Kristen Stewart threw it back to the ‘80s last night as she attended the Louis Vuitton after-party sporting an edgy punk.

After watching the Louis Vuitton runway show for Paris Fashion Week earlier on Tuesday evening, the Twilight actress was later seen heading to the star-studded after-party at the Crillon Hotel, sporting double denim with a jacket and jeans, messy hair and bright pink eyeshadow.

Tres chic.

No doubt Kristen, 28, was keen to enjoy a relaxed evening after attending the emotional Chanel fashion show earlier in the day, which honoured the brand’s late artistic director Karl Lagerfeld, who died last month.

The Hollywood star had sat next to singer and actress Janelle Monae and the pair looked sombre as they watched models walk in the final show Lagerfeld created before his death.

Remembering her fond memories of the late Chanel designer, Kristen told Vanity Fair last week: ‘I didn’t know Karl intimately.

‘I worked with him, and I’m so lucky for that. But through his art and who he was, he will dwell with me in my heart forever, because he was a compulsive and very true artist.

‘I’ve worked with really great people, but he genuinely was such a leader, such a teacher, such a compassionate, endlessly curious motherfucker, even at that age.’

Joining Kristen at the after-party were actress Chloe Grace Moretz, American Horror Story star Emma Roberts and Aladdin actress Naomi Scott, who is celebrating her stunning new cover for the April issue of British Vogue which is released on Friday.

Siblings Jaden and Willow Smith, Noomi Rapace, Jennifer Connelly and Alicia Vikander were among the a-list celebrities who had attended the Louis Vuitton fashion show earlier in the day.

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Piers Morgan was left ‘speechless’ after he was branded ‘childist’ in an interview.

The Good Morning Britain presenter invited Ari Dennis on this morning’s instalment show, to discuss why they had decided to raise their children as gender neutral.

Ari, who identifies as non-binary, told Piers and Susanna Reid why they ‘assigned a binary profile to oldest child’, eight-year-old Hazel, who then ‘articulated a preference for using they/then pronouns’ when they grew up.

They went on to explain they allowed Hazel to choose their own name, but ‘don’t like to share’ what the original moniker was.

‘They were using their birth name until around three-and-a-half,’ Ari said. ‘And then we had about six months of trying on different names, before settling on it.’

However, the presenter was left confused, claiming they were denying their children of ‘structure’.

‘You see, Ari… Allowing a three-year-old child to decide their name just on a whim,’ he told them. ‘Everyone who has had kids is going, “What?”

‘Kids will come up with all sorts of nonsense at that age. You say you offer structure, what could be more of a structure than actually saying to your child, “This is your name, and that’s your name? If, when you get to be an adult and want to change your name, then you become your own adult, your own responsibility, you take your own decisions”.

‘Part of being a parent is, until a child reaches adult age, actually the parent takes these decisions. What are you doing as a parent? As a parent you’re saying, “just get on with it”.

Ari hit back, accusing the 53-year-old of being ‘childist’.

‘Childism is the normalisation of the mistreatment of children, just because they’re young, assuming they can’t have opinions or ideas,’ they told him. ‘Obviously they need guidance and structure, but mistreating them or treating them like property, or denying their identity and autonomy.’

‘I’ve heard just about every ism imaginable. I’ve been accused of every ism, and I’m struggling with this new world of isms,’ he joked.

‘If a three-year-old child decides, “I’m no longer a boy or girl, I’m no longer going to be called Bob, I want to be called Doris,” and I object and say no, then I’m guilty of childism?’

‘Potentially,’ Ari responded, before the interview came to an awkward end.

‘Not much leaves me speechless, that interview has left me completely and utterly speechless,’ he added.

Good Morning Britain continues on weekdays, at 6am, on ITV.

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Queen Latifah is standing by Jussie Smollett after it was claimed he staged his own attack in Chicago in February.

‘The guy I’ve seen has always been someone who cares about people, who cares about others, and who’s very kind and who’s always been cool and sweet,’ she said.

‘And that’s just the guy I know. So until I can see some definitive proof — which I haven’t seen yet — then, you know, I gotta go with him until I see otherwise.’

The 36-year-old was hospitalised after claiming to have been beaten and abused by two strangers in MAGA hats, who poured unknown chemicals on him and tied a noose around his neck in what was thought to be a hate crime.

However, Jussie has since been charged with disorderly conduct and filing a false police report on 29 January, with Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson accusing the actor of staging the controversy to increase his pay packet.

Speaking to Zainab Salbi on the Yahoo series Through Her Eyes, she added: ‘I don’t even know what to make of it.

