Taylor Swift Will Receive Honorary Doctorate From NYU, Speak at Yankee Stadium Commencement

Patricia Arquette was seen in New York City on Wednesday morning.The Medium actress was seen in a white dress with flattering platform heels as she made her way to the Today Show.While on the show, the Hollywood icon revealed that her Apple TV+ series Severance has been renewed for a second season. And she also made rare comments about her boyfriend of eight years, Eric White.

Made in Chelsea's Victoria Baker-Harber surprised fans last year when she returned to the show with a baby in tow. Having kept her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter secret, she welcomed baby Gaia Grace in October 2020 with her gallery owner ex-fiancé Inigo Philbrick, 34, who is currently in prison in the US.The star mentions in the show that while she’s visited her ex-partner, he hasn’t yet met their daughter.

RTÉ’s Morning Ireland: “I think today marks probably the most momentous indication of how Ireland values its artists, probably since, you know, the establishment of the Arts Council who celebrate their 70th birthday this year.”The scheme was the main recommendation that came out of the report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce, which was launched by Minister for the Arts, Catherine Martin in 2020.Martin has described the scheme as a “watershed” moment for the arts, and added that people “leaned into the work of artists during times of need”, especially during the COVID pandemic (via Irish Times).She added: “It is the arts that will help us make sense of what happened and help us shape the future.” In the UK, there is no such similar help for artists.

Just when Erika Jayne thought she was free from legal trouble, she’s getting pulled right back in!

The Coachella Music and Arts Festival announced today that Kanye West would be replaced as a headliner at next week’s event by The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia. This year’s Coachella runs April 15th-17th & 22nd-24th.

London is fuelled by illegal drugs and booze.Inigo Philbrick, 34, was arrested in 2020 on suspicion of defrauding buyers out of more than £65million ($86million), with the artist since pleading guilty to the allegation.Documents supplied by Philbrick's legal team claim that his substance abuse intensified after he entered London's art world in his 20s.The court, which is due to sentence Philbrick next month on one charge of wire fraud, heard that the artist had a "reputation for hard drinking".The documents submitted to court state that "he would begin drinking alcohol at lunch and continued to do so throughout the day, often using illegal drugs as well".These documents also claimed that this was "how art deals are done".The British artists Gilbert & George gave the court a character reference of Philbrick, who they described as "a very talented, extraordinary, charming, honest and decent young person."Gilbert & George recounted meeting Philbrick when he was an intern at White Cube Gallery in South London in 2005, where he worked after moving from his hometown of Connecticut to study at Goldsmiths, University of London.Philbrick went on to run a gallery in Mayfair as well as Miami and has a daughter with Made in Chelsea alumni Victoria Baker-Harber.The artist has been in custody in the US since June 2020 on an island in the South Pacific, and had disappeared after his transatlantic Ponzi scheme fell apart.Philbrick had reportedly been selling the same artwork to different people, or selling individuals fractions of paintings.He also took out over £15million ($20million) in loans on paintings he did not own.The artist pleaded guilty at New York's southern district court to one count of wire fraud, with the offence

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterContinuing his streak of using the magnetic child stars of awards season in his advertising campaigns, New York-based designer Thom Browne has cast Jude Hill as the face of his spring childrenswear line.This year’s Critics Choice Award winner for best young actor, 11-year-old Hill and his delightful Irish accent stole hearts all season in Kenneth Branagh’s Academy Award winner “Belfast.” The Thom Browne campaign was shot by Cass Bird and imagines Hill in a series of cinematic moments alongside a young girl and one of the brand’s most visible symbols — Hector, the silhouette of a wire-haired dachsund, who happens to be a giant. Browne himself also makes a cameo.The designer dressed Hill for the recent Oscars telecast and has also appeared on a slew of notable Hollywood men in recent months.

Sweden has become the latest territory to order a local version of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first from Scandinavia, as the hit format’s producer World of Wonder pushes it at this week’s Mip TV.

Netflix has released eight new photos from the final 12 episodes of the hit series Grace & Frankie.The final season was broken up, with the first four episodes airing in August 2021, and the final 12 announced last month to debut on April 29.The photos offer new looks at the title characters - Grace Hanson (Jane Fonda) and Frankie Bergstein (Lily Tomlin) - in what will become Netflix's longest-running original show at seven seasons and 94 episodes. New photos:Netflix has released eight new photos from the final 12 episodes of the hit series Grace & FrankieThe photos don't reveal too much in terms of plot details, with one showing the title character enjoying some huge margaritas at a Mexican restaurant.Another snap shows the dynamic duo literally putting their heads together, while sharing a tender moment A solo shot of Frankie at the Mexican restaurant shows her in quite the festive mood with a drink in front of her.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorFeature documentary “The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft,” directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog and distributed by Abacus Media Rights, has been acquired by Arte for France and Germany.In addition, ahead of its official launch at MipTV in Cannes, AMR has pre-sold the feature, about French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, to BBC Storyville for the U.K., DR in Denmark, SVT in Sweden and NRK in Norway.Written, directed and narrated by Herzog, “The Fire Within” pays homage to the Kraffts, who left an archive of more than 200 hours of footage.Herzog has produced, written and directed more than 60 narrative and documentary feature films, including “Grizzly Man,” “Invincible,” “Encounters at the End of the World” and “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” He was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. The film is produced by Brian Leith Productions, Bonne Pioche and Titan Films.

