Laverne Cox Now Has Her Own Barbie Doll

Next week on Coronation Street Carla warns her husband Peter Barlow to think carefully about rejecting the life-changing sum of money on offer from twisted surgeon Dr Henry Thorne over rushing his liver transplant operation for a bet. His son Simon also points out to his dad that a hundred grand could change their lives forever.

A peadophile who sexually abused a young girl over several years and took indecent images of her has been jailed. Raymond Hughes, of Thurston Close in Great Sankey, was banged up for 11 years and four months on Wednesday (June 22).

A 'microbakery' set up in lockdown by a former primary school teacher and his family is all set to open up this weekend. MOST is taking over the unit vacated by Warrens Bakery, which failed to reopen after lockdown.

3 min read In less than eight months more than 500,000 people will descend on Sydney Australia for World Pride 2023 and today the major events and ticket sales have been announced on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

Julia Fox left little to the imagination when she stepped out toThe Cock nightclub in Downtown New York City.The model and actress turned more than a few heads when she strutted her way to the two-level bar in a revealing black leather ensemble.The Cock was only a quick pitstop before she headed to the west side to check out a surprise performance by Madonna at a Women Of Power WOW event at the Terminal 5 music venue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Revealing: Julia Fox, 32, showcased her fit figure in a racy black ensemble outside of The Cock bar in Downtown New York City on ThursdayFox's outfit consisted of a skimpy leather skirt and a top that showed off her bare hips and cleavage.She added a pair of black stiletto boots that came all the way up to the middle of her thighs.

Elvis Presley and directed by musical film icon Baz Luhrmann. Speaking on Australian talk show The Project, Butler laughed when asked about his unique audition attire saying: “I’ll never live that one down.”He noted that the move was not intentional, but rather a spur of the moment to do what Elvis would do. Butler had thrown himself into the mountains of research on Elvis Presley as preparation and when delving into who the person was behind the microphone.He made an eerie connection that honed his sense of Elvis completely: they had both lost their mothers at the age of 23. Butler’s agent had asked him to tape a song for Luhrmann to listen to, and he started with a version of Love Me Tender. Upon listening to the tape Butler realised he could not stand the “impersonation”, let alone send it to Luhrmann and decided to try again at a later point. Butler shared: “I had this nightmare a couple nights later that brought up a lot of grief for something that happened in my life and it was that thing you know when you wake up in an awful place and think today’s going to be an awful day. “But I had been obsessing so much about Elvis that I thought ‘What would he do with this?’ and he would put it all into music.”In an interview with Total Film he revealed that the nightmare he had was reliving his mother’s death. In that moment, dressed in his bathrobe and without even brushing his hair, Butler sat at the piano and recorded his version of Unchained melody, but not the way he had sung it before. He noted in the Total Film interview that he had always seen Unchained Melody as a romantic song, but this time instead reasoned “What if I sing it to my mom?”He added that this moment is also what formed his approach to the character as

Katie Price is due to be sentenced when she appears in court today (June 24) after admitting to breaching a restraining order during a four-lettered texting tirade.From her explosion into the limelight as a Sun Page 3 model to bankruptcy and regular driving bans, what exactly has brought the reality television star to the brink of a possible spell behind bars?The 44-year-old became a public figure when she was still a teenager in the mid-1990s thanks to her girl-next-door topless and skimpy modelling photos, using the moniker Jordan.Her pictures were regularly plastered over publications like the Daily Star, FHM, the British edition of Playboy, Nuts, Maxim, Loaded, Vogue and Esquire.She even had a short-lived stint in politics when she ran as an independent candidate for MP during the 2001 UK general election - but got only 700 votes.A regular stream of TV shows and appearances has kept the mum-of-five in the public consciousness ever since her breakthrough and she even started an OnlyFans account as a way of trying to keep her income stream going.But the media personality is in the news for a different reason at the moment as she prepares to face a crown court judge - and she's been warned she could be jailed after she admitted breaching a restraining order against her ex-husband's fiancee.Born in Brighton in 1978, Price made a name for herself with her ever-increasing boobs and was a tabloid regular in the late 90s and noughties.The public got to know her more intimately though when she appeared in ITV’s I'm A Celebrity...

Arsene Wenger has admitted that there was no release clause over a head-turning transfer offer that could have seen Luis Suarez leave Liverpool for Arsenal back in 2013. Arsenal were desperate to sign the controversial Uruguayan and bolster their strike force while hampering a rival but what followed might be one of the more bizarre transfer stories the Premier League has ever seen.

Prince Harry's claims that he was 'not allowed to ride his bike' by his parents as a child have been called into question by a royal expert.The comments, where the Duke of Sussex compared his childhood in England with that of his three-year-old son Archie in the US, came during his controversial interview with Oprah Winfrey last year.Speaking highly of his family's new life in California, he said: "I guess the highlight for me is sticking him [Archie] on the back of a bicycle in his little baby seat and taking him on bike rides which is something I was never able to do when I was young."READ MORE: Queen unveils trendy new look at 96 and dramatically ditches her walking stickHarry then doubled down on his bicycle take by telling Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast last May that he would "never have had the chance" to ride with dad Prince Charles as his son does now.But royal commentator Daniela Elser brought this under scrutiny after digging up photos of Harry enjoying a bike ride with his father as a young boy.Writing in news.com.au, she said: "As far as Harry is concerned it is only now that he has the freedom to strap in his two-year-old boy and cycle around the exclusive neighbourhood, just a father and son, the dappled sunshine and a Range Rover full of protection officers purring along in their wake."To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Elser countered this by stating that there was at least four occasions where Charles took him and Prince William for fun on two wheels — "because there are some uncomfortable family photos of him doing it".Charles was once pictured on his bicycle on the Balmoral grounds in 1988 towing a four-year-old Harry behind him

