Casanova pleads guilty to racketeering conspiracy and drug charges

An ET Canada favourite is saying goodbye to the show.

“The Stars at Noon” finds the French filmmaker Claire Denis shooting in Panama doubling for Nicaragua; directing a cast of Yanks, Brits, and assorted Central Americans; and working from a script switching between Spanish and English. Internationally coproduced Towers of Babel such as this aren’t at all uncommon at the Cannes Film Festival, but the errors in translation all over this disappointing foreign-relations drama run deeper than simple differences of ethnicity or language.

Emma Raducanu's decision to part company with coach Torben Beltz before this month's French Open.Raducanu beat Linda Noskova in her first ever match at Roland Garros but then exited the tournament after a three-set battle with Aliaksandra Sasnovich. The British teenager went down 3-6 6-1 6-1, wasting a series of break points in the deciding set.Indeed, since her remarkable win at the US Open last September, the British No 1 has struggled for consistency.

Coronation Street fans have been left baffled by a glaring adoption blunder in the ITV soap.Last night (May 25) Imran Habeeb and Toyah Battersby were contacted by social services to see if they’d reconsider adopting tot Elsie.But they’d given their foster daughter up for good after Toyah exposed Imran’s cheating earlier this year.

ITV Calendar for around 19 years, while Katy was with the show for nearly a year.She has now made a return to Good Morning Britain, alongside Ben Shepard, Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley.Katy married Coronation Street's Adam Rickett in 2014, who played Nick Tilsley on the soap until 2004. ITV announced on its official page that Duncan was leaving, after he recently sparked worry among fans and colleagues due to a leave of absence related to ‘health issues’, the Express reports.

West Ham United ace Gavin Holligan is now a music superstar who has performed alongside legendary icon Stevie Wonder.The London-born artist, 41, enjoyed a journeyman's career in professional football before mixing it up in non-league during the latter end of his playing days. Holligan turned down a music scholarship at university to focus on football and was picked up by West Ham for a £150k fee after impressing at local side Kingstonian.He made his debut in February 1999 away at Anfield, replacing Joe Cole as a late second-half substitute, as the Hammers claimed a vital 2-2 draw in their pursuit of Intertoto Cup qualification."It was a moment in time I will never forget," said Holligan, speaking to The Sun.

Liam Payne has been seen putting on a cosy display with new girlfriend Aliana Mawla following his split from fiancée Maya Henry.The former One Direction star sparked split rumours earlier this week after being spotted with a "mystery woman", who has now been identified as the 24 year old model and influencer who previously starred in Liam’s music video for his song Familiar. Now, the 28 year old singer has been photographed making his way out of London's Heathrow Airport with Aliana as the couple cuddled up to one another as they walked down the hallway.

Holly Willoughby couldn't contain her glee as she finally got an important moment during the latest episode of This Morning. The presenter was back fronting the show alongside Phillip Schofield on Thursday (May 26) which was their last show before a short break.

Following the news that Love Island is set to return to our screens on June 6 at 9pm, the ITV2 show has made another exciting announcement. Ahead of the series eight hitting our TV sets, the Love Island Official Shop has unveiled a new water bottle for Love Island fans to get their hands on.The bottle, which was unveiled earlier on This Morning by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, features a gold-font and is set to be available for a limited run during the series and the summer period.The shop has also introduced a range of official Love Island greeting cards that poke fun at iconic phrases from summers gone by.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a string of new measures aimed at helping millions of households across the country deal with the soaring cost of living. It comes as the UK faces record-high levels of inflation and rapidly rising energy and gas bills, forcing many households and families to fall into poverty.

Toyah and Imran Habeeb seem to be getting everything they've ever dreamed of in Coronation Street. As fans of the ITV soap know, Toyah has longed to be a mother and earlier in the year was on track to adopt a little girl named Elsie.

Kate Moss has enjoyed an extremely successful career in the spotlight, and she's also dated many fellow celebrities over the years. The 48 year old model's love life regularly saw her appear in the headlines, with Kate having dated stars such as Johnny Depp.

“I mean we were both married and nothing came of it, of course.“But I had such a crush on him that just going to work every day was stepping into paradise.“Plus, it was Neil Simon’s script - one of his best.So it was a brilliant script and Gene Saks was the director, and it was one of my most fun, happy experiences to date.“We had a blast!” the movie star added in an interview with Vanity Fair.“And it was very early on in Bob Redford’s career, I think it was his first hit movie that he did.“I have nothing but good memories of it.”Jane and Robert also starred alongside one another in the Netflix vehicle Our Souls at Night in 2017.In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter at the time, Jane addressed how the different characters she played opposite Robert differed.During a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, she said: “In ‘Barefoot in the Park’ I couldn’t keep my hands off of him.“I was constantly forcing myself on him.“In ‘Our Souls at Night’ the dynamic of my character to his character was somewhat similar.

