NIK SIMON AT TWICKENHAM: To be continued. England's Six Nations hopes are still alive but, like any good cliff-hanger, no one quite knows what will happen next.

Rob Cross held off a stirring fightback from Michael Smith to win the Betfred World Matchplay title at Blackpool's Winter Gardens on Sunday night.

The former Celtic and Aston Villa striker had been talking to Southend United about becoming part of their management team with Henrik Larsson and Johan Mjallby until Johnson pulled out.

Tommy Johnson has joined Blackpool's recruitment staff in a move which led to the collapse last week of Southend's bid to appoint Henrik Larsson as manager at Roots Hall.

The 41-year-old spent six-and-a-half years at Liverpool's academy and oversaw two of the Reds' first-team games this campaign but will now take charge of the League One side.

JACK GAUGHAN AT THE HIGHBURY STADIUM: Neil Critchley started coaching at Crewe's academy in his teens but taking charge of his first Blackpool fixture did not figure in the grand plan.

Lorde has slammed viewers who took issue with her silent, interpretative dance performance at the MTV Video Music Awards this week. 

MTV Video Music Awards are reported to have upped the amount of security at the event in case Nicki Minaj and Safaree Samuels confront each other during their appearance at the awards.

Karrueche and Victor have been linked since December 2017. The couple recently returned from a getaway to the Bahamas.

Sharon Stone and Cindy Crawford are two pinups from the 1990s who continue to thrive. And over the weekend the 61-year-old star proved that they both still have their bombshell status.

With his new Hulu series Catch-22 currently available for streaming, star-executive producer George Clooney opened up on the show, and the motorcycle crash that almost ended his life.

US actor George Clooney believes the fight for better treatment for women is a 'constant battle'. In the wake of MeToo he said he told Paramount: 'It's all guys, we have to be part of the solution'.

Craig's has become THE place to be seen among Hollywood's A-list in Los Angeles.

For a man who has played all manner of villains, psychopaths and weirdos, Mark Strong comes across as exceedingly Zen

George and Amal Clooney enjoyed an early anniversary dinner Thursday with their friends Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber. The couples were dressed in matching outfits.

Brooklyn Beckham and his girlfriend Hana Cross shared sweet selfies and Laura Whitmore touched down in a helicopter as they lead the star-studded arrivals at the famous festival.

The socialite, 28, looked festival ready, as she flaunted her toned torso, in a pair of leopard print trousers and a tiny black crop top.

The model, 27, looked in high spirits as she cut loose at day two of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton on Saturday.

Work is underway to clear up tonnes of rubbish left behind by 200,000 revellers at Glastonbury Festival in Somerset despite organisers making the environment the theme of this year's event.

On Wednesday, Carrie Underwood was just one show away from wrapping the UK leg of her tour, with the UK's best-selling country act of all time, The Shires, as special guest.

Carrie Underwood has wrapped up the UK leg of her Cry Pretty tour with an epic performance at The SSE Arena, Wembley in London.

Anais Gallagher, 19, proudly displayed her toned abs in a quirky double denim ensemble on Wednesday, as she attended the Magnum Pleasure store launch in London.

The Can't Get You Out of My Head hitmaker, 51, looked incredible in the backless gown with a scooped neckline and daring slit, designed by Emilio Barba and Svetoslav Kolchagov.

Nimko Ali, 36, a campaigner against female genital mutilation, said that the Grenfell disaster charity disk given to Mr May could be on Ms Symonds' hit list now they can 'finally unpack'

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: It was an amazing game of rugby for the crowd. I have been coming to Twickenham as a fan, player, coach and pundit for years and I have never seen anything like it.

RUGBY WORLD CUP DIARY: The World Cup has gone interstellar, with the help of Sergio Parisse. The legendary Italian No 8 has exchanged messages with astronaut Luca Parmitano.

The captain's run for Japan had an altogether more aquatic feel on Saturday morning as the players waded through a flooded tunnel out onto the pitch. 

CHRIS FOY AT THE AJ BELL STADIUM: Exeter extended their lead at the top of Pool Two of the Heineken Champions Cup with a close-fought 22-20 victory over Sale courtesy of Stuart Hogg (middle).

The headlines will have made painful reading for Stuart Hogg yesterday after his costly howler in Dublin, but I thought he fronted up well afterwards and stayed focused during the game.

Every morning at Pennyhill Park, Eddie Jones walks past a table in the hotel lobby offering free fruit and a collection of daily newspapers. On Tuesday they did not make for pleasant reading.

All those training sessions when Steve Borthwick brings a bucket filled with slippery, soapy water paid off on Saturday night. England overcame foul weather to beat Scotland.

Officials are investigating ugly scenes at Murrayfield on Saturday where Neil Craig, a member of England's backroom staff, was struck on the head by a plastic beer bottle.

It was fitting that on a wild day in Edinburgh, England won back the Calcutta Cup thanks to a decisive intervention of Ellis Genge. He typified the spirit of defiance which propelled his side to victory.

October 13, 1976. Best's career was on the wane. He had turned 30 that summer and come back from his first stint in the US with Los Angeles Aztecs.

Dutch top-flight club FC Utrecht are preparing for legal action to fight the Royal Netherlands Football Association's decision to cancel the remainder of the league season.

After amassing an estimated £160million fortune, Ed Sheeran has set about creating his own extraordinary estate - dubbed 'Sheeranville' - in Suffolk.

Suffolk's Chantry Park is the venue for a series of gigs by the Shape Of You hitmaker.

She's the Melbourne weather presenter so popular with male viewers that one devoted fan even had her face tattooed on his chest. 

Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch took a rare night off from parenting duties as they headed to Ed Sheeran's launch of his new bar Bertie Blossoms on Sunday.

Accounts released today show his UK company, Ed Sheeran Ltd, made a gross profit of £23,770,262, equating to £65,124 a day.

Josh Pieters, from London, has gone viral on YouTube with a video showing how he managed to fool audiences at KSI and Logan Paul's match into believing a look-a-like was really Ed Sheeran.

Amy Shark revealed acclaimed actor Russell Crowe set up her recent songwriting session with Ed Sheeran.

Singer-songwriter Tom Speight, 33, is one of 115,000 Britons who have Crohn's disease, a condition in which the lining of the digestive system becomes inflamed and often ulcerated.

The screen star, 29, joins Saoirse, 25, and Florence, 23, in a group prayer in an official image from upcoming period drama Little Women, set for release in December 25 2019.

They were catapulted to fame almost 20 years ago when, as young children, they were cast as Hermione Granger and villain Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.

The actress, 29, and her one-time crush, 31 - who portrayed Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy in the wizard franchise - posted a snap on Monday, which sent die-hard fans into overdrive.

Emma Watson has channelled Gwyneth Paltrow's 'conscious uncoupling' by coining her own phrase as she announces she is not single but 'self-partnered'.  

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Of course Emma Watson's 'self-partnering' is open to mockery and caricature but, I say go for it.

Paul, an early contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, argued that the Republicans, not the Democrats, have historically protected black voters' interests.

The profile describes the blonde and quick-witted Kelley as 'more than a pretty image-softener' for the 'famously dour' senator.