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The first photos from Hulu drama All’s Fair have been released today along with a teaser trailer but while Kim Kardashian is a huge name, some fans aren’t happy

Potential viewers have been less than impressed by the poster for Ryan Murphy’s latest Hulu series All’s Fair as it was released today, with Kim Kardashian pictured leading the charge. The reality star-turned-actress stars as Allura Grant, a high-powered divorce attorney at the helm of an all-female law firm in the glossy legal drama.

Joining her on screen is a formidable line-up of talent, including Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson and, most notably, Oscar nominee Glenn Close. The series follows a group of women who leave a male-dominated legal firm to launch their own powerhouse practice. The official synopsis teases courtroom fireworks, personal rivalries and more than a few scandalous secrets.

According to the show’s official synopsis, the women “navigate high-stakes breakups, scandalous secrets, and shifting allegiances – both in the courtroom and within their own ranks. In a world where money talks and love is a battleground, these women don’t just play the game – they change it.”

Produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television, the series marks Murphy’s first major project under his new deal with Disney after departing Netflix.

The writing and executive producing team includes Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken, Jamie Pachino, Lyn Greene, and Richard Levine. Directing duties are shared with Anthony Hemingway, who also serves as executive producer, as do Kardashian, Close, Watts, Nash-Betts, and Paulson.

But while the star-studded teaser trailer has generated considerable buzz, not everyone is thrilled with the show’s promotional materials.

The poster has sparked a backlash on social media, as Kim Kardashian takes precedence in it, while veteran actress Glenn Close is pushed into the background.

“In what world, though, is Glenn Close BEHIND Kim Kardashian,” one fan fumed on X, adding: “I want names and badge numbers. I don’t care if she’s in one episode for five minutes, you put Glenn Close front and centre.”

The teaser trailer, however, hints at a meaty role for Close, who plays fierce legal strategist Dina Standish. In one standout moment, she instructs a client: “Get mad! Get hot! Get revenge!”

Meanwhile, Kardashian can be seen delivering a poised performance as Allura, coolly addressing a cocky husband during a tense meditation saying: “You’re right. Everything we’re going to show you today, you should be intimately familiar with.”

The role may resonate with Kardashian on a personal level, as her late father, Robert Kardashian Sr., was famously part of O.J. Simpson’s defence team during his 1995 murder trial.

Another striking moment from the trailer featured Judith Light declaring: “You know what a woman’s best friend is? Not diamonds. Her lawyers.”

Kim Kardashian is best known for starring in reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, but she previously played a scripted role in one of Ryan Murphy’s other shows, American Horror Story. In Delicate she played the supporting character Siobhan Corbyn, who is the best friend of female lead Anna Victoria Alcott.

Jamie Lee Curtis Got plastic surgery at 25 after a movie maker refused to film her saying: ‘I am not shooting her because her eyes are baggy’

Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed how a cruel jibe from a filmmaker pushed her into getting plastic surgery when she was still only 25 years old.

The actress says the experience left her with physical, emotional, and addictive consequences that lasted for years. Speaking candidly to America’s 60 Minutes, Curtis recalled the moment on the set of the 1985 film Perfect that changed her relationship with her body and career forever.

“He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy.’ And I was 25, so for him to say that, it was very embarrassing,” Curtis said. “So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery.” The movie, directed by James Bridges and co-starring John Travolta, featured Curtis as an aerobics instructor opposite the leading man’s investigative journalist.

Though she took the role seriously, it was the behind-the-scenes body shaming that stuck with her. Curtis says the procedure didn’t go well, nor did the aftermath. “That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26,” she said. And I regretted it immediately and have kind of regretted it since.”

The A Fish Called Wanda star, now 66, said the pressure to conform to Hollywood’s beauty standards came at a steep personal cost. What began with cosmetic surgery soon led to a dependency on painkillers. “I became very enamoured with the warm bath of an opiate,” Curtis added.

