Alyssa Farah Griffin Misses ‘The View’ Amid Covid Diagnosis

Zara McDermott and Sam Thompson had their friends and fans thinking he had finally popped the question, after the MIC star posted a loved-up snap from their sun-soaked holiday in the Maldives.The couple, who got together in 2019 have been on a two week trip together, including jetting off to South Africa for the holiday of a lifetime, where they visited Kruger National Park. Rounding up their two week trip in the Maldives, Sam, 30, posted a picture of the pair stealing a kiss in the most idyllic of settings, with a backdrop of sea and sunset.

Julián Figueroa, singer-songwriter and Mi Camino Es Amarte telenovela actor, has died. He was 27.

Police seized an air rifle from reality star Katie Price’s ex, Kieran Hayler, after he was arrested amid allegations he had made threats to fire it, it has been reported by The Sun. Kieran, 36, was arrested on suspicion of child neglect and possessing a firearm. A spokesperson for Sussex Police told The Mirror: "A man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and child neglect.

Arlene Phillips has hit out at Alison Hammond after the This Morning presenter shared an apology following her recent comments about theatre performances. Alison, 48, came under fire following Friday's episode of This Morning, where she and co-host Dermot O'Leary, 49, as well as regular guest Vanessa Feltz, 60, debated whether it’s acceptable to sing along during musicals.

The King and Queen Consort led the Royal Family to St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle yesterday (Sunday, April 9) for the first Easter Sunday service of the new reign.The couple were joined by the likes of The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Beatrice and Zara Tindall at the annual service before they headed back to the castle for lunch. While the day was filled with sweet moments, there was another special anniversary being celebrated as The King and Queen Consort marked their 18th wedding anniversary yesterday.The pair married in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall on April 9, 2005 and affirmed their vows in a religious blessing at St George's Chapel later the same day.

Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools are one of those celebrity couples that seem to know how to avoid drama, and just generally get on with their family lives hassle-free. The 47 year old has been with his partner, former model and writer Juliette Norton, 48, since they were both teenagers, but the pair decided to tie the knot back in July 2000. Which means this year, they’ll be coming up to their 23rd wedding anniversary.

Singer and actress Melody Thornton has apologised to fans after a performance of The Bodyguard at the Palace Theatre in Manchester was forced to end early and police spoke two disruptive audience members.The last 10 minutes of the musical, in which the former Pussycat Dolls star plays the lead role, were axed on Friday night after some members of the audience refused to remain seated and refrain from loudly singing, despite the signs installed around the auditorium telling people not to, reports the Manchester Evening News. Speaking in a video posted to her Instagram story on Friday evening, Thornton said: “I wanted to send a really special message to people in Manchester who came to the show tonight to say thank you so much. “I respect that you paid your money and I am so grateful to everyone who respects the people on stage who want to give you a beautiful show.

Faye Brookes and Iwan Lewis got engaged New Year's Eve after a romantic proposal. And although the pair had only been in a relationship for three months, they had actually known each other for 15 years and had enjoyed a firm friendship. They even worked together on stage in the musical of Legally Blonde in 2011 and played each other's love interest of Elle and Emmett.They also lived together at one stage as flatmates.

On Sunday, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham marked his first wedding anniversary and described himself as "the luckiest person on this earth" to be married to wife Nicola Peltz Beckham . The 24-year-old son of former England footballer David Beckham and former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham, shared the sweet tribute to his 15.1 million Instagram followers over the weekend.

Gladiator sequel.Crowe recently confirmed that he is “not involved” in the upcoming sequel to the 2000 film, with Normal People and Aftersun star Paul Mescal rumoured to take the starring role.“I mean, look, the only thing that I really feel about it is slightly jealous, you know? Because I was a much younger man, obviously, and it was a huge experience in my life,” Crowe told Collider.“It’s something that changed my life, really. It changed the way people regarded me and what I do for a living, and, you know, I’ve been very lucky to be involved in lots of big movies, but the legs on that film are incredible.”He added: “Here it is, it’s 2023, and we made that film in 1999.

Sex Pistols‘ Glen Matlock has said he was “very disappointed” with the Pistol television series.Pistol premiered on Hulu and Disney+ on May 31 last year. It starred Anson Boon as Johnny Rotten, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook and Christian Lees as Glen Matlock among a cast line-up that also includes Maisie Williams. It was based on guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol and was directed Danny Boyle.In a new interview with The Metal Voice, which you can watch below, Matlock said he was “very disappointed in it, actually, considering I had meetings with Danny Boyle about it.”He continued: “I’m not disappointed that it came out, and I thought it was important that it went ahead because it was based on Steve’s story and take on things.

Dermot O'Leary has issued a statement following Alison Hammond's apology as the pair face backlash after comments made on This Morning.

A frantic search has been launched to locate a Scots man who vanished two days ago.

Christine McGuinness has opened up on her plans to get back into the dating scene after splitting with her ex Paddy McGuinness after 11 years together.

