Israel defence minister say dem go destroy Gaza City if Hamas no agree to disarm and release all hostages.
Israel Katz comments dey come afta di Israeli cabinet approve plans for a massive assault on Gaza City, despite widespread international and domestic opposition.
On Monday, Hamas agree to a proposal by Qatari and Egyptian mediators for a 60-day ceasefire, wey according to Qatar go see di release of half of di remaining hostages in Gaza.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently reject dis, say e bin don give instruction for negotiations to begin for di release of all remaining hostages and an end to di war in Gaza on terms wey dey “acceptable to Israel”.
Israel believe say only 20 of di 50 hostages still dey alive afta 22 months of war.
Israeli media bin cite an Israeli official wey say dem go despatch negotiators for renewed talks once dem determine a location.
For one video statement during a visit to di Gaza division headquarters in Israel on Thursday night, Netanyahu say im bin don “instruct dem to immediately begin negotiations for di release of all our hostages”.
“I don come to approve di IDF [Israel Defense Forces] plans to take control of Gaza City and defeat Hamas,” e tok.
“Dis two matters – defeating Hamas and releasing all our hostages – dey go hand in hand,” Netanyahu add, without providing details about wetin di next stage of talks go entail.
Reinforcing Netanyahu message, Defence Minister Katz bin post on social media on Friday: “Soon, fi gates of hell go open upon di heads of Hamas murderers and rapists in Gaza – until dem agree to Israel conditions to end di war, primarily di release of all hostages and dia disarmament.
“If dem no agree, Gaza, di capital of Hamas, go become Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” e add.
Both cities dey reduced to ruins following Israeli military operations.
Gaza Hamas-run health ministry say dem reject “any step wey go affect wetin remain of di health system”.
Di UN say to intensify attacks and “relentless bombardment” for Gaza City dey cause a “high numbers of civilian casualties and large-scale destruction”. Dem and aid groups don vow to stay to help those wey no fit or choose not to move.
Netanyahu announce Israel intention to take control of di entire Gaza Strip afta indirect tok wit Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release deal break down last month.
Di Israeli military bin launch a campaign in Gaza in response to di Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, wia about 1,200 pipo bin dey killed and dem take 251 odas hostage.
At least dem don kill 62,192 pipo for Gaza since den, according to di territory health ministry. Di ministry figures dey quoted by di UN and odas as di most reliable source of statistics available on casualties.
Israel defence minister say dem go destroy Gaza City if Hamas no agree to disarm and release all hostages.
Israel Katz comments dey come afta di Israeli cabinet approve plans for a massive assault on Gaza City, despite widespread international and domestic opposition.
On Monday, Hamas agree to a proposal by Qatari and Egyptian mediators for a 60-day ceasefire, wey according to Qatar go see di release of half of di remaining hostages in Gaza.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently reject dis, say e bin don give instruction for negotiations to begin for di release of all remaining hostages and an end to di war in Gaza on terms wey dey “acceptable to Israel”.
Israel believe say only 20 of di 50 hostages still dey alive afta 22 months of war.
Israeli media bin cite an Israeli official wey say dem go despatch negotiators for renewed talks once dem determine a location.
For one video statement during a visit to di Gaza division headquarters in Israel on Thursday night, Netanyahu say im bin don “instruct dem to immediately begin negotiations for di release of all our hostages”.
“I don come to approve di IDF [Israel Defense Forces] plans to take control of Gaza City and defeat Hamas,” e tok.
“Dis two matters – defeating Hamas and releasing all our hostages – dey go hand in hand,” Netanyahu add, without providing details about wetin di next stage of talks go entail.
Reinforcing Netanyahu message, Defence Minister Katz bin post on social media on Friday: “Soon, fi gates of hell go open upon di heads of Hamas murderers and rapists in Gaza – until dem agree to Israel conditions to end di war, primarily di release of all hostages and dia disarmament.
“If dem no agree, Gaza, di capital of Hamas, go become Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” e add.
Both cities dey reduced to ruins following Israeli military operations.
Gaza Hamas-run health ministry say dem reject “any step wey go affect wetin remain of di health system”.
Di UN say to intensify attacks and “relentless bombardment” for Gaza City dey cause a “high numbers of civilian casualties and large-scale destruction”. Dem and aid groups don vow to stay to help those wey no fit or choose not to move.
Netanyahu announce Israel intention to take control of di entire Gaza Strip afta indirect tok wit Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release deal break down last month.
