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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDowntown L.A.’s Arts District is roaring back to life post-pandemic, and Camphor is the latest addition to the lively scene. Located in the former Nightshade space, Camphor marries French technique with South Asian influences. Chefs Max Boonthanakit and Lijo George worked together at Alain Ducasse’s Blue in Bangkok, and they’re relishing the access to fresh local produce that had to be imported at their previous restaurant.

Shane Warne began his final journey back home on Thursday after his coffin left Thailand to fly back to his home country of Australia. A state funeral will be held in Australia on 30 March for the late cricketer, who died suddenly of a suspected heart attack on 4 March while on the Island of Koh Samui in Thailand, Shane’s coffin – which was seen draped in an Australian flag – was reportedly transported out of Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok on one of millionaire wine management entrepreneur Terry Peabody's charter jets. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

Katie Price has flaunted the results of her latest boob operation while on a boat day in Thailand.

Katie Price's fiancé Carl Woods has had his impending court date postponed.The car dealer and former Love Island star is set to appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court after being charged by police under Section 4 of the Public Order Act.The 33 year old was expected to attend the session this Thursday 10 March, but the case has now been postponed to Wednesday, 23 March instead. It comes after Essex Police confirmed Woods had been charged under Section 4 following an arrest last August. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

Katie Price is “desperate” to do the next series of The Masked Singer – and is even hoping it could help launch a singing career. The 43 year old, who recently revealed that she wants to train as a paramedic, is no stranger to the microphone. And earlier this week, she was caught on camera performing a rendition of Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody whilst on holiday in Thailand.

Katie Price has been caught on camera performing a rendition of Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' whilst on holiday in Thailand. She was filmed by an onlooker as she sang along to the track with a friend in a Bangkok bar, and the TikTok video has accumulated hilarious comments on Pricey's questionable vocal range and singing technique. One viewer wrote: "It's the fact she's holding the mic like she can really sing for me", whilst another added, "omg tone deaf".

Katie Price has a message for the haters as she basks in the sunshine on a romantic holiday with fiance Carl Woods. The former glamour model, 43, jetted off to Thailand with Carl, 33, after a few rough months including court cases and bankruptcy worries. It seems the couple have left the pressures of home life behind them as they cosied up to one another on their sunkissed holiday.

BANGKOK -- Several top Myanmar celebrities who were detained for criticizing the army's seizure of power were released from prison Wednesday under pardons issued by the military government, state-run television reported.The celebrities released from Insein Prison in Yangon include prominent film industry figures Lu Min, Wyne, Pyay Ti Oo, his wife Eaindra Kyaw Zin, and popular male model and actor Paing Takhon, MRTV reported.All had been arrested for supporting the protest movement against last year’s seizure of power by the military, which ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. They had been charged with incitement, which carries a possible three-year prison sentence, for encouraging government employees to join the protests.The TV report said the reason for their release was so they could participate in nation-building through their work in the arts.The report also said that Win Min Than, a popular blogger on beauty and fashion, received a pardon for her conviction for incitement but remained detained because she was also convicted of unlawful association.A Malaysian who was convicted and imprisoned on drug charges in 2019 was also given a pardon on Wednesday for what was described as humanitarian reasons.More than 12,000 people have been arrested since the army takeover in February last year, and more than 9,400 remain in detention, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group that monitors arrests.Shortly after its takeover, the military government began issuing arrest warrants for celebrities, charging them with incitement for “spreading news to affect state stability.”More than 100 celebrities were featured on wanted lists with their photos on state-run media.

Katie Price's children Junior and Princess Andre are worried that their mum will marry fiancé Carl Woods on their current Thailand holiday without telling them.The 43 year old is currently on holiday with Carl, 33, where they are staying in a £64 a night hotel in Bangkok, and a source has told OK! online the pair are planning to get married on their trip.They then added that that Princess, 14, is "expecting them to go ahead with it this time" and she will only be told once they have tied the knot.They said: "Katie will FaceTime the kids to tell them when it's happened as she doesn't want either dads knowing her plans. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter "Carl desperately wants Katie to become Mrs Woods and ditch the Price name.

Katie Price is currently in Thailand with her beau Carl Woods, and the former model has sparked rumours she's set to be marrying her fiancé while on holiday. Now, sources have told OK! that Katie, 43, and Carl, 33, jetted out to Thailand for the purpose of filming for Katie's new OnlyFans channel and are "talking about getting married" out there.The source shared: "Katie and Carl are in Thailand for three weeks, they’re filming content for her OnlyFans and talking about getting married.

Katie Price and her fiancé Carl Woods jetted off to Thailand a few days ago to enjoy a romantic break in the sun – and OK! online can reveal that they may have checked in to the city's fancy £64 a night Conrad Hotel. The pair were seen at the airport in London earlier this week before boarding a flight to Bangkok, and eagle-eyed fans think they sussed out where they are staying thanks to the couple's Instagram pictures.

It’s never going to fit in there, you think. Surely not. But every time, the giant stuffed Chinese answer to a crepe somehow manages to fold its way into the bag, before a plastic fork is jabbed unceremoniously into its innards.

