Operation Branchform investigation into SNP finances 'methodical' and 'thorough', says ex-top cop

The Metropolitan Police has said it will speak to the Sunday Times and Channel 4 after their investigation about Russell Brand.

UPDATED 08:29 a.m. PT: The BBC has now joined with Banijay in launching an urgent investigation into the Russell Brand allegations.

Big Brother producer Banijay has launched an “urgent internal investigation” into historic allegations against Russell Brand.

Given Hollywood’s love of sequels, and that fact that “Mamma Mia!” and its followup, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”, raked in a combined $1 billion at the box office, why hasn’t Universal greenlit a third film?

Sophia Scorziello editor Adam Sandler is back on tour and hitting the road for a slate of North American comedy shows through the end of the year. Starting in October, Sandler will start his 25-city “The I Missed You Tour,” produced by Live Nation, and is set to debut a “surprise guest” at its opening show at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Oct. 12.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director A new oral history on “Mamma Mia!” from Vogue magazine ends with the cast and crew all in support of making a third installment in the Universal Pictures franchise, which kicked off in 2008 with a film adaptation of the musical and continued in 2018 with “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” Combined, the two musical films grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. “Universal would love to make a third movie, and I’ll leave it at that,” Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley said point blank when the discussion turned to a potential “Mamma Mia 3.” Amanda Seyfried, who leads the franchise as Sophie, added, “I dare you to show me one person who doesn’t want a third Mamma Mia!” But she also cast a bit of a doubt on a third movie since, according to her, its existence would most likely depend on Universal paying the cast what they are worth, which is far more now than when the franchise started.

Citing what he called “serious and credible allegations” into President Joe Biden’s conduct regarding the business dealings of his son Hunter, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced he is directing House committees “to open a formal impeachment inquiry.”

Todd Gilchrist editor “I’ve never really had a marketing plan ever in my career,” says Gerald Maxwell Rivera, better known as Maxwell. Though he acknowledges “I’m sure someone was doing one in the building somewhere,” the reason why a more concerted effort wasn’t made may be because the R&B singer, songwriter and producer seemed to arrive fully-formed upon the release of “Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite,” his lush, libidinous 1996 debut album.

Steven J. Horowitz 21 Savage and Cardi B lead the nominations for the BET Hip Hop Awards 2023 with 12 nods apiece, followed by Drake with nine and DJ Khaled and Burna Boy with seven. Cardi B, who is gearing up to release her new single “Bongos” with Megan Thee Stallion, secured nominations for best live performer, lyricist of the year, hip-hop artist of the year and song of the year for “Tomorrow 2,” her collaboration with GloRilla.

may be one of the biggest and most glamorous actors of our time. But these days, most of the mom of two's time is spent on a .At her core, however, Seyfried is still a —she just has her own definition of farm-friendly glam.

A Broadway fundraising concert next month for President Joe Biden will feature some of theater’s biggest stars, including Josh Groban, Ben Platt, Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr. and Laura Benanti, among others, with the president himself in attendance.

Rammstein‘s frontman Till Lindemann following allegations of sexual assault.The investigation was opened back in June after several women came forward, claiming that the singer drugged and recruited them to engage in sexual activity. Lindenmann had previously denied the allegations with his attorneys adding that the claims were “without exception untrue”.As The Washington Post reports, Berlin’s prosecution office shared a statement on Tuesday, August 29 that read: “The evaluation of the available evidence — above all the press reports that refer to anonymous whistleblowers, as well as the additional questioning of witnesses — has not produced any indications that the accused has carried out sexual acts on women against their will, administered disabling substances or exploited a power imbalance towards underage sexual partners in order to persuade them to have sex.”A post shared by Rammstein (@rammsteinofficial)In a statement, Lindemann’s lawyers said that they would “immediately pursue legal action in response to all such accusations”.The allegations against Lindemann first arose in May, when a 24-year-old named Shelby Lynn claimed that a supposed “casting director” invited her to sit in a “row zero” section at the band’s show in Vilnius, Lithuania.Documented on social media, she claimed that someone led her beneath the stage and the singer later made an advance towards her.

Duran Duran has revealed that the reason he quit the band was due to “creative” reasons, and was “not personal”.Taylor played with Duran Duran on-and-off between 1980 and 2006, and was set to reunite with them last year when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, but a setback in his treatment for stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer forced him to miss the occasion.The musician, 62, has now opened up about his reasons for quitting the new wave band after decades of rumours about feuds, sharing that it was “creative, not personal”.In a new interview Classic Pop magazine (via MusicNews), the guitarist said that it “bugged” him that the band brought in a wider circle of people for 2007 album ‘Red Carpet Massacre‘, which was produced largely by Timbaland.“I couldn’t do the Timbaland album, because it just didn’t move me,” he said. “I was saying to the others, ‘Why do we need this?’“There’s so much talent in that band, I never felt the need to bring other people in to write with Duran.

Officers in Manchester have confirmed they received a complaint after the ­publication of the party’s accounts last week by auditors in the city.

British production company ITN has won the rights to make a documentary digging deep into the investigation by police that brought the UK’s worst child killer Lucy Letby to justice.

The SNP has announced Murray Foote as its new chief executive just months after he resigned as the party's head of media.

Nicola Sturgeon has had her £600,000-a-year police security removed, according to reports.

convicted financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has always been the subject of intrigue and mystery.A new A&E documentary titled “Secrets of Prince Andrew” has done a deep dive into their allyship, including allegations against the disgraced royal made by Epstein accusers, Lisa Phillips and Virginia Roberts Giuffre.The Duke of York, 63, met the now-dead felon in 1999, having been introduced by British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend at the time.“[Andrew and Epstein] became extremely close,” royal biographer Andrew Lownie claimed in the documentary. “You know, real best buddies.

and Tom Sandoval seemingly stood in the same room together this week at a Maui relief effort fundraiser hosted at Sur, if this TikTok shared by user @elaineeeqvn can be believed.Of course, the two are never captured directly interacting. But Sur, as we know, is a very small restaurant.

Pamela Anderson is opening up about her glam evolution, revealing why she's been putting a fresh face forward in recent years. In an interview with published on Thursday, the 56-year-old alum shares that she didn't often have a say in her appearance during the early days of her career. «I just went along with what people were telling me what to do,» she says.