Bride-to-be Stacey Solomon doesn't seem to have caught a moment to herself in recent months. As well as planning her wedding to EastEnders beau Joe Swash, renovating their £1.2 million Essex country home and presenting numerous television shows, the 32-year-old Loose Women favourite is also raising four children - including her five-month-old new-born daughter Rose. Now, a source close to the former X Factor star has exclusively told OK! that Stacey is really starting to feel the pressure of organising her wedding day, which is looming ever closer.

There’s really no overstating the sociocultural impact of Elvis Aaron Presley, whose music and celebrity cleaved the twentieth century in half as an Ozymandias colossus foretelling the future of fame: merchandising, overexposure, descent into self-parody. That’s all in Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic “Elvis,” though mostly because he’s jammed everything he possibly can into its million-millennia run time.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentStarring Léa Seydoux,  Mia Hansen-Løve’s “One Fine Morning” won this year’s Europa Cinemas Cannes Label for best European film at the 2022 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.Announced Thursday by Europa Cinemas, ahead of the closing ceremony this evening, the prize is one of two at Directors Fortnight, and awarded by one of the sidebar’s partners given the section is non-competitive.A second partner plaudit, the SACD Prize, handed out by France’s Writers’ Guild,  will be announced later today at an awards ceremony.“One Fine Morning” was always a frontrunner for a prize at Directors’ Fortnight, though never a shoo-in. The award comes just three days after Sony Pictures Classics announced it had acquired North American, Latin American and Middle East rights to the film.

Fred Bronson The first news about a virtual ABBA show broke in 2016. Six years later, “Voyage” is set to open at the purpose-built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Along the way, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus wrote two new songs for the show and reunited with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad to record a new album, making a spectacular comeback for the Swedish quartet that first achieved international fame in 1974 by winning the Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo.”After two previews, a VIP invited audience will see the show tonight (Thursday, May 26) and an official opening night happens on Friday, May 27.

Christopher Vourlias Powerhouse producers Valeriy Fedorovich and Evgeniy Nikishov, the creative duo behind Netflix’s first Russian original series, “Anna K,” quietly left 1-2-3 Production in early March and are now focused on their Moscow-based shingle MC2.Though the announcement was formally made just days removed from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Fedorovich said the plan to leave the Gazprom-Media-backed production outfit had been set in motion long ago.“When we set up our own company, it was clear that we [would] have to say goodbye to 1-2-3 Production,” Fedorovich told Variety. “We used to work for others; now we want to work for ourselves.”As the co-heads of the Moscow-based outfit which they launched in 2018, Fedorovich and Nikishov were the creative force behind the plague thriller “To the Lake,” a series that made top 10 lists across the globe after it was acquired by Netflix, and wrapped production last year on the streamer’s first original Russian drama series, “Anna K,” a contemporary retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel “Anna Karenina.” They were also tapped to produce the Netflix original series “Nothing Special.” But the war in Ukraine, which entered its fourth month this week, has left many high-profile Russian film and TV projects in limbo, as global streaming platforms, international distributors and a range of industry partners have either suspended or pressed pause on their Russian operations.Fedorovich and Nikishov could not comment on the status of either of the two Netflix series currently in the pipeline.

Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey, a horror film reimagining of the children’s teddy bear.As discovered by Dread Central, Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and stars Amber Doig-Thorne, Maria Taylor, Danielle Scott, Danielle Ronald, Chris Cordell and Craig David Dowsett as Winnie himself.According to the film’s IMDB page, it’s described as a “horror retelling of the famous legend of Winnie the Pooh.” It’s expected to be released later this year.As shown in the first images from Jagged Edge Productions, Pooh appears to be a slasher serial killer wielding a sledgehammer. There’s also a twisted reinterpretation of Piglet, and a shot with the words “get out” written across windows in blood.You can check out the first pictures below.Originally created by author A.A.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill hit shelves in 1998, Lauryn Hill has been misunderstood.Prior to its release, Hill was the breakout star of the iconic hip-hop group Fugees, alongside Pras and Wyclef Jean. In 1997, she appeared on the Love Jones soundtrack with her single “The Sweetest Thing,” an emotional song that would become a precursor for things to come.Due to several circumstances (some of which have been highly publicized), Hill has a relatively small body of work, which makes her music even more remarkable.

Brooklyn rapper Casanova has pleaded guilty in a federal racketeering case, Rolling Stone reports. The artist, real name Caswell Senior, admitted to one count of “conspiring to conduct and participate in the conduct of the affairs of a criminal enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity” and another count of “conspiring to distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana.” He is facing a maximum prison sentence of 60 years for the two charges, with a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. Sentencing is scheduled to take place on December 6.