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Beanie Feldstein & Lea Michele Attend Same Event Hours After ‘Funny Girl’ Trend Comments

Beanie Feldstein arrives in a cute black dress for the launch of CODE (RED) to Fight COVID on Wednesday night (October 13) in New York City. The 28-year-old actress was joined at the event by Lea Michele, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Big Sky‘s Katheryn Winnick, Anne V, Javier Munoz, Phoebe Robinson, Dan Schulman, CEO of ONE Campaign Tom Hart, COO of RED Jennifer Lotito, SVP for Mastercard Mimi Alemayehou and Principal of Firefly3 Tom...

Kacey Musgraves Reacts to New Album ‘Star-Crossed’ Being Removed from Country Category by Grammys

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Kacey Musgraves attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue ) Kacey Musgraves is addressing the recent decision by the Grammys to have her new album excluded...

Cher Is Suing Sonny Bono’s Widow For Withholding Royalties From Her Hit Songs

Cher has filed paperwork to sue Sonny Bono‘s widow, Mary, in Los Angeles. The 75-year-old entertainer alleges that Mary, a former US Representative, has withheld royalties from Cher‘s hit songs with Sonny from the 1960s.   Deadline reports that Cher is accusing Mary of keeping her from her share of royalties on such hits as “I Got You Babe” and “The Beat Goes On.” Cher is seeking $1 million in damages, according...

Victoria Beckham Got Freaked Out While Playing ‘Can You Feel It?’ on ‘The Tonight Show’

Victoria Beckham reaches inside the mystery box during the Can You Feel It? game with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show on Wednesday (October 13). The 43-year-old fashion designer stopped by the program to talk about her new fashion collection and opened up about coordinating her looks with husband David Beckham, before playing the Halloween themed mystery box game with Jimmy. During the game, one of...

US-China coronavirus vaccine diplomacy heats up but can donations sway allegiances?

Lau Ka-kuen The United States was largely absent in vaccine diplomacy early this year but entered the arena when President Joe Biden announced in May that the US would distribute 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses worldwide. Biden did not hide his intention: The US wanted to counter the influence of China and Russia by using the "arsenal...

Ex-Myanmar president says army tried to force him to cede power hours before coup

Myanmar's president Win Myint reviews the honour guard during his welcome ceremony at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand on June 14, 2018.Reuters file Myanmar's deposed president testified on Tuesday (Oct 12) that the military tried to force him to relinquish power hours before its Feb 1 coup, warning him he could be seriously harmed if...

Quirky China: Man breaks down over daughter’s maths fail, publisher stung for confusing a bee and a fly, Prada PR disaster

A handout photo. Textbook publisher embarrassed by insect mix-up.South China Morning Post A Chinese father lay down in the middle of a road begging police to detain him because his daughter could not solve a simple mathematics calculation. The man, a resident of Kunshan in Jiangsu eastern China, said he felt “so angry and so helpless” that...

‘Your rider is preparing the food’: Deliveryman makes roti canai himself after long wait at Malaysia eatery

Screengrab from TikTok/broarifffff Frustrated after waiting too long to pick up an order, a Foodpanda delivery rider decided to step in and prepare the food himself at an eatery in Selangor, Malaysia. A viral TikTok video shared on Oct 6 — with more than 330,000 views — shows user broarifffff filming In the 11-second clip, the man filming the hilarious...

Lana Nodin & Rita Rudaini Hit Out At Haters Now That Interstate Travel Is Allowed

Over the last few months, local celebs Lana Nodin and Rita Rudaini have often been the subject of controversy and online criticism after being accused as anti-vaxxers. Apparently, the spotlight is back on them soon after the government decided to resume interstate and international travel beginning this week. Recently, the 41-year-old celebrity Lana Nodin (who’s currently residing in...

Rapper Bridge Adopted By New Godparents Anita Yuen & Julien Cheung!

It’s not uncommon to find family outside your blood related kin. You’ll feel like these people slot perfectly into your life. Be it older or younger friends, they’ll eventually seem less like friends and more like family. Singer Bridge (布瑞吉), real name Chen Jianqiao (程劍橋), may have joined China’s TV show “Call Me By Fire (披荆斩棘的哥哥)”...