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Steven Yeun has added another notch to his belt with a supporting role in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17.

The science-fiction comedy, written and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker, has finally landed in cinemas. Its plot follows Mickey (played by Robert Pattinson), a man who flees his debt on Earth by joining a mission to colonise the ice planet Niflheim.

Mickey lands a less than desirable job as an expendable, whose role is to take on dangerous assignments. Each time he dies, he is cloned using advanced technology, and sent out on even more deadly missions.

Yeun plays Mickey’s shady friend Timo, who also joins the colonial journey as a pilot.

As the Korean-American actor steps back into the spotlight, viewers are curious to know more about his life beyond the screen.

Early life

Born in December 1983 in Seoul, Korea, Yeun’s family migrated to Canada when he was five years old, then moved to Troy, Michigan a year later.

Growing up, the accomplished actor’s ‘ hero ‘ was Will Smith, primarily because he did not see his Asian-American identity represented on TV. To a young Yeun, Smith was the ‘ closest ‘ reflection he could see of himself in popular cinema.

Speaking to The Hot Corn, he shared: “When I was young my hero was Will Smith. That’s because he was probably the closest to my own personal journey, of feeling ‘ other ‘ or ‘ outsider. ‘ Fresh Prince]Of Bel Air] was exactly that.

” Then, you try to connect to mainstream stuff, and it’s not to say I can’t connect to a film that has a white protagonist, like of course I can, we’re all human beings, those things spoke to me. But sometimes, having a more nuanced approach to how it can connect to you is really that much more important. “

The Walking Dead exit

Similar to Smith, the 41-year-old celebrity got his big break on a TV show.

The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 and featured Yeun as Glenn Rhee, a core member of main character Rick Grimes ‘ (Andrew Lincoln) survival group.

He was introduced to viewers in the second episode of the zombie apocalypse drama and quickly became a fan favourite.

Unfortunately, he met his brutal fate in season seven at the hands of villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), before the birth of his first child.

Glenn’s death sent shockwaves across the show’s fanbase, who had watched the characters tempt fate for six years. However, Yeun has admitted he was ‘ ready ‘ to let the character’s story end.

He previously told The Independent:” I actually was]ready to go].

“That show is one of the greater experiences of my life. I got to work with such incredible people and I got to experience life in its ups and downs in every facet, so it’s very integral to my being.

” But at that moment, it felt very, very appropriate to leave – not because I wanted to go, not because they wanted me to – just that’s when my character’s story was done. There’s nothing greater in my opinion than someone telling you that there’s an end to something. “

Is Steven Yeun married?

Yeun is married to professional photographer Joana Pak. The pair tied the knot in 2016 and share two children: 7-year-old son Jude and daughter Ruth, aged 5.

Although the couple keep their relationship relatively private, Yeun recently gave a heart-warming nod to his wife and kids in a Golden Globes Award acceptance speech.

He won the prize for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, for his role in Netflix’s hit drama Beef.

” I’m just so thankful, “he said.

He continued:” I’m just the recipient of a long line of compassion and love and protection and goodwill, so I appreciate this. Joana, I love you. You are my strength. Thank you to Judie and Ruthie […]. “

Mickey 17 is out in cinemas now.

Naomi Ackie is back on the big screen in Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho’s new twisted tale.

Mickey 17 sees the actress starring opposite Robert Pattinson, who leads the cast the titular Mickey Barnes.

The thriller follows Mickey, a disposable employee on a colonial mission to an ice planet named Niflheim. His role on the colony ship is to take on deadly assignments, only to be cloned every time he dies.

Ackie portrays security agent Nasha Barridge, who sparks a romance with the first incarnation of Mickey and sticks by his side throughout his various lives.

While many moviegoers will recognise the film star from Zoe Kravitz’s 2024 thriller Blink Twice, Ackie has had a varied career dating back to 2015.

Born and raised in London, the 32-year-old actress graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2014.

She bagged her first professional TV role on Doctor Who in 2015 and later featured in her first film Lady Macbeth.

The 2016 period drama saw Ackie, who was just 24 at the time, starring opposite accomplished actors, including Florence Pugh and Cosmo Jarvis.

Three years later, the Londoner landed her breakout role in Netflix’s The End of the F****** World, which earned the TV star her first BAFTA for Supporting Actress.

Following her big break, Ackie portrayed Jannah in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. She then went on to fill the shoes of Whitney Houston in the late icon’s 2022 biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

Fortunately for her fans, the actress has no plans of slowing down just yet. Ackie is slated to star in three upcoming productions: The Thursday Murder Club, Morning and I Love Boosters.

The Netflix alum recently shared the details about the latter film, helmed by second-time director Boots Riley.

