‘Golden Bachelor’: Gerry Turner and Fiancée to Marry in Wedding Ceremony Airing Live on ABC - Hollywood Reporter

Gerry Turner will not be a Golden Bachelor for much longer, as he is set to get married in a wedding ceremony televised live on ABC.

During Thursday’s live finale of The Golden Bachelor, which featured series lead Turner getting engaged to Theresa Nist in Costa Rica, the couple announced that they will tie the knot Jan. 4, 2024. The Golden Wedding special will air at 8 p.m. and mark the first televised nuptials for the franchise since The Bachelor favorites Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici exchanged vows in 2014.

After host Jesse Palmer told Turner, 72, and Nist, 70, that the show will be sending the couple on a trip to Italy, the Golden Bachelor replied, “We can use that as our honeymoon trip because we are going to get married. We’re going to do it as quickly as we can because, at our age, we don’t have a lot of time to waste. As quickly as we can put together a wedding plan, we’re getting married.”

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Runner-up Leslie Fhima tearfully parted ways with Turner in Costa Rica after she sensed his lack of investment in their relationship, which led him to share that his feelings were stronger for Nist. “I was devastated,” Fhima told Palmer during the “After the Final Rose” portion of the finale. “I broke down my walls, and I fell in love with him so much. I haven’t fallen in love with someone in a really long time, so it was hard.”

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist after getting engaged on The Golden Bachelor Disney/John Fleenor

When reunited during the live footage in the finale, Fhima told Turner that she felt “blindsided” by their breakup and asked him where things went wrong. He replied, “It didn’t really go wrong, Leslie. It was better with someone else. It was the right person in the wrong direction.”

Turner startled Nist in Costa Rica when she arrived for a potential proposal, and he told her, “I came to the realization that you’re not the right person for me to live with.” He took a pause before adding, “You’re the person that I can’t live without.” Nist then laughed and assured him, “That was so good,” before he got down on one knee to propose.

Palmer asked Turner during the “After the Final Rose” if his feelings for Nist evolved in the overnight date. “There were moments in conversation that were subtle realizations,” Turner said of his connection with Nist, a financial services professional from New Jersey. “More and more with every passing moment, she showed her enthusiasm, her adventurous side, all of that. Each one was a plus.”

Although Turner demurred when asked about their physical connection in the fantasy suite, Nist blurted out, “I knocked his boots off,” invoking a phrase that was used memorably during the season. After the crowd laughed, she quipped, “No, with my kisses.”

Fhima was left devastated during the finale when Turner ended their relationship shortly after introducing her to his two daughters and two granddaughters. Fhima made it clear she was particularly hurt that Turner professed his love to her in the fantasy-suite date and made comments that led her to start planning their future together.

“I’m heartbroken once again,” Fhima told Turner in Costa Rica. “But now I have to do it in front of the whole world to see once again how broken I am, how no one chooses me. You didn’t choose me — once again. And the other night, you made it sound like you chose me. You said things to me that made me think that this was going to be it. You led me down a path, and then you took a turn and left me there, and that’s how I feel.”

Nist and Turner bonded over their shared grief of losing their spouses. Turner, described by ABC as a retired restaurateur from Indiana, lost Toni, his high school sweetheart and wife of 43 years, when she passed away in 2017 following a bacterial infection. Meanwhile, Billy, Nist’s husband of 42 years, died from kidney failure.

In a piece published by The Hollywood Reporter that questioned the show’s narrative of Turner not having dated since before he was married, a woman identified herself as Turner’s ex-girlfriend and said they started dating a month after his wife passed away, leading to a relationship lasting more than two years. The woman, who requested anonymity, said that she moved from Iowa to live with Turner in his Indiana home before he ended the relationship in early 2020.

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Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65 - The New York Times

As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.

Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock, died on Thursday. He was 65.

Mr. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, said the cause was pneumonia but did not say where he died.

Mr. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene in the late 1970s and spent nine tumultuous years with the initial incarnation of the Pogues. Rising from North London pubs, the band was performing in stadiums by the late 1980s, before Mr. MacGowan’s drug and alcohol problems and his mental and physical deterioration forced the band to fire him. He later founded Shane MacGowan & the Popes, with whom he recorded and toured in the 1990s.

Along the way, Mr. MacGowan earned twin reputations as a titanically destructive personality and a master songsmith whose lyrics painted vivid portraits of the underbelly of Irish immigrant life. His best-known are the opening lines of his biggest hit, an alcoholics’ lament turned unlikely Christmas classic entitled “Fairytale of New York”:

“It was Christmas Eve babe/In the drunk tank/An old man said to me, won’t see another one.”

“I was good at writing,” Mr. MacGowan told Richard Balls, who wrote his authorized biography, “A Furious Devotion” (2021). “I can write, I can spell, I can make it flow, and when I mixed it with music, it was perfect.”

Bruce Springsteen, Bono and others agreed with his self-assessment. But his boozy sketches of rakish immigrant life — delivered with a London punk sneer — initially provoked disgust from the public and the musical establishment in Ireland.

Mr. MacGowan in London in 1977, when he was the editor of a punk-rock magazine.Sydney O'Meara/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957, in a hospital near the English town of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to parents who had left Ireland just a few months earlier.

