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A young dad-of-five has tragically died after a horrific motorbike crash during a dream trip to Thailand.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Online story platform Wattpad and Thai media firm GMMTV have joined forces to adapt digital comic “My ID Is Gangnam Beauty!” for TV. The show will begin production this summer and be known as “Beauty Newbie” when it begins airing on GMMTV in early 2024. The adaptation will follow Liu, a young woman who feels the need to get plastic surgery, and Guy, who is seen as having a perfect face. The show asks whether, in a world that judges and criticizes based on appearance, romance can blossom between two people who see themselves so differently?  The underlying webtoon by Maenggi Ki has been viewed 1.4 billion times and has a significant following in Thailand, where Korean culture is popular and beauty pageants remain a mainstay of mass TV.

Season 3 of “The White Lotus” will reportedly take place in Thailand.

 will reportedly be set in Thailand, according to multiple outlets that have sources close to the HBO production. The reports come after creator Mike White made several comments about setting a new installment somewhere in Asia, following Maui, Hawaii, in season 1 and Sicily, Italy, in season 2. «I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent.

Madonna has added a Nashville date to her upcoming 2023 ‘Celebration’ world tour, with proceeds benefiting trans rights organisations.The concert is due to take place on Friday, December 22 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, with Madonna adding a further seven dates to the US leg of the tour.Tickets for the newly announced dates go on sale at 10am local time this Friday, March 31. You can see full dates below and find tickets here.In a statement addressing recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, Madonna said: “The oppression of the LGBTQ+ is not only unacceptable and inhumane; it’s creating an unsafe environment; it makes America a dangerous place for our most vulnerable citizens, especially trans women of color.“Also, these so-called laws to protect our children are unfounded and pathetic.

Mike White and his revolving cast of characters are heading to Thailand for the third season of The White Lotus, Deadline has confirmed.

The White Lotus” is heading to Thailand, multiple sources close to the production tell Variety. As the first two seasons of Mike White’s “The White Lotus” were shot at Four Seasons resorts in Hawaii and Italy, respectively, it’s possible that Season 3 will take place at one of the luxury hotel giant’s four properties in Thailand, which are located in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui and the Golden Triangle. Thailand’s Four Seasons resorts are spread across the city, country, jungle and beach, giving White plenty of settings to play with, if he so chooses. HBO declined to comment.

Katie Price's recent stint on Channel 5 programme Jeremy Vine went down like a lead balloon, it seems.The 45 year old ex-model took a seat opposite talkshow host Jeremy, 57, on Friday, but the general consensus from viewers wasn't a pleasant one, as the majority believed that she dodged the bigger questions and wasted airtime with talk of plastic surgery. "It's a fact I've had more boob jobs than I've slept with men - there's not many women at my age who can say they haven't had that many men," was one of her standout quotes.

Manchester Day is back, with organisers promising it is set to be 'even bigger and better' with 'day-to-dusk' celebrations.

Candiace Dillard Bassett sums up her experience filming  in a phrase: «shenanigan s**t show.»«Can I curse?» she cracks to ET. «OK, bleep that out, 'cause that's what I'm saying.»The third installment of Peacock's  mash-up series finds the  star in Thailand, alongside fellow DMV resident Gizelle Bryant, 's Heather Gay and Whitney Rose, 's Alexia Nepola and Marysol Patton,  alumna Leah McSweeney and, a last-minute addition to the cast, Porsha Williams, formerly of .

It has been reported that there is a new romance blossoming on The Only Way is Essex. According to The Sun, two cast members had been getting close while filming the latest series of the ITVBe show in Thailand. They have since revealed that sparks have been flying between Harry Derbidge and Junaid Ahmed, who reportedly bonded over their "shared sense of humour".

Nelly Furtado is working on a comeback, with the help of a fellow Canadian.

