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Selome Hailu Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero … Tax credits!The 2002 film “Chicago” brought the stage musical and the song “Cell Block Tango” to the big screen.It also helped revolutionize the industry. When the Rob Marshall-directed movie debuted to critical and commercial success, Chicago Mayor Richard M.

WHEN you are a pop megastar and the neighbours complain about your ever-growing luxury pad, there’s only one thing to do. Keep snapping up their surrounding houses. Superstar Ed Sheeran has faced a barrage of objections over grandiose schemes for “Sheeranville”, his sprawling £3.7million complex of five homes — including swimming pool, two-storey treehouse and pub — in the Suffolk town he grew up in.

Bob Verini At any given moment, upward of 100 crack MPA investigators are on the hunt of pirates — not unlike the king’s sailors of olden days, ready to do battle. But the MPA is chasing those who would co-opt the world’s intellectual property.That’s the reassuring message of Jan van Voorn, the MPA’s executive vice president and chief of global content protection, who claims to bound out of bed every morning, eager to take on the malefactors.“I’m out there to protect the legitimate content creators, big and small.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe “Vikings: Valhalla” team is already hard at work on a second and third season following the launch of the Netflix historical drama series.“Valhalla,” a followup to the History Channel’s original series “Vikings,” previously received a 24-episode series order from the streaming service, which Netflix confirms will now be broken into three, eight-episode seasons. Jeb Stuart will return as creator, showrunner and executive producer for both upcoming seasons, along with stars Sam Corlett (Leif Eriksson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eriksdotter) and Leo Suter (Harald Sigurdsson), among others, reprising their roles.“Vikings: Valhalla” chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived — the legendary explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson), and the ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter).

"He has had business, military and charitable interests in the Philippines for a number of years."Between 1983 and 1986, Page was the presenter of the BBC Radio 1 early weekend breakfast show.He started out radio presenting on BBC Radio Cleveland in 1975 and hosted the breakfast show on Radio Tees from 1978 to 1983.

As Putin's invasion of Ukraine continues on after more than two weeks, many companies and businesses around the world are backing out of Russia's economy.

Aretha Franklin’s young granddaughter has been rejected from American Idol after auditioning for the long-running talent show last month.15-year-old Grace Franklin didn’t advance from her audition on February 27. Speaking before her audition, she said: “I feel like people expect me to sing exactly like her, but I am my own artist and I have my own voice.”Performing a version of Roberta Flack’s ‘Killing Me Softly’ in the style of the Fugees‘ iconic cover, Franklin was told by judge Luke Bryan that the performance “was all just a little sleepy and subdued to me,” while fellow judge Katy Perry called it “soft”.Another performance, this time of her grandmother’s track ‘Ain’t No Way’, followed, but Franklin was unsuccessful in her attempts to reach the next round of the competition.Watch both performances below.Aretha Franklin died in August 2018 in Detroit at the age of 76.

Hayden Panettiere, 32, gave an emotional call for support for Ukrainians as the country’s battle with Russia rages on. The actress announced that she’d started a new organization called Hoplon International to help raise money for Ukrainians fighting against Russian forces. The actress said that it was “gut-wrenching” to watch people that she loves going to war to defend their country.

Channel 4 hit show in 2014, was one of the five strangers who took turns to host "dinner party" for the hosts and the winner could get a £1,000 cash prize.But it doesn't seem to be all genuine as she found out that the voting was staged and the results were fixed by the producers.She answered on TikTok: "During my week, one of the people absolutely should have won, their food was the best."But, it's hugely edited, massively staged – and they know who they want to win right from the get go."Some viewers asked if she got paid a lot to participate in the show, and sadly she revealed she only got £250 to cover her food, entertainment and cutlery that she needed."Being that you take a gift to each contestant's house, it cost me five or six hundred pounds – that's not even including the fact that I couldn't work for the week because I was filming from about three or four o'clock every day."There's MUCH more where that came from! Want all the jaw-dropping stories from the world of showbiz and up to the minute news from TV and soaps?Well, we've got you covered with our showbiz, TV and soaps newsletters - they'll drop straight into your inbox and you can unsubscribe whenever you like.We'll bring you the inside track from telly expert Ed Gleave and soap specialist Sasha Morris. Oh, and your daily fix of Piers, Katie Price, Demi Rose and all your other Daily Star favs.You can sign up here - you won't regret it...And some wondered if Katy tended to get drunk on the show."Sitting down for dinner for about six hours, all the while you're being stared at by four or five people around you.

