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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Negotiators for the SAG-AFTRA actors union agreed late Tuesday to call in a federal mediator to try to forge a last-minute agreement with Hollywood studios and avoid a second simultaneous strike in the entertainment business. The 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest union, have authorized a strike if a new labor deal cannot be reached before midnight on Wednesday.

View gallery Image Credit: SPOT-Stoianov / BACKGRID School is out and lunch dates with A-lister parents are on! While Jennifer Lopez, 53, and her child, Emme, 15, were spotted having lunch at Mauro’s café in Los Angeles on Jul. 11, the two twinned in baggy pants. For the mid-day outing, J.Lo rocked a monochromatic beige ensemble that

Madonna will reschedule the North American leg of her upcoming world tour as a result of her recent hospitalization. The superstar wrote in a social media post Monday that she is “on the road to recovery” but must focus on her health in order to heal. In June, Madonna, 64, was hospitalized with a serious

The summer is usually the slowest season for the royals, but this year Prince William and Princess Kate have been packing their schedules to the brim. Between family events like Trooping the Colour and last week’s Scottish service to honor the coronation, William’s whistle-stop tour promoting his initiative to address homelessness, and Kate’s engagements for

View gallery The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is coming back for season 13. The show is rumored to be returning in November 2023. Lisa Rinna and Kathy Hilton won’t be in season 13. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is going to serve up more drama when it returns for season 13. We last saw the

Hong Kong-born singer CoCo Lee, whose decades-long career in Asia led to global renown, has died by suicide, her siblings said Wednesday. She was 48 years old. The star had been suffering from depression in recent years, “but her condition deteriorated drastically over the last few months,” her two elder sisters Carol and Nancy Lee

Image Credit: Sklo Studio / Shutterstock If you’re overwhelmed by all the hair styling tools you can use to curl your hair, it’s time to enjoy the versatility a flat iron can provide. Curling your hair with a flat iron is surprisingly simple — all it takes is a bit of practice and a few

Britney Spears and rookie NBA player Victor Wembanyama are disputing the facts about an altercation in a Las Vegas restaurant that allegedly saw the pop singer nearly knocked to the ground on Wednesday. Spears, 41, said she was “back handed” by a security guard for Wembanyama when she approached the much-hyped 19-year-old basketball star at

View gallery Image Credit: Claude Yao Sahi @hijoshotit / SplashNews.com Penelope Disick is 11! The only daughter of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick was showered with love on her big day, including her doting grandmother Kris Jenner. The self-proclaimed “momager,” 67, shared a collection of photos of herself with Penelope over the years, including one of

Taylor Swift fans had reason to rejoice Friday as the international superstar dropped her highly anticipated album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) — complete with six unreleased songs. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the third of six albums Swift will be re-recording after a dispute with music mogul Scooter Braun and her ex-record label. The feud

In hindsight, it looks like the loving glance between King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the coronation was the beginning of a summer full of public displays of affection from the royals. Not to be outdone, this Prince and Princess of Wales took a few opportunities to show off

View gallery Image Credit: Joe Lederer/TM & ©Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Deadpool 3 has a new release date. There have been rumors that Taylor Swift is going to appear in the movie. Succession star Matthew Macfadyen has joined the cast of the film. Deadpool 3 is one of the most highly-anticipated upcoming superhero films. Ryan Reynolds is

Pop singer Britney Spears has filed a police report alleging she was struck in the face by a security guard for basketball player Victor Wembanyama on Wednesday night in Las Vegas. According to TMZ, which first reported the story, Spears, 41, spotted Wembanyama, a 19-year-old French basketball player and one of the most anticipated rookies of

In 2017, when Shelby Wild was about to launch her first hair care brand, Playa, she was living a low-key version of the California dream. The former fashion stylist had left the New York grind and set up camp in a beachfront Venice house, where she balanced work hours with the occasional surf break. Wild’s

View gallery Another day, another divorce drama! Matters continue to escalate in the Kevin Costner, 68, and Christine Baumgartner, 49, divorce battle, as a Jul. 6 TMZ report claims that the handbag designer has reportedly called her estranged husband’s child support offer “completely inappropriate.” The outlet revealed that the Yellowstone star has reportedly offered Christine $51,940 per month, according