ABBA guitarist Lasse Wellander has died at the age of 70 after a cancer diagnosis, his family has confirmed.

K-pop girl group IVE have released their first studio album ‘I’ve IVE’ and a visual for its lead single ‘I AM’.Today (April 10), the six-member group unveiled their powerful music video for ‘I AM’, the lead single of their debut studio album ‘I’ve IVE’, which arrived at the same time.The new visual features the IVE members strutting confidently through a lavish mansion and flying in a private jet, showing off their luxury bags and shoes. Later, they take to a fashion runway and perform the choreography to ‘I AM’.“That’s my life, a beautiful galaxy / Be a writer, the genre is fantasy / A big big stage will open for me tomorrow / So that is who I am,” they sing in the powerful chorus.In addition to ‘I AM’, IVE’s new album includes the pre-release single ‘Kitsch’ and nine other tracks.

Hilary Swank is embracing her new role as a mother. The 48-year-old actress revealed on Easter Sunday that she and husband Philip Schneider have welcomed their twins — a boy and a girl Swank took to Instagram, sharing a sweet photo of herself holding her newborn babies and looking out at the sunset on the ocean. «It wasn’t easy.

Ellie Goulding has spoken to NME about new album ‘Higher Than Heaven’, her Calvin Harris-collab ‘Miracle’ riding high in the charts and the possibility of representing the United Kingdom in Eurovision.Goulding’s fifth album ‘Higher Than Heaven’ was released on Friday (April 7) – and was written intentionally as purely escapist pop.“My new thing is acknowledging the things I’m good at, and I’m good at writing pop songs,” Goulding told NME. “I’ve made a classical album, I’ve made electronic music and I regularly give my vocal away to producers like Four Tet.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, saying it is “about the Guardians saving themselves”.The third film in the series is due out in UK cinemas on May 3, and sees Gunn returning to direct alongside star Chris Pratt.“It is a trilogy,” Gunn told Empire of the series’ overall narrative arc. “The first movie is about the mother, the second movie is about the father and the third movie is about the self.

James Corden has hinted who his final guests may be on The Late Late Show before it wraps this spring.Last year, Corden confirmed that he’ll return to the UK full-time once he finishes the current season of the show, which he has hosted for eight years, in spring 2023 [via Variety].Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Corden said there were 12 episodes left of the show before he leaves on April 27.“My last guest is going to be [a] huge pop star,” he told the outllet. “There’s some really fun things to come.

Kakao has been raided by South Korean authorities over allegations that it was involved in stock manipulation over its purchase of SM Entertainment shares.According to a report by English South Korean publication Korea JoongAng Daily, about 40 prosecutors and investigators from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) – the East Asian country’s financial regulator – had confiscated data from Kakao’s office in the city of Pangyo in relation to its stock trading activity from February 2023.“The special judicial police at the FSS is presently in the process of investigating if the sale of SM shares is in violation of the Capital Markets Act under guidance from the prosecution,” an FSS spokesperson said in a statement to South Korean press, per Korea JoongAng Daily.“The team is looking into whether there was artificial engagement to sway share prices in a certain direction,” they added.Per The Korea Herald, Kakao are reportedly under investigation for allegedly artificially inflating the stock price of SM Entertainment in an attempt to block HYBE from taking control of the K-pop agency.Back in February, HYBE had launched a tender offer to buy up to 25 per cent of SM Entertainment for ₩150,000 per share. However, HYBE had only been able to acquire 0.98 per cent through that offer, per The Korea Herald.Around the same time, HYBE had submitted a petition to the FSS over an “abnormal” 2.9 per cent purchase of SM Entertainment stocks that had been transacted through a IBK Securities’ branch in Pangyo, according to Korea JoongAng Daily.Kakao has yet to comment on the situation. NME has reached out for comment.Meanwhile, HYBE has since dropped its bid to acquire SM Entertainment following a discussion with Kakao.

Keanu Reeves is teaming up with Jonah Hill for a new film called Outcome.The new Apple Studios film has been co-written by Hill with Erza Woods. Hill will also direct the feature, which is described as a “dark Hollywood story” according to The Hollywood Reporter.Outcome will reportedly tell the story of Reef, who will be played by Reeves.

Girls’ Generation member Jessica Jung has performed a cover of Ariana Grande’s ‘God Is A Woman’.Over the weekend, Chinese streaming site Youku released the first episode for its new season of Great Dance Crew, a dance reality competition series that pits several top dance crews in China against one another in a series of challenges.As one of the leaders on the series, Jung teamed up with famed dancer AC for her first performance of the season. The singer opened with a cover of Ariana Grande’s 2018 single ‘God Is A Woman’, accompanied with sensual choreography.“You, you love it how I move you / You love it how I touch you / My one, when all is said and done / You’ll believe God is a woman,” she sings.

