Joe Scarborough has revealed one takeaway from his controversial meeting with president-elect Donald Trump. The MSNBC star, 61, said on Wednesday’s episode of ‘Morning Joe’ that Trump was having issues with his Secretary of Defense choice Pete Hegseth. Shortly after Trump announced Hegseth for the job, it emerged that the Fox News pundit made a payment to a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017.

Denzel Washington revealed that December 2024 will mark a decade since he had any wine. The movie star, 69, spoke to Esquire magazine amid his promotional tour for his new film Gladiator II – explaining that he started drinking two bottles of expensive wine a day after he and his wife Pauletta built a house in 1999 that had a 10,000 bottle wine cellar. Denzel said he would stop the habit while preparing to work on a film and also during filming – but immediately resume once his projects wrapped – a pattern he did for 15 years.

Liam Payne’s heartbroken girlfriend Kate Cassidy has arrived at the funeral of the tragic One Direction star she described as ‘the love of my life’. Ms Cassidy was seen arriving at St Mary’s Church in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, ahead of this afternoon’s ceremony, dressed in a long black coat with fur trim and wearing sunglasses. Payne died aged 31 on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Liam Payne’s parents Geoff and Karen hugged a heartbroken Simon Cowell as he sought to comfort them following their son’s funeral today. The heartfelt embrace took place outside the church where Payne was remembered in an emotional service following his tragic death at the age of just 31. Cowell’s girlfriend, Lauren Silverman, stood at a distance away while the 65-year-old shared a private moment with the grieving couple – who paid a final tribute to the beloved singer with a floral tribute beside his coffin spelling out the word ‘son’.

Moscow has revealed that Vladimir Putin is prepared to discuss a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump and the terms required to end the bloody conflict. The Russian leader is reportedly open to conversing with the US President-elect but has ruled out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, according to five sources cited by Reuters. In the first detailed reporting of what tyrant Putin would accept in any deal brokered by Trump, the five unnamed current and former Russian officials said the Kremlin could broadly agree to freeze the conflict along the front lines.

This is the horrifying moment an 88-year-old dog walker was dragged to her death after a roller skater got caught on her lead. In shocking CCTV, shown to a judge in Moscow, two elderly women can be seen strolling through a city park walking their pet dogs – one of which was on a long leash. Suddenly, roller skater Igor Berin, 56, races past the women and gets caught in the lead pulling one of the pensioners off her feet and dragging her along a path.