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Millie Bobby Brown details ‘funeral’ dress at ‘Stranger Things’ premiere

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November 7, 2025
‘Scrubs,’ Starring Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026

Premiering Wednesday, Feb. 25, ABC is scrubbing back in for Sacred Heart Hospital with back-to-back episodes of comedy “Scrubs” starring Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke. JD and Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long…

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November 7, 2025
Jennifer Lawrence Collaborated with Three Contemporary Artists

Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is the subject of W magazine’s current art issue.

In 2006, the fashion-focused publication launched this collaborative series with fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti shooting contemporary…

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November 7, 2025
‘Christy’ review: Sydney Sweeney will convince her naysayers, not the movie

If you see “Christy,” you’ll remember Christy the person, not “Christy” the movie. This biopic of West Virginia’s other famous coal miner’s daughter Christy Martin, the first female boxer to make the cover of Sports Illustrated, is…

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November 7, 2025
The Tube presenter, the former ballerina and the banker: the BBC board’s members | BBC
Samir Shah, 73, chair

Term: 2024–2028

Fees: £160,000 pa

Background: Former CEO of Juniper, an independent television and radio production company. Previously head of current affairs and political programmes at the BBC. Shah has been deputy chair of the V&A, chair of the Runnymede Trust and One World Media. In 2021, he co-authored a government-commissioned report that concluded that the UK was not institutionally racist. Appointed as chair of the BBC by the previous Conservative government.
Sir Damon Buffini, 63, deputy chair

Term: 2022-2025

Fees: £38,000

Background: Worked for 27 years at the investment firm Permira. In 2020 Buffini was appointed as chair of the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund, and is currently the chair of the Royal National Theatre. Buffini, who grew up on a Leicester council estate, was a key adviser to Gordon Brown when the latter was prime minister.
Tim Davie, 58, BBC director general

Term: 2020-

Remuneration: £540,000 – £544,999

Background: The chief executive of BBC Studios, the BBC’s principal commercial subsidiary. Previously vice-president of marketing and franchise at PepsiCo Europe, former trustee of the Tate and the Royal Television Society, and former chair of Comic Relief. In the 1990s, Davie was deputy chair of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Association, and unsuccessfully stood as a local councillor for the Tories. In 2023 he suspended Gary Lineker, then the BBC’s highest-paid presenter, over a tweet about the government’s asylum policy.
Deborah Turness, 58, CEO BBC news and current affairs

Photograph: Ray Burniston/BBC

Term: 2022-2026

Annual remuneration: £430,000 – £434,999

Background: Turness began working for ITN in her early 20s, and became the first female editor of ITV News. In 2013, she joined NBC News, and later became CEO of ITN before joining the BBC in 2022.
Leigh Tavaziva, 52, chief operating officer

Term: 2023-2027

Remuneration: £465,000 – £469,999

Background: Previously the managing director of customer operations at British Gas and group director of strategy and transformation at Centrica. Earlier, she was a classical ballerina and contemporary dance artist.
Caroline Thomson, 71, senior independent director

Term: 2025-2029

Fees: £33,000 pa

Background: Thomson was the BBC’s chief operating officer from 2007 until 2012. Previous roles also include chair of Oxfam, chair of Digital UK and executive director at the English National Ballet. She is the daughter of a Labour peer and is married to a Labour peer.
Sir Robbie Gibb, 61, member for England

Photograph: James Veysey/Shutterstock

Term: 2021-2028

Fees: £43,000 pa

Background: Former head of BBC Westminster and editor of live political programmes. Gibb was Tory prime minister Theresa May’s director of communications from 2017 until 2019. He was also previously an editorial advisor to GB News. Gibb has criticised perceived anti-Brexit and anti-Tory bias in the corporation’s output.
Muriel Gray, 67, member for Scotland

Term: 2022-2030

Fees: £38,000

Background: Gray presented Channel 4’s groundbreaking music programme The Tube in the early 1980s, and has been a broadcaster and author. She is a former chair of the board of governors at the Glasgow School of Art and a former trustee of the British Museum. Gray previously criticised Conservative party policies as “repugnant” on social media, and said she had “never been able to vote Tory”.
Michael Plaut, 64, member for Wales

Term: 2024-2028

Fees: £38,000

Background: Started his career as an investment banker. Former chair of CBI Wales. Currently chair of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and a governor of the University of South Wales.
Michael Smyth, 68, member for Northern Ireland

Term: 2023-2027

Fees: £38,000 pa

Background: A lawyer, and formerly a partner at international law firm Clifford Chance and head of the firm’s government and public policy practice. He authored a textbook on business and human rights. Previously chair of Protect, the whistleblowing charity, and Community Links, a pioneering east London charity.
Shumeet Banerji, 65, non-executive director

Term: 2022-2025

Fees: £33,000 pa

Background: Founder of Condorcet, LP, an advisory and investment firm and later CEO of Booz & Company, a management consulting firm.
Chris Jones, 69, non-executive director

Term: 2023-2027

Fees: £38,000 pa

Background: A chartered accountant, formerly senior audit partner at PwC. He has been a member of audit and risk committees at Legal & General, the Wellcome Trust and Santander UK.
Marinella Soldi, 59, non-executive director

Term: 2023-2026

Fees: £33,000 pa

Background: Soldi began her career at McKinsey & Company, and later trained as a leadership coach. She was CEO of Discovery Networks Southern Europe, non-executive chairwoman of the Vodafone Italia Foundation, and non-executive chairwoman of the board of directors of Rai – Italian PSM.