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The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Jennifer Ellison's dance studio targeted by thief who made off with kids' iPads & bikes as she shares chilling CCTV
THIS is the chilling moment a thief broke into Jennifer Ellison's dance studio. 7 Jennifer Ellison claims that a thief broke into her dance studio in Liverpool on Wednesday morning Credit: Instagram 7 In CCTV footage posted to her Instagram he could be seen stealing valuables Credit: Instagram 7 Jennifer Ellison founded Jelli Studios after a successful acting career Credit: PA 7 Commenters were quick to offer sympathy for the star, with some sharing information privately Credit: Getty Among the stolen goods were iPads and bikes belonging to her young students, as well as laptops and other personal belongings. The break in reportedly occurred at 5am on Wednesday morning. Posting the footage to her Instagram, Ellison wrote: "Anyone who tells me who this RAT is and where he'll be or lives I'll give a HUGE reward!!! She added: "He's broken into our school at 5am took all of our bikes, laptops iPads!!! THE LOT!!!!!" Read more Showbiz Additional footage shared to her Instagram showed the man searching through a till, as she wrote: "The rat went everywhere!! Took drinks." An update later in the day thanked a different man for recovering one of the stolen bikes. Commenters expressed their support for the star, with some saying they had reached out via DM with information. One wrote: "Hope everything gets returned safely. Horrible horrible people." Most read in Celebrity The post has since been deleted although the Instagram stories are still up. Ellison opened the Moment brazen thief steals hairdresser's £1,300 phone in plain sight - would you have spotted him? The studio was featured in the 2014 TV show Dance Mums with Jennifer Ellison which followed the early careers of some of its students. It focused on seven girls who were working towards competing in the Dance World Cup in Portugal. She had previously led a successful acting career, playing Meg Giry in 2004's Phantom of the Opera, and Ellison has been married to boxer Rob Tickle for 15 years, and the couple share three sons. She The actress was left fearing for her life as she balanced her blossoming career alongside her husband's involvement in the criminal underworld. During an appearing on After meeting when they were 16, the pair got engaged within two years. She witnessed fire-bombings and drive-by shootings, even being subjected to violence at the hands of her ex. He was later jailed for eight years in 2011 for a sword attack in Liverpool. The Sun has reached out to Merseyside Police for comment. 7 She urged her followers to provide information about the man Credit: Instagram 7 The actress alleges that he stole bikes, iPads and laptops Credit: Instagram 7 She starred in Brookside and Phantom of the Opera Credit: Instagram/@jenniferellisonjellistudios
Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Jennifer Ellison heartbroken after dance studio broken into and possessions stolen
Brookside actress Jennifer Ellison begged fans for help after someone broke into her dance studio and stole her and her kids' belongings Jennifer Ellison said she felt 'physically sick' after somebody broke into her dance studio and stole a number of her possessions. The 42-year-old actress said her children's iPads, bikes, laptops, and some drinks had been stolen from the Liverpool studio after a male suspect broke in at 5am on Wednesday. She took to her Instagram Stories to share CCTV footage of the items being stolen and urged anyone with information to come forward. Jennifer wrote: "Tell me who this rat is and where he is and I'll give you a huge cash reward!!! Broke into our studios at 5am took all my kids bikes laptops, iPads, everything. The RAT!" READ MORE: New deal offers 'two parks for the price of one' at Alton Towers, Legoland, Thorpe Park and more The star also shared a screenshot of the suspect's face as she added: " Come on Liverpool. Share share share!!!!! PLEASE." Jennifer later returned to her Stories to share footage of the person walking out with a bike, adding: "RATTTTTTT!!!!!" Jennifer showed the CCTV video of him going through the cash register and wrote to fans: "The rat went everywhere!!!!!! Took drinks." The suspect went through many rooms and was seen tip toeing about in an office room. Jennifer said she felt "physically sick" in one post. A few hours later, she revealed she got one of the stolen bikes back thanks to the help of a good Samaritan. Along with the picture of the person, she added: "1 bike back. Thanks so much to this guy. Liverpool is great." The Brookside actress also shared the footage to her grid and wrote in the caption: "Anyone who tells me who this RAT is and where he ll be or lives I'll give a HUGE reward!!!! "DM me or send me a message. He's broken into our school at 5am took all of our bikes, laptops I pads!!! THE LOT!!!!! For anyone who can give me any info DM me." Shocked fans rushed to the comment section to share their support for the shaken star, with one writing: "Wow! So sorry, hope you find him," and another posting: "Hope everything gets returned safely. horrible horrible people." Another said: "Oh my god!! Awful hope you find out who it is!!" and one follower advised: "Oh my god. How awful. Hope you manage to get it all back. Share on Facebook and set to share."
