“Happy Birthday sis I am PROUD of your growth” she wrote, adding that her “success is DESERVING.”
.@Beyoncé 👑🐝 Happy Birthday sis I am PROUD of your growth… You always been a HARDWORKER from day 1 since I’ve known you over 20 yrs so your success is DESERVING🙌🏾May your 40th BDAY be a blast!TURN ALL DA WAY DF UP on 200🔥😂🥂🎉🎊🎈🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/0yvJhuLbjV
“I want to feel the same freedom I feel on stage every day of my life,” she said.
“I want to explore aspects of myself I haven’t had time to discover and to enjoy my husband and my children. I want to travel without working. I want this next decade to be about celebration, joy, and giving and receiving love. I want to give all the love I have to the people who love me back.”
Stars continued to honour Beyoncé with tributes and sweet notes on Twitter over the course of the day:
there are so many things to say about Beyonce that most times i’m actually just speechless. happy birthday to the actual GOAT 😩😩😩😩
He’s renowned for his dressed-down approach when it comes to the red carpet, so many fans might have been surprised to see Ed Sheeran making his way into the GQ Men Of The Year awards on Wednesday night.
The chart-topping singer posed for photographers dressed in an elaborate and brightly-coloured Versace suit jacket – which it turned out had been lent to him by a famous friend.
Well, we say “lent to him”, it doesn’t actually sound like Ed had much choice in the matter.
Speaking to reporters on the night, Ed admitted that his ensemble was a rental from his pal Sir Elton John, after the Rocket Man legend laid into him over his fashion choices.
David M. Benett via Getty ImagesEd Sheeran pictured in Sir Elton’s jacket
“I have always been the non-stylish person. I have been lent a nice suit,” he explained.
Ed continued: “This is from Donatella Versace and basically I have gone round Elton’s for dinner and he said, ‘You’ve dressed terribly for the last 10 years, let me sort you out’. So this is Elton sorting me out.”
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In new legal filings, Rosengart called for Jamie Spears’ immediate resignation, and accused him of trying to “extort” her.
Rosengart said: “Mr Spears and his counsel are now on notice: the status quo is no longer tolerable, and Britney Spears will not be extorted.
“Mr Spears’s blatant attempt to barter suspension and removal in exchange for approximately $2 million (£1.45 million) in payments, on top of the millions already reaped from Ms Spears’s estate by Mr Spears and his associates, is a non-starter.”
He added that Jamie’s resignation would be the “legally correct, decent and graceful thing to do”, adding: “[Jamie’s] idea of ‘orderly’ is to hang on until someone first brands him ‘father of the year’ and awards him a gold star for his ‘service’.
“In other words, although Mr Spears has, at last, been forced to recognise that it is best for his daughter if he departs now, he claims the right to drag his feet because it is best for him to cling to this conservatorship until he feels sufficiently-vindicated.”
This included being forced to take lithium in place of her regular medication and be on birth control despite her hopes to have a child with her boyfriend, Sam Asghari.
He also insisted that there were “no actual grounds for suspending or removing” him from the arrangement, stating he’s been the “unremitting target of unjustified attacks” regarding the conservatorship.
“[Jamie] does not believe that a public battle with his daughter over his continuing service as her conservator would be in her best interests,” his legal team said in court documents.
She wrote in the caption: “River William Stone Sept. 8, 2020 – Aug. 30, 2021.”
Sharon was sent messages of support by her celebrity friends.
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Will & Grace star Debra Messing said: “Noooooooooooooo. I am in disbelief. Oh Sharon, there are no words, other than I’m so sorry for your whole family’s loss. I am praying for all of you at this unimaginable time.”
Sean Hayes, an actor also known for his work on Will & Grace, said: “Ugh. I’m sitting here in tears. I’m so sorry, Sharon. What a beautiful boy. Sending all my love to you and your family.”
And Selma Blair commented: “I am so sorry. My lord.”
Last week Sharon, whose films include Total Recall and Casino, asked fans to pray for River after he was “found in his crib with total organ failure”.
“Please pray for him,” she tweeted. “We need a miracle.”
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Over the weekend, Saira told The Sun she had suffered “life-long” physical scars during an undisclosed incident on the set of the Channel 4 reality show.
“Unfortunately legally I can’t go into much detail about it because it’s still ongoing,” the former Loose Women star explained. “I was left with life-long scars, physical ones. That’s very hard to cope with.
