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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Carole Radziwill Makes Surprise Return to Bravo After 7 Year Absence — and Shares Hug with Andy Cohen: 'So Crazy'
The former 'Real Housewives of New York City' star reunited publicly with her former boss, after years of not speakingNEED TO KNOW Carole Radziwill made a surprise return to Bravo on Aug. 4 during an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen The former RHONY star hugged Andy Cohen and joked about being back in the Clubhouse for the first time in seven years Radziwill promoted her new CNN documentary American Prince: JFK Jr. about her cousin John F. Kennedy Jr., airing Aug. 9And just like that, Bravo's very own Carrie Bradshaw is back. Carole Radziwill made a surprise return to the network on Monday, Aug. 4, in an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. It's the first time the What Remains author has been on the network since her departure from The Real Housewives of New York City seven years ago. She famously had a falling out with executive producer Andy Cohen, though as PEOPLE exclusively revealed in November 2024, the two had squashed the beef. Certainly that's what viewers saw on his late night show. Entering into Cohen's Clubhouse after a game of 'Mystery Housewife Caller,' Radziwill greeted her former boss with a big grin and an enthusiastic hug. "It's Carole Radziwill!" Cohen told guests Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, giving her a round of applause. "Making a triumphant return! Good to see you!" Radziwill, for her part, took a moment to get used to her surroundings. "This is so crazy, by the way, to be here," she admitted, looking around. "I know, it's been a minute! Radzi, it's been a minute!" Cohen told her, using his nickname for her. Yang and Rogers then showered Radziwill with praise. "We're honored to be here for you coming back," Rogers said. "One of the things that made me fall in love with Housewives. I remember, season 7, when you went on the vacation with Dorinda [Medley] and you were both connecting over your [dead husbands], that was really when I was first truly moved by a Housewives show. I just, I love you on the show." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Before the series ended, Radziwill plugged her upcoming appearance on CNN's upcoming three-part documentary American Prince about her cousin, John F. Kennedy, Jr. It airs Aug. 9. "It's nice because I don't participate in a lot of that, but I had a chance to say something nice about John and George [magazine]," she said. "I'm probably the only woman in the world who's tired of seeing John without a shirt on, so I get to talk about what really mattered to him and his passion and his magazine and of course, Carolyn [Bessette-Kennedy]." Cohen and Radziwill were friends before she joined the cast of RHONY in season 5, which aired in 2012. The two appeared to be friendly during her years on the show, but things between them became fractured as her friendship with Bethenny Frankel fell apart. For years, the two only communicated while trading jabs in the press and on social media. But at Bravo Fan Fest 2024 in November, Cohen told PEOPLE that he and Radziwill had "reconnected" after six years of not speaking. "It feels great," the 57-year-old father of two said at the time. "Carole and I knew each other for years, before she was ever on the Housewives — for many years. I think I've known her more outside of the Housewives than I have in the Housewives. So it was definitely good to reconnect." Speaking with PEOPLE soon thereafter, Radziwill, 61, said she was glad she and Cohen had finally talked. "We both came to understand that our disagreements had everything to do with the high-pressure nature of the show and very little to do with our friendship, which preceded it," she said. "Andy and I are very much on the same page now, and I'm happy about that." Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen airs Sunday-Thursday evenings on Bravo. Read the original article on People


Metro
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
ITV releases 'riveting' Amazon Prime thriller that's been compared to Severance
A 'whirlwind' thriller series that's drawn comparisons to Severance is now available to binge in full for free on ITVX. Released in 2023 on Amazon Prime Video, The Consultant was based on the book by Bentley Little and adapted for screen by Tony Basgallop (Inside Men, What Remains, Servant). The eight-part series starred Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff, a mysterious consultant who comes to the rescue of CompWare, a mobile game studio based in downton Los Angeles, after the death of its CEO. After 'blowing into town' he takes charge of the company and leads with an unconventional management style. The series, which holds an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and this week dropped on ITVX, was largely well received by critics and fans, who praised its 'slick presentation and diverting twists'. 'The series defies all expectations while sucking you into the strange story,' USA Today wrote in its review. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'This bonkers comedy-thriller burnishes the familiar deal-with-the-devil conceit with chipper, unapologetic cynicism, and appealing performances from its trio of leads,' Entertainment Weekly said. 'Although the official website profiles for The Consultant present it as a dark comedy, it's actually quite horrifying and triggering, especially for people who've traversed the corporate minefield, thereby putting it squarely in the horror genre,' Digital Mafia Talkies shared. 