Di Israeli military bin launch a campaign in Gaza in response to di Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, wia about 1,200 pipo bin dey killed and dem take 251 odas hostage.
At least dem don kill 62,192 pipo for Gaza since den, according to di territory health ministry. Di ministry figures dey quoted by di UN and odas as di most reliable source of statistics available on casualties.
An unattributed missile is launched at the US, setting off a desperate effort inside the White House to determine who fired it and how to respond: not the latest news headline but the premise of Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller A House of Dynamite, which will premiere at the Venice film festival.
The film marks a return to the large-scale, geopolitically attuned storytelling that made Bigelow one of the most decorated directors of her generation.
Few film-makers have been so consistently engaged with the faultlines of American power as Bigelow. In 2008’s The Hurt Locker she charted the psychological intensity of a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Four years later, in Zero Dark Thirty, she dramatised the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden. Her latest film turns to a different, though no less urgent, anxiety: the prospect of nuclear catastrophe.
A still from A House of Dynamite. Photograph: Eros Hoagland/Netflix
“I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was considered the go-to protocol for surviving an atomic bomb,” Bigelow, 73, said before the premiere. “Today, the danger has only escalated. Multiple nations possess enough nuclear weapons to end civilisation within minutes. And yet, there’s a kind of collective numbness – a quiet normalisation of the unthinkable.”
Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, in 1951, the daughter of a factory manager and a librarian. By her own account she was a shy child, drawn to art as an outlet. She studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to New York, where she immersed herself in conceptual art and studied under Susan Sontag at Columbia. “Painting is a bit elitist,” she later said. “Film crosses culture and class.”
Her first feature, The Loveless (1981), co-directed with James Cameron and starring a young Willem Dafoe, gave little indication of the trajectory to come. (Bigelow and Cameron married in 1989, though the union lasted only two years.)
Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker, which won six Academy Awards. Photograph: First Light Production/Sportsphoto/Allstar
In the 1980s and 1990s she built a reputation directing cult thrillers that inverted genre conventions, including the vampire western Near Dark (1987), the cop drama Blue Steel (1990), and the surfer-heist thriller Point Break (1991), which starred Keanu Reeves and was later hailed as a cult classic in action cinema. Bigelow’s pivot toward historical, politically grounded narratives came with K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), a cold war drama about a group of men aboard the Soviet Union’s first nuclear-powered submarine, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
But her real breakthrough did not come until 2008 with The Hurt Locker, a film she partly self-financed and shot under punishing conditions in Jordan, where temperatures reached 54C. The story of three soldiers disarming roadside bombs, written by the journalist Mark Boal, won six Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. Bigelow became the first woman to win the directing prize, beating her ex-husband, who was nominated for Avatar.
Kathryn Bigelow speaking on stage at the 2022 Gotham awards in New York. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media Institute
Until Bigelow, only three women had been nominated for best director in nearly a century of Academy Awards. In the years since, just two others – Chloé Zhao and Jane Campion – have joined her. But Bigelow resisted the moment’s symbolism and has repeatedly rejected overt labels. In interviews, she paraphrased Gertrude Stein – “A filmmaker is a filmmaker is a filmmaker” – and said her aptitude was not to “break gender roles or gender traditions” but to “explore and push the medium”.
Still, critics have pointed to the undercurrents of masculinity and power in her films, which tend to centre on themes of violence. In 2010 Time Magazine paid tribute to her ability to capture “the intense, skewered madness of war and the distortion in men’s souls, “naming her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world”.
Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in 1991’s Point Break, which became a cult movie. Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar Collection/20 Century Fox/Allstar
Bigelow’s follow-up in 2012, Zero Dark Thirty, revisited the US’s “war on terror” with a procedural account of the CIA’s pursuit of Bin Laden, starring Jessica Chastain. The film was a critical and commercial success but provoked controversy for its depiction of “enhanced interrogation” techniques such as waterboarding. Anti-torture activists staged protests outside its premiere in Washington DC.
Bigelow defended the work, writing in the Los Angeles Times: “Depiction is not endorsement. It does seem illogical to me to make a case against torture by ignoring or denying the role it played in US counter-terrorism policy and practices.” The director also described herself as a “lifelong pacifist” and said such sentiments would be more appropriately directed at those who instituted and ordered US policies.
In the decade since Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow’s output has been sparse. She directed Detroit in 2017, a harrowing account of the 1967 Detroit uprisings, and produced the Netflix documentary Cartel Land in 2015, which won an Emmy.