In a Hero Magazine interview, she told her co-star Robert Pattinson: “[…] the project I just got back from was with Boots Riley. It’s got Keke Palmer and Taylour Paige]in it] and it’s… mental.

” The film is called I Love Boosters and it’s about this group of women who steal clothes from fancy stores and then sell them for cheap on the street. But obviously it has this surrealist, magic-realism element. I feel like my jobs are getting more and more chaotic and weird as I go on. “

Tragic loss

Ackie has opened up about her experiences with grief after losing her mother to cancer, when she was 22.

In a recent conversation with The Telegraph, she revealed that she spent her twenties in a ‘ fog ‘ after the devastating loss.

” I felt like I was on the brink of life, ready to leap into it all. I’d just been on my first holiday with a friend, to New York. Then, suddenly, everything came to a halt. It just stopped. Nothing, “she said.

” Looking back, I was in a fog for the rest of my 20s. I was working, I was trying to embrace all the experiences, but I can’t remember a lot of it. There was a sense of deferred emotion. “

She continued:” I feel like I’m living my 20s in my 30s, which is why I don’t think I’ll have children – if I’m lucky enough to be able to – until my 40s. “

The Mickey 17 star has previously expressed her plan to delay motherhood until her 40s.

Back in 2024, she told The Hollywood Reporter:”]I’m] not ready to have my own child until I’m probably like 40…]It’s] actually good to know… that one day you can just look at a baby and think, ‘ I want you. ‘ “

She continued, acknowledging the risks of pregnancy in older age:” I know it’s bad the longer you wait, but I feel really intentional about wanting to be married for a few years before that happens.

“And I don’t own a home. I can’t even look after a f****** plant, mate. And can I keep my house tidy? No. I didn’t even make my bed before I left for L. A”.

Mickey 17 is out in cinemas now.

After winning rave reviews for her turn in the film “The Last Showgirl”, Pamela Anderson is now dreaming of doing theatre as the 1990s glamour model seeks to reinvent herself again.

The 57-year-old one-time Playboy pin-up, who shot to global fame as lifeguard CJ Parker in “Baywatch”, told AFP that playing a fading showgirl in Gia Coppola’s recently released film had made her feel like a real actress for the first time.

“This (role) came to me as a surprise, when I thought it was the end of my career as an actress”, she said during a trip to Paris.

“Now I feel like an actress. But I didn’t really know if I was before. I was just doing the best I could”.

The New York Times said Anderson was “dazzling” in the role, while Britain’s The Guardian said it had “single-handedly rewritten the way she is viewed as an actor”.

Coppola, granddaughter of “Godfather” director&nbsp, Francis Ford Coppola, pursued Anderson for the role in “The Last Showgirl” after watching a Netflix documentary about her life, “Pamela: A Love Story”.

Anderson’s late-career bloom echoes the success of another 1990s icon, Demi Moore, who also challenged the entertainment industry’s treatment of older women with her brilliant performance in Oscar-nominated “The Substance” last year.

The public endorsements of Anderson’s showgirl portrayal — including a Golden Globe nomination — have given her the confidence to reveal new ambitions and challenge the perceptions forged by her early career in a swimsuit.

“I think being part of pop culture can be a little bit of a curse because you become famous for one thing”, Anderson said.

“But I’ve always loved cinema. I’ve always loved theatre. I hope to do a Tennessee Williams play one day. I would love that. Why can’t you imagine it? You’ve just gotta keep surprising people. That’s my goal”, she added.

‘ Wasn’t boring ‘

Anderson’s personal life has had as many turns as her career, but she said she is now at peace with her “messy” trajectory.

She has been married at least six times — twice to the same man — and one union, with movie mogul Jon Peters, lasted just 12 days.

“I have appreciation for my wild and messy life because I have so much to draw from”, she told AFP. “And it definitely wasn’t boring. Hard at times, and silly at times, ridiculous at times.

” But that’s the way you’re supposed to live. “

She is back living on Vancouver Island in her native Canada, where she grew up, making pickles and working on recipes for her new sideline as a plant-based cooking guru.

She has her own TV cooking show” Pamela’s Cooking with Love “and released a cookbook&nbsp, last year.

As well as animal rights activism, she released an autobiography in 2023, insisting publicly that she wrote it herself after rejecting advice from her literary agent that she should employ a ghostwriter.

” I can write, you stupid shit, give me some credit “was her reaction, she told The Times newspaper afterwards.

” And so I wrote it. “

It revealed her tumultuous upbringing with volatile parents, as well as childhood sexual abuse.

Danny Jones ‘ kiss with Maura Higgins could be “one step too far” for his struggling wife Georgia Horsley, it is said.

