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Republicans are threatening DirecTV with hearings and Newsmax hosts are appealing to viewers (as Fox News sits on the sidelines). But for all the political theatrics, the crux of the dispute comes down to dollars and cents. By Tom Kludt February 27, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: Jumbopics / MEGA Lea Michele has been having a fabulous time on vacation and she proved that in her latest Instagram post. The 36-year-old showed off her impressive yoga moves as she stretched her leg up on a paddleboard while rocking a neon green one-piece swimsuit. More AboutLea Michele Lea posted

By Staff The Associated Press Posted February 26, 2023 5:25 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Madonna‘s eldest sibling, Anthony Ciccone, has died, a family member said Saturday. He was 66. The announcement was made on Instagram by musician Joe Henry, who is married to Madonna’s sister Melanie Ciccone. “My brother-in-law, Anthony

View gallery Image Credit: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency / SplashNews.com Zendaya took her fashionista status to the next level at the 2023 NAACP Awards. The Emmy-winning actress decided to turn up the heat in Pasadena on Saturday, Feb. 25, as she rocked not one, but two, stunning ensembles for the annual event. Looking every inch

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 25, 2023 11:23 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent has died at the age of 92, his friend actor Mark Critch has confirmed. More to come… Journalistic standards Comments Report an error Comments &copy 2023 The Canadian Press

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock/SplashNews It’s almost mission impossible to imagine anyone playing Iron Man other than Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise recently agreed! After years of rumors that Tom was up for the role of playboy billionaire/superhero Tony Stark, which Robert played masterfully in 10 Marvel films, the Top Gun: Maverick star finally put

Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels after it received criticism for cuts and rewrites that were intended to make the books suitable for modern readers. Along with the new editions, the company said 17 of Dahl’s books would be published in their original form

Harvey Weinstein will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars, a fact cemented by powerful testimony from Evgeniya Chernyshova—a 43-year-old former model and actress who had, until now, been known publicly as Jane Doe 1. “I’m tired of hiding,” Chernyshova told The Hollywood Reporter. “I want my life back. I’m Evgeniya, I’ve been raped. This is my story.” Now

View gallery Image Credit: (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix) Real-life looked very much like Sex/Life on Feb. 23, when the cast of the Netflix series gathered for the premiere of the show’s second season. Adam Demos proved that the bloom hadn’t come off the rose with his relationship with series costar Sarah Shahi.

In what can only be described as truly impeccable timing, Netflix dropped their latest true-crime offering just hours before the main character in the case was called to the stand at his own double-murder trial. Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal was released to the streaming platform Wednesday, one day ahead of disgraced South Carolina lawyer

Republicans are lining up for the presidential primary like it’s 2015. Donald Trump was essentially in the 2024 race since he left the White House, but didn’t officially announce until a week after November’s midterms, where he led his party to squander any strategic structural advantage they might have had. It was little quiet, but Nikki Haley last week

View gallery Image Credit: Rob Latour/Shutterstock Tallulah Willis shared a few different videos of herself dancing, after having a bit of a tough time. The actress, 29, posted a hilarious clip of her busting dance moves and lip-syncing to “Time of the Season” by The Zombies in a bright pink bathing suit, before jumping into a

This year’s leading Canadian Screen Awards nominees include a series about North America’s Black train porters in the 1920s and a coming-of-age film set in Scarborough. The Black-led CBC and BET Plus series The Porter is the leading nominee with 19 nods heading into this year’s awards, including best drama series, best writing in a

View gallery Image Credit: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/Shutterstock / AFF-USA/Shutterstock Kelsey Grammer paid tribute to the late Kirstie Alley during an interview on The Rachael Ray Show on Tuesday, February 21. The actor, 68, said that he “loved” his former co-star, who died at 71 in December after a battle with colon cancer. Kelsey had so many kind things to

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Guns N’ Roses is hitting the road in 2023, mapping out an extensive, five-month world tour that will hit stadiums, arenas and festivals around the world, including multiple shows in Canada. The tour begins June 5 in Tel Aviv, Israel, before making its way across Europe for

