The rap superstar is currently gearing up to perform at the major sporting event next month, with Apple Music – who sponsors the show – sharing a teaser on Friday morning.
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In the clip, Kendrick can be heard making a phone call on the pitch about what he’s got planned for his show, before declaring that he’s “been thinking about a guest performer”.
At that moment, SZA runs up behind him and douses him with a bucket of cold water, with Apple Music confirming that she’ll be joining Kendrick during his performance.
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Kendrick and SZA have collaborated numerous times during their respective times in the spotlight, most notably on the Black Panther soundtrack cut All The Stars.
All The Stars wound up earning both Kendrick and SZA their first Oscar nominations.
The two have also worked together on Kendrick’s songs Luther and Gloria, as well as SZA’s SOS deluxe track 30 For 30 and the Ctrl offering Doves In The Wind.
“Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date,” the Grammy winner said in September when he was first announced as the Super Bowl headliner. “And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one.”
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This year’s Super Bowl is due to take place at the Ceasars Superdrome stadium in New Orleans on Sunday 9 February.
Recent Halftime Show performers have included Usher, Rihanna and The Weeknd, while Kendrick was among the stars who took part in a group performance in 2022 celebrating hip hop music alongside the likes of Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Blige.
But, of course, not everyone will be feeling quite so jubilant.
With only a handful of slots to fill, some of the biggest and most-celebrated performances of the past 12 months have gone unchecked by the Academy, with cinephiles on social media already going off about this year’s most notable “snubs”.
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Here are 11 of them…
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig in Queer
Timothée Chalamet, Adrien Brody, Colman Domingo and Ralph Fiennes’ spots in the Best Actor category were pretty much dead certs by the time the Oscar nominations rolled around, leaving a few big names competing for the one remaining spot.
In the end, it’s gone to Sebastian Stan for his performance as Donald Trump in The Apprentice, but there are sure to be a few disappointed Daniel Craig fans.
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The former James Bond actor couldn’t have been further from the roles that have made him most famous in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, in which he plays William Lee (a fictionalised version of the author William S Burroughs), an American writer who embarks on a journey of sexual and substance exploration.
Danielle Deadwyler and Ray Fisher in The Piano Lesson
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American performer Danielle Deadwyler received a wave of acclaim for her performance in the August Wilson adaptation The Piano Lesson.
While the film itself failed to score much awards season buzz, fans had hoped Danielle might scrape through in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role as Berniece, a woman determined to hold onto her late father’s piano when the rest of her family are hoping to sell it.
Considering the original Gladiator was a Best Picture recipient, it might come as a surprise to some to see the sequel pick up just one nomination in 2025, in the Best Costume Design category.
Lead actor Paul Mescal was among those to be singled out for praise when the action-packed epic hit cinemas last year, but it’s Denzel Washington who was really being tipped for awards buzz.
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After scoring a nomination at the Golden Globes last month, however, both the Baftas (who, interestingly, have never nominated Denzel in his entire 40-year screen career) and Oscars have paid him dust, making him one of this year’s most noticeable snubs.
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It’s rare that you’ll find outcry over a snub in the Best Score category – but then again, it’s rare a score will capture people’s attention in the way that Challengers’ did.
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The Nine Inch Nails musicians delivered one of last year’s most iconic contributions to the world of cinema when they scored Luca Guadagnino’s tennis-themed romance drama Challengers, perfectly amping up the tension between its central trio with their musical output.
We’re sure we’re not the only ones confused to see the score – which won a Golden Globe just a matter of weeks ago – not even nominated for an Oscar when it felt like such a shoo-in.
Margaret Qualley
Margaret Qualley in The Substance
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The Substance has been the surprise hit of 2025’s awards season, and we’re over the moon to see not just Demi Moore landing an acting nomination, but Coralie Fargeat’s name popping up on the Best Director shortlist.
However, there’s no denying that The Substance was a two-header, and while we’re over the moon for Demi scoring her first Oscar nomination at this stage of her career, we’re still a little sad there wasn’t space for Margaret Qualley in the Best Supporting Actress category.
