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SIR Michael Parkinson will continue as the chat show king from beyond the grave — thanks to Artificial Intelligence.

The technology will be used to recreate Parky’s distinctive voice as he quizzes famous names for a podcast.

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Michael Parkinson will continue as the chat show king from beyond the grave — thanks to Artificial Intelligence[/caption]

His son Michael has given his backing to the project for which a string of potential interview subjects have been identified.

An insider told The Sun: “The fact that a bizarre project like this is being pursued is a measure of just how adored Parky was and how missed he now is.

“Although it sounds strange, using AI like this will keep the memory of the grand inquisitor alive and remember him for doing what he did best — grilling famous people.”

Proud Yorkshireman Sir Michael died after a brief illness last August aged 88.

He found fame presenting his TV talk show Parkinson from 1971 to 1982, and 1998 to 2007.

He hosted other chat shows and programmes in the UK and abroad.

In his early years he interviewed some of the world’s biggest stars including Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Muhammad Ali, Helen Mirren and Billy Connolly.

His many other memorable telly moments include his clash with Rod Hull and his aggressive puppet Emu in 1976 and his infamously frosty interview with actress Meg Ryan in 2003.

KEEPING windows and glass doors sparkling clean is a near-impossible task, especially if you’ve got kids who like to touch everything with their fingers.

But according to the former TOWIE star Amy Childs, there’s no need to fork out a fortune on posh products to remove the dirt and grime.

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Amy Childs has revealed how she keeps her windows and glass surfaces pristine cleaning – despite having four kids running around her Essex home[/caption]

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The reality star, 34, was raving over a purse-friendly cleaning product you can bag from Home Bargains[/caption]

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According to the TOWIE star, Home Bargains has the ‘cheapest’ price for the cleaning essential[/caption]

Chatting with the fellow celeb Charlotte Dawson, the busy mum-of-four revealed that she swears by a simple and foolproof routine to keep her home pristine at all times.

”I just get a window cleaner and a cloth,” she said, adding there was no special way of doing it.

”Just spray it on,” she chuckled, emphasising it was really that easy.

”I’ve got a lot of windows in my house. I do have a window cleaner every five weeks,” said the 34-year-old beauty who described herself as ”very OCD”.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, is a severe anxiety disorder that affects 12 in every 1000 people.

The disorder doesn’t discriminate between age, race or gender and according to the charity OCD-UK, it can be so debilitating that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ranked OCD among the top ten when it comes to the most disabling illnesses of any kind – in terms of lost earnings and lessened quality of life.

There are two aspects to OCD – obsessions and the compulsions.

Obsessions are thoughts, ideas and urges which feel impossible to ignore by sufferers – and they can be very persistent.

On the other hand, compulsions are the ritual sufferers perform to rid themselves of the anxiety felt from the obsessive thoughts.

”No one knows this about me but I’m very OCD – me and Billy row cause about the cleaning.

”You’d never know kids live in my house – of course, I’ve the toys out upstairs, whatever, but I’m very OCD.”

Spilling the beans on the secret product she uses to tackle the mess on the glass surfaces, Amy revealed it’s Mr Muscle Platinum Window & Glass Spray.

The spray, which you can find at Wilko for £1.79, contains a popular cleaning ingredient – vinegar – and promises ”to give surfaces a streak-free shine”.

This easy-to-use spray defeats tough dirt, helping to make window cleaning a breeze – simply spray and wipe with a clean cloth or a newspaper.

Charlotte chimed in: ”Get yourself down to Home Bargains or B&M.

”Get Mr Muscle – you might even end up with a Mr Muscle,” the mum-of-three chuckled on the Charlotte Dawson’s Naughty Corner podcast.

As explained by Bedword Window Cleaning, this cupboard essential is not only safe and environmentally friendly, but it also provides a high standard of cleaning for your windows. 

This is due to vinegar’s acidic nature that helps dissolve grime, stains, and dirt present on glass surfaces.

Moreover, vinegar leaves a streak-free shine that makes windows look crystal clear – it’s really a win-win that also doesn’t cost a fortune.

RIVALS has been a smash hit on Disney plus and fans are clamouring to visit the Cotswolds town that the show’s characters call home.

Jilly Cooper’s series is set in the town of Rutshire, which is said to be somewhere in the South West, but fans may run into trouble if they try to visit.