The Quiet Girl director Colm Bairéad made his film in the native Irish language—a decision that made it tough to cast an 11-year-old lead, but has also put a spotlight on a language at risk of fading away. By Esther Zuckerman February 21, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Rob Latour/Shutterstock Nikki Reed and Rumer Willis are expecting the best. The pregnant Twilight star, 34, took to Instagram on Monday to share a snap with the Empire actress, 34, who will welcome her first child later this year. More AboutRumer Willis “When bumps collide,” Nikki joked as she hugged

In a brand-new teaser trailer for the upcoming Little Mermaid movie, Disney gave excited fans a first look at everyone’s favourite most feared sea witch, Ursula. In the 30-second trailer released Wednesday, Melissa McCarthy, who plays Ursula, is briefly seen with her face obscured by a long, dark tentacle. As the trailer closes with Ariel’s

View gallery Image Credit: Dan Hallman/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Mama June is a married woman! The WE tv star, whose real name is June Shannon, first tied the knot with boyfriend Justin Stroud in March 2022, but they later hosted an official wedding ceremony with her daughters and grandchildren in Florida on Feb. 18, 2023. While Mama June and Justin

Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” has died. He was 78. Belzer died Sunday at his home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, in southern France, his longtime friend Bill Scheft said. Scheft, a writer who had

View gallery Image Credit: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock Jeremy Renner is continuing to update his supportive fans on his recovery journey after being run over by a snowplow last December, leaving him with “30 plus broken bones.” In his latest Instagram post, the 52-year-old actor revealed he’s undergoing “electric stimulation workouts” as part of the program. He shared

BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon says he supports supervised drug injection sites, but when member of the legislature Teresa Wat spoke to the audience of a Mandarin news show last week, she had a different message. Wat, speaking on Phoenix TV’s Daily Topic Show, said “we are very opposed to so-called safe injection sites,” remarks

View gallery Image Credit: Brad Barket/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Bruce Willis’ family has been circling their wagons since revealing the actor’s new diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD). The 67-year-old Die Hard actor and his tight-knit brood — including wife Emma Heming and his ex-wife Demi Moore — are all “closer than ever” following the tragic news,

Sami Zayn knows it will be loud. A Montreal wrestling crowd for a WWE event never disappoints when it comes to jacking up the decibel meter. But the Montreal-area wrestler doesn’t fully predict just how loud the fans will be at Bell Centre when his music hits and he walks to the ring for his

“It hasn’t aged a bit—if anything, it looks better now,” said Iwan Wirth, who’s worked with McCarthy since 1998.  And if you need more, LA will also soon be home to Luna Luna, an ambitious project that will rehab an artist-created theme park once housed in Hamburg, Germany, set to feature a ferris wheel by Jean-Michel Basquiat

View gallery Image Credit: Courtesy of MCA Nashville Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan‘s 2x Platinum hit “Buy Dirt” was an near-instant country classic — and differed from many of Jordan’s prior releases. “That song truly kind of just opened up a door… I started approaching songwriting and music differently after that song. The day we wrote

Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family confirmed Thursday. Nearly a year after announcing his battle with aphasia, the actor’s family, including ex-wife Demi Moore, current wife Emma Heming and his five daughters, shared a health update in a statement on the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration website. “While this is painful, it

If there’s one thing Kimora Lee Simmons and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have in common, it’s supporting New York Fashion Week. The two were seen grabbing a late-night dinner at Nobu Fifty Seven around midnight on Saturday, according to Page Six. The politician sat next to the Baby Phat designer at the dinner

View gallery Image Credit: FOX Hannah Brown has been open about her mental health struggles through the years, especially in her 2021 memoir. The former Bachelorette star revealed exclusively to HollywoodLife.com that before going on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, she was “really struggling.” “I had gotten into my mind that I was weak, and so I

Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film One Million Years B.C. would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s, has died. She was 82. Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna of the talent agency