Love and basketball! Whether it’s a college matchup or the NBA, celeb couples love a date night that involves courtside seats.

A new operator could soon be at the helm of a former Wetherspoons which closed suddenly last month. Punters were left 'devastated' when The Robert Peel pub, in Bury, ceased trading without warning.

New York City.  The Brooklyn-born painter and Oscar-nominated director took charge of pushing the baby's carriage as the couple walked through the West Village on Saturday in exclusive photos obtained by DailyMail. com.

Paramount+ is locking phasers in advance of the latest new series in the Star Trek saga, releasing the first official trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuts next month on the streamer.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticYou could say, going back to Hitchcock or the silent-film era, that the thriller is the quintessential form of cinema. You could also say that the quintessential moment of a thriller is one that makes you go “Oh. My.

Is art imitating life? Pete Davidson‘s Saturday Night Live sketch seemed to mirror a recent evening he spent with Scott Disick.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesPlaying a character in a film who dies by suicide, adapted from a book penned by a famed author who met the same fate, is already a heady experience. But for Liev Schreiber, who tackles the stoically heroic Colonel Richard Cantwell in the big screen version of Ernest Hemingway’s final full-length novel, “Across the River and Into the Trees,” life imitated art — which imitated life — in ways not even Schreiber could have expected.“One of the things that happened to us in this epic, long shoot [in Venice, Italy] is that my father had found a sarcoma on his leg — a very, very rapid [growing] one,” Schreiber told a crowd gathered for a special screening and premiere of the film, directed by Paula Ortiz, at the Sun Valley Film Festival Thursday night.

EXCLUSIVE: Vivian Bang, the co-writer and star of the Sundance Film Festival debut White Rabbit, has boarded the New Line ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter more than eight years, the weekday and weekend editions of PBS’ signature evening newscast are finally getting together.Washington’s WETA has long produced the venerable “PBS NewsHour,” the show once known as the “McNeil-Lehrer Report” and now anchored by Judy Woodruff, while New York’s WNET has since 2013 produced the Saturday and Sunday editions of the program. Starting April 2, all seven days will be under the auspices of WETA, with Geoff Bennett, a former NBC News and MSNBC correspondent and anchor who was named the program’s chief Washington correspondent in November, taking the reins of a re-titled half-hour “PBS News Weekend.”“I think we are going to build on ‘NewsHour’s’ traditional mix of news and interviews and in-depth features,” says Bennett, in an interview.

Phillip Schofield is 60 years old tomorrow (April 1).Phillip became a staple fixture on our daytime TV screens alongside hosts including Holly Willoughby and Alison Hammond.However long before he was a This Morning host, he rose to fame as a children's TV presenter on BBC programme The Broom Cupboard.He is one a number of children's TV hosts that have gone on to fame, fortune and other interesting paths since launching their careers on some of our favourite childhood programmes.To celebrate Philip Schofield's birthday, Daily Star takes a look at where famous children's TV presenters are now.Long before Art Attack or Smart, Tony Hart was the original children's TV host to inspire creativity in generations of audiences.After joining the British Army in his twenties, the presenter later became a staple of TV in the seventies and eighties with programmes including Vision Art, Take Hart and Hartbeat.Along with working on Blue Peter during the 1950s, he also designed the programme's famous ship logo and highly coveted series of badges.His most famous creation however was plasticine figurine Morph, who featured alongside him on Heartbeat between 1984-1994, and inspired a flash mob in Tony Hart's memory in 2009.Tony suffered ill health in his later years including two strokes, and sadly died on January 18 2009 at the age of 83.His wife Jean Skingle, who he married in 1953 and with who he had a daughter called Carolyn, died six years earlier in 2003.Richard Deverell, the BBC controller of Children's Programmes paid tribute to Tony Hart, saying in a statement: "Tony was a warm man who had a unique ability to communicate with and inspire children.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe British remake of “Call My Agent!” is finally heading to Amazon’s Prime Video next month.Titled “Ten Percent,” the show hails from BAFTA-winning “W1A” and “Twenty Twelve” writer John Morton and, much like its French counterpart, follows a ragtag group of talent agents at a fictional British agency. And as evidenced in a new trailer for the show (watch below), creators have made good on early promises to depict the U.K.