Linkin Park reportedly planning reunion tour with new female vocalist

Linkin Park are reportedly planning a reunion tour with a new female vocalist. The band has been on hiatus since the tragic death of frontman Chester Bennington — who took his own life aged 41 in 2017 — but now they may be ready to get back on the road as a band in 2025. According to Billboard, the...

Alec Baldwin compares his cocaine addiction to drinking coffee after admitting he used the drug for two years

Alec Baldwin has compared his cocaine addiction to drinking coffee admitting he snorted the drug "all day long" for two years. The 30 Rock star has spoken candidly about his issues with drug and alcohol addiction after celebrating 39 years sober revealing he had a "white-hot problem every day for two years" and joked he snorted...

Gossip mill: K-pop girl group disbands after member works as hostess, Zerobaseone coming to Singapore for 1st concert tour, local actors’ Facebook accounts taken over by hackers

K-pop girl group disbands after member works as hostess K-pop idol Haru from the girl group Nature shocked fans on April 26 when she appeared in a promotional video for an adult entertainment establishment in Japan. Introducing herself as Sakura Ruru, the 24-year-old revealed that she has been working there for three months. "When I was 18 years...

Did Korean hit drama Queen of Tears change ending for Kim Ji-won’s character?

*Spoilers ahead Baek Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun) and Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) had their bittersweet ending in the finale of South Korean hit drama Queen of Tears yesterday (April 28). While they overcame Hae-in's terminal illness and their divorce in their 30s, remarried each other and raised their daughter — presumably named Soo-bin, as Hae-in's father desired — together, death...

French actor Gerard Depardieu to be tried in October over alleged sexual assaults

French actor Gerard Depardieu will be tried next October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday (April 29). Depardieu, one of France's top movie stars, has been at the centre of a growing number of sexual assault allegations in recent years that have tarnished...

Hilary Swank says quitting Hollywood to care for sick dad was a blessing

Hilary Swank says quitting Hollywood to care for her sick dad was a "blessing". The Oscar-winning actress walked away from her glittering career in 2014 to move in with her dad Stephen and become his live-in carer after he underwent a lung transplant — and she says the decision to put her family first was an...

Avengers directors the Russo brothers don’t expect Robert Downey Jr to return as Iron Man

The Russo brothers don't expect Robert Downey Jr. to return as Iron Man. The 59-year-old actor expressed an interest in reprising his role as Tony Stark/ Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) earlier this month but the Avengers: Endgame directors cannot envisage a comeback after the character's death in the 2019 blockbuster. Speaking to GamesRadar...

‘Most awful reaction’: Nicole Kidman reveals she laughed when she saw late father’s body

Nicole Kidman "laughed" when she saw her father's dead body — and her mother had to "slap [her] face" to bring her back to reality. The 56-year-old actress plays the mother of a missing child in her new show Expats and she's told how she drew on her own real-life reaction following the death of her father...

Britney Spears and her father reach settlement in legal dispute

US pop singer Britney Spears and her father, Jamie Spears, settled the remaining issues in a bitter legal battle over the weekend, around two and a half years after the singer was released from his guardianship. Britney Spears, 42, reached a multi-million-dollar settlement in a Los Angeles court on Saturday over the payment of her 71-year-old...

Taylor Swift beats Beatles in race to 12th UK number one album

Taylor Swift topped the British music charts on April 26 with The Tortured Poets Department, outselling the rest of the top ten combined and beating the Beatles for the record of fastest artist to rack up 12 UK number one albums. "Poets" delivered the biggest opening week for an album in the UK in seven years,...