A ROUND-UP OF NEWS REPORTS
BEYONCE AND BLUE IVY CARTER
Mother and daughter star in The Lion King prequel
Beyoncé’s 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter is to make her acting debut, starring alongside her mother in Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, , a prequel to the 2019 live-action musical drama.
Blue Ivy joins the voice cast as lion cub Kiara, the daughter of Queen Nala, who is played once more by Beyoncé. Donald Glover also returns as Kiara’s father King Simba.
Speaking about the mother-and-daughterr pairing, director Barry Jenkins said Beyoncé was always “mom first”. Watching her “both on the screen and behind the screen, get to be a mother – and how that affected and impacted for the better the work that we were all doing – was just really awesome”, he added.
The film is due for release in December.
KATE MOSS
Model agency hits more than £4m in profits
Kate Moss’s modelling agency is £4.3m in the black after signing up stars including the supermodel’s own daughter Lila and singer Rita Ora.
Kate, 50, set up the company in 2016 to oversee her own career and nurture rising talent. By 2022, net assets totalled £3.5m and have continued to rise, with earnings totalling £831,000 for the year ending 31 July 2023.
Speaking about how she guides her daughter, Kate said: “She has the right people around her – I’ve made sure of that. And let’s face it, she’s a lot more sensible than I was back then.”
As well as Lila and Rita, the Kate Moss Agency also has Rolling Stones star Keith Richard’s granddaughter Ella and artist, skateboarder and model Blondey McCoy on its books.
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Leads the British nominations at Tony Awards
Eddie Redmayne is up for what would be his second Tony Award, nominated for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as the Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.
He joins a fellow star from the Harry Potter world: Daniel Radcliffe, who has earnt his first nomination – for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical – for his role as Charley in Merrily We Roll Along.
Other nominees include Alicia Keys’s semiautobiographical musical Hell’s Kitchen,, which received 13 nods, along with the 1970s-set music drama Stereophonic;; Rachel McAdams for her leading role in the drama Mary Jane;; and Succession’s Jeremy Strong, who is nominated for Best Actor for his critically acclaimed role in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.
SHIRLEY BALLAS
Shares all-clear result after tests for breast cancer
Strictly Come Dancing star Shirley Ballas has told fans she has received the all-clear after a cancer scare.
Shirley, 63, had undergone biopsies after having a routine mammogram, but in a post on Instagram, she wrote: “Thank you to you all for your well wishes following my two mammograms,
