Don McLean clarifies Adele feud comments

"American Pie" singer Don McLean, 76 and his girlfriend who is 48 years his junior, Paris Dylan, 28, were seen enjoying an outing together in Manchester on Friday. McLean is set to perform at Bridgewater Hall as part of the 50th Anniversary of the American Pie Tour.The couple were seen rocking casual looks as they enjoyed the city ahead of McLean’s performance. Dylan was seen in black leggings, with a maroon top, a jacket and a pair of white sneakers.

K.J. Yossman Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean is set to host a new reality competition series, “The Fashion Hero: A New King of Beautiful.” The series will see twenty-two diverse contestants compete in a bid to “break traditional standards and define a new kind of beauty.” The contestants will be split into four teams, each guided by a coach and celebrity mentors including “Fit2Fat2Fit” host Drew Manning, former Janet Jackson choreographer and director René Elizondo, rockers Simple Plan, Canadian artist Jordyn Sugar, activist Elle van der Burg and Vogue photographer Adi Barkan.

Steve Martin is backtracking his comments about retiring.

Lead From Behind initiative.The pair – who own Wrexham AFC football club together – shared a video for the colon cancer awareness initiative and discussed their motivations for making their procedures public.“I would never normally have any medical procedure put on camera and then share it,” Reynolds said in the video. “It’s not everyday that you can raise awareness for something that will most definitely save lives.

Britney Spears is walking back her claims about Christina Aguilera!

Katie McGlynn wowed in white as she arrived at The Sapphire Ball at The Hilton Manchester. The former Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star dazzled as she channeled Hollywood glamour in her gorgeous thigh-split dress with matching white heels.

Explaining herself. Cheryl Burke said she wanted Tom Bergeron to return to Dancing With the Stars, but that doesn’t mean that she wants Tyra Banks to get fired.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are celebrating National Welsh Rarebit Day.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor In “The March on Rome,” which world premieres in the Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival Wednesday, Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker Mark Cousins tracks the ascent of fascism in Italy in the 1920s, and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. He also draws a dotted line from those events to the storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in January 2021. The documentary, illustrated with archive footage and Cousins’ characteristic cinematic analysis, starts with Donald Trump defending his decision to retweet a quote from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” Later in the film, Cousins inserts footage of Trump supporters attacking the Capitol, hoping to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

Fascism – its roots, legacy and contemporary manifestations – is a leitmotif running throughout the 79th Venice Film Festival as Italy marks the centenary of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s fateful power grab in 1922, in an era when totalitarian leaders are once again on the rise.

Coronation Street's Katie McGlynn has lead the stars celebrating at Manchester Pride which is taking place this weekend.The 29 year old, who is best known for playing Sinead Tinker on Corrie, looked incredible in a hot pink co-ord made up of a skirt and cropped blazer which she paired with white ankle boots. Posting plenty of snaps to her Instagram stories, Katie showed off her makeup for the event, which included sparkly eye shadow, heavy lashes and a slick of hot pink lipstick to match her outfit. She wore her short blonde hair straight and rocked a pair of cat eye sunglasses as she posed with pals and danced with a multicoloured pride fan.

Rob McElhenney will come to centre stage in the new Disney Plus documentary Welcome To Wrexham, which lands on Thursday, August 25. The American actor and producer, 45, bought a football club in 2021 with fellow actor and close friend Ryan Reynolds.  The new series will explore the incredible story of McElhenney and Reynold’s decision to buy Wrexham AFC, a fifth-tier team in the English Football League.

Jake McLean was allegedly in a "serious relationship" with a beautician named Chloe at the time of his tragic death in July, it has been reported. Jake tragically lost his life aged 33 after a car he was driving crashed off a cliff in Bodrum, Turkey, on 3 July. His on-off girlfriend, The Only Way Is Essex star Yazmin Oukhellou, 28, was travelling alongside him in the vehicle but she miraculously escaped the crash that took his life.

Yazmin Oukhellou looked downcast as she was pictured running errands on the day of her ex-boyfriend Jake McLean's funeral on Tuesday 16 August, after allegedly being banned from attending amid tensions with his family. The 28 year old TOWIE star was in the passenger seat of a car that Jake was driving in Bodrum, Turkey, on 3 July when it smashed off a cliff, tragically killing Jake and leaving Yazmin with serious injuries, and she said she was forced to "snap her own arm" to try save her and Jake.