Plans for new £24.5m theatre in Oldham approved despite campaign to save Coliseum

BreAnna Bell When “Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes” first came across Debbie Allen’s desk for a potential partnership, both parties realized what a good fit they could be with their common interests. The original action-adventure animated series follows Kiya, a seven-year-old African girl, whose passions in life are dancing and martial arts, which also become her superpowers. Set in the southern Africa-inspired Kimoja City, each 11-minute episode focuses on themes of community, empathy and unity and features African and Asian-lead characters. When Allen isn’t working on “Grey’s Anatomy,” she’s leading her dance academy and middle school — both of which are based in Los Angeles. She offers a slew of programming aimed at educating kids (some of whom are as young as 3 years old) in academics and the arts. Her academy’s “Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” has become a popular holiday staple. Previously, Allen showcased the preparation process for the big show with members of her dance academy in Netflix’s “Dance Dreams” documentary in 2020.

Halle Berry is steaming things up. The 56-year-old actress took to Instagram Wednesday to share nude selfies in her bathroom mirror.The glass was fogged up as she crossed her arms over her chest and snapped the shots. "hump day self love," the actress captioned her risqué post, adding a white heart emoji.

Christina Ricci this week said, for her, acting at a young age was an "escape" from her "horrendous" childhood. "When I first started, and still as adults, this career has always been an escape for me," the actress, who first became famous as Wednesday Addams in 1991’s "The Addams Family," told Entertainment Weekly when asked about surviving childhood stardom.  The actress, who now stars in Showtime's "Yellowjackets," continued, "As a kid, it was an escape from, like, a horrendous childhood and just getting to go away – be in hotels and be on set and be with other adults and be valued.

Diane Keaton is happily living her life single.  In an interview for AARP The Magazine's April/May cover story, the 77-year-old actress opened up about why it's "highly unlikely" she'll ever be in a relationship again. "I don't date. Highly unlikely.

The Bay star Georgia Scholes has hit back at trolls who 'fat-shamed' her whilst she was pregnant as she payed Erin Fischer on the hit ITV show.The popular programme was came back to our screens last month, with DS Jenn Townsend (played by Marsha Thomason) and her team were coming back to solve the mysterious murder of a mother, whose home was the target of an arson attack. Whilst making the support of the murdered woman's family a priority, Jenn also has her own home issues to deal with, namely her stepdaughter Erin (played by Georgia) who had been playing truant from school to hang out with her boyfriend, Shane.

Love Island's Claudia Fogarty and Casey O'Gorman have not rekindled that flame, despite some keen online speculation. In this winter's series of the dating show, which was won by Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan in the end, Claudia, 28, and Casey, 26, were coupled up for three weeks before the introduction of bombshell Rosie Seabrook, who turned the latter's head and spelt the end of their relationship. After Casey and Rosie, 24, decided to call it quits just a matter of days ago, though, chatter has been rife about whether this means Claudia could slide her way back in there.

embraced her son during a live broadcast while reporting on the scene of a shooting at his high school.Acuna was outside East High School in Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, following a harrowing incident in which a student brought a handgun to campus and opened fire on school administrators during a search.The emotional reunion between Acuna and her son happened during her report when she saw her child emerge from the school across the street and excused herself to run and hug him.«I’m sorry, I have not seen my kid since this all went down,» Acuna said to camera as she stepped away to give her son a hug. As they embraced, Acuna told her son she had to finish her report «real quick.»When she returned, Acuna said that her son was OK, and explained that her son was the one who first alerted her to the shooting.Denver-based Fox News reporter @aacuna1 sees and embraces her son as he leaves East High school after today’s shooting.

Spring has sprung, which means the 2022-23 TV season is in its homestretch. Now ABC has set the season-finale dates for its series — including Ellen Pompeo’s return to Grey’s Anatomy — along with the final episodes of long-running comedy The Goldbergs and drama A Million Little Things. See the full schedule below.

The media news cycle is in a frenzy today over a Bloomberg piece that Apple will shell out a $1 billion to produce big screen features annually. That’s great news for exhibition, yes. But, in reality, doing the math, the streamer was already bound to spend in the billions on a feature slate.

It’s over. Brie Larson confirmed she and longtime boyfriend Elijah Allan-Blitz called it quits after nearly four years together — and she’s ready for whatever comes next.   

Whoa! As the houses of cards making up most (or all?) of the crypto currency market crumble before our eyes, they’re taking plenty of celebs with them!

Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner got in some quality sister time with a not-so-friendly game of golf…

Tamala Jones has revealed that she used to be Blake Lively‘s babysitter.

Netflix might be landing the likes of Nicole Kidman and Dakota Fanning for a new limited series in development.

Rhiannon Fish‘s fourth Hallmark movie as a leading lady is about to debut this weekend!

Rihanna‘s security team alerted the police after a man arrived at her house and attempted to propose to her.

Long Beach Post, a website devoted to local news and sports reporting, recusing himself from editorial duties when he ran for Long Beach City Council.In 2009, he was elected to represent much of the city’s downtown area, serving for five years before being elected as mayor of Long Beach in 2014. After serving two terms, he ran for an open congressional seat last year in a newly redrawn district representing his hometown, winning the election with over 68% of the vote.While Garcia is now a Democrat, his first forays into politics were as a Republican.

WYPR.There are currently estimated to be around 24,000 transgender individuals in Maryland, nearly one-quarter of whom are enrolled in Medicaid.In 2022, about 100 people received gender-affirming care through Medicaid. The proposed bill is expected to increase that number by about 25 people per year.Maryland health officials say that if each of the estimated 125 people were to utilize every single new gender-affirming treatment under the bill — which is not possible, as some of those procedures or treatments contradict each other, it would increase Medicaid spending by $7.6 million, or 0.6% of the $11.7 billion Maryland spent on Medicaid expenditures in 2019.Opponents of the bill argue that the services that transgender patients can have covered by Medicaid are not provided for other Medicaid recipients.Additionally, cisgender Medicaid recipients aren’t eligible for coverage for services like dentures, home birth services, or treatment for eating disorders, reports Baltimore FOX affiliate WBFF.“It seems discriminatory to utilize Medicaid money for cosmetic surgeries and fertility services that aren’t offered to other people on Medicaid,” Del.

A community fridge aiming to help Greater Manchester families during the cost of living crisis has opened in Oldham, gaining the support of Andy Burnham and Oldham Council Leader, Amanda Chadderton.

As the end of the school day arrives for one primary in Oldham, cars are already queueing nose to tail on the road outside. “It’s horrendous,” one resident says.

A contractor has been appointed to finish restoration work on Royton’s historic Town Hall following frustration that the project had ‘stalled’.