Jessica Chastain with Alex Corbet Burcher in 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty. Photograph: Universal Pictures/Sportsphoto/Allstar
That long gap is partly what makes A House of Dynamite so highly anticipated. Produced by Netflix and starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts, Greta Lee and Jared Harris, it unfolds through the perspective of White House officials grappling with an imminent ballistic threat. It will premiere in competition in Venice before a limited theatrical release and a rollout on Netflix in October.
“I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox – to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, yet rarely speaks of it,” Bigelow said.
For a director who has long been drawn to life’s toughest adventures, including once climbing Kilimanjaro, it marks the resumption of a career defined by confronting some of the world’s most volatile flashpoints.
TikTok has put hundreds of UK content moderators’ jobs at risk, even as tighter rules come into effect to stop the spread of harmful material online.
The viral video app said several hundred jobs in its trust and safety team could be affected in the UK, as well as south and south-east Asia, as part of a global reorganisation.
Their work will be reallocated to other European offices and third-party providers, with some trust and safety jobs remaining in the UK, the company said.
It is part of a wider move at TikTok to rely on artificial intelligence for moderation. More than 85% of the content removed for violating its community guidelines is identified and taken down by automation, according to the platform.
The cuts come despite the recent introduction of new UK online safety rules, which require companies to introduce age checks on users attempting to view potentially harmful content. Companies can be fined up to £18m or 10% of global turnover for breaches, whichever is greater.
John Chadfield of the Communication Workers Union said replacing workers with AI in content moderation could put the safety of millions of TikTok users at risk.
“TikTok workers have long been sounding the alarm over the real-world costs of cutting human moderation teams in favour of hastily developed, immature AI alternatives,” he said.
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese tech group ByteDance, employs more than 2,500 staff in the UK.
Over the past year, TikTok has been cutting trust and safety staff across the world, often substituting workers with automated systems. In September, the company fired its entire team of 300 content moderators in the Netherlands. In October, it then announced it would replace about 500 content moderation employees in Malaysia as part of its shift towards AI.
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Meanwhile, business at TikTok is booming. Accounts filed to Companies House this week, which include its operations in the UK and Europe, showed revenues grew 38% to $6.3bn (£4.7bn) in 2024 compared with the year prior. Its operating loss narrowed from $1.4bn in 2023 to $485m.
A TikTok spokesperson said the company was “continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthen our global operating model for trust and safety, which includes concentrating our operations in fewer locations globally to ensure that we maximise effectiveness and speed as we evolve this critical function for the company with the benefit of technological advancements”.
Here are Friday’s biggest calls on Wall Street: Evercore ISI reiterates Nvidia as outperform Evercore raised its price target to $214 per share from $190 ahead of the AI chipmaker’s earnings next week. “We are buyers of NVDA in front of its Jul-25Q earnings call scheduled for 27-Aug after the market close. We raise our estimates and price target.” Wells Fargo initiates Dorman Products as overweight Wells Fargo said the auto parts aftermarket company is underappreciated and undervalued. “We see DORM as a high- quality/defensive operator, and believe its unique growth engine (innovation, etc.) offers a compelling way to play the attractive/non-discretionary automotive aftermarket.” Barclays upgrades Ulta Beauty to overweight from equal weight Barclays says it likes the manner in which the company’s new CEO is executing strategy. “We upgrade to Overweight from Equal Weight based on: 1) return to sustainable positive comps and margin expansion; 2) promotional improvement; 3) ULTA x Target exit optimizing retail distribution points.” Read more. Loop upgrades Esab to buy from hold Loop says buy the dip in the welding solutions company. “We are upgrading shares of ESAB to ‘Buy’ and raising our target price to $140 per share (+$10). We believe the recent retrenchment in the shares is overblown and presents an opportunity.” Barclays downgrades Gap to equal weight from overweight Barclays says it sees tariff pressures on the clothing retailer. “We are downgrading shares of GAP from Overweight to Equal Weight as we now believe that our previous blue-sky scenario for double-digit operating margins by FY26 is off the table – diminished by tariff margin pressure and macro uncertainty.” Stifel initiates Netgear at buy Stifel says the computer networking company is a turnaround stock. “We believe Netgear is entering its second wave of transformation, positioning the company to deliver sustainable revenue growth and enhanced profitability through disciplined portfolio management across its business units.” JPMorgan reiterates Microsoft as overweight JPM says it’s sticking with the Windows and Xbox parent. ” MSFT (Azure accelerates another 4 pts to 39% growth, non-AI Enterprise remains strong, demand > supply).” Jefferies upgrades Miniso to buy from hold Jefferies says the China global retailer is well positioned for growth. “For Miniso overseas, sales growth driver will come from 1) 500+ new store opening[s] with store opening in the U.S. more concentrated e.g. it recently opened 3 stores in Austin. 