James May: Top Gear star feared he was having heart attack mid-tour, says ex colleague

Maksim Chmerkovskiy is still sharing his first hand account of the very tense situation on the ground in Ukraine.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDue to the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian pavilion at the upcoming Biennale arts exhibition in Venice has been scrapped, as the Venice Film Festival continues to mull its response to calls for a boycott of Russian movies at the event’s 77th edition.Meanwhile, the Locarno Film Festival said on Monday that it will certainly be showing Russian films at its upcoming edition in August.Kicking off in April, the Venice Biennale, which is the multidisciplinary arts organization behind the Venice Film Festival, expressed solidarity with Russian visual artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov and the exhibition’s curator Raimundas Malašauskas, who on Sunday announced they were pulling out of the art show on their own initiative because “this war is politically and humanly intolerable,” as Malašauskas put it in a statement.

Treating herself! Meri Brown embarked on a solo road trip as tensions grow between Kody Brown and his spouses.

They’re done. Morgan Wallen and Paige Lorenze have split after six months of dating, multiple sources confirm to Us Weekly.

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A style statement! Meghan Markle put on quite the fashion-forward display at the NAACP Image Awards — but her look carried a special significance. 

Amanda Bynes had a successful career in Hollywood, after being catapulted to fame as a young actress in Nickelodeon’s ‘The Amanda Show,’ she starred in multiple successful romantic comedies, including ‘What a Girl Wants,’ ‘She’s The Man,’ ‘Hairspray,’ and more.So when the star began making headlines for a series of public breakdowns, including facing hit-and-run charges, driving under the influence and starting a fire outside a residence in California, fans started to worry about her mental health.Following the last incident in August 2013, Amanda’s mother, Lynn Bynes, was granted temporary conservatorship over her daughter, which was turned permanent in October 2014, and was extended to end in August 2020. The legal arrangement was extended yet again until January 2023, when a judge reviewed a health report on Amanda’s health in September 2021.

Tyler Perry, Shari Belafonte, Douglas Hodge, and more pinned to their clothes a blue and yellow ribbon in honor of the second-largest country in Europe.Other stars, including Fran Drescher, Lady Gaga, Leslie Odom Jr., Andrew Garfield, and Laverne Cox, acknowledge the crisis and pray to the victims. “The performances we are celebrating here tonight have brought you joy and inspiration this year,” Cox said during the award ceremony.

The entertainment background of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was thoughtfully invoked by Succession actor Brian Cox during the Succession actor’s SAG Award acceptance speech last night, just the latest example of what much of the world no doubt views as Zelensky’s unlikely path to the world stage.

Comcast NBCUniversal is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Black Experience on Xfinity by announcing plans to offer $1M in the form of ten $100K grants to emerging Black filmmakers. 

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian comedy Son of a Critch is returning for a second season.

The cast of Netflix’s Sex/Life is expanding for Season 2 with the addition of 5 new actors in recurring roles, they include Dylan Bruce (Midnight Texas, Orphan Black), Craig Bierko (UnREAL, Music Man), Darius Homayoun (Tehran, Succession), Cleo Anthony (She’s Gotta Have It, Seasons of Love), and Wallis Day (Infinite, Batwoman). Their roles are as yet unknown.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken the unprecedented step of calling on sporting organizations across the world to ban Russia and Belarus from competing, as the sport and media world continues to react to the Ukraine conflict.

HBO has set an April premiere date for horror comedy series The Baby, a co-production with Sky. The eight-episode series will debut Sunday, April 24 at 10:30 PM on HBO and will stream on HBO Max.

More than 20 international media groups have heeded calls from Ukrainian news organizations to turn off Russian news channels.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhere do you go after “The Dark Knight”? Ben Affleck blew it, and even Christopher Nolan, who brought unprecedented levels of realism and gravitas to that franchise-best Batman saga, couldn’t improve on what he’d created in his 2012 sequel. So what is “Cloverfield” director Matt Reeves’ strategy? Answer: Go darker than “The Dark Knight,” deadlier than “No Time to Die” and longer than “Dune” with a serious-minded Batman stand-alone of his own.

Japanese Breakfast has rescheduled her upcoming UK tour due to “lingering uncertainty” over COVID-related “travel protocols”.The Michelle Zauner-led project had been due to tour in the UK and Europe next month in support of her June 2021 album ‘Jubilee’.Zauner has now confirmed that she has had to move her upcoming UK live dates to later this year, while also cancelling a number of her scheduled European shows.“Due to lingering uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 travel protocols, we have decided to reschedule our UK and European dates from March to October 2022,” she said in a statement this afternoon (February 28).Zauner added that her planned gigs in Cologne, Hamburg, Antwerp, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and Copenhagen had been cancelled: “I am truly devastated we can not make it work at this time but I promise we will be back as soon as possible.”A post shared by Japanese Breakfast (@jbrekkie)All tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled shows, though refunds are also available from the point of purchase.You can see Japanese Breakfast’s rescheduled UK and European tour dates below, and find more ticket information here.October20 – Marble Factory, Bristol21 – Brudenell, Leeds22 – Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow24 – Albert Hall, Manchester25 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London26 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands27 – Gretchen, Berlin, Germany Japanese Breakfast recently performed the track ‘Be Sweet’ live on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in the US, which followed on from a performance of ‘Slide Tackle’ on The Late Late Show last month.Japanese Breakfast’s cover of Yoko Ono’s ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’, meanwhile, recently featured on the tribute album ‘Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono’.

Tears For Fears are heading for their third UK Number 1 album this Friday with The Tipping Point.

Tesla wouldn't be an issue for him. Well, it was.

BBC. The former Top Gear presenter admitted he had to call supermarket, Sainbury's, for one of his young staffers named Tom, as he was unable to make his shift due to filming commitments.James recalled the hilarious incident while discussing the highs and lows of his TV career with his director and producer Tom Whitter.The pair sat in a sunny garden setting while reminiscing on their various projects together over the years for a DriveTribe YouTube video.Speaking on a particular career-high, James admitted making Toy Stories’ Flight Club episode was a special experience.Tom began: “The Toy Story glider programme started well and went horribly wrong.

Jeremy Clarkson, 61, Richard Hammond, 51, and James May’s, 58, former PA Phillipa Sage has revealed the Top Gear trio were less than impressed when Paul Hollywood, 55, tracked them down at a party.Sage worked for the presenters during filming until they left the BBC show in 2015.After working with the stars closely over the years, Phillipa spilled that The Great British Bake Off judge was a fan and very excited to meet them at an event, but “the feelings weren’t mutual”.She revealed the awkward encounter took place at a surprise Halloween party set up for the hosts following a show in Birmingham.Sage recalled: “One night we arrived back from the NEC in Birmingham to discover our house had been decorated for Halloween and we were welcomed by