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Rita Ora has announced her third studio album, ‘You & I’ – listen to new single ‘Praising You’ featuring Fatboy Slim below.The singer is due to release the record on July 14 via BMG – pre-order/pre-save here. Ora co-wrote every song in the upcoming collection, which is described as her “most diaristic project yet”.“This album really means a lot to me,” the pop artist said in a statement.

Lary Simpson, who launched a career in entertainment law at Tri-Star Pictures before leaving legal practice to join older brother Don Simpson in motion picture production, died Jan. 25 of cancer at his home in Noank, Connecticut. He was 77.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Rakuten TV has announced the launch of two new owned and operated FAST channels, bolstering its role as a curated channel programmer in the free ad-supported streaming TV services space. The channels, announced during MipTV’s FAST Summit, will see the growing pan-European video-on-demand streaming service enter the TV series landscape by launching a reality/factual entertainment channel in the U.K. and crime series channels across German speaking territories and in France, Italy and Spain. Rakuten’s Real channel which was launched in the U.K. on April 12, will feature shows such as culinary bootcamp series “Worst Cooks in America”; reality show “My New BFF”, with Paris Hilton; and “Undercover Boss.”

Fatboy Slim has announced the line-up for 2023’s edition of All Back to Minehead festival.Following last year’s inaugural event, the festival returns to Butlin’s Minehead resort from November 10-13. Tickets are available now and can be found here.The 2023 line-up includes Jodie Harsh, Marshall Jefferson, Mella Dee, Sally C, Saoirse and Shanti Celeste.

So many stars were in attendance to help GQ celebrate at the magazine’s inaugural Global Creativity Awards!

Hank Azaria, Sutton Foster, Darren Criss, Danny Strong and Sean Gunn will guest star on the fifth and final season of the Prime Video series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Amazon announced Thursday.

A YouTuber from Virginia was shot over the weekend while filming a prank video for his channel.

Police have released the image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a crash which resulted in a pregnant woman losing her unborn baby.

Piers Morgan resigned from Good Morning Britain after refusing to apologise for not believing Meghan Markle's account of life in the Royal Family. However, the 57-year-old broadcaster has now questioned why he didn't receive the same "solidarity" that Gary Lineker recently did for his own situation. One source claimed that Piers' comment was a reference to his former GMB colleague Susanna Reid, who returned to the airwaves immediately after the episode, without making a stand for Piers.

A Minnesota man is facing charges after killing a man he believed was “attempting to groom” his daughter.

A piece of art set to cover a huge section of the iconic Printworks building has been unveiled as the £22m redevelopment of the building steams ahead. The work, by Manchester based artist Alex Sylt, was unveiled by Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, at an event this morning (March 11) with the aim of being in place later this year.

mastered aging.“I Dream of Jeannie” star Barbara Eden, 91, stepped out Wednesday in a rare public sighting, for the Remus Pre Award Tea Time event held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Eden showed off her enviable figure in a silk navy blouse, black slacks, black heels and dazzling dark gem jewelry.Her lipgloss shimmered and lashes fluttered as she flashed smiles while strutting on the red carpet.Eden told Page Six in 2021 that she frequented the gym, took spin classes and lifted weights until about 2018.She said she started having a trainer come to her house for resistance work and walks around her tennis court, but admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted her workout routine.The Hollywood glamour gal is best known for playing a genie discovered by an astronaut (the late Larry Hagman) in “I Dream of Jeannie,” which aired from 1965 to 1970.She even hit her legendary genie pose, with her arms crossed in front of her, on Wednesday’s red carpet.The Hollywood Walk of Fame star recipient appeared on “Dallas,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “How to Marry a Millionaire,” among scores of other projects.She even competed on “Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition” in 2016, going home on the second episode.Eden told Closer Weekly in 2021 that she’s “very careful” about her diet.“I’m a carnivore … I like steak. We eat a lot of pork, chicken, steak [and] vegetables,” she revealed, while noting she also has a sweet tooth.

13D and 13G reports. For those outside of the inside-baseball world of corporate finance: Forty-five days out from the end of the year, companies are required to have filed 13D and 13G disclosure forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These reports are required for investors who amass 5% or more of a company’s total stock issue. Starting with this primer on how to monitor big-dollar investment bets, Variety will offer a quarterly survey of how the media and entertainment sector is faring among the world’s most sophisticated stock pickers.

