Negotiations are coming down to the wire this week on two major contracts: SAG-AFTRA’s $1 billion-a-year commercials contract expires on Thursday, and on-again-off-again talks resume today for the Animation Guild’s new film and TV contract.
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Demi Lovato is drawing the attention of antiquities experts after an unboxing video they shared on Instagram Stories.
“OK, I’m so excited, some really incredible things came in the mail today,” said Lovato in the video. “These are ancient Egyptian artifacts,” they continued, while also showing off “certificates of authenticity.”
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Lovato’s video captured the attention of archeologist Peter Campbell, who shared the video on Twitter.
As Campbell pointed out in another tweet, he questioned the authenticity of Lovato’s alleged antiquities.
“When I first saw the certificates, I thought it was a joke because they contain none of the critical information like ownership history, export permits or find spot,” Campbell told The Hollywood Reporter.
Erin Thompson, professor of art crime at John Jay College in New York, also spoke with THR about Lovato’s purchases, which apparently came from a company called Museum Surplus.
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“There’s no indication of provenance of where Museum Surplus got these before offering them for sale,” Thompson explained. “There’s no way that these would be accepted by a museum. There’s no way that any sophisticated collector who wanted to make sure that they had value and could resell the things would accept or buy those either, because you don’t want to buy a problem. You don’t want to buy something that Egypt could confiscate or that you can’t sell because other people are worried about it.”
Thompson didn’t hold much hope that anything Lovato displayed was legit.
“The Egyptian figures are of types that have
Negotiations are coming down to the wire this week on two major contracts: SAG-AFTRA’s $1 billion-a-year commercials contract expires on Thursday, and on-again-off-again talks resume today for the Animation Guild’s new film and TV contract.
Breaking her silence. After Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Chris Rock controversy at the 94th Annual Academy Awards, the mother of two took to social media to reflect on the incident with a brief message for her followers.
Dune won the Oscar for Achievement in Sound, in one of tonight’s category outcomes that had been widely predicted.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLondon-based Headline Pictures (“Kin”) and French banner Itineraire Productions (“Oussekine”) are set to produce together “Who Killed Lady Di?,” a drama mini-series set in the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death in Paris in 1997. The series re-teams Itineraire Productions with Julien Lilti, the up-and-coming creator and screenwriter of Disney Plus Star’s original series “Oussekine” and Canal Plus hit show “Hyppocrates.” Lilti is writing the scripts for “Who Killed Lady Di” with the collaboration of Martine Monteil, who led the criminal investigation division of the French police at the time of Diana Spencer’s death.
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Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon is set to be given a special award at a glittering fundraising gala in New York.
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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEgyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy is stepping down as president of the Cairo Film Festival. During his four-year tenure, the executive helped to revamp the prominent Arab fest, which had been losing luster due to political turbulence.The announcement was made on Tuesday by Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Enas Abdel Dayem, who said veteran Egyptian actor Hussein Fahmy will take over the fest’s presidency.
whose assets were frozen by the British government Thursday over Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and Mikhail Fridman, the sanctioned co-founder of Alfa Bank.He is also said to have cultivated relationships with Russia’s most important museum, run by a close associate of President Vladimir Putin.With Ukrainian artists and others calling for more sanctions in the cultural sector, such relationships may soon be under scrutiny, analysts say.The Gagosian Gallery in New York did not return The Post’s calls and an email seeking comment this week.Gagosian, who owns several galleries around the world, has long held close ties to Abramovich, the owner of the UK’s Chelsea football club, helping him and ex-wife Dasha Zhukova build up a massive art collection. It includes pieces by artists Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst, whose work has been represented by Gagosian’s galleries.
David Charvet has no regrets about leaving Hollywood behind. The French-born former actor and pop star, who famously played Matt Brody on "Baywatch," chose to leave the spotlight and reinvent himself as the "father I wanted to be." The 49-year-old shares two children, daughter Heaven, 15, and son Shaya, 14, with ex-wife Brooke Burke.The pair were married from 2011 until 2020. "Before I had my first child I was traveling for five years in 42 countries doing concerts for my music," Charvet told Page Six on Friday.
Robert Kraft has a new fiancée. The owner of the New England Patriots proposed to Dana Blumberg, an ophtalmologist he’s been dating for the past couple of years. The news were broken in a gala, where Tommy Hilfiger made the statement to the surprise of the guests.Kelly Clarkson finalizes divorce, will pay ex-husband $1.3 million plus spousal and child supportTiger Woods’ daughter gives speech at dad’s World Golf Hall of Fame Induction ceremony: Watch“Tommy Hilfiger was the honoree and Robert and Dana were both chairs of the event for Tommy.
Royal followers have wanted to see Queen Elizabeth and Lilibet meet each other ever since Prince Harry’s baby girl was born—and now, the Queen is even more eager to make it happen.
The Queen is really "desperate" to meet her great granddaughter Lilibet, and grandson Prince Harry, 37, and Meghan Markle's second child, according to claims from a royal author.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 40, gave their child a great honour by naming her after her great-grandmother the Queen. But sadly, despite baby Lili being born last June 4, the 95 year old monarch still hasn't had the opportunity to meet her yet given the couple now permanently reside in Montecito, California. It is believed that Princess Eugenie, 31, is the only royal to have made the trip across the pond to America.
Lupita Nyong’o is at a wedding in Pakistan this weekend and she wore two looks by an emerging designer!
Out and about! Kim Kardashian made her first public appearance since being granted legal single status amid her divorce from Kanye West.
Kanye West has told a court that claims he harassed his estranged wife Kim Kardashian on social media are “double hearsay”.Last week (February 23), Kardashian asked a court to fast-track the pair’s divorce due to a pre-agreed prenup. She told the court (via Rolling Stone): “I believe that the court terminating our marital status will help Kanye to accept that our marital relationship is over and to move forward on a better path which will assist us in peacefully co-parenting our children.”Kardashian then referenced recent (and since-deleted) social media posts from Kanye, including one in which he took aim at Kardashian’s new boyfriend Pete Davidson and told his fans to “look at this dickhead”.She told the court: “I very much desire to be divorced.
Helen Mirren showed off her impeccable sense of style as she arrived at the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on Sunday. The iconic British actress has been awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the glittering ceremony. The actress, 76, wore an elegant floor-length pink Prada gown with floral detail on the shoulder and at the waist.