James Kottak Dies: Scorpions and Kingdom Come Drummer Was 61

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Comedian Bert Kreischer is sticking with Netflix, signing with the streamer to film two more stand-up comedy specials. This reps the fourth and fifth specials for Kreischer at Netflix, following “Razzle Dazzle” (2023), “Hey Big Boy” (2020), and “Secret Time” (2018). The first of the two specials will be filmed by Kreischer at the Mahaffey Theater in St.

After four nail-biting weeks of intense and emotional gameplay, The Traitors 2024 finally found their winner, as Harry embraced the role of a Traitor and successfully fooled the other 21 contestants. The last episode saw the final five contestants battle it out in a game of trust and deception to try and win a whopping £95,000. As the drama unfolded week by week, OK! spoke exclusively with series one sensation Amanda Lovett to get the inside scoop and expert commentary on all the drama.

Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges has been announced as this year's host for the Teenage Cancer Trust event at the Royal Albert Hall. The stand-up comedian, 37, will host "A Night of Comedy" on Tuesday, 19 March with performances from Rob Beckett, Paul Chowdhry, Joe Lycett, Joanne McNally and Seann Walsh, plus special guests who are yet to be announced.This night is a part of the week-long event that will take place at the Royal Albert Hall from 18 March to 24 March to help raise vital funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity.There will also be performances from The Who with Orchestra, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Young Fathers and The Chemical Brothers to name a few at the star-studded event.

Scotland’s national clinical director deleted every Whatsapp message he sent during the pandemic on the response to covid.

Valerie Wu Intern Andrew Scott is Tom Ripley in the first trailer for Netflix’s coming psychological thriller series “Ripley,” which debuted its first teaser Monday morning. The Patricia Highsmith adaptation was originally set up at Showtime, but was acquired by Netflix in a sale between the companies. Directed and written by Steven Zaillian, who most recently penned Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” the series follows Scott’s Ripley, described as “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York.” The plot follows his relationship with a wealthy man traveling in Italy with a troubled relationship with his son.

David Gail, who played Shannen Doherty’s fiancé on Beverly Hills 90210 and Dr. Joe Scanlon on General Hospital spinoff soap Port Charles, has died at 58, according to a post from his sister and numerous reports.

There's nothing like a bit of ex warring to kickstart a new episode of Love Island All Stars and tonight's first few minutes didn't disappoint as Toby's exes came face-to-face for the first time. Bombshell Arabella Chi, 32, enjoyed her boys-only after party in the Hideaway wearing a plunging orange maxi dress, where she exchanged a few memories with Toby Aromolaran, who is coupled up with Georgia Steel.

Nancy Green-Keyes, a casting director, agent and film producer whose many credits include The Notebook and Rush Hour, died January 17 at UCLA Hospital in Santa Monica of acute respiratory failure following a brief illness. She was 68.

James Kennedy said WHAT NOW?!

Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88. His daughter confirmed the death and attributed it to a series of infections that damaged his health.

Kendra Wilkinson is opening up and bravely telling the story of her struggles with mental health. As we previously reported, the former P

A new Love Island: All Stars teaser shows things are already heating up in the iconic villa, with exes Callum Jones and Molly Smith coming face to face while Liberty Poole finally quizzes ex Jake Cornish. Callum is tasked with picking a girl to couple up with in Tuesday's (16 January) episode, and he's left torn between choosing his ex-girlfriend Molly or one of the other girls.

UPDATE: So much of this debate was about repetitive sparring between two Donald Trump alternatives, and the one-on-one match up made the event seem longer than others this cycle.

Scorpions, has died aged 61.The news was announced by his daughter Tobi, who told TMZ that her father died yesterday morning (January 9) in his birthplace of Louisville, Kentucky. Currently, no cause of death has been shared.The musician was most famed for his work with the German hard rock group Scorpions, for which he took on the role of drummer for 20 years.Joining the band in 1996, he appeared on all of their albums from 1999’s ‘Eye II Eye’ to 2015’s ‘Return to Forever’.

Facebook post. “Very sad news … our dear friend and Drummer for 20 years James Kottak has passed at the age of 61,” the band wrote alongside a black-and-white image of Kottak.

When Married At First Sight UK's most successful couple, Adam Aveling and Tayah Victoria, tied the knot for the second time, this wedding was for real. Two years after meeting on the hit E4 show, Adam, 28, and Tayah, 27, who now share a 13 month old daughter, legally became husband and wife in a magical winter wedding at a stately home in North Yorkshire just three days after Christmas.

It’s been a long time since Ethan Slater’s girlfriend dropped new music! I hope this is a smash!!! Pop music needs that!

Chicken Caesar became the second celebrity to be unmasked on this series of The Masked Singer - but fans say the star was 'robbed' and claim the show is a 'fix'. The hit ITV show returned to screens on Saturday night (January 6) for the second episode of the brand new series.

Herman Raucher, whose Oscar-nominated Summer of ’42 screenplay became one of Hollywood’s best-loved coming-of-age tales, has died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT. He was 95.

Ana Ofelia Murguía, the Mexican actress who voiced the role of Mama Coco in Disney’s two-time Oscar-winning animated feature Coco, died Dec. 31. She was 90.