BANG Showbiz is the world’s premier entertainment news agency providing the most exciting celebrity news to online, print and broadcast media outlets across the globe.
Britney Spears’ family are said to be unable to “go near her”. The ‘Toxic’ singer, 42, hit the headlines on Thursday (02.05.24) when she was photographed hobbling out of the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles topless and dressed in a blanket after an alleged bust-up with her rumoured ex-boyfriend Paul Richard Soliz, and has since blamed her estranged mum Lynne Spears for the incident. An insider close to Britney told Page Six about their fears for her isolation from her relatives and her mental health: “It will be even harder now to get Britney under any kind of control. “Her family can’t go...
BANG Showbiz English
Ahmed Best says he was frozen out of Hollywood amid the hate he got for his portrayal of Jar Jar Binks in ‘Star Wars: Episode I’. The actor made history in 1999 playing the clumsy Gungan alien – but was hammered with abuse from fans, critics and commentators, with many arguing the character was based on stereotypes of black people, especially Jamaicans. Ahmed – who is now a teacher and co-founder of anti-oppression organisation the AfroRithm Futures Group – told People about the fallout he suffered from the role: “Everybody came for me. I’m the first person to do this kind of work, but I was a...
BANG Showbiz English
Rumer Willis says her little girl “loves” going to see her dementia-battling granddad Bruce. The actress, 35, had daughter Louetta in April 2023 with her singer partner Derek Richard Thomas, 42, and says its “sweet” when she watches her play with her ‘Die Hard’ actor grandfather, 69, who was forced to retire from acting after he was hit with his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia in 2022. Rumer – who Bruce had with his 61-year-old ‘G.I. Jane’ actress ex-wife Demi Moore – told People: “(My dad) is doing really good. I got to go over there with Louetta today. “It’s so sweet. Louetta honestly i...
BANG Showbiz English
Craig David claims his celibacy has lasted two years. The 42-year-old ‘7 Days’ singer – famed for boasting about “making love by Wednesday, and then on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday” on the track, as well as for his womanising at the peak of his 1990s fame – declared in the summer of 2023 he hadn’t had sex in “maybe a year or so”. He has now told ‘The TMZ Podcast’ about extending his self-imposed celibacy into 2024: “When I did the first album, ‘Born To Do It,’ I was 17 years old. So these were all aspirations. “In a funny way, as much as I was like, ‘Wow,’ to myself for a moment, it just ...
BANG Showbiz English
Britney Spears’ estranged mum has declared she’ll always be there for her daughter. The ‘… Baby One More Time’ singer’s mother Lynne Spears, 69, insisted she’d always support the star despite their long-running differences as she got on a flight to Los Angeles after 42-year-old Britney was reported to have had a bust-up with her rumoured ex-boyfriend Paul Richard Soliz at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles on Thursday. (02.05.24) She told photographers who snapped the mum-of-three at LAX Airport as she was being picked up by her son Bryan Spears – who has had an amicable relationship with his ...
BANG Showbiz English
Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes’ daughters “don’t care” they are movie stars. ‘The Fall Guy’ actor, 43, and his ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ co-star Eva, 50, have girls Esmeralda Amada, nine, and eight-year-old Amada Lee, and Ryan has said they have so little interest in their A-list status they once asked to fast-forward a scene featuring their mum on their favourite children’s show. Ryan told People about their disdain for his and Eva’s careers: “They don’t care. There’s nothing. “Eva was on an episode of (ABC kids’ series) ‘Bluey’ (voicing a yoga instructor.) We both thought it was going to be ...
BANG Showbiz English
Eddie Van Halen’s son has revealed for the first time he carries the late rocker’s ashes in a necklace he never removes. The 33-year-old musician and guitarist – who performed alongside his father as the bassist for his Van Halen group from 2007 to 2020 – also said he has his late dad’s thumb prints embedded on a ring and the chain. He said on his ‘Behind the Music’ show on Paramount+ about creating the jewellery after his dad’s throat cancer death in 2020 aged 65: "No matter what I do we're always together. I have his thumb print on this ring. I have his thumb print on this necklace. His ashe...
BANG Showbiz English
Drew Carey dreams of dying on stage holding a microphone. ‘The Price is Right’ host, 65, said he’s hell-bent on never giving up the TV job and constantly thinks about how he wants to shuffle off while fronting the game show. He told People: “Thoughts of dying on stage with a microphone in my hand have gone through my mind. “I never want to leave. I’m having such a good time there. Everybody treats me great and the cast is great and the production office is great. “I really feel supported and loved there and wanted. When you’re 65 and in the entertainment business, you don’t really get that tha...
BANG Showbiz English
Nicole Brown Simpson’s three sisters have branded OJ Simpson an “abuser”. Denise, Dominique and Tanya Brown were left devastated when the 35-year-old was found butchered at her LA home in 1994 alongside her waiter friend Ron Goldman, 25, two years after she divorced late NFL player Simpson – who was sensationally acquitted of their double murder in October 1995 after his 11-month ‘Trial of the Century’. Referring to how Nicole called police multiple times to report Simpson for abuse, Denise told the Variety Power of Women event at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City: ...
BANG Showbiz English
Ed Sheeran gave Justin Bieber his ‘Love Yourself’ hit because his friends dismissed it as “Meh”. The ‘I Don’t Care’ singer, 33, joked about how the song then went on to be a massive, history making chart-topper for his pal Justin, 30, while talking to fans in a break between songs at his concert at Hard Rock Live in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood. He said before playing his rendition of the track: “This is a song when I was writing ‘Divide’ – I was writing a lot of songs about a lot of different things, and I wrote this song and honestly, I played it to people and they went...
BANG Showbiz English
To continue enjoying content, please agree to our Terms of Use for Users that includes our collection and use of your browsing data, which is incorporated into our Privacy Policy.