Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple shared a similar thought when the return of Ted Lasso was announced.

Both Waddingham and Jones appeared in the first three seasons of the hugely popular Apple TV series: Waddingham as Rebecca, the imposing owner of the fictional British soccer club AFC Richmond, and Temple as Keeley Jones, a model-turned-powerful PR executive and Rebecca’s close friend.

But despite their roles in the show’s success — including Waddingham’s 2021 Emmy Award win — neither was sure they’d be asked back for the latest season.

Waddingham told The Hollywood Reporter that upon learning of season four, she wondered: “Am I in it?”

And Temple told the publication she asked her agents the same question: “I was like, ‘Oh, do you think they want me?’”

Turns out that both women were asked back for season four, which follows Jason Sudeikis’s Ted as he returns to coach AFC Richmond’s women’s soccer team.

The feel-good comedy-drama, starring Jason Sudeikis as an American football coach hired to manage a Premier League soccer team, debuted in 2022 to widespread critical acclaim. It won back-to-back Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2021 and 2022. It originally concluded in 2023 with its third season, which proved divisive among fans, with some accusing the show of losing its way.

A surprise fourth-season revival was then announced in March 2025.

Waddingham and Temple will reunite with Sudeikis, Jeremy Swift and Brett Goldstein for season four, alongside a handful of new cast members, including Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds, Faye Marsay, Abbie Hern, Jude Mack, Aisling Sharkey and Rex Hayes.

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Waddingham told The Hollywood Reporter that she and Temple became unofficial mentors to the slew of women brought in to play the new soccer teammates.

“I was teasing them, like, ‘Just wait till you see your face on a great big billboard,” Waddingham said. “Like, you f***ing wait!”

However, given the show’s new premise, many of the cast members who portrayed the stars of Ted’s male soccer team will not return.

Recently speaking about the “very difficult” phone calls he had with each individual actor to explain their absence in the new season, Sudeikis said he did so because he “didn’t want them to hear it on the internet.”

“And because I love those guys and we all went through something together,” the We’re the Millers star explained to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ted Lasso season four premieres August 5 on Apple TV+.

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June 7 2026 was a historic day for musical vampires. The stage adaptation of The Lost Boys won four Tony awards and the third season of the TV show Interview with the Vampire, now retitled The Vampire Lestat, premiered on AMC in the US (it arrived on BBC Two in the UK on July 28). In the new season of the show, the French nobleman vampire Lestat is now a rockstar, and the series features original songs and extended musical scenes.

Lestat (played by Sam Reid) carries a legacy rooted in melodrama, opera, alternative music and musical theatre. But while musical vampires were hugely popular on the 19th-century stage (see Heinrich Marschner’s 1828 opera Der Vampyr), the modern musical vampire has been somewhat cursed.

From 2002-05, the musicals Dance of the Vampires, Dracula and Lestat all opened on New York’s Broadway – and all three were epic flops.

While the vampire musical has found success internationally, it’s never had a moment in the sun (or rather, out of the sun) on Broadway. But where Lestat (2005) killed off the vampire musical, TV’s Lestat is resurrecting it. The series has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and The Lost Boys is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway. Here’s what they’re doing right – and where their predecessors went wrong.

Dance of the Vampires

Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires, 1997) was a smash hit in Vienna before the show travelled to Broadway in 2002. The lavish original production featured a grand gothic castle, thrilling power-ballad music by Jim Steinman and a brooding lead vampire, Count von Krolock.

It also involved some problematic politics and a culturally specific sense of humour. With these challenges, Broadway’s production team couldn’t agree on a direction. While some wanted to remain faithful to the original, others wanted to appeal to American audiences with a “Mel Brooks-ish” comedy. With the latter coming to fruition, Austria’s grand romantic spectacle became pure slapstick.

To its credit, the production did offer some narrative improvements, but the Broadway revamp misses something crucial: a balance between the serious and the camp. While the original featured plenty of humour, crucially, Krolock remained the “straight man”. When Broadway’s vampire became a clown, the tapestry fell apart. It lost the gothic wonder and emotional integrity that made Tanz a great musical.

The Lost Boys

As Lestat says in episode two of the new series, “facts are irrelevant – feels are everything”. “Feels”, after all, are the fundamental principle of both vampires and musicals. Both are certainly known for their passion. On a more base level, both create visceral effects through their excessive spectacles. The “feeling” evoked by horror (and live musicals) is immediate, an experience Linda Williams relates to “body genres”.

