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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch clips of all 10 nominees on the longlist A selection of bedroom musicians, indie bands and retro-futuristic soul singers are being tipped for success on BBC Music’s Sound of 2020 list. The longlist features 10 rising acts, from punk-pop firebrand Yungblud to soul-baring songwriter Celeste. Other […]

Jack Burns, a child actor who appeared on TV shows In Plain Sight and Retribution, has died at age 14. Burns, dubbed “the next Billy Elliot,” was found dead at his Greenock, Inverclyde home in Scotland. Authorities told Metro U.K. they are not treating his death as suspicious, but the cause has not been revealed. Burns was

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Olivia Newton-John next to her jacket before the auction The leather jacket Olivia Newton-John wore in Grease has been given back to the actor by the man who bought it from her at auction for $243,200 (£185,000). The Australian sold the black jacket and other possessions in November, with

The orange vs. pink debate aside, the most seriously disturbed thing about “Legally Blonde” was Reese Witherspoon’s audition. The actor, who appeared as Elle Woods in the blockbuster 2001 film and its sequel, recalled getting a demoralizing piece of advice for convincing the studio she was right for the role of the deceptively ditzy law

Image copyright PA Media Image caption Conservationist David Bellamy died on Wednesday, the foundation he formed said Naturalist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he formed says. London-born Bellamy, who became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist, died on Wednesday, according to the foundation. His colleague,

Lizzo is Time’s Entertainer of the Year ’cause 2019 loved her. The “Cuz I Love You” singer and rapper was recognized in Time for her “relentlessly positive and impossibly catchy” sound, her body positivity and her advocacy for self-love, the magazine announced Wednesday.  “Attending a Lizzo concert feels like worshipping at the church of self-love, if

Image copyright Marvel/Trump War Room Image caption The tweet from Mr Trump’s campaign put his head on Thanos’s body Imitation, they say, is the most sincere form of flattery, but recycling pop culture for politics can backfire. On Tuesday, the creator of Thanos called US President Donald Trump a “pompous fool” after his team used

Golden Globes nominations got you down? The Screen Actors Guild Awards are here to right at least some of what many critics have decried as awards season wrongs. The 2020 SAG nominations honoring the best achievements in film and television performances were unveiled on Wednesday by actors America Ferrera and Danai Gurira at the Pacific

Image copyright Getty Images YouTube will no longer allow videos that “maliciously insult someone” based on “protected attributes” such as race, gender identity or sexuality. The video-sharing platform will also ban “implied threats of violence” as part of its new harassment policy. A row erupted in June after a prominent video-maker said he had been

Phoebe Buffay may have sashayed with her guitar into the sunset with musician Mike when “Friends” concluded in 2004. But things could have worked out, romantically, very differently for actor Lisa Kudrow’s character, according to the hit NBC sitcom’s co-creator David Crane. Crane revealed in an interview with the U.K.’s RadioTimes published Monday that “there