Japanese Pop Star Comes Out as Gay

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Netflix is further expanding its slate of unscripted TV content from Japan, its most lucrative market in East Asia. The new shows cover the reality, variety and dating genres. “We’re excited to move into a new phase of our content strategy, ramping up our investments in unscripted and bringing new concepts to the screen.

The Duke of Sussex was spotted trying on sunglasses as he shopped for a souvenir gift to take home to his wife Meghan during his solo trip to Japan. While Meghan was believed to be enjoying a girls' night out with her friend Lucy Fraser to watch a Taylor Swift gig in LA, Prince Harry enjoyed a day out shopping with polo player friend Nacho Figueras.The sportsman posted on Instagram that they were 'shopping for our wives' in central Tokyo and posed for a photograph wearing sunglasses, said to retail at $175.The picture, where the two cross arms and are donning matching outfits of a polo shirt and casual jeans, made eager fans flock to the comments to share their love for Harry and his friend.

Netflix has announced a slate of Japanese dating, comedy and reality shows, part of a wider push into Asian unscripted content, which also takes in South Korea and India. 

Hearts have been dealt a European blow with red tape denying them the chance to unleash Japanese striker Kyosuke Tagawa on Rosenborg.

Billy Porter is fired up and feeling the rage, anger and hurt so many Hollywood creatives are experiencing amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes.The alum recently sat down for an interview with the — as he is currently in London for work — and he revealed that the strike has taken a toll on him personally, and he's been forced to sell his home here in Los Angeles.«I have to sell my house,» Porter shared. «Because we’re on strike.

told the Los Angeles Times that attempts to arrange a meeting with Netflix — to demand that members be compensated with the same residual model as American members of SAG-AFTRA — have gone unanswered for months.“One of [Netflix’s] first priorities when entering the local market should be to establish some channel of communication with groups like us,” the country’s answer to Fran Drescher said.“But there’s no answer at all.”Residuals have recently been in the news as American actors and writers striking for fair compensation post their often insultingly meager checks, ranging from a single penny to a few dollars. As opposed to the royalties paid in broadcasting, residuals must be paid in perpetuity to actors in the United States, based on how many times their films and shows are streamed.

Steve Lacy came face to face with death. A drunk driver crashed into him at full speed atop the jagged cliffs connecting the valley and the beach outside Los Angeles. And though Lacy escaped his demolished Tesla Model 3 unharmed, for a brief moment before the collision, he accepted his fate.

LE SSERAFIM have dropped the Japanese-language version of their recent title track ‘Unforgiven’, featuring Japanese singer Ado.The track was officially released at 6pm KST earlier today (August 8) on streaming platforms, as well as on YouTube. With Nile Rodgers being featured on the original song, its Japanese counterpart also credits Rodgers alongside Ado, who stays faithful to the original’s structure and lends her vocals to verses across the song.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A team of United Nations inspectors has said it is “deeply alarmed” by the allegations of sexual abuse that may have taken place at leading Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. Abuses may have involved “several hundred” talents, according to the org. The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights began its first official visit to Japan last month and concluded 12 days of meetings and interviews last week.

Fall Out Boy gave ‘You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave’ its live debut at a show in New York last night (August 4) – check it out below.The song is taken from their landmark 2007 album ‘Infinity On High’ and was chosen as the night’s ‘Magic 8 Ball’ song, the part of the evening where the Chicagoans dig into their deep cuts and play one of their B-sides and rarities.According to fans there, frontman Patrick Stump needed the use of a teleprompter to remember the words in the song’s notoriously fast pre-chorus.Check out fan-filmed footage of the performance below.fall out boy performing a LIVE DEBUT of “you’re crashing but you’re no wave” at the show tonight! this song is so wordy patrick was holding onto that teleprompter for dear life

Oprah can’t resist the magic of Beyoncé. In a new video that she shared on social media, Oprah is seen at Beyoncé’s show in New York, singing and dancing her heart out as she records “Break My Soul,” one of Beyoncé’s hit songs from her new album “Renaissance.” Beyoncé’s mom Tina Knowles-Lawson files for divorce after 8-year marriage: DetailsMadonna attends Beyoncé’s concert and receives sweet shout-outA post shared by Oprah (@oprah)The video shows Oprah, Gayle King and Tina Knowles-Lawson watching Beyoncé onstage. The three have some of the best seats in the show, located in a private section, having a clear view of Beyoncé strutting the stage.

firing back at insensitive “Barbenheimer” fans in the United States. The international feud began after the official X (formerly Twitter) account for the “Barbie” film commented that “it’s going to be a summer to remember” beneath a movie poster collage that mashed up the toy-inspired flick with “Oppenheimer,” a film about the making of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, eventually killing nearly 200,000 Japanese.The poster uploaded last month by the account DiscussingFilms on X depicts J.

No one asked for “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” to share this ridiculous connection they have forged, as the two films were released on the same day. We’ve seen plenty of major films get the same release dates.

Sofia Vergara was spotted in an outing with some girlfriends. The Colombian actress and TV personality spent part of her Saturday at a restaurant in West Hollywood, looking stunning and ready for a good time. Sofia Vergara through the years: From the 90s until nowSofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello to resolve custody of dog Bubbles amid divorceVergara wore a skintight leopard print dress that she paired with some stunning accessories, including a Chanel handbag and some Christian Louboutin heels.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ichikawa Ennosuke, a leading Japanese Kabuki actor, was indicted in Tokyo on Friday on charges of assisting his parents’ suicides. The indictment, reported by public broadcaster NHK and other major Japanese media, alleges that Ichikawa gave an excessive amount of sleeping drugs to his father, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshiro IV, and his mother Nobuko.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent French director Élise Girard’s “Sidonie in Japan” starring Isabelle Huppert as a French writer mourning her husband’s death while on a book tour of Japan, is among titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Giornate Degli Autori. The section, also known as Venice Days, has unveiled its lineup comprising ten titles world premiering in competition – six of which first works – and films in other sections all displaying a wide range of genres and visual styles, but tied together by “A common discourse,” said the section’s artistic director Gaia Furrer.

J-Pop idol Shinjiro Atae, a member of the renowned group AAA, shared his truth with over 2,000 fans at a fan meet in Tokyo on Wednesday.

A post shared by SHINJIRO 與 真司郎 (@shinjiroatae1126)Atae additionally debuted a new song, «Into the Light,» which he co-wrote with Wrabel and Afterhrs. A portion of the proceeds from the track will be donated to Pride House Tokyo and ReBit.For the song's music video, Atae worked with director Tsubasa Maruno to provide a beautiful juxtaposition between the darkness and loneliness he has felt throughout the course of his life and the relief he has experienced by finally coming to a place of acceptance.In addition to the new song and video, Atae revealed that he's teaming up with Peter Farrelly and Fisher Stevens for a forthcoming documentary about his life, which will be directed by Carlie Mantilla-Jordan and John Eliot Jordan.Atae started his career in 2005 after an open casting call.

Shinjiro Atae is coming out.

Following another round of waivers granted by SAG-AFTRA, we have the first one granted that will allow to promote a film rather then shooting a film. Sources confirmed to Deadline that The Unknown Country, which stars Lily Gladstone and Quantum Leap‘s Raymond Lee and opens this Friday, was granted a waiver by the guild allowing for guild members to do publicity for the upcoming film.