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Pink Villa
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Weekly Top Korean News: The Judge from Hell 2 confirmed, BTS' Jungkook-Jimin fly to Japan, Kim Soo Hyun's Knock-Off update, more
This week in Korean entertainment: The Judge from Hell Season 2 is officially confirmed, while BTS' Jungkook and Jimin were spotted heading to Japan sparking major speculation. Meanwhile, Disney breaks its silence on the delay of Kim Soo Hyun's Knock-Off amid controversy. Emotional Oranges clears up rumors about a collab with NewJeans' Danielle, while fresh reports challenge Kim Sae Ron's relationship timeline. Dive in to get all the latest updates and inside details from Korea's hottest stories! The Judge from Hell Season 2 officially confirmed The dark fantasy drama The Judge from Hell is officially returning for Season 2, as confirmed by the showrunner and Studio S' CCO on May 23. The announcement came during the New York Festivals Storytellers Gala 2025, where the drama also won a bronze award. The CCO's parting words hinted at more justice from Hell, teasing the plot's continuation. Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger, with Kang Bit Na (Park Shin Hye) possibly choosing between humanity and her role in Hell. The next season may explore her path as Bael's heir, enforcing justice between realms. Fans are still yearning for her romance with Han Da On (Kim Jae Young) that never fully bloomed. They are buzzing with excitement over the unexpected but highly welcomed return. BTS' Jungkook and Jimin spotted heading to Japan; what could they be up to? On May 24, BTS fans were thrown into a frenzy after reports surfaced of Jungkook being spotted at Gimpo Airport on his way to Japan. Dressed casually in a hoodie and cap, the idol was barely recognizable, but fans were quick to identify him. This comes just a day after Jimin was also reportedly seen at the same airport, also en route to Japan. The back-to-back sightings have sparked a wave of speculation among ARMY. With BTS' FESTA approaching and members nearing military discharge, fans wonder if a surprise project is in the works. Whether it's a secret schedule or a short trip, one thing's clear: anticipation is at an all-time high, and the dream of seeing BTS together again feels closer than ever. Disney breaks silence on Knock-Off delay amid Kim Soo Hyun scandal Kim Soo Hyun's upcoming series Knock-Off faces an uncertain future amid a growing controversy tied to his rumored dating scandal with late Kim Sae Ron. On May 2, promotional posters appeared on IMDb, sparking fresh speculation about the show's release. However, Choi Yeon Woo, Head of Local Content at Walt Disney Korea, confirmed that the series' release has been postponed after an internal review, with no further updates. Rumors of financial penalties against Kim Soo Hyun remain unconfirmed. Meanwhile, co-star Jo Bo Ah has distanced herself from the project and moved on to a new drama, Dear Hongrang. The ongoing legal disputes involving Kim Sae Ron's family add more uncertainty. Fans remain unsure if Knock-Off will ever be released as the situation continues to unfold. NewJeans' Danielle collab with Emotional Oranges? On May 21, American R&B duo Emotional Oranges addressed growing speculation about a possible collaboration with NewJeans' Danielle. The rumors began after the duo posted a photo of Danielle in a studio chair on May 19. They captioned it with 'Just give us some time, guys. It's coming,' along with orange and bunny emojis; symbols linked to Emotional Oranges and NewJeans. This led fans to believe a collaboration was in the works, despite NewJeans currently being restricted from solo activities due to an ongoing legal battle with ADOR. However, the duo later clarified on social media that there's no collaboration with Danielle, explaining, 'I was just helping produce a song for Livvie,' referring to Danielle's sister, Olivia Marsh. They apologized for the confusion and emphasized that misleading fans was never their intention. The original post has since been deleted. Kim Sae Ron's timeline of relationships disputed in new report Kim Sae Ron's past relationships have drawn renewed attention following a May 21 report by Money Today. The actress was reportedly dating a senior idol, referred to as Mr. A, from 2018. They broke up in 2019, reunited in 2022 during her DUI scandal, and parted ways again in early 2023. Insiders claim the pair remained in contact until late 2023, contradicting her family's claims that she dated Kim Soo Hyun from 2015 to 2021. Discrepancies in texts, photos, and timelines have raised doubts, especially as she was also linked to WOODZ in 2021–2022 and others in 2016 and 2019. Kim Soo Hyun's agency earlier denied the Garosero's revealed texts, calling them fabricated, and demanded forensic verification. Photos allegedly proving their relationship also appear to be from after 2019. With no solid evidence submitted, the true timeline of Kim Sae Ron's relationships remains unclear.
