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Rio Ferdinand has warned Manchester United fans that Antony may take time to bed into the Premier League.

Netflix’s “Lost Ollie” is a good TV series that could have been a great film. In this era of changing expectations in the movie industry where it seems harder and harder to get an original project financed, it feels like more and more creatives are turning to the wide-open landscape of television production, expanding their feature ideas into limited series that don’t always support the format.

Kilmarnock's newest takeaway is almost complete according to its owners.

James Buckley may be well known for playing the outrageously hilarious and unlucky-in-love Jay Cartwright in Channel 4 hit sitcom, The Inbetweeners. However, away from his mischievous on-screen alter-ego, the 34-year-old is happily married to his wife of nearly ten years, Clair Buckley, with whom he shares two young sons: ten-year-old Harrison and eight-year-old Jude.MORE: Inbetweeners James Buckley marries his sweetheart Clair - see photosSEE: Alesha Dixon talks balancing ambition with passionate parentingThe couple are making waves within the social media generation, having launched their YouTube channel, At Home with The Buckleys, in November 2020.

Michael Owen has admitted that he didn't watch certain Love Island episodes in order to avoid seeing his daughter Gemma taking part in saucy challenges and kissing people.The former footballer, 42, opened up about how he felt watching 19 year old Gemma on the hit ITV2 dating show over recent months, insisting he had "no worries" about her heading into the famous villa but he did have some initial reservations about the show. “It wasn't the best of conversations when she first asked me about going on Love Island," Michael, who also shares son James, 16, and daughters Emily, 14, and Jessica, 12 with wife Louise, admitted, according to The Sun.

“Verzuz” fans won’t be seeing Diddy and Jermaine Dupri battle it out until Triller settles its lawsuit.

Nicola Sturgeon has challenged whoever becomes the new Tory Prime Minister to come and debate their case against independence “any place, any time”.

Hailey Bieber is being open and honest.

Call it a seven-year itch, but the sands of late-night are shifting.

At the start of the month, the Atlanta-based festival Music Midtown announced it would not be going forward in September. A reason for the cancellation was not given, though Billboard reported that Georgia's gun laws, which would have permitted firearms to be brought onto the festival grounds, led to organizers nixing the show. In a new interview with Billboard, Phillip Evans, the gun activist and blogger who threatened the lawsuit against Music Midtown, says he wants to "challenge" Live Nation's weapons policy banning guns inside Georgia amphitheaters.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAmazon Prime Video’s Italian original series “Prisma,” which launches on Aug. 10 from the Locarno Film Festival, sees the streamer revisit the theme of gender identity fluidity after “Transparent” while catering to a young adult audience and also connecting with Italy’s neorealist roots.The eight-episode show (watch exclusive clip) – which marks the first TV series to premiere at the prominent Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema – is centered around identical adolescent twins Marco and Andrea, who challenge gender norms in different ways, along with their group of friends who are also going through a similar journey.“Prisma” is set in the city of Latina, just south of Rome, and its surrounding area, which used to be a swamp until the land was drained under Fascist rule.

Shawn Mendes will not be returning to the stage… at least for a while!

Children are more likely to die as babies, five-year-olds have rotting teeth and a quarter of youngsters are obese by their final year of primary school.

When the creatives behind Apple TV+’s singular sci-fi drama Severance stopped by Comic-Con on Thursday, they offered little in the way of hints as to Season 2 story. Instead, they honed in on the assorted challenges of bringing the breakout series to life.

Annie Zaleski When the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) scheduled its first annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio, for July 11-12, it set a modest attendance goal of around 350 people. The two-day event exceeded expectations: Nearly 600 people registered for a gathering that included solutions-driven panel discussions, robust networking and packed concerts at various Cleveland independent venues.The mood was indeed upbeat at a Monday night happy-hour mixer and awards ceremony at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Adam Warlock is ready for battle. Will Poulter underwent Marvel’s boot camp to transform into Adam Warlock in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — and even he’s interested to see the final cut.

Carole Horst For 19 seasons, the gifted contestants on Bravo’s Emmy-winning “Top Chef” have been thrown into the reality competition show deep end with the show’s signature Quickfire Challenge. While the Quickfire Challenge is not as diabolical as, say, “Chopped’s” baskets, it’s fast-moving, and constructed around themes or local ingredients or even cooking utensils (or lack of).What usually emerges are memorable bites.

Thania Garcia Mariachi singer Angela Aguilar has signed a worldwide deal with performance-rights organization SESAC Latina. The 18-year-old singer comes from a long line of mariachi and Mexican cinema royalty – including her father, the Grammy-award-winning mariachi singer-songwriter Pepe Aguilar; the late film star and master mariachi singer Antonio Aguilar; and her grandmother, the prolific Mexican singer and actress Flor Silvestre.Having made her singing debut in 2012 at the age of nine, the singer has only continued to gain recognition.

A fan-favourite Love Island challenge was back with a bang as the villa's sexy contestants don their raciest outfits to set heart rates flying. Islanders performed their raunchiest Dirty Dancing stripteases for one another while a heart rate monitor records their pulse. Or, better yet, reveals who's really hot under the collar for who.

Even so, the festival planned a slate that is about two-thirds of its previous scale and the opening night screening of National Geographic documentary Fire of Love at to the Dreamland Theater was still only about 70% full.

Living life in the fast lane! While Austin Dillon is used to fast-driving cars on the NASCAR circuit, the professional athlete and his wife, Whitney Dillon (née Ward), have found that parenting is a whole new arena.

