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mum has captured the "creepy" moment that her two-year-old daughter told her that she was her own great-great-grandma in toddler speak. Sharing the moment on TikTok, mum @gi_gi216 filmed her little girl looking at an old black-and-white photo of her grandmother and great-grandmother.Her daughter, Ella, repeatedly puts her hand over the great-grandmother in the framed picture, exclaiming: "That's me.""My two year old found a picture of my grandma and great grandmother. She is saying she is my great grandmother," the TikToker wrote.The creeped out mother explained in the comments that they were in her mum's house and Ella was seeing the photo for the first time.

This inspiring timeline shows the top milestones in the female work environment - from Katherine Fenkyll taking over her husband’s drapery business in 1479, to women being allowed to join the London Stock Exchange in 1973.Today, almost a third of small businesses in the UK are female owned - but the timeline below shows just how far we have all come.The insights, compiled to celebrate International Women’s Day, show how much has changed since the 15th century, when widowed Katherine Fenkyll took over her husband’s drapery business in Tudor London.Other notable early milestones include the launch of the first women’s magazine “The Female Spectator”, published by Eliza Haywood, and The Sex Discrimination Removal Act, allowing women to practise law.The twentieth century saw big changes including the first female bank manager, transport minister and train driver, and Stella Brummel becoming the first “businesswoman of the year” in 1974.It was also in the 70s that International Women’s Day was formalised (1977), with the 45th annual event falling on 8th March this year with the theme “Break the Bias”.The timeline was commissioned by Funding Circle and curated by historian and broadcaster Professor Kate Williams.Modern milestones include women on FTSE boards increasing by 50% in five years in 2021, and the same year saw the gender pay gap dropping to 15.4%.Lisa Jacobs, CEO at Funding Circle, said: “International Women’s Day reminds us how important it is to support women’s rights and celebrate their achievements - and this includes the UK’s many female business owners.“Every day, these entrepreneurs are making a significant contribution to the UK economy - creating jobs and driving economic growth.

EXCLUSIVE: Kal Penn has been tapped as a lead opposite Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell in The Santa Clause, Disney+’s upcoming limited series, from Last Man Standing creator Jack Burditt.

President Vladimir Putin has three long-term plans to choose from if he successfully takes over Ukraine, experts say. An article written up for Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda has said the Russian invasion of Ukraine could follow one of three reported long-term plans.The article, which pitches a political scientist and journalist in debate with one another, was translated by Dmitry Grozoubinski, who called the article "absolutely horrifying" when sharing the translation on Twitter.Featured throughout are three plans Putin could take on in, the article says, the "post-war fate of Ukraine".Political scientist Peter Kulichenko and KP journalist Sergei Ponomarev debated the three plans in an article.One of the three plans was labelled the "Optimistic Plan" which was "Ukraine remains at its previous size (minus the territories of DNR and LNR within their administrative borders."Ponomarev said this was the most "attractive" plan at "first glance" but claims that "A patchwork Ukraine, assembled over just a few decades from territories stolen from the Russian federation, or gifted by it, cannot remain whole."But Ponomarev's "realistic plan" claims the Ukraine would be divided into several pieces.

Amanda Seyfried, 36, has been in the spotlight for most of her life! After making her debut in the soap opera As The World Turns as a teen, the actress has starred in tons of beloved movies and critically acclaimed features, from Mean Girls to Mank, which garnered her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Amanda has also showed off her singing abilities by starring in a number of classic musicals, like Mamma Mia and Les Míserables. Throughout her career, Amanda’s love life has also been the subject of much attention. Despite a few high profile boyfriends, Amanda settled down with actor Thomas Sadoski, 45, in 2017. Find out more about some of her past boyfriends here!

The term “elevated horror” is a bit contentious. Often, for film fans, this can mean a film is trying too hard to be something more than just a typical gorefest.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher (Radium Girls, A Call to Spy) has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment for management—also announcing today that she has acquired the rights to Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, a bestselling memoir from Dawn Prince-Hughes that she plans to adapt into a feature, as both director and producer.

Peter Bart Editor-At-LargeWith dealmaking on an uptick, record sums are being paid for hot material, while the “asks” for star talent are often met with pushback. Those, at least, are the reports from the battlefront.

Peter Bart Editor-At-LargeCould Walt Disney be next? Really?Let me explain: Most industry people I know were drawn to Hollywood by the prospect of creating things, not cancelling things. Now the dialogue has shifted, whether about airports (John Wayne), statues (Teddy Roosevelt) or movies (Gone With the Wind).Could logos be next? Walt Disney was a man who did great things but whose points of view were nonetheless tainted by some unacceptable ideas (“tainted,” by today’s standards).

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