Latest news with #BeautyAndTheBeast
Time of India
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
‘Harry Potter' fame actress Emma Watson banned from driving for 6 months because of speeding; has to pay THIS much fine
Emma Watson, or as the world still knows her, as one of the most intelligent wizards of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger, is once again in the news. However, this time not for the right reasons. Emma Watson has been banned from driving for 6 months because of a speeding incident. Why was Emma Watson banned from driving? According to a BBC report, Emma Watson has been banned from driving following her 2024 speeding incident. Reportedly, she was driving her Audi at 38mph in a 30mph zone in Oxford in July 2024. Further, the report states that at that point, she already had 9 penalty points on her license. In addition to a driving ban, the actress has been fined £1,044 at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court for breaking the law. Though the actress couldn't make it to the court for her hearing in the matter, her representative, Mark Haslam, spoke on her behalf. The lawyer told the court that the actress has been a student at Oxford since 2023. He added, "She is in a position to pay the fine." Emma Watson's conscious step to move away from the world of acting Though the 'Beauty And The Beast' actress is one of the finest artists we have in the industry, Emma, in her couple of old interviews, has time and again expressed her desire to step back from acting. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like An engineer reveals: One simple trick to get internet without a subscription Techno Mag Learn More Undo As we speak, she is pursuing her graduate degree program at Oxford. In addition to this, she is an advocate for sustainability and gender equality. In 2023, she joined hands with her brother and co-launched a sustainable gin brand. Emma Watson's return to Cannes Emma Watson, who, though, stays in the news but maintains a distance from the paps, made a rare public appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025, returning to the event after being away for 12 years. She played a significant role in Greta Gerwig's film, Little Women.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Stars of two of Britain's biggest comedies to appear in Fareham panto
The stars of two of TV's most beloved comedies are to star in panto in Hampshire this Christmas. Sue Holderness, of Only Fools and Horses fame, and Tyger Drew-Honey, who appeared in Outnumbered, have joined the cast of Beauty and the Beast at Fareham Live. Best known for her role as Marlene in the classic British sitcom and its spin off, Sue Holderness will delight audiences as the delightfully wicked Marlene the Malevolent, while TV favourite Tyger Drew-Honey, who played Jake Brockman in the BBC comedy, takes on the role of the vain and villainous Gaston. (Image: Fareham Live)READ MORE: Love Island star promises audiences 'a thrilling night out' in Southampton They appear alongside the previously announced Paul Burling, Britain's Got Talent finalist and master impressionist, back by popular demand, who returns to the stage as the hilarious French Frank. This magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast, produced by the award-winning Imagine Theatre, promises enchanting storytelling, side-splitting comedy, dazzling costumes, and spectacular song and dance numbers. (Image: Fareham Live) When an arrogant Prince is cursed to live as a beast, his only hope of salvation is to find love before the last petal falls from a magic rose. Could Beauty be the person he has been waiting for? The production will run from December 12 to January 4. Tickets from
7NEWS
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
The Chase star Anne Hegerty, aka The Governess, reveals new career move away from the popular quiz show
The Chase star Anne Hegerty — known to millions of people around the world as 'The Governess' — will step away from the popular quiz show to star as The Fairy Rose in a stage production of Beauty And The Beast. Hegerty, 66, announced she would be taking up the role during the Christmas festive period over December and January at the Scarborough Spa in the UK. The character of Fairy Rose stems from the Enchanted Rose in Disney's 1991 animated movie and 2017 live action film, which acts as a clock for the Beast — each petal fall is an indication of the time he has left to find his true love and break his curse. The multi-talented quiz show star is no stranger to the stage and has previously appeared in a production of Beauty And The Beast, among other pantomines, musicals and plays. Hegerty — who has appeared on The Chase UK and The Chase Australia — will return to the quiz show after her latest stint on stage. On Tuesday, Hegerty spoke to Sunrise hosts Nat Barr and Matt Shirvington about how she came to be a quiz master. 'I was finding (life a bit) difficult,' Hegerty said of her time before joining The Chase UK in 2010, when she had been working as a newspaper journalist and proofreader, struggling financially, and was on disability and housing benefits. 'I was a good proofreader (but) I was finding it difficult to keep up with the admin, I was spiralling a bit. 'I happened to accidentally discover there was a high-level quizzing circuit in the UK. I joined it. 'I started doing really well just at the time when The Chase had just filmed the first series, just 10 episodes, with only Mark (Labbett aka The Beast) and Shaun (Wallace aka The Dark Destroyer). 'They were thinking they were going to want a female chaser. I came on the scene at the right time.' Hegerty said she was initially called The Headmistress, before being renamed The Governess. 'Our UK host started to refer to me as The Governess. I said to producers I'd rather be called that,' she said. 'The thing about a headmistress is that she can't do everything she wants — she's got to answer to the board of governors and so on,' Hegerty explained, adding that The Governess is more like Mary Poppins. 'I want to be Mary Poppins. Really fierce.' Hegerty, who was diagnosed with Asperger's at age 45, said she's always wanted to be famous, even as a child. 'I wanted to be famous as I thought maybe I'd be a writer or maybe I'd illustrate children's books. I'm not remotely a good enough artist to do that,' she said. 'I just always thought you know, I want to be famous for something.'
