Legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead at their LA home on Sunday. As their son Nick is arrested for their murders, here’s everything we know so far
The world was shocked this week when the tragic news broke that Hollywood filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele had been found dead at their home in Los Angeles.
Famed for creating movies like Stand By Me starring the late River Phoenix, psychological horror Misery featuring a star turn by Kathy Bates and rom com When Harry Met Sally, Rob also starred in huge movies like Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives Club and The Wolf of Wall Street. Most recently he had appeared in the hit TV series New Girl and The Bear.
On December 14, it was announced that the 78-year-old had been murdered alongside his wife Michele Singer, 68, a photographer and film producer who met her future husband on the set of When Harry Met Sally in 1989, the year they got married.
The couple went on to have three children – sons Jake and Nick and daughter Romy. As their son Nick has been arrested for his parents’ murder, we look at everything we know about Rob and Michele’s tragic deaths.
Vicky Pattison has shared her go-to self care device that helps to reduce ‘hormonal hair loss’ and shoppers have said it makes hair grow ‘thicker and stronger’
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Vicky’s healthy hair is thanks to one LED device(Image: BBC)
‘Tis the season for self care, and with the New Year creeping closer it’s time to start planning ways to introduce a little more you-time in your usual routine. Strictly Come Dancing star Vicky Pattison has already been getting into the swing of things, as she shared an image of her doing some at-home LED therapy and writing: “Tis the season for self f*****g care”.
Although most of us opt for the usual LED face masks to use at home, Vicky has taken things a step further and shared that she regularly uses CurrentBody’s LED Hair Growth Helmet. The helmet works just like an LED mask does for your face, except it’s main goal is to improve your hair’s condition, as well as boosting your scalp health, making it perfect for anyone struggling with hair loss or thinning.
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The LED Hair Growth Helmet is a bit of a splurge – it’s priced at £649.99 on both the CurrentBody website and on Amazon – but it’s an investment worth making if you’ve been struggling with your hair and scalp health lately. You’ll even get a four month money-back guarantee when you buy it, so if you don’t start seeing results after using it you can return for a full refund.
It works by using red light therapy to stimulate your hair’s follicles, which help improve your hair’s thickness as well as improving the condition and hydration of your scalp to reduce redness and oiliness. There are 120 red LED lights in the LED Hair Growth Helmet to make sure it covers your entire scalp, and each session only takes 10 minutes. Plus it’s mobile enough that you can wear it whilst getting on with other things around the house, whether it’s cleaning or reading a book.
For something that won’t break the bank, you could always pick up Solaris Labs NY Intensive Red LED Hairband Supporting Growth which is just £120 and uses both red and blue LED lights. The red light stimulates hair follicles, while the blue light helps soothe the scalp for stronger and healthier hair, although it doesn’t cover the same surface area as Vicky’s helmet-style device.
You could also pick up Foreo’s FAQ 301 Bundle which is currently on sale for £329, and contains the FAQ 301 which has both red LED light and T-Sonic massage to help stimulate your scalp, revitalise follicles and strengthen thinning hair, and the FAQ Scalp Recovery and Thick Hair Probiotic Serum to enhance the hair thickening results.
Or, if you’re looking for something quick and easy to use, the Solaris Labs NY Intensive LED Hair Growth Brush is £86 and combines gentle vibrations with LED therapy to help improve your hair routine without adding in extra steps. It also uses both red and blue light, and gives your scalp a relaxing massage as you use it, helping to stimulate growth, slow hair loss, promote thicker locks, soothe irritated scalps and increase the size of hair follicles for stronger strands.
However, Vicky’s LED Hair Growth Helmet is a great option if you want a hands-free treatment that you can do at home and covers your entire head whenever you use it. Shoppers have also praised it, saying it’s helped with a myriad of different hair and scalp issues.
