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Phil Collins' ex-wife has accused him of spying on her by setting up hidden cameras in her bathroom and changing room, in explosive new court documents from their bitter legal battle that got underway at a Florida courtroom Tuesday.  Orianne Cevey alleges the rock legend fabricated a 'shameful story' in his lawsuit to have her removed from his Miami Beach mansion, where she is living with her new toyboy husband. The 46-year-old jewellery designer also calls Collins, 69, 'callous' for pushing her to live in her Las Vegas home, as she says that would take her son from another marriage away from his father who lives locally. It is the latest blistering salvo in the new chapter of the British drummer’s headline-grabbing on-off relationship with Orianne. After a 12-year marriage and two sons, the pair divorced in 2008 with a record $47 settlement.  They surprised the world when they announced in 2016 they were back together and living in Collins’ $33 million waterfront m

Stuck at home in the UK during the pandemic, Tim Pritchard was thrilled to accept a friend’s invitation to his Spanish villa to spend a few days relaxing in the sun. Like many in these financially testing times, Tim hoped that renting out his three-storey North London home on short-term letting agency Airbnb while he was away would cover the cost of the break. So when he was contacted by ‘Josh’, a 24-year-old graduate who said he needed somewhere to sleep while visiting relatives for three days, and who transferred over the £400 payment via Airbnb, Tim left the country believing his home was in safe hands. But just as he started to de-stress by the pool on the second day of his trip, he got the sort of text no one wants to get on holiday. ‘Did you know there was a massive party in your house last night?’ read the message from a neighbour. ‘Police called. Neighbours understandably very unhappy.’ Tim Pritchard, 55, was faced with the nightmare of a short-term tenant trashing his house wi

For nearly 50 years it has been regarded as one of music's best-loved classics, a poignant ode to a lost era of America after the untimely death of Buddy Holly. But Don McLean has revealed his anthem to 'the day the music died', American Pie, may have also been about the untimely passing of his father who had Scottish roots. The well-known song dating back to 1971, which is frequently crowned the best of all time in polls, has lyrics that have been endlessly debated over by music fans.  Until now it had been thought that it told the story of the 1959 plane crash that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP 'The Big Bopper' Richardson, plus pilot Roger Peterson. But in an interview today about his career, when asked about whether the first verse could be about the death of his father, McLean said: 'You've hit the nail on the head.' Don McLean (left, pictured in Las Vegas in November last year) had been thought to have written his 1971 hit American Pie about B

Two years to the day after student-athlete Lauren McCluskey was brutally murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend, the University of Utah announced that it will pay the victim's family a total of $13.5million to settle two separate lawsuits.  As part of the agreement that was reached on Thursday, the university acknowledged for the first's time that McCluskey's killing in October 2018 was 'preventable.'  University of Utah President Ruth Watkins previously said that there was not 'any reason to believe this tragedy could have been prevented.' Lauren McCluskey's parents have reached a $13.5million  settlement with the University of Utah stemming from her October 2018 murder on campus  Matthew and Jill McCluskey, Lauren's parents, will receive $10.5million, and an additional $3million will go to a foundation they have started in their daughter's name  News of the settlement comes a week after Salt Lake City's top prosecutor announced that former Un

The body which allocates grants to venues hit hard by the pandemic has given £215,000 to a drag queen called Le Gateau Chocolat. While snubbing popular cash-strapped venues applying for a share of its £500 million pot, Arts Council England gave the huge grant to George Ikediashi – who describes himself as ‘fat, black and bearded’. The sum – which is more than seven times the average national salary – came despite the act never grossing even half that sum in a year. Other acts and venues, such as Manchester’s renowned comedy club, The Frog and Bucket, have had their grant applications rejected. The Frog and Bucket has helped launch the careers of TV favourites Peter Kay, Johnny Vegas, Sarah Millican and Jack Whitehall. While snubbing popular cash-strapped venues applying for a share of its £500 million pot, Arts Council England gave the huge grant to George Ikediashi - aka Le Gateau Chocolat - who describes himself as ‘fat, black and bearded’. It said a grant would have meant ‘everythin

Former Google boss Eric Schmidt has said social media networks 'serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we intended' as he hit back at the Department of Justice's blockbuster antitrust lawsuit.  Schmidt, 65, who stepped down from Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. in 2019, said the 'most obvious candidate for regulation are the excesses in the social-networking space'.  He told The Wall Street Journal: 'The context of social networks serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we intended. Unless the industry gets its act together in a really clever way, there will be regulation.' The Justice Department on Tuesday announced it was suing Google for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising. Google has already called the lawsuit 'deeply flawed'. Former Google boss Eric Schmidt, pictured last year, has said social media networks 'serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we