Posts Tagged ‘ entertainment ’

  Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol when his contract expires at the end of the show’s ninth season to launch a US version of the X Factor. “What we have agreed is that The X Factor will launch in America in 2011 with me judging the show and executive producing,” Cowell said. “Because of htat,...
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Twilight star Kristen Stewart and An Education’s Carey Mulligan have been nominated for this year’s Orange BAFTA Rising Star Award. Stewart’s Adventureland co-star Jesse Eisenberg, ex-Skins actor Nicholas Hoult and A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim complete the nominees for the prize. Some of the previous winners of the award include Eva Green, James McAvoy, Shia LaBeouf and...
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Eric Rohmer, French film maker died on Monday at the age of 89.  Relatives said he had been hospitalised a week ago but did not give further details of his condition. Rohmer’s films, widely distributed abroad, explored relationships and love affairs with understated performances and delicate attention to visual detail. He emerged in the 1960s as...
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Network officials have confirmed Miley Cyrus will give up her Disney role as Hannah Montana in 2010. The actress plays Miley Steward, a high school student leading a secret double life as pop star Montana. The upcoming year will be the fourth and last season for Hannah Montana. This series has also spawned hit movies. In...
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Johnny Depp, Sandra Bullock and Hugh Laurie won the leading prizes at the People’s Choice Awards. Depp was named the Favourite Movie Actor and his Sweeney Todd co-star Sacha Baron Cohen honoured him with the Favourite Movie Actor of the Decade prize. Baron Cohen revealed the event organisers decided to give Depp the special award after...
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Talk show host Jonathan Ross quits BBC after 13 years. Ross, 49, issued a statement that said he had decided not to renegotiate his contract when it ends at the end of July. Recent reports over his salary, a reported £18 million over three years, and the scandal over actor Andrew Sachs have caused controversy. He said:...
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