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Rita Ora breaks boundaries, says one job is never enough
Rita Ora told people at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah that she refuses to get boxed into just making music and wants to keep branching out into acting gigs and other projects. The 35-year-old British singer pointed to Madonna, Cher, and Blondie as examples of artists who successfully juggled multiple careers instead of staying in one lane. Ora landed roles in the Fifty Shades franchise and judged on The Masked Singer while maintaining her music thing. She credits her mom, Vera Sahatciu, as her biggest influence and said women should walk into rooms knowing they have power without waiting for permission. The Hot Right Now artist wants to normalize conversations about equal pay and menopause while empowering future...
Drashti Dhami hits the gym hard, mom life, and muscles in motion
Drashti Dhami posted workout clips on Instagram showing her lifting weights and doing strength training after becoming a new mom back in October when she had her daughter, Leela. The Dill Mill Gayye star has been grinding through intense exercise sessions and captioned her post about being back in action. She threw up a belated birthday shoutout to her best friend, Sanaya Irani, with a funny video set to Shakira's Waka Waka track, joking about how diaper changes and zero sleep make keeping up with social media tough. Sanaya fired back in the comments, saying she was also late to her own birthday party and wants the madness to keep going forever. The actress keeps dropping content featuring her baby girl on her feed while balancing new...
Ayushi Khurana’s wedding déjà vu, real and reel vows align again
Ayushi Khurana is living through some weird timeline overlap where her actual wedding anniversary lines up perfectly with her character getting married again on Jaane Anjaane Hum Mile. The actress got hitched last year, and her TV character Reet did the same thing about a week later, and the whole situation is repeating itself as she hits her one-year mark. The show is apparently dropping some massive secrets about Reet, Raghav, and Bua Ji that fans have been waiting for forever. Khurana mentioned shooting these scenes has been pretty emotional since the storyline is finally giving viewers what they wanted. The wedding track is supposed to bring intense drama that changes everything for the characters moving forward on the Zee TV series.
Dipika Kakar’s tearful health scare, love, and song power through the pain
Dipika Kakar told Rashami Desai on her podcast about the moment she thought she might have cancer and completely lost it in a hospital parking lot after handing her crying son, Ruhaan, to her mom. The Sasural Simar Ka actress said she and husband Shoaib Ibrahim decided to get all their tears out right there in the lobby before committing to stay strong through whatever came next. She mentioned her main concern was getting healthy enough to stick around for her kid rather than stressing about losing her hair or gaining weight from treatment. The couple apparently bonded early on by texting each other song lyrics all day back when they were just costars on set. Shoaib shared a pretty funny story about freaking out during turbulence on...
Malti Chahar calls Bigg Boss' bond with Pranit just a cute friendship
Malti Chahar got booted from the Bigg Boss 19 house and immediately had to deal with questions about whether she and finalist Pranit More were catching feelings for each other. She shut that down pretty quickly, saying they bonded over being empathetic weirdos who crack jokes at each other and share random stories. The evicted contestant explained that Pranit took care of her when she felt sick, and she cooked for him when he was dealing with stuff. She admitted his emotional reaction during her exit seemed legit, but said she's not trying to read into what's going on in his head. When asked who should win the whole thing, Malti basically said she doesn't care and that all five finalists are equally deserving since nobody played a...
Shabana Azmi beams with Vikrant Massey, the girl gang keeps the party going
Shabana Azmi posted a photo with Vikrant Massey where he had his hand on her shoulder, and both actors were smiling at the camera. She wore a saree while he showed up in a cream-colored shirt with brown pants and a matching tie. The veteran actress also dropped a clip of her friend group dancing at a party, which featured Divya Dutta, Vidya Balan, Sandhya Mridul, Tanvi Azmi, and Shahana Goswami. She said her crew always makes things fun when they hang out together. This group meets up regularly for celebrations, and they got together during Diwali with even more people joining the party, like Konkona Sen Sharma, Dia Mirza, Richa Chadha, and Ali Fazal. Shabana's husband, Javed Akhtar, tagged along for that one as well.
Kapil Sharma’s duet delight, calls himself the Indian Idol winner
Kapil Sharma sang alongside Shreya Ghoshal on Indian Idol and jokingly crowned himself the winner after their duet of Tum Aa Gaye Ho, Noor Aa Gaya Hai from the 1975 Gulzar film Aandhi. The comedian kept gushing about how singing with her was basically a bucket-list moment that made his whole day. The guy is out here pushing his upcoming flick Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2, which drops in theaters mid-December with a cast that includes Manjot Singh, Tridha Choudhury, and a bunch of other actors. The sequel apparently cranks up the chaos from the first movie by throwing his character into an even messier multi-cultural marriage situation.
Gulshan Devaiah stays real, not chasing the social media hype
Gulshan Devaiah straight up told everyone he doesn't care about the whole follower-count casting trend that's taking over Bollywood right now. The Kantara actor pointed out he's sitting at under 300K followers but still booking gigs left and right, which pretty much proves his point about authentic talent mattering more than Instagram clout. He refused to start chasing viral reels or trending content just to game the algorithm, saying that kind of fake persona shift would kill what makes him appealing in the first place. The guy admitted some influencer-actors are actually decent performers, but he's not buying into the hype that followers automatically convert to ticket sales. His latest project, The Perfect Family with Girija Oak...
Miley Cyrus jokes on ring deal, Black Friday
Miley Cyrus got engaged to Maxx Morando during their trip to Japan, and she joked on Jimmy Kimmel Live that the proposal timing was basically a Black Friday discount since he dodged having to buy a Christmas present. The singer admitted she turns into a total grinch around the holidays because she has this insane aversion to paper that gets worse when everyone's got dry winter hands touching wrapping materials. Cyrus said she makes her fiancé handle all the mail and packages outside their place because she literally can't stand opening envelopes, even when they contain nice letters. She mentioned the only paper that doesn't make her want to hurl is the waxed kind, which she remembers from her last marriage certificate. The whole thing...
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