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Erin Andrews has no plans to forgive her convicted stalker, Michael David Barrett.

In a sneak peek clip from an all-new episode of Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, the 39-year-old Dancing With the Stars host opens up about the terrifying incident and why she'll never be able to give the man who secretly filmed her naked in a hotel room a "pass" for his actions.

Watch: Inside the Erin Andrews Trial: 7 Most Revealing Things We Learned

"I have to relive it all the time," she explains on camera. "It's shaped who I am as a person."

"It messed with my family. It hurt my mom and dad so bad and it still does," she continues. "And you don't get any sort of pass for doing that."

For the first time ever on TV, Andrews also opens up to Kelly about her cervical cancer scare. The sports journalist announced in January that she was diagnosed with the disease...

Erin Andrews has never wanted to be the story. The longtime sports journalist and Dancing With the Stars co-host has been the subject of public scandal in recent years after a man secretly taped her naked in her hotel room.

But after her traumatic court case ended this past summer, Andrews got even more difficult news. The 38-year-old was diagnosed with cervical cancer in September.

Watch: Erin Andrews Shows Off Giant Engagement Ring at Lax Airport -- See the Pic!

In a new interview with Sports Illustrated’s The Mmqb, Andrews opened up for the first time about keeping her diagnosis a secret for months.

“Throughout my career, all I’ve ever wanted is to just fit in,” Andrews said. “That I had this extra baggage with the scandal, I didn’t want to be any different. I felt that way about being sick too. I don’t want players or coaches to look at me differently...

Erin Andrews is a cancer survivor.

The sportscaster, 38, revealed to Sports Illustrated’s The Mmqb that she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, and underwent a successful surgery to remove all traces of the disease.

Andrews learned she had cervical cancer in September, shortly after settling her $55 million lawsuit against the Nashville Marriott, where a stranger secretly filmed her in the nude. She says getting through the lawsuit toughened her up for her cancer diagnosis.

“After the trial everyone kept telling me, ‘You’re so strong, for going through all of this, for holding down a job in football, for being...

The King Baggot Tribute will take place Wednesday September 28th at 7pm at Lee Auditorium inside the Missouri History Museum (Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri). The 1913 silent film Ivanhoe will be accompanied by The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra and there will be a 40-minute illustrated lecture on the life and career of King Baggot by We Are Movie Geeks’ Tom Stockman. A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here

Hollywood Cinematographer Stephen King Baggot, also known as King Baggot III, is a retired cinematographer and news cameraman born in 1943. Like his father and grandfather before him, he was always billed onscreen as simply ‘King Baggot’. The first King Baggot (1879-1948) was at one time Hollywood’s most popular star, known in his heyday as ‘King of the Movies’ ,’The Most Photographed Man in the World’ and “More Famous Than the Man in...

There is no other place where fact and fiction become more indistinguishable from one another than at the cinema. What you see isn’t always what you get: a manufactured image might feel genuine, while an image that feels inauthentic might be the real thing. The finest stories can often be found somewhere in the middle. As Pablo Picasso once said, “Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

Kate Plays Christine, the latest film from Actress and Fake It So Real director Robert Greene, caught a great deal of attention at Sundance — we gave it the highest grade at the festival — and is now in limited release. It’s a documentary that follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards) as she prepares for the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who committed suicide via handgun on live television in 1974, and the...

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They’ve made some of the best thrillers of the past six years. We list some of the best modern thriller directors currently working...

Director Guillermo del Toro once described suspense as being about the withholding of information: either a character knows something the audience doesn’t know, or the audience knows something the character doesn’t. That’s a deliciously simple way of describing something that some filmmakers often find difficult to achieve: keeping viewers on the edges of their seats.

The best thrillers leave us scanning the screen with anticipation. They invite us to guess what happens next, but then delight in thwarting expectations. We can all name the great thriller filmmakers of the past - Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Brian De Palma - but what about the current crop of directors? Here’s our pick of the filmmakers who’ve made some great modern thrillers over the past six years - that is, between the year 2010 and the present.

Jeremy Saulnier - Blue Ruin, Green Room

To think there was once a time when Jeremy Saulnier was seriously quitting the film business.

