Even though the weather outside is suggesting quite the opposite, it is now summer and aside from being rained on at inopportune moments, this means that festival season is also upon us.

Kicking off the British run is Isle of Wight which is celebrating its 15th anniversary and will see the likes of Jess Glyne, Busted, Queen + Adam Lambert, Stereophonics, Feeder, Everything Everything and lots more heading to the island for a weekend of great music and (hopefully) great weather.

The festival will also be hosting a special David Bowie tribute as Isle of Wight was lucky enough to host his last ever UK performance back in 2004. There's also the opportunity to soak under the sky in special hot tubs, watch Cirque de la Quirk circus experience and even an area to watch the Euros 2016

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Now to celebrate the festival being mere weeks away, Digital Spy have teamed up with them to give away a pair of VIP weekend tickets and all you have to do to win is retweet the tweet below and follow @DigitalSpy.

Weekend ticket for the festival are £195 and there are discounts students and teens

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Laurence Mozafari

Editor-in-Chief -Digital Spy 

Laurence Mozafari (he/him) is a multi-award winning journalist, editor, and presenter, currently Editor-in-Chief at Digital Spy, the UK's biggest TV and movies website. 

Before that, he held roles as Editor, Deputy Editor, and Associate Editor focusing on news, social, and video.Laurence hosted the BBC Sounds podcast Obsessed with Peaky Blinders in 2019, as well as his own podcast production, Time of My Life, where he interviews fascinating elders about their life lessons, including Only Fools and Horses' Sir David Jason, Star Trek’s George Takei and Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh.  
He was previously at Bauer Media working as Digital Editor of Heat magazine’s website, Heatworld.com, and has worked at and written for Sky, NME, Q magazine, Grazia, Closer, FHM and dedicated careers website GoThinkBig.

He secured a first-class BA journalism degree at Staffordshire University, along with several NCTJ qualifications, and now has 14 years' experience in digital publishing covering TV, movies, music, gaming, tech, showbiz, and travel.  

Laurence has been a broadcasting contributor on television and radio, including KISS, Heat Radio, BBC Radio London, Radio 5 Live, and BBC Breakfast.  He is also a visiting lecturer at various universities teaching journalism, including City, University of London, Nottingham Trent, Staffordshire University and London Metropolitan.

Laurence has won numerous awards in his journalism career, including the BSME Talent Award’s Best Deputy Editor, the PPA's 30 Under 30, and the New Editor and Editor of the Year at the AOP and BSMEs. He led Digital Spy to win PPA's Digital Content Team of the Year twice, along with the British Media Awards’ Brand of the Year in 2021.  

Laurence joined the committee for the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2022. He has since hosted panels with CEOs of Immediate Media and the Media Trust at the PPA Festival, as well as presenting his own radio show on Green Man Radio at Green Man Festival in 2022.   Laurence is also a Brits voting academy member. Laurence has been lucky enough to interview numerous celebrities, actors, and musicians throughout his career. Arnold Schwarzenegger loved his hair, Jimmy Carr loved his coat and Antonio Banderas gave a shout-out to his mum.  Laurence has covered set visits for The Witcher on Netflix and Marvel’s Inhumans, he got Daisy Ridley to do a Chewbacca impression and loves Marvel, PlayStation, Glastonbury and craft beer. 

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