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GMA Network
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Liza Soberano dazzles in all-black glamour at Netflix Tudum 2025
Liza Soberano is in California to grace the Netflix Tudum 2025! On Instagram, the "Lisa Frankenstein" star shared her look for the global fan event held at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. At the red carpet, Liza donned a sleek black gown by CHAU PHAM, styled by Perry Tabora. Netflix Tudum shared exciting show announcements for this year and beyond, including the release date of "Stranger Things" Season 5. The event also revealed Lady Gaga as a confirmed guest star for "Wednesday" Season 2, as well as a first look at Tony Tony Chopper of "One Piece." Meanwhile, Liza joined a new project in May dubbed "Can I Come In?" a "podcast-cinema-documentary hybrid" created by artist Sarah Bahbah, who serves as the director and host. —Hermes Joy Tunac/MGP, GMA Integrated News
GMA Network
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Liza Soberano joins cool, new cinematic podcast-documentary 'Can I Come In?'
Liza Soberano has a cool, new project. It's called "Can I Come In?" and it's a "podcast-cinema-documentary hybrid" created by artist Sarah Bahbah, who serves as the director and host. In the trailer, Sarah said the project's purpose is 'to create worlds for artists to heal in." One scene shows Liza with blonde hair, eating ice cream on a couch. Another showed her crying in a bathtub and getting told, 'Your feelings are so valid. You didn't deserve any of that.' In another, Liza is seen wearing a Renaissance-style outfit by a pool, saying, 'I need to put myself first and I need to truly not give a fuck.' With a knife, she yells, 'Mind your fucking business!' "Can I Come In" features six women artists. Aside from Liza, Mia Khalifa, Banks, Nemahsis, Yesly Dimate, And Cindy Kimberly will share their stories in the documentary. On YouTube, Sarah said "Can I Come In?" is the "first-of-its-kind immersive art series, where vulnerability meets high-cinema." "Every guest is invited into a deeply personalized set to release a story they've never told before. Each episode is unscripted and captures the emotional essence of a lived experience, visually, viscerally, and unapologetically," she adds. The project is presented by WePresent, and will drop on June 3. Liza is currently focusing on an international career. She made her Hollywood debut on "Lisa Frankenstein," as Taffy. She was praised by American film critics for the role. Liza starred in Thai singer and actor Bright's music video for 'Long Showers' and was also part of the Eric Nam's digital series, 'Stop 'N Snack.' Liza has also appeared at the Gold House Gala, Coachella, and Elton John's Oscars afterparty. — Nika Roque/LA, GMA Integrated News
GMA Network
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
FL Liza Marcos spends time with ASEAN spouses
KUALA LUMPUR — First Lady Louise ''Liza'' Araneta-Marcos has spent time with spouses of other ASEAN leaders at the sidelines of the 46th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits. ''What a beautiful and heartwarming welcome at the ???????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? for the ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????' ????????????????????????????, graciously hosted by Dato' Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. ????????????,'' Liza said in a social media post. She shared that they were greeted by children waving ASEAN flags, adding that they were gifted with beautiful vegetable bouquets. ''Inside, we explored traditional crafts like ???????????????????? coloring, gold-thread embroidery and ???????????? making. The stunning textile displays of ???????????????????????????? and ???????????????????????????? reminded me of how proud we are of our ???????????????????????????????? artisans. ?????????????'' she said. Liza expressed gratitude to the gracious hosts ''for celebrating not just our friendship as nations, but also the shared creativity and quiet strength of women across ????????????????????. ??'' The First Lady and President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr., meanwhile, attended a Gala Dinner hosted by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. —AOL, GMA Integrated News
Daily Mirror
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Liza Minneli discusses failed marriages and spills David Gest secrets in film
Singer and actress Liza Minneli speaks candidly in new film coming to BBC at weekend WITH four failed marriages, Liza Minnelli could be forgiven for being cynical about relationships. But the singer, actress and dancer is a cheerleader for romance, saying: 'I feel wonderful about love. I wanted it to be like it was in the songs.' In the film Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, the star and her tight circle of friends open up about her life and her multiple husbands. Being the daughter of Wizard of Oz icon and singer Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli put Liza in the spotlight from the very beginning – and her love life was something that always made headlines. Her mum Judy married five times and Liza, 79, has notched up four. Her first marriage, to entertainer Peter Allen in 1967, lasted only a few years because she found him in a compromising position with another man. Liza says in the Bruce David Klein-directed biopic: 'Peter was so much fun to be with but I think he felt restricted. He needed, literally, to come out!' Friends adored the Aussie and Liza's actress pal Mia Farrow reveals: 'It was the happiest I saw her in her private.' The star's second husband, from 1974 to 1979, was actor Jack Haley Jnr, whose father also starred in The Wizard of Oz, leading pals to joke 'the daughter of Dorothy has married the son of The Tin Man'. From 1979 to 1992 Liza was married to sculptor Mark Gero. Friends claim he was 'a solid rock' in her life because he was not from the showbiz world. A decade later she wed US producer David Gest. The pair separated in 2003 and divorced in 2007. There has been much speculation around I'm A Celebrity and Celebrity Big Brother star Gest's sexuality, with Sir Elton John adding fuel to the fire by joking he wanted to 'find Liza a heterosexual husband'. Gest denied he was gay and claimed in interviews that he only loved women. But in the new film, when asked about her track record of relationships, Liza quips: 'Give me a gay break, will you?' then tells the cameraman: 'I'm sorry, cut that!' Gest – who died from a stroke in a hotel room in 2016, aged 62 – is the spouse who receives the harshest backlash from Liza's pals. It seems no one liked him or trusted him, and some make him out as a controlling and manipulative figure in her life. Singer and pianist Michael Feinstein says bluntly: 'Bette Davis said you should only speak good about the dead. Well, David Gest is dead. Good!' Liza's close pal, former dentist Allan Lazare, who died last year, is also critical. He is seen saying: 'They met during a period of time in Liza's life when she wasn't doing so well. 