“To be honest," Saulner told us back in 2014, “Macon and I had really given up on our quest to break into the industry and become legitimate filmmakers. So what we were trying to do with Blue Ruin was archive our 20 year arc and bring it to a close. Really just revisit our stomping grounds and use locations that were near and dear to us and build a narrative out of that.”

Maybe this personal touch explains at least partly why Blue Ruin wound up getting so much attention in Cannes in 2013, signalling not the end of Saulnier and his star Macon Blair’s career, but a brand new chapter. But then again, there’s more than just hand-crafted intimacy in Saulnier’s revenge tale; there’s also its lean, minimal storytelling and the brilliance of its characterisation. Blue Ruin is such an effective thriller because its protagonist is so atypical: sad-eyed, inexperienced with guns, somewhat soft around the edges, Macon Blair’s central character is far from your typical righteous avenger.

Green Room, which emerged in the UK this year, explores a similar clash between very ordinary people and extraordinary violence. A young punk band shout about anarchy and aggression on stage, but they quickly find themselves out of their depth when they’re cornered by a group of bloodthirsty neo-Nazis. In Saulnier’s films, grubby, unseemly locations are matched by often beautiful locked-off shots. Familiar thriller trappings are contrasted by twists of fortune that are often shocking.

Denis Villeneuve - Sicario, Prisoners

Here’s one of those directors who can pack an overwhelming sense of dread in a single image: in Sicario, his searing drug-war thriller from last year, it was the sight of tiny specks of dust falling in the light scything through a window. That single shot proved to be the calm before the storm, as Villeneuve unleashed a salvo of blood-curdling events: an attempted FBI raid on a building gone horribly awry. And this, I think, is the brilliance of Villeneuve’s direction, and why he’s so good at directing thrillers like Sicario or 2013’s superb Prisoners - he understands the rhythm of storytelling, and how scenes of quiet can generate almost unbearable tension.

Another case in point: the highway sequence in Sicario, where Emily Blunt’s FBI agent is stuck in a traffic jam outside one of the most violent cities in the world. Villeneueve makes us feel the stifling heat and the claustrophobia; something nasty’s going to happen, we know that - but it’s the sense of anticipation which makes for such an unforgettable scene.

Prisoners hews closely to the template of a modern mystery thriller, but it’s once again enriched by Villeneuve’s expert pacing and the performances he gets out of his actors. Hugh Jackman’s seldom been better as a father on the hunt for his missing child, while Jake Gyllenhaal mesmerises as a cop scarred by his own private traumas.

Lynne Ramsay - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin may be the most effective psychological thriller of recent years. About the difficult relationship between a mother (Tilda Swinton) and her distant, possibly sociopathic son (Ezra Miller), Ramsay’s film is masterfully told from beginning to end - which is impressive, given that the source novel by Lionel Shriver is told via a series of letters. Ramsay takes the raw material from the book and crafts something cinematic and highly disturbing: a study of guilt, sorrow and recrimination. Tension bubbles even in casual conversations around the dinner table. Miller is an eerie, cold-eyed blank. Swinton is peerless. One scene, in which Swinton’s mother comes home in the dead of night, is unforgettable. Here’s hoping Ramsay returns with another feature film very soon.

Morten Tyldum - Headhunters

All kinds of thrillers have emerged from Scandinavia over the past few years, whether on the large or small screen or in book form. Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters is among the very best of them. The fast-paced and deliriously funny story of an art thief who steals a painting from the wrong guy, Headhunters launched Tyldum on an international stage - Alan Turing drama The Imitation Game followed, and the Sony sci-fi film Passengers is up next. It isn’t hard to see why, either: Headhunters shows off Tyldum’s mastery of pace and tone, as his pulp tale hurtles from intense chase scenes to laugh-out-loud black comedy.

Joel Edgerton - The Gift

Granted, Joel Edgerton’s better known as an actor, having turned in some superb performances in the likes of Warrior, Zero Dark Thirty and Warror. But with a single film - The Gift, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in - Edgerton established himself as a thriller filmmaker of real promise. About a successful, happily married couple whose lives are greatly affected by an old face from the husband’s past, The Gift is an engrossing, unsettling movie with superb performances from Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as well as Edgerton.

