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Kylie Minogue's emotional end to US tour
Kylie Minogue's emotional end to US tour

Perth Now

time04-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Perth Now

Kylie Minogue's emotional end to US tour

Kylie Minogue has finished her first US and Canada arena tour on a high, thanking fans for their "beautiful energy". The 56-year-old has been performing tracks from her four-decade career on the current leg of her Tension tour. At her show at Los Angeles' Arena on Friday, US time, she admitted she was overwhelmed and "very, very grateful". "Here we are in 2025 and I get to be on a world tour with these beautiful humans, beautiful intelligent humans - the ones you can see on the stage and off stage," she told the audience, according to Billboard. "And I get very emotional thinking about this, this … it's been a lifetime and sometimes it just amazes me. So very, very grateful. Thank you so much for being here." And before her final song, Love at First Sight, the Padam Padam hitmaker thanked her fans for their "beautiful energy" and gave a special "shout-out" to all those who had worked on the tour. "You've been beyond tonight. You've been here, present, ready, going — thank you so much for being here, for your beautiful energy, for being here for me in all different times of my career. For being there for each other! "I just want to give a real shout-out to our entire crew because this has been an incredible run. We've loved it, so thank you." Minogue began the Tension tour in Perth, before heading for three dates in Asia in March and on to a 16-date run of shows in Canada and the US. She will then head to Europe later in May, before taking the concert series to South America on August 7, rounding out the world tour with three shows in Mexico. By the end of the run, she will have played almost 70 shows in more than 25 countries on five continents.

Kylie Minogue's 'emotional' end to US tour
Kylie Minogue's 'emotional' end to US tour

Perth Now

time04-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Perth Now

Kylie Minogue's 'emotional' end to US tour

Kylie Minogue felt "very emotional" as she finished her first ever US and Canada arena tour on Friday (02.05.25). The 56-year-old singer has been performing tracks from her four-decade career on the current leg of her 'Tension' tour and at her show at Los Angeles' Arena on Friday she admitted she was overwhelmed and "very, very grateful". According to Billboard, she told the audience: 'Here we are in 2025 and I get to be on a world tour with these beautiful humans, beautiful intelligent humans — the ones you can see on the stage and off stage. And I get very emotional thinking about this, this… that I've… it's been a lifetime and sometimes it just amazes me. So very, very grateful. Thank you so much for being here.' And before her final song, 'Love at First Sight', the 'Padam Padam' hitmaker thanked her fans for their "beautiful energy" and gave a special "shout-out" to all those who had worked on the tour. She said: 'You've been beyond tonight. You've been here, present, ready, going — thank you so much for being here, for your beautiful energy, for being here for me in all different times of my career. For being there for each other! "I just want to give a real shout-out to our entire crew because this has been an incredible run. We've loved it, so thank you.' She then quipped: 'I've got some old friends here tonight. Look at me now!' Kylie began the 'Tension' tour in her native Australia in Perth, before heading for three dates in Asia in March and on to a 16-date run of shows in Canada and the US. She will then head to Europe later this month, before taking the concert series to South America on 7 August, rounding out the world tour with three shows in Mexico. By the end of the run, she will have played almost 70 shows in more than 25 countries on five continents.

I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment' to the test. The results are stark
I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment' to the test. The results are stark

The Guardian

time03-04-2025

  • Entertainment
  • The Guardian

I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment' to the test. The results are stark