2) Focus on festival period and 4Q high season.” Bank of America reiterates Honeywell as buy Bank of America says the building control stock is undervalued. ” HON’s more defensive portfolio is well-suited to the current macro environment and the company is trading at a discounted valuation versus peers.” Piper Sandler reiterates Broadcom as overweight Piper raised its price target on the semiconductor stock to $315 per share from $300. “We are bullish on the prospects for AVGO going into the coming October quarter around both the core semiconductor business and the infrastructure software segments.” Evercore ISI reiterates Apple as outperform Evercore says it likes Apple’s price hikes on Apple TV+. “We think the Apple TV+ price increases could help modestly on services growth, but the real intent is to minimize churn. Services remain on track for double digit growth (provided Licensing relationship stays intact). Maintain OP and $250 price target.” Bank of America reiterates Walmart as buy Bank of America says nation’s largest retailer has a “strong near- and long-term outlook” following its latest earnings. “We reiterate Buy as WMT’ s strong value offering & digital convenience should continue driving share gains across incomes & product categories.” JPMorgan initiates EHang at overweight JPMorgan says the China eVTOL company is well positioned. “Initiate coverage on EHang, China’s leading eVTOL OEM, at OW with a Dec- 26 PT of US$26 (51% potential upside).” Read more. Barclays reiterates Netflix as equal weight The investment bank said it’s sticking with an equal weight rating on Netflix , arguing that video streaming is near a saturation point. “Despite significant headline global household [total addressable market], streaming unit growth is likely to slow across the industry and penetration opportunities may not be evenly distributed.” Wolfe upgrades Roblox to outperform from peer perform Wolfe says Roblox is “benefiting from platform flywheel effects – search & discovery improvements, faster content velocity, pricing optimizations.” “We are upgrading RBLX to Outperform rating with a $150 PT and raising our FY’26 Bookings and EBITDA ests. by 7% and 13%, respectively, driven by incremental contributions from Regional Pricing + Advertising opportunities.” Guggenheim downgrades Paramount Skydance to neutral from buy Guggenheim downgraded the media company, citing valuation. “We are lowering our rating on Paramount Skydance to NEUTRAL from BUY and removing our 12-month price target of $13 following a significant run in the stock.”
The Namibian Competition Commission (NaCC) has entered a new phase of regulatory assertiveness. Once regarded as a relatively restrained regulator, the NaCC is now actively making use of its powers under the Namibian Competition Act, 2003 (the Act). Its recent decisions show a sharper focus on interrogating the public interest impact of merger transactions and pursuing prohibited practices across multiple sectors.
A new era for merger control
Merger control has become the clearest expression of the NaCC’s shift in approach. Beyond analysing the impact of a merger on the market structure, the Commission has embraced (similar to the South African competition authorities) its powers under the Act to consider public interest as an important focal point for merger assessment. Some noteworthy decisions by the NaCC in the past few years where public interest conditions were imposed include:
RWCO / Schwenk Namibia (2023)1: Although the NaCC found no substantive competition harm, it imposed conditions designed to enhance local ownership. Notably, the merged entity was barred for one year from purchasing newly available shares in Ohorongo Cement, a subsidiary of Shwenk Namibia, allowing Namibian entities first right of acquisition.
Sinomine / Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb (2024)2: Approval was subject to sweeping conditions, including a three-year moratorium on retrenchments, a requirement for 92% of the workforce to be local citizens; a requirement that management must comprise of 70% local citizens and 30% foreigners; procurement preferences for Namibian-owned undertakings, and environmental undertakings. Sinomine’s subsequent voluntary separation programme – initiated without notifying the NaCC as required by the conditions – has triggered an investigation that could in terms of the Act lead to fines of up to 10% of global turnover and even revocation of approval.
Pepkor / Big Daddy Stores (2025)3: Conditions included Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) support, supplier-fairness obligations and a three-year moratorium on merger-specific retrenchments.
