Dolly Parton, 77, US country singer, does not want to sell the rights to her songs. “I was also offered hundreds of millions of dollars for my publications,” she told the German Press Agency. But it would feel like selling your own children, she said, adding, “I want to keep this alive for my family.” In addition, she wants to start her own TV network, for which she wants to use her songs without asking others for permission.
David Beckham, 48, British ex-soccer player, feels part of the Jewish community. “My maternal grandfather was Jewish, so I have a real connection,” he said during a speech at a London synagogue on Sunday night. as the Jewish News reported. He is proud of that. “My grandfather always made sure we followed certain traditions, and when I went to bar mitzvas and weddings he made sure I wore a yarmulke.” He watched his grandmother prepare chicken soup, matzo balls and latkes. “It was always about the family coming together.”
Ewan McGregor, 52, British actor, easily impresses his children. Like him opposite the magazine Variety said, he showed his kids the toilet scene from the movie “Trainspotting” – “for a laugh.” In the scene, drug addict protagonist Mark Renton, who plays McGregor in the 1996 film, dives into a toilet bowl to fish out two opium suppositories. It is perhaps a unique situation for a father to be able to show his children footage of himself going down a toilet.
Nicole, 58, pop singer, gets a little peace from her doctor. In 2020 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, now her doctor said the “best words of my life”, as Picture reported. “Nicole, you’re perfectly healthy. Go home, open one or better two bottles of champagne and clink glasses with your Winfried. You’ve made it!” It took a moment for her to understand what the doctor told her during the so-called final examination. “I’m healthy. The damn cancer is defeated. I can go on living. With my husband, our children and grandchildren, with my music.”
Jan Delay, 56, musician, is not yet CO2 neutral. “I’m the one who burns a lot of energy here myself,” he told the German Press Agency, referring to his concerts. This also applies to the audience, which consumes a lot of resources. After all, “good values would be conveyed at such a concert and many feelings of happiness would be spread”. Delay believes that smaller festivals, which are still in their infancy, are rewarded by the public for their efforts in terms of sustainability. They would “make an effort that no plastic Coca-Cola shit happens here.”