‘All I know is that I hope everything works out in the end and everybody basically comes out unscathed.’

It was claimed that the actor staged the attack due to his unhappiness with his salary on TV drama Empire but sources close to show runners have debunked any suggestion that his wage was his motive, alleging that he never once asked for a pay rise.

He was already making a reported $125,000 (£95,000) per episode, while his co-stars Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard are said to take home $250,000 (£187,000) each instalment.

Jussie’s cast mates have thrown their full support behind the actor, with Terrence posting a video of his co-star adding the caption: ‘All your lil homies got you… We love the hell outta you.’

The video shows Jussie playing with Terrence’s youngest son, tickling the tot and hysterically laughing as the child wriggles around.

He is due to appear in court on 16 March.

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R Kelly appears to lose his temper in his first interview since being charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse.

In pictures from his upcoming CBS interview posted by Gayle King, the 52-year-old is seen standing over Gayle, 64, waving his hand and seemingly shouting at the journalist.

A man appears to be holding Kelly back, as a hand can be seen on the Ignition singer’s left arm.

Meanwhile, CBS co-anchor King looks entirely unbothered by the situation, and has been praised for her composure in the face of what looks do be a very difficult interview.

Gayle – who is best friends with Oprah – shared two stills from the sit-down chat to her Instagram, writing: ‘rkelly sits down for first intvu since @survivingrkelly doc & let’s just say he has lots to discuss tomorrow @cbsthismorning…’

And her followers praised her for holding her own against Kelly.

Ava Du Vernay wrote: ‘Second picture. Whoa’, while Busy Phillips commented: ‘These pictures are so intense.’

Another person commented: ‘Your composure in the face of what must’ve been an incredibly challenging conversation is a lesson for us all’, while we seriously related to a comment reading: ‘Your whole face is a whole mood.’

And the praise for King continued over on Twitter:

This is Kelly’s first interview since being charged with aggravated sexual abuse, following new light being shed on the allegations made against him in the documentary Surviving R Kelly.

Kelly’s lawyer Steve Greenberg entered a not guilty plea for the singer, with court documents revealing that three of the four women accusing Kelly of abuse were underage at the time of the alleged abuse.

The R’n’B star was freed from jail after posting $100,000 of a $1 million bail, and insisted he is innocent in a preview of the CBS interview.

Breaking down in tears in front of Gayle, who asked if he had every held any girl or woman against their will, he said: ‘How stupid would that be for R Kelly, for all I’ve been through in my way, way past, to hold somebody, let alone four, five, six, 50… how stupid would I be to do that? That’s stupid! Use your common sense.

‘I didn’t do this stuff. This is not me. I’m fighting for my fucking life.’

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Priyanka Chopra didn’t exactly receive the warmest welcome from everyone in the Jonas family when she started dating Nick Jonas last year.

The Quantico actress had a ‘rough’ time trying to bond with Kevin Jonas’ youngest daughter Valentina, who was a little jealous of the new woman in Nick’s life.

Nick, 26, struck up a romance with Priyanka, 36, early in 2018 and they got married in December.

Recalling how two-year-old Valentina reacted to Priyanka, Kevin said on The Late Late Show With James Corden: ‘They definitely do now. At first it was a little rough going for my youngest daughter Valentina.

‘She’s very connected to Nick. But when she met Priyanka, Priyanka put her hand around his shoulder, and everytime … every time her hand would go around, and he was holding Valentina, she would just push it off.’

Kevin, 31, admitted that Valentina is ‘very territorial’. That’s one little lady you don’t want to mess with.

Fortunately, Valentina is ‘cool’ with Priyanka now that the Bollywood actress has officially married into the family.

Phew.

Kevin revealed: ‘It just became an on-going joke. I’m not sure Priyanka loved it at first, but they’re cool now.’

Valentina is also probably used to Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, who is engaged to Kevin’s other brother Joe Jonas. It won’t be long before the engaged couple walk down the aisle as Joe revealed they’ll be tying the knot this summer.

The DNCE singer teased: ‘We’re going to get married this year. Yeah. We’re going to have a summer wedding. I’m looking forward to it, it’s going to be a lot of fun.’

The Jonas Brothers have reunited this month to release their first single in six years, titled Sucker.

The music video stars Priyanka and Sophie aptly playing Nick and Joe’s on-screen love interests – perhaps little Valentina gave her seal of approval for that too.

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The director of freak fest 2019, Hereditary, has just dropped the trailer for his latest horror Midsommar and, dear reader, don’t think he’s going light on you this time around.

