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The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’

Exclusive: The recent auction of the star’s belongings included designer outfits and her iconic bowler hats, but a box of assorted pins proved more tempting for one collector

Diane Keaton’s nail clippers for $960: what’s behind the new boom in celebrity estate auctions?

With beloved stars’ personal items increasingly up for grabs after they die, a new generation of fans are bidding on everything from bowler hats to dog bowls

‘The face doesn’t move’: Hollywood’s obsession with cosmetic surgeries has led to stiffer looks – and performances

With procedures like filler and Botox becoming commonplace, audiences are lamenting the smoothed-out, uncanny faces now rampant in major pictures

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s legal trainwreck has taught us this: never go to court. Ever

The alleged conflict between the pair began on a film set and has been disastrous for everyone involved. Apart from the lawyers, naturally, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle lawsuit over acrimonious It Ends With Us production

Settlement details were not revealed in the agreement that put an end to a highly anticipated trial before it began

Timothée Chalamet, Jessie Buckley … who will be the next victim of the internet’s confected outrage?

They’re just the latest stars whose banal pronouncements have triggered a wave of controversy. Surely no one, in their heart of hearts, cares that much, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

‘What the hell do you say?’: elder son of Rob Reiner speaks out on parents’ murders

Jake Reiner calls parents ‘center’ of his life and says brother being at ‘center’ of loss is ‘almost too impossible to process’

Civil lawsuit against Alec Baldwin over 2021 Rust film set shooting to go to trial

Actor accused of acting negligently after firing loaded gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed

Celebrity on celebrity: are we losing the art of the big star interview?

The biggest names in and out of Hollywood are choosing to be interviewed by their peers rather than journalists, leaving many more revealing questions on the table

‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer

BFI and National Portrait Gallery to mark centenary of the film star’s birth with ‘the summer of Marilyn’

Hollywood’s idea of beauty once meant polished and slim, not altered and gaunt. This new look is unsettling

When movie stars are no longer people we aspire to look like, does it spell the end of Hollywood’s cultural power?

‘People feel like they’re in on the joke’: the new wave of pseudo-biopics

It’s not about John Bishop, Anna Wintour or Bill Clinton, but … Screen stories about pop stars, actors, sporting heroes or politicians bend fact by steering close to the deeds, or misdeeds, of real celebrities. What’s behind their rise?

Katherine Short, daughter of actor Martin Short, dies aged 42

Short, a social worker, was found dead at her home in Los Angeles on Monday in an apparent suicide

Bafta judge quits over ‘utterly unforgivable’ handling of Tourette N-word incident

Film-maker Jonte Richardson cites ‘harm inflicted on both the black and disabled communities’, while New Black Film Collective and MP Dawn Butler criticise BBC’s failure to edit

Baftas 2026: One Battle After Another wins best film – as it happened

Shock as Robert Aramayo named best actor for I Swear, and Jessie Buckley less surprisingly wins best actress for Hamnet. Here’s a minute-by-minute rundown of all the glitz, gossip, winners and losers

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