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ITV bosses are poised to sign superstars Maya Jama and KSI to their biggest Saturday night shows.
Popular Love Island host Maya, 30, is to return to the guessing panel of The Masked Singer for the seventh series.
Britain’s Got Talent bosses, meanwhile, are set to offer KSI, 31, big money to rejoin as a judge for the 2026 series.
The YouTuber and musician proved a hit on Saturday’s launch episode of this year’s series, watched by 5.5million.
A TV insider said: “ITV realise they’ve got a pair of superstars shining on their shows — and they want to ensure they stay there.
“Maya went down a storm with viewers on the last series of The Masked Singer, even though she had big shoes to fill taking over from Rita Ora.
“KSI was also a breath of fresh air on BGT on Saturday.
“He’ll help attract a much younger audience.”
KSI has 55million followers across his social media platforms, including Spotify, Instagram and Tiktok.
Younger people increasingly use the sites to view TV clips.
Maya, seen on Sunday with TV host AJ Odudu at a London Fashion Week event — Lila Moss was at another — joined The Masked Singer when Rita stepped down.
She shared the panel with Mo Gilligan, Jonathan Ross and Davina McCall as well as a line up of celebrity guests.
Rossy described her as “great fun” and said recently that he was looking forward to “doing the next series with her on board”.
ITV were approached for comment.
A GIANT wind farm powered by Chinese turbines is set for the green light — despite security fears.
Cash-strapped ministers are eyeing £670million of investment from the plan.
Government sources say Chinese firm Mingyang have pledged a £200million factory to make blades in the UK, and a £470million facility to produce turbines if the North Sea project gets the go ahead with their kit.
Ministers are pushing for the investment to go to Wales to replace jobs lost through Net Zero hit to Tata Steel.
A crunch meeting is scheduled for tomorrow to discuss the investment plan, despite national security concerns being raised by the Ministry of Defence.
The deal would fly in the face of fears Beijing will use the wind farms to spy and could be used for underwater espionage.
MI5 are reportedly helping to establish the extent to which the tech could be exploited to eavesdrop on the UK.
Energy Minister James Murray said: “While we cannot comment on individual cases, the Government takes the security and resilience of UK energy infrastructure extremely seriously.”
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THINK of the creative and cultural wonders Britain has given the world.
The Beatles and the Stones. Oasis and Blur. James Bond and Star Wars. Harry Potter and The Lord Of The Rings. The Office and The Crown.
Music, films, television, writing and art from these tiny islands have been enjoyed by billions.
Our robust Free Press remains the envy of the world and the UK acts as a global powerhouse of ingenuity.
But now this extraordinary originality faces a potentially fatal threat from the unlicensed use of content by AI developers.
Musicians, authors, artists and film, TV and media companies are having their work stolen without permission or payment by big tech firms, as 300-year-old copyright laws are brazenly ignored.
Yet — far from stopping this wholesale exploitation — a consultation by ministers, which closes this week, risks making matters even worse.
Strong British copyright laws should send an automatic “hands-off” message to internet-age magpies – backed up by enforceable punishments.
But instead the Government wants to hand exemptions to AI firms allowing their supercomputers to use any material it wants – unless the original creator “opts out” for every piece of content made.
Such weak and impractical protection is the equivalent of leaving a handwritten note for the Hatton Garden heist gang asking if they wouldn’t mind leaving the gold alone.
How could the next Ricky Gervais or JK Rowling possibly hope to get started in a world where an AI bot can steal a joke or an image in seconds and not pay for the privilege?
How can a trusted Free Press afford to pay trained journalists to operate in a world of fake news when their entire output — and revenue — is nicked for nothing?
Record company Universal hits the nail on the head with the release today of an entirely silent album by its artists entitled: “Is This What We Want?”
Of course not.
Yes, AI brings potentially huge benefits for society, especially in areas such as healthcare.
But, as one of our great global success stories, it’s the creative sector which is already a huge generator of tax revenue for the NHS and public services.
Ministers — so keen to curry favour with big tech — forget this at their peril.
THE BBC’s Gaza documentary was an appalling propaganda film for Hamas.
Today we reveal the cost to licence fee payers for making this so-called documentary was a staggering £400,000.
There is another disturbing question the BBC is still to answer.
Did Hamas terrorists or their families directly receive any of your cash?
THE threat of robots stealing musicians’ work has prompted more than 1,000 famous artists to join forces in protest with a “silent album”.
Fears are growing over the government’s plans to change UK copyright law for AI.
It would mean artificial intelligence companies could use any online material including music, art, articles and photography to train AI models.
The concern is a bot can then use algorithms to churn out its versions with no human creativity.
Stars including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and Blur’s Damon Albarn have produced the protest album, titled Is This What We Want?
The 47 minutes of sparse background sounds are designed to show what life would be without musicians.
Organiser Ed Newton-Rex said: “The government’s proposal would hand the life’s work of the country’s musicians to AI companies, for free, letting those companies exploit musicians’ work to outcompete them.
