R. Kelly sentenced to 20 years for child sex crimes

Scots crime author Denise Mina is set to have her Morrow book series turned into a multi-season TV show.

Love Island stars Will Young and Jessie Wynter may have just missed out on a place in the final, but their romance has continued to blossom as the Aussie babe landed back in the UK alongside her farmer beau.The pair arrived at Heathrow Airport alongside fellow axed islanders Casey O’Gorman and Rosie Seabrook yesterday, and wasted no time before exploring England's capital together. Sharing a trio of snaps to their Instagram pages, Will, 23, and Jessie wrote in a joint post: "To the Villa, to London, to the FARM. What a crazy, wonderful and life lasting journey this has been.

Strictly Come Dancing stars Tyler West and Molly Rainford have finally confirmed their romance. It was reported earlier this year that Tyler, 26, and Molly, 22, who were both contestants on the 2022 series, had become "inseparable" after growing close while performing on tour after the BBC One show.

Sarah Ferguson has spoken out about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s relationship, praising the former actress for giving her husband "a love that he's never had before". Sarah, often known as 'Fergie', also made the decision to step back from Royal life following her split from Prince Andrew, though she remains close to her ex, who she shares Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie with.

Countdown star Rachel Riley said it is “so rewarding” hosting four Ukrainian refugees, adding that her two daughters “absolutely love” living with a little boy they treat as an extra brother.The TV presenter and mathematician, 37, has spoken about opening her home to refugees, just over a year after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 2022. She told BBC Breakfast: “It is so rewarding and it’s working for us. “Our little girls absolutely love having this little boy, it’s like they’ve got an extra brother and he’s got little sisters that he looks after.

Professional dancer Dianne Buswell isn’t afraid of a dramatic hairstyle and is known for her bright, fiery red hair colour. However, Dianne has just undergone another major hair transformation, and it took just seconds to do at home.

Pregnant Shaughna Phillips has shared a labour update as the Love Island star admitted she thought she was going to be induced a few days ago. Shaughna, 28, has been documenting her pregnancy on her social media, as well as her weekly OK! column, and issued an update following her recent hospital dash.

The Love Island finalists are coming home. Winners Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinan were joined by their fellow finalists Tom Clare, Samie Elishi, Shaq Muhammad, Tanya Manhenga, Lana Jenkins, and Ron Hall at Cape Town airport as they prepared for the 12 hour flight back to England.

“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.“Parkinson’s sucks — but it’s a great life,” said Fox, 61, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at age 29 in 1991.“I have no regrets,” he said, sitting alongside his new film’s director Davis Guggenheim, 59, of Oscar-winning “An Inconvenient Truth” fame.

Hollywood Reporter.The company gave her a cap of $130 million, according to the report, but the filmmaker requested $150 million.The flick had Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Michael Fassbender and Owen Wilson in talks to star.The name was allegedly titled “Paris Paramount” and Meyers was set to write, direct and produce the feature.The project was announced last year and the plot would have chronicled a young writer-director who falls head over heels for a movie producer.The Post reached out to Meyers for comment.The synopsis is semi-autobiographical for Meyers, as she was married to director Charles Shyer for almost two decades.The duo worked on a few iconic comedies over the years such as “Private Benjamin,” “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride.”The movie would have been Meyer’s first flick since the 2015 Anne Hathaway rom-com “The Intern.”In December 2022, Meyers responded to rumors about a sequel to her much-loved 2006 film, “The Holiday.”But she shot down any chatter about a second installment on social media at the time, saying: “So many DM’s about this — sorry but it’s not true.” It was reported previously that the possible sequel had returning stars Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black on board, with production beginning earlier this year.The “Titanic” star, 47, also separately denied that there was a sequel for “The Holiday” in place.“I read something about that, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it,” Winslet told People at the time. “I promise you not an agent or a representative or anyone from the first one around has had any conversation with me about that.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International British film and TV producers can breathe a sigh of relief after months of uncertainty around the country’s tax relief scheme for production. As part of the U.K.’s spring budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt revealed on Wednesday that he’s raising tax credits and keeping the qualifying threshold in place. This is a welcome move for the TV production community, in particular, which has for years taken advantage of a lucrative scheme in which scripted TV shows with a minimum spend of £1 million ($1.2 million) per broadcast hour are able to claim payable cash rebates of up to 25% on qualifying U.K. spend. The tax breaks have helped to elevate the U.K. into a major hub for international productions, yet the scheme has been under review since the fall, causing some anxiety in the production community.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala have been on the job for less than two weeks as co-CEOs of Vice Media Group. But despite the newness of their current roles, Lokhandwala and Dixon are already well versed in the inner workings of the Brooklyn-based company, having served for several years in senior roles under recently exited CEO Nancy Dubuc. Lokhandwala has been chief strategy officer at VMG since October 2018, and Dixon has held the position of CFO since 2021 and was previously CFO of Vice Studios. Both were brought in by Dubuc — who departed the company Feb. 24 after nearly five years as CEO — and now seek to follow in her footsteps while shaping the future of Vice, a company that has been seeking a buyer over the past year.

Parents say the plan to offer free childcare to under fives need to come now and not in two years.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Freddie Prinze Jr. marked the launch of his new horror movie podcast “That Was Pretty Scary” by talking to TooFab about one of his own seminal horror films, the 1997 teen slasher classic “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Prinze Jr. said making the movie was a miserable experience because of director Jim Gillespie, who the actor said was “such an asshole” to him on set. Alleged tension between the two started because Gillespie wanted to cast Jeremy Sisto in the role of Ray Bronson but the studio and screenwriter Kevin Williamson wanted Prinze Jr. instead. “I’ll give the man this, I think his name is Jim, he made no bones about it,” Prinze Jr. said of the director. “There was no passive aggressiveness — which I hate — he was very direct in the fact that, ‘I don’t want you in this movie.’ So when that’s your first job and you hear those words, it just wrecks you, man. It just wrecks you.”

Gavin Bridge Senior Media Analyst Note: This article is based on Variety Intelligence Platform’s special report “2023 Media & Tech Trend Tracker,” available exclusively to subscribers. Connected TV is no longer the future but the present.  The format will ultimately be how the vast majority of TV content is viewed, consumed via apps built into smart TVs, and thus represents where ad revenue will derive.   This also explains why the likes of Comcast, Charter, Roku and Amazon have all announced plans to build their own TV sets in order to own as much of the new revenue stream as possible. 

Jeremy Hunt poked fun at former health secretary Matt Hancock as he set out the details of his spring budget on Wednesday (March 15).

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced 30 hours of free childcare for all under-5s as he laid out a package of changes to reform employment during the Spring statement.

R Kelly was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison in relation to his convictions in a Chicago court last year on three charges of enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and three more linked to him filming that sexual abuse of children.However, most of that sentence will happen concurrently to the 30 year jail term he is already serving after being found guilty in a New York court of setting up and running a criminal enterprise in order to access and abuse women and teenagers.Prosecutors in the Chicago case had been pushing for the new jail term to be served following the existing one, which would basically mean that the 56 year old musician would die in prison. However, judge Harry Leinenweber ruled that only one year would need to be served following the 30 year New York sentence.Among the reasons presented by prosecutors for why Kelly should serve his second jail term after the first was that the former music star has failed to show any remorse for his crimes.However, his lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean – who strongly argued for concurrent jail terms – said that Kelly’s silence through most of the legal proceedings he has faced in recent years should not be viewed as a lack of remorse.According to the Associated Press, she told the court that she had advised Kelly to not speak at the latest hearing because he continues to appeal his convictions and could yet face further legal action.

R. Kelly has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of possession of child pornography and more.