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Shia LaBeouf arrives for the screening of “The Phoenician Scheme” in Cannes on May 18, 2025. Photo: Getty Images / AFP
United States

US actor Shia LaBeouf arrested for battery after Mardi Gras brawl in New Orleans

The Hollywood star is accused of hitting one man with closed fists and punching another in the nose in the city’s French Quarter.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Branden Cook, who plays Evan in drama series Tell Me Lies

Fame and celebrity

What you need to know about Daryl Hannah and JFK Jr’s romance

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Crazy Rich Asians

Which Crazy Rich Asians star are you, according to the Chinese zodiac?

To celebrate Chinese New Year, we look at the zodiac through the lens of the cultural landmark film, which featured Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong, Awkwafina and Henry Golding.

Crazy Rich Asians was a 2018 landmark film. According to the Chinese zodiac, which star of the hit film are you most like? Photo: Handout.
Obituaries

Actor Robert Duvall, star of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, dead at 95

Over his six decades-long career, Duvall won a best actor Oscar in 1983 for Tender Mercies and was nominated 6 other times.

Fame and celebrity

Who is Maya Hawke’s new husband, musician Christian Lee Hutson?

The couple first met when working on music, and just married in a star-studded wedding in New York City attended by her famous parents and the Stranger Things cast.

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UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life

Are aliens real? Obama says yes but rules out long-running conspiracy

Barack Obama says a secretive US base isn’t holding extraterrestrials - unless a massive conspiracy kept him in the dark.

Razor wire and security cameras at the entrance to Area 51 in Nevada. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

ByteDance ‘strengthening safeguards’ after Seedance AI video controversy

Pledge comes after Hollywood, governments speak out against tool amid deluge of video clips featuring celebrities, copyrighted characters.

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Fame and celebrity

Wuthering Heights to Barbie: meet Margot Robbie’s stylist, Andrew Mukamal

Mukamal – who also works with Hailey Bieber, Lindsay Lohan, Zoë Kravitz and Billie Eilish – is the brains behind Robbie’s iconic looks.

Fame and celebrity

Hollywood shaken by Brad Pitt-Tom Cruise fight video made with Chinese AI

The viral clip was generated with a two-line prompt on Seedance 2.0, a platform owned by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok.

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Brad Pitt (left) and Tom Cruise attend a film premiere in London in June 2025. Photo: TNS
Fame and celebrity

Who is Oli Higginson, the actor who plays footman John in Bridgerton?

He is married to Disney alum Meaghan Martin, who was in Camp Rock with Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers.

Oli Higginson is an English actor known for his role as the footman John in Bridgerton. Photo: @oli_higginson/Instagram
Fame and celebrity

Everything you need to know about Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell

The multihyphenate, whose bold take on the Emily Brontë novel is drawing controversy, also directed the critically acclaimed Saltburn.

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Fame and celebrity

Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek dead at 48

The actor, who played Dawson Leery in the 1990s teen drama, had battled colorectal cancer.

Music

Britney Spears sells rights to her music catalogue in reported deal

The 44-year-old pop icon joins a growing list of artists who have sold their music rights in recent years.

Britney Spears. Photo: AFP
American cinema

Review | Wuthering Heights: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi sizzle in modern moorcore

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights captivates with stunning visuals in the Yorkshire Moors and sizzling chemistry between Elordi and Robbie.

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Jacob Elordi (left) and Margot Robbie in a still from Wuthering Heights (category IIB), directed by Emerald Fennell. Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Fame and celebrity

Meet Fiona Dourif, who plays doctor and single mum Cassie McKay in The Pitt

The daughter of Brad Dourif – the voice of Chucky in Child’s Play – is grateful for the opportunities she got because of her father.

American cinema

How Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle is still terrifyingly relevant 50 years on

Taxi Driver remains an overwhelming experience and Robert De Niro’s career-kick-starting role continues to resonate in today’s society.

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Celebrity style

How to Style like Hollywood’s best hairstylists and make-up artists

These hairstylists and make-up artists to the stars work with the likes of the Kardashians, Hailey Bieber, Beyoncé and J.Lo.

Take some style cues from hairstylists and make-up artists to the stars, Sir John, Jen Atkin, Chris Appleton and Mary Phillips. Photos: Getty Images, FilmMagic
Fame and celebrity

Meet Florence Hunt, who plays Hyacinth on Netflix’s Bridgerton

The 19-year-old British star, who started off in commercials including one for Apple’s iPhone 7, is set to make her feature film debut this year.

Fame and celebrity

Who is Daniel Francis, aka Lord Marcus Anderson on Bridgerton?

Move over, Benedict Bridgerton – our dearest gentle readers have been captivated by his mother Violet’s love interest, played by Daniel Francis.

European cinema

Why Sentimental Value is the most acclaimed European film of the year

The Norwegian drama with Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning won the Grand Prix at Cannes and has 9 Oscar nods. What makes it so appealing?

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Elle Fanning (right) and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in a still from Sentimental Value. The two actresses, along with the other two leads, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve, have received Academy Award nominations for their roles in Joachim Trier’s Norwegian family drama.
Fame and celebrity

Who is Lily Allen’s new boyfriend, Jonah Freud?

Jonah comes from an influential family indeed: his mother was once married to Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, and his father is an Oscar-winning producer.

Jonah Freud and Lily Allen arriving at the Valentino after-party at Paris Couture Week last month. Photo: Getty Images
Iran

Screenwriter of Oscar-nominated Iranian film arrested in Tehran

Mehdi Mahmoudian and others detained after signing a statement calling Iran’s crackdown an ‘organised state crime against humanity’.

Disney

Disney needs a new CEO to succeed Bob Iger. Who’s in the running?

Iger, 74, will step down as Disney boss for the second time at the end of 2026. Four internal candidates have been vying for the job.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Finn Bennett, who plays Prince Aerion in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The Irish-British actor plays Aerion in HBO Max’s new Game of Thrones spin-off, but did you know he was in True Detective and Warfare, too?

British actor Finn Bennett poses as part of a red carpet event for the newly released HBO Max production series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the new prequel of the Game of Thrones saga, in Rome, on January 15. Photo: AFP
Fame and celebrity

Actress Johnny Sequoyah on making a name for herself – interview

Sequoyah grew up on set as a child of independent filmmakers, then starred in Dexter: New Blood and Primate alongside Academy Award-winning Troy Kotsur.

Actress Johnny Sequoyah. Photo: Mitchell Hoog
United States

The princess and the billionaires: who else is in the Epstein files?

More names of high-profile figures are surfacing after the latest release of millions of documents related to the late US sex offender.

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United States

‘Dances With Wolves’ actor found guilty of preying on indigenous girls

Nathan Chasing Horse’s main accuser was 14 and a virgin when he sexually assaulted her on the pretext of healing her mother of cancer.

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