“It is a plan that would not only be disastrous for musicians, but that is totally unnecessary: the UK can be leaders in AI without throwing our world-leading creative industries under the bus.”
Dr Jo Twist, head of industry group the BPI, said it would be legal for AI firms “to plunder the UK’s music, books, film and more, all for their own profit and without the need for authorisation or compensation”.
British music contributed £7.6 billion to the economy in 2023, but the industry warns that the changes to copyright laws would diminish this boost, risk jobs and undermine Britain’s “global soft-power advantage”.
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THE saying goes that there’s no such thing as an original idea — and Meghan Markle seems living proof of that.
Following last week’s relaunch of her American Riviera Orchard lifestyle brand as the more simply named As Ever, she was accused of ripping off a Mallorcan town’s emblem of palm tree and birds for her new logo.
But whatever the ins and outs of that, the Duchess of Sussex certainly has form for copycat behaviour when it comes to sporting similar outfits to those worn by her husband Harry’s late mum, Princess Diana.
Now she has been at it again, posting a clip on Instagram of herself parading in the garden of her California home in a purple Northwestern sweatshirt just like one Di regularly wore in 1996 – the year before her death.
It comes after she has also been seen out and about in frocks, jackets and denims that seem, again and again, to be just like Diana wore.
Here, we look at how Meghan’s style is to Di for . . .
MEGHAN posted this dressed-down shot on Instagram a few days ago, wearing the exact-same sweat Di did nearly 30 years ago.
Meg did graduate from America’s Northwestern University in 2003.
But Di had been there, got the souvenior sweatshirt after a visit in 1996 then wore it out in London.
Which tops Meg.
MEG gaffed when she broke protocol at a Trooping the Colour ceremony by bearing her shoulders.
The pink dress with buttoned top she wore to the parade in London in 2018 was also alike in more ways than one to a frock Di wore in 1987 for a visit to the Berlin Opera House.
Lovely doubly.
ALL eyes were on Prince Harry’s then new love as Meg cheered at his Invictus Games in Toronto 2017, but her casual seemed hardly fit for a potential princess.
In fact, her jeans and shirt In Toronto were out of the Di style book, from her Bosnia tour to raise awareness of landmines.
Sadly for Meg, paying homage failed to work.
MEGHAN embraced colour in 2019 as she ditched her usual neutral hues for purple and red.
Visiting Birkenhead, she echoed Di’s look that she first showed off in 1989 in Hong Kong then again three years later as she sat alone in front of the Taj Mahal.
For sure, Di in India packed more a punch than did Meg.
MEGHAN got Stella McCartney to design her evening wedding dress in 2018 and there’s no doubt the pair looked back to Di for ideas.
The halterneck and fluid hem details are nods to a dress the Princess of Wales wore to a party in 1992.
Certainly, there was something borrowed on Meg’s big day.
EARLIER this month Meghan sat courtside for a wheelchair basketball game at husband Harry’s Invictus Games wearing a grey tweed jacket with black velvet lapels.
The DÔEN blazer is almost identical to a suit jacket Diana wore in 1984 during a hospital visit in London.
But, sorry Meg, you weren’t the first to honour this outfit, Kate did it first in 2018.
Awkward.
IN 2019 a pregnant Meghan had run out of maternity looks but when it came to going to the Canadian Embassy she looked to Diana’s pregnancy wardrobe.
Wearing an Erdem green dress with matching coat finished with black embroidery, Meg was the spitting image of the Princess of Wales when she was pregnant with Prince William in 1982.
From the matching colourway to the collar detailing, this look was a right royal rip off.
PAYING tribute to Diana in the early years of being a Duchess, Meg wore a blue and white floral Oscar de la Renta gown to the wedding of the Princess of Wales’ niece.
Bearing a resemblance to a frock Di wore in 1986 on a trip to Saudi Arabia, the outfit didn’t quite replicate the original as fans compared her to a pair of curtains.
This outfit was less dupe, more drapes.
Among the list of priorities on the Atlanta Falcons’ offseason, is figuring out what to do with veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins. With Michael Penix Jr. expected to take over in his second campaign, the Falcons now decide on a way to rid themselves of Cousins’ large contract. The Falcons would certainly rather get some type […]
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The Michigan football team recently added former Charlotte head coach Biff Poggi to the 2025 coaching staff, and the Wolverines are expected to formally introduce him as the new associate head coach. Poggi was on the Michigan staff under Jim Harbaugh, and he was an associate head coach for the Wolverines then as well. Poggi […]
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JJ CHALMERS and his cycling legend pal Sir Chris Hoy hope to land TV roles together at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow – after captivating fans with their coverage of last summer’s Olympics.
Ex-Royal Marine JJ was part of the BBC’s presenting team in Paris, while determined Sir Chris critiqued performances just months after revealing he has prostate cancer.
Six-times Olympic gold medal winner Sir Chris, 48, later revealed his illness was terminal after spreading to his bones, and said he had two to four years left to live.
But that has not stopped him embracing sporting opportunities.