A riff on the ‘killer in our midst’ thrillers of the 80s and 90s - The Stepfather, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and so on - The Gift is all the more effective because of its restraint. We’re never quite sure who the villain of the piece is, at least at first - and Edgerton’s use of the camera leaves us wrong-footed at every turn. The world arguably needs more thrillers from Joel Edgerton.

If you haven’t seen The Gift yet, we’d urge you to track it down.

David Michod - Animal Kingdom

The criminals at play in this true-life crime thriller are all the more chilling because they’re so mundane - a bunch of low-level thieves, murderers and gangsters who prowl around the rougher parts of Melbourne, Australia. Writer-director David Michod spent years developing Animal Kingdom, and it was worth the effort: it’s an intense, engrossing film, for sure, but it’s also a believable glimpse of the worst of human nature. Ben Mendelsohn and Jacki Weaver play villains of different kinds; the latter a manipulative grandmother who looks over her brood of criminals, the former a spiteful thief. Crafting moments of incredible tension from simple exchanges, Michod launched himself as a formidable talent with this feature debut.

Ben Affleck - The Town, Argo

Affleck’s period drama-thriller Argo won all kinds of awards, but we’d argue his earlier thrillers were equally well made. Gone Baby Gone was a confident debut and an economical adaptation of Dennis LeHane’s novel. The Town, released in 2010, was a heist thriller that made the most of its Boston setting. One of its key scenes - a bank robbery in which the thieves wear a range of bizarre outfits, including a nun’s habit - is masterfully staged. With Affleck capable of teasing out great performances from his actors and staging effective set-pieces, it’s hardly surprising he’s so heavily involved in making at least one Batman movie for Warner - as well as playing the hero behind the mask.

Anton Corbijn - The American, A Most Wanted Man

The quiet, almost meditative tone of Anton Corbijn’s movies mean they aren’t necessarily to everyone’s taste, but they’re visually arresting and almost seductive in their rhythm and attention to detail. Already a celebrated photographer, Corbijn successfully crossed over into filmmaking with Control, an exquisitely-made drama about Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. Corbijn took a markedly different direction with The American, a thriller about an ageing contract killer (George Clooney) who hides out in a small Italian town west of Rome. Inevitably, trouble eventually comes calling.

Corbijn’s direction remains gripping because he doesn’t give us huge action scenes to puncture the tension. We can sense the capacity for violence coiled up beneath the hitman’s calm exterior, and Corbijn makes sure we only see rare flashes of that toughness - right up until the superbly-staged climax.

A Most Wanted Man, based on the novel by John le Carre, is a similarly astute study of an isolated yet fascinating character - in this instance, the world-weary German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann, brilliantly played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Tragically, the film proved to be one of the last before Hoffman’s death in 2014.

Paul Greengrass - Green Zone, Captain Phillips

Mention Greengrass’ name, and the director’s frequent use of handheld cameras might immediately spring to mind. But time and again, Greengrass has proved a master of his own personal approach - you only have to look at the muddled, migraine-inducing films of his imitators to see how good a director Greengrass is. Part of the filmmakers’ visual language rather than a gimmick, Greengrass’ camera placement puts the viewer in the middle of the story, whether it’s an amnesiac agent on the run (his Bourne films) or on a hijacked aircraft (the harrowing United 93). While not a huge hit, Green Zone was an intense and intelligent thriller set in occupied Iraq. The acclaimed Captain Phillips, meanwhile, was a perfect showcase for Greengrass’ ability to fuse realism and suspense; the true story of a merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates, it is, to quote Greengrass himself, “a contemporary crime story.”

John Hillcoat - Lawless, Triple 9

We can’t help thinking that, with a better marketing push behind it, Triple 9 could have been a much bigger hit when it appeared in cinemas earlier this year. It has a great cast - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Anthony Mackie and Aaron Paul as a group of seasoned thieves, Kate Winslet cast against type as a gangland boss - and its heist plot rattles along like an express train.

Hillcoat seems to have the western genre pulsing through his veins, and he excels at creating worlds that are desolate and all-enveloping, whether his subjects are period pieces (The Proposition, Lawless) or post-apocalyptic dramas (The Road). Triple 9 sees Hillcoat make an urban western that is both classic noir and entirely contemporary; his use of real cops and residents around the film’s Atlanta location give his heightened story a grounding that is believable in the moment. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in the scene in which Casey Affleck’s cop breaches a building while hunkered down behind a bullet-proof shield. Hillcoat places us right there in the scene with Affleck and the cops sneaking into the building behind him; we sense the claustrophobia and vulnerability.