The Maid star has made no secret of what she put herself through to help bring the character of Sue (and, perhaps more impressively, Monstro Elisasue) to life, and she was the perfect foil to her Golden Globe-winning co-star’s character in the graphic body horror.
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths
She may not have had the fanfare and loud push behind her that the likes of Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo or even Demi Moore have had over the last few months, but Marianne Jean-Baptiste had quietly been climbing up the ranks as a contender for a Best Actress nomination thanks to her role in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths.
When Hard Truths premiered at Toronto Film Festival towards the end of last year, Marianne’s performance as a pessimistic woman struggling to connect with those closest to her saw her being met with a wave of praise, which has translated into recognition from the Baftas and Critics’ Choice Awards.
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The British performer was nominated for an Oscar once before for her role in another of Mike Leigh’s projects, Secrets & Lies.
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl
Alright, we know this one was always going to be a long shot, but “Oscar nominee Pamela Anderson” had such a ring to it that we couldn’t help crossing our fingers that this could be her year.
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Oscar nomination or not, we’ll still be seeing The Last Showgirl the second it hits UK cinemas, and we’re certain this is the beginning of a new era of the former Baywatch star’s career.
For the past few months, Stanley Tucci has been hovering around the middle of the list of favourites to score a Best Supporting Actor nod (which would have marked his second ever nomination, after 2009’s The Lovely Bones) but sadly, it wasn’t to be.
He’ll just have to make do with being the entire internet’s imaginary husband instead, we suppose…
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With 10 slots in the Best Picture category and only five in Best Director, there’s always going to be someone who winds up disappointed.
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But considering everything that Denis Villeneuve had to contend with to make Dune: Part Two the epic that it was (it’s one of the year’s most-nominated films thanks to recognition in more technical categories, which is no mean feat for a sequel), a Best Director nomination would have been fitting.
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie in character as Maria Callas
The Best Actress category was absolutely heaving with competition this year, and we understand there can’t be room for everyone, but Angelina Jolie’s major comeback to the cinema world after a few years away felt so triumphant that an Oscar nomination would have been more fitting – especially given the performance she delivers in Maria.
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While this may not be the year the former Best Supporting Actress wins over the Academy yet again, there’s no denying that it’s great to have Angelina back, and we can’t wait to see what this unusual thinker chooses for her next project.
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez in Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez may not have been to everyone’s tastes, but do a quick search on social media for Selena Gomez’s name, and you’ll see it for yourself, there are a lot of people seriously pissed off that she didn’t make the cut.
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The divisive Netflix musical is, of course, this year’s most-nominated film at the Oscars, with 13 nods in total. Had Selena been recognised, that number would have matched Emilia Pérez with Titanic, All About Eve and La La Land as the joint most-nominated films in history.
Still, some better news… Yesterday, Variety shared a happy fact about the future of the show.
A preview of The White Lotus season 3
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The publication said that season four has been given the go-ahead by HBO, and producers hope it’ll come out in 2026.
The news comes after the show’s creator Mike White announced last November that he’d pitched his ideas for a further season.
“Mike, obviously — if he wants to move forward and do the four seasons — he will do the fourth season,” HBO and Max executive Casey Bloys said at the time.
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Season four has been confirmed before season three, which is set to hit our screens on February 13, comes out.
A director’s clapboard for The White Lotus
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We don’t know much about season 4 ― neither writers nor execs have shared where the show, which has previously been shot in Hawaii and Sicily, will be filmed.
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But let’s be real ― so long as the Emmy-winning show sticks to its “rich people’s opulent nuttiness” theme, we reckon fans are bound to be satisfied.
Ed Sheeran has denied reports that he recently attended an event thrown by JK Rowling.
Journalist India Willoughby shared a screenshot earlier this week of an opinion piece claiming that Ed had “brought joy to wounded IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers”. She then alleged he’d also attended a New Year’s Eve party at the home of the Harry Potter author, based on recent reports in the press.
