Robbie Williams is considering wearing one of his wife’s bras on stage – as he has “wobbly” man boobs.

The 48-year-old singer admitted it’s getting harder for him to look “sexy” on stage because of his jiggly chest, as he modelled one of Ayda Field’s new bras from her line.

During an Instagram Live, he said: “There is a lot more oestrogen around these parts than there used to be but with this I feel like I am held in place.

“I do really like it. They can wobble about when I jump up and down and I’m trying to be sexy but how sexy can you be when your breasts are going up and down… for a man.

“I might have to wear it on stage. It is really holding my back in place too. Lads, don’t be ashamed to wear a support bra for all your daily needs.”

Robbie’s man boobs woes come after the former Take That star revealed he could wear a wig on tour to battle his hair loss.

The ‘Rock DJ’ hitmaker had a hair transplant and follicle growth injections, but they didn’t help him with his thinning thatch, and so he is considering other options.

Speaking on Australian radio recently, he said: “There are these great wigs that you can get now.

“You have to shave all your hair off and then you have it placed on with glue and it sticks on for a couple of weeks.

“I might actually do it just for touring.”

The ‘Angels’ hitmaker had a hair transplant in 2013, before a second one was ruled out two years ago.

In March, he revealed: “My hair is sort of mullet-y now. When I’m on stage and I’m giving it the big-gun, I’m looking at them like I still think I’m 27.

“And then I turn behind me and see a 40 foot version of me with three necks and there’s a light shining on the top of my head that makes it look like a baby’s a***. I start to get slightly neurotic.”

Robbie’s proposed hair transplant in 2020 was scrapped because his hair is too thin for it to work.

He previously said: “I am losing my hair. When a light shines on top of it, it becomes like a baby’s bum.

“I went to go and have a thatch, but the guys goes, ‘Bad news, your hair is so thin we cannot harvest it from there. It will do nothing.'”

Robbie was left gutted after forking out for “two vials” to help his hair grow back, but “nothing happened”.

He added: “So I had these injections. They were an absolute fortune, two vials of this stuff. It cost the same price as my grandma’s house.

“And they put these vials in and said in five months, your hair will grow back much thicker. Nothing has happened.

“We are now seven months in and nothing has happened. You cannot tell.”

Bill Gates wants to “wait and see” how Elon Musk handles Twitter.

The Microsoft co-founder – who doesn’t see eye to eye with the Tesla chief – has reflected on the news he has had a bid to buy the social media platform accepted by the board.

Asked what he thinks of the deal, he told the BBC: “You know, Elon, I guess it’s possible Twitter could be worse. But it also could be better… So I have a wait and see attitude.”

Last week, Musk accused Gates of “shorting” Telsa stock – which is a way of making money through betting that a firm with lose value – and argued it undermines Gates’ environmental charity work.

However, asked whether or not he had bet against Tesla, the 66-year-old businessman fired back: “That has nothing to do with climate change. I have ways of diversifying.

“The popularity of electric cars will lead to more competition for selling those cars.

“So there’s a difference between electric cars being adopted, and companies becoming infinitely valuable.”

Earlier this week, multi-billionaire Musk – who has bought Twitter for a whopping $44 billion (£33.3 billion) – insisted he wants to make the platform a better place.

Regarding his goals of making the site a platform for free speech, he said: “[It] would be to make Twitter as inclusive as possible, and to have as broad a swath of the country and the rest of the world on Twitter, and that they find it interesting and entertaining and funny, and that it makes their life better.”

Ariana DeBose will present this year’s Tony Awards.

The ‘West Side Story’ actress – who has starred in a host of Broadway productions including ‘Hamilton’, ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ and ‘Bring It On: The Musical’ – is “honoured” to be “coming home” to her stage roots by anchoring the annual event, which honours excellence in the world of theatre.

She said in a statement: “I’m coming home! I’m so honoured to celebrate 75 years of excellence in theatre, but more importantly every member of this community who poured themselves into making sure the lights of Broadway have the opportunity to shine brightly once again!

“This is a dream come true. I’m excited to see you all.”

The 2022 Tony Awards will broadcast live on CBS and Paramount+ from New York’s Radio City Music Hall on 12 June.

Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry will announce this year’s nominees on Monday (09.05.22).

In March, Ariana won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work on ‘West Side Story’ and emotionally reflected on her journey as a queer woman of colour.

She said:Oh my ” word, what is this? Now you see why Anita says I want to be in America because even in this weird world we live in, dreams do come true and that’s really a heartening thing right now…

“Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus, look into her eyes, you see a, openly queer woman on colour, an Afro Latina who found her strength through art and that’s what I believe we’re here to celebrate. To anybody who has questioned your identity or find yourself in grave spaces, I promise you this, there is indeed a place for us.

