Chilling video shows search for rocker’s fiancée after fall from ship

Chilling footage has surfaced of the desperate search that took place after the fiancée of Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe fell from a cruise ship and died.

Kimberly Burch, 56, fell to her death ‘from a room balcony’ on the first night of The 80s Cruise on the Royal Caribbean ship, Explorer of the Seas on March 2 – after an alleged ‘heated’ argument with the rocker, 60.

In a haunting video taken by one of the passengers, a member of the crew could be heard announcing that the incident had occurred.

A man’s voice rang out over a loudspeaker: ‘We do actually have a person overboard, and just to advise you, the captain has turned the ship around and we are actively seeking for the person who was reported to go overboard.’

The announcement continued: ‘We are following all of our visual protocols and we will keep you updated with the progress.’

A small boat could then be seen darting over the waves in the dark, manned by two people mounting a last-ditch effort to find Burch, in footage obtained by TMZ.

Chilling footage has surfaced of the desperate search that took place for Kimberly Burch, pictured with her fiancé, Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe

A Royal Caribbean Group spokesman confirmed to DailyMail.com: ‘Our crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort, is working with local authorities, and we are providing support and assistance to the guest’s family during this difficult time.

‘To respect the privacy of our guest’s family, we have no additional details to share.’

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Realtor Kimberly had traveled on the seven day cruise to support Taime, who was performing with the punk band. The cruise departed from Miami and was set to visit Nassau, San Juan, and Labadee.

She had been in a relationship with Downe, 60, for around six years. Her body has not been recovered.

Hours before her death she posed up with Downe on the ship and wrote: ‘We made it to @the80scruise.’

Kimberly’s mother Carnell Burch told TMZ Taime had called her on Monday to reveal Kimberly had died and that it is ‘still unclear’ whether her daughter jumped or accidentally fell from the ship, although she is ‘confident Kimberly would not purposefully hurt herself.’

Kimberly was drinking on the cruise, Carnell said, which was ‘out of character for her’ and Carnell claimed her daughter had had an argument with Taime before her death.

Carnell added her daughter was not suffering from depression or emotional issues at the time and was excited for the trip, which was in its first day and featured musical acts including Squeeze, Adam Ant, Tiffany and Men at Work.

Burch and Downe are pictured hours before her death Sunday

Downe, 60, is the lead vocalist of the iconic 80s metal band – pictured 2013 with Xristian Simon, Danny Nordahl, and Ace Von Johnson

Burch, 56, fell to her death shortly after an alleged heated argument with the rocker, 60, during The 80s Cruise on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Explorer of the Seas (pictured) on March 2

Kimberly is said to have gone overboard on the first day of the cruise around 11pm PST – with a guest claiming on X she had ‘jumped from the balcony of her 8th floor room’ 80 miles from Miami.

They wrote: ‘Currently on the #RCL Explorer of the Seas for the #80scruise. Unfortunately, we have a “woman overboard’ situation and boats have been deployed. We are currently 80+ miles from Miami at 11pm PST. Not good.

‘It looks like the woman “jumped” from the balcony of her 8th floor room after an argument with her partner. This is our 15th cruise, and the first time we’ve actually experienced this.

‘Clearly, the priority is recovering the woman. And the boat has turned around and is at a dead stop. They have deployed boats for the search. Could be a long night….

Another guest wrote: ‘Person overboard on Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas. On the 80s Cruise. Just saw a great show by Squeeze, then it was announced a person is overboard. Ship is stopped and searching. Other nearby ships helping.

Kimberly is said to have gone overboard on the first day of the cruise around 11pm PST – with a guest claiming on X she had ‘jumped from the balcony of her 8th floor room’ 80 miles from Miami

A room and balcony on Explorer of the Seas is pictured

Kimberly is pictured with Taime and his mother in Seattle 2023

Kimberly is pictured in an Instagram post from 2022

Guests aboard the ship posted messages about the search on X

Kimberly and Taime had been together for around ‘five or six years’

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A US Coast Guard spokesperson said the incident happened roughly 20 miles from Freeport, Bahamas.

The Coast Guard deployed a helicopter crew and other personnel to assist the Royal Bahamas Defense Force in their search – which was later suspended.

Kimberly and Taime had been together for around ‘five or six years.’

A passenger also told THR: ‘There was an announcement over the PA saying someone went overboard so the ship was going to stop and turn around to try and locate the person.

‘[The] ship was stopped for a few hours. Safety boats were deployed with floodlights to illuminate the surrounding area. Another cruise ship nearby had its floodlights on searching as well. My wife spoke with some people on one of the decks saying they heard that it was a woman and it was caught on camera. Can’t confirm though.

‘Eventually the ship powered up and off we went. This morning a PA announcement said that the US Coast Guard had taken over the search. We arrived at Nassau, Bahamas a few hours behind schedule. No excursions were canceled. Haven’t heard anything since.’