His father, Maurice, a Dubliner, worked for a chain of clothing retailers. His mother, Therese, a former secretary and model, was from rural Tipperary. Mr. MacGowan spent his early years in the middle-class suburb of Tunbridge Wells, southeast of London, though the family regularly returned to Ireland for visits.

His parents had high expectations for their literary-minded son, who as a boy had read Joyce and Dostoyevsky. They sent him to prestigious fee-paying institutions rather than state schools. When the family moved to London, he earned a scholarship to the Westminster School, situated on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, which had educated several British prime ministers.

But Mr. MacGowan spent his summers far from this seat of the English establishment, staying for weeks at a time with relatives at the Commons, his mother’s family’s rustic homestead near Nenagh, in County Tipperary.

The house was a well-known local destination for marathon bouts of music, dancing and drinking. “On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the door was open all night, and it would be a place to go for a session,” Mr. MacGowan told Mr. Balls, his biographer. “I would be put upon the table from the earliest days I can remember and told to sing what songs I knew.”

Mr. MacGowan would also claim it was in Tipperary where he first acquired his lifelong drinking habit. In “A Drink With Shane MacGowan,” the 2001 memoir he wrote with Ms. Clarke, he recalled that his uncle would bring him home two bottles of Guinness from a pub to drink each night starting when he was 5.

Mr. MacGowan in 2021. He fractured his pelvis in a fall in 2015 and never fully recovered.Ellius Grace for The New York Times

Back in London, Mr. MacGowan also began taking and selling drugs, resulting in his expulsion from the Westminster School and the first of what would be a series of addiction-driven personal crises.

At 17, he was institutionalized for months; he spent his 18th birthday in London’s famous Bethlem psychiatric hospital, sometimes known as Bedlam.

After he was discharged, he was drawn into the emerging London punk scene. In 1976, the New Music Express, a music newspaper, featured his picture, ear trailing blood, under the blaring headline “Cannibalism at Clash Gig.” While he and a girl had been biting each other, Mr. MacGowan said, his ear had actually been cut by a bottle.

The notoriety of that image helped establish his identity in punk circles, where he was known by the alias Shane O’Hooligan. The next year, he was fronting the Nipple Erectors (later shortened to the Nips).

But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.

Punk refugees found themselves migrating into a growing world music scene in London, where British bands would try their hand at African, Latin American or Greek music. Tapping into Irish music seemed an obvious choice.

Along with the tin whistle player Spider Stacy and the banjoist Jem Finer, both British, Mr. MacGowan formed a band called the New Republicans, the name an Irish political joke aimed at the dandified New Romantic scene. In 1982, the band re-emerged under the name Pogue Mahone, an Irish-language phrase meaning “kiss my ass” that was later shortened to the Pogues.

By 1984, their raucous live shows had earned the Pogues a loyal following. The band signed to the independent label Stiff Records, home of Elvis Costello, Madness and the Damned.

Mr. MacGowan, second from left, joined with Van Morrison (third from left), Elvis Costello (second from right), Bob Geldof (third from right) and other musicians in 1986 to announce plans for a benefit concert to focus attention on unemployment in Ireland.Associated Press

The two albums the band recorded for Stiff showcased Mr. MacGowan’s gift for storytelling. His subject matter — from picaresque rambles to confessions of regret written from the perspective of someone far from home — marked him as an inheritor of a boisterous Irish tradition of irreverent poetry and song that developed in the 19th century — “songs of hard labor and hard living, of wandering and exile, resentment and loss,” Joseph Cleary, a professor of Irish literature at Yale, wrote in The Irish Times in 2018.

Mr. MacGowan’s song “Dark Streets of London” follows an immigrant’s life in London, from the initial exhilaration of freedom to poverty and homelessness:

“And I’m buggered to damnation/And I haven’t got a penny/To wander the dark streets of London.”

By the late 1980s, the band was touring extensively, first in continental Europe and then worldwide, including along the heavily Irish American communities of the eastern United States, where it developed a following. In 1987, the Pogues were the opening act for U2 concerts, performing in massive venues like Wembley Stadium in London and Croke Park in Dublin.

That November, the band reached the pinnacle of its commercial success with the release of “Fairytale of New York.”

That song — co-written with Mr. Finer and featuring vocals by the English songwriter Kirsty MacColl — reached No. 2 on the British charts that year; it reliably appears on the charts every holiday season.

The Pogues would keep up their energetic recording and touring pace for several more years, even though Mr. MacGowan had become addicted to heroin in addition to his longstanding alcohol problems. Shows were missed. He was repeatedly injured in falls and struck by moving vehicles. His bandmates ultimately decided to dismiss him before a concert in Yokohama, Japan, in August 1991.

But Mr. MacGowan, continued to write and record, issuing two albums with his group Shane MacGowan & the Popes that enjoyed modest critical and commercial success. He left the group in the late 1990s and performed sporadically with the reformed Pogues from 2001 to 2014, when the band again dissolved.

The Pogues in concert in Boston in 2007. Mr. MacGowan was fired from the band in 1991 but performed sporadically with a reformed version from 2001 to 2014.Erik Jacobs for The New York Times

Mr. MacGowan remained an object of public interest in Britain and Ireland. In 2015, a documentary about the surgical replacement of his famously rotten teeth was shown on British television. That same year, however, he fractured his pelvis in a fall and never fully recovered.

