U.K. media regulator Ofcom has fined right-leaning broadcaster GB News £100,000 ($130,000) for “breaking due impartiality rules” during Rishi Sunak’s February live show “People’s Forum: The Prime Minister.” According to a statement released on Ofcom’s website on Thursday, an “earlier investigation found that an appropriately wide range of significant viewpoints was not presented and given […]

Lisa Barlow has been up since 3 a.m. — but you’d never know. Sitting in a room at London’s Langham Hotel, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star is glammed up and rocking an all-black look, complete with knee-high leather boots. The reason for her early morning, she tells Variety, was the fallout from […]

Teri Garr, the comic actress and singer who brought her buoyant personality to “Young Frankenstein” and was Oscar-nominated for “Tootsie,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was 79. An influential performer to comedians including Tina Fey, Garr was a familiar face in dozens of TV shows and […]

Shawn Mendes is addressing speculation about his sexuality, saying that it’s “felt like such an intrusion” because he’s “just figuring it out like everyone.” The 26-year-old singer-songwriter spoke about the subject before performing unreleased track “The Mountain” during a concert at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday night. According to fan footage of the song, […]

One year after Matthew Perry’s death, the family of the late “Friends” star sat down with the “Today” show’s Savannah Guthrie to reflect on his legacy. Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, stepfather Keith Morrison and three younger sisters opened up about the aftermath of his death from the acute effects of ketamine and the justice they […]

The first look at “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere” has been revealed as production gets underway. Directed and written by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart,” “Hostiles”), “Deliver Me From Nowhere” adapts Warren Zanes’ book of the same name about the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album “Nebraska.” […]

The hit “Real Housewives” franchise is coming to London next year. “The Real Housewives of London” will mark the first original series from Hayu, NBCUniversal’s all-reality SVOD service, and is set to be produced by Monkey, the company behind the iconic British reality series “Made in Chelsea.” The show is targeting a late 2025 premiere […]

Andy Cohen is unbothered. In a hidden conference room above the lounge of London’s Langham Hotel, I find the Emmy-winning executive producer of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise and the host of “Watch What Happens Live” nonchalantly doodling on a notepad. Despite Cohen’s casual demeanor, taking a seat at the long, wooden table feels like I’m […]

When Ashe walked into a session with Suki Waterhouse last summer, she hadn’t written a song in six months. The California-born singer-songwriter had just recently moved to Nashville and was on a hiatus of sorts from the industry after canceling a tour to prioritize her mental health. “I was like, ‘Fine, but put your expectations […]

New music from Kate Bush could be on the way. In a rare interview with BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program, the elusive artist said she is “very keen to start working on a new album.” Bush spoke to the BBC’s Emma Barnett about a new short film, “Little Shrew” — set to her 2011 song […]

Primavera Sound has recruited the summer’s main pop girls — Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Chappell Roan — as headliners for its 2025 edition. The Barcelona-set music festival unveiled its lineup on Thursday, which also includes LCD Soundsystem, FKA Twigs, Beabadoobee, Beach House, Clairo, Denzel Curry, Floating Points, Fontaines D.C., Haim, Idles, Jamie XX, MJ […]

Former model Stacey Williams has alleged that presidential candidate Donald Trump groped her in a 1993 incident at Trump Tower after the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced them. In an interview with The Guardian and on a Zoom call organized by the group Survivors for Kamala, Williams described how she first met Trump through […]

When the news broke on Oct. 16 that former One Direction member Liam Payne had died, the overwhelming reaction — from both casual observers and longtime fans of the multiplatinum-selling boy band — was disbelief. The circumstances around Payne’s death were even more shocking: Just 31 years old, the singer fell from a third-floor balcony […]

Roman Polanski will no longer go on trial in Los Angeles next year over the alleged rape of a minor in 1973, French news agency AFP reports. The director’s lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, told the AFP on Tuesday that the case was “settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally […]

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man is getting back behind the camera in no time. During an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday night, Holland confirmed that his fourth “Spider-Man” movie is happening — and even has a production start date. “Next summer, we start shooting. Everything’s good to go — we’re nearly there,” […]

Another round of lawsuits has been filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs, including the allegation that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl with an unnamed “male celebrity” as an unnamed “female celebrity” watched. The Buzbee Law Firm, which said on Oct. 1 that it would be presenting 120 more lawsuits against Combs, filed five new […]

Jeff Lynne’s ELO has announced that its last ever show will take place at BST Hyde Park in London next summer. The concert — the first to be announced in the annual music festival’s lineup — is set for July 13, with tickets going on sale this Friday at 9 a.m. BST. The band is […]

Hundreds of One Direction fans gathered in London’s Hyde Park on Sunday to pay their respects to Liam Payne, the former member of the British-Irish boy band who died on Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Despite rainy weather, the queue to get in front of the park’s Peter Pan […]

Niall Horan has posted a heartfelt tribute to his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, who he was reunited with recently at his Buenos Aires show on Oct. 2. “I’m absolutely devastated about the passing of my amazing friend, Liam. It just doesn’t feel real,” Horan wrote on his Instagram alongside a photo of the two […]