The Guardian
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Jeanette Winterson: ‘I'd like to go up in space as a very old lady and just be pushed out'
Your debut novel Oranges are Not the Only Fruit turns 40 years old this year. How do you feel about it at this point in your life? Can you believe it? I find that astonishing. I'm always having to think about it because people keep bothering me about it! Its next iteration is a musical, and then I really hope that's the end. Just let me go! Obviously I love Oranges and I revisited it again with [her 2011 memoir] Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? and the musical too. Surely, by the rule of three, this is it? Then I can live in peace and plant potatoes. That's your vision of peace, potatoes? Oh yes. I love growing vegetables and fruits. That's my happy place. I have a huge garden. I'm very simple: I like to be at home, tend to my garden, walk the dogs, and that's about it. I'm really hoping that this time will come. I was thinking, until the whole world tipped on its side and Trump came to power and everything's gone horribly wrong, that I'd be winding down to a quieter life. But I know that's not going to be the case. I'm going to have to just fight alongside my comrades and stick around till I drop dead. Actually, the potatoes are ready to go in the ground now – I am going to do all that this weekend. When you are thinking of Oranges, I'll just be thinking about potatoes. Do you ever think about that time everyone got cross at you because you shot a rabbit in your garden? Yeah! And I've shot many since. I'm sure in Australia they'd be thinking, 'Why would anybody care if she shot a rabbit?' You can't live in the country and worry about things like that. When I got it, I skinned it and it was beautiful. It looked like a Vermeer. I put it on a tin plate, and I cooked it with some cider and rosemary. I chopped the skin up and put it outside for the birds, because they love that to line their nests. I gave all the innards to the cat. But this just freaked everybody out! People said, 'I'll never read Winterson's books again.' I thought, do you only read books by vegans? It's that kind of social media insanity where things spin out of control completely. Everybody got mad because I set my books on fire as well. But I didn't like the covers and I was in a really bad mood, and I thought, fuck it. They're my books. I shouldn't burn anybody else's books; that would be wrong, even ones I don't like. Even Jordan Peterson's, I wouldn't burn them. But my own books – why can't I? They belong to me. So I did and, of course, I put it on Twitter. Then the whole Penguin Random House was reading this while having their Sunday lunch and went into meltdown. You can't do anything in this life any more. Shoot it. Burn it. Is your house still haunted by ghosts? Oh yes, but not this house. This is a ghost-free zone. The ghosts are in my house in London. I may be speaking too soon because he may have just gone on vacation, but I think he might have gone. It's very difficult to know whether an entity has truly vanished – what does a ghost do when they're not bothering you? But mine has stopped switching the radio on at night and sitting on the bed. I had some friends staying there and he didn't set the smoke alarms off, which is his favourite – he's never liked visitors. Somebody said I should do an exorcism but I can't do that! I'm a Guardian-reading liberal – where is he going to live? It's really hard to get somewhere to live when you're alive, how's he going to cope? And everywhere is all Ikea and carpeted now; this poor, dead dude needs an 18th-century house. You recently wrote for us about your admiration for a short story written by Open AI's creative writing model. Do you feel alone in your optimism about AI among authors? Yeah, I do. That was a fabulous piece of writing. AI has always been important to me and I've been writing about it for decades. I don't think the doom and gloom around AI is helping us, because all we're doing is moving the public conversation towards a dystopia while the tech bros are just going on doing exactly what they want, and the bigger conversation with more people in it isn't happening. One of the things that even secular people hate is the idea that this is the end, there's no further to go. It feels ridiculous! We're made of meat, we've got these fabulous minds, and we die – whose stupid idea was that? So I think there's this sympathy towards the idea of being able to move outside of a bounded condition, which AI will allow in all sorts of ways. And none of the benefits are really being discussed because, as usual, we think they will accrue to the very, very few and could cause enormous misery, just like with the first industrial revolution. It's like we've learned nothing from history and we really, really do need to learn this lesson. So I'm not pessimistic about what we're doing. I think it's our best chance of getting ourselves out of many of the messes we're in. But I am pessimistic about the way the conversation's going. Who is the most famous person in your phone? Nigella! She'll be in Australia when I'm there. We often cross over and she always takes me to lunch – somewhere fantastic where I wouldn't be able to get in under my own steam. We always get wonderful food. What's the oldest thing you own? My house in Spitalfields. It was built before the French Revolution, in the early 1780s. It was very common around that time to sacrifice cats – they were unfortunately buried alive with little charms around their feet. We were digging down into the foundations so that you could actually stand up in the basement and we found a cat buried there. I said, 'When we get to level, let's