'The Consultant is a bonkers show that is a psychologically twisted minefield,' added. Meanwhile viewers said it was 'bizarre', 'thrilling and dark' and an 'absolute whirlwind'. Although many compared it to Ben Stiller's hit Apple TV Plus series Severance, some said it didn't quite live up to it. 'Severance did everything The Consultant tries to do but far, far better: thriller-level fear of the workplace; a sinister, expanding something-is-going-on feeling; two employees who really need to just kiss each other, now, come on; and never quite knowing if the cause of all the weirdness is supernatural, sci-fi, or Other,' it explained. 'The Consultant, despite Waltz's immaculate lapel-straightening, never quite fills you with that confidence.' In an interview with ScreenRant, Tony spoke mixing the tone of the series, which blended horror and comedy. More Trending 'I think I was led, really, by the novel by Bentley Little,' he said. 'That had a very cruel sense of humour to it, a darkness that I always like to bring into my own work. So that was it really, I wanted to kind of match that style that he'd created, and it felt like we were a good fit. 'He's a very dark and twisted individual, and I enjoy kind of adding my dark, twisted nature on top of his dark, twisted nature. So, we were building on each other there.' The Consultant also stars The Stand's Natt Wolff and The White Lotus' Brittany O'Grady. View More » The Consultant is streaming on ITVX and Amazon Prime Video. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Portugal vs Spain TV channel and live stream: How to watch Nations League final in the UK tonight MORE: The teenage Orkney killer who got away with murder for 14 years MORE: R-Truth 'signs new WWE contract' and returns under real name after fierce backlash


Arab News
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Muhannad Shono: ‘This work is fragile. It is not here forever'
RIYADH: Saudi contemporary artist Muhannad Shono is the sole representative of the Middle East at this year's Desert X — the site-specific international art exhibition in California's Coachella Valley — which runs until May 11. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ Shono's piece, entitled 'What Remains,' consists of 60 long strips of locally-sourced synthetic fabric infused with native sand. 'The fabric strips, orientated to align with the prevailing winds, follow the contours of the ground, fibrillating just above its surface,' a description of the work on the Desert X website reads. 'As the wind direction shifts, the natural process of aeolian transportation that forms dunes is interrupted, causing the fabric to tangle and form chaotic bundles. In this way, the ground itself becomes mutable — a restlessly changing relic or memory.' This isn't the first time Shono has created a large-scale installation in the desert. At Desert X AlUla in 2020, he presented 'The Lost Path,' composed of 65,000 black plastic tubes snaking through the Saudi desert — a work exploring themes of transformation, memory and impermanence. And while 'What Remains' is an entirely separate piece of art, it also delves into those topics, as has much of Shono's work over the past decade. 'I'm first-generation Saudi,' Shono tells Arab News. 'A year after I was born, I was given the nationality. For half of my life, I didn't feel Saudi. I'd say Saudi was an authentic space that had specific motifs and cultural narratives that we were very disconnected from as a family. Why? Because we're immigrants; my father is not Saudi, and my mom is not Saudi. 'But now I think the narrative of what is 'Saudi' is changing,' he continues. 'And it feels like it's part of this correction.' A feeling of not belonging was apparent in Shono's early artistic endeavors. He loved comic books and wanted to create his own because he couldn't find a true representation of himself in them. 'Saudis expect you to produce a figure they can relate to — with Saudi features or skin color — but I didn't think they could relate to me,' he says. 'I was more referencing myself, and what I thought 'home' looked like, or the 'hero' looked like, so there was a disconnect there.' That disconnect continues to manifest in his work. 'You can see it in Desert X and in a lot of my other projects tapping into materiality. I realized I couldn't really fully connect with the materiality of the narrative of being Saudi. 'An interesting psychological thing that I haven't really come to grips with is that I'm more comfortable doing work in Saudi because I'm responding to this natural source material,' he continues. 'I'm disrupting — I'm offering divergence, narratives that can spill out from that experience of the work. I'm invested in the narrative of what's happening (in Saudi). I think it's the closest I've felt to being 'at home.' Something that I was missing in the beginning was being connected to the narrative of the place, because if you engage with that narrative, you can call it home. 'When I go to California, I miss the landscape (of Saudi) that I'm contrasting. In California, it's not juxtaposed against the experience of growing up. I'm still figuring out how to take these feelings and be able to show work overseas, because my backdrop is missing — the backdrop of Saudi.' His early interest in comic books, he says, was partly down to 'being able to create the world, the space, the setting for the story.' That was also a reason he decided to study architecture at university. 'I felt like it was creative problem solving,' he says. 'A lot of my projects that I did in college were in 'world making.' My graduation project ended up being the creation of a whole city, and how it would grow on a random landscape. I got kind of caught up in the urban planning of it — the streets, and the rivers flowing through it. I never really got to the architectural part of designing a building.' But that willingness to explore ideas in ways others might not has made Shono one of the Kingdom's most compelling contemporary artists. 