It works out as just 31p per ounce of tender British beef Savvy shoppers have the opportunity to secure their very own ‘Mother of All Steaks at Aldi this week, as the 16 ounce behemoth returns for just £4.99. And it is all in aid of Mother’s Day this Sunday – because it is the […]

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Keep on dancing Fans of influential dance act had a spontaneous rave as the funeral procession for frontman Keith Flint passed by them on Friday afternoon. Flint was found dead aged 49, at his home in Essex, earlier this month. A rendition of the group’s hit ‘Out Of Space’ was started by fans as they assembled ahead […]

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Get ready to kill loads more Nazis The rebooted Wolfenstein series has given us some of the most enjoyable first-person shooters of recent years. 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order updated the original groundbreaking Nazi-murder-simulator for the modern era. But it was the sequel, 2017’s The New Colossus where it really hit its stride. The New Colossus presented a wonderfully realised alternate-history […]

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Wow, a *lot* of people survived The Snap In just a few short weeks, a saga that has spanned many, many hours of screentime will finally come to a close, and concludes one of the most shocking cliffhangers in pop culture history. But enough about the final series of Game of Thrones. Avengers: Endgame is finally released at […]

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Brought to you by ASOS “There was a cartoon willy and it was hilarious” What was sex education like at your school? Did a science teacher just stick on a video and leave the room? Did you sheepishly giggle through the whole lesson? Did you learn more from the playground or the internet? Sex education […]

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The movie that launched a million ill-informed pub conversations about your team’s transfer policies is now on Netflix There are lots of great movies about sports: Rocky, Raging Bull, Friday Night Lights, Field of Dreams… And of course, the greatest of them all, the Goal! movies. The best of them capture the passion and the ecstasy and the agony of playing […]

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From the director of Da Ali G Show If you are too old to have watched it growing up, or don’t have kids/younger siblings, Dora The Explorer is an incredibly successful animated show that ran on Nick Jr between 2000 and 2014. It focused on the titular globetrotting seven-year-old and her pet monkey Boots, and had a […]

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Brought to you by ASOS “I wouldn’t be here without her” Before becoming a television presenter and athlete, JJ Chalmers served as a Royal Marine. In 2011, he was involved in a horrific IED blast –  receiving facial injuries, losing two fingers and destroying his right elbow. After leaving the Marines in 2016, he went […]

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She has been given an eight-month suspended sentence Actress Tina Malone has received an eight-month suspended sentence for attempting to reveal the new identity of Jon Venables. Venables, along with Robert Thompson, was found guilty of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, then aged just ten – making them the youngest convicted murderers in […]

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What’s wrong with just passing out in front of Peep Show? Why does everything have to be interactive? Netflix is “doubling down” on interactive content, following the success of last year’s Black Mirror special, Bandersnatch. Bandersnatch was a unique, innovative experience – it played out like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, letting you pick what decisions the characters made, and […]

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WWE is no stranger to having celebrities get involved with sports entertainment, with everyone from Donald Trump to Floyd Mayweather to The Muppets having made appearances in the Fed But now reports suggest they could have secured one of their biggest ever guests: Eminem. Fightful is reporting that Slim Shady has reached a deal to […]

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Brought to you by ASOS Breakups are hard But imagine how much harder they would be if you were in the public eye? If the press were writing stories about it, and everyone was gossiping on Twitter? On this week’s Boys Don’t Cry BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Nick Bright spoke about his break up with […]

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The Aston Villa player was attacked by a pitch invader on Sunday A report from the Daily Mail suggests that Birmingham City are set to fire the steward involved in an altercation with Aston Villa player Jack Grealish during Sunday’s derby. After Grealish scored the only goal of the game, he celebrated with the away […]

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Oh dear League Two strugglers Notts County picked up a vital win on Tuesday night, beating playoff-chasing Carlisle United. It wasn’t all plain sailing for The Magpies, however, as the victory was almost sabotaged by a massive brainfart from keeper Ryan Schofield. With County 2-0 up, and about a quarter of an hour to go, Schofield collected […]

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Theresa May’s deal was soundly defeated on Tuesday evening MPs will vote on whether to rule out a no deal Brexit on Wednesday evening. The vote will see the House of Commons decide to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal on March 29th. Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement was defeated in the Commons on […]

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At the end of the first series of Derry Girls, the adult cast of the show huddle around a television, watching coverage of a deadly IRA bomb It is not intended to be any real life incident in particular, but instead symbolic of the violence and fear of The Troubles in the early 1990s. That’s […]

