Expecto paturnum! ABC News has confirmed that former Harry Potter lead Daniel Radcliffe and longtime actress girlfriend, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel co-star Erin Darke, are now parents.
A rep for the actor passed along the good news, but didn’t provide any details about whether it was a boy or a girl.
Incidentally, the news comes as the couple, who have been linked since 2012 when they met on the film Kill Your Darlings, were snapped in photos published by the Daily Mail as they pushed a stroller along the sidewalks of New York City.
It is the first child for both 33-year-old Radcliffe and Darke, 38.
Bridesmaids scene-stealer, former Mike & Molly star and the actress playing Ursula in the upcoming live-action Little Mermaid film, Melissa McCarthy, is the cover model for People magazine‘s latest “Beautiful” issue.
The magazine dropped the news Tuesday, ahead of the issue hitting the newsstand Friday. An “incredibly flattered” McCarthy said of the honor, “I felt like it was saying something really lovely to my younger self, to my 20-year-old self. And maybe to other people, too.”
The 52-year-old said she let her husband, Ben Falcone, in on the surprise announcement, but not their two daughters, 15-year-old Vivian and 13-year-old Georgette.
They have more pressing concerns: “They were trying to talk me into getting yet another gecko, so I haven’t gotten around to telling them yet,” Melissa said, adding she thinks the honor “might mean more to [them] as they get older.”
Def Leppard has added a new show to their summer schedule. The band announced on social media that they’ll be headlining an August 10 concert at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip in conjunction with the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.
“We’re joining The Best Party Anywhere – get ready to rock with us at @sturgisbuffalochip!” the band shared. “See you at @sturgisrallysd on August 10.”
The Sturgis Rally is set to take place August 4-13. Other artists performing include ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Limp Bizkit, Lita Ford, Styx and REO Speedwagon. Tickets for the concert and rallies are on sale now.
The rally is just the latest addition to Def Leppard’s busy schedule. They have a new album, Drastic Symphonies, dropping May 19, and then they kick off the European and U.K. legs of their stadium tour with Mötley Crüe on May 22 in Sheffield, England. A complete list of dates can be found at defleppard.com.
Dua Lipa and (in hoodie) Romain Gavras in February; Neil Mockford / Ricky Vigil M/GC Images
Did Dua Lipa just make her new relationship Instagram official?
Earlier this year, Dua was spotted out and about with French director Romain Gavras. But on her Instagram Story April 24, she posted a photo that shows her hand holding a Polaroid photo of the two of them laughing together, with a red heart emoji in the lower corner of the shot.
In February, the British tabloid The Sunclaimed Gavras, 41, and Dua, 27, were romantically involved. In March, Dua was photographed holding hands with Gavras in Paris. E! reported that the two were seen leaving the Saint Laurent Paris Fashion Week show together. They were also seen together at a BAFTA after-party.
The Paris-born Gavras, who previously dated Rita Ora, has directed music videos like Kanye West‘s “No Church in the Wild” and movies like The World Is Yours. Dua’s two-year relationship with model Anwar Hadid ended in 2021.
When The Sun first reported the relationship, it quoted a source as saying, “Dua knows how important it is to find someone who understands her industry. She feels Romain totally gets it. They’re both really creative people.”
(NEW YORK) — A nine-member jury was seated in Manhattan federal court Tuesday for former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump.
Carroll, who brought the lawsuit in November, alleges that Trump defamed her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations “a Hoax and a lie” and saying “This woman is not my type!” when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the 1990s.
She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations.
Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll’s allegations. The trial is expected to last around five days.
Two women are expected to testify during the trial that Carroll told them about the alleged attack shortly after it occurred. Two other women are expected to testify that Trump sexually assaulted them, claims that he denies, as Carroll’s attorneys try to show a pattern of conduct.
The judge has also agreed to allow excerpts of the so-called Access Hollywood tape on which Trump is overheard in 2005 bragging to then-host Billy Bush about groping women.
The judge told prospective jurors Tuesday that he was looking to select jurors who are “willing and able to decide this case in a manner that is fair and impartial,” no matter what they may know about those involved.
