8 h. ago Robbie Williams says he feels ‘panic’ when fans approach in public

Pop star posts on Instagram about his fright and ‘discomfort’ when asked for photos and autographsRobbie Williams has spoken of the “discomfort” and “panic” he feels when he is approached for photos and autographs by fans.In a post on Instagram, the pop star said he was able to “mask” the reality that social interactions frighten him. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Ed Sheeran shares Persian culture with the world and the diaspora swoons – me included | Dellaram Vreeland

The star’s new single, Azizam, is a rare pop-cultural moment in which Iran is celebrated for the beauty of its cultureGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAs a second-generation Persian immigrant, my connection with my roots has always been relatively surface-level. Admiring the intricate artworks adorning the walls of our homes, hand-loomed rugs crafted by my own grandmother, barberry-laden rice and saffron-infused stews, the music of Googoosh, Bijan Mortazavi and Susan Roshan blasting from dawn to dusk.My parents spoke Farsi to one another and to me when I was a child and as such it was my mother tongue. But I was born in Australia, so it was only going to be a matter of time before I became more proficient in English. Now I stumble my way through conversations in broken Farsi, longing for the day when Iran will be safe enough to finally visit and I can hopefully scrub up my language skills.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for th...

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11 h. ago Sam Smith issues powerful response to Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman

Pop star Sam Smith has shared a strong message on social media following the Supreme Court's decision over the definition of a woman and sex in the Equality Act

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19 h. ago Katy Perry 'regrets' 'making a public spectacle' of Blue Origin space flight

Pop star Katy Perry is said to be regretting "making a public spectacle" of her recent Blue Origin space flight after being widely mocked and criticised for her actions

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19 h. ago Katy Perry 'regrets making public spectacle' of slammed Blue Origin space flight

Pop star Katy Perry is said to be regretting "making a public spectacle" of her recent Blue Origin space flight after being widely mocked and criticised for her actions

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48 h. ago Bobby Brown SLAMS iconic pop star for 'butchering' one of his hits with cover version

The 56-year-old Grammy winner said the Swedish production team Bloodshy & Avant didn't do the new jack swing song 'justice' back in 2004

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53 h. ago Justin Bieber breaks silence on claims he is broke and millions in debt amid fan concerns

Reps for the 31-year-old pop star called the claims 'clickbait stupidity' coming from unreliable sources who are 'disappointed that they no longer work with Justin.'

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66 h. ago $500 for the nosebleeds? Lady Gaga fans furious over ticket prices for Australian shows

The Mayhem tour’s ticketing agencies deny dynamic pricing has been implemented, but fans have complained prices are high and inconsistentElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe little monsters are not happy. Lady Gaga fans have swamped social media to complain about exorbitant ticket prices for the pop star’s Australian concerts, with many speculating that dynamic pricing is involved – a claim the official ticketing agency for the Melbourne and Brisbane shows, Ticketmaster, has denied.Off the back of her chart-topping album Mayhem, Lady Gaga is heading to Australia for the first time in 11 years, with Live Nation bringing the Mayhem Ball to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in December. Ticketmaster, which is owned by Live Nation, is responsible for the ticket sales in Melbourne and Brisbane. Ticketek is separately handling the Sydney show, because of its affiliation with Sydney venue Accor Stadi...

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3 d. ago Justin Bieber and wife Hailey seek hangover cure at LA spa after partying at Coachella

On Monday, the pop star, 31, and his wife, 28, enjoyed a relaxing pick-me-up after partying hard in the desert for the first weekend of the star-studded festival.

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3 d. ago The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan

The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish sillinessThere are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose – the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that exceed the limits of parody, so that if they were in a novel, you’d think the writer was laying it on a little thick. Among these is the all-female flight by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned rocket tourism company, which on Monday launched a phallically shaped pod full of women – including the pop star Katy Perry and Bezos’s partner, Lauren Sánchez – on a brief trip into space.The flight, which was promoted for months in advance, was touted as a triumph of feminism, a win for science and an embrace of the kind of expansive, curious human spirit of striving and possibility that once animated both. Instead, the flight served as a kind of perverse funeral for the America that once enabled both scie...

