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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Nicole Scherzinger puts on a racy display in a sheer lace catsuit as she models TWO stylish looks while attending Dream Fest in Baku
Nicole Scherzinger turned heads as she modelled two stylish outfits during the international Dream Fest music festival at Sea Breeze in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday. The former Pussycat Doll, 47, looked nothing short of sensational in a sheer black lace catsuit as she took to the stage alongside a slew of backup dancers to perform several of her best hits including Don't Cha, Buttons, and Jai Ho! Her risqué ensemble featured a mesh and sequinned body as well as fringe sleeve detailing and shoulder pads. Commanding attention on stage, Nicole further elevated her look with a pair of black ankle boots. The singer-turned-Broadway star appeared in very high spirits as she put on an energetic performance, sending the crowd wild. Earlier in the evening, Nicole cut a glamorous figure in a white figure-hugging jumpsuit as she graced the red carpet ahead of the event. The eye-catching ensemble featured a silver jewel embellishment at the neckline and waist, dramatic cape sleeves, and flared legs. Posing up a storm for the cameras, Nicole further accessorised the glamorous ensemble with a stack of silver earrings. Discussing Nicole's performance at the festival, founder and Azerbaijani singer-songwriter Emin said: 'She has to be the hardest working person in showbusiness. Nobody would do this, not even me, and it's my own festival.' The international Dream Fest music festival will take place from July 23 to July 26 on the scenic shores of Sea Breeze Resort. Four days of open-air celebrations, dancing, music, and endless energy, over 50 artists are set to take to the stage to perform, including Tyga and Blue. Nicole has been very busy as of late with her Sunset Boulevard show on Broadway, and earlier this week, the star took to the stage one last time as Norma Desmond to bring the house down with a dramatic farewell performance. The star left fans stunned with her chilling finale look, which featured theatrical blood dripping down her neck. Nicole has won rave reviews for her role in the gritty Andrew Lloyd Webber classic, with her haunting portrayal of the character. In the lead up to her final show, tributes poured in to her via Nicole's social media. Her vocal coach described her as 'an absolute force of nature'. He revealed that on their first session, she looked at him right in the eyes and said: 'I'm a good student. Tell me what I need to do and I'm gonna get it done.' Nicole herself said that her final show would be 'magic in the making'. In a lengthy post to her Instagram, she wrote: 'Today, the sun sets on Sunset Blvd for the final time. 'After living and breathing Norma Desmond for the past two years, it's almost impossible to grasp that today is the last show. What began as a limited run, then extended, now somehow, nearly 10 months on Broadway have flown by. 'Norma's story is for anyone who's ever felt alone. Lonely. Abandoned. Outcast. 'For anyone who never felt like they belonged. 'For those who once loved something deeply and had it taken from them, aching to reclaim it. 'For the dreamers. The fighters. The believers. The warriors. For those unshakable in their purpose and power, doing what they love most. ''This is my life. It always will is nothing else.'' She added: 'Norma has changed me forever. Thank you, Broadway 'for the magic in the making.' 'Thank you and to the entire beautiful, brilliant @andrewlloydwebber @jamielloyd @alanwilliamsmd @fabianaloise and to the entire beautiful, brilliant @sunsetblvdmusicalcompany, for everything.' Fans flocked to her comment section and penned: 'Just absolutely incredible. I saw it 3 times and I would have seen it more if I could lol. You are a force my love. So proud of you!!!!!! Love you queen!!!!!' 'So happy I saw it twice. Wish I could have seen it 20 more times!' 'So beyond happy for you. Saw the show four (or was it five) times and every time you were even more nuanced, took different risks and had the audience in the palm of their hands. Brava! She's a Hawaiian Tony Winner!!!!!' 'You have given Norma the stage she deserves for a new Audience and a new generation! Saw it 3 times it was incredible every time! Brava my dear.' 'You have changed OUR lives forever with your talent, wisdom, bravery, and most of all your willingness to open up your heart and reveal it to us night after night. You are the North Star for all that it means to be a performer, and I am so beyond grateful that I got to live at a time in history to witness such beautiful art. Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you. ❤️ You are the GREATEST STAR OF ALL' The critically acclaimed musical runs for approximately two hours and 35 minutes and has earned Nicole a Tony at this year's awards. Nicole took over the role from acting legend Glenn Close, 78, who won her third Tony Award in 1995 for playing the part. After watching Nicole's performance earlier this year, Glenn said: 'You can't approach Norma with a faint heart. She tests your metal [and] demands that you dig deep.' She continued: 'Nicole's performance is an act of raw artistry and astounding bravery. 'She and the entire production blew me away. I loved meeting Nicole, [her co-star] Tom Francis, and many members of the ensemble backstage afterwards!' Sunset Boulevard has been a huge success and grossed more than $1.08 million during its first week of six previews alone at the St. James Theatre in New York City.