Hillcoat explained to us in February that this sequence wasn’t initially written this way in the original script; it changed when the director and his team discovered how real-world cops protect themselves in real-world situations. In Triple 9, research and great filmmaking combine to make an unforgettably intense thriller.

Jim Mickel - Cold In July

Seemingly inspired by such neo-Noir thrillers as Red Rock West and Blood Simple, 2014‘s Cold In July is a genre gem from director Jim Mickle (Stake Land, We Are What We Are). Michael C Hall plays an ordinary guy in 80s America who shoots an intruder who breaks into his home, and becomes drawn into a moody conspiracy that takes in crooked cops, porn and a private eye (who's also keen pig-rearer) played by Don Johnson. Constantly shifting between tones, Mickel’s thriller refuses to stick to genre expectations. In one scene, after Hall shoots the burglar dead, Mickel’s camera lingers over the protagonist as he cleans up the blood and glass. It’s touches like these that make Cold In July far more than a typical thriller.

Mickel’s teaming up with Sylvester Stallone next; we’re intrigued to see what that partnership produces.

Martin Scorsese - Shutter Island

As a filmmaker, Scorsese needs no introduction. As a director of thrillers, he’s in a class of his own: from Taxi Driver via the febrile remake of Cape Fear to the sorely underrated Bringing Out The Dead, his films are full of suspense and the threat of violence. Shutter Island, based on the Dennis LeHane novel of the same name, saw Scorsese plunge eagerly into neo-noir territory. A murder mystery set in a mental institution on the titular Shutter Island, its atmosphere is thick with menace. Like a combination of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man and Adrian Lyne’s cult classic Jacob’s Ladder, Shutter Island’s one of those stories where we never know who we can trust - even the protagonist, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

David Fincher - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl

After the trial by fire that was Alien 3, David Fincher found his footing in the 90s with such hits as Seven and The Game. In an era where thrillers were in much greater abundance, from the middling to the very good, Seven in particular stood out as a genre classic: smartly written, disturbing, repulsive and yet captivating to look at all at once. Fincher’s affinity for weaving atmospheric thrillers continued into the 2010s, first with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, a superb retelling of Stieg Larsson’s book which didn’t quite find the appreciative audience deserved, and Gone Girl, an even better movie which - thankfully - became a hit.

Based on Gillian Flynn’s novel (and adapted by the author herself), Gone Girl is both a gripping thriller and a thoroughly twisted relationship drama. Fincher’s mastery of the genre is all here: his millimetre-perfect composition, seamless touches of CGI and subtle yet effective uses of colour and shadow. While not a straight-up masterpiece like the period thriller Zodiac, Gone Girl is still a glossy, smart and blackly funny yarn in the Hitchcock tradition. If there’s one master of the modern thriller currently working, it has to be Fincher.

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The King Baggot Tribute is this Friday, November 14th at 7pm at Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium. A 35mm print of Ivanhoe (1913) starring King Baggot will screen with live music by The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra. The screening will be followed by an illustrated lecture on the life and career of King Baggot, which will be followed by the screening of Tumbleweeds (digital source 1925), directed by King Baggot with piano accompaniment by Matt Pace. Ticket information for the event can be found Here.

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Hollywood Cinematographer Stephen King Baggot, also known as King Baggot III, is a retired cinematographer and news cameraman born in 1943. Like his father and grandfather before him, he was always billed onscreen as simply ‘King Baggot’. The first King Baggot (1879-1948) was at one time Hollywood’s most popular star, known in his heyday as ‘King of the Movies’ ,’The...

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After the trial, an HBO documentary called "Paradise Lost" was released, examining the case and lack of evidence used to convict the three. Soon after, celebrities like Eddie Vedder and Johnny Depp were taking up the group's cause. The WM3 would eventually serve 18 years in prison before they were released in 2011.

In addition to "Devil's Knot" and the three "Paradise Lost" movies, the West Memphis Three story will...

