Chlöe Bailey Salutes Missy Elliott for ‘Showing Me How to Be a Fearless Woman and a Badass Producer’

97th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is finally here, bringing holiday cheer, musical performances and giant floats of new and returning characters. This year’s parade will have 16 giant character balloons, 26 floats, 32 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 700 clowns and eight performance groups (but no partridge in a pear tree). Over 3.5 million people in NYC and more than 50 million viewers at home typically watch the parade, and 5,000 volunteers usually help keep it running smoothly.

Married At First Sight will return in 2024 for a dramatic reunion special, E4 has confirmed.This year's series broke the show's viewing figures record, and became the biggest streaming title on demand in its final week. Now, viewers at home will see the stars come together once again, as they return to the English countryside for a huge dinner party where they will catch up on life after the show.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline’s annual Read the Screenplay series spotlighting awards season’s most talked-about scripts kicks off this year with Fair Play, Chloe Domont‘s debut feature that Netflix acquired after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

England travel to North Macedonia this evening, safe in the knowledge that they have secured qualification to next summer's European Championships in Germany.

Air have announced a 2024 UK and European tour that will see the French duo perform their debut album ‘Moon Safari’ in its entirety for the first time.Having celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this year, Air will tour their ‘One Night Only’ experience for ‘Moon Safari’ in February and March, which will include a show at London’s Coliseum.The tour – which will be the first time ever the duo have performed the 1998 album live – will kick off at Anitgel at Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland, continuing on to Milan, Vienna, Belgium, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam, before concluding in London.Pre-sale starts this Thursday (November 16) at 10am local time, while general sale goes live Friday (November 17) at 10am local time. You can buy tickets for the London show here, and all remaining dates here.“We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool,” said Jean-Benoît Dunckel of the record in a press statement.

Ellise Shafer As evidenced in its title, music plays a big part in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” In the prequel to the original trilogy, “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler portrays Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12 for the 10th annual Hunger Games, who hails from a musical and nomadic people called the Covey. The film features Zegler singing several songs, including franchise favorite “The Hanging Tree.” Much of the music is folk-inspired, and Zegler sang each track live during filming.

Hozier is back by popular demand.Following a successful 2023 tour, the Irish singer announced a second 39-concert leg of his ‘Unreal Unearth Tour’ with special guest Allison Russell on select dates from April through September 2024.Along the way, he’ll play not one, not two, not three, not four but five (!) concerts in New York.First up, Hozier will stop into Saratoga Springs’ Saratoga Performing Arts Center on May 19.Soon after that, the “Take Me To Church” crooner hits Syracuse’s Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater on May 21, Forest Hills’ Forest Hills Stadium on June 4-5 and Bethel’s Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center on July 27.The tour is in support of Hozier’s critically acclaimed 2023 album “Unreal Unearth;” the New York Post called the record a “fantastic, sonically diverse offering from a constantly maturing artist.”And if you missed Hozier in 2023, you can grab your 2024 tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Nov. 17, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.Batter up, baseball fans.Right before spring training kicks into high gear, Hozier will headline at Tempe, AZ’s annual Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park on Feb.

A man has been arrested for the theft of 48 motorcycles and four cars, worth a total of over £650,000.

Lorraine Kelly was left apologising as she returned to screens as she promised her ITV co-stars and viewers "it won't happen again". The presenter was back fronting her self-titled show on Wednesday (November 8) after returning earlier this week following her half-term break.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The struggle to keep movie theaters alive gets very personal in “Showdown at the Grand,” an enjoyable tribute to retro exploitation pictures with Terrance Howard as a movie palace proprietor besieged by diminishing receipts and violent goons. Dolph Lundgren plays the former action star who shows up for a personal appearance, then stays to help save the joint from those agents of unscrupulous developers.