The NaCC has also shown that it is prepared to block deals outright. The prohibition of West China Cement’s proposed acquisition of Schwenk Namibia in July 20244 demonstrates the NaCC’s willingness to intervene where it sees excessive concentration, risks of coordination, or adverse public interest impacts on employment and local government participation.
Enforcement beyond mergers
The NaCC’s approach to increased enforcement is not limited to merger control. It is also prosecuting restrictive practices with greater frequency:
Rent-A-Drum5: In May 2025, Ren-A-Drum, inter alia, admitted to engaging in exclusionary conduct through entering into an exclusive distribution arrangement with Molok Oy in which Rent-A-Drum was given sole distribution rights of Molok related waste products in Namibia. Rent-A-Drum entered into a consent agreement with the NaCC which included a NAD250,000 penalty and costs, pending High Court confirmation.
PAN6: In July 2025, PAN admitted to contravening the Act by coordinating interchange fees with major banks. PAN entered into a consent agreement with the NaCC which included a penalty of NAD319,650.
Namib Mills and Namib Poultry Industries7: In February 2025, the NaCC announced its intention to launch an investigation against Namib Mills and Namib Poultry Industries for refusal to supply certain poultry products to SMEs.
Strategic takeaways for business
Businesses operating in Namibia should be alert to several clear trends:
Heightened scrutiny of mergers – particularly on public interest grounds such as employment, local ownership, and SME participation.
Real consequences for non-compliance – breaches of merger conditions can trigger investigations, fines, and possibly even revocation of approvals.
Closer examination of procurement arrangements, with a readiness to challenge restrictions that limit supplier or customer choice.
Increased willingness to act against dominant firms, especially where conduct impacts SMEs or consumer welfare.
Final word
The competition law environment in Namibia is changing rapidly. Merger transactions and notifications to the NaCC now demand careful forward-planning, particularly around employment, local ownership, and participation of local businesses. At the same time, businesses must be increasingly cognisant of how their everyday commercial arrangements with customers and suppliers may give rise to competition concerns.
This article was written jointly by DLA Piper and DLA Piper Africa, Namibia (Ellis Shilengudwa Incorporated). DLA Piper authors include Werner Rysbergen, Dharshini Naidoo and Zanele Mkatshwa, together with DLA Piper Africa, Namibia authors – Peter Johns and Dr Meyer van Den Berg.
Chondrosarcomas are a malignant form of bone cancer that is composed of cartilage-forming tumor cells. Sellar chondrosarcomas, which occur in the sellar region at the base of the skull, are a very rare manifestation of chondrosarcoma, making up only around 0.2% of all tumors found in the skull. Historically, transcranial (or through the skull) surgery is the main treatment option for these tumors – however, with the advancement of surgery techniques, more non-invasive options have become popular for treatment. More specifically, endonasal endoscopic surgery, wherein a thin tube called an endoscope is inserted into the nose to help visualize and remove tumors, is now being frequently adopted for the resection or surgical removal of sellar chondrosarcomas.
Now, in a study published online on 26 June 2025 in the Chinese Neurological Journal, a team led by Professor SongBai Gui from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, has evaluated the clinical outcomes of endoscopic resection in sellar chondrosarcomas. To accomplish this, they reviewed the cases of 4 patients with sellar chondrosarcomas who underwent tumor resection through an endonasal endoscopic approach (EEA). In addition, they reviewed 8 cases of sellar chondrosarcomas that were previously reported in other studies.
The information from the literature review was then integrated with the case series to discuss the symptoms and distinguishing features of these tumors. This study is particularly important as there is still a very limited understanding of sellar chondrosarcomas. “Sellar chondrosarcomas are very rare, and often misdiagnosed as other common sellar lesions,” Prof. Gui notes. “To date, their clinical presentation as well as their diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis have yet to be well understood.”
Their results showed that among the 12 patients studied (who had a median age of 28.5 years), the most common clinical presentations were blurring of vision, which was observed in two-thirds of the patients, and headaches, which were observed in half the patients. In addition to this, a third of the patients presented with some form of endocrine disorder, which could return to normal after surgery.
However, since many features of sellar chondrosarcomas overlap with other tumors found in the same region, the authors observed that their preoperative diagnosis (or diagnosis prior to surgery) remains challenging. This is demonstrated by the observation that among the 12 patients studied, only one was actually diagnosed with sellar chondrosarcoma prior to surgery. The other patients were misdiagnosed with other similar forms of tumors known as chordomas, invasive non-functioning pituitary adenoma (INPA), or craniopharyngioma.