Last December, things began to take shape for "Devil's Knot," the West Memphis Three biopic, when Reese Witherspoon was cast as Pam Hobbs, the mother of murder victim Stevie Branch. Now Variety reports that one of the WM3 members, Jessie Misskelley Jr., has signed on as a producer. The film, based on the Mara Leveritt book of the same name, tells the real-life story of the West Memphis Three, a group of teenagers accused of committing heinous murders in West Memphis, Arkansas. After the trial, an HBO documentary called "Paradise Lost" was released, examining the case and lack of evidence used to convict the three. Soon after, celebrities like Eddie Vedder and Johnny Depp were taking up the group's cause. The WM3 would eventually serve 18 years in prison before they were released in 2011. In addition to "Devil's Knot" and the three "Paradise Lost" movies, the West Memphis Three story will...

Los Angeles — The private world of Michael Jackson, fiercely shielded by the superstar in life, was exposed in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. But rather than suffering harm from revelations of drug use, experts say Jackson's legacy and posthumous earning power will survive any damage done and could actually grow after he was portrayed as a victim of a money-hungry doctor.

Jackson died before he could launch a series of highly anticipated comeback concerts in London as he tried to regain the towering status he enjoyed when he released the "Thriller" album in 1983.

But his death did breathe new life into record sales and boosted other projects to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for his estate, even as his already tarnished personal life took another hit by revelations about his drug use.

Jackson zoomed to the top of the Forbes Magazine list of highest earning dead celebrities and...

Prosecution aimed to prove Mj's death could have been prevented if Dr. Conrad Murray had the proper equipment and staffing.

By Gil Kaufman

Steven Shafer

Photo: Pool/Getty Images

After five days of recess, the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray resumed in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday (October 19) with the airing of a dramatic video showing an actor going into cardiac arrest and being revived following a propofol overdose.

The Witness

» Dr. Steven Shafer, anesthesiologist

Key Testimony

» After the trial was recessed for two days to allow Shafer to attend a conference -- which he did not make it to in light of his father's death -- the anesthesiologist, who emphasized the fact that his pro bono consultation on the case is motivated by his desire to restore faith in the public that propofol is not fatal when administered and monitored properly, completed his testimony from last week.

Amanda gets an incredible reprieve from the Italian courts -- her appeal was successful! We're so happy! Amanda Knox, who was convicted in 2009 for the 2007 killing of her roommate Meredith Kercher, has been cleared of her crimes in Italian court after a successful appeal! Also cleared as innocent was her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Meanwhile, drifter Rudy Guede is still behind bars for the crime, although he too has maintained his innocence. Amanda, 24, is already being pursued by superstar journalists such as NBC’s Matt Lauer and ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas to tell her story, the New York Post reports. After the trial, Amanda's sister Deana thanked the legal team outside the courtroom after the verdict. Troubling, crowds chanted "Murderer!" and "Shame!" as she left the courtroom. Furthermore, the Daily Mail speculates that her memoirs -- which she wrote in prison -- could go for top dollar, and that several movie...

How good is your memory? On the night in 1984 when she was assaulted and raped in her apartment, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino thought her memory was excellent. During those agonizing 45 minutes, she concentrated on remembering her attacker's face, body and clothing. Based entirely on her identification, Ronald Cotton was mistakenly convicted of the crime and sentenced to over fifty years in prison, not once, but twice. At the second trial, the defense even brought the true perpetrator to court, but the judge would not allow the jury to consider his testimony. Cotton does look remarkably similar to the man who assaulted Thopmson-Cannino, but he was innocent. Jennifer was so certain of her identification, she did not even recognize Bobby Poole as her actual attacker when she saw him in court at the second trial.

Picking Cotton tells two sides of the same story, which took place in and around Burlington, Nc...

Updated through 5/10.

"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...

It was the return of the Dreaded Digger on last night’s I’m A Celebrity and comedienne Jenny successfully won seven stars for camp

Arriving at the ‘building site’ Jenny was confronted by the digger, which had been the topic of much debate in camp last week.

On the building site in front of the digger were 8 stars which had to picked up by the magnet on the front of the digger and dropped into a skip. Each star in the skip worth a meal for camp. Jenny would also be joined by unexpected jungle guests.

