Peter Capaldi in 'Inside the Mind with Leonardo'

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Lee Mead and Denise van Outen pictured together in 2010.

Any Dream Won't Do: Denise van Outen and Lee Mead confirm split after four years

They met while filming Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's talent show Any Dream Will Do. But it seems the happy ending has gone sour for judge Denise van Outen and the contest's winner Lee Mead after four years of marriage.

Last night's viewing - Long Lost Family, ITV

The last time I cried during prime-time on ITV, Argentinian goalkeeper Carlos Roa had just saved a penalty from David Batty and England's football team were heading back home from Saint-Etienne. Now, I'm not saying that those soapy montages on The X Factor, or whatever, never moved me, but, well, actually, that's exactly what I'm saying. This third series of Long Lost Family had me in puddles. Just like a shanked hoof by an English midfielder. Long Lost Family follows a fairly simple format – researchers find stories of people who've lost their mother/brother/sisters/father and set out to seek and reunite them. Essentially, it's the last five minutes of Surprise, Surprise without Bob Carolgees and Cilla's song.

Justin Lee Collins fined for speeding offence

Justin Lee Collins has been hit with a £327 bill for speeding on a motorway in his Mini Cooper.

Respectability: Rocks Lane in Barnes, London, former haunt of an alleged paedophile ring

Elm Guest House investigation: Former senior cabinet minister faces rape investigation

CPS considers charges as police looking into guesthouse paedophile ring broaden their inquiry

Book review: Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV, By Martin Kelner

Even if you're indifferent to sport and the conjecture "no one with the possible exception of the Dark Lord, [David] Coleman, did it better than [Frank] Bough", you should buy this book.

We own the royal baby - perhaps that's why he/she doesn't want to come out yet

It is a curious phenomenon, that those who purport to love the Royals wilfully inflict so much misery upon them

Mishal Husain will join presenters on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

BBC announces Mishal Husain as new female voice for Today programme

Show's stalwart presenter Jim Naughtie has moved to work on coverage of Scottish independence referendum

Colin Murray is leaving Radio 5 Live for talkSPORT

BBC presenter Colin Murray leaves for talkSPORT

Last month the BBC had to apologise over a section of Murray's Fighting Talk programme which saw discussion on whether gay presenter Clare Balding could be cured

Credo: Margaret Mountford: 'I was once called the nation's favourite headmistress'

The ex-lawyer, ex-'Apprentice' adviser and reluctant celebrity on ambition and debt

Esther Rantzen: The pain of losing her husband, Desmond Wilcox, never goes

Radio review: Free Thinking in the Summer - Love is a many-splendoured catflap

Love has been compared to many things but rarely, I suspect, to a catflap. More precisely, believes the author A L Kennedy, “a catdoor in your soul”: it allows your beloved pet to come in, but also allows it to go out again and abandon you – “and you get foxes and badgers and burglars …”.

Freddie Starr

Freddie Starr rebailed over alleged sexual offences

Comedian was arrested in November under the "Savile and others" strand and then re-arrested in April, under the strand unrelated to Savile

Review into high street attacks Portas plan

Ex Focus boss warns against 'false hope'
Inside the Big Brother house 2013

Scotland Yard warns Channel 5 about risk of having ex-Operation Yewtree detective in Big Brother house

The officer quit his job investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal to take up a place in the Channel 5 reality TV show

Greek PM faces revolt over state TV closure as unions stage general strike

Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation shut down while on-air in move to curb ‘excesses’

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Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

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Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

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Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

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