We asked the Rochdale by-election candidates the big questions... this is what they had to say

performed “Rainbow Connection” as a duet Thursday at Nelson’s 2024 Luck Reunion festival. The Muppet also joined the legendary stoner for the 12th annual festival at his Texas ranch for a gospel medley of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” “I’ll Fly Away” and “Hard to Be Humble.”Kemit’s version of “Rainbow Connection” appeared on 1979’s “The Muppet Movie” soundtrack and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Nelson, 90, released his cover of the song in 2001 on his album of the same name.

It’s never a good thing when even other royals are laughing at your scandals!

What’s really going on with Princess Catherine??

George Galloway hit out at both Labour and the Conservatives in his first speech in Parliament as Rochdale's new MP. The leader of the Workers Party of Britain opened his speech by saying: "As I was saying Madame Deputy Speaker, even in Parliament you can't be a maiden twice."

Guy Ritchie fans can't get enough of his new drama The Gentlemen. Debuting last week, the gangster series is currently the most-watched on Netflix in the UK.

A 20-year Mancunian story is coming to an end. It’s a story that’s taken a corner of the city from drained canals and derelict warehousing to being one of the 'world’s coolest neighbourhoods', home to thousands of people and a thriving social scene. That story is the regeneration of Ancoats.

Station 19 showrunners Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige are revealing how they found out the show was being canceled by ABC.

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, a new Princess Catherine conspiracy theory just dropped!

Meg Thee Stallion drinking snake juice to North West’s basketball skills, be ready to be entertained with the 10 best celebrity TikToks of the week. Meg Thee Stallion shares some interesting drinks she’s trying while she spends time in Japan.

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” isn’t due in theaters until the beginning of the summer. However, given that it is most likely making its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in mid-May, the promotional machine for the George Miller-directed film is already underway.

Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid’s relationship heats up, people are wondering when they will make their red carpet debut. With the 2024 Academy Awards this weekend on March 10th, it seems like the perfect place for the A-List couple to make their appearance.Cooper, who is nominated for “Maestro” will surely be on the carpet, but it doesn’t seem like he will be taking Hadid.

Palace insiders and royal experts are speaking out about Princess Catherine (aka Kate Middleton) amid her extended absence from the public eye.

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars this year for the fourth time. Other than Bob Hope (19 times), Billy Crystal (nine) and Johnny Carson (five), no solo host has done it more. (Whoopi did it 4 times as well.) But it is a good bet that among those hosts, no one has seen as many of the nominated films. Kimmel is a self-described movie fan, and as I learned from our conversation he not only spends weeks, months even, prepping his monologue, but he also might be one of the few in the room at the Dolby Theater who actually has seen everything. And I mean everything.

Thinus Ferreira Guest Contributor Producing successful Black female-fronted comedy in South Africa is no joke but Black female producers and writers Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt and Zoe Ramushu are determined to bring about change in front of and behind the lens. Their film “Real Estate Sisters” screened this week at the 6th Joburg Film Festival in South Africa.

Austin Butler and Timothée Chalamet have opened up about their obsessions with Radiohead and The Beatles.The two Dune co-stars sat down with NME to discuss Dune: Part 2. The actors were asked if there were any current albums that they were currently obsessed with at the moment to which Butler replied with Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ and Chalamet with The Beatles’ 2023 reissue of the ‘Blue’ album.“It’s an old faithful that I have listened to more than any other album. But ‘In Rainbows’ by Radiohead.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The descendants of Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney have weighed in on the bid by two activist investment firms to win seats on the board of the Walt Disney Co. Nelson Peltz, the activist investor who runs hedge fund Trian Partners, is waging a proxy-fight battle to install himself and ex-Disney CFO Jay Rasulo as directors; Peltz’s stated aim is to drive up the price of Disney’s stock.

Voters across Rochdale have gone to the ballot box to elect their new MP following the death of Sir Tony Lloyd.

K.J. Yossman Matthew Vaughn is already deep into producing his next feature film, a caper titled “The Stuntman,” Variety has learned. Helmed by stunt performer turned director Damien Walters, the film tells the story of two brothers who both become stuntmen.

Jason Statham.The Beekeeper sits at the top of the 2024 box office chart so far, with a total worldwide figure of $150 million (£118 million). That puts it comfortably ahead of Sony’s Madame Web and Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle, which sit on $77 million and $86 million, respectively.Statham stars in the film as Adam Clay, a former beekeeper who sets out for revenge after a retired schoolteacher takes her own life after losing her charity’s funds to a phishing scam.

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment announced on Monday that Hard Miles, its cycling drama starring Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), will hit theaters nationwide on April 19. They also unveiled a series of first look stills, which you can view above and below.