Jenny arrived at the trial area to surprised reactions from Ant and Dec who didn’t expect to see her back for a trial so soon. Jenny however was confident she could do well saying that the trial “can’t be as bad as the eating one”. Ant and Dec told Jenny that...

Jenny Eclair and Alison Hammond won eight stars for the ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ camp yesterday (26.11.10).

The comedienne and the TV presenter were picked for the ‘Starbugs’ Bushtucker trial where they had to consume a number of gruesome a cocktails, made with grubs and creepy crawlies among other disgusting ingredients.

Upon hearing she was nominated to take part, Jenny said: “This was the one thing I really didn’t want to do but we’ll give it a go.”

Hosts Ant and Dec took the pair to the trial area, where they were told there were up to 11 stars available, each of which could be redeemed for a meal for the camp.

First up was Jenny’s ‘Flappuchino’ – turkey innards and water, which she eventually finished while Alison took on a ‘Maggotchiato’ – comprised of maggots, mealworms and water, which she drank whilst holding her nose.

Gillian McKeith fainted during her first ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!’ Bush Tucker Trial.

The TV nutritionist – who, alongside former MP Lembit Opik, was voted by the public to take part in the first task – admitted she was “terrified” at the thought of competing in ‘The Crate Escape’ challenge for Camp Sheila.

Hosts Ant and Dec explained the pair would be plunged underground into pitch darkness in a chained and padlocked crate – complete with the addition of a variety of gruesome jungle critters – which they would then have to try and unlock before escaping through a tunnel.

Gillian said: “If I’m stuck in a crate with some kind of thing I’m probably going to pass out. We all know I’m afraid of everything that is in this jungle.

“I’m terrified. I was picked because my blood curdling screams will be heard for miles.

First Show Ratings

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! returned to ITV with its biggest ever first-episode audience of 12.5 million viewers, and a 42 percent share – up a huge 1.8 million on last year’s opener.

The one-and-a-half hour show was watched by an average of 11.2 million viewers, 41 percent share who saw all ten celebrities face Terrorvision, their first Bush Tucker Trial.

Sheryl Admits She’LL Never Love Again

The topic in Camp Shelia soon turned onto the men in their lives as Gillian asked Sheryl about her infamous past marriage.

Sheryl explains to Gillian how they met, “I was in a wine bar that was round the corner from where I lived. There was a big rowdy crowd of people, like guys. I should have known should I? He (Paul) was drunk, really drunk.”

Gillian then commented “You always get the warning but are you listening?”

Sheryl continued,...

When asked what she missed most about her father, Paris responded, 'Everything.'

By Gil Kaufman

Katherine Jackson and Oprah Winfrey on Monday's "Oprah Winfrey Show"

Photo: Harpo Productions

In her first major interview since her son Michael Jackson's death last year, Katherine Jackson opened up to Oprah Winfrey on Monday (November 8) during a tearful talk in which she discussed the day her son died, the devastating impact of his 2005 child-molestation trial and the legacy Jackson left for his three young children.

"I don't think I will ever be healed," Katherine said when asked if she believes that time will make things easier. "It will get better, but some days it's like it just happened. ... It hurts. It really hurts."

During the hour-long special, Katherine said her youngest son was "misunderstood" and she had trouble talking about Michael, often tearing up when remembering him.

Michael died June 25, 2009, of a...

Boy George has revealed that he often sent letters to George Michael while the 'father figure' singer was behind bars. Michael was recently jailed for eight weeks after crashing his car while under the influence of marijuana but was released on Monday after serving only half of his sentence. The former Culture Club artist said that the incident reminded him of his own troubles with the law and inspired him to send messages of encouragement to Michael, reports the Daily Star. "When George Michael got sentenced, it all came back to me and I was with him. You just go numb - completely numb. You go into survival mode; shut down. You don't know what's going to happen. After the trial you're (more)...

Planning to get ahead with the Christmas shopping? Our price check will help you find the best deals on popular DVDs

Christmas has already kicked off in supermarkets with mince pies and party food filling the shelves since the beginning of September. This seems even more bizarre as many parts of the country prepare for temperatures around 70 degrees this weekend, where barbecued steaks and chicken wings seem more in order than turkey and mulled wine.