Ghost have shared a cover of Genesis‘ ‘Jesus He Knows Me’, announced a covers EP and spoken to NME about new music, the future, and being inspired by personality politicians like Trump.Following the release of their rendition of Genesis’ 1992 hit ‘Jesus He Knows Me’ over Easter, yesterday (Sunday, April 9) the band followed up with the news of a new five-track EP, ‘Phantomime’ – featuring more re-imagined songs from Iron Maiden, Tina Turner, Television, and The Stranglers.As frontman Tobias Forge told NME, ‘Phantomime’ could “cast a glimpse as to where I want to go with the band now”.“That doesn’t mean that all of a sudden we’re going to sound like Television!” he said. “It just means that there are practical things in there that have inspired me to record this EP in a slightly different way than I have done previously.”Speaking about his decision to put ‘Jesus He Knows Me’ as the lead single for ‘Phantomime’, Forge believed the “song is more relevant today than it probably was in 1992”.

As expected, the hosts of “The View” were thrilled on Friday morning, after a New York grand jury voted to indict twice-impeached former president Donald Trump. But they were also hopeful that a certain former opponent of his was basking in the news as well.During the morning’s Hot Topics discussion, host Ana Navarro joked that “Donald Trump finally won a popular vote yesterday,” and disagreed with many of her fellow Republicans on the move.

develop at a rapid pace, more and more people aregetting worried about their capabilities. But Joy Behar thinks Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene might just be the person to “save us” from A.I.

Ana Navarro may be no fan of Donald Trump, but she still thinks the twice-impeached former president is right about one thing: he gets to take credit for Ron DeSantis’ governorship.Navarro’s thoughts came as the hosts of “The View” discussed Trump’s campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on Monday morning. Though the women largely scoffed at what Trump had to say — moderator Whoopi Goldberg even went so far as to call him the “most violent snowflake I’ve ever seen” — Navarro honed in on one smaller bit.“I did rallies for Ron that were massive rallies. And they were very successful,” Trump said.

podcast “Bad Dates”Tuesday on the “TODAY” show.“How do I tell this again legally?” Jamil joked. “I had a man take several steps into my apartment on what was supposed to be my first-ever booty call. He collapsed three steps in.”“He broke all of his front teeth.

Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance during Monday’s episode of “The View.”Goldberg, who has been wearing eyeglasses for 28 years, hosted without them, explaining during the “Hot Topics” segment that she had undergone eye surgery over the weekend. “I had an operation, and they replaced the lens and the lens they replaced it with is kind of like my eyeglass lens,” the 67-year-old announced.

Hugh Grant is joking about his infamous arrest. The 62-year-old actor appeared on Thursday's episode of , and made a quip about his 1995 arrest with a sex worker for «lewd conduct.»The moment happened when Sunny Hostin asked Grant about the reasons behind his outspokenness against how the British tabloids invade people's privacy.«Everyone thinks, 'Oh, well he's just bitter because he got arrested with a hooker in 1995,'» he said to uproarious laughter from the hosts and studio audience. «But actually it had nothing to do with that because that was never uncovered by tabloids.

Social media users have a few things to say to The View hosts after they never brought up Hugh Grant’s mega-awkward interview with Ashley Graham during his appearance on the talk show this week!

Whoopi Goldberg is issuing an apology after she used an offensive term on The View.

one Twitter user wrote.“She burped. They are soooo loud and talking over each other,” another user responded.“Wait did Whoopi just fart on national tv #TheView,” another asked.“Sure did,” said a responder.The talk show was interrupted weeks ago by another odd fart noise.In January, during a serious discussion about classified documents found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, a drink spilled and began leaking off the table.Goldberg pointed out to co-host Sara Haines that something was dripping, and as Haines looked down to see, she moved a little in her seat while what appeared to be a fart noise sounded on the mic.“We had a little spillage on the other side of the table,” co-host Alyssa Farah said, laughing and appearing a bit flustered. “Now it’s on my pants,” Haines said as she and Goldberg tried to clean up the spill.“The View” has had its share of unwanted interruptions in recent years.Last year, Joy Behar face-planted in front of the audience — which caused the show to unveil new chairs on set.More recently, Goldberg was heckled by an audience member who called her an “old broad” on live television.

#TheView. pic.twitter.com/PIvwYRWMsyThe slip occurred as the panel – among them Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin – were discussing former president Trump’s legal battle with adult film star Stormy Daniels and the alleged hush money he and former attorney Michael Cohen paid her after an alleged affair.

potentially faces imminent indictment over hush money paid to Stormy Daniels in 2016, Joy Behar wondered during Wednesday’s episode of “The View” why Melania Trump is still married to the man. Host Sara Haines thinks there might be financial reasons behind it.The question came up as part of the women’s discussion about how Trump’s legal team is spinning Trump’s involvement with the money sent to Daniels, with the claim that he paid her to keep quiet about their affair in order to protect his family and marriage.“It’s not directly related to the campaign,” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina said on “Good Morning America” Monday.

long track record of anti-LGBTQ actions and legislation. When host Sunny Hostin went to add her thoughts, Behar cut her off, saying she wasn’t done yet, and added a blunt finish.