Mr. MacGowan never gave up alcohol, but his drinking and behavior mellowed. In 2018, he married Ms. Clarke, his longtime girlfriend. In addition to her, he is survived by his sister, Siobhan, and his father. His mother died in 2017.

In January 2018, Mr. MacGowan was feted for his 60th birthday with a tribute concert in Dublin that included Bono and Sinead O’Connor. During the event, President Michael D. Higgins of Ireland presented him with a lifetime achievement award.

It was perhaps the culmination of Mr. MacGowan’s complex relationship with his ancestral home. The Pogues’ emergence had generated a backlash from musical traditionalists in Ireland. The great Irish singer Tommy Makem called the band “the greatest disaster ever to hit Irish music.”

But Mr. MacGowan’s lyrical talent ultimately won him admirers throughout Ireland, where he relocated with his wife after his time with the Pogues, and well beyond.

Bruce Springsteen, in an appearance on Ireland’s “Late Late Show” in October 2020, called Mr. MacGowan “a master.”

“I truly believe that a hundred years from now most of us will be forgotten,” Mr. Springsteen said. “But I do believe that Shane’s music is going to be remembered and sung.”

Derrick Bryson Taylor contributed reporting.

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Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65 - The New York Times

As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.

Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock, died on Thursday. He was 65.

Mr. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced his death on Instagram but did not provide further details.

Mr. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene in the late 1970s and spent nine tumultuous years with the initial incarnation of the Pogues. Rising from North London pubs, the band was performing in stadiums by the late 1980s, before Mr. MacGowan’s drug and alcohol problems and his mental and physical deterioration forced the band to fire him. He later founded Shane MacGowan & the Popes, with whom he recorded and toured in the 1990s.

Along the way, Mr. MacGowan earned twin reputations as a titanically destructive personality and a master songsmith whose lyrics painted vivid portraits of the underbelly of Irish immigrant life. His best-known are the opening lines of his biggest hit, an alcoholics’ lament turned unlikely Christmas classic entitled “Fairytale of New York”:

“It was Christmas Eve babe/In the drunk tank/An old man said to me, won’t see another one.”

“I was good at writing,” Mr. MacGowan told Richard Balls, who wrote his authorized biography, “A Furious Devotion” (2021). “I can write, I can spell, I can make it flow, and when I mixed it with music, it was perfect.”

Bruce Springsteen, Bono and others agreed with his self-assessment. But his boozy sketches of rakish immigrant life — delivered with a London punk sneer — initially provoked disgust from the public and the musical establishment in Ireland.

Mr. MacGowan in London in 1977, when he was the editor of a punk-rock magazine.Sydney O'Meara/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957, in a hospital near the English town of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to parents who had left Ireland just a few months earlier.

His father, Maurice, a Dubliner, worked for a chain of clothing retailers. His mother, Therese, a former secretary and model, was from rural Tipperary. Mr. MacGowan spent his early years in the middle-class suburb of Tunbridge Wells, southeast of London, though the family regularly returned to Ireland for visits.

His parents had high expectations for their literary-minded son, who as a boy had read Joyce and Dostoyevsky. They sent him to prestigious fee-paying institutions rather than state schools. When the family moved to London, he earned a scholarship to the Westminster School, situated on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, which had educated several British prime ministers.

But Mr. MacGowan spent his summers far from this seat of the English establishment, staying for weeks at a time with relatives at the Commons, his mother’s family’s rustic homestead near Nenagh, in County Tipperary.

The house was a well-known local destination for marathon bouts of music, dancing and drinking. “On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the door was open all night, and it would be a place to go for a session,” Mr. MacGowan told Mr. Balls, his biographer. “I would be put upon the table from the earliest days I can remember and told to sing what songs I knew.”

Mr. MacGowan would also claim it was in Tipperary where he first acquired his lifelong drinking habit. In “A Drink With Shane MacGowan,” the 2001 memoir he wrote with Ms. Clarke, he recalled that his uncle would bring him home two bottles of Guinness from a pub to drink each night starting when he was 5.

Mr. MacGowan in 2021. He fractured his pelvis in a fall in 2015 and never fully recovered.Ellius Grace for The New York Times

Back in London, Mr. MacGowan also began taking and selling drugs, resulting in his expulsion from the Westminster School and the first of what would be a series of addiction-driven personal crises.

At 17, he was institutionalized for months; he spent his 18th birthday in London’s famous Bethlem psychiatric hospital, sometimes known as Bedlam.

After he was discharged, he was drawn into the emerging London punk scene. In 1976, the New Music Express, a music newspaper, featured his picture, ear trailing blood, under the blaring headline “Cannibalism at Clash Gig.” While he and a girl had been biting each other, Mr. MacGowan said, his ear had actually been cut by a bottle.

The notoriety of that image helped establish his identity in punk circles, where he was known by the alias Shane O’Hooligan. The next year, he was fronting the Nipple Erectors (later shortened to the Nips).

But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.

Punk refugees found themselves migrating into a growing world music scene in London, where British bands would try their hand at African, Latin American or Greek music. Tapping into Irish music seemed an obvious choice.

Along with the tin whistle player Spider Stacy and the banjoist Jem Finder, both British, Mr. MacGowan formed a band called the New Republicans, the name an Irish political joke aimed at the dandified New Romantic scene. In 1982, the band re-emerged under the name Pogue Mahone, an Irish-language phrase meaning “kiss my ass” that was later shortened to the Pogues.

