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Valorant esports player Jay “Sinatraa” Won was suspended by Riot Games for “failing to fully cooperate” with an investigation into accusations of sexual assault.However, yesterday (April 12) Sinatraa took to social media to say he was “ready for a return to competitive play.”Sinatraa was a pro gamer and a member of Valorant team Sentinels when his ex-girlfriend Cleo Hernandez released a statement on Twitter detailing her relationship with him. In the lengthy post, Hernandez detailed multiple instances of alleged sexual assault, gaslighting, and mental and emotional abuse at the hands of Sinatraa alongside supporting evidence.Within days, Sinatraa was temporarily suspended by Sentinels with Riot Games later handing out a six-month ban due to his failure to fully cooperate with the investigation.Speaking about the decision Alex Francois, the Head of Competitive Operations for Valorant Esports said that while the investigation “did not come to a definitive conclusion”, the Competitive Operations team that was reviewing the case “had serious concerns with Sinatraa’s conduct during the course of the investigation.”The ban expired in September but since then, Sinatraa hasn’t taken part in any professional tournaments.However, yesterday (April 12) he took to Twitter to say “It’s been a year since I was forced to step back from competitive play.

This Morning presenter Josie Gibson has exclusively revealed that she will be appearing on another TV show. The ITV favourite is back hosting This Morning alongside Vernon Kay whilst presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield take a break during the Easter holidays.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car scooped the International Feature Film Oscar tonight, becoming the second movie from Japan to take a competitive prize in the category formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film (it’s the fifth for Japan if we count honorary awards given out in the 1950s).

Dancing On Ice tensions were at an all time high on Sunday 13 March evening as the five remaining couples came head to head in the semi-finals.The jam-packed ITV show started off on a rocky note as Phillip Schofield was left presenting the show on his own after his co-host Holly Willoughby pulled out hours before as she tested positive with Covid-19. Luckily, he pulled out of the bag and went on without a hitch, while Dancing On Ice's Associate Creative Director Dan Whiston performed a stunning routine in the opening number.The popular programme had everything from Brendan Cole's unfortunate fall on the ice during his solo routine to a double elimination, which saw Connor Ball and Kye Whyte leaving the rink with their professional partners. And the emotional revelations before each couple's routine left many in tears, including judge Oti Mabuse.

Foals have spoken about how they now feel comfortable being “in a lane of one”, adding that they no longer feel competitive with other bands.The Oxford band were speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to launch their upcoming new album, ‘Life Is Yours’. While this upcoming record will be Foals’ seventh album, frontman Yannis Philippakis “balked” at the suggestion that the band were now “indie statesmen”.“I mean, I don’t agree with the ‘indie’ bit, I guess, weirdly – or the statesmen bit,” Yannis told NME.

Kate Middleton's "competitive nature" has been exposed by rugby player and fellow Royal family member Mike Tindall, who is married to Princess Anne's daughter Zara Tindall.The Duchess of Cambridge has recently been stepping up to take on more solo engagements and more senior duties as an official member of the higher level institution.The 40 year old mum-of-three was also announced as Prince Harry's replacement as Patron of England rugby. But while Mike, 43, said the Duchess looked "effortless" during her training session, he claimed she also has a relentless drive to succeed and be "good at things".

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editorShaun White has announced his official retirement from competitive snowboarding, with Beijing 2022 marking not only his last time on the Olympic stage, but also in any official competition.“It will be my last competition, which is pretty special,” White told a news conference in Zhangjiakou, China on Saturday, according to the official Olympic website. “It’s been a beautiful run.

Tiger Woods is back!The 45-year-old star returned to competitive golf for the first time in nearly a year on Saturday at the PNC Championship in Orlando. Woods' 12-year-old son, Charlie, was there by his side wearing matching outfits, which included a peach-colored polo shirt.In fact, it was at this father/son challenge last year where Woods last played competitive golf.

Alissa Simon Film CriticWith last year’s surprise nominee “The Man Who Sold His Skin” hailing from Tunisia, Oscar handicappers should be sure to give West Asia and North Africa titles close scrutiny this time around. Among the 11 submissions are several titles likely to be highly competitive in the international feature category.

UPDATED: Tiger Woods announced his return to competitive golf this morning. It’s not The Masters, but Woods will play alongside his 12-year-old son Charlie in the PNC Championship on December 18.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.comWhile accepting his award for Variety’s Hitmaker of Tomorrow, Jack Harlow gifted the audience with a story from his childhood, revealing how a reading program stoked his competitive side, and how he’s been a voracious reader since he was a little kid.

Riot Games says it is removing four-stacks (groups of four players) from the competitive queue in Valorant, due to ongoing “toxicity reports”.Essentially this means that groups squadding up and communicating as a team of four cannot go into competitive five player games. According to recent patch notes post, this has been done for multiple reasons:“Alongside the five-stack changes, we are also removing four-stacks from the competitive queue,” read the post.

Whether he’s presenting ITV’s Good Morning Britain or starring in sitcom Citizen Khan, Adil Ray has become a regular on the box. And this week, he’s back on our screens hosting the second series of ITV quiz show, Lingo.The revived series sees contestants going head-to-head to fill in the blanks and guess a series of simple words to win a cash prize.

Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot put their art skills to the test on Wednesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Emma Raducanu has no plans to change her approach despite a life-changing past few weeks. The 18-year-old won a shock US Open title in only her second Grand Slam before being whisked to star-studded events like the Met Gala and the new James Bond premiere.