Charlotte Crosby oozed confidence as she highlighted the results of her recent gym blitz in a crop top on a night out with friends. The ex-Geordie Shore favourite, 32, who recently underwent a semi-permanent make-up transformation, hit the town for St Patrick's Day in Newcastle on Friday. New mum Charlotte, who welcomed baby daughter Alba Jean with boyfriend Jake Ankers in December, beamed as she showed off her svelte figure in a black crop top and leather trousers, paired with an Off-White shoulder bag.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. CPH:DOX will reflect on the repercussions of the war, which ousted Saddam Hussein, but never led to the discovery of weapons of mass destruction, by screening two documentaries: Greta Stocklassa’s “Blix Not Bombs” and Karrar Al-Azzawi’s “Baghdad on Fire.”“(The invasion) was an event that has shaped international politics over the course of the last two decades in unpredictable and often devastating ways,” says CPH:DOX head of program Mads Mikkelsen. “Not least inside Iraq itself. (‘Blix Not Bombs’ and ‘Baghdad on Fire’) provide two different takes – a shot and reverse shot – on the course of events back in 2003 and on the current situation in Iraq as seen from the inside and through the eyes of the young.”“Blix Not Bombs” follows Hans Blix, the former head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, who was sent to Iraq in 2002 to determine whether U.S. suspicions that the country was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction were founded. Though the final report found no evidence of an Iraqi weapons program under Hussein, the U.S. and a coalition of allies nevertheless decided to invade the country. Now in the final stretch of his life, Blix questions whether he did enough to prevent a war whose impact is felt to this day.

Katie Price is officially back together with her ex-fiancé Carl Woods as the pair were spotted arm-in-arm in London after the glamour model returned from her family trip to Thailand.The 44 year old TV personality was in Thailand for three weeks, on an extended holiday with her two youngest children, Jett, 9, and Bunny, 8, who she shares with ex-husband, Kieran Hayler. Carl, 34, even joined them on the trip, with Katie posting plenty of snaps to social media, but he flew home before his on-off partner and her children did.The pair clearly wasted no time in reuniting though, as they headed to a nail bar where Katie got a manicure as Carl waited for her.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, is back in full force in 2023, celebrating its 25th anniversary edition from April 21–29. A key component of the celebrations will be a focus on the Asian films of the 1980s. “We have never programmed these films, nor put together this kind of program before,” says Thomas Bertacche, the FEFF’s co-head. “But these were the films and directors that inspired us to shape Udine into the festival that it is today.” Pitching the historical lineup as “hidden treasures,” the selection is expected to include early works by Japan’s Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Thailand’s Nonzee Nimibutr and South Korea’s Jan Sung-woo.

Katie Price has taken to her Instagram Story to show off the painful aftermath of her Thailand trip, as she reveals she's been left with a sunburnt face. Sharing a video clip with her 2.6 million followers, Katie, 44, said: "I need a good facial when I get home look at that peeling face." Yesterday the former glamour model revealed that her holiday was coming to and end and that she'll soon be jetting back to the UK. Posting a selfie to her Instagram Grid, she penned the caption: "Time to get up and go back to the uk [heart emoji] missed my Friday night Indian take away , Sunday roasts and more important a cup of tea." Katie visited Thailand with her two youngest children eight year old Bunny and nine year old Jett, and recently shared that she was counting down the days until she landed back in the UK so she could be reunited with her eldest son Harvey.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have cancelled their planned gig in Uncasville, Connecticut tonight (March 12) due to illness.The band was set to perform at Mohegan Sun Arena but have had to postpone it after an unnamed bandmember was ill. Their show on Thursday (March 9) at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio was also postponed.“Due to illness, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s concert at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday March 12 has been postponed,” Springsteen wrote on Twitter.“We are working on rescheduling the date so please hold on to your tickets as they will be valid for the rescheduled show.”Due to illness, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s concert at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday March 12 has been postponed.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Thailand’s film censors have upset the release of local horror movie “Hoon Payon,” which should have arrived in cinemas pn Thursday. The film had a successful world premiere screening on Tuesday at a gala in Bangkok. But censors have since intervened to demand five scenes be cut and to impose a 20+ rating on the Five Star Production picture. The rating means that spectators must be age 20 or older, thus excluding the film’s key teenage demographic, and it obliges cinema operators to check the ID cards of all patrons. The film’s story involves a man who travels to a village in a border region where his brother, a novice Buddhist monk, has been accused of murder. As more bodies pile up, the man questions the villagers’ blind faith in a supposedly protective doll or mannequin.

While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now.