By 1984, their raucous live shows had earned the Pogues a loyal following. The band signed to the independent label Stiff Records, home of Elvis Costello, Madness and the Damned.

Mr. MacGowan, second from left, joined with Van Morrison (third from left), Elvis Costello (second from right), Bob Geldof (third from right) and other musicians in 1986 to announce plans for a benefit concert to focus attention on unemployment in Ireland.Associated Press

The two albums the band recorded for Stiff showcased Mr. MacGowan’s gift for storytelling. His subject matter — from picaresque rambles to confessions of regret written from the perspective of someone far from home — marked him as an inheritor of a boisterous Irish tradition of irreverent poetry and song that developed in the 19th century — “songs of hard labor and hard living, of wandering and exile, resentment and loss,” Joseph Cleary, a professor of Irish literature at Yale, wrote in The Irish Times in 2018.

Mr. MacGowan’s song “Dark Streets of London” follows an immigrant’s life in London, from the initial exhilaration of freedom to poverty and homelessness:

“And I’m buggered to damnation/And I haven’t got a penny/To wander the dark streets of London.”

By the late 1980s, the band was touring extensively, first in continental Europe and then worldwide, including along the heavily Irish American communities of the eastern United States, where it developed a following. In 1987, the Pogues were the opening act for U2 concerts, performing in massive venues like Wembley Stadium in London and Croke Park in Dublin.

That November, the band reached the pinnacle of its commercial success with the release of “Fairytale of New York.”

That song — co-written with Mr. Finer and featuring vocals by the English songwriter Kirsty MacColl — reached No. 2 on the British charts that year; it reliably appears on the charts every holiday season.

The Pogues would keep up their energetic recording and touring pace for several more years, even though Mr. MacGowan had become addicted to heroin in addition to his longstanding alcohol problems. Shows were missed. He was repeatedly injured in falls and struck by moving vehicles. His bandmates ultimately decided to dismiss him before a concert in Yokohama, Japan, in August 1991.

But Mr. MacGowan, continued to write and record, issuing two albums with his group Shane MacGowan & the Popes that enjoyed modest critical and commercial success. He left the group in the late 1990s and performed sporadically with the reformed Pogues from 2001 to 2014, when the band again dissolved.

The Pogues in concert in Boston in 2007. Mr. MacGowan was fired from the band in 1991 but performed sporadically with a reformed version from 2001 to 2014.Erik Jacobs for The New York Times

Mr. MacGowan remained an object of public interest in Britain and Ireland. In 2015, a documentary about the surgical replacement of his famously rotten teeth was shown on British television. That same year, however, he fractured his pelvis in a fall and never fully recovered.

Mr. MacGowan never gave up alcohol, but his drinking and behavior mellowed. In 2018, he married Ms. Clarke, his longtime girlfriend. In addition to her, he is survived by his sister, Siobhan, and his father. His mother died in 2017.

In January 2018, Mr. MacGowan was feted for his 60th birthday with a tribute concert in Dublin that included Bono and Sinead O’Connor. During the event, President Michael D. Higgins of Ireland presented him with a lifetime achievement award.

It was perhaps the culmination of Mr. MacGowan’s complex relationship with his ancestral home. The Pogues’ emergence had generated a backlash from musical traditionalists in Ireland. The great Irish singer Tommy Makem called the band “the greatest disaster ever to hit Irish music.”

But Mr. MacGowan’s lyrical talent ultimately won him admirers throughout Ireland, where he relocated with his wife after his time with the Pogues, and well beyond.

Bruce Springsteen, in an appearance on Ireland’s “Late Late Show” in October 2020, called Mr. MacGowan “a master.”

“I truly believe that a hundred years from now most of us will be forgotten,” Mr. Springsteen said. “But I do believe that Shane’s music is going to be remembered and sung.”

Derrick Bryson Taylor contributed reporting.

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Jonathan Majors Assault Trial Begins With Judge Ruling on Sealed Evidence - Variety

Jonathan Majors returned to New York City Criminal Court for the start of his assault trial, which began Wednesday after numerous delays. Jury selection is expected to start in the late afternoon.

Majors arrived in a lower Manhattan courtroom, wearing a grey suit and carrying a bible, notebook and mug, around 9:52 a.m. He was holding hands with girlfriend Meagan Good, who has attended several court appearances with Majors.

The Marvel actor was arrested in Manhattan on March 25 after an alleged domestic dispute with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. Majors has pleaded not guilty to the four charges of assault and aggravated harassment that have been leveled against him; a fifth charge of strangulation has been dropped. He faces up to a year in jail if he’s convicted.

Much of the morning was spent debating the defense’s motion to request that “contested evidence” remain under seal and barred from public view due to the ”high profile” nature of the case and allegations against Majors. Members of the media filed a motion to oppose this ruling, which applies to a single pre-trial issue and not the entire trial.

Defense attorney Seth Zuckerman told Judge Michael Gaffey that he believes the disclosure of sensitive information will “deprive” his client of the right to a fair trial. “There are no alternatives,” he asserted. He believes the sealed information would “have a highly prejudicial impact on the jury no matter what.”

