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Thania Garcia Shortly after Rebeca Léon stopped managing Rosalía in 2023, the team behind her Lionfish Entertainment company embarked on a six-month journey to building a boy band from scratch. Inspired by K-Pop’s high-performance dancing, combined with Latin music’s accelerated growth, Léon and her team approached over 500 Latin American boys until she found five that would make up DND, or Do Not Disturb. Early into this process, Léon mentioned these plans to Pharrell Williams, and “to my surprise, he had a similar dream,” Léon tells Variety.

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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Kate McKinnon transformed into dozens of characters throughout her ten years on “Saturday Night Live,” where she impersonated everyone from bold-faced figured like Justin Bieber and Ellen DeGeneres to inanimate objects such as an ice cream cone and potato.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Is the Netflix Oscar drought finally about to end? The streamer has long been chasing the elusive Academy Award for best picture. After a series of near misses, 2024 might just be the year the streaming giant claims the coveted prize — thanks to Jacques Audiard’s critically lauded crime musical “Emilia Pérez.” The Spanish-language drama premiered to fanfare at Cannes and has a star-studded cast, including Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz. The bold narrative, riveting performances and groundbreaking representation garnered critical acclaim, leading to a shared best actress prize for the four stars.

Erik Menendez, the brothers who murdered their parents, Jose and Kitty, in 1989. Gascón’s office will ask a Los Angeles judge to lower their sentences from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life. If approved, the Menendez brothers would be eligible for parole immediately.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. and Elon Musk briefly shared the screen together in 2010’s Marvel tentpole “Iron Man 2,” in which Downey’s hot shot business tycoon Tony Stark met Musk while at the Monaco Grand Prix. It was a fitting moment, as “Iron Man” screenwriter Mark Fergus once told New York Magazine that Musk partly inspired the screen iteration of Tony Stark due to their technological prowess, cockiness and overall hotheadedness.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Following “Overheated,” last year’s climate-focused event in the U.K., the event is set to take place for the first time in North America on November 3 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The event will bring together “climate activists, thought leaders, artists and inspiring voices” in front of a live audience for a day filled with discussion, community building, and resources to help tackle the climate crisis, according to the announcement.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Alison Pepper, a longtime talent executive at CBS News who has recently been in her second run at the Paramount Global unit, will leave following the 2024 presidential election, she revealed to staffers in a memo sent Thursday. “I have had the privilege of working each day with all of you, many of whom I consider to be like family, as you navigated some of the most impactful news stories of our time with integrity, ingenuity and grit… and I have loved every minute of it,” Pepper said.

Matthew Perry’s sister and stepfather are finally speaking out about his “shattering” death.

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It’s been just over a week since Liam Payne passed away, and there are still so many questions about his death — especially as it pertains to his relapse and partying ways. But now a new source is opening up about what he and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy were getting up to days before his passing, and it helps paint a better timeline for his erratic behavior.

You won’t believe which One Tree Hill co-star Bethany Joy Lenz had a huge crush on! And no, it was not Chad Michael Murray!

We just learned Jennifer Lawrence is expecting her second child — and we’re already getting a dose of her chill pregnancy style!

Hailey Bieber is looking absolutely amazing after giving birth! It’s only been two months since she and Justin Bieber welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Jack Blues.

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Love Island star Tommy Fury has reportedly pulled out of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! just weeks before the 2024 kicks off in Australia. The 25-year-old boxer, who has recently split from fiancée Molly-Mae Hague, is thought to have been in talks with ITV bosses but has since been offered another lucrative deal.

Legendary news broadcaster Michael Buerk has criticised the BBC's coverage of Liam Payne's death, arguing that the tragic passing of the singer was given undue prominence.The 78 year old former news anchor expressed his views during a live interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, where he referred to Liam as a "drugged up, faded, boy band singer." Michael is perhaps most recognised for his reporting on the Ethiopian famine in the 80s, which inspired Sir Bob Geldof to organise the iconic Live Aid concert and the charity single Do They Know It's Christmas. One Direction star Liam, who was just 31 at the time of his death, tragically fell from the third floor of his hotel balcony while in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 16.

