Steve Hopkins

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Steve is the deputy director of editorial at Joe. He manages Joe.co.uk and oversees the trending news team, where he helps cover the most talked about news, politics, sports and entertainment stories. Steve joined Joe in May 2021 from HuffPost UK.

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  • I’m A Celeb bosses forced to ‘edit out’ Chris Moyles’ swipes at host Ant McPartlin

    I’m A Celeb bosses forced to ‘edit out’ Chris Moyles’ swipes at host Ant McPartlin

    ‘There have been some p***take remarks to Ant that have become a problem’ I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! bosses are reportedly having to remove comments made by Chris Moyles from the final edit. According to reports, the veteran radio broadcaster has made several remarks alluding to Ant McPartlin‘s past which includes a car […]

    3 years ago

  • Japanese fans stun Qatar crowds by cleaning up World Cup stadium

    Japanese fans stun Qatar crowds by cleaning up World Cup stadium

    ‘We are Japanese, and we do not leave rubbish behind us, and we respect the place’ Japanese football fans have stunned crowds in Qatar by cleaning up a World Cup stadium in a game their country wasn’t even playing. At the tournament’s opening fixture between the host nation and Ecuador on Sunday, fans dressed in […]

    3 years ago

  • New Netflix series finds evidence that will ‘demand a rewrite of history’

    New Netflix series finds evidence that will ‘demand a rewrite of history’

    ‘If you have any respect for the work me and my colleagues do, you will not watch ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ on Netflix’ Netflix‘s newest series exploring lost civilisations and challenging history as we know it has unearthed a hot debate on social media. The series, ‘Ancient Apocalypse’, dropped on Netflix earlier this month and sees journalist […]

    3 years ago

  • Outrage as FIFA boss seen laughing with controversial Saudi Arabian Crown Prince

    Outrage as FIFA boss seen laughing with controversial Saudi Arabian Crown Prince

    ‘Absurd, harmful, misleading, unhinged and downright disrespectful’ Football fans and pundits are outraged after images showed FIFA‘s chief laughing in the stands with controversial Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the World Cup opening ceremony. The governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino, was pictured deep in conversation with the prince, also known as ‘MBS’, in […]

    3 years ago

  • Joe Lycett reveals £10,000 he shredded for World Cup stunt was fake

    Joe Lycett reveals £10,000 he shredded for World Cup stunt was fake

    ‘I haven’t quite told you the whole truth’ Joe Lycett has admitted that his World Cup money shredding stunt was exactly that. A stunt. The money was fake. The comedian had promised to destroy the money unless David Beckham stepped away from a reported £10m deal with the Qatar football tournament. The country is, as […]

    3 years ago

  • England and Wales bottle it and won’t wear OneLove rainbow armband at World Cup

    England and Wales bottle it and won’t wear OneLove rainbow armband at World Cup

    ‘We cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play’ England and Wales have backed down and decided not to wear OneLove armbands after a threat from FIFA that captains Harry Kane and Gareth Bale could face an instant yellow card for doing […]

    3 years ago

  • Taylor Swift fans are calling her out as tour tickets go for ‘$95,000’

    Taylor Swift fans are calling her out as tour tickets go for ‘$95,000’

    The singer issued a statrment after Ticketmaster messed up her pre-sales Taylor Swift is in trouble with her fans after tickets for the singer’s upcoming Eras tour have gone on sale for tens of thousands of dollars. After Ticketmaster messed up the pre-sale for the US leg of Taylor’s tour and cancelled the main sale […]

    3 years ago

  • World Cup viewers don’t think they can see any women in the opening game crowd

    World Cup viewers don’t think they can see any women in the opening game crowd

    ‘Can anyone see any women in the crowd?’ World Cup viewers all wondered the same thing about the opening game crowd. Where were the female football fans? As Qatar took on Ecuador on Sunday, amid widespread criticism of the host nation over the lack of inclusivity and equal gender rights, sports fans on social media […]

    3 years ago

  • Supernatural and Dark Blue actress Nicki Aycox passes away aged 47

    Supernatural and Dark Blue actress Nicki Aycox passes away aged 47

    ‘She was definitely a fighter and everyone who knew her loved her’ Actress Nicki Aycox – best known for roles as Meg Masters on The CW’s Supernatural and Jaimie Allen on TNT’s Dark Blue – has died aged 47 following a battle with cancer. The star’s sister-in-law, Susan Raab Ceklosky, confirmed her death in a […]

