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1. Jonathan Pryce: ‘Does Ricky Gervais watch his own work? He shouldn’t’

   The Welsh acting great talks to Patrick Smith about ‘Game of Thrones’, seeing his father’s ghost, the vanity of youth, and his new crime drama ‘Under Salt Marsh’, shot near his boyhood haunts

2. Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic to win Australian Open and complete career grand slam

   Alcaraz became the youngest man to complete the career grand slam with a four-set win over Djokovic, denying the 38-year-old in his latest bid to win a 25th major

3. Polanski brands Starmer jibe ‘disgraceful’ as he hits out at PM’s ‘cheap jokes’

4. Djokovic v Alcaraz live: Alcaraz completes career grand slam to make history in Australian Open final

   The 22-year-old becomes the youngest man to complete the career grand slam after denying Djokovic in his latest bid for a 25th grand slam title

5. Dominik Szoboszlai makes statement of intent to extend Liverpool contract

   Szoboszlai has expressed his desire to pen a contract extension at Anfield but admits there has been ‘no progression’ in talks

6. Polanski condemns Starmer’s ‘high on drugs, soft on Putin’ jibe as ‘beneath the office of the prime minister’

   The Green Party leader criticised the prime minister for deploying ‘cheap jokes’ on ‘serious issues’

7. David Beckham rivals estranged son Brooklyn as he cooks for Gordon Ramsay

   Sir David Beckham channeled his estranged son and showed off his cooking skills as he prepared a dish for Gordon Ramsay.

8. How queueing turned cool and ruined a nice day out

   From bakeries to bars, there are queues everywhere you turn. Lydia Spencer-Elliott digs in to how the ultra-British practise turned trendy and stopped us totally in our tracks

9. Robbie Williams contacts Take That fan decades after she gave him her number

   This is what happened when Robbie Williams reached out to a Take That fan decades after she gave him her number.

10. Love Island star recreates infamous Hollyoaks scene leaving fans in stitches

    A former Hollyoaks star has recreated an infamous scene during an episode of Love Island, leaving fans in hysterics.