John Leslie documentary divides viewers as they relive dramatic rise and fall

Wilson Chapman editorDominque Jackson, Alex Newell, Leslie Jordan and Ross Mathews will be celebrating Pride Month with Discovery+ this year. The four have been announced as guest narrators for the upcoming docuseries “The Book of Queer,” set to launch on the streaming service June 2.The upcoming special event series — which has its first-look featurette above —will feature five episodes, each of which tells the story of multiple historic and groundbreaking queer individuals throughout history. The subjects of the episodes span people that have lived across thousands of years, and include politicians, artists, activists, scientists and world leaders.

Zack Sharf Italian director, actor and producer Valeria Golino will serve as the president of the jury for this year’s Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. Golino follows in the footsteps of last year’s jury president Andrea Arnold.

Jenna Dewan is opening up about her kiss with Ricky Martin on the set for one of his music videos. As it turned out, there was a bit of a dust-up... literally!The 41-year-old model, dancer, budding actress and mother of two shared some of the juicy details during her Friday appearance on, with Ellen's sidekick, Stephen «tWitch» Boss, filling in as the guest host.tWitch, a renowned dancer, landed on the topic after the two shared their long friendship and prior history as fellow dancers.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has set up a writers room for drama The Great Game, produced by CBS Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s studio-based Secret Hideout. It will be led by the project’s co-writers/executive producers John Hlavin (The Man Who Fell to Earth) and Matthew Newman (Chicago PD) with the goal of generating multiple scripts for a potential straight-to-series order.

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’ support of the war, Wimbledon is reportedly planning to bar Russian and Belarusian players from the Grand Slam tennis tournament which begins in London on June 27. Sportico reported that the event, organized by the All England Club, will break from the rest of the tennis world by refusing to allow Russians to compete — this would include current world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev. The New York Times, citing a highly placed international tennis official, said the ban is expected to extend to Belarusian players as well.

Grace told E! News in an interview. “So it was such a beautiful opportunity to be granted and a big responsibility as well.”Grace, who is Dominican-American, is now the third Latina to be cast in a DC superhero project, following Sasha Calle’s role as Supergirl in “The Flash” and Rachel Zegler joining the cast of “Shazam: Fury of the Gods.”Offering up some insight into what fans can expect about her version of Barbara Gordon, Grace said, “I will say one of my favorite things about our script and the heart of our movie is that you get to see Babs and this alter-ego that she summons up, Batgirl, vacillate between the nuances of life and good and bad and black and white, and that there so much in between.

Scots TV presenter John Leslie was the focus of a Channel 5 documentary this week charting his rise and fall.

John Leslie was once a man who had it all.The first Scottish presenter of Blue Peter, onetime boyfriend to rising star Catherine Zeta-Jones and later co-host of ITV’s flagship daytime show This Morning. His future, and place on British TV, seemed assured.

EastEnders paid tribute to June Brown at the end of Monday's episode after it was announced that the legendary Dot Cotton star had tragically passed away at the age of 95. It comes as BBC One also aired a documentary looking at June's life and career following Monday's episode.

Dame Joan Collins says modern men are "suffering from the rise of anti-maleness" in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The 88-year-old acting legend is a supporter of the campaign - originally created by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 to empower women from black communities who had endured sexual assault to speak out - which saw women all over the world share their painful experiences of sexual abuse and misconduct by men online in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal which broke in 2017 revealing the now imprisoned movie producer to be guilty of multiple sexual assaults on numerous women in Hollywood. However, Collins believes that the current climate is making decent men become wary around women because they fear being accused of perpetuating toxic masculinity.

Hollywood star Leslie Grace had a go at the Glaswegian accent as Batgirl filming officially wraps in Glasgow.

Good Morning Britain viewers were left unimpressed during Friday's show when they claim the show pulled the 'worst ever' April Fool's Day prank. It was Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway back at the helm of the show on April 1, a day usually consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes