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Manchester United's all-time leading goalscorer Wayne Rooney raised an eyebrow or two when he took up the manager's job at D.C. United earlier this year.

Mira Sorvino says she learned the “craft” of acting from her late father Paul Sorvino. The ‘Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion’ star revealed the ‘Goodfellas’ star - who passed away in July 2022 aged 83 - would “ break down” her acting in school productions and it made her into the star she is today. The 54-year-old actress told Closer US’ ‘My Life in 10 Pictures’ featurette that her father would “break down my performance and tear them apart,” before saying “but I learned my craft from him.

Sinéad OʼConnor is ready to tell her story.

A Scots mum has been left fuming after thieves broke into a garden outbuilding and stole her son's off-road bikes and motorcycles worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Jon Burlingame editor Dick Ebersol is one of the seminal figures in the past 50 years of broadcast television. He helped create “Saturday Night Live”; he hired Brandon Tartikoff, genius programmer and innovator, to revive NBC’s primetime fortunes. As president of NBC Sports, he oversaw the network’s Olympic strategy for many years. “Sunday Night Football” was his idea. Ebersol recounts the high (and sometimes low) points of his career in television in a new autobiography, “From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears and Touchdowns in TV,” published this week by Simon & Schuster. While all of the great moments in his career were at NBC, Ebersol, now 75, started as a researcher at ABC Sports in 1967. Legendary ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge, Ebersol tells Variety, “was the most important figure in my life,” and the executive who eventually took on Ebersol as a trusted associate.

Linstone Housing Association has said farewell to its long-serving chief executive who has retired after devoting her working life to championing tenants’ rights.

JB and his wife, Chloe, also have their own kids who are both under ten - daughter Chiara, who has just left nursery, and son Ace.The four are living their dream rural life in Kent, and they have their own pigs, chickens and lambs onsite.On occasion, JB has even mucked in with tasks such as mending fences to get involved with the rugged farming lifestyle that he once knew when he was a young child."I spent my first four or five years [of life] in the Caribbean and even now when I go back, the first thing I do is figure out what we're going to buy from the shop and the baker, and what fish we're going to get," he mused.He recalled large, joyous family occasions that were "always centred around food", and cited it as one of the reasons he has a passion for creating his own today."I've always had an appreciation for my food and things like growing your own, having fruit trees in the garden and getting sugar cane from the local plantation - all that stuff I've grown up with over the years," he reminisced."[Today] we've got apple trees, cherry trees, pear trees...

Rosie O’Donnell is shedding some insight on why she’s not close with Ellen DeGeneres and why she never appeared on her show. During a conversation with Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live," O’Donnell, 60, admitted that a conversation DeGeneres, 64, had in the past with Larry King really "hurt her feelings."  O'Donnell was joined by "The Office" star Brian Baumgartner during her appearance on Cohen's show.  O’Donnell told the Bravo host she invited DeGeneres on her talk show. However, the former "View" co-host shared that she was not invited on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" until the end of the 19th season.

Moonage Daydream, a film about David Bowie, opens with “Hallo Spaceboy,” a deep cut from his 1995 album Outside. It’s clear from the use of this song that Brett Morgen isn’t making a traditional documentary about the Thin White Duke.

Diane Weyermann’s impact continues to be felt throughout the documentary field, with her presence evident on some of the fall’s most talked about nonfiction films, including Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Steve James’s A Compassionate Spy.

Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho equalled Reds legend Sir Alex Ferguson's record for the most wins in European matches since 1992 when Roma defeated HJK on Thursday night.

Keeping it moving! Martha Stewart gave an update on her friend Pete Davidson — and she thinks he’s doing well after his split from Kim Kardashian.

Robbie Williams breaks Official Chart records as XXV tops the Official Albums Chart, becoming Robbie’s 14th Number 1 solo album.

Roger Federer has announced he will retire from professional tennis later this year at the age of 41, meaning tributes have been pouring in for one of the greatest players of the sport. The 20-time Grand Slam champion will play the Laver Cup tournament in London next week (known as the tennis version of the Ryder Cup) for his final professional competition. In a letter posted to his social media accounts, Federer broke the news about his "bittersweet decision" to fans:"To my tennis family and beyond.

After eight years of marriage, Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser called it quits due in part to a degree of “social isolation” in their lives.

K.J. Yossman Film and TV studio Fifth Season (previously Endeavor Content) has appointed Ben Irving to the position of creative director for U.K. television. He will join in November. His remit will be to build on Fifth Season’s reputation for distributing series such as “Killing Eve” and “The Night Manager” and producing “Severance.” Irving will lead the production and development teams in the U.K. and work on U.K.-based developments as well as working with the U.K.’s creative community on new global series. Irving joins from the BBC, where he oversaw all primetime drama as the acting director of drama. Before then he worked as BBC Drama’s head of production and a commissioning editor. Among the projects he has executive produced are “His Dark Materials,” “Doctor Who,” “Happy Valley” and “Sherwood.” Prior to joining the BBC Ben worked at Heyday Films as VP of development and production. He has also worked at Warner Bros Pictures and Qwerty Films over the course of his career.

Timothée Chalamet has shared the savvy career advice Leonardo DiCaprio once offered him. During an interview for the October 2022 issue of British Vogue, the Dune actor recalled what The Wolf of Wall Street star told him when they first met in 2018. "No hard drugs and no superhero movies," Timothée recounted to the publication of the guidance Leonardo gave him.

Danielle 'Bhad Bhabie' Bregoli has been invited to speak at Oxford University this November.TMZ reported news of the invitation for Bhad Bhabie to talk to students at the English institution's debating society, Oxford Union, in a speech which will be streamed on YouTube.The 19-year-old rose to fame after appearing on a 2016 episode of Dr. Phil, where she went viral with the phrase, 'Cash me outside.' The latest: Danielle 'Bhad Bhabie' Bregoli, 19, has been invited to speak at Oxford University this November.

Roger Federer is retiring. The 41-year-old tennis legend - who has won 20 Grand Slams in his long career - has announced he is hanging up his racket and will no longer play the sport competitively after next weekend's Laver Cup at The O2 in London because he has struggled to fully recover from an ongoing knee injury. He said on Instagram: £“As many of you know, the past three years have presented me with challenges in the form of injuries and surgeries.

With a career spanning nearly 25 years, Britney Spears has well and truly earned her title as the Princess of Pop.

Timothée Chalamet is sharing some sage career advice Leonardo DiCaprio gave him. In British October issue, where Chalamet is making history as the first male solo star on the cover, the 26-year-old got candid about his career and his upcoming role as Willy Wonka in the movie musical, .The advice from DiCaprio came in 2018, when Chalamet first met the Oscar-winning actor, and the  star kept it pretty simple: «No hard drugs and no superhero movies.»While it appears Chalamet has achieved that so far, the  actor said he never envisioned his career blowing up the way that it has.«I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career.