Kimberly was drinking on the cruise, Carnell said, which was ‘out of character for her’

DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Taime Downe, The 80s Cruise and Royal Caribbean for comment.

Glam metal band Faster Pussycat formed in 1985 comprised of Downe, guitarists Greg Steele and Brent Muscat and bassist Kelly Nickels.

They forged a successful career over the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling over two million records worldwide

They have released four albums, Faster Pussycat (1987), Wake Me When It’s Over (1989), Whipped! (1992) and The Power and the Glory Hole (2006).

They broke up in 1993, but reformed in 2001.

Former drummer Brett Bradshaw died on March 26, 2021, at age 50.

What is Mickey 17 about? Everything you need to know about Robert Pattinson’s new movie – Daily Star

Robert Pattinson is set to grace the big screen once again in a sci-fi flick set on an alien planet. In Mickey 17, the heartthrob plays a disposable worker who is repeatedly sent on lethal missions and cloned each time he perishes.

The upcoming film is the brainchild of Bong Joon-ho, who made waves at the 2020 Academy Awards with his acclaimed film Parasite. This satirical drama made history as the first non-English-language film to bag the Best Picture award at the Oscars.

Now, the South Korean director has taken a leap into the cosmos. Here’s all you need to know about Mickey 17, including its release date, the dark comedy’s storyline, and its star-studded cast.

Based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey 7, the movie revolves around a mission to colonise an icy planet named Niflheim. Its main character, Mickey Barnes (portrayed by Pattinson), joins the expedition to evade a menacing loan shark threatening his life on Earth, reports the Mirror.

He signs up to be an ‘expendable,’ tasked with undertaking deadly missions for research purposes. Each time he dies, Mickey is cloned using controversial technology that’s been outlawed on Earth.

The dark comedy zeroes in on the 17th and 18th versions of Mickey, who are ‘printed’ four years into the journey.

Mickey 17 hits UK cinemas this Friday, 7th March.

The film runs for two hours and 17 minutes and will be exclusively shown in cinemas.

Pattinson, fresh from his latest blockbuster role as Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, takes on the character of Mickey Barnes. The leading man tackles the task of portraying two versions of Mickey, each with their own unique personalities and accents.

He shares the screen with Naomi Ackie, known for her role in Zoe Kravitz’s 2024 thriller Blink Twice. Ackie plays Nasha Barridge, a security agent aboard the ship and Mickey’s romantic interest.

Steven Yeun, formerly of The Walking Dead, stars as Timo, a pilot on the mission and a friend of Mickey’s from Earth.

Meanwhile, Hollywood big hitters Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette step into the shoes of fascist politician Kenneth Marshall and his wife Ylfa.

‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Could Use Another Reboot

In the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) teases best friends Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) about their tendency to indulge in nostalgia for the pre-gentrification days of Hell’s Kitchen. “Not nostalgia,” Foggy insists. “Reverence for the past, yet hope for the future.”

It’s an apt choice to begin the series, which sees Cox, Woll, Henson, and others reprising their roles from the mid-2010s Netflix Daredevil series, where Matt split his time between his legal practice with Foggy and his extracurricular work as the red-clad vigilante. The Netflix show is considered by many comics fans to be the high point of the first wave of Marvel Comics TV adaptations from that decade, which for the most part have been treated by current Marvel management as if they never happened. Marvel nerds may not feel nostalgia for some of the other shows of that phase, like Iron Fist or Helstrom, but there was audible excitement in theaters when Cox cameo-ed as Matt in Spider-Man: No Way Home, along with a hope for a future where the better parts of that era don’t have to be snapped out of existence, Thanos-style.

Born Again, though, feels caught between past and future — in its relationship to the Netflix show, in the tug of war between two different creative teams, and in the larger picture of Marvel Television. It has some exciting moments, and strong performances from Cox and several other Netflix alums, including Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin of crime, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. But as a whole, it’s a Frankenstein monster of a season, with various parts stitched together in ungainly fashion.

It is, in other words, the inevitable end product of a filmmaking approach that has gradually proven untenable, even if it has roots in the comic book publishing origins of characters like Daredevil and Kingpin.

Because Stan Lee was working on so many different Marvel Comics titles at the same time in the early Sixties that birthed Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and so many more iconic characters, he simply didn’t have time to write full scripts for them the way comic book scribes usually did at the start of the process. Instead, he would hand artistic collaborators like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby the broadest of outlines and invite them to plot out each issue as they drew them. Then, once they gave him back the illustrated pages, Lee would come up with dialogue and captions to match — or, at times, would use those elements to change the artists’ intention to something he preferred. It was an unpredictable, at times combustible approach that contributed as much to the energy of those classic Marvel Comics as the ideas that Lee, Kirby, and the others were throwing into them. Though Lee didn’t invent this particular workflow, he made it famous, eventually dubbing it “the Marvel Method.”

