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| Olympian Tabby Stoecker joins 'Strictly Come Dancing' Season 24 | Olympian Tabby Stoecker is joining the cast of Strictly Come Dancing Season 24. The Olympic gold medal-winning skeleton racer, 25, will appear as a contestant in the new season of the BBC reality competition series. Returning on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this fall, Strictly Come Dancing is a dance competition show that pairs celebrities with professional dancers. Stoecker joins previously announced contestants Lacey Turner, Dani Dyer, Delta Goodrem, Chris Appleton, Cach Mercer, Will Best, Dame Sarah Storey, Jaime Winstone, Bethany Antonia, Shaun Wright-Philipps, Graeme Hall and Laurence Robb. "I am over the moon to be joining the cast of Strictly 2026. |
| 'Obsession' Nikki, 'Terrifier' Art the Clown join Universal Halloween | Universal Studios Hollywood announced the final additions to its 2026 Halloween Horror Nights on Sunday. Halloween Horror Nights runs Sept. 3 through Nov. 1 in Los Angeles. From this summer's horror hit Obsession, Nikki will greet fans in the park. Played by Inde Navarrette in the film, Nikki becomes disturbingly obsessed with a man who wishes for her devoted love. Art the Clown also returns to Universal Studios after last year's Terrifier haunted house. This year, Art will be part of the Terror Train tram tour, featuring music by Ice Nine Kills. Killer Klowns from Outer Space returns to Universal Halloween Horror Nights, and The Purge: Dangerous Waters will perform the stunt show in the Waterworld attraction again. |
| Famous birthdays for Aug. 10: Jacob Latimore, Antonio Banderas | Those born on this day are under the sign of Leo. They include: -- U.S. |
| Gayle Rankin: Alys cares deeply for Aemond in 'House of the Dragon' | GLOW and Perry Mason alum Gayle Rankin says Alys, the mysterious witch she plays on House of the Dragon, has genuine feelings for Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), the erstwhile Iron Throne heir hiding out in her castle. "The painful truth is that Alys Rivers does really care about Aemond," Rankin, 37, told reporters in a recent Zoom round-table interview. "It's hard to know when anyone is performing, especially in this kind of world where everybody needs to get something and everybody is just trying to get what they want," she explained. "What's painful about the relationship for Alys is that I think she does come to truly care for him and I think that's because she knows a lot about what's going to happen. |
| Actor Ben Jones, 'Dukes of Hazzard's' Cooter Davenport, dies at 84 | Actor Ben Jones, who played down-home mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard in the 1980s and later served in Congress, has died from a heart attack, his wife said Sunday. He was 84. Jones, a native of Georgia, died at home from "a massive heart attack" while resting in his favorite chair "waiting for the Braves to come on and whoop the Yankees," wife Alma Viator wrote in a Facebook post. Jones landed the role of the gruff Cooter in 1979 after working with show creator Gy Waldron four years earlier on the movie Moonrunners, which was similarly a comedy about bootleggers in the U.S. South. On Dukes, he played the owner of Cooter's Garage -- a key locale in fictitious Hazzard County, Ga. |