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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  • Holly Willoughby responds to Phillip Schofield leaving This Morning

    Holly Willoughby responds to Phillip Schofield leaving This Morning

    ‘The sofa won’t feel the same without him’ Holly Willoughby has responded to the sudden announcement that her This Morning co-presenter Phillip Schofield is leaving the show. Schofield, who has been on the ITV show for more than 20 years, said he is leaving with “immediate effect” as he wants to “protect the show I […]

    3 years ago

  • Phillip Schofield leaves This Morning after more than 20 years

    Phillip Schofield leaves This Morning after more than 20 years

    The presenter said he wanted to ‘protect the show I love’ Phillip Schofield has left This Morning after more than 20 years on the ITV show. The 61-year-old, who joined the morning show in 2002, presented his last show on Thursday. In a statement on Saturday, Schofield said he was stepping back because the programme […]

    3 years ago

  • Fifteen dogs seized and woman arrested after fatal dog attack in Leigh

    Fifteen dogs seized and woman arrested after fatal dog attack in Leigh

    The woman was arrested on suspicion of money laundering A woman has been arrested and 15 dogs have been seized after a man died after a dog attack in Leigh. Jonathan Hogg was found by officers on Westleigh Lane in the Greater Manchester town with serious injuries shortly after 9.10pm on Thursday and died in […]

    3 years ago

  • Man live-streamed murder of his aunt’s partner in ‘grotesque’ two-hour attack

    Man live-streamed murder of his aunt’s partner in ‘grotesque’ two-hour attack

    ‘Words do not do justice to the horror of the images the jury had to see’ A man who battered to death his aunt’s partner in a “sadistic” attack live-streamed on social media has been jailed for life. Declan O’Donnell repeatedly kicked, punched and stamped on 63-year-old Paul Cox during a two-hour rampage at a […]

    3 years ago

  • Nationwide will pay £340m of profits directly into customers’ accounts

    Nationwide will pay £340m of profits directly into customers’ accounts

    The payout is expected to benefit several million customers Nationwide customers are set for a windfall with the UK’s largest building society announcing it will pay £340m from its profits directly into customers’ accounts. The news comes after a jump in deposits and higher interest rates increased profits 40 per cent to record highs. Nationwide, […]

    3 years ago

  • West Ham fan ‘Knollsy’ breaks silence after fighting off hooligans

    West Ham fan ‘Knollsy’ breaks silence after fighting off hooligans

    ‘I’m no hero’ The West Ham fan labelled a “legend” for fighting off Dutch ultras trying to get to players’ wives and families on Thursday has spoken out, saying “I’m no hero”. Chris Knolls, known as ‘Knolls’, was hailed a hero after video circulated on social media of him appearing to hold off crowds of […]

    3 years ago

  • Travellers shocked as airline weighs woman on baggage scale before flight

    Travellers shocked as airline weighs woman on baggage scale before flight

    ‘This is so humiliating omg’ A woman has shared the moment that a fellow traveller was asked to board the baggage scale to be weighed before a flight. Lillian, known as @lilwessel on TikTok, shared a clip of a passenger appearing to be weighed in front of other travellers before she was allowed on the […]

    3 years ago

  • West Ham fan ‘Knollsy’ hailed a hero for fighting off dozens of hooligans on his own

    West Ham fan ‘Knollsy’ hailed a hero for fighting off dozens of hooligans on his own

    ‘Their ultras got beaten by an old bloke with a hip replacement’ A West Ham fan is being hailed a hero and a “legend” after stopping AZ Alkmaar hooligans from getting to players’ families during violent scenes on Thursday. Dutch fans reacted angrily to the Hammers’ 1-0 win in the Europa Conference League and attempted […]

    3 years ago

  • Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie announces she is pregnant with third child

    Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie announces she is pregnant with third child

    Boris had five children before he met Carrie Carrie Johnson is pregnant with her third child. Boris Johnson’s wife announced the news on Instagram Friday, writing: “New team member arriving in just a few weeks. “I’ve felt pretty exhausted for much of the last eight months but we can’t wait to meet this little one. […]

    3 years ago

  • University fires two employees for including their pronouns in emails

    University fires two employees for including their pronouns in emails

    ‘They want to be trans-exclusive and they want to communicate that to potential students and the parents of potential students’ Two staff members at a university have been fired after including their pronouns in their emails. Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot, according to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education, refused to remove the […]

    3 years ago

  • Man dies after attack by ‘dangerously out of control’ dog in Leigh

    Man dies after attack by ‘dangerously out of control’ dog in Leigh

    A 24-year-old man has been arrested over the incident A man has died after being attacked by a “dangerously out of control” dog in Leigh. Greater Manchester Police said they were called to a “concern for welfare” of a man on Westleigh Lane around 9.10pm Thursday and found that a 37-year-old man had “sustained serious […]

    3 years ago

  • Pensioner, 95, fighting for her life after being tasered by police at nursing home

    Pensioner, 95, fighting for her life after being tasered by police at nursing home