“I am a very fit individual and to go onto a show and then have experienced what I did, I was in real shock.”
Channel 4Saira (pictured on the far left) with the rest of the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins cast
Saira added: “The show was great in supporting, but it’s gone beyond that. It’s gone onto something a bit bigger than that.”
However, in the same article, The Sun reported that Saira had “launched legal action” over the incident, which she has branded “fake news”.
Posting on her Instagram, she insisted: “There is a story in the [The Sun] that I am suing or am in a legal battle with [prodution company Minnow Films] and [Channel 4] after filming [Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins]. This is NOT true.
“[Minnow Films and Channel 4] have supported me fully before and after the show.”
Channel 4Saira Khan on the set of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
Sara continued: “When doing the press PR for the show, there were some legal matters I could not discuss, but that was not to be reported – so of course it gets reported and becomes a ‘clickbait’ story!!
“This show is the BEST show I have ever taken part in and it is disappointing that my role in it is being overshadowed by FAKE NEWS.”
She also said that if she were in “a legal battle with the show”, she wouldn’t be “promoting the show on my platform in such a positive light” or praising it in her newspaper column.
“If I was in a legal battle or suing I wouldn’t be doing my case any favours by saying what a great time I had on it!” she wrote. “They say all PR is good PR – yeah, but not when it’s fake news that hurts innocent people.”
A Minnow Films spokesperson previously told HuffPost UK: “Minnow Films and Saira Khan are happy to have resolved the concern raised.”
They also supplied a statement from Saira herself, which said: “I’m absolutely happy to have taken part in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. I had a life changing experience on the show, for the better, and if I was asked to do it again, I 100% would.”
Having finished as runner up in the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, Saira is now best known for her stint on the Loose Women panel, quitting the daytime show earlier this year, after wrapping filming on SAS: Who Dares Wins.
“I did take big drastic steps [after SAS: Who Dares Wins],” she told The Sun. “I left Loose Women and, interestingly, Andrea McLean left Loose Women after doing SAS.
“It changes your life. You realise you’ve got to cut through the shit and start living.”
SOPA Images via Getty ImagesSaira Khan pictured at an event in November 2020
When singer Niall Horan interviewed Lizzo, she turned the exchange into more of a flirty speed date.
Niall guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Lizzo was impressed with his skills.
“This is the sexiest call I’ve ever been on,” she said, to which the Irish singer replied, “Me too, geez, I’m getting hot in this nutmeg-colored suit.”
Lizzo was OK with his attire.
“Nothing’s sexier than nutmeg!” she laughed.
Things got steamier during the interview, especially after Lizzo noted that her fans were called “Lizzbians.”
Niall, who started his career in the boy band One Direction, joked that he called his followers the “Horandogs.” In response, Lizzo blurted this blush-inducer: “I think you’re giving me a One Erection, baby!”
Tuesday’s virtual interview wasn’t their first encounter. Lizzo remembered at their first meeting, Niall told her, “Congratulations, Lizzo. You’re smashing it.”
Lizzo’s response? “I was like, ‘I’ll smash you,’” she remembered as Niall laughed.
Both singers’ fan bases have tried to pair them up, so Niall made a test to determine their compatibility. They both agreed that if they were married, they wouldn’t make the other sign a prenup — but Lizzo said she would never want to get to the fart-in-front-of-each-other stage of intimacy.
But she had her reasons.
“First of all, I don’t fart. I have rose air that kind of just, it’s like a nice breeze,” the singer joked.
Niall felt differently: “You can do whatever you want in front of me, girl!”
Beretta/Sims/ShutterstockLittle Mix pictured in December 2011
In the 10 years they’ve been in the public eye, Little Mix have topped the charts, dominated the headlines and become style icons in their own right.
But it wasn’t always that way.
You see, they’ve come so far in the past decade it’s easy to forget that the hit girl group started life as four girls who auditioned for The X Factor as soloists, only to be put together as a four-piece group by the judges at the eleventh hour.
And as these old photos show, they were still a long way off establishing themselves as the group we know and love today in that first year.
On the 10th anniversary of Little Mix’s formation, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and remember the girls as they were – clashing prints, patterned braces, questionable dye jobs and all…
Like One Direction before them, Little Mix were formed at Bootcamp, after originally auditioning as solo artists. It was Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland who first saw the potential in the four-piece as a group.