“The name of the game here is utter fairness and impartiality,” Kaplan said. “The job of the jury will be to decide what did or didn’t happen at the department store, whether Ms. Carroll was or wasn’t raped” — and whether she should be compensated and whether defamation occurred, the judge said.
The judge began questioning prospective jurors with this question: “Is there anything about the nature of this case or the parties that would make it difficult for you to be entirely fair to both parties and to come to a just or impartial verdict?”
He asked prospective jurors about everything from their vaccine status to whether they watched The Apprentice, the reality game show that Trump hosted from 2004-2015.
The judge also asked whether they would find Carroll’s battery claim “less reliable” because she brought it 30 years after it allegedly happened.
Prospective jurors were asked whether they maintain a Twitter account, whether they’ve ever been wrongfully accused of misconduct, and whether they feel Trump has been unfairly treated by the press.
The former president was not present in court Tuesday.
Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, told the judge Thursday that Trump will decide whether or not to attend as the trial proceeds.
The civil trial is being heard a block from the criminal courthouse where Trump pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged hush money payment to an adult film actress.
Kaplan last week denied Trump’s attempt to delay the start of this week’s trial for a month after Trump’s attorneys sought a four-week delay on the grounds that a “cooling off” period was necessary following intense media coverage of Trump’s criminal indictment.
“There is no justification for an adjournment,” Kaplan ruled. “This case is entirely unrelated to the state prosecution.”
This week’s trial is taking place as Trump seeks the White House for a third time, while facing numerous legal challenges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, his handling of classified material after leaving the White House, and possible attempts to interfere in the Georgia’s 2020 vote. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Monday she would decide whether to file criminal charges against Trump or his allies this summer.
Carroll’s lawsuit is her second against Trump related to her rape allegation.
Carroll previously sued Trump in 2019 after the then-president denied her rape claim by telling The Hill that Carroll was “totally lying,” saying, “I’ll say it with great respect: No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, OK?” That defamation suit has been caught in a procedural back-and-forth over the question of whether Trump, as president, was acting in his official capacity as an employee of the federal government when he made those remarks.
If Trump is determined to have been acting as a government employee, the U.S. government would substitute as the defendant in that suit — which means that case would go away, since the government cannot be sued for defamation.
The set was recorded during the “Ace of Spades” outfit’s 2007 performance at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival and is aptly titled Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival’07. It’ll be released June 16.
Notably, Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival’07 includes the first official release of Motörhead’s cover of Thin Lizzy‘s “Rosalie.” You can watch footage of the “Rosalie” performance streaming now on YouTube.
While Motörhead disbanded in 2015 following the death of frontman Lemmy Kilmister, several archival pieces have been released since then. Most recently, an expanded version of the last Motörhead album, 2015’s Bad Magic, dropped earlier this year.
The “wait” is over. Hardy and Lainey Wilson are number one this week on the country charts with their powerful single, “wait in the truck.”
The track is the lead single off Hardy’s latest album, the mockingbird & THE CROW, and the first duet between the singers.
“I’m just so happy a song like this still has a place in country music,” says Hardy. “Thanks to everyone involved for taking this song to the top, and for believing in this one.”
“I’m so honored HARDY asked me to join him on a song that’s had an impact on so many people and shed light on a topic a lot of folks are scared to talk about,” Lainey adds. “He is one of the most brilliant songwriters I’ve ever met and puts on one heck of a show. I can’t wait to be back out on the road together this fall!”
Hardy and Lainey’s RIAA-certified Platinum hit also earned nominations in three categories at the 2023 ACM Awards: Song Of The Year, Music Event Of The Year and Visual Media Of The Year.
The pair and newcomer Dylan Marlowe will tour around the U.S. this fall on Hardy’s headlining the mockingbird & THE CROW Tour.
L-R: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, ‘Equalizer 3’ director director Antoine Fuqua – Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage
(NOTE LANGUAGE) The annual movie industry confab Cinemacon is underway in Las Vegas, and Monday night’s presentations to insiders teased some of what will be the biggest movies to hit theaters.