    Nowland was moving ‘at a slow pace’ and using a walking frame while holding the knife A 95-year-old woman with dementia is in a critical condition in hospital after being tasered by police at her nursing home. Clare Nowland was tasered by police in Cooma, a town in New South Wales, Australia in an incident […]

    3 years ago

  • Phillip Schofield’s brother Timothy jailed for sexually abusing boy

    Phillip Schofield’s brother Timothy jailed for sexually abusing boy

    Timothy abused the teenager over a period of three years Phillip Schofield’s brother has been jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing a boy. Timothy Schofield was sentenced in Bristol Crown Court on Friday having earlier being found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy. The 54-year-old was convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a […]

    3 years ago

  • Starving boy, 10, found wandering street looking for supermarket to beg for food

    Starving boy, 10, found wandering street looking for supermarket to beg for food

    The boy weighed just 16kgs – the average weight of a four-year-old A boy found wandering the streets looking for food, begged police not to take him home. Authorities said the 10-year-old was “starving to death” and in a state of extreme malnutrition when he was found in Spalding County, Georgia on Friday. His parents, […]

    3 years ago

  • Cost Of Queen’s state funeral finally revealed by Treasury

    Cost Of Queen’s state funeral finally revealed by Treasury

    ‘The government’s priorities were that these events ran smoothly and with the appropriate level of dignity’ The Queen’s funeral and related events cost the government about £162 million, the Treasury said Thursday, The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey on 19 September 2022, followed by a period of national mourning. […]

    3 years ago

  • Facebook glitch saw app send friend requests when people looked at other user’s profiles

    Facebook glitch saw app send friend requests when people looked at other user’s profiles

    ‘The end of stalking’ A Facebook glitch saw the app auto-send friend requests when users viewed other people’s profiles, in what was a nightmare scenario for some users. ‘Profile-snoopers’ were caught out when Meta fixed a bug and inadvertently created another problem. It dispatched friend requests to any profiles users had viewed. Some users were […]

    3 years ago

  • AI shows what the ‘perfect man and woman’ look like

    AI shows what the ‘perfect man and woman’ look like

    ‘Largely unrealistic’ Artificial intelligence has produced what the “ideal” man and woman look like according to social media data. The images were created through engagement analytics on social media, using tools to look at billions of images of people. Not surprisingly, the images are somewhat, “unrealistic”, much like what is projected on social media. The […]

    3 years ago

  • S Club 7 singer Paul Cattermole’s cause of death revealed

    S Club 7 singer Paul Cattermole’s cause of death revealed

    There won’t be an inquest into his death Paul Cattermole, who died last month aged 46, died from natural causes. A coroner announced Thursday that as a result, there won’t be an inquest into the S Club 7 singer’s death. The group’s founding member was found dead at his home in Dorset on 6 April, […]

    3 years ago

  • OnlyFans star horrified after discovering her stepdad was her number one subscriber

    OnlyFans star horrified after discovering her stepdad was her number one subscriber

    He had been in her life since she was 11 An OnlyFans model has revealed her shock and the fallout in her family after she discovered her stepdad was her number one subscriber. In a TikTok that has now gone viral, Taila Maddison said the discovery “ruined my mum’s” marriage. The content-creator, who lives in […]

    3 years ago

  • German Shepherd spotted alone in the rain clutching toy is finally rescued

    German Shepherd spotted alone in the rain clutching toy is finally rescued

    Vets found plastic bags and twigs in her stomach A dog that was spotted alone in the rain carrying a stuffed toy in its mouth has been rescued. Pictures of the German Shepherd broke hearts across the internet after being released by the Almost Home Animal Rescue League (AHARL) who had received calls about the […]

    3 years ago

  • Three children and a baby found alive 17 days after plane crash

    Three children and a baby found alive 17 days after plane crash

    ‘A joy for the country’ Three children and a baby have reportedly been found alive 17 days after a plane crash in the Columbian Amazon. The siblings, boys aged eleven months, four and nine and their 13-year-old sister, survived by eating jungle fruits before being found and rescued Wednesday. The children had been missing after […]

    3 years ago

  • Driver tried to switch seats with his dog to avoid DUI arrest

    Driver tried to switch seats with his dog to avoid DUI arrest

    The dog did not go down for the crime A motorist in the US tried to get out of a DUI arrest by swapping seats with his dog after being pulled over. The incident took place in Springfield, Colorado, Saturday, around 11.30pm. The driver was stopped for allegedly driving 52mph in a 30-mph-zone and then […]

    3 years ago

  • Husband of bride killed on wedding day speaks out for the first time

    Husband of bride killed on wedding day speaks out for the first time

    ‘It just means the world. She left that impact’ Aric Hutchinson, whose wife Samatha Miller was killed shortly after they got married, has spoken for the first time since the accident that claimed her life. The couple were leaving their wedding reception in Folly Beach, North Carolina, in a golf cart on April 28 when […]

    3 years ago

  • Mountain rescue sent up Scafell Pike to stretcher dog ‘too tired’ to walk down

    Mountain rescue sent up Scafell Pike to stretcher dog ‘too tired’ to walk down

    The dog remained ‘cool, calm and positively regal’ during the descent A mountain rescue team were called in to save an unlikely casualty over the weekend. A tired dog which refused to walk back down England’s highest peak after hurting its paws. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) were called to Scafell Pike on Saturday after […]

