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Trump Reportedly Wants Name Of New Ballroom To Honour His Favourite Person In The World

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Donald Trump has reportedly picked a name for the new ballroom that will replace the East Wing of the White House, and it’s a true measure of his humility.

Katherine Faulders, ABC’s managing editor in Washington, posted on social media Friday that “Trump will likely name the new $300 million ballroom after himself,” and cited senior administration officials as her source.

“Already, officials are referring to it as “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom” and that name will likely stick,” she added.

When reached for comment, White House Spokesman Davis Ingle told HuffPost: “Any announcement made on the name of the ballroom will come directly from President Trump himself, and not through anonymous and unnamed sources.”

Some people thought another person near and dear to Trump would be a better name on the ballroom.

Others speculated on what might happen to the ballroom after Trump leaves office.

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Ask A GP: When Should I Worry About Fatigue?

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According to YouGov, a third of UK adults say they feel tired about half of the time.

Some research suggests 5-7% of people who see their GP complain of fatigue, and recent surveys say the average British adult only gets three nights of decent kip a week.

No wonder it feels like everyone, everywhere, is constantly exhausted.

But if we’re all so wiped out, how can we be expected to tell “normal” tiredness from more concerning fatigue?

Here, we asked Dr Suzanne Wylie, GP and medical adviser for IQdoctor, when to worry.

When should I see a doctor about fatigue?

Speaking to HuffPost UK, Dr Wylie explained that fatigue “is a very common complaint in general practice and, in most cases, is related to lifestyle factors such as lack of sleep, stress, or overwork”.

But sometimes, it can be linked to underlying health issues – and its persistence can be a red flag.

“As a GP, I would suggest that you should start to worry about fatigue if it is persistent, lasting more than a few weeks, or if it is unexplained by your usual activities or recent events,” she said.

Aside from longer-lasting fatigue, exhaustion with other symptoms should be investigated, too.

“You should also seek medical advice if the tiredness is accompanied by other symptoms such as unintentional weight loss, night sweats, fevers, breathlessness, chest pain, persistent cough, or changes in bowel habit,” the GP said.

Meanwhile, fatigue linked to low mood, disrupted sleep, and a loss of interest in hobbies “may indicate depression or anxiety, which also warrants assessment”.

She added, “Additionally, if you notice symptoms such as increased thirst or urination, palpitations, dizziness, or heavy menstrual bleeding, it could point towards conditions like diabetes, thyroid disease, or anaemia”.

Anything else?

Per the NHS, you should see your doctor if fatigue lasts longer than a few weeks, if it affects your day-to-day life, and/or if you’ve noticed other symptoms like unexplained weight loss or mood changes.

And if your partner or someone else tells you you’ve been “making gasping, snorting or choking noises when you’re asleep,” visit your doctor as this could be a sign of sleep apnoea.

“In short,” Dr Wylie ended, “while occasional tiredness is normal, persistent or unexplained fatigue, especially when associated with other symptoms, should always prompt a review with your GP”.

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On The Jaw-Dropping West End Girl, Lily Allen Sets A New Bar For The Confessional Break-Up Album

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As soon as Lily Allen announced her return to the pop world with her fifth album West End Girl last week, it was clear the press was going to have a field day.

Lily has been a tabloid fixture since she first burst onto the pop scene more than 20 years ago, and at the height of her fame, was arguably as known for her headline-grabbing antics and personal drama as she was for her frank and confessional songwriting.

West End Girl is not just her first release in seven years, but the first since her much-publicised split from her second husband, Stranger Things actor David Harbour. The pair tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2020, after which they relocated to New York with Lily’s two daughters from her first marriage, and were first reported to have split at the beginning of this year, after David was spotted on the exclusive dating app Raya (which is where he and the Smile singer also first met).

In the lead-up to her new album’s release, Lily described the collection as a “mixture of fact and fiction”, telling British Vogue it was “inspired by what went on in the relationship”, with its creation seeing her go through a mix of “confusion, sorrow, grief, helplessness”.

Lily also shared that the album was both written and recorded over an “intense 10-day period” in December 2024, the same month she announced she was taking a break from the spotlight to spend time in a residential facility to rest and focus on her mental health.

A week after it was announced, West End Girl debuted on Friday, and as predicted, the album is truly jaw-dropping in its candour and frankness. Of course, no one but the two parties involved can really know how much artistic license was employed, but the album paints a picture of a woman whose life slowly starts to unravel when she somewhat hesitantly agrees to open her marriage to a man she’s uprooted her life and moved across an ocean for.

