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Harry Potter and Star Wars actor Warwick Davis made an OBE in New Year Honours

Davis got his first break in Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi at the age of just 11.

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais to skip Golden Globes

Comedian Ricky Gervais has admitted he's going to skip the Golden Globes ceremony next month despite being nominated for an award because it's "too far to go" and he'd prefer to stay at home with his girlfriend Jane Fallon and their cat.

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Ricky Gervais speaks out after LGBTQ+ backlash ahead of new Netflix special

He claims there’s ‘one thing it seems to be fine to take the mickey out of’

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Stranger Things to Y Crwydryn: the seven best shows to stream this week

Expect a fan-serving finale as the much-loved series wraps things up, plus a poetic odyssey through Wales that’s a melancholy treat

The Guardian - UK

The best comedy on TV this Christmas

Here are the best comedy shows to keep you chuckling despite being with your family

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais pays tribute to beloved dog from After Life with statue

The statue was erected on Sunday in Hemel Hempstead, where the comedy-drama was filmed

The Independent UK

Comedian Ricky Gervais unveils statue paying tribute to dog from After Life

The death of Vislor Antilly was announced earlier this year.

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Ricky Gervais donates eye-watering amount of tour money to charity

‘To celebrate my Mortality Tour, my Netflix Special, my Golden Globes nomination and the spirit of Christmas, I am donating £2.43m to animals’

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais donates almost £2.5m from tour proceeds to animal charities

It means the total amount of donations made across the comic’s four recent specials is more than £5 million.

Evening Standard

‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

New film is based on TV series inspired by The Office, whose lead character is said to resemble the chancellor

The Guardian - UK

Jeffrey Epstein dreamt up bizarre series starring Johnny Depp, Courtney Love – and even Stephen Fry

The disgraced financier had an idea for an interview series called ‘Strange Bedfellows’, but none of the stars he fantasised about featuring seem to be aware of its existence

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais warned £5m mega-mansion on banks of River Thames at risk of 'life-threatening' floods

The comedian, 64, has already faced delays to the project due to the huge number of bats in the area

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais warned his plan to rebuild riverside home is at risk of exposing him and others to dangerous flooding

In a blow for the comic, Ricky Gervais has been warned his plan to rebuild his riverside home is at risk of exposing him and others to dangerous flooding.

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Who will be in Celebrity Traitors 2026?

All the latest rumours following the season which took the nation by storm

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It Took A While, But They Eventually Made It: 34 Hollywood Stars Who Found Fame After 30

From minor roles to breakout performances that changed everything, these 34 Hollywood stars prove it’s never too late to make it big.

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These gutted stars who turned down Celebrity Traitors face snub for next series

As Jonathan Ross says Ricky Gervais rejected the BBC hit, The Standard hears famous faces who passed on The Celebrity Traitors are now ‘kicking themselves’

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Chadwick Boseman's widow to accept his Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Late actor Chadwick Boseman is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame five years after his death and the award will be accepted on his behalf by his widow Simone Ledward-Boseman.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m still processing how awful it was’: your zero-star screen disasters

From a Dustin Hoffman performance less witty than a stunned mollusc to the worst piece of garbage ever inflicted on TV viewers, here are Guardian readers’ most atrocious watching experiences ever

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Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong

To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

The Guardian - UK

Penelope Wilton: ‘They wanted me to tone down my death in Shaun of the Dead. It was too frightening’

The venerable screen and stage star reveals why she insisted on meeting a bloody end in Edgar Wright’s zomcom, loved working with Ricky Gervais and which of her film roles has the biggest Rastafarian fanbase

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais to reprise The Office's David Brent in new series about classic British sitcoms

The show, part travelogue and part retrospective, will see Gervais revisit UK sitcom The Office

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais to star in new show dedicated to ‘The Office’

Gervais will appear in a new series hosted by comedians Joe Wilkinson and David Earl

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais on how losing his job aged 37 changed his life

The 64-year-old was made redundant from his position at a radio station in 1998

The Guardian - UK

‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s bizarre war on the leaf blower

For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget – and she’s not alone. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the backpack blower has united stars in unlikely, furious contempt

The Independent UK

Iain Lee admits he ‘resented’ Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen for ‘stealing’ his career

‘I held a lot of bitterness and resentment towards them,’ broadcaster said

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