Historically, excessive “feeling” and surface appeal have been shunned by critics of the gothic for lacking substance or moral meaning. But defenders of the gothic like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick argue that surface affect and its associated “feels” are valuable in themselves. And just as this principle applies to the gothic, it is also true for musical theatre.

The megamusical – a term that describes large-scale shows such as Les Misérables and Cats – runs on spectacle. Mesmerising scenery and technical innovation are paramount. The centrepiece of The Lost Boys is its flying vampires (something Dracula also had, although the rest of the show failed to match the whimsy).

The Lost Boys looks and feels like an 80s megamusical, retaining that grandeur that was fatally cut from Dance of the Vampires. Its Tony wins for performance and design, and losses for writing, suggest its focus on style over substance – but rather than indicating failure, this seems to be the subgenre’s recipe for success.

Dracula

Dracula is a successful musical in Europe and Asia, but like many vampires, it had a difficult conception. The Broadway production suffered from static blocking, gratuitous female nudity, and, according to critics, “soberly eschew[ed] any temptations to campy indulgence”.

Dracula himself showed no emotion. Actor Tom Hewitt, who had previously starred in Rocky Horror, clearly had a camp vampire bursting to get out, but the production demanded constraint. It was a musical made for the straight male gaze.

The show was later revised in Switzerland, Austria, and South Korea. It gradually borrowed elements from the camp masterpiece Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), from Eiko Ishioka’s costume design to the iconic bleeding cross scene.

Mina’s Seduction was re-blocked into a romantic scene where Mina has more control of the situation. The female nudity was removed, but Dracula was framed as a Twilight-esque heartthrob. The sexual dynamics were transformed: this was now a Dracula for the female gaze. And since women are the primary demographic of musical theatre, and of popular vampire media, this gradual shift directly correlated with its gradual success.

The Vampire Lestat

If vampires are soulless, it stands to reason that they’re not naturally musical. The vampires in the multi-Oscar-winning film Sinners (2025) are attracted to blues music because it is alive and human: everything they’re not.

Some vampires might not be able to sing at all: Stoker’s Dracula praises the sound of the wolves (“what music they make!”) but doesn’t sing with them. In musicals, characters must sing truthfully about their feelings. So how do soulless demons function in this world? To be a successful musical vampire, they must be a failed vampire.

Incidentally, Lestat’s albums are called The Failures. Music has “opened up the batch oven” and his feelings are out of control. He’s an inexhaustible vessel of love and pain: he cries, screams, and sings, expressing feelings he’s not supposed to express. After all the enduring vampires tend to do, Lestat is thriving – and inspiring others – in the cathartic communion of live music.

Broadway’s The Lost Boys also gives its vampires a reason to sing by making the gang a rock band. However, Broadway’s Lestat did not focus on his rockstar era but rather condensed his life story. It missed the opportunity to explore the character’s love of music, to use the musical format to explore Lestat’s identity. In The Vampire Lestat, music is integrated into the show’s structure. It’s the very thing that unravels and reveals the vampire.

There’s a specific intersection where the vampire’s appeal meets the musical’s, and while this intersection was a mystery for Broadway producers of the 2000s, it’s being nailed now. The curse is finally over – and now that the singing vampires have been invited in, who knows what they’ll do next.

Ariana Grande‘s new music video for Petal has sparked concern from fans after it showcased her alarmingly thin frame. 

The video follows an aspiring performer named Pepper, who undergoes several personality and image overhauls in response to negative feedback from casting bosses. 

After several failed auditions, Pepper eventually snaps and slays the bosses with a chainsaw after they brand her ‘inauthentic’ and claim to have preferred her as she was at the start. 

In a twist, it’s then revealed Pepper is in fact a famous movie star who was filming the story of an actress who is driven to madness by rejection and critique.  

The striking video is a social commentary on Ariana’s complicated relationship with fame and the scrutiny she’s faced over the years, with Ariana doubling down on this point when she announced a break from the limelight after ‘endless, ongoing public scrutiny’. 

Yet Ariana, who is a self-confessed horror film fanatic, also paid homage to a number of film scenes and characters, notably those including women who have been driven to madness while trying to live up to impossible standards. 