Gemma Owen, who is best known for her appearance on Love Island back in 2022, has stunned fans with a series of photos in which she is posing in a beautiful strapless white maxi dress from 4th And Reckless while walking along a beach in the Maldives. Gemma, who is the daughter of former footballer Michael Owen, shared the photos in which she is carrying a Jimmy Choo bag while enjoying the sunshine at the Avani resort with the hotel’s villas in the background.

Love Island star Georgia Harrison has revealed she has a secret boyfriend. She has been through a lot since her time on the show, including becoming a victim of revenge porn when her ex Stephen Bear leaked an intimate video. He was jailed for 21 months but released early in January.

Queen Camilla has surprised two deserving Pride of Britain winners by congratulating them for raising awareness of violence against women, leaving them in tears. Diana Parkes and Hetti Barkworth-Nanton began campaigning against domestic abuse after Diana's daughter Joanna was murdered by her estranged husband. During the Pride of Britain Awards, which aired on ITV1 on Thursday 24 October, Diana and Hetti were given Pride of Britain's Special Recognition Award for their work by Queen Camilla at Clarence House.The royal surprised them with her appearance, as the pair believed they were there to film part of a documentary .

Reports are emerging that law enforcement officials are looking into a hotel employee in connection with the drug deal linked to Liam Payne's untimely passing. Multiple news sources have reported that officers raided the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday as part of the probe into the singer's death at just 31 years old.

Following the tragic demise of Liam Payne at the age of 31, fans of the One Direction star are calling for a new law to be brought in. A new petition, labelled 'Liam's law', has been created in the wake of his death in a bid to help protect celebrities and their mental health.

As I Lay Dying citing their “personal morals” as a reason.Frontman Tim Lambesis was sentenced to six years in prison for plotting to kill his wife back in 2014. He was sentenced after pleading guilty to paying a police officer posing as a hitman $1,000 (£630) to kill his then wife, Meggan Lambesis.After being released in December 2016, Lambesis took to the band’s official Facebook page to post a lengthy statement, “apologising to everyone” for his actions.The vocalist then reunited with the San Diego band in 2018, who released their first new song in six years with ‘My Own Grave’ and announced details of a homecoming show that summer.A post shared by Ryan Neff (@whosryanneff)Now, bassist Ryan Neff, guitarist Ken Susi, and drummer Nick Pierce — all of whom joined As I Lay Dying in 2022, following the departure of longtime band members Nick Hipa, Josh Gilbert and Jordan Mancino – have split from the band.Neff shared a post of himself on his official Instagram account last Friday (October 18) with a caption that read: “As of today, I have made the decision to leave As I Lay Dying.

The Cure have shared a snippet of their menacing new track ‘Drone:NoDrone’ from their forthcoming album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘.The snippet of the song that was shared features a heavy and distorted bassline and pounding drums. Describing the track in a five-star review of ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘, NME‘s Andrew Trendell called it “A wailing, noir rocker with a devious earworm chorus that feels like the impish cousin of ‘One Hundred Years’, ‘Burn’ and ‘Killing An Arab’.”The clip of ‘Drone:NoDrone’ was sent via The Cure’s Whatsapp channel and can be accessed by unlocking this website, which can be done by entering the album’s release date (November 1st, 2024).Listen to a fan-grabbed screen recording of the new snippet below:Disponible Preview "Drone:NoDrone"https://t.co/WAmUL9Jyyr#THECUREenARGENTINA #thecure #songsofalostworld #Spotify #MTV #robertsmith pic.twitter.com/F0DM9RdBu3— The Cure Argentina (@CureenArgentina) October 24, 2024Elsewhere in the album review, NME shared: “Merciless? Yes, but there’s always enough heart in the darkness and opulence in the sound to hold you and place these songs alongside The Cure’s finest.

Linkin Park have shared an emotional new track, ‘Over Each Other’, alongside a video directed by the band’s DJ and creative director Joe Hahn – check it out below.The track comes from the band’s forthcoming comeback album ‘From Zero‘, which is set for release on November 15 (pre-order/pre-save here). It follows the previously released singles ‘Heavy Is The Crown’ and ‘The Emptiness Machine’.The eerie new song slowly builds from a minimalistic beginning to a mid-paced second verse before swelling in its climax.

