Eastenders fans are in mourning as actor Leonard Fenton, who played the much loved Doctor Harold Legg, has died aged 95.
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A new study has found that people who are obsessed with celebrities are less intelligent than those who aren’t. In news that may not surprise everyone, Hungarian academics concluded that “there is a clear correlation between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests” involving reading and numeracy.
However, they were unable to determine whether celebrity worship is a cause or effect of lower intelligence. A man in New Zealand has had a cockroach pulled from his ear after days of feeling a squirming sensation.
Zane Wedding said he initially thought the problem was just water in his ear following a swim at a local pool. However, as his discomfort wore on, he went to specialist who told him: “Oh my god … I think you have an insect in your ear.
” After she removed the cockroach, Wedding magnanimously presented it to her as a memento. The year ahead could see older people confound stereotypes, as new words set to become popular in 2022 include Queenager (an older woman who is busy and enjoys having fun) and Silvfluencer (a ‘silver influencer’, or an older person who is an influencer).
Language-learning platform Babbel also believes that FOGO (meaning fear of going out) could become a widespread term as people struggle with anxiety around socialising after lockdowns.
.Eastenders fans are in mourning as actor Leonard Fenton, who played the much loved Doctor Harold Legg, has died aged 95.
Alicia Keys celebrated her birthday on January 25th and her husband Kasseem Dean aka Swizz Beatz made sure she was treated like royalty. The 41-year-old singer has been a bright light over the years always radiating positivity and grace. On Thursday she shared a gallery of photos and videos from the birthday festivities that included a surprise party on a private jet, karaoke, and a private pool.
EXCLUSIVE: Musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus has set the sci-fi horror film Ash as his second feature, on the heels of his body horror anthology Kuso, which made its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Kate Aurthur editorAfter the firestorm earlier this month caused by caused by racist (and deleted) Facebook posts by “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast member Jennie Nguyen, Bravo announced Tuesday that Nguyen has been fired from the show. It had recently begun filming its third season in Utah with Nguyen, Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, Jen Shah, Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow returning.
Journal of Sex Research last week affirmed the longstanding theories of a “fraternal birth order effect,” in which “men’s propensity for homosexuality increases with the number of older biological brothers they have,” the researchers noted in an article for The Conversation.The scientists — Christine Ablaza, Francisco Perales, and Jan Kabatek — noted that past research into fraternal birth order effect had involved small samples. To counter this, researchers used Dutch population registers and followed the lives of nine million people born between 1940 and 1990.While the registers don’t explicitly state sexual orientation, researchers used same-sex partnerships and same-sex marriages to determine an individual’s sexuality.They argue that, despite excluding all gay people who haven’t registered an official partnership or marriage, their findings demonstrate “clear evidence” of fraternal birth order effect on homosexuality.Dutch men with three older brothers are 41% more likely to be in a same-sex relationship than men with three older sisters.They are also 80% more likely to be in a same-sex relationship than men with three younger brothers, which researchers say show that being the youngest sibling increases the likelihood of homosexuality — and that the differences increase with the number of older male siblings.However, even one older brother can make a difference.
Red wine is among the alcoholic drinks said to reduce the risk of Covid infection, a new study has found - but experts have warned against drinking to excess.
Missed the mark. Critics have accused Lisa Rinna of blackfishing after Erika Jayne shared a photo of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills duo to Instagram.
A study released by Women in Film Los Angeles finds that women-owned companies lag far behind men-owned companies in studio-subsidized film and TV deals.The report, titled “Women Entrepreneurs in the Screen Industries: Obstacles and Opportunities” and conducted by Pepperdine University associate professor Alicia Jessop, concludes that only 18.6% of studio-subsidized film deals and 35.7% of studio-subsidized television deals were with women-owned companies and only 18% of production companies with non-studio funding were women-owned.By comparison, the study released on Wednesday states that on average men-owned independent production companies receive more than seven times the amount of funding received by women-owned independent production companies.Said WIF Board president Amy Baer said in a statement: “The origin of this study was actually quite personal to the WIF Board. At a 2018 Board meeting, several highly accomplished women were sharing anecdotal frustrations about the obstacles to launching enterprise in the screen industry, while constantly watching men of equal experience and stature repeatedly and successfully land investment.
This Morning fans were left in hysterics after the popular ITV show featured an interview about what is thought to be the ‘world’s biggest potato.’ On today’s episode of the morning programme (Thursday 20 January), hosts Phillip Schofield and Rochelle Humes - who is standing in for regular presenter Holly Willoughby - were joined on video call by Colin Craig-Brown. Colin was speaking live from his home country New Zealand and quickly explained that he believed that the 7.8KG vegetable on his lap was the largest potato in the world.