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A hair stylist for the stars is recovering from several "devastating injuries" after being hit by a drunk driver. Jenn Lagron sustained "a severely damaged arm" and "a fractured vertebrae in her neck" after she was struck by a vehicle while walking in California on Sunday, April 27, according to a GoFundMe campaign . The incident happened while Lagron was walking along Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported . "While we are endlessly grateful that Jenn survived, her road to recovery will be long and incredibly difficult," the GoFundMe reads. "Jenn has always been a light in the lives of everyone around her full of heart, creativity, and kindness. Now she needs our help more than ever." A Tuesday update indicated that Lagron had a successful surgery and has started physical therapy. The stylist could face at least a year of rehabilitation, during which she will be unable to work or supp...

LOS ANGELES -- It's showtime for Hollywood at the California Capitol. The state's entertainment industry has spent months begging for help from Sacramento to stem the decline of film and TV production and save thousands of jobs. This week, after months of speeches and promises from public officials, two bills meant to help the beleaguered business cleared their first legislative hurdles. The bills are intended to make California's film and TV production incentive more competitive with other states and countries by increasing the tax credit up to 35% of qualified expenditures and expanding the types of productions that would be eligible. It's a potential lifeline for the entertainment industry, which has been battered in recent years by production slowdowns wrought by the pandemic, the dual writers' and actors' strikes in 2023, a pullback in spending by the studios, the recent Southern California wildfires and productions fleeing the Golden State. ...

In brief A production company has secured rights to turn the life of James Howells into numerous media ventures, including a docuseries. Howells says he lost a hard drive containing $750 million worth of BTC over a decade ago. For years, he has unsuccessfully lobbied to search the landfill where he maintains the drive is still buried. The story of a Wales man who believes he accidentally threw away $750 million worth of Bitcoin is now poised to get the Hollywood treatment.  On Wednesday, a new Los Angeles-based production company, Lebul, announced that it secured the exclusive rights to tell the story of James Howells, an IT engineer who mined 8,000 BTC back in 2009—when the tokens were effectively worthless—and then lost them all.  Howells maintains that a former lover threw away a hard drive containing the tokens back in 2013. They are worth nearly a billion dollars. For the last several years, Howells has waged an unsuccessful battle to search the Wales land...

He's a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he's got moves like Jagger. Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since the 1830s, but nobody's perfect, right? Most people have heard of Napoleon, but not many are familiar — even in France — with the story of this chef who cooked for him and his contemporaries, rising from a poor kitchen boy to become a standard-bearer of French cuisine. Now a new Apple TV+ period drama, "Carême," argues that he was the very first celebrity chef. There's even a "Top Chef" style cooking contest in front of a panel of judges. But for the vibe, think "The Bear," set in post-revolutionary Paris. Carême even directs his staff at one point to say "Oui, chef." (And we could totally imagine him, like Jeremy Allen White, in a Calvin Klein underwear ad, if those had existed back then.) The series, which drops its first two episodes Wednesday, also...

The entire entertainment world was turned upside down when Bitcoin came along. No one saw it coming—especially banks and payment systems that made money on commissions. Online casinos jumped on the crypto train way before it was cool - especially bitcoin casino sites that popped up around 2013-2014. My buddy works in cybersecurity and was telling me these gambling platforms were crypto pioneers out of necessity. Traditional banks wouldn't touch them, credit card chargebacks were killing their margins, and players were freaking out about privacy. Bitcoin solved all those problems overnight. No more waiting 3-5 business days for withdrawals - players could get their winnings in minutes. The house edge dropped from like 5-8% down to 1-2% at some places since they weren't paying those ridiculous payment processing fees anymore. Some guys I know from online poker forums switched entirely to crypto casinos just because the better odds made sense mathematically. The techni...

"Celebrity Big Brother" may have crowned a winner , but that doesn't mean the drama is over. Two housemates, JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes, sparked particular intrigue during the show, which films contestants 24/7 over the course of three weeks and airs the footage in real time. S ome fans thought their friendship might be something more , despite Siwa going into the Big Brother House with a partner. Chris Hughes, JoJo Siwa on 'This Morning' TV show, London, Apr 28, 2025.Ken McKay / ITV via Shutterstock This speculation only rose after Siwa's former partner, Kath Ebbs, said in a since-deleted TikTok that Siwa broke up with her at the "Celebrity Big Brother" after party on April 25, which Siwa confirmed. But is there any basis in this speculation? What's really going on with Siwa and Hughes? Here's what they've both said. Who is JoJo Siwa? JoJo Siwa, 21, rose to fame as a child actor, singer, dancer and ...

