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Alison Hammond’s younger lover has reportedly ignored his mum’s pleas to split from the This Morning star. Russian masseuse David Putman, 26, struck up a romance with the 49-year-old after she booked him for a £150 massage. But The Sun claims that his Russian mum Olga calls him daily to insist he settles down with a “nice Russian girl”.

Pussy Riot is being developed. Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova has reportedly reached a deal with STX Entertainment to develop the “limited scripted series”, which will be based on her upcoming memoir.Per a Deadline Hollywood report, Tolokonnikova shared via a press release her intentions behind producing the show, expressing her ambition to “inspire a new generation of rebels”.

Gus Kenworthy is opening up about his struggles with body image.

Alexandra Paul, a Canadian figure skater, has tragically died after a car accident earlier this week in Ontario.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Milan-based events creator Marco Balich has choreographed and produced a record-breaking 14 Olympic ceremonies, including for the 2006, 2014, 2016 and 2020 Olympics respectively held in Turin, Sochi, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.  More recently, Balich and his team created the spectacular ceremony for the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup for which he liaised directly with Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.  His Balich Wonder Studio has now partnered with global content giant Banijay, which has taken a 51% stake in the outfit he created in 2013.

Naman Ramachandran Banijay has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in live entertainment player Balich Wonder Studio. Founded in 2013, Milan-based Balich is credited for the organization of the highest number of Olympic Games Ceremonies in the world and other events including the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup; Pan American Games ceremonies in Perù 2019 and Chile 2023; 2016 Rio Olympic Games ceremonies; and 2014 Sochi Olympic Games closing and Paralympic Games ceremonies. It has also delivered a range of exclusive events for top brands including Louis Vuitton, Formula 1, Ferrari, Dolce & Gabbana, UEFA, MSC, Maserati, Bulgari, IWC, Azimut Benetti and many others.

Banijay has moved into the live events space by acquiring a majority stake in the company that claims to have “organized the highest number of Olympic Games ceremonies.”

Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova has reportedly been identified on a list of Russian authorities’ “most wanted” criminal suspects.According to the Associated Press, Tolokonnikova – a founding member of the feminist punk group, which has long been controversial in their native Russia for their incitive protests against Vladimir Putin’s regime – was first spotted in the Russian Interior Ministry’s database of criminal targets on Wednesday (March 29). The revelation reportedly came via Russian news outlet Mediazona, which was co-founded by Tolokonnikova.It’s said that Tolokonnikova’s listing in the database shows her wanted for “criminal charges”, however these are not disclosed in any significant detail.

Rebecca Lowe will be kicking around at NBC Sports for at least another six years. The longtime soccer host posted on social media today that she has re-upped at the network through the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

The Voice Australia winner Alfie Arcuri has revealed he was left with shattered spinal discs and has had a months-long injury battle that saw him undergo multiple surgeries. The Australian singer won the fifth season of The Voice in 2016 and travelled to Europe to perform in Sochi’s ‘New Wave’ festival in Russia last year. Upon realising he was unable to return back to Sydney during the height of the pandemic, with the second wave of Covid coming down back home, he moved into a loft in Italy. Arcuri fell down a flight of stairs and shattered his spinal discs while he was in Italy and spent three months with severe sciatica before being able to return to Australia to undergo surgery. “I fell for two metres and landed on my feet.

AMSTERDAM -- After two years of celebrations muted by coronavirus lockdowns, the Netherlands marked King Willem-Alexander's 55th birthday Wednesday with street parties, music festivals and a national poll showing trust in the monarch ebbing away.The king, who was photographed drinking a beer with Vladimir Putin at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, voiced criticism of the Russian president as he expressed gratitude for being able to celebrate his birthday in “peace and freedom.”The poll conducted by Ipsos for national broadcaster NOS showed the king’s approval rating had slipped to 6.7 on a 10-point scale, compared to 7.7 in 2020. Willem-Alexander told the broadcaster he did not pay much attention to polls.“What I do think is very good is constructive criticism,” he said.

