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India Today
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Nick Jonas helps Priyanka Chopra untie her hair, fans call him green forest
Actor Priyanka Chopra treated fans to a fun video with her husband, singer Nick Jonas, on Thursday. The 42-year-old, who is currently promoting her latest film 'Heads of State', shared a glimpse of how she spends her time when she's not the video shared by the actor on Instagram, Jonas can be seen helping her remove pins from her hair. Chopra playfully captured the moment on her phone and let her husband do his wrote in the caption, "Hair wanted to stay as is! Nick Jonas said no. Ponytails are complicated 2.0." She concluded the post by tagging her hairstylist, Thibaud Salducci. Check out Priyanka Chopra's latest video here: Several fans reacted to the video by calling Jonas a big green flag in the comment section. One of the social media user said, "Biggest green forest he is. (sic). Another said, "Nick is green amazon forest (sic)"Take a look at the social media reaction to her video here:'Heads of State', also starring John Cena and Idris Alba, was released on Prime Video with raving reviews on July 2. Several social media users said that the film is a deadly combination of action and plays the role of Noel Bisset, a top-tier Mi6 agent in the film. Her character gets assigned the task of protecting two world leaders. Cena plays US President Will Derringer and Elba plays British PM Sam told India Today in a recent interview that she loves action films but fears performing stunts. "I love what Tom Cruise and Akshay Kumar do. They're really good at that. But, I don't think I have the courage to hang off a plane that's taking off or doing that kind of stuff."Directed by Ilya Naishuller, Heads of State is available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.- EndsMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Priyanka Chopra
India Today
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Heads of State X review: Priyanka Chopra's film is a perfect popcorn action flick
'Heads of State', starring Priyanka Chopra, John Cena, and Idris Elba, premiered on Prime Video to positive reviews on Wednesday. Soon after the film's release, several social media users praised the flm on X calling it a 'perfect popcorn action flick'.A social media user said, "I loved 'Heads Of State' for its deadly combination of action and comedy, which is engaging throughout its runtime. John Cena has some of the funniest one-liners in the film. Overall rating 7/10. Out now on Prime Video. Solid recommendation from me. (sic)"advertisementAnother user added, "I've just finished seeing 'Heads of State' and it's got to be the second-best movie I've seen this year. I hope 'Old Guard 2' wrestles it for the #2 spot though.(sic)" A third user called Heads of State a 'perfect popcorn action flick', and said, "Chemistry between Peacemaker and Bloodsport was bang on. Priyanka Chopra's role was great, Jack Quaid's cameo was cherry on top. Hella fun, just 2 hours long! (sic)"TOne fan even speculated about a sequel. "Now my mind can't stop imagining what could happen in 'Heads Of State 2'. @priyankachopra you leave that door completely open. (sic)"In 'Heads of State', Priyanka Chopra plays the role of Noel Bisset, a top-tier Mi6 agent who has been assigned the task to protect two world leaders. John Cena plays US President Will Derringer and Idris Elba plays British PM Sam an interview with India Today, Priyanka expressed that she loves action films but fears performing stunts. "I love what Tom Cruise and Akshay Kumar do. They're really good at that. But, I don't think I have the courage to hang off a plane that's taking off or doing that kind of stuff." Directed by Ilya Naishuller, Heads of State is streaming on Prime Video. The film is available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.- Ends IN THIS STORY#Priyanka Chopra
ITV News
14-06-2025
- Business
- ITV News
The £13 bn hole in the government's 2.6% defence target
The Chancellor's and the Treasury's assertion, in its latest Spending Review, that by 2027 defence spending will 'reach 2.6% of GDP' is not all it seems, to the tune of about £13 billion. Here's why. The published forecasts for defence spending in the financial years 2026/7 and 2027/8, of £65.5 billion and £71 billion respectively in cash terms, are 2.1% and 2.2% of the OBR's forecast of 'current prices' GDP in those years. This is a long way short of the pledged 2.6%. The gap in cash terms is £13 billion - which is NOT a rounding error. I should start by saying that 24 hours ago I asked Treasury officials to explain the gap. It can't be hard for them to do so. They've gone away to think about it. So here are a few of my thoughts about what is going on. Some of you may remember that the government is including 'Nato qualifying' spending on intelligence in its calculation of that 2.6% target. From Westminster to Washington DC - our political experts are across all the latest key talking points. Listen to the latest episode below... But defence-related intelligence cannot possibly be more than a fifth of all UK spending on Mi6, Mi5 and GCHQ, because Nato is very clear that the only intelligence spending that counts has to be directly related to military operations. I am going to be generous and assume spending on military intelligence that is part of the so-called Single Intelligence Account and outside of the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) budget is just over a billion pounds. Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, tells me this is absurdly high. But I am trying to give the Treasury the benefit of the doubt. Even with my generosity there is a £12 billion gap. And by the way, even if every single penny of intelligence spending was attributed to defence, there would be a £7 billion gap! One Treasury official said another £1.6 billion is probably the £1.6 billion annual cash cost of army pensions. I'll lop that off the £13 billion. Which leaves only £10 billion to find. Wallace told me that when Osborne was chancellor, he insisted that in submissions of the UK's defence spending to Nato the MoD had to include the VAT it pays on procurement. As Wallace says this is double counting, because the VAT is paid to the Treasury. When defence secretary, he was so infuriated that one year he refused to submit numbers to Nato. So perhaps the whole of the £10 billion gap is VAT. And maybe the reason the Treasury isn't getting back to me to confirm or deny is that it knows neither Nato or President Trump would be impressed that a huge proportion of our claimed defence spending may be around £10 billion in tax payments to... the British government. Anyway, now that I've put these numbers in the public domain, I await with interest clarification from the Treasury of what's going on here. None of what I've just said takes away from the published fact that defence spending is rising 3.8% faster than inflation for the next three years. That is a huge amount of resource being transferred to defence. But if when you read that the UK is set to spend 2.6% of GDP on defence, you thought all of that significant expenditure was on the armed forces, munitions, military satellites, nukes, planes and boats - as I did - you need to think again.
