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      Glastonbury Festival’s secret set ‘rumbled’ as real act’s name ‘spotted written on box’

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      Glastonbury Festival’s secret act – Patchwork – is set to perform on the Pyramid Stage, and fans have been scrambling to figure out the identity of the mystery act16:00, 28 Jun 2025Updated 16:15, 28 Jun 2025Glastonbury’s mystery Patchwork act may have just been rumbledGlastonbury’s mystery act – Patchwork – may have just been exposed.The iconic festival has returned to Worthy Farm in Somerset – it kicked off on Wednesday and will dazzle crowds until Sunday (June 29). The 1975 headlined the Pyramid Stage on Friday (June 27) night and other huge acts set to play include the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX, Neil Young and Sir Rod Stewart.But there’s a secret act called Patchwork billed for the Pyramid Stage on Saturday, filling the 6.15pm slot before RAYE and Neil Young. Fans have been trying to work out just who it could be, and many suggesting it could be either Lorde, PULP or HAIM.It now it looks like someone has figured it out as a festival-goer spotted a clue on a sound engineer box right by the Pyramid Stage. The source told the Mirror: “I spotted the sound engineer box with Pulp’s name on as they were setting up during the Kaiser Chiefs set.”The secret act are billed for the Pyramid Stage today at 6.15pmPulp’s rumoured set was mentioned by the popular social media account SecretGlasto, which is known for predicting the festival’s secret acts. The account has been up and running for the last decade.Article continues belowAd, who helps to run the SecretGlasto social media accounts was confident they’d cracked most of the secret performers. He told the BBC: “Of the four main slots, I think we’ve got three of them, maybe four, nailed down.Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is at the festival(Image: More

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      BBC make late decision on Kneecap’s Glastonbury set as band issues response

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      Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance won’t be broadcast live by the BBC. The Irish rap trio are playing the festival’s West Holts stage at 4pm on Saturday (June 28). PM Keir Starmer previously claimed the group’s Glasto gig “wasn’t “appropriate” in light of Kneecap member Liam Og O hAnnaidh’s terrorism charge. While the group’s controversial appearance at […] More

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      EastEnders legend reveals ‘trauma’ of soap exit and character’s ‘fake death’

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      EXCLUSIVE: Soap star Samantha Womack left EastEnders in 2017 and would have stayed in the job if she could, but now she’s revealed why she’s glad she left and how she could return14:00, 28 Jun 2025EastEnders legend Samantha Womack says leaving the soap was a kind of “trauma”.The 52-year-old actress played Ronnie Mitchell on the BBC soap until 2017, when Ronnie and sister Roxy (Rita Simons) drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Ibiza. Samantha has just told Daily Star that the siblings could make a shock return to the soap and that maybe the pair are still alive.Samantha has now revealed how she struggled with her EastEnders exit as she “loved” the cast and crew so much. She admits she got used to the “paycheck” and would have stayed on the soap if she’d had it her way, but now she’s “really glad” she left as it allowed her to develop as an actress.Asked if she’d return to the soap, she said: “I would never say never to anything now, because it wasn’t right for me to stay in that job at the time, because I’ve been there for a long time, and you get lazy. You get used to making regular money, which is a self employed artist.Samantha has partnered with GenesisCare on their Keep Abreast of your Breast Density campaign”Essentially, you start to become less creative and more scared, because you’re used to that paycheck. So probably, if I’ve been given the decision to leave or stay I was, I would have stayed because that’s the way our whole system is geared up, is towards financial security.Article continues belowShe continued: “I’m really glad now that I left, because I got to reflect on it, but also I got to realize what a great part of my life it was, like I loved the people there. Loved them, like, not just the cast members, like, you know, I grew up with as a young woman, all the camera operators makeup, we were like family, you know.The Ronnie star says leaving the soap was like “trauma” as she loved the cast and crew so much(Image: More