EMBATTLED Beyoncé will kick off her stadium tour next March despite husband Jay-Z’s rape lawsuit fight, The Sun can reveal.
The Crazy In Love singer had pushed back the announcement of the tour, which will include shows at Spurs’ stadium.
It follows claims Jay Z and fellow rapper P Diddy raped a 13-year-old at a showbiz bash in New York in 2000.
But now insiders confirmed Beyoncé will finally announce the dates in the coming weeks — kicking off with a huge opening night in Los Angeles.
A source said: “It’s been a very tough few months for Beyoncé but she’s laser focused on making her upcoming tour a success.
“The next few weeks are crucial as she will announce a new album and a new tour. The announcement was supposed to happen a couple of weeks ago but it was pushed back.
“Despite Jay Z being resolute in his denials and that the allegations are totally false, people are aware mud can stick.
“Online chatter has claimed Beyoncé and Jay Z have lost their power couple status, but Beyoncé is ready to remind the world why she’s one of the best.
“The tour she’s planning is nothing short of spectacular, as is the album.”
The Sun understands Beyoncé’s tour will be her most extravagant yet — with the stage boasting a huge catwalk, multiple trapdoors and moving platforms.
It is expected to include concerts at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in North London — where she performed her 2023 Renaissance Tour.
Beyoncé is expected to announce clues about the tour and album tomorrow when she performs at the NFL’s Christmas Day half-time show in her hometown of Houston, Texas.
Earlier this month Jay Z denied allegations he and Sean “Diddy” Combs took turns attacking a girl at a VMAs after-party in New York.
A civil lawsuit was originally filed against Combs in October. It was resubmitted this month, under the protection of anonymity, to also list Jay-Z as a defendant
But Jay-Z’s lawyer Alex Spiro has ripped apart the claimant’s testimony, alleging she is “wholly unreliable”.
He said in new documents: “The factual inconsistencies, timeline impossibilities and the lack of corroborating evidence make the plaintiff’s allegations wholly unreliable.”
THERE is no festive cheer for Britain this Christmas thanks to Keir Starmer and the decisions taken by his cruel and incompetent Labour Government.
Record tax rises are about to hit businesses and charities hard, pensioners have been left in the cold to freeze, and our food production is being put at risk with their attack on our family farms.
Since Starmer walked through the doors of 10 Downing Street, we’ve seen Labour mired in scandal and sleaze, ministers failing to stand up for British interests on the world stage by cosying up to China and giving away the Chagos Islands, and manifesto promises discarded like unwelcome Christmas gifts.
The sheer duplicity of Labour, who said one thing at the election and gave the British people false hope that Brexit would be safe on their watch, is heinous.
Sun readers will be alarmed by Starmer’s plans to betray Brexit and drag Britain back into the EU through the back door.
Starmer, his Foreign Secretary David Lammy and most of the Labour Party have never accepted the referendum result.
Remember, they spent years trying to block Brexit, campaigned for a second referendum and refused to trust the judgment of the British people.
Now they are in Government they are working hard to reverse our Brexit freedoms.
In recent days we’ve learned that a dedicated unit has been set up in the Cabinet Office to “reset” the relationship with Brussels.
This “surrender squad” consists of more than 100 civil servants and no doubt thousands more will be working across Government departments, allowing the bureaucratic tentacles of the EU’s unaccountable institutions to once again infiltrate our laws and undermine our democracy.
When we should be cutting the size of the state to ease the burden on taxpayers, Starmer is insulting hard-working families and businesses, forcing them to bankroll his ideological dream of putting Britain back under EU control.
Labour will deny that they want to put Britain back into the EU, but they cannot be trusted.
The facts speak for themselves.
As well as mobilising the machinery of government and civil service to orientate towards the EU, Labour is trying to ram through new laws to empower ministers to align our laws and rules with those set by Brussels.
With a failed domestic agenda and growing public anger in him, Starmer is seeking comfort in the platitudes, friendships and company of European leaders.
They sense his desperation to secure some form of “reset” and are eager to extract a high price from him.
Talk of youth mobility schemes (immigration rights and subsidised tuition fees for the EU’s young people) are high on the EU’s agenda, as will be our fishing stocks and our money.
Sun readers should be left in no doubt that these sinister plans to take Britain back under the EU’s control will harm our national interests by chaining our country to Europe’s slow-growth, high-regulation, high-tax model, rather than addressing issues at home and developing opportunities with faster-growing parts of the world.