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anna Friel steals every scene in Jimmy McGovern's Unforgivable
Liverpool-born TV luminary Jimmy McGovern first rose to prominence – after a stint on soaps like Brookside and Corrie – with Cracker, a detective series starring Robbie Coltrane as a misanthropic criminal psychologist. Since then, he has become the great chronicler of Britain's ills. From the Hillsborough disaster to the Iraq war, via inquisitions on joint enterprise, unemployment, and disability cuts, he has run the gamut of social failings. And a recurring theme, running from 1994's Priest to 2017's Broken, is the legacy of child abuse, a subject he explores in profound detail, again, in BBC Two's Unforgivable. Joe Mitchell (Bobby Schofield) is in prison, having been found guilty of sexually assaulting his 12-year-old nephew, Tom (Austin Haynes). Tom's mother, Anna (Anna Friel), struggles with Tom's increasingly erratic behaviour, while grieving for her and Joe's mother, who has just died. When Joe is released from prison, he is offered a second chance by a group of Christians, led by Katherine (Anna Maxwell Martin), who believe in rehabilitation and offer Joe a chance to, if not start again, resume some sort of quotidian existence. 'Isn't forgiveness selfish?' she asks Joe, as they explore how he can rejoin society. But Joe isn't really looking for absolution; he's looking for answers. And here, the long, multi-generational shadow of abuse casts its shade. 'No one's perfect,' family friend Paul (Mark Womack) consoles Anna's widower father Brian (David Threlfall), who, in addition to losing his wife, is estranged from his paedophile son and watching his daughter's family life disintegrate. In a way, he's right. All of McGovern's characters are dealing with the fractured messiness of life (even Maxwell Martin's God-botherer has breast cancer, 'the nun's disease'). This panoply of personal disasters gives rise to some brilliant acting from the assembled ensemble of McGovern regulars. Schofield is transformed from his roles in This City Is Ours and SAS: Rogue Heroes, imbuing Joe with a magnetic, itching discomfort. Friel, meanwhile, steals every scene she's in as a desperate, but still poised, mother. The material is red meat to fine actors, and they eat it up. Whether it's so nourishing to audiences is debatable. There is no challenging McGovern's willingness to gaze into the abyss – he has been doing it for more than 30 years now – but is the abyss gazing back? As it progresses, Unforgivable tries to engage with the cyclical nature of abuse ('Some men who abuse have themselves been abused,' Katherine informs Joe) but ends up feeling simplified and rushed. A complex, nuanced narrative that might've stretched over the course of a multi-episode mini-series is, here, condensed into 105 minutes. Joe's dual role – as both victim and abuser – is one that oscillates, the very instability of its nature forming the crux of how these crimes are perpetrated and then covered up. But the constraints of the plot dumb this down somewhat, and the narrative becomes increasingly procedural. 'I could cope with the lying,' Joe laments, as he picks at old wounds. 'But all this truth? It's too much for me.' McGovern has worked with non-fiction in the past (Sunday, for example, is about Bloody Sunday), but more often he builds, like Ken Loach, stories as composites of abstracted case studies. At its best, this approach adds an intimacy that true life portraits can struggle with, where the interiority is limited by the strictures of fact. But, at other times, it can feel like these characters are only being imagined into life in order to put them through intense suffering. Unforgivable is undoubtedly a sympathetic piece – even Joe is afforded a reluctant dignity – but it is also a concatenation of personal miseries. Sunlight, it seems, doesn't often fall on Merseyside. For some, it will be enough simply to give these tough issues an airing. 'Important' is an easy adjective to apply to a McGovern drama. But for viewers to endure a couple of hours of fairly unrelenting gloom, there needs to be a spark beyond great performances and plausible writing. Unforgivable feels like an endurance test, whose message – that empathy must prevail – could've been expressed with more dynamic light and shade.