put the cat back and put a nice cover over him.' And that's what I did, in a respectful way. I don't think taking something like that out of a house is a good idea. That's my superstitious self. What's the best piece of advice you've ever received? This was said by my dear friend, the crime writer Ruth Rendell, who gave me space to write early in my career, and was very kind to me. When I was about to turn 40, she said: 'Jeanette, from now on, you go to the gym three times a week.' And that's what I've done for the last 25 years. I just took her at her word, and I never stopped. It's been fantastic because it's kept me healthy and fit. It gives me tonnes of energy. I'm the same weight, I can run 5km without difficulty and I'm strong. So thank you Ruth Rendell, because she could have said some profound shit about spirit and soul. But so what, really? Would you rather die at the bottom of the ocean or out in space? Well, I'm assuming that none of us will die peacefully in our beds. I do doubt it now. But if we have the opportunity to die at an old age, I'd like to go up in space as a very old lady and just be pushed out. That's how I'd like to die. I'd like to see the Earth from above. I think that will be the most moving, beautiful thing. And then I'd like to go in some sort of chute. Just let me go. I'll be dead instantly. And then everything will come apart and there'll be bits of me all over the universe, and I'll be back as a piece of stardust, the way we all started. What is the weirdest thing you have done for love? This house is like the Taj Mahal, because I've always built things on to my property for my serious girlfriends. But then either I've left them or they've left me! So the kitchen that we're in now was built for my ex-wife Susie Orbach, because she's a New York Jew and she loves to cook. When we got together, I ended up building this fucking huge kitchen. And then we got divorced. But it doesn't matter, because I've got this fantastic American fridge with the water in the door. And when I was with the theatre director Deborah Warner, I built a huge studio in the garden so she could rehearse her plays with actors. She left me, but now I've got this fantastic studio so that's good. My present girlfriend is very modest: all she wanted was a hen house, because she likes chickens. I'm probably the most practical person you'll ever meet – that's why I show my love in these ways. If I can build something for you, I will. If you could change the size of any animal to keep as a pet, what would it be? Make a cat bigger, like the size of a dog. Wouldn't that be cool? I don't want to make a big cat smaller – I want a small cat, big. I've also always thought, how wonderful it would be to have a giant bird to ride. How good it would be if we could escape over the trees? I'd like a woodpecker, the ones with the red skirt. That would do it for me. Jeanette Winterson is appearing at Sydney writers' festival as part of the opening night gala In This Together (20 May), The Art and Science of AI (21 May) and 40 Years of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (22 May); then in Melbourne at The Capitol Theatre for Forty Years of Storytelling (24 May).
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
El Pasoan returns home to film narratives on U.S.-Mexico border
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — An El Paso filmmaker is returning home in hopes of 'reframing narratives surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border.' The El Paso Community Foundation is welcoming Valeria Contreras back home as the new artist for the Border Art Residency (BAR) for the spring and summer seasons. The BAR is an El Paso Community Foundation project that 'enables artists to pursue their craft without the worry of immediate sales or an outside job to pay for housing expenses,' according to a news release by the foundation. The residency provides artists like Contreras a six-month retreat for creative work with a fully furnished living space and work studio in El Paso's historic Five Points neighborhood, a monthly stipend, and paid utilities, the release said. Contreras is an award-winning filmmaker and a University of Chicago and Columbia University graduate. She has received the Michael Hausman/Buffalo Mike Filmhaus Foundation Award and the 3Pas Studios Award, according to the news release. In addition, Contreras has served on the Young Mezcal Jury at the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara and is the founder of her independent production company, Apis Mellifera Productions. Apil Mellifera Productions is collaborating with different filmmakers worldwide, including from the U.S., Colombia, Nigeria and Canada, according to the El Paso Community Foundation. Currently, Contreras is developing a feature film screenplay, 'Oranges,' that is set in El Paso. 'After growing up in this community, I am passionate about reframing narratives surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. With 'Oranges,' I aim to highlight connections — family, love, and shared experiences — rather than the often-emphasized themes of separation, violence, and chaos. The story explores the relationship between two sisters and their sense of movement across time, anchoring their story with the historic El Paso streetcars,' Contreras said. Contreras' first short film, 'Homesick,' screened at festivals, including Femme Frontera and the Oscar-qualifying Atlanta Film Festival, according to the El Paso Community Foundation. To donate to the El Paso Community Foundation or to learn more about the Border Art Residency, you can visit the foundation's website, visit the BAR's website, or call (915) 533-4023. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
