Who would ever let their child be a star?
Britney Spears may be the ultimate example of such exploitation, but she is hardly alone.
We’re in a moment of cultural reckoning with childhood fame and its monstrous costs: From the shocking docuseries ‘Quiet on the Set’ to Jennette McCurdy’s runaway bestselling memoir ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ to Justin Bieber’s breakdown this week — and his naming as part of the ongoing Diddy scandal — and Drew Barrymore’s desperate on-air
Earth’s largest ecosystem is broiling. Every day for the last 12 months, the average temperature of most of the sea’s surface has been the highest ever recorded on that calendar date, preliminary data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show.
“And we’re currently outpacing last year,” says Robert West, a NOAA meteorologist in Miami. “We’re continuing to set records, even now over last year’s records.”
One of the primary reasons that global sea surface temperatures are so high is
Taylor Swift’s discography is filled with confessional lyrics, but the singer is known for going especially deep on the fifth track of each of her records.
“Track five is kind of a tradition that really started with you guys because I didn’t realize I was doing this, but as I was making albums, I guess — I don’t know why — but instinctively I was just kind of putting a very vulnerable,
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has spent much of the last 12 years living in the shadow of frenzied speculation over her infamously fractured relationship with her famous Scientologist father – and as she takes her first steps into adulthood, it seems she is finally ready to answer the question of her future with the Top Gun star once and for all.
Today, the teenager will mark her milestone 18th birthday without her dad Tom, 61, who has
Are you sure you want to do this?’ the anaesthetist at Charing Cross Hospital asked as I lay on the trolley ready for theatre, giving me one last chance to back out.
I was a middle-aged man with a wife and three children but I was convinced I was some kind of woman, and I needed the operation in order to live authentically as one.
‘Yes,’ I said, knowing that what was about to happen would change me for ever
Megan Fox sizzled on an intimate night out with fiance Machine Gun Kelly as she was seen for the first time since revealing she suffered a devastating ectopic pregnancy.
The 37-year-old actress looked sexy in a white cutout dress while leaving celeb-favorite Nobu in Malibu on Saturday night with the 33-year-old pop-punk rapper.
The Transformer star’s wild outfit consisted of a long dress that with several cutouts down the number held together by several strings.
She teamed the look with
Harry and Meghan are playing their most dangerous game yet.
These two cowards, who set off this slow-release stink bomb of racist accusations two-and-a-half-years ago — yet still have no problem hypocritically trading on their titles, that most tenuous association with a royal house they have trashed as bigoted — must now say something.
It is Day Three since the odious Omid Scobie’s ‘Endgame’ hit shelves, revealing, in the Dutch version, the so-called royal ‘racists’.
Since then we’ve seen a
November 23, 2023
Your tax dollars are being squandered in the rush to build and sell ever more weaponry for ongoing wars.
A US Army M1A1 Abrams tank, as will be delivered to Ukraine, is photographed in Grafenwöhr, Bavaria, on July 14, 2023.
(Matthias Merz / Getty)
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Stuart Broad ended his sporting career in style yesterday when he bowled England to victory in the fifth Ashes test against Australia at The Oval.
The cricket legend, 37, appeared visibly emotional as he took to the field for the final time – telling teammates and fans how much he will miss them as his 17-year sporting career officially came to a close.
But there, cheering him on from the sidelines, was Stuart’s glamorous fiancée Mollie King, 36, and their
A junior doctors’ leader who claims he is ‘constantly worrying’ about how to pay his bills owns a £500,000 flat with no mortgage, the Mail can reveal.
Dr Robert Laurenson, 29, has been the driving force behind a series of crippling strikes as co-chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee.
The union activist wants taxpayers to fund a 35 per cent pay rise for trainee medics, claiming many are considering quitting the NHS because they face ‘hardship at
