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Rod Stewart to Play Legends Slot at Glastonbury Next Year

Rod Stewart performs on stage during his One Last Time concert at Royal Arena Copenhagen, Denmark June 9, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/Torben Christensen via Reuters)
Rod Stewart performs on stage during his One Last Time concert at Royal Arena Copenhagen, Denmark June 9, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/Torben Christensen via Reuters)
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Rod Stewart to Play Legends Slot at Glastonbury Next Year

Rod Stewart performs on stage during his One Last Time concert at Royal Arena Copenhagen, Denmark June 9, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/Torben Christensen via Reuters)
Rod Stewart performs on stage during his One Last Time concert at Royal Arena Copenhagen, Denmark June 9, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/Torben Christensen via Reuters)

Rocker Rod Stewart will play the legends slot at Glastonbury 2025, the first act confirmed for next year's edition of the British music festival.

His Sunday afternoon performance will be the 79-year-old singer's first at Worthy Farm in southwest England since he last took to the festival's Pyramid stage in 2002.

"I’m proud, ready and more than able to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June," Stewart said in a statement.

One of the biggest selling artists of all time, Stewart follows the likes of Lionel Richie, Diana Ross and Shania Twain last year to play the legends slot.

Stewart has a spate of European and North American tour dates scheduled for next year but earlier this month, he announced he planned to stop performing "large-scale world tours".

"But I have no desire to retire. I love what I do, and I do what I love. I’m fit, have a full head of hair, and can run 100 meters in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79," Stewart wrote in an Instagram post.

Stewart, known for 1970s hits "Maggie May", "Sailing" and "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", released his latest album "Swing Fever", a collaboration with pianist Jools Holland, earlier this year. The record topped the UK albums chart.

The Glastonbury festival was started by dairy farmer Michael Eavis in 1970 and over the decades has become a sprawling and often muddy five-day event in June, with some of the biggest names in music performing for tens of thousands of revelers.

Next year's edition will take place from June 25-29.

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Australian Katie Perry Wins Trademark Spat Against Singer Katy Perry

Katy Perry. (AFP)
Katy Perry. (AFP)
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Australian Katie Perry Wins Trademark Spat Against Singer Katy Perry

Katy Perry. (AFP)
Katy Perry. (AFP)

Australian designer Katie Perry has won the right to sell clothes under her name, claiming victory Wednesday in a years-long trademark spat with US pop megastar Katy Perry.

Designer Katie Perry accused her far more famous namesake of trademark infringement, arguing she had claimed the "Katie Perry" brand before the singer became a global sensation.

But songstress Katy Perry said her music had already gone "viral" as the designer started selling clothes around 2008 and sought to have the Australian trademark scrubbed out.

An Australian court agreed with the singer, ruling in 2024 the clothing trademark should be cancelled.

But Australia's High Court has now ruled in favor of the local designer on appeal, finding there was unlikely to be any risk of "confusion" between the two.

A representative for the singer told AFP that despite the legal action she "has never sought to close down" the Australian business.

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Oscar Nominee Chalamet Woos Chinese Fans Days Before Best Actor Bid

French-American actor Timothee Chalamet (L) and American film director Josh Safdie pose upon arrival on the red carpet for screening of their film “Marty Supreme” in Beijing on March 10, 2026. (AFP)
French-American actor Timothee Chalamet (L) and American film director Josh Safdie pose upon arrival on the red carpet for screening of their film “Marty Supreme” in Beijing on March 10, 2026. (AFP)
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Oscar Nominee Chalamet Woos Chinese Fans Days Before Best Actor Bid

French-American actor Timothee Chalamet (L) and American film director Josh Safdie pose upon arrival on the red carpet for screening of their film “Marty Supreme” in Beijing on March 10, 2026. (AFP)
French-American actor Timothee Chalamet (L) and American film director Josh Safdie pose upon arrival on the red carpet for screening of their film “Marty Supreme” in Beijing on March 10, 2026. (AFP)

Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet answered to "sweet tea" and praised a table tennis champion as he wooed Chinese fans on Tuesday in Beijing, days before the Academy Awards.

The 30-year-old actor is in Asia promoting Best Picture hopeful "Marty Supreme", in which he plays a 1950s table tennis champion consumed by grand ambitions.

Loosely based on a true story, and benefiting from the Franco-American actor's unique viral campaign, the A24 film directed by Josh Safdie ("Uncut Gems") has become an unlikely global hit.

At an indoor red carpet event, Chalamet delighted fans by calling China's table tennis world no. 1 Sun Yingsha "an amazing player" after earlier purchasing a poster of the reigning world champion from a local shop.

The sport -- which Chalamet spent several years mastering in preparation for the film -- is hugely popular in China.

Dozens of fans squeezed past each other for autographs and selfies with the three-time Best Actor nominee, known affectionally as "tiancha", which means sweet tea.

The rare visit to China by a prominent American actor comes as Hollywood looks to cash in on the country's box office.

China recorded 51.8 billion yuan ($7.5 billion) in ticket sales last year, challenging North America's box office of $8.6 billion.

"I feel like the movie could be as well received here as it was in the States, you know. Hopefully," Chalamet told reporters at the carpet -- colored the same shade of orange the actor has sported across his "Marty Supreme" press tour.

Chalamet also visited Japan and the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu where he was filmed playing table tennis with silver-haired locals.

His Asia tour also comes as he has angered fans over viral comments suggesting "no one cares" about ballet or opera.

"Marty Supreme" officially opens in Chinese cinemas on March 20.

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Bridgerton Star Insists Queen Charlotte Really Was Black

Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte and Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury. (Netflix)
Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte and Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury. (Netflix)
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Bridgerton Star Insists Queen Charlotte Really Was Black

Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte and Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury. (Netflix)
Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte and Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury. (Netflix)

A Bridgerton star has reignited the controversy over whether George III's wife Queen Charlotte, who is depicted in the Regency-era drama, was black in real life.

Adjoa Andoh said of the royal, played by fellow black actress Golda Rosheuvel, “Queen Charlotte wasn't fictionalized as a woman of color, she was a woman of color. You just have to do your historical research, according to The Daily Mail.

The actress – who in 2023 said the Buckingham Palace line-up after King Charles’ coronation was “terribly white” – said the Netflix series gave viewers “a more realistic version of history.”

The lineage of the German-born Charlotte can be traced and there is one relative of Moorish ancestry, 500 years before she lived.

One fan said: “The chances of me having black ancestry are way bigger than that and I'm not a woman of color.”

“History is full of really interesting actual women of color, so it's time we start making TV shows about them and stop giving credit where there's no credit due,” he added.

Bridgerton is a historical drama and romance series produced by Netflix and set in Regency-era London (1810s).

The series, inspired by Julia Quinn's novels, explores love stories and social intrigue. It has been officially renewed through season 6. The fourth season, focusing on Benedict’s love story, is now streaming on Netflix.