Category: 5. Entertainment

It is a black hole, the director and writer Annemarie Jacir tells me of the year 1936. Our discussion has fallen back in time to the start of the first mass Palestinian revolt against British rule and Zionism. It’s the year from which her…

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“I’ll never forget the moment that David Letterman licked the body cream off my arm,” said Jessica Simpson from her home office in Calabasas, California.

It was 2004 and the pop star was promoting her first-ever personal care line, an…

Welcome once again, Insiders. More big TV and film news this week from the likes of Cannes market MIPCOM and the London Film Festival. Jesse Whittock here with the rundown. Off we go. Sign up to the newsletter here.

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NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — “It’s ‘Tycoon’ season,’” a beaming Ty Dolla $ign, declares.

It is indeed. The inventive R&B singer has just released his fifth studio album, his first full-length solo release in five years. He chose…

The BBC has confirmed it will go ahead with broadcasting the latest series of Celebrity MasterChef, featuring sacked co-presenter John Torode.

Torode was sacked in the summer after an allegation against him using “an extremely offensive racist…

When the presenter Jesse Burgess goes to a restaurant, the kitchen always sends him dishes he didn’t order. One of the ironies of fame is that the more you can afford, the less you have to pay for it. Except that Burgess isn’t a celebrity, he…

Exhibition of the week

The Singh Twins and Flora Indica
A look at the colonial history behind British botany, plus a survey of Indian botanical art in the age of the East India Company.
Kew Gardens, London, until 12 April

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Miniature…