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Matching her boyfriend and becoming the third straight Samoan winner was icing on the cake for Isabella Moore at the Lexus Song Quest last night. The 23-year-old soprano from West Auckland took out the competition of New Zealand’s best young opera singers, two years after her partner Amitai Pati won the award.

“Lion Man” Craig Busch has roared back onto TV screens around the world. Busch’s new reality TV series, The Lion Man: African Safari, is being beamed into an audience of tens of millions in India, South Africa and parts of Europe on the Discovery Channel network’s Animal Planet

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies launched a full-scale assault on Comic-Con. The cast and crew from the final installment of The Hobbit trilogy showed off the first trailer for the fantasy film at the pop-culture convention, as well as a blooper reel from both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.

You have reviewers saying Mutineers is your best album since 1998 multi-platinum seller White Ladder. Were you intimidated by your own success Unquestionably that is true but it’s a bit more complicated than that

REVIEW: There doesn’t have to be big-name film stars in a horror movie to get me into the cinema, but unless the story otherwise promises a clever, innovative conceit (like the terrific horror parody The Cabin in the Woods) then the casting of actors I’ve rated highly in more general fare will get my hopes up.

Kanye West fans, rejoice: the self-proclaimed rap megastar is heading to New Zealand later this year. The 21-time Grammy Award winner, who is bringing his YEEZUS tour to Australia for a five-city run in September, was strongly rumoured to be adding a New Zealand concert date, an industry source told the Sunday Star Times.

Like father, like son – two handsome men. On the left, Robert De Niro: one of the greatest actors of his generation, his career more recently tarnished by his perplexing decision to appear in all sorts of rubbish.

Listening to Bill Bailey reel off his list of pets is beginning to get exhausting. “We have a few birds of all kinds of different hue, we have parrots and cockatoos and pigeons and starlings,” he is saying.

“IT WAS 1995 and I had just turned seven. I started saving my pocket money religiously to make my first ever purchase.