Entertainment Live: Val Doonican tributes; Rihanna baits censors

Summary

Updates for 2 July
Entertainer Val Doonican dies, aged 88
BBC announces 1,000 job losses
Manchester's Whitworth is named Museum of the Year
Rihanna releases blood-soaked music video

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Victoria Lindrea and Mark Savage

Doonican: 'An all-round entertainer'published at 16:17
Irish singer and presenter Daniel O'Donnell has joined in the tributes to Val Doonican, sharing his personal memories of the star.
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I remember him from the TV shows when I was a child – we watched them religiously – it was a big part of our week to watch Val’s show.
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He had great charisma and a great, easy way of putting across the show. I think that’s what people liked, and certainly what drew a lot of people to him.
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He was an all-round entertainer. He had a great voice and [he] had the big hits with the songs we remember, but there were also the funny songs that captured people’s imaginations too. He certainly was able to entertain in the widest possible sense.
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It’s a very sad day for the music industry to lose somebody that made such an impression and created so much within that industry.
Chris Martin gives surprise show in Delhipublished at 15:31
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It was just a regular night at the Summerhouse Cafe in New Delhi... then Chris Martin walked up and gave an impromptu concert.
The Coldplay frontman walked into the venue with Bollywood musician Vishal Dadlani and played to a "stunned" crowd - including Slumdog Millionaire star Frieda Pinto.
The gig was captured on video by some of the customers.
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Brucie: 'Val Doonican was a one-off'published at 15:03
Bruce Forsyth has paid tribute to Val Doonican, calling the singer and TV host "a one-off".
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There was nobody more popular. He'd sit there with his guitar and sing so nicely. You knew you were seeing somebody who was very genuine, who loved his work and who loved people.
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It's not simple to do what he did. You can't go in front of millions of people on television and be that relaxed and that good. To be relaxed as he was is an art.
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This is a very sad day.
Here's our obituary of Val Doonican.
Roy Walker pays tribute to Val Doonicanpublished at 14:36
Comedian and Catchphrase host Roy Walker spoke to the BBC about "all-time good guy" Val Doonican, who has died at the age of 88.
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He was an example to everybody - the way he conducted himself, he was the consummate professional. He was 20 years on the BBC - live - and he never made a mistake introducing the biggest stars of the world. In the early days I was his opening comedian and he was one of the most generous people on stage. He would go out and do 10 minutes before you at the top of the show and introduce you - even though you were nobody - as his ‘very special guest’. He was a joy to be with, a pleasure to work with and one of the all-time good guys in showbusiness.

Chris Pratt's crystal ballpublished at 14:24
In a behind-the-scenes extra for the DVD of season two of Parks And Recreation, filmed in 2010, Jurassic World star Chris Pratt appears to foretell his future...
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Magic Mike XXL - let the puns commencepublished at 13:22
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Magic Mike XLL hits cinemas this weekend, prompting a slew of puns on Twitter. Here are some of our favourites.
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Meanwhile, the film's star Channing Tatum has set hearts a-flutter with his new Vanity Fair cover.
He'll catch a death without socks on.
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Prince withdraws music from streaming servicespublished at 12:00
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Prince has removed his back catalogue from music services including Spotify and Rdio and Apple Music.
A message on the Spotify website explained:
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Prince's publisher has asked all streaming services to remove his catalog. We have cooperated with the request, and hope to bring his music back as soon as possible.
At the time of writing, Deezer and Tidal still have access to tracks like Purple Rain and Raspberry Beret. It is not clear whether they have escaped Prince's opprobrium, or have just been slow to comply with the removal request.
The mercurial musician has a habit of pulling songs off the internet. He deleted his NPG Music Club website in 2006; and erased his YouTube channel earlier this year.
Speaking to the Guardian in 2011, external, he explained his distrust of online music providers.
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We made money [online] before piracy was real crazy. Nobody’s making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google … It’s like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There’s no boundaries.
But simultaneously with his old music disappearing from subscription streaming services, Prince uploaded a new song to Soundcloud.
HardRockLover is, as the name suggests, one of his heavier efforts. "You'd better cover your ears," he screeches as he launches into a blistering guitar riff.
Val Doonican - in videopublished at 11:19
YouTube is surprisingly light on Val Doonican clips - possibly because his TV show ended in 1985, just as video recorders became affordable.
But there are a few worth watching - including this duet with Cliff Richard.
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In 1985, he dedicated the following song to a young girl, Lucy O'Toole, even though - in a sign of the changing times - she preferred Duran Duran.
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And you can also see one of the crooner's last interviews, on the Alan Titchmarsh show in 2010.
In it, he recalls how his TV show was initially commissioned for six episodes. It went on to run for 20 years.
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Val Doonican tributespublished at 11:01
Some of the messages of condolence from Twitter.
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Colbert interviews Eminem on public access televisionpublished at 10:00
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US talk show host Stephen Colbert still has two months to go before he replaces David Letterman on the iconic Late Show - but he's not resting on his laurels.
Last night, he turned up on a late-night public access show in Michigan. He started his stint on "This is Monroe" by delivering some dubious facts about the city.
"The city is located on the scenic Brest Bay," he observed. "There's nothing locals like more than heading out on the lake and motorboating the Brest."
After speaking with the show's regular hosts Michelle Bowman and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson (Miss America 1988), he also interviewed another Michigan resident, Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem.
It's a surreal watch. They keep up the pretence that Eminem is an aspiring musician, with Colbert asking: "Are you one of those slow-talking rappers or one of the fast-talking rappers?"
The show debuted at midnight, but has since done the rounds on YouTube. You can watch the Eminem interview from 22 minutes onwards.
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Rihanna's new video goes viralpublished at 09:27
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It's four months since Rihanna released Better Have My Money (that's the censored title) but she's finally got around to making a music video for it.
Not for the faint-hearted, the 8-minute clip sees the star kidnap and torture her accountant's wife, after he leaves her bankrupt (allegedly a true story, external, except for the kidnapping bit).
The video comes with a TV-MA rating, meaning it's unsuitable for anyone under the age of 17 - so we won't be linking to it here.
But the clip is the top trending topic on Twitter (where fans refer to it via the abbreviated title BBHMM). Here's what people have been saying.
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Steve Jobs movie trailerpublished at 08:44
The latest movie from Danny Boyle sees Michael Fassbender in the role of Apple boss Steve Jobs, alongside Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels - with a script by the West Wing's Aaron Sorkin
It charts Jobs' rise to computer king and world-feted genius and it opens in the UK on 13 October. But - on the evidence of the new trailer - it doesn't portray him in the most flattering light.
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