing his signature

Newcastle midfielder Elliot Anderson has been likened to Paul Gascoigne and Diego Maradona and last season played a starring role as Joey Barton's Bristol Rovers sealed promotion

Daily Mirror

Freddie Flintoff's row with 'disrespectful' BBC over kids in his new documentary

Former England cricketer Freddie Flintoff is fronting new show Field of Dreams to prove cricket isn't 'just for posh people', but he was upset by some of the words used by the BBC

Daily Mirror

Freddie Flintoff says 'I'm so glad I didn't go to posh school' ahead new of BBC show

Former cricketer Freddie Flintoff described turning down scholarships at private school as the "best decision I ever made", ahead of his new show which sees him put together a cricket team of working class kids

Irish Mirror

Freddie Flintoff says he was bullied at school 'like Billy Elliot' for playing cricket

Cricket legend Freddie Flintoff has spoken of how he was bullied by kids at school for playing the sport ahead of a new documentary

The Independent UK

Real life Billy Elliot bullied at school because of a cleft palette reveals what helped him find his voice

Londoner Connor Taylor, 26, expressed himself through ballet from the age of 10 as he was too self-conscious to express himself verbally

Wales Online

'Dance helped me find my voice' says real life Billy Elliot bullied over cleft palate

Connor Taylor says he now 'cannot stop talking'

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