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Dawn French and Claudia Winkleman have officially joined forces to raise money for Comic Relief in an exciting Traitors themed sketch for the annual charity event. The Vicar Of Dibley star, 65, looked virtually unrecognisable as she posed alongside the Strictly Come Dancing host, 51, in a playful Instagram selfie on Friday. Dressed in one of Claudia’s iconic jumpers and sporting a black wig complete with signature blunt fringe, Dawn posed alongside Claudia in the cheeky selfie ahead of the sketch which is due to air next week.

Dawn French is famous for her exceptional impersonation skills but in her latest photo, shared on Thursday, she upped the ante with an unrecognisable transformation you will not believe.Taking to her Instagram account, the Vicar of Dibley star, 65, donned an a chunky black fringe, knitted grey roll-neck jumper and added lashings of concealer to her lips as she transformed into Strictly Come Dancing host, Claudia Winkleman, who was also captured in the photo giggling away. Dawn sent fans wild with the hilarious updateCaptioning the hilarious moment, the star penned: "Coming soon…#traitors #comicrelief." The image was also reshared by Claudia herself who couldn't get enough of her "hero's" new look.Claudia wrote: "Coming soon…#traitors #comicrelief.

Queer Eye star Tom Jackson has died age 63 after battling cancer. Jackson appeared as a guest on the first episode of the Netflix reboot in 2018. The TV star lost his battle with metastatic adenocarcinoma on March 3.

We’ve lost a member of the Queer Eye family.

Frank Doelger’s eco-thriller drama The Swarm has made a splash on German TV.

Matthew McConaughey's wife Camila Alves McConaughey made Paris Fashion Week a family affair. The couple's two oldest children, Levi, 14, and Vida, 13, joined their mom on the Stella McCartney Womenswear Fall Winter 2023-2024 show red carpet, where all three stunned in matching neutral toned outfits.

Levi and Vida McConaughey are all grown up!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent While the market for foreign-language cinema has shrank, the packed opening of the Rendez-Vous with French cinema in New York hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Unifrance on March 1 underscored American audiences’ enduring love for Gallic fare. At least when it comes to New Yorkers. Some of France’s brightest writers/filmmakers, including Alice Winocour (“Paris Memories”), Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”), Sebastien Marnier (“The Origin of Evil”) and Cesar-winning star Virginie Efira and famous actor Melvil Poupaud traveled to New York with Unifrance, the French film promotion org. On top of presenting their movies, some talents on the ground took part in masterclasses at Film at Lincoln Center, Columbia University and Brooklyn College, as well as a creative workshop with emerging filmmakers participating in the Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film.

Nicki Minaj has dropped her first single of 2023, "Red Ruby Da Sleeze." The typically cocksure track samples Lumidee‘s 2003 hit “Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh).” Check it out below. "Red Ruby Da Sleeze" marks Minaj's first solo single since 2022’s “Super Freaky Girl,” which became her first solo No.1 single.

Florence Pugh put a fun, and sparkly, spin on her grey sweater for the Valentino Womenswear Fall Winter show during Paris Fashion Week on Sunday (March 5) in France.

Dawn French has gone back to basics as she stunned on the red carpet debuting her signature bob for the first time in years.

Dawn French debuted the much anticipated return to her signature bob whilst attending the opening of a West End show on Tuesday.The 65 year old comedian, who is best known for starring in Vicar of Dibley, had previously cut her hair short into a pixie cut whilst she was growing out her greys after revealing last year that she’d lost interest in dying her hair at home. Appearing on The One Show in December of last year, Dawn had said: "I just couldn’t be bothered to keep doing it.

Matteo Berrettini takes pictures with fans during the White Party to kick off the Mexican Open tennis tournament in Acapulco, Mexico on Sunday (February 26).

Guy Lodge Film Critic Veteran French docmaker Nicolas Philibert was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking the prize for his film “On the Adamant,” a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility. He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and namechecking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding, “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”

Good afternoon Insider team, Max Goldbart here. It has been a wild ride of a week with Berlin drawing to a close. Read below for a good ol’ recap.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Lie With Me,” a romance drama headlined by French stars Guillaume de Tonquebec and Victor Belmondo, has lured a raft of theatrical distributors at the Berlinale’s EFM. Represented in international markets by Be For Films and directed by Olivier Peyon, the movie is based on Philippe Besson’s book “Arrête avec tes mensonges.” The autobiographical novel was originally published in France by Editions Julliard in 2017 and won pair of awards including the Maison de la Presse prize in 2017. After selling several key territories earlier this year, Be For Films has now closed deals for the U.S. (Cinephobia Realising), Germany/Austria (24 Bilder), Brazil (Imovision), Poland (Tongariro), Greece (Cinobo) and Turkey (Bir Films).

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Elsa Zylberstein, one of the most famous – and bankable — faces of French cinema, known for her Cesar-winning performance in “I’ve Loved You For So Long,” is preparing to emerge as a major film producer. Having recently set up banners in France and the U.S., Zylberstein is actively developing a raft of films and series, working with the likes of Oscar-winning Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad (“The Cave”), Ted Braun (Darfur Now”) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (“The Father”), among others. These include “Kingdom of Hope,” a movie about Elise Boghossian, a French acupuncturist and humanitarian worker in a war zone who has healed children victims of ISIS . The movie will be directed by Fayyad, who is based in Berlin, and is being penned by Braun, based on Boghossian’s autobiographical book “Au royaume de l’espoir, il n’y a pas d’hiver.”

Young Belarusian Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) is impatient for a better life in Europe. Coming from a country under dictatorship and with very strong Russian ties, the political isolation of which has made it suffocating for the younger generations, he is seduced by the idea of a borderless, communal whole where everybody counts for something.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Giacomo Abbruzzese’s debut feature is a hazily seductive, frequently dreamlike study of life in the French Foreign Legion, fixated on masculine bodies in synchronized and sometimes violently clashing motion. It is also called “Disco Boy.” You almost certainly wouldn’t choose that subject, tone and title for a film if you didn’t want viewers’ minds to immediately wander to “Beau Travail,” Claire Denis’ seminal Foreign Legion cine-ballet, with its climactic solo number set to a thumping Eurodance classic; even if you somehow made that error, you wouldn’t compound it with electro-scored terpsichorean interludes of your own. Choosing homage this direct for a first feature is a brazen move, but notwithstanding its openly derivative qualities, “Disco Boy” doesn’t want for boldness or surprise — Abbruzzese’s hot, fluxional command of sound and image keeps us curious.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Atlas V, the Emmy-award winning VR company, is expanding into the U.S. with the strategic appointment of Michael Masukawa. The banner has just been signed by CAA and is aiming to build a presence in the U.S. Atlas was just nominated for three Emmy awards and won one with its interactive animation “Madrid Noir.” Atlas V’s track record in the North American festival circuit also includes multiple selections at Sundance’s New Frontier, Tribeca and SXSW (where it won two awards). The company also previously won two Peabody prizes and two Webby awards. Masukawa is joining Atlas V from Secret Location, an immersive content studio owned by Hasbro and eOne. At Atlas V, he will be in charge of developing partnerships, raising project financing, producing projects and negotiating distribution deals for Atlas V’s content. He will also find opportunities for sister companies Astrea and Albyon, the first being focused on distribution and the second one on development of immersive experiences.