Spain's former king mulls 2nd visit amid swirling debate

A Brit holidaymaker recovering from open-heart surgery has been left stranded in Spain after his easyJet flight back home was cancelled "last minute".

Love Island is finally back on ITV after a much anticipated wait. The hit dating show will once again be hosted by Laura Whitmore who has been in Spain ahead of the show’s launch in Mallorca with a brand new group of singletons. Laura, 37, took to Instagram to show off the sunshine as she prepared to meet this year’s contestants.

Wolf Alice are among the final list of names for new Spanish festival Andalucía Big Festival – see the full line-up below.The festival, from the organisers of Mad Cool, will take place from September 8-10 on the Sacaba Beach in Malaga and was announced back in April alongside another new event called Mad Cool Sunset. Andalucía Big Festival will be headlined by Rage Against The Machine, Muse and Jamiroquai.Day splits have now been announced for Andalucía Big Festival alongside the news that Wolf Alice have joined the line-up along with María José Llergo, Niños Mutantes, Delaporte, Viva Belgrado and more.See the full line-up below.

Love Island star Savanna Darnell has undergone a dramatic makeover since appearing on the show.The 26 year old appeared as a Casa Amor contestant on the 2018 series of the ITV dating show with a head of bright blonde hair. However, since leaving the villa she’s embraced a new look, showing off brunette locks which she often wears in braids. The star recently shared in an interview with OK! how she was originally flown out to Spain to be a contestant on the main show.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAs genre makes much of the running in sales at this year’s Cannes Film Market, Filmax, traditionally one of its biggest vendors, has swooped on “32 Gats,” the next feature from Hèctor Hernandez Vicens who broke out with the 2015 SXSW premiere, “The Corpse of Anna Fritz.”Filmax will handle distribution in Spain as well as sell international rights.Produced by Carles Torras at Zabriskie Films, ”32 Gats,” writer-director Hernández Vicens’ fourth feature, turns on a couple, Ana, 36, and Salva, 49, who move into a house in the country where there’s space for the 32 cats that Ana has adopted in the last years.Ana is two-months pregnant. The couple begins to rehabilitate the house for the baby’s birth, but Ana begins to sense a presence in the house, and she isn’t the only one, it seems.

Newen Studios’ Spanish divison iZen has launched documentary producer CAPA Spain with Emmy and Peabody-winning director and journalist Tomás Ocaña.

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Spain to visit family and friends.”Juan Carlos left Spain in August 2020 for Abu Dhabi as Spanish and Swiss prosecutors mounted probes into alleged financial wrongdoings concerning him. The scandals and his departure once again stirred debate over whether Spain should have a monarchy.The Spanish prosecutors didn’t find evidence to take the former monarch to court because much of the financial misbehavior, involving millions of euros (dollars) in undeclared accounts, happened when Juan Carlos was protected by immunity as Spain’s king, and other possible fraud fell outside the statute of limitations.The probes allowed the recovery of 5.1 million euros ($5.4 million) in fines and taxes for income that Juan Carlos had failed to declare to Spain’s tax authorities, the prosecutors said in their conclusions.Swiss prosecutors have also dropped the investigation.Although the former king was not among those directly investigated in the Swiss probe, prosecutors there said they found that Juan Carlos received in 2008 — before he stepped down as king — the sum of $100 million from the Saudi finance ministry.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed its new team line up and structure as the festival revamps.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn February, Carla Simon’s “Alcarràs” walked off with Spain’s first Berlin Golden Bear in nearly 40 years as Spain notched up its biggest main competition presence at the Berlinale since 1997.This May, Spain has four movies selected for Cannes – Albert Serra’s Competition entry “Pacifiction”; Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” in Premiere; Elena López Riera’s Directors’ Fortnight bow “The Water”; and José Luis López Linares’ “Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel,” a Cannes Classics doc feature. That reps a Cannes presence roughly on par with recent standout years such as 2018 and 2019.With Netflix launching “Through My Window” in February, three of the streaming giant’s five most-watched non-English language movies are from Spain.

A US court last week awarded Alan Parsons nearly $5 million in damages as part of a dispute with his former manager, John Regna of World Entertainment Associates Of America. Judge and jury together found that Regna was liable for trademark infringement, unfair competition and breach of fiduciary duty, among other things.Having first build his reputation via studio work with the likes of The Beatles and Pink Floyd, Parsons enjoyed success in the 1970s and 1980s through his creative partnership with the late Eric Woolfson.

Kerry Katona has announced that she and partner Ryan Mahoney have been inspired by TOWIE's Tommy Mallet and Georgia Kousoulou, and are now set to start their own new life in Spain. Kerry, 41, claims that the pair will remain working in the UK for the next year before moving over to the island of Mallorca. Writing in her weekly new column, Kerry also speaks proudly of her Onlyfans career and wishes Sheridan Smith well following her burglary last week.

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, Competition title Close has sold to Lucky Red for Italy, Vertigo Films for Spain and Lev Cinemas for Israel.

Over recent years, people who experience periods have worked tirelessly to combat the stigma that surrounds that ‘time of the month’. Whether it’s raising awareness of what constitutes a ‘normal’ period or whether it’s renaming feminine hygiene aisles, changes are being made to how we treat, and talk about, menstruation. And now Spain has come under the spotlight after the country’s government has acknowledged the impact that severe period pain can have on people’s lives.