Not only are the actions of Starmer undemocratic, they are unnecessary.
Four years ago, on Christmas Eve 2020, Boris Johnson secured a comprehensive trade deal with the EU as part of our post-Brexit vision for Britain.
It was a deal many thought could not be secured, but gave us trading opportunities on good terms that meant no tariffs or quotas.
It supported our exporters and our world-leading financial services sector.
It ensured that we could continue to co-operate and work closely with our European friends and allies when it was in our interest to do so, but no longer be controlled by them.
Alongside this new trade deal, worth £660billion at the time, we put in place a security deal to enable us to work jointly to tackle cross-border crime while the end to free movement meant we could put tougher controls on criminals trying to enter the UK.
Unleashed from the EU, we have been able to pursue new trade deals including joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
It was Boris Johnson’s Conservative government which respected the referendum result and delivered Brexit.
A firm government which ended the years of political deadlock and acrimony that the country hated and which held us back.
That Conservative government battled the institutions, the naysayers, the doomsters and the Brexit saboteurs, including Starmer, and gave our country the firm leadership needed to establish our vision of Global Britain.
Kemi Badenoch went on to pass the law that ended the supremacy of EU law in this country and led the way to the repeal and reform of 2,000 EU laws.
So fast forward to 2025 and it’s clear that Starmer and his Labour Party are desperate to reopen those wounds for ideological reasons.
Their mission is to take Britain backwards, on to a path of endless negotiations with Brussels, to take us back into the largest bureaucratic club, where he can hand over decision making and continue to blame someone else for his political failures: Handing our sovereignty over to the EU’s unaccountable penpushers and bureaucrats.
Starmer’s combination of his ideological obsession with the EU, his naivety and his incompetence will undermine our national interests, send Britain backwards and betray Brexit.
For those of us who care about the democratic freedom of our country and the freedoms the people voted for in 2016, I can tell you now that the Conservative Party will never lay down for this great Labour betrayal of our people and our country — and we will be on the front lines to halt Starmer’s foolish betrayal.
PEERING through hordes of Christmas shoppers yesterday, I spotted the rugged face of actor Tom Hardy.
Alas, not in real life. It was the moody, black and white advert for perfume brand Jo Malone.
The snap crops in on the 47-year-old, showing rows of deep frown lines and crow’s feet around his eyes.
My immediate thought was that his weathered mug looked very handsome indeed.
And how wise he must be with all that furrowed forehead. What a deep thinker.
But then it struck me — I looked for his female equivalent on any billboard or poster in the shops and realised there isn’t one.
Every female celebrity promoting a mascara or pair of trainers is porcelain-skinned with a forehead like a hard-boiled egg.
Where, oh where are the equals to broody, scholar-like Hardy?
There are plenty of women working in Hollywood who are older than him, yet few of them have a crinkle or wrinkle on their face.
Not a single frown line appears on Nicole Kidman, 57, Jennifer Lopez, 55, Demi Moore, 62, or Jennifer Aniston, 55.
Closer to home, our own stars like Amanda Holden, 53, Kate Beckinsale, 51, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, 55, have the complexions of freshly filled balloons.
Even Queen Olivia Colman, 50, admitted having “loads of Botox”.
All of these are extremely talented, clever, well-travelled women with decades of life experience.
Yet their biggest fear seems to be showing any of that on their face.
And while it’s always great to see women aged over 50 working on both the big and small screen, the question arises: What do older women even look like now?
It seems the only ones allowed to have a phizog that couldn’t be mistaken for an AI creation are our great dames — Judy Dench or Eileen Atkins are the acceptable face of gravity.
How ridiculous that we in the western world are just about OK with a woman looking her age when she’s . . . in her nineties.
The wave of female Benjamin Buttons do a disservice to the rest of us, who don’t have the time, money or desire to be walking medical miracles reversing in age.
This constant pressure to look youthful does not help any of us.
In fact, it does more to pit us against each other.
It makes us feel like we’ve failed by allowing our eyebrows to move or our necks to sag.
Now, at the age of 43, I often look at the laughter lines around my eyes and see them as a failure.
Even though, ironically, they mostly got there from having a great time, they now make me feel inadequate or undesirable.
As though not constantly sipping from the fountain of youth is somehow a shortcoming of mine.
