2020: Last News

On different pages. Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev don’t see eye to eye on publicly discussing their sex life — but do they agree on expanding their family?

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said execs at the company and parent Comcast are “more confident” than they were a year or two ago that investments in streaming service Peacock will soon yield profits. How soon remains a bit unclear, however.

The final decision to close Denny Football Centre for good is expected to be taken at a Falkirk Council meeting next week.

Laying low. Meghan Markle has been staying out of the spotlight since Prince Harry dropped his bombshell Spare memoir.

The Berlinale’s European Film Market was the last major physical market to take place in 2020 as the world began shutting down because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A legal dispute over samples in the Bad Bunny track ‘Safaera’ is close to settlement, according to a new legal filing.A company called BM Records sued Bad Bunny and his team back in 2021 claiming that ‘Safaera’ – which appeared on the 2020 album ‘YHLQMDLG’ – contained uncleared samples taken from a series of influential mixtapes produced by DJ Playero and released by the label.The record company, which was an early champion of the reggaeton genre as it was first emerging in Puerto Rico in the 1990s, noted in its lawsuit that reviews of the Bad Bunny track had referenced the DJ Playero connection. Pitchfork, for example, had called it “a five-minute tribute to DJ Playero’s genre defining mixtapes of the 1990s”.The lawsuit then stated that other samples on ‘Safaera’ had seemingly been properly licensed by Bad Bunny’s label, but that hadn’t happened with the samples that came from three Playero works: ‘Chocha Con Bicho’, ‘Besa Tu Cuerpo’ and ‘Sigan Bailando’.DJ Playero himself posted on Instagram to stress that he was not involved in anyway in the litigation, which he called an “unfortunate situation”.

A man who claimed he returned from holiday to find a cannabis cultivation at his Stonehouse home has been jailed for 15 months.

Changes to plans for 49 new homes in Troon will be considered by councillors next week.

James Van Der Beek and his wife Kimberly Van Der Beek are the proud parents of six children. And on Wednesday the former Dawson's Creek star paid extra special attention to daughter Annabel when he posted a series of daddy-daughter snaps, while wishing her a very happy birthday. '9 years old today. 9 years of getting to live in the same house with sweet, loving kindness personified,' Van Der Beek, 45, began the post, which was just the first of many loving compliments he heaped his little girl's way.

Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond's foster son Jamar Goff took to Instagram over the weekend to share a birthday message for his foster father, Ladd Drummond.Goff, 20, who was taken in by the Drummond's in 2018, shared a photo of him with Ree, 54, and Ladd, 54, when he signed his letter of intent to play football for the University of Central Oklahoma, taken in February 2021.He thanked his dad for taking him under his wing and for all of the things he's taught him since living with Ladd and Ree, who has a new TV project with her sister. Birthday: Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond's foster son Jamar Goff took to Instagram over the weekend to share a birthday message for his foster father, Ladd Drummond Foster parents: He thanked his dad for taking him under his wing and for all of the things he's taught him since living with Ladd and Ree, who has a new TV project with her sister 'I’ve been blessed with the best father figure I could possibly ask for.

The Young and the Restless actress Tracey E. Bregman was presented with an Emmy trophy on Tuesday's edition of The Talk to replace one she lost in the Woolsey Fire more than four years ago.The Germany-born actress, 59, appeared on the CBS daytime show alongside her costar Christian LeBlanc, 64, who portrays her husband on the long-running soap opera.'I would like to present this, an Emmy for Outstanding Ingenue in a Daytime Drama Series,' LeBlanc said to the actress, who plays Lauren Fenmore.

A Scots man who is cancer-free after taking part in a clinical trial has welcomed £3.9 million in funding to help further developments in treating the 'insidious' disease. Jim McCallum, 76, from Paisley, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2017 after going to the doctor and hoping he would be told it was a "harmless lump".

