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Hindustan Times
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Who is Nat Wolff? Billie Eilish's rumored new boyfriend spotted kissing her in Italy
Billie Eilish and Nat Wolff were spotted sharing a passionate kiss during a romantic getaway to Venice, Italy. According to photos obtained by DeuxMoi on Sunday, the pair, both dressed casually in gray T-shirts, were seen kissing on a balcony while sipping champagne, looking completely at ease together. Speculation about their relationship first surfaced in March, when the 23-year-old Hit Me Hard and Soft singer was seen out in New York City with the 30-year-old actor and musician. Nat Wolff is an American actor and musician born on December 17, 1994, in Los Angeles. He rose to fame as a teen on the Nickelodeon series The Naked Brothers Band, a mockumentary-style show created by his mother, Polly Draper. He starred alongside his younger brother, Alex Wolff. Wolff went on to act in several movies, including The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Death Note, among others. In addition to acting, he has pursued music with his brother, releasing albums like Black Sheep, Public Places, and Table for Two. Wolff appeared alongside Billie Eilish in the 2024 music video for her song 'Chihiro,' which she directed herself. He also opened for Eilish during the North American leg of her Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour in 2024. Eilish, who publicly came out as bisexual, has previously been linked to rapper Brandon "Q" Adams and actor Matthew Tyler Vorce. Her most public relationship was with The Neighbourhood frontman Jesse Rutherford, whom she dated from 2022 to 2023. In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Eilish openly gushed about Rutherford 'Yeah, I do [have a boyfriend now],' she said. 'And it's really cool, and I'm really excited, and I'm really happy about it. I managed to get my way to a point in my life … where I not only was known by a person that I thought was the hottest fucking fucker alive, but pulled his ass. Are you kidding me? Can we just—round of applause for me. Thank you! Jesse Rutherford, everyone! I pulled his ass—all me! I did that shit. I locked that motherfucker down.' The couple split up in May 2023.
The Independent
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Graham Norton announces surprising new TV show
Graham Norton has announced his next career move – and it may come as a surprise to fans. The seasoned TV host has been confirmed as the presenter of the new ITV series The Neighbourhood. The show will be Norton's first venture into the reality world despite decades having worked in television. Norton, 61, is confident in his latest career move, however, telling The Sun that he expects his new show to become the 'nation's favourite destination'. The Neighbourhood will follow real-life families trying to 'rub along as neighbours' after moving into a street that requires them to share meals and navigate other social occasions and 'dastardly' challenges. Gradually, the families will start voting one another out. In order to win, contestants will have to one-up their neighbours while remaining popular and liked on the street. 'Like everyone, I'm always intrigued by what goes on behind closed doors,' Graham told The Sun in a new interview about the series. 'Add to that some dastardly challenges and a life-changing prize and I'm hooked.' He continued: 'I feel confident that The Neighbourhood will be the nation's favourite destination.' The ITV show will surely try to match the success of the BBC's hit game show The Traitors. Fronted by Claudia Winkleman, the series, which recently concluded its third season, sees 22 strangers gather in a castle for the chance at winning £120,000. The Neighbourhood will begin filming later this year and is expected to air sometime in 2026. Norton's news arrives shortly after he revealed who will replace him on his iconic talk show as he takes a hiatus from filming in order to head to Australia for his live tour. This month, Norton will present An Evening with Graham Norton – a live show in which the Irish presenter will relay hilarious anecdotes and take questions from the audience. Rather than halting production of the series, the corporation is pushing on with a replacement, and Winkleman will be overtaking Norton while he's away. After Norton revealed the news during an episode of The Graham Norton Show on which Winkleman was a guest, she quipped: 'I apologise in advance'. This will be the second time Norton has been replaced on his own chat show, with Jack Whitehall sitting in the presenter's chair in 2019 when the host was unable to fulfil his duties. Winkleman previously replaced Norton in another stint when he quit BBC Radio 2 after more than 10 years of presenting the Saturday morning show in 2021.
The Independent
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Graham Norton announces surprising next step in his TV career following Australia live shows
Graham Norton has announced his next career move – and it may come as a surprise to fans. The seasoned TV host has been confirmed as the presenter of the new ITV series The Neighbourhood. The show will be Norton's first venture into the reality world despite decades having worked in television. Norton, 61, is confident in his latest career move, however, telling The Sun that he expects his new show to become the 'nation's favourite destination'. The Neighbourhood will follow real-life families trying to 'rub along as neighbours' after moving into a street that requires them to share meals and navigate other social occasions and 'dastardly' challenges. Gradually, the families will start voting one another out. In order to win, contestants will have to one-up their neighbours while remaining popular and liked on the street. 'Like everyone, I'm always intrigued by what goes on behind closed doors,' Graham told The Sun in a new interview about the series. 'Add to that some dastardly challenges and a life-changing prize and I'm hooked.' He continued: 'I feel confident that The Neighbourhood will be the nation's favourite destination.' The ITV show will surely try to match the success of the BBC's hit game show The Traitors. Fronted by Claudia Winkleman, the series, which recently concluded its third season, sees 22 strangers gather in a castle for the chance at winning £120,000. The Neighbourhood will begin filming later this year and is expected to air sometime in 2026. Norton's news arrives shortly after he revealed who will replace him on his iconic talk show as he takes a hiatus from filming in order to head to Australia for his live tour. This month, Norton will present An Evening with Graham Norton – a live show in which the Irish presenter will relay hilarious anecdotes and take questions from the audience. Rather than halting production of the series, the corporation is pushing on with a replacement, and Winkleman will be overtaking Norton while he's away. After Norton revealed the news during an episode of The Graham Norton Show on which Winkleman was a guest, she quipped: 'I apologise in advance'. This will be the second time Norton has been replaced on his own chat show, with Jack Whitehall sitting in the presenter's chair in 2019 when the host was unable to fulfil his duties. Winkleman previously replaced Norton in another stint when he quit BBC Radio 2 after more than 10 years of presenting the Saturday morning show in 2021.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Myles Smith on his stunning rise from TikTok artist to the next global pop superstar