Ari Aster became famous after his film with Toni Collette scared the literal bejeebus out of us last year – it was scientifically proven to be the scariest film of 2018, if you were wondering – and he’s returned with his sophomore film that packs a punch.

Judging by the trailer, anyway.

Midsommer focuses on Dani, played by Florence Pugh, and her boyfriend Christian, played by Jack Reynor (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s Will Poulter is also roped into it, as Josh) as the couple takes to a remote Swedish town to visit one of their friends and attend a ‘crazy nine day festival that only happens every 90 years’.

Call us grandma, but any festival over three days is just going to raise alarm bells. Add in ‘crazy’ and ‘every 90 years’ and you’ve found yourself a ticket to nope-town.

Not looking seedy at all, the cinematography is stunning: rolling, green fields, flower garlands, white dresses…hang on, this is clearly a cult!

Bingo.

We really should have known when it was described as a ‘Scandinavian folk horror’, which is the worst kind of Scandinavian horrors, if you ask us.

It starts all dreamy and beautiful, as most horror flicks do, as we’re lulled into a false sense of security, thinking this is perhaps some sort of Scandi Coachella.

But then we’re plunged into a montage of gnarly as we see a bear cut open with its innards just chilling there on some sort of altar, a very creepy Wild Wild Country ‘just go with it’ chick, someone falling off a cliff, a disfigured face and some blood being smeared on stones.

The real WTF comes at the end though, as Florence’s character walks toward a room where you can only hear pained moans and screams, as she looks into the keyhole. Which is the number one no-no of snooping on a satanic cult: no keyhole peeking.

It’s got big shoes to fill as it follows Aster’s Hereditary.

The film was released in June 2018 and became A24’s highest-grossing release, premiering with $77.5 million (£60.1 million) at the box office.

Midsommar is in cinemas 16 August 2019.

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Dancing On Ice’s Jason Gardiner has denied that his ‘refrigerator’ comment fired at Gemma Collins was intended to be fat-phobic.

The 47-year-old ITV judge compared the Towie star to a kitchen appliance on Tuesday’s This Morning as well as pretending to forget who she was, but insists that he was only ‘making light of the situation.’

Unaware that his jibe had caused the GC to pull out of the upcoming Dancing On Ice final, Jason told Heart radio listeners: ‘She has an alter-ego, and it’s really interesting.

‘I was trying to make light of it. What I don’t like to do is make this constantly anything that it isn’t.’

When Jason was told that fans had taken his comments to be fat-shaming, he replied: ‘Oh god no. If people are taking it that way I’m really sorry.

‘It was a way of diffusing any tension and making light of the situation.’

Jason had no idea that his words had caused Gemma to cancel her reappearance that was expected on Sunday, adding: ‘Ignorance is bliss, I don’t know about this. I don’t engage on the social media platforms like that.

‘It’s something that I find gets magnified and distorted and people jump on a bandwagon. You can’t really buy in to it.’

Gemma confirmed that she wont be coming back to Dancing On Ice on Instagram, writing: ‘I’m really tired of being BULLIED by this man.

‘I wish you would stop… it’s very very upsetting and hurtful, let it go Jason stop bullying me ENOUGH is ENOUGH. I won’t be bullied any more making me feel uncomfortable to come back to the final on Sunday!

‘I was looking forward to Sunday but won’t be anywhere near someone who’s BULLYING me… this is NOT ACCEPTABLE on any level comparing any human to an electrical appliance is not acceptable #STANDUPTOBULLIES.’

Dancing On Ice airs Sunday at 6pm on ITV.

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TXT are the first band to debut under Big Hit Entertainment since BTS back in 2013 – and we all know how that band turned out.

So it’s only natural that the new boyband are turning to their K-pop big brothers for advice.

Fresh from their debut showcase and the release of TXT’s first album The Dream Chapter: STAR, singer Beomgyu has revealed the advice given to the five-piece group by BTS, which in turn they received from Big Hit CEO Bang Shi Hyuk.

Speaking to Koreaboo, Beomgyu said: ‘They emphasised a lesson they learned from Bang Shi Hyuk: Always remember the importance of the team.

‘Every time we run into them, they tell us, “Always think of the team first. Become an amazing artist. We’re always looking out for you and cheering you on.”

‘They always give us warm advice whenever we see them. It gave me strength while I was training.’

Legends support legends, after all.

And even though they’re label mates, the Crown singers still get a bit starstruck around RM, Jin, V, Jimin, Jungkook, J-Hope and Suga.

Beomgyu told the website he is a ‘big fan’ of BTS and ‘whenever [he runs] into them at the company, [his] heart flutters with nervousness, so [he] forgets how to speak’.