    3 years ago

  • London man banned from standing near any woman he doesn’t know in public

    London man banned from standing near any woman he doesn’t know in public

    The order lasts for 10 years A predator has been banned from standing near any woman he doesn’t know in public after cops caught him sexually assaulting a teenage girl in front of her family. Abdulrizak Ali Hersi was spotted by plainclothes police attacking the schoolgirl when she got onto a Tube in central London […]

    3 years ago

  • Netflix’s Cleopatra documentary scores just 2% on Rotten Tomatoes

    Netflix’s Cleopatra documentary scores just 2% on Rotten Tomatoes

    ‘Much of what we know thanks to Hollywood is pure rot’ Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra docudrama has been heavily criticised for its casting, but it has also bombed with viewers and critics. Adele James, who plays the famous monarch, along with the director and producers, has been forced to defend her casting which even prompted an […]

    3 years ago

  • One-year-old and four-year-old found dead in house

    One-year-old and four-year-old found dead in house

    ‘They were just little kiddies’ The bodies of a baby and child have been found at a home in New Zealand, in what police suspect is a double murder. Officers in Northland made the discovery on Peter Snell Drive, Ruakaka, at 7:30am Monday, following reports of problems at the address. The names of the children […]

    3 years ago

  • Tom Hanks wants Idris Elba as the next James Bond

    Tom Hanks wants Idris Elba as the next James Bond

    ‘I would issue that licence to Idris Elba’ Tom Hanks thinks 007’s licence to kill should be handed down to Idris Elba. Speaking to the BBC, the Hollywood icon made clear that he thinks the Luther star should take over the mantle from Daniel Craig who last pulled on the tuxedo in 2021’s ‘No Time […]

    3 years ago

  • Kate Winslet makes heartfelt plea after winning Best Leading Actress BAFTA

    Kate Winslet makes heartfelt plea after winning Best Leading Actress BAFTA

    ‘We don’t want to lie awake terrified for our children’s mental health’ Kate Winslet won Best Leading Actress at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday and used her speech to make a heartfelt plea over social media, urging “the people in power to criminalise harmful content”. “We don’t want it and we want our children […]

    3 years ago

  • Sweden’s Eurovision win branded a ‘fix’ by fans

    Sweden’s Eurovision win branded a ‘fix’ by fans

    ‘Evidence to support the claim is starting to stack up’ Eurovision fans believe Sweden’s win was “fixed” because the contest will now return to the country 50 years after ABBA was victorious. They also think they’ve spotted another clue during the Liverpool event that further undermines the win. Loreen, who had already won the contest […]

    3 years ago

  • Sweden’s Eurovision win branded a ‘fix’ by fans

    Sweden’s Eurovision win branded a ‘fix’ by fans

    ‘Evidence to support the claim is starting to stack up’ Eurovision fans believe Sweden’s win was “fixed” because the contest will now return to the country 50 years after ABBA was victorious. They also think they’ve spotted another clue during the Liverpool event that further undermines the win. Loreen, who had already won the contest […]

    3 years ago

  • Mae Muller breaks her silence after UK come second to last in Eurovision

    Mae Muller breaks her silence after UK come second to last in Eurovision

    ‘No one could understand what you sang’ Mae Muller has said she is disappointed “but proud” after the UK finished second from bottom at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Sweden’s Loreen won after a strong challenge from Finland’s Käärijä, who was a fan favourite at Liverpool Arena. Loreen’s win means Sweden equals Ireland’s record seven […]

    3 years ago

  • Woman, 61, and man, 64, arrested after woman found dead in her Surrey home

    Woman, 61, and man, 64, arrested after woman found dead in her Surrey home

    The victim was disabled, retired and in her 50s Two suspects in their 60s have been arrested after a woman was found dead at her home in Surrey. Paramedics were called to the victim’s house in Ash, on Thursday evening after neighbours raised the alarm. When police arrived at around 5.50pm after a call from […]

    3 years ago

  • Tommy Fury brawls with fellow Love Island contestant in the crowd at KSI fight

    Tommy Fury brawls with fellow Love Island contestant in the crowd at KSI fight

    Tommy Fury traded blows with a fellow former Love Island contestant on Saturday after a fight erupted in the crowd at KSI’s fight with Joe Fournier. The fight happened midway through the undercard after Anthony Taylor beat Salt Papi at Wembley Arena. Taylor is a former training partner of Jake Paul and like the influencer-turned-boxer, […]

    3 years ago

  • Queen Cleopatra actress says claims of ‘blackwashing’ are ‘fundamentally racist’

    Queen Cleopatra actress says claims of ‘blackwashing’ are ‘fundamentally racist’

    ‘It’s distressing for anybody to receive any level of abuse, let alone the scale and the nature of what I’ve received’ Adele James, the star of Netflix’s controversial ‘Queen Cleopatra’ docudrama has hit back at the row over her casting, saying it is “fundamentally racist”. The English actress plays the famous monarch in the series, […]

    3 years ago

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