Courts: Celebs Rumors

Soap star Bill Roache, famed for his role on Coronation Street, is facing bankruptcy after HMRC filed a petition against him. It is understood Roache, 91, who has played Ken Barlow in the soap since 1960, is the highest-paid member of the cast, earning around £250,000 a year.

A convicted rapist who carried out a vile attack on a woman when he was aged just 13 was arrested at Manchester Airport after failing to tell police he was going on holiday.

A drunk passenger caused two hours of chaos on a flight from Morocco to Manchester as he abused staff and fellow travellers. Benjamin Gallon - who had been drinking before the Ryanair flight on December 1 last year - was only permitted to board the plane on the grounds he didn't drink any more alcohol.

A 'kind and caring' woman died having taken a toxic mix of prescribed medication, an inquest heard. Kirsty Doyle, 46, was on a range of medicines for complex mental and physical health problems.

A death row killer has been executed using a controversial nitrogen gas method after surviving his first lethal injection attempt.

A "high risk" offender who was caught driving a stolen car has been given a chance to sort out his life.

J. Kim Murphy The George Carlin estate has filed a lawsuit against Dudesy, the media company behind the recent viral AI-generated hour-long comedy special “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” which featured an approximation of the late comedian’s voice and comedy style that was allegedly generated by a chatbot trained by Carlin’s own material.

Young Royals is returning for a third and final season on Netflix!

Over 50 years ago, the late and great George Carlin listed off the seven words you couldn’t say on television. Based on a lawsuit from the iconic comedian’s estate filed in federal court in California today, at least two of those words may apply to the creators of an AI generated special that uses Carlin’s style and voice to a 2024 effect.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Amid the surfeit of films about women’s rights and men’s abuses of power that have emerged in the wake of the #MeToo reckoning, we haven’t yet seen one quite like “Black Box Diaries.” A tightly wound, heart-on-sleeve procedural documentary, Shiori Ito‘s directorial debut identifies a world of systemic iniquities through the prism of a single, long labored-over case of sexual assault — crucially, the director’s own. That raw first-person perspective, untempered by the interests of another filmmaker and given narrative rigor by Ito’s substantial journalistic skills, makes “Black Box Diaries” not just a damning analysis of patriarchal power structures in contemporary Japan, but a vivid evocation of the day-to-day psychological swings and breaks that come with living as a survivor.

Kevin Costner should’ve trusted his gut feeling!

Night Court is back on our TV screens!

That ‘70s Show star Danny Masterson was denied bail pending appeal of his rape conviction. And it’s all because of his ongoing divorce with Bijou Phillips??

With just under five minutes of surprisingly reserved testimony from Donald Trump just now, the defense has rested its case in the defamation damages trial against the former president by E. Jean Carroll.

Bill Roache is facing bankruptcy despite earning £250,000 a year acting as Ken Barlow on ITV's Coronation Street.

(Editor’s note: this post contain extremely sexually explicit details from the lawsuit against WWE founder Vince McMahon)

Three men have been jailed after holding vulnerable victims hostage to 'sadistically' extort money.

Cher has been accused of “abusive behaviour” in a conservatorship battle over her son Elijah Blue Allman’s estate.Last month, the ‘Believe’ singer filed for a conservatorship due to fears of her son’s alleged “severe” substance abuse issues.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A former employee of WWE sued founder Vince McMahon, alleging he abused and sexually exploited her when he was CEO of the wrestling-entertainment company — and that McMahon allegedly trafficked her to other men “as a pawn to secure talent deals” with prospective wrestlers the company was recruiting. The former WWE employee, Janel Grant, filed a lawsuit in U.S.

A former residential school head teacher has been jailed for a campaign of physical and sexual abuse of pupils at two now-closed schools in the rural Stirling area.

Sofia Vergara is perhaps most recognisable as Modern Family's Gloria Delgado-Pritchett - a role that saw her become one of America's highest-paid actresses. Now, she's back as fearsome cartel leader Griselda Blanco for a six-part Netflix series of the same name.

The prosecutor who took a wrongly-convicted Scottish postmaster to court made the decision based entirely on a report by Post Office investigators, an inquiry has heard.

One of the UK’s most wanted men has been jailed for his role in a plot to supply drugs and firearms across the North West of England. Dean Garforth went on the run for two years, fleeing to Marbella to avoid justice.

A high school teacher is facing jail after sending a 15-year-old girl sexual Snapchat messages and seedy photos, and trying to entice her to go to a hotel with him.

A high-speed police chase ended with the driver being caught as he tried to run off after crashing into a garden fence.

Taylor Swift has been arrested for a third time in five days outside her New York home.33-year-old David Crowe was first arrested outside the singer’s townhouse in the Tribeca district on January 20 after he allegedly tried to enter the residence.On Monday (January 22), he was arrested again and charged with harassment and stalking after trying to enter the house once again.Yesterday (January 24), Crowe was arrested a third time, just after he faced a judge regarding his previous arrest for the first break-in attempt.NBC New York were told by police that Crowe was released from court around midday on Wednesday, and arrested again just after 1.30pm.The complaint said that he has been asked not to approach the building 10 times, and has been spotted there 30 times in the last two months.Swift has previously faced numerous issues with alleged stalkers at her New York residence, as well as homes she owns in California and Rhode Island.Last summer, a man from Indiana was arrested and charged with stalking and harassing Swift after he made numerous attempts to contact the star at home and through social media.Back in 2022, a man faced trespassing and stalking charges after allegedly entering two New York homes linked to Swift.A stalker also broke into Swift’s NYC townhouse in 2018, and was found taking a nap in the property.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A Japanese court on Thursday announced the death sentence for Aoba Shinji, the man who burned down the Kyoto Anime studio in 2019 and killed 36 people. There was little doubt that Aoba, who himself was badly burned in the blaze, was the perpetrator and set the fire using gasoline. Shortly after the attack, at a press conference, the Kyoto police said that Aoba had unspecified mental health issues.

A man who has been accused of stalking Taylor Swift is in trouble with the law again.

Lisa Kennedy It can feel discordant to see someone mourning amid the pastel-hued bungalows of a beach-bound town, beneath a blue sky. Not that single mom Kristine is grieving exactly in bittersweet, comedic Sundance drama “Suncoast” — a fact Laura Linney’s character makes decidedly clear to a counselor at the hospice center of the title. After all, her son Max (a very still Cree Kawa), who’s dying of brain cancer, isn’t gone yet; he’s just no longer there.

A school brought in the police after one of its pupils was seen on a YouTube video being restrained by a teenager. Romeo Smalley has been jailed after sexually assaulting the boy having posted two videos of him online while he was tied up and 'bound'.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge is signaling that Danny Masterson will be denied bail after being convicted of rape.

Less than a week after being hit with involuntary manslaughter charges again over the fatal Rust on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in late 2021, Alec Baldwin’s first New Mexico court date has been set for next month.

Andy Cohen is opening up about Monica Garcia not returning for The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season five.

A man has been found guilty of stabbing a 15-yer-old boy to death. Felipe Diglio Figueiredo, of Birleywood, Skelmersdale, was found guilty in just three hours by a jury at Preston Crown Court today (January 24).

A former sub-postmaster wrongly convicted over the Horizon scandal says he can finally hold his head up high after a court overturned the case today.

An accountant has pleaded guilty to defrauding a wholesale fashion company out of over £300,000. Laurence Hearldon, 39, was employed by Sanjeev 1979 Ltd, also known as Influence Fashion, based in Cheetham Hill.