Ben Affleck is setting the record straight on whom he blames for his past drinking issues, stating in a new interview, “To be clear, my behavior is my responsibility entirely.” The “Argo” director, 50, told the Hollywood Reporter Thursday that he has become “very guarded” after telling Howard Stern in 2021 that he would still be drinking if he’d stayed married to Jennifer Garner — because he feels his comments were misconstrued.

Jessica Alba is recalling a time when she had to develop a "tough" persona to feel protected in Hollywood. On the newest episode of Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?, the 41-year-old actress and entrepreneur addressed the host's question about whether "the degree to which you were objectified as a sex symbol" was something that "bothered" her as a young star.

David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer who has worked for Google and Microsoft. He also teaches the history of computation at the New Centre for Research & Practice in Seattle, US. His new book is Meganets: How Digital Forms Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities. He argues that widespread concern about artificial intelligence is legitimate, but the problem is already all around us, with huge tech networks that no one – neither governments nor their owners – is able to control.

William Shatner kicks things off with a compliment. We’re talking via Zoom — he’s beaming in from the sprawling kitchen of his Los Angeles home, which overlooks the San Fernando Valley. I’m dialing in from the living room of my walkup apartment in Brooklyn, a much more modest setting. But Shatner is impressed by the over-stocked bookcase behind me, as well as the paintings, a seascape and an impressionist pastoral scene that I inherited from my grandmother, that line the wall around it.

JK Rowling has said she was bullied off a Harry Potter forum by fans who had no idea who she really was. The author of the wizarding franchise entered a chatroom at the turn of the millenium anonymously while she was writing the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Scientists have concluded that renowned poet Pablo Neruda, a member of the Chilean communist party, might have had a toxic bacterium in his system when he died. The finding is the latest in a decades-long investigation into the exact cause of Neruda’s death on 23 September 1973. Although the poet had advanced prostate cancer when he died, some have said that the timing of his passing — 12 days after general Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government that Neruda supported — was no coincidence.

Ben Affleck has a life that many of us would kill for. He is rich. He is handsome. He has reached the peak of his career behind the camera (winning two Oscars as a writer and director) and in front of it (the guy was literally Batman). He has been romantically involved with some of the most beautiful women on the planet, and is currently married to Jennifer Lopez. Whichever way you look at it, everything about Affleck’s life is wildly aspirational in almost every single way.

NBC Universal has canceled Jay Leno's reality television series after seven seasons, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Speaking with unnamed sources from within CNBC, The Hollywood Reporter says the cancellation of Jay Leno's Garage comes amid a "larger schedule shift" within the channel that will see primetime slots filled with reruns of more popular reality shows like Shark Tank and Undercover Boss, plus original business documentaries sprinkled in.

Brendan Fraser is best known for his physical performances in popular comedies like The Mummy and George of The Jungle, but in a recent interview, The Whale star broke down the effect his early car…

Skrillex marked his 35th birthday on Monday by posting a vulnerable series of tweets about the difficulties he’s faced in the past few years. “Had the toughest year of my life in ’22, as did so many others. I literally found myself with no drive and purpose for the first time in my life,” he began.

Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the lunar surface, and his partner Anca Faur were over-the-moon excited to tie the knot. In a small private ceremony in Los Angeles, the two became husband and wife on Friday, which also marked Aldrin's 93rd birthday. In a Twitter post, Aldrin said he and his partner were "as excited as eloping teenagers" on the special day.

It’s almost impossible for any wrestler-turned-actor to avoid comparisons to Dwayne Johnson. After all, the wrestler formally known as The Rock is currently one of the biggest A-list actors in Hollywood. For Dave Bautista, however, leaving wrestling behind and starting an acting career was never an attempt to become the next Dwayne Johnson.

In an interview airing this Sunday on 60 Minutes, Prince Harry says he was "incredibly naïve" about how the British press would treat his relationship with his now-wife Meghan Markle. Harry also noted the relationship has given him a new awareness.

Actor Noah Schnapp, known for his role as Will Byers in the popular Netflix series "Stranger Things," has publicly announced that he is gay. In a recent TikTok video, Schnapp expressed that he had been afraid to come out for 18 years before finally receiving support from his friends and family. Schnapp's character Will has also been confirmed to be gay, with Schnapp stating that Will's sexuality was hinted at in earlier seasons of the show and is now "100% clear." The announcement comes as the show prepares for its fifth and final season.

The man who holds the world record for the longest career at the same company (for the second time!) suggests finding a good employer, working in a field that interests you, and focusing on the present. Walter Orthmann’s experience allows him to speak authoritatively about the subject. He has spent the last 84 years working for ReneauxView, a textile company (and counting). In January, Guinness World Records confirmed that the record he is breaking is his own. For the first time, Orthomann has been recognized for his 80 years of service to the company.

No matter what shows up under Ayda Zugay's tree this year, she says no present will ever compare to the gift she got in 1999 on one of the scariest days of her life. Civil war was raging in Yugoslavia and bombs were closing in on her family, who lived in Belgrade — then part of the former Balkan country, now Serbia. So Zugay's parents put their 11-year-old daughter and her sister on a plane to the U.S. by themselves.

The satirist Victor Lewis-Smith, who compiled the Funny Old World column in Private Eye for almost 30 years has died after a short illness. He was 65. Mark Borkowski, the publicist and Lewis-Smith’s agent who announced the news of his death in Bruges at the weekend, tweeted: “I am in deep shock … Struggling to come to terms with the loss of a unique and irreplaceable talent.”

My Dad died a year ago today, 5 December. My earliest memory is sitting on his shoulders watching a Guy Fawkes bonfire on one of several visits to the UK as a child. An electrical engineer by trade, he worked on some of the early mainframes before moving to New Zealand to marry my mum. He loved teaching my brother, cousins, grandchildren and I about anything scientific, the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump and stories of building a canon and blowing a hole in the neighbours garage – but refusing to let my brother and I make anything similar!

Cats are often left out of university-based animal assisted interventions aimed at reducing stress, but new research shows many people, especially those with strong and highly reactive emotions, want and would benefit from feline interactions.

After Anthony Bourdain took his own life in a French hotel room in 2018, his close friends, family and the people who for decades had helped him become an international TV star closed ranks against the swarm of media inquiries and stayed largely silent, especially about his final days.