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husband of RHONY Aviva and cousin of Fran Drescher, star of “The Nanny.”Reid Drescher claimed to have access to gobs of cash to invest in Los Angeles-based marijuana grower P&S Ventures LLC, according to P&S’s suit, filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.“Drescher bragged that he was a cousin of Fran Drescher, who played The Nanny in the television series of that name, and that his wife, Aviva Drescher, was on Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York, claiming to have many celebrity contacts as a result,” the suit said.Aviva Drescher — famous for throwing her prosthetic leg at another housewife onscreen — was cut from the hit show in 2014. Believing his “numerous materially false representations,” P&S agreed to accept a $5.4 million investment from Drescher’s fund in exchange for stock.But Reid Drescher was soon “forced” to admit that his fund didn’t have the promised money, the suit said.The fund had raised just $1 million of a planned $120 million as of 2019, according to its most recent securities filing.Gateway ultimately only kicked $1.35 million into P&S.

O-T Fagbenle has a message to former president Barack Obama, whom he portrays in the upcoming Showtime series “First Lady,” set to premiere April 17: “Barack, call me.”Fagbenle discussed his upcoming turn as the 44th president, alongside Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama, at the premiere of Apple TV Plus’s “WeCrashed” on Thursday at the Academy Museum. But did he try to contact President Obama to prepare for his role?“I did try and get in contact with him, of course!,” Fagbenle said.

Katie Maloney is getting candid about her split from Tom Schwartz.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is teasing the return of her 9-1-1 character Maddie Kendall!

Emmerdale fans will know all about the ups and downs of Priya Sharma's life, but how much do they know about the actress that plays her?

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Cambuslang Rangers are a point away from cinching the West of Scotland League Conference B title after an astonishing fight-back to draw 2-2 at Renfrew.

A former Scots rugby player was killed outside of a bar in Paris this morning.

J. Kim Murphy It was another easy pathway to the top slot at the domestic box office for “The Batman.” Now in its third weekend, the Warner Bros.

With her recent performances for the Super Bowl Halftime Show and Jazz in the Gardens Music Fest, Mary J. Blige has very little free time on her hands. The Grammy winner recently revealed her hectic schedule and lack of free time is one of the reasons she isn’t looking to start a family anytime soon. “I like my freedom to go and move and do what I want to do,” the 51-year-old singer told E! Daily Pop. “I don’t want to have to tend to someone all the time.”

David Heuring When the ASC launched its awards in 1986, a single statue was given for feature film cinematography, presented by Gregory Peck to Jordan Cronenweth for his work on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Peggy Sue Got Married.” Now, 36 years later, the American Society of Cinematographers Awards is returning to the smaller scale of yore even as it promises to celebrate a wide range of image-makers. The ceremony will take place on March 20th at the ASC Clubhouse, the org’s modest, if stylish, headquarters in Hollywood, rather than in a cavernous ballroom.

Pablo Sandoval Few movies are as awaited at this year’s Málaga Festival as Daniel Guzman’s “Canallas” (“Monkey Business”) which world premieres in competition this March 19. It marks the follow-up by Guzmán, an acclaimed actor-turned writer-director, to his notable debut “Nothing in Return” which scored best picture, director and a Critics’ Prize at 2015’s Malaga Festival, going on to scoop Spanish Academy Goyas for new director and breakout actor, the latter for Miguel Herrán. “Canallas” also reps the second original movie production from Movistar Plus, as Spain’s industry looks to the pay TV/SVOD arm of telco giant Telefonica to co-produce some of the biggest movie plays in the country.  Though the subject, setting and tone of “Canallas” could hardly be different from Movistar Plus’ debut movie outing, Alejandro Amenabar’s “While at War,” “Canallas” gives further clues to what kind of movies Movistar Plus is willing to sink money in. It’s clearly the work of an auteur, Guzmán typically meshing reality and fiction, casting a childhood friend, Joaquín González, as himself, a high flying entrepreneur – or so high imagines himself –  still living with his mum in a high rise in a modest outer-periphery big city ‘burb. When González and his family – played by his real non-pro family – face eviction, he turns to childhood friends Brujo and Luismi for help. Things were already going wrong.

