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News.com.au
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Victoria Beckham ‘ruined' son's wedding with wild move
A source close to the Peltz family claimed the former Spice Girl 'ruined' the happy couple's big day by stealing their special dance during the reception. The ordeal took place after Grammy Award winner Marc Anthony took the stage to perform. 'Before the song began, Marc Anthony asked Brooklyn to come to the stage, and then announced, 'The most beautiful woman in the room tonight, come on up…Victoria Beckham!'' the insider told People. The move allegedly left the Bates Motel star, 30, feeling 'that Victoria ruined her wedding, and couldn't understand why.' A second source who witnessed the moment said everyone then watched 'Nicola run from the room crying.' 'Nicola felt like Victoria did this on purpose, when she knew it was a pre-planned romantic dance meant for Brooklyn and Nicola. What she couldn't understand was why,' the source added. 'It was such a jaw-dropping moment that it left the whole room in absolute shock — you could hear a pin drop,' the insider continued. 'It wasn't appropriate.' A source close to the couple exclusively tells Page Six that 'everyone in the room witnessed what happened.' 'The shock was palpable. It was deeply hurtful. Unfortunately, this wasn't a one-off. It's a pattern that still happens to this day.' Page Six reached out to David and Victoria for comment, but did not immediately hear back. As we previously reported, tensions with the young couple and Brooklyn's parents have been ongoing since their wedding. At the time, the focus of their divide was said to be about Nicola's disagreements with Victoria in the wedding planning process. The fashion designer, 51, and her daughter-in-law appeared to squash the rumours when they showed each other love on social media recently. However, it appears the feud was reignited earlier this year after fans couldn't help but notice Brooklyn, 26, and Nicola skipped David's recent 50th birthday celebrations. While it was originally reported that Brooklyn's issue was with his brother Romeo, it was soon revealed that the rift involved the entire family. Both David and Victoria reportedly want to 'mend' the relationship, but friends and family think there's a 'long road' ahead to fix the 'very deep tensions.'
Daily Mail
5 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Unsung British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island is a modern day Local Hero, writes BRIAN VINER
The Ballad Of Wallis Island (12A, 139 mins) Verdict: Hilarious and poignant A pair of films open in cinemas today, each as British as a cream tea and both set way out west, yet strikingly different in tone. One is a hoot and the other anything but. The former is The Ballad Of Wallis Island. Written by and starring Tim Key and Tom Basden, it wrings laughs galore from the fundamentally sad story of Charles (Key), who lives alone and lonely in a rambling house on an island off the Pembrokeshire coast, with only occasional social interaction at the local shop, run by single mum Amanda (Sian Clifford). But Charles does have plenty of money, enough of it to pay a somewhat brittle, moderately well-known singer-songwriter called Herb McGwyer (Basden) to travel out to the island to perform a private gig. Charles claims they've met once before, long ago at the Colchester Corn Exchange, when Herb and his then-girlfriend Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan) were a duo known as McGwyer Mortimer – 'the best-selling folk-rock artists of 2014', no less. What Herb doesn't know is that Charles has also invited Nell to the island. He is willing to fork out £800,000 in cash for the pair to re-form for one night only, without knowing that they are both bringing a heap of emotional baggage from their broken relationship. To complicate matters further, Nell is coming with her husband, Michael (Akemnji Ndifornyen). Herb hasn't seen her for nine years. He didn't even know she was married. The story begins with Herb arriving by boat and an over-excited Charles wading out to meet him. Gauche, over-eager and exasperating, with a nervy compulsion for puns and word-play, Charles is a character in the great British tradition of Alan Partridge and David Brent, only more lovable and vulnerable. 'He's sort of sweet in a way,' Herb tells his agent over the phone, while also using a football expression to complain that Charles won't leave him alone. 