Britain’s Got Talent is facing another fix row after known act Titan the Robot appeared in last weekend’s opening episode.The giant mechanical performer sang and carried out a comedy routine poking fun at head judge Simon Cowell in the ITV series’ return on Saturday.Titan the Robot had members of the audience laughing whilst taking to the stage — which is not the first the act has performed on.Their entertainment past surfaced this week as it was revealed that the robot has in fact been in the industry scene for a while, and having featured in front of the camera with non other than BGT hosts Ant and Dec. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .

HELLO! magazine.RELATED: The Queen shares special message amid Covid diagnosisDressed in glamorous gowns Eve Muirhead, Vicky White, Jennifer Dodds, Hailey Duff and Mili Smith revealed how their lives have become a whirlwind since bringing home the team's only gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics. And they were touched to receive a message of congratulations from the Queen."It was such a great honour to get a message from the Queen.

The Russian Grand Prix is no longer happening.

Naman Ramachandran The Russian Grand Prix has become the latest big ticket sporting event to be canceled in Russia, after the UEFA Champion’s League Final, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.On Friday, Formula One, the sport’s governing body, revealed that the Russian Grand Prix, due to be held in Sochi on Sept. 25, has been cancelled following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after a meeting on Thursday.

The 2022 Beijing Olympics concluded Sunday with icy fanfare,  a spirited speech from International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach and an audience count that pales in comparison to previous Winter games.

Shaun White's sensational career as one of the world's most celebrated snowboarders has come to an end. The 35-year-old star gave a tearful goodbye to his Olympic career Friday in Beijing after falling short of a medal.The Flying Tomato, the early moniker he earned for his lush red locks, finished in fourth place in the men's halfpipe final. The California native was eyeing a spot on the podium during his third run, and while he landed the gravity-defying triple cork 1440 — a trick that once sent him to the hospital — White wound up falling on his next trick, evaporating his chances of taking home a medal at his final Olympic Games.

She started competing at age six. Chloe Kim began snowboarding when she was just four years old, per . Snowboarding came naturally to Kim, and her father Jong Jin started taking her on six-hour drives from their Torrance, California home to Mammoth Mountain ski to practice the sport.

Breaking records isn’t only for the slopes! Chloe Kim’s net worth proves that being a professional snowboarder can earn an athlete some serious dough—especially if they’re as talented as her.

Although the U.S. women’s hockey team celebrated an upset against defending bronze-medalists Finland at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday (January 3), the win came with a price: star player Brianna Decker is out after suffering a brutal injury. Just moments into the first period, Brianna collided with an opponent, causing a serious leg injury, agonizing screams from Brianna and several doctors to take her off the ice in a stretcher. “She’s one of the toughest, strongest players in the world, and so when you hear her react like that, obviously, it was devastating and nerve-racking for us,” team captain Kendall Coyne Schofield told The New York Times.

Ana Navarro, 50, didn’t hold back during a “Hot Topics” discussion about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s grave warning to Olympic athletes during a Friday February 4 episode of The View. The frequent guest co-host passionately explained that she felt like the House Speaker’s advice to athletes to not speak out against the Chinese government was “un-American.”

Olympics’ track and field coverage for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.Diffey takes over for Tom Hammond, who had called Olympic athletics for the network from 1992 through 2016.“They don't label me as the racing guy or the speed guy, but I am,” Diffey told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Rome-based sales company TVCO has boarded world rights on Masha, Anastasia Palchikova’s Russian drama which will screen at Tallinn Black Nights in Estonia and have its market premiere at AFM this month.The film is a co-production between Moscow-based companies 1-2-3 Production, the creators of Netflix original series To The lake, and Mars Media, which has credits include T-34 and Arrythmia.Masha premiered at Kinotavr, the Sochi Open Russian Film