Too. Freakin’. Cute.

TXT, or Tomorrow x Together, debuted their first single and video for Crown earlier this week, and it’s the perfect taste of summer – despite it only being March.

Their album, The Dream Chapter: STAR, has rocketed to the top of the worldwide iTunes album chart – so we predict huge things for Beomgyu, Soobin, Yeonjun, Hueningkai and Taehyun.

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Billie Eilish has opened up on her battle with Tourette’s.

The Los Angeles native is currently dominating the music scene, but despite her success, the star revealed she’s having a daily struggle with Tourette’s Syndrome.

While chatting to FADER magazine, the 17-year-old opened up on her battle and confessed that attempting to suppress her ‘tic attacks’ is only making them worse.

She told the publication: ‘The internet hasn’t really seen the bad ones, because I’m really good at suppressing them. The thing is, the longer you suppress them, the worse they get afterwards.

‘I’m sure one day everyone will see the tic attacks that happen when I’m stressed and haven’t slept. But it could be a lot worse, and it’s not, and I’m grateful for that.’

The rising star then added: ‘And you know what, it’s fucking whatever.’

Billie is fast becoming a global superstar, and with a new album on the horizon it’s almost promised she’ll reach new heights later this year.

After releasing her track Ocean Eyes back in 2016, the star has captivated a huge fanbase over such a short space of time, and is already finding herself landing in the UK charts.

She recently dropped her latest track I Wish You Were Gay, in anticipation for her upcoming album.

Here she sings about hoping a guy she fancies was gay after finding out that he doesn’t like her back: ‘I just kinda wish you were gay / To spare my pride / To give your lack of interest an explanation.’

In an undated LiveStream video that the Party Favour songstress uploaded to Twitter, she revealed the meaning behind her new release.

‘The song is called I Wish You Were Gay, and that’s so not meant to be offensive in any way,’ she says in front of the camera.

‘It literally means that I wish he was gay so he didn’t like me for an actual reason instead of the fact that he didn’t like me.’

Billie then added: ‘And guess what, he just came out to me a couple of weeks ago. So fucking, I did that shit! I wrote the song and made him fuck a dude. I’m fucking proud, bro.’

Her previous single Bury A Friend landed at number seven in the UK Charts – so we can’t wait to see how far her new hit will climb.

Billie’s debut and first ever studio album will be released later this year. 

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Demi Lovato and boyfriend Henry Levy have ‘split’ just months after going public with their relationship.

The Cool For The Summer singer, who recently returned from rehab, made her romance with the fashion designer official at the end of last year.

However, an insider has told People Magazine the couple are no longer together.

The source also stated he was never acting as the 26-year-old’s ‘sober companion’, despite reports he was helping her following her time in rebab.

The former couple were first spotted together last November, days after Demi returned home from treatment.

They then made things Instagram official a month later, with the Confident star sharing a snap of them kissing on her story.

Demi has had a tough few weeks, after deciding to return to a treatment facility to seek help.

However, an insider is adamant she ‘did not relapse’ following her ‘overdose’ last July.

‘[Demi] has not relapsed since she overdosed,’ they told People. ‘She did recently go to a facility, but it was her own decision. It was one trip to a treatment facility for a few weeks outside of Los Angeles.’

The star has since returned home and is said to be ‘in a positive place’ and ‘taking care of herself’.

And they added she made the decision to head back into the studio and work on new music.

Demi previously opened up about her recover, explaining she would eventually explain her side of the story when she is ready to.

‘Someday I’ll tell the world what exactly happened, why it happened and what my life is like today,’ she vowed.

‘But until I’m ready to share that with people please stop prying and making up shit that you know nothing about.

‘I still need space and time to heal…’

Metro.co.uk has contacted Demi’s reps for a comment.

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Drake has turned to boxing on his mission to bulk up and he’s sought out the best in the business with Anthony Joshua giving him a helping hand in the ring.

The In My Feelings rapper jetted over to London at the weekend and made sure Anthony’s famous BXR gym in Marylebone was his first stop.

In a photo shared on his Instagram, the pair are seen posing by the side of the boxing ring with Drake’s camouflaged bandages hanging off his hands.

Always one to support UK talent, Drake captioned the image with lyrics from rapper Dave’s 2016 song Thiago Silva, writing: ‘Walk in the rave, smile on my face, Drink in my cup, hand in my jeans/ Man talk tough, man look up, down, left, right, Straight to a bang in the teeth.’

Cool.

