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Jennifer Hudson, who portrayed Aretha Franklin in the biopic “Respect” earlier this year, will be the recipient of the Chairman’s Award at this year’s Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Coronation Street star Sally Carman looked worlds away from her on-screen character as she glammed up for an awards do.

Coronation Street star Sally Carman was among the big winners at the Royal Television Society North West Awards - and her soap co-stars were quick to send their praise.

Jennifer Hudson was discovered on “American Idol,” she won an Oscar in her very first film role in “Dreamgirls,” she’s a Tony away from EGOT status, and she landed a role of a lifetime as Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” a part hand-picked for her by the Queen of Soul herself. So where does she want to take her career next? With any luck, she really wants to direct.

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Coronation Street star Sally Carman was flooded with compliments as she got into the festive spirit.

Jennifer Hudson felt that the best way to honor the late soul singing legend Aretha Franklin in the biopic Respect was to deliver as much authenticity in her performance as the Queen of Soul invested in her music.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOscar winner and “American Idol” alum Jennifer Hudson is adding something completely different to her resume: Talk show host.Hudson, most recently seen on the big screen playing Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” is pitching a new daytime talker to be produced by the team from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Variety has learned.

Coronation Street viewers have heaped praise on Sally Carman for her portrayal of Abi Franklin in the soap's dramatic sinkhole scenes. Earlier this week, Abi (played by Sally Carman) and Corey Brent (Maximus Evans) finally came face-to-face in a dramatic showdown — only to fall through the sinkhole into the sewer below.

Sally Carman has revealed the moment her co-star popped the question.

Former Coronation Street star Harry Visinoni has shown off the results of his epic body transformation since leaving the soap.

Aretha Franklin has been posthumously honoured by her hometown of Detroit, which recently named a post office after her.Formerly known as the Fox Creek post office, the Aretha Franklin Post Office Building was celebrated with a ceremony on Monday (October 4), Associated Press reports.

Helen George was one of the lucky guests to attend the preview day at this year's Chelsea Flower Show on Monday.

Cynthia Erivo looks so elegant on the red carpet at the 2021 Emmy Awards on Sunday (September 19) at The Event Deck at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

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Coronation Street is set to go to blockbuster levels of drama as Weatherfield is set to be rocked by a disaster to the scale, and greater, of the horrific tram crash from the 50th anniversary.

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Next week's Coronation Street will see Seb Franklin's murder trial conclude as the verdict is finally revealed. Only recently, Nina Lucas remembered that Corey Brent killed her boyfriend Seb Franklin in harrowing flashback scenes after she had previously been suffering from memory loss following the attack.

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Coronation Street fans were left in tears on Monday's episode as Nina Lucas remembered who killed her boyfriend Seb Franklin in harrowing flashback scenes.

has died. He was 85.The «I Love» singer died at his Franklin, Tennessee, home on Friday, his son Dean Hall confirmed the news on social media.«With great sadness, my father, Tom T.

Dean, broke the news on Twitter, writing, “With great sadness, my father, Tom T. Hall, died this morning at his home in Franklin, Tennessee.

Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed "Harper Valley P.T.A." and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died.

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Tom T. Hall, a Country Music Hall of Fame artist known for such songs as “I LIke Beer,” died today at age 85. He died at home in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his son. No cause of death was given.

As a Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner and Oscar nominee who just recorded her first solo album of original music, Cynthia Erivo is well-acquainted with artistic challenges. But the prospect of portraying Aretha Franklin in National Geographic’s third season of its Genius anthology series was unlike anything she had previously faced.

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singing live as Aretha Franklin in the new biopic “Respect” was a daunting prospect.“It’s tricky,” Hudson, 39, told In Style. “You don’t want to come off as if you’re mimicking somebody, especially somebody like Aretha.”But Hudson got some help from vocal coach Tom Jones — her former fellow judge on “The Voice UK” — in finding Franklin’s voice while not losing her own.

Aretha Franklin.Hudson stars as Franklin in upcoming biopic, Respect, directed by Liesl Tommy, written by Tracey Scott Wilson and set for release next month.At Sunday’s (August 8) world premiere of the film at the Regency Village Theatre in the Los Angeles district of Westwood, Hudson recalled her last conversation with Franklin, who she became friends with in the late 2000s and spoke to on a weekly basis up until Franklin’s death in 2018.She told The Hollywood Reporter: “The last time I heard

Aretha Franklin in 2007. The two singers had technically met before, when Hudson, freshly cut from American Idol, opened for Franklin at a show in Indiana.

Jennifer Hudson plays her idol and mentor Aretha Franklin in the new movie Respect and she’s opening up about the weekly phone calls she used to have with the late singer.

Jennifer Hudson is getting ready for the world to see her as Aretha Franklin in the upcoming biopic, “Respect”. ET’s Kevin Frazier spoke with the Oscar-winning actress and singer on the black carpet at the film’s premiere, where Hudson talked about honouring Franklin’s life and the final song request the Queen of Soul had for her.

Jennifer Hudson is getting ready for the world to see her as Aretha Franklin in the upcoming biopic,.

Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” it’s not clear what it means, wasting a lot of superb screen talent in the slapdash process.This time it's Jennifer Hudson portraying the Queen of Soul — a few months after Cynthia Erivo played Franklin in a National Geographic TV series — and you won't be able to leave the theater without a lot of respect — yes, R-E-S-P-E-C-T — for Hudson's abilities.But a meandering, unfocused look at the first three decades of Franklin’s life will also leave you saying a