And this forever-young pressure is even getting to girls in their twenties.
TikTok, which has a demographic with a maximum age of 27, has aestheticians advertising procedures such as Baby Botox, sold as “preventative” to ageing.
Pitching itself to the young as an injectable time machine, the hashtag #antiaging has more than 7.9billion total views, with those young enough to be my daughter shouting: “Girls who are getting Botox in their twenties are winning!” and, “I got Baby Botox and I’m obsessed.”
Of course, these girls don’t actually look younger.
Rather, they become like creepy carbon copies of the cast of every The Real Housewives Of . . .
Their pouty lips, arched eyebrows and frozen foreheads make many assume they’re in their fifties rather than twenties.
Dermatologist Dr Anthony Rossi said of the Baby Botox craze: “It can change the shape of their eyebrow and almost make them look older, because they can’t emote any more and they almost look robotic.”
What if we just stopped all this nonsense and became like fine wines, getting better with age?
Like well-worn Tom Hardy and his male chums.
Our maturity and life experience shouldn’t bring us shame. They should be treated as a thing of beauty.
Getting older is an adventure that brings us all wisdom and bundles of life experience.
So, let’s not be afraid to show it on our faces.
I DON’T know about your TV viewing rules on Christmas Day, but in my household it’s illegal to watch anything other than terrestrial telly on the big day.
Absolutely none of this streaming nonsense can be on the box on the 25th.
And everything must be watched in real time – no pausing or rewinding.
There is something just so warm and nostalgic about knowing the rest of the nation is watching along with you in their homes.
It takes us back to the “when EastEnders was really good” days – Ange open-mouthed in 1986 as Dirty Den gave her the gift of divorce papers and growled: “Happy Christmas, Ange.”
The whole country did a collective intake of breath in their sitting rooms.
Which is why us Brits are so excited about the Gavin & Stacey special tomorrow.
Knowing we’ll be communally laughing as one – and possibly weeping – truly is the spirit of Christmas past.
A SCARY combination of news at the weekend revealed 44 per cent of us don’t know how to set up controls on kids’ phones.
Yet, one in ten parents plan on giving their children a phone tomorrow – with 64 per cent of those kids being under 14.
All this after “brain rot” was announced by Oxford University Press as its word of the year after a public vote, amid warnings overuse of our phones is deteriorating our grey matter.
Famously, iPhone co-founder Steve Jobs limited the amount of screen time his children had and banned having an iPad in the family home, knowing it was harmful to their development and wellbeing.
Similar with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Interesting how these guys knew about the horrors of the addictive drugs they were creating.
They want your children hooked, but not their own.
IT’S not often I agree with anxiety-ridden members of Generation Z.
But there’s one recent cause of distress they have shone a spotlight on that I’m completely on board with: Switching on the big light.
In a video that has racked up millions of views, Australian TikTok creators Josh and Matt say: “This is why the big light should be banned.
“First of all, the big light creates such a sterile look. How are you supposed to relax in this?
“Another reason is that it makes you really ugly. No one needs to see my face in this much detail!”
Quite right.
Reaching for the big light switch is for emergency situations only – like searching for a dropped contact lens or cleaning up some spilt wine.
Otherwise, it’s like trying to relax in a hospital ward.
WHEN someone says, “I’m not really a cat person”, all I hear is, “I’m a serial killer”.
How can anyone sane not like cats? They’re just so cool.
Yep, I’m one of those dreadful “childless cat ladies” who seem to bother the American Vice President elect JD Vance and other lovers of disparaging cliches.
Never having been keen on the idea of doing irreversible damage to myself to produce something that says, “I hate you and I wish you were dead” 13 years later, I stuck to the felines.
And here are my two – Bud and Betty.
They make me smile every single day, give endless affection and don’t have screaming meltdowns in supermarkets if I don’t get the treats they like.
And while I would rather eat from their litter tray than refer to them as my “fur babies”, I have to admit that this year a few of my cards were “signed” from the three of us.
DID you know there’s an easy way to spot a psychopath?
I went to see the journalist Jon Ronson recently, talking about his bestselling book The Psychopath Test.
During it, he revealed a psycho is immune to a contagious yawn. They can happily watch someone do a ginormous yawn and stretch without feeling the urge to copy.
Test it out when your great aunt rolls out a story they’ve told before . . . and watch carefully how the family reacts.
