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Icons and Influencersi

Who's making headlines and creating trends? Meet the social media icons and influencers who shape the world as we know it.

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Donnie Yen’s stand-out appearance in John Wick: Chapter 4 is an excellent opportunity to raise Hong Kong’s global prominence, and the city’s government must step up to take it.

By paying tribute to a British monarch, the mourners in Hong Kong are thumbing their noses at Beijing. And police cannot do anything about it.

The 2022 wedding of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, 18 years after they broke up, gives us all hope about reuniting with ‘the one that got away’. A relationship expert gives some advice.

  • Suphap’s agency is now working with Bright Vachirawit Chivaaree and Mile Phakphum Romsaithong, two stars who’ve repped top luxury brands such as Dior and Burberry
  • After working for Roberto Cavalli and Stella McCartney, she landed contributing roles at Thai editions of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar – and by 2018, was attending the Met Gala and other events

The Polish fashion designer loves vintage Rolexes, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the Ritz Paris and travelling to the Maldives, while at home she eats pierogi and enjoys exploring her home city of Warsaw

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Hirsi was suspended from Barnard College at Columbia University, New York over her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest – and her politician mum could not be prouder

Knowing what we know now about the celebrities on this list only serves to make these unlikely pairings more fascinating – here are the star couples you may have forgotten existed …

The LGBT advocate – whose ‘lifestyle’ was publicly denounced by his evangelical pastor brother – wrote a bestselling coming out memoir, and traded barbs with Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBT TikTokker

The ex pro-footballer-in-training was previously linked to Charli D’Amelio’s sister, Dixie D’Amelio, in 2020, but the former couple broke up in November 2022 – so who is he exactly?

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Pan’s shocking criminal case that took place over a decade ago has been thrown back into the spotlight in the form of a Netflix documentary, What Jennifer Did, released on April 10

The sport’s top-paid coach has led her teams to 4 national championship wins – but she has also been called a homophobe, and appeared callous in the face of Brittney Griner’s detention

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Leclerc and his girlfriend just made a rare appearance together at the Monte-Carlo Masters men’s doubles final on Sunday, but they’ve been linked since the spring of 2023

JFK’s grandson John Schlossberg recently found himself in the spotlight after rumours began spreading online that he’d had a fling with Selena Gomez, so what do we know about the 31-year-old?

Nicolaj and Ditte Reffstrup, the Danish brand’s CEO and creative director respectively, talk about dressing the quintessential ‘Copenhagen girl’ and making fabrics from biowaste

The former press sec is ex-Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s daughter, battled cancer and comments about her body, and has had a rocky relationship with media

He was pitching jokes to David Letterman and Jay Leno by age 14, and he has also interviewed stars like Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Love Hewitt

The Protestant Heiliggeistkirche in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in southwest Germany, saw its 423 seats quickly booked up for the initial service on May 12.

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No stranger to controversy on social media, Australia-born Adams is known as ‘Alpha Male’ and regularly speaks about politics and his support for Trump, what it means to be American and his love of meat

She’s made controversial remarks about everything from Sandy Hook and 9/11, to QAnon and the 2021 Capitol riots, and even CrossFit has had to distance itself from her

Hollywood Unlocked is one of the US’s most prominent Black-owned media and entertainment brands, with Lee having interviewed Cardi B and Tiffany Haddish – while Rihanna is a fan of the platform

WeWork’s US$47 billion valuation plunged after the company’s 2019 IPO failed to materialise due to multiple controversies – but now co-founder and former CEO Neumann wants back in to the business

China shuts down 63,000 illegal accounts in crackdown on social media posts with false information about hot-button issues such as pandemic and disasters.

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Timothée Chalamet’s Louis Vuitton look helped make hoodies high fashion – with Loewe, Bottega Veneta, Miu Miu, Michael Kors and more rushing to join the party

Bob proposed by singing a song from The Greatest Showman at Taj Mahal, but years later the couple have been accused of being involved in an Egyptian bribery scheme

‘Devil’s advocate’ Dershowitz worked on Trump’s acquittal in his first impeachment trial, and defended Mike Tyson after his conviction for rape – but he regrets taking Jeffrey Epstein on as a client

Nicky Hilton Rothschild may have grown up a famous socialite, but today she’s a proud mum of three and lives with her family in the Hamptons – here’s what she’s been up to

Beyoncé, Dolly Parton and Pharrell Williams are among celebrities leading the modern men and women’s Western wear fashion trend as TikTok flaunts new styles and searches for hats and boots soar online.

Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend in the early 2000s, recently called out the Playboy founder’s widow Crystal for copying her memoir-writing style – but what else has Madison been up to?