C’est un homme requinqué et optimiste qui s’est confié ce week-end dans les colonnes du Daily Mail sur sa vie d’artiste, ses passions et ses souvenirs. George Michael – dont le DVD Symphonica, tourné à l’Opéra de Paris sort aujourd’hui au Royaume-Uni – a expliqué à la presse pourquoi la princesse Diana, son amie, aurait été très fière de son fils et de la duchesse de Cambridge, Kate.

Pour le mariage royal de Kate Middleton et du Prince William en 2011, il avait enregistré une version très personnelle de You and I, une ballade signée Stevie Wonder. Versant dans la guimauve, George Michael avait fait cadeau du CD au couple mis à l’honneur, leur souhaitant très cordialement beaucoup de bonheur. Depuis la naissance du petit George de Cambridge, le royal baby, l’ancien leader de Wham! est aux anges. Et pour cause, proche de la princesse de Galles jusqu’à sa mort, George Michael a assuré au Daily Mail: «Je pense qu’elle aurait été très heureux pour William et Kate».

«Et je pense qu’elle aurait aussi été vraiment, vraiment heureuse de voir que William a rencontré et est tombé amoureux de quelqu’un qui a une force de caractère lui permettant de gérer des choses qu’elle ne supportait pas elle-même», a-t-il ajouté à propos de l’ancienne princesse des cœurs. Un témoignage d’une star planétaire qui vaut son pesant d’or. Le chanteur affirme d’ailleurs: «Je sais combien ce niveau de notoriété peut être difficile et exigeant. C’est comme vivre dans un bocal, poursuit-il. Parfois, surtout pendant les années 80, je me sentais proche de la folie».

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Menant une carrière très médiatisée depuis les années 80, l’interprète de Faith traversait une mauvaise passe depuis plusieurs années. Grand consommateur de «drogues douces» et d’alcool, il avait aussi lutté contre une grave pneumonie en 2011 qui avait mis en péril sa vie. Aujourd’hui, l’idole mène une vie plus saine, débarrassé de ses addictions et sort un DVD du concert évènement qu’il avait donné au Palais Garnier, à Paris, en septembre 2012, grâce à l’appui de l’ancienne première dame de France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Jennifer Lopez l’affirme haut et fort: elle n’a jamais eu recours à la chirurgie esthétique car elle en a peur. Son corps de rêve elle le doit uniquement à des efforts permanents sur son alimentation et surtout à une activité physique constante.

Depuis son rôle remarqué dans Money Train et le clip sexy de If you had my love, Jennifer Lopez s’est fait remarquer pour ses qualités artistiques mais aussi pour son physique avantageux qui lui a valu le surnom de «bomba latina». Son fessier lui a même valu nombre de quolibets et autres moqueries ainsi que le surnom de «guitare». Mais peu importe, JLo assume, surtout que son corps est 100% naturel, sculpté à longueur d’année par des efforts, des sacrifices, des régimes et des exercices physiques. Et contrairement à certaines de ses consoeurs, la chanteuse n’a jamais eu recours à la chirurgie esthétique pour la bonne et simple raison qu’elle en a une peur bleue. Une confidences qu’elle a faite à la radio australienne 2dayFM. «Je suis terrorisée par tout ça» déclare-t-elle à propos du scalpel et du Botox. «J’ai une approche du petit à petit, plutôt que de me laisser aller et de faire appel au bistouri ensuite», ajoute-t-elle avant de révéler son secret: «Je crois qu’il suffit de bien manger et de faire du sport». Et à propos de son fameux postérieur, elle lance:«Vous pouvez obtenir de belles fesses en les travaillant régulièrement, peu à peu».

Agée de 44 ans, maman de deux enfants, Jennifer Lopez continue d’afficher un physique impeccable, mais elle concède que cela l’obsède un peu moins ces derniers temps. «C’est amusant parce que je suis beaucoup plus détendue à propos de mon apparence aujourd’hui, a-t-elle admis à Marie-Claire. Et je suis chanceuse. Mais attention: je sais que j’ai un corps athlétique. J’ai toujours fait des exercices et je sais me discipliner quand il faut. Mais c’est aussi compliqué d’entretenir cette vieille carcasse».

Et lorsqu’on lui demande s’il y a des jours où elle se sent moins belle, elle confesse: «Oh oui, