Paula Abdul is suing Nigel Lythgoe for sexual assault and harassment.
On Friday (December 29), the 61-year-old singer and former American Idol judge filed a lawsuit against the 74-year-old TV producer and head of competition shows such as American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, per The Blast.
Keep reading to find out more…
According to legal documents obtained by the outlet, Paula alleges that Nigel “verbally insulted and belittled” her on multiple occasions dating back to 2001, and sexually assaulted her during an early season of American Idol.
The lawsuit states that before Paula joined the show, Nigel told her that she was a “has been” celebrity and that the contestants wouldn’t know her.
A description of an alleged incident of sexual assault reads: “One evening, following the day’s auditions, Lythgoe and Abdul entered the elevator of the hotel where they were staying. Upon entering the elevator,...
On Friday (December 29), the 61-year-old singer and former American Idol judge filed a lawsuit against the 74-year-old TV producer and head of competition shows such as American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, per The Blast.
Keep reading to find out more…
According to legal documents obtained by the outlet, Paula alleges that Nigel “verbally insulted and belittled” her on multiple occasions dating back to 2001, and sexually assaulted her during an early season of American Idol.
The lawsuit states that before Paula joined the show, Nigel told her that she was a “has been” celebrity and that the contestants wouldn’t know her.
A description of an alleged incident of sexual assault reads: “One evening, following the day’s auditions, Lythgoe and Abdul entered the elevator of the hotel where they were staying. Upon entering the elevator,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
It was announced last week that Ariana Grande has settled her divorce with Dalton Gomez and now new details have emerged about what was included in the settlement.
The former couple both filed for divorce in mid-September 2023, months after they called it quits on their marriage.
Ariana and Dalton had a pre-nup, so it was pretty easy to iron out the details of the divorce settlement.
Dalton is receiving a big lump sum payment instead of any spousal support and he must follow several rules. Ariana also has to adhere to them as well, but as The Blast points out, they’re mainly for her protection due to her being a high profile figure.
Browse through the slideshow for all the divorce settlement details we learned…...
The former couple both filed for divorce in mid-September 2023, months after they called it quits on their marriage.
Ariana and Dalton had a pre-nup, so it was pretty easy to iron out the details of the divorce settlement.
Dalton is receiving a big lump sum payment instead of any spousal support and he must follow several rules. Ariana also has to adhere to them as well, but as The Blast points out, they’re mainly for her protection due to her being a high profile figure.
Browse through the slideshow for all the divorce settlement details we learned…...
- 10/10/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Whether you're discovering "Suits" for the first time or hitting play on your fifth rewatch, I think we can all agree that Harvey Specter and Donna Paulsen are a delight on screen. Aside from their will-they-won't-they romance spanning nine seasons, the Darvey friendship is a highlight of the series. Though their chemistry may have you fooled, actors Gabriel Macht and Sarah Rafferty are more like brother and sister in real life.
The two actually became pals long before "Suits" first aired in 2011. They met in the summer of 1993 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and have been friends ever since. Macht was a bridesmaid in Rafferty's wedding to Santtu Seppälä in 2001, while Rafferty was there when Macht married Jacinda Barrett in 2004. Even Macht's daughter and Rafferty's first child, who were both born in 2007, are the best of friends. In an Instagram birthday tribute to Macht in 2019, Rafferty expressed her gratitude...
The two actually became pals long before "Suits" first aired in 2011. They met in the summer of 1993 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and have been friends ever since. Macht was a bridesmaid in Rafferty's wedding to Santtu Seppälä in 2001, while Rafferty was there when Macht married Jacinda Barrett in 2004. Even Macht's daughter and Rafferty's first child, who were both born in 2007, are the best of friends. In an Instagram birthday tribute to Macht in 2019, Rafferty expressed her gratitude...
- 8/25/2023
- by Yerin Kim
- Popsugar.com
On Tuesday, Sean Penn and his girlfriend Olga Korotyayeva went on a particular date night and had dinner in Santa Monica.
Sean Penn and Olga Korotyayeva, a famous pair, were recently observed spending a romantic evening together, fueling the flames of their relationship rumors.
On a Tuesday night in Santa Monica, California, the 62-year-old two-time Oscar winner and the 43-year-old Ukrainian actress were spotted leaving the well-known celebrity hangout Giorgio Baldi holding hands.