Debbie Gibson delivered a photo and message for her birthday in 2021 that is still resonating with fans. The American singer posted a bikini selfie to celebrate another turn around the sun and the words which accompanied the snapshot were truly inspiring. MORE: Debbie Gibson wows in leather mini-skirt as she prepares for new tourIn the image, Debbie - who is about to embark on a U.S tour - was taking a shower and wearing a two-piece swimsuit. She wrote: "On this, the night of my Birthday, and a life moment that is like a rebirth, this felt like the perfect expression of my journey to this magical moment. A post shared by Debbie Gibson (@debbiegibson)Debbie shared the photo alongside a lengthy and emotional message"When I was at my lowest points in the last decade, literally laying face down on the cold bathroom floor in physical and emotional pain, inside I was still looking up and trusting that someway, somehow I was going to find myself as you see me in this picture."RELATED: Martine McCutcheon reveals she has been diagnosed with Lyme diseaseMORE: Yolanda Foster opens up about her debilitating battle with Lyme diseaseThe star - who has lived with Lyme disease since 2013 which has caused chronic pain, fatigue and stress - continued: "Looking up to the skies with stars showering down on me and bathed in a light that would help me project to all of you strength and joy and music and empowerment and the knowledge that the visions you hold for yourself and the voices in your own head are far more powerful than anything external threatening to take you down. MORE: Shania Twain causes a stir with appearance in promotional photo for Las Vegas residency SEE: Inside Celine Dion's $1.2million Las Vegas mansion where she's

Sandra Bullock, 57, and Channing Tatum, 41, are thinking back to a time when they were brought together through a school incident involving their daughters. The actress and actor, who co-star together in the new film, The Lost City, admitted that after initially meeting at a birthday party, they reunited years later after Laila Bullock and Everly Tatum got into a big fight at pre-school. According to them, the girls got into the scuffle and wanted to prove who the “alpha” in the friendship was.

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there is a critics’ favorite. Last year, it was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, a loose adaptation of three stories from Haruki Murakami’s 2014 compendium Men Without Women, that stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku, an actor and theater director dealing with a tragic loss. Two years after the death of his playwright wife, Kafuku is invited by a theater festival to stage a multi-language production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima, where he is assigned the taciturn chauffeur Misaki and meets the dangerous young actor Takatsuki. Though it only left Cannes with an award for Best Screenplay, Drive My Car went on to be the arthouse bulldozer of 2021, leading to a surprise three nominations—for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay—outside the expected Foreign Language Film nod. This interview took place shortly after Hamaguchi’s stint as juror at this year’s Berlinale…

As The Wanted wrap up their UK tour, reports have claimed that singer Max George has split from his girlfriend Stacey Giggs after four years of dating. Max, 33, and 38 year old Stacey have unfollowed each other on Instagram and have seemingly deleted all traces of their relationship on social media too. According to an insider, friends have been left “stunned” by the split.The source told The Sun: “Pals have been stunned by this bombshell as the idea of separating was once unthinkable for Max.

In an ITV schedule shake up, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will be off air tonight.The hit variety show, which normally goes on at 7pm, won't air on Saturday 19 March as usual as a sporting event takes its place. So, why isn't it on? Well it's all eyes on the Six Nations currently with not one but two rugby matches taking place on Saturday 19. Ireland will be playing Scotland at 4pm in the first match of the day, before England play France at 7:15pm.

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have never let their political parties stop them from working together — and the two former presidents have once again joined forces to support Ukraine. Bill and George, both 75, made a joint appearance at a Ukrainian church in Chicago, IL on Wednesday, March 16. The Windy City (a nickname for Chicago) is notably known to have one of the largest Ukrainian populations in the United States and has been a “sister city” to Kyiv since 1991.

Dolly Parton proved worthy of her icon status as she slayed once again during a performance at the 2022 SXSW Festival on Friday night (March 18) in Austin, Texas. The Grammy-winning country music star, 76, took the stage as part of the Blockchain Creative Labs Dollyverse event and didn’t disappoint the crowd of adoring fans. Rocking a fabulous sequin suit, Dolly played ditties from her new album Run, Rose, Run.

Are things truly over between Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet?!

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAttention, Cloud 9 shoppers: if you weren’t expecting Amy to return quite so soon, you weren’t the only one.“Superstore” star and executive producer America Ferrera didn’t anticipate her character Amy would head back to St. Louis during the same season she left for a corporate gig at the big-box retailer’s headquarters in California, but news that Season 6 would be the NBC series’ last dramatically shifted the trajectory of her storyline.“I expected and hoped that the show would go on after my departure for many, many years,“ she tells Variety.