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Leaving Neverland aired on US and UK TV this week Adverts have been spotted on London buses proclaiming Michael Jackson’s innocence. It comes in the week of the broadcast of Leaving Neverland, a documentary about James Safechuck and Wade Robson, two men who claim that Michael Jackson abused them after he befriended them as children. The […]

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Prediction: people will get high in this movie Kevin Smith has revealed that rappers Redman and Method Man are going to cameo in the Jay and Silent Bob reboot. Smith is bringing back his iconic duo, played by him and his real-life childhood friend Jason Mewes, in a reboot rather succinctly titled Jay and Silent Reboot. […]

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And not in a good way. Sorry. Michael Jackson first faced accusations of child sex abuse in 1993. Dentist Evan Chandler alleged that the singer abused his 13-year-old son, Jordan, making headlines around the world, but the case was settled out of court in January 1994. Nearly a decade later, in 2003, Jackson was charged […]

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He tried to make his own film about Jackson in 2003 Louis Theroux has said that anyone who “can’t see that Michael Jackson was a paedophile” after watching the new Leaving Neverland documentary is being “willfully blind”. He also said that fans of Jackson campaigning against it were “actively colluding in the silencing of victims”. If […]

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Police have called for witnesses of the stabbing to come forward Police have confirmed that they are investigating a fatal stabbing that has claimed the life of a teenager in West London. Authorities were called to Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, at 14:14hrs on Thursday afternoon, following reports of a person stabbed. UPDATE: Metropolitan Police says a […]

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#Queen #Royalty #BuckinghamPalace #QueenLife #DatLife #QEII #YOLO #GlowUp #NoFilter #Instagood #InstaLife #InstaGlam #Photography #FollowBack #FollowMe #Realness #PicOfTheDay Queen Elizabeth II has posted to Instagram for the first time. It is not a selfie, or a shot of an artisan donut, or a few used books on some nice sheets. It is, instead, a post about […]

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Brought to you by ASOS. Head here to shop now Things take a 180 once you leave school As anyone who has ever been a teenager will know, being in high school can be tough. Maybe you are/were a jock, a popular kid, getting lots of romantic action. Or alternatively, maybe you were a nerd, […]

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What a time to be alive Do you want to feel closer to your pet cat, and also terrify your neighbours? Then a new Japanese service entitled ‘My Family’ has got you covered. The service will take photos of your little kitty, pass them on to a team of expert artists and model makers, and […]

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Jim Carey is playing Dr Robotnik in the movie Video game legend and icon of pure 1990s extremeness Sonic The Hedgehog is heading to the big screen, in a live-action/animated hybrid family movie, set for release in November. Previously, we got a teaser poster for the film, but that only showed us a silhouette of […]

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“I’m sick of being the victim. I want to victimise.” Tim Renkow is a stand-up comedian. He is also an American ex-pat in England, and the star and co-writer of the new BBC sitcom Jerk. Oh, and he is also someone who suffers from cerebral palsy. But he doesn’t want that to be the thing […]

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“Whatever it takes, I’m in” BBC One’s Line of Duty has been one of the most acclaimed British dramas of recent years, with viewers riveted to the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit. The first trailer for the fifth season has just been released, and it is as intense as ever. There’s yet more police […]

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The aide won tea at The Ritz Last week, Theresa May had a particularly cringe moment in the House of Commons, when she quoted the catchphrase used by meerkats on the Compare The Market adverts. The wince-inducing faux-pas came when she told SNP leader Ian Blackford that “He should vote for a deal – Simples!”. […]

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“What do you mean funny?” Ok, with that headline, we were obviously daring you to disagree. But Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, which has just been added to UK Netflix, is the best movie about the mob, period. Ok, yes, The Godfather and its sequel are masterpieces. But they are big and operatic and grandiose. They don’t have that […]

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The British born 19-year-old ran away from home to join Isis in 2015 The husband of Shamima Begum has told the BBC that he wants to take the teenager and their newborn son to live in his native Netherlands. 27-year-old Isis fighter Yago Riedijk is currently held at Kurdish-run detention centre in Syria. They were […]

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Anthony Smith’s honour saved Jon Jones from disqualification

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“Nae bother, big man” Last week, Nintendo announced Pokemon Shield and Pokemon Sword – the new installment of the series that will be the first games on the Nintendo Switch. Notably, they revealed that the game will be set in the UK (or at least a virtual world based on the country), which presumably means […]

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What on Earth is going on? WWE legend Kane is best known for choke-slamming people, feuding with his brother The Undertaker, and occasionally setting his opponents on fire. But in August last year, the man behind the mask Glenn Jacobs was elected mayor of Knox County, Tennessee and is now a full-time politician. On Friday, it was […]