Since the launch show on Saturday 18 September, Strictly fever has been sweeping across the nation. We now know who all the celebs are partnered with, but what do the judges think of this year's line up? In an interview with the BBC, veteran judge Craig Revel Horwood opened up about his predictions for the upcoming competition.

is changing its format after recent backlash.After coming under fire for having activists compete against one another, the show is shifting from a competitive series to a documentary special.

Chris Willman Music Writer“The Activist,” a CBS series that had itself become the target of online activism in recent days, is being reconfigured in response to the firestorm of criticism, and will now become a one-time documentary special instead of a five-episode competition series, Variety has learned.Although footage for the original incarnation of the series had already been shot, this version of “The Activist” will be entirely new, with filming expected to begin from scratch.The show,

Vivienne Chow New features by some of the most prominent filmmakers from the Asia-Pacific region including The Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza, Bangladesh’s Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and Japan’s Ogigami Naoko are among the seven titles competing for the Kim Jiseok Award at the upcoming 26th Busan International Film Festival (Oct. 6-16, 2021).Works by Royston Tan from Singapore, China’s Wang Qi, Aparna Sen from India and Ilgar Najaf from Azerbaijan have also been nominated.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Lorenzo Vigas, who made film festival history by being the first Venezuelan-born filmmaker to snag the Venice Golden Lion in 2015, is back on the Lido with “The Box” (“La Caja”), the final part of a trilogy that began with his Cannes Critics’ Week short “Elephants Never Forget” and continued with his Venice-winning feature debut, “From Afar.”A resident of Mexico since 2001, Vigas was watching the news on TV about people recovering the bodies of their lost relatives from

Anna Marie de la Fuente Mexico’s Michel Franco is back in Venice after his triumphant Silver Lion win last year for his dystopian thriller “New Order.” His new film “Sundown” is in competition at the Lido where it world premieres on Sunday.

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Celebrity MasterChef wasn’t enough to sink your teeth into, we now have a brand new cooking show Hungry For It coming to BBC3 fronted by the popular presenter Stacey Dooley (Glow Up, Stacey Dooley Investigates). This exciting and ambitious cooking competition gives ten aspiring cooks the opportunity to hone their cooking skills and demonstrate their talents, so that they can forge a career in the industry.

Microsoft Flight Simulator segment of the Xbox Gamescom 2021 live stream, it was revealed that the game will be getting competitive multiplayer later in the year.This will come to the game via the Reno Air Races free expansion in autumn of this year. It will also be the game’s largest expansion since it launched, allowing players to compete against friends and other pilots in competitive races.

A brand new batch of contestants are fighting hard to take home the dough in the first trailer for “Nailed It!” season 6.

Deathloop game director Dinga Bakaba has shared his thoughts on what the team at Arkane Studios wanted to create with Deathloop‘s PvP multiplayer.As spotted by IGN, Bakaba recently opened up about the PvP mode for upcoming FPS Deathloop in a video titled ‘Deep dive into Deathloop with Arkane Lyon’.In the video, Bakaba stated:“What drove us to add [PvP] to the game was not the competitive aspect of it really, that’s why there’s no leaderboard, nothing like that, it was really the fact that this

Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege is getting changes to its competitive ladder to encourage players to progress further.Talking to PCGamesN, a source at Ubisoft has said that the team had noticed a trend where players would reach platinum rank but wouldn’t continue to earn diamond. To help encourage players to bridge this gap, Ubisoft will reduce the gap between ranks within the platinum tier.

Kate Middleton and Prince William's shared competitive streak is doing wonders for their relationship, an expert says. From a young age both Kate and William excelled in their sporting pursuits.

‘It’s better to be on team Harry, the fun team, we’re here to have a good time,’ No it’s not THAT Harry speaking but another pair of well-known brothers.

It’s a competitive advantage, but it’s also way more than that. It’s about safety, just general health and well-being of human life,” according to Pro Football Talk.Mayfield also goes on to talk about how many young and healthy people think that if they get Covid it will not be as bad as they say and that might be the case but Baker also talks about the people who are not young or healthy and how it could be life-threatening to them and that is another reason he chose to get vaccinated.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorBarry Diller is all for President Joe Biden’s efforts to rein in some of the more aggressive business tactics favored by Big Tech giants.As the sun rose on day three of the annual Allen & Co. moguls gathering here in the Idaho mountain resort, Diller, the veteran executive who has long straddled the world of content and digital with his IAC Corp.

Joey Chestnut once again proved himself to be the hungriest guy at Coney Island.

Rainbow Six Siege pro Pengu has accused the competitive scene of exploiting audio bugs for a number of years.Pengu tweeted about the bugs yesterday, saying that he had managed to test and replicate abilities which allowed for “dropping hatches, vaulting, and ripping C4 nades” silently. He was also able to throw rappel ropes with no in-game noise as well.Rainbow Six Siege‘s highly-competitive nature means that players often use audio cues to understand what the enemy team is doing.

Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron continues to expand her impressive (and perhaps even under-appreciated) oeuvre as a producer. Following her most recent effort with “The Old Guard,” Theron returns to Netflix to produce a feature film centering on the plights and prejudice experienced by competitive female surfers.

Jennie Garth is looking back at her time starring as Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210, and revealed that one of the biggest things she learned from the set was how to compete with other girls.

On the May 19 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, Nick Jonas revealed the events that led up to his bike accident, which landed him in the hospital on May 15 with a cracked rib. “We were shooting something for NBC, my brothers and I, and it was a competitive thing,” Nick explained.