Venice enforces new €5 entrance fee for UK tourists from today in latest crackdown

EXCLUSIVE: Caroline Roseman is exiting Banijay UK‘s unscripted label Initial to relocate to New York.

St. Vincent has kicked off her ‘All Born Screaming’ tour, during which she premiered a handful of new tunes – watch footage of the show below.St. Vincent performed at The Paramount in Los Angeles, California on May 4 to begin her North American trek in support of her latest album, ‘All Born Screaming’.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Multi-hyphenate Nicole Ansari-Cox has a lot going on. The London-based actor, producer, writer and activist just shot Southern Italy-set rom-com “Under the Stars” directed by Michelle Danner where she stars alongside Toni Colette, Andy Garcia and Alex Pettyfer. In addition, she appears in Austrian director Kat Rohrer’s “What a Feeling” that premiered recently at the BFI FLARE: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.

It's May already, and with a new month brings new shows to binge.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures highly-anticipated adaptation of the best-seller Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow is gaining some serious momentum as Oscar winner Siân Heder has been tapped to direct the adaptation which is based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name by Gabrielle Zevin. Mark Bomback wrote the script based off a draft penned by Zevin. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner will produce. Zevin will executive Produce.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been in the spotlight since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak first shone a light on proposed welfare reforms for benefits delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last month.

Ghosts is a hit among fans, and so are the stars of the show.

Fontaines D.C. have announced a surprise intimate gig in New York set to take place next week.The Dublin band – comprised of Grian Chatten, Tom Coll, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III and Carlos O’Connell – took to their official social media to announce their one-night-only gig on May 8 at Brooklyn’s Warsaw venue.

Ellise Shafer For British rapper Skepta, music was just the beginning of his creative pursuits. Earlier this year, the multi-hyphenate released his first short film, “Tribal Mark,” in the U.K., followed by a SXSW screening and premieres in L.A. and New York last month.

Amanda Holden is all set to present a brand-new Netflix dating show for those who've been unlucky in love, and guess what? You can still throw your hat in the ring! The Britain's Got Talent star will be at the helm of 'Cheaters: Unfinished Business'. It's not your average dating programme; this spicy UK reality series brings former flames back together at a luxe retreat to figure out if they're ready to bury the hatchet and give their romance another go. The project is a collaboration between ITV Studios' 12 Yard Productions and Lifted Entertainment, the brains behind the smash hit Love Island.

Billie Eilish has accomplished more than most recording artists will in their entire lives.Over the past decade, the “Bad Guy” singer released two number one albums, hosted “Saturday Night Live” and collected nine Grammy Awards and two Academy Awards to name just a few of her many impressive achievements.This year, she’s going back for more.Eilish just announced she is embarking on the worldwide ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR’ in support of her upcoming album with the same name, due out May 17.The worldwide tour includes a stop at Newark, NJ’s Prudential Center on Wednesday, Oct. 9 as well a trio of back-to-back-to-back gigs at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Oct.

Theo James is getting in a workout.

Gel have returned with an aggressive new single, ‘Mirage’ and announced a new EP, ‘Persona’.The New Jersey hardcore band will release their new five-track EP on August 16, which is the follow-up to 2023 album ‘Only Constant’. It also marks their first release on new label Blue Grape, which is also the home of bands such as Code Orange and Spiritual Cramp.Notably, ‘Mirage’ is the band’s longest single to date, clocking in at just shy of three minutes.“We really wanted to fill out the songs more and make them more nuanced,” explained vocalist Sami Kaiser in a press release.

Enrique Iglesias’ large family has a new family member. This past April 24th, Iglesias’ younger sister, Ana Boyer, welcomed her third child with Fernando Verdasco. The child is named Martin and has his family incredibly excited.

Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a “theater rat.” So it’s natural she’d be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the corner from where she’s in rehearsals for her latest show, “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.” Less than two weeks from its April 21 opening, Neuwirth’s midday order is a simple one: English breakfast, hot and black. She doesn’t need the overflowing pile of creamer the waiter brings, but she’ll take that little dish for her teabag.

Channel 4's Gogglebox is set to air with a new theme tune tonight, marking the first change in 11 years since the show's launch.

A previously lost 12-string acoustic guitar that belonged to the late John Lennon will go up for sale at an auction in May after it was recently found in the attic of a home in Britain.The auctioneers said Lennon played the guitar, which is expected to exceed its estimate of $600,000 to $800,000, on the Beatles’ 1965 album “Help!”The guitar was lying in an attic and was rediscovered by the current owners during a house move.The founders of US-based Julien’s Auctions said they traveled to Britain to verify the guitar and found the original case – a Maton Australian-made guitar case – in the trash.Martin Nolan, executive director and co-founder of Julien’s Auctions, told Reuters the owners knew they had the instrument at one point, but thought it had been lost.The guitar is believed to have ended up in their hands through British musician Gordon Waller, a member of the 1960s pop duo Peter and Gordon.“Gordon was gifted it from John Lennon, then Gordon gifted it to his road manager, and that’s where the guitar stayed for all these years,” Nolan said.The guitar will be auctioned on May 29 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York and on the auctioneer’s website.Earlier this year, a stolen Hofner bass guitar belonging to Paul McCartney was found and returned to Lennon’s fellow Beatle after 51 years following a global hunt.Musical instruments belonging to prominent members of the Beatles have fetched a high price at previous auction.In 2015, a guitar stolen from Lennon in the 1960s sold for $2.41 million at an auction in California.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Gangs of London’ star Joe Cole and ‘True Spirit’ and ‘Titans’ actor Teagan Croft have both just wrapped contemporary neo-noir thriller Override, the fourth feature from directing duo Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov. It marks the English-language debut for the Russian helmers, whose Captain Volkonogov Escaped played in Venice’s Competition strand in 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Charades and New Europe Films are joining forces to co-sell Oscar-winning Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’ long-awaited new feature Orphan, as the production gears up to commence shooting in and around Budapest this June.

Meghan Markle was given a rather harsh nickname by Prince Philip, which revealed his true feelings towards her that he "couldn't escape", according to a royal expert.