23 h. ago Oscars 2025 live updates: Academy Awards red carpet, ceremony and winners

Join us for full coverage of the 97th Academy Awards. Will it be The Brutalist or Anora’s year? Or might we see white smoke for Conclave?• The complete list of nomineesAs Stu has already mentioned, Conan O’Brien is hosting this year’s ceremony, taking over from Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the last two. Did the Academy opt for someone less likely to take aim at Trump? Did Kimmel not fancy it? Regardless, O’Brien should be a fun host – likeable, irreverent and not afraid to tackle a song and dance number:Meanwhile, this year’s presenters have been announced and as per Oscar traditions, last year’s winning actors – Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph – will be presenting this year’s acting categories. Other stars lined up to present categories include Dave Bautista, Gal Gadot, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, Zoe Saldaña and Rachel Zegler. But Harrison Ford, who was scheduled to present an award, will miss the ceremo...

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36 h. ago Did Stormzy get too big for his boots? Rapper's disastrous rebrand sees him dubbed 'Cliff Richard of hip hop' while his own fans take aim over controversial McDonald's partnership

The UK rapper has most recently faced criticism for 'selling out' after a pro-Palestine post disappeared from his Instagram account following a new brand deal with McDonald's.

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3 d. ago The BBC wanted black listeners and turned to Tim Westwood, white son of a vicar. A parable for our times | Jane Martinson

Of the many lessons arising from this week’s report into the presenter’s alleged bullying and misogyny, one is the corporate cynicism that sustained himMore than 30 years have passed since Tim Westwood joined the BBC, 12 since he left and three since Guardian and BBC journalists reported on allegations of abuse by a man considered by the corporation to be the voice of hip hop. Then this week, some of the many concerns raised during his 19 years working there were detailed in the latest edition of one of the BBC’s weightiest and longest-running series, Official Reports into Men We Employ Behaving Very Badly.Westwood’s career at the Beeb ended in 2013, amid a flurry of accusations and a sense of deja vu best summarised as “oh God, not another one”. But the 174-page report is well worth reading, not just for what it says about the BBC but, as so often with the media, what it says about attitudes in Britain.Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raise...

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4 d. ago Drake concert employee claims what REALLY happened at the rapper's disastrous final show in Brisbane

An employee at Drake's Brisbane concert has claimed there were disastrous issues with the Canadian rapper's final show on Tuesday night.

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6 d. ago Chris Jasper, Isley Brothers star behind ‘Between the Sheets’ and ‘Caravan of Love’, dies aged 73

Musician and producer was behind some of the band’s biggest hits, with his work also sampled by hip-hop stars such as Tupac, The Notorious BIG and Jay-Z

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7 d. ago BGT fans' fury after Simon fails to acknowledge act who starred in show two years ago

Britain's Got Talent fans took aim at the ITV show after claiming Simon Cowell failed to acknowledge a performer, who appeared on the US version of the series two years ago

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9 d. ago Joy Crookes review – an enthralling, intimate set from this rising London soul star

Islington Assembly Hall, LondonThe twentysomething singer-songwriter brings classic Motown rhythms with a touch of hip-hop to a resounding set of anti-anxiety anthemsJoy Crookes is only 26, but the south Londoner’s music already feels omnipresent. One song in particular, at least: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now seems to be absolutely everywhere. I hear it in cafes and bars, trendy boutiques and grimy off-licences and, when I forget to turn it off, the autoplay function on my streaming app of choice. The song only came out in 2021, as a single from Crookes’s acclaimed debut album, Skin, and even if it doesn’t yet feel canonical, it has at least thoroughly saturated certain pockets of the city.Which makes it all the more remarkable that, when Crookes plays it at Islington Assembly Hall this evening – an “intimate”, or intimate for her, show at only 890 people – one of the Brits Week for War Child charity shows, it doesn’t even garner the biggest singalong of the evening. That honour might go ...

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9 d. ago One of Sean 'Diddy' Combs' attorneys wants to quit his defense team

One of the attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs in his sex trafficking case wants to quit the hip-hop mogul’s defense team

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1 week ago The Notorious B.I.G.'s mother dead at 78: Voletta Wallace passes away while in hospice care

Biggie Smalls, as he was known to fans, was one of the reigning hip hop stars of his era until he was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1997 at the age of 24.

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1 week ago The Notorious B.I.G.'s mother dead at 72: Voletta Wallace passes away while in hospice care

Biggie Smalls, as he was known to fans, was one of the reigning hip hop stars of his era until he was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1997 at the age of 24.

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1 week ago Rihanna's boyfriend A$AP Rocky set to complete takeover of English football club after being found not guilty in his felony shooting trial

The rapper had been charged with two counts relating to use of a semi-automatic weapon in a 2021 altercation with another hip-hop artist in Hollywood.

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