Netflix drama Orange is the New Black, used her recent appearance on The Daily Show to raise awareness of the disinformation surrounding anti-trans legislation and campaigning.During the appearance, Cox drew attention to the surge in anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation across the US, including the 25 stats that banned transgender under-18s from accessing gender-affirming care.“Thanks for making sure schools don’t teach about sexual orientation or gender identity, because pretending trans kids don’t exist means they disappear, just like pretending climate change doesn’t exist… it disappears too!,” she said, before jokingly adding, “So I guess we will never know why my tits are sweating in December.”Cox then highlighted that Donald Trump and the Republican part have spent $65 million (£49 million) on campaign ads pushing anti-trans rhetoric.Hitting back at the ads, Cox said: “Do you know how disappointing it is for someone to finally spend $65 million on me and it’s for this crap? I didn’t want hateful attack ads. I wanted a house in the Hills with six walk-in closets!”She continued: “This is straight out of the bigotry handbook, using dehumanising language on marginalised groups provides a permission structure to attack them, because, when people are rendered no longer human, you can take away their rights, [and] commit violence against them with impunity.”Cox went on to reference the ongoing legal dispute between North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson and CNN, which reported in September that the Republican left a series of disturbing comments on a pornography website before entering politics.

The New York Times.Meloni — a single mother who never married the father of her daughter — hypocritically has campaigned on the importance of promoting “traditional family values.”She and her fellow conservatives have railed against “gender ideology” and the “LGBT lobby” at political events, stating that children should only be raised in two-parent, heterosexual households. Last year, Meloni’s interior minister ordered local governments to stop transcribing certificates of children born abroad through surrogacy, citing a court ruling — which is currently being challenged.As a result, some children with same-sex parents have been denied access to citizenship, public schools, health care, and other benefits and services.Following the interior minister’s decree, prosecutors across Italy began contesting the birth certificates of all children born to same-sex parents — regardless of whether they were conceived through surrogacy or not — with the aim of erasing the names of non-biological parents from those birth certificates.

gender-affirming care for incarcerated individuals, a stance she adopted in 2019 when she was running for the Democratic nomination for president.“Kamala’s for they/them,” a narrator says in one of the ads. “President Trump is for you.”In a newer ad, the Trump campaign zeroes in on one transgender prisoner in custody in California, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, the first inmate in the United States to receive state-financed gender-affirming surgery.The ad, which misgenders Quine as a man, implies she received the surgery as a reward after having “murdered a father of three.”As Harris has previously noted, in a televised interview during which she was attacked by Fox mouthpiece Brett Baier, the Trump administration itself had adopted a similar policy of allowing transgender inmates to access gender-affirming care when such care was deemed “medically necessary.”Harris added that, as president, she would “follow the law” and allow such a policy to continue.The Lincoln Project has now come to Harris’s defense, cutting a new ad that lambastes Trump for his hypocrisy.“Have you seen this ad?” a narrator intones as a brief snapshot of Trump’s attack against Harris is shown.

Peter Gallagher continues to be proud of his former The OC co-star, Adam Brody, following the success of his Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This.

As the final stretch of October sets in, there is still plenty of time to catch favorite flicks, spooky, witchy, scary or cozy in the season of pumpkins, monsters and more. Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween has several classic films airing all month long such as Casper (1995), Arachnophobia, Goosebumps, Edward Scissorhands, etc.

CNN‘s town hall with Kamala Harris on Wednesday drew at least 3.2 million viewers, giving the network a big bounce from its regular audience in the 9 p.m. time period.

Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning singer of popular music fare such as “Lollipops and Roses,” “The Impossible Dream,” “Wives and Lovers” and, perhaps most famously, the theme to TV’s The Love Boat, died Wednesday, October 23. He was 86.

Simon Cowell has made his television comeback following the tragic demise of Liam Payne.

Price tags and reputations count for little when it comes to adjusting to life in the Premier League, and Manuel Ugarte is no exception.

Miriam Margolyes, a renowned actress since the 1960s, is best known for her role as Professor Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter film series. The 83-year-old star, who is set to appear on Celebrity Gogglebox alongside Lesley Joseph, also gained recognition for her portrayal of Mrs Mingott in The Age of Innocence, which earned her a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

Former Manchester United manager and current Fenerbahce boss Jose Mourinho was in complete shock after Andre Onana's double save heroics in the first half of the Europa League tie.