Category: Celebrity

Actress Lupita Nyong’o, who was in the hotly-tipped film 12 Years A Slave, is among five young actors nominated for this year’s Bafta Rising Star award.

Lisa Robin Kelly, the troubled actress who played bad girl Laurie Forman on the Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show,” died of multiple drug intoxication, the Los Angeles County coroner’s department said Friday.

Cinema audiences in the UK and Ireland spent the last weekend of 2013 watching the latest Hobbit film – but not pop star Justin Bieber’s new documentary.

Pop star Britney Spears has received rave reviews for the opening night of her Las Vegas residency on Friday.

Singer Beyonce has justified using audio recordings from the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster in a track from her recently released album.

Actress Penelope Keith, star of BBC sitcoms The Good Life and To The Manor Born, says she is “thrilled and humbled” to have been made a dame in the New Year Honours list.

US reality star Phil Robertson will be returning to hit show Duck Dynasty following his suspension earlier this month over derogatory remarks he made about homosexuality.

An Italian film distributor has apologised after releasing unauthorised posters which promoted white actors over black actors in12 Years A Slave.

It turns out that when Jack Nicholson interview-bombed best actress Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence at last year’s Academy Awards and told her, “I’ll be waiting,” he wasn’t kidding.

X-Men star Hugh Jackman has pulled out of a new Broadway musical about Harry Houdini in which he was to have played the famed illusionist.

Film star Keanu Reeves has ruled out the possibility of starring in a remake of his 1991 action hit Point Break.

Both jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, whose incarceration sparked a global outcry, have been released under an amnesty law.

US reality star Phil Robertson has been suspended from his TV show following derogatory remarks about homosexuality.

Singer Adele has been awarded an MBE for services to music by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.

Actress Jennifer Lawrence has said she thinks “it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV”, after red carpet criticism of her own figure.

Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine – the star of several psychological thrillers produced by Alfred Hitchcock – has died in California aged 96.

Tributes have been paid to actor Peter O’Toole, the star of the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia, who died on Saturday aged 81.

Jack Whitehall has been named the 2013 king of comedy at the British Comedy Awards.

Bob and Harvey Weinstein are suing Warner Bros over its decision to divide The Hobbit into three films, which will mean the Weinsteins receive no payment from the second and third instalments.

Two “lost” films starring actor Peter Sellers are to be shown in public for the first time in more than 50 years.

US country singer Garth Brooks is to embark on a world tour, more than 10 years after he last hit the road.

Disney animation Frozen has toppled Hunger Games: Catching Fire off the top of the US box office chart in its second week of release.

Rocco Ritchie inherited more than just looks from Madonna.

Rapper Jay Z has dominated this year’s Grammy nominations, being shortlisted for nine awards.

The first episode of the new music talent show Pakistan Idol has been broadcast to the delight of music lovers.

Three artists have been shortlisted for this year’s Brit Critics’ Choice award, won last year by singer Tom Odell.

Production on Fast & Furious 7 has been put on hold after the death of its star, Paul Walker, on Saturday.

The 50th anniversary Doctor Who special has set a new iPlayer record for getting the most requests in 24 hours, 1.27m – beating the Olympic opening ceremony’s previous high.