ENTERTAINMENT

Hunger Games to become stage show

Best-selling trilogy and blockbuster film franchise The Hunger Games is set to be made into a stage show in summer 2016, it has been announced. The “innovative” stage adaptation will launch in a purpose-built theatre next to Wembley Stadium in London. It will be created by Robin de Levita, who was behind a Dutch stage show about World War Two ...

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David and Victoria Beckham ‘set for Posh Christmas dinner at Wetherspoons’

David and Victoria Beckham are thought to be worth £165m (not counting the generous cheque Romeo probably got for his starring role in Burberry’s Christmas campaign) and with plenty of cash comes a taste for the finer things in life. However, the British power couple may prove they’re as ordinary as the average family this festive season with their uncharacteristically-basic ...

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Bobby East,Ruth Mukanga fined over sex video

A Lusaka Magistrate Court has fined musician Robert Chunga popularly known as Bobby East and her co-accused Ruth Mukanga for producing an obscene video. The duo was on Monday convicted by Magistrate Mwaka Mikalile sex video in which they featured which went viral on social media. Magistrate Mikalile fined the two K8,500 each in default nine months imprisonment when they ...

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AC/DC murder plot charge dropped

The Australian drummer of hard rock group AC/DC, Phil Rudd, has had a charge of attempting to arrange a murder dropped in New Zealand. He will still face charges of drugs possession and making threats to kill. The U-turn by authorities, announced less than 24 hours after Mr Rudd appeared in court, was because of a lack of evidence, his ...

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Nicki Minaj knows how to work her angles. The “Anaconda” rapper puts her famous figure on display in V magazine (Issue 92). Photographed by the famed Mario Testino, Minaj pops her booty—all while wearing skintight, cut-out ensembles by Balmain, Donna Karan and Guess. But as the world well knows, it’s not only Minaj’s outfits that get people talking; It’s her ...

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Elton inspired by Gove Blackadder quote

Writer and comedian Ben Elton has said his most recent novel was partially inspired by Michael Gove. Former education secretary Mr Gove said Elton’s TV sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth, which he co-wrote with Richard Curtis “perpetuated left wing myths about World War 1”. Elton told Radio 4’s Front Row that Mr Gove’s comments were “clearly idiocy”, adding the show was ...

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Falconry book wins £20,000 prize

Author Helen Macdonald has won the £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for her book about how becoming a falconer helped her deal with grief. H is for Hawk – described as “a book unlike any other” by the chair of the judging panel – is the first memoir to win the award, now in its 16th year. In it ...

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Star Wars forest mystery solved

A thank you note apparently written by the new Star Wars film’s producers and sent to the cast and crew confirms that part of the movie was shot in Gloucestershire. The letter was written to mark the final day of shooting on Episode VII. It thanks the “extraordinary” cast and crew for working “from the deserts of Abu Dhabi, to ...

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