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Kanye West and Bianca Censori reportedly set to divorce days after ‘nude’ Grammys stunt

Kanye West and Bianca Censori reportedly set to divorce days after ‘nude’ Grammys stunt

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori are reportedly heading for a divorce, less than two weeks after her ‘nude’ appearance on the red carpet shocked the 2025 Grammys. The controversial rapper, 47, and the Australian model, 30, have been married since December 2022. According to DailyMail.com, a source close to West revealed that the couple have broken up and that they expect legal proceedings to end the marriage to begin in the next few days. The publication also claims that the couple have verbally agreed that Censori will receive a payment of $5 million at the end of the marriage. TMZ is also reporting that both parties have approached divorce attorneys. Censori is thought to still be living in the couple’s $35 million house in Beverly Park North, Los Angeles, but West’s whereabouts are unknown. Kanye West and Bianca …

Justin Sun Allegedly Squashed Press About His Banana-Eating Stunt

Justin Sun Allegedly Squashed Press About His Banana-Eating Stunt

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Blockchain billionaire and art collector Justin Sun made global headlines in November after shelling out $6.2 million at Sotheby’s for Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019), his infamous banana duct-taped to a wall. Sun then ate the banana at a buzzy press conference in Hong Kong. However, it seems Sun didn’t have a taste for all the press that come of it. According to Fortune, the blockchain billionaire and art collector pressured the crypto trade publication CoinDesk to retract a December 2 article by Callan Quinn that was critical of Sun’s press conference. The article was titled “I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World’s Most Expensive Banana. I Don’t Get It.” Related Articles “After Sun’s team complained about the tone of the piece, CoinDesk’s owners, the crypto exchange Bullish, demanded editorial staff remove it from the publication’s website, according to sources familiar with the matter,” Fortune reports, adding that former Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray left his position as chair of an editorial committee in December. The report states that the decision to remove the …

The Space Force’s Top-Secret Spaceplane Is About to Do a Sick Stunt

The Space Force’s Top-Secret Spaceplane Is About to Do a Sick Stunt

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Do a barrel roll! Dip and Dive Despite being top-secret, the Pentagon is promising that its X-37b spaceplane is going to do some sick-ass stunts in the upper atmosphere soon. As SpaceNews reports, the Department of Defense’s secretive X-37B craft is slated to do some aerobraking maneuvers while it passes through Earth’s upper atmosphere, essentially using atmospheric drag to alter its orbit and save on fuel. Manufactured by Boeing, the reusable and unmanned craft is jointly operated by the Space Force and Air Force. It’s been in orbit on its latest mission since just before Christmas of last year and was launched just a few weeks after China’s Shenlong counterpart, the website notes. Though we don’t know exactly what its purpose is or how long its current flight is supposed to last, the X-37B has repeatedly shown itself to be capable of staying in space for long periods of time. “This first-of-a kind maneuver from the X-37B is an incredibly important milestone for the United States Space Force as we seek to expand our aptitude and …

Liz Truss Fumes As Lettuce Stunt Crashes Her ‘Pro-Trump’ Event

Liz Truss Fumes As Lettuce Stunt Crashes Her ‘Pro-Trump’ Event

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Liz Truss fell victim to yet another lettuce-related stunt on Tuesday night while hosting a pro-Donald Trump speaking event in Suffolk. The ex-prime minister was explaining to the crowd why she backed the former US president and Republican candidate for re-election – and why Americans were struggling with the economy – when she was rudely interrupted. But Truss seemed completely oblivious as a banner depicting a lettuce (with goggly eyes) slowly unfurled from the ceiling behind her. To make matters worse, it had the words, “I crashed the economy” written on there, too. And, presumably by pure luck, she happened to be wearing a green, leaf-y coloured dress. Truss did not realise she had been upstaged by the remote-controlled banner until someone else came on stage and pointed it out to her. The person she was speaking to on stage said he had “no idea where that came from” – at which point, hesitant giggles started to break out in the audience. But Truss looked up at it, and said: “That’s not funny.” She stormed …

Emily Blunt Did Her Most ‘Stressful’ Stunt in Mary Poppins Returns

Emily Blunt Did Her Most ‘Stressful’ Stunt in Mary Poppins Returns

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Emily Blunt is revealing what movie she did her most “stressful” stunt in, and her answer may surprise some fans. The Oscar-nominated actress may have been surrounded by death-defying stunts in her latest movie, The Fall Guy, but she recently told People magazine that her scariest stunt was actually in 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns. “That entrance was very stressful for me,” she recalled of the scene. Blunt, who took over the memorable Julie Andrews role for Disney’s musical sequel, explained that her character’s entrance “had to start in the clouds and come all the way down toward the ground while holding an umbrella aloft. And I’m supposed to walk effortlessly into my close-up as if it’s nothing.” The Oppenheimer star added, “I did three takes — and then I felt my tolerance go, ‘Pfft!’ And that was it. I was done.” However, Blunt said she noticed that director Rob Marshall wanted to go for a fourth take but she immediately shut it down. “I did three takes and I could see Rob gearing up to do another …