To tackle this, the authors provide some recommendations on using imaging data, specifically MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and CT (Computed Tomography), as well as clinical data to accurately diagnose sellar chondrosarcomas and avoid misdiagnoses. Elaborating on the technical aspects of this, Prof. Gui suggests to clinicians that “when a patient has a sellar calcified mass which presents with intact or slightly disturbed anterior pituitary function, MRI sequences with heterogeneous enhancement and no diffusion restriction, along with CT scans showing surrounding bony destruction and attachment, a chondrosarcoma should be preferentially suspected.”
Put simply, this means that sellar chondrosarcomas typically present with intact or only slightly disturbed functioning of the anterior pituitary gland, which releases hormones such as thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and prolactin, which regulate various bodily functions. In addition, MRI features such as non-uniform signal intensity within a mass and no diffusion restriction (i.e., free water movement in a tissue), as well as CT scan features such as bone destruction and tumor connection with bone tissue, are all indications that a sellar chondrosarcoma should be suspected.
Finally, the study also touches upon the clinical management of these tumors. Out of the 12 patients studied, complete resection or complete removal of the tumor was achieved in only seven cases, while the other five showed incomplete tumor resection. “Complete resection is, of course, the optimal goal for the management of sellar chondrosarcoma, but adjuvant radiotherapy, if required, and periodic follow-up should be prioritized as well,” Prof. Gui explains, recommending postoperative radiotherapy for patients with definite residual or recurrent disease.
Overall, this study provides crucial insights into a disease that is not only rare but also frequently misdiagnosed, serving as a valuable resource for clinicians and their patients.
Source:
Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University
Journal reference:
Ma, G., et al. (2025). EEA for sellar chodrosarcomas: case series with literature review. Chinese Neurosurgical Journal. doi.org/10.1186/s41016-025-00397-4.
Meghan’s first ever role was ‘hot girl number one’ on Ahston Kutcher’s ‘A Lot Like Love’
Before Meghan Markle became Rachel Zane on Suits (and later a royal), she was just another actress fighting for a break in Hollywood.
According to biographer Sean Smith in his 2020 book Meghan Misunderstood, the then-teenage Duchess of Sussex was “impatient to make a start as a proper actress” despite facing rejection after rejection, as reported by the Daily Mail.
Smith recalls one early audition where Meghan, now 44, refused to play by the rules. When asked to repeat a line, she boldly told the director: “I can. However, I’ve read the script and I really respond to this other role and I’d like to audition for that.”
Smith remarked, “This was not how auditions worked. This panic spread across the room because who does that? Who takes that sort of risk?” Meghan didn’t get the role she wanted, but she did secure a small part as “Hot Girl #1” in A Lot Like Love alongside Ashton Kutcher.
Her line was brief, but it got her foot in the door. Guest spots on CSI: NY and other shows followed until Suits made her a household name.
Decades later, Meghan has traded auditions for producing.
Her Netflix show With Love, Meghan returns August 26 for a second season with celebrity guests including Chrissy Teigen, Mindy Kaling, and more.
On her and Prince Harry’s new first-look deal with the streamer announced earlier this month, she said: “We’re proud to extend our partnership with Netflix… to create thoughtful content across genres that resonates globally.”
Do Kinaray starring Momina Iqbal and Junaid Khan has hooked the audience since the very first episode. The show has a toxic heroine which is a first. People love Dureshehwar’s antics while at the same time calling her out for all her schemes. Momina Iqbal has nailed the character making this show one of the most watched on television.
The latest twist in Do Kinaray had seriously divided fans. We saw Dureshehwar running when Shaheer tried to kill her. She was able to survive and finally she was able to get a phone, and called Waleed, as she had memorized his number only. Waleed did not even take a minute before he came to rescue Dureshehwar from her ordeal with her brother Taimoor. She saw her with envy in her eyes as he rescued her.
Here is the dramatic rescue mission:
Fans are now divided into two camps. One camp wants them back together. One user wrote, “They should patch up. Waleed and Dure look good together.” Another added, “Mawra looks like a maasi. Marry Dure again. You can keep two wives.” While the other camp is hating on Waleed for rescuing Dureshehwar.” One said, “Waleed loves Dure’s looks and can’t get over her.” Another said, “He is a two-faced hypocrite. He never loved Mawra.” A viewer added, “He needs to care more for his family and less for Dure.” This is what happened after the latest episode of Do Kinaray:
