CORONATION Street has cast its first ever actor with Down's syndrome.

Liam Bairstow will join the cast on the cobbles later this year to play the nephew of Cathy Matthews – Roy Cropper’s love interest.

Producer Stuart Blackburn told Digital Spy: “We ran a workshop called Breaking Through a while ago, which was for actors with disabilities.

“ It was recognising that they get so few auditions, and actually we found a young guy there called Liam Bairstow, an actor with Down’s syndrome.

“It’s not some politically correct thing. We actually found there a really great actor with a wonderful sense of timing.”

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Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier who became a canine star for his scene-stealing role in the Oscar-winning movie The Artist, has died, at the age of 13.

His owner, animal trainer Omar Von Muller, said that Uggie had prostate cancer and was euthanised on August 7.

In The Artist, Uggie played the canine companion to Jean Dujardin’s fading silent-film star. The movie won Oscars for best picture, lead actor and director in 2011.

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hom Yorke is going to Broadway, having written original music for the upcoming revival of the play Old Times by Harold Pinter.

Roundabout Theatre Company said that the Radiohead frontman and principal songwriter lent his talents to the play about love and memory starring Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly.

In Old Times, directed by Douglas Hodge, a married couple welcomes the wife’s old friend for a visit, which kicks up old memories, verbal games and classic Pinter amounts of menace.

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Michelle Rodriguez was pushed to her limit when Bear Grylls asked her to wee on a mouse carcass to make stock for a hideous broth.

The Fast And Furious star, 37, was appalled when the self-styled survival expert asked her: “Urine mouse soup – have you never had it?” as they filmed NBC’s Running Wild With Bear Grylls together.

Bear, aged 41, claimed there “wasn’t enough water” to make a decent quantity of soup for their dinner, and asked Michelle to supplement their supplies with her urine.

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