Live Nation and Ticketmaster look to enforce laws against touts and scalping websites

Before it was revealed they'd won Love Island, Sanam Harrinanan and Kai Fagan sat down for a live interview with presenter Maya Jama to look back at their best bits. Sanam, 24, and Kai, also 24, discussed their initial attraction to one another during the Casa Amor twist and revealed their plans for after the show, and Sanam accidentally revealed she loves Kai, leaving the pair in fits of giggles.

Manchester PE and science teacher Kai Fagan and social worker Sanam Harrinanan, from Bedford, were crowned the winners of winter Love Island 2023 in an emotional final on Monday night (March 13). Love bloomed late in the process for the fan favourites after Sanam stole Kai's heart in the usually dreaded Casa Amor stage of the the ITV2 dating show.

It's been two long months for some of us as we've battled through the coldest and darkest nights of the year - or so we hope!

the subject of a recent hearing in the US Congress which examined the issues with the ticketing market that contributed to a well-publicised fiasco relating to the pre-sale of Taylor Swift’s upcoming ‘Eras’ tour.Tickets for the tour went on sale in November and saw thousands of fans reporting lengthy wait times, website outages, and hyper-inflated prices on resale sites (including Ticketmaster’s own). The ticketing company later admitted it buckled under the “historically unprecedented demand” they faced from Swift’s fans before cancelling the general sale.President Joe Biden recently called on ticketing companies to limit such fees, often called “junk fees”, that are added to ticket prices which he said “can easily add hundreds of bucks to a family’s nights out”.Now, according to Billboard, the President and CEO of Live Nation – Ticketmaster’s parent company – Michael Rapino said to investors on a recent call: “We all want to know what is the true cost to see the show when we start shopping, adding that he wanted transparent pricing to be “mandated tomorrow across the board” which would “relieve a lot of the stress [and] the consumer’s perception that there’s this magical extra fee added on.”“We’ve got to now go out and do a much better job so policymakers and consumers understand how the business operates,” he added.““We’ve historically not had a big incentive to shout out loud that venues are charging high service fees or artist costs are expensive.

The grand finale of Winter Love Island 2023 is set to take place this evening and host Maya Jama has been busy getting prepared in South Africa. Maya, 28, will reveal whether Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins, Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, Tom Clare and Samie Elishi or Tanya Manhenga and Shaq Muhammad are the winning couple of this year's series on Monday 13 January live from Cape Town.

Love Island fans have cheekily suggested a new pair on the show have 'more chemistry than one of the winter series' final couples and have also spotted a potential future islander in the penultimate episode. The current run of the ITV2 dating show will come to an end on Monday night (March 13).

Outlander's Sam Heughan has debuted a bold look miles away from his role as Jamie Fraser in the Starz series – and fans have reacted with a lot of enthusiasm.The 42-year-old revealed his new look on Instagram as he celebrated the launch of a custom motorbike which he helped design.Sam recently got fans' hearts racing with news about his next project – romantic comedy Love Again. See the trailer for the film, which also stars Priyanka Chopra, in the video below.WATCH: Sam and Priyanka star together in Love AgainIn his most recent photos, Sam could be seen donning a biker look complete with a black leather jacket.

 accepting the award alongside Marc Gustafson. He referred to his wife as «the love of his life» before also honoring his late parents and his children, whom he shares with Morgan. «Animation is cinema,» del Toro said. «Animation is ready to be taken to the next step.

Love Island star Lucie Donlan is backing a campaign to save a beach in Cornwall that "means so much" to her. Lucie was among scores of protesters taking part in a day of action against what they see as the destruction of their local cliffs and beach. At least 150 people took part in a protest on Thursday, 2 March at Whipsiderry beach in Porth, just outside Newquay.They fear the area and its wildlife will be ruined by developers who want to put luxury homes on the clifftops.

In her own words. Jen Shah has been keeping the world updated on her time behind bars through her online diary since reporting to her 78-month prison sentence.

