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Ariana Grande is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her now-iconic Christmas song, “Santa Tell Me” — and its recent Top 10 placement on the Hot 100. On Monday, the pop star shared a sweet, live rendition of the holiday track on her Instagram, just in time for Christmas Eve.

“Celebrating ten years of Santa Tell Me!” Grande captioned the video of herself performing the song in a festive white dress and backed by a full band. “Thank you so much for all of the love you have shown this record over the past decade.

As part of Apple TV+ and Apple Music’s A Carpool Karaoke Christmas, Chappell Roan and her parents Kara and Dwight joined host Zane Lowe for a special SUV sing-a-long of her song “Pink Pony Club” on Sunday night.

The segment featured Lowe driving Roan and her parents around rural Missouri in an SUV, complete with Christmas decorations strewn about the car. As Lowe played “Pink Pony Club,” Roan and her parents sang along, with the latter two getting emotional — especially during lines that reference her midwestern family.

After the song concluded, her parents discussed its impact. “That song… I love singing it with her at her shows, I love it when you can just see the people respond to that song so much,” commented her mother Kara. “Even when we’re growing up, we really care about what our parents think of us… I hope that’s something that she always knows,...

Oscar and BAFTA-winning Ukrainian feature 20 Days in Mariupol has picked up two nominations at the prestigious British Grierson Awards, along with docs on Wham!, Boris Johnson and Ronnie O’Sullivan.

Mstyslav Chernov’s movie charting the time the filmmaker spent in the besieged city at the start of the Ukraine War is nommed for Best Current Affairs Documentary and Best Cinema Documentary at the prestigious British gongs. It was selected as the Ukrainian submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards but was instead nominated in the Best Documentary Feature Film category, beating off competition from the likes of Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which is also nominated for two Griersons.

Other projects to accrue two nominations include Netflix’s Wham!, Channel 4’s The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson and Studio 99’s Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything, which was...

On July 5, 2023, Netflix released “Wham!” Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham! career, from 70s best buds to 80s pop icons. The documentary is directed by Chris Smith and is holding fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a critics score of 83%. Fans are even more enthusiastic to walk down memory lane with the “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” hit makers, scoring it a perfect 100%. Read our full review round-up below.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian says, ”’Wise guys realise / There’s danger in emotional ties …’ Here was one of the most artlessly, chillingly brilliant pop lyrics of the 80s, from Wham!’s ‘Young Guns (Go For It)’, something to compare with the triumph of Madonna being a material girl in a material world. You can’t help thinking again about its relevance to Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael’s emotional ties...

The new Honest Trailer lampoons Snakes on a Plane and the internet's influence on the film. Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson, which delivers on what the title says. Jackson plays an FBI agent protecting a witness on a flight from Hawaii to California. The trip goes horribly awry when a mob boss releases snakes on the plane in an attempt to keep the witness from ever making it to court. Snakes on a Plane went viral before it was released, thanks to the on-the-nose title the internet couldn't get enough of. However, the final result still didn't land with audiences, making just over 60 million worldwide on a 33 million budget.

The new Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies examines the viral sensation Snakes on a Plane became, humorously poking fun at how the Jackson movie ultimately amounted to lackluster returns.

While deconstructing the convoluted plot, which...

Dan Lipski, the tour manager for the Joe Jonas-lead band Dnce, has been hospitalized following a “terrible accident.”

Jonas, 28, and his band members, Jack Lawless, JinJoo Lee and Cole Whittle, asked fans and followers for love and prayers as they all announced that Lipski was “badly injured” in Bangkok, Thailand.

“Please send Love and Prayers to my Good Friend & Dnce Tour Manager dan lipski he was in a terrible accident. If you can please donate to the link in my bio for him. We love you Dan,” the lead singer wrote on Instagram along with a photo of Lipski.

As the world mourns the loss of George Michael, who was found dead on Christmas Day at age of 53, the Grammy winner’s music lives on — including a three-decade career of incomparable live performances.

Here are 10 of the icon’s best:

1. “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” (1984)

Okay, so he may have been lip-syncing. But Wham!’s debut on the UK’s Top of the Pops in 1984 gave the world its first glimpse of the full-throttle passion Michael put into his performances. Dressed in the band’s iconic “Choose Life” T-shirt, the then 21-year-old snapped and danced his way around the stage with glee.

Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter George Michael “passed away peacefully at home” in Goring in Oxfordshire on Sunday, his publicist told the BBC. He was 53.