Allison Mack, the former Smallville actor and member of the cult-like group NXIVM, has been released from prison early, according to U.S. federal records. Online documents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons claim Mack, 40, was released from prison on Monday. In 2019, the actor pleaded guilty to several charges including racketeering as part of

A decade ago, the idea that a radical Supreme Court would remake our country might have seemed hyperbolic. But that’s exactly what happened. In just the past two terms, the Trumpified Supreme Court ended women’s constitutional right to an abortion, limited the state of New York’s ability to limit concealed carry firearms, struck down affirmative

View gallery A happy family! Chrissy Teigen, 37, and her husband John Legend, 44, announced just last week that they had welcomed their fourth child and now, the proud momma shared a new video of all four of her children on Jul. 5. “muted to protect your ears from john and i making extremely annoying animal noises,”

Actor Kevin Costner and his recently estranged wife Christine Baumgartner are still fighting over the terms of their soon-to-be divorce. In new court documents filed June 30 in California, Costner, 68, claimed Baumgartner, 49, charged US$100,000 (C$132,060) in legal expenses to his credit card throughout May and June. “Christine began charging large sums on the credit

In his 16 seasons on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a few things may have been forgotten about Glenn Howerton. He’s a Juilliard graduate who, when first breaking into the business, struggled to get taken seriously as a comic actor. He’s a performer of great range and depth, true even within the ever absurd Sunny

View gallery Beyonce and Jay-Z were super stylish as they attended Michael Rubin’s Fourth of July party on Monday, July 3. The iconic musical couple each had huge smiles on as they snapped a photo, which you can see here (via DailyMail), at the Hamptons celebration. The pair sported matching all-white outfits for the star-studded Independence Day celebration. Beyonce rocks a

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vietnam has banned Warner Bros’ highly-anticipated film “Barbie” from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China’s unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday. The U-shaped “nine-dash line” is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over

“In a world gone crazy for fast fashion and fast food, we’re trying to do the opposite—the slow and intentional way of doing things,” Richard Christiansen, founder of Flamingo Estate, told Vanity Fair.  By Kia D. Goosby July 3, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock The reported romance between Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio appears to be going strong. The pair — who sparked romance rumors in Sept. 2022 during New York Fashion Week — were spotted hanging out in the Hamptons over the weekend at economist David Rosenberg’s annual party, per a Page Six insider.

A wise music industry person once told me that the average lifespan of a band is about seven years. You form, get better, get big, peak, enter a decline, and then break up. You burn through all your youthful angst and energy, grow older, gain new perspectives, find yourself with new responsibilities and interests, and

View gallery Kim Cattrall, 66, is set to make a cameo in Sex and the City‘s revival series And Just Like That — but the Canadian born actress says she won’t be doing any more than that. Kim says that the scene is “as far” as she plans to go on the Max series to TODAY‘s

Alan Arkin, the American actor who won an Oscar for his role as a heroin-using grandpa in the movie Little Miss Sunshine, has died. He was 89. In a statement through Arkin’s publicist, his sons, Adam, Matthew and Anthony, said: “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a

View gallery Image Credit: SplashNews Nicki Minaj is a Grammy-winning rapper/singer The Trinidad and Tobago native had her first solo number-one with ‘Super Freaky Girl’ in 2022 She will release her fifth studio album in 2023 Nicki Minaj teased fans that her latest album would be dropping in October 2023 and then changed the plan

When the Chinese Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923, it didn’t just effectively halt Chinese immigration to Canada — it extinguished the family lines of thousands of labourers already here. Many were condemned to bachelorhood or cut off from loved ones in China, said Catherine Clement, curator of the inaugural exhibition for the Chinese

When Lady Diana Spencer announced her engagement to the future King Charles III in 1981, it wasn’t obvious that she was about to become a generational fashion icon. Her outfits were followed and even emulated from the time of her first mention in the tabloids as a friend of the then-Prince of Wales the previous