So what are the symbolic moments in Petal? The Daily Mail reveals all. 

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All the symbolism in Ariana Grande’s Petal as she pays homage to women driven to madness by impossible standards in dark music video (right, Sissy Spacek in 1976’s Carrie)

Pepper’s Hollywood star and The Substance references 

Petal opens on a blank star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame that has cracked slightly allowing a single daisy to grow. 

With each failed audition the flower begins to wilt, until the end when Pepper leaves the movie studios as an accomplished actress, when the flower is restored to full health. 

The scene mirrors that of The Substance, in which Demi Moore stars as ageing actress Elisabeth Sparkle, who injects herself with a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself, after being shut out of Hollywood. 

Elisabeth’s star becomes dirtier and disregarded as time goes on in a metaphor for how her career fades with age. 

There is another reference to The Substance in Petal, when Pepper responds to a casting advert to try and crack Hollywood, much like when Elisabeth’s alter-ego Sue responds to an advert to become ‘the next Elisabeth Sparkle’. 

Meanwhile, the cruel casting bosses in Petal resemble ruthless agent Harvey (Dennis Quaid) in the body horror film. 

Petal opens on a blank star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame that has cracked slightly allowing a single daisy to grow, much like Elisabeth Sparkle’s abandoned star in The Substance 

There is another reference to The Substance in Petal, when Pepper responds to a casting advert to try and crack Hollywood

The cruel casting bosses in Petal resemble ruthless agent Harvey in the body horror film

While Ariana has not commented publicly on The Substance she has spoken in depth about the focus of image in Hollywood. 

She told Vogue in 2023: ‘Being exposed to so many voices at a young age, and especially when people have things to say about your appearance at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not. When you’re 17, you don’t really know that yet.’ 

Ariana went on to confess she had a ‘ton’  of lip filler and Botox over the years, tearing up as she recalled: ‘I stopped in 2018 because I felt too much. 

‘I just felt like hiding, you know? Didn’t expect to get emotional. 

‘For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me, and now I feel like maybe it’s not. Ever since I stopped getting fillers and Botox, I know for me, it was just like, “Oh, I just want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines.”

‘I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more. Ageing can be such a beautiful thing. Now, might I get a facelift in 10 years? Might, yeah! 

‘These are just thoughts that I feel like we should be able to discuss when we’re talking about beauty secrets. F*** it, let’s lay it all out there.’

Pepper becomes Grease’s ‘sexy Sandy’ 

At the start of Petal, Pepper arrives for her audition in a modest yellow top and white midi skirt, reminiscent of Olivia Newton John’s first look as Sandy in Grease

After receiving the feedback that she’s ‘homely, boring and nothing special’, Pepper transforms into ‘sexy Sandy’ channeling the character’s bad girl transformation

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At the start of Petal, Pepper arrives for her audition in a modest yellow top and white midi skirt, reminiscent of Olivia Newton John’s first look as Sandy in Grease. 

Yet after receiving the feedback that she’s ‘homely, boring and nothing special’, Pepper transforms into ‘sexy Sandy’ channeling the character’s bad girl transformation in a black Bardot top and skintight trousers. 

In Grease, Sandy opted to change despite Danny insisting he’d ditch his biker persona and become a jock to be with her, and many fans have since insisted it’s sexist that she was the one who had to change.

For years it’s been claimed that Grease promotes a sexist representation of women but the argument gained speed in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which increased awareness of the representation of women in media. 

Many noted that Sandy shouldn’t have felt the need to change her image from the so-called ‘girl-next-door’, despite the film heavily implying she and Danny would never be together if she’d kept her look and demeanour the same. 

Olivia later hit back at these claims, saying: ‘It’s a movie. It’s a story from the 50s where things were different.’

Pepper snaps like Pearl 

Petal appears to be heavily influenced by Pearl, which stars Mia Goth (right) as a young woman on the brink of madness who pursues stardom to escape her monotonous life 

Several scenes in Petal mirror Pearl, such as the lines of young women waiting to audition for roles, the manic eyes of a performer desperate to please, and of course the killing scenes 

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Petal appears to be heavily influenced by Pearl, which stars Mia Goth as a young woman on the brink of madness who pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation and lovelessness of life on her parents’ farm.

In Pearl, the titular character tries in vain to make it as a star before giving into her murderous tendencies and going on a rampant killing spree. 

