Category: 5. Entertainment

Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips has confirmed his engagement with Harriet Sperling, after just a year of dating.

Zara Tindall’s brother has two daughters from his previous marriage.

According to the Hello magazine, the statement issued for the couple by Gerard Franklin reads, “Mr. Peter Phillips, the son of HRH The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips, and Ms. Harriet Sperling, daughter of the late Mr. Rupert Sanders and Mrs. Mary Sanders of Gloucestershire, have today confirmed their official engagement.”

King Charles nephew Peter is believed to have started dating Harriet in 2024 after first meeting at a sporting event.

The couple made their debut at the Badminton Horse Trials in May 2024, and they were seen walking hand-in-hand as they supported Zara Tindall.

At the time, a friend of Peter’s had said the royal has met someone “recently” and they are “spending time together”, but it’s too early to be anything more at this stage.

Previously, Peter was married to Autumn Kelly, and they share two daughters, Savannah and Isla.

They married in 2008, however, confirmed their separation in February 2020, with their divorce settled in June 2021. 

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Kate Middleton and Prince William have reportedly left King Charles concerned with their latest decision to move to Fort Belvedere.

Prince William and Kate have reportedly made final decision to leave Adelaide Cottage, where they moved three years back.

The future king and queen, for three years, have brought their children up at Adelaide Cottage, a peaceful refuge in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

Now, as per reports they have set their sights on Fort Belvedere, a sprawling Gothic Revival estate tucked away in Windsor Great Park.

Fort Belvedere was once home to King Edward VIII and served as the backdrop to his abdication in 1936 to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson.

However, the monarch is said to be not supportive of Kate and William’s idea due to the enormous cost of renovations the move would involve.

The GB News quoted royal expert Rob Shuter as claiming that the insider tells him “It’ll take millions to renovate.”

Rob Shuter, writing on his Substack page #ShuterScoop claims “Charles sees it as an unnecessary extravagance.”

The royal source claims, “They’ve outgrown Adelaide Cottage. Fort Belvedere has it all — history, land, and proximity to Eton.”

The insider went on saying the monarch is “fuming” over the cost.

Liam Neeson may have gained pop-culture immortality for his gravelly growl of a certain line of dialogue in the 2008 hostage thriller Taken – “I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills” – but the release of his new film, a reboot of the classic spoof cop movie The Naked Gun represents another remarkable turn in Neeson’s distinguished career, which has taken in heavyweight prestige dramas, historical biopics, blockbusting science fiction, superhero epics and head-cracking action cinema.

In The Naked Gun, Neeson has for the first time taken the lead role in an out-and-out comedy. He plays Frank Drebin Jr, the police-detective son of Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin in the original. Created by the celebrated comedy team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, The Naked Gun was released in 1988, with Nielsen featuring in two sequels, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear from 1991 and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult in 1994, as well as the preceding TV series Police Squad!, which aired in 1982. Neeson’s intense, unflappable acting style has been acclaimed by critics as a perfect match for Nielsen’s celebrated stone-face delivery; the Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw said that Neeson “deadpans it impeccably”, while the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin writes that Neeson “delivers his dialogue with a gravelly matter-of-factness that only compounds its lunacy”.

At the age of 73, Neeson’s current status as the star of a hit mainstream comedy – augmented by rumours of a romance with his co-star Pamela Anderson – is a world away from his emergence as a bona fide leading man in the early 1990s, when he put his teenage proficiency in boxing to good use in the Scotland-set drama The Big Man, bagged an Oscar nomination for playing Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List, and nobly donned plaid, kilt and sporran as 18th century highlander Rob Roy.

Neeson’s ability to project a weighty sense of gravitas in these wildly differing roles was compounded by his casting as Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins, in Neil Jordan’s 1996 biopic, the most politically sensitive – and closest to home – of his early leading roles. Born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Neeson was raised Catholic but later said he was, ironically, inspired to become an actor after watching the firebrand Protestant leader Rev Ian Paisley preach, saying: “It was incredible to watch this 6ft-plus man just bible-thumping away.”