Attorney Katherine M. Bolger, who represented the news entities who filed the motion, said she wasn’t privy to the sealed information but argued that press should have access on behalf of the public. “We urge you to reject this,” she said to the judge. “For any closure, there needs to be on-the-record filings.”

The judge moved to seal the hearing as well as the documents on this issue because it’s “the only way to prevent tainting the jury pool.” The information will become public if the evidence is found to be admissible for trial.

Later, Gaffey informed Majors that the trial will proceed regardless of whether he appears in person. The judge added that Majors is under no obligation to testify during the trial.

At the time of Majors’ arrest in March, Jabbari told officers that she was assaulted and taken to the hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck” after an alleged altercation in a taxi. Defense attorneys for Majors alleged it was Jabbari who assaulted Majors, and “not the other way around.”

In April, Jabbari was granted a temporary order of protection, which means the two parties cannot have any direct or third-party contact. The order remains in place.

Jabbari was arrested on Oct. 26 and charged with assault and criminal mischief in connection to the March incident, according to the New York Police Department. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office said it “declined to prosecute the case against Grace Jabbari because it lacks prosecutorial merit.” The matter is now closed and sealed.

In the wake of the allegations, Majors has been cut from feature film projects and dropped by his PR team at the Lede Company, as well as his management, Entertainment 360. WME still represents the actor. He has a major role, as the villainous Kang the Conqueror, in Disney’s sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Omid Scobie book: How could the royal naming mistake happen? - BBC.com

By Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent

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Omid Scobie says he had never written a version with the name of the person in the race row

So how does the Dutch version of a book have lines that don't appear in the original English edition?

Not any random lines - but a highly damaging reference linking a member of the Royal Family to a race row that has rumbled on for years.

That's the royal puzzle after the Dutch translation of Omid Scobie's Endgame appeared to reveal the name of a person alleged to have made comments about the skin colour of the baby that Prince Harry and Meghan were expecting.

It's been presented as a mistake, a very embarrassing one, and the book has been hastily taken off the shelves. But how could it have happened?

The Dutch language edition, Eindstrijd, has a very plain reference to a senior royal and there have been claims of another much vaguer reference to a second name.

The publisher's managing director, Anke Roelen, said on Tuesday night: "An error occurred in the Dutch translation and is currently being rectified."

As a result, the publishing house, Xander Uitgevers, is "temporarily withdrawing the book", with its release day descending into chaos.

It's now going to be re-released on Friday, in a "rectified" version.

Publishers Xander Uitgevers say it is "temporarily withdrawing" Endgame in the Netherlands

Although the blame was initially placed on the translation process, a comparison of the English and Dutch text doesn't suggest it's about getting some of the phrases or vocabulary mixed up.

The line identifying the member of the Royal Family isn't in the English text, so it hasn't been mistranslated. It seems to have been added.

And an updated message from the publisher now talks of an "error", without mentioning translations, if that has any significance.

The next thought might be that this was part of a draft or a previous edit that had been taken out of other language versions, but had mistakenly not been updated in the Dutch version.

But the author Omid Scobie, speaking on Dutch television on Tuesday, made it clear that any version he had produced had never named names. So that would rule out this having been a draft or remnant of some previous editing that had not been removed.

"There's never been a version that I've produced that has names in it," the author told the RTL Boulevard show.

"The book's available in a number of languages and unfortunately I can't speak Dutch, so I haven't seen the copy for myself, so if there have been any translation errors I'm sure the publisher's got it under control," said Mr Scobie.

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The race row emerged from Oprah Winfrey's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan

In pre-publicity, he had made a specific point of saying that for legal reasons, he wouldn't identify the names involved in the race row that emerged from Prince Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Prince Harry and Meghan themselves have never given the name of the person or persons, who were alleged to have asked questions about the skin colour of their as yet unborn baby.

As Meghan herself has observed about the potential consequences of revealing the name: "I think that would be very damaging to them."

After this was first revealed in the Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021 it sparked a royal race row, and questions about the identity of those involved have become a lingering cloud.

This latest book makes the claim that there were two people involved in asking these questions rather than one.

Apart from an update on Wednesday announcing a new release date, the publisher has still to say what went wrong - but that won't stop those trying to work out what happened.

Could it have been some kind of publishing version of a hack or a hoax? Was it a sales stunt? A prank? Stray text put in for a joke and then not removed? Or someone changing text after the proofreading was finished?

What's surprising is that any other news lines in the book were heavily trailed, including excerpts in the US press and in interviews.

So it might seem odd to bury the biggest bombshell in the middle of the book, without any subsequent explanation of this revelation, and without any kind of highlighting of the claim.

After this short line revealing the name, the Dutch text goes back to the same as the English, while you might expect it to reference back or expand on such a major revelation, which would be the biggest moment in the book.

If a publisher had decided to take such a big decision to reveal this information, it would be its biggest selling point as well as its biggest risk.

Either way, if it was going to be deliberately revealed it's hard to see why it would be tucked away as a single line, mid-text, rather than milked in every way to boost sales.

Buckingham Palace hasn't been commenting on what has appeared in the Dutch edition of Endgame, in a book that already had been taking aim at the senior members of the Royal Family.

The English-language publishers, Harper Collins, have also not responded.

In the wake of the Oprah interview, with its toxic questions about racism and the royals, the late Queen's response had included: "Recollections may vary."

In this latest Dutch whodunnit, it seems translations may vary too.