Lily Allen's latest album West End Girl is quite possibly her most personal to date
Lily Allen’s latest album West End Girl is quite possibly her most personal to date

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The sense of dread and paranoia only grows as the story unfolds and our heroine’s husband appears to “move the goalposts” and repeatedly violate the terms of the “arrangement” that he’d set in place, ultimately taking its toll on her until she finds herself struggling to carry on.

Naturally, much has already been made of the song’s lyrics, and understandably so – this is Lily at her most unfiltered, lifting the lid on the ugliness of a break-up in a way that even Adele or Taylor Swift daren’t.

“We had an arrangement, be discrete and don’t be blatant, there had to be payment, it had to be with strangers,” she sings on Madeline, an imagined conversation between herself and a woman she discovers her husband has been sleeping with.

On Relapse, Lily opens up about her struggles to hold onto her sobriety at the height of her personal issues, while Tennis sees her opening up about feeling like she is losing the man she loves to someone else.

“I can’t get my head round how you’ve been playing tennis, if it was just sex, I wouldn’t be jealous,” she claims.

Then, there’s the much-discussed Pussy Palace, when she comes back to her marital bed to find “sheets pulled off the bed, strewn on the floor, long black hair, probably from the night before”.

“Duane Reade bag with the handles tied, sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside, hundreds of Trojans, you’re so fucking broken,” Lily continues, in one of her new album’s most-cited lyrics, before questioning if she’s “looking at a sex addict”.

Lily Allen as depicted in the striking artwork for her new album West End Girl
Lily Allen as depicted in the striking artwork for her new album West End Girl

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Still, as revealing as these lyrics are, it would be remiss to reduce West End Girl to just its more sensationalised moments. For one thing, it’s much smarter than the straightforward “woman scorned” narrative that is inevitably going to be applied to an album with song titles like 4Chan Stan, Monogamummy and the aforementioned Pussy Palace.

As the name West End Girl highlights, this is Lily’s first musical release since she embarked on her career in theatre, appearing in productions like Hedda, The Pillowman and her Olivier-nominated turn in 2:22 A Ghost Story. It’s a fitting name for the album, too, as West End Girl feels like a piece of theatre in itself.

A collection that’s undoubtedly intended to be enjoyed as a piece of work from start, the album runs roughly chronologically allowing the narrative of the central break-up to play out in real-time, with Lily also taking on numerous different characters (in a spoken-word interlude at the end of the first track, she recreates a phone call in which an unheard party first floats out the idea of an open relationship, while on Madeline, she adopts the titular character’s American accent to assure our protagonist that “lies are not something that I want to get caught up in”).

Early reviews have picked up on the fact that West End Girl bounces from genre to genre, encompassing everything from bossa nova to dancehall and flamenco to drum and bass, all sprinkled with the pure pop Lily best showcased on her second album It’s Not Me It’s You (which, incidentally, is a sentiment the Brit Award winner revisits on closing track Fruityloop).

As well as showing off Lily’s skills as a songwriter, the frequent genre-hopping mirrors the unpredictability and chaos of the album’s central narrative, and a feeling of not knowing what’s next. Meanwhile, some of West End Girl’s more salacious moments are also among its sweetest-sounding – few could have predicted that a song called Pussy Palace would actually be a devastating ballad more akin to Lily cuts like Three or Littlest Things than the claws-out pop she’s often associated with (it’s worth pointing out, too, that Lily has probably never been on in better voice than she is on West End Girl, which is saying something as her vocals have always been one of the more unfairly-underrated parts of her art).

So, while the sordid details, irreverent lyrics and tea-spilling might be what have many listeners initially hitting play on this new release from Lily, those who stick around will find there’s so much more to enjoy on West End Girl than the surface-level tabloid drama that a release like this will invariably conjure up. The fact is, Lily has set a new bar not just when it comes to her own work, the break-up album in general.

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Psycho Actor Anthony Perkins’ Son Lays Into Monster Season 3

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The son of actor Anthony Perkins has called out the inclusion of the Psycho star in the controversial Netflix series Monster.

Earlier this month, the third season of Monster began streaming, focussing on the horrific crimes of serial killer and grave-robber Ed Gein, whose actions inspired the murderous fictional characters in movies like The Texas Chainshaw Massacre, The Silence Of The Lambs and Psycho.

