Following last weekend's big Eurovision Song Contest grand final at Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena, a host of entries are set to make their mark on the Official Singles Chart.
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Root for the home team! Sarah Shahi, Teri Hatcher and Phyllis Smith are among the few celebrities who were professional cheerleaders before making it big in Hollywood.
Shahi — who made the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader roster in the late 1990s in her home state of Texas — used her time on the field as training for being an actress.
“It was very competitive I will say that, it was a great learning experience at the same time,” the Sex/Life star told Fox411 in April 2016. “Those cheerleaders make show business look like babies foreplay. They weigh you to the 100th of a pound. If you’re above your goal weight you have to sit outside of that week’s game.”
The Rookie alum recalled that when the team took water breaks “the veterans go first,” noting that the squad was “not a democracy.”
Shahi continued: “With all that being said, I’m not trying to paint them out to be villainous in any way. I learned a great deal about what it’s like to be disciplined and rehearse. We rehearsed for eight hours a day every single day and I was a full-time college student. To be able to have that kind of foundation going into Hollywood was fantastic.”
Smith, for her part, was one of the first round of NFL cheerleaders for the St. Louis Cardinals’ squad when she joined in the 1970s. (The Cardinals team, which had its first cheer team in 1964, later moved to Arizona and became the Arizona Cardinals. The Rams played in St. Louis from 1995 to 2015 before relocating to California and morphing into the Los Angeles Rams.)
“I auditioned for the Municipal Opera of St. Louis. Out of that audition the lady, who was also the choreographer for the St. Louis Cardinal cheerleaders, asked me to audition for the
Following last weekend's big Eurovision Song Contest grand final at Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena, a host of entries are set to make their mark on the Official Singles Chart.
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King Charles’ Coronation has been marked by the release of two more official portraits. The first image shows the King with the two next in line to the throne – son Prince William and grandson Prince George. The second is of King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla with their Pages of Honour and Ladies in Attendance on the historic Coronation day.
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Eurovision Song Contest has concluded, with 10 countries currently proceeding to the Grand Finals this Saturday (May 13).A grand total of 26 countries will participate in the finals, consisting of 10 finalists from semi-finals round 1, 10 finalists from semi-finals round 2, the “big 5” and Ukraine.The first 10 finalists from semi-finals round 1 has finally been revealed after a slew of performances and voting, with the following countries coming out on top: Norway, Serbia, Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland, Israel, Moldova, Sweden, Czechia and Finland.Watch Norway’s Alessandra perform ‘Queen of Kings’ below.This means that the countries eliminated from the contest following the first rounds of semi-finals are the Netherlands, Malta, Latvia, Ireland and Azerbaijan.Countries set to take part in the second round of semi-finals on Thursday (May 11) are: Denmark, Armenia, Romania, Estonia, Belgium, Cyprus, Iceland, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, Georgia, San Marino, Austria, Albania, Lithuania and Australia.Watch Sweden representative Loreen‘s performance of ‘Tattoo’ below.The “Big 5” countries guaranteed a spot in the finals without having to participate in semi-finals are France, Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy, as they contribute the most financially to the Eurovision Song Contest. Last year’s winners Ukraine also automatically qualify for the finals this year.Ireland’s elimination from this year’s contest marks the latest in a string of failed attempts to qualify, with the country not making eight of its 10 most recent attempts.
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Actor bared all to play stay-at-home wife Billie Mann in Netflix's steamy relationship drama But what few knew was how closely Billie's life resembled Shahi's own—and that just as Billie embarked on a journey of sexual reawakening, so did she. Here, in a new essay for Glamour, Shahi reveals her own wake-up call and how she rediscovered sex, desire, and pleasure.“Now, fuck me.” In the season one finale of Sex/Life, Billie, the character I play, declares these words as she is standing in front of her ex-boyfriend Brad, feeling nothing but the exhilaration of her own heart and releasing the desires she had been denying for so long. After a season of feeling unappreciated by her perfect-on-paper husband, Cooper, she believed the parts of herself that were unseen—her desire and her sexuality—would continue unseen forever.
A truly A-list event. Celebrities including Lionel Richie and Jill Biden attended King Charles III‘s coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday, May 6.
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More than seven million households across the UK have now received a £301 cost of living payment directly from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). A ‘small number’ of payments have still to be made and will continue until May 17, 2023.
Sheridan Smith has been announced as the star of a new TV adaptation of bestselling Lucy Clarke thriller The Castaways.The book, first published in 2020, was a hit with readers and made its way onto the Sunday Times bestsellers list, so a TV series in the works at Paramount Plus is highly-anticipated. Sheridan, known for Mrs Biggs, The C Word and Cilla, will star alongside Showtrial's Celine Buckens as sisters who find a holiday of a lifetime turns into a devastating nightmare.
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