The McFly singer is believed to have given his wife a grovelling apology following the smooch with Maura at a BRITs afterparty. However, Georgia has reportedly pulled out of all her upcoming work engagements, including an appearance at The Baby Show at London’s ExCel Centre with Kelsey Parker this weekend.

Her friend is said to have told Mail Online: “She’s more forgiving than most. But this might be one step too far”. Sources also told the publication Georgia, mother to Danny’s seven-year-old son, is “a very patient wife”.

But the quality might not be enough to save their marriage as the kiss has reportedly left Georgia, a model, “struggling” and “humiliated”. Another friend said: “Georgia is trying to find a way forward for her family… She is mortified at how this has all played out and can’t help but feel humiliated. It’s blown apart her world. The idea of doing any more work in the near future is also something she couldn’t bear to think about right now”.

Danny, 38, was yesterday spotted in photographs with McFly co-star Tom Fletcher as they spoke to Queen Camilla at a celebrity event. The footage was pre-recorded and aired on Thursday’s The One Show, a special episode for World Book Day.

But neither he or Georgia have spoken publicly about the scandal. Danny, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, is yet to address criticism he has faced from fans on Instagram. One fan, for instance, said: “Wtf Danny. You are married with a child. Fans are meant to respect you but how can they when you don’t even respect yourself”.

And 2019 Love Island contestant Maura, 34, has also faced a backlash on her Instagram page. One Instagram user posted: “Oh dear very disappointing” among the string of comments this week.

Danny and Georgia met in 2008 but it took one year for the singer to convince Georgia, from York, to go on a date with him. She initially believed Danny would be match the typical musician stereotype, and thought he would be “a top shagger”.

When former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie went missing at the very beginning of March 2012, her disappearance made headlines. A large search was organised for the 29 year old star, who played Kerry Skinner in more than 30 episodes of the BBC soap between 2000 and 2001, alongside stars including Dean Gaffney and Michelle Ryan.

But the true tragedy didn’t unfold until a headless torso was found in a London canal&nbsp, a few days later, with a friend of Gemma’s family telling the Mirror at the time: “We’ve been told the police have found the body of a woman and we’re now waiting to find out if it’s Gemma”. Sadly their worst fears came true – Gemma had been brutally killed, chopped up and dumped in the canal. She was identified by a distinctive tattoo but her head, arms and legs had been separated from her body. Her head would not be discovered for another six months. Later, mourners packed her funeral service in Hoxton, east London.

Gemma’s brutal murder is revisited today on ITV, in the true crime documentary series Murder In The Family: True Crime Presents. The programme explores the grisly events and – as its title may suggest – the shocking revelation that her own brother, Tony, turned out to be the cold-hearted killer. It was only the relentless work of police detectives that brought him to justice.

As a youngster, Gemma’s acting talent had secured her a place at drama school, and she later scored the role of Kerry Skinner in EastEnders at 17. After her stint on EastEnders came to an end, she took a shot at running a bar. At the same time, her mum sadly needed brain surgery, so Gemma took on the financial burden.

Meanwhile, Tony’s employment was erratic, bouncing from building sites to window cleaning jobs, while routinely indulging in cannabis “from morning until night”. When Gemma went missing, he was spared from early suspicion as he had never been seen as violent by acquaintances.

But psychologists have since suggested that envy of Gemma’s success might have been a driving force behind his actions — a deadly detail missed by many at the time. It later transpired that she had endured 20 years of sickening abuse from her brother and was “petrified of him”.

Initially when Gemma disappeared, her family suspected she might be with a friend. Recalling the events, her other brother, Danny, explained: “On the Sunday morning, me and a friend met up with Tony and got some pictures developed of Gemma. We took them down to Bethnal Green Police Station”.

In the grim aftermath, Tony pretended everything was normal, joining search parties and comforting Danny, plus their estranged parents. Danny conveyed the difficulty in obtaining any coherent information from Tony, saying: “I just thought it was just him just stoned out of his nut again”.

The family’s desperate search for missing Gemma turned to horror, as Danny vividly recalls the gut-wrenching moment when parts of her body were found, and how Tony reacted, saying: “Out of nowhere he walks in and puts his arms round us and he starts saying, ‘ Please don’t let it be Gemma. ‘ I’ll never forget it”.

A unique tattoo on Gemma’s body made identification painfully swift – a blow that left Danny reeling. He remembers the intense promise he received from a police officer at the scene: “I turned round and went to the police officer, I said, ‘ You’d better catch whoever did this’. And he kept saying to me, ‘ I promise, we’ll catch him, we’ll catch him'”. He continues: “That broke me”.