Drake, 32, isn’t the only friend from overseas whom Anthony, 29, has been hosting recently as he was also snapped hanging with NFL player Odell Beckham Jr at the same gym.

Someone’s going to get jealous…

It shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Drake, real name Aubrey Graham, was keen to meet up with Anthony as he’s been on a mission to bulk up his physique in recent months.

Back in December, the Gods Plan rapper shared a couple of Instagram photos showing off his newly-ripped body and regularly shares videos of him boxing training in the gym.

Perhaps the Canadian rapper was introduced to Anthony by trainer, Jamie Reynolds who is the boxer’s strength and conditioning coach.

On Sunday, Drake was filmed in the middle of a ‘late night’ training session with Jamie, so he’ll probably be on Anthony’s level in no time.

It’s probably wise that Drake gets into shape as he’s scheduled to launch the Assassination Vacation Tour in Manchester on 10 March.

The chart-topping rapper will move onto Manchester, Dublin and Birmingham before performing a mammoth seven-night stint at London’s O2 Arena.

So he’ll need all the energy he can get.

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The news that your ex has just become the youngest self-made billionaire in history must be a bitter pill to swallow.

But Tyga brushed off the news as he emerged from a workout session in Los Angeles.

The 29-year-old rapper was pictured sporting long hair beneath a black durag following a trip to the gym with a friend.

Tyga, real name Michael Ray Stevenson, was dressed in a Spaghetti Boys hoodie, shorts and trainers as he was pictured in the parking lot of the gym, where he gave the waiting cameras a suspicious look.

To be fair, we’d do the same if anyone came near us with a camera after a stint on the crosstrainer.

Tyga’s trip to the gym came as his former girlfriend Kylie Jenner – who he dated for three years until their split in 2017 – was officially named the youngest self-made billionaire after beating Mark Zuckerberg’s achievement by two years.

Forbes reported that the cosmetics mogul has displaced Norwegian heiresses Alexandra Andresen, 22, and her sister Katharina, 23, from the top spot, after reaching the billion mark at the age of 21.

Kylie is also the only self-made female billionaire on the under-40 list, and has beaten 28-year-old Stripe co-founder John Collison as the youngest self-made billionaire on the list.

The mum-of-one, who is now dating Travis Scott, reached this mind-boggling point with her company Kylie Cosmetics, which was launched in 2015.

Initially, Kylie capitalised on the interest in her plumped-up lips by selling her famous lip kits for $29 (£22), but has since extended her Kylie Cosmetics brand to include glosses, eyeshadows, blushers and highlighters.

Speaking to Forbes, she said: ‘I didn’t expect anything. I did not foresee the future. But [the recognition] feels really good. That’s a nice pat on the back.’

Understatement of the century.

Still, not everyone is impressed by Kylie’s achievement.

Piers Morgan has been fuming about the milestone, saying that Kylie only reached this point because her sister Kim Kardashian made a sex tape, and branding her mother Kris Jenner a ‘pimp’. 

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The Switch’s surprisingly excellent battle royale version of Tetris is to host its first live event, with 999 prizes up for grabs.

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Mixing Tetris with battle royale doesn’t sound like it’s an idea that would work, but Tetris 99 has already turned out to be one of the best new multiplayer games of the year.

It’s not sold as a normal video game though, but instead it’s free if you subscribe to the Nintendo Switch Online service – the Nintendo equivalent to Xbox Live and PSN.

That excuses the fact that it’s a bit bare bones in terms of options and presentations, but it seems Nintendo is planning to start promoting it with special live events.

From 1pm GMT on Friday, 8 March to 6:59am on Monday, 11 March there’ll be a special online tournament called the Tetris 99 Grand Prix.

Anyone that wins a match will have a chance of winning one of 999 Gold Points rewards, which is worth £9.99 in the Nintendo eShop.

You don’t win the prize automatically if you come top, but instead winners are picked at random if there’s more than 999 of them.

And we can only assume there will be a lot more than 999 games going on over the weekend, because Tetris 99 is great and we know we still can’t stop playing it.

The logo for the Grand Prix has a big number ‘1’ on it, so it seems fair to assume this will be only the first of many such tournaments.

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The BBC has trumped the RTS Awards 2019 nominations list by landing an impressive 47 out of 81 contenders.

Besides BBC One and CBeebies being up for Channel of the Year, the cooroporation has been represented in a number of categories spanning across live events and comedy, with standout dramas Killing Eve and Peaky Blinders being recognised too.

Jodie Comer, who finally won her first award on Tuesday night, Sandra Oh and Michaela Ceol will battle it out for the Actor (Female) category, while Ben Whishaw has been nominated in the Actor (Male) category for A Very English Scandal.

