Cyndi Lauper says she initially rejected recording 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' because a man wrote the song

Amanda Holden was left in tears and feeling depressed after her youngest daughter finished prep school.

NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak have had their fair share of ups and downs, but at the end of the day, the former Real Housewives of Atlanta stars still support one another. «I don’t know how she’s doing overall,» 55-year-old NeNe told on Wednesday when asked about Kim's messy divorce from Kroy Biermann. «I just reached out to her because she reached out to me during a time when I was really going through something.»She continued, «I would have to think that she’s taking it hard.

Mason Mount finally looks set to become a Manchester United player and the midfielder's past comments on his winning mentality will be music to Erik ten Hag's ears.

Kim Cattrall isn't closing the door on Samantha Jones. The 66-year-old staple previously confirmed that she is returning for the season 2 finale of the show's Max reboot,, for a brief cameo as the sex-positive PR expert. In a sneak peek clip of an upcoming interview on , Cattrall also touches on the future of Samantha. «I don't think I'll ever say goodbye to Samantha.

In three weekends, Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie” squares off against Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” for this summer’s big box-office battle. So which film will walk away victorious? Both movies boast stacked ensemble casts, but given its soundtrack, premise, and Margot Robbie as its lead, “Barbie” may be 2023’s movie to beat.

Rosie O'Donnell is getting candid about her relationship with the Menendez brothers. In a new video shared to TikTok over the weekend, O'Donnell said she believes both Lyle and Erik Menendez are «innocent» of the 1989 murders of their parents José and Mary Louise.The siblings were put on trial for the 1989 murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise. During their first trial, which took place in 1993, both Erik and Lyle — who were 18 and 21 at the time — claimed they were sexually molested by their father and that their mother enabled his continued abuse.

Pregnant Gemma Atkinson has said that she can "finally relax" as the due date of her second child draws closer, after she threw a birthday party for her daughter, Mia.The 38-year-old is expecting her second child with her fiancé, Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka Marquez, and she's counting down the days until she's due. On Sunday, Gemma took to Instagram to share a snapshot of an app which showed her daily performance, sleep, recovery, and strain. Over the Instagram story post, Gemma wrote: "How clever is the human body.

Brian Cox has been quite candid this year about how he feels about method actors, from his “Succession” co-star Matthew Strong to Daniel Day-Lewis. It turns out he’s not the only actor that looks askance at the acting style.

Gemma Atkinson has said he's 'chilling' as she gave an update from home as she prepares to welcome her second child. The Hits Radio host is counting down the days to giving birth to her first son after revealing she expecting another child with fiance Gorka Marquez earlier this year.

What better way to come to know a public figure than to discover them in their own words, or, better yet, their own singing voice? Filmmaker Allison Ellwood seems drawn to that notion because she let it guide her as she crafted the smart and sentimental “Let The Canary Sing.” The new documentary is a colorful force of nature underscored by the fierce soundtrack of life, embodying the best parts of its subject in the name of nostalgic exploration. After all, music can tell beautiful stories, and this journey is no exception.“Let The Canary Sing” chronicles the rise of legendary 1980s rock star Cyndi Lauper and the complications that came for her career along the way.

Kate Ferdinand may now be a doting stepparent to her husband Rio Ferdinand ’s children from his first marriage, but last week the 32-year-old opened up about the “shock” she experienced as she went from being a single, carefree reality star to a busy stepmum-of-three. The ex- TOWIE regular was just 26 when she met and fell in love with former footballer Rio, now 44. He was raising three kids alone following the devastating death of his first wife Rebecca Ellison, who passed away in 2015.

“I mean, or not,” Reid continued. “This is Donald Trump we’re talking about, so what mattes in life are things: gold toilets, celebrity tchotchke collections, gold bathroom chandeliers, gold in the gold ballroom – or the Shauquille O’Neal sneakers he bragged about to a Wall Street Journal reporter back in 2015.”(That story is true, and the whole exchange was clipped in the segment, all of which is worth a watch above.)It was all a setup for Reid’s crack conclusion that Donald Trump just likes stuff.“But we’ve always known this about Trump, right? – that he’s kind of a weird, old hoarder guy with the taste level of a mega millions lotto winner from the 1980s, mashed up with that guy you went to high school with Who still wears the letter jersey from his 11th grade football championship.”The boxes, and the documents they contained, were no more than souvenirs.“That explains why he would leave office with a mania to cling to icons of power,” Reid said.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic When you see a documentary about a game-changing pop star, you assume you’re going to get the story of the music, and also a good look at the life, and that there’ll be enough (on both counts) to go around. I was eager to see “Let the Canary Sing,” a documentary portrait of Cyndi Lauper, because it’s directed by Alison Ellwood, who made “The Go-Go’s” a few years back, and that movie had everything: the drama, the trauma, the saga of a total pop-music reset, as we watched the Go-Go’s bust down doors that had been too tightly shut for too long. Cyndi Lauper was no less revolutionary a figure, arriving in the early ’80s, along with Madonna, to announce that we were in the midst of a seismic new definition of what it meant to be a female pop star. The definition was: a star who could rule — and change — the world.

Cyndi Lauper’s debut solo single, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” was flopping so badly that her record company had given up on it.But the singer and her then-manager and boyfriend, David Wolff, still believed in what would become her signature song. Given only two weeks to make the single a hit, Wolff came up with the idea for her to partner with wrestling legend Captain Lou Albano — who played Lauper’s father in the “Girls” video — to promote her music via the World Wrestling Federation, the precursor to today’s World Wrestling Enterprises.

Cheryl Hines opened up about her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential run and how it has impacted her career in Hollywood.  The 57-year-old actress shared her thoughts on Kennedy's bid for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination in her first interview since the 69-year-old environmental lawyer announced his candidacy in April.

Amy Duggar King hasn’t heard from her cousin Josh Duggar’s wife, Anna, amid his legal trials.

Gemma Atkinson has said it was the 'last thing she thought' she'd end up seeing her fiance Gorka Marquez doing as she saw him in a new light while settling into maternity leave together. The couple are currently preparing to welcome their second child together any day now.

Not focusing on the drama. Kristin Davis addressed Kim Cattrall‘s upcoming cameo on And Just Like That — which reportedly wasn’t filmed alongside any of her former Sex and the City costars.

An artist set to perform at this year’s Parklife festival has been forced to pull out just hours before they were set to perform on the main stage.

With Gerta Gerwig at the helm, a massive ensemble cast, and a soundtrack complete with new tracks from Dua Lipa and Ryan Gosling (it’s true), “Barbie” will surely be one of the biggest films this summer. And it’s a long time coming: the film was first announced in 2009, the finally hit development five years later, going through multiple iterations before Gerwig and Noah Baumbach penned their screenplay.