Elle
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Chappell Roan's Pop-Up Show Registration Is Already Starting—Here's How to Secure Tickets
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Chappell Roan is hitting the road again—but only in a select few locations. This fall, the Grammy-winning artist will launch her Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things pop-up shows across three cities in the U.S.: New York, New York; Kansas City, Missouri; and Pasadena, California. She'll begin with a four-night stint at Forest Hills Stadium in New York, from September 20 through 24. Then she'll hit Kansas City for two nights, on October 3 and 4. And finally, the shows will wrap with two nights in Pasadena on October 10 and 11. 'I am sooooo excited to announce my Pop-Up Shows in New York, Kansas City, and Los Angeles this fall :D,' Roan shared an her Instagram post. 'I love these three cities so much + wanted the chance to do something special before going away to write the next album.' Here's everything you need to know about where to get tickets before they sell out. Good luck, babe! Ticket registration opened today, Thursday, July 24th at 12:00pm EST through Fair AXS. In order to purchase tickets, you'll need to register by this Sunday, July 27th at 11:59 P.M. EST. Then, fans will be selected at random between Tuesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 7. 'Because we're only coming to three cities, I wanted to make sure 1. we're keeping ticket prices as affordable as possible and 2. we're trying to keep them away from scalpers,' Roan shared. After registration, 'AXS will take the next week to try and remove bot or scalper emails and randomly select only real people who will be given access to purchase tickets,' Roan explained. 'If you've been selected, AXS will send you an email between Tuesday, August 5th and Thursday, August 7th with a link to purchase — so watch your inbox AND CHECK YOUR SPAM! If you're not selected to be able to purchase tickets, you'll receive an email with details on the waitlist starting August 7th.' She'll also be donating $1 per ticket to organizations that support trans youth in each pop-up city. Saturday, September 20 at Forest Hills Stadium Register Now on AXS Sunday, September 21 at Forest Hills Stadium Tuesday, September 23 at Forest Hills Stadium Wednesday, September 24 at Forest Hills Stadium Friday, October 3 at Museum and Memorial Park Saturday, October 4 at Museum and Memorial Park Friday, October 10 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl Saturday, October 11 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl
USA Today
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Chappell Roan announces US pop-up shows. Here's how to get tickets.
Chappell Roan is following her breakout year of pop-culture dominance with a handful of U.S. shows this fall. Roan will perform Sept. 20-24 at Forest Hills Stadium in Forest Hills, New York; Oct. 3-4 in her Midwest roots at Museum and Memorial Park in Kansas City, Missouri; and Oct. 10-11 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Roan, who scored her first Grammy Award this year for best new artist, previously announced a run of August shows in Europe for this "Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things" run of pop-up shows. In announcing the concerts, Roan said the three cities were chosen because she loves them and 'wanted the chance to do something special for them this year.' Fans can access Fair AXS Registration now through 11:59 p.m. ET July 27 at for a chance to purchase tickets. Invited Fair AXS registered users will be selected randomly and notified between Aug. 5 and Aug. 7. Roan, 27, is also donating $1 from every ticket sold to organizations that provide resources and support for transgender youth. 'It is so important that I give back to the Trans community as they have given me so much throughout my entire career,' she said. Following the breakout success of her debut album, 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,' and her smash singles 'Pink Pony Club' and 'Good Luck, Babe!,' Roan released the country-tinged queer anthem, 'The Giver.' Earlier this week she teased her next project with a snippet of the single, "The Subway." More: Lady Gaga thrills at theatrical Mayhem Ball tour kickoff: Review Chappell Roan 2025 concert dates Sept. 20: Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, New York Sept. 21: Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, New York Sept. 23: Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, New York Sept. 24: Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, New York Oct. 3: Museum and Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri Oct. 4: Museum and Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri Oct. 10: Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