JJ, 38, says: “Chris and I are very good friends and I had a sense of the circumstances he’d been living through for quite a while.
“But Chris was so determined that he would make it to Paris. He kept saying that he wanted to be there. I’m so glad he made it as he did such an amazing job.”
Asked if they hope to work together again covering track cycling at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome when the Commonwealth Games returns to Glasgow next year, JJ adds: “Oh, God, yeah.
“We did the World Cycling Championships in Glasgow in 2023, but I’m delighted The Commonwealth Games are coming back. They are an amazing event.
“I adored the Birmingham Games. Chris worked at the (2014) Glasgow Games, but I wasn’t even in broadcasting the last time they were here, so that’ll be special.”
Edinburgh-born JJ — real name John-James — was seriously injured in a 2011 bomb blast in Helmand Province which killed two of his comrades.
He suffered a broken neck, crushed eye socket, shattered eardrum, a “mangled” elbow and lost two fingers.
But he rebuilt his life after more than 30 major operations and went on to win cycling medals at pal Prince Harry’s inaugural Invictus Games in 2014.
Incredibly, it was his devastating injuries that saw him fulfil a childhood ambition to become a TV presenter.
The married dad-of-two says: “I’d always wanted to get into TV but had no idea how.
“But when I did the Invictus Games, it involved being interviewed on telly.
“So my entry into the industry was providing an insight to competitions like the Paralympic Games.
“Now I’m seen as a presenter first and foremost, then a presenter with a disability after that.”
JJ became a true household name in 2020 when he made it to the quarter finals of Strictly Come Dancing with professional partner Amy Dowden.
And he believes the long-running BBC show still has a future, despite the bullying storm involving pro Giovanni Pernice and actress Amanda Abbington.
JJ says: “I’ve got no personal insight into those circumstances.
“But obviously, I’ve been through the Strictly process myself.
“It is a difficult process, it isn’t just a bit of fun. It’s a tough gig to do. I certainly felt it both physically and mentally, too, because of the social media battering you take.
“There’s a lot of noise when you’re on that show as everyone’s got an opinion. So you have to have a very thick skin to survive it.
“But when it actually starts running, it’s just a pure joy on a Saturday night. And you only had to watch this year’s 20th series to realise how much people still enjoyed it.”
JJ has pushed his body to its limits throughout his career and would love a shot at Celebrity Gladiators — though he reckons his surgeon would rule it out. He explains: “I’m in pain all the time, it’s just to what degree.
“My body is restricted by the level of pain I can endure.
“So, yeah, it stops me doing some stuff in life but, equally, I try not to let it stop me.
“It’s a choice. If I want to go out and exercise, whatever that might be, I’m going to pay for it later.
“Equally, exercise is good for my mental health, so you’ve got to strike that balance.”
He adds: “Gladiators is one of the few shows that you can sit down and watch with the whole family.
“In a world where everyone’s now watching their own thing, it has that ability to bring people together to sit down and watch together.
“I’d be so up for doing it, but my body would never be able to stand it. My surgeon would also immediately say no.”
Despite his own condition, JJ insists he has nothing but admiration for how Sir Chris handled his terminal cancer diagnosis, while his lawyer wife Sarra, 40, discovered she has incurable multiple sclerosis at the same time.
A PLACE In The Sun star Danni Menzies was JJ Chalmers’ “rival” when they were kids, he jokingly revealed.
The pair, inset, were at Strathallan School, Perth, together. Danni, 36, later became godmother to JJ’s son James, five.
JJ, who lives in Edinburgh with wife Kornelia and also has a daughter Hayley, eight, says: “I went to school with Danni.
“We used to have a pretty fierce rivalry in our design and technology class.
“But she’s now godmother to my son, so we’re as tight as they come.”
JJ says he would love to one day land a high-octane hosting gig with Danni.
He adds: “We have presented the Edinburgh Tattoo together, but we would love to do a wonderful adventure-type programme or something like that.
“Live telly especially is my happy place, which is a bit of a random thing because, let’s be honest, it’s about the most terrifying thing you can do in broadcasting – but I adore it.”
While JJ and Kornelia have been married since 2015, his mate Danni still does not appear to have found Mr Right.
He says: “Do you know what? She deserves the perfect man – and one day she’ll find him.”
JJ says: “Both Chris and his wonderful wife Sarra have been unbelievably stoic and unbelievably hopeful throughout all of it.
“And it’s because they’re doing everything they possibly can to take on this battle. Chris knows what it’s like to dig in, get on with something and live with hard circumstances as he’s done it all his life.”
Now JJ is excited by the prospect of reuniting with the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time on future projects.
He says: “When it comes to sport, I’m just an enthusiast. I’m not going to sit next to Chris Hoy and try to tell him anything about bikes or riding them. But I can get the information out of him for the viewer at home.
“Not that Chris needs much encouragement as just talking about cycling brings him sheer joy.
“In fact, it makes him happier than just about anything, so of course I’m looking forward to working with him again.”
