Penn Badgley Clarifies His Request For Fewer Sex Scenes in 'You'

Khloe Kardashian has shared a hint about her baby son's name, which she is yet to share publicly, and revealed it has a sweet link to her daughter True. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, 38, opened up about everything from her two children to her relationship status during an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Thursday. Mum-of-two Khloe confirmed she is currently single, shutting down rumours she's reconciled with ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 32, and spoke about her and Tristan's two children, True, four, and their baby son, who was born in August 2022 via surrogate.

Annika Pham L.A.-based Dynamic Television has acquired worldwide rights to the Swedish series “The Pirate Bay,” about the notorious pirate BitTorrent site and its co-founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Swartholm. The six-part series, set to go unto production this fall, is being produced by Stockholm and L.A.-based powerhouse B-Reel Films (“Midsommar,” “Before We Die”) for Swedish pubcaster SVT. “I Am Zlatan” helmer Jens Sjögren is directing, from a screenplay by head-writer Piotr Marciniak (“Everything I Can’t Remember”), with Patrik Gyllström (“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”) serving as episodic writer. The character-driven show turns on Peter, Fredrik and Gottfrid, who ended up creating in 2003 one of the world’s largest BitTorrent indexes as a reaction to big business trying to take control file sharing over the Internet. 

Naman Ramachandran Global talent management company YMU has launched its U.S. social division under the leadership of Deanna Ritter, who will report into Lucy Loveridge, global MD, social. Ritter, who will serve as U.S. managing director, social, at YMU, will be supported by senior director of talent Haley Henning. Both executives are from the Be Social Group where, as MD, Ritter ran the creator partnership and talent management teams, developing growth and revenue strategies for key influential digital clients and brands in fashion and lifestyle; and Henning, as director of talent, led the talent management team and managed brand and digital operations for a diverse roster of clients including podcast hosts, content creators and actors.

Naman Ramachandran British YouTuber, rapper and boxer Olajide Olayinka Williams JJ Olatunji, known professionally as KSI, has apologized again after a racial slur. On Sunday, KSI appeared in a mockup of U.K. game show “Countdown” and formed the word “P**i,” a pejorative term used to describe people of South Asian origin in the U.K. The subsequently deleted clip drew massive outrage on social media including from leading arts practitioners hailing from the South Asian community and KSI apologized. On Wednesday, via a video posted on the Fred Talks Fighting YouTube channel, KSI read out another apology from a prepared statement.

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If you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the last 48 hours, you will have seen that the first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie film has dropped, and everyone is going absolutely wild for it. From the star studded cast to the bright colours and attention to detail – like the fact Margot Robbie’s foot stays in the iconic Barbie pose when she removes her heels – there is plenty that has gotten people talking about the new film ahead of its July release.

A mum has described her 'living nightmare' as her teenage daughter remains missing from home.

A woman charged with stabbing her partner to death told the court she can 'sometimes be a cow'.

Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary are set to be replaced on This Morning in just a matter of days. The programme's usual Friday hosts have been fronting the show this week as they stepped in for Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.

Manchester United fans took their chance to try and convince Declan Rice to join the club this summer.

The sentence in court of a man caught in a police child sex sting was not 'unduly lenient', appeal court judges have ruled

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BTS member Suga as its newest ambassador.Today (April 6), the NBA released a video featuring Suga on its official Twitter account, where the K-pop idol revealed that he is “proud to announce that [he has] become an NBA ambassador”.“It is personally a great honour as I have loved basketball since I was young. Stay turned for more to come with the NBA,” he says in the video.

Emmerdale fans have 'changed their minds' on one character as they were shocked to see Cain Dingle's 'replacement' take centre stage. During the latest edition of the ITV soap on Wednesday night (April 5), fans saw Charles Anderson announce to Billy Fletcher that Alex Moore was awake.

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A Hamilton mum, who was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer whilst pregnant, is set to do a 10k-sponsored walk for a Lanarkshire cancer charity.

Stunning Culzean Castle has been named among "the most beautiful" in Europe by a top travel outlet. The grand location in Carrick featured among a must-see list of medieval buildings published by Brazilian travel guide Vegas Pelo Mundo.

The Scottish Government is urging people to check that the tax code on their first payslip after April 6 is correct, as we are now in the new 2023/24 financial year. Changes to income tax have now come into force that are estimated to raise more than half a billion pounds of additional revenue to support vital public services across the country.

Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of a climate change event on Thursday evening as police continue to investigate her husband in a probe into the SNP’s finances.

Penn Badgley says his comments about requesting for his character, Joe Goldberg, to have less sex scenes were «blown out of proportion.»Speaking with, the former  star said he was taken aback by the reaction to comments he made on his podcast last month, in which he revealed that he asked Sera Gamble, the hit Netflix series' showrunner, if it would be possible for his character to "do no more intimacy scenes."«I asked Sera Gamble, creator of the show, 'Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?' This is actually a decision I had made before I took the show... I don't think I've ever mentioned it publicly, but it’s… one of the main things is, like, 'Do I want to put myself back on a career path where I'm just always the romantic lead?'» he said on his podcast.In that same podcast, Badgley added, «Fidelity in every relationship -- and especially in my marriage -- is important to me.»Some fans misconstrued those comments as saying even an actor taking part in simulated sex scenes could be considered a form of cheating. Badgley now says that the reaction to his comments were «blown out of proportion» and that he is «all too aware of how the internet takes things out of context.»«What I was speaking about wasn't actually the final product,» he tells .

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Penn Badgley ignited a fiery social media debate in February when he revealed that he now refuses to act in sex scenes. “That aspect of Hollywood has always been very disturbing to me — and that aspect of the job, that mercurial boundary — has always been something that I actually don’t want to play with at all,” he told Variety just as the fourth season of his Netflix serial killer show “You” was launching. “It’s important to me in my real life to not have them,” Badgley added about swearing off sex scenes. “My fidelity in my relationship. It’s important to me. And actually, [sex scenes] was one of the reasons that I initially wanted to turn the role down [in ‘You’]. I didn’t tell anybody that. But that is why.”