'He's everywhere. It's like he's man-marking me.' Charles has two framed lottery tickets on his wall. Herb had assumed that he must have made his riches from finance or oil but in fact he was a male nurse who miraculously scooped the jackpot twice. Having used it all up first time round travelling the world with the love of his life, Marie, he then went and won it again. Alas, he no longer has Marie to share his fortune with, although for reasons that eventually unfold she still looms large in the narrative. Splendidly directed by James Griffiths, with glorious panoramic shots that will thrill the people at Visit Pembrokeshire, the film is based on a 2007 BAFTA-nominated short called The One And Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island. That too was directed by Griffiths, and written by Key and Basden. To dip into Charles's beloved word-play, if this longer version has an off-key note it lies in the character of Michael, whom the plot, a little unconvincingly, contrives to get out of the way once he and Nell have arrived. But it scarcely matters, and anyway it does its job, allowing the focus to fall on Herb and Nell as historical resentments pepper their search for old harmonies. Mulligan, as usual, is note-perfect and Basden, who did a cracking job of writing the film's original songs, is excellent too. But Key's is the performance to cherish: drama schools could use it as the embodiment of pathos. I loved pretty much every minute of this enormously engaging picture, which reminded me in some ways of Bill Forsyth's 1983 charmer Local Hero. Surprisingly, given its quintessential Britishness – and dialogue that references Monster Munch, Alton Towers, Harold Shipman, Ken Dodd and Red Leicester cheese – it has already been a modest hit in the US, following its premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival. But maybe that's not so surprising, given its universal themes of love, loneliness, friendship, and, indeed, money. The Salt Path (12A, 115 mins) Verdict: A bit of a slog The Salt Path is about money, too, but in this case the almost total lack of it. The film is based on a best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn (Gillian Anderson), which recorded the tribulations she and her husband Moth (Jason Isaacs) suffered after losing their family home, a disaster compounded by the diagnosis in Moth of a rare degenerative disease. Homeless and penniless, yet undaunted by his health problems, the Winns decide to do something positive, so they take a tent and walk the mighty South West Coast Path through Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. The film chronicles their highs and lows along the way, and it's moving stuff, but the journey is too often a slog for us as well as for them, and I wonder if feature-film debutante Marianne Elliott, whose many credits are all in the theatre, was the right choice of director? The coastal scenery is spectacular on the eye, while Isaacs and especially Anderson are both superb (if perhaps a little too handsome and well-groomed to wholly convince as a couple on their uppers). But the story could have been kept a lot more taut as the Winns encounter not just the kindness, but also the complacency, hostility and oddness of strangers.
New York Times
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Malditos' Is a Brooding, Operatic French Drama
The French drama 'Malditos' (in French, with subtitles, or dubbed), on Max, is set within a traveler community whose members are about to be displaced from the dilapidated carnival fairgrounds where they live and work. The show hits brutal, operatic highs, with its deadly scheming playing out against the dramatic landscape of Camargue, in southern France. Give us blinding fraternal strife, and give it to us on a sun-bleached salt flat. Sara (Céline Sallette), who instead of a crown and a scepter has a scowl and a cigarette, is determined to keep the clan together. But everyone around her has different ideas about how to scrounge up enough money — and enough mutual will — to do so. Especially her sons. The brash, excitable son, Tony (Darren Muselet), wants to get into the lucrative drug market — or maybe he wants to run away with his girlfriend, who is from a rival clan. The brooding, bitter son, Jo (Pablo Cobo), who was forced to abandon his career ambitions, has his own vision for leadership, one he honed during years of estrangement from his mother and brother. Sara, Tony and Jo all think they are keeping the same secret, but they aren't quite. The show wears its Shakespearean power-jockeying as comfortably as its track jackets. 'You're a real prince,' a vulnerable man stutters at Jo, begging for his life. Every bright idea just illuminates the path toward a more severe catastrophe, and pretty soon, the bodies are piling up. Some are even being exhumed. Violence abounds, both in harebrained shoot-em-ups and in the startling volatility of a bull. One person might be leveled by a mob-led beat-down or by the punishing rains of an unrelenting storm. Another might be swallowed up by oppressive gender roles or spit out by expensive real estate regulations. A few of the twists and turns here can feel a little predictable, and all that glowering starts losing its impact after a while. But the show has plenty of fresh ideas and true surprises in its specifics and realism, in its characters' rites and traditions. 'Malditos' teases out how religion, superstition and harshly enforced cultural customs are both the fabric and the rend. There's a bright beauty to a tough-guy dad tenderly officiating a poetic marriage ritual, and also a cold horror at the bride's numb concessions and deep despair. Four episodes are available now, and the remaining three arrive on Fridays.
Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Gayle King stirs the pot between Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone after Broadway diva's brutal 'not a friend' swipe
Diva Patti LuPone dropped jaws earlier this week after she coldly revealed she doesn't consider fellow Broadway star Audra McDonald to be a friend. But now Gayle King has waded into the drama as she boldly asked Audra about the cutthroat comment in an upcoming interview for CBS Mornings. Despite insisting she didn't intend to 'start a Broadway dust-up' by asking the question, undoubtedly the remark will only stir the pot between the two. A composed Audra, 54, insisted she was unaware of any drama between them and that she hadn't seen her former co-star, 76, in over a decade. 'Patti Lapone says about you, "Audra is not a friend"... I know there's a lot of back and forth. Were you surprised to hear that said about you from her?' Gayle, 70, asked. 'And I'm not trying to start a Broadway dust up here, but I'm wondering how you're processing.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. As Gayle asked the question, the theater legend had a tight smile on her face but remained calm and collected. 'If there's a rift between us, I don't know what it is,' she replied. 'That's something that you'd have to ask Patti about. 'You know, I haven't seen her in about 11 years, just because we've been busy just with life and stuff. So I don't know what rift she's talking about, but you'd have to ask her.' The clip was posted by CBS Mornings to their TikTok account where they clarified in the caption that the interview was 'scheduled before' Patti's comments about Audra went viral. Audra's entire interview will air next week. Earlier this week the New Yorker published a profile on Patti where she declared Audra is 'not a friend anymore' - and hadn't been for some time. The touchy topic was brought to the surface when Patti was asked about Audra performing in Gypsy, a musical she's closely associated with. 'When I asked what she had thought of McDonald's current production of Gypsy,' the publication's Michael Schulman wrote, LuPone 'stared at me, in silence, for fifteen seconds. 'Then she turned to the window and sighed, "What a beautiful day."' Patti skewered multiple high-profile colleagues in a recent New Yorker profile where she declared Audra was 'not a friend anymore' - and hadn't been for some time. Pictured April 27 in NYC MacDonald and LuPone pictured during rehearsal of Mahagonny at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA on January 30, 2007 LuPone also questioned the experience of Kecia Lewis, six months after Tony-award winning actress called her out for remarks she found 'offensive' Patti also questioned the Broadway experience of Tony-award winning actress Kecia Lewis, who last year accused LuPone of making 'bullying' and 'racially microaggressive' comments about her show Hell's Kitchen. Patti told the magazine in reaction: 'Oh, my God. Here's the problem. She calls herself a veteran? Let's find out how many Broadway shows Kecia Lewis has done, because she doesn't know what the f*** she's talking about.' She added, 'She's done seven. I've done thirty-one. Don't call yourself a vet, b****.' (The publication noted that Lewis has done 10 and LuPone 28.)
The Independent
10 hours ago
- Business
- The Independent
River City did not pass value for money test, BBC Scotland boss tells MSPs
Axed soap River City 'did not pass the value for money test', the head of the BBC in Scotland has said. Bosses announced plans to cancel the show, which has been running since 2002, next year, claiming viewing patterns had shifted. The decision has raised concerns about impacts on the screen sector in Scotland. But, appearing at Holyrood's Culture Committee on Thursday, BBC Scotland director Hayley Valentine said: 'I didn't take this lightly and I did think about the consequences for cast, for crew, for people who are impacted by the decision, of course I did. 'However, we have to put our audience's needs first and the audience for River City has declined significantly over the past five years.' Ms Valentine pointed to a number of new dramas set to be produced by the broadcaster, saying: 'What we'll do with these new dramas, which will absolutely cost more to make, but we'd expect them to deliver much bigger audiences than River City does. 'In terms of value for money for the audience, I'm afraid that River City didn't pass that test for us any longer, and the new dramas, we really hope will.' The police drama, Shetland, Ms Valentine said, brings in about 700,000 viewers in Scotland and up to eight million elsewhere in the UK, compared to just 200,000 for River City. Addressing concerns about the future of the sector, she said: 'River City is not the only game in town in terms of access to drama in Scotland, whether you're an actor, whether you're a director, whether you're a producer, whether you're a trainee. 'We offer these opportunities across a really wide range of content, it's not just River City that does that for us.' Ms Valentine also pointed to budgetary issues at the broadcaster, telling MSPs she doesn't 'have the money to do everything that I want to'. 'There are a million things that I'd like to do that aren't possible. 'So I have to make difficult decisions. 'This decision was made on the basis that the audience figures are not performing for us in the way that we need them to.' Cast and crew, as well as actors' union Equity, have already appeared before the committee to warn of the impact of the soap's cancellation.
