Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Joe McElderry looked stunned as he was named the winner ITV1’s The X Factor was watched by more than 19 million people as Olly Murs and Joe McElderry fought for the title, according to the latest figures
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X Factor final seen by 19 million
Old-school … The Princess and the Frog The winner Disney’s animation chief John Lasseter may be more readily associated with the Pixar brand, but he’s a sentimentalist and a student of animation history, which is why several years ago he put his weight behind The Princess and the Frog . It paid off, as Disney’s first hit hand-drawn 2D animated musical in some time soared to the top of the charts with $25m (£15.3m) in its first wide weekend, according to studio estimates. The film was already a winner in its first two weekends, frankly, when it was playing in two cinemas and averaging around $380,000 per site – a phenomenal amount
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Kidult entertainment … Where the Wild Things Are The critics were puzzled and faintly irritated by Where the Wild Things Are . So, it seems, were the film’s producers .
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Where the Wild Things Are is a cautionary tale for adults, not kids
Lady Gaga has climbed up to number one with her single Bad Romance, displacing Peter Kay’s Children In Need song. The song, which the US star performed at The Royal Variety Show, is her third UK chart-topper this year. Christmas favourites Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You broke into the top 20
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Lady Gaga claims UK chart-topper
By Duncan Gardham , Security Correspondent Published: 7:05AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The former Prime Minister engaged in an “alarming subterfuge” with George Bush, and then misled the British people into a war they did not want, Sir Ken said. In an article for The Times he argues that the Chilcot Inquiry should be held in “deserved and withering contempt” if it ends in a “whitewash” by failing to disclose details of a “foreign policy disgrace of epic proportions”. He also called Mr Blair’s belief that he did what he thought was right a “narcissist’s defence”, adding: “Washington turned his head and he couldn’t resist the stage or the glamour that it gave him.” Sir Ken, who was appointed in 2003 under the Blair government, added that the war was the result of a “Prime Minister lost in self-aggrandisement and a governing class too closed to speak truth to power.” His comments come as a senior minister has accepted that Tony Blair could have lost the crucial House of Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had told MPs he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether he had weapons of mass destruction.
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Tony Blair’s ’sycophancy’ led us into war with Iraq, says former DPP
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor, Kandahar Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The Government will announce on Tuesday that more than £150 million of new funding will be allocated to tackle the increasing threat which follows the death of 100 British troops in Afghanistan this year. After talks with military commanders, Gordon Brown disclosed that British forces have diffused 1600 improvised explosive devises (IEDs) – an average of one every two hours – in the past few months. The Taliban’s increased use of the devices will heighten growing fears that the British death toll in Afghanistan could rise sharply in the coming months as the first of Britain’s additional 500 troops arrive in the country
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Troops in Afghanistan find roadside bomb every two hours, says Gordon Brown
By Caroline Gammell Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 Andrew Walker, head of the Commons’ Fees Office which scrutinised the claims, was widely criticised in the aftermath of The Daily Telegraph investigation. In several cases, Fees Office staff were found to have waved through and even encouraged questionable claims from members. John Bercow, who took over as Speaker in June, said that he did not expect Mr Walker – who some feel has been made a scapegoat – to feature in the new expenses vetting process
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In fact, one of them suggested he perform at Cadogan Hall, even booking the venue for him. Today, 48-year-old Nick looks back on Haircut 100’s early days with pride and pleasure but for a long time he had a more equivocal attitude towards the band. He attributes his departure to a chaotic lack of management and direction; a surfeit of ideas with no one to constructively channel them, and while success came quickly for Haircut 100, it didn’t come easily.
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Haircut 100 back for highlights show
Unfortunately millionaire hotelier husband Conrad hilton was a gambler and a drunk who “got a kick out of beating the s*** out of me,” according to his bride. In 1952 Taylor replaced him with mild-mannered elderly English actor Michael Wilding
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REVIEW: How to be a movie star Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
There’s a bracing anger and sadness to Max that makes you immediately root for him, aided by the photogenic Records’s natural, uncutesy performance. After rowing with his mother (biting her for good measure) he runs away in his wolf costume, emerging through some woods by a small lake where a rowing boat takes him to a distant shore and the land of the wild things.
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REVIEW: Where the Wild Things Are