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Taylor Swift Traveled to See Travis Kelce in Kansas City After Brazil Shows - Yahoo Life

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have reunited after spending a little time apart while Swift finished the South American leg of her Eras tour. Us Weekly reported that Swift landed in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday to see Kelce. She completed her last Eras show in São Paulo, Brazil, just one day before and will not resume her tour until February.

Swift’s arrival comes as People published a new report detailing why Swift and Kelce’s appreciation for each other’s careers makes their relationship work so well.

Kelce’s loved ones see serious potential in him and Swift. “Travis’ friends think this is the real deal for him,” a source close to Kelce said. “They’re still a little shocked by all of it—that he’s dating the Taylor Swift, but they’ve seen how down to earth she is with his friends and family.”

The source added their strong work ethics have only strengthened their connection: “They’re both really hard workers, and he acknowledges her art is hers, and he has what’s his,” the source said. “He understands the territory their relationship comes with and, like he said, isn’t letting any of the hoopla impact how they’re growing together.”

The source added, “Their relationship is about the two of them, and he sees Taylor for who she is and vice versa.”

Last week, a source told Us Weekly that Swift and Kelce plan to spend the holidays together and have discussed how they will handle periods where they are long distance due to their work commitments. “They have very detailed plans coming up while she’s on tour and he has games,” that source detailed. “Taylor and Travis have the next few months completely laid out. They don’t want to start their relationship off with big gaps [in time spent apart]. They’re trying to be as much like a regular couple as possible.”

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'The Late Show' on hold this week while Stephen Colbert recovers from burst appendix - NBC News

There will be no new "The Late Show" episodes this week while host Stephen Colbert recovers from a ruptured appendix.

“Sorry to say that I have to cancel our shows this week. I’m sure you’re thinking, 'Turkey overdose, Steve? Gravy boat capsize?'" the host joked on social media Monday. "Actually, I’m recovering from surgery for a ruptured appendix."

His appendix is gone, but his humor is intact.

“Going forward, all emails to my appendix will be handled by my pancreas,” he wrote.

When the appendix, a “finger-shaped pouch that sticks out from the colon on the lower right side of the belly," bursts, infection spreads and requires immediate surgery, according to the Mayo Clinic.

This is the second time “The Late Show” has had to go off the air since it returned to CBS in early October after the end of the Writers Guild of America strike. The host missed shows earlier this fall after testing positive with Covid.

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Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour' Concert Film To Stream In December With Three Additional Songs - Deadline

Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour concert film will begin streaming on Dec. 13 – the superstar’s birthday – and will include three additional songs not included in the theatrical release.

The extra songs, Swift announced on social media today, are “Wildest Dreams,” “The Archer” and “Long Live.”

“Well, so, basically I have a birthday coming up and I was thinking a fun way to celebrate the year we’ve had together would be to make The Eras Tour Concert Film available for you to watch at home!,” Swift wrote on X/Twitter. “Very happy to be able to tell you that the extended version of the film including ‘Wildest Dreams,’ ‘The Archer’ and ‘Long Live’ will be available to rent on demand in the US, Canada & additional countries to be announced soon starting on … you guessed it, December 13.”

The film’s theatrical release has been a big success: Earlier this month, the film’s box office grosses passed $232 million globally, AMC CEO Adam Aron said Wednesday.

The streaming announcement was a surprise for fans, who have been anticipating that Swift’s next big reveal would be the release date for a new “Taylor’s Version” album re-recording, this time the Reputation album. No word on that project just yet.

Hi! Well, so, basically I have a birthday coming up and I was thinking a fun way to celebrate the year we’ve had together would be to make The Eras Tour Concert Film available for you to watch at home! Very happy to be able to tell you that the extended version of the film… pic.twitter.com/JTpl0tz1uG

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Box Office: ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel and ‘Napoleon’ Rule Thanksgiving as ‘Wish’ Sings Out of Tune - Hollywood Reporter

There’s high drama at the Thanksgiving box office.

Heading into the long holiday corridor, Disney Animation’s music-infused original event pic Wish was expected to rule the feast. Now, the family film could come in behind Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Napoleon, from Apple Original Films and Sony.

The Hunger Games prequel will easily top the holiday chart in North America with a projected gross of $40 million-plus for the Wednesday to Sunday corridor after earning a hearty $11.4 million on Friday. The movie, which opened the weekend before Thanksgiving, will finish Sunday with a 10-day domestic total of nearly $100 million.

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In a surprise twist, Ridley Scott’s new historical epic Napoleon is in a close race with Wish for No. 2. The historical epic, starring Joaquin Phoenix, grossed $8.4 million on Friday for a projected five-day debut of $32 million to $33 million. Napoleon — a win for Apple’s theatrical ambitions — is coming in well ahead of expectations for an adult drama (the vast majority of ticket buyers are 35 and older). Its performance is also impressive considering it only earned a B- CinemaScore from moviegoers.

Napoleon is the second big theatrical swing from Apple Original Films after Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which is currently in theaters via Paramount. Apple Original Films fully financed the two tentpoles, which both have Oscar ambitions. Sony is Apple’s global distribution and marketing partner on Napoleon.

Heading into the Thanksgiving frame, Napoleon was looking at a five-day holiday cume of $22 million to $25 million.