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Ed later responded to both of the claims in India’s post on his Instagram story, insisting: “Respectfully, India Willoughby, and any other journalist who has reported both these stories, neither are true.”
JK Rowling in 2019
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“I spent New Year with my family and friends,” he wrote. “The story about wounded soldiers at my show, was a charity that sourced tickets to my show in Cyprus last year, which was a large scale public concert.”
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The Lego House singer added: “This sort of reporting is [divisive] and damaging, please research before you post things.”
The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate then responded: “This is great to hear. I used the word ‘reportedly’ about JK Rowling’s NYE party, because it was widely reported by UK and international media at the time.
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“I also reached out directly to you in the first [week of January] via Twitter to ask if the story was correct – but no reply. Delighted to hear you didn’t go!”
“Delighted I can still be an Ed Sheeran fan,” she added in a follow-up post.
Here’s my original tweet asking directly. I note the Daily Express has now removed their made-up story. Delighted I can still be an @edsheeran fan pic.twitter.com/oMN9KhxrTC
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Here’s my original tweet asking directly. I note the Daily Express has now removed their made-up story. Delighted I can still be an @edsheeran fan pic.twitter.com/oMN9KhxrTC
The tabloid’s article on Rowling’s party is still live, but makes no reference to Ed Sheeran, having been updated five days after it was originally published on New Year’s Day.
David Schwimmer has claimed he couldn’t let Friends’ recent milestone anniversary go past without commemorating it.
Towards the end of last year, the beloved sitcom celebrated 30 years since it first aired on US television and became a global phenomenon, winning a string of Emmys and running for 10 years in total.
Speaking to the Australian radio station Nova, David – who played Ross Geller in all 10 seasons – was asked by host Smallzy: “Do you reflect when you hit a milestone like 30 years? Do you think ‘wow what a great run’? Or do you go, ‘god, I feel really old, don’t say that’?”
“All of the above,” the Emmy nominee admitted with a big laugh, before revealing he “happened to be back in Los Angeles around the day that marked the 30th year of when we aired”.
“I took [Matt] LeBlanc out to dinner, actually,” he shared. “We reminisced and toasted to the 30 years.”
Reflecting on Friends’ continued success, David added: “It’s amazing to me that people are still watching and finding it funny and comforting, and I feel nothing but gratitude.”
In 2021, the entire cast came together for a star-studded reunion special looking back at what made the show such a success.
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Few people are singing the praises of Billy Ray Cyrus’ performance at the Liberty Ball celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration — and the singer has blamed the bizarre set on technical issues.
On Tuesday, the country performer told People that he “wouldn’t have missed the honour of playing this event whether my microphone, guitar and monitors worked or not”.
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“I was there because President Donald J. Trump invited me,” he said.
During his Monday night performance, the Billy Ray strummed his guitar and gravelly sang the lyrics to Old Town Road, his 2019 collaboration with Lil Nas X, while the song’s music video was shown behind him.
After the video ended, he continued playing Old Town Road on his guitar while whistling before attempting to sing the song a cappella.
“If you encourage me, I’ll keep going,” he said to the audience. “They told me to kill as much time as possible.”
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Then, his guitar cut out as he tried to go into his 1992 hit, Achy Breaky Heart.
“Is my guitar still on? I think they cut me off. Is my guitar on, guys?” he called out to the tech crew.
“Is anybody awake?” he continued. “Where’s everybody at? Is anyone back there? Can somebody turn my guitar back on?”
Shortly after, two people from the tech crew came onstage to help Billy Ray with his guitar, but nothing worked. After a few more minutes, he resorted to performing a monotone, a cappella version of Achy Breaky Heart before finally exiting the stage.
Still, Billy Ray said that he had “a ball at the Liberty Ball” in his interview with People.