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A month later, the newly-formed Rhythmix (as they were then known) were off to Greece, where they performed for the first time in front of the very 2011 crowd of Tulisa and Jessie J.
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In those days, X Factor was synonymous with its makeovers. After making it through to the live shows, here’s what X Factor’s team of stylists did to Jade, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Perrie…
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As live shows got underway, the newly-formed band became known for their wardrobe, which included lots of bright colours, bold prints and shiny materials.
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Seriously, they loved a print.
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It was this eerie Halloween week performance that cemented the girls’ place as contenders in what became a stiff competition…
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We’re giving you fair warning, do not look directly at these skirts…
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Or, frankly, these skirts (though that has less to do with their luminous properties)…
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As the renamed Little Mix’s popularity grew, they began being papped on their way to X Factor rehearsals.
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Is this photo making anyone else want to buy some Dove soap? Just us?
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Eventually, Little Mix made it all the way to the X Factor final where they went up against Marcus Collins.
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And we all know how that turned out by now…
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The morning after their win, Little Mix made an appearance on Daybreak.
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Here they are posing with the oft-forgotten fifth member of Little Mix: Kate Garraway…
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Fresh from their X Factor victory, Little Mix opened the show at the NTAs in January 2012.
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And, a month later, made their Brits debut. Later in their career, Little Mix would eventually go on to deliver a string of iconic Brits performances and – almost a decade after forming – became the first girl band in history to scoop Best British Group.
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With superstardom within reach, the band made a string of public appearances in early 2012 in the lead-up to their debut album’s release.
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There is a lot going on here…
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On the band’s first birthday, they performed their debut single Wings at G-A-Y, and Jade was over the moon that the group got some balloons.
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And a year after that first performance in Greece, they topped the charts with their debut single Wings (like the band themselves, we’re just pretending that Cannonball doesn’t exist).
Dave J Hogan via Getty ImagesNick Grimshaw hosting the Radio 1 Breakfast Show in 2013
“It’s quite weird when you’re looking through loads of stuff, I’ve never really stopped before and looked back to take stock of what I’ve done on Radio 1,” says a nostalgic Nick Grimshaw as we reflect on his incredible 14 years with the station.
Having joined the BBC in 2007 as Annie Mac’s sidekick on her Sunday night teen show Switch, Grimmy – as he’s affectionately known – has risen through the ranks to become one of Radio 1’s biggest stars.
He’s fronted the Weekend Breakfast Show (“I was 24 and I was going out a lot. Trying to get me to stay in on a Friday and Saturday night in 2008 was…. [laughs]”) and followed in the footsteps of the legendary John Peel as the host of Radio 1′s late-night new music show. Then in 2012, Grimmy landed the biggest break of his career when he was handed the keys to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show after its longest-serving presenter Chris Moyles stepped down.
“People really, really loved Chris, so it was very daunting to take over from him because he is a huge personality and so loved by people,” he says of his Breakfast predecessor.
“He had that thing that was attractive to me about Radio 1 in that it felt lawless and anything could happen on that show, so it definitely felt daunting to take over, but it also felt right. I felt confident that I could make a fun, inclusive, lawless show. I really like Radio 1 when it’s a bit live and loose and guests come in who are hungover.”
An “open-door” policy – as Grimmy describes it, adopted from his late-night show – meant that a day would rarely go by without one of his celebrity pals popping up to regale listeners with tales of their antics – Rita Ora was practically a regular (“I just love her… She’s one of those people who you meet at Radio 1 and you’re just like ‘you had to be a pop star, because I don’t think you’d survive if you weren’t a pop star’”), while Harry Styles once drunkenly co-hosted the show after he and Nick pulled an all-nighter at the Brits.
“I always just liked hearing the real lives of the DJs on Radio 1 when I was listening,” he says, explaining how his pals became so synonymous with his show. “I always liked how Sara Cox would talk about her night out or Chris Evans would talk about going down the pub – I liked that openness as a listener.”
After moving to the drivetime slot in 2018, the Oldham-born presenter is now hanging up his headphones for the last time on Thursday, as he says goodbye to the station he dreamed of being a presenter on “since he was a kid”.
Here, Grimmy reflects on the gossip, gaffes and guests from 14 years behind the mic…
The morning I got the Breakfast Show, I thought I was about to be fired
“I remember going in to meet my boss that morning and thought maybe he was going to change the nighttime show or fire me, I just didn’t think it was good news.