King Charles ‘plotting spectacular stunt’ to show monarch ‘leads from the front’ | Royal | News

King Charles ‘plotting spectacular stunt’ to show monarch ‘leads from the front’ | Royal | News

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King Charles wants to get back in the saddle for Trooping the Colour by riding his favourite horse at his birthday celebrations. Charles, 75, will be easing back into public life after a three-month break to focus on his treatment and recuperation after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer. Trooping the Colour is a major event in the royal calendar and one at which the King is keen to be seen “leading from the front” by appearing on his most favoured horse, Noble, according to The Sun. Charles could ride from Buckingham Palace along The Mall to Horse Guards Parade along with Prince William, Princess Anne and Prince Edward. However, doctors may advise the monarch against such a move as His Royal Highness continues to recuperate. An insider told The Sun the King “wants to lead from the front” and has been “quite clear” he is raring to get back to public facing duties. They added the King doesn’t need to appear on horseback at Trooping the Colour but believes if it …

Wonky Waitrose billboard fenced off by London council as stunt backfires | Waitrose

Wonky Waitrose billboard fenced off by London council as stunt backfires | Waitrose

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A Waitrose billboard erected in a wonky fashion as a marketing stunt was fenced off by council staff amid public safety fears. The retailer erected an askew billboard on Lindore Road, in Wandsworth, south-west London, in a nod to its falling prices. The billboard, depicting a downwards arrow flanked either side by food items, was accompanied bytext that read: “Well, this is good – new lower prices on hundreds of your favourites.” While the message to customers was that prices were on the way down, this did not translate across the board, with public concern prompting Wandsworth council to erect fencing around the billboard. The move provoked a lighthearted reaction from the retailer on X. In a post, which tagged the council, it said: “Thanks for the swift action but while our prices are falling rapidly, our billboard certainly isn’t!” In a separate post to the official Specsavers X account, Waitrose asked: “One for you guys?” The council confirmed to the Guardian on Saturday that the barriers had since been removed. A council spokesperson said: …

David Leitch Wants to Give Stunt Performers Recognition

David Leitch Wants to Give Stunt Performers Recognition

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In a scene early in The Fall Guy, a nameless crewmember buckles Ryan Gosling‘s seat belt as his character is about to attempt a cannon roll, a classic car stunt, on the set of a fictional science fiction movie called Metal Storm. Gosling plays Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers, who is reluctantly returning to the film business after an injury, but in many ways the real star of the scene is the background actor buckling him in, Logan Holladay. Though his screen time lasts only a few moments, Holladay was the real-life stunt driver for Gosling — the one who actually steered a Jeep Grand Cherokee down a Sydney beach and rolled it eight and a half times on the sand, breaking the Guinness world record of seven rolls set by Adam Kirley, the driver of James Bond’s Aston Martin in 2006’s Casino Royale. “I’m like, ‘Whoa, man, am I upside down?’ ” Holladay says, explaining the sensation of performing the record stunt, in which, according to a G-force meter that was placed under his butt, he …

The Fall Guy review: Ryan Gosling is a screwball delight in this sweat-drenched stunt spectacle

The Fall Guy review: Ryan Gosling is a screwball delight in this sweat-drenched stunt spectacle

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Not to jinx it, but it looks as if the backlash against Hollywood’s overreliance on CGI has finally arrived. First came the high-profile failures of several digitally drenched, characterless sequels – think Aquaman 2 and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Then came the Sag-Aftra strikes, which saw actors push back against the use of AI to replicate their image, while multiple news stories surfaced alleging exploitative working conditions for VFX artists. And, now, suddenly, it seems in vogue for directors like Tim Burton to boast about the lack of CGI in their movies. Could it be that good, old-fashioned, practical moviemaking is finally back in style? David Leitch’s The Fall Guy, then, is ideally timed. It’s a sweat-drenched spectacle that celebrates the harmonious union between heart-stopping stunt work and charismatic movie stars. Ryan Gosling, still high on that Kenergy, embraces his uncanny ability to be both the coolest …

Pam Grier Still Has Injuries From Foxy Brown From Lack of Stunt Double

Pam Grier Still Has Injuries From Foxy Brown From Lack of Stunt Double

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Pam Grier is opening up about how she still has injuries from her time on the set of Foxy Bown. The actress stopped by Live With Kelly and Mark on Friday to celebrate 50 years since the Jack Hill film was released. Foxy Brown follows a vigilante who takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the people who killed her boyfriend. “I didn’t have a stunt double, so I had to look and appear convincing,” Grier told Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos about the film. “I got hurt. … I have injuries.” She explained that, at the time, she was surrounded by a community of women who had to be self-sufficient because their husbands, fathers and uncles were at war, and she brought that independence with her to Hollywood. “It took years to prepare men in a patriarchal society to see a woman do martial arts, jump around, do stunts,” the Jackie Brown star said. “They weren’t prepared for it, and they found it offensive, and they oppressed a lot of …