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Country living

Rutshire is a fictional town that doesn’t actually exist, so fans of the series won’t be able to visit.

However, the show was filmed across Gloucestershire and Wiltshire so fans can visit the stunning countryside settings that were the backdrop of some of the show’s raciest moments.

The show’s team wanted Rutshire to be quite different to the typical idea of an English village.

Their vision was of a town that was “as full of ravishing countryside as it is workaholics and their bored spouses, where Barbour jackets do battle with fast cars and buckets of champagne”.

Home of scandal

Rivals is based on a book of the same name which was first released in 1988 and written by the “Queen of the bonkbuster” Dame Jilly Cooper.

The book and TV series follow a group of aristocratic characters whose petty rivalries and illicit affairs become an interwoven tapestry of deceit.

Lord Tony Baddingham (played by David Tennant) becomes locked in a bitter battle for control of a TV with an Olympic showjumper named Rupert Campbell-Black (played by Alex Hassel).

Their feud draws in characters played by Danny Dyer, Emily Atack, Katherine Parkinson, Aiden Turner and Nafessa Williams.

Soon the calm of their Cotwolds town is rocked by the characters’ self-destructive habits and decadent lifestyles.

The show engages with contemporary issues too, referencing homophobia and sexual assault in the workplace and presenting the inequalities of life in the 1980s.

Dame Jilly Cooper

Dame Jilly Cooper is the author of the Rutshire chronicles which follow Rupert Campbell-Black’s scandalous lifestyle in the Cotswolds.

She was born in Hornchurch, Essex, on February 21, 1937, and had several careers before getting her big break as the writer of Riders and Rivals.

Jilly worked as a journalist, a publisher’s assistant and a non-fiction author.

Her books were so successful that she was made a Dame in 2004.

She even appears in the TV adaptation of Rivals in episode 5 when Katherine Parkinson’s character, Lizzie Vereker, goes to meet her book editor (played by Felicity Kendall).

The camera pans to Dame Jilly Cooper’s shocked face when Felicity’s character reads aloud from Lizzie’s saucy book.

DONALD Trump and JD Vance’s phones have reportedly been “hacked”, launching an urgent probe into the potential breach.

Chinese hackers tapped into Verizon’s system and targeted the phones used by Republican presidential candidate and his running mate, sources claim.

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Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump[/caption]

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It’s believed to have been part of an infiltration of the Verizon phone system[/caption]

The New York Times said investigators were working to determine what communications, if any, were taken.

Staff were warned that data may have been accessed in the unbelievable hack.

The Trump campaign was made aware this week that the ex-president and Vance were among a number of people whose phone numbers were targeted through the infiltration of Verizon phone systems, it added.

The Trump campaign was hacked earlier this year.

The U.S. Justice Department charged three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps with the hack and trying to disrupt the Nov. 5 election.

The hackers attempted to sow chaos in the presidential election by leaking documents to the press.

Politico first reported the hack after receiving emails from an anonymous account that included documents from Trump’s campaign.

The campaign claimed that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.”

Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign told Politico that the documents were “obtained illegally from foreign sources” and “intended to interfere” with the 2024 election.

“On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee,” Cheung added.

The documents leaked to Politico were deemed authentic by two sources familiar with the matter.

One of the documents reportedly included Trump’s running mate, JD Vance’s vetting file.

The 271-page file included information on Vance’s records, as well as public criticisms of Trump.

The file was identified as “Potential Vulnerabilities.”

The documents also included information on Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who was on the shortlist for Trump’s running mates.

The hacker claimed they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.”

“I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them,” the hacker said, according to Politico.

“The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their reign of terror just like he did in his first four years in the White House,” Cheung said.

Iranian leader Qasem Soleimani was killed in 2020 during a US airstrike ordered by Trump’s administration.

Soleimani died at the Baghdad International Airport.

He led Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, a unit that was once deemed a foreign terrorist organization by the US.

HACKERS OF DAYS PAST

The hack comes after a similar incident in the 2016 presidential election.

Top officials in the Democratic Party were targeted and their emails leaked to the public ahead of the election.

The emails included private information on the inner workings of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Many of the emails were published by WikiLeaks and tainted Clinton’s White House bid.

National security officials later accused Russia of the hack.

The incident gained national attention and later led to the sensational 2017 investigation by the Justice Department.

Special counsel Robert Mueller was assigned to the case and found no evidence connecting the Trump campaign to the Russian hackers.

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