Emmy award-winning comedy writer Kevin Rooney passed away in his home on July 19th after a long battle with diabetes and end-stage renal failure. He was 71.
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Busted rejected a lot of "lame" reality TV offers which risked ruining the band. The 'Year 3000' pop rockers - who split in 2005 before James Bourne and Matt Willis formed supergroup McBusted with McFly in 2014, followed by an actual reunion with bandmate Charlie Simpson a couple of years later - turned down plenty of pitches before they got back together. Singer James told the Daily Star newspaper's Wired column: "We care a lot about our band.
Before Busted came back by way of the supergroup Busted and before we knew if Charlie Simpson would do it again, we were getting a lot of offers to do things. "But a lot of those offers were really lame offers, the kind you get if you have no direction or if you don't know what you want for yourself. "Just lame celebrity-driven offers.
If we had taken those offers we would have ruined our band. " Bassist Matt has appeared on a number of reality shows including the likes of 'Celebrity MasterChef', and he even won 'I'm A Celebrity. .
. Get Me Out Of Here!' back in 2006. However, James has insisted some musicians simply chase fame and "knacker" their bands by focusing more on being a celebrity.
He added: "There's a lot of people in bands that become celebrities, and they just knacker their bands into the ground because they are not real musicians. " Meanwhile, Matt himself has admitted he's turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing' "a few times" because he's "terrified" of the huge audience. No amount of money would persuade the 'You Said No' hitmaker to hit the ballroom because he would buckle under the "pressure" of having to perform in front of millions of viewers.
Emmy award-winning comedy writer Kevin Rooney passed away in his home on July 19th after a long battle with diabetes and end-stage renal failure. He was 71.
EXCLUSIVE: The forthcoming third season of the BBC’s critical hit comedy series Ladhood will be its last, as creator Liam Williams waves goodbye to the coming-of-age story.
George Clooney, Gladys Knight, U2, Amy Grant and Tania León will receive Kennedy Center Honors at the next ceremony, typically held the first weekend of December.
John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon has explained why he legally changed his name. In 2020, the son of the late Beatles star – who is also a musician – changed his name from John Charles Julian Lennon to Julian Charles John Lennon.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTim Burton is set to receive the 14th Lumiere Award at the Lumiere Festival, a week-long celebration of heritage movies and film masters held in Lyon, France, in October. Headed by Cannes Film Festival’s chief Thierry Fremaux, the Lumiere Festival previously honored Jane Campion, the Dardenne Brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jane Fonda, Wong Kar-wai, Catherine Deneuve, Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, Gérard Depardieu and Milos Forman“From his first movies and early successes, Burton establishes his universe, skilfully blending his intensely personal expressivity with novelistic lyricism and pictorial references, traversing the entire history of art,” said the Lumière Festival in a statement.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMatt Hearn, producer of “Wolf Creek,” one of Australia’s biggest genre exports, is backing “Penny Lane is Dead,” the feature debut of Australian writer-director and makeup artist Mia’kate Russell.Set up at Melbourne’s Buffalo Media, headed by André Lima, who will produce “Penny Lane is Dead” with Hearn, “Penny Lane” looks like one of the strongest projects being brought onto the market this week at Frontières, in terms of its behind the camera talent package and financing.“Penny Lane” features among Frontières’ six Forum projects, a program reserved for films in advanced stages of financing.The film has drawn down “significant funding” from Screen Australia’s Producer Offset program, which means 40% of the film finance is secured, Lima told Variety. “With the right market partners in place, we estimate that [a further] 20%-30% of the production budget can be raised from our federal and state film agencies through their production investment funding programs,” Lima added.Prosthetics designer Larry Van Duynhoven (“Furiosa”) and costume designer Nicola Dunn (“Very Important Person”) are attached, among key craft collaborators.“Penny Lane” is set on a warm night as 17-year-old Penny Lane is celebrating getting into college with her longtime girlfriends Toni and Amy.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAlarm Pictures has closed North American rights from Hewes Pictures on “The Protector,” the latest film from Canadian writer-director Lenin M. Sivam, in advance of its July 28 world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival.The U.S.
welcomed her son, who she shares with boyfriend Josh Newby, on Tuesday after revealing she was pregnant in January. Georgia, who has appeared on the hit Channel 4 show since 2018 with Abbie, wasted no time in taking little Hugh to meet her bestie for the first time. On Sunday, Abbie, 20, gushed over the newborn on Instagram, sharing a picture of her cradling Hugh, who was dressed in an adorable pale blue romper.
Marry Me, for starters. She also wears wedding dresses in Monster in Law (2005) and The Wedding Planner (2001), the latter of which is said to have inspired .
“90 Day Fiancé” star Larissa Dos Santos Lima is opening up about a botched plastic surgery procedure she underwent over a year ago. In a series of posts shared to Instagram, Larissa shared her story and detailed the procedure that left her without a belly button.
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's Larissa Dos Santos Lima is opening up about a botched plastic surgery procedure she underwent over a year ago. In a series of posts shared to Instagram, Larissa shared her story and detailed the procedure that left her without a belly button.«Today, I would like to take the first step in slowly opening up about a plastic surgery procedure I received that is botched.
Former 90 Day Fiancé personalty Larissa Dos Santos Lima has been candid about her plastic surgery journey, but now she’s speaking out after an alleged “botched” procedure.
in a poignant Instagram post, revealing that they have known from a young age that they were not a girl.Brown, 26, is the only child of Kody Brown and his first wife, Meri, whose polygamous family is at the center of the long-running TLC reality TV series, which aired its 16th season earlier this year.“Someone recently told me that i didn’t have to have all of my s–t figured out in order for me to share myself with the world,” Brown wrote on their Instagram account Tuesday.“So here’s me, definitely not having almost any of my s–t figured out, to let you know that i am trans. my name is Leon or Leo (i love both) and my pronouns are they/them.”The 26-year-old shared a photo of themselves standing in a pair of brown shorts and sandals in a doorframe.Brown had come out as lesbian in Season 11 of “sister Wives.”“I remember the first time that i knew i wasn’t a girl,” the reality show cast member wrote.
“Sister Wives” star Leon Brown announced on Tuesday that they are transgender, now exclusively using the name Leon with they/them pronouns. Brown is the only child of Meri and Kody Brown, but one of 18 half siblings from Kody’s plural marriage with Robyn Brown, Janelle Brown, and ex-wife Christine Brown. The family has appeared regularly on the hit TLC show beginning in 2010.