Michael’s manager told the AP the cause of death was heart failure. A statement from his publicist said, “There will be no further comment at this stage.”

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, London, Michael rose to fame at age 18 as half of the singing duo Wham!, partnering with longtime friend Andrew Ridgeley to sell more than 25 million albums worldwide from 1982 to 1986. Their first single to to top the charts was “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,...

Mark Harrison Published Date  Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 05:39

The first movie from the team behind Comedy Central's Key & Peele sets itself apart from most action comedies in its prologue, in which an adorable grey kitten scampers through the slo-mo crossfire of a bloody warehouse massacre like he's the hero of a John Woo movie. Unlike so many genre parodies of its kind, Keanu actually captures the style of its subject. It only gets more impressive when it mixes in some authentic-looking Michael Mann too.

The cat then runs all the way to Rell (Jordan Peele), a heartbroken layabout who's recently been dumped by his girlfriend. Keanu the kitten brightens up Rell's life considerably, much to the relief of his strait-laced cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key). Their happiness is short-lived when Rell's home is targeted by burglars looking for his drug-dealing neighbour (Will Forte) and they've catnapped the only one who was at home.

I wanted to laugh last night. Hell, I needed to laugh last night. And Zoolander 2 failed me completely. Brutally unfunny, visually off-putting, and filled with cameos so embarrassing I am bruised from holding a cringe for a full half-hour, Zoolander 2 is every horrible decision you can make with a comedy sequel wrapped up into one nigh unbearable film. There is a single shot in one scene of Olivia Munn, and I couldn't tell you what she was playing or what role got cut down in the final film, but that one last errant useless shot, left in instead of being totally excised with the rest of her part, sums up the way the entire film feels to me. It feels like it was thrown together in a blender and just poured into a cup indifferently, no matter what ended up blended in there. So many jokes fall so...

How soon is too soon? While Marc Jacobs' hilarious Zoolander parody had the Internet laughing, not everyone found his video funny. Namely, the film's fictional star. Jacobs - flanked by a few buff buddies - recreated one of the 2001 comedy's most memorable scenes in the video, posted Sunday. In the original film, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and his model friends have a water war at a gas station after a trip to Starbucks for some "Orange mocha Frapuccinos." When the dimwitted hunks start spraying gasoline, however, the afternoon fun (set, appropriately, to Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"), turns deadly.

How soon is too soon? While Marc Jacobs' hilarious Zoolander parody had the Internet laughing, not everyone found his video funny. Namely, the film's fictional star. Jacobs - flanked by a few buff buddies - recreated one of the 2001 comedy's most memorable scenes in the video, posted Sunday. In the original film, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and his model friends have a water war at a gas station after a trip to Starbucks for some "Orange mocha Frapuccinos." When the dimwitted hunks start spraying gasoline, however, the afternoon fun (set, appropriately, to Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"), turns deadly.

Strictly Come Dancing 2015 is finally off and running – with six brave and bold celebrities gracing the dancefloor for the first time tonight (September 25).

While there is no elimination this week, Twitter definitely rendered its verdict on the likes of Kellie Bright, Helen George and Anthony Ogogo in the tweets below:

1. Kellie & Kevin's Tango

Kellie & Kevin have really got us going with their Tango, but did they 'bright'en up the dance floor? #Strictly pic.twitter.com/2LtSZKLDW4

— BBC Strictly (@bbcstrictly) September 25, 2015

Ahhhh Strictly is back!!! Kellie and Kevin did amazing for their first dance!!

— Lara (@lara_barratt) September 25, 2015

#Strictly Wow Kellie!!!!! @kelliebright76

— Elizabeth (@Keepdown429) September 25, 2015

"Just right, Kellie Bright!" Love Len #strictly #eastenders #scd

— Susan Hill (@SuseHill) September 25, 2015

That was a pretty good start: the Tango ain't an easy one, and it wasn't even trad tango music. Nice one, Kellie! #Strictly

— Kate Johnson (@K8JohnsonAuthor) September 25, 2015

Well done Kellie & Kevin!! What...

It doesn't seem long ago that Caroline Flack was lifting last year's Glitterball, but here we are at the first Strictly Come Dancing live show of 2015.

Six couples will be hitting the dancefloor tonight to shake and shimmy and hope that they don't trip up on their first appearance.

Join Digital Spy back here at 9pm as we talk sequins, fake tan and fancy footwork.

22:00So that's it for tonight. We'll be back on Saturday (September 26) at 6.15pm to see what the other couples have got!