    3 years ago

  • Women’s Aid makes desperate plea to I’m A Celebrity bosses

    Women’s Aid makes desperate plea to I’m A Celebrity bosses

    The charity did not hold back Women’s Aid has posted a statement about I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! after Seann Walsh opened up about cheating on his ex-girlfriend on the reality show, calling it the “worst moment of my life”. In a Tweet on Friday, the charity asked ITV to “consider in their […]

    3 years ago

  • I’m A Celebrity’s Olivia Attwood breaks silence on early exit from jungle

    I’m A Celebrity’s Olivia Attwood breaks silence on early exit from jungle

    ‘I’m not a crier but I started to cry, it was so emotional’ Olivia Attwood has broken her silence on her exit from I’m A Celebrity saying she was “absolutely devastated” to leave the jungle just 24-hours after joining the reality show. The former Love Island star left the show on Monday after being forced […]

    3 years ago

  • Peter Kay fans ‘disgusted’ over tour tickets being resold for over £1,000

    Peter Kay fans ‘disgusted’ over tour tickets being resold for over £1,000

    ‘Disgusting how many tickets have been bought to resell for a ridiculous price’ Peter Kay might have wanted to keep tickets to his upcoming tour the “same price as they were on my previous tour in 2010” but that hasn’t stopped resellers asking for upwards of £1,000 for tickets that went on just today. The […]

    3 years ago

  • Peter Kay fans fuming as they struggle to get tickets for 2023 comeback tour

    Peter Kay fans fuming as they struggle to get tickets for 2023 comeback tour

    ‘280,00o (people) ahead of me’ Peter Kay fans have expressed their frustrations after tickets for his highly-anticipated tour were released on Saturday morning leading to long waits. More than 200,000 fans reportedly raced to the Ticketmaster website to get the chance to see the comic on his first tour in 12 years and his London […]

    3 years ago

  • Megan Fox poses topless as she slams claims she ‘didn’t shave’ bikini line

    Megan Fox poses topless as she slams claims she ‘didn’t shave’ bikini line

    ‘I’m devastated to be off your list. Was hoping you’d wife me’ Megan Fox has brutally mocked a social media troll who said she hadn’t shaved her bikini line in a series of snaps she shared on social media of her and Machine Gun Kelly dressed up as elves. The Transformers actress  posted a carousel […]

    3 years ago

  • TikToker raises almost $180,000 for elderly Walmart worker to retire

    TikToker raises almost $180,000 for elderly Walmart worker to retire

    ‘Life shouldn’t be this hard’ A TikTok user has raised almost $180,000 (£152k) for an elderly Walmart worker so that she can afford to retire after capturing the hearts of the internet with a heartbreaking video of her looking worn out on her break. Content creator Devan Bonagura (@dbon973_) initially posted a video of the […]

    3 years ago

  • Airplane! director slams ‘woke Hollywood for destroying comedy’

    Airplane! director slams ‘woke Hollywood for destroying comedy’

    David Zucker said execs are pandering to the ‘nine percent of the people who don’t have a sense of humour’ The director of the 1980 film Airplane! has put the boot into Hollywood for “destroying comedy” by making it too woke. David Zucker told PragerU that film executives were now too afraid to upset a […]

    3 years ago

  • Boy born at 11.11am on 11th November 2011 celebrates his 11th birthday today

    Boy born at 11.11am on 11th November 2011 celebrates his 11th birthday today

    Daniel is getting 11 gifts to mark the special occasion A boy born at 11:11am on November 11 in 2011 is turning 11 today and will make the occasion with – you guessed it – 11 gifts. Daniel Saunders, who was originally due to be born six days later, has dubbed the double-digit figure his […]

    3 years ago

  • Woman who murdered pregnant friend and ripped baby from womb sentenced to death

    Woman who murdered pregnant friend and ripped baby from womb sentenced to death

    Taylor Rene Parker was unable to have more children but had told her partner she was pregnant A woman who murdered her heavily pregnant friend before cutting the unborn baby out of her body has been sentenced to death. Taylor Rene Parker repeatedly stabbed 21-year-old Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock and caved her skull in with a […]

    3 years ago

  • Sylvester Stallone gives sad update on Bruce Willis’s condition

    Sylvester Stallone gives sad update on Bruce Willis’s condition

    ‘Bruce is going through some really, really difficult times’ Sylvester Stallone has told how Bruce Willis’ condition is “so sad” as he gave an update on the Die Hard actor’s health. In March, Willis’s family confirmed he would be stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a devastating brain condition that can lead […]