Balooja’s Foundation in January.“They adopted Angel from us. I think they were drawn to her being a tripod and needing that special family who would see past her disability.

appealing his conviction for staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself and lying to Chicago police about it — nearly a year after he was sentenced to five months in jail.The “Empire” alum, 40, is seeking a new trial, as he claims “prosecutorial misconduct” in this case was “clear and egregious,” according to the 102-page document filed Wednesday with the Illinois Appellate Court and obtained by The Post.A jury convicted Smollett in December 2021 of five counts of disorderly conduct. He had claimed that on a frigid early morning in January 2019, two men approached him in the dark, yelled slurs at him, punched him, poured a chemical substance on him and hung a noose around his neck.Chicago police accused Smollett of recruiting brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo to carry out the attack to boost his burgeoning Hollywood career.Abimbola, an amateur boxer and occasional bit-part actor, testified in court that Smollett, who is black and gay, told him the specific words he wanted the brothers to used were “Empire’, f—-t, n—-r, MAGA.”On March 10, 2022, Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail as he continued to proclaim his innocence.

R Kelly will serve an extra year in prison on charges relating to possessing child pornography and child enticement.The disgraced singer was found guilty of six of 13 counts of owning and producing child pornography and enticing a minor back in September. On Thursday (February 23), he was sentenced to 20 years in prison but he will serve almost all of his sentence simultaneously alongside the jail term he received last year for racketeering and trafficking.The additional sentence means that in total, Kelly will now serve 31 years in prison and he will not be eligible for release until he is 80 years old.The central question relating to the sentencing in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago was whether Kelly would be ordered to serve the additional sentence simultaneously alongside or after the completion of his previous 30-year sentence.

R. Kelly has been sentenced to more prison time. On Thursday, the 56-year-old singer was sentenced to 20 years in prison, five months after he was convicted on six counts in a Chicago federal court.Prosecutors had requested a 25-year sentence for Kelly, while the disgraced singer's defense team asked for a 10-year sentence for their client.Thursday's sentencing follows Kelly's September conviction on three child pornography counts and three counts of enticing minors for sex.That conviction came one year after Kelly, who has long maintained his innocence, was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York. In June 2022, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison, as well as five years of supervised release and a $100,000 fine. The singer was ordered to serve one year of his most recent prison sentence after finishing his 30-year sentence.

R. Kelly has lost his plea to have a Chicago court overturn its guilty verdict on his 2022 child pornography trial, with judge Henry D.

Raquel Welch, the big-screen star of the 1960s and ’70s who gained famed in movies including Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., Myra Breckinridge and many others, died today after a brief illness. She was 82.

crashed into another vessel. Two people died in the incident.

representing Johnny Depp last year, has scored a legal win for another celebrity client. Back in September 2022, "Yellowstone" star Q'orianka Kilcher hired Camille and attorney Steve Cook in her worker's compensation insurance fraud case. Last year, the California Department of Insurance alleged that Q'orianka collected over $96,000 in disability benefits over the course of two years after she claimed to have been injured on the set of "Dora and the Lost City of Gold."The actress maintained her innocence from the jump, saying she suffered serious injuries on the set. California, though, insisted that she was filming "Yellowstone" after saying she was in too much pain to work. On Friday, Feb.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has dismissed all charges against Yellowstone and The Alienist actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who had been accused of workers compensation fraud last year.

The State Attorney of Cook County in the US state of Illinois, Kim Foxx, yesterday announced that her office is dropping the charges it previously filed against R Kelly, concluding that the prosecution isn’t necessary given that the musician has already been convicted of similar crimes in the federal courts of both Illinois and New York.Kelly faced charges in multiple US jurisdictions following the broadcast of the documentary ‘Surviving R Kelly’ in 2019. That programme, of course, put the spotlight on the many allegations of sexual abuse that had been made against the star in the preceding decades.The first case to get to court, in 2021, was in New York, where Kelly was found guilty of building and running a criminal enterprise in order to access and abuse women and teenagers.Then last year, Kelly was found guilty in the federal court in his home city of Chicago of three charges of enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and three more in relation to his filming of that sexual abuse of children.Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail in relation to the New York conviction.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus is set to direct and executive produce the Untitled Orphan Project that’s in the works for Hulu.

The remains of a young woman have been found more than five years after she disappeared. Police working with the FBI say they have found the body of Cheyann Klus.

Carole Cook, a protege of Lucille Ball who would become a familiar face through appearances on Ball’s TV shows, movies like The Incredible Mr. Limpet and Sixteen Candles and stage musicals 42nd Street and Romantic Comedy, died today of heart failure in Beverly Hills, California, just three days before her 99th birthday.

It’s time again for Deadline’s annual list of premiere dates for new and returning TV series. The 2023 roster so far covers more than 200 broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting after January 1. It includes series and season debuts, shows returning from hiatus and some one-offs such as live sports and awards specials but not movies. Note that older premiere dates are listed at the bottom.

Shortly after Donald Trump became president of the United States in January 2017, he began stacking federal courts with conservative judges. Realizing what was at stake, the team behind HBO Documentary Films’ abortion documentary The Janes began crafting a story to remind the audience what happened 50 years ago when women didn’t have access to safe and legal abortions.