'I've created my own kind of material palette, or language, or library, that I use,' he says. In his current work, 'The land is holding the narrative on this adventure within the seemingly barren landscape,' he explains. 'These land fabrics become this idea of being able to roll up, carry and unroll ideas of belonging: What is home? How do we carry home?' Shono and the team who helped him install 'What Remains' had to 'constantly adapt expectations' based on understanding the land and the environmental conditions, he says. It took them around a month, working seven or eight hours a day, to put it in place — flattening, aligning, and flipping fabric under Shono's direction. His vision was clear, but he also allowed instinct to guide him. 'This work is fragile,' he says. 'It's an expression that is not here forever… that will change. And my ideas will change, the way I think about stories and concepts through my work. It's important to change.' With 'What Remains,' he is offering that same opportunity to viewers. He wonders: 'What portals will you pass through, through this unrolling of the earth in front of you?' And change is a vital part of the work itself. 'They're always different,' Shono says of the fabric strips. 'At some points, they're opaque and earth-like — almost like a rock. But when the wind picks up, they become lightweight — like sails — and they animate and come to life. And when the light hits as they move through the sky, they reveal their translucency and there's this projection of the trees and bushes and nature that they're almost wrapped around or sailing past.' Although the 'What Remains' seen by Desert X visitors on any particular day will not be the same 'What Remains' seen by visitors on any other day, or even any other hour, one part of it, at least, is constant. 'The work is a self-portrait,' Shono says. 'Always.'
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
East Austin residents fight to preserve a changing neighborhood
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Delores Duffie and Myrtle Holmes Wilson are among a dwindling group of native east Austinites who have held on to their homes and businesses amid a wave of sales and redevelopment across East 11th and East 12th Street. From community members attempting to save a historic century-old building purchased by a developer to the story of a family holding on to their father's dream, the documentary 'What Remains' explores decades of gentrification and a community pushing to evolve while fighting to preserve what remains of a historically Black neighborhood. Please join us on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 12:30 p.m. on KXAN to watch 'What Remains.' KXAN Senior Designer Chris Ayers, Photojournalist Kevin Baskar, Photojournalist Jordan Belt, Photojournalist Richie Bowes, Editor Sean Farrar, Graphic Artist Wendy Gonzalez, Senior Editor Eric Lefendfeld, Patrick Mullen, Producer Ashli Parks, Evening Anchor Jennifer Sanders, Executive Producer John Thomas, Executive Producer Laney Valian, Weekend Morning Anchor Jala Washington, Investigative Reporter Kelly Wiley, Photojournalist Ed Zavala contributed to this report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


Leaders
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Leaders
Saudi Artist Muhannad Shono to Illuminate Desert X 2025
Saudi artist Muhannad Shono will showcase his innovative vision at Desert X 2025 in California's Coachella Valley from March 8 to May 11. The Desert Biennial selected Shono among artists from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East for this renowned exhibition. His participation underscores Saudi Arabia's rising influence in global contemporary art. Artists Explore Identity Through Desert Landscapes Shono's installation, What Remains, merges identity and environment using fabric strips infused with Coachella Valley sand. Wind dynamically reshapes the work, mirroring desert dunes' fluidity. This interplay highlights nature's impermanence and humanity's evolving footprint. Curators Neville Wakefield and Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas praised the piece for bridging cultural narratives with ecological awareness. 'Desert X 2025 challenges myths of untouched wilderness,' Wakefield stated. Artists now confront climate realities, blending time, light, and space into sustainable dialogues. Shono's work aligns with themes of temporality, urging creative solutions for imperiled ecosystems. Global Artists Unite for Sustainability The lineup includes Sanford Biggers (USA), Jose Davila (Mexico), and Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada), among others. Each artist reimagines desertscapes through site-specific installations. Saudi Arabia's inclusion reflects Desert X's commitment to diverse perspectives. Based in Riyadh, Shono gained acclaim for large-scale, material-driven works exploring memory and transformation. His Desert X debut follows exhibitions at Venice Biennale and Diriyah Biennale Foundation. Cultural leaders hail his selection as a milestone for Saudi creative exports. Event Details and Cultural Impact Produced by The Desert Biennial, the free exhibition attracts global audiences. Visitors can experience Shono's work near Palm Springs, a hub for art and sustainability debates. Follow Desert X social channels for updates. Desert X 2025 amplifies urgent climate conversations through art. Shono's participation elevates Saudi Arabia's role in global cultural diplomacy, fostering cross-border dialogue on environmental stewardship. Short link :