The celebrity kept his attire casual for the excursion, wearing a simple black T-shirt and classic denim.
Given the chilly nighttime weather, he added a blue jacket and a pair of white trainers as the finishing touch.
Olga looked effortlessly chic in a peplum outfit with no sleeves that ended at her knees. Time for a date!
On Tuesday, Sean Penn, 62, and his girlfriend Olga Korotyayeva, 43, went out for a romantic date night and grabbed a bite in Santa Monica.
Sean Penn and Olga Korotyayeva, a famous pair, were recently observed spending a romantic evening together, fueling the flames of their relationship rumors.
On a Tuesday night in Santa Monica, California, the 62-year-old two-time Oscar winner and the 43-year-old Ukrainian actress were spotted leaving the well-known celebrity hangout Giorgio Baldi holding hands.
The celebrity kept his attire casual for the excursion, wearing a simple black T-shirt and classic denim.
Given the chilly nighttime weather, he added a blue jacket and a pair of white trainers as the finishing touch.
Olga looked effortlessly chic in a peplum outfit with no sleeves that ended at her knees. Time for a date!
On Tuesday, Sean Penn, 62, and his girlfriend Olga Korotyayeva, 43, went out for a romantic date night and grabbed a bite in Santa Monica.
- 8/13/2023
- by Nida
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
The return to normal seems still a ways away but more and more festivals are managing to have in-person events this year - cast in point, our friends at Grimmfest in Manchester, England. Grimmfest will be hosting an in-person event at their regular venue, Odeon Great Northern, then host an online version a few days afterwards. Up to now the closing film has remained a secret. Today, the festival announced that Peirani-Vignes' feature film debut, Blast, will have its world premiere at the fesitval and will be the closing night film. Nora Arnezeder stars as a bomb disposal expert who finds herself trapped in a car wired to an anti-tank mine, and must rely on her own skills and those of her colleagues...
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- 9/16/2021
- Screen Anarchy
It’s 2020, but it won’t be a happy new year for everyone on “Project Runway,” which returns tonight after taking a week off for the holidays. Someone’s bound to be eliminated — barring a Siriano Save — and this time we think it’ll be Dayoung Kim. She gets leading odds of 51/20 according to the combined predictions of fans who have given us their forecasts here in our predictions center. Do you agree with their consensus?
Kim had a rough start to the season. She and her teammate Alan Gonzalez landed at the bottom in the first challenge, “Blast Off,” with their constricting futuristic designs. And it turned out she wasn’t taking care of herself with the intense stress of the competition because she started the second challenge, “Cats of the Urban Jungle,” in the hospital with extreme exhaustion. She managed a safe look in the challenge despite having...
Kim had a rough start to the season. She and her teammate Alan Gonzalez landed at the bottom in the first challenge, “Blast Off,” with their constricting futuristic designs. And it turned out she wasn’t taking care of herself with the intense stress of the competition because she started the second challenge, “Cats of the Urban Jungle,” in the hospital with extreme exhaustion. She managed a safe look in the challenge despite having...
- 1/2/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Before film critics start summing up the present year at the movies with a deluge of Top 10 lists, Variety gazes into the medium’s future by announcing its annual 10 Directors to Watch — a lineup of filmmaking talents who’ve stood out on the recent festival circuit, or whose movies will soon be hitting screens in the coming year.
The roster represents cinematic storytellers with roots on five continents, spanning a range of styles, genres and languages, where the common element is the strength and originality of their respective voices. Many qualify as full-blown auteurs, originating their own material. For example, Radha Blank not only wrote and directed “The 40-Year-Old Version,” but she also stars in the title role as a frustrated playwright who decides to take up rapping at age 40.
Indie helmers Esteban Arango (“Blast Beat”) and Nicole Riegel (“Holler”) both struggled to fund early short films via Kickstarter, before...
The roster represents cinematic storytellers with roots on five continents, spanning a range of styles, genres and languages, where the common element is the strength and originality of their respective voices. Many qualify as full-blown auteurs, originating their own material. For example, Radha Blank not only wrote and directed “The 40-Year-Old Version,” but she also stars in the title role as a frustrated playwright who decides to take up rapping at age 40.
Indie helmers Esteban Arango (“Blast Beat”) and Nicole Riegel (“Holler”) both struggled to fund early short films via Kickstarter, before...
- 11/20/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Hong Kong’s Star Alliance Movies has pounced on all rights to China on “Blast,” a race against the clock thriller that marks the first full production from Wide, Loic Magneron’s Paris-based sales-production-distribution company.
The deal, made against a background of slowing sales to China, represents the first pre-sale on “Blast,” which is now in post-production.
Billed as an “electrifying thriller” “with an amazing cast and credits” – the film is lensed, for instance, by Luc Besson cinematographer Thierry Arbogast -“Blast” turns on a young mother, Sonia, a bomb disposal expert just back from a mission in the Ukraine, trapped in her car with son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who is left outside, powerless to deal with the situation. Colleagues Igor and Camille, hurry to the scene. With Sonia and Fred have 30 minutes to diffuse the bomb and work out who could behind the attack.
The deal, made against a background of slowing sales to China, represents the first pre-sale on “Blast,” which is now in post-production.
Billed as an “electrifying thriller” “with an amazing cast and credits” – the film is lensed, for instance, by Luc Besson cinematographer Thierry Arbogast -“Blast” turns on a young mother, Sonia, a bomb disposal expert just back from a mission in the Ukraine, trapped in her car with son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who is left outside, powerless to deal with the situation. Colleagues Igor and Camille, hurry to the scene. With Sonia and Fred have 30 minutes to diffuse the bomb and work out who could behind the attack.
- 5/20/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Loic Magneron’s Paris-based Wide, a production-distribution boutique, has acquired international sales rights to “Il Signor Diavalo,” the latest -and 40th – feature from Italian horror icon Papi Avati,
Avati is best known for 1976’s “The House with Laughing Windows” and 1983’s “Zeder” which crowned him as a master of Italian giallo horror-thriller cinema.
Starring Gabriel Lo Giudice and Alessandro Haber, produced by Duea Films and Rai Cinema, and framed as a tribute to horror classics from the ‘70s and ‘80s, “Il Signor Daivalo” adapts Avati’s own novel. Set in 1950s Italy, it turns on a 14-year-old boy, Carlo, who kills Emilio, a special needs ward of the local priest. “Il Signor Diavalo” asks why. It receives a Cannes Film Market screening on Sunday.
A well-known sales agent, Wide has moved into production. It is bringing two own productions onto the Cannes market: “Negative Numbers,” which receives a private market screening,...
Avati is best known for 1976’s “The House with Laughing Windows” and 1983’s “Zeder” which crowned him as a master of Italian giallo horror-thriller cinema.
Starring Gabriel Lo Giudice and Alessandro Haber, produced by Duea Films and Rai Cinema, and framed as a tribute to horror classics from the ‘70s and ‘80s, “Il Signor Daivalo” adapts Avati’s own novel. Set in 1950s Italy, it turns on a 14-year-old boy, Carlo, who kills Emilio, a special needs ward of the local priest. “Il Signor Diavalo” asks why. It receives a Cannes Film Market screening on Sunday.
A well-known sales agent, Wide has moved into production. It is bringing two own productions onto the Cannes market: “Negative Numbers,” which receives a private market screening,...
- 5/18/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
After guesting on the 2018 self-titled debut by San Diego punk-meets–hip-hop duo Planet B, Kool Keith continues the collaboration on an upcoming Ep under his own name.
The release features two new tracks from the notoriously outlandish Mc, “Blast” and “Uncrushable,” along with an alternate version of each. The extras include Planet B’s remix of “Blast,” as well as a mash-up of “Uncrushable” and “Church of the Motherfuckers,” a 2017 track from Dead Cross, a spazzy hardcore supergroup featuring Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton, ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, Planet...
The release features two new tracks from the notoriously outlandish Mc, “Blast” and “Uncrushable,” along with an alternate version of each. The extras include Planet B’s remix of “Blast,” as well as a mash-up of “Uncrushable” and “Church of the Motherfuckers,” a 2017 track from Dead Cross, a spazzy hardcore supergroup featuring Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton, ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, Planet...
- 3/18/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Electronic Arts has announced that their Star Wars Battlefront II video game will be getting an entire season of Han Solo-related content as a way of celebrating the scruffy-looking smuggler's upcoming film. The Han Solo Season event, set within the confines of Jabba's Palace, will begin on May 15th, when the game introduces players to the Blast, Hero Showdown, or Heroes vs.... Read More...
- 5/9/2018
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
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