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Real Housewives star, Heather Dubrow, slammed rumors that her husband, Terry Dubrow, had cheated on her. The reality star, 53, responded to a post on Instagram earlier Thursday that alleged the plastic surgeon, 64, had an affair, writing that the rumors were, 'This is not true, on any level.'The couple tied the knot in 1999, and share four children together.

The end of September brought in the expiration of another carriage deal with no agreement in place to renew it. At midnight on Oct. 30, the Disney-owned television stations that carry ABC programming as well as cable networks ESPN, FX Networks, Nat Geo, Freeform and Disney Channel, are no longer available on Dish and Sling TV.

As temperatures start to take a tumble, just over a week after summer gave way to fall, Kourtney Kardashian is giving her 199 million Instagram fans a glimpse at her new life with husband Travis Barker.On Friday, the reality star, 43, shared a series of fall-inspired photos as part of her latest photo dump.In all, there are 10 new snaps, including the cover image that shows Kardashian and Barker sitting in the bleachers at what appears to be a high school football game, as her daughter Penelope sticks her face into the view of the camera. Fall photo dump: Kourtney Kardashian, 43, confessed' there's something about fall' in her latest Instagram photo dump that includes a photo of herself, husband Travis Barker, 46, and her daughter Penelope, 10, seemingly at a high school football game'There's just something about fall, back-to-school night, bed times, carpool mornings, tea and movies in bed, football games, pumpkins, my good morning song to wake everyone up, that makes me so happy!' she wrote.

Chris Pratt looked loved up with his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger when they stepped out in the Pacific Palisades this week.The 43-year-old movie star could be spotted enjoying an alfresco lunch at Porta Via with his 32-year-old ladylove, whose father is Arnold Schwarzenegger.At one point he leaned towards Katherine to give her a kiss as they basked in the sun during their autumnal Los Angeles outing. Hand in hand: Chris Pratt looked loved up with his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger when they stepped out in the Pacific Palisades this weekThe dynamic duo could be seen holding hands as they ambled down the sidewalk together after picking up some refreshments.

Rosario Dawson was all smiles as she attended the GEANCO Foundation's Annual Hollywood Gala in Los Angeles with her new boyfriend Nnamdi Okafor.The Mandalorian star, 43, opted for a bohemian one-shoulder dress with white, brown and yellow tones, which she paired with fall-friendly cream boots. Dawson's new romance with Okafor, 39, comes after it was confirmed in April that she and Sen.

Ellie Simmonds may have wowed us all with her impressive dancing skills on Strictly Come Dancing, but the Paralympic swimmer admitted she’s been targeted by trolls online and it has really affected her. Ellie, 27, who has achondroplasia dwarfism, said: “I’ve had it already. Some people have said, ‘How’s the dwarf going to dance?’ It’s sad and it does get to you.'" Despite the keyboard warriors’ cruel comments, the gold medal-winning athlete has already been praised by notoriously harsh judge Craig Revel Horwood for her fantastic timing, rhythm and attitude.

Eagle-eyed fans have spotted what could be a huge clue amidst the Ferne McCann vs Sam Faiers drama. The ex-TOWIE stars were once close pals however fans have been rocked by the release of voice notes in which Ferne, 32, appears to make a series of derogatory comments about her former co-star, 31.The voice notes are being released by an anonymous Instagram account and plenty of users have turned detective in a bid to work out who is responsible. The account is named 'Lucy May 195’ and in the comments sections, fans claim the numbers on the username are more than just a random set of digits.

It’s that time of year when the weather changes, the central heating goes on and suddenly your skin might have a whole new set of demands. If your face is feeling dry, easily irritated, and tight, chances are you could benefit from one of the best barrier boosters to soothe, moisturise and strengthen your skin.The best skin strengthening products work by replenishing your natural protective barrier, which is crucial for keeping your complexion calm and happy. One of the key ingredients to look out for is ceramides, something that’s found naturally in your skin.These fats act like a kind of protective “cement” between skin cells, locking in moisture and keeping irritants and germs out.

Giving up cigarettes may be easier now than it’s ever been, thanks to smoking bans in public places, campaigns such as Stoptober and recent changes in technology. According to the Annual Population Survey, only about 12% of Brits (or 5.9 million) were still smoking in 2020. Health concerns remain one of the biggest reasons to quit, but the average smoker could also save hundreds of pounds by kicking the habit – and won’t have to deal with the lingering smell of smoke on their clothes! Whatever your drive, it takes quitters around three months to overcome their addiction and within a year your risk of a heart attack halves.

Brooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola Peltz reunited with the Beckham family on Friday, as they all attended Victoria Beckham's first Paris Fashion Week show.MORE: Victoria Beckham REUNITES with Nicola Peltz and son Brooklyn in Paris - all the photosAnd it appears that the brother and sister missed each other a lot, as they were seen sharing a sweet embrace following the show's end. As guests began to leave their seats, Brooklyn, who was seated next to his family, finally started greeting them.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic English novelist E.M. Forster never married, and why would he? The author of “Maurice” and “Howards End” was gay, reportedly maintaining relations with a much-younger police officer over the span of four decades. That man did marry, and history has it that his wife knew their secret. In “My Policeman,” this unconventional arrangement lends itself quite nicely to one of those slightly stuffy yet respectable period pieces of the kind that Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have made of Forster’s novels, jumping back and forth in time between the sexy stuff (featuring Harry Styles, fully embracing the ambiguity of his queerbaiting brand) and the maudlin way it resolves itself so many years later.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic No director has done more to deconstruct the myth of the suburban American family than Steven Spielberg. Dissertations have been written and documentaries made on the subject. And now, at the spry young age of 75, Spielberg himself weighs in on where his preoccupations come from in “The Fabelmans,” a personal account of his upbringing that feels like listening to two and a half hours’ worth of well-polished cocktail-party anecdotes, only better, since he’s gone to the trouble of staging them all for our benefit. Spielberg’s a born storyteller, and these are arguably his most precious stories. From the first movie he saw (“The Greatest Show on Earth”) to memories of meeting filmmaker John Ford on the Paramount lot, this endearing, broadly appealing account of how Spielberg was smitten by the medium — and why the prodigy nearly abandoned picture-making before his career even started — holds the keys to so much of the master’s filmography. More similar to Woody Allen’s autobiographical “Radio Days” than it is to European art films such as “The 400 Blows” and “Amistad” (the more highbrow models other directors typically point to when re-creating their childhoods), “The Fabelmans” invites audiences into the home and headspace of the world’s most beloved living director, an oddly sanitized zone where even the trauma — which includes anti-Semitism, financial disadvantage and divorce — seems to go better with fresh-buttered popcorn.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It’s 2022, and a Hollywood studio has just made a movie in which two men fall in love and can’t figure out what to do about it. No one dies of AIDS. No one gets tire-ironed on the side of the road. Judd Apatow produced the thing, so you know it’s funny. And yet, somehow, “Bros” doesn’t feel like that big a deal. Sure, it’s a well-budgeted, wide-release, R-rated gay romcom, and that’s historic (if you put enough qualifying adjectives in front of it). But one of those had to come along sooner or later. Oddly, it feels like there already have been others, and there’s no question more are coming, considering how hard Hollywood has been working to include gay characters.

Manal Issa and Nathalie Issa, real life sisters who play a pair of Olympic swimming hopefuls, also sisters, said they weren’t at all aquatic when cast in the Sally El Hosaini film ‘The Swimmers’ that opened TIFF last night.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “If we got rid of every gay man in the military, there would be no military,” a sympathetic officer tells Marine recruit Ellis French in “The Inspection.” That’s an exceptionally open-minded take on the United States’ “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, seeing as how pretty much everyone else French encounters at boot camp is openly hostile to there being a gay man among them. But writer-director Elegance Bratton made it through the system — like the character, he’d been lost and homeless for a decade before enlisting — and this deeply personal narrative debut is one gay Black man’s way of showing how he not only survived the experience, but was strengthened by it. “The few, the proud,” as they say.

“The Swimmers” is inspired by the true story of teenage Olympic athlete and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini who, in 2015, along with her sister Sara and two others, dragged a boat full of fellow refugees across the Aegean sea. After the girls made it to Germany, Yusra was selected along with ten others to compete with the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic You’ve heard the expression, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Well, “The Grab” makes the case that society had best brace itself for disorder, since certain parties are gobbling up the world’s food and water resources while the rest of us are distracted by other things. Produced in association with the Center for Investigative Reporting, “Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s astonishing, eye-opening doc hits us with the idea that the next world war won’t be fought over ideology, oil or border disputes, but basic resources like meat, wheat and water, none of which should be taken for granted. Experts call this field “food security,” and the entire system is more fragile than it looks. World populations are climbing while water resources are dwindling, which has led countries such as Saudi Arabia and China to seek farmland on other continents. Among its myriad examples, “The Grab” focuses on a 15-square-mile expanse in La Paz, Ariz., an arid desert locale where there’s no limit to the amount of water landowners can pump from the aquifers. Arizona’s policy of unrestricted access means Saudi investors can legally tap into the water table to grow fields of hay, which will be shipped home to feed their cattle, even if it means draining the wells of local farmers in the process.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In early 2021, while Americans were focused on the transfer of power back home, daredevil director Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land,” “City of Ghosts”) assembled a crew and flew to Afghanistan to check in on the status of America’s longest war. At that point, Osama bin Laden had been dead a decade, the Taliban was weakened but not defeated, and the U.S.-trained Afghan Army was holding its own fairly well — and yet, nearly 20 years in, there was still no end in sight for American involvement. That changed almost as soon as Heineman arrived, as the Biden administration made plans to pull out. In that moment, what might have been another business-as-usual desert war doc — with routine patrols, precisely targeted drone strikes and soldiers expressing their ennui — shifted to something audiences hadn’t seen before. The title, “Retrograde,” refers to the process by which military forces extricate themselves from conflict, removing or otherwise rendering useless the equipment they’d used to engage the enemy. For Heineman, that meant capturing all kinds of cinematic sights: A brawny soldier smashes a heap of computer monitors, helicopters airlift vehicles out, and things go boom as a team tosses all remaining ammo into a trench, douses it in gasoline and lights the pile with a well-aimed rocket. The Taliban won’t be using these bullets.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Imagine showing up for an Airbnb rental, only to discover that another guest is already there. What would you do? Check in anyway and hope for the best? Or take the mix-up as a sign and get the heck out? In “Barbarian,” Tess (Georgina Campbell) makes the wrong decision. It’s already late, and she decides to stay — this despite the fact that the stranger sharing the house is played by Bill Skarsgård (the actor who embodied Pennywise in the recent “It” remake). For audiences, this casting is a clue Tess is in for a scary stay. But it would be wrong to think you have “Barbarian” figured out. For Tess, there are plenty of other red flags in the way her unexpected roommate behaves. Should she really believe they double-booked the same place in a derelict Detroit neighborhood? Or is there another reason he’s there? What if he’s some kind of rapist or axe murderer? Is the flimsy lock on her bedroom enough to protect her should he turn violent? Tess does have certain survival instincts (she’s sharp enough to decline a drink from this guy, who calls himself “Keith”), and she has empathy, too, which will become kind of a defining characteristic later on, when things get super-crazy and you just want her to get out of town as fast as possible.