After a career of playing dashing gents, the Irish actor has transformed himself to play the late boxing trainer Brendan Ingle in ‘Giant’, a biopic of the boxing legend ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamad. He and actor Amir El-Masry speak to Adam White about self-belief, self-doubt and why early retirement was never on the cards for them

The soapy new drama series about gay hockey players is a lot of silly, sexy fun – but you wouldn’t know it based on the pricklier, angrier and more territorial aspects of its fandom. Why is very unserious TV being treated quite so seriously, asks Adam White

Bodybuilder and wrestler also made a cameo in the music video for Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’

‘There was this sense that I had chosen badly,’ comedian revealed

The British actor is allegedly ‘blabbing all over town’ that he’s been cast in Denis Villeneuve’s super-spy reboot, and – following years of far-fetched claims that Paul Mescal or Jacob Elordi was about to don the famous tuxe – it’s finally a ‘new Bond’ rumour that’s actually believable, writes Adam White