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Police in a pickle over handcuffing Lily Allen
Australian Federal Police officers who handcuffed Lily Allen at Gold Coast Airport as part of an Instagram prank gone wrong are now the subject of an internal investigation. The 29-year-old British singer landed at the Queensland airport on Sunday afternoon before her headline performance that night at Splendour In The Grass near Byron Bay, in northern NSW
The dark side of Comic Con
Amid the costumes and fantasy of this weekend’s Comic-Con convention, a group of young women drew widespread attention to a very real issue – allegations of sexual harassment at the annual comic book convention. Geeks for CONsent, founded by three women from Philadelphia, gathered nearly 2600 signatures on an online petition supporting a formal anti-harassment policy at Comic-Con
Kanye tells Kim to ditch the smile
Kim Kardashian apparently no longer smiles in photos at the request of her husband Kanye West. The American star became a household name thanks to her reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashaians, which follows her and her family as they go about their day-to-day lives
Red letter day looms
It has been a long time coming, but The Mentalist star Simon Baker predicts that this season, fans will finally get to know the identity of serial killer Red John.
Extra-hot Latta but no sugar, thanks
It doesn’t take much to work Nigel Latta up. As soon as we meet for the customary cafe-interview, he immediately latches on to the fact I should not be drinking hot chocolate.
Peter Jackson goes undercover at Comic-Con
Peter Jackson walked through crowds at Comic-Con without a single person recognising him. Not because fans had forgotten the famous director’s Lord of The Rings film trilogy but because he chose to get into the spirit of the day and go incognito – donning the disguise of an evil jester
Commando Steve on his near breakdown
Commando Steve Willis may be a professional tough guy, but his secret fears nearly drove him to flee his TV career and return to the army. The Biggest Loser’s hardman has revealed to S he was so afraid of his own feelings after blocking them for 10 years in the military, that normal emotions “nearly broke me”.
Morgan Freeman’s God complex
There’s a game television chat show hosts play when they have Morgan Freeman on as a guest. That voice, they say, can make anything sound interesting, and Freeman, being a good sport, obliges, reading names from the phone book or a news item about the inclusion of “twerking” in the Oxford English Dictionary
British label admits artist ripped off Kiwi musician
A British record label has removed from sale a track by one of its artists after acknowledging it was a rip-off of a composition by Wellington musician Rhian Sheehan. Manchester-based Broken Bubble issued an apology to fans who had downloaded Japanese artist Sunnova’s track Silver Tear after Sheehan contacted the label and pointed out it was a blatant copy of his 2009 composition Standing In Silence Pt 2.