Neeson’s career took its first unexpected deviation in the late 1990s when he was cast as Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, George Lucas’s return to the Star Wars universe in 1999, with Lucas describing Neeson as “a master actor, who the other actors will look up to”. This excursion into fantasy-blockbuster moviemaking was cemented with a role as principal antagonist Ra’s al Ghul in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins in 2005, and lending his voice to Aslan the lion in the three Narnia films from the same period: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Neeson’s standing in the industry also allowed him to take smaller roles in landmark films in the same period, including Gangs of New York and Love Actually.

He had, however, lost his leading-man status in Hollywood, and it was the success of Taken – a French production, written by Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel – that returned him to the spotlight. Neeson later said he was “stunned” by its impact, adding: “I really thought it would be kind of a little side road from my so-called career. Really thought it would go straight to video.” Taken’s box office receipts amounted to nine times its $25m (£19m) budget and virtually inaugurated the “dad action” movie, thrillers featuring leads in late middle age; it is also the film with which Neeson is arguably now most identified with. Neeson went on to make a string of dad action films, including Unknown, Non-Stop, The Ice Road and Retribution.

Neeson’s reinvention as an action star coincided with a period of personal tragedy, after the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson, in a skiing accident in 2009. The pair had met in 1993 while co-starring in a Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s play Anna Christie, and married a year later. Neeson later said that grief over her death was partly responsible for his withdrawing from the lead role in Steven Spielberg’s biopic of Abraham Lincoln, released in 2012, in which he was replaced by Daniel Day-Lewis.

More recently Neeson was heavily criticised, and subsequently apologised, for saying that, in his youth, he had gone out looking to “kill” a random black man in revenge for a sexual assault on a friend. Neeson had mentioned the incident in 2019 during the press tour for another action film, Cold Pursuit, later saying: “The horror of what happened to my friend ignited irrational thoughts that do not represent the person I am. In trying to explain those feelings today, I missed the point and hurt many people.”

Neeson’s career, however, appears to have been relatively unaffected by the controversy, as well as his comment in 2018 that the recent wave of sexual misconduct allegations in the entertainment industry was “bit of a witch-hunt”. With The Naked Gun commanding significant media attention – as much for speculation on Neeson’s personal life as for the film itself – the actor’s stock is as high as it has ever been.

On July 24, 2025, the American pro wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, died at the age of 71. Hogan had chronic lymphocytic leukemia and a history of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a condition in which the upper chambers of the heart, or atria, beat irregularly and often rapidly. His cause of death has been confirmed as acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack.

Hogan became a household name in the 1980s and has long been known for maintaining fitness and a highly active lifestyle, despite having had 25 surgeries in 10 years, including a neck surgery in May.

Hogan’s death has brought renewed attention to the importance of maintaining heart health through exercise. Many people think that bodybuilders are the “picture” of health. However, the truth is that too much muscle can increase strain on the heart and may actually be harmful. It may seem ironic, then, that people who exercise to extreme levels and appear healthy on the outside can, in fact, be quite unhealthy on the inside.

As the director of sports cardiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, I see patients of all age groups and at varying levels of fitness who are interested in promoting health by incorporating exercise into their lifestyle, or by optimizing their current exercise program.

Exercise is the foundation for good health

When people think of vital signs, they usually think about things such as heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, breathing rate and blood oxygen levels. However, the American Heart Association also includes “fitness” as an additional vital sign that should be considered when determining a patient’s overall health and risk of heart disease, cancer and death.

While fitness may be determined in various ways, the best way is by checking what is known as peak oxygen uptake, or VO2 max, through a specialized evaluation called a cardiopulmonary exercise test. These can be performed at many doctors’ offices and clinics, and they provide a wealth of information related to overall health, as well as heart, lung and skeletal muscle function.

Exercise is one of the most effective interventions to prolong life and reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases throughout life – in effect, prolonging lifespan and improving health span, meaning the number of years that people spend in good health.