CNET
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers for May 27, #716
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections puzzle has a fun Disney movie category for its purple group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time Hints for today's Connections groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Like a piece of bologna. Green group hint: Come fly with me. Blue group hint: Musical instrument. Purple group hint: Chip and Mrs. Potts. Answers for today's Connections groups Yellow group: Round flat things. Green group: Airport features. Blue group: Guitar playing techniques. Purple group: What characters were transformed into in Beauty and the Beast. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections answers? The completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 27, 2025, #716. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is round flat things. The four answers are coaster, Frisbee, pancake and record. The green words in today's Connections The theme is airport features. The four answers are carousel, food court, gate and lounge. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is guitar playing techniques. The four answers are bend, pick, slide and strum. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is what characters were transformed into in Beauty and the Beast. The four answers are beast, candelabra, clock and teacup.
West Australian
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Disney's Beauty And The Beast musical to illuminate Crown Theatre Perth with Rohan Browne as Lumiere
No one could have foreseen musical theatre performer Rohan Browne's moment on a lamppost as Don Lockwood in the Australian production of Singin' In The Rain as a precursor to his current illuminating role in Beauty And The Beast. Yet Browne's current undertaking as the world's most famous talking candelabra Lumiere is not his first brush with the Disney musical, based on the company's groundbreaking 1991 animated film. With a background in ballet, Browne was a teenager studying at Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School when seeing the original Australian Beauty And The Beast production multiple times in 1995 — starring Rachel Beck, Michael Cormick, Hugh Jackman and Bert Newton — made him more determined than ever to pursue a career in musical theatre. 'If you've seen the cartoon, the original iteration of Lumiere was the fun, funny light in the castle who also gets to do a big number,' 45-year-old Browne says from his home in Melbourne. 'Aside from the title number, Be Our Guest is the big kind of showstopper, so there's a lot of pressure to really reach those heights, and I've put my own spin on it, as any actor does. They want to come at it with fresh eyes.' Browne's performance of Be Our Guest includes an extended dance break from the original stage production, taking it to a pulse-racing 11-minute extravaganza. 'It's Disney. They don't do things by halves, do they?' he laughs. 'It's pretty amazing to lead that number. It's a challenge. I don't ever rest on my laurels. I never get used to it. There's always something to work on or improve or find other little moments in it, even though we've been doing it for coming up to two years. 'That number aside, there's also the sentimental moments that we have of really trying to get the Beast to understand that this is our last chance before the curse really takes hold of us, this is his last opportunity… I really kind of see Lumiere as kind of the Beast or the Prince's fun uncle — the one who he kind of looks to because Cogsworth is too fuddy-duddy and strict.' Beauty And The Beast was the first Disney film adapted as a Broadway musical in 1994, this tale as old as time featuring the animation's original music by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, with additional lyrics by Tim Rice. 'When director and choreographer Matt West talks about him going to Disney and being like 'This is the perfect thing to start Disney Theatrical', it really is,' Browne says. 'It's got this beautiful heroine; a strong, powerful woman who stands in her power and stands in her truth, which was the antithesis of anything else that they'd really kind of done.' While the production still has all that old-school live musical magic, Browne believes the updated technology used throughout this reimagined Australian version, which premiered at Sydney's Capitol Theatre in June 2023, is rather spectacular. 'It's nostalgic for the older generation who have seen it before, but for new theatre-goers, or people who haven't seen the show before, they're going to be wowed,' Browne says. 'You hear a lot of gasping when certain elements happen, like when the Prince transforms into the Beast in the prologue and when he transforms from the Beast back to the Prince. How Chip comes on stage, how all of the trickery happens in Gaston and how Be Our Guest just keeps going and going. All of these incredible theatrical elements are thrown out there.' Without wanting to wax lyrical, Browne says he is loving his time on the Beauty And The Beast stage, not only as part of the musical's legacy but also for what it has meant to his family, particularly his four-year-old Duke. 'He still hasn't managed to be able to sit through the whole show because he gets scared of the Beast,' Browne says of his son with wife and fellow musical theatre performer Christie Whelan Browne. 'But he'll watch the Be Our Guest performance we did for Sunrise 15 times a day. I think he knows it better than I do.' Beauty And The Beast is at Crown Theatre Perth from July 24. Tickets at