Beauvais is calling out her former “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” castmate Lisa Rinna after she claimed Beauvais will have “show up and work” now that she’s no longer on the show. During Tuesday’s episode of the daytime talk show “Sherri,” Beauvais stopped by to discuss her upcoming film “Black Girl Missing,” as well as the newest season of “RHOBH,” which just started filming. While Bravo hasn’t confirmed the Season 13 cast, Rinna — an eight-season cast member — has exited the franchise.Rinna’s departure became the subject of Beauvais and Shepherd’s conversation. “Lisa Rinna left the show.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Amid last week’s announcement of record earnings of $16.7 billion in 2022, Live Nation came out with guns blazing about last month’s Senate hearing examining the ticketing industry — which was fiercely, if one-sidedly, critical of Live Nation’s Ticketmaster division — and took aim at the secondary ticketing market, which it identifies as the major problem facing the industry and concertgoers worldwide. As part of that counter-offensive, it announced what it calls the FAIR Ticketing act (full details of which can be found here), the basic tenets of which state: that “artists should decide resale rules,” which would be an effort to allow artists to take the lead in preventing exploitative prices on the secondary market; would “make it illegal to sell speculative tickets,” addressing scalpers’ habit of tricking fans into buying tickets that do not yet exist; would “expand the BOTS Act,” to combat the widespread use of ticket-buying bots on the secondary market; “crack down on resale sites that are safe havens for scalpers,” which would force secondary-market sites to police the activity on their platforms more aggressively; and “mandate all-in-pricing nationally,” which would address the processing and other fees that often are not revealed until very late in the sale process.

Olivia Newton-John means so much to her.  The Australian pop star and television host spoke to Channel Nine outside Hamer Hall in Melbourne on Sunday, where a memorial for the icon was underway.  The 51-year-old revealed that she was able to tell Olivia how she felt about her during her lifetime.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Live Nation posted robust results in an earnings report encompassing the full 2022 year and its fourth quarter released Thursday, and looks ahead to a blockbuster 2023 amid ongoing government attention to its Ticketmaster division after the debacle surrounding last fall’s on-sale for Taylor Swift’s stadium tour. On a very busy Thursday for the company, it also launched the FAIR Ticketing Act in an effort to combat excesses in the secondary ticketing market, and plans to release a statement in response to one issued earlier in the day by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, who led last month’s controversial Senate hearing on the ticketing industry.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor As part of the ongoing bipartan examination of alleged anticompetitive conduct by Ticketmaster, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn.) and Mike Lee (R-Ut.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, sent evidence from their recent hearing to the Department of Justice and called on the DOJ to continue examining the company and its parent Live Nation. The bipartisan letter follows the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on America’s ticketing market in the wake of the chaotic on-sale for Taylor Swift’s 2023 stadium tour. 

Former Love Island star Luca Bish has poked fun at his mum, Maria, after she made her 'TV debut'. Maria, who is an antiques dealer, took to Instagram to post her excitement that she would be "making my tv debut" on an episode of Salvage Hunters, which aired on the Quest channel on 22 February.

With songs titled “Love Story,” “Forever & Always,” “Last Kiss” and “You Are in Love,” it is no secret that one of Taylor Swift’s favorite topics is romance. The Grammy winner has been dating British actor Joe Alwyn since 2016, and although the duo are extremely happy together, they keep the details of their relationship quiet.

The head of railways in Ukraine has apologised to passengers — for only having nine in ten of services run ON TIME yesterday.

Love Island beauty Belle Hassan looked sensational as she was questioned on Love Island Aftersun, with fans noticing her recent hair transformation. Belle, 24, who entered the Love Island villa back in 2019 as a Casa Amor bombshell, showed off her new purple hair when her and Joe Garratt, 26, joined Maya Jama to talk about their experiences on the show. Maya, 28, asked: "Belle, you know exactly what it was like.