“You know, drank a little bit… never to excess, never any big public demonstrations. I was very quiet, very private about it, but it became a dependency for sure.”

Her struggle with addiction would follow her for years. In 2021, Curtis revealed in an interview with Fast Company that the surgery led directly to her dependence on Vicodin. “I tried plastic surgery and it didn’t work. It got me addicted to Vicodin,” she said. “I’m 22 years sober now.” Curtis is now a vocal advocate for body acceptance and a staunch critic of society’s fixation on altered appearances. “

“I’ve become a really public advocate to say to women, you’re gorgeous and you’re perfect the way you are. So yeah, it was not a good thing for me to do,” she said. She also spoke out against the current trends in cosmetic procedures and social media filters.

“The current trend of fillers and procedures, and this obsession with filtering, and the things that we do to adjust our appearance on Zoom are wiping out generations of beauty,” she added. “Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.”

Curtis has often drawn from her own experience to help others on their path to recovery. During the filming of Freaky Friday in 2003, she had been sober for just nine months but created a safe space on set for others dealing with addiction.

“I put a big sign up by the catering truck, and it said, ‘Recovery meeting in Jamie’s trailer every day,’” she told Variety in 2019. “I left the door open and didn’t know if anybody would show up. We ended up calling it the Mobile Home Recovery Meeting.”

Curtis said the group became a powerful support system. “It was probably my favourite grouping of sobriety that I’ve ever participated in. I’ve participated in groups all over the world, but there was something about the cross section of ages and genders and jobs and races, and it was profound.”

Growing up as the daughter of Hollywood legends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Curtis also reflected on the pressures of beauty and ageing in the spotlight.

She recalled watching both of her parents undergo cosmetic procedures and struggle with the slow decline of career opportunities.

“I watched their work diminish, I watched their fame not diminish. And the contradiction of a lot of fame, but not a lot of work, is really hard to navigate for people,” she said. “For the rest of your life, you’re famous for something you did a long time ago, and you chase that attention.”

BBC staff members want action to be taken against Match of the Day host Gary Lineker after he shared a pro-Palestine video on social media accompanied by a rat emoji

Gary Lineker has apologised after leaving staff at the BBC furious over his “repeated offensiveness to Jewish people” after he shared a pro-Palestine video.

Lineker, 64, left colleagues at the corporation upset after sharing a a pro-Palestine video featuring an ‘anti-Semitic’ rat emoji from the campaign group, Palestine Lobby, on Monday.

Apologising for the post, Lineker said: “On Instagram I reposted material which I have since learned contained offensive references. I very much regret these references.

“I would never knowingly share anything antisemitic. It goes against everything I believe in.” The Match of the Day presenter said he deleted the post “as soon as I became aware of the issue”.

The former England striker has since deleted the post but has been the subject of a backlash from staff and others on social media. As outlined by The Telegraph, the BBC’s response – or lack of – to Lineker’s actions has left some members of staff far from happy.

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One anonymous staff member condemned Lineker and claimed his actions have ‘brought the organisation into disrepute’.

“It is quite simply disgusting that the BBC has not kicked Lineker out,” they said. “His repeated offensiveness to Jewish people has clearly brought the BBC into disrepute. The interpretation of Zionism he has shared is anti-Semitic and the fact that the BBC thinks it’s acceptable is deeply upsetting to its Jewish staff, myself included.”

Another source argued that the BBC had missed the “perfect opportunity” to get rid of Lineker when he was suspended for comments about the previous Government. They added: “He’s the perfect example of someone who doesn’t think the rules apply to them and abuses them at every turn – the type highlighted in the culture review, published no more than a fortnight ago.”

A spokesperson for Lineker told the publication: “Whilst viewing and reposting a video, Gary did not notice a rodent emoticon added by the author of the post,” he added. “Although if he had, he would not have made any connection. The repost has been removed.”