Barnama
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Barnama
Veteran Journalist Emin Madi Says Receiving PGDK Award Great Honour For Him And Bernama
KOTA KINABALU, June 21 (Bernama) – Veteran journalist Datuk Emin Madi, who is also a stringer with the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) Sabah bureau, described the Panglima Gemilang Darjah Kinabalu (PGDK) award he received today as a significant recognition for himself in the world of journalism. Emin, 75, said the PGDK, which carries the title 'Datuk' is also seen as a very high recognition from the Sabah government to Bernama as a whole, especially the Sabah bureau staff who operate in the state. "I am very grateful, and thankful, to the state government for this award to journalists in Sabah. I believe many more journalists and writers deserve an award like this," he said to Bernama here today. Emin was met after the 2025 Sabah State Honours and Awards investiture ceremony held at Istana Seri Kinabalu today (June 21) where 60 individuals received their respective awards conferred by Yang Dipertua Negeri Sabah Tun Musa Aman. Also present at the event was Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor and a line-up of state government leaders. Apart from Emin, two other Bernama Sabah bureau staff members, namely the head of the bureau, Fadzli Ramli, who was awarded the Ahli Darjah Kinabalu (ADK), and Sabah bureau photographer Zamain Singkui, who was awarded the Bintang Setia Kinabalu (BSK), will receive their awards in the next session (of the ceremony), the date of which is yet to be confirmed. Born in Tambunan on Nov 29, 1949, Emin began his career as a journalist in the 1970s before becoming an editor at a local newspaper, "The Sabah Times", and served as the press secretary to the former Minister of Land and Cooperative Development, Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam. Emin, a father of two, has been with Bernama since the 1990s and has written various articles in both Malay and English, as well as novels including "Salarom" and "The Green Gold of Borneo". "Salarom" won third place in the Sayembara Penulisan Novel Sempena 50 Tahun Merdeka competition, organised by Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, in 2007 where there were no first- or second-place winners. The novel was published in 2008.
The Sun
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
EastEnders fans convinced character has been quietly AXED as new face pops up on screen – did you spot the swap?