The Marvel Method endured for many years after Lee stopped actively co-writing most of Marvel’s line, and is still used on occasion today. For the most part, though, the comics business realized at some point that it was usually better — and almost always easier — for the writer to have the whole story planned out before the artist began drawing it.

Kevin Feige, who for nearly two decades has played the role of Stan Lee in Marvel’s ascension to the dominant force in modern filmmaking, gradually came up with his own version of Lee’s approach. Let’s call it “the Marvel Cinematic Universe Method.” In this Method, writers and directors are assigned to individual films or shows, but rarely are they empowered the way they might be in a traditional studio ecosystem. Like Stan Lee looking at what Jack Kirby or Don Heck drew, and only then deciding what the story was definitively about, Feige likes to figure out projects once they get into post-production, often requiring reshoots to help shape the preexisting footage into the shape Feige and the other MCU execs eventually settle on.

While that unconventional technique worked like gangbusters from the first Iron Man film through Avengers: Endgame, it’s proved less effective in recent films. And the MCU Method is even more antithetical to the way television has been made, with a single producer — usually a show’s creator and chief writer — getting to call the shots. Since Feige took over Marvel’s TV operation, starting with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision, it’s been more of an assembly line process: writers turn in scripts, then step away while directors shoot the episodes, and they in turn yield to Feige and his team as they decide what they want the show to actually be, in theme and tone. Some of the Marvel series made for Disney+, like WandaVision and, more recently, Agatha All Along, have done exciting work within this broad structure(*). But as later series — and even follow-ups to once-promising shows like Loki — have disappointed, it’s been hard to look at Feige’s TV output without thinking that the MCU Method was an attempt to fix a way of making TV that wasn’t all that broken.

(*) Just as the most distinctive films made under the MCU Method have had directors like James Gunn and Taika Waititi with stronger authorial voices, the stronger MCU shows have often been ones like WandaVision, where the writer and director continued to collaborate even after their respective parts of the job were theoretically finished.

Which brings us to Daredevil: Born Again. Both Matt and Fisk have already had soft relaunches: Matt in his civilian identity in No Way Home, and in a more brightly-colored costume (and mood to match) in a few episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law; Fisk as the literal heavy in both Hawkeye and Echo. There was some ambiguity as to whether they were meant to be the exact same versions of Daredevil and Kingpin the actors had played on Netflix. And even when Born Again was first written by Chris Ord and Matt Corman, no one at Marvel had decided for sure if this was a continuation of the Netflix show(*), or a multiversal variant of sorts.

(*) The third Netflix season already adapted the bulk of the actual “Born Again” arc from the comics, where Fisk discovered Daredevil’s secret identity, and used that knowledge to destroy Matt’s life.

But Marvel halted production in the summer of 2023, replaced Ord and Corman with Dario Scardapane — an alum of Netflix’s Daredevil spinoff, The Punisher — and announced that, actually, their executives now understood that having a showrunner was, in fact, a good idea.

But because the majority of the nine-episode first season had already been filmed — Scardapane has said that only the first, eighth, and ninth episodes were made entirely by his team — Born Again turns out to not be an ideal test of what an MCU series made by an old-fashioned showrunner will look like. It keeps lurching back and forth between its competing creative visions, with Scardapane having to work around the story ideas and new characters he inherited from his predecessors.

Among the reported reasons Ord and Corman were ousted was that Matt didn’t appear in costume until the season’s fourth episode. Scardapane seems to have learned that lesson, as the show now begins with an elaborate battle between Daredevil and his lethal rival Bullseye (Wilson Bethel). The Netflix show’s greatest strength was its lavishly choreographed fight scenes, and at least once per season, viewers would be treated to a brawl presented as a oner (aka looking like it was shot in a single take), like Matt trapped in a prison riot. This Daredevil/Bullseye clash is also a oner, though it’s simultaneously more ambitious and less intense than previous fights: the camera keeps panning away from the two combatants, which shows the collateral damage being left in their wake, but which also gives the stuntmen, and the audience, periodic breathers from the mayhem.

Between the prolonged fight and a chance to watch Matt, Karen, and Foggy banter again, Born Again very much feels like old times for a while. But Woll and Henson are written out after the first episode. And ironically, the various subplots Scardapane added to Ord and Corman’s story — most of them, like tension between Fisk and his wife Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer), designed to more definitively link the old show to the new one — now means that we don’t see Matt in costume again until the sixth episode.

There’s still action before we get there, because Matt Murdock ultimately can’t help himself from beating up bad people, even when he’s trudging through a frustratingly long Refusing the Call arc. The season’s midpoint is a largely standalone story where an uncostumed Matt has to help a supporting character from another MCU show(*) foil a bank robbery. It’s the kind of self-contained hour that so many of these Marvel shows — both in the Netflix era and the Disney+ one — have desperately needed to do, but have rarely attempted(**). And it’s nimble and fun in a way that much of Born Again struggles to be while juggling a bunch of arcs of varying degrees of interest.