For fans of Taika Waititi’s take on Thor in Thor: Ragnarok, the premiere of the writer-director’s latest MCU go-round, Thor: Love And Thunder, has been a long time coming. But it seems there may be yet more to come. At the Hollywood premiere on Thursday, its star, Chris Hemsworth said he hopes to continue the role for more films, especially if he can carry on working with Waititi.

the Ukrainian chef and author tests recipes, writes award-winning cookbooks and feeds her children. Today it’s chaotic: toys underfoot, Ukrainian tablecloths scattered on the sofa, huge houseplants that need watering… but her priority is lunch. She rolls out an oval of pasta dough – it’s perfect, silky and supple – and cuts it into ribbons, just enough for two. Given what she’s going through I’m amazed she can cook, let alone cook for guests.

Paul McCartney – headlining Glastonbury. In London’s Hyde Park, a 78-year-old man – Mick Jagger – will be leading out the last surviving Rolling Stones to sing songs about street fighting and sex.

Los Angeles isn't what it used to be for some celebrities as they continue to trade in the glitzy glamour for nature and open space. Celebrities from James Van Der Beek to Haylie Duff have made the decision to relocate their families from California to areas near Texas. The stars spoke about nature, feeling normal, being disconnected and having more space when discussing their reasons for the moves.

Naman Ramachandran “Agneepath” director Karan Malhotra’s epic “Shamshera” is gearing for a theatrical release in a post-pandemic moment when audiences are flocking back to cinemas.The film is set in the fictitious city of Kaza in the 1800s, where a warrior tribe is imprisoned, enslaved and tortured by ruthless authoritarian general Shudh Singh (Sanjay Dutt). It tells the story of Shamshera (Ranbir Kapoor), an enslaved man who became a leader and then a legend by relentlessly fighting for his tribe’s freedom and dignity.

Kylie Jenner has caused a furore and been slammed as “selfish” for taking a recent 30-minute journey on her $70million (£57m) private jet.The 24-year-old made the short trip from Calabasas, which is west of Los Angeles, to Palm Springs, 140 miles away, to stoke the ire of social media users around the world.The billionaire climbed aboard her Bombardier Global 7500 aircraft with partner Travis Scott and their two children, along with her mother Kris Jenner and her boyfriend Corey Gamble.READ MORE: Model Niece Waidhofer dies aged 31 after 'long battle with mental health issues' And nearly as soon as they were up in the air, they were touching down again, with a Rolls-Royce waiting to ferry them away on the runway.Jenner’s photos of her short trip provoked an immediate backlash.One irate Twitter user wrote: “Kylie Jenner taking a $70 million jet for a thirty-minute journey????? Okay, girl, ruin the planet some more.”Another echoed: “It’s rich people like her who are literally killing the earth we live in. So selfish”, while a fellow onlooker blasted: “This girl has too much money for her own good.

Queen is trying to 'tie up loose ends' in the Royal Family as her health declines, a royal expert has claimed.This follows symbolic moves by Her Majesty to allow her son and heir Prince Charles to appear in her place for a number of high-profile royal appearances.This included the Queen's Speech in May and a thanksgiving service for the Platinum Jubilee earlier this month.READ MORE: Queen unveils trendy new look at 96 and dramatically ditches her walking stickSpeaking to the Daily Mirror's podcast Pod Save the Queen, biographer Andrew Morton said: "The Queen is a very tidy person and even as a little girl she used to keep her shoes all lined up properly and wake up in the night and make sure everything was tidy, so there is a tidiness about her character."And you can see there is a lot of tidying up going on at the minute towards the end of the reign.""The biggest issue that needed to be tidied was Camilla and how she will be referred to in the future."The Queen has incrementally bought [Camilla's] status higher and higher.

Ikenna Ekwonna’s stay at the Love Island villa may not have been truly memorable, but his Twitter team more than made up for his lack of spark.And now fans are trying to work out the identities of the people behind a series of hilarious tweets during the 23-year-old pharmaceutical salesman’s appearance on the show.One person asked: “Can we find out who is behind this page now so we can follow you for more funny content.”READ MORE: Love Island fans convinced Jacques will 'break Paige's heart' after bombshell teaserThe contestant from Nottingham has accrued over 47,000 Twitter followers during his time in Majorca and the brains behind his social media site have been keeping his fans amused throughout.They signed off with this final tweet: “We couldn’t be prouder of Ikenna as his team. He stayed true to himself in the villa and was honest about how he felt till the end! Thank you for rocking with him guys!“This is the last tweet from the team controlling the Twitter account! Ciao!”The response to that tweet was overwhelming, with a follower writing: “Please don’t leave us.

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New Yorkers now have the option to choose “X” as a gender marker on their driver’s licences and other State issued forms of identification. Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, made the announcement on Friday, with the initiative going into effect as part of the State’s Gender Recognition Act, on June 24.She continued, “Every person, regardless of their gender identity or expression, deserves to have an identity document that reflects who they are. My administration remains committed to ensuring that New York is a place of value, love and belonging for members of the LGBTQ+ community.” Historic day at the DMV! @Govkathyhochul announced New Yorkers can now choose “x” as a gender marker on their photo ID.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Laverne Cox is getting her very own Barbie doll.Mattel is celebrating the actor and LGBTQ activist with a new doll made to her likeness, just in time for her 50th birthday.

Laverne Cox is an actress, podcaster and staunch advocate for LGBTQ rights — and now she’s also a Barbie.