Kobe Bryant fans are honoring the late athlete by flocking to one of his favorite California restaurants. Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash on January 26, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, was a regular at El Camino Real in Orange County. “I wanted to have lunch here where Kobe used to have his meals,” customer […]

A single mum on Universal Credit claims she's financially worse off and in debt after getting a better job. Hollie Wilson recently quit her eight hours a week job at Tesco to take up a communication and community officer role. But she believes she would be better off back working at the supermarket, rather than trying to put her degree […]

Aquarius Films, the Sydney-based production company that has credits including 2019 TIFF pic Dirt Music and Garth Davis’ Oscar-nominated Lion, has appointed Rachel Okine as its new Managing Director. Okine was most recently STXinternational’s head of acquisitions between 2017 and 2019. She was previously Paris-based as Vice President of International Production and Acquisitions for Studiocanal and London-based with Film4. At […]

NATIONWIDE is to refund a share of £900,000 to customers after it failed to warn people about unarranged overdraft charges. The bank will issue refunds to 70,000 customers by the end of May 2020. Nationwide was found by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to have not properly warned customers that they would be charged for going into an unarranged […]

Mum Elaina Sanches, 48, reckons she’s saved £3,000 on redecorating her house by painting cheap charity shop furniture rather than buying new pieces. Elaina began experimenting with DIY projects and crafting six years ago after giving up her job as a carer when her son Luke, 12, was diagnosed with autism. Her biggest project has been turning her home into […]

To celebrate the release of her Netflix series "The Goop Lab," Gwyneth Paltrow is selling special-edition T-shirts that correspond with each episode.  The $55 T-shirts feature sayings like "It's only a vulva," "Psychonaut," "Can't drain me of this energy," and more.  The release of the T-shirts comes just a few weeks after Paltrow made headlines for selling a $75 candle […]

Sam Raimi, who helped launch the modern superhero movie with 2002’s “Spider-Man,” is in talks to direct “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” for Marvel Studios, Variety has learned. Raimi replaces original director Scott Derrickson, who Variety reported on Jan. 9 had officially departed the project due to creative differences. Derrickson will remain as an executive producer. Raimi, meanwhile, […]

DEAR DEIDRE: MY wife cheated on me and now I imagine that other man having sex with her every time we are about to have sex. It makes me lose my erection. It was almost two years ago. We were going through a bad patch and I had my suspicions she wasn’t being faithful. It’s all over between them and I […]

The Office bloopers normally end in uncontrollable laughter among the cast and crew, which makes it pretty impressive that a few have actually ended up in episodes. For example, a famous Season 2 Office cold open with Jim and Dwight was actually a total accident. But, as Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey revealed in their Feb. 5 Office Ladies podcast, […]

Variety has been given exclusive access to the first clip from Berlinale Special Gala film “Curveball,” which is inspired by the true story of how the work of the German secret service led to the Iraq War. “Curveball,” which will have its world premiere at the Berlinale, was directed by Johannes Naber, and written by Naber and Oliver Keidel. ARRI […]