RTÉ TEN's top 10 stories of the week

Ireland bids a fond farewell to DJ's DJ, Tony Fenton, Zayn quits One Direction tour, Hozier's hairy situation, and Top Gear fracas has mileage - here are our Top 10 stories of the week in the business of show

1. Top Gear leaves skid marks

Jeremy Clarkson

It was a bad week for petrol-heads and fans of forthright Tory-voting TV presenters. The fallout from Jeremy Clarkson's suspension from motoring show Top Gear following an on-set 'fracas' left skid marks all over the place. The Beeb are to release a report on the matter next week, and Clarkson spent the week licking his wounds and rounding on his paymasters with some choice words.

At a charity auction in London on Thursday night, where he was auctioning a lap around the Top Gear track for £100,000, the pin-up boy for Mondeo men everywhere said: "I didn't foresee my sacking but I would like to do one last lap. So I'll go down to Surrey and I'll do one last lap of that track before the ******* ******** sack me."

2. Ireland bids farewell to Tony Fenton

Tony with his beloved hog

Radio stations across the country paid tribute to the late DJ Tony Fenton on Tuesday afternoon by playing one of his all-time favourite songs - Aretha Franklin's I Say a Litter Prayer.

Tony passed away last week following a battle with prostate cancer and his funeral took place on Wednesday in Donnybrook, Dublin before burial in Glasnevin Cemetery. His lifelong mates U2 performed a song in his honour and many of Tony's friends and colleagues including Ian Dempsey, Dave Fanning and Larry Gogan paid tribute to a man who really was the DJ's DJ.

3. One Direction's Zayn Malik has quit One Direction tour

More proof that they just don't manufacture pop stars like they used to came during the week with the news that Zayn Malik has exited One Direction's current tour due to stress. The announcement came after he was forced to defend himself online and express his love for his Little Mix fiancée Perrie Edwards after pictures emerged of him apparently close to another woman. A clearly peeved off Malik tweeted: "I'm 22 years old... I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous f***s in this world I'm sorry for what it looks like x."

4. Russell Crowe rocks The Late Late Show

Russell Crowe was in Dublin on Friday for the premiere of his directorial debut The Water Diviner. He chatted to TEN on the red carpet and then hit the Late Late Show where he joined the house band for a spot of Johnny Cash. Watch it here! Click here to watch our interview with Russ. The dude abides. 

5. Kanye West to play Glastonbury

Kanye you dig it?

Roused from their slumber for the first time since Jay-Z was announced to play Glastonbury a few years back, music troglodytes were out in force when Kanye West was revealed as one of the main headline acts at this year's festival. An online petition sprung up demanding that he be removed from the bill and perhaps replaced with a supergroup featuring members of Slade, Oasis and Dumpy's Rusty Nuts. 

6. Time to reclaim the Throne 

GoT to see TV

The stars of Game of Thrones were out in force in London on Wednesday night for the world premiere of season five. Kit Harington, Liam Cunningham, Sophie Turner and Aidan Gillen were among the actors who walked the red carpet at the Tower of London. The highly-anticipated fifth season of Game of Thrones starts on Sky Atlantic on Monday April 13. Check out our gallery of the night here.

7. JDIFF opens in Dublin

Orla Brady and Mary McGuckian at JDIFF

The 2015 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival began at the Savoy Cinema on Thursday with the gala screening of the The Price of Desire, which stars Orla Brady. The festival runs until Sunday March 29. Click here to see our gallery of the opening night. For more on the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, visit: www.jdiff.com.

8. Hozier's hairy situation

Hair apparent 

He may have sold a cool one million copies of his debut album and been nominated for every award going but it seems Hozier's record label still frets about his hair. They reckon the Wicklow man, who turned 25 on St Patrick's Day, should wear his hair loose for public appearances. Speaking to The Sunday Times newspaper's Culture magazine, Hozier said: "It's a constant battle I have with my manager and label. Every television show I do the hair 'has' to be down, apparently."

9. Gwyneth Paltrow is just like you - no, really!

Phew! We always thought Gwyneth Paltrow was some type of superhuman floating high above us in a cloud of pure vapour and smiling beatifically on her subjects but it turns out she is just like you!!!! Speaking to something called CNN Money during the week, she said: "I'm incredibly close to the common woman in that I'm a woman and I'm a mother and we all are in a physical body with beating hearts with compassion and love we are all seekers . . . we all want fulfilment, we all want to live our best lives." Deadly! We look forward to bumping into her at the frozen goods isle at Lidl. 

10. Liza Minnelli checks into rehab

Super trooper

The Grammy and Emmy award winning singer and actress – daughter of the late Judy Garland - is receiving treatment for substance abuse, reported TMZ. Her spokesman Scott Gorenstein was quoted as saying that Minnelli is "currently making excellent progress at an undisclosed facility". Minnelli last entered rehab in 2004, while her mother died of an overdose in 1969 after struggling with addiction for large parts of her life. Get well soon Liza!

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