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This one will be debated for a while A frantic North London derby has been tinged with controversy after Harry Kane appeared to be offside when he won Tottenham a penalty midway through the second half. A Christian Eriksen found its way to Harry Kane in the Arsenal box, but Shkodran Mustafi brought down the […]

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He’ll need a lie down after that Ian Wright got very excited during Saturday’s North London derby. The game started incredibly lively, with chances at both end. But it was Arsenal who drew first blood, when Aaron Ramsey burst forward and went around Hugo Lloris to slot the ball home. Scoring against Spurs is obviously always […]

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You don’t mess with The Shelbys A Peaky Blinders themed bar in Manchester has been hit with legal action from the producers of the hit BBC show. The bar opened in December, and is decorated with images from the show. Staff are dressed in Peaky Blinders style outfits, and the venue is decked out with 1920s […]

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Police have confirmed that a 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death in Havering in East London On Friday evening Police were called to St Neot’s Road in Harold Hill, by the London Ambulance Service after reports of a stabbing in a park close The girl, believed to be 17 years old, was found by […]

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“Oh, hi marks” Tommy Wiseau, the auteur behind cult masterpiece The Room, has revealed his hopes to join the likes of Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian and appear at Wrestlemania. The hottest feud in WWE at the moment is between Irish superstar Becky Lynch and former-UFC-star-and-now-Raw-Womans-Champ Ronda Rousey. As well as getting into various altercations on […]

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“You’ve heard of Hamlet – what about the Slam-Let?” We got the stars of the new wrestling comedy Fighting With my Family into JOE to take on each other at WWE 2K19. Produced by Dwayne Johnson, the movie tells the true-life story of WWE Superstar Paige, who went from her family’s wrestling school in Norwich to the […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by ASOS How many people admit to watching porn vs how many people actually watch it? This week’s episode of JOE’s Boy’s Don’t Cry podcast tackles a subject that is part of a lot of people’s lives, but not many people want to talk about in public: pornography. Recorded live at the Manchester Podcast […]

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“Do the Irish think the English are really cool? I wouldn’t say cool is the first word I think of.” Channel 4’s Derry Girls is easily one of the best sitcoms to hit British television in a long while. It mixes up an all-female spin on The Inbetweeners and some pitch perfect 90s nostalgia, with a poignant and realistic […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by DiRT Rally 2.0 Have you ever put hours and hours into a game, and then wondered if you could transfer those skills to the real world? What if you could become a master at a football game and then play for Manchester United? Or beat a rhythm game on expert, and then […]

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You was one of Netflix’s biggest surprise hits of 2018 A young bookstore manager named Joe (played by Gossip Girl and Easy A‘s Penn Badgley) falls in love with a customer named Beck (played by relative newbie Elizabeth Lail). It seems like a cute enough set-up, except that Joe quickly becomes a little too obsessed with Beck, mostly […]

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Mr Gilbert gets to torment Simon once again Last month, Channel 4 aired a special The Inbetweeners reunion show, bringing back the main cast for a two-hour celebration marking a decade since the series first started. Despite the best of intentions however, The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited did not go down well with fans. The Inbetweeners reunion show was […]

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She will be inducted as part of D Generation-X WWE has announced that the late Chyna, a pioneer of women’s wrestling in the late 1990s, will be inducted into their 2019 Hall of Fame Class. She will be inducted as part of D Generation-X, alongside Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Road Dogg, X-Pac and Billy Gun. […]

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He just couldn’t make the script work Last month, it was confirmed, after months of rumours, that Ben Affleck was hanging up his cowl and stepping down from the role of Batman. Now Affleck has confirmed why he made the decision. He appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and explained what happened. “I tried to direct a version […]

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“This has only happened once in 20 years of being on the show” Family Guy voice actor Patrick Warburton has revealed that there was one episode of the show that he refused to participate in, because it thought it was too offensive. And considering the jokes that they *have* made on Family Guy, it must have been […]

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It is the first video game to sell for a six-figure sum A copy of the classic Nintendo game Super Mario Bros has sold at auction for $100,150 (£77,800). The sealed, unopened NES game was bought on February 6th, by a group of collectors at Heritage Auctions. Super Mario Bros is one of the best selling games of all time […]

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Can we finally put this to bed now? A new study from the University of Oxford has found no evidence that violent video games cause aggression in teenagers. The survey of around 1,000 British 14 & 15-year-olds and their parents/guardians looked into the long-held assumption that acting out violence in Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty […]

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Loads of Adult Swim content is going to be made available on All 4 Rick and Morty will be aired on terrestrial TV for the first time on Friday evening, as the cult Adult Swim show comes to E4. The show will debut with a double bill of the first two episodes at 10pm on Friday. […]

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