EAGLE-EYED EastEnders fans are convinced that a long-standing character has been quietly written out of the show. Their suspicions were sparked when a new face suddenly appeared in Albert Square - but did you spot the swap ? 5 5 Marie Evans, who is played by actress Liz Sweet has been a longtime waitress at the local café owned by Kathy Cotton. Since her debut in 2003, she's made numerous appearances, including notable scenes such as Sharon Watts and Keanu Taylor's wedding. Despite being part of the background for over a decade, it appears Marie may have quietly exited the show. Fans on Reddit have pointed out a new character, a waiter named Emin, with Marie nowhere to be seen—prompting speculation that she has been replaced. One user questioned: 'Have they replaced Marie from the cafe ?' Another chimed: 'I had the same thought. Maybe she is on holiday and he is just covering?!' 'Marie, bestieee, where r u (crying emoji's)' added a third. Emin is no stranger to Albert Square with the waiter making occasional appearances on the show since 2012. But, with his recent and more frequent presence and Marie's absence fans are wondering if she has been axed altogether. Fans of the BBC soap are also convinced that a huge change is coming on the show as they notice major clue in a now-deleted post shared to the show's TikTok account. EastEnders horror as as car plunges into a river in explosive trailer EastEnders shared a new behind the scenes video featuring some of the stars. A clip on social media shows the actors that play Harry Mitchell (Elijah Holloway) and his on-screen mother Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington). The actresses that play Avani (Aaliyah James) and Priya (Sophie Khan Levy) were also on set in front of the Vic. However, fans have noticed that a sign that was placed on the door of the Vic, indicating that the infamous boozer would up for sale in an upcoming plot. One fan took to the Walford Web fan forum as they wrote: "Rumours that the Vic could be up for sale based on the latest TikTok." Fans couldn't help but flood the comments section with remarks, as they think this could have something to do with Max Branning's return. Another fan posted: "Yeah, definitely looks like The Vic up for sale. Max back taking over The Vic." While a third commented: "Coming in and immediately throwing the Carter-Knights out of The Vic ain't gonna earn Wadey any brownie points with me." 5 5 5
New York Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
British Art in a New Light
On the campus of Yale University, two art museums housed in landmark modernist buildings — each designed by Louis I. Kahn — sit directly across the street from one another. One, the Yale University Art Gallery, with an encyclopedic collection of about 300,000 objects, draws close to a quarter million people annually. The other, the Yale Center for British Art, with its specialized collection of more than 100,000 works from the 15th century to the present, brings in less than half that traffic. The British center is now aiming to even up those visitor numbers. It reopened in March after a two-year closure for conservation of the skylights and lighting throughout the building — the acclaimed architect's last realized project, which opened in 1977 and is widely considered an artwork in itself — and with a fresh exhibition philosophy. A piece by Tracey Emin, who came to fame as one of the so-called Young British Artists in the 1990s alongside peers like Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, inaugurates a new program of contemporary works in the lobby. Her glowing sculptural installation, with yellow neon lighting proclaiming in script 'I loved you until the morning' on a mirrored wall in the museum's entrance court, is visible from the street. It serves as an 'invitation' at the front door, said Martina Droth, the center's director, who was appointed in January after working with its collections for 16 years, most recently as chief curator. 'The envelope of the building doesn't scream museum; it's a little austere,' she said. 'I'm hoping that it signals to people there are things here for them.' In two inaugural exhibitions upstairs, large gestural paintings on the second floor focused on the female body by Emin — who established her reputation with confessional, ramshackle sculptural installations — have unexpected resonance with atmospheric landscapes on the third floor drawn from the center's almost 3,000 works by J.M.W. Turner, who was born almost 200 years before Emin and, like her, counted the English seaside town of Margate as an important second home. This pairing reflects the center's new curatorial approach, Droth said, showcasing the depth and richness of its historical collections 'and then taking those threads into the present moment with someone like Tracey, who absolutely sees herself in the lineage of Margate, famous for Turner and now famous for Tracey, and in those sort of painting traditions.' Emin's show, her first solo museum exhibition in North America, may introduce the artist to younger viewers or reintroduce her to those who remember 'Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection,' an exhibition that caused a public stir when it traveled to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999. There, Emin showed a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever shared a bed with. 'Showing Tracey here is just a completely different proposition to showing her in Britain, where she's really a public figure and there's so much baggage around her,' said Droth, who organized the show. She has chosen to focus on Emin's painting, which she had struggled with at the Royal College of Art and abandoned early in her career. She resumed the medium after being selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2007, when she began to make paintings that center on the subjectivity of the female figure. Since the death of her mother in 2016, Emin has devoted herself to painting and bronze sculpture. In 2017, Emin bought a home and studio in Margate — where she had a difficult upbringing and was raped at 13 — and has spent most of her time there since 2020. (She also has a home in London.) 