Steph McGovern welcomed kids' television presenter Kirsten O’Brien to Steph’s Packed Lunch and quizzed her on her past presenting roles which uncovered a little known fact.When Steph introduced Kirsten on to the show, she began by noting that the pair always get mistaken for each other.She told Kirsten that it was nice to have her on the show because she “spends her life telling people that she’s not her”.Kirsten told Steph that her own nephew is “adamant” that they are the same person.They laughed about the common mistake, made due to their similar haircuts and matching accents, and told each other that fans tweet one thinking that they are the other.One Twitter user said: “Are Kristen and Steph related? They could easily swap places and fool a casual viewer.”Kirsten was on the show to cook for Steph and her guests Russell Kane, Laura Adlington, Michael Portillo, and Kacey Ainsworth.

DOCTOR Alex George has signed up to celebrity dating app Raya after he was dumped by his girlfriend for cheating. The former Love Island star split from Ellie Hetch last month after a year of dating – with claims he was messaging other women.

A driver has sparked a manhunt through Paisley after failing to stop for police and abandoning their car

A huge dead python has been found dumped amongst some rubbish by terrified bin men in a busy street.

Leonardo DiCaprio has donated an impressive £7.6million ($10m) to fund for Ukraine, where his grandmother is from.The 47 year old Hollywood actor, who recently starred alongside EastEnders' Himesh Patel in Don't Look Up, was reportedly very close with his maternal grandmother Helene Indenbirken, who was born in Ukraine in 1915. He is said to have taken her to the premiers of many of his films and would call her 'Oma'.The Revenant actor's incredible donation was announced by the International Visegrad Fund, according to Polish News. Leonardo's grandmother was born in Odesa as Jelena Stepanovna Smirnova and migrated to Germany with her parents two years later in 1917.

Travis Scott has announced the launch of a new philanthropic project called Project HEAL – which in part aims to improve safety at live events in the wake of last year’s Astroworld tragedy.Ten people died and hundreds more were injured last November following a crowd surge during Scott’s headline set at the Houston-based festival he founded. There were criticisms of the response by organisers and Scott himself to the incident as it unfolded, including the fact that the rapper continued to perform for 30 minutes after a “mass casualty event” had been declared.In a statement posted on Instagram, Scott said last night: “Over the past few months I’ve been taking the time and space to grieve, reflect and do my part to heal my community.

Glasgow PR agency Hollicom has fallen into liquidation after failing to repay debts.

A Lanarkshire MSP has welcomed the home heating support fund for locals struggling with their energy bills.

DAN Walker has been replaced on BBC Breakfast with no explanation - and viewers aren't best pleased about it. The presenter usually presents the show alongside his co-star Sally Nugent from Monday to Wednesday, before Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt take over for the rest of the week.

Hayden Panettiere has launched a fund to help raise donations for those defending Ukraine amid Russia's invasion. The actress, who shares a young daughter with ex Vladimir Klitschko, made the announcement in a 45-second video posted to YouTube on Monday. "There are no words to describe what it's been like to watch the war in Ukraine unfold.

WhatsApp is adding a new feature to restrict how often messages are forwarded to people.The encrypted messaging app is adding a beta feature which will stop you from forwarding messages to more than one group chat at a time.This is on top of a feature which marks messages as frequently forwarded if they've been sent more than a few times.It means your group chat is going to have to up its game and start coming up with something original, rather than just ripping off memes from elsewhere on the Internet.WABetaInfo said: "When a message is marked as forwarded, it’s no longer possible to forward it to more than one group chat at a time. "If you need to forward this message to more than one group chat, you need to select the message and forward it again."The feature will likely also have the benefit of stopping 'chainmail' scams as well as fake news online.

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