This time last year, Myles Smith was a name still largely contained within the hashtags and shares of TikTok. A rapidly rising favourite on the app, he'd gained early success from posting covers online — stripped back, acoustic renditions of Ed Sheeran, Amber Run and The Neighbourhood that had gone on to ink him a record deal with Sony RCA. Then, in May, the 26-year-old Luton native released Stargazing, a rousing ode to finding the elusive 'One' that, in its less than three minute run time, changed his fortunes entirely. By the close of 2024, Stargazing had gone on to become the year's highest streaming song by a UK artist, also beating anything released by Beyoncé or Ariana Grande on the global chart. Subsequently picking up the Brits Rising Star 2025 award — a gong previously won by the likes of Adele and Sam Fender — he'll begin this year in earnest with a stop off at the ceremony and a largely sold-out solo world tour before going on to support Sheeran across a string of European stadium dates; a closing of the circle barely more than two years after opening it. It's a trajectory that even the most grounded and unassuming of artists — a category that Smith, calling in from snowy New York ahead of his first live show of the year, clearly falls into — would find hard to play down. 'I definitely knew that Stargazing would connect, but to the extent it connected, no. I'm not gonna sit here and say I saw this song being eight consecutive weeks at No 1 in the US and doing however many hundreds of millions of sales. No, I definitely hadn't thought that…' he chuckles. 'I did think it would be a song that my fans would like and I did think it would be a song that would move the posts a bit, but how much it did I'm eternally grateful for.' Cutting his teeth playing open mic gigs in his local pub circuit, when Smith says that mainstream fame is something he never really considered, it seems believable. Far more interested in talking about access to the arts than name-dropping any new-found celebrity mates, you can identify the sociology graduate in him (Smith finished his degree at Nottingham University in 2019) far more readily than the burgeoning household name. 'I tussle with the idea of fame because I think what I do is really awesome and really cool, but also there are so many awesome people in the world that don't get half the acknowledgement that they should do,' he says. 'Sometimes it feels really odd that I'm put on this pedestal when I'm just making music. All I'm doing is just pushing air.' Alongside the encouragement of watching black British artists like Labrinth and Stormzy ('People who looked and sounded like me') go on to huge artistic success, it's this foundation of education that Smith credits with giving him the confidence to pursue his musical goals. 'Going through the education system and on to college and university, all of those steps taught me that, with the right belief and equipping myself with the right skills — and seeing the value in learning and building over time — anything is achievable and possible. Applying the same principles in music, it was sort of a like-for-like trade,' he suggests. Coupled with this was his Luton secondary state school's crucial access to arts funding. One of the institutions helped by the Building Schools for the Future initiative in the mid-2000s, it gave a young Smith the physical tools to learn his craft. 'When you look at state schools and deprived areas — how on earth do you expect children to get into music when instruments aren't accessible to them from a young age?' he questions now. For marginalised young people, Smith notes, the barriers are even higher. 'Being able to create live music costs a bomb, so when you see a surge in black communities or working-class communities making trap music or drill music, which is predominantly made on a laptop, I see that as entrepreneurial,' he continues. 'Yet that's being shut down as music that isn't quite music, but then you're also offering no alternative pathway to get into the industry. I had access to instruments and MacBooks and GarageBand to get started and, had I not been given that opportunity, would I be here? Probably not.' With Trump's US government having recently pressed pause on the country's proposed TikTok ban, the future of the app that made Smith's name also hangs in limbo. For the musician, the platform was an invaluable entry point into an industry whose doorways are dwindling year on year. 'We have no access to play music live so then we use social media, but then social media is criticised for devaluing what music is, so we're just in this constant loop of being stuck as an artist coming through,' Smith says. 'It's a really difficult time for new artists. There are so many contradictions happening all the time. My view on social media is that it's a gem and it's allowing people to do a lot of things and, until we've figured out an infrastructure at a grassroots level, it's the only route we have.' Whether Smith's meteoric rise will be remembered as one of TikTok's last is still yet to be seen, but there's no denying the wild ride it's helped catapult the songwriter onto. He's been soaking up some pearls of wisdom from his future tour buddy, to ride out the peaks and troughs and 'just keep doing what I'm doing and not be deterred. I've hung out with Ed a few times and he's such a lovely guy. I think for him, he just wanted to be able to give an opportunity to someone who has aspirations to go on and dream big,' Smith smiles. And for all his humility, the singer's dreams are evidently as sky-high as they come. 'Oh, I'm delusional as hell!' he laughs. 'I would love to be playing stadiums in my career. I've always been a dreamer in that sense. I want my music to connect at the biggest level and, had I not thought I could do that, I don't know if I'd be doing this.' With eight months of solid touring on the cards, Smith is taking his time when it comes to following up Stargazing and last year's A Minute… EP with a full-length debut. He's writing and recording 'most days' but is happy to wait it out if need be rather than rushing the milestone. 'I think about it every day because ultimately I want to be an album artist, and every artist I've aspired to be like has lived and breathed albums,' he says. 'I think it'll feel right when I feel like I've captured everything I need to say in this first chapter. There are still stories that haven't been written yet, so when I have a nice diversity of those then it'll come.' Having launched his career by documenting the highs and lows of his everyday, however, don't expect Smith's new starry lifestyle to feature that heavily on any of his future material. 'Absolutely not,' he laughs, 'and if I ever did, I hope that you start a smear campaign against me…'
