Keke Palmer shuts down “colourism” comparisons to Zendaya

A mum who remortgaged her home and started her dream business for her spare bedroom is celebrating a whopping £1m company turnover. Charlotte Mills had always wanted to become a designer, and in 2014 decided to take the plunge into the fashion industry.

A Perth charity - forced to cancel a fundraising ball over fears supporters couldn’t afford the £60 tickets - has turned its focus to helping local people through the cost-of-living crisis.

Evidence from the Scottish Conservatives has revealed crumbling court buildings across Lanarkshire require nearly £740,000 worth of repairs.

Meet a trio of finalists in the Little Champions category in this year's Scotland's Champions Awards.

Naman Ramachandran Jed Mercurio, creator of hit BBC series “Line of Duty” and “Bodyguard,” has revealed a few aspects of his craft for screenwriters.Mercurio’s course for the BBC Maestro educational series, titled “Writing Drama for Television,” has launched into North America. It is a comprehensive breakdown of the art and craft of writing, split into 28 chapters, beginning with the genesis of the process and concluding with career development options.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMeghan Markle deconstructs the history of societal stereotypes about women in “Archetypes,” her first show for Spotify, which premiered Tuesday.The first episode of “Archetypes” features Serena Williams, who recently announced her plans to retire from pro tennis, talking with Markle about the double standard women face when they are labeled “ambitious.” and Dr. Laura Cray, a professor at UC Berkeley and an expert on gender in the workplace.

Outlander star Sam Heughan has delighted fans by joining TikTok as he documents his most recent trip to Mexico, including getting lost in the country.

A sex plot blackmailer who was caught when he left his DNA on a handwritten ransom note has dodged a prison sentence.

Police have released CCTV images of a man they believe could be linked to an assault that happened in Glasgow earlier this year.

A Scots social worker has been left scared to leave the house after she was knocked unconscious and beaten black and blue by strangers at an event at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Love Island star Laura Anderson has shared some throwback snaps from her days as an air hostess before finding fame on the reality show.

Ex-Love Islander Molly Mae Hague has released her latest collection with Manchester fashion brand PrettyLittleThing - and it’s perfect for Autumn and Winter. Molly Mae hopes the range will make shoppers feel ‘confident and powerful’.

Sylvester Stallone has responded to claims he and his wife Jennifer Flavin are experiencing some turbulence in their relationship.

Beastie Boys have teamed up with toy designers Super7 for a series of ‘Sabotage’-inspired action figures.The trio of toys sees Ad Rock, MCA and Mike D dressed as their alter-egos from the 1994 music video for ‘Sabotage’.The Spike Jonze-directed visuals saw Beastie Boys play fictional movie stars in a ‘70s crime drama, with MCA playing Nathan Wind playing Cochese, Ad-Rock playing Vic Colfari playing Bobby, ‘The Rookie,” and Mike D playing Alasondro Alegré playing ‘The Chief’.Super7 has made some official ReAction Figures paying homage to the original cast of Sabotage. Collect them all! Pre-order in the US store: https://t.co/9V1r7CoCT0 Or at @super7store: https://t.co/uCX4ygYqBB#Sabotage #Super7 #ActionFiguresNotDolls pic.twitter.com/2EN799enYZ— Beastie Boys (@beastieboys) August 22, 2022The Super7 action figures remain faithful to these characters and cost $20 (£17) each.

Harry Styles has said My Policeman will feature “tender and loving” gay sex scenes.The singer and actor will soon be starring in the period romance film, directed by Michael Grandage, which follows a 1950s married British policeman who has an affair with a museum curator.Styles plays the policeman opposite David Dawson as the curator, while The Crown star Emma Corrin plays Styles’ wife.“I think everyone, including myself, has [their] own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it,” Styles said while discussing the film in an interview with Rolling Stone.“It’s not like, ‘This is a gay story about these guys being gay.’ It’s about love and about wasted time to me.”Discussing the sex scenes in particular, Styles added: “So much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it.“There will be, I would imagine, some people who watch it who were very much alive during this time when it was illegal to be gay, and [director Michael Grandage] wanted to show that it’s tender and loving and sensitive.”My Policeman adapts Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel of the same name, and will be released in UK cinemas on October 21 before landing on Prime Video on November 4.Harry Styles also revealed that he is already working on ideas for his next solo album.“I’m always writing,” he said, after releasing his third album ‘Harry’s House’ earlier this year. “I think all of us are so excited to get back to it, which feels insane because we’ve just put an album out.”

Janet Jackson‘s 1989 single ‘Rhythm Nation’ is said to have the power to cause older laptops to crash.In a recent blog post (via Hot New Hip Hop), Microsoft’s principal software engineer, Raymond Chen, explained: “The song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they [an unnamed major manufacturer] and other[s] used.”Chen claimed that the frequency caused laptops from around 2005 to crash after playing the audio. The issue is similar to how an opera singer is able to shatter glass by singing at a certain pitch.“The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback,” he continued.“I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem.

VIXX vocalist and soloist Leo has made a comeback with his third mini-album ‘Piano Man Op. 9’, led by the single ‘Losing Game’.In the new visual, the idol appears to chase a woman through a luxurious mansion.

Harry Styles has revealed that he is already working on ideas for his fourth solo album.The former One Direction singer released his third studio record, ‘Harry’s House’, back in May. It followed on from his self-titled debut (2017) and his second LP, 2019’s ‘Fine Line’.During a new cover interview with Rolling Stone, Styles spoke about his decision to play extended residencies on his current North American tour.

Tommy Lee has spoken about a recent full-frontal nude selfie he shared across his social media accounts, saying he uploaded the picture while on a “bender”.Earlier this month, the Mötley Crüe drummer posted the NSFW picture to Instagram and Facebook before it was taken down several hours later. The photo remains on his Twitter account.During Mötley Crüe’s show in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday night (August 21), Lee spoke about the incident.“A couple of weeks ago, we had like a two-week break off the tour, and I went on a motherfucking bender, bro,” he said.“I got fucking sideways as fuck and got naked and posted pictures of my dick.

Jenna Johnson is continuing to share her beautiful pregnancy journey with her followers. On Monday, the 28-year-old dancer shared a heartwarming video of how she told husband Val Chmerkovskiy they are expecting a baby after her two-year struggle with infertility.«Telling my hubby I’m pregnant,» Johnson captioned the clip on Instagram, telling her fans to go watch the entire video on her YouTube page.

is off to a flying start. HBO's prequel — set 200 years before Daenerys Targaryen's quest for the Iron Throne — scored nearly 10 million viewers in its Sunday night debut, making it the most highly-rated original new series premiere in the history of HBO. Officially, the cable network reports 9.986 million viewers across both linear and HBO Max streaming platforms in the United States on Sunday night -- even as the streaming app crashed on Amazon Fire TV devices, leaving a portion of potential viewers in the dark. A press release from HBO indicates that Sunday's viewership is expected to make up just a small portion — 20 to 40 percent — of the show's total gross audience. While a direct comparison would be impossible to nail down -- due in part to shifting landscapes in streaming and evolving fandoms — the and both note that first season premiered to 4.2 million viewers in 2011, while its eighth and final season premiere was watched by a record-setting 17.9 million people in 2019. brings to life George R.R.