Although trans rights are now the subject of a simmering culture war in America and the U.K., that conflict is largely predicated on the increasing visibility of trans women at a time where self-ID is controversially becoming the norm. Stories of trans men, however, tend to go under the radar, and this remarkable New York-set debut from Chilean-Serbian director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz goes some way to redressing that imbalance. Featuring a pitch-perfect performance from Puerto Rican/Greek actor Lío Mehiel, so far mostly known for the Apple show WeCrashed and a number of shorts, U.S. Dramatic Competition entry Mutt feels like an important but — for reasons about to be explained — perhaps interstitial film in the history of LGBTQ+ cinema, being fully cognizant of the fact that it is set and was made in a between-time that reflects the lead character’s existential sense of limbo.

Lady Gaga thanked the Academy for nominating her song Hold My Hand from the film Top Gun: Maverick for Best Original Song on Wednesday.This marks the first time any artist has been nominated in the Best Original Song category three times. Gaga, 36, won the Oscar in the same category for her 2019 hit Shallow from A Star Is Born.'Thank you so much to the Academy for nominating my song 'Hold My Hand' for an Oscar this year,' wrote Gaga. Grateful: Lady Gaga took to Instagram on Wednesday to thank the Academy for nominating Hold My Hand for Best Original Song.

Rick And Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has been fired from two more shows in the wake of recently reported domestic violence charges.Roiland, 42, who voiced the two title characters and several minor characters in Ricky And Morty, has been fired from the animated shows Solar Opposites and Koala Man, according to Variety.Both series are expected to continue moving forward without any participation from him.The animator and voice actor has pleaded not guilty and is currently awaiting trial over the alleged 2020 incident involving an ex-girlfriend. Given the boot: Rick And Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, 42, has been fired from two other animated shows — Solar Opposites and Koala Man — in the wake of domestic violence charges being filed against him, Variety reports; seen in 2017 'We have ended our association with Justin Roiland,' said 20th Television Animation and Hulu Originals in a statement to the publication.Roiland voiced one of the main characters on Hulu's Solar Opposites, which has released three seasons so far and has been renewed for two more seasons.The show follows a group of extraterrestrials who are forced to start a new life on Earth after fleeing their home planet.  The comedy, which he co-created with Mike McMahan, costars Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch.In 2021, the Los Angeles Times published a report in which a woman named Hannah Harding claimed that Middleditch had 'groped' her and sexually harassed her at the Hollywood nightclub Cloak & Dagger.She provided Instagram direct messages to the publication that allegedly showed the actor apologizing to her.

A carer who fleeced a pensioner out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to sell her car to pay back what she stole. Alison Hunter, 47, took the money out of the 95-year-old's account whilst working at a care home.

Keep calm and carry on? The royal family could bury the hatchet with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the sake of King Charles III’s forthcoming coronation, according to royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti.

Bella Ramsey stars in HBO’s The Last of Us and the Game of Thrones alum is teasing that a second season is highly “likely.”

Trying to move on. Prince Harry‘s memoir, Spare, has stirred up plenty of drama, but royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti doesn’t think the palace will go so far as to strip him of his titles.

 Anna Faris is making career moves.The 46-year-old actress has signed with mega-agency CAA, which boasts A-list clients like Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Reese Witherspoon. She has signed with the agency in the past and is putting her trust in them again to further her career after a two-year acting hiatus and a recent flop at the box office with The Estate.  Making movies: Anna Faris (pictured above in 2018) has re-signed with agency CAA alongside clients such as Reese WitherspoonFaris starred alongside Allison Janney in the hit CBS sitcom Mom from 2013 to 2020 playing a newly sober single mom trying to get her life back together after moving in with her own mom (Janney). The House Bunny star left the series in a shock exit after seven seasons and CBS cancelled the show shortly after, airing just one more season after her departure. The move to new representation comes at an interesting time. She took a two-year break after leaving her sitcom and her latest dark comedy The Estate, co-starring Toni Collette and David Duchovny, received poor reviews and has a 29 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Besides her film and television career, she also hosts a successful podcast called Unqualified.

The London-based Genesius Pictures, the producers of the Emma Thompson starrer Good Luck to You Leo Grande, and Cornerstone Films have partnered to form GenStone, a new content management company.