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Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara is in a legal battle with her former fiance, who wants to have children from the couple’s frozen embryos. Nick Loeb said he wants a surrogate to carry and give birth to two embryos he and Vergara created through in vitro fertilisation before they split up. He said the actress, who plays Gloria in the ...

R&B and soul singer Ben E King, best known for the classic song Stand By Me, has died at the age of 76. King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing hits including There Goes My Baby and Save The Last Dance For Me. After going solo, he hit the US top five with Stand By ...

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars have given The Gap Band a writing credit on their huge hit Uptown Funk, due to its similarities with their 1979 track Oops Up Side Your Head. Uptown Funk, which topped the UK chart for seven weeks and the US chart for 14, originally had six songwriters. The five writers of The Gap Band’s hit ...

WIRELESS Festival have announced a second music event to celebrate its 10th birthday – and Drake is headlining. After upsetting fans when he pulled out of last year’s festival because of illness, the Canadian rapper will be performing twice at the Finsbury Park music event. To mark the 10th birthday milestone, Wireless is putting on a four day celebration over ...

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Lionel Messi following the announcement that his partner is pregnant. The FC Barcelona star, who is already a dad to two year-old Thiago, used social media to spread the good news that Antonella Roccuzzo is expecting their second child. Posting an adorable black and white picture of Thiago planting a kiss on Antonella’s stomach, on ...

Comedian Sandi Toksvig has revealed that she quit BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz to set up a new political party named the Women’s Equality Party. Toksvig announced earlier this week that she was leaving the topical comedy show after nine years. “I have made jokes over and over again about politics and, do you know, this election I’ve had enough,” ...

CHRIS Eubank has  married for the second time in a rather last-minute ceremony. The boxing legend made his manager Claire Geary his wife while on holiday in Las Vegas a whole six months ago, he confirmed in an interview on Wednesday afternoon. Chris and Claire chose to defy tradition by having their honeymoon before they were announced man and wife, ...

Sultry actress, Oge Okoye is truly a movie star that can make a man forsake his lover just to be with her for at least a second. This is because her sexiness is what some men cannot resist. To say Oge Okoye oozes radiance and beauty is stating the obvious. No wonder some men cannot take their eyes off her ...

Three artists from the UK, Spain and Israel have been shortlisted for this year’s BP Portrait Award at London’s National Portrait Gallery, in a record-breaking year for entries. British artist and three time runner-up Michael Gaskell is listed for a photo-realist painting of his niece Eliza. He is up against Spanish painter Borja Buces Renard’s My Mother and My Brother ...

Legendary singer Bessie Smith, who captivated audiences during the 20s and 30s, is set the get the royal treatment as Queen Latifah prepares the singer in HBO’s “Bessie.” Scheduled to debut on May 16, the biopic follows the story of Smith, once regarded as the best blues songstress of her time. In honor of the project, HBO has announced the launch of Bessie’s 81 Theater Tour, a private workshop ...