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Looking for some inspiration on how to ring in the new year? Here’s how some of your favorite characters spent the holiday on screens big and small. December 31, 2025 11:40am Published on December 31, 2025 David Schwimmer and Courteney Cox in ‘Friends’ Warner Bros. / Courtesy: Everett Collection Movies and television shows have long had a fascination with New Year’s Eve, promising big parties and falling in love with strangers as the clock strikes midnight. Resolutions have also played a big role in plots, whether inspiring characters to be better or sending them to fail miserably in whatever they…
Liverpool are close to securing the first transfer of the winter transfer window.According to The Sun, the Reds are close to sealing a £43m deal for Ecuadorian centre-back Joel Ordonez from Club Brugge ‘in the next few days’.The initial fee is said to be close to £35m but add-ons would increase the overall fee worth.At just 21 years of age, Ordonez is viewed internally as a long-term defensive solution, and his arrival would represent a significant statement from Liverpool early in the window.Chelsea had also been tracking the Ecuador international, but reports suggest the Blues have now withdrawn from the…
Representation for women in the director’s chair dipped to a seven-year low in 2025, according to the annual study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Looking at the top 100 grossing films of the year, the report notes that only 9 women worked as directors on these movies, representing 8.1 percent of all directors on these films. This is a drop from 2024’s 13.4 percent and is the lowest since 2018’s 4.5 percent. “The 2025 data reveals that progress for women directors has been fleeting. While it is tempting to think that these changes are a result of who is in…
A staffer at Walt Disney World is recovering, a Disney spokesperson said, after videos showed a fake boulder rolling off its track during a live show at the Florida theme park and striking an employee.”We’re focused on supporting our cast member, who is recovering,” a Disney spokesperson told CBS News in a statement on Wednesday. “Safety is at the heart of what we do, and that element of the show will be modified as our safety team completes a review of what happened.”Disney refers to its park staffers as cast members.In the live show, called Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular,…
A man, Mustafa Briggs, who has been Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele’s friend for nearly 10 years, has paid an emotional tribute to him on FacebookLatif lost his life in the car crash on Monday, December 29, as an SUV carrying him, Anthony Joshua and Sina Ghami rammed into a stationary truck on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at high speedFor Mustafa, Latif was someone he shared long nights of conversation with, had plans, dreams and aspirationsMustafa Briggs, a friend of the late Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele, has paid a touching tribute to the deceased on social media.Mustafa mourned his friend, who lost his life…
TRAVIS Barker’s daughter Alabama has defended her dad in a furious rant after he was accused of buying her racy lingerie for Christmas. The 20-year-old content creator, who celebrated her birthday on Christmas Eve, previously shared a video showing off her present haul which included sexy lingerie from drummer Travis, 50, and wife Kourtney Kardashian, 46. Sign up for the Showbiz newsletter Thank you! Alabama Barker revealed the sexy lingerie she received for her birthdayCredit: TikTok/alabamabarker She vowed never to do a gift haul with fans online ever again after the backlashCredit: TikTok/alabamabarker After watching the video, some fans took…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has disclosed that the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has informed him of his decision to leave the party. Otti made this known on Tuesday during his monthly media briefing in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. He spoke ahead of Obi’s planned formal defection to the African Democratic Congress in Enugu on Wednesday. The governor, who is the only Labour Party governor in the country, said he would not follow Obi out of the party, stressing that he joined the Labour Party before the former Anambra State governor. Otti speaks on Obi’s exit…
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ENZO MARESCA is ill. And the fans and bosses at Chelsea seem to be getting sick of him, too. Before Christmas, Maresca was being touted as a potential replacement for Pep Guardiola at Manchester City. Sign up for the Chelsea newsletter Thank you! Enzo Maresca could be sacked before the end of the season if Chelsea’s results do not improveCredit: EPA Yet Guardiola’s former assistant will return to the Etihad on Sunday amid huge doubts about how long he will stay in his current job. Maresca declared himself too poorly to explain to the media after the 2-2 draw with…
Right-wing talking heads like Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin once reserved their sharpest slings for liberals, immigrants and Joe Biden. But suddenly they’re dropping their biggest bombs on each other. Kelly, a former Fox News anchor and NBC host, has been engaged in an increasingly ugly social-media shootout with her former Fox News colleague Mark Levin, the longtime host of the syndicated The Mark Levin Show andstar of Fox News’ weekend staple Life, Liberty & Levin. The two veteran anchors have been feuding since a Turning Point USA convention in mid-December, when Ben Shapiro‘s keynote speech attacking right-wing conspiracists like…