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Newcastle or enjoying the calm of Northumberland villages like Allendale or Bamburgh, celebrities seem to love our corner of the country. Go here for more what's on updates, news and reviews from around the North East From Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford to the iconic Spice Girls, we've had plenty of visits from famous faces. Below, we've compiled a list of places around the North East that have become celebrity magnets.

HBO’s The Gilded Age continues to grow from its impressive start, delivering a 15% increase in total viewers from its series premiere.

Hugh Hefner has made headlines posthumously as A&E recently released its docuseries about the Playboy founder, "Secrets of Playboy."  Although Hefner died in 2017, many former Playboy Playmates have come forward to detail their alleged experiences with Hefner and the Playboy mansion in the new docuseries, including Holly Madison and Sondra Theodore. In addition to Madison and Theodore, here's a look at Hefner's wives and girlfriends through the years. Mildred Williams Williams was the first wife of Hugh Hefner.The two met in college and got married in 1949.

Lisa Kennedy The tried and true way to break viewers’ hearts is to make them care deeply. “Aftershock” wastes no time in doing just that. Filmmaking duo Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee begin their emotionally resonant, statistically chilling documentary about the dramatically increased numbers of maternal death and morbidity among Black women in the U.S.

It was 2017 when filmmaker Paula Eiselt started seeing articles about rising maternal mortality rates in the United States. She’d had traumatic experiences giving birth to her four children, but didn’t realize that the problems were widespread and disproportionately affecting Black women.Tonya Lewis Lee, in her travels and conversations promoting infant mortality awareness, had also begun hearing stories about people's sisters, friends and cousins who had died after childbirth.

HBO released the trailer for "The Gilded Age" on Thursday, revealing "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes' glamorous new period-piece series.

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is back with a brand new period piece: The Gilded Age! The debut trailer for the HBO drama just debuted online, along with some first look pics.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max continues to round out the cast for the upcoming Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin as Carson Rowland (Sweet Magnolias, American Housewife), Jordan Gonzalez (The L Word: Generation Q), Ben Cook (West Side Story, The First Lady) Elias Kacavas (Euphoria) and Benton Greene (Ghost, Riverdale) join as recurring. They join stars Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco and Bailee Madison, and series regulars Zaria, Malia Pyles, Alex Aiono, Mallory Bechtel and Eric Johnson.

A 4-year-old Missouri girl has been found dead after being attacked by two neighbors who claimed they wanted to remove a "demon" from her family, police say.  Ethan Mast, 35, and Kourtney Aumen, 21, are now facing second-degree murder and other charges following the discovery of the child’s body over the weekend at a home in Cole Camp, southeast of Kansas City.   "Based on what I know, I think this could be some kind of honest-to-goodness religious-type episode," Benton County Sheriff Eric Knox

A Washington man accidentally burned his trailer home to the ground early Sunday after he tried to drive out a family of raccoons living under his house while on drugs, authorities said. Benton County deputies responded and found the trailer engulfed in flames, the sheriff’s office said.

The anti-gay sign in Bossier City, La. – Photo: Facebook.

Duncan Stewart and Benton Whitley are expanding their New York-based casting office Stewart/Whitley and opening a film and television arm.

Newly launched accelerator Starfish has selected the first four participants of its six-month paid program designed to highlight the visions and voices of people of color within the entertainment industry.Black genre writer Vanessa Benton, Vietnamese American playwright and filmmaker Derek Nguyen, narrative television writer, Palestinian American producer and director Cherien Dabis, and black poet enthusiasts and creative brother duo Amir and Mikaal Sulaiman are the inaugural participants,