Monday night belonged to Sony Pictures, with the announcement of an ambitious plan to release 23 movies in 2023.
Or as Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman said, according to IndieWire, “We are not f****** around here.” To that end, Sony unspooled the trailers for Denzel Washington‘s The Equalizer 3, a teaser for the follow-up to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, director Ridley Scott‘s Napoleon starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, the animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and its first R-rated Marvel Comics film, Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the poacher-hunting Spider-Man villain.
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence kicked off the festivities with a recorded message to the attendees from the set of Bad Boys 4, with Will saying, “Back in the saddle. We hype, we excited.”
Taylor-Johnson appeared in person, as did Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon — wearing Ghostbusters jumpsuits, no less. Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence also made an appearance,in fine f-bomb-dropping form, to promote her upcoming R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings.
(NEW YORK) — Shares of First Republic Bank plummeted more than 25% in early trading on Tuesday as the banking crisis continued to ripple through the financial system.
The regional lender, left in dire condition after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank last month, suffered a major loss of $102 billion in deposits over the first three months of 2023, an earnings report showed on Monday.
The lost deposits made up more than half of the $176 billion retained by the bank at the end of last year.
In all, shares of First Republic Bank have fallen nearly 90% since the outset of the year.
The bank’s profit fell 33% to $269 million over the three months ending in March when compared with the same period last year, the earnings report showed.
Meanwhile, revenue dropped 13% to $1.2 billion over the first three months of 2023, the report said.
On an earnings call with analysts, First Republic Bank CEO Michael Roffler acknowledged “unprecedented deposit outflows” in the middle of March, saying the bank faces “challenges and uncertainties.”
“Over the past seven weeks as we were impacted by industry events, our commitment to delivering exceptional client service has not wavered,” he added.
The sharp decline of First Republic Bank shares comes more than a month after the nation’s largest financial institutions injected $30 billion in the bank to stem losses and exhibit confidence in the lender.
Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs were among a slew of big banks that participated in the effort.
Over the week following Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, small banks lost $108 billion in deposits, Federal Reserve data showed.
Meanwhile, deposits to the nation’s 25 biggest banks increased by $120 billion over that week, the data said.
JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, received a huge wave of customers and deposits, amounting to hundreds of accounts and billions of dollars in the aftermath of the bank collapse, a source familiar with the matter previously told ABC News.
First Republic Bank came under stress in the days following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, which marked the largest bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis.
Two days after that came the fall of Signature Bank, the nation’s 29th-largest bank, suggesting that the banking crisis had spread.
The banking panic spooked many depositors, who rapidly withdrew their funds from smaller banks and placed them in larger ones.
In response, the U.S. government took rapid and extraordinary steps to protect the financial system.
Still, many bank stocks plummeted in March, including First Republic Bank. The company’s shares fell 88% over the course of that month.
Since then, the shares have stabilized, jumping 10% this month.
The weak earnings report on Monday and the stock decline on Tuesday, however, left in question the steadiness of the bank.
Bank executives declined to take questions on the earnings call on Monday.
Chance the Rapper‘s Billboard-charting mixtape Acid Rap turns 10 years old on April 30. In honor of its anniversary, the rapper’s headlining a celebratory show in his hometown. The Acid Rap Ten Year Anniversary Show will take place August 19 at Chicago’s United Center, featuring record producer Saba as the supporting act. His last performance at the venue was in 2019.
Presale ticket sales begin Wednesday, April 26, at 10 a.m. local time and will run throughout the week before the general sale kicks off Friday, April 28, at 10 a.m. local time at livenation.com.
Chance dropped Acid Rap in 2013. Featuring the likes of Vic Mensa, Childish Gambino, Twista, Action Bronson, BJ The Chicago Kid, Ab-Soul and Noname, the mixtape featured 14 tracks and peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200.
Chance also plans to celebrate the mixtape with the streaming release of the single “Juice” and exclusive Acid Rap Ten Year Anniversary merchandise on April 30. He’ll also host live events, pop-ups and more over the next few months.
The rapper’s slated to drop his next body of work, Star Line Gallery, sometime this year.