'Physically, she gained a lot of weight and David Gest charmed her and romanced her. Gest had the gift of the gab. Nothing was real and basically for a while he took over her life. He took everyone in her life out of her life. 'It ended when Liza went on tour and she came back and David Gest took everything out of the apartment and left her with a bed and a lamp. He took every picture and every piece of furniture and put it into storage.' And when Knots Landing actress Michele Lee tells the camera: 'I knew about all her men', Liza interrupts, saying: 'And some of them weren't men at all.' Such quips seem to have become a way of life for Liza, according to those closest to her. Performer and artist Jim Caruso points out that the star – who is a rare showbiz 'EGOT', having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award – was taught to keep quiet about her private life and turmoil. Instead, she made out to her fans and the media that her life was 'like a cabaret' – referencing her 1972 hit movie. He says: 'Liza was taught by her MGM parents how to make things sound fantastic. She will never go on camera and talk about the dirt. 'She has acknowledged that she didn't always make the greatest decision in relationships and laughs about it because there was genuine love deep in every one of those in different ways.' Liza is best known for Cabaret, Liza with a Z and Martin Scorsese's 1977 film New York, New York. In later years she enjoyed success with the Pet Shop Boys on the album Results and appeared in the Sex and the City 2 movie and on RuPaul's Drag Race. The biopic, which premiered last year and airs on BBC2 this weekend, also looks into how she was affected by the death of mum Judy. The former child star was 47 when she died of an accidental overdose in 1969, when Liza was 23. Liza recalls: 'I started crying and I didn't stop for about eight days. It just was devastating to me.' Liza also battled her own addictions. She admits: 'I was the kind of person who never fell down. I never missed work. I never did any of the things you think of when you think of somebody being a real mess. 'But inside I felt so weird. I was taking valium and prescription drugs but I really didn't feel like I had a drug problem. I'd drink silly drinks like rum and coke. And I started to notice that drinking made me feel better from that. It is really that simple but then it turned on me, like it always does.' The star says she hid her problems because she did not want people to know she was under stress. She adds: 'I always wanted to be the hero.' But she is very candid about growing up in the shadow of her mum, saying: 'Being Judy Garland's daughter is not a lot of laughs but I am grateful for all the bad stuff. It prepared me for the rest of my life. It made me understand a little bit more about myself.' * Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story is on BBC2 on Saturday at 9pm.
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bad Friend by Tiffany Watt Smith: Beware the 'girl crush'
Bad Friend by Tiffany Watt Smith (Faber £18.99, 336pp) Does she love me as much as I love her? It's always me who initiates the texts suggesting we meet up. Right. I'm going to stop messaging her, and see how long it takes for her to notice.' If this kind of friendship inferiority complex has ever filled you with anxiety (it's certainly happened to me), cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith's book Bad Friend is a must-read. Her investigation into female friendships and how they really work opens with two of her own friendship disasters. She felt desolate and abandoned when her once-close friend Sofia went cold on her. That friendship was, Watt Smith writes, 'my great romance, my proudest achievement' (she means platonic romance; she's happily married). 'I began to feel I was a failure at the essential aspect of feminine and feminist life.' The same happened with another woman, Liza, with whom Watt Smith shared a flat in her early 20s. At first, Watt Smith was infatuated by this slightly older woman who collected shells and crystals, and had a tattoo and a hot-pink streak in her hair. But the friendship 'burned very bright and then exploded' after just one year. The mistake she'd made, and which so many of us make, is that she almost fetishised Liza; she sort-of wanted to be her. Yes, many of us have had that 'This is the woman I want to be' feeling on meeting someone amazing. But that's the wrong way to go about it. Watt Smith has learned to celebrate differences, rather than to try to be exactly like someone else; and she's learned that friendships unfold in ways we do not expect or plan for. 'Less cultivated garden, more wild meadow.' This book is also a celebration of female friendships through the ages, mainly in the previous century. In the 20th century, trends changed dramatically, from the banning of girl-crushes at Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1913 (they were 'a mental instability', the headmistress declared) to today's T-shirts for girls with hearts on them and 'Best Friends Forever' emblazoned across the front. (Watt Smith fears that those T-shirts sell heightened expectations to young girls.) And whereas a 1936 book called Manners advised against making intimate friends of one's co-workers, 'as office friendships often do curdle', nowadays women are positively encouraged to embrace a 'work-wife' or a 'work-buddy'. In a recent Gallup poll, employees who described having 'a best friend' at work were less likely to experience burnout or to be considering leaving. By writing this book, Watt Smith has learned that 'the real commitment we make to our friends does not come in the triumph of the times we got it right, but in those small acts that show our willingness to keep trying'.