“When I got there, he said he wanted me to take over the Breakfast Show and it was a really surreal moment. It was a dream of mine as a kid, and for it to actually happen still feels surreal because it’s all I ever wanted to do.”
I always thought if you were up past 12 on Brits night, you might as well just stay out
“Everyone who works at Radio 1 is so passionate about it, the music and the Brit Awards, so to be able to go to that is so exciting. The adrenaline is through the roof and everyone is geeing each other up. We’d really go out, out.
“The first one was 2013 and we went out as a Breakfast Show team. You’ve got to get up at 5 but I always think it’s worse to go to bed. So we made the executive decision to just stay up. At about 2am, my producers decided to head into the office and have some sleep. I was like, ‘Really?! OK!’.
“I turned up after having a house party back at mine – there was me, Jaime Winston, Harry Styles and a cardboard cutout of Robbie Williams on air at 6.30am with a giant bottle of vodka that said ‘Grimmy’ in diamanté and no producers. We went on air and did the Breakfast Show and by the time the producers woke up, we’d been on air an hour.
“One poor guy, it was one of his first days as an assistant and he had to try and produce the Breakfast Show with all these drunk people chatting shit. The most stressful day ever for him.”
Eamonn McCormack via Getty ImagesGrimmy took over the Breakfast Show in 2012
The guest who exceeded my expectations? Kim Kardashian.
“I didn’t really used to get the fascination. Yeah she’s pretty, but I never really got why she was the most famous person in the world. And then when I met her, she was so charming, so nice to everybody – and not fake nice – I just really liked her and really got her. Everyone in the studio loved her.
“I saw her in Ibiza a year later, and I never go over to a guest and am like, ‘Hi, I’ve interviewed you,’ but I saw her and she was like, ‘Hey, how are you? How’s the radio? I had so much fun that day!’
“She’d just got married and was gossing about the wedding. She was just dead normal and warm and a great story teller – really open and chatty.”
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Rita Ora is the dream guest because she just chats and chats
“I only met her through radio. We just sort of really clicked when we started doing a lot of radio and telly together around the same time as me starting Breakfast.
“She’s so funny, scatty and charming and very sweet, and she’s like what she is on the radio off air.
“We used to do the Radio 1 Teen Awards together for a few years and we always used to want to go out on the Sunday night afterwards. But the problem was we’d have probably woken up at 6am that day to get there, so we’d always go out then we’d have a sleepover at mine because I lived right by Radio 1. Then we’d go in on a Monday morning.
“I sit back now and I can’t imagine what that sounded like, me and her chatting absolute shit in the morning.”
Jo Hale via Getty ImagesNick with Rita Ora at the 2017 Teen Awards
My biggest gaffe saw me land a world exclusive and then press play on the wrong song
“I don’t remember doing this but someone tweeted me the other day, but I introduced the new James Bond song by Sam Smith and gave it a really big, amazing intro – it was a first play – but then I played the wrong song: Peanut Butter Jelly by Galantis. Everyone was like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ Not great.”
One thing listeners might not know about Radio 1 is that it has the strictest canteen
“You think it would be really fun and LOL, but actually the strictest canteen I’ve ever been in. I always get food during Newsbeat, and they’re always like, ‘Sorry, we’re not serving chips for another minute,’ and I’m like, ‘Could I have them now because the news is going to end?’ And then they are like, ‘Sorry, we don’t serve chips til 6’. It’s 5.58!
“It was a nightmare for Annie Mac every night, but it will be Clara’s problem now!”
Co-hosting with Annie is my favourite Radio 1 memory
“First our Sunday nights together and then getting to chat every single night on Drive.
“Annie told me a little while ago that she was thinking about [leaving]. She’s such a good planner and she knows where she’s going and what she wants. She told me in her garden and then I told her [I was leaving] a few weeks before I made my announcement.
“Annie is so safe and one of my best friends in the world and when I called her and told her, she is very measured and was like, ‘OK babe, let’s figure out how you want to do it and what you want to say’ – she’s exactly who you want to speak to for advice.”
Jo Hale via Getty ImagesNick and Annie back in 2008
Unlike her, I haven’t planned my last link yet
“I’m not very good at planning things like that. I work best under last minute pressure, it’s the only way I can do things. So I’ll think about it the night before.
“It is a big deal, but I’m not dying. I want to say something poignant, but it is a funny one because people send you really nice messages and comments and it is a bit like you have died, you know what I mean?”