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3 d. ago The love that dare not speak its name: why I’m coming out as a gay man who loves Taylor Swift | Joe Stone

She is tragically mainstream, allergic to ‘serving’ on the red carpet and certainly hasn’t thrived against the odds. It’s the antithesis of gay culture – so why do I love her?As a self-evidently gay man, I’ve generally been spared the awkwardness of coming out. That was, until I became a Swiftie. In recent years I have become adept at gauging the temperature of a room before revealing my predilection. Is this a safe space? Will I be sidelined or treated as a pervert because of who I choose to love? Should I lie, or just be evasive? I want to live authentically, but at what cost?Taylor Swift is at once the closest thing we have to a monoculture and the most divisive pop star of modern times. As a self-identified Swiftie, I believe her gift lies in the ability to take hyper-specific experiences and render them universal. I’ve never performed a 149-date world tour while reeling from the heartbreak of having been ghosted by Matty Healy of the 1975, but listening to I Can Do It With a Br...

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3 d. ago Katy Perry's daughter Daisy, 4, is seen for the first time as she's filmed watching Blue Origin flight in awe alongside dad Orlando Bloom after pop star's sweet tribute to her in space

The singer, 40, soared into the sky with a star-studded crew including Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King for an 11-minute trip, before safely touching back down on Earth.

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3 d. ago What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sally Ride could never.Anyway, if you missed this, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee took an 11-minute trip to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin craft on Monday, alongside some all-female passengers – sorry, “crew” – who included CBS anchor Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry. So yes: the Woman’s World video is no longer the most plastic feminist thing Katy’s done.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 d. ago What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sally Ride could never.Anyway, if you missed this, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee took an 11-minute trip to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin craft on Monday, alongside some all-female passengers – sorry, “crew” – who included CBS anchor Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry. So yes: the Woman’s World video is no longer the most plastic feminist thing Katy’s done.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Benson Boone addresses Coachella crowd’s lukewarm reaction to legendary guest

Rising pop star brought out Queen guitarist Brian May for an epic cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

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4 d. ago Katy Perry reveals reason she brought a daisy on Blue Origin space mission

Pop star was seen kissing a daisy flower as she exited the spacecraft

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4 d. ago So Katy Perry went to space. Wasn’t there anyone else we could have sent? | Zoe Williams

No disrespect to the pop star or the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew, but most of them weren’t obvious astronaut materialI am broadly of the view that Katy Perry should do whatever she likes, and wear whatever she likes, and if she wants to be shot into space for no obvious purpose looking like one of Charlie’s Angels, then that falls squarely into those categories. So why am I so bothered by Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which has just made a suborbital flight to the edge of space and back? OK, it’s partly the outfits (see Angels, Charlie’s, above), but it’s mainly the flight manifest: Perry joined Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee; Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist; CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; film producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe. I cannot help but notice that only two of these women had anything to do with astronauting (Nguyen studied astrophysics and interned at Nasa before becoming an activist).Obviously it’s very staid...

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4 d. ago Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight

All-female crew led by Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez lands in Texas after reaching the edge of outer spaceKaty Perry’s space flight – latest updatesSix women – including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King – safely completed a trip to the edge of outer space and back from a private Texas ranch on Monday morning on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur.The women, who also included Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, made the trip to the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space – to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket’s capsule for three minutes before returning to Earth. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Katy Perry becomes first pop star to travel to space with all

Katy Perry is among the six-woman crew flying to space on Jeff Bezos' New Shepard NS-31 mission, and is the first pop star to ever travel to space.

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4 d. ago Katy Perry space trip LIVE: Pop star to blast off in Amazon owner's Blue Origin rocket

Katy Perry will take part in a Blue Origin New Shepard flight to the edge of space along with Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez and four other women in the first all-female commercial space flight

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