Gigi Hadid hints marriage to Zayn Malik
Model Gigi Hadid has sparked speculations that she may have got engaged after being spotted with a band on her ring finger.
She reportedly turned down singer Zayn Malik's marriage proposal before Christmas over fears he was moving "too fast". But Hadid has sparked fresh speculation that she is set to wed Malik. She was seen out and about in New York on Monday wearing the ring, reports dailymail.co.uk
Hadid rushed into a building dressed casually but the band was clear to see, and left everyone wondering why she had chosen that finger to wear the ring.
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Kim Kardashian films cameo for Ocean’s Eight
Four months after being robbed at gunpoint in Paris, Kim Kardashian is filming a cameo for the upcoming female heist caper Ocean's Eight.
Kardashian, dressed in a white sheer ballgown and fur jacket, and her half sister Kendall Jenner, wearing white lace, were photographed in New York on Monday, after apparently shooting scenes at a fictitious Metropolitan Museum of Art gala for the movie.
A Hollywood source said the sisters are making cameos for the film, whose A-list stars include Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway.
Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour and fashion designer Zac Posen have also been spotted near the set of the movie, whose plot reportedly includes a jewel robbery at New York's annual Met Gala, a celebrity-packed fundraiser.
In October, Kardashian was tied up and robbed of some $10 million of jewellery in Paris while attending fashion week. The robbery caused her to retreat from public life and social media but in the past couple of weeks, the TV reality star has travelled to Dubai, begun making appearances again and returned to her popular Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Ocean's Eight is a female-driven spinoff of the Ocean's Eleven crime caper trilogy starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the early 2000's. It is expected to arrive in movie theatres in June 2018.
* Reuters
Jerry Seinfeld’s new ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ to drop on Netflix this year
Jerry Seinfeld is taking Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on the road to Netflix, Variety reports.
The talk series, which had previously debuted new episodes on Sony’s streaming service Crackle, will bring 24 new episodes exclusively to Netflix starting in late 2017, with subsequent instalments coming in 2018. The move is part of a multi-faceted production deal Seinfeld has inked with Netflix that will also include two new stand-up specials filmed exclusively for the streaming service.
News of the deal comes mere days after the announcement that Sony Entertainment chief Michael Lynton was leaving the company. Seinfeld's relationship with Sony extends back to the days of his first TV success with Seinfeld, produced by Sony Pictures Television.
But now Netflix has exclusive global distribution rights to Seinfeld’s series. In addition to the new episodes, Netflix will also get the 59 older ones that already had their first runs on Crackle.
* The National Staff
Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor launches autobiography
Rishi Kapoor has launched his autobiography, titled Khullam Khulla - Rishi Kapoor Uncensored, with his wife Neetu Singh and daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni by his side at an event at the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi.
The launch was attended by co-stars and actors including Nafisa Ali, Rishi's son-in-law Bharat Sahni, comedian Papa CJ and Union Minister Babul Supriyo, who paid a tribute to the Bobby actor by singing his famous song Khullam Khulla Pyaar Karenge.
In his autobiography, the actor has revealed some of the unknown aspects of his life, right from his and his late father Raj Kapoor’s relationships with co-stars to his belief on father-son bonds, and his passion for acting. He said the most difficult part of writing the book was to remain honest and what parts of his life had to go into it.
Kapoor co-authored the book with Meena Iyer and took three years to complete it.
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Amitabh Bachchan praises Indian film industry for equal opportunities to women
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan praises the Indian film industry for beginning to give equal opportunity to women in the production of movies.
During the launch of the book Once Upon A Time In India - A Century Of Indian Cinema written by film critic and author Bhawana Somaaya, Bachchan took the opportunity to chart the progress the industry has made, noting that in the 70s there would just be a handful of women working on set.
He added that now 50 per cent of the workforce on a film set is female, which was a big change.
The book captures the history of 100 years of Indian cinema and has been published by Penguin Books India Pvt Limited.
The 232-page book is filled with history, illustrations, posters, and dialogues of various phases of Indian cinema.
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CNN’s documentary The End tracks end of Obama’s presidency
Less than 48 hours before President Barack Obama leaves office, CNN will air an intimate tribute told through the workdays and accounts of key White House staff members.
This two-hour documentary, The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House, will air this week.
Spanning the past two months, The End ends with Obama's farewell address last week in Chicago.
It begins on election day, as Hillary Clinton’s electoral-college defeat by Donald Trump is received at the White House with shock and grief.
Chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, one of the figures followed through the documentary, crafted the president’s magnanimous remarks. In his windowless office in the White House basement, he concedes those words are “obviously not the ones I wanted to be writing.”
* AP