    3 years ago

  • Furious I’m A Celebrity fans complain to Ofcom over Matt Hancock scene

    Furious I’m A Celebrity fans complain to Ofcom over Matt Hancock scene

    ‘Made a complaint to Ofcom for the first and only time in my life tonight’ I’m A Celebrity fans have complained to Ofcom over one particular scene involving – you guessed it – Matt Hancock. The scene involved him bathing and one viewer claimed it “left them in tears”, The Sun reported. Good Morning Britain’s […]

    3 years ago

  • Jake Paul and Andrew Tate face off as fight negotiations begin

    Jake Paul and Andrew Tate face off as fight negotiations begin

    Paul defeated Anderson Silva just under a fortnight ago Jake Paul and Andrew Tate are in negotiations to fight each other. The YouTuber turned boxer, who defeated Anderson Silva late last month, posted a face off video of the pair squaring up on his Twitter around 1pm on Thursday. The post was captioned: “Negotiations.” Negotiations. […]

    3 years ago

  • Football player who inspired The Blind Side gets married to partner of 17 years

    Football player who inspired The Blind Side gets married to partner of 17 years

    Michael Oher’s gripping story inspired The Blind Side A former NFL player who inspired the film The Blind Side has got hitched to his longterm partner in what he’s described as “the best single weekend I’ve ever been apart of”. Michael Oher posted pictures of his nuptials on Instagram on Tuesday, having tied the knot […]

    3 years ago

  • Transgender influencer Nikita Dragun arrested and put in men’s prison

    Transgender influencer Nikita Dragun arrested and put in men’s prison

    ‘The situation with Nikita… is extremely disturbing and dangerous’ Transgender influencer Nikita Dragun has been arrested and placed in a men’s jail in a move that has alarmed her management and fans. The vlogger and makeup artist, whose real name is Nikita Nguyen, was arrested on November 7 following a disturbance at a Miami beach […]

    3 years ago

  • ITV responds after investigation launched into Mike Tindall joke

    ITV responds after investigation launched into Mike Tindall joke

    The report comes days after Olivia Attwood made a shock exit from the show I’m A Celeb bosses have responded to claims that Mike Tindall is under investigation for breaching strict covid rules. Reports on Wednesday suggested the former England rugby player may have broken the regulations as he was photographed playing and joking around […]

    3 years ago

  • Mike Tindall ‘under investigation’ after I’m a Celeb joke

    Mike Tindall ‘under investigation’ after I’m a Celeb joke

    The report comes days after Olivia Attwood made a shock exit from the show Mike Tindall is being investigated for potentially breaching I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’s strict covid rules, according to reports. The former England rugby player is said to have potentially broken the regulations as he was photographed playing and […]

    3 years ago

  • Adidas will continue selling Yeezys but under a different name

    Adidas will continue selling Yeezys but under a different name

    Adidas said it is ‘the sole owner of all design rights registered to existing product’ Kanye West‘s nightmare keeps getting worse with news that Adidas are going to release more Yeezys as early as next year – but without him. The sportswear giant who ditched the rapper, now known as just Ye, on October 25 […]

    3 years ago

  • Guy wakes up to find more than $1 trillion deposited into his account

    Guy wakes up to find more than $1 trillion deposited into his account

    Chris Williamson only invested $20 It is the stuff of dreams, but for one man it came true. Chris Williamson woke up to learn he had become the richest man on the planet overnight. He invested $20 on cryptocurrency last year and a few days later woke up to discover he was wealthy beyond his […]

    3 years ago

  • World’s first cocaine bar switches location every month so it can stay open

    World’s first cocaine bar switches location every month so it can stay open

    A simple google search won’t take you there An illegal cocaine bar on top of the Andes mountains has managed to stay open by constantly changing its location, of course. Sounds like the fail-proof method to keep a secret, a secret. Route 36 is the world’s first cocaine bar located in the city of La […]

    3 years ago

  • Holly Willoughby shocked as Gino D’Acampo tells caller to pleasure herself

    Holly Willoughby shocked as Gino D’Acampo tells caller to pleasure herself

    The celebrity chef cooked up a rather controversial answer Gino D’Acampo dished out some rather X-rated advice to a caller nervous about their upcoming wedding on This Morning. They should masturbate, the celebrity chef advised, in scenes that shocked hosts, Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby who obviously expected a slightly more tame reply. On Tuesday’s […]

    3 years ago

  • Woman who turned 101 says tequila is the secret to long life

    Woman who turned 101 says tequila is the secret to long life

    Party on Mary A woman celebrating turning 101 has revealed the secret to a “happy” life and it is something a lot of Uni students are going to find very encouraging. The answer, according to Mary Flip, is tequila. The pensioner, of Chandler, Arizona, who lived through the Great Depression, multiple wars and birthed six […]

    3 years ago