Author: Orlando Pugh

In an Instagram post published minutes after the US presidential debate ended, Swift said ‘the simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth’ Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, in a post on Instagram published minutes after the US presidential debate, saying the Democratic candidate would be the “warrior” to fight for the rights and causes she believes in. “As a voter, I make sure to watch and read everything I can,” Swift wrote on Instagram to her 283 million followers late on Tuesday, adding: “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the…

The new four-part documentary series “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story” takes a deep look into the lives of the iconic rock band members in Bon Jovi, centering in on its lead singer Jon Bon Jovi. “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story,” which Hulu described as an overview of a “40-year odyssey of rock and roll idolatry,” celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary while allowing viewers to reflect on the impact the New Jersey rockers made on the music scene. The series was directed and executive produced by multiple Emmy Award-winner Gotham Chopra, Giselle Parets and Ameeth Sankaran. Here’s everything you need…

Last summer, concert-goers turned out in their droves wearing flamboyant cowboy hats and funky feather boas draped around their necks. They made their way to stadiums in cities across the UK, including London, Edinburgh and Manchester, to see the one and only Harry Styles as the Watermelon Sugar singer finally brought his Love on Tour shows to the British Isles after much delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But it was surely worth the wait. Reflecting on the summer gigs, Matt Owen, programming manager at Wembley, hails Love On Tour as “a remarkable moment” in the stadium’s history. Speaking to OK!, he says:…

Sydney Sweeney is taking her Madame Web role a little too seriously. In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the Euphoria star revealed that she was bitten by a spider on the set of her new rom-com Anyone but You. “They told me it was trained,” Sweeney said of the arachnid. “I don’t know how you train a freaking spider. There’s no way.” The scene in question sees Sweeney’s character find a massive huntsman spider in the underwear of Glen Powell’s character. While shooting the scene, the spider got antsy. “So, we’re filming, and then the thing just starts biting me,” Sweeney said. “But we’re…

Zac Efron has paid tribute to late Friends Star Matthew Perry during a speech in Los Angeles. The actor, best known for starring in the High School Musical film series, was being honoured with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. He thanked Perry for motivating him to reach the next stage of his career after appearing together in the film 17 Again in 2009. Efron also said he was “eternally grateful” to High School Musical director Kenny Ortega and producer Bill Borden: “I still think about it everyday, I still sing the songs in the shower.” Source: BBC

Nicole Kidman has fear of butterflies while Jenner has ‘really bad trypophobia’ Pancakes and butterflies and paper, oh my! Celebrities have spoken out over the years about their fears and phobias, including Kendall Jenner and Nicole Kidman. While being afraid of mirrors or dry paper might seem strange to some people, the fears are very real for these celebrities. Here’s a look at some things Hollywood stars are afraid of. Kendall Jenner Kendall Jenner shared which breakfast food makes her nervous, making the morning a difficult time of day for her. The model wrote on her now-defunct app in 2016: “[A]nyone…

There’s no shortage of metrics to gauge the runaway success of Squid Game. The dystopian South Korean death-or-glory drama is Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, clocking 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first month (equivalent to 190,000 years). It received 14 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning six. Squid Game star O Yeong-su was the first Korean-born actor to win a Golden Globe. It has even spawned a spin-off reality game show, Squid Game: The Challenge, that debuted this week. But for Netflix’s APAC vice-president Minyoung Kim, who first greenlighted the script in 2019 in her former role running the firm’s Korean content, the…

South Korean girl band Le Sserafim were the star attraction at the after party following Louis Vuitton’s monumental fashion show last April on the Jamsugyo Bridge in Seoul. Now the five members of the group have signed on as house ambassadors, making their debut in the campaign for a capsule collection of bags exclusive to the South Korean market. The images were shot in a studio in Seoul against a backdrop evoking the iconic bridge spanning the Hangang river, which has appeared in many films. To amplify the visual impact of the runway, Vuitton had enlisted “Squid Game” director Hwang Dong-hyuk to help build the…

“This one is hard to predict,” is the constant mantra this weekend among rival box office sources guesstimating the opening swing for Sam Wrench’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert movie. Friday is currently pegged in the $40M-$50M range with a big spread of $107M-$130M at 3,850 theaters for the weekend as a whole. On the high-end, that could be the third biggest opening at the 2023 domestic B.O. after Barbie ($162m) and Super Mario Bros’ 3-day of $146.3M. Added another source about the Eras Tour outlook: “Prepare for us to be wrong.” Why are Swift concert film projections calculus to box office bean counters instead of the usual weekly algebra? Basically,…

The arts are the poorer for a system that hugely rewards the few while the less lucky can’t even earn a living wage Did you know you’ll soon be able to take a course in Taylor Swift at Queen Mary University of London? There’s already one of these at a university in Belgium: it’s called Literature: (Taylor’s Version), and starts this autumn. In February, academics will gather in Australia for a high-level “Swiftposium”. In the US, meanwhile, people fret over the pop star’s political power. Last week, with a single Instagram post, she helped register 35,000 new voters in a day. Others concern themselves…