Month: January 2021

The Royal Courts of Justice where the High Court is located in London. (Getty/ BEN STANSALL/AFP) Many parents and carers of trans children are afraid to tell their kids about the High Court ruling on puberty blockers, Mermaids has reported. The High Court ruled on 1 December that transgender under-16s must understand the implications both
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Bachelor Nation continues to have a lot of feelings about Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan splitting up. After the pilot shared on Instagram on New Year’s Eve that he and the Bachelor season 24 standout had parted ways after nine months together, Bachelor in Paradise‘s Blake Horstmann offered a message of support that one user did not
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In light of the capacity crisis facing Southern California hospitals due to the COVID pandemic and an anticipated post-holiday surge of COVID cases, SAG-AFTRA and organizations representing commercial advertisers and advertising agencies and independent film and television producers have reached agreement on recommending a temporary hold on in-person production in Southern California. The major studios
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After revealing she is a lesbian and now dating a woman, The Real Housewives of Orange County cast member Braunwyn Windham-Burke says she would “be heartbroken” if her husband Sean Burke moved on with someone else. During a fan Q&A on her Instagram Story on Saturday, Jan. 2, the married couple, who wed 20 years ago and share seven kids, surprised fans
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Tanya Roberts, who is best known for being one of the iconic Bond Girls in the James Bond franchise – specifically starring alongside Roger Moore in 1985’s A View To A Kill – has passed away at the age of 65. At the time of this reporting, the cause of death is unclear, though reports
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Gerry Marsden, leader of the Merseybeat quartet Gerry & the Pacemakers, has died. Marsden’s friend Pete Price—a broadcaster based in Liverpool—broke the news on social media earlier today (January 3), stating that Marsden died following a short illness stemming from a heart infection. Marsden’s death was subsequently confirmed by the BBC. He was 78 years
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Robert Pattinson was the perfect, sparkliest Edward Cullen we could have asked for but, as you can imagine, he wasn’t the only actor who auditioned for Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight. Before any camera tests got rolling back in 2007, Stephenie Meyer was using her blog to communicate with fans about her casting ideas for the to-be
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Things got, er, odd in the first trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. (Screen captures via Twitter) Drag queens, start your engines – the official trailer for the long-awaited second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK dropped Sunday evening (3 January) and yup, we are absolutely gagging for it. Immediately sparking hope that maybe 2021
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Emily Mitchell, an Instagram influencer and parenting blogger, died at age 36 while pregnant with her fifth child. The Rhode Island native and creator of The Hidden Way blog passed away unexpectedly three days before Christmas, according to a fundraising page set up for her family. Emily, whose maiden name is Giancaspro, is survived by her husband Joseph Mitchell and their four children
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Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins is arguably the most in-demand female filmmaker in Hollywood right now. But that title comes with its own asterisk, namely the fact that Hollywood still insists on seeing female directors as a somewhat special breed, distinct from male filmmakers, who don’t need any gender qualifiers when describing their profession.
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Enigmatic UK group the KLF have surfaced, officially releasing a selection of songs to streaming services for the first time. The eight-track compilation Solid State Logik 1 appeared without fanfare on the first day of 2021, nearly three decades after they delivered an outrageous performance at the 1992 BRIT Awards, fired machine-gun blanks into the
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Saira Khan. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Saira Khan asked Loose Women bosses Sunday (3 January) to replace her with a “gay, transgender or non-binary host” after she announced that she has quit the lunchtime talk show after five years. In an Instagram post of her cover shoot for Notebook, a supplement of the Sunday Mirror, the British
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