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“When the whole thing started to happen with the LGBTQ+ community and the misconception of me, what I was and what I am and what I feel, my daughter was so upset because she couldn’t process how people could think this about her father,” he told Will Smith. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57528258

The 10.5m (34.5ft) tanker, which had gone out of service before he bought it, is one example, he says. “I think it’s 12 years old, but it’s obsolete. No companies would use it because it looks too old, even though it was perfectly functional. It’s ridiculous. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57513965

“I’m thinking, hot dog, let’s sit back and wait for all this magic change to happen. We’re still waiting. It really did not happen. It seems like every five years or so, there’s another movie starring women that’s a huge hit and people say, ‘Well now certainly everything is going to change,’ and it really […]

“We also raise funds for charities such as The Justice Desk’s Mbokodo project, ” Gabbi, an admin of the group told the BBC. “This project is a collaboration with South African BTS fanbases and takes on BTS’s Unicef messages of Love Yourself and END violence, with the funds going back to help and protect young […]

Elsewhere, original Fresh Prince episodes made a popular return to BBC iPlayer alongside the reunion special, while shows like Midsomer Murders and Only Fools and Horses topped ratings on BritBox, the archive streaming platform from the BBC and ITV. On Netflix, the ever-popular Friends continued to hover around its trending chart. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57470151

It may be a smaller crowd of 10,000 people instead of the usual 100,000, but the Download Festival is taking place this weekend. The event is part of the government’s live event trial seeing if large scale gatherings are possible. All those attending the Donington Park have been tested with a PCR test and a […]

The exhibition at the city’s Science and Industry Museum looks at the early years of the label, from its formation out of the Factory night at the Russell Club in Hulme by the late Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville and Martin Hannett to the launch of the label’s own nightclub, The Hacienda, in 1982. […]

For two years Spall learned how to paint like Turner under the guidance of artist and teacher Tim Wright, who provided him with a “foundation course,” in classical art. This culminated in 60 paintings, including a reproduction of Turner’s masterpiece Snow-Storm – Steamboat Off A Harbour’s Mouth. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57484401

If he did open with a full theatre, it “would be very likely that every member of my cast, crew and orchestra, the front and backstage staff, plus our loyal audience members, could be individually fined £500, which I couldn’t possibly risk”, he said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57530408

The board’s statement said: “Everyone involved in the event desperately wants a return to the road where carnival belongs, but safety has to come first and with the latest cautious announcement on the government’s roadmap, this is the only way to ensure that.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57523286

“I’m grateful that this movie was shot in Washington Heights,” he adds. “We felt the vibrations of the community, we felt the people, riding their motorcycles, music blaring from people’s cars, smelling the food coming from the Cuchifrito down the block. I hope that people get excited to hope, and that they feel excited about […]

“With consummate technical skill married to the keenest ear for dialogue and the sharpest eye for rich and telling detail, Hilary Mantel resettles the reader at Thomas Cromwell’s shoulder for a psychodrama that begins and ends with a blade,” they said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-57510482