In fact, a large study done by the Cleveland Clinic found that a low level of fitness poses a greater risk of death over time than other traditional risk factors that people commonly think of, such as smoking, diabetes, coronary artery disease and severe kidney disease.

When it comes to brain health, the American Stroke Association emphasizes the importance of routine exercise and avoiding sedentary behavior in their 2024 guidelines on primary prevention of stroke. The risk of stroke increases with the amount of sedentary time spent throughout the day and also with the amount of time spent watching television, particularly four hours or more per day.

Regarding cognitive decline, the Alzheimer’s Society states that regular exercise reduces the risk of dementia by almost 20%. Furthermore, the risk of Alzheimer’s disease is twice as high among individuals who exercise the least, when compared to individuals who exercise the most.

There is also strong evidence that regular exercise reduces the risk of certain types of cancer, especially, colon, breast and endometrial cancer. This reduction in cancer risk is achieved through several mechanisms.

For one, obesity is a risk factor for up to 13 forms of cancer, and excess body weight is responsible for about 7% of all cancer deaths. Regular exercise helps to maintain a healthy weight.

Second, exercise helps to keep certain hormones – such as insulin and sex hormones – within a normal range. When these hormone levels get too high, they may increase cancer cell growth. Exercise also helps to boost the immune system by improving the body’s ability to fight off pathogens and cancer cells. This in turn helps prevent cancer cell growth and also reduces chronic inflammation, which left unchecked damages tissue and increases cancer risk.

Finally, exercise improves the quality of life for all people, regardless of their health or their age. In 2023, Hulk Hogan famously quipped, “I’m 69 years old, but I feel like I’m 39.”

The optimal dose of exercise

Major health organizations, such as the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and Department of Health and Human Services, all share similar recommendations when it comes to the amount of exercise people should aim for.

These organizations all recommend doing at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise, or at least 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity exercise. Moderate exercises include activities such as walking briskly (2.5 to 4 miles per hour), playing doubles tennis or raking the yard. Vigorous exercise includes activities such as jogging, running or shoveling snow.

A good rule of thumb for figuring out how hard a specific exercise is is to apply the “talk test”: During moderate-intensity exercise, you can talk, but not sing, during the activity. During vigorous intensity exercise, you can say only a few words before having to stop and take a breath.

There is a lot of solid data to support these recommendations. For example, in a very large analysis of about 48,000 people followed for 30 years, the risk of death from any cause was about 20% lower among those who followed the physical activity guidelines for Americans.

Life can be busy, and some people may find it challenging to squeeze in at least 150 minutes of exercise throughout the course of the week. However, “weekend warriors” – people who cram all their exercise into one to two days over the weekend – still receive the benefits of exercise. So, a busy lifestyle during the week should not prevent people from doing their best to meet the guidelines.

What about the number of steps per day? In a new analysis in The Lancet, when compared with walking only 2,000 steps per day, people who walked 7,000 steps per day had a 47% lower risk of death from any cause, a 25% lower risk of developing heart disease, about a 50% lower risk of death from heart disease, a 38% lower risk of developing dementia, a 37% lower risk of dying from cancer, a 22% lower risk of depression and a 28% lower risk of falls.

Historically, people have aimed for 10,000 steps per day, but this new data indicates that there are tremendous benefits gained simply from walking 7,000 steps daily.

It’s never too late to start

One question that many patients ask me – and other doctors – is: “Is it ever too late to start exercising?” There is great data to suggest that people can reap the benefits even if they don’t begin an exercise program into their 50s.

Being sedentary while aging will cause the heart and blood vessels to stiffen. When that happens, blood pressure can go up and people may be at risk of other things such as heart attacks, strokes or heart failure.

However, in a study of previously sedentary adults with an average age of 53, two years of regular exercise reversed the age-related stiffening of the heart that otherwise occurs in the absence of routine exercise.

And it is important to remember that you do not have to look like a body builder or fitness guru in order to reap the benefits of exercise.

