Lizzo, 34, US musician, trilled on a glass flute. At a concert in Washington, she played a flute made in 1813 for then US President James Madison. The singer and classically trained flutist previously visited the National Library in the US capital, the Library of Congress said. The largest flute collection in the world is stored there with around 1700 instruments. Lizzo viewed the collection, played the historical flute – and later had it brought to the stage during her concert. “I’m afraid”, she admitted in front of her fans. “It’s glass, it’s like playing on a wine glass.” She trilled a few notes while twerking, then exclaimed, “We made history today!”
Gunter Wallraff, 79, journalist, needs imagination. He turns 80 this Saturday. In his personal calendar, he entered an “80” for October 1st, but put a question mark after it. To the last he still had doubts whether he would ever get that old. “80 years – that’s just beyond my imagination.” There is no merit in getting so old,” he told the German Press Agency. “And I don’t like to be celebrated.”
Charles III, 73, British Monarch, is now available in small and silver. The British mint Royal Mint has introduced coins with the portrait of the new king. His profile will first appear on a new commemorative £5 and 50p coin commemorating Queen Elizabeth II, who recently died at the age of 96. According to an old tradition, the monarch looks to the right after his mother has turned her head to the left. Of the exchange of views Supposedly goes back to Charles II, who wanted to demonstratively turn his back on the absolutist Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
Hailey Bieber, 25, US model, was not in a love triangle. She denied rumors that she started dating her now-husband Justin Bieber when he was actually still in a relationship with singer Selena Gomez. “I can state unequivocally that I have never dated him while he was in a relationship with someone else,” Hailey Bieber said on the Call Her Daddy podcasthttps://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/.” That was a situation where I know for a fact that closing that door was the right thing for the two of them to do, they weren’t in a relationship at the time.” Hailey and Justin Bieber have been married since 2018.
Anja Antonowicz, 40, German-Polish actress, interested in the everyday life of the royal family. “I do enjoy reading about the royals, but I use that more as an inspiration. I often think that we probably have a very wrong picture of their life, just as the royals probably can’t know much about the life of an ordinary citizen. I’m interested less the shine than the human side behind it,” she told the German Press Agency. Antonowicz has confirmed that she will star in the new season of Netflix series The Crown, about the British royal family.