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Number One on the Call Sheet review – a spectacular tribute to black excellence in Hollywood

Jaw-droppingly star-studded and stuffed with incredible stories, this series is a joy to watch. Just wait till you hear the one about James Brown burying bags of cash in the woods …

Nepo babies should do what they want. Except complain to the rest of us

After years of this discussion my patience is wearing thin

Twiggy review – Sadie Frost’s breezy telling of sunny fashion star’s landmark career

Frost’s documentary follows the working-class Londoner taking bad luck in her stride as she progresses from fashion to film stardom and back again

Oscars fashion winners … the silver age of Hollywood, with a splash of pink and yellow

The red carpet is a tightrope walk, but Mikey Madison and Timothée Chalamet made sure-footed choices – while many mature attendees showed younger performers the way

‘You name it, I did it’: Sheila Hancock on comedy, age and anxiety

You might think Dame Sheila Hancock would be taking life a little easy – no chance. She talks about her working-class roots, being lucky in love, the frustration of being passed over for serious roles – and why she’s fed up with feeling anxious

‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

Brooke Shields, sexualised child star at just 11, is no stranger to tabloid controversy. Now 59, perhaps now she can tell us how she ended up so… normal?

Zendaya and Tom Holland might be engaged – and of course people are being normal about it

Zendaya appeared on the Golden Globes red carpet wearing a diamond the size of a Quality Street chocolate. Cue internet hysteria

‘Friends keep me tethered’: actor Joe Alwyn on fame, dating Taylor Swift and keeping his feet on the ground

Joe Alwyn has had an astonishing rise. After his breakthrough with Ang Lee, he wowed in Conversations with Friends and now stars in The Brutalist. Throw in his ex, Taylor Swift, and you have a redhot A-lister ready to go

The Baldoni-Lively legal battle has depressing echoes of Depp v Heard

The It Ends With US wrangling is becoming increasingly nasty – we live in a world where the powerful can ‘bury’ their enemies

Olivia Hussey, star of 1968 Romeo and Juliet film, dies aged 73

Golden Globe-winning actor ‘lived a life fu

Justin Baldoni award rescinded amid Blake Lively harassment allegations

Award in ‘advocating on behalf of women and girls’ revoked after suit filed by Lively accusing him of sexual harassment

Blake Lively accuses It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment

According to complaint, Baldoni retaliated after crisis meeting attending by Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds

Rebel Wilson to appeal after US court rejects bid to have defamation case thrown out

The Los Angeles superior court rejected the actor’s claim that she couldn’t be sued by the producers of her film The Deb

Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque

Historic England to recognise home where Hollywood legend said he spent ‘happiest days’ of his childhood

Is Jim from The Office really the sexiest man in the world?

According to People magazine, the actor John Krasinski is the “sexiest man alive”. The internet is furious

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