Entertainment Live: River Song returns; Bill Turnbull quits

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Updates for 2 September, 2015
Alex Kingston returns to Doctor Who after three year hiatus
Bill Turnbull quits BBC Breakfast
Sue Perkins reveals she has a benign tumour
The X Factor judges react to their categories

Live Reporting

Mark Savage and Sarah Jane Griffiths

Noel Edmonds to play Deal or No Dealpublished at 16:22
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Deal or No Deal presenter Noel Edmonds is to play against the banker for the very first time in a show marking the series' 10th anniversary.
Edmonds had been expecting to preside over a special episode featuring several former contestants when Sarah Millican appeared from the wings and announced she would be taking over.
He then found himself competing to win £500,000 for his chosen charity.
Noel said:
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To be given the chance to play the game I am so very proud to host was a great honour and one of the biggest shocks of my professional life. I hate the Banker even more now! Playing for Children’s Hospice South West - a charity very close to my heart - was the icing on our 10th birthday cake.
You can find out how he does when Channel 4 airs the charity special on 18 September.
Steps - the ballad yearspublished at 15:51
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Claire Richards, latterly the singer in pop cheesemongers Steps, has recorded a ballad version of the band's number one single Deeper Shade of Blue.
Featuring just a stripped-bare vocal over a lonely piano it turns the song completely upside down.
Speaking to pop blog MyFizzyPop, external, she said it was always how she envisioned the song.
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I always loved Deeper Shade of Blue... I love the darkness of it. It is heartbreaking and the funny thing is most Steps songs are... We used to stick an uptempo beat on it and slap massive smiles on our faces and dance like no-one was watching and you'd totally forget how sad the lyrics were.
The reworked version of the song precedes a new solo career from Richards, as Steps approach their 20th anniversary.

Janet Jackson debuts Missy Elliot song on tourpublished at 14:39
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Janet Jackson's Unbreakable tour kicked off in Canada on Monday night, opening with an entirely new song featuring Missy Elliot.
The as-yet-untitled track kicked off a massive, 32-song set, external, including classics such as What Have You Done For Me Lately, Again, If and Rhythm Nation.
Jackson also played Scream, a duet with her late brother Michael, who appeared on the video screens.
Several fans and Canadian websites posted photos and videos from the show on social media.
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Max Beesley joins Homelandpublished at 14:15
British actor Max Beesley has landed a guest role in the new series of Homeland - which returns this autumn - playing an ex-Royal Marine turned private military contractor.
According to The Wrap, external, the Mad Dogs and Ordinary Lies star will play Mike Brown - an underling who is "not entirely comfortable working under Carrie Mathison", played by Claire Danes.
Season five will pick up two years after Carrie's ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief, with the action moving to Berlin where she's been trying to make a new life, post-CIA.
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A glimpse of Lady Chatterley's Loverpublished at 13:57
We've already had a steamy trailer for the BBC's adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, but here is the first chance to see an extended clip from the one-off drama.
It sees Constance Chatterley (Holliday Grainger) stealing a forbidden moment with her husband's gamekeeper Oliver Mellors (Richard Madden)... complete with a comedy car horn sound effect.
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Foals singer suffers vocal injurypublished at 13:13
Rock group Foals dramatically pulled out of a planned appearance on Radio 1's Live Lounge earlier this morning.
The band, who played triumphant sets at Reading and Leeds over the weekend, were in the building and rehearsing when, suddenly, lead singer Yannis Pilippakis felt funny.
He later tweeted that he thought he had snapped his larynx. Which is probably even more painful than it sounds.
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Drummer Jack Bevan gave further details of the incident on Instagram, external:
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Unfortunately @ynnsphilippakis sounds like Phil mitchel after a tracheostomy. Sorry to anyone who was listening. Old mate is off to the doctors now. Hopefully we'll be back in the live lounge again soon. Xxxx

(Not) Kermit's new girlfriendpublished at 12:53
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We don't often get involved in affairs of the heart, but when Kermit the Frog is moved to make a statement on his relationships status, it feels only right to share it.
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The Frog has issued a statement denying Denise (a pig who appeared in a trailer for ABC's new series of The Muppets earlier this year) is his girlfriend, telling fans: "We are simply close friends."
Read more on this shocking development on the Newsbeat site.
River Song reactionpublished at 12:37
Doctor Who fans have been reacting to the news that Alex Kingston is returning to the show to play River Song in this year's Christmas Special.
It seems there are mixed feelings about her forthcoming re-appearance - her first alongside latest Doctor, Peter Capaldi.
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Hogwarts updatepublished at 11:08
Yesterday we told you that JK Rowling had tweeted that Harry Potter's son James was starting his first day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The message didn't go unheeded at King's Cross Station where the Hogwarts Express got a surprise mention on the departure screens!
JK Rowling later tweeted that James had been sorted into Gryffindor house - just like his father.
Downton Abbey trailer dissectedpublished at 10:02
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Carson packs a suitcase. Bates makes Anna cry. Molesly closes the shutters. A car drives off in the darkness... The trailer for the sixth and final series of Downton Abbey is something of a tear jerker.
"If I could stop history in its tracks, maybe I would," says Hugh Bonneville's Lord Grantham as the promo kicks off. "But I can’t, Carson. Neither you nor I can hold back time."
Only one character appears to defy the sombre tone - and that is Laura Carmichael's character Lady Edith, who allows a coy smile to spread across her face - presumably for a microsecond, before everyone she knows or has ever met dies of botulism.
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For the musically-inclined among you, the music on that video is a piano version of Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro), originally made famous by Andrea Bocelli, but performed for Downton by Bristol-born singer Lauren Aquilina.

Horowitz "mortified" over Bond commentspublished at 09:31
Author Anthony Horowitz says he's "mortified" to have caused offence, after saying in an interview that he thought Idris Elba was "too street" to be the next James Bond.
The author's comments originally appeared in the Mail on Sunday, but he has since released a statement on Twitter. Horowitz said the word "street" was "a poor choice".
Read more.
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X Factor judges get their categoriespublished at 09:13
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The X Factor has announced which categories each judge will mentor this series. It goes like this:
- Simon - Over-25s
- Cheryl - Groups
- Nick - Boys
- Rita - Girls
The decision was made by the public, in the latest twist to the ongoing reality show.
Here's how the mentors reacted.
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But what do you think? Who's going to win? And have you spotted any front-runners in the audtitions?
Drop us a line on entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk

Bye-bye Billpublished at 08:44
After 15 years of exceedingly early mornings, Bill Turnbull has decided he would like a lie-in - and has revealed he'll be leaving BBC Breakfast.
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His BBC colleagues have been among the first to react to the news:
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Speaking to The Mirror, external, he said that "15 years is more than enough for me and the audience".
He added:
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I've been neglecting my bees for far too long.
Bill Turnbull
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We can get rid of the 9.30pm curfew which will be nice - it will be fun.