The Strictly 2026 New Hosts Passed Their First Test With 5.8 Million Viewers. The Real One Is Live on Saturday
Replacing the faces of your biggest show is the thing every broadcaster dreads, and the BBC has just done it
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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70 Up Review: ITV’s Farewell to Britain’s Longest Experiment Puts Michael Apted in the Dock
70 Up review: ITV’s final Up film is part clip show, part reckoning with Michael Apted, and the most honest reality TV Britain has made. Part two airs 22 Sept.
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Menopause Supplements Are a 78-Ingredient Guessing Game in 2026: Which? Tested 21 Products, the Placebo Effect Runs at 50% – and Only Four Herbs Have Trials Worth Reading
Which? published its test of menopause supplements on Monday. Twenty-one products, 78 active ingredients, two nutrition specialists and, going by
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The Best First Phone for Kids in 2026 Is a £20 Brick: Dumbphone Sales Are Up 24%, the School Ban Is Now Law – And the Catch That Kills Half of Them on Three
Three weeks into the statutory school phone ban, basic phone sales are up 24%. The best first phone for kids in 2026 is a £20 4G brick – and the 3G switch-off makes the cheapest ones a paperweight on Three.
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West End Autumn 2026: Tilda Swinton Is Sold Out, Sting Gets 12 Days at Drury Lane, and the £15 Monday Ticket That Still Gets You In
Every Monday at 9am the Royal Court puts every seat in the building on sale for £15, and for the
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Are Nicotine Pouches Safe? Stoptober 2026 Starts in Two Weeks, 770,000 Britons Are Already on Them – and the Entire Trial Evidence Is 269 People
The lad on the rowing machine next to me last Tuesday had never smoked a cigarette in his life. I
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Bathroom Trends 2026: Britain Is Putting the Colour Back In, the £7,000 Refit Question and Why the All-White Bathroom Finally Lost
The all-white bathroom took twenty years to conquer Britain and eighteen months to lose it. What is really going into bathrooms in 2026, what a £7,000 refit buys, and the trends to skip.
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Charli XCX UK Tour 2027 Tickets: Three Arenas, a £55.60 Floor and Why the £140.70 Seat Is the Real Story
Three arenas. That’s the whole British run. When Charli XCX UK tour 2027 tickets go on general sale at 9am
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Best Smart Thermostat Under £150 for October 2026: Gas Goes Up 8% on the 1st, the £110 Wiser That Beats a £219 Nest – And the Subscription Catch on the Box Everyone Buys
Gas is going up 8% on 1 October. Not the headline 4% figure Ofgem put out on 26 August –
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Sam Smith London Coliseum Residency: Four Nights Left, a £55 Seat and the Album That Flopped at Number 21
Three weeks ago Sam Smith released an album that entered the UK chart at number 21 and missed the American
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