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SHE’S already treated fans to a bumper year with her third album Radical Optimism and an epic headline set at Glastonbury.

But Dua Lipa isn’t quite done with 2024 just yet.

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I can reveal the New Rules singer will release her first ever live album as she looks ahead to her debut ­stadium tour in the coming days.

The record will be released in just a few weeks and was recorded at her one-off Royal Albert Hall gig in London last month.

The special show saw Dua belt out her biggest hits, flanked by the 53-piece Heritage Orchestra, a 14-strong choir and her own seven-piece band.

During the gig she was joined by music legend Elton John for a performance of their 2021 hit single Cold Heart.

The concert will air later this year as an ITV special called An Evening With Dua Lipa.

However, unlike the channel’s other An ­Audience With shows, such as Adele and Kylie’s, Dua is not expected to take questions from the crowd.

Instead the programme will follow a concert film format.

A source said: “Dua wanted to give something back to her fans after an amazing year.

“She’s dabbled with live releases before, such as with her Brit Awards performance but this is the first time she will release a full live album.

“It’s expected to be announced in the coming weeks.”

Next week Dua will kick off her Radical Optimism tour, with two nights at the Singapore Indoor ­Stadium.

The mammoth run reaches the UK next summer when Dua will play two sold-out shows at Wembley Arena as well as a couple of dates at ­Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium.

Bring it on.

FORMER boxer Rendall Munroe has announced the tragic death of his son.

The former British super bantamweight champion shared the heartbreaking update on Sunday evening.

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Rendall Munroe has shared the shock death of his son[/caption]

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Munroe faced Toshiaki Nishioka for the WBC super bantamweight in 2010[/caption]

Munroe, known affectionately as The Boxing Binman, enjoyed a decade-long career in the ring.

He hung up his gloves in 2014 and formerly held the EBU and Commonwealth Super Bantamweight titles.

The 44-year-old, who is now a boxing trainer, took to his social media on Sunday to share a devastating personal update.

He revealed his son Tiela, who was in his mid-20s and a former youth footballer with Leicester City, had been found dead on October 25.

Munroe wrote on X: “Myself and [partner] Lisha have not said anything.

“But we think it’s time to say as people have heard but don’t know what to say or how to ask if it’s true.

“Friday 25th are[sic] first born Tiela was found in his flat dead.

“Myself, mum, brother and sister are heartbroken at this moment in time.”

Tiela was honoured during Thursday night boxing at Leicester’s Mattioli Arena, where Munroe’s fighter Sean Bruce was taking on Callum Singh.

Munroe hails from Leicester and spent the majority of his early career balancing his boxing with working as a bin man.

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Munroe was known as The Boxing Binman due to his day job[/caption]

He eventually packed in his refuse work when he got the call to challenge Toshiaki Nishioka for the WBC super-bantamweight title in Japan in 2010.

He recalled in an interview with talkSPORT: “Mike and Jay [Shinfield, my trainers] said to me, ‘Look, you need to concentrate more on the boxing now’.

“It was the wrong thing to do because I used to like being a ‘normal person’.

“I liked being a boxer for a training camp, eight weeks, and then I’m just Rendall, back on the bins – a normal guy.

“After [the Nishioka fight], everything became boxing. You’re bored in the daytime but can’t train because you’d over-train.

“I was always very active, so it messed me up a little. I started going for runs when I didn’t need to.

“When I retired [in 2014], I went back and they told me I had no job.”

Munroe finished his pro career with 28 wins from 34 fights, with 11 victories by KO.

RIVALS star Emily Atack has revealed she held raunchy parties at her parents’ house when she was a teenager where pals lost their virginities.

The comedian and actress – who stars as Sarah Stratton in the sex-mad Disney+ drama – was known her wild parties which often turned into bonkfests.

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Emily Atack has opened up about her raunchy house parties as a teenager – with one incident leaving mums talking for weeks at the school gates[/caption]

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Emily’s character in Rivals is interrupted during a game of naked tennis with Rupert Campbell Black, who is played by Alex Hassell[/caption]

Emily, 34, said the antics at the events were so wild that her friends had to hide the fact they were going to the Luton native’s house from their own families.

Recalling the boozy get-togethers, the mum-of-one said: “Everyone at school had to lie to their parents about where they were going because people lost their virginity, drinking, smoking.”

Appearing on Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains, she told how one teenage girl had projectile vomited on her dad’s belongings during an intimate encounter.

The former Inbetweeners star explained: “I remember my dad, he was a guitarist for Bonnie Tyler at the time and he was touring the world with Bonnie Tyler and there was a time where he had left his stuff, he was going away the next day.

“He layed out all of his stuff, like his suitcase, all of his clothes, everything and a couple had gone into the room and was sh*****g in the bed and then the girl threw up pink vomit all over my dad’s stuff, like all over.