Issa Rae has revealed she mandates that all of her sets are at least 60% diverse. The Golden Globe-nominated star and creator of Insecure disclosed the directive as she laid down a challenge to marketing and advertising personnel today as part of an impassioned discussion at the Cannes Lions conference about confronting bias in the industry.

follow a 20-minute preview clip on Peacock, which showed Heard giving the NBC show numerous documents from a doctor that “represented years, years of real-time explanations of what was going on.”“There’s a binder worth of years of notes dating back to 2011 from the very beginning of my relationship that were taken by my doctor, who I was reporting the abuse to,” Heard told Guthrie in the segment. “Her notes represented years, years of real-time explanations of what was going on.”The documents, which are shown on-screen, detail one 2012 instance in which Depp allegedly “hit her, threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her,” according to “Dateline.”Eight months after that, Depp allegedly “ripped her nightgown, threw her on the bed,” according to the program, and in 2013, he reportedly “threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her.”However, Heard’s legal team was unable to admit the documents into evidence in the highly publicized trial as the judge had deemed them “hearsay.” A spokesperson for Depp, 59, has since responded to the interview, telling “Dateline” that the “Donnie Brasco” actor simply wants to move on with his life after winning the defamation case.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThere’s no question: As challenging as the music industry can be for men, it’s twice as tough for women.That was one of the many takeaways from a panel discussion involving Grammy-winning songwriter Autumn Rowe (Jon Batiste’s “We Are,” Dua Lipa, Ava Max) and top music publishers Jody Gerson (chairman/CEO of Universal Music Publishing), Golnar Khosrowshahi (founder/president of Reservoir) and Carianne Marshall (co-chair/COO of Warner Chappell Music) at a panel discussion during the National Music Publishers Association’s annual meeting on Wednesday.While the four all had different paths to the roles they’re in today, they all faced similar challenges and obstacles, namely sexism, a lack of allies, achieving a work-life balance, and most ominously of all, dangerous situations. Rowe (pictured above, second from left), who said that she worked as a songwriter for 12 years before she got a significant paycheck — a sadly common situation — also said that she has encountered multiple writing sessions that were “unsafe.” When moderator, Danielle Aguirre, NMPA EVP and general counsel, asked if she would feel safer with even just one more woman in the room, Rowe said she would.

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who came out earlier this year in his much-praised HBO special Rothaniel, had some words for fellow stand-up Dave Chappelle about the latter’s stances on gender, trans rights and cancel culture.

Katie Holmes' last film, The Secret: Dare to Dream, and she's back with a film that's very close to her heart.MORE: Katie Holmes looks out of this world modeling bodysuit and thigh high bootsThe actress graced the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Alone Together, her second directorial venture, which she also wrote and starred in.VIDEO: Katie Holmes reveals who was a better kisser, Pacey or DawsonSpeaking exclusively to HELLO! at the event, she shared what it felt like in the moment to be back to making movies the way it happened before quarantine, especially given that her film centered around the early stages of the pandemic in 2020."It's so exciting," Katie said. "It was such a scary time to go through, especially when New York City was hit so hard, that [it's great] to see people out."MORE: Katie Holmes makes red carpet debut with new boyfriend in the dreamiest dressShe added: "The festival is so inspiring to me.

Emilio Mayorga Alberto Vázquez’s “Unicorn Wars” is an Annecy  competition frontrunner. “They Shot the Piano Player,” from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, weighs in as one of the festival’s most anticipated works in progress.A bevy of Annecy MIFA unveils and score of Spanish titles, sometimes sneak peeked at other events, form part of a historic growth on Spain’s animation scene.At March’s Cartoon Movie, only France had a larger number of titles than Spain.

Show of support. Cody Rigsby revealed that he and his Dancing With the Stars partner, Cheryl Burke, talked about her marriage issues ahead of her split from Matthew Lawrence.

"It was a cold, dark January morning as I crept onto the porch for a cigarette and a coffee before my beautiful sons, Harry, then two, and Alfie, then one, woke up. I used to get up earlier than the children so I could have 10 minutes to myself before the day started. But that morning, the boys woke up earlier than usual.

Valerie Bertinelli‘s estranged husband Tom Vitale is seeking spousal support in their ongoing divorce.

Valerie Bertinelli's estranged husband Tom Vitale is seeking spousal support in their ongoing divorce. According to a response filed by Vitale's attorney on June 6 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, obtained by ET, Bertinelli's ex is seeking spousal support and is also asking that the court's ability to award support to Bertinelli be terminated. He further has requested that Bertinelli pay attorney's fees and costs.

Since his directorial debut with “Slither” over 15 years ago, James Gunn has almost always defied conventions and his fans have loved him for it. He took the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a decidedly new direction with the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise and brought that same irreverence to “The Suicide Squad” last Summer.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLola Quivoron wowed critics and audiences at Cannes with her bold first film “Rodeo” which picked up the Coup de Coeur prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.Following the world premiere of “Rodeo,” Quiveron started being courted by a flurry of U.S. agents while Les Films du Losange, which is selling her movie, is fielding several offers from top North American buyers.Produced by Charles Gillibert (“Annette”) at CG Cinema, “Rodeo” follows a hot tempered and fiercely independent young woman who infiltrates an underground dirt bike community in France.

Love Island bosses have confirmed there will be no more food challenges on the show after viewers dubbed them 'disgusting'.

If Abigail Disney had listened to her financial advisers growing up, the heiress would have concentrated on one thing above all else: getting even richer.

The sixth week of Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial began with an expert witness, an orthopedic surgeon who cast doubt on the actor’s claim of how he severed his finger in March, 2015, forcing a delay on the set of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.