'She's depicting the body usually, but it's about the feeling of the body and an atmosphere and a mood,' said Droth, of Emin's paintings that make analogies between her own expressive brushwork and Turner's squalling seascapes. In the painting 'And It Was Love' (2023), which depicts a naked woman splayed across the canvas and a dark form in a wash of deep sunset red between her bent legs, 'you don't really know whether this is a medical emergency, a sexual scene, pleasure, pain,' Droth said. 'It's all of those things.' She noted the faint trace of the stoma on the figure's abdomen connected to a urostomy bag. (In 2020, Emin was diagnosed with bladder cancer and had radical surgery.) Reached by phone in Margate, Emin, now 61, described Turner — who lived part-time with his mistress just minutes from Emin's studio — as 'an early expressionist' and said she loved the 'modesty involved' in showing her work in the context of the British center's collection. 'There's a lot of people who might take my work more seriously now, simply because of the subject matter,' she said. 'I have a very strong opinion on being a woman and I think people understand now that I'm not screaming — I'm just making a point of showing the experiences that women go through.' She wrote a poem to Turner, and to their shared love of Margate's winter sunsets, which is included in a 2024 publication by the center that reproduced his last sketchbook. If Emin thinks about Turner, obviously Turner — born 250 years ago this year — didn't think about Emin. Lucinda Lax, the center's curator of paintings and sculpture who organized the Turner exhibition — the center's first since 1993 — called him 'the father of modern art.' She has included 'Margate' (circa 1822), Turner's view of the newly built seaside resort, with broken ships and workers eking out a living in the foreground, and 'Wreckers' (1834), featuring a tumultuous sea and abbreviated figures scavenging what they can from wreckage. 'He's really trying to bring out the experience, both physically and psychologically, of being part of a particular environment,' Lax said, 'where there's a real sort of sense of the splash of the sea and the whip of the wind.' Lax has also led the fourth-floor re-installation of the permanent collection. 'For the first time, we've got the whole chronological span of British art that's represented in our holdings here on one floor,' said Lax, who has integrated contemporary works by artists including Yinka Shonibare and Cecily Brown into galleries that used to end with the 19th century. She hopes to 'open up questions about empire, gender, the role of women.' As universities are in jeopardy of having funding cut by the government, which has flagged the use of words including 'gender' or 'women' on institutional websites, the British center is not shying away from 'engaging a diverse range of perspectives in dialogue with British art and history,' Droth said. The museum's annual operating budget of almost $39 million is funded almost entirely from the Paul Mellon endowment, the center's founder who donated his holdings of British art that account for almost 80 percent of its collection. Yale is widely regarded as having the greatest collection of British art outside of Britain, said Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum in London, who views the pairing of Emin and Turner as inspired. 'For a younger generation, Tracey's work and way of talking about difficult and uncomfortable things with complete honesty is probably very resonant,' Cullinan said, referring to topics such as abortion, surviving abuse and working-class struggles. 'I think that there was a lot of snobbery around those conversations and an attempt to shut them down as being embarrassing or vulgar,' Cullinan added, noting how the art establishment had put Emin in a box early on. 'Now we recognize that those are not just important, but necessary.'
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Madonna takes train into New Haven for Yale Center for British Art exhibit
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Madonna graced New Haven with her presence last week, visiting the new exhibit of a friend and fellow artist. The iconic pop singer posted to Instagram Thursday, saying she took the train to Yale University to see 'Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning' at the Yale Center for British Art. Paige Bueckers celebrates championship win with Jimmy Fallon In the post, she revealed a love for trains and for Emin, who she's known since her daughter Lourdes 'Lola' Leon was a child. 'I have enormous respect and admiration for her. She's the 21st century Frida Kahlo,' Madonna mused about Emin. Madonna also said she loved being on the Yale campus and didn't want to leave being surrounded by 'so many great minds.' 'I wanted to stay and get my PhD. Can you guess in what subject?' she asked her Instagram following. Bridgeport's Soundside Music Festival announces 2025 lineup According to the British museum, Emin is known for her dynamic and autobiographical works, which often express themes of love, loss, hope and grief. 'With honesty and deep feeling, her art draws on her personal experiences of illness, intimacy, and sexuality to confront broader concerns about women's bodies and health,' the museum states. This exhibit is the first major presentation of the artist's work in a North American museum. It features paintings dating back to 2007. Emin's work will be on display through Aug. 10, 2025. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