Several scenes in Petal mirror Pearl, such as the lines of young women waiting to audition for roles, the manic eyes of a performer desperate to please, and of course the killing scenes. 

The death scene itself also pays tribute to Kill Bill in a homage to Uma Thurman’s complicated antiheroine The Bride. 

While as Pepper emerges covered in blood there is a striking resemblance to Sissy Spacek in Carrie, a teenager who is driven to murder after being mercilessly bullied by her peers and abused by her mother. 

Ariana has previously expressed her love of the 1976 horror film, saying it influenced a sketch she starred in on Saturday Night Live earlier this year. 

The skit reimagined Macaulay Culkin’s Home Alone as Kevin pulling off murderous pranks rather than playful ones, with SNL’s film unit director Mike Diva revealing Ariana said: ‘I want as much blood as possible. I wanna look like Carrie at the end of this thing!’ 

The death scene itself also pays tribute to Kill Bill in a homage to Uma Thurman’s complicated antiheroine The Bride (right) 

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As Pepper emerges covered in blood there is a striking resemblance to Sissy Spacek in Carrie, a teenager who is driven to murder after being mercilessly bullied by her peers

Ariana previously revealed that Petal allowed her to tap into her ‘unfiltered rage’. 

She told Apple Music: ‘It pulls from many different parts of myself and yet, at the same time, it is very experimental and different for me.

‘I wrote from a place that I don’t usually, which was like an unfiltered rage that I think we all feel sometimes.

‘I usually am too shy to tap into that. This time, I didn’t filter as much as I usually do. I usually do a lot of rewrites and make things a little kinder. This time, I didn’t.’ 

She also described Petal as being ‘full of life’ and ‘growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging’. 

Ariana added: ‘It’s a little feral. It’s definitely from a place I’ve been maybe too shy or polite to tap into before. This kind of just feels like, “F**k it.”‘ 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush is attempting a political comeback Tuesday in a Missouri Democratic primary that tests evolving views on American-Israeli relations, just two years after the progressive “Squad” member was ousted by voters in favor of Wesley Bell.

The rematch in a heavily Democratic St. Louis district is one of several consequential primaries. In western Missouri, Republicans are picking a candidate to try to unseat Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver in a dramatically reshaped district that is part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to retain a slim House majority in the midterms.

In northern Missouri, Republicans are choosing a potential successor to retiring Rep. Sam Graves, chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Meanwhile, Missouri voters are deciding a pair of unique ballot measures backed by the Republican-led Legislature. One would require all citizen-initiated constitutional amendments to pass in each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts instead of by a simple statewide majority — a high standard used by no other state. The other would direct lawmakers to repeal the state’s individual income tax while authorizing a state sales tax expansion.

St. Louis primary pits Israel critic against supporter

The contest between Bush and Bell tests how much the Democratic Party has shifted over the past two years.

The deep-pocketed American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which lobbies for U.S. support of Israel, spent millions to help oust Bush in 2024 after she criticized Israel’s response in Gaza to the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Bell is again supported by AIPAC.

But public opinions of Israel have since shifted, particularly among Democrats. A recent survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 58% of Democrats now say the U.S. is “too supportive” of Israelis, up from 45% in an AP-NORC poll from January 2024.

This year’s primary also could test the growing clout of democratic socialists, who have traveled from across the country to help campaign for Bush.

Bush and Bell both honed their leadership skills in Ferguson amid the racial unrest that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in 2014. Bell won election to the Ferguson City Council the next year, then defeated a seven-term St. Louis County prosecutor in the 2018 Democratic primary.

Bush, a protest leader, defeated longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay in the 2020 Democratic primary. She served two terms before being defeated by Bell.

Kansas City primary is part of GOP redistricting plan

Missouri was the second Republican state, after Texas, to respond to Trump’s call last year to redraw congressional districts to the GOP’s advantage ahead of the midterms. The revamped map stretches Cleaver’s previous Kansas City district eastward into rural central Missouri, giving the new 5th District a Republican tilt.

Cleaver is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. A six-person Republican primary features state Sen. Rick Brattin, a Marine veteran and founding member of the Missouri Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction that has challenged the legislature’s GOP leadership. Brattin now has the backing of some of Missouri’s top Republicans, including Gov. Mike Kehoe.