“Thank you to the Academy and thank you all.”

By Simon Lewis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has determined that Russia has wrongfully detained American basketball player Brittney Griner, a department spokesperson said in a statement.

Russia said it had detained Griner, a seven-time WNBA All-Star player, in February for possession of vape cartridges containing hash oil.

The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Russia detained Griner amid soaring tensions between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but U.S. officials had not previously determined that she was wrongfully detained.

“Brittney has been detained for 75 days and our expectation is that the White House do whatever is necessary to bring her home,” Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, said in a statement.

The WNBA’s regular season is set to tip off on Friday. The league said Tuesday that Griner’s initials and jersey number 42 will be stenciled onto the courts of all 12 teams.

The United States has complained that Russia does not grant regular access to Americans detained there, although consular access to Griner was granted and a consular officer visited her on March 23, the spokesperson said.

“The U.S. government will continue to undertake efforts to provide appropriate support to Ms. Griner,” the statement said. Griner’s case was now being handled by Roger Carstens, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, the spokesperson said.

Asked about Griner and the State Department’s determination, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined to comment to reporters traveling with Biden on Air Force One and referred to U.S. policy in trying to secure detained Americans.

Russia returned another U.S. citizen, former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, last week in a prisoner swap for a Russian pilot convicted of drug smuggling.

Another former marine, Paul Whelan, remains detained in Russia after he was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges in June 2020.

(Reporting by Simon Lewis, additional reporting by Susan Heavey and Amy Tennery; Editing by Howard Goller and Cynthia Osterman)

By Brad Brooks

(Reuters) – The three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre that saw a white mob murder scores of Blacks and raze much of their neighborhood can proceed with a lawsuit seeking reparations for the death and destruction, a judge in Oklahoma ruled on Monday.

Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall rejected motions by the defendants, which include the city of Tulsa, to dismiss the case. The next legal steps were unclear.

The lawsuit seeks financial and other reparations, including a 99-year tax holiday for Tulsa residents who are descendants of victims of the massacre in the north Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood. It is estimated that as many as 300 people, most of them Black, died.

Among the plaintiffs are Lessie Randle, who survived the massacre as a small child, and a descendant of the owner of the Stradford Hotel, at the time of the massacre the largest Black-owned hotel in the U.S. Greenwood was nicknamed the Black Wall Street.

The violence erupted after a white woman told police that a Black man had grabbed her arm in an elevator in a downtown Tulsa commercial building on May 30, 1921, according to an account by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The following day, police arrested the man, whom the Tulsa Tribune reported had tried to assault the woman. Whites surrounded the courthouse, demanding the man be handed over. World War One veterans were among Black men who went to the courthouse to face the mob. A white man tried to disarm a Black veteran and a shot rang out, touching off further violence.

Whites looted and burned buildings and dragged Blacks from their beds and beat them, according to historical accounts. Whites were deputized by authorities and instructed to shoot Blacks.

No one was ever charged in the violence.

Deep economic and health disparities remain between Blacks, who still live for the most part in north Tulsa, and whites.

(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas; Editing by Leslie Adler)

The European Commission has proposed including the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the latest sanctions package, diplomatic sources confirmed to dpa.

Patriarch Kirill, a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has backed his invasion of Ukraine in his religious sermons and blames NATO and the West for the war Putin ordered.

He has also resisted efforts from the Vatican and Pope Francis to mediate in the war or support a ceasefire in the conflict.

Cyndi Lauper’s career will be celebrated in the documentary ‘Let The Canary Sing’.

The feature-length documentary, which is being made in partnership with the ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ singer herself, will explore Cyndi’s time in the music industry and her rise to pop stardom – from finding her voice growing up in working-class New York City to the success of her 1983 debut album ‘She’s So Unusual’.

Sony Music Entertainment is in production on the film, which will be directed by the award-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood. The filmmaker previously helmed ‘The Go-Go’s’ – the acclaimed documentary about the female rock band that won Best Music Film at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

Ellwood said: “Like many people, I assumed when Cyndi Lauper burst onto the music scene in the early ’80s, that she was another young star experiencing a meteoric rise to fame and success thanks to MTV.

“Her music videos were wild and colourful, her songs like ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ were infectious. But as it turns out, her story is one of hard knocks, hard work and dogged determination. Cyndi wanted her voice not just to be listened to, but a voice to be heard.”

