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Reigns survived Gunther and the rest of the field in the men's Royal Rumble to win the battle royal for the second time in his career. Reigns can now choose between two champions to challenge for a belt at WrestleMania 42, Undisputed WWE champion Drew McIntyre or world heavyweight champion CM Punk. Punk and Reigns were involved in last year's WrestleMania 41 Night 1 main event, though both lost to Seth Rollins. They also worked together despite animosity at Survivor Series: War Games.

"Do you know any poor people who moved to Monaco?" he asked me.

As Michael Jackson saw it, children would become enamored with his personality as well as want to touch and hug him and sometimes it [got] me into trouble, the late US pop superstar says in previously unheard audio recordings contained in a new documentary. The UK's Wonderhood Studios included the recordings of Jackson voicing those thoughts for a new four-episode documentary series beginning on Wednesday that explores his acquittal on child sexual abuse charges after a 14-week criminal trial near Los Angeles in 2005.

"Bound by Honor," billed as a "top series" on ReelShort, opens with a young woman being drugged and coerced into marriage. In "Divorced at the Wedding Day," a "popular" pick on DramaBox, a pregnant widow is whipped and pushed onto broken glass at an engagement party before being locked up in a crate. ReelShort and Disney-backed DramaBox are the market leaders in the rising category of micro dramas, made-for-mobile soaps that feature fast-paced action and wild plots.

I was a smiley, happy child. I've had cerebral palsy since birth, so I've never known any other reality. At three years old I went to a disabled nursery connected to a disabled school, and I remember thinking, Why am I here? At the end of the day, the teacher brought my parents in and said, Rosie should be in a mainstream school.

'You know, my friend Nathan's coming over and he's bringing our friend Pam,'', Ferguson recalled telling his sons. 'You know Nathan, of course. You've listened to him, you know his voice from [Timon in] The Lion King.' So I played 'Hakuna Matata' and on my way to school they were singing 'Hakuna Matata' and I was like, 'This is Nathan who is coming to dinner!'

It was a perfect representation of Drag Race at its best: clearly developed storytelling, production decisions that forced girls to navigate new twists without seeming out-of-bounds, and a couple of performances (including a lip sync) that absolutely knocked my socks off. What more could you ask from this show? The most exciting part is that, for the first time this season, the production side has shown some life.

But if a reluctance to add yet another subscription to your streaming rotation means you haven't watched Amazon's surprisingly excellent adaptation yet, you might be interested to know that the company is currently releasing season one for free on the Prime Video YouTube channel.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Orange Is The New Black star Samira Wiley and her writer wife Lauren Morelli are set to divorce after nine years together. A representative told Out that the pair are "amicably filing for divorce", adding that they remain committed to co-parenting their four-year-old daughter. Wiley and Morelli met while working on Netflix show Orange Is the New Black, where Wiley starred as inmate Poussey Washington.

Unfortunately, Matt's love of film is inconsistent with his real assignment, which is to make the most money possible while taking the fewest risks. And he believes in that, too, because he wants to keep his job and he loves the life it gives him. So in this world, the desire to make art and the desire to make money are in tension, but not because they put pure artists and mercenary suits on opposite sides. They are competing desires that exist inside the hearts and minds of many, if not most, of the people in the industry, just in different proportions.

HBO's 'Industry' brought the party from the NYSE trading floor to a private screening in Brooklyn. The after party featured caviar bumps, SternTao merch, and a DJ set from Charli XCX's pal, The Dare. Actors, influencers, and New York's young literati drank and danced together. The vibes were immaculate.

While women outnumbered men in terms of presenters under 50, men significantly outnumbered women among the over-50s with 237 women to 394 men. It found there are nearly four times as many male presenters over 60 as female in the BBC's content division, which makes programmes. There were nearly twice as many older men than women 31 compared with 16 in BBC News. Within the nations and the English regions division, there were between three and four times as many older men as female presenters.

It all started in 2018, after the Fab Five's resident food-and-wine expert wowed a makeover recipient-or "hero," as they're called on the show-by showing him how to make guacamole. "My entire identity became that," Porowski tells me. "But I remember, it was Tom Jackson [in the very first episode] who mentioned when I cut a lime in half-he said, 'I've never seen the inside of a lime before.' I almost laughed in that moment, but he was being sincere."

They sat in their living room, covered in oversize portraits of their sons, and wondered just why their divorce filing was getting so many headlines. Was it a slow news day? They said that the road to heaven is paved with good intentions, when it is clearly the road to hell, and then they questioned why anyone would pave the road to hell.

As I saw on GamesRadar, Amazon Prime's official YouTube channels around the world have added the first two episodes of 2024's first season of Fallout to watch for free. (Well, you know, YouTube ads still appear if you've not, er, prevented that.) The live-action adaptation of Interplay and Bethesda's Fallout games was wildly better than anyone could have hoped, and proved a colossal hit for Amazon's streaming service.

X has announced a new partnership with Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) for coverage of the upcoming Winter Olympics, with the deal enabling X to share exclusive Winter Olympics content with audiences in Europe and the U.K. That'll also provide more opportunities for marketing tie-ins and promotions, as X looks to capitalize on the popularity of sports in the app.

"The checks were coming in," Sorrentino said. "They were like $675,000 per check. I had never in my life seen checks like that."

The original closing date for the Museum of Brands' exhibition devoted to all things Gerry and Sylvia Anderson has been affected by a critical systems failure! After an emergency consultation between Tracy Island and Moonbase Alpha, a new flight plan has been authorised. Revised mission duration: now extended to 18th April 2026. Commander Koenig has confirmed there is no need to evacuate the gallery, Professor Bergman says the data is "far too valuable to abandon," and Doctor Russell has ruled out premature closure.

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