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Daily Mirror
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Meghan Markle reveals real reason behind her sweet nickname for Prince Harry
Meghan Markle has revealed the heartwarming reason behind her one-word nickname for Prince Harry, explaining how they kept their relationship a secret by referring to each other in "code" Meghan Markle has opened up on the meaning behind her one-letter nickname for Prince Harry – and it has a heartwarming connection to the beginnings of their relationship. Over the years royal fans have noticed how the Duchess of Sussex has often referred to Prince Harry using a sweet pet name made up of just one letter. Back in 2019, Meghan, 43, first let slip that she referred to her husband simply by the letter 'H' while on an official royal tour of Southern Africa during an interview with ITV. Three years later, the nickname resurfaced during the pair's six-part Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan. And now, during an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima show podcas t, Meghan has revealed the reason she refers to her husband using one initial. 'Your close friends and family, so many of them call you 'M' and Harry 'H'. How did that start? And tell me about that,' asked host Jamie. In response, the Duchess of Sussex explained that its origins are rooted in the early days of her relationship with Prince Harry. Before the pair's romance was made public, Meghan and Prince Harry used 'code' to keep things under wraps, with this extending to how they referred to one another too. 'Probably at the beginning of us dating, when everything was in code. People didn't know we were dating for, talk about memory lane, so long ago. I mean, it'll be our seven-year wedding anniversary soon. I couldn't tell anyone who I was dating, and who was keeping [the secret], so I think we were just on a letter basis,' she said. However, what began as a way of keeping their relationship a secret soon became the norm and 'it stuck'. Now they'll use the nicknames even when they're with friends or on a playdate with their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. 'I like it. I love nicknames,' added Meghan. As well as 'H', Meghan has previously revealed that she has Prince Harry listed on her phone as 'Prince Haz', a name he was known by to the friend who originally set them up. However, Harry has made it clear that the nickname 'Haz' is reserved for Meghan alone, with him once jokingly telling James Corden not to use it. During an appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden in 2021, James joked: 'Haz? I didn't know we were calling you 'Haz' now.' In response, Harry laughed: 'You're not my wife.' Prince Harry's name itself is even a nickname. When he was born in 1984 he was christened Henry Charles Albert David, though many royal fans have only recently made the discovery. 'PRINCE HARRYS REAL NAME IS HENRY?? wtf,' one person wrote on X. 'PRINCE HARRYS REAL NAME IS H E N R Y?,' said another. Get Royal Family updates straight to your WhatsApp! As the royals get back to their normal duties after a difficult year, the Mirror has launched its very own Royal WhatsApp community where you'll get all the latest news on the UK's most famous family. We'll send you the latest breaking updates and exclusives all directly to your phone. Users must download or already have WhatsApp on their phones to join in. All you have to do to join is click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! We may also send you stories from other titles across the Reach group. We will also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose Exit group. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.
Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Ewan McGregor's girl forced to cover up tattoos for new role in Prime Video series
Esther McGregor has covered up her tattoos for her starring role in a new Prime Video series We Were Liars. A promo shot for the drama shows the daughter of Star Wars hero Ewan McGregor without the distinctive ink works that run down her left arm. The 23-year-old actress and model plays the role of Mirren as a group of young adults has their friendship tested with one trying to piece together the events leading to her near-death experience. Her father told The Late Late Show With James Corden in 2022 what it was like to work with her after she appeared alongside him in the Disney+ miniseries, Obi-Wan Kenobi. He said: 'I'm sure everybody thinks she got the job because of me, but really she didn't. She auditioned for the role. 'You don't really know with your kids until that moment when I was acting with her and it felt really normal and natural.' Based on E. Lockhart's novel, all episodes of We Were Liars will premier on June 18 on Prime Video.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Saturday Night Live UK' Eyes ‘Late Late Show' Producer James Longman As Showrunner
EXCLUSIVE: It's the talk of the British comedy entertainment community — and now Deadline can reveal that Saturday Night Live UK is already looking to assemble an eye-catching production team. Industry sources said Sky and Universal Television Alternative Studio want to appoint James Longman, the executive producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden, as showrunner. A deal is not yet done and Universal Television Alternative Studio declined to comment. More from Deadline Bowen Yang Begged Lorne Michaels "Don't Make Me" Play JD Vance On 'SNL' 'SNL' Officially Lands UK Remake With Sky 'SNL' Promo: Jon Hamm Soaps Up In Daytime Drama Spoof SNL creator Lorne Michaels' name will be above the door of the UK version, but the hope is that Longman will oversee the series day-to-day. People familiar with the situation said Longman is already sounding out writers and cast. He was an integral part of the Emmy-winning success of The Late Late Show, moving from London to LA to work alongside Corden and Ben Winston to produce the CBS series for seven years. His time in Hollywood will likely help SNL UK book high-profile guest hosts. Known as 'Longers' to industry