“It was all insane.”

But one ‘scandal’ involving a sex toy left the local mums aghast – and talking for weeks on end at the school gates.

Emily said: “One party, someone said ‘oh what’s in that cupboard up there on the wall’ and I’d never looked in there I was like ‘I don’t know let’s have a look’ and we opened it and there was a massive d***o in there, I don’t know whose it was.

“And so everyone was passing it around, throwing it around and rubbing it in people’s faces and all that.

“Then I said ‘right, let’s go put it on the neighbour’s car up the road’, and so we all put bomber jackets on and we all legged it up the road and we stuck it on top of a neighbour’s car.

“For weeks people were talking about it really seriously, going ‘we need to find out where this d***o has come from’ and I would hear the mums at all the meetings talking about it and at the school gates.”

Last month Rivals fans watched as Emily’s character Sarah Stratton could be seen indulging in a game of naked tennis with her charmer Rupert Campbell Black, who is played by Alex Hassell.

Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains is on Monday night at 9pm on Comedy Central.

STRICTLY Come Dancing has revealed the sixth celebrity to be axed after another shock dance off.

The two couples who found themselves in the bottom two tonight have never been in the dance off before.

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Strictly Come Dancing has revealed the sixth celebrity to be axed after another shock dance off[/caption]

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Sam Quek and Nikita Kuzmin were sent home by the judges[/caption]

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The couple had danced an American Smooth to Love Story by Taylor Swift during Icons Week[/caption]

And one, Montell Douglas, was a shock to see there having finished in the top half on the leaderboard after Saturday night’s live show with pro partner Johannes Radebe.

She went up against Sam Quek in the dance off, and ultimately, the judges opted to send the former England hockey player and her pro partner Nikita Kuzmin home.

Sam and Nikita danced an American Smooth to Love Story by Taylor Swift as part of Strictly’s first ever Icons Week, and ended up third from bottom of the leaderboard with 29 points.

Meanwhile Montell and Johannes danced a Waltz to I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston and scored an impressive 35 points, placing them fourth on the leaderboard.

However the public vote changed all that and saw the two women end up dancing again.

After they had performed, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke unanimously voted to save Montell and Johannes.

Speaking to host Tess Daly after the decision was made, Sam said: “I’m gutted, I just want to say thank you. I’ve learned so much.

“Strictly has just brought that spring in my step back. It’s just been an absolute joy.”

Speaking to her partner, she added: “Nikita, you’ve been key in helping me find that inner Sam that was there, who went a little bit quiet for maybe one or two years and has just come back.

“I’m gutted because I do feel like I still have more to give.”

Nikita said: “I’m just in awe of this girl. Sometimes they say it’s about the journey, not the destination, but to me it’s about the company.

“Sam you are the most wonderful company I could have had.”

The feeling was mutual as Sam replied: “I’m guilty of watching the competition and thinking ‘how do they have that relationship as a celebrity and a dancer?’

“All I can say is, the time you spend with each other and what you bring out in each other.

“It really is, and it sounds dead cheesy, magical.”

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Sam said she felt she had more to give and was gutted to be leaving the competition[/caption]

Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One and is available on BBC iPlayer.

NON-BINARY star Emma Corrin is being lined up to play Keira Knightley’s role in Pride And Prejudice.

The Crown actor, 28, is set to portray Elizabeth Bennet in an upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel.

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Emma Corrin is being lined up to play Keira Knightley’s role in Pride And Prejudice[/caption]

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A script for the series, which is in early development at Netflix, is being written by Everything I Know About Love author Dolly Alderton.

Keira, 39, played the lead role in the 2005 big screen version.

A source said: “Dolly is working on a Pride And Prejudice script for Netflix and thinks Emma would be perfect to play Elizabeth.

“She is a big fan of Emma’s work, most notably in The Crown where Emma played Princess Diana.

“Dolly is also very progressive and forward-thinking, so thinks that having a non-binary star in the role would be a brilliant move.”

Emma came out as non-binary in 2021, saying they felt “more seen” when referred to as “they.”

Last year, Emma said: “It’s not a rejection of femininity or masculinity, it’s sort of an embrace of both.

“My experience on this earth has been a female one, up until recently, and I still love all those parts of me.

“But I would love to play non- binary, new parts, male parts.”

Netflix is said to be keen to green-light the production following the success of its adaptation of Austen’s novel Persuasion in 2022.

The BBC is also creating a ten-part series, The Other Bennet Sister, focusing on Elizabeth’s sister Mary.

OVER the next four months, Fatboy Slim is performing all over the world, with shows lined up in Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and Las Vegas.

And the DJ – aka Norman Cook – has no plans to wind down any time soon.