(*) This is a TV-MA show, with graphic language and often grisly violence. So the occasional crossovers with, or even references to, the more all-ages shows elsewhere on Disney+, creates some tonal dissonance. (And parents of fans of those shows should be warned that this one is decidedly not for kids.)

(**) Imagine how much the pacing problems on Jessica Jones or Luke Cage (or, for that matter, Daredevil) would have been eased simply by devoting a few episodes at the start of each season to our heroes working cases that had nothing to do with the latest big bads.

There is, for instance, a lengthy stretch where Born Again just wants to be a legal drama set in a superhero universe, where Matt’s new criminal defense client, Hector Ayala (Kamar de los Reyes), turns out to be obscure Marvel vigilante White Tiger. This is mostly leftover material from Ord and Corman’s tenure, but as combined with the new stuff, it’s not an especially good legal drama. Various developments in the case are raced through; when Matt pulls an unconventional courtroom stunt, the prosecutor threatens to respond with rhetorical guns a-blazin’ and… it just never happens.

Meanwhile, Matt has a new legal partner, Kirsten McDuffie (Nikki M. James), and a new romantic partner, in therapist/author Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva). Plus he has retired cop Cherry (Clark Johnson) working as his investigator and keeping him apprised of Fisk’s latest shenanigans. Each actor has their moments working alongside Cox (Johnson especially), but all three characters are awfully thin, and whenever someone from the Netflix run returns — like an emotionally charged argument between Matt and Punisher star Jon Bernthal as lethal vigilante Frank Castle — it makes the newbies feel like placeholders.

The weakest of the Netflix seasons was its second, where D’Onofrio was largely absent while Fisk was stuck behind bars. So it’s not surprising that the most effective story of the new season involves Fisk running for mayor of New York. The echoes of our current political situation are unmistakable — half of the city can’t believe the other half would even consider voting for this guy, Fisk has no interest in following norms or laws if they don’t serve his agenda or tantrums — but D’Onofrio has made Fisk such a fascinatingly self-pitying creation(*) that it nonetheless feels specific to him. (The political campaign also features one of the more effective new cast additions in Michael Gandolfini as Daniel, a Fisk fanboy who keeps rising in his political organization because the Kingpin values loyalty above all else.)

(*) Have someone love you as much as Wilson Fisk loves to begin autobiographical monologues with a wistful, “When I was a boy…”

When Fisk is staring down Matt, when Matt and Frank are angrily debating vigilante philosophy, or when Matt reluctantly gets back into action, Born Again evokes the better parts of the original Netflix run. But it’s hard to find any big picture MCU takeaways from this product of two competing visions. Let’s wait and see them put out a season of television made with a single showrunner the entire time. And if they want to be sure to sprinkle in multiple Superhero Mission of the Week episodes, so much the better.

The first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again are now streaming on Disney+, with additional episodes releasing weekly. I’ve seen all nine.

‘Bachelorette’ and ‘Traitors’ star Gabby Windey marries girlfriend…

“Bachelorette” star Gabby Windey married comedian Robby Hoffman during a secret Las Vegas ceremony earlier this year.

The couple, who began dating in the summer of 2023, announced the big news on Instagram Wednesday.

“Husband and wife!! 1/11/2025 🥂💍,” the reality TV star, 34, captioned a carousel of photos from the big day.

Windey walked down the aisle to Chappell Roan’s “Hot To Go” — resulting in a fun dance break before the two said “I do.”

The “Traitors” star wore a high-neck, long-sleeve lace gown for the 20-minute ceremony, which was officiated by “a disengaged minister in red sneakers,” per Cosmopolitan.

Windey told the outlet that she and Hoffman, 35, decided to elope during the Los Angeles wildfires.

“We had just evacuated from the fires. Literally cue Rihanna, ‘We found love in a hopeless place,’” she joked.

“What better time to get married than right now? Because if the world is ending, we want to be with each other.”

Amid the chaos of the fires, the couple couldn’t find a place to stay in LA, so they headed to Vegas, where they were put up in a “penthouse suite.”

“It looked like a wedding suite,” Hoffman said. “Gabby turned to me and she went, ‘Should we get married?’”

The writer joked that she had “been proposing” to Windey “since the day [she] met her” — and she finally said yes.

“Robby was literally ready to propose three weeks in and I’m always the one pumping the breaks, but when something feels right, it just feels right,” Windey explained. “I think it was better for the both of us that it was my idea. She kept checking in like, “Are you serious?”

While they were originally “just going to show up to a chapel,” Windey told Hoffman she wanted an actual proposal before they made things official.

However, Hoffman “already had a plan” involving their much-loved New York Times Games.

“We do the New York Times crossword, Wordle, and Connections every morning together over a cup of coffee,” Windey explained. “That’s our thing.”

