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Omid Scobie’s rumoured “party pal” Jodie Marsh has publicly hit out at the showbiz journalist and branded him “toxic” after his book Endgame was released last month, while also shutting down rumours that she ever partied with him. The controversial author sparked widespread outrage among royal fans last month when a Dutch translation of his book named two members of the royal family that he claimed made racist remarks about the colour of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ’s unborn child Archie, prior to his birth in 2019.

Erika Jayne is getting BLASTED for lip-syncing to another artist’s song during her Las Vegas residency!!

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's desperate attempts to reshape their narrative have been "blown out of the water", a royal expert claims.

Ghetts has teamed up with London rapper Skrapz on his latest single ‘Twin Sisters’ from his forthcoming LP ‘On Purpose, With Purpose‘.Produced by frequent Ghetts-collaborator TenBillion Dreams, the track opens up with a cheeky and explicit verse with the rapper saying: “One night I stayed round / Now I know my way round / Used to wonder what the pillow saw when you’re faced down / I’ve been fucking twin sisters / they don’t make the same sound”.The song also comes with a head-spinning visual by Dutch director Geerten Harmens (A$AP Rocky, Lil Wayne, Gunna). The video sees Ghetts sitting on an invisible chair in a puffer jacket in a white room.It features trippy camera movements as the rapper walks around and is surrounded by other things, such as a couple dressed in what appears to be Victorian garb, a butler holding a plate of spaghetti bolognese and more.‘Twin Sisters’ follows Ghetts’ previous release, ‘Laps’ featuring the South African singer Moonchild Sanelly, which marked his first new single in two years.

Adam Collard and girlfriend Laura Woods have enjoyed a romantic holiday to Amsterdam together, days after he revealed that he wants to marry and have kids with her. Former Love Islander Adam, 27, who publicly announced his relationship with sports presenter Laura, 36, in October, posted a series of sweet snaps of their Netherlands trip on his Instagram. One adorable picture showed Adam hugging his girlfriend at an art exhibition, while the others included a topless selfie and photographs of the delicious food they had eaten.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Static Waves, a Netherlands-based channels and content distribution company, has teamed with Korea’s Arirang TV to launch K-Wave, which they claim will be the world’s first free ad-supported television (FAST) channel dedicated to Korean popular music (K-pop). K-Wave will launch in January in the U.S. Europe and Asia via Zeasn, a platform which distributes to TCL, HiSense TV+ and Vestel brands of connected TVs pre-installed with Zeasn’s Whale OS. Its content will include: original series, live concerts, documentaries on K-pop stars, music and fashion trends, dance instruction videos and behind-the-scenes clips. To propel its Korean expansion, Static Waves has established a local business entity, Static Waves Korea, based in Seoul.

TikTok’s ‘Add To Music App’ is set to roll out to users in 19 more countries worldwide following its launch last month.Last month, TikTok announced a new feature that allows users to directly save sounds from the app to their streaming platform of choice.Users in the US and UK can already utilise the feature now, which allows fans to save music they’ve discovered to Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.The social media platform has now announced plans for it to be available in the following countries: Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Sweden, Thailand, Malaysia, UAE, Argentina, Colombia, The Netherlands, Turkey, South Africa, Vietnam and the Philippines.“Add To Music App has been designed to help music fans capture songs that they love on TikTok in the moment of discovery, and to easily save the song to their preferred music streaming service to enjoy whenever they like,” read a statement from the video sharing platform.The feature can be used by tapping on a sound which is listed below a user’s name, then hitting ‘Add to music app’, where you can choose your preferred streaming platform.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Discovery-owned Eurosport has acquired streaming rights in 54 countries to Olympic refugee documentary “We Dare to Dream” by Waad Al-Kateab, the Oscar-nominated Syrian director of “For Sama.” “We Dare to Dream” is the story of the refugee Olympic team that competed at the 2020 games in Tokyo, which featured stateless athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who swim, run and fight their way to safety in host nations across the world. It’s told through the personal prism of Al-Kateab while she is coming to terms with the reality that she can never return to Aleppo, where she shot “For Sama.” The doc premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June and had an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run at New York City’s IFC Center in October.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent RTL Group has reached a deal to sell RTL Nederland, the leading Dutch commercial TV group and owner of the local streaming service Videoland, to DPG Media, a multimedia company active in Benelux and Denmark. The sale of RTL Nederland is subject to regulatory approvals and a consultation with labor unions.

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RTL Group is selling its Dutch business RTL Nederland for €1.1B ($1.2B) in cash.

Bob Iger likely wishes 2023 looked a lot more like 2019.

Luc Besson, the award-winning writer, director and producer who founded Paris-based studio EuropaCorp in 1999, is returning as interim CEO after the company’s chief executive Axel Duroux resigned.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Hollywood plan has reportedly "backfired" as crisis managers say they will have to work very hard to "recover" from the fallout of Endgame.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed that Belgian cinematographer Grimm Vandekerckhove will be the recipient of the fifth annual Robby Müller Award, which pays homage to the craft of artists working behind the lens in the spirit of the celebrated cinematographer. Vandekerckhove is “known for delicately capturing the inner lives of characters,” the festival said, such as a cleaning lady on a late-night journey in “Ghost Tropic” or the encounter of a foreign construction worker and a moss researcher in “Here,” both directed by Bas Devos.

Just when it looked like the relationship between the Sussexes and the royal family might be thawing, it seems a new crisis may have aggravated the situation, and the battle rages on. First, Prince Harry joined his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, to lift the lid on royal life to Oprah Winfrey back in 2021, and more recent revelations in Harry’s autobiography Spare caused major upset for the royals.

Meghan Markle is rumoured to be in the works of penning her own explosive memoir following the success of Prince Harry's Spare which was released in January this year.

The Royal Family appears to have subtly hit back at one of Omid Scobie's accusations in his new controversial royal book, Endgame.

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival,” named the royals who allegedly made a “racist” remark about the Sussexes’ son Archie.The book unmasked her father-in-law, King Charles, and sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, as the royals who allegedly questioned Archie’s skin color.And according to royal expert Kinsey Schofield, Markle could be looking to set the record straight in an upcoming written project she’s been rumored to be working on.“There are serious fan theories that this is a strategy so that Meghan is able to elaborate in her published book without the backlash of the big reveal, without the palace coming after her,” Schofield told Talk TV.“She can say the information’s already out, ‘I just wanted to get my side of the story out there.'”After Prince Harry’s bombshell tell-all “Spare” hit the shelves in January, it’s been reported that the Duchess of Sussex is looking to release a similar project herself.Schofield said that Scobie’s book has cleared the way for Markle to openly discuss the royals in the ongoing race row.The bombshell book was quickly pulled from shelves in the Netherlands following the snafu.The royals have not responded to the allegations — or any claims made in the book — and Scobien blamed a Dutch “translation error” made by the publisher.However, the translator responsible for the book’s Dutch version has disputed his claim.Several experts have urged the Sussexes to end their “deafening silence” and speak out in defense of Charles and Kate — advice they’ve decided to ignore.The Sussexes signed a lucrative four-book deal with Penguin Random House in 2021.It wouldn’t be Markle’s first written project if the rumors are true.Markle is already a published author after

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