The star will join the show's judging panel for its next series after Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez quit earlier this month.

Banksy and his fellow street artists are reflecting the Olympics in their latest works - but some complain their art is being removed by authoriries.

The organiser of Herefordshire's Big Chill festival says he hopes the festival will return but possibly with a different format.

Frank Pierson, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, has died aged 87.

Comedian Stephen Merchant is to write and star in a pilot of a solo comedy series based on his 2011 stand-up tour.

Big Ben will chime 40 times on Friday morning as part of a mass bell-ringing project marking the launch of the Olympic Games.

An actor who was shot in the eye and blinded when a replica revolver misfired on stage is suing the Donmar Warehouse over the accident.

New Zealand children's author Margaret Mahy, who wrote more than 120 books, has died at the age of 76.