Hoffman “had a friend make a crossword” and made sure “the clues and the answers” spelled out “WILL YOU MARRY ME, GABBY.”

“In the morning, we went to do the crossword, but it wasn’t the New York Times,” Windey recalled. “Robby was like, ‘Oh, I have a streak with The Atlantic,’ and I said, ‘Okay, whatever.’ Nothing was clicking.”

The first clue was “a document signed when someone dies,” which Windey guessed could be a “deed” before Hoffman suggested a “will.”

As they continued, Windey noticed that “the downs didn’t make sense,” and Hoffman “had to just say it” before they finished the last word, which was “Gabby.”

“We were side by side in bed, and she was like, ‘Will you marry me, Gabby?’” Windey told the outlet, flashing her Cartier ring.

The two quickly got to planning. Hoffman was tasked with finding the chapel and Windey went dress shopping at a department store.

“The first dress I saw on the mannequin was off-white lace, and I was like, ‘This is gonna be it,’” the reality TV star said. “It was the only one they had in stock. It was a little tight and made my butt look huge, but it was perfect.”

“Everything just fell into place so naturally. It felt so serendipitous and so precious and so meant to be.”

Windey explained that she and Hoffman both come from “atypical, non-totally-nuclear families,” so it “felt right” having such an intimate ceremony just the two of them.

Hoffman said the “perfect” day only cost them $799, including the “limousine,” the “photos,” the “minister” and “wedding package.”

“It was the best wedding I’ve ever been to,” the comedian said. “We got to spend our wedding truly together. We love to be together.”

After the nuptials, the pair were cleared to head back to LA. Despite the destruction, their house miraculously “survived.”

“We were returning married to whatever the state of the neighborhood was,” Hoffman said. “We got so lucky. We really didn’t know how our house would turn out. All we knew was we had each other and felt home in each other.”

Rockstar’s Fiancée Falls Overboard on Cruise Ship Following Argument: What We Know About Kimberly Burch’s Death

Burch accompanied Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe on the ’80s-themed cruise.

Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe’s fiancée, Kimberly Burch, is presumed dead after reportedly falling overboard on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Burch, 56, was reportedly aboard the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas’ The ’80s Cruise, a decade-themed trip the glam-metal band was booked to play during, when she fell “from a room balcony” on the first night of the seven-day trip, her mother, Carnell Burch, confirmed to TMZ.

“It is with broken hearts that we share the sad news that Kimberly Burch has passed away,” Burch’s family announced on Facebook Tuesday. “She was a beloved daughter, sister, sister-in-law and aunt. She will be greatly missed by all that knew and loved her. We ask for prayers during this time for our family as we try to wrap our minds around this heartbreaking tragedy. We love and miss you Kimberly Burch!!”

Burch boarded the cruise ship on Sunday in Miami with Downe, whose band Faster Pussycat had been booked as one of the cruise’s musical guests alongside Squeeze, Adam Ant, Christopher Cross, and Men at Work. The cruise was set to travel to Nassau, San Juan, and Labadee. However, at around 11 p.m. Monday, as Squeeze was playing, “there was an announcement over the PA saying someone went overboard so the ship was going to stop and turn around to try and locate the person,” one passenger, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Hollywood Reporter. The ship was reportedly stopped for “a few hours” before it returned to its voyage. The incident occurred approximately 20 miles away from Freeport, Bahamas.

Carnell learned of the incident Monday when Downe called her. She said her daughter went overboard following an argument with the rocker. At this time, it remains unclear whether Burch jumped or accidentally fell from the ship, though her mother said she is “confident Kimberly would not purposefully hurt herself.” Carnell explained her daughter had reportedly been drinking on the cruise, which was “out of character for her.” She added that Burch didn’t have any emotional issues that she was aware of at the time and was excited for the trip, even posting about it on social media Sunday.

In a statement shared with TMZ, a Royal Caribbean spokesperson confirmed that a passenger went overboard Monday, telling the outlet, “Our crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort, is working with local authorities, and we are providing support and assistance to the guest’s family during this difficult time. To respect the privacy of our guest’s family, we have no additional details to share.”

The Coast Guard deployed a helicopter crew and other personnel to assist the Royal Bahamas Defense Force in their search, which was later halted, TMZ reported. Burch’s body has not been recovered at this time. The cruise is scheduled to return to Miami on March 9.

Burch, a realtor, had been dating Downe for more than five years. Downe is best known as a founding member of Faster Pussycat, the hard rock band he formed in 1985 with guitarists Greg Steele and Brent Muscat and bassist Kelly Nickels. The band has released a total of four albums and is known for songs like “Babylon,” “Bathroom Wall” “House of Pain” and “Nonstop to Nowhere.”

Coldplay to assist with World Cup halftime show, FIFA president Gianni Infantino reveals

Gianni Infantino has enlisted the help of Coldplay to help put together the first-ever World Cup final halftime show.

