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Jimmy Kimmel: Shatner space trip was ‘like a North Korean news broadcast’
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Former Star Trek actor William Shatner, 90, became the oldest man to ever go to space on Wednesday aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket – a phallic-shaped spacecraft Jimmy Kimmel labeled a “wienermobile”. “Can yo...
Jimmy Gopperth steers Wasps to victory to end Northampton’s unbeaten start
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It has been a weekend for fly-halves coming off the bench and having a decisive say and if Jimmy Gopperth is at the opposite end of the career spectrum to Marcus Smith, the veteran New Zealander proved every bit as im...
Jimmy Kimmel: the Senate ‘finally found something they could agree on: they hate Facebook’
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Jimmy Kimmel tore into Facebook on Tuesday evening, a day after one of the longest outages in the company’s history brought its suite of apps – Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp – down for six hours. “The only ...
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump tell-alls: ‘Maybe don’t wait three years to put it in a book’
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Jimmy Kimmel recapped yet another tell-all book from the Trump administration on Tuesday evening. The latest release, from former White House press secretary and Melania’s chief of staff Stephanie Grisham, is called I...
Jimmy Carr on booze, taxes and being a virgin at 26: ‘Do I sound like an incel elder?’
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Before I have time to ask the Covid-era question “Are we doing handshakes?”, Jimmy Carr has thrust out his arm and grasped my hand. Then, suddenly, he lets go and screams: “Oh God, no! My hand’s covered in Covid!” Com...
Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in ‘sensitive’ BBC drama
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Steve Coogan will play Jimmy Savile in a forthcoming BBC drama series about how the high-profile presenter spent decades living a double life as one of the country’s most notorious paedophiles. The Alan Partridge star...
Jimmy Gopperth: ‘I’m a country lad from a farm – rugby is not everything’
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As Jimmy Gopperth prepares to begin his seventh season with Wasps on Saturday, just a few months after his 38th birthday, and as someone who has enjoyed successful spells in the Premiership, the Celtic League and Supe...
Jimmy Kimmel: Emmys ‘opened with Rita Wilson rapping and got even whiter from there’
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Jimmy Kimmel broke down the 2021 Emmys on Monday night. “What a show,” he said of the three-hour affair hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, which celebrated diversity yet awarded all acting prizes during the telecast to...
Jimmy Greaves: peerless player whose legacy is etched in football history
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Farewell, then, Jimmy. Sporting celebrities come and go but Greaves, who has died at the age of 81, was something different, not just a peerless English goalscorer but a footballer who remained etched in the memory of...
Jimmy Greaves redefined perception of what a centre-forward should be
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For those of us too young to have caught the end of Jimmy Greaves’s playing career, there was always a slightly awkward adjustment to be made. He remained the goalscorer to whom all others were compared for two decade...
Jimmy Greaves: the Boys’ Own hero who stole the heart of a nation
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There are some heroes you illogically hope will never die, certainly in the imagination. Muhammad Ali was one, George Best another (despite his best efforts) and Jimmy Greaves, too. Even Tottenham fans who never saw h...
Jimmy Greaves was a genius, the purest finisher England has produced
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When Jimmy Greaves was playing against the team you supported, a sense of foreboding accompanied you through the turnstiles. The pleasurable anticipation of witnessing one of the greatest footballers of his era was se...
Jimmy Greaves, England and Tottenham great, dies aged 81
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Jimmy Greaves, feted as one of England’s greatest strikers and a member of the squad that won the 1966 World Cup, has died at the age of 81. “We are extremely saddened to learn of the passing of the great Jimmy Greave...
Jimmy Anderson backs ‘superhuman’ Joe Root to break Cook’s England record
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After Joe Root surpassed Graham Gooch’s tally of 8,900 Test runs, Jimmy Anderson has said that he is “absolutely” backing his England captain to make it the top of the list. That feat would require Root to overhaul hi...
Jimmy Savile: The People Who Knew review – devastating and damning
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Unusually for someone who presented TV and radio programmes for six decades, Jimmy Savile is most significantly represented in the archives by shows he didn’t host. In When Louis Met Jimmy (BBC Two, 2000), Louis Thero...
Jimmy Anderson frustrated by delay but delighted with Virat Kohli’s wicket
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With 619 wickets in his Test career, James Anderson is never going to be short of a happy memory – or 10 – but even the traditionally dour leader of England’s attack was prepared to admit that getting India’s captain,...