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David Walliams persuades Simon Cowell to join Keri, a 43-year-old contestant on Britain's Got Talent, on stage.

Britain's Got Talent draws complaints over lap dance and child singing about one-night stand

Some viewers have grumbled that ratings-winning Britain's Got Talent was not suitable for family viewing after featuring a lap dance and a child singing about a one-night stand.

Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre performing The Rite of Spring at Sadlers Wells London

Dance review: The Rite of Spring & Petrushka
Sadler’s Wells, London

Staged by Irish choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan for Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, The Rite of Spring suggests a late and shivery spring, rather like this year’s. Created in 2009 and revised for this revival, Keegan-Dolan’s Rite returns as part of the centenary celebrations for Stravinsky’s iconic ballet, which had its riotous first performance in 1913.

Anoushka Shankar

Music review: Anoushka Shankar, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Fusion is a naff word these days, fit only for restaurants waiting quiveringly to be sneered at by Gordon Ramsay. If you wish to collide two unlikely cultural elements to form curiously flavoured new compounds, the desired term is that you’re setting up a “conversation”.

Vincent Simone with his partner Susan Duddy and their three-year-old son Luca

Strictly Come Dancing star Vincent Simone to be father again

Strictly star Vincent Simone has spoken of his joy at being told he and his partner are expecting their second child just as they were preparing to start fertility treatment.

Wigan’s Liam Farrell is held up by Danny Addy and Nick Scruton

Farrell earns credit from Wigan's early command

Bradford 6 Wigan 36

Gentleman style? South Korean superstar Psy releases video for Gangnam follow-up single

Psy has released the long-awaited video to his new single "Gentleman", the follow-up to "Gangnam Style".

Review: Z - A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, By Therese Anne Fowler

The secret life of a party girl
Cool casa: One of the bedrooms

B&B and Beyond: Casa Blanca, Cartagena, Colombia

Escape the heat in cool, open-plan rooms and on the city's biggest roof terrace, says Patrick Welch

South Korean rapper Psy who is due to unveil his new look and dance routine for

First listen: 'Gentlemen' by Psy

What does K-pop’s Emperor sound like without his clothes, or impish physicality?

'PSY marks a new phenomenon - upbeat, relentlessly cheerful, cheesy and ironic'

Can he beat 'Gangnam Style'? Psy unveils new single 'Gentleman' with the refrain 'I am a party mafia!'

South Korean rapper Psy released his much-anticipated new single at midnight last night - and is hoping to repeat the success of its predecessor "Gangnam Style" which has made him the biggest star to emerge from the growing K-pop music scene.

Psy (Park Jae Sang) is the latest export from South Korea’s K-Pop (or Korean Pop) culture

Gangham Style's Psy in pictures

A success story behind the song which lyrics where sung by Koreans and choreography danced by the world

Former lead Sergei Polunin who left the Midnight Express production

Dance review: Midnight Express, London Coliseum

The onstage drama can’t compete with the goings-on behind the scenes. A week before the London premiere of the Peter Schaufuss Ballet’s Midnight Express, its star Sergei Polunin left the production. Last year, Polunin’s shock resignation from The Royal Ballet was front page news; he’s getting a reputation for disappearing acts. Given the quality of Midnight Express, he’s well out of it.

'PSY marks a new phenomenon - upbeat, relentlessly cheerful, cheesy and ironic'

Brace yourself for Psy's second act - but will it live up to Gangnam Style?

It was impossible to escape his first single – but can the Korean rapper strike it big a second time?

Ballet star Sergei Polunin found in Moscow after vanishing from London rehearsals

A spokesperson said 'he is alive and well in Moscow'

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Masculinity in crisis?

'There is a battle going on inside us that is never discussed'
Have US shock jocks gone too far?

Have US shock jocks gone too far?

An incendiary remark from Rush Limbaugh may be the beginning of the end for outspoken right-wing US broadcasters
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The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey

Elmbridge pays more income tax than big cities of the North
Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies

Michael Landy's artistic marriage made in heaven... and hell
'He will always be a friend': Jackie Stewart backs Polanski

'He will always be a friend'

Jackie Stewart backs Roman Polanski
The price of pacifism: Refusing to go to war is finally being recognised as a brave act

The price of pacifism

From the Second World War refusenik to the 19-year-old Israeli, Holly Williams talks to five people who risked shame and suffering to take a stand as conscientious objector.
'It was mass hysteria': Jason Isaacs on groupies, theatre bores and snogging James Bond

Jason Isaacs: Groupies, theatre bores and James Bond

To millions, Jason Isaacs is one of Harry Potter's arch enemies – but his wife prefers him as a Scottish TV detective.
Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?

Sealand: 'Micronation' or illegal fortress?

Thomas Hodgkinson spent a week at the tiny platform off the Suffolk coast to find out.
Not a bad bone: Mark Hix cooks with cutlets and ribs

Mark Hix cooks with cutlets and ribs

If you ignore cutlets and ribs, you'll risk missing out on some delicious and easy meals, says our chef.
The experts' guide to summer: From getting fit for the beach to recreating that Olympic buzz

The experts' guide to summer

From getting fit for the beach to recreating that Olympic buzz
Sex, drugs and fast cars: The legend of James Hunt has set Hollywood hearts racing

Legend of James Hunt has set Hollywood hearts racing

Early glimpses of Ron Howard's film Rush suggest it will portray Hunt as a high-living lothario, with an insatiable appetite for partying.
Macklemore: 'I don't have moderation when using drugs and alcohol. It was hurting my life'

Macklemore: 'I don't have moderation'

The next Vanilla Ice or the next Eminem? Macklemore doesn't have a record contract – but he does have the UK's biggest-selling single of the year.
Don't be shy: Bill Granger's Sri Lankan recipes

Don't be shy: Bill Granger's Sri Lankan recipes

Sri Lankan cuisine is light, sunny, wonderfully spiced – and so easy to cook from scratch. Just as soon as you've broken into the coconut, that is.
Sir James Dyson’s latest project: Cleaning up hospitals

Sir James Dyson’s latest project: Cleaning up hospitals

Doctors are hailing the revamp of a Bath neonatal unit, where babies sleep more and feed better, as the model for patient care
One man returns to Argentina's town that drowned

One man returns to Argentina's town that drowned

Epecuen was submerged under 10 metres of water in 1985. Now the floods have gone – and 83-year-old Pablo Novak has moved back in