Our roundup of the day's media stories, including Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 revival and Twitter growth stalls
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*Top eight stories on MediaGuardian*
Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw adds more than 700,000 listeners
Rajars: BBC stations celebrate bumper final quarter of 2013, as record audience figures for Chris Evans push Radio 2 to new high
Twitter posts revenues of $242m but share price plummets as growth stalls
Revenue increases 116% to exceed analysts' expectations but company adds just 9m users in final three months of 2013
British reporters deny 'aiding terrorists' in work for Al Jazeera in Egypt
TV journalists Dominic Kane and Sue Turton speak out against Egyptian court charge of conspiring with terrorists
Peter Greste and two al-Jazeera colleagues moved to same cell
Move follows heavy condemnation around the world for Egypt's detention of journalists
ABC chief Mark Scott refuses Tony Abbott's call for apology to navy
Broadcaster defends its handling of burns allegations by asylum seekers, saying 'we never sought to be judge and jury'
Netflix to spend $3bn on content in 2014
On-demand streaming site will also commit to spending $6bn over the next three years as cost of securing rights grows
BBC will not commission George Entwistle portrait
Ex-director general will be the first person in the position since the second world war not to have painting commissioned
15 reasons to love Buzzfeed's style guide
David Marsh: From explaining what 'juggalo' means to recipes for sweet potato bourbon noodle kugel, the website's guide is well worth a visit
*Top comment on MediaGuardian*
Have 24-hour news channels had their day?
The former director of BBC News, Richard Sambrook, and its ex-head of strategy, Sean McGuire, argue that digital technology has left rolling news channels outmoded
*Today's headlines*
*The Guardian*
BBC vetoes portrait of George Entwistle. P12
Jimmy Fallon takes over the Tonight Show. P23
Twitter shares dip rapidly as results suggest slowing growth. P25
Search for Google peace deal yields result. P28
Obituary: Sunday Times journalist Ron Hall. P35
*Daily Telegraph*
Vanity Fair's 20th annual Hollywood issue. P2
Rebekah Brooks emailed Ross Kemp asking for chat about phone hacking, court hears. P5
Some Archers fans have been loyal for six decades. P8
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P8
Channel 4 racing deserted by viewers. P8
Jurors who resort to the internet face two years in prison. P10
Mobile ads drive Twitter's revenues. Business P1
Google web search deal with EC angers rivals. Business P1
Time Warner profits rise. Business P1
*Financial Times*
Google cleared by antitrust regulators. P1,15
Editorial: Google settlement is not the last word. P10
Debt load concern over Time Inc. P17
Google rivals protest as EU antitrust deal settled. P19
Website buoys Daily Mail. P21
*The Times*
The number of radio listeners in the UK reaches record numbers. P4
Secret Police Facebook page shocks with sexist, racist jokes. P13
Jury hears Rebekah Brooks's 'end of affair' letter to Andy Coulson. P18
Facebook unveils a 'personal newspaper' app. P20
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P22
Mail Online's big boost. P37
How Benefit Street's James Turner Street lost its dignity. T2 P4
*The Independent*
BBC 6 Music is threatening to overtake Radio 3. P9
Old Bailey hears Rebekah Brooks turned to ex-husband at the height of phone-hacking crisis. P18
Jane Merrick: Kay Burley is still the queen of TV journalism after 25 years. P37
Zoopla website set for £1bn flotation. P57
*i*
Star turns on Sesame Street. P2
Journalists hacked off with unfinished Sochi hotels. P2
BBC 6 Music could overtake Radio 3. P3
Old Bailey hears Rebekah Brooks 'emailed ex-husband about hacking'. P19
*Wall Street Journal Europe*
Google deal avoids EU showdown. P1,17
Sony in talks to sell PC business. P15,16
How Microsoft selected its new chief executive. P15
Apple faces patent suit in Germany. P17
Facebook's Paper and Flipboard compared. P25
*Daily Mail*
More than half of children aged over 10 use social media. P9
Chris Evans leads resurgence in radio listening. P11
Cliff Richard sent Tony Blackburn half a bottle of champagne for defying ban on playing his records. P21
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P27
Anger over charity ad that says 'I wish I had breast cancer'. P36
Google 'hit with tax bill for £830m in France'. P37
DMGT enjoys online boost. P74
*Daily Express*
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P11
William Roache trial coverage. P11