His main advertising competitor has been Taylor Burks, a Navy officer who previously served as Boone County clerk, which oversees elections in the home county of the University of Missouri.

Retirement creates an opening for a Republican-held seat

Graves, who has represented rural northern Missouri for a quarter century, set off a political scramble when he announced in late March that he wasn’t seeking reelection. He endorsed conservative talk radio host Chris Stigall, who once worked for Graves.

The five-person Republican field in the GOP-leaning 6th District also features Kansas City Council member Nathan Willett. The recent redistricting added more northern Kansas City neighborhoods to the sprawling district. The Democratic primary has three candidates.

Ballot item seeks to raise the bar for amendments

A constitutional amendment placed on the ballot by Republican state lawmakers would make it harder for citizen-initiated amendments to win voter approval. The measure comes after voters narrowly passed several controversial citizen initiatives, including ones enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution, legalizing recreational marijuana, allowing sports betting and expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income adults.

None of those would have passed under the proposed requirement that citizen-initiated amendments win majority approval in every congressional district. Under Amendment 4, constitutional amendments proposed by the Legislature would still need just a statewide majority.

Proposal asks voters whether to ax the income tax

Amendment 5 would direct the Legislature to gradually eliminate the individual income tax as state revenue grows. It also would allow lawmakers to raise revenue by expanding the sales tax to “any goods and services” — giving them five years to decide which sales to tax without needing further voter approval.

The Missouri measure marks the first time since the modern income tax began over a century ago that a U.S. state legislature has asked voters whether to eliminate the tax. Alaska is the only state so far to impose a general individual income tax and then repeal it, doing so in 1980 by a legislative vote.

Massachusetts voters rejected income tax eliminations in 2002 and 2008 that were initiated by citizens, not lawmakers.

WARNING: Distressing content Claire Alex took her own life just four days after she told police about the 11 months of abuse she endured from Kathryn White

A jealous, controlling woman waged a campaign of psychological and physical abuse on her girlfriend, leading her to take her own life just days after she told police.

Kathryn White. and Claire Alex met on Tinder in August 2021 but the troubled relationship came to an end in July 2022, when an argument resulted in White grabbing Ms Alex by the neck and pinning her to a wall. She threatened to kill herself, took the victim’s phone so she could not call for help, and threw her to the floor.

Claire finally gathered the courage to to tell police she had “completely lost herself” and felt “broken” after 11 months of torment from White. Four days later, she killed herself.

White, 41, of Mayfield Mews in Crewe, denied controlling and coercive behaviour, but was found guilty following a trial. She appeared back in court today, Friday July 31, for sentence.

The judge White’s behaviour amounted to “a prolonged and persistent campaign of psychological and physical abuse.” On one occasion the court heard White threatened to stab Ms Alex. On another occasion, she slapped her outside her workplace after a colleague hugged her, Liverpool Echo reports.

Rosemary Proctor, defending White, said the former army officer had depression, anxiety and ADHD, and had suffered sexual trauma in the past. She said: “It’s clear from the character references she can be compassionate, she can be generous, she can be a good friend, a good sister, a good daughter, even a good girlfriend. There are many who can say she had made a positive impact on their lives.”

While Prosecutor Ember Jade Wong said: “She would control what she did, who she spoke to, and would monitor her in various different ways. Perhaps the most significant form of isolation in this case was from friends and family, including her own children.”

The judge concluded: “I have watched your behaviour throughout the trial. I’m satisfied, even allowing for your mental health difficulties, you demonstrated a cold, collected attitude with absolutely no remorse, shame or empathy.

“Your behaviour demonstrated attempts by you to control the way evidence was given. You made flippant and jokey remarks which could not have been more inappropriate, which shows a complete lack of understanding of the impact of your offending.”

He sentenced White to three years and six months in prison.

For emotional support, you can call the Samaritans 24-hour helpline on 116 123, email jo@samaritans.org, visit a Samaritans branch in person or go to the Samaritans website.

For confidential support, call the 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Freephone Helpline on 0808 2000 247 or visit womensaid.co.uk. If you or your family have lost a friend or family member through fatal domestic abuse, AAFDA (Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse) can offer specialist and expert support and advocacy. For more info visit www.aafda.org.uk.

A forest fire in the south of France has revealed a cache of 400 historic shells and munitions in the village of Le Porge, according to local authorities.