Tracking had Wish, an original story with no affiliated IP, topping the Thanksgiving chart with a five-day feast of $45 million to $50 million. Instead, it is likewise looking at a five-day gross in the $32 million to $33 million range.

Disney has suffered a rocky year at the box office, capped by recent bust The Marvels. Wish, which earned $8.3 million on Wednesday, could overcome a soft opening if it plays throughout December and into the year-end holidays, buoyed by an A- CinemaScore and strong PostTrak exits.

Universal and Illumination’s Trolls Band Together is looking at a fourth-place finish with an estimated five-day gross of $25.5 million.

TriStar and Spyglass Media’s slasher pic ‘Thanksgiving’ will round out the top five in its second weekend with an estimated five-day cume of $11.4 million.

At the awards box office, Focus Features’ The Holdovers looks to come in No. 7 with five-day holiday earnings in the $4 million range.

Searchlight’s Next Goal Wins and MGM/Amazon’s Saltburn are each looking at five-day grosses in the $2.7 million range.

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SAG-AFTRA Releases More Detailed Contract Terms - Hollywood Reporter

SAG-AFTRA has released more detailed contract terms than the previous summary of the agreement that was released following the end of the 118-day actors strike.

The performers union released a 128-page document featuring a memorandum of agreements after it received some pressure from members to release the terms of the contract between SAG and the AMPTP ahead of the ratification vote.

“These contracts achieve more than $1 billion in NEW compensation and benefit plan funding (including an additional $317.2 million to the benefit plans),” national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland wrote in a letter to members.

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He continued, “The contracts establish lengthy and detailed AI guardrails that didn’t exist before and do protect you as we meet the challenge of this new technology, hair and makeup equity, significantly increased background coverage, outsized streaming residuals, a new streaming success fund and so much more. These gains are only possible because of your sacrifice, solidarity and tenacity over the 118 days of the strike and are assured if you vote to ratify the agreement.”

The actors strike ended on Nov. 8 after the union was able to make a deal with the studios for a new three-year contract. Two days later, SAG’s national board approved the tentative agreement with 86 percent of votes.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter following the end of the work stoppage, union president Fran Drescher explained what she was most excited to have accomplished in the deal.

“The new stream of revenue for members on SVOD is very important and really a big accomplishment,” she said. “And I think that the AI protections remain something that we are constantly going to have to monitor and fight for the level of protections whereby our members will not be duplicated or synthesized in any way without consent and compensation. So those are very big and absolutely had to happen or it would have been a deal-breaker.”

SAG-AFTRA began voting on ratification Nov. 14, and ballots are due Dec. 5.

Read the full Memorandum of Agreements here.

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Paris Hilton, husband Carter Reum, announce baby girl - USA TODAY

Paris Hilton and her husband Carter Reum shared one more reason to be thankful this year.

Hilton announced on Thanksgiving via Instagram a second child, a daughter. She shared a photo featuring a pink Peter Pan collared baby shirt with the name London stitched on the front, with heart sunglasses and a stuffed animal.

Hilton, 42, captioned the photo, "Thankful for my baby girl" with a face holding back tears emoji, pink heart emoji and baby emoji.

London was welcomed via surrogate, Hilton's rep confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday.

Hilton's aunt, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kyle Richards, commented with pink heart emojis on the post, and supermodel Naomi Campbell offered her congratulations.

Hilton shares a son, Phoenix, with Reum, 42, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. The couple married in November 2021. The two began dating in December 2019.

In a TikTok post, Paris confirms the announcement, telling her niece and nephew that she has "two babies."

"You guys excited for your new cousin?" she asks.

Paris Hilton's husband Carter Reum talks keeping son Phoenix a secret

Hilton's announcement is much less secretive than the announcement of her first child.

In a teaser for Season 2 of her reality series "Paris in Love" posted on Wednesday, the couple opened up about how they first kept Phoenix a secret.

Reum said initially he wanted to share the news of their son's anticipated arrival, but his wife preferred to keep their baby news hidden.

"I don't think it ever hit me we weren't going to tell anyone, that was really Paris," Reum said in a confessional. "My initial inclination was to tell my family and get everyone excited, hers was to hold the secret. But she's had to go through life having to protect herself, so I was gonna do everything I could to be a good teammate."

Hilton also discussed a plan if their son, who was born via surrogate in January, was revealed by paparazzi at the hospital.

"If people found out there would be paparazzi all over Cedars (Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles) I'm hoping and praying that no one at the hospital tells," she said in a clip of the couple riding in a car. "If anyone recognizes me let's pretend that it's our nephew."

"Can't blow our cover now, we've done such a good job," Reum responded.

The social media mogul, reality star and DJ announced her son's arrival in January. Hilton alluded to her new bundle of joy on Instagram, posting a picture of her baby's hand grasping her thumb.

"You are already loved beyond words," Hilton wrote, adding a blue heart emoji.

Reum has another child, a daughter, whom he shares with former reality star Laura Bellizzi.

In February, she shared on her podcast "This is Paris" that she named her son Phoenix and that no one – not even her mother Kathy Hilton or sister Nicky Hilton Rothschild – knew about him until he was a week old.

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"For now we've just been keeping everything really private," Hilton said on the podcast. "Not even my mom or my sister or my best friends – no one knew literally until he was over a week old, so it was really nice just to have that with Carter be our own journey together because I just feel that my life has been so public, and I've never really had anything just be mine."