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DJ Fatboy Slim has credited his ex-wife with keeping him on the straight and narrow[/caption]

“I will keep going until I drop,” Fatboy told us.

“I genuinely love my job so much. I have still got a passion for it – I am still driven to DJ like when I started at 15.

“I have fallen out of love making records but I love the DJ side of it. Slowing down and quitting is not an option.

“I glimpsed at retirement and it was the abyss of golf and endless lunches.”

I think that sounds like rather good fun.

Opening up ahead of his massive All Back To Minehead three-day event in Butlin’s this weekend, Norman, said he credited his ex-wife, Radio 2 host Zoe Ball, with helping keep him on the straight and narrow back in the Nineties when fame arrived.

He said: “I was having too much fun to think about the next day or the next thing. It was like being on top of a big wave and you had to stay on.

“Zoe helped me through it as she knew that level of fame before and she is a very kind, thoughtful person and she just had this way of checking my ego.

“She brought me through the trickier bits. We could talk about it as we were thrust into the same spotlight.

“It was nice to have a soulmate in there with you.”

Ari’s Wicked move

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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo attend the first of five global premieres for the eagerly anticipated Wicked musical[/caption]

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Pop star-turned-actress Ariana wore a puffy pink frock[/caption]

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Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba, wore a strapless black gown[/caption]

ARIANA GRANDE channelled the original good witch Glinda from The Wizard Of Oz at the world premiere of Wicked in Australia.

The pop star-turned-actress wore a puffy pink frock to the event in Sydney, while her co-star Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba, wore a strapless black gown.

It was the first of five global premieres for the eagerly anticipated musical, with the last one being a red carpet launch in London – where it was filmed – on ­November 18.

The pair spent more than a year working on the project and its sequel, which will be out next year, and Ariana said she threw herself into the role and even ditched her phone to avoid being distracted by her many other business ventures.

Speaking about her determination to “take good care” of Glinda, Ariana told the Sentimental Men podcast: “There wasn’t gonna be any other thing in my brain or in my ­workload.

“I wasn’t going to be writing music or on as many of the calls for my beauty, my fragrance or my other things. I really tried to give my full self to her. I had a separate phone for the first few months, a pink phone.

“I was ‘gone’. I just wanted to fully be there and be as present as possible.”

Charli’s Gucci coup

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CHARLI XCX was the toast of Hollywood after being invited to perform at the 13th annual LACMA gala in front of a celeb-packed crowd.

She was dressed in top-to-toe Gucci, thanks to the fashion house sponsoring the event, and performed some of her biggest hits from No1 album Brat.

Stars including Blake Lively and Andrew Garfield, director Baz ­Luhrmann, and Kim Kardashian watched the show, with Troye Sivan jumping on stage to perform their collaboration Talk Talk.

It’s been a busy few weeks for Charli, who is also working on new film 100 Nights Of Hero alongside Emma Corrin.

And she’s not slowing down, with her Brat arena tour kicking off in ­Manchester on November 27.

I bow to your work ethic, Charli.

Gigi’s on the rise

GIGI PEREZ is fighting to hold on to the No1 spot this Friday with Sailor Song.

The US singer is facing stiff competition from Rose and Bruno Mars’ new track Apt, and That’s So True by Gracie Abrams.

According to data from Official Charts’ First Look preview, just 1,000 chart units are now separating the top three tracks.

Chappell Roan is also primed to head into the Top 5 with Hot To Go, a new chart peak for the tune.

Meanwhile, KSI and Trippie Redd are making good headway and are on course to reach a new peak at No5 with Thick Of It.

Sabrina Carpenter is also reaching a new high with Bed Chem, which is likely to place at No8.

It’s all to play for.

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EVERY celeb and their dog wanted in on Banksy‘s latest ­auction. Insiders tell me Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt both had assistants phoning in to get their hands on some of the British ­artist’s best work.

The lots included original sketches and manuscripts, as well as the original proof print of his famous Girl With Balloon.

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THE UK’s biggest family festival, In It Together, has announced Kaiser Chiefs, Becky Hill and Ronan Keating as 2025 headliners.

It runs from May 23 to 25 at Margam in South Wales.

It will also be the first night of the Kaiser Chiefs’ series of shows across the country next summer.

The "Dawson's Creek" alum revealed his diagnosis on Sunday and said that he's been coping with the health scare "with the support" of his family.

Gov. Hochul Kathy Hochul is facing a fierce backlash for smearing New Yorkers who vote for Donald Trump and House Republican candidates as  "anti-American."

Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a campaign rally at the Kinston Jet Center, in North Carolina. Live coverage is scheduled for 2pm ET.

"She was kind of selfish." — Robin Wright about her "Forrest Gump" character.