MPs to vote on England's new lockdown - as PM faces Tory backlash
Boris Johnson will today urge MPs to approve England's new lockdown - but the prime minister is continuing to face a backlash from his own Conservative MPs over the fresh shutdown. Following a 90-minute debate on the new national measures, the House of Commons will on Wednesday afternoon vote on whether to give a second lockdown the go-ahead.If approved, pubs, bars, restaurants and non-essential shops will close across England on Thursday and stay shut until 2 December.And - for the next four weeks - people will be told to stay at home apart from when attending school, college, university, work or to go food shopping.
Actor Bryan Cranston took to social media on Thursday to announce that he had tested positive for the coronavirus despite “adhering to the protocols.” The Breaking Bad star said he has since recovered from the virus and is now donating his plasma to help others. “About now you’re probably feeling a
Bryan Cranston has a special COVID-19 announcement for those who have had the novel "About now you're probably feeling a little tied down, restricting your mobility and like me, you're tired of this," he In the post, Cranston said he "was one of the lucky ones" because he only had mild symptoms.
Bryan Cranston still hasn't fully regained his sense or smell months after his COVID-19 battle.
© Bang Showbiz Bryan Cranston The former 'Breaking Bad' actor has opened up on his recovery from the respiratory illness - which he contracted back in March - and while he's in good health, he admitted he is still feeling the effects.
Appearing on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show', he said: "The only thing that lingered, and still is to this day, is I lost a percentage of my ability to taste and smell.
"I think about 75 percent has come back, but if someone was brewing coffee, and I walk into a kitchen, I cannot... smell it."
The 64-year-old star - whose wife Robin Dearden got coronavirus first - revealed he was ill for about 10 days.
7 Lessons Boris Johnson Didn't Learn From The First Lockdown
Everyone makes mistakes – but the most important thing is to learn from them to avoid repeating them. But as England enters a second national lockdown, campaigners have heavily criticised the government for failing to learn from the errors it made during the first wave of the pandemic. Now scientists and public health experts have revealed some of the fatal flaws that are happening again – and they say lessons haven’t been learnt in the handling of the coronavirus crisis.Too slow to go into lockdown © PA A sign outside beau-k florists in Battle, East Sussex, ahead of a national lockdown for England from Thursday.
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston has revealed he has had coronavirus and urges people to wear face coverings. The US actor said he was “one of the lucky ones” as his symptoms The Malcolm In The Middle star said: “I was pretty strict in adhering to the protocols and still … I contracted the virus.”
In an Instagram post Thursday, 64-year-old Bryan Cranston revealed he’s recovering from a mild bout of COVID-19, and showed videos of himself preparing to donate plasma for research at UCLA’s Blood and Platelets Center.
Gallery: I can't believe I did that! Celebs share their most embarrassing childhood stories (BANG Showbiz)
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I can't believe I did that!
We might think that celebrities constantly have it together, especially when they’re gracing our social media feeds with perfectly posed pictures. But just like us, they have their fair share of awkward childhood memories that still make them look back and cringe. Here are 10 celebrities who have shared their most embarrassing childhood stories because who doesn’t love to laugh at someone else’s mishaps.
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Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner has spent more than half her life filming ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ and has had many of her embarrassing childhood moments caught on camera. However, in a video for Cosmopolitan, the makeup mogul and her sister Kendall shared a story from their early childhood. Kylie admitted that she had an embarrassing accident when she was five. Wanting to embarrass her further, Kendall chimed in: “She pooped all the way up the stairs, and it was all over the carpet … So she left a trail all the way to her room.”
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Scott Evans
Scott Evans recently played ‘Know Your Bro’ on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’. He appeared with older brother Chris Evans, a game that involved revealing embarrassing childhood stories while one sibling wore noise-cancelling headphones. When asked about Scott’s most embarrassing childhood Story, the ‘Avengers’ actor launched into a story about his younger brother’s “bowel control issues” during a ski trip. Chris shared that the issue got so bad they ran out of clean clothes for the five-year-old to change into. He said: "We're down to the last line of defence. It's just the snow pants. And he starts crying saying, 'It's gonna happen, and me and my sister are like, 'Just hang on.' He didn't make it."
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Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum may have become one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men, but the actor had his fair share of lady troubles growing up. The ‘Magic Mike’ star shared with Elle that he was dumped in front of his classmates. He said: “The first girl I ever kissed was named Danica. She broke up with me through a friend who yelled out the bus window ‘Oh yeah, Danica doesn't want to go out with you anymore.’ The whole bus burst into laughter.”
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Emma Watson
In an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ in 2017, the host confronted Emma Watson with an embarrassing outtake from the ‘Harry Potter’ film set. The actress shared that she was constantly told off by the director for mouthing along her co-stars’ lines. Staying true to Hermione’s know-it-all persona, Emma would learn her part by memorising everyone else’s dialogue as well. She told Jimmy Kimmel: “You laugh, this is actually quite traumatic for me. I created issues because of this. I would ruin takes … I really wanted to do my job well, and I kind of overdid it.”