One touching review said: “My case is complicated because my hair loss was created by taking the breast cancer hormone blocker ********* . I had breast cancer 9 years ago and unfortunately it returned this year in March. Before I started taking ********* again I decided to invest in any preventative measures I could, which included the CurrentBody red light helmet . I decided to brush my hair over the sink each morning and take a photo so I could monitor any hair loss. I have attached a photo of my morning brush when I started using the helmet , and now, 7 months later . Currently I am not experiencing any hair loss and the hair fall in the pictures is significantly less. So I would say this demonstrates it is doing a fantastic job. I’ve recommended it to many friends and I also have the face and neck masks which are phenomenal.”
Another wrote: “I’ve been using this product for several months and my hair has definitely grown several inches, is stronger and thicker. It’s very easy to use and only takes 10 minutes. What’s not to love?”
Some found their results weren’t quite as impressive, with one saying: “I have used this everyday for 10 min from the day I received it. II have been using this now for close to 3 months and have yet to see any difference. My hair still looks the same and I still loose the same amount when I wash or comb my hair. I am still hoping for this helmet to give me positive results but to this day it has not.”
Another agreed: “I have been using my LED Hair Regrowth Helmet for 6 weeks with no results, it might be too soon for results. You wear the helmet for 10mins every day I don’t feel 10mins is long enough. Keep my fingers crossed.”
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However others loved the LED Hair Growth Helmet, with one saying: “I have been using the helmet once a day for about three months, and I have already noticed a lot of new hair growth. This is especially exciting since I am on a medication that typically causes shedding. I am really happy with this purchase; this has become my favorite red light therapy brand!”
From Beyoncé’s historic Grammy win and a blink-and-you-miss-it TikTok ban to rogue kiss cams and viral bag charms, here’s the pop culture moments that broke the internet
When December rolls around each year, a mandatory reflection at the past 12 months feels fitting. This year, however, looking back at the past 12 months feels chaotic, unsettling and anything but calm.
January 2025 feels like it was eons ago, and held some of the most poignant moments in pop culture history, from Beyoncé’s historic Grammy Award win to a TikTok ban that made the US stand still – but only for 12 hours.
We’ve seen kiss cams gone rogue – and quite literally ruining jobs and marriages – pop stars in space, weird gremlin bag charms became a statement fashion accessory, and the first ever celebrity version BBC’s hit show, The Traitors, which ended up as a nationwide hit.
Many entertainment highlights from this year will no doubt be baked into pop culture history, so lets take a look back at the jaw-dropping moments that broke the internet in 2025.
Lady Colin Campbell appears in Murder in Monaco after publishing a book allegedly based on Lily Safra, Edmond Safra’s widow.
Murder in Monaco is on Netflix and the documentary exploring the bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of Edmond Safra, a Lebanese-Brazilian billionaire banker and philanthropist. In 1999 a Monte Carlo penthouse fire resulted in Safra being found dead and his nurse Ted Maher was convicted of arson causing death after confessing to starting the fire.
At the time, the suspicious circumstances surrounding Safra’s death gained international media attention. Lady Colin Campbell, better known as Lady C, unexpectedly features in the documentary and she was seen in the trailer abruptly shutting down a member of the crew who asked her if she wanted something to drink.
“No, thank you. I want this over with as quickly as possible. Start,” she was heard saying before she retorts: “Actually, I’m not doing this. This is at an end. Unf******-believable,” before storming off. Lady C, known for her stint on I’m A Celebrity, had published a book entitled Empress Bianca, a novel widely reported to be based on the life of Edmond Safra’s widow.
Lily Safra sued Campbell’s publisher Arcadia Books, forcing the book to be re-called and destroyed, with a revised edition published later. Born Georgia Arianna, Lady C is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality known for publishing several unauthorised books about the British royal family, including Diana, Princess of Wales.
She was born into the Ziadie family, a prominent family of Lebanese descent, and grew up in the Colony of Jamaica as one of four children of wealthy department store owner Michael George Ziadie.
Lady C was raised as a boy
Lady C was raised as George William Ziadie as she was born with a genital malformation and her family had followed the medical advice of that time despite her being female.
