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MasterChef presenter has stepped back from the television show amid allegations of misconduct

Television: Lavish adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel is both meditative and steamy, sometimes to the point of hilarity

Veteran musician has been sober for 34 years and has helped other celebrities to get clean

Television: LA suburbia-set series is just too miserable to make viewers laugh. It’s like the grimmest ever season of Location, Location, Location

A vacuous film that frequently feels like an overstyled catalogue shoot

From All Hallows’ Eve to the winter solstice, readers used to eagerly receive visitations of uncanny spirits in print form

Few cut a more fascinating figure than Amos, whose stage performances have long offered a more profound and esoteric experience than her studio work

Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’

Receiving a limited theatrical release, Chasing the Light is worth seeing on the big screen to savour breathtaking vistas of the Atlantic coast

From Santy and selection boxes to Christmas pudding and Mariah Carey, these are some of the truths you won’t hear elsewhere

Clonsilla girl had no idea she would be invited to US before she closed show with All I Want for Christmas is You

Rumours suggest actor will play Paul McCartney, with Barry Keoghan also linked to four-film biopic

Several issues arose this year, including the disqualification of Netherlands’s entrant Joost Klein

Alexis Bloom’s documentary, using leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli prime minister, paints a murky picture

Mescal is donating outfits worn on his Gladiator II press tour, including a custom hand-painted jumper

Succession star Cox, who recently found out he’s 88% Irish, is often betrayed as grumpy, but he may be one of life’s great enthusiasts

Colcester, Florence, Belfast and elsewhere all intermingle in Philip Terry’s version of Dante’s Purgatorio

Plus: How many Spotify streams did Taylor Swift accrue this year?

Ten books published in 2024 that will make perfect presents for the readers in your life

Julian Gough on bridging the gap between reading picture books and young fiction/chapter books

Quibbles aside, Kenji Kamiyama’s prequel is better than a place-holding animation needed to be

Kevin Barry, Aingeala Flannery, Lucy Caldwell and more contribute to ambitious collection

Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner

Industry-first analysis of the streamer’s own data confirms preschool titles originating on YouTube dominate its list of best performers

Daily Mail article headlined ‘Anti-British Irish-language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film gong’ is the latest salvo in the war of words with Kneecap