Eric Jerome Dickey, bestselling novelist, dead at 59

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TV icon Larry King has died aged 87. The US TV star’s representatives confirmed he died in Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles after receiving treatment for coronavirus.

TV icon Larry King has died aged 87.The US TV star’s representatives confirmed he died in Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles after receiving treatment for coronavirus. He had been hospitalised at the beginning of January after testing positive for coronavirus.

One big happy family! Doug Emhoff‘s ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff was in attendance at the inauguration, where his current wife Kamala Harris was officially sworn in as the first female, Black American and South Asian American Vice President in U.S. history.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has rounded out cast for multi-camera comedy pilot Head of the Class, a reboot of the popular 1980s ABC sitcom.

The entertainment lineup for Super Bowl LV is shaping up, with Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan to perform the national anthem and H.E.R. to sing “America the Beautiful” ahead of the NFL’s championship game, the league said Tuesday. Deaf rapper and recording artist Warren “Wawa” Snipe will perform both songs in American Sign Language.

Emily Mitchell, an influencer who passed away just before Christmas, died of a pulmonary embolism, her family has revealed. The American influencer, who ran The Hidden Way blog and was pregnant with her fifth child, died suddenly three days before Christmas.

The U.S. attorney for District of Columbia has opened a federal excessive force investigation into the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Trump supporter who was shot and killed Wednesday during the Capitol riot, CBS News reports.  Video of the incident shows an unidentified police officer shooting Babbitt as she appears to attempt to climb through a broken window in a barricaded hallway at the U.S.

The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun has spoken about the micro-aggressions he faced as an Asian-American actor at the start of his career.The star, who is set to appear in the hotly-tipped Minari later this year, recalled an uncomfortable experience at his first-ever audition.During an appearance on Variety’s Award Circuit podcast, Yeun shared a story from his first-ever audition, which was for a show called Awesome ‘80s Prom.

Mahlon Reyes, a fan-favorite deckhand on Discovery Channel’s reality show Deadliest Catch, cause of death has been revealed just five months after he suddenly passed.

UPDATED with latest: One day after calling the storming of the nation’s Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters “a dark day,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called for the president to resign.