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  •   Home > News >  Subscribe to NZCity's Entertainment articles  Entertainment
    Roger Allers, co-director of The Lion King, dies aged 76
     19 January 2026
    Roger Allers was known for working on various Disney films including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
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    Teddi Mellencamp is "really sick" - months after she revealed her cancer had become "undetectable"
    18 Jan: The 44-year-old TV personality's dad, singer John Mellencamp, shared the "suffering" his daughter is currently experiencing as she continues her battle with stage four melanoma - a serious type of skin cancer.... more
    Ashton Kutcher is "so proud" of his ex-wife Demi Moore in The Substance
    18 Jan: The actor, 47, was married to the actress, 63, from 2005 until 2013 and split over allegations that he had been unfaithful to her.... more
    Lo Bosworth has given birth two weeks early
    18 Jan: The 39-year-old TV personality announced via Instagram on Thursday (15.01.26) that she and her husband, investor, Dom Natale, have welcomed their first child into the world, a baby girl called Nelle.... more
    Chase Infiniti botched Leonardo DiCaprio's beard when she cut it whilst they bonded before shooting One Battle After Another
    18 Jan: The 25-year-old actress failed her grooming task - set by the action-thriller film's director, Paul Thomas Anderson, 55, to see how Leonardo's facial hair would appear - and gave the 51-year-old actor a "crooked" beard because she had "never used an electric shaver" and "didn't know what I was doing".... more
    A shark has been named after Kelly Clarkson
    18 Jan: The singer was delighted when couple, Andrea and Darrell Clulow - who teach youngsters about the importance of the marine beasts through their children's book, Finn and Friends, and an organisation of the same name - said on her show that they adopted one, and named it Kelly Sharkson.... more
    Jennifer Lawrence's marriage is kept "alive" with a compromise to her struggle with timekeeping
    18 Jan: The 35-year-old actress' husband, director Cooke Maroney, 41, gets frustrated when she cannot stick to a schedule, but they have learned that a "15-minute wiggle room" period for Jennifer is essential for managing her attention deficit disorder (ADD)-related struggles with rigid schedules.... more
    Timothee Chalamet got a stern warning from a background actor on Marty Supreme
    18 Jan: The 30-year-old actor tried to frustrate the unnamed extra for a shock incident scene, in which Timothee's character, Marty Mauser, plunged through the floor of his motel room while taking a bath and landed on a gangster's arm and his dog.... more
    A$AP Rocky's mom wanted him to be with Rihanna
    18 Jan: Renee Black encouraged the 37-year-old rapper to split with a girlfriend so that he could strike up a romance with the Diamonds hitmaker - whom Rocky met during rehearsals for a performance at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, but did not start dating her until 2020.... more
    Nikki Glaser got "paid well" to babysit Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann's children
    18 Jan: The 41-year-old actress was given "$35, $40 an hour" by the couple to look after their daughters, Euphoria star Maude Apatow and Sausage Party cast member Iris Apatow, in 2007, when Judd and Leslie were working on their comedy-drama film, Funny People - which came out in 2009.... more

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