“I’ve learned through all these years when the producer says, ‘You’re on,’ you go entertain the folks even if the equipment goes to hell,” he told the outlet. “I was there for the people and we had a blast. That’s called rock ‘n’ roll!”
Anonymous Western sources told the BBC that, as of mid-January, there have been 4,000 casualties among the 11,000-strong contingency who were sent to help Putin’s troops fight off Ukraine’s attack in the Russian region of Kursk.
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The overall casualty rate – a stat which includes those killed, wounded, missing or captured – is allegedly 36% among the North Korean troops.
That’s much higher than the previous estimates from South Korea’s spy agency, which claimed around 300 North Korean soldiers have been killed in the war and 2,700 have been injured.
Officials also told the broadcaster that it’s not clear where the soldiers are being treated, or if they will be replaced.
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Russia has not confirmed or denied North Korean troops are fighting alongside its own since they were first deployed in autumn.
Putin arranged a mutual defence agreement with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un last summer, and both countries agreed to defend the other if attacked by a third party.
It’s thought Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk in August was seen as an attack on Russia – so Putin was able to call on North Korean troops to bolster his beleaguered army to defend the region.
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Putin has been ploughing through his own soldiers, forcing them forwards on the frontline using what UK prime minister Keir Starmer described as “meat-grinder” tactics.
The UK’s ministry of defence said earlier this month Russia is estimated to have suffered more than 790,000 casualties since the war began.
The MoD also warned that North Korean – also known as DPRK – troops were struggling to integrate with their Russian peers.
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The intelligence officers said: “Russian and DPRK forces are almost certainly experiencing interoperability difficulties.
“The two forces do not share a common language and DPRK troops almost certainly have difficulties integrating into Russia’s command and control structure.”
North Korean troops have “highly likely sustained significant combat casualties” already and “only achieved tactical gains”, the intelligence claimed in the latest update on X.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed earlier this month that his troops had seized two North Korean soldiers in Kursk for the first time.
He offered a prisoner swap, hoping to secure the release of Ukrainians held by Russia.
“Ukraine is ready to hand over Kim Jong Un’s soldiers to him if he can organise their exchange for our warriors who are being held captive in Russia,” Zelenskyy said.
On those ridiculously early mornings when I leave the house and it’s still dark and positively baltic outside, my nose decides it is faster than the wind, it is a long-distance runner, it is… Paula Radcliffe.
Some people get a runny nose, mine is more like a tsunami. All this liquid comes from nowhere and I end up rushing to meet my train with a tissue wedged firmly under my leaking nostrils.
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The issue is so bad that even when I’m at home, and it’s a bit cold because the heating hasn’t yet kicked in, I start sniffing and my other half gives me ‘the look’ and then remarks: “Have you got another cold?!”
But The thing is, dear reader, I do not have another cold. My nose just hates the cold.
So why does this happen?
It’s all to do with our nasal lining becoming royally miffed by the change in temperature.
As Dr Deborah S. Clements, of Northwestern Medical Group, explains: “When we breathe in, our noses warm the air and add moisture to it as it travels down into our lungs.
“Cold, dry air irritates your nasal lining, and as a result, your nasal glands produce excess mucus to keep the lining moist.
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“That can cause those big, heavy drops that drip from your nostrils.”
While it’s pretty annoying, there is a very useful reason why our bodies want to warm up the air, according to Verywell Health.
This snot protects the mucous membranes in your nose and also the bronchioles (air sacs) in your lungs from any damage caused by the cold air.
What can you do about it?
Wearing a scarf over your nose and mouth in cold weather can help, because the air warms up before it hits your sensitive nasal passages.
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If you’re indoors and find your nose is running a lot, a humidifier might also help to keep your nose from drying out.
But ultimately it’s probably best to make sure you’re stocked up on tissues throughout winter.
The Reform UK leader has long cast himself as a close friend to the US president, even offering to be the UK ambassador to Washington for the second Trump administration.
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However, he had to admit the limits to that friendship on GB News last night.