FIFA, world football’s governing body, announced in September that the showpiece event in 2026 — the final game of the tournament held in the United States, Canada and Mexico — will include a halftime show for the first time.

The NFL’s Super Bowl has became famous for having some of the world’s biggest music artists perform with Kendrick Lamar headlining the most recent in February in New Orleans.

The final in 2026 will take place at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey with Infantino revealing that Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin and the band’s manager Phil Harvey will help to finalise the “list of artists” who will perform.

“I can confirm the first ever half-time show at a FIFA World Cup final in New York New Jersey, in association with Global Citizen,” the FIFA president wrote on Instagram. “This will be a historic moment for the FIFA World Cup and a show befitting the biggest sporting event in the world.

“We also spoke about how FIFA will takeover Times Square for the final weekend of the FIFA World Cup in 2026, during both the bronze final match and final.

“These will be two incredible matches, featuring some of the best players in the world, and what better way to celebrate them than in the historic Times Square in New York City.

“My thanks of course to Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans and his incredible team, for helping us put together these amazing shows. I also want to thank Chris Martin and Phil Harvey of Coldplay, who will be working with us at FIFA to finalise the list of artists who will perform during the half time show, as well as at Times Square.”

No more details have yet been released about what the halftime show will entail including how long it will be.

Super Bowl halftime shows regularly see an intermission of more than 30 minutes while the performance area is built and then taken down on the playing field.

Shakira’s show at halftime of the 2024 Copa America final saw the mid-game break extended to 25 minutes.

Popular How I Met Your Mother Star Joins Cast Of Dexter: Resurrection In Mysterious Role

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A How I Met Your Mother star has officially joined the cast of Showtime’s highly anticipated Dexter: Resurrection as a guest star. The new Dexter series, set to debut this summer on Paramount+ with Showtime, began production in January in New York. It will see Michael C. Hall reprising his iconic role as Dexter Morgan, the beloved serial killer with a code.

Dexter: Resurrection boasts an impressive ensemble cast, including Uma Thurman as Charley, David Zayas returning as Detective Angel Batista, Jack Alcott as Dexter’s son Harrison Morgan, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as Blessing Kamara, Kadia Saraf as Detective Claudette Wallace, Dominic Fumusa as Detective Melvin Oliva, Emilia Suárez as Elsa Rivera, James Remar as Dexter’s father Harry Morgan, and Peter Dinklage as Leon Prater. Krysten Ritter has also been announced as a guest star. However, Jennifer Carpenter won’t be returning as Debra Morgan in the upcoming Dexter sequel series.

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A star of stage and screen for decades now, Neil Patrick Harris is best known for his iconic role as Barney Stinson on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother and for portraying the mischievous Count Olaf in Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. He first rose to fame at just 16 years old, playing the title character in Doogie Howser, M.D. More recently, Harris has appeared in notable television projects such as Uncoupled, Doctor Who, and How I Met Your Father. While details about his role remain under wraps, Neil Patrick Harris’ character’s name has been confirmed. According to Variety, he will play a character named Lowell in the upcoming Dexter series.

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The Dexter franchise began in 2006 and starred Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who led a double life as a vigilante serial killer. The series aired until 2013 and received widespread acclaim, garnering numerous awards, including Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. The new sequel series is executive produced by Dexter veteran Clyde Phillips, who also returns as showrunner. Hall himself is an executive producer, alongside Scott Reynolds, Tony Hernandez, and Lilly Burns. Marcos Siega will serve as the producing director, with Monica Raymund set to direct four episodes and Siega helming six. The series is produced by Showtime Studios and Counterpart Studios and will be distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Dexter: Resurrection is one of several spinoffs expanding the Dexter universe. It is distinct from Dexter: Original Sin, a prequel series that focused on a young Dexter, played by Patrick Gibson, during his early transition into a serial killer. Michael C. Hall lent his voice to that series as Dexter’s inner monologue. The franchise also released Dexter: New Blood, which ran from November 2021 to January 2022.

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Dexter

Crime

Mystery

Drama

Release Date 2006 – 2012

Network Showtime, CBS

Showrunner Clyde Phillips

Directors Clyde Phillips

Writers Jeff Lindsay, Scott Buck, Scott Reynolds, Tim Schlattmann, Karen Campbell, Melissa Rosenberg, Kevin Maynard, Wendy West, Manny Coto, Daniel Cerone, Jace Richdale, Drew Z. Greenberg, Chip Johannessen, Adam Fierro, Jim Leonard

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David Zayas

Michael C. Hall

Lauren Velez

C. S. Lee

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Another Original Scream Character (Who Appeared To Be Dead) Is Confirmed To Return In Scream 7

A Scream 7 Fan Theory Could Have Figured Out The Reason For Stu’s Return

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David Arquette returns as Dewey Riley in Scream 7, joining a star-studded ensemble of returning and new faces. Kevin Williamson, original Scream screenwriter, makes directorial debut in Scream 7, set to release on February 27, 2026. Familiar faces Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega will not return in Scream 7, due to issues ranging from scheduling conflicts to controversial social media posts.