Meanwhile, Michael McIntyre has been selected for Entertainment Performance, which Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnely have been snubbed from for the first time in nine years.

Programmes Black Hollywood: They’ve Gotta Have Us and Germaine Bloody Greer have received nominations in the Arts category, with Nabhaan Rizwan being named for the Breakthrough Award for his performance in Informer.

The Beeb have got two nominations in the Children’s Programme category with My Life: Locked In Boy and Jacqueline Wilson’s Katy, as well as a further two for Drama Series with Killing Eve and Peaky Blinders.

Sian Gibby is up for the Female Comedy Performance gong for her role in Peter Kay’s Car Share, alongside Lesley Manville for Mum, and Daisy May Cooper in This Country.

Meanwhile, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton will be competing against Samson Kayo for Famalam, and Alex Murphy and Chris Walley for The Young Offenders in the male category.

Moving On, Murder Mystery And My Family and The Repair Shop will go go head-to-head for Daytime and Early-Peak Programme, with Drugsland and Love & Hate Crime fighting for the Documentary Series gong and Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing named for the contender of Formatted Popular Factual.

The History category sees A Dangerous Dynasty and The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story named, with The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle making an appearance in the Live Event listing and A Very English Scandal nominated for an award for Mini-Series.

BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore was delighted with the news, saying: ‘I’d like to congratulate all the nominees today. We’re very proud to have BBC programmes represented in over half of the nominations for this year’s awards.

‘Whatever the pressures in the market to specialise, the BBC remains committed to commissioning programmes across all genres and for all audiences – and it’s great to see that recognised in today’s announcement.’

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Michael Jackson’s close friend has spoken out about Leaving Neverland, revealing that it made him ‘feel sick.’

Mark Lester, who is the godfather to MJ’s children, appeared on Lorraine and opened up on his relationship with the late star.

Talking about his own opinion on the Thriller hitmaker, Mark confessed that he didn’t understand what the new two-part documentary was trying to achieve.

He told the host: ‘First of all I thought it was over long, it seemed to repeat itself quite a lot. It was quite boring in many places, it made me feel quite sick.

‘This is not the Michael Jackson I knew for over 30 years, this is not the man my children knew, this is not the guy that I knew they were talking about.’

He went on to say how sad he was that the upcoming release had even come to light.

‘I don’t really know what the object of the exercise is here,’ Mark stated before adding: ‘It’s a very sad and sensitive subject and child abuse is awful.

‘I can’t fathom what good or what this is trying to achieve.’

He revealed that he’d chosen Michael to be the godfather to his own kids and told Lorraine that he never had any ‘alarm bells’ about Jackson’s behaviour.

Mark said: ‘I never saw or was party or even had the slightest notion that there was anything untoward with Michael.

‘My children were for maybe seven or eight years with Michael’s children, playing together. I was godfather to his children, he was godfather to my children.’

During Leaving Neverland, Wade Robson and James Safechuck accuse Jackson of grooming, sexually assaulting and raping them as minors.

However, despite their claims, the Jackson family gave an interview about the documentary for the first time, where they threw their support behind the star.

Tito, Marlon, Jackie and Taj told CBS that ‘naivety was his downfall’.

MJ’s cousin Taj, who said he was there at the ‘sleepovers’ with the star, added: ‘To the outside world, yes, I think it can be odd. I mean, I’m not oblivious to what it sounds like… I grew up in it, so for me it wasn’t odd.

‘I think the fault on my uncle was he just, he didn’t have that bone in his body to look at it the other way. And I think that was the thing, is that his naivety was his downfall in a way.

‘I hate to say it, [but] when it’s my uncle, it’s almost like they see a blank check.’

Leaving Neverland airs on 6 and 7 March at 9pm on Channel 4.

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Kylie Jenner is reportedly yet to have a sit-down conversation with her best friend, Jordyn Woods, following the Tristan Thompson cheating scandal.

Jordyn, 21, admitted to kissing the Cleveland Cavaliers player at his house party in Los Angeles last month, prompting his girlfriend and Kylie’s older sister, Khloe Kardashian, to dump him.

A few weeks have past since the scandal erupted by Kylie, 21, is said to have had little communication with her childhood friend.

Sources close to the pair have told TMZ that Kylie and Jordyn’s friendship is ‘far from being repaired’ and they have barely spoken since the incident.

It’s also claimed that Jordyn still has her belongings in Kylie’s guest house, where she lived prior to the controversy.

The model is reportedly wants to give Kylie her space as she knows the TV star is dealing with so-called problems in her relationship with Travis Scott, whom she has allegedly accused of cheating.

