News about Victoria Wood

When the low-budget soap opera Crossroads originally aired on British TV, the only warning viewers might have needed was that it contained wooden acting, dodgy scripts and wobbly sets. But 60 years on from the first episode, TV bosses have issued a caution that the long-running show, which originally aired in a teatime slot, may cause offence. Some classic episodes of the serial, set in a fictional Midlands motel, have been released on the streaming service ITVX, but they come with a content warning which states the programme 'contains broadcast standards, language and attitudes of its time'.

Victoria Wood, from Texas, was stunned when she started experiencing familiar pregnancy symptoms - despite the fact husband Will underwent a vasectomy in October 2023. The couple, who had welcomed their second daughter in 2022, felt like their family was complete with four members - but are now preparing to expand with another baby girl. 'Will is a rule follower to a T,' Victoria explained in a now-viral TikTok video. 'And he did all of his follow up appointments [after his vasectomy] and then he also got a sperm analysis in January of this year, and the sperm analysis was zero.' Victoria, who shares her daughters Luna and Laney with her husband, explained that when she missed her period in April, she immediately knew something was wrong, asking her husband to buy her a pregnancy test.

The statue of Victoria Wood (bottom left) was erected in Bury, Greater Manchester in 2019, three years after her sad death from cancer. On Monday night, a silver SUV smashed into the plinth (right), toppling the monument (top left). The council announced on Tuesday that it would remove the statue. Chris Foote-Wood, the brother of the much-loved star, has called on the council to protect the statue with bollards to stop this from ever happening again.

A bronze statue of the late comedian and Dinnerladies star Victoria Wood was toppled over after a taxi collided with the memorial in her home town of Bury, Greater Manchester, on Monday. The sculpture, which was unveiled in 2019, is located just outside Bury Library, from which Wood used to steal books because she was too chronically shy to ask a librarian how to join. Greater Manchester Police said the driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital with injuries not believed to be serious or life-changing. No arrests were made.

If you thought Hamlet's prospects were grim then spare a thought for Suzie Eddie Izzard , whose valiant attempt at playing every character in this contemporary reworking of Shakespeare's classic tale has gone down like an egg sandwich on a rush hour tube. The versatile actor, comedian and activist has embarked on what could arguably be an over-ambitious undertaking at London's Riverside Studios, with fans flocking to see her single-handedly deliver one of the Great Bard's greatest theatrical accomplishments. Across a painstaking two hours, twenty minutes and five lengthy acts, Izzard, 62, plays every character - from the ultimately doomed Hamlet to Danish monarchs Claudius and Gertrude, Polonius, Horatio and Ophelia - hell, he even tackles the ghost of Hamlet's father.

Chef Sam Nunns was harassed by manager Andrew Wilson singing a racy Victoria Wood tune and also making rude references to cucumbers, an employment tribunal heard. Mr Nunns explained that his boss at the posh Lake District hotel 'attempted eye contact' while gesticulating and singing the song. Employment Judge Phil Allen agreed it had the effect 'of violating the claimant's dignity and creating a degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for him'.

Julia Samuel, a longtime Princess Diana, Young, 55, said she'beautifully ignored' the pain she suffered because she felt it was'self indulgent' when she had a fulfilling career and a jet-set life to worry about it. (Pictured: Kirsty Young) Inset: Julia Samuel)

An invitation to a Christmas party arrives: is it a cause for joy, or dread?There's good news for those of us who are bored, inebriated, or both over the holiday season because we're too polite to say no to a night out. According to research, which was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology this week, it's fine to decline social invitations. If we decline an invitation, we overestimate the disappointment or resentment felt by the party giver. People are more likely to be understanding as long as they are given a reason, even though that means telling them that we 'just want to stay home and relax.' Six of our top writers discuss how they handled the party season when we'd rather be curled up in front of the telly than in front of the telly...

The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.

The hearing was told by Andrew Wilson (left), the manager of Windermere Manor Hotel in the Lake District (inset), serenaded head chef Sam Nunns with the song while making a series of 'disconcerting gestures' as he reiterated the word'Let's do it'. Mr Nunns said that his father, who died at the age of 19th-century, had 'attempted eye contact' when gesticulating and singing the lyrics, which included "I could take half the tenors in a male voice choir."

JANE FRYER: This Christmas, there wasn't snow, nor Santa, or even talking elves - or even the odd B-list celebrity - it's just Christmas. It isn't even new - it was made in 1994, in Blackpool, on a teen budget. And there isn't anything particularly glamorous, flashy, or action packed about it. In fact, no one appears in Three Salons At The Seaside, a fly-on-the-wall film about day to day life in a string of net-curtained, pink-rolledered hair salons in Blackpool called Tricia's, Vanity Box, and Mary's Way. Rather, this stunning 40-minute film takes us right back to the times of the weekly wash and set. Princess Diana is on the front page of this drier and My Weekly magazines, with big hood driers and My Weekly newspaper.