One episode centres around the creation of Psycho, with Tom Hollander and Joey Pollari playing its director and star, Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins.

Following its debut, the show received criticism from many viewers over the way the show hinted at a link between the latter and Ed Gein, because of the way the actor chose to conceal his sexuality publicly in his lifetime.

Anthony Perkins on the set of Psycho
Anthony Perkins on the set of Psycho

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Speaking to TMZ, Anthony’s son Osgood Perkins (the director behind recent horror movies like Longlegs and The Monkey) claimed he “wouldn’t watch” the series “with a 10-foot pole”.

He also slammed streaming platforms for “glamourising” the true-crime genre and which he said is “increasingly devoid of context”, while lamenting that “the Netflix-isation of real pain” is “playing for the wrong team”.

Osgood Perkins
Osgood Perkins

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Oz told People magazine last year that the way his parents concealed his father’s sexuality from him when he was growing up was part of the inspiration for his movie Longlegs.

“Everybody knew it, even my brother and I theoretically knew it, but we were never given any language for it,” he claimed.

“The idea that [my mother] could make up – not make up, it’s not a lie – but it’s like a cover, a storytime…”

He said that Longlegs became “the most baroque horror version of, ‘What’s going on in my household?’”, noting: “Every kid probably feels [that] to some greater or lesser extent. But if your father’s a public movie star and you don’t know who he is, that’s a little bit more profound.”

Despite the controversy around all three seasons of Monster so far, the show has continued to be popular with Netflix users, with a fourth currently in the works, based on another famous case from history.

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John Bishop Reveals How He Really Feels About Bradley Cooper’s New Film Inspired By His Life

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John Bishop has admitted he’s finding it both “brilliant” and “bizarre” that Bradley Cooper has turned his life story into one of the year’s most-hyped films.

Earlier this year, it was announced that John’s story was being adapted into the comedy Is This Thing On?, helmed by the A Star Is Born and Maestro director with Arrested Development star Will Arnett in the lead role.

The film centres around a man who turns to stand-up comedy when his marriage starts falling apart.

While the movie’s characters are fictional (Will plays aspiring comic Alex Novak while Oscar winner Laura Dern plays his wife, Tess), the story is based on events from John’s own life.

He told BBC Merseyside he found it “so weird” that “this is happening, but so brilliant at the same time”.

Will Arnett and John Bishop at the premiere of their film Is This Thing On?
Will Arnett and John Bishop at the premiere of their film Is This Thing On?

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Recalling the first time he introduced his wife to the Oscar nominee, John said: “[Bradley Cooper] gave Melanie a hug and then Melanie had a minute with him, talking to him, but she was whispering in his ear.

“We come back to the hotel and I was saying ‘This has been a mad few days’. I said: ‘What are you going to remember most about it?’ She said: ‘Whispering in Bradley Cooper’s ear’. That kind of doesn’t make me feel great…”

During an appearance on the podcast RHLSTP earlier this year, comedian Chloe Radcliffe (who plays a supporting role in Is This Thing On), explained: “I think Will and John sat next to each other at a dinner 10 years ago, and Will heard his story, and was like, ‘That rules, I want to do that someday’.”

Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper

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John first pursued a career in 2000, following a brief break in his marriage to his wife Melanie (the pair eventually reunited and share three sons, Joe, Luke and Daniel).

He opened up about his first time performing during Graham Norton’s 2024 New Year’s Eve special, claiming he put his name down to appear at an open night mic on a whim.

“It was four pounds. I was going through a divorce. I thought, ‘Well, that’s four pounds she’s not getting’,” he quipped.

John added: “I was meant to do seven minutes but because there was no one there, they let me carry on, and I did about 25 minutes. When I walked off I remember Mick, the compere, and the fella who ran the place, Dave Perkin, coming up to me and saying, ‘Where have you been doing your stand-up?’. I said ‘I’ve never done it in my life’. And he said, ’Well some of that was really good, some of that was fun. The bit where you started talking about getting divorced and started crying… don’t do that again. But come back’.”

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Elsewhere in his BBC Merseyside interview, John revealed that he was able to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his first stand-up performance at the same venue on his latest tour.

The next night, he attended the London Film Festival for a premiere screening of Is This Thing On?.

You couldn’t write it,” he enthused. “You couldn’t line things up like that as perfectly [as they have]. It’s been odd trying to get my head around it.”

Is This Thong On? hits US cinemas in December, with a UK release date yet to be confirmed.

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