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People walk past a poster featuring pop singer Andy Lau outside the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hung Hom on December 17, 2024. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong culture

Letters | How did Hong Kong go from Andy Lau to Carriage Lau?

Readers discuss the rise of antisocial influencers, the DSE exam, and the HK$2 transport fare scheme.

Asian cinema: Korean films

Review | Forbidden Fairytale: bubbly Korean sex comedy is closed-minded and prudish

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Sex and relationships

Look away, Lily Allen! Meet David Harbour’s rumoured new girlfriend

Books and literature

Who is Colleen Hoover, the author behind the controversial It Ends With Us?

Hoover’s novels often touch upon contemporary issues such as domestic abuse and drug use – but before her international bestseller, she didn’t think she could have a writing career.

Who is Colleen Hoover, the author behind the controversial It Ends With Us? She’s pictured here with Blake Lively in June 2024. Photo: Getty Images
Sex and relationships

Who is country superstar Kane Brown’s talented wife Katelyn?

The pair met in 2016 as they were both beginning their careers and married in 2018 – now they are parents to 3 children and have collaborated on several musical projects.

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Asian cinema: Chinese films

Review | Girls on Wire: Wen Qi shines in Vivian Qu’s uneven genre blender

Taiwanese actress shows her versatility as a soap star turned stuntwoman in a film marred by narrative confusion and a sudden tonal change.

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Elon Musk

Who is Elon Musk’s alleged Maga baby mama, Ashley St Clair?

Elon Musk could now be a father of 13 after allegedly welcoming his latest child with conservative author Ashley St Clair – here’s what we know about her amid the news.

New mother Ashley St Clair claims Elon Musk is the father of her baby. Photos: DPA, @stclairashley/X
Hollywood

Who is You star Penn Badgley’s wife Domino Kirke?

Kirke, whose band toured with Lily Allen, hails from a family of creatives: her dad is a musician, her mum a designer whose clothes appeared in Sex and the City, and her sisters Jemima and Lola act.

Sex and relationships

Who’s Kevin Blatt, the guy threatening to release Kanye West’s sex tape?

Following the ‘Power’ rapper’s antisemitic meltdown on X (formerly Twitter), Blatt, who is Jewish, began selling his own ‘F Kanye West’ merchandise and threatened to release the rapper’s sex tape.

World Wrestling Entertainment

Meet former WWE stars Brie and Nikki Garcia, aka The Bella Twins

The evolution of Brie and Nikki: from Hooters to WWE, the duo formerly known as The Bella Twins are finding themselves, celebrating the lessons they learned as Hooters waitresses and WWE Hall of Famers

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Once known as The Bella Twins, Nikki and Brie Garcia are using their legal names again as they build a new career. Photo: @nikkigarcia/Instagram
Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong stage contractor linked to Mirror accident faces liquidation risk

Hip Hing Loong Stage Engineering Company’s mainland-based creditor has filed a case with city’s High Court for firm to be liquidated.

Three dancers were injured during a Mirror concert after a giant video screen fell on the stage in 2022. Photo: Handout
Hollywood

Meet Sex Education and The White Lotus star Aimee-Lou Wood

Rising star Aimee-Lou Wood recently stepped out for The White Lotus premiere with Patrick Schwarzenegger and Blackpink’s Lisa, and has been open about her mental health struggles on the way up.

Asian cinema: Korean films

Review | Mickey 17, wild sci-fi satire from Parasite’s Bong Joon-ho

Robert Pattinson plays the titular Mickey, a loser sent into space, where he is cloned with hilarious results in this cult-novel adaptation.

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Sex and relationships

Meet Anna Romano, wife of Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano

TV comedian heavyweight Ray Romano’s has a new Netflix series – so who is his wife Anna Romano, who’s been by his side since 1987 and was the inspiration for a character in his directorial debut?

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Ray Romano and his wife, Anna Romano are the perfect couple. Photo: @tom_caltabiano_photo/Instagram
Cinema

Conclave wins best picture at Baftas as The Brutalist takes directing, acting prizes

Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, beat The Brutalist, Emilia Perez and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown for the top prize at awards in London.