When presenter Chris Hope asked if Farage was in the prestigious room in the middle of the Capitol building where Trump was sworn in, Farage haltingly replied: “No, no, no… didn’t make the cut, sadly.
“I had a good seat… but, no, I mean, look. Frankly, err, it… you know.”
Hope said: “I saw Boris Johnson in there, in rotunda, is he now the person Trump speaks to more than you?”
“No, he’s a former prime minister of the nation,” Farage said, slightly angrily. “He’s an occasional friend of Donald Trump.
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“He supports Donald Trump when he’s going up and he doesn’t support Donald Trump when he’s going down. And I’ve supported him consistently now for almost a decade.”
Johnson has quite the on-off friendship with Trump, having slammed him in 2015 for “betraying a quite stupefying ignorance” for falsely saying there were “no-go zones” in London and claiming that he was “unfit” to become president.
While they spoke highly of one another while Trump was in office for his first term, Johnson then said the outgoing president was “completely wrong” for encouraging his supporters to storm the Capitol in 2021.
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But by January 2024, Johnson – no longer PM or MP – said Trump’s return could be a “big win for the world”.
Meanwhile, Farage has been an avid Trump supporter for years, speaking at multiple rallies and flying over to the US repeatedly to back the Republican, despite critics asking why he is not more dedicated to his constituency.
The MP for Clacton was also a robust supporter of Trump’s new right-hand man, tech billionaire Elon Musk – until the world’s richest man turned on him earlier this month.
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Hours after Farage told the media the X CEO was a “hero”, Musk claimed Reform needed a new leader because the current one “doesn’t have what it takes”.
The sudden split came after the Reform leader tried to distance himself from imprisoned far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whom Musk claimed should be released from jail.
Farage later said he wanted to “mend” his relationship with Musk.
Johnson was not the only former PM to fly to the US for the inauguration as Liz Truss also attended.
Current PM Keir Starmer was not invited, although that is in line with tradition – no serving UK prime minister has ever attended the swearing-in ceremony of a US president going back to when records began in 1874, according to analysis from the Press Association.
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The prime minister insisted he was following “the law of the land” to avoid the possibility of the case against the 18-year-old collapsing and him then being able to walk free.
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Rudakubana yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering nine-year-old Alice da Silva Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29 last year.
He also admitted the production of a biological toxin, ricin, and possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit an act of terrorism.
It has since emerged that the killer was referred three times to the government’s Prevent anti-terrorism programme, but remained at large.
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Home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that a public inquiry will take place into the tragedy.
At a Downing Street press conference this morning, Starmer admitted that he had been told about the details about Rudakubana that were not made public.
But he said: “You know and I know that it would not have been right to disclose those details. The only losers if the details had been disclosed would be the victims and the families because it ran the risk the trial would collapse.
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“I’m never going to do that. Never going to do that because they deserve that justice.
“And only by having the rules in place can that justice be delivered and I would never have been forgiven if they had. Those are not just my choices, though it is a choice I would make, but it is also the law of the land.
“That is why I couldn’t disclose the details, it is why others couldn’t disclose the details, it’s why all of you as journalists couldn’t disclose the details because the same laws applied to you just as they applied to me, and it’s really important that we make that clear.”
He added: “The importance of the rule about not disclosing this information is to ensure that the trial can take place and that where an individual is guilty they can be held to account, as has happened in this case.”
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However, the PM also pledged to identify any failings by the state over the Southport killings.
He said: “I am also under no illusions that until the wider state shows the country it can change not just what it delivers for people, but also its culture, then this atmosphere of mistrust will remain.
“So I want to be crystal clear, in front of the British people today – we will leave no stone unturned.
“I was the prosecutor who first spotted failures in grooming cases at my institution the [Crown Prosecution Service] 14 years ago. And I was the prosecutor who first did something about it, by bringing the rape gangs in Rochdale to justice.
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“And so my approach as prime minister will be no different. If any shortcomings are now holding back the ability of this country to keep its citizens and its children safe, I will find them and I will root them out.”