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Tuesday honoring Ellen Pompeo for her starring role on prime-time television's longest-running medical drama, "Grey's Anatomy." "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes and fellow executive producer and frequent director Debbie Allen joined Pompeo in speaking at the ceremony at 6533 Hollywood Blvd., near Hudson Avenue. "I have been so lucky to be surrounded by a lot of stars who do their thing every day and who do it brilliantly in this town," Pompeo said. "The people who don't get any attention, who don't get shoutouts, who don't get their photos taken. But my team that works for me every day, for years and years, I've had the same people. None of this would've been possible without them lifting me up and supporting me and getting through the hard days. "… For those in front of the camera, the stars really have aligned for me my whole life." ...

Celebrity hairstylist Jenn Lagron suffered “devastating injuries” when she was struck by an alleged drunken driver while on her walk in California on Sunday. Lagron, who designs looks for stars such as Selena Gomez, Chrissy Teigen, Kylie Jenner and Ariana Madix, was diagnosed with a fractured vertebrae in her neck and has a “severely damaged arm,” according to a GoFundMe page. The hair guru’s friend Brandon Pietsch revealed that the injury impacted “the very arm she relies on for her career as a hairstylist.” Jenn Lagron was hit by an alleged drunken driver on Sunday. Jenn Lagron / Instagram “While we are endlessly grateful that Jenn survived, her road to recovery will be long and incredibly difficult,” Pietsch added. “Doctors anticipate at least a year of rehabilitation ahead, during which she will be unable to work or support herself. The crash happened while she was walking along Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Los Angeles, Calif. The hotspot cons...

India’s entertainment industry appears to be standing at a pivotal juncture. While the country boasts a staggering 551 million OTT users, its revenue footprint tells a different story â€" just $2.1 billion annually, significantly lower than what comparably sized or smaller markets like South Korea generate. But a new report suggests this could change drastically by 2030. 'The Future of the Indian Entertainment Business in Partnership With the World' report â€" based on findings from the Content India Summit 2025 and data by Allied Global Marketing â€" lays out how India could unlock up to $6 billion in unrealised value over the next five years. The playbook? A mix of global partnerships, technology adoption, and content realignment. Currently, India’s OTT sector could evolve into a $5 billion market if it continues on its current path. With local optimisation, that figure may climb to $9 billion. But by embracing strategic shifts â€" such as...

Over the years, numerous attempts have been made to create a biopic of the extensive career of singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye . Terrence Howard had a chance to be in one of these productions headed by Lee Daniels, but turned it down because of an alleged detail of Gaye's life. During an appearance on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast , the actor stated that Smoky Robinson allegedly asked him to portray him in a biopic of Marvin Gaye's life. It was then that he discussed this with the late, great producer Quincy Jones , who stated that Gaye may have had a relationship with men. "I was over at Quincy Jones's house, and I'm asking Quincy, 'I'm hearing rumours that Marvin was gay' and I'm like, 'Was he gay?' And Quincy's like, 'Yes,'" he stated. When Howard learned of this detail, he left the project because he claimed, "They would've wanted to do that, and I wouldn't have been able to do that....

Harper Collins I was raised by sensible Midwesterners who believed that no good could come of psychology or introspection. That may be why I get impatient with memoirs that dwell on their writers' inner lives. What I want are memoirs that go beyond the personal to offer a portrait of something larger: a culture, a historical period, a whole way of living. You find that in The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood, a new book by Matthew Specktor, a child of the movies who happens to be a really terrific writer. Spanning more than half a century and speckled with the caviar of famous names, this isn't a tell-all, pity party or diatribe. Mixing things up with the brio of an expert bartender, Specktor serves an invigorating cocktail of family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, Hollywood history and lament for a vanishing world. Sponsor Message The main action begins in the mid-1960s when his parents meet. His father, Fred Spe...

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways My wife and I recently decided to book a short 3-night cruise on Celebrity Silhouette over Easter weekend, on the tail end of my kids' spring break. I'm not sure who we were more nervous about – my parents, who joined us for their first cruise ever, or my two children, ages 9 and 7, who were taking their first Celebrity cruise. After all, the median age on a Celebrity ship is typically far closer to my parents' ages than my kids, and we've read reviews that called Celebrity a much less kid-friendly cruise line than Carnival and Royal Caribbean, which we've sailed many times as a family. Related: Here's how Celebrity Cruises deals with rough seas To put it mildly, we didn't agree with any negative reviews. In fact, both of my kids liked Celebrit...