Triple amputee who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan to take on amazing challenge

Clayton Davis Director Gina Prince-Bythewood knows you can’t win an argument on Twitter. That’s why she stays off social media platforms and chose not to engage with users that were attacking her, and the filmmakers from her box office hit “The Woman King” for taking license in its depiction of the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries, and its role in the slave trade. “There was an absolute assumption we weren’t dealing with it,” Prince-Bythewood says. “So much of the argument is based on bad facts. So, what the ‘Wikipedia historians’ are parroting is history written from the wrong point of view.” Listen below:

Future besties! Kaley Cuoco was quickly supported by her famous circle of friends after announcing her first pregnancy — including Beth Behrs.

I know you’ve all been sitting there, jittery and sweating, waiting for the big Wombles remasters. I don’t think there’s a person among us who doesn’t wish we could listen to those records with a new, digitally beefed up bottom end.Well, the bad news is, the one person who doesn’t want that to happen is songwriter and producer Mike Batt.

He’ll be joined in his final season by new coaches Chance the Rapper and former One Direction star Niall Horan and returning coach Kelly Clarkson. Host Carson Daly will also be back as host for Season 23, which kicks off in January 2023.“I’ve been wrestling with this for a while and I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step away from ‘The Voice’ after Season 23,” Shelton said in a statement.

Editor’s note: Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author back in Afghanistan more than a year after the U.S. withdrawal, and negotiating how to be a journalist in the country now the Taliban has solidified its return to power.

Olivia Newton-John's friends were able to say their touching goodbyes to the star two days before her death.EXCLUSIVE: Remembering Olivia Newton-John - Her family, Dolly Parton, Sir Cliff and more share memoriesLovingly, her husband 'Amazon' John Easterling reached out to her friends Amy Sky and Beth Nielson Chapman days before his wife passed away in August earlier this year so they could say goodbye. In our Breast Cancer Awareness special celebrating Olivia and her legacy, her singer friends spoke about the special moment.While Olivia was unable to speak on the call, her friends said it was "such a gift" to have closure.

Working through the drama. Even though “it hasn’t been easy” for Behati Prinsloo and Adam Levine to move past the cheating allegations against him, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly that the two are “working it out.”

STV presenters Sean Batty and Laura Boyd have ditched the day jobs and are embracing an extremely wet and windy challenge - but it's all for a good cause.

Drama is served! Doja Cat took the act of getting glammed up to a whole new level during Paris Fashion Week.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Two MTV Documentary films vying for Academy Awards attention — Ondi Timoner’s “Last Flight Home” and Tanaz Eshaghian’s short “As Far as They Can Run” — garnered the top nonfiction honors at the 23rd annual Woodstock Film Festival. “Last Flight Home,” about Timoner and her family’s last days with her father, won the best documentary prize, while “As Far as They Can Run,” about disabled children in rural Pakistan who have been deemed “useless” by their communities, took home the fest’s best short documentary award. “Last Flight Home” premiered at Sundance earlier this year before opening the Telluride Film Festival in September. This year marked Timoner’s first time at the Woodstock fest.

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Woman In Film, Los Angeles said Thursday that that She Said producer Dede Gardner, star Carey Mulligan and New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey will be honored next month at the 2022 WIF Honors. They join a recipient list that already includes the bestowing the group’s Crystal Awards to Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Don’t Worry Darling writer and director Katie Silberman and Olivia Wilde, respectively.

OWN for the Holidays' slate!Ringing in its fourth year of spreading excitement for the yuletide season, the Oprah Winfrey Network unveiled two original holiday movies with star-studded casts:, which premieres Saturday, Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, starring LeToya Luckett and Finesse Mitchell, and , making its OWN debut on Saturday, Dec.

Coco Austin is clapping back.

The Woman King” star Thuso Mbedu isn’t ruling out a potential sequel for the Sony film, which premiered on Sept. 16. Though Mbedu said director Gina Prince-Bythewood has made it known she doesn’t “believe” in sequels, her co-star John Boyega had an idea that may be too good to pass up. “I texted Gina the other day about it,” Mbedu told Variety at the Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program cocktail celebration on Thursday night, for which she was serving as a juror. “Gina said she doesn’t believe in sequels, but John had a nice idea for the sequel… I told it to Gina and she was like, ‘Ah, actually that could work,’ and then started bouncing ideas and I’m like, ‘Gina, go to sleep!’ And she was like, ‘No my mind is ticking already.’ So, we don’t know. Only Sony will tell us.”

Jake Lockett is the hot new star of Chicago Fire and the longtime series’ showrunners are opening up about the mystery surrounding his character Sam Carver.

It’s getting harder to breathe. While Adam Levine denied cheating on wife Behati Prinsloo with Sumner Stroh, several women have continued to come forward claiming the Maroon 5 frontman had inappropriate relationships with them.