David Arquette is officially returning to the Scream franchise as the beloved Dewey Riley in Scream 7, despite his character’s brutal death in the 2022 film Scream. Arquette will be joining a star-studded ensemble that includes returning veterans Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown.

The new film will also introduce fresh faces to the Scream universe, with Mckenna Grace, Celeste O’Connor, Joel McHale, Asa Germann, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Mark Consuelos, and Ethan Embry all set to appear. In a significant move for the franchise, Kevin Williamson, the original Scream screenwriter, will make his directorial debut with Scream 7, slated to hit theaters on February 27, 2026. However, not all familiar faces will be back. Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, who led the franchise’s reboot, are not returning for the seventh installment. Barrera was dismissed from the project last year following controversial social media posts about Israel, while Ortega’s scheduling conflicts with Netflix’s Wednesday series made her unavailable.

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David Arquette’s Dewey was last seen being viciously stabbed by Ghostface, later revealed as Amber Freeman, played by Mikey Madison. However, in a franchise known for its twists and surprises, Dewey’s miraculous return isn’t the only one fans can expect. Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard are also set to revive their now-deceased characters in the highly anticipated sequel from Spyglass and Paramount Pictures.

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Courteney Cox, who plays Gale Weathers, previously expressed her desire to see Dewey back in action, stating, “I understand the reasons they did it, but whoa! Talk about a missed character. Dewey is so loved by Scream fans. They have to figure it out.” It appears the filmmakers have done just that, much to the delight of fans. Mason Gooding also teased what fans can expect from the new film, telling Variety earlier this year, “It feels like an amplification of what’s come before, and there’s no better indication of that than Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original, coming back now to direct. I think that Ghostface is absolutely the most brutal he’s been. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there’s some stuff that they do to the human body that I feel like Kevin is breaking new ground with.”

On the other hand, Patrick Dempsey, who played Detective Mark Kincaid in previous films, also confirmed he will not be returning for Scream 7. Dempsey cited logistical challenges and the impact of the recent fires in his statement to Variety, saying, “It just didn’t work out and we were dealing with the fires and everything that was going on.”

Scream 7

Mystery

Horror

Thriller

Release Date February 27, 2026

Director Kevin Williamson

Writers Kevin Williamson, Guy Busick, James Vanderbilt

Producers Cathy Konrad, Gary Barber, Marianne Maddalena, Peter Oillataguerre, William Sherak, Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Ron Lynch

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Neve Campbell

Sidney Prescott

Courteney Cox

Gale Weathers

Mason Gooding

Chad Meeks-Martin

Jasmin Savoy Brown

Mindy Meeks-Martin

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Succession creator to make directing debut with film about billionaires

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong will make his directing debut with a film about billionaires.

The upcoming release with US actors including The Office star Steve Carell, Rushmore actor Jason Schwartzman, Gotham actor Cory Michael Smith, and Poor Things star Ramy Youssef will be written, directed, and executive produced by Armstrong.

British writer and producer Armstrong said: “I’m intrigued to discover whether being around so many brilliant actors and directors on Succession has in any way rubbed off on me. Let’s hope so.

“I’m grateful to (HBO’s chief executive) Casey Bloys, (head of drama) Francesca Orsi and the whole HBO team for backing this film so wholeheartedly and helping me pull together a dream team of cast and crew.”

The movie is teased to be about “a group of billionaire friends” who get “together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis”.

Carell will play Randall, Schwartzman will portray Hugo Van Yalk, Smith will play Venis, while Youssef is taking on the role of Jeff.

Descriptions of the characters have yet to be released, along with the movie’s title.

Executive producers also include those who have worked on Succession such as Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Mark Mylod and Will Tracy as well as Lucy Prebble, also known for I Hate Suzie.

Succession was brought to an end in 2023 after four series of Scottish actor Brian Cox playing foul-mouthed global media tycoon and family patriarch Logan Roy opposite Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong, Academy Award winner Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Alan Ruck as his children.

It scooped 19 Emmys including outstanding drama series and nine Golden Globes during its run, along with drawing large audiences and being critically well received.

Armstrong is also an Oscar nominee for co-writing The Thick Of It spin-off film In The Loop with Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche, and has won TV Baftas for his work on Peep Show and Succession.

Production on the new film begins in March in Park City, Utah, and Sky said it will debut in Spring.

How Millie Bobby Brown shot down cruel critics of her red carpet look

IT was a striking new look that left many of her fans the world over wondering what was going on.

Strutting down the carpet at The Electric State premiere in LA last week was a very different Millie Bobby Brown from the gap-toothed youngster who shot to fame as Eleven in hit drama Stranger Things.