With Jordyn out of the picture, Kylie’s been spending time with other friends, celebrating a pal’s birthday at a roller-skating party on Tuesday, and her other siblings like Kourtney and Khloe.

However, she’s reportedly still following Jordyn on Instagram and still has a photo of them together as her Twitter cover photo.

Understandably, an insider recently explained that it will be difficult to cut Jordyn out of her life given they live together and are usually joined at the hip.

The source told Cosmopolitan: ‘Kylie still seems torn. It’s gonna be very difficult for her to cut Jordyn completely out of her life.’

Another insider told Us Weekly: ‘Jordyn has remained isolated. Most of her friends have not spoken to her and she’s not responding to almost all of them.’

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Gemma Collins has been pictured snogging boyfriend James Argent in a very public display that proves she has taken him back after his fat-shaming comments.

The pictures are postcard-perfect, with the pair enjoying a smooch in front of the Eiffel tower and wandering around Paris, the city of love, as twilight falls.

But they come as Gemma has blasted Jason Gardiner for being a ‘bully’ after he compared her to a fridge.

Arg previously admitted to ‘deeply regretting’ his actions and the messages he sent to The GC about her weight, in which he called her ‘a fat joke’ and said she had ‘more rolls than Greggs’.

Yet, despite his nasty remarks, Gemma is giving romance with Arg another shot and the pair were seen strolling around the city, wrapped up warm against the evening chill.

The happy couple later enjoyed a show at the Moulin Rouge, and then tucked in to tea at the Four Seasons George V Hotel.

In the series of texts, Arg is said to have branded her ‘an absolute car crash’.

‘You’re nearly 40 fucking years old, you embarrassment… who the fuck do you think you are? You’ve got more rolls than Greggs,’ the texts are claimed to have read.

Dancing On Ice judge Jason and Gemma have had a rocky relationships since she appeared on the ITV reality show, and he offered some stinging criticism.

On Tuesday however he compared the Towie star to a kitchen appliance as well as pretending to forget who she was, but later insisted that he was only ‘making light of the situation’.

‘I’m really tired of being BULLIED by this man,’ Gemma responded on Instagram,.

‘I wish you would stop… it’s very very upsetting and hurtful, let it go Jason stop bullying me ENOUGH is ENOUGH. I won’t be bullied any more.’

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Nicole Scherzinger appears to be well and truly moving on following the leak of a tape with ex-boyfriend Lewis Hamilton.

The singer admitted last week the whole ordeal had been ‘horrible’ as she attempted to put it all behind her.

Now it seems her aims have come to fruition, as she beamed while walking through LAX earlier this week with her crew.

On her way to London to speak at today’s WE Day summit, the X Factor judge appeared carefree while walking through the terminal after checking in her suitcase for the jaunt back to the UK

On her way to the cooler climates, the 40-year-old singer sported a black Vetements puffy coat, a white tee, monochrome print leggings and black combat boots for her flighty to Blighty (yeah, we went there).

Despite all the drama that has flipped her personal life back into the spotlight recently, the former Pussycat Doll appeared in good spirits and was laughing at something evidently hilarious.

Perhaps she just really loves flying.

Then on Wednesday morning she was seen on the carpet of the WE Day event at SSE Arena in Wembley, wearing a red and white striped top and high-waisted black trousers looking like what we can only describe as a very stylish candy cane.

The singer was mortified in February when footage of her kissing and cuddling her Formula One racer ex surfaced online.

Nicole and Lewis, 34, dated for seven years before splitting for good in 2015 and the tape – which didn’t show anything explicit – was filmed during their on/off relationship.

Opening up about the leak publicly for the first time, Nicole told The Sun at an Oscars party last month: ‘It’s been horrible.

‘I genuinely don’t understand why someone would do something like this, or why they would leak it. It’s an unbelievably mean thing to do.’

Even though it was suggested there may be more tapes out there hackers may intercept, Lewis has not addressed the footage, which has been viewed around 600,000 times.

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Nicki Minaj is really here for trying to make her concerts as accessible as possible.

Tickets to the Super Bass rapper’s UK leg of her world tour – which kicks off on 11 March at the O2 – are being sold as 2-4-1.

Ticketmaster has slashed the price of seeing the 36-year-old live on stage, with passes for the show basically going for half-price.

Pretty damn generous, right?

Fans have been a little divided over the promotion, with many flocking to Twitter to praise their bargain.

‘Can’t believe ticketmaster are doing 2 for 1 tickets for Nicki Minaj. I’m in,’ one posted.