It has finally happened. After a decade of avoiding the show, my wife and I decided that we would try out the new season of Married at First Sight. We consume quite a bit of reality TV, so it's not that we avoided it precisely, but something about the idea of watching people struggle to build a healthy relationship amid a storm of cameras and manufactured drama just never drew us in. At least until we watched Love at First Sight and realised it was actually kind of fun. Relationship drama makes for addictive viewing. But after watching most of a season of weird 'marriages', screaming matches and couch quizzes accompanied by deep and meaningful music, one part of the show has struck me as really weird. Everyone keeps referring to the saga as an 'experiment'. From the narrator to the experts who counsel the hapless couples on their relationship dramas, the entire show seems to be calling the experience a social experiment for which we don't know the outcome. As a scientist, I found this strange. We've had 11 seasons of the show with more than 100 couples getting thrust together over nearly a decade. There's plenty of data there to analyse and see what 'the experiment' shows. So I did. I collected the data from the Mafs Wikipedia pages – which are wonderfully comprehensive – as well as a bit of Googling. I asked three main questions: How many couples stay together until the end of filming? How many couples stay together after filming is completed? How many couples are still together and is it fewer than we'd expect? I limited my data collection to 2015-24 to ensure I had enough information on all the show's participants. I also considered staying together after filming as at least one year of relationship post-show, because it was hard to figure out exactly when people broke up in the months after filming completed. For breaking up before the end of filming, I only counted couples who had left or otherwise stopped being part of the show before the final decision – if one or both of the people said no at the final ceremony, I think we can say they at least completed the experiment. When you look at the numbers, the results are … stark. Of the 107 couples paired off in the eight years, 56 (52%) broke up before the show ended. The most likely result for two people who meet at their Mafs wedding is to call it quits within the 10-week period of filming. Of the 51 remaining couples who made it to the final decision, the outcomes are a little bit better. There were 11 successful marriages in the bunch – the husband and wife managed to make it to at least one full year of bliss. Of these, seven couples are still together today, which sounds OK on the face of it. In context, however, these statistics are still pretty abysmal. The average length of an Australian marriage is eight to nine years, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I compared the length of Mafs marriages against the 2021 divorce statistics from the ABS to get an idea of how unlikely this was, using a statistical test called a chi-squared test. This resulted in a probability value – or p-value – of 0.00000000001. Interpreting p-values can be a bit complex but we can say that Mafs couples fall apart drastically more commonly than your average Aussie marriage. Why are Mafs relationships failing so often? It's hard to be sure. It could be that marrying someone you've just met is a ridiculous idea that rarely works. Perhaps it's because the people who sign up for the show aren't that great at relationships by default. Maybe the producers, in their quest for good TV, make the 'experiment' just a bit too tumultuous for most couples to survive. Or maybe there's something in the marriages themselves. In the US version of the show, couples sign a marriage certificate when they walk down the aisle, which is impossible in Australia due to regulations. In the US, 16% of the couples are still together compared with 7% in Australia, a statistically significant difference with a p-value of 0.037 on that same chi-squared test. Given that the two shows are otherwise pretty similar, we could reasonably say that having a real wedding with a legally binding contract probably helps quite a bit in making the marriages last. Of course, 16% is still also low. The show has only been on since 2014 in the US, which means that most of the real marriages they're filming end far sooner than they should. We can draw a few conclusions from the Mafs 'experiment'. It rarely works. It's much less effective than marrying someone you already know and presumably like, although this might also be influenced by the cameras and producer-generated drama. It's rare you get to choose another partner partway through your marriage in real life, for example, something that was a big new twist in this year's season of the show. The experiment is probably particularly ineffective in Australia because the couples aren't legally married. All that being said, there are two things going for the whole idea. One is the current nightmare of the dating scene. Marrying someone you've never met probably won't work but it might at least be more fun than trying to meet a partner on Hinge amid the fake profiles and pictures of men holding fish. Also, it makes great TV. Even if we all know the conclusion from the start – and at this point, we kind of do – the drama makes for compelling viewing. Dr Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz is an epidemiologist and science communicator currently working in chronic and infectious disease epidemiology. You can find his weekly blog on Substack or Medium

Maika Monroe to Star in Colleen Hoover's ‘Reminders of Him' Film Adaptation at Universal
Maika Monroe to Star in Colleen Hoover's ‘Reminders of Him' Film Adaptation at Universal

Yahoo

time19-03-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

Maika Monroe to Star in Colleen Hoover's ‘Reminders of Him' Film Adaptation at Universal

Maika Monroe is set to star in Colleen Hoover's 'Reminders of Him' film adaptation at Universal Pictures, according to an insider with knowledge of the project. 'Love at First Sight' director Vanessa Caswill is set to direct the 'Longlegs' actress in the project. The novel follows Kenna Rowan, a woman who has just finished a five-year prison sentence for a tragic mistake. She returns to her hometown hoping to make amends and reconnect with her daughter, but nearly everyone in the town shuts her out save for a local bar owner, Ledger Ward. As time goes on, Kenna and Ledger grow closer together, even though they both risk being ostracized even more if their budding romance is discovered. Despite this, they push forward, as Kenna looks for a way to fix her mistakes. Hoover will write the screenplay with Lauren Levine, with whom she co-founded her new production studio Heartbones Entertainment in 2023. Both Hoover and Levine will serve as producers on 'Reminders of Him.' Gina Matthews is producing through Little Engine Productions. Robin Fisichella is also executive producing. Christine Sun, the director of production development, will oversee the project for the studio. With more than 20 million books sold, Hoover crossed over into Hollywood with Sony Pictures' adaptation of 'It Ends With Us' this past August, which became a mid-budget box office hit as an alternative to the summer action spectacle. Produced on a $25 million budget, the drama about domestic abuse starring Blake Lively grossed $351.4 million worldwide. 'Reminders of Him' will be released on Valentine's Day weekend in 2026. Monroe's next project is the lead in 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle' at 20th Century. Monroe is represented by Entertainment 360, WME, Felker Toczek and imPRint. Deadline first reported the news. The post Maika Monroe to Star in Colleen Hoover's 'Reminders of Him' Film Adaptation at Universal appeared first on TheWrap.

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