BANGKOK -- Police in Thailand said Thursday they were looking for a suspect in the robbery of German celebrity Cathy Hummels, who reported that her mobile phone was stolen during a nighttime attack on a southern beach.Hummels, 34, is a presenter on German television and the wife of German footballer Mats Hummels, who plays for Dortmund. She traveled to the southern seaside province of Phang-nga last week to film the show Battle of the Reality Stars, which she hosts, according to German media.The Phang-nga Provincial Police issued a statement after she posted about her robbery on Instagram and gave an interview to the the German newspaper Bild.“A couple of days ago something bad happened to me,” she told her Instagram fans.

BANGKOK -- An award-winning film director in Myanmar has been arrested almost a year after he was put on a wanted list for encouraging government employees to join in protests against military rule, a colleague and local media reported Thursday.Htun Zaw Win, whose professional name is Wyne, was arrested Wednesday at his apartment in Yangon after spending most of the past year on the run, said the colleague, who is also a prominent figure in the entertainment industry. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of fear of arrest.Wyne has won multiple awards for best director and best screenplay from the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday evening with the screening of “One Second” Zhang Yimou’s homage to cinema and veiled critique of China’s Cultural Revolution.The festival runs Dec 8-13 and is one of the first major cultural showcases to take place in person after Thailand has opened its borders to welcome visitors.

H1-KEY, which are slated to debut on January 5, has caused a stir online over her family’s alleged involvement in the 2014 political crisis in Thailand.According to both The Korea Times and The Bangkok Post, Sitala’s father was late Thai actor and filmmaker Sarunyu Wongkrachang, who had allegedly been a supporter of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee, which played a key role in the 2014 Thai political crisis.

Rapper Pyra has been making and releasing music for several years now, but has been gaining more attention over the last couple of years as more political and social commentary has crept into her lyrics.Last year, she released ‘Bangkok’, a track addressing unrest in her native Thailand, gaining attention both at home and internationally.

iOS - Android Comedy turbulence will definitely be the inflight order of the day as the cabin crew will be taking the show to new heights.In-flight entertainment will recreate magical moments from Las Vegas to Las Palmas, with Moulin Rouge meeting Madonna, and will feature more than 400 stunning costumes.The cast will bring on board tributes to a host of pop icons including Cher, Tina Turner, Calvin Harris, Alexandra Burke, The Village People, Shania Twain and many more as they seek to have

For The Flight Attendant, production designer Sara K White was excited to work on creating spaces to physically represent the main character’s internal struggles while dealing with a mystery thriller. Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie Bowden, a flight attendant with a drinking problem, who wakes up in a strange hotel room in Bangkok, next to a dead body and with no memory of what happened.

In an autumn when the pandemic continued to keep us in the doldrums of lockdown, along came Warner Bros TV/Max Original’s The Flight Attendant starring Kaley Cuoco with its exotic locales and comedic set-up of a first-class flight hostess, Cassie Bowen, who wakes up next to her one-night stand in Bangkok with his throat sliced.

Kaley Cuoco is looking back on having to shoot her first-ever sex scene.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Amazon Falls announced today that they have closed a deal to develop the 14-acre prime location in the seaside town of Bangsaray, – located 20 minutes from Pattaya and 90 minutes from Bangkok, to open the world’s first Columbia Pictures theme and waterpark, “Columbia Pictures’ Aquaverse.”

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIn remaking local versions of Thai and Chinese language content Bangkok- and Beijing-based Artop Media may have lucked onto one of the hottest trends of the moment in the Asian TV space.That’s because Thai content is increasingly successful on mainland Chinese streaming networks, and, as multiple speakers have noted in the first two day of FilMart, Thai content is increasingly working across East and Southeast Asia too.At FilMart this week Artop is pitching

"The Flight Attendant" star Kaley Cuoco revealed she was worried about the intense scrutiny she’d be under in taking her first role since the conclusion of the massively successful sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."  Cuoco stars as Cassandra, a functioning alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when she wakes up after a night of partying to find the man she spent the night with dead in their Bangkok hotel room with no recollection of what happened prior.The project is a far cry from her role as

Eli Countryman David Giler, a writer and producer known for his work on each film in the “Alien” franchise, died at his Bangkok home on Dec. 19.

David Giler, a writer, producer or both on some of the most high-profile films of the 1970s and ’80s, from the controversial Myra Breckinridge to the immensely popular Alien franchise, died of cancer Dec. 19 at his home in Bangkok. He was 77.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the full season of “The Flight Attendant,” streaming now on HBO Max.Since HBO Max’s “The Flight Attendant” was inspired by Chris Bohjalian’s 2018 novel of the same name, it was originally designed to close out the mystery the titular flight attendant Cassie (Kaley Cuoco) finds herself in after waking up next to her murdered one-night stand in Bangkok.And that it did, explaining who killed that

Rosie Perez had her own frightening experience with COVID-19, even before the United States battled the deadly disease.It was this time last year that the actress was fighting for her life inside a Bangkok hospital. Perez, 56, caught the coronavirus while she was shooting, and now she's sharing her terrifying health scare with ET.«I end up being severely ill to the point where they had to bring a doctor on set,» Perez told ET's Kevin Frazier.

HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, which focuses on the mystery of who brutally murdered Michiel Huisman‘s Alex Sokolov, is based on the 2018 novel by Chris Bohjalian. In the series, party-animal flight attendant Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) wakes up next to Alex after a drunken night in Bangkok.