She said if she had been born five years later, it might never have been an issue because of medical advances.
She told Herald Scotland: “There’s a very famous movie star who will remain nameless because I don’t believe in outing anyone. She was born with a similar condition but she was brought up as a girl. The thinking changed in the medical profession.”
Come puberty, she was bullied viciously at the boy’s school she was sent to and by the age of 13 she was keen for her parents to take action.
Instead, she was injected with male hormones, and it was not until her grandmother realised what was going on that things changed.
Her grandmother paid for corrective surgery in New York, which she had at the age of 21, and she legally changed her name from George William Ziadie to Georgia Arianna Ziadie.
Lady C owns Castle Goring in Worthing
In 2013, Lady C purchased Castle Goring, a Grade I listed country house in Worthing, Sussex.
The establishment is the ancestral family home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and novelist Mary Shelley.
She has since been restoring the once-dilapidated castle, admitting the costs of the restoration project would run into millions.
She told The Argus: “There have been times when I wished I could stop and there have been times when there has been too much for me to do.
“Things do go wrong and human beings, being what they are, well, some people do a wonderful job and others do not. It has been frenzied at times – there are never-ending demands, never-ending things to do, and lots of problems. But I have always enjoyed it.”
Lady C got married five days after meeting her partner
Lacy C married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the younger son of the eleventh Duke of Argyll, on March 23, 1974, having only known him for five days.
She enjoyed as strong personality and liked how he “exuded strength, decisiveness and charm”, but their relationship did not last long.
They separated after nine months over the revelations about her physical characteristics at birth. She has never remarried.
Lady C has two adopted children
In 1993, she adopted two Russian boys, Michael ‘Misha’ and Dimitri ‘Dima’. She told The Telegraph in 2013 she had “always been maternal”.
She explained: “Russia was a country where it’s possible to adopt infants – my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.
“She said ‘You’ll be a very good mother, you’re warm, loving and ruthless’. Now, it’s quite the done thing to adopt as a single mother, Angelina Jolie did it, Sandra Bullock, but when I did it I couldn’t think of anyone apart from Joan Crawford.
BBC Radio star Sir Humphrey Burton has sadly died aged 94. The Radio 3 star, who was a popular broadcaster, author and director died peacefully at home today, Wednesday December 17.
In a statement, his family said: “He was deeply loved by his children and grandchildren, and his commitment to spreading the joy of classical music was so inspiring.” It continued: “He will be missed beyond words. We take comfort in knowing he is now at peace.”
Taking to social media, his daughter, Clare shared a photo of herself and her father, writing: “It is with great sadness that I report the passing of my father, Sir Humphrey Burton 25.3.31-17.12.25 at 05:15 this morning at home with family by his side. A huge influence on several generations of arts programme makers, he will be missed beyond words.”
Sir Humphrey Burton, who presented on Classic FM as well as BBC Omnibus and In Performance in the 70s and 80s, founded the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year award ( Getty Images)
Sir Humphrey, who presented on Classic FM as well as BBC Omnibus and In Performance in the 70s and 80s, founded the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year award, which helped to grow young talent.
Paying tribute to the broadcaster, who was born in 1931 in Trowbridge and knighted in 2020 for his services to classical music and the arts, Classic FM said Burton had “helped shape a golden age of classical music on television and radio”.
The star, who studied music and history at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge before joining BBC Radio as a trainee studio manager in 1955, helped with programmes on Leonard Bernstein and Yehudi Menuheim.
These shows, Classic FM said, “introduced multiple generations to classical music with the trademark enthusiasm that made his name synonymous with arts broadcasting” said the station in a tribute.
Radio 3 and Classic FM have paid tribute to Sir Humphrey ( Getty Images)
His programme, Burnstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna won an Emmy Award in 1972 and he went onto win again in 1988 for the Great Performances episode Celebrating Gershwin.