This is the first of our Christmas shopping guides, with Price Check playing its part in searching for the best prices for some of the most popular and newsworthy items. Since DVDs are a popular Christmas gift, we are highlighting top prices on popular DVD box sets. If you have found them cheaper elsewhere, please post the details below.

Mad Men 1-3 Rrp £59.99

The first three series of Mad Men are available in a box set.

Rapper shares his feelings about Diddy in September cover story of Xxl.

By Jayson Rodriguez

Shyne on the cover of the September 2010 edition of <i>Xxl</i>

Photo: Xxl

Expatriated rapper Shyne graces the September cover of Xxl, and in the issue, the formerly jailed star talks about his gun case, Diddy and the decision he made more than 10 years ago that changed his life forever.

"In my life, when I make decisions to roll, I roll," Shyne told the magazine about firing a gun while partying with Diddy and the mogul's then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez at Club New York. "And I don't give a f--- what the consequences are. If I'ma defend myself, I'ma defend myself. If somebody tryna kill or hurt one of my partnas or my comrades, that's with me, there is no, 'Yo,' or, 'Damn, well, if I pull this sh-- out, this is what's gonna happen.' No!

After the trial run that was the Golden Globes, award season is getting into full swing proper with this morning's announcement of the BAFTA award nominations. Films getting the nod include Avatar (obviously!) and some perhaps more deserving films such as The Hurt Locker and our very own An Education - which have all collected nominations in eight categories.

See below for the full list.

Best Film

Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau

An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer

The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc

Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Outstanding British Film

An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby

Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold

In The Loop Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche

Moon Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones,...

FedEx unveils Senseaware, a drop-in sensor for packages that monitors everything from nasty falls to boxes being opened.

Speed isn't good enough when you're shipping something like transplant supplies for emergency surgery or human organs. You also need to be perfectly sure that what you're sending hasn't been compromised for even a second along the way. FedEx has come up with an answer: Senseaware, a drop-in sensor that pings the status of its contents to the Web, including temperature, exact location, and whether the shipment has been opened or exposed to light. There's even an accelerometer, for detecting drops. Having already completed a beta test, Senseaware will now be deployed with 50 FedEx medical clients this spring.

"Four years ago, we started thinking about the next-generation alternatives to Rfid," says Mark Hamm, FedEx's VP of Innovation. What they came up with is a Web-platform, combined with a sensor the size of a Blackberry,...

The public once again voted for Katie Price to do her sixth I’m A Celebrity Bushtucker Trial. “It’s another day at the office hon,” said Colin. “Yeah, I’ll go and hunt for us again,” she replied. “Feed us Katie, feed us,” said Jimmy.

Katie explained: “I suppose you get into a routine and the routine is I go out to work to bring back the food and you just have your daily routine. I’m the bread winner. I’m going back to work to get the food to provide for my little chickens. I’ve no idea how many stars I’m going to get. I’d like to get a full house. I do every day. I’ve no idea what this challenge is. It’s called Car–Lamity. I don’t even know what calamity means.”

Ahead of the trial, hosts Ant and Dec asked how she was feeling,...

Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of Frost/Nixon, Working Title Films and Universal Pictures' adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer.

The play is based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977. The final interview ended with Nixon tacitly admitting his guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

Frank Langella and Michael Sheen are reprising their Broadway roles as Nixon and Frost, respectively.

Bacon, who is set to play Nixon's chief of staff Jack Brennan, joins Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.

Shooting will begin in late summer.

Bacon next stars in Death Sentence, a revenge drama from 20th Century Fox that is set for release in August, as well as in Alison Eastwood's Rails and Ties, being released by Warner Independent Pictures. He is repped by Endeavor and attorney Fred Gaines.

Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage Charlie's Angels and Dynasty to Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place, died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83. Spelling died at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke June 18, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki. Spelling's other hit series included The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Burke's Law, The Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, T.J. Hooker, Matt Houston, Hart to Hart and Hotel. He kept his hand in 21st-century TV with series including 7th Heaven and Summerland. He also produced more than 140 television movies. Among the most notable: Death Sentence (1974), Nick Nolte's first starring role; The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), John Travolta's first dramatic role; and The Best Little Girl in the World (1981), which starred Jennifer Jason Leigh.