J.K. Rowling: I’d ‘happily’ do jail time over transgender views

Celebrity Gogglebox stars were brought to tears during an emotional Stand Up To Cancer episode after watching a heartbreaking video of a "brave" young girl with cancer.The celebrity line-up, which included Boiling Point actor Stephen Graham and Strictly's Bobby Brazier, learned the upsetting story of 11-year-old Elizabeth in the Friday, 3 November, episode.The youngster was diagnosed with cancer throughout her body, including in her bones, lungs and her brain, but sadly died while they were filming the fundraising Channel 4 show. Adding even more emotion to the moving story, the celebrities and viewers learned that Elizabeth's own mum died of cancer while she was undergoing treatment.

It’s time for Shannon Beador to face the music…

Warner Bros Discovery‘s international restructuring has continued with James Gibbons setting out the shape of his Asia Pacific team, with Japanese Country Manager Masami Takahashi choosing to retire.

Sarah Ferguson will be joining the Loose Women panel for a special episode in which the ITV show will launch a landmark breast cancer campaign.The Duchess of York, 64, will join Christine Lampard, Coleen Nolan and Brenda Edwards where she will open up for the first time on television since revealing that earlier this year, she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a life-changing mastectomy. During this special episode, the daytime show will be launching its inaugural Don’t Skip Your Screening campaign to highlight the importance of being screened, following reports that 1.2 million mammogram appointments are missed in England.

A convicted football thug with 'immature and outdated- views racially abused a rival player during a match. Bryan Ferguson, 23, shouted at Forest Green Rovers' Jordan Garrick "fill that f****** **** in" as the forward tussled with a Fleetwood Town opponent during a League One match on April 18 this year.

gone viral following the actor’s death.The Friends star, who died suddenly aged 54 on Saturday (October 28), was a strong advocate for addiction recovery in his later years, and often spoke frankly about his own struggles with drug and alcohol abuse.In 2013, Perry debated drug courts – where former addicts would sit as magistrates – on BBC’s Newsnight alongside drug policy reform advocate Baroness Meacher and controversial author and journalist Peter Hitchens.During the debate, the conversation turned towards the nature of addiction and whether it should be classed as a disease, which Hitchens deemed a “fantasy”.In response, Perry called his views “ludicrous” and encouraged him to “read something other than your book” on the subject, in reference to his essay The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment’s Surrender To Drugs.Perry later recalled the TV appearance in his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing, where he described Hitchens as a “complete tool”.“I like to think that both the Baroness and I ran rings around him – but frankly, that wasn’t hard,” Perry wrote.

Warner Bros Discovery has signed a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Taiwan Mobile and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) to create and distribute Taiwanese original content locally and across international markets.

Time was a huge hit when it first appeared on TV screens with Stephen Graham taking on the role as prison officer Eric McNally, while Sean Bean portrayed Mark Cobden. Eric and Mark won't feature in the second series of the Jimmy McGovern-penned drama as it's set to take places in a women's prison. Arriving at Carlingford Prison on the same day, Orla, Abi and Kelsey are thrown together to face an unfamiliar world.

Things aren’t looking good for Shannon Beador!

Anton Du Beke stood in for Steph McGovern on Steph’s Packed Lunch today just days after the announcement the show is being axed.

After three films, and dwindling box office returns for each successive movie, the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise may officially be over. Variety reports (via Total Film) that David Yates, who helmed all three of “Harry Potter” prequels (and the final four in the original franchise) revealed in a new interview that the series is “parked.” And it’s news to him that the plan all along was for “Fantastic Beasts” to be a five-film series.

Stephen King has faced some criticism after promoting one of J.K. Rowling’s books.On Thursday (October 26), the author praised The Running Grave by Rowling, written under her crime fiction pseudonym Robert Galbraith.“This is J.K. Rowling at her best, recalling the sheer readability of the Harry Potter books, but much darker,” King wrote on X.

A transgender butcher serving 20 years for subjecting a little girl to a horrifying sexual abuse ordeal is planning to appeal against the length of his jail term.

an interview with GQas the league’s first nonbinary and transgender referee.A Los Angeles native who uses the pronoun “they,” Flores worked 35 games last season, and 12 games as a non-staff official during the 2021-2022 season.When Flores first became an NBA official, the league touted an announcement that two new women referees had been added to the mostly male referee corps — something Flores found alienating, knowing that, in private, they had begun to identify as transgender.“One piece I was missing for myself was that no one knew how I identified,” they said. “Being misgendered as she/her always just felt like a little jab in the gut.”But since coming out to some of their colleagues during a preseason meeting last month, Flores now feels more at ease and less constrained, even when it comes to little everyday choices like dressing in a manner that matches their gender identity.“When I started refereeing, you had to look a certain way,” Flores told GQ.

The Korea Times.Woo had cited documents obtained from the Ministry of Environment, and noted that the figure is more than a 14 times increase from 2017, when 55.8tons of plastic was used. The figures include the production of CDs, photo cards and wrapping vinyl.However, The Korea Times reports that the Ministry’s figures are likely underestimating the actual amount of plastic that has been used in the production of K-pop albums.It cited a sustainability management report announced by HYBE in July, noting that the entertainment giant alone had used 894.6tons of plastic in its production of albums in 2022.Elsewhere, the publication also estimated that “at least 1,395 tons of plastic waste were produced from CDs alone”, based on the number of K-pop albums (74.2million) that were sold nationwide in Korea last year, assuming that each CD weighs 18 grams.“Considering the global popularity of K-pop, entertainment companies should enhance their ESG management standards and the environment ministry should come up with countermeasures,” Rep.

Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper are rumored to be a new couple and so much has already happened in the past two and a half weeks.

The Associated Press.Critics also alleged that party leadership attempted to impose fees on at-large diversity caucus members, including LGBTQ members, without notifying them beforehand or informing them that failure to pay would lead to their removal from the party.The Democratic National Committee has since directed the Alabama Democratic Party to pass new bylaws — with certain safeguards to ensure diversity constituencies are given an equal opportunity to elect at-large members of their choice — by February 1, 2024.

JK Rowling is continuing to share her anti-trans views.

Steph McGovern, host of Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch, has chosen to stay silent about the show's cancellation. Despite the announcement that her lunchtime programme will be ending in December after three years on air, she carried on as usual during Friday's episode, 20 October.The 41 year old presenter didn't mention the news as she introduced the show and outlined what viewers could expect.

J.K. Rowling has said she would “happily” go to prison rather than refer to transgender women as “women”.On Tuesday (October 17), the Harry Potter author posted an image on X which showed the slogan, “Repeat after us: trans women are women,” with the caption: “No.”In response, a commenter appeared to refer to a report on The Mail On Sunday, which said Labour are looking to introduce plans to make deliberately using the wrong pronouns a hate crime, which could result in a prison sentence.“Vote Labour, get a two year stretch!” the reply read. In response, Rowling said she would do prison time to stand by her views.“I’ll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex,” she wrote.