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There’s a new housewife joining the second season of The Real Housewives of Dubai and fans at BravoCon 2023 got to meet her for the first time. Ahead of the screening of the first episode from Season 2 during the three-day event in Las Vegas, it was revealed that Taleen Marie would join the cast of the international reality series.

Bravo is taking advantage of its annual Bravcon event with a slew of reality renewals.

Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, is suing two of the late singer’s friends over claims they profited from an auction of the late musician’s belongings.A new report in The Sun claims Mitch is suing Amy’s friends Catriona Gourlay and Naomi Parry after they allegedly kept profits from a sale of her belongings. He claims that any money made should have gone to the Amy Winehouse Foundation which was set up in the singer’s memory following her death from alcohol poisoning in 2011.Catriona Gourlay and Naomi Parry allegedly gained a portion of £3.3million raised during a 2021 auction in Beverly Hills.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Henry Selick and Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is officially 30 years old. In a recent interview with The New York Times, the two collaborators recalled Disney not wanting to have its name on the project due to its darker tone. The studio had the film developed under its more adult-leaning production banner Touchstone Pictures.

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Culprits kicks off where most stories end, after a high-stakes heist.The Disney+ show follows a crew of elite criminals who go their separate ways after their mission – that is until the gang find themselves being killed off one by one.The eight-part series picks up with one member of the crew, Joe (played by Misfits star Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) who has since relocated to the States.Three years after the heist he’s living with his two kids and fiancé Jules, who has no idea about Joe’s previous life or UK identity. Canadian actor Kevin Vidal plays Jules and says it’s life imitating art between him and his character.

K-pop singer Sunmi has performed a cover of late English singer Amy Winehouse’s hit song ‘Valerie’.In a recent episode of late-night South Korean music talk show The Seasons, hosted by brother-sister duo AKMU, the soloist and ex-Wonder Girls member performed her rendition of the iconic 2006 track.Accompanied by a live band, Sunmi sung an abridged rendition of Winehouse’s cover of The Zutons’ ‘Valerie’, from the deluxe version of the late singer’s second and final studio album ‘Back to Black’. “Won’t you come on over / Stop making a fool out of me / Why don’t you come on over Valerie,” she sings in the chorus.Elsewhere during the episode, Sunmi also performed her latest single ‘Stranger’, which she released digitally earlier this month, as well as her 2020 single ‘pporappippam’.

A new set of Coronation Street spoilers will tease some huge twists coming next week, with confessions, struggles and discoveries ahead for the cobbles.

Peacock has been tabbed to stream the content from BravoCon 2023, the channel’s annual fan gathering. Panels, five episodes of BravoCon Live with Andy Cohen!, and interviews with network stars will be available on Peacock’s BravoCon Hub beginning Friday, Nov. 3.

Kyle Cooke is opening up about his close friends surprising split earlier this summer.

Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has spoken to NME about making his theatrical debut by penning the music for new play The Confessions, as well as his long-mooted project with the late Tony Allen.Having opened at London’s National Theatre last week before a press showing last night (October 23), The Confessions is an emotional, gut-wrenching and powerful play written and directed Alexander Zeldin – telling the story of his mother’s life across eight “tumultuous” decades across two continents and a series of complex relationships.Philippakis and Zeldin have known each other since their days at school, when they would sneak away to smoke together on a nearby riverbank. Speaking with NME, the artist explained how the director had “a reputation that preceded him a bit” as someone “ferociously intelligent, but with a naughty streak”.“We’ve just been in each other’s lives for a long time, but with differing orbits and different worlds,” Philippakis told NME.

Robert Pattinson was all smiles on Saturday evening as he stepped out to GO Campaign's annual gala with his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse in Los Angeles.The Batman actor, 37, donned an all-black suit while he was snapped sharing some sweet moments with Suki, as the pair giggled together and posed on the red carpet. Suki, who recently appeared in Amazon Prime's Daisy Jones & The Six, put on a stunning display in a sheer burgundy gown, while matching her make-up to the ensemble.

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Caroline Polachek has released a line of limited-edition merch to raise money for Palestinian refugees.The merchandise is available for a week and is inspired by her new single ‘Dang’, which was released earlier this week.Polachek performed the track for the first time on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in the style of a surreal Ted Talk, using a bewildering PowerPoint performance to set the tone.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Genius: MLK/X” has set its premiere date at Nat Geo, the network announced Wednesday. The first two episodes of the eight-episode fourth season of “Genius” will premiere on Feb. 1 on Nat Geo and will stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Warwick Davis is the face of the “Willow” franchise, which kicked off in 1988 with Ron Howard’s fantasy film and continued with the short-lived Disney+ sequel series in 2022. Disney canceled the television series after only one eight-episode season, and then it pulled the show off of Disney+ entirely for cost-cutting measures. Davis is now calling out Disney on X (formerly Twitter), asking the studio in a recent post to answer the many fans wondering why they can no longer watch the show via streaming.

Valerie Wu Intern Will Smith has responded to wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s statements about their turbulent relationship in her forthcoming Oct. 17 memoir, “Worthy.” In an email to the New York Times, Smith expressed that Pinkett Smith’s revelations about their marriage were a rude awakening for him. He realized “she had lived a life more on the edge” and that “she is more resilient, clever and compassionate” than he’d understood.

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Skepta has paid homage to Amy Winehouse with his new single ‘Can’t Play Myself (A Tribute To Amy)’ – listen to it below.The Mercury Prize-winning rapper and producer released the atmospheric house track today (October 13) via Más Tiempo/Island. He’d teased the song during various sets over the summer, including at his show at Glastonbury.Clocking in at just over three minutes, the pulsating ‘Can’t Play Myself…’ contains vocal samples from Winehouse’s 2007 single ‘Tears Dry On Their Own’, which features on her classic album ‘Back To Black’ (2006).The sample was cleared by the Amy Winehouse Foundation, according to a press release.

Suki Waterhouse performed a cover of Taylor Swift‘s song ‘Lover’ at Austin City Limits music festival this weekend – check it out below.The London-born artist performed at the Texas festival on Sunday (October 8), where she pulled out a cover of Swift’s song from her 2019 album of the same name.The artist worked Swift into the end of her setlist, performing it as part of a medley along with Mazzy Star‘s ‘Fade Into You’ and her own song ‘Brutally’.Check out footage of the cover below.Waterhouse is a longtime friend of Swift, who recently praised the singer and actor in an interview with sSense.“Suki has always seemed like she stepped out of a time machine. Her music is so raw and hopelessly romantic because that’s how she moves through the world,” Swift shared.“When we hang out, I often come away wondering how someone can be simultaneously spontaneous and free—and also preternaturally wise.