Claudia Schiffer to appear on Jonathan Ross show. P18
Mail group woe as revenue falls. P51
*The Sun*
Chris Evans helps Radio 2 to record audience figures. P3
Rebekah Brooks emailed Ross Kemp asking for chat about phone hacking, court hears. P17
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P25
The Voice coverage. TV Biz P1
Big Reunion coverage. TV Biz P1
Star of Ja'mie: Private School Girl speaks out. TV Biz P2-3
*Daily Mirror*
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P11
Detectives suspected Jimmy Savile was a murderer. P19
Children flaunt age rules on social media. P22
Coronation Street coverage. P23
*Daily Star*
Naomi Campbell accused of bullying Russian model on The Face. P3
Axed cricket star Kevin Pietersen wants to go on Celebrity Big Brother. P8
Tory MP says Benefits Street's White Dee isn't a good role model to become an MP. P11
William Roache trial coverage. P17
Dave Lee Travis trial coverage. P22
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Celebrity Big Brother star strips half-naked as she poses poolside while holidaying with a friend
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SHE may not have come first in Celebrity Big Brother, but Luisa Zissman may as well have.
Reported by Daily Star 11 hours ago.
This is Plymouth -- Jim Davidson, who once refused to go on stage in Plymouth because he objected to wheelchair users in the front row in his stand-up act, has won Celebrity Big Brother 2014. Comedian Davidson beat former N-Dubz singer Dappy to win the Channel 5 show on viewer votes. Davidson was due to enter the house last year but was unable to as police were investigation allegations against him. The last of the investigations ended in December when the attorney general of the Falkland Islands saidthe 60-year-old would not be prosecuted for an alleged sex offences said to have happened when he was entertaining troops in the 1980s. Rapper Dappy was beaten into second place in the public vote and said Davidson "had become a father figure to him during the show" Luisa Zissman, former apprentice contestant and another celebrity in the house, had a number of rows with Davidson during the show - branding him sexist. He also rowed with singer Linda Nolan in the house, but was popular with viewers and survived a number of eviction votes. The show attracted audiences of around two million people and was extended by five days. Former Made In Chelsea star Ollie Locke finished third, Luisa Zissman fourth, TOWIE's Sam Faiers and glamour model Casey Batchelor were also finalists. In 2003 Jim Davidson refused to take to the stage at Plymouth Pavilions while people in wheelchairs were in the front row. A spokesman for the Plymouth Pavilions said at the time: "Jim Davidson apparently took exception to a number of wheelchair users in the front stalls of the Pavilions Arena. "Mr Davidson cited the fact that a proportion of his act was aimed at disabled customers and that he would be unable to perform under these circumstances." In a statement at the time Davidson said: "As all the people in the front row were in wheelchairs I feared it would appear I was specifically targeting disabled people. I asked if just some would mind moving. "Much of my act depends upon audience reaction and in fact one part of the show involves getting the audience to gang up against the front row."
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Celebrity Big Brother finalist defeats former Apprentice star with comical tweets
Reported by OK! 13 hours ago.
CELEBRITY Big Brother star Luisa Zissman was stopped from buying booze at a supermarket because she looked under age.
Reported by Daily Star 21 hours ago.
NOW that Celebrity Big Brother is over, you may be feeling the absence of raunchy girl-on-girl antics and attention-seeking celebs.
Reported by Daily Star 1 week ago.
LUISA Zissman boasted that Celebrity Big Brother refused to air most of her X-rated antics with Jasmine Waltz – but only now are we discovering just how scandalous these scenes were.
Reported by Daily Star 1 week ago.
CELEBRITY Big Brother has given us breakdowns, battlegrounds, and bonding BFFs over it's 13-year history. And a whole lotta boobies too.
Reported by Daily Star 1 week ago.
Former TOWIE star blames Celebrity Big Brother house for the MIC lad's feelings
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Celebrity Big Brother star denies sleeping with Blue singer, admits 'he makes me happy'
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They made this series of Celebrity Big Brother one of the most entertaining to date with their racy antics, bed-hopping behaviour and one rather awkward love triangle.
