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Madonna's older brother, Anthony Ciccone, has tragically died at the age of 66. Musician Joe Henry, who is married to Madonna's sister Melanie Ciccone, announced the devastating news on his Instagram on Saturday 25 February. Posting a black-and-white photo of his brother-in-law, Joe, 62, paid tribute as he penned: "My brother-in-law, Anthony Gerard Ciccone, exited this earthly plane last evening.

Easing fans’ concerns. Yellowstone star Wes Bentley reacted to rumors that Kevin Costner plans to leave the series — and he doesn’t think viewers need to worry about the show’s future.

Hollywood stars including Nicole Kidman, Elton John, Dolly Parton and Mariah Carey were among those who appeared via video link to remember the actress.

Naman Ramachandran The 2023 London Screenings, which unfold Feb. 27 to March 3, take place in an increasingly crowded international TV calendar. The event kicks off just days after the Berlinale Series Market, overlaps with the BBC Studios Showcase and precedes Series Mania and MipTV. The week-long showcase has established itself as a key place to acquire the best of British and international programming. All major global TV distributors, spanning 26 companies, have a plethora of content to offer across genres and formats, and a series of screenings, meetings and events have been lined up. To help you cut through the slates, Variety has surveyed the goods from key international distributors. Here are our picks of 15 shows that will whet buyers’ appetites.

Award-winning pies, comfort food classics and school-dinner style puddings - Great North Pie Co has finally arrived in Manchester.

Graham Phillips is back on stage, this time taking on an iconic role in a Stephen Sondheim musical!

The family of a 'god-fearing' and 'devoted' man who tragically died in a crash in Bolton have paid heartfelt tribute to him.

One week after singing, “I wanna set it straight, but my lawyer says I shouldn’t,” Kelsea Ballerini is ready to spill.

Having signed to Universal’s Decca just under a year ago, Ellie Dixon has just released her second single for the label, ‘Big Lizard Energy’.A chirpy pop song in which she imagines herself as a giant murderous dinosaur, her half-rapped verses give way to a singalong chorus that will lodge itself in your head for hours.“’Big Lizard Energy’ is the musical embodiment of a parody disaster movie all about gaining perspective on the stresses around you”, she says.“As an anxious person I’ve always found myself blowing problems out of proportion, so during a time I was particularly struggling with this I wanted to write a song that did the opposite – [that] blew ME out of proportion”.“I imagined I was a giant lizard towering over a city and suddenly I felt a lot better (‘Not so scared when I’m 320ft’)”, she goes on.“It’s a tongue-in-cheek look into the overthinking mind and how panic can escalate quickly (’Hit the red alert when it’s just a bit of caution’) but how we can control our response to the things that panic us.

Naman Ramachandran Shout! Studios has acquired U.S. and Canada rights to Studiocanal and Working Title’s cross-cultural British romantic comedy “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” with a view to releasing it in late spring, it was revealed at Berlin’s European Film Market on Tuesday. Directed by veteran Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”), “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” follows documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), for whom swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath’s (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan (Sajal Aly). As Zoe films Kaz’s journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.

A host of companies in Greater Manchester are to sticking with their switch to a four-day working week after the completion of a UK-wide trial.

Tesco has become the second supermarket chain in as many weeks to announce another pay rise for its staff.

James Bond to Star Wars have been filmed, has been given permission for an £800million expansion.Buckinghamshire Council has signed off on the studios’ proposals to build 21 new stages, a training hub and a publicly accessible nature reserve. According to Pinewood Group,  the expansion would make it the “biggest studio complex in the world” and create 8,000 jobs.

Stella Stevens, who starred in the 1972 disaster film “Poseidon Adventure” and in films opposite Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, died Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 84.Her son, actor/producer Andrew Stevens, confirmed her passing to TheWrap via email. “I was notified early this morning,” Stevens said.

interested in acting and modeling while studying at Memphis State College. After taking part in a collegiate play, Stevens made her film debut in “Say One for Me” in 1959, which won her the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1960.Stevens also appeared in three Playboy pictorials and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960 — a job she later regretted. “I did the best I could with the tools I had and the opportunities given me,” she was once quoted saying, according to Deadline. “I was a divorced mom with a toddler by the time I was 17, and Playboydid as much harm as it helped. But in spite of that rough start, I did OK.”She would star opposite many big-name actors in movies, including Presley, which she later admitted that she didn’t want to do.

The Royal College of Nursing has announced its biggest walkout by staff amid the ongoing pay dispute in England. Members are to stage a 48-hour walkout, running continuously from 6am on March 1.

EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White is set to lead Feast Or Famine, a new feature-length documentary that will profile renowned East London restaurant Angelina and its relentless pursuit of the highest accolade in the culinary world — a Michelin Star.

Hong Kong regulators have ordered local free-to-air TV and radio broadcasters to carry 30 minutes of national education and identity and National Security Law programming each week. 

2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where the Aussies missed out on a medal. She was also renowned for raising awareness of disability sports and athletes. Curtis died on February 5 but the cause of death is not yet known.

Naman Ramachandran Zia Mohyeddin, a British-Pakistani actor known for films “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Immaculate Conception” and the stage version of “A Passage to India,” died on Monday in Karachi. He was 91. Mohyeddin was ill and was on life support in a Karachi hospital, his family said. Mohyeddin was born in Lylallpur (now Faisalabad), British India, in 1931. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the early 1950s. After theater roles in “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and “Julius Caesar,” Mohyeddin made his West End debut in “A Passage to India” in 1960, where he originated the role of Dr. Aziz.