‘Fucking 2-4-1 Nicki Minaj tickets… yes pls,’ an impressed fan commented.

While many more were wondering why exactly the tickets had been slashed so low – just days before she’s due to take to the stage.

A Twitter user said: ‘Nicki Minaj tickets are now 2-4-1. Yikes.’

While another joked: ‘Nicki Minaj selling 2-4-1 tickets for the o2?! Whew, it’s tight!’

Nicki will be joined by Juice Wrld on the European leg, after Future was forced to pull out of the dates in question over ‘production issues’.

Speaking about the rapper’s replacement, she said: ‘I have been carefully crafting the most exhilarating, unique, memorable piece of art to share with my incredible fans.

‘I’m in love with Juice Wrld’s music & feel so stoked to have him join me. This will be one for the books.’

The Queen star hasn’t had the best luck with her tour so far, after she was forced to tell a bunch of fans she couldn’t perform – while they were already in the stadium.

Not ideal…

Taking to Instagram at the end of last month, she told her 100million followers: ‘Gutted. Heartbroken. I can’t believe my fans sometimes. After waiting for hours & hours, they still tried to be understanding.

‘Production was told the building does not have the power to facilitate my lifts (which not only move me below & very VERY high above the stage, but also move all our props, furniture, dancers, band, etc.), our lighting rig, fog, cryo, confetti, movies/visuals.’

Nicki said she had spent three hours with production, trying to find a solution, explaining how the breaker would ‘trip’ every few minutes after powering up.

Throwing a sprinkling of shade, she added: ‘Slovakia, I love you so much & I’ll do everything in my power to get back to you as soon as I can. I think the venue/promo team probably didn’t expect a rap show to have such over the top production.

‘We run the risk of someone getting hurt if we start the show & something malfunctions mid-show. Sorry we couldn’t have a great night together.

‘We’ll be in Poland on Sunday @ a building that can facilitate our show.’

Metro.co.uk has contacted Ticketmaster for a comment.

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Michael Jackson’s nephew has alleged that one of his accusers is ‘100% lying’ about allegations of sexual abuse.

Wade Robson, now 36, has alleged that he was abused by Michael Jackson from the age of seven until he was 14 years old, with his allegations put forward in the documentary Leaving Neverland, which is set to air on Channel 4 tonight.

James Safechuck, now 41, has also accused Jackson of sexually abusing him between the ages of 10 and 14, telling Victoria Derbyshire: ‘It starts with him teaching you how to masturbate, then you start French kissing, then oral sex starts. He also liked to have his nipples rubbed.’

Taj Jackson appeared on Victoria Derbyshire this morning to defend his late uncle, and said that while he couldn’t comment on Safechuck’s claims, he believed Wade was lying.

When asked if Robson – a choreographer who danced on Jackson’s tours as a child – was lying, Taj said: ‘100% he’s lying. Joy [Wade’s mother] is lying as well. Chantal [his sister] is lying as well. I think Wade’s brother might believe Wade. Amanda [Wade’s wife] is lying.

‘I don’t know James. He could be telling the truth, but he’s lied in the past. I don’t feel comfortable talking about someone I don’t know.’

Speaking about Wade’s allegations, Taj said: ‘If you look at the timeline, which is what we’ve been trying to say to people, Wade was doing tribute shows after tribute shows, he even begged for the Cirque Du Soleil choreography job. Once the estate said no on that, he started secretly writing a book about his abuse and he shopped it around and nobody picked it up. A year later he comes out publicly with it. That’s in the deposition, that’s not just me saying it.

‘I know Wade, and it bothered me a lot. I feel betrayed. I was the one who got Wade into my uncle’s memorial, I thanked Wade when he testified. I wish I could take all that back.’

Taj, son of Tito Jackson, is himself a survivor of sexual abuse, and admitted to Victoria that it was a difficult situation for him.

He said on the BBC2 news show: ‘It’s hard because as a survivor, I’m looking at it one way, but knowing my uncle for thousands of hours and knowing he’s not capable of that, I’m looking at it in a completely different way.

‘I’m trying to be sensitive to victims, because I know how hard it is to come out, but what do you do when you know one of the people and you know them very well and you know why they’re doing it? It’s hard for me. It’s a no-win situation.’

Wade and James put forward their allegations against Jackson in graphic detail in Leaving Neverland, which is expected to draw protests at Channel 4 from fans of the late musician.

The estate of Michael Jackson has denied the allegations, and are suing HBO – who co-produced the documentary with Channel 4 – for $100 million.

Leaving Neverland part one airs on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm.

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