Blasts, initially thought to be exploding gas cylinders, may have been World War Two explosives detonated by the heat of the fires, the local fire commander told local media.

More than 100 explosions were heard on the second night of the fire, Mayor Martial Zaninetti told French news outlet France Info, likening it to “the sound of war”.

Demining operations have now seen most residents return to their homes, however the mayor has said certain areas are still off-limits. More than 180 houses in the area were destroyed by the wildfire.

“There were ammunition depots buried in land within our municipality, but we didn’t know it, and they exploded”, Zaninetti told France Info.

He described them going “to the right, to the left” and that there was “even one that went through a house”.

Alan Miller took to streets on march to “Protect Our Women and Kids”. We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home

A far right protester who took to the streets to “defend women and kids” battered his own mum, the Daily Record can reveal.

Coward Alan Miller has already been exposed for abusing ex-partners – who were left black and blue after his assaults.

The Daily Record can now reveal that the scumbag turned on his own mother, which resulted in police being called.

Miller was ordered to do community service and also given a non-harassment order to stop him from terrorising his mum at her Glasgow address.

The court appearance for Miller came in December, 2023, when he turned up at his mum’s home in Easterhouse and shouted at her, swearing and threatening her with violence.

As the attack went on, Miller struck Kirsty Miller, 53, on the head, which sickened family and friends.

The latest revelations come after Miller featured prominently at a demo titled “Save Our Women and Kids” at Glasgow Green, which has gone down as one of the low spots in race relations in the city.

The event was marred by pitched battles involving masked hooligans, several of whom made Nazi salutes to antagonise police and counter demonstrators.

The Daily Record previously told how Caitlyn Scullion, 26, branded ex-partner Miller a violent brute who terrorised her as they brought up a child together.

Caitlyn posted shocking photos that show bleeding and bruising to her face and body.

A video she posted showed Miller screaming at her as a traumatised child cried, in clear distress.

A source said the latest revelations on Miller reveal what a coward he is.

The source said: “He is a classic misogynistic bully, who is a clear danger to any woman who enters his orbit.

“To have Alan Miller marching in the supposed defence of women and children is nothing more than a sick joke.

“It is a scandal that he hasn’t been jailed for his crimes, which follow a very clear pattern.”

A separate post by Kerry Sweeney – a previous partner of the racist – brands him a hypocrite and the kind of “monster” that women need to be protected from.

Both women condemned Miller after video emerged of him acting disgracefully as far-right activists rioted at Glasgow Green last month.

Miller, 26, was filmed while shouting threats to anti-racism campaigners.

He shouts to one person: “I’ll kick your c*** in.”

Sharing a clip of Miller at the demo, Caitlyn said: “He’s protesting about getting ‘immigrants out’ to protect women and children, when this is what he did to me.”

Kerry Sweeney added: “This is who we need to protect our women and children from. Treat him like the monster he is.

“He enjoys hitting women, even whilst pregnant and has absolutely no care or remorse.”

Miller pled guilty to a charge of domestic abuse, in relation to Kerry, at Glasgow Sheriff Court in October 2017.

He was given 40 hours of community payback. Pleas of not guilty to two separate assault charges were accepted.

In 2023 he faced the same court for the altercation at his mother’s home.

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And in August 2025, the court made a Community Payback Order and Non-Harassment Order after his treatment of Caitlyn Scullion.

The event in Glasgow was organised by the Aberdeen-based Unite the Clans group.

The Daily Record has also revealed that another “protestor” who whipped up hatred at the event was Ryan Marshall, 37, who was brazenly making Nazi “sieg heil” salutes as he championed the cause of protecting women and children from immigrants.

Our investigation found that Marshall has a monstrous list of convictions that include several for attacking and stalking women.

We told how the brute has abused women for most of his adult life.

Alan Miller has been asked to comment.

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Firefighters spent almost six weeks battling the blaze on Tintwistle Moor after it broke out on June 24. Due to its size and the heatwave a major incident was declared on July 12.

Analysis by the BBC revealed almost 1,500 acres of moorland – the equivalent of 900 football pitches – had been burned. But Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service announced that as of 2pm on Monday the major incident was stood down.

Woodhead Pass, which had been closed for almost a fortnight after the fire broke out, was opened.

Part of the road is now closed for the ‘serious’ crash.