The Latest Breaking News from Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais donates eye-watering amount of tour money to charity

‘To celebrate my Mortality Tour, my Netflix Special, my Golden Globes nomination and the spirit of Christmas, I am donating £2.43m to animals’

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2025

Ricky Gervais donates almost £2.5m from tour proceeds to animal charities

It means the total amount of donations made across the comic’s four recent specials is more than £5 million.

Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2025

‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

New film is based on TV series inspired by The Office, whose lead character is said to resemble the chancellor

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2025

It Took A While, But They Eventually Made It: 34 Hollywood Stars Who Found Fame After 30

From minor roles to breakout performances that changed everything, these 34 Hollywood stars prove it’s never too late to make it big.

Bored Panda · Nov 18, 2025

These gutted stars who turned down Celebrity Traitors face snub for next series

As Jonathan Ross says Ricky Gervais rejected the BBC hit, The Standard hears famous faces who passed on The Celebrity Traitors are now ‘kicking themselves’

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

Chadwick Boseman's widow to accept his Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Late actor Chadwick Boseman is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame five years after his death and the award will be accepted on his behalf by his widow Simone Ledward-Boseman.

BANG Premier · Nov 13, 2025

‘I’m still processing how awful it was’: your zero-star screen disasters

From a Dustin Hoffman performance less witty than a stunned mollusc to the worst piece of garbage ever inflicted on TV viewers, here are Guardian readers’ most atrocious watching experiences ever

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2025

Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong

To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025

Penelope Wilton: ‘They wanted me to tone down my death in Shaun of the Dead. It was too frightening’

The venerable screen and stage star reveals why she insisted on meeting a bloody end in Edgar Wright’s zomcom, loved working with Ricky Gervais and which of her film roles has the biggest Rastafarian fanbase

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025

Ricky Gervais to reprise The Office's David Brent in new series about classic British sitcoms

The show, part travelogue and part retrospective, will see Gervais revisit UK sitcom The Office

Evening Standard · Oct 13, 2025