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Lily Allen was first discovered in 2005 on Myspace, where she published some recordings. In September 2020, she married Stranger Things star David Harbour in Las Vegas. Congrats!

The Zombie Apocalypse hit The Walking Dead will end its 11 seasons run in 2022, leaving behind one spin-off plus three in the making. 

Montenegro is a tiny country in Southeast Europe, with a population of less than 1 Million. In its latest parliamentary elections, which took place this week, the opposition parties saw their first victory in 30 years.

Katie Holmes made her big-screen debut in the role of Libbets Casey in Ang Lee’s film The Ice Storm. You’ll be happy to learn that over Labor Day weekend, she appeared to be enjoying a romantic dinner date with chef Emilio Vitolo.

David Lynch directed The failing ‘80s version of Dune. The new Dune film will be in theaters on December 18th, 2020.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter just pledged an additional $1m to black-owned small businesses – as her 39th birthday gift to herself. According to the singer’s announcement, her philanthropic organization BeyGOOD has partnered with the NAACP on the donation.

It’s OK. Everyone doesn’t have to know that Travis Scott is Kylie Jenner’s on-and-off partner. They have a child together, Stormi Webster.

Now McDonald’s is bringing a new Travis Scott meal combination to its menus in selected restaurants. This is as part of a bigger cooperation with Scott’s Cactus Jack label. 

 Actually, Rick Moranis did star Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. He is now starring alongside Ryan Reynolds in a new Mint ad campaign.

The 39-year-old DJ and businesswoman YouTube Originals documentary This Is Paris premieres Sept. 14. Hilton opened up for the first time about a secret abuse she suffered at a Utah boarding school she attended. 

Musician Maria Kolesnikova, the opponent of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, was allegedly seized by masked men in Minsk and taken away in a van. She is now detained in the Ukraine border.

The story of Mulan originated in an ancient Chinese poem, The Ballad of Mulan, which is based on a real war between the Northern Wei state and the Mongolic state Rouran. The good news is that Mulan is coming to Disney+, in both versions: the classic animated film, and the new live-action one.

Nina Simone taught herself to play piano in the wooden cottage as a young girl in the 1930s. Her childhood home will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina.

Hungary borders Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. The falling democracy in Hungary is now hurting the country’s art institutes. It appears that the entire management team of Hungary’s prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts has resigned on Monday. This, after the government had imposed a new board of supervisors for the school.

The Nobel Peace Prize is handed each year in Oslo, Norway, while all other Nobel Prizes are given out in Stockholm, Sweden.

You might be also surprised to learn that a Norwegian lawmaker has nominated President Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. No, not because he’s dealing so well with the racial outbreak in his own country, but for his role in brokering a historic normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates last month.