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ITV Studios has acquired a majority stake in Australian producer Lingo Pictures — marking its first acquisition in the country.

Looking through Stacey Solomon’s Instagram grid, life seems to have been a case of non-stop fun at Pickle Cottage this month. The Solomon-Swash family have just celebrated daughter Rose turning one, and doting mum (and Halloween fanatic) Stacey recently transformed their sprawling £1.2m Essex pad into an autumnal extravaganza.

At this point, Mark Wahlberg‘s Hollywood persona has as much variety as Dwayne Johnson‘s. Wahlberg effectively plays himself in every movie, whether it’s a thriller, an action comedy, or a drama of some kind.

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Monaghan is set to co-star opposite Mark Wahlberg in Apple Original Films and Skydance Media’s action comedy The Family Plan. Simon Cellan Jones, who recently collaborated with Wahlberg on Arthur the King, will direct.

Democratic gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams and Beto O'Rourke became liberal media darlings in their 2018 bids for statewide office in red states Georgia and Texas. They lost, but their futures as national stars appeared set.

Jon Burlingame editor The centennial of Henry Mancini, composer of “The Pink Panther,” “Moon River” and other movie songs, isn’t until 2024. But the celebration began on Thursday when an all-star parade of Oscar, Emmy and Grammy-winning musicians got together to re-record one of his most famous works: “Peter Gunn.” With legendary composers John Williams and Herbie Hancock on keyboards, jazz great Arturo Sandoval on trumpet and music mogul Quincy Jones conducting an 18-piece band of L.A. session players, Mancini’s 1958 TV theme rocked the Warner Bros. scoring stage all afternoon. It was old home week for many, who seemingly spent half the three-hour session embracing, laughing and snapping photos. Williams and Jones called each other “Q” and “John T.,” the nicknames they had when the two were toiling side-by-side at Universal Television in the 1960s, before each started collecting Oscars and Grammys for their work in films and records.

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. – Several voters in South Fulton, Georgia, refused to reject Stacey Abrams' claim that the 2018 gubernatorial election was stolen from her, while some outright supported the Democrat's assertion. "Based off of character, I’m gonna support her on it," one woman, Jasmine, said.

Stacey Solomon found herself having to respond after it was suggested she had left her one-year-old daughter to 'fend for herself'. The TV star is known for showing off her crafty side on Instagram and earlier this week vowed to show off more of her latest DIY efforts.

Garbage’s Shirley Manson has spoken out about the current state of live music and how touring has put artists under “enormous strain”.Manson shared her thoughts in a recent Instagram post, outlining all of the issues musicians are currently facing on the road, under an image which read “The Live-Music Industry Is Broken”.“Live music is under enormous strain,” she wrote. “We are seeing so many precious talents buckle under the economic injustice of a system that does not pay the creative for their artistic output.”“Everyone is vying for a handful of venues in order to make a small amount of money to tide them over until the next show, most sailing without a dollar of insurance,” she added.

Daily Mail, “It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson.” She recalled that Deidre and her son Anthony found Manson “charismatic” and were “fascinated” by him. Once she realized hard drugs were involved, she made the decision to move the whole family from Los Angeles to Ireland where they wouldn’t be exposed to all the “bad influences” of Hollywood.

A silver lining of beloved stars passing on is we often hear stories about them we’d never heard before. Usually these stories are about meeting fans and being great people — this one is quite a bit different…

died Tuesday at the age of 96 — recalled in a 2014 interview how her daughter, Deidre Shaw, fell in with Manson’s posse as a teenager. “It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson,” the actress told the Daily Mail. “She was one of many youngsters who knew him and they were fascinated.

death of the "Murder, She Wrote" actress, fans publicly mourned her passing and many shared run-ins and anecdotes of their experiences with the on-screen legend. One of the most interesting stories came from writer and photographer Christopher Moloney, who recalled Angela moving her family to Europe to keep her kids away from Charles Manson."Angela Lansbury told a story about her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat," he tweeted. "He would pick the girl up from school and get her to steal money and food from her parents for him.

Dame Angela Lansbury may be remembered best for her magnificent voice and the enchanting roles she played, but she also died having been a fiercely protective parent, navigating her daughter away from the infamous murderer and cult leader Charles Manson. In a candid interview with the Daily Mail from 2014, Lansbury shared that her daughter Deirdre Shaw had gotten involved with the wrong crowd. "It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson.

Zack Sharf In the wake of Angelia Lansbury’s passing at 96, a 2014 interview the actor gave to MailOnline (via The Independent) has resurfaced due to the revelation that Lansbury once saved her daughter from joining Charles Manson’s cult. Lansbury said her daughter, who is now 69, was “fascinated” by Manson, the notorious serial killer whose string of victims included Sharon Tate. Lansbury’s child became involved with drugs as a young teen and fell under Manson’s spell. “It started with cannabis but moved on to heroin. There were factions up in the hills above Malibu that were dedicated to deadly pursuits,” Lansbury said. “It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson. She was one of many youngsters who knew him – and they were fascinated. He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no question about it.”

Layoffs are underway at Warner Bros. Television Group. The cuts include the closing of digital shortform programming division Stage 13 and of the famous Warner Bros. Television Workshop, which has been around for more than 40 years.