Relaying the tragic news to their mother was a task that overwhelmed Danny: “I ended up breaking down, crying. I was just overwhelmed. I’ve just found out it was my sister and now I’ve had to go and break the news to my mother. She’s laying there in hospital, you know, she’s just had a big operation”.

Eventually Danny confronted Tony, who was under police suspicion, demanding the stark truth, as he remembers: “I said to him, ‘ You look me in the eye and you put your hand on your heart you ain’t done this to my sister? ‘ And he just said to me, ‘ The police are fitting me up'”.

Yet a court later heard that Tony had brutally killed Gemma during an argument while high, the situation escalating when she ordered him to leave, because of a flooded bathroom.

Under the influence of drugs, his anger led him to violently attack Gemma with a blunt object, tragically resulting in her death from a cerebral haemorrhage. He chillingly admitted later that, failing to sever his sister’s limbs with a knife, he then unfeelingly procured a meat cleaver, bin liners, and cleaning products.

In a horrifying twist, he even sent a text message from his sister’s phone – while her body was still in the house – saying: “Morning, sorry crashed out last night. Woke up too late to get back to you. Feeling a bit better today”.

He even tried to make things appear normal by texting his dead sister: “Hi Gem, letting you know I’m at the hospital. Mum is doing really good and the doctors are pleased with her. Going to look at the throat and swallowing today. Love ya xx”.

That same evening, he gruesomely forced her lifeless form into a suitcase and coldly took a taxi to dump her body in the Regent’s Canal.

Yet when Tony was arrested, Danny struggled to believe it – with a friend even saying she felt sorry for him – as he remembers: “My head was all over the place, you know. It was like, this ain’t right. I phoned the police and I said to them, ‘ You’d better show me some evidence it’s him, otherwise he’s in that jail, he’s in that jail suffering'”.

Then Danny was shown chilling CCTV footage of his brother lifting a heavy suitcase into a minicab on his way to dump the body – the proof he needed. In court, Danny could only feel fury towards his brother, confessing: “I just thought, I wanna smash his face in. Because he was guilty”.

What deeply disturbed Danny were Tony’s perpetual lies and fabrications. Even when admitting to the deadly act, he shunned the label of murderer, pinning the blame on a sudden loss of composure, blackouts, tensions with his girlfriend, and even wildly claiming Gemma had assailed him with a knife.

“He was saying he couldn’t remember what happened. I’m just thinking, is this geezer for real”? Danny recounted, bewildered by his brother’s persistent denial despite glaring evidence. Yet, come January 30, 2013, Tony earned a guilty verdict for the murder, receiving a sentence of at least 20 long years behind bars.

Tony’s dad disowned his son, while Danny spoke out over Tony’s devastating actions, saying: “He took her life away. She didn’t even hit 30 years old, she didn’t get married, she didn’t have kids, he took all that away from her”. Her EastEnders co-star, Dean Gaffney, also said he was “utterly devastated” by Gemma’s brutal murder

Watch Murder In The Family: True Crime Presents – Gemma McCluskie on Friday, 7 March at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX

Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff’s daughter was heard “screaming and crying” outside the home of her mother who shot herself Wednesday, neighbours said.

Hayley Bach-Hasselhoff, 32, was reportedly seen going in and out of her parents ‘ $2million Hollywood Hills home as she screamed and wept. Her 62-year-old mother, who was in Baywatch and Sirens, was found dead there with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Hiromi Osieck, a neighbour, said: “She was hysterical, yelling, screaming, crying on the street. She was crying, saying ‘ I just want to get my car’. A little later, she came out with police. I heard her crying and somebody was trying to comfort her”.

Ms Osieck, 65, said she saw paramedics arrive at around 9pm before the young woman – believed to have been Hayley – came out the house and was visibly upset.

The neighbour, who recognised Hayley’s car on the driveway, added: “We couldn’t see what was going on in the house, but when she came out she was crying like crazy”.

Pamela and David were married from 1989 to 2006, and had lived together in the property before their split, it is thought. Ms Osieck last saw Pamela at the address on Monday when she was taking out the rubbish.

But Ms Osieck’s husband John, 70, said he and his wife kept their distance from Pamela, due to “drama” in the wealthy neighbourhood. He told Mail Online Pamela, who has two children including Hayley, had had rifts with other neighbours, including one about parking spaces.

“It’s shocking. She was chatty. She would talk to a lot of people when she walked her dogs. She didn’t seem like the type of person who would want to kill herself”, John continued.

An autopsy will be conducted later Thursday, according to the medical examiner’s office. Authorities said there was no suicide note left at her home, which is a stone’s throw from Universal Studios.

A representative for David told Mail Online: “Our family is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Pamela Hasselhoff. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support during this difficult time but we kindly request privacy as we grieve and navigate through this challenging time”.

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