Tom Mackay, president of premium content at Sony Music Entertainment, added: “It is a privilege to have the opportunity to work together with Cyndi Lauper to produce her definitive documentary, one that matches her iconic and immeasurable impact on both the music industry and society at large.

“Together with the incomparable Alison Ellwood and her award-winning artistic direction, the film will be a full portrait of this ground-breaking artist and share her unapologetic world with fans.”

By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond

(Reuters) – If the U.S. Supreme Court reverses its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights nationwide, demand for abortion pills, which can be prescribed through online telemedicine visits, will likely rise. Conservative states have already rushed to restrict the practice, and if Roe falls, they will be able to ban it altogether, experts say.

WHAT IS A MEDICATION ABORTION?

In a medication abortion, a patient takes a drug called mifepristone, also known as RU-486, followed by a second drug called misoprostol, to end a pregnancy rather than having a surgical procedure. Over half of abortions in the United States are medication abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy research group.

HOW DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REGULATE MEDICATION ABORTIONS?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in 2000, but until very recently, the FDA mandated that patients get it at a doctor’s office, clinic or hospital. After easing those restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency in December permanently did away with the requirement that it had to be dispensed in person, allowing patients to consult with healthcare providers via telemedicine appointments and receive the pills by mail. That increased access to abortion for patients living in remote areas without providers nearby and women unable to take time off from work or not able to get to clinics for other reasons. The drugs are approved for use through the 10th week of pregnancy.

DO STATES RESTRICT MEDICATION ABORTION?

Medication abortions have become a target of anti-abortion politicians and activists. At least 116 restrictions, including eight measures that ban the practice outright, have been introduced this year, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Thirty-two states allow only physicians to dispense abortion pills, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Six states, including Texas and Missouri, ban any use of telemedicine for medication abortion. Another 21 states do not have blanket bans but require at least one in-person visit, meaning patients cannot simply have a telemedicine appointment and receive the pills by mail, according to the foundation.

WHAT IS THE IMPACT ON MEDICATION ABORTIONS IF ROE V. WADE IS OVERTURNED?

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, conservative states are poised to ban or sharply restrict abortion altogether, including 13 with so-called “trigger laws” that would take effect immediately or soon after the court acts. They would apply to medication abortions. Some trigger laws ban abortions almost completely, while others would outlaw abortion after six weeks or 15 weeks https://tmsnrt.rs/3sbQQEp.

CAN A PATIENT IN A STATE WHERE MEDICAL ABORTION IS ILLEGAL GET THE PILLS FROM AN OUT-OF-STATE PROVIDER WHERE IT IS LEGAL?

That depends. It is illegal for a medical professional to prescribe the pills via a telemedicine appointment to a woman in a state where they are illegal, legal experts say.

“The laws around telemedicine generally say that the location of the patient controls,” said Amanda Allen, senior counsel at the Lawyering Project, an organization that represents abortion providers. Doctors who prescribed abortion pills to a patient in a state where they are illegal could lose their licenses in that state, or even face criminal charges, she said.

A woman who lives in a state where abortion is illegal could travel to a state where it is legal, have a telemedicine visit, and have the medication mailed to an address there.

“In some cases, that’s somewhat less burdensome and costly than to travel all the way to a brick-and-mortar clinic in a neighboring state,” she said, noting that patients who travel to clinics in other states have sometimes faced weeks-long waits for appointments.

ARE THERE CURRENTLY LAWSUITS CHALLENGING STATE RESTRICTIONS ON MEDICAL ABORTION?

Yes. GenBioPro Inc, a company that sells mifepristone, has already challenged Mississippi restrictions on telemedicine by arguing that they are “preempted” by the FDA, meaning that the federal approval of the drug overrides any state law. There has not been a ruling in that case, which is pending in Mississippi federal court.

Similar challenges have succeeded before. In 2014, a Massachusetts federal judge struck down a state law seeking to regulate opioid drugs more stringently than federal law on the grounds that it was preempted.

Those challenges, though, could ultimately end up at the Supreme Court, which is unlikely to strike down the state restrictions.

CAN PATIENTS GET ABORTION PILLS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES?

Yes. Women in states cracking down on telemedicine abortion have increasingly turned to ordering pills online from overseas.

While the practice is not legal, state authorities have said they have no effective way of policing orders from foreign doctors and pharmacies.

(Reporting by Brendan Pierson in New York and Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Lisa Shumaker)

New York (AFP) – Country music icon Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Wednesday even though she did not want the honor, calling herself unworthy of it.

Parton was among an eclectic group of new inductees that include the rapper Eminem, the crooner Harry Belafonte, rocker Pat Benatar, the British band Duran Duran and the pop singer, songwriter and producer Lionel Richie, among others.

