By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Growing up on the remote island of Karpathos, Greece, in the 1990s, Anna Katogiritis struggled to make friends at school and says she was bullied for being “small-sized.” But she was able to find comfort and friendship from another source – the thousands of stray cats that roamed the
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is back, but the formula you know is long gone. For more than 20 years, the annual cultural phenomenon saw a who’s who of supermodels don over-the-top lingerie and angel wings to strut down a runway to performances by the likes of Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga,
Continue Reading By Kate Springer, CNN (CNN) — Often associated with traffic-blocking buses, screechy megaphones and overcrowded landmarks, group tours don’t exactly have the best reputation. But a new crop of travel companies is totally redefining the concept, catering to millennials and Generation Z. Leaving tour guide flags by the wayside, next-gen group trips invite solo travelers
Continue Reading By Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Actor David McCallum, known for his role on the long-running CBS procedural “NCIS,” has died, the network said in a statement. He was 90. “He was the kindest, coolest, most patient and loving father,” his son Peter McCallum wrote in a statement from the family, provided by CBS. “He
Continue Reading By Megan Thomas and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are keeping their two young children in New York for now as part of a temporary court agreement filed Monday, according to documents. The two stars are in the midst of a divorce after four years of marriage. Last week, Turner
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Li’i, the last Pacific white-sided dolphin at Miami Seaquarium who spent the past few years with beloved orca Lolita, is getting a new home after the loss of his aquatic pal. The dolphin “was successfully moved to SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas,” according to a tweet from Miami Seaquarium on Monday. Li’i was moved to
Continue Reading By Sarah Kent, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, fashion designer Bobby Kolade moved from Berlin back to Uganda’s capital Kampala with the ambition of creating a home-grown fashion brand using Ugandan cotton. Things didn’t work out quite the way he imagined. Though the raw material is one of the country’s key export crops, Uganda’s textile
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Usher isn’t nervous about being the featured performer for the upcoming Super Bowl. In his first television interview since it was announced he would headline the halftime show, the Grammy-winning singer talked to “CBS Morning” on Monday. “Thirty years ago I made a commitment to offer my best
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — It’s “hard to know” whether Hollywood star Bruce Willis is aware that he is suffering with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), his wife, Emma Heming Willis, has said in an update on his condition. Speaking to Hoda Kotb on the Today show on NBC Monday, Heming Willis described how the diagnosis
Continue Reading CNN By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — It’s “hard to know” whether Hollywood star Bruce Willis is aware that he is suffering with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), his wife, Emma Heming Willis, has said in an update on his condition. Speaking to Hoda Kotb on the Today show on NBC Monday, Heming Willis described how the
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite and Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-winning Italian actress Sophia Loren, 89, was taken to hospital on Sunday for surgery after falling in her home in Geneva, Switzerland. Loren suffered several fractures to her hip and thigh-bone, her agent Andrea Giusti told CNN. “The surgery went very well,” Giusti said, adding that
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Game on. Travis Kelce said the ball was in Taylor Swift’s court after he made a play for her, and the singer appears to have caught his pass. To be clear, we still don’t know what is or is not going on with Taylor Swift and the NFL
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant appear to be a match made in creative heaven. Grant recently spoke with People magazine on the red carpet of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards and said she feels comfortable going it alone at events. “The good news about falling in
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taye Diggs is happy to talk about love stories, but only if it’s not his own. Despite social media videos of him and a certain someone (Google if you want to know), Diggs declined to talk about his love life during a recent interview with CNN. “I like
Continue Reading By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They’d always dreamed of owning a home in Italy, but opening a restaurant there was never part of the plan. But Dalip and Amber Tibb, who are based in North Carolina, have ended up doing both over the last few years. The Tibbs, who’ve been married for 18 years,
Continue Reading CNN Opinion by Frankie de la Cretaz (CNN) — Taylor Swift broke sports media when she showed up to the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday, seated next to tight end Travis Kelce’s mother, Donna. The outing capped a frenzied period of speculation in which the rumor mill had been working overtime to speculate whether
Continue Reading by Zoe Whitfield, CNN London (CNN) — Around the time of 2003, as the British Fashion Council’s talent-fostering initiative Newgen turned 10, the UK was involved in a number of era-defining events: Britain invaded Iraq under the orders of Prime Minister Tony Blair; legislation banning local authorities and schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’ was repealed; and
Continue Reading Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — It was the summer where everyone went to Europe. And now it’s fall, when the continent really comes into its own as the leaves – and visitor numbers – start to drop. A recent report from luxury travel network Virtuoso named Paris, London and Florence as the most booked cities
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — After Jody Servon’s father died, she kept his hairbrush safe in a Ziploc bag. “That way it still preserved his smell,” the artist and professor said over Zoom. That year, 2006, was a difficult one for Servon. She also lost three close friends, and in her grief began working
Continue Reading CNN By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — It’s a love story, perhaps, for NFL tight end Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, who was seen in Kelce’s family suite at Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears. The singer was shown cheering on the Chiefs during the FOX Sports broadcast, dressed in
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