Valentina DiDonato and Lianne Kolirin, CNN A huge Pompeii house covered in erotic frescoes which has been closed to the public for 20 years has reopened after undergoing a dramatic renovation. The historic House of the Vettii, located about 16 miles south of Naples, Italy, is thought to have belonged to two men freed from
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN We are learning even more about the heritage of Julia Roberts. Not long ago, the internet was all abuzz about the fact that civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. had paid the hospital bill for her birth. Now comes news that there was a big secret in the “Ticket
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN It doesn’t sound like Theo James is shaken or stirred by chatter he should be the next James Bond. “The White Lotus” star recently appeared on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham,” where Cagle said, “I’m hoping you’re the next Bond.” It’s a sentiment that has been shared
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy have welcomed a baby boy. The “Dancing with the Stars” couple both took to Instagram to share a black-and-white photo of the baby holding Johnson’s thumb, with Chmerkovskiy holding their hands. “Our world is forever changed 1.10.2023,” they both captioned it. The duo did not reveal
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Plane” is a too-generic title for what’s actually a pretty good little movie, combining with the ad campaign to convey a sense the film is more “Rambo”-like than it is. A crisply executed thriller likely never to be offered as in-flight entertainment, the bare-bones story falls mainly in the plain
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “This is my story, told my way,” the title character narrates at the outset of “Velma,” an adult-oriented take on “Scooby-Doo” that demonstrates the limits of stretching what amounts to a one-note joke into a series. Sporadically witty but ultimately rather tedious, the HBO Max comedy leverages more than a
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The once queen of Instagram is back. Selena Gomez recently posted a series of selfies on her verified Instagram account with the caption, “Wait can you tell I’m back on Instagram ?” In April 2022, the “Only Murders in the Building” star said during an appearance on “Good Morning America”
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN Michael Flatley, the creator and star of the hit show “Riverdance,” has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form of cancer,” according to an announcement on his official Instagram account Wednesday. In the post it was revealed that the 64-year-old “has undergone surgery and is in the care of an excellent team
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN Luxury group LVMH’s billionaire owner Bernard Arnault, has appointed his daughter Delphine as the new head of Christian Dior, it was announced Wednesday. The 47-year-old will serve as chair and CEO of the French label from February following a major shakeup at the conglomerate behind brands including Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Givenchy and
Continue Reading Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Prince Harry has set a record with his tell-all memoir “Spare,” after the English language version sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first day of publication. The bumper sales included all formats of the book — paper, audio and electronic — in the US, Canada
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN Officials are still trying to figure out exactly what led to the Federal Aviation Administration system outage on Wednesday but have traced it to a corrupt file, which was first reported by CNN. In a statement late Wednesday, the FAA said it was continuing to investigate the outage
Continue Reading By Dan Heching and Taylor Romine, CNN Carole Cook, a veteran actress beloved for her work on stage and screen, with credits including the 1984 John Hughes comedy “Sixteen Candles,” has died, according to a statement from her agent, Robert Malcolm. She was 98. Cook died “peacefully” on Wednesday from heart failure, Malcolm told CNN
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Jeff Beck, the rock guitarist often regarded among the greatest of all time, has died, according to a statement posted to his official social media accounts. He was 78. “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing,” the
Continue Reading Scottie Andrew, CNN Tatjana Patitz, who rose to fashion fame in the ’90s as an animal-loving supermodel with a piercing gaze, has died, her agent confirmed to CNN. She was 56. Patitz died January 11 from breast cancer, her agent Corinne Nicolas told CNN. She’s survived by her son, Jonah. The German-born model appeared on
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN Officials are still trying to figure out exactly what led to the Federal Aviation Administration system outage on Wednesday but have traced it to a corrupt file, which was first reported by CNN. In a statement late Wednesday, the FAA said it was continuing to investigate the outage
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Before he gave his speech for best actor in a musical or comedy at the 2023 Golden Globes, Colin Farrell took a moment to praise presenter Ana de Armas. After he took the stage for his win as Pádraic Súilleabháin in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Farrell turned to de Armas and
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Before he gave his speech for best actor in a musical or comedy at the 2023 Golden Globes, Colin Farrell took a moment to praise presenter Ana de Armas. After he took the stage for his win as Pádraic Súilleabháin in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Farrell turned to de Armas and
Continue Reading Lianne Kolirin, CNN A British museum is to remove its most famous exhibit from display — the skeleton of an 18th-century man popularly known as the “Irish Giant.” The Hunterian Museum houses a collection of anatomical specimens at London’s Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS). It has been closed for five years for a
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jerrod Carmichael had a pitch for Tom Cruise and Church of Scientology in one of his Golden Globes jokes. The comedian and host of Tuesday’s ceremony referenced Cruise having returned his Globe statues in 2021 in the midst of controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The nominations for the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which honor some of the year’s best television and film performances by actors, were announced on Wednesday. “Emily In Paris” star Ashley Park and Haley Lu Richardson from HBO’s hit series “The White Lotus” revealed the nominees, which streamed on Instagram
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