The Campaign Against Antisemitism group called for the BBC to sack Lineker following his decision to share the post. “Nothing to see here,” they wrote on X. “Just Gary Lineker’s Instagram account sharing an anti-Israel video misrepresenting Zionism, complete with a rat emoji.

“Not only does this video deliberately misrepresent Zionism – the belief that Jews have the same right to self-determination as everyone else – but it adds a rat emoji in doing so. Why is it that Gary Lineker keeps sharing content on social media that seems to cater to Jew-haters?”

“The BBC’s reputation is held by everyone and when someone makes a mistake, it costs us. And I think we absolutely need people to be the exemplars of BBC values and follow our social media policies, simple as that,” Davie said.

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Lineker is poised to stand down from his long running role as host of Match of the Day at the end of the 2024/25 campaign. He is, however, contracted to remain with the BBC until next year to front their coverage of both the FA Cup and the World Cup.

Tom Cruise’s film crew on his latest “Mission: Impossible” epic feared the actor was about to die after he appeared to pass out on the wing of a stunt plane over Africa.

The 62-year-old, who does his own stunts and was flying the biplane alone, was laid out flat on the wing after spending 22 minutes out of the cockpit — 10 more than safety guidelines allowed, his director Christopher McQuarrie told a masterclass at the Cannes film festival, where “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is premiering Wednesday.

“When you leave the cockpit of the plane, it’s like stepping onto the surface of another planet,” McQuarrie said.

“The wind is hitting you in excess of 140 miles an hour (225 kph) coming off the propeller. You’re breathing, but only physically. You’re not actually getting oxygen.

“Tom had pushed himself to the point that he was so physically exhausted, he couldn’t get back up off the wing. He was laying on the wing of the plane, his arms were hanging over the front of the wing. We could not tell if he was conscious or not,” said the American filmmaker, who has shot the four last movies of the franchise.

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Cruise, a trained acrobatics pilot, was alone on the biplane and had agreed a hand signal to show if he was in trouble, McQuarrie said.

“You can’t do this when you’re unconscious,” the director told an audience at Cannes, with Cruise sitting beside him nodding sheepishly.

To make matter worse, the plane had only six minutes of fuel left. But the star finally stirred.

“We watched Tom as he pulled himself up and stuck his head in the cockpit so that he could replenish the oxygen in his body and then climb up into the cockpit and bring the plane safely down to land.

“No one on Earth can do that but Tom Cruise,” he said to rapturous applause.

Asked about how he dealt with the fear, Cruise pointed to the years of preparation that went into his movies. But in the end, “I like the feeling. It’s just an emotion for me. It’s something that is not paralysing.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s exciting’… I don’t mind kind of encountering the unknown.”

It was far from the only scare the pair had on the $400 million epic, the eighth in the franchise known for its dizzying set pieces and heart-stopping action scenes.

 ‘No way to test that thing’

With fans fearing that the “The Final Reckoning” title meant it might be the last in the series, McQuarrie said the plane scene was not the only one that could have ended everything.

One of the new movie’s most dramatic moments involves Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt diving inside a sunk Russian nuclear submarine in the Bering Sea.

McQuarrie said it took two and a half years to build the set in London.

“Remember that when you’re watching Tom inside this semi-submerged rotating room inside the submarine, that is housed inside a 60-foot diameter, 1,000-ton, 360-degree rotating, fully submersible steel gimbal in a 8.5-million-litre tanker. And he’s inside it,” he said.

“And what you’re watching is us testing it. Because there is no way to test that thing.

“We built a model, and we put a little plastic figure and a bunch of torpedoes in it, and rotated it once, and they smashed the little plastic figure.”

Neither Cruise nor McQuarrie would confirm or deny if the new movie was the final “Mission: Impossible”, with Cruise calling it the “culmination of three decades of work”.

The film is being released in India, Australia and South Korea this weekend, with audiences in Europe and the Middle East having to wait until May 21 and those in North America until May 23.