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Jay Slater’s cocaine dealer Airbnb friend marries glamorous drug mule mum who smuggled £13m worth of cannabis in 22 suitcases into UK
Ayub Qassim, the last person known to have seen missing teenager Jay Slater alive in Tenerife in 2024, has married Paige Crisp, a woman recently convicted over a £13million cannabis smuggling operation. Qassim, 33, who previously served nine years for masterminding a heroin and crack cocaine supply network into Cardiff, invited Jay back to his…
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Dolly Parton Tells Her Story in Memoir: Here’s Where To Get a Copy of ‘Star of the Show: My Life on Stage’ Online
Dolly Parton’s memoir “Star of the Show: My Life on Stage” is being promoted with links to purchase deluxe and standard editions online, following renewed interest in Parton’s story. The book focuses on her career in live performance, tracing her journey from singing for family members to headlining the Grand Ole Opry and other landmark…
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Sam Register Leaving As Warner Bros. Animation President
Sam Register, President of Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, is leaving the company after nearly three decades, with Warner Bros. Television Group chief Channing Dungey announcing that his contract will not be renewed. The departure comes at a sensitive moment for the studio, as parent company Warner Bros Discovery faces…
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Brit who claimed his wife plunged 200ft to her death during sex on a German hotel balcony is jailed for life for murdering her ‘so he could start new life with his mistress’
A British-German man, referred to as Christian M, has been sentenced to life in prison in Germany for murdering his wife Marta, 40, after initially claiming she had fallen from a hotel balcony during sex. The 60-year-old had been living with his mistress near Frankfurt while under investigation, and prosecutors said he killed his wife…
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The three albums Frank Zappa considered his “masterworks”
The article, published by Far Out Magazine, explores composer and musician Frank Zappa’s insistence that his entire body of work formed one continuous piece of music rather than a series of separate albums. Zappa often faced criticism for seemingly cynical or “soulless” lyrics, but his wife Gail explained that he viewed every record as part…
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Hrgovic taunts starting to wind me up – Itauma
Heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma has said Filip Hrgovic’s pre-fight taunts are beginning to get under his skin ahead of their IBF heavyweight world title bout at the O2 Arena on Saturday. Itauma, 21, is the favourite to win and would become the second-youngest heavyweight world champion in history behind Mike Tyson, but Hrgovic has sought…
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The very flirty exchange between Dolly Parton and Anthony Albanese: ‘Come up here and I’ll smear lip gloss all over you’
Tributes have poured in for country music legend Dolly Parton, who died aged 80 early on Wednesday Australian time, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recalling how he personally helped save her 2011 tour after her tour buses fell foul of local transport regulations. As transport minister at the time, Albanese intervened when customs and…
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Long-Time Warner Bros. Animation President Sam Register Departing
Sam Register, the long-serving president of Warner Bros. Animation, is departing the studio after 18 years in charge, in a move his boss Channing Dungey admitted came as a surprise to staff. Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group and WBD US Networks, told employees in a memo that she and Register had…
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Brian Wilson Thought He Could Never Touch the Vocal Range of This 1970s Country Icon
Brian Wilson, the celebrated songwriter and vocalist behind The Beach Boys, once admitted he felt his singing voice fell short compared with that of country star Kenny Rogers. Although Wilson was widely regarded as a studio genius who crafted the band’s intricate vocal harmonies, he privately wished he possessed the kind of deep, masculine timbre…