British celebrities Maya Jama and Nick Grimshaw head for Glastonbury festival. The celebrities were both spotted having the time of their life with friends at the UK's biggest music festival.
Sweaty Glastonbury revellers faced massive queues for the showers this morning after the festival kicked-off with a bang last night.
It comes as Glastonbury's organiser Emily Eavis was forced to defend the world-famous music spectacle's line-up amid criticism of there being a lack of rock bands as pop star Dua Lipa prepares to headline Friday's event.
Read More Woke-caine at Glastonbury: 'Vegan alternatives to cocaine' and laughing gas at Worthy Farm 'Hopefully that will emerge again, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead... and that was great but music changes all the time and right now this is where we're at. A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said that since Wednesday until 10am on Friday, the festival had seen a total of six arrests for drug offences on and off site at Glastonbury.
Eavis said the festival set up a screen to watch fixtures during the World Cup tournament in 1998, but times have changed. 'But hopefully I'm encouraging people to put their phones away and and forget about the outside world.' Squeeze will open the Pyramid Stage on Friday at midday, followed by rising star Olivia Dean, K-pop group Seventeen and singer Paul Heaton.
Elsewhere, and just days after the birth of his fourth child, Joe Wicks led a fitness session and set his sights on taking his workouts to the Pyramid Stage. Announcing the news on X, the festival's official account said: 'Instead, we encourage you to take in their sets at the larger capacity Glade on Sunday at 8.30pm and B2B with Eats Everything at Levels on Saturday at 6pm. Thank you for your understanding.'
Nicola Maxey said: 'Although there is a chance of an occasional light shower today at Glastonbury, it will be a mainly dry and bright day with sunny spells, and the chance of some late evening sunshine for festival goers.
It follows the UK's first heatwave of the year that saw a 2024 high of 30.3C on Wednesday and a four-day heat health alert that expired yesterday afternoon.The Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, is pictured this morningPeople collect rubbish at the Glastonbury Festival this morning ahead of the artists playing
'The UK outlook for the next few days is for periods of unsettled conditions to be interspersed with brighter spells.'Wednesday was the hottest day of the year so far, the Met Office said, with a high of 30.3C recorded at Heathrow Airport.
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