Last Week Tonight host and dedicated Bravo head John Oliver stopped by Watch What Happens Live last night (in a Brooks Marks tracksuit, no less), where he offered the British ex-pat perspective on the insane Kate Middleton photoshop fiasco: “There is a non-zero chance she died 18 months ago,” Oliver …
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It is a controversy more befitting of a Real Housewife than a royal princess. On Monday, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, posted a personal message — via the Kensington Royal social pages — to apologize for any “confusion” caused by a Mother’s Day photograph. (In the U.K., Mother’s Day …
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Meghan Markle was granted a court win Tuesday in a defamation case filed by her half-sister Samantha Markle. In a 58-page court ruling Monday, U.S. District Attorney Judge Charlene Honeywelldismissed the case after Samantha claimed that Markle had defamed her in interviews, including the one she did with Oprah in …
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“I’m playing like shit right now,” Kristen Stewart says, laughing as a ball rolls forlornly across her pool table and comes up short of the pocket. “But that’s good,” she adds, “because we’ve actually begun talking. And I can’t very well have you over here and then just beat the …
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Prince Harry has agreed to a £400,000 (about $505,000) settlement with a British tabloid publisher found guilty last year of improper snooping into his personal life, the BBC reports. The sum covers legal costs, as well as the initial £140,600 in damages Harry was awarded when the ruling against Mirror …
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King Charles III has been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday, Feb. 5 (via the BBC). The 75-year-old monarch’s cancer was discovered while he underwent a recent treatment for “benign prostate enlargement.” The official statement did not provide a specific diagnosis or detail the …
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There have been many mind-blowing revelations on Finding Your Roots, the Henry Louis Gates Jr.-hosted PBS television series that employs a team of professional genealogists to trace celebrities’ ancestral histories. We’ve learned that Bernie Sanders is related to his SNL doppelgänger Larry David, that actor Joe Manganiello is part-Black and …
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Prince Harry has emerged victorious in his lawsuit against the British tabloid publisher Mirror Group Newspapers over improper snooping into his personal life. The judge found that the publisher’s papers — including The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and The Sunday People — had engaged in “unlawful information gathering” tactics, including …
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The Crown is back. The sixth and final season of Netflix’s royal drama begins with some Big D Energy: It’s all about Diana and Dodi, the young lovers whose whirlwind romance ended tragically in the Paris car crash that became the “Where were you?” moment for a generation. The first …
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The 2006 film The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizes the immediate aftermath of the death of Princess Diana. Much of the conflict comes from Queen Elizabeth’s reluctance to publicly address the grief of her subjects, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair pleading with her to speak. In the fourth …
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