Paris Olympics: Last News

Sports stars, storytellers and community champions are among those from Greater Manchester who have been recognised in the King's New Year Honours list.

SEVENTEEN sub-unit BSS have released a trailer for their upcoming single album, titled ‘Teleparty’.Today (December 27), the K-pop trio BSS – comprising SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan, DK and Hoshi – unveiled a new trailer announcing their forthcoming return with their second single album ‘Teleparty’.Shot in the style of an election campaign video, the singers rally a crowd as they discuss the significance of youth, promising to help shoulder the responsibilities of their listeners so they will be able to enjoy their youth.According to a press release from Pledis Entertainment, the record will reflect the trio’s hopes for empathetic connection, and to “remind everyone to pause and savour the ordinary yet precious moments of everyday life.” ‘Teleparty’ arrives on January 8 at 6pm KST/4am ET.‘Teleparty’ will mark SEVENTEEN BSS’ first comeback in two years, following their success with their first single album ‘Second Wind’ in January 2023.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The broadcast bounce is real. As 2024 ends, CBS led the pack in total viewers for the year thanks, of course, to Super Bowl LVIII. No surprise, live sports continues to work its magic for the traditional networks, as NBC was also up year vs.

Netflix already is taking a page out of broadcast networks’ Super Bowl playbook with a blockbuster halftime show headlined by Beyonce during its first NFL games on Christmas day. Also like the networks, the streamer is using the games to hype its top series with custom promos. The one getting the special treatment during Christmas Gameday is The Night Agent, Netflix’s most watched series of 2023.

Gary Lineker has explained why he decided to step down as host of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards ceremony.

Wigan's own Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson scooped the Sports Personality of the Year accolade at the awards on Tuesday (December 17).

The BBC have had a major schedule shakeup which has forced EastEnders off air tonight. And EastEnders is not the only show to be cancelled, The One Show will also not make it to screens on Tuesday (17 December).The two shows are making way for the annual Sports Personality of the Year ceremony. Sports fans will get to tune in to see their heroes be celebrated during the show hosted by Gabby Logan, Alex Scott and Clare Balding.The show kicks off at 7pm and stretches across two hours resulting in EastEnders being moved to Friday (20 December) instead.

Gojira have released the official video for ‘Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)’, the song they performed at the Paris Olympics this summer.The band made history in July as the first metal band to ever perform at an Olympics opening ceremony. They performed a song that was popular during the French Revolution, during a segment titled ‘Liberté’ (in reference to France’s famed motto ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’) that celebrated one of the most famous events in French history, as well as the nation’s emphasis on freedom.Gojira performed from the windows of the Concierge, accompanied by experimental opera singer Marina Viotti and nearly 300 classical musicians.The song has since been nominated for the GRAMMY Award for Best Metal Performance.

BBC star Katie Smith has stepped down from her early morning show after seven years, telling fans ‘it’s time for a new adventure’.The sports commentator announced her departure from the 5 Live Breakfast in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "I'm leaving the wonderful 5 Live Breakfast show in a couple of weeks after a brilliant few years of mayhem with Rachel Burden, Rick Edwards, and the amazing producers and editors,” the star penned on the social media site.

Caitlin Clark finished her first season as a professional basketball player in the WNBA and was recently named Time’s Athlete of the Year.

Oasis and ‘How to get tickets’ among the most popular.The new figures were shared by the search engine, and revealed the famous faces, events and news-worthy moments that got people across the UK searching across the past 12 months.Among sports events like the Euros and the Paris Olympics, and political events like the US Presidential election and UK general election, there were a handful of music-related events that made the list. These, unsurprisingly, included the massive announcement that Oasis would be making their highly-awaited return to the stage – confirming a string of huge stadium gigs in the UK and Ireland to take place next summer.The news was soon followed by the announcement of dates in North America, South America, Australia, South Korea and Japan.According to the Google figures, Oasis were the most searched-for artist of the year, and “How to get Oasis tickets” was the second most popular ‘How to’ search of the past 12 months – coming in just behind “How to vote in the UK” (via Sky News).The latter comes as little surprise as the scramble for tickets to their UK and Ireland shows made countless headlines earlier this year.

Breakdancer Raygun’s legal team has shut down a musical inspired by her performance at the Paris Olympics, ahead of its premiere in Sydney, Australia.

Flavor Flav had an emotional moment while attending Los Angeles’ Jingle Ball concert!

Flavor Flav is explaining why fans didn’t see him during the 2024 Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Jordan Chiles opened up about her plans for life after gymnastics.

Flavor Flav brought so much love and heart tot he 2024 Paris Olympics and now he already has a confirmed role in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics!

Novak Djokovic has appointed Andy Murray as his coach for the upcoming Australian Open which will kick off in mid-January.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent With its post-apocalyptic ending, the French shark movie “Under Paris” doesn’t necessarily lend itself — narratively speaking — to a sequel. But after scoring the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with more than 102.3 million views, filmmaker Xavier Gens is plotting a new underwater adventure, Variety has confirmed.

Raygun” Gunn has revealed she is back at work to make ends meet.The divisive breakdancing sensation may have emerged from the Paris Olympics as one of the most talked about athletes on the planet — but her fame hasn’t yet converted into dollars and cents.The widely held belief that the 37-year-old has been cashing in on her 15-minutes of fame has been busted with the viral B-girl saying she has agreed to only one endorsement deal following the Paris Games.According to colorful celebrity management guru Max Markson, a recent promotion she launched with tech platform Finder would generally be worth around $50,000.It comes after the Macquarie University lecturer, who holds a PHD in cultural studies, insisted she has not retired from professional breakdancing, despite saying she is “not going to compete any more.”She has returned to her regular employment at the university in Sydney’s north.“I’m still marking papers to pay the bills,” she said in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald.“I have a whole stack to mark right now,” she says.

Tones And I brought out Olympic breakdancer Raygun to perform at their Melbourne show on Saturday (November 9), while NFL’s Camryn Bynum re-enacted her viral Olympic routine during a game the following day.Raygun, real name Rachel Gunn, competed for Australia in breaking during the Paris Olympics this summer and scored zero points across three rounds with an unconventional routine that ended up becoming a viral meme.During Tones And I’s performance of ‘Dance With Me’, she came out on stage to re-enact the infamous routine, even striking a kangaroo pose.In a TikTok post capturing the moment, Tones And I said: “Raygun. A genuinely kind, beautiful person.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend‘s oldest daughter Luna joins them on the red carpet at a Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles event on Saturday night (November 9) in Los Angeles.