21:59So, there was the first glimpse of all the other couples who will be dancing tomorrow night...Jeremy Vine's facial expressions look like they're going to be incredible to watch!

21:57So currently Helen & Aljaz are top of the leaderboard, with Pasha and Carol at the bottom, but there's still another nine couples to come.

21:55Scores are in for Anita:...

Strictly Come Dancing has announced its full music and dance list for the first week of the 2015 show.

The list has been released by the BBC, but as always, this may not be the order that we'll see the couples on Friday and Saturday night.

Strictly Come Dancing 2015 winner: We rank the celebrities' chances of topping BBC One's dance-off

Carol Kirkwood and Pasha Kovalev will dance the Cha Cha to 'Thunder in My Heart' by Leo SayerDaniel O'Donnell and Kristina Rihanoff will dance the Waltz to 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling' by Ruby MurrayKatie Derham and Anton Du Beke will dance the Jive to 'Roll Over Beethoven' by Chuck BerryJeremy Vine and Karen Clifton will dance the Cha Cha to 'September' by Earth, Wind and FireJamelia and Tristan MacManus will dance the Waltz to 'Do Right Woman, Do Right Man' by Aretha FranklinIwan Thomas and Ola Jordan will dance...

The X Factor has already reached its final episode of auditions! Boot Camp begins on Sunday, but before then we still have some hopeful singers to meet - 17 acts, in fact. But who are they and what will they be singing?

1. Megan Dallas

Age: 24

From: Basildon

Job: Accountant and part-time singer

Song: 'Waterfalls' - TLC

2. Kerrie-Anne Phillips

Age: 28

From: London

Job: Teacher and part time singer in Dubai, but moved for X Factor

Song: 'Diamonds' - Rihanna

3. Lucy Duffield

Age: 26

From: Essex

Job: Sales assistant and part time singer

Song: 'If I Ain't Got You' - Alicia Keys and 'I Have Nothing' - Whitney Houston

4. Nige and Kay

Age: Nige is 44 and Kay is 26

From: Northamptonshire

Song: 'Up' - Olly Murs ft Demi Lovato

5. Louel

Age: Louis (19) and Ellen (19)

From: Newcastle

Job: Students

Song: 'One Last Time' - Ariana Grande

6. The Shures

Age: Chris (28) and Gabriel (32)

From: Milton Keynes...

The X Factor has already reached its final episode of auditions! Boot Camp begins on Sunday, but before then we still have some hopeful singers to meet - 17 acts, in fact. But who are they and what will they be singing?

1. Megan Dallas

Age: 24

From: Basildon

Job: Accountant and part-time singer

Song: 'Waterfalls' - TLC

2. Kerrie-Anne Phillips

Age: 28

From: London

Job: Teacher and part time singer in Dubai, but moved for X Factor

Song: 'Diamonds' - Rihanna

3. Lucy Duffield

Age: 26

From: Essex

Job: Sales assistant and part time singer

Song: 'If I Ain't Got You' - Alicia Keys and 'I Have Nothing' - Whitney Houston

4. Nige and Kay

Age: Nige is 44 and Kay is 26

From: Northamptonshire

Song: 'Up' - Olly Murs ft Demi Lovato

5. Louel

Age: Louis (19) and Ellen (19)

From: Newcastle

Job: Students

Song: 'One Last Time' - Ariana Grande

6. The Shures

Age: Chris (28) and Gabriel (32)

From: Milton Keynes...

Strictly Come Dancing is still months away, but the rumours about which celebrities could be taking part this year are really starting to heat up now - and they've been going since January. So it felt like a good time to start to put together all the speculation we've heard to see if we can figure out who'll be hitting the ballroom in the new series.

Strictly Come Dancing: This is how they keep the celebrities taking part a secret

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With all the contestants now confirmed, check out the lineup below - and lament what could have been with the rumours that didn't become a reality. Oh well, there's always the Christmas special...

Confirmed

Rumoured

Confirmed contestants

Jeremy Vine

King of the swingometer Jeremy became the first celebrity confirmed for Strictly on August 10.

The...

ABC’s black-ish was TV’s big winner Friday evening at the NAACP Image Awards — which celebrate the achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, as well as those who promote social justice through creative endeavors — by topping five comedy categories, including collecting acting kudos for leads Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross.

RelatedSAG Awards 2015: Oitnb, Downton, Viola Davis, William H. Macy Win Big

On the drama side, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder picked up a pair of wins each, while Lifetime’s The Trip to Bountiful TV-movie amassed four wins, including for...