Almost three-quarters of the total benefit to heart, brain and metabolic health that can be gained from exercise will be achieved just by following the guidelines.

When it comes to glamorous fans, Emilio Pucci was the envy of other fashion designers. During the 1950s and 60s, the “prince of prints” – as the designer became known – dressed Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy and Sophia Loren. Marilyn Monroe was even buried in the brand. And now, more than 30 years after his death, Pucci’s trademark vibrant swirly prints are enjoying another fashion moment.

The return of Pucci has been bubbling up through content creators on TikTok, and the brand has the endorsement of Gen Z favourite Hailey Bieber. But it was confirmed this week when Lyst, the fashion data experts, revealed that searches for the brand had increased 96% in the second quarter of the year. Two of the classic prints – the pink Marmo from 1968 and the Orchidee from 1966 – were particularly popular, on minidresses and handkerchief tops.

While not everyone can afford the prices of new Pucci – a Orchidee minidress is £645 – Depop also report a rise in secondhand: searches are up 381% since January on the resale app. And there are Pucci-like prints on fast fashion sites such as Shein and Asos for as little as £14.51.

Pucci’s popularity is about more than irresistible bright prints. It signposts a change in mood. Katy Lubin, the vice-president of brand and communications at Lyst, says: “It’s been years of this quite serious, quite luxury, minimal, intellectual fashion, or just quite plain and neutral-y fashion. It’s exciting to see something that feels colourful and fun and fresh – especially during summertime.”

The season is another factor. On social media, videos showing Pucci often feature the hashtag #puccigirl or #puccisummer – one Vogue writer reported in April: “The Pucci woman is taking over my summer moodboard”. The trend is an offshoot of a wider aesthetic called “Euro summer”, which highlights the props that represent a starter pack of summer on the continent – from tomatoes and pasta, to white walls and blue sea. It seems Italian brands with print and colour are part of this, too. Lubin says there is also renewed interest in Missoni, Versace and Roberto Cavalli, but describes Pucci as “the hero brand”.

This status is down to Pucci’s history – and its association with jet-set holidays. The label was founded by Pucci, a marchese who grew up in a palace in Florence. He launched his brand in the 1940s and opened a boutique in Capri in 1950. In the 50s and 60s, Taylor and others began wearing the designs on holiday. Now, says a Depop spokesperson, “the brand’s psychedelic prints [are] synonymous with Italian glamour and vintage style”.

Camille Miceli has been the creative director of Pucci since 2021, and she has doubled down on this heritage. Speaking not long after her appointment, she said: “Pucci isn’t a conceptual brand, it’s a lifestyle brand, so its message has to be direct.” This message has been clearly signposted by the staging of the brand’s shows – the most recent took place in Portofino, another upscale Italian holiday destination. It’s a move that helps the brand appeal both to the wealthy women that go to such locations, and those who aspire to do so.

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Pucci’s prints might not be a monogram but the fact they are so recognisable means they still work to show the wearer’s wealth. Depop’s spokesperson argues this points to the return of “a more maximalist style of dressing – [it’s] less brash than the logomania of the 2010s but still gives instant ‘if you know, you know’ cues to other fashion insiders”. Lubin, meanwhile, describes the prints as “the equivalent to the logo to be seen in this summer”.

As a brand so associated with the summer season, what are the chances that these prints will still be seen as autumn arrives? If minidresses and handkerchief tops might make an exit, Lubin says silk scarves will remain: “That could be one way we will see Pucci beyond the beach.”

Katie Holmes’s street style is hard to match. When spotted out on the streets of New York, you’ll often find her with a buzzy handbag (Manu Atelier being a go-to, and any others she’ll have a hand in selling out fast), covetable outerwear, a classic and statement shoe, or some playful accessory. (Beanies, for winter into spring). On the red carpet, she loves a freaky shoe and a chic dress from a favored brand like Khaite.

