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2 Suspects Arrested in Connection to Murder of ‘SNL’ Writer’s Sister 

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Two people have been arrested in connection to the murder of Christina Downer, the sister of Saturday Night Live writer Jimmy Fowlie . The Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division announced the arrest of Delorean Bijon Brandon and Kaylee Nicole Markowski via a media release on Friday, October 30. “On December 18, 2025, Christina Downer was reported missing after her ex-husband requested a welfare check when he had not heard from her for an extended period of time. Downer’s boyfriend, Delorean Brandon, claimed that she had moved out several months earlier, leaving behind all her belongings, including her vehicle and dog,” the LAPD said. The statement further read, “Robbery-Homicide Division detectives assumed the investigation after Downer’s cellphone was discovered washed ashore on Santa Monica Beach. Through various investigative techniques, detectives identified Delorean Brandon and Kaylee Markowski as the individuals responsible for D...

Greta Thunberg, Paloma Faith and Nemahsis join Macklemore at London ‘Free Palestine’ tour finale

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Macklemore was joined by Greta Thunberg , Paloma Faith and Nemahsis as his sold-out ‘Free Palestine Tour’ concluded in London last night (October 30). READ MORE: Nemahsis: “I always had to stand up for myself. It’s all I’ve ever known” The concert at OVO Arena Wembley was the final date of the rapper’s three-show European benefit tour , which was organised after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US ‘Loop Tour’ for making pro-Palestinian statements on stage. Around 10,000 people attended the London show, which featured performances from several artists alongside speeches from activists and campaigners, with proceeds going to 12 organisations supporting Palestinians. Thunberg opened the evening with a speech in which she praised the resilience of people in Gaza and urged attendees to continue campaigning beyond the concert. She said that Palestinians had continued to celebrate their culture and support one another despite the devastation of the war, argui...

DWTS' Britt Stewart Addresses Rumors She's Quitting After Early Eliminations

Dancing With the Stars pro Britt Stewart is setting the record straight on viral discourse about her future in the ballroom. “The first thing I thought about when I saw that [report] was when I was approached by a little Black girl at Dancing With the Stars . She came up to me and said, ‘You are amazing, good job,’ and I said, ‘Thank you so much,’” Stewart, 37, told Cosmopolitan in an interview published Friday, October 30, referring to The Sun recently claiming that she was thinking about leaving the show after her back-to-back early eliminations. “I gave her a high-five, but her mom then followed and said, ‘Every time my daughter saw you go on the floor, she just, like, gasped. You being in the ballroom means so much for us and for my little girl.’” Stewart, the first and only Black female DWTS pro, initially joined as a member of the troupe in 2016. She was elevated to a pro in 2020, though her partnerships have often left the competition well before th...

DWTS' Carrie Ann Inaba and Val Chmerkovskiy Hold Each Other After Drama

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It appears that Dancing With the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba is ready to forgive and forget the drama involving pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy . In a tender behind-the-scenes moment filmed during Tuesday, October 27’s Horror Movie Night , Inaba, 58, was seen holding the shoulders of Chmerkovskiy, 40, as he held two hands around her waist. Shared across Instagram following the show’s airing, the video footage also captured the pair softly speaking and nodding to one another before they went in for a hug. The moment came amid Chmerkovskiy’s return to the reality TV dancing competition following a one-week suspension for posting controversial social media comments directed at Inaba. (Chmerkovskiy had referenced Will Smith ’s notorious 2022 Oscars slap while defending his wife, Jenna Johnson , after she received ballroom criticism from Inaba.) According to a report by People on Tuesday night, Inaba acknowledged that their moment was attracting attention, turn...

Check out Chvrches’ tender single ‘Overthinker’

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Chvrches have dropped the intricate new single ‘Overthinker’, and played it live for the first time at an intimate Glasgow gig, where they were joined by Biffy Clyro ’s Simon Neil. Check it out below. READ MORE: How trauma and friendship launched new Chvrches project The Leaving: “This was always supposed to happen” The new single is the latest to be dropped from the group’s first album in nearly six years, ‘All The King’s Men’ . Set to arrive on January 22, it will mark the the fifth album from Chvrches and their first since ‘ Screen Violence ’ dropped in 2021. Visit here to pre-order. Around the time of the album announcement, the trio of Lauren Mayberry , Iain Cook and Martin Doherty dropped the single ‘ Roses ’, and now they have shared the second single from the upcoming album: ‘Overthinker’. Throughout the song, the band take a much more inward-looking approach than in ‘Roses’, and shift from themes of societal pressures to navigating complicated family dynamics. ...

Miranda Lambert Makes Rare Comments About Blake Shelton Divorce

More than a decade after her divorce from Blake Shelton , Miranda Lambert has opened up about their relationship breakdown. “I got divorced and that sucks for anyone, especially in the public eye, especially on tour, especially in the middle of a very public career, two of us, you know what I mean? It just was a really not fun time,” Lambert, 42, said on the Tuesday, October 27, episode of Ross Golan ’s “ And the Writer Is… ” podcast. Lambert continued, “I, in the meantime, had moved back to Nashville full-time, and so I dove headfirst into songwriting.” (The country music star had lived with Shelton, 50, in Oklahoma, until their split was announced in 2015.) Adding that she used her “misery” to create her sixth studio album, The Weight of These Wings , Lambert detailed what happened next. “When I moved back [to Nashville] in 2015, I gathered up all of my friends and relationships from, you know, all of the previous years and just used it, used the misery,”...

Jessa Duggar Announces She Is Pregnant, Expecting 7th Child With Ben Seewald

19 Kids and Counting alum Jessa Duggar has announced that she is expanding her brood. “We have six kids and we’re actually expecting again. Six weeks pregnant with number 7,” Jessa, 33, said in a Tuesday, October 27, teaser for the following day’s “Unplanned Podcast” episode. The reality TV star appeared on the podcast with her husband, Ben Seewald , as co-host Matt Howard asked the couple, “Does anybody know this?” and his co-host and wife, Abby Howard , remarked in shock, “Stop.” Us has reached out to Jessa for comment. Jessa Duggar and Husband Ben Seewald's Relationship Timeline Jessa and Seewald, 31, who got married in 2014 when they were respectively 21 and 19, are already parents to sons Spurgeon, 10, Henry, 9, George, 2, and Eddie, 1, as well as daughters Ivy, 7, and Fern, 5. Eddie was welcomed into the world in August last year following a seven-and-a-half-hour labor. His safe arrival was shared via a series of YouTube videos posted at ...