ENTERTAINMENT

Channel 4 is to air a controversial documentary about Michael Jackson, despite receiving a letter of complaint from the late singer’s estate. Leaving Neverland focuses on two men who claim the pop superstar abused them when they were children. The family of the late singer have asked the broadcaster not to show it, saying the film-makers did not ask them ...

You could easily go and see Catherine Wreford perform in a show and not know anything was wrong. A professional dancer with a huge number of stage credits to her name, it’s perhaps only when you look at the show programme that you’d find out she has brain cancer. “I always put it in my bio because I want people ...

Chris Pratt says the church he attends is not “anti-LGBTQ” after Ellen Page said it was homophobic. Page, who is openly gay, replied to a tweet that said Pratt was going to discuss his “spiritual side” on a US talk show. She said “but his church is infamously anti-LGBTQ so maybe address that too?” Neither has named which church it ...

Jay-Z says the arrest of rapper 21 Savage is “an absolute travesty” and has hired a lawyer to help his fight against deportation. Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage, a British citizen, is being held by US officials due to an expired visa. His real name is Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph and he moved to America as a child. A statement on Jay-Z’s ...

The girlfriend of the late US rapper XXXTentacion, Jenesis Sanchez, has given birth to a boy – seven months after the artist’s death. “We’re happy to confirm that Baby and Mother are healthy,” a joint statement from Sanchez and the rapper’s mother, Cleopatra Bernard, said on Saturday. They said they were “thrilled” at the arrival of Gekyume Onfroy. The pregnancy ...

Music is deeply rooted in the Blom family tree. Pip, 22, and her brother Tender (as in the Blur track) last week heard the lead single from their band’s debut album played on both BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music. Their mum, Leonieke Daalder, acts as their auxiliary tour manager, booking hotels, while dad Erwin is on social media duties. ...

“I feel like modern culture is on a loop,” says Boy George, sitting in his publicist’s office, 33 storeys above London’s Euston Road. “Every time I come out to promote something I’m answering the same questions over and over. I’m fascinated by how little original thought there is in the world.” Gulp. No pressure then. Luckily, the 57-year-old is a ...

French Oscar-winning composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand has died in Paris aged 86, his spokesman has said. During a career spanning more than 50 years, Legrand wrote over 200 film and TV scores, as well as songs. In 1968, he won his first Oscar for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair film. Two ...

Ariana Grande’s icy new single 7 Rings has sold 126,000 copies to enter the charts at number one – setting a new streaming milestone in the process. The song, which riffs on The Sound of Music’s My Favourite Things, was played 16.9m times last week, a chart record. Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You was the previous ...

A film recreating events around the notorious murder of two-year-old James Bulger will be allowed to compete at the Oscars, the awards’ organisers say. James’ mother had called for Detainment to be withdrawn, after it was nominated in the best live action short category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it takes Denise Fergus’s concerns “very seriously” ...