Entertainment

A £500 million scheme aimed at kick-starting UK film and TV production has been announced. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden said on Wednesday the fund will help companies unable to get coronavirus insurance. The scheme will be used to cover the costs of projects being delayed or abandoned due to issues […]

LOS ANGELES: Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died on Sunday (Jul 26) at the age of 104, the Hollywood Reporter said. She died of natural causes at her home in Paris, where she had lived for […]

Johnny Depp is “generous” and “loving” when sober but the “other side of him was a monster”, actress Amber Heard has told the High Court in London. Ms Heard said she had been “so in love” with her former husband and had “always held out hope” he would get clean. […]

The government has been too slow to respond to the “existential threat” faced by live theatre, music and other culture, a committee of MPs has said. Minsiters “consistently failed to recognise” the challenges Covid-19 posed to the arts, the House of Commons culture select committee said. Chair Julian Knight MP […]

Tim Smith, the charismatic frontman of influential British rock band Cardiacs, has died at the age of 59. The cult group formed in 1977 and have been cited as an influence by the likes of Blur and Radiohead. They amassed a dedicated fanbase in the 80s but had been on […]

Annie Ross, the celebrated jazz singer who enjoyed a long career as a stage performer and film and TV actress, has died in New York at the age of 89. She started out as a child star, billed as “Scotland’s Shirley Temple”. She later became part of the acclaimed vocal […]

Actor Orlando Bloom has had a tattoo etched over his heart in honour of his labradoodle Mighty, who went missing a week ago and is now believed dead. Writing on Instagram, the Lord of the Rings star revealed his beloved pet’s collar had been found after seven days of searching […]

Elon Musk offered Amber Heard “24/7 security” after she told him she wanted a restraining order against Johnny Depp, the High Court has heard. She denied Mr Musk visited her while her then-husband Mr Depp was away. Mr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article […]

British pop star Dua Lipa has sparked a huge reaction online with a tweet often associated with supporters of extreme Albanian nationalism. Lipa posted a map that includes Albania, Kosovo and parts of neighbouring Balkan countries and a definition of the word “autochthonous” to suggest Albanians belonged there. The tweet […]