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This is Hull and East Riding -- As Facebook celebrates its 10th birthday *Ian Midgley* finds plenty of things to like and unlike about its place in society How did we ever live in the days before we knew what that horrible bloke from school that we no-one really liked was having for his tea? And were our lives totally empty before we had a running commentary about the tedious exploits of the girl from the office and her interminable visits to the gym? And let's not forget all the smug parents with their endless anecdotes about how little Jimmy did something hilarious to the cat, the annoying social climbers and the news about their latest extension, the perpetually drunk second cousins and their night-long vomit-fests, the infuriating time-wasters who want us to join them in a game of Farmville, or the annoying reposters who can't help sharing how they "like" Asda's new range of chicken thighs. Of course, none of these irritants can remotely compare to the enigmatic status teases. You know the ones. Their status updates says things like "Oh, I'm so torn I don't know what to do..." or "I can't believe this has happened, why is it always me?" in a desperate bid to generate a spark of interest from anybody who'll bite. It's the only way the can think of to make themselves sound mysterious and interesting. In reality, the scope of their problems is they can't decide whether its beans on toast or spaghetti hoops for tea or whether to bask in their unpopularity alone at home while eating a full packet of Hobnobs or chocolate digestives. Yes ladies and gentlemen, Facebook is ten years old today and I'm starting to wonder how we ever lived without it. In recent weeks there's been a rumour floating around that Facebook is on its last legs and won't survive the decade. Youngsters, horrified that their parents are using Facebook, are reportedly fleeing the social networking site like red-faced teenagers legging it from a wedding full of dads dancing. After all, if you wanted to look cool in front of your mates down at the park it's unlikely you'd bring your mum along, carrying photo albums packed full of pictures of you sat on a potty, ready to chime in with excruciating pearls of wisdom after everything you say. "Oh, Jimmy used to wet his bed every night until he was ten! Lol," is hardly going to help any young wannabe Snoop Doggy Dog enhance his street cred. But despite the yoof's supposed exodus from Facebook, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. A report in November last year stated that 89 per cent of all US 18 to 24-year-olds used Facebook, while the numbers of silver surfing Facebookers – people who actually have money to spend on the site's increasingly successful advertising platforms – are growing exponentially. Who needs spotty youths when you can target walking wallets with jobs and disposable income? According to the latest figures, the networking site Mark Zuckerberg started in his Harvard dormitory room for his mates now has 1.23 billion active users worldwide. Its revenues jumped 55 per cent to $7.87bn in 2013 while profits grew sevenfold, bringing the annual total to £1.5bn. That's almost as much as Jim Davidson's predicted to earn from winning Celebrity Big Brother. Of course, Facebook is still a guilty pleasure for those voyeurs amongst us. Who doesn't like to take a sneaky peak at what our extended circle of friends, acquaintances and people we half-recognise from down the pub are up to? Despite laughing at those who shamelessly live their lives and wash their dirty linen in public on Facebook's cyber washing line, quietly sitting in the background observing other people's private lives is undoubtedly a guilty pleasure. It is also a means of genuinely useful information sharing. When the national media seemed far more preoccupied with the death of Nelson Mandela than the floods lapping at the doors of many houses up and down the east coast of England last year, it was social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter that helped give a running commentary on the impending disaster. The Hull Daily Mail itself now had 16,500 followers on Facebook and uses the networking site as another outlet for its news gathering. As long as gossip exists and there are nosey parkers are there to revel in it, Facebook will survive. It's tenth birthday is just the start of what's going to be a long and insatiable relationship with tittle-tattle, voyeurism and schadenfreude. Because, let's face it, we like to know that the horrible bloke from school leads an empty life and is about to tuck into a microwave meal for one. That'll teach him for giving you a wedgie back in the third year. Like it or not, it's life-affirming to know you're doing better than those you secretly can't stand.
AFTER this year's raucous, expletive-laden, X-rated series of Celebrity Big Brother, we wondered how the next series could ever follow up.
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TOWIE star reflects on her Disney themed birthday party and Celebrity Big Brother stint while recovering from hospital stay
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Celebrity Big Brother runner-up enjoying new-found fame with former TOWIE star
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