Hilton added that she decided to keep her baby news under wraps even from close relatives because of the challenges of keeping a secret while living in the public eye.

"If you tell one person, then they tell someone, and then all of a sudden it's in TMZ or Page Six," she said. "So Carter and I literally made a pact together that we would not tell anyone."

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Tiffany Haddish Arrested for DUI in Beverly Hills - TMZ

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Tiffany Haddish is facing a DUI charge in Beverly Hills after she allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel ... TMZ has learned.

Bev Hills PD officers put Tiffany in handcuffs as she was arrested early Friday morning. The actress and comedian was not involved in an accident, but cops say they got a call around 5:45 AM about someone stopped in the middle of Beverly Drive ... apparently slumped over the wheel while the car was running.

Cops responded to the scene and, as you can see, Tiffany went peacefully as she was arrested. We're told she will be cited for DUI and released later today.

She had performed at The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood Thursday night for the club's 43rd annual free Thanksgiving feast for the community.

This is the second DUI arrest for Haddish, who was also busted under similar circumstances back in January 2022 ... that time in the Atlanta area.

Peachtree City PD also responded to a call of someone sleeping behind the wheel. When they responded to the area, they found Tiffany pulling into a neighborhood.

She was booked for DUI and improper stopping on a roadway, and, according to court records, she's scheduled to go to trial December 4 for that case.

As for this morning's arrest ... we've reached out to Haddish's camp, but no word back yet.

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Thanksgiving Eve Box Office: Disney’s ‘Wish’ Grosses $8.3 Million, Apple’s ‘Napoleon’ Earns $7.7 Million - Variety

Hollywood might not be feeling so festive this Thanksgiving.

The holiday period is traditionally a busy time for moviegoing, but audiences aren’t turning out in force over Turkey Day, leaving the box office suffering from too much tryptophan. In this drowsy state of play, Disney’s “Wish” earned a lackluster $8.3 million on Wednesday. The animated film, which tells the origin story of the wishing star that’s featured prominently in other Disney adventures, cost a hefty $200 million to produce. It is projected to earn more than $37 million over the five-day period, a disappointing number given its cost and another sign that the studio is mired in a creative and commercial rut. Disney, once a teflon brand, has seen both its animation business and its Marvel division struggle to maintain their fanbases. In the case of “Wish,” the hope is that families seek out the film over the holiday season, which could compensate for the slow start (that happened with last summer’s “Elemental,” which finished much stronger than its poor opening weekend would have suggested).

Apple Original Productions’ “Napoleon,” a $200 million Ridley Scott epic, grossed $7.7 million on Wednesday for a second place finish. It is expected to earn more than $30 million over the five-day period. Globally, “Napoleon” should generate roughly $65 million. On one hand, it’s a solid number considering that the film is over two hours long, carries an R rating, and centers on a long-dead military genius, but the budget is eye-popping.

It’s also a sign of where things may be headed in a movie business that’s still struggling to re-adjust its business models for the streaming era. For a traditional movie studio — one interested in, say, profits and losses — a result like that could be worrisome, potentially foretelling a lot of red ink that will need to be mopped up. But Apple, with its nearly $3 trillion market cap, prefers to look at these expenditures as marketing costs. It wants to generate buzz for Apple TV+, its streaming service. At least that was how the industry chose to view the financial results for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which Apple shelled out $200 million to make, only to see it earn less than $150 million globally. It’s unclear if Tim Cook and crew will continue to see this as a winning strategy, but exhibitors are certainly happy to have Apple essentially subsidizing their industry as it looks to raise the profiles of the movies it releases. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the French dictator in Scott’s historical drama, which has received mixed reviews from critics. Sony Pictures is distributing the movie for Apple.

In third place, Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” earned $7.3, bringing its domestic total to roughly $63.6 million. The return to Panem hasn’t been as lucrative as the original series. Still, the prequel is expected to end the five-day stretch with $40 million. Unlike its pricey competition, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” cost $100 million to produce — a relatively economical budget for a blockbuster hopeful. As it stands, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” has a strong chance of overtaking “Wish” over the five-day holiday to become the week’s highest grossing film. That would be a major upset. Even if it falls short, the “Hunger Games” prequel should end the week having generated nearly $100 million at the domestic box office.

Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “Trolls Band Together” took fourth place with $5.1 million. It’s expected to earn $27 million over the five days, bringing its earnings to $66 million. That left TriStar and Spyglass Media’s “Thanksgiving” in fifth place. The holiday-themed horror flick grossed $1.8 million on Wednesday and is expected to generate $10.1 million over the five day period, lifting its domestic gross to $23.2 million.

“The Marvels,” the latest comic book adventure in the MCU, continued to crater, earning $1.5 million on Wednesday. That brings its stateside gross to a less-than-heroic $69.1 million, a disastrous result for Marvel.

This Thanksgiving holiday is expected to lap the last two post-pandemic editions, generating nearly $190 million in revenues. That would top the 2021 five-day haul, which hit $142.7 million and the 2022 edition, which topped out at $142.7 million. Even if it does beat those figures, the 2023 Thanksgiving period will result in a lot less gravy than the 2019 one, where total revenues ended up at $263.4 million, or the 2018 extravaganza, when they hit a record-shattering $315.6 million.

Clearly, there’s still a lot of ground to make up.

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