From left, Peter Straughan, Tessa Ross, Edward Berger, Isabella Rossellini, Juliette Howell, Ralph Fiennes and Michael A Jackman in the winners’ room after Conclave won the award for Best Film during the Baftas at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
Music

Who is Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift’s writing partner since Folklore days?

Dessner – who many fans prefer to Swift’s other writing partner Jack Antonoff – worked with Swift on Evermore and Midnights, as well as several of her re-recorded ‘Taylor’s Version’ albums.

Obituaries

South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron found dead at her home in Seoul

Police said there was no sign of foul play. Kim, 24, is best known for her role in the 2010 film The Man from Nowhere.

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Millionaires and billionaires

Who is jailed socialite Rebecca Grossman, now facing 15 years in prison?

Mark and Jacob Iskander were just 11 and 8 years old respectively when they were struck by Grossman’s car; her defence maintains that her ex-boyfriend is the real culprit.

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Jailed socialite Rebecca Grossman, here pictured with her husband Dr Peter Grossman in 2017, was sentenced over the deaths of two young boys in a car accident in 2020. Photo: Getty Images
Books and literature

Stephen King’s Hansel and Gretel a fairy-tale collaboration

‘King of Horror’ American author’s retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale with illustrations by the late Maurice Sendak due out in September.

Food and Drinks

Gordon Ramsay’s sky-high ambition on show in 5 London openings

Chef-entrepreneur opening 3 restaurants, a bar and a cookery school on 60th floor of 278-metre tower, all charted in a Netflix documentary.

US Politics

Meet congressman and former swimsuit model, Anna Paulina Luna

Luna has been put in charge of a new congressional task force aimed at exposing ‘federal secrets’ – and she believes that there were ‘2 shooters’ involved in the assassination of JFK.

Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna was recently appointed by Donald Trump to investigate “federal secrets”. Photos: @realannapaulina/Instagram
US Politics

Who is Al Cárdenas, lawyer husband of Ana Navarro from TV talk show The View?

The couple used to spar as rival political commentators, but now they avoid the topic of politics in their home lives; Mitt Romney and Anderson Cooper were among their wedding guests.

Lobbyist and lawyer Al Cárdenas with wife Ana Navarro, co-host of The View. Photo: @AlCardenasFL_DC/X
American cinema

Review | Dreams, chilling film with Jessica Chastain about US-Mexico ties

Jessica Chastain plays the rich lover of an illegal immigrant in Michel Franco’s exploration of America’s relationship with poorer neighbour.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

How 3 Hong Kong directors in turn-of-the-century Hollywood survived

John Woo teamed with Tom Cruise for a ‘boring’ hit. Peter Chan turned to romance. Ringo Lam and Jean Claude van Damme made stomachs churn.

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Ariana Grande

Who is Ariana Grande impersonator Paige Niemann, who’s been heavily criticised?

Niemann found fame cosplaying as Grande’s Victorious character Cat Valentine and even walked as the singer at New York Fashion Week, but some felt her OnlyFans bio was intentionally ambiguous.

Paige Niemann has found fame – and notoriety – impersonating Wicked star Ariana Grande. Photos: Getty Images
Food and Drinks

Plunging price of tequila ingredient agave gives farmers a headache

Celebrities from Elon Musk to LeBron James profited from tequila’s rising popularity. Farmers of key ingredient agave in Mexico face losses.

An agave producer checks a plantation in Jalisco state, Mexico. Photo: AFP
K-drama news

Profile | Meet Park Bo-young, star of K-dramas Melo Movie and Light Shop

Park is captivating global audiences on Netflix and Disney+, but she made her name in South Korea long ago.

Beauty

J-beauty and K-beauty, compared – but will C-beauty take the crown?

Products from Japan’s Prossence to Korea’s Sulwhasoo, Innisfree and Laneige, have had a big impact on global skincare habits, and now beauty from China is joining the scene.

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