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  •   Home > News >  Subscribe to NZCity's Entertainment articles  Entertainment
    Brigitte Bardot, iconic French actor, sex symbol and animal rights campaigner, dies aged 91
     29 December 2025
    The French actor and singer was a screen siren of the 1950s and 1960s who in later life became a prominent animal rights campaigner.
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    King Charles' Christmas speech will be available in virtual reality
    28 Dec: The 77-year-old monarch's annual Christmas Day (25.12.25) address is set for another technological advancement as viewers with the Meta Quest 3 VR headset can watch the broadcast whilst sitting in a luxury wooden lodge or in full cinematic style.... more
    Lily Allen has been "shopping like an insane person" following the success of her album West End Girl
    28 Dec: The 40-year-old singer explained that she is in therapy for her spending addiction after splashing the cash on lavish items since the release of her critically acclaimed record - which addressed the end of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour - in October.... more
    Sean Ono Lennon fears that younger generations could forget about The Beatles
    28 Dec: The 50-year-old musician - the son of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono - explained that he has "technically" taken over as the guardian of his late father's legacy and admits that he is concerned about the Fab Four fading from memory.... more
    Chris Rea shared a poignant social media post in the hours before his death
    28 Dec: The Driving Home for Christmas singer passed away at the age of 74 on Monday (22.12.25) but uploaded a final Instagram post that referred to his 1986 festive track.... more
    Emma Heming Willis admits that Christmas has "changed" since her husband Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia
    28 Dec: The Die Hard actor, 70, was diagnosed with the illness in 2023 and his wife explained that the festive season is challenging because he loved being at the "centre" of the celebrations in the past.... more
    Modern Family star Helen Siff has died at the age of 88
    28 Dec: The actress - who enjoyed a prolific career in film and TV spanning five decades - passed away last Thursday (18.12.25) in Los Angeles as a result of complications from surgery for a "long, painful illness", her family announced.... more
    Mandy Patinkin "didn't sleep at all" after Rob Reiner's murder and "just kept wailing and crying" all night long
    28 Dec: The Homeland actor, 73, worked with the director on his 1987 fantasy film The Princess Bride and he was left devastated after hearing Reiner and his wife Michele had been found dead at their home in Los Angeles on December 14.... more
    Robbie Williams was "despised" by "pretentious bullies" in the music industry
    28 Dec: The former Take That singer, 51, opened up about the "hedonism" he experienced after he quit the band and he's revealed some stars of the Britpop movement hated him after he was pictured hanging out with Oasis at Glastonbury Festival in 1995 - insisting some fellow musicians looked at him like was a "walking fart".... more
    Peter Andre wants to live until he's 120
    28 Dec: The 52-year-old singer - who has children Junior, 20, and 18-year-old Princess with ex-wife Katie Price and Amelia, 11, Theo, nine, and 20-month-old Arabella with spouse Emily - hopes science is able to find a way to "slow down" the ageing process or to find "a cure" for the health issues that come with getting older.... more

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