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Last night a new documentary exploring the planning and execution of the viral Glasgow Willy Wonka experience aired on Channel 5 which got many people talking.

Wall Street Journal, O’Connor – who stars in Challengers alongside Zendaya and Mike Faist – revealed that the one character he would like to play given the chance is a “darker version” of Willy Wonka.However, O’Connor was quick to note that Timothée Chalamet most recently had a turn as the iconic character: “I think probably, I’d love to play Willy Wonka, but like a dark Willy Wonka. I know they just made a Wonka film with Timothée Chalamet, but I would really like to play a sort of darker version of him.”Chalamet isn’t the only actor O’Connor noted to take on the mantle of Wonka.

Josh O’Connor is currently starring in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and recently revealed what character he would love to play in the future.

A child star’s transition into adulthood is an age-old right of passage, and one only a handful have ever truly managed it successfully.For every Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, there’s been a Victoria Justice and a Haley Joel Osment; stars who have failed to evolve their brand and flourish into fully-fledged celebrities.Now, it’s former Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa’s turn, and she’s going down the classic good girl gone bad route that worked so well for the likes of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera back in the early 2000s.Sadly for Siwa, who still drives around Los Angeles in a car emblazoned with her face on the paintwork with the interior covered in colourful rainbow stickers, the attempted rebrand appears anything but genuine to audiences who don’t seem to be falling for it.Siwa has amassed more than 30 million TikTok followers since she rose to fame on Dance Moms in her early teens.She quickly made a name for herself and became one of the show’s biggest breakout stars, with millions of pre-teen girls falling head over heels for her child-friendly, unicorn-loving, rainbow-colored persona.She began to build her career around her signature high-ponytail with a bow, and quickly morphed into a Wiggles-style entertainer.However, criticism soon began to follow her from all corners of the internet, with social media poking fun at the star for appearing to dress and act far younger than she actually was, with fake social media rumors even emerging of her being trapped in a contract that was forcing her to act such a way.After years of channelling the spirit of Willy Wonka, Siwa has finally now decided to break out of her childlike fantasy realm and embrace who she truly is at heart; which, according to her new image, is a

The organisers behind a US version of Glasgow’s Willy Wonka Experience have apologised to customers after admitting no big name stars have signed up to appear.

Timothée Chalamet's newest movies have helped him reach record-breaking status. In the late '70s, John Travolta had two top-grossing films come out within eight months of each other. "Saturday Night Fever" came out in December 1977 and "Greece" came out in June 1978.

Timothée Chalamet is taking on one of the most exciting and challenging roles of his career. He’ll be playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” a biopic that follows Dylan in the ‘60s, as his career rose to prominence and he changed the landscape of music and songwriting. Did Timothée Chalamet attend the Kardashian-Jenner Christmas Eve party with Kylie?How Zendaya helped Timothée Chalamet with his first apartment in New York CityThe film recently entered production, with Chalamet spotted hanging around New York in costume.

Katcy Stephan After a disastrous Willy Wonka “immersive” experience in Glasgow set the internet ablaze, the fiasco is getting the musical satire treatment. The creative team behind “Willy Fest: A Musical Parody” includes Emmy nominee Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel and Oates, “Another Period”), Emmy winners Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Julie & The Phantoms”), TikTok songwriter Daniel Mertzlufft (“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” “Grumpy Monkey: The Musical”) and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (“First Date,” ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”).

A team of top film, television and stage songwriters have joined forces to create a musical satire inspired by the recent, ill-fated Willy Wonka knockoff fiasco in Glasgow, Scotland that became a social media phenomenon.

A 16-year-old has said going viral for playing mysterious masked figure The Unknown at a botched Wonka event has “totally changed my life” and helped her to fulfil a “dream” of working with the London Dungeon.

A mural paying tribute to the scandal-hit Willy Wonka experience has appeared in Glasgow.

which went viral last month, was advertised as “a celebration of sweetness and imagination” that was inspired by the hit movie Wonka and the Roald Dahl book behind it. Outraged parents began demanding a refund shortly after it opened, describing it as a “farce” run by “cowboys”.The event’s organisers, House of Illuminati, decided to pull the plug just hours into its opening day.

went viral on social media.Advertised as “a celebration of sweetness and imagination” that was inspired by the hit movie Wonka and the Roald Dahl book behind it, outraged parents began demanding a refund shortly after it opened, describing it as a “farce” run by “cowboys”. The event’s organisers, House of Illuminati, decided to pull the plug just hours into its opening day.Channel 5 have now confirmed to The Independent that they will be making a standalone documentary titled Willy Wonka: The Scandal That Rocked Britain.

An hour-long documentary about the disastrous Willy Wonka event in Glasgow is due to air on Channel 5.The scandal went viral on social media and has featured on several TV shows, including Good Morning Britain. Channel 5 has created a programme about the chaotic event, titled Wonka: The Scandal That Rocked Britain.The documentary will land on TV screens on Saturday, 16 March.