I definitely want to have a little break from radio
“I really love it but I didn’t want to leave and start another radio job straight away. I wanted some separation from it and some time to take stock of it. I’ve done a daily show for 12 years, and every day I wake up thinking, ‘What the fuck are we going to talk about today for four hours?’ So I just don’t want to do that for a little bit. I don’t want to stop doing the radio, I’d love to do it again in six months or a year.
“I want to try and commit to some things I’ve not had the time to commit to before and start building my interiors business and do some TV I’ve not been able to do.”
Ollie Millington via Getty ImagesOn stage at a Radio 1’s Big Weekend
There’s some great new Radio 1 talent I’m going to be following
I really love a new DJ called Sarah Story who is going to be on Friday nights. I heard her doing some cover and she was really lovely and funny and warm and northern, and has amazing taste in music. Then I met her at Annie’s leaving party and really clicked with her.
“I also really love Sian Eleri, who does The Chillest Show. It’s so good and she’s amazing. Both Sian and Sarah are really special.”
I’m not going to have to leave the What’sApp group. Am I?!
“Annie I speak to constantly and more off the radio than on the radio. Then we have a What’sApp group of me, Greg [James], Clara [Amfo], Scott [Mills] and Chris [Stark]. Everyone really does get on. I’m not going to have to leave the What’sApp group. Am I?!
“No, I don’t think so…”
Nick Grimshaw’s last Radio 1 show airs on Thursday from 2pm.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Piers Morgan has revealed he thinks he caught coronavirus while watching England play in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley.
The journalist and television presenter told the Mail on Sunday he contracted Covid despite being double vaccinated.
In a post on Twitter, he said it has been “a long ten days”.
He added: “Yes, it’s certainly been one of the more interesting (and unnerving…) experiences of my life, but it gave my a new perspective on covid, vaccines & where we are.”
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Writing in his column for the newspaper, Morgan said he thinks he caught the virus during England’s Euro 2020 final defeat to Italy.
“My confidence that the event would be ‘covid safe’ had disintegrated,” he said.
“It was turning into an unregulated free-for-all.”
Yes, it’s certainly been one of the more interesting (and unnerving…) experiences of my life, but it gave my a new perspective on covid, vaccines & where we are. https://t.co/UTavITTxRO
According to the newspaper, he began to feel unwell two days after the match and subsequently tested positive for the virus.
“As I’m sure everyone who gets it feels, it’s a strange, disquieting moment to know I have this killer virus inside me,” he said.
The former Good Morning Britain presenter added that coronavirus is “definitely the roughest I’ve felt from any illness in my adult life”.
“I’m still here – unlike so many millions around the world who’ve lost their lives to Covid in this pandemic,” Morgan said.
“For that, I owe a heartfelt debt of thanks to the brilliant scientists up in Oxford who created the Astra-Zeneca vaccine with such astonishing speed.”
Cardi B has hit back at accusations of “queerbaiting” in her latest music video.
The term is often used to describe straight performers who hint at non-heterosexual encounters, without actually depicting them, to attract LGBT fans.
A Rolling Stone article on the subject included a reference to Cardi B’s Wild Side video with singer Normani, noting a social media user had accused them of queerbaiting.
The video features the pair naked and dancing together.
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The rapper, who is expecting her second child with husband Offset, said the term could pressure artists into divulging details about their private lives.
“I don’t like this new ‘queer baiting’ word,” she tweeted. “I feel like it pressure artist to talk about their sexuality or their experiences that they don’t feel comfortable speaking about.
“If a artist kiss a girl on a video does that means she gotta show videos & text wit wit other women?”
I don’t like this new “queer baiting” word.I feel like it pressure artist to talk about their sexuality or their experiences that they don’t feel comfortable speaking about.If a artist kiss a girl on a video does that means she gotta show videos & text wit wit other women?
Addressing the Rolling Stone article, 28-year-old Cardi B said: “You do know we was trying to hide a whole baby bump right?”
She added: “Also I’m married to a man but I have express soo much about my bisexuality and my experiences wit girls. All of a sudden “queer baiting” is the new word & people use it to the ground!”
Uuummmm @RollingStone queer baiting? You do know we was trying to hide a whole baby bump right ?Also I’m married to a man but I have express soo much about my bisexuality and my experiences wit girls .All of a sudden “queer baiting” is the new word & people use it to the ground ! https://t.co/M3kn4NyJBs
