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John Sergeant pulls out of Strictly Come Dancing

John Sergeant and Kristina Rhianoff

Former political journalist and viewers' favourite decides he has had enough on BBC hit talent show

Robert Kilroy-Silk under fire in I'm A Celebrity...

The former politician is facing the wrath of Nicola McLean and ridicule by Joe Swash in the Australian jungle

Student phones for ticket and gets starring role

Adriano Graziani called for tickets to a gala concert only to find himself centre stage as the original tenor had fallen ill

BBC changes its tune over Ross return

BBC head Sir Michael Lyons told MPs that Jonathan Ross could face further punishment, only to change his mind hours later

The 50 Biggest Movies of 2009. Red Sonja, The Birds, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sherlock Holmes: Remake fever hits Hollywood

Film 

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in Australia, the movie

Down Under goes mad for 'Australia'

The landscape is beautiful and the plotlines dramatic but early reviews of Baz Luhrmann's epic are disappointing

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren: the perennial pin-up

The Dame bent on mischief says being naked on screen gets easier with age, and next year starts work in a brothel

Jolie cries over mum and Changeling

Visiting London, the actress blinked back tears as she told how her new film brought back memories of her late mother

Clint Eastwood: somebody stop me

At 78 Clint Eastwood is still making movies — and will be until he’s finally dragged off set, he tells Kevin Maher

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Angelina Jolie is shown in a scene from Changeling

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Welcome to booshworld. What began as a cult cocktail of daft poems and surreal characters has turned into the comedy juggernaut that is the Mighty Boosh.

Music 

Jane Birkin on Serge Gainsbourg

Jane Birkin, France's favourite English rose, is singing songs that she wrote herself. Serge would approve, she insists

Il Divo

Il Divo hit back

Opera boyband Il Divo and their svengali, Simon Cowell, tell Dan Cairns why they don’t care if critics sniff at their music

The female MCs leading the way

A new breed of female MCs is revitalising hip-hop, bucking a long history of male chauvinism, says Robert Collins

N-Dubz are just so cool for school

Teens love them, bus passengers can’t escape their songs, but there’s more to N-Dubz than ringtones, finds Priya Elan

In the spotlight

The Killers

Can The Killers take the heat?

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TV & Radio 

John Simm

John Simm: playing Devil's advocate

After Life on Mars, the actor is happy to be himself and to play the anti-hero in new period drama The Devil's Whore

Dani Behr and Carly Zucker in the first bushtucker trial. Behr, left, was the winner

Review: I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

The juggernaut reality-TV show format now licensed across the world returned last night, for its eighth series in the UK

Ruth Jones: I've been judged inside and out

No longer just the big gobby sidekick, Ruth Jones is a sharp comic talent who is popping up all over our screens

X Factor reject never thought he would win

38-year-old father-of-three Daniel Evans reveals he never thought he could win The X Factor, but wanted to make final

I'm A Celebrity...

Esther Rantzen

The new line-up is revealed

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Caitlin Moran

Stage 

A sharp kick up the pantos

Family shows at Christmas needn't be the usual predictable fare.Here are ten rules for mounting a successful alternative

Pam Ann/Caroline Reid

Pam Ann, queen of the skies, flies in to London

Is Australian comedian Pam Ann a flight to remember or running on autopilot? Alex Hardy books a seat to find out

From darkness and misery to greatness

David Morrissey tells Kevin Maher about an acting career of wildly eclectic roles fuelled by loss and profound grief

Monster hit coming to a theatre near you

Next summer, in arenas across Britain, 15 life-size dinosaurs will stalk the Earth, roaring and snorting over their audiences

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn in a studio

Swapping Britpop for Monkey business

First Night reviews

Visual arts 

Kazimir Malevich's painting Suprematist Composition at Sotheby's auction house

Auctions fail to bring home Bacon

Failure of another important work to attract a single bid at auction is further evidence that the art boom is over

Charles Darwin (1809 1882)

Five stars for Darwin at the Natural History Museum

A marvellous bicentennial show, stuffed with eureka moments, pays proper respect to the great naturalist

UN artwork costs go through roof

A £15m work featuring multicoloured stalactites covering the UN ceiling is unveiled and heavily criticised on its cost

It's Babylon - but where's the Whore?

Some treasured myths of Babylon are exploded in the British Museum's new show, but the truth shines all the more brightly

Architecture & Design

Description: Burj Dubai and skyscrapers under construction.

Burj Tower: Tom Dyckhoff on the world's tallest tower

Books 

Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin) on Stage mid 1970's

When Giants Walked the Earth

New biography chronicles Led Zeppelin's years of rock'n'roll excess

Jack Kerouac

On the Road at 50: the Beat goes on

Jack Kerouac’s hedonistic classic is 50: Cosmo Landesman sorts the good, the bad and the ugly of the Beat legacy

The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 by Sue Townsend

The Sunday Times review by Peter Parker

Slumberland by Paul Beatty

The Times review by Hardeep Singh Kohli

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Dawn French

Dawn French

On her tally of famous kisses, not liking Jennifer Saunders, and Lenny Henry's bottom

Bestsellers

The other side of Angelina Jolie

Times Literary Supplement 

Smelly masterpieces

Why is great perfume not taken more seriously?

Anti-Semitic graffiti, Kiev

The new anti-Semitism?

How ancient prejudice and outright hostility have re-emerged since the Nuremberg Trials

Pasolini's Roman poetry

The great filmmaker was also a writer with a distinctive voice – Rome's

Lunch with Mrs Thatcher

Peter Stothard reviews Hugo Young's exceptional records of politicians speaking their minds

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