Parton, 76 and known for such hits as “Islands in the Stream” and “Jolene” asked last month that her name be withdrawn from consideration.

“Even though I’m extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” she said.

When the hall of fame rejected her rejection, in part because voting was already under way, Parton eventually relented.

The hall of fame said she was much more than a country star.

“With her trailblazing songwriting career, distinctive voice, campy glamour, business savvy and humanitarian work, Dolly Parton is a beloved icon who transcends the genre she transformed forever,” the organization said on its website as it announced the new members.

Country stars are not foreign to the Cleveland-based Hall of Fame — Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers and Chet Atkins are all among its ranks.

Other new inductees announced Wednesday include Carly Simon, the Eurythmics, and Judas Priest.

In an interview last with National Public Radio, Parton said that after first saying no, she would “accept gracefully” if she were inducted to the hall of fame.

She said that it was always her belief that the Cleveland-based organization was for people in rock and roll.

“So I just felt like I would be taking away from someone that maybe deserved it, certainly more than me, because I never considered myself a rock artist,” Parton said. “But obviously, there’s more to it than that.”

Acts can be inducted 25 years after their first commercial music release.

They are voted on by a body of more than 1,000 artists, music historians and industry veterans.

The new honorees will be formally inducted in a ceremony in Los Angeles on November 5.

By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden sharply criticized former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA” movement as extreme on Wednesday while touting his Democratic administration’s efforts to reduce the U.S. deficit, which rose under his Republican predecessor.

In what could be a preview of a midterm campaign speech, Biden took aim at what he dubbed “MAGA” Republicans who he charged with protecting billionaires at the expense of working class Americans while only paying lip-service to budget responsibility.

MAGA is a reference to Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again.”

Biden and his fellow Democrats have come under fire from Republicans for a historic rise in inflation that some critics say stems from overspending in Washington amid the COVID-19 pandemic as well as global supply constraints.

Biden noted on Wednesday that the annual deficit is going down – thanks to increased revenue as the economy emerges from the pandemic and winding down of COVID emergency spending – something that never happened under Trump.

“The bottom line is the deficit went up every year under my predecessor, before the pandemic and during the pandemic. And it’s gone down both years since I’ve been here.”

Biden took aim at Republican U.S. Senator Rick Scott’s economic plan, saying it would raise taxes on 75 million Americans, most of whom make less than $100,000 a year. Scott is leading Republican efforts to get Republicans elected to the Senate.

“Let me tell you about this Ultra-MAGA Agenda. It’s extreme, as most MAGA things are,” he said. “I don’t want to hear Republicans talk about deficits and their Ultra-MAGA Agenda. I want to hear about fairness. I want to hear about decency.”

Scott’s campaign staff did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Republican National Committee said nothing Biden had done reduced the deficit and said his legislative plans, if passed, would only increase it.

The United States has reported budget deficits every year since 2001. Beginning in 2016, increases in spending on Social Security, healthcare and interest on federal debt have outpaced the growth of federal revenue.

In the past few years, the annual deficit has ballooned to around $3 trillion due to pandemic spending and loss of revenue. In 2017, Republicans ushered in a massive tax-cut bill under Trump that by some estimates has added more than $1 trillion to the debt.

“The previous administration increased the deficit every year it was an office in part because of its reckless $2 trillion tax cut. I know you’re tired of hearing me saying that but a $2-trillion tax cut that was not paid for,” Biden said.

Supporters of Trump have noted that the economy under Trump saw historically low unemployment coupled with record highs in the stock market.

Biden noted that the budget deficit fell by more than $350 billion in his first year and is projected to fall by more than $1.5 trillion this year – the largest deficit reduction in a single year on record and a revision up from the $1.3 trillion projected in the president’s budget released earlier this year, according to an administration official.

The Treasury Department also estimates that it will pay down the national debt this quarter for the first time since 2016.

Biden is still seeking a nearly $2-trillion bill to expand the social safety net and tackle climate change, but Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin has effectively blocked it, citing spending concerns.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw;Editing by Nick Zieminski)

Naomi Judd (R) and her daughter Wynonna Judd sit onstage during an Academy of Country Music concert in their honor on April 4, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada

Washington (AFP) – Grammy-winning US musicians The Judds were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in a tear-filled ceremony just one day after the duo’s matriarch Naomi Judd died Saturday at age 76.

Musicians and other attendees mourned the country legend at Sunday night’s ceremony in Nashville, where a red carpet event was cancelled out of respect for the singer and her grieving daughters, singer Wynonna Judd — the other half of The Judds — and actor Ashley Judd.