friends, Longman's other credits include Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… and British shows like Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Since The Late Late Show ended in 2023, Longman has set up Jolly Octopus, a production company co-founded by former Monkey executive Ollie Brack and backed by BBC Studios. Deadline hears that Suzi Aplin, another well-regarded figure in UK comedy entertainment, is also set to join the Saturday Night Live UK team. Given her background as producer of live shows such as Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and Comic Relief, she is expected to take up a senior production post. Aplin's other credits include Amazon Prime Video's Backstage With Katherine Ryan. One senior entertainment source called Longman and Aplin the 'creme de la creme of talent,' with others noting how both are well-liked in UK entertainment circles. Comcast-owned Sky announced the SNL remake on Thursday, with Michaels' Broadway Video and Universal Television Alternative Studio producing. The SNL team put in a huge amount of work prepping the UK comedy community prior to the announcement, we are told. 'Every comedy name and writer in the UK has already been approached about this,' said the entertainment source, who described a sense of palpable excitement due to Michaels' involvement. Michaels is expected to run some masterclasses over the coming months with the chosen British comedy writers to teach them the SNL way, and he is thought to be planning on bringing American SNL writers over to help the Brits. The UK version will launch in 2026 and become the most high-profile international version of the venerable NBC late-night show after remakes in China, Germany, Italy, and South Korea. SNL is well known to comedy fans in the UK, but is more closely associated with viral online clips than full episodes on television. Sky only began airing full versions in 2020, while the show briefly featured on ITV4 in 2006. The UK version has been in the works for several years, with Deadline first revealing it was being developed at Sky in 2021. The UK does not have a fantastic record of attempting to imitate late-night American comedy series. ITV's The Nightly Show was critically panned and dumped after one season in 2017. Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live aired for three seasons at the start of last decade. Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media 'Hacks' Season 4 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
New York Times
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
What to Do in New York City in February
Comedy 'Margaret's Gay Sons Featuring Dylan Adler and Sam Oh' As part of her residency at Joe's Pub, the comedian Margaret Cho has been presenting artists whom she finds inspirational. Next in Cho's lineup is a show featuring her latest unofficial adoptees, the comedians Dylan Adler and Sam Oh, who will each have a half-hour to present their own jokes and songs this Friday. Recently, Adler and Cho were panelists on the CBS game show 'After Midnight,' where Adler, a former writer and performer on 'The Late Late Show With James Corden,' also appeared with his fall tour mate and dance partner, Atsuko Okatsuka, in September. Around that same time, Cho performed with Oh's alter ego, Gay Virgin, on a NSFW hyperpop tune. Oh is set to release an EP featuring that song and others soon. He also has a role in Greg Daniels's upcoming follow-up to 'The Office,' which is centered on a failing Midwestern newspaper attempting to save itself. Tickets are $25 on the Public Theater's website. SEAN L. McCARTHY Music 070 Shake The singer and rapper 070 Shake is a haunting presence, her bruised, plaintive voice a reliable source of emotional heft. Many first heard it in her soaring guest turn on Kanye West's 2018 track 'Ghost Town'; even more were introduced to Shake via 'Escapism,' the 2022 hit in which her verse is a sobering interlude in the British singer Raye's epic of heartbreak-fueled hedonism. In her own music, Shake is similarly drawn to melodrama, often returning to stories about tortured romance, late-night breakdowns and self-medication. Her third album, 'Petrichor,' also reveals a growing experimental instinct. The record, which was released in November, stitches together hip-hop, arena rock and orchestral pop in an unpredictable patchwork that reflects the erratic nature of love. Tickets for Shake's show in Brooklyn on Saturday start at $55 on Kings Theater's website. OLIVIA HORN 'Histories V: The Viennese School' Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven — these are the giants of the Classical era, from roughly 1750 to 1825, which was known for massive compositional outputs, outsize personalities and musical works on a grand scale. But in the ivory-miniature world of the art song, their names don't loom quite as large. This Sunday at Roulette, Brooklyn Art Song Society re-examines the smaller works of these classical titans, tracing the development of the lieder form into the 19th-century Romantic era. The concert begins with characteristically elegant and slightly cheeky pieces from a mature Mozart, sung by the soprano Maggie Finnegan, before turning to English works by Haydn, sung by the soprano Ashley Emerson. Haydn's compositions are dramatic showcases for singer and pianist alike, especially his intense 'The Spirit's Song.' The concert closes with Beethoven's 'An die ferne Geliebte,' the composer's only song cycle, which served as inspiration for later ones by Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert, here sung by the baritone Michael Kelly. A piece replete with Romantic longing, this work may be short, but it casts an imposing shadow. Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, with a suggested price of $35, at the society's website. GABRIELLE FERRARI Kids BAMkids Film Festival Children are often excluded from a whole world of cinematic art that you don't have to be an adult to visit: independent short films. Such works, however, are the staple of the BAMkids Film Festival, presented all weekend by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with the Melbourne International Animation Festival. But don't let the name of the partnering organization fool you. This year's festival, the academy's 27th, offers live-action movies, too, and projects from more than 20 nations, including the Czech Republic, India, Taiwan, Russia, Iran and Afghanistan. The shorts are grouped according to age-appropriateness and thematic similarities, with two programs for preschoolers, three for children 6 to 8 and one for an often neglected audience: kids 9 and older. Some films contain no dialogue; others have subtitles. But all feature intriguing characters, such as clouds, a raindrop, spirits, animals and, of course, young people themselves. (A full schedule is on the website.) Have a yearning for live performance? Parallel Exit, a troupe combining theater and circus, will offer free fun in the BAM Rose lobby from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets to the screening programs start at $10. LAUREL GRAEBER Film Snubbed Forever: Great Actors, No Nominations Complaints that certain actors missed out on Oscar nominations last week inevitably seem small when measured against the careers in this series, which honors performers who never received — or, at least, have yet to receive — a single nomination. First up is John Cazale, who starred in only five movies before his death at 42, but all of them are enduring classics of the 1970s, including the first two 'Godfather' films and 'The Deer Hunter.' The museum is highlighting his nervy work as Al Pacino's bank-robbing partner in 'Dog Day Afternoon' (showing on Saturday and Sunday), a tightly wound role easy to overlook beside Pacino's loudmouth virtuosity. It's hard to believe that the academy has completely ignored John Turturro and John Goodman, who play neighbors at a seedy Los Angeles hotel in the Coen brothers' 'Barton Fink' (on Saturday and Sunday): Goodman is the supposed embodiment of 'the common man,' a group Turturro's self-important playwright presumes to write about. Next weekend, the museum will salute Mia Farrow ('Rosemary's Baby,' on Feb. 7 and 8), Maureen O'Hara ('The Quiet Man,' on Feb. 8 and 9) and Joseph Cotten ('The Magnificent Ambersons,' on Feb. 8 and 9). BEN KENIGSBERG Theater 'Cult of Love' Second Stage leans right into holiday-season angst with this dramedy by Leslye Headland ('Russian Doll') about a dysfunctional clan gathering for Christmas in Connecticut at the home of their parents (David Rasche and Mare Winningham), where the only harmony is in the carol singing. Trip Cullman, who staged the play last winter at Berkeley Rep, directs a strong cast that includes Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley. Read the review. 'Oh, Mary' Channeling the deliriously outrageous, emphatically queer downtown spirit of Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this comedy by Cole Escola ('Difficult People') began as a fizzy Off Broadway hit. Escola stars as a sozzled, stage-struck Mary Todd Lincoln — a very loose cannon largely ignored by her husband (Conrad Ricamora), the president, who is otherwise occupied with assorted sexual exploits and the bothersome Civil War. Read the review. 'Gypsy' Grabbing the baton first handed off by Ethel Merman, Audra McDonald plays the formidable Momma Rose in the fifth Broadway revival of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's exalted 1959 musical about a vaudeville stage mother and her daughters: June, the favorite child, and Louise, who becomes the burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Directed by George C. Wolfe, with choreography by Camille A. Brown, the cast includes Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, Jordan Tyson and Lesli Margherita. Read the review. 'Hell's Kitchen' Alicia Keys's own coming-of-age is the inspiration for this jukebox musical, which won two Tonys. Studded with Keys's songs, including 'Girl on Fire,' 'Fallin'' and 'Empire State of Mind,' it's the story of a 17-year-old girl (Maleah Joi Moon, last year's winner for best actress) in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, growing into an artist. Directed by Michael Greif, the show has a book by Kristoffer Diaz and choreography by Camille A. Brown. Read the review. Art 'Edges of Ailey' A major institutional tribute to the American choreographer and performer Alvin Ailey (1931-89), this show is also a relatively rare example of a traditionally object-intensive art museum giving full-scale treatment to the ephemeral medium of dance. But if you anticipated, as I did, that this would mean a display of documentary photographs, some archival materials (costumes, stage designs), and — best — extensive examples of dance on film, you've got a surprise in store. Read the review. 'Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now' This unusual and audacious exhibition spotlights a propensity in American culture hiding in plain sight: the attachment, among Black artists, musicians and intellectuals, to ancient Egyptian culture, myth and spirituality. Rambling across a century and a half, with nearly 200 artworks, it explores the colonial roots of modern Egyptology, the Pharaonic motifs of the Harlem Renaissance, the Egyptian iconography of Black Power and other movements of the 1960s and '70s, and sphinxes and pyramids in the work of everyone from Kara Walker to Richard Pryor. Read the review. 'Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy' This reconstruction of a fair held in Hamburg, Germany, in the summer of 1987 — complete with carnival rides decorated by artists such as Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, which are unfortunately cordoned off — reserves its greatest pleasures for visitors with more art-historical tastes. Crammed with informative wall texts, this event — or is it an exhibition? — documents, but barely recreates, a long-lost cultural experiment that 'blurred the lines between art and play.' Thirty-seven years later, at the Shed, those lines stay largely well defined. Most everything stays ensconced on the 'art' side. The whole thing feels weirdly peaceful, hardly the midway I expected. Read the review.
