55 m. ago Hollywood bosses in bidding war for biopic about David Bowie's raunchy private life

Hollywood bosses are in a bidding war to create a huge big-budget movie on David Bowie's life, including his raunchy private life and one night stand while he was married

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9 h. ago Hollywood bidding war over David Bowie biopic which promises to lift lid on his private life

The film about David Bowie, who died aged 69 in 2016, is expected to shed light on the music legend's raunchy private life during his swift rise to fame in the 1970s

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10 h. ago Hollywood bosses set for bidding war over David Bowie biopic which promises to lift the lid on his private life

Suzi Ronson, wife of Bowie's right-hand man Mick Ronson, has revelaed her autobiography has been optioned with the hope of becoming a Hollywood movie.

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60 h. ago Barcelona's teenage superstar Lamine Yamal gives teasing update on his love life in dressing room video amid claims he had 'split from Argentinian rapper girlfriend, 25, after just 13 days'

Lamine Yamal offered a subtle answer to weeks of speculation about his private life in the moments after Spain's emphatic win over Turkey.

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5 d. ago Giorgio Armani's mysterious love life and secret crush that changed him

Just one year before his death at the age of 91, Giorgio Armani opened up about the summer crush that would change the course of his life forever, in a candid admission he had kept private for years

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7 d. ago Who is Emma Chamberlain dating? YouTuber's romances including popstar and influencer

Emma Chamberlain is one of the biggest stars on YouTube, but she has managed to keep her private life mostly out of public view

Technology

1 week ago Julia Roberts embraces husband in rare snap after divisive Venice Film Festival debut

Hollywood royalty, Julia Roberts, has been married to the father of her kids, Danny Moder, since 2002, but usually keeps her private life firmly out the spotlight

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2 w. ago Inside Emma Chamberlain's private health battle and 'life changing' diagnosis

She discovered her condition during a visit to the hair salon

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2 w. ago Anna Kournikova disappeared from public eye as very private life with superstar husband emerges

Anna Kournikova became a worldwide celebrity during her tennis career before it was cut short in 2003 due to injuries, two years after she began dating pop superstar Enrique Iglesias

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2 w. ago Lies, private jets and a missing $86m: Inigo Philbrick’s art world swindle

Convicted fraudster expresses regret in a two-part BBC documentary but also asks ‘what about all the good deals?’As an art dealer in London and Miami, Inigo Philbrick had the Midas touch and lived the high life, with private jets, $5,000 bottles of wine and $7,000 suits. But in 2019 he was exposed as a serial swindler who had created one of the largest art frauds in history, a Ponzi-style web of lies that conned collectors and investors.In 2022, aged 34, he was sentenced to seven years in a US prison, with two years of supervised release and an order “to pay forfeiture of $86,672,790”.The Great Art Fraud is on BBC Two on 27 and 28 August and on iPlayer. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘There was so much vitriol’: Willis Chimano on being outed while in Africa’s biggest boy band

The Kenyan singer, part of the wildly popular Sauti Sol, faced hatred and threats but it made him determined to push for change in a country where being gay is still illegalComing out as gay was not something Willis Austin Chimano, a member of the Kenyan Afropop band Sauti Sol, had ever considered. From about 2005, when the group – widely considered to be Africa’s biggest boyband – was formed, to 2018, Chimano says he “wore a mask” at work, careful how he acted, spoke and dressed.At the same time, he embraced his queer identity in his private life. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rachel Galvo: The Shite Feminist review – swaggering comedy about religion and privilege at an all

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghIn an eyebrow-raising debut, Galvo shares not very fond memories of her education in IrelandRachel Galvo ditched a career in business a few years back, fleeing Dublin for London drama school – where she wrote what is now The Shite Feminist, her first standup show. As the name implies, and her intro (“Ladies, and hopefully not too many gentlemen ”) confirms, it’s not made with the likes of me in mind. But there’s still plenty to enjoy for sheepish men in the crowd, as the 25-year-old shares not very fond memories of life at an all-girls private Catholic school on the other side of the Irish Sea.At least initially, it’s no great sob story, and not only because Galvo openly admits (and sends up) how pampered and privileged a childhood she had. But the religious education she depicts can still raise eyebrows, even if Galvo’s account of it (fetishising Jesus, or observing that the Bible’s only templates for femininity are “a virgin and a prostitute”) feels well-w...

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