But the Judds family had requested the induction go on, and country music stars sang the duo’s songs along with those of fellow inductees Ray Charles, Eddie Bayers and Pete Drake.

“I didn’t prepare anything tonight because I knew mom would probably talk the most,” Wynonna, 57, quipped after a hall of fame medallion was draped around her neck.

“My heart’s broken, and I feel so blessed. And it’s a very strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed.”

A tearful sister Ashley told the audience “My mama loved you so much… and I’m sorry that she couldn’t hang on until today.”

Ashley and Wynonna Judd had announced their mother’s death Saturday in a joint statement.

“We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” they wrote. “We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by the public.”

Naomi and Wynonna Judd formed their duo in the late 1970s, although their big break didn’t come until 1983.

Over the course of their career, they had 14 number-one hits and won multiple music awards, including five Grammys.

On Friday, the Country Music Hall of Fame had announced The Judds would join its ranks for helping “take country back to its roots in the 1980s with lean, tuneful songs influenced by traditional folk music, acoustic blues, and family harmony acts.”

Some of the pair’s biggest hits include “Love Can Build A Bridge,” “Mama He’s Crazy” and “Girls’ Night Out.”

The Judds officially disbanded in 1991, when Naomi was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, although they reunited several times for special tours and performances.

Tributes to Naomi Judd poured in from stars including fellow country music icon Loretta Lynn, who said she was “just heartbroken” over the death of “my fellow Kentucky girl, my friend, and an amazing singer.”

Dove Cameron’s Met Gala dress took 600 hours to make.

The 26-year-old singer-and-actress turned heads on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday (02.05.22) evening thanks to her unique white Iris Van Herpen creation, which was inspired by cosmic structures of spiral nebulas and was made from recycled mylar.

Dove loved the way the gown – which incorporated a high neck, structured tassels, boning, and cut out detailing and was reinforced by a delicate laser-cut metal structure – fitted the Gilded Glamour dress code and allowed her to show a lot of skin.

She said: “Just as much as there is of dress, you are also seeing of me. It’s a lot of body.”

“It plays into the theme of ‘Gilded Age’ in the way that it’s incredibly structured, all about shape, but it’s also honouring Iris’s unique vision.”

The Descendants’ star had been a big fan of the designer for some time, and recalled sending an image of Iris’ creation for Grimes at last year’s Met Gala to her publicist.

She wrote: “How does Iris create like this? It’s so otherworldly. It’s so alien.”

In recent years, Dove has shifted her career closer to music, dramatically changed her hair, and come out as queer, and she explained they were all inflection points symbolised in her gown.

She told the New York Times newspaper: “At this moment in time for me, with my music and with this rebirth I’ve been having, Iris, as a creative, and I are very matched.

“I’ve been able to live my life a little more out loud.

“I’ve shed some of my fear, and I’ve kind of created my own little world for myself as a human and as an artist.

“This dress represents that. It’s not hiding anything, it’s very bold, it’s very transformative.”

2022 marked the first time Dove has attended the Met Gala, which had the theme ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion’.

Benedict Wong has blasted homophobic trolls for attacking teenage star Xochitl Gomez.

The ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ actor has defended his co-star – who plays gay superhero America Chavez in the Marvel blockbuster – after backlash over her character, who references her lesbian mothers in the film.

Speaking to Asia One, Gomez said: “It’s a big deal that America is in this movie. It’s just huge. And I’m just so happy that Marvel has stuck to it and kept the scene in there.

“And it’s just pretty crazy that I get to be the one who plays America. Although, yes, my name may be circled within hate and stuff but it’s okay.”

However, Wong jumped into the interview and added: “It’s not okay. It’s not okay. We have to all collectively understand that… She auditioned aged 13 and she joined us aged 14, one of the youngest actors to join the MCU of a film of that magnitude.

“You know, she’s just a young girl playing her role and full praise for that.”

Saudi Arabia’s cinema classification board recently confirmed Disney has refused to remove the scene in which Gomez’s character references her two mothers.

Meanwhile, Wong – who reprises his role as his namesake sorcerer Wong in the film – described online trolls as “cowards”, and praised the movie for “radiating representation”.

He said: “There’s a real level of shame for all those trolls that are cowards not to actually put their face [out there], and they should feel a deep shame of what they’re doing.

“Let’s all just play nice. Let’s all just enjoy what we are representing. It’s sad that fans in that country won’t get to see this.

“But all we are doing is radiating representation, voicing the voiceless. And that’s all that we can do — represent people so that they can be seen.”