It wouldn't be truly World Book Day unless we spied adorable children in the cutest outfits - and this year was no different - and it wasn't just the kids getting involved either. Stars including Rochelle Humes and Kerry Katona were clearly up before their alarms this morning to help their sweet children get ready for a day of dressing up fun at school to celebrate some of the world's biggest stars. The Hitlist host Rochelle was first to share adorable pictures of her two youngest children, Valentina, six, and Blake, three dressed as very convincing Oompa Loompas from Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

taking the internet by a storm over the last week, was advertised as an immersive interaction, based on the movie Wonka.Willy’s Chocolate Experience was advertised as “a celebration of sweetness and imagination”, but members of the public were left sorely disappointed at the low-budget production and AI-generated script, causing the event to be shut down on the day it opened.Kirsty Paterson was an actor involved in the performance, playing one of Willy Wonka’s trusted servants, the Oompa-Loompas. She was hired for the event in Glasgow by the organisers, House of Illuminati, and was reportedly offered £500 for working two days of the event.As per a video posted on the official Cameo Instagram page, and a post on Paterson’s TikTok page, she is now taking requests for personalised video and audio messages for fans.That’s me on cameo! Ready to take on requests from your Scottish Oompa Loompa.

By now, you’ve likely seen the “Willy Wonka Experience” going viral throughout the Internet.

The biggest event disaster since the Fyre Festival concert fiasco has drawn a second apology from its promoters.

An actress who played an Oompa Loompa at a disastrous Willy Wonka event that went viral has revealed she wanted to walk out of the 'immersive' experience in Glasgow. The Oompa Loompa actress broke her silence about the widely-criticised Willy Wonka chocolate factory event as she appeared on Good Morning Britain on Friday alongside a fellow actress.The events company, which promised a world of pure imagination, has since cancelled the show after parents, who paid £35 a ticket, turned up to find a sparse warehouse.

Ja Rule did in the wake of the Fyre Festival, he also felt “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray.”An actor hired to work at the recent, disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland feels his golden ticket was a scam.Paul Connell, who played the part of Wonka at “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” at the Box Hub Warehouse in Glasgow, said the viral event was an “absolute mess” and one of the “most embarrassing things” he’s ever seen, South West News Service reported.The calamity, which cost $45 a person, promised guests a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises” — but instead ended with kids in tears and furious parents.Guests arrived on Saturday, Feb. 24, to a “dirty,” near-empty warehouse — which Connell further described as a “health and safety nightmare” — with a printed AI background, a sad bouncy castle and lackluster props.There was also virtually no candy at the “Chocolate Experience,” and Connell said he was told to give kids one single jelly bean each and a quarter of a glass of lemonade upon arrival.Red-headed Connell admitted that an immediate “red flag” came when he was asked to portray Willy Wonka, rather than an Oompa Loompa — which he felt he better resembled.“The first red flag for me was when I was cast as Willy Wonka.

Willy Wonka at a widely criticised chocolate factory experience has spoken out about the nightmare acting gig.The Glasgow event went viral on social media after images emerged of an empty warehouse sparsely decorated with a few plastic mushrooms and pictures attached to the walls.Willy’s Chocolate Experience organiser Billy Coull apologised for his “vision of the artistic rendition of a well-known book that didn’t come to fruition” and offered 850 people their money back before closing the experience on Saturday (February 24).Now, Paul Connell, one of the actors hired to impersonate Willy Wonka, has revealed how the disastrous event unfolded, leading to furious parents trashing the set and demanding refunds.“The script was 15 pages of AI-generated gibberish of me just monologuing these mad things,” Connell told The Independent.“The bit that got me was where I had to say, ‘There is a man we don’t know his name. We know him as the Unknown.

'Willy Wonka Gate' has taken over the internet this week following the disastrous immersive experience held in Glasgow.

How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie? Instead of the most wonderful place in the whole world, angry customers and event participants from a botched “Wonka World” immersive experience held this weekend in Glasgow, Scotland, are angry and seeking a refund.

Experts have issued some important advice on how to spot the signs of an AI scam after a baffling Willy Wonka-inspired event in Glasgow went viral - for all the wrong reasons.

Parents were left furious after attending a 'shambolic' Willy Wonka-inspired event that ended with the police being called out.

Wonka is coming to streaming soon!

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Timothée Chalamet’s magical, musical candyman is coming to Max. “Wonka” will make its streaming debut exclusively on Max on Friday, March 8, Warner Bros.

Wonka will start streaming on Max next month, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said today, outlining what he called a strong streaming content slate highlighted Warner Bros. films, including one of last quarter’s most successful theatrical releases amid a few disappointments.

Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds, a documentary about the creation of Death Stranding, now has an official date for its release on Disney+.After a screening at the Tribeca Film Festival last June, Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds is heading to Disney+ on February 23.The 60 minute film offers “a journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world,” according to the official description, with the documentary following Kojima as he launches his own Kojima Productions studio and creates Death Stranding.“This visually captivating documentary gives a rare insight into Hideo Kojima’s creative process [and] explores the power and potential of video games as an art form through the work of an influential talent revered by millions worldwide.”Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds also features appearances from a number of collaborators and famous fans, including Guillermo del Toro, Nicholas Winding Refn, Grimes, George Miller, Norman Reedus, Woodkid and CHVRCHES. A trailer released last year saw Reedus compare Kojima to Willy Wonka.Kojima started working at Konami in 1986 and went on to design the likes of Metal Gear Solid before launching Kojima Productions in 2011.

Kylie Jenner, 26, sported a chic bob hairdo Friday on Instagram, leading some of her 400 million followers to compare her appearance to that of her boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, 28.“Kris Jenner is quaking,” the billionaire captioned the pic, alluding that her mom is jealous that she copied her signature short hairstyle. Always up on the latest trends, Kris, 68, replied with a reference to rapper Ice Spice’s new song, “Think U The S—t (Fart).”“You’re not even the fart,” Kris replied, implying that she’s still the queen bee. It’s unclear whether the Kylie Cosmetics founder really chopped several inches off her hair or if she was playing around with a wig.