Sir Humphrey enjoyed a 20-year association with conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, and directed over 170 documentaries and filmed concerts, including cycles of symphonies by Mahler, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and many others, as well as Bernstein’s own compositions.
Sam Jackson, the controller of BBC Radio 3 and BBC Proms said he was fortunate to work with Sir Humphrey and described him as a “a man so full of grace, warmth, and brilliant anecdotes.”
In a tribute on X, Radio 3 said: “We are incredibly sad to hear that Sir Humphrey Burton has passed away at the age of 94. He was a much loved classical music broadcaster and had a huge influence on generations of arts programme makers. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
Meanwhile, the Royal Philharmonic Society said the broadcaster’s renowned work set a “gold-standard” which engaged millions with music.
“Few have done so much to proclaim classical music’s wonders” it added.
The United States has dramatically intensified its military air campaign in Somalia, carrying out 111 strikes against armed groups, also killing civilians, since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to the New America Foundation, which monitors the operations.
In the most recent one, the US Africa Command conducted an air strike on December 14, approximately 50 kilometres (31 miles) northeast of the city of Kismayo, targeting what it said were members of the Somali armed group, al-Shabaab.
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The escalation began in February when Trump launched his administration’s first strike in Somalia. Months later, a senior US Navy admiral said the US had carried out what he said was the “largest air strike in the history of the world” from an aircraft carrier, marking a sharp departure from the previous administration’s approach.
The strike total this year already surpasses the combined number carried out under Presidents George W Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and it puts Trump on track to potentially exceed even his own first-term record of 219 strikes.
The intensified campaign targets both al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate that has fought Somalia’s government since 2007 and controls large areas of the south-central regions, and ISIL (SIS) in Somalia, a smaller offshoot concentrated in the northeast with an estimated 1,500 fighters.
Somalia’s war with armed groups was Africa’s third-deadliest over the last year, killing 7,289 people, according to the US-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
The United States has been allied with Somalia’s federal government, training elite forces and conducting air strikes in support of local operations. US troops have also been based in the country.
The surge in strikes follows a directive by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that reversed Biden-era restrictions requiring White House approval for strikes outside warzones, giving AFRICOM commanders greater authority to launch attacks.
David Sterman, a senior policy analyst at the New America Foundation, told Al Jazeera there appeared to be “a demand signal from the White House for escalation” and “a willingness to allow more clearly offensive uses of strikes with less scrutiny and regulation”.
Sterman, who has monitored the strikes, identified two main drivers behind the increase.
More than half the strikes have supported a US-backed campaign by Somalia’s autonomous Puntland region against ISIL-Somalia, launched after the group attacked a military convoy in December 2024.
The strikes have shifted from occasionally targeting senior figures to sustained operations aimed at members of the group who have hemmed themselves into the caves in the mountains in northern Somalia, Sterman added.
The remainder focus on al-Shabaab’s advances against Somali government forces in the south, as US strikes support a Somali National Army that has faced setbacks on the ground this year.
The February 1 operation that opened the campaign saw 16 F/A-18 Super Hornets launch from the USS Harry S Truman in the Red Sea, dropping 60 tonnes of munitions on cave complexes in the Golis Mountains. The strike killed 14 people, according to Africa Command.
Somali civilians under US fire
However, the intensified operations have raised concerns about civilian casualties.
The investigative outlet Drop Site News reported in December that US air strikes and Somali forces killed at least 11 civilians, including seven children, during a November 15 operation in the Lower Jubba region, citing witnesses.
Africa Command confirmed conducting strikes to support Somali troops, but did not respond to Drop Site requests for comment on the civilian deaths.
The US military recently stopped providing civilian casualty assessments in its strike announcements.
According to the military publication Stars and Stripes, the pace of operations now exceeds even the US’s claimed counter-narcotics strikes in the Caribbean.
In the meantime, Trump launched racist verbal attacks earlier this month on Somali immigrants in the US state of Minnesota, as federal authorities prepared to launch a major immigration crackdown targeting hundreds of undocumented Somalis in the state of Minnesota.