The actor has spent the last few weeks directing Happy Hours, her latest project, a new feature film trilogy she’s written and in which she also stars alongside former Dawson’s Creek co-star Joshua Jackson. Photos from set have shown Holmes both in costume and in some stellar director fits. One character look in particular, where she wore a pair of blue denim overalls and brown boots, even recalled the vibe of her Dawson’s Creek character Joey. Another, much more in keeping with Holmes’s own personal style, saw her don a relaxed pink blazer and wide leg denim jeans.

This week, Holmes was spotted arriving back to the set in a quintessentially ‘summer in the city for Katie Holmes’ look. The writer-actor-director wore an open, cropped pale blue shirt that sat off of one shoulder, a scoopneck white tank top, a graphic brown, cream and beige slip skirt with a breezy front slit by Isabel Marant, and a pop of red pair of velvet Mary Jane flats. It was a simple, summery look, with a dash of color to make it look considered and put together a la Holmes.

In recent times, she’s been photographed in looks that keep to her effortlessly cool, downtown style; toting the iconic Chloé Paddington bag to and from set, doing the director’s strut in western-coded ankle boots.

Is Katie Holmes in pride of place among the best dressed directors of all time? Her Happy Hours stint will confirm.

Just days after sending fans on a quest to find her new solo material via a passcode-required website, Paramore singer Hayley Williams has finally released her 17-song collection to streamers. But, as with the previous incarnation, there is a catch.

After asking fans to access the site via a purchase code from the singer’s Good Dye Young hair dye company over the weekend — and then just as mysteriously removing the songs two days later — Williams dropped the full, seemingly untitled project fans are referring to as Ego (or Ego Death) on Friday morning (Aug. 1). In keeping with the mystery around the project, though, each song has seemingly been uploaded as a stand-alone single and not bundled as a traditional album.

Each also has its own bespoke artwork consisting of moody black and white pictures of Williams with her face and body overlaid with gold squiggles, halos, highlights and planets tied to the song’s titles. Williams has not commented on the manner she’s released the songs, confirmed the title or given any indication of when or where they were recorded. Following Paramore wrapping up its contract with Atlantic Records, though, it is notable that the name of Williams’ new label is listed as “Post Atlantic.”

In an Instagram Story, Williams reposted a tweet from a fan’s theory about the manner and method of distribution in which they speculate, “okay wait what if the order of the album just like doesn’t matter bc on the desktop version of the website they were scattered and you could move them wherever and by releasing them as singles she is making it impossible to put in order which is presumably the goal.” The Story then zooms in on a comment on that comment that reads: “your brain is so big.”

On her Insta feed, Williams also uploaded all the artwork from the singles, along with the credits, which reveal that she worked on the songs with touring Paramore band members guitarist Brian Robert Jones and bassist Joey Howard, with production on all the songs by Daniel James, who also co-wrote all the tracks; Lorde collaborator Jim-E Stack is listed as a co-writer and co-producer on the haunting protest song “True Believer.”

Other tracks include “Discovery Channel,” which features an interpolation of the Bloodhound Gang’s signature 1999 comedy pop hit “The Bad Touch,” as well as the Liz Phair-like rocker “Mirtazapine,” an ode to the antidepressant Remeron. Williams recently debuted the latter on Nashville Public Radio’s WNXP a week after the Republican-led Congress voted to claw back more than $1 billion in funds for NPR and PBS.

The collection also includes the dreamy “Kill Me,” acoustic ballads “Blood Bros,” “I Won’t Quit On You” and “Negative Self Talk” and the poppy tunes “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party” and “Brotherly Hate.” With a spare, confessional feel the songs range from home studio-sounding confections with pitched up vocals (“Glum”), to the hip-hop-adjacent screamer “Ice In My OJ,” which features a drum machine beat and the whisper-to-scream chorus “I’m in a band!”

At press time Williams had not officially commented on the album’s release or whether she considers it the proper follow-up to either her 2020 debut solo album, Petals for Armor, or its more folky 2021 sequel, Flowers for Vases/ Descansos.

You can listen to the 17 new songs on the Spotify playlist below and check out all the single artwork and credits on Williams’ Instagram page.