The return of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here is now just weeks away, and speculation is mounting about who could be entering the jungle this year. One of the many names linked with the ITV show is Masterchef star Grace Dent, despite her previously slamming the programme.The 50 year old has previously described it as “a puerile venture into starvation, televised constipation and animal cruelty, abbreviated by ads for Iceland £1 curries.” In 2012, she also admitted that she enjoyed watching the award winning show, as she said: “I snap my blinds firmly shut before settling down to watch I’m a Celeb, in fear the theme tune alone devalues my property.” Despite all of that, an insider has told The Sun that she is heading down under for a stint in the famous jungle.They told the publication: “Masterchef fans know Grace for her withering put-downs of contestants’ food and disdain for anything less than stellar cooking.

Missy Elliott is making history!

Kate Middleton and Prince William kept their romance a secret at university with a number of “elaborate decoys”, a Royal expert claimed. The current Prince and Princess of Wales met at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 2001 - white Kate was studying art history and William was working towards a degree in geography.The special moment has been recreated in Netflix ’s Royal drama The Crown in scenes expected to be shown in season six of the show when it airs in the coming months.

Missy Elliott became the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night (November 3).After accepting her award, she played a string of her best-known songs, including ‘Get Ur Freak On’, ‘Work It’, ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’, ‘Pass That Dutch’ and ‘Lost Control’. Watch a clip of her performance below.The Virginia rapper was inducted by Queen Latifah, who highlighted Elliott as a pivotal figure in the development of women in hip-hop.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Four hours and 22 minutes is a long time to be doing anything except sleeping, even watching a state-of-the-art Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awards show that included Willie Nelson, Elton John, Sheryl Crow, Jimmy Page, Stevie Nicks and many more. Yet it’s a testament to the almost superhuman talent and vision of Missy Elliott that as the show hit the four-hour mark, she had the entire audience out of their seats for a visually and musically explosive medley of her greatest hits — including “Get Ur Freak On,” “The Rain” and the closer, “Lose Control” — as she rocked the stage in an all-gold glitter suit accompanied by rappers, a DJ, approximately 30 lithely limbed dancers and an eye-popping video presentation that spanned the entire width of the Barclays Center floor.

Missy Elliott has recalled her shock at becoming the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.The hip-hop icon is set to be inducted into the prestigious hall tonight (November 3), and will become the first female rapper to ever receive the honour.Speaking about the acknowledgement of her discography in a new interview with Good Morning America, Elliott recalled her shock at being chosen and admitted that she initially thought an artist from the hip-hop world made the accomplishment “so far out of reach”.She also stated that “words cannot describe” what it feels like to be taking to the stage tonight, and that she is particularly pleased to be given the induction this year – as 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.“No matter what people say, the hip-hop world is something special and unique,” she told host Robin Roberts.She later added how it felt to be alongside fellow 2023 inductees: Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners, saying “To be even at a table with them is a blessing, past a blessing, there’s got to be a bigger word than that.”Held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony will be broadcast live in the US Disney+ ( 8pm ET and 5pm PT).

Missy Elliott becomes the first female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Friday night, there will be a very special person in the audience seeing her get her freak on for the first time ever.“My mother has never been to any of my performances ever in life — and she’s coming,” Elliott, 52, told The Post.“[It’s] only because of me, though. I always be like, ‘I don’t want to be sexual in front of my mother.’ She’s a church lady.

Producers and animators behind Netflix and Disney's latest releases are giving special talks at Manchester Animation Festival (MAF) this November.

Dumfries Comic Con returned to the David Keswick Centre on Saturday with a blockbuster show of heroes and villains.

“Live With Kelly and Mark” on Thursday alongside her husband Mark Consuelos that served as a warning to all future job candidates.The morning show emcee, 53, revealed that they refused to hire a job prospect after the person talked badly about one of her friends.Ripa and the “Riverdale” alum, 52, were first discussing what not to say on a first date, and he noted that romantic no-nos are similar to “bad-mouthing a boss when you’re interviewing somebody. You know not to hire someone.”She then asked him if she recalled one experience they had with a potential employee in the past.“We interviewed someone — the interview was amazing, incredible,” she began.