Some American fans waspishly suggested the 21-year-old Brit had aged prematurely and had transformed into a “soccer mom”.

“Had to double-check if she turned 21 or 40,” sniped one person on X.

Others cruelly wondered if Millie, who sported newly dyed blonde hair and a figure-hugging £8,000 gown, had had surgery.

Comedian Matt Lucas likened her second outfit of the evening — a pink jacket with slippers and hoop earrings — to his Little Britain character Vicky Pollard, retweeting a picture of Millie with Vicky’s famous catchphrase, “No but yeah but”.

Yesterday, however, Millie blasted back at her detractors, including Matt.

In a post on Instagram, she fumed: “Disillusioned people can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman on her terms, not theirs.

“I refuse to apologise for growing up. I refuse to make myself smaller to fit the unrealistic expectations of people who can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman.

“I will not be shamed for how I look, how I dress, or how I present myself.”

She also let rip at people leaping on Matt’s catty remark, claiming by doing so they were “amplifying an insult rather than questioning why a grown man is mocking a young woman’s appearance”.

In her long Instagram video, which has since been liked by more than two million people, Millie hit out at critics for suggesting she should be “frozen in time”.

She seethed: “I think it’s necessary to speak up about this. I started in this industry when I was ten years old.

“I grew up in front of the world, and for some reason people can’t seem to grow with me.

“Instead, they act like I’m supposed to stay frozen in time, like I should still look the way I did on Stranger Things season one. And because I don’t, I’m now a target.

“We have become a society where it’s so much easier to criticise than it is to pay a compliment.

“Why is the knee-jerk reaction to say something horrible rather than to say something nice?

“If you have a problem with that, I have to wonder, ‘What is it that actually makes you so uncomfortable?’.

“Let’s do better. Not just for me, but for every young girl who deserves to grow up without fear of being torn apart for simply existing.”

Embarrassed Matt — no stranger to remarks about his own appearance — was quick to apologise, taking to his own Instagram page to say sorry for any hurt caused.

After an attempt to explain the significance of his catchphrase quote, he added: “I thought you looked terrific.

“I would not have posted it if I had thought it would have upset you, but I realise it has and for that I apologise.”

Millie’s post quickly attracted support from some of the world’s biggest stars.

British singer Pixie Lott replied: “You are a true class act and I hate that you or any young woman in the spotlight has to deal with this.

“So utterly ridiculous this happens — you are always beyond beautiful inside and out and a million things that should be celebrated and never torn down xxx. What a crazy world, Love u Millie.”

Millie is having something of a moment as she blossoms into a fully fledged member of Hollywood’s A-list.

The Electric State, the sci-fi comedy drama she was promoting when the row erupted, sees her in the lead role alongside Chris Pratt. Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci also star in the Netflix movie, which will be released on the streamer in the UK on March 14.

Over her time on Stranger Things, her pay has rocketed from around £8,000 per episode for season one in 2016 to around £10million all in for the fifth and final season, due out this year.

She is already reported to be worth £11million, having also starred in two instalments of the Enola Holmes films, in 2020 and 2022, where she plays the teenage sister of Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes.

She also landed a role in Godzilla: King Of The Monsters in 2019 and starred in Netflix film Damsel last year.

This is not the first time Millie has come under fire for her appearance.

After being bizarrely accused of looking like a 65-year-old as she promoted Enola Holmes, she used Instagram to blast back: “Women grow!! Not sorry about it!”

Rumours have swirled that she has had everything from a nose job and lip fillers to veneers and even a boob job.

One plastic surgeon, Dr Paul Branwell, suggested last week: “Her cheekbones appear higher and her lips appear fuller, which could be the result of filler.” She has never addressed the claims.

A lot has changed since Millie — who presented Sabrina Carpenter with the Global Success Award at the Brit Awards on the weekend — made her acting debut.

As well as revamping her image in recent months, she is also now married. In May last year, The Sun revealed how she and Jake Bongiovi, who is the son of US rocker Jon Bon Jovi, had secretly tied the knot.

The couple wed in a low-key ceremony in America in front of close friends and family.

Jake’s dad defended their decision to get married young and said they reminded him of when he and his wife Dorothea married in 1989, having met as teenagers.

Jon previously said of Millie: “I’ve gotten to know her in the last year, she works really hard and she and Jake will grow together in their own way.

“It is an accelerated version of what I went through 40 years ago and I think, with the support of family around them, they’re going to be great together.”

Millie’s dramatic new look comes after she openly spoke about wanting to play one-time pop princess Britney Spears in the singer’s upcoming biopic.

Like Millie, Britney was also a child star who grew up in front of the world’s media.

The singer also faced a backlash after sexing up her image as she moved into adulthood.

Millie told The Drew Barrymore Show: “I think her story resonates with me, growing up in the public eye.”

They have both had their battles to face, but as her Instagram pushback shows, if anyone can cope with the struggle, Millie can.