Former Love Island star Yewande Biala has responded after fellow contestant Lucie Donlan apparently alleged that Biala “bullied” her while on the show. The comment appeared to be in response to a fan who asked about a YouTube video that Biala had made with fellow islander Joe Garrett, during Continue Reading
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The Force re-awakens: Ubisoft working on new open-world Star Wars game | Games
Ubisoft is working on a new open-world Star Wars adventure, the company has revealed. Development will be handled by the French publisher’s Massive studio, previously responsible for the online shooter series, Tom Clancy’s The Division. According to a report by Wired, production of the game is still in the early Continue Reading
Broadway star Laura Benanti celebrates high school seniors AP New York coronavirus pandemic Laura Benanti People- Tempemail
So Benanti asked crestfallen young people across the country to record themselves performing their songs, post them on social media and tag her. Stages might be silent, but she wanted to hear them. The response stunned her — 15,000 submissions. “I really thought the initial sort of call to action Continue Reading
Beating the anti-vaxxers: how star power can help squash vaccine myths | Vaccines and immunisation- Tempemail
President-elect Joe Biden’s statement that he would be happy to be vaccinated publicly against coronavirus to encourage people to follow suit – following similar pledges from Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton – highlights a fundamental concern in global health circles. Vaccine hesitancy – as well as anti-vaccination Continue Reading
The Wiggles star apologises after ‘Pappadum Song’ from 2014 faces cultural sensitivity backlash- Tempemail
A member of the hit Australian children’s musical group The Wiggles has apologised after a clip from 2014 was deemed “culturally insensitive”. “The Pappadum Song” was originally featured on the Wiggle House release, and sees purple Wiggle Lachlan sing the word “pappadum” over and over again, alongside the other Wiggles, Continue Reading
The Bollywood star, a suicide … and an online witch-hunt across India | World news- Tempemail
It was a muted finale to a saga that has rivalled the wildest movie storylines. On Wednesday, the Bollywood star Rhea Chakraborty stepped out of the Byculla women’s prison in Mumbai, released on bail after 28 days in jail. Over the previous four months, she had been vilified in a Continue Reading
Star Wars: Squadrons review – childhood dreams, realised | Games
It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to posit that one of the primary drivers of video game innovation over the past 40 years has been the desire to live out Star Wars fantasies – from the Parker Brothers’ Empire Strikes Back in 1982 (the first Star Wars tie-in Continue Reading
BTS: The Chase star Anne Hegerty condemned by fans after describing group as ‘a little Korean boy band that’s not important’- Tempemail
On Twitter, Hegerty (who is known on The Chase as “The Governess”) described BTS as “a little Korean boy band that’s fundamentally not important”. She made the comments in response to a tweet from The Economist senoir editor Anne McElvoy, who had written “Please no” in response to news that Continue Reading
Rohit Roy’s soft-drink addiction battle turns him into TikTok star | Technology- Tempemail
People get famous for plenty of bizarre reasons, but even in the age of the internet, it’s hard to imagine a more inexplicable or heartwarming rise to popularity than that of Rohit Roy. The 41-year-old financial planning assistant from Melbourne has amassed hundreds of thousands of devoted and loving fans Continue Reading
The Star uses SAP and DocuSign to sign nearly 7000 staff up to JobKeeper – Software- Tempemail
The Star Entertainment Group set up almost 7000 eligible employees on the government’s JobKeeper support scheme in less than a week using technology from SAP and DocuSign. Following government restrictions on March 22, the ASX-listed group – which owns and operates The Star Sydney, The Star Gold Coast and Treasury Continue Reading