Five of the most shocking stories from 2021

New Yorkers strolling through Washington Square Park got a huge surprise from a comedy legend this week.

NEW YORK -- Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s harmony group the Five Satins and composer of the classic doo-wop ballad “In the Still of the Night,” has died at age 85.Parris died Jan. 13 after a brief illness, according to his music manager, Pat Marafiote.

According to Jesse Palmer, the bombshells dropped in the trailer for season 26 of The Bachelor are only the beginning for Clayton Echard.

With tens of millions of dollars in the bank before she even turned 18 years old, Hilary Duff‘s net worth and what she made for Lizzie McGuire and other projects have been hot topics of discussion for years.

EXCLUSIVE: Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, the Italian writer-directors behind the film America Latina, have signed with WME for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Mia Sinclair Jenness (Arcane) will star alongside Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks, David Arquette and Scott Foley in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, an adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s New York Times bestselling novel, which is currently in production in Cape Cod.

A man has been charged in connection with a 'disturbance' in a Scots town.

As we look towards the final hours of 2021 and hope beyond all logic that 2022 will bring forth nothing but good fortune for everyone around the world, it’s time to vent the last bit of frustration we have about the past 365 days in a new episode of The Playlist Podcast focusing on the Most Disappointing Films of the year. READ MORE: The 25 Best Films Of 2021 No, we’re not talking about the absolute worst films in the year.

After a 2020 dedicated to being stuck in our living rooms, things vaguely started returning to normal in 2021 (don’t mention the ‘O’ word) and there was plenty of time for breakout hits and established ratings giants.

It was supposed to be the start of a roaring ’20s for a new century. A rollout of vaccines in the first half of 2021 would help crush the COVID-19 pandemic and return the world to as close to “normal” as possible.

IMDb (the Internet Movie Database) has revealed the top ten stars of 2021 according to their site data.

The most popular websites in the world have just been announced!

Mark Sutherland It’s been another tumultuous year for the U.K. music business.