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Joey King
Joey King took a tumble when she was little and cracked her chin open. It was such a traumatic experience for her because she was just in kindergarten and wanted to be well-liked. The 'The Kissing Booth’ star told Seventeen Magazine in 2018 that her classmates made fun of her for her stitches because the doctor didn’t cut them properly. Joey said: “Everyone made fun of me because they thought I had a small beard on my face … No one would believe me because they thought I had hair growing from the bottom of my chin. It was really embarrassing.”
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Liam Payne
One Direction's Liam Payne had a particularly shameful episode when he was at primary school. When Liam was seven, a girl he really liked tickled him and he wet himself. But just when he thought he ruined everything, the chart-topping singer got the chance to make up for the embarrassing memory. He previously told Top of the Pops: “I saw her the other day, because she came to our concert. It was one of my redeeming moments. You just came to my concert so now you can let me off wetting myself.”
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Tia Mowry
Tia Mowry, one half of the stars of ‘Sister, Sister’ recently shared the most embarrassing story from her childhood on TODAY’s ‘Six-Minute Marathon’. The mother of two pulled out a tampon in front of a singing group called Shai. Tia’s brother was on the television series ‘Out All Night’, which the band were performing on and when she took her hand out of her coat pocket to greet them, the actress pulled out a tampon instead. She said: “I didn’t pick it up, I just stared at it. I was like ‘this is embarrassing’.”
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Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson is known for her amazing pipes and the singer hardly ever messes up a performance. However, this was not always the case as she shared with Access that her most embarrassing childhood moment was during a church performance of ‘Noah’s Ark’. The ‘American Idol’ alumni had accidentally put her animal costume on backwards, so the tail was dangling in front of her instead. Kelly said: “Everyone was laughing, I was like ‘you’re all going to hell’, I didn’t know why they were laughing because I thought I was nailing it … it’s fine, it built character.”
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Roman Kemp
Roman Kemp learned the hard way on Celebrity Gogglebox as to why you should never go on tv with your parents. Martin Kemp recently revealed an embarrassing incident from Roman’s childhood on the show, where the radio host was stung by a bee in a very unpleasant place when he was a baby. Martin reminisced about how he had never heard a baby scream so loudly: “It was tiny, I don’t even know how the bee could see it.” Going red in the face, Roman said: “Well at least the swelling made it bigger.”
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Joe Jonas
Joe Jonas learned the hard way that being too honest when logging on to an adult website does not pay off. Rather than using a fake address, the singer signed up for some websites using the address of his family home. Joe told Notion: “A month later, and by the way my dad was a pastor, for a week or two straight there was a postcard with a naked woman on it saying 'Come join us again, Joe' or 'We really miss you' or 'You naughty boy. Come visit us again.'"
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He added: "We had a few days of achiness, but not enough to keep you in bed.
Coronavirus survivors twice as likely to develop psychiatric disorder as those who overcome flu, study suggests
The coronavirus may trigger the onset of psychiatric disorders in some survivors, research suggests. It is increasingly coming to light that not every patient who goes on to test negative for the infection returns to a clean bill of health. So-called “long COVID” has been shown to cause everything from fatigue and palpitations to rashes and even signs of organ damage. Feeling the virus’ mental health effects were less well understood, scientists from the University of Oxford combed through medical data on more than 69 million people across the US.
“Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston recovered from COVID-19 and has donated his plasma. Researchers are studying whether convalescent plasma from recovered coronavirus patients could reduce the severity of COVID-19 illnesses in sick patients by boosting their ability to fight off the virus.
Bryan Cranston . March 27 ·. During this time of uncertainty and change I’m thinking of you all and hope you’re looking after yourselves and your Let's not forget, kids are feeling the same anxiety and uncertainty we all are right now and making SEL a priority in our schools is more important than ever.
"I had a temperature of 99 for about three hours, and then just exhaustion for a week after that."
He joked that he and Robin got the virus early because they "didn't want to miss out".
He quipped: "It was a surprise to us because we heard it was coming over, and then all of a sudden, she got it first. She gave it to me because we share."
Bryan previously insisted he felt lucky to have only experienced mild symptoms, and he didn't to open up about the illness right away because Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had shared their own diagnosis.
He explained: "It was early on in March. Just around the same time that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson got it, my wife and I got it.
"They came out with it right away, and I thought 'That's great.' There's no need for another celebrity to say, 'Hey, I got it too.' So I just kept it quiet.
"We were very lucky. So many people are suffering desperately from this. My wife and I had a week of extreme exhaustion and some body aches, a little dry cough. And then it was gone."
GPs in England will start offering Pfizer Covid jab from today .
The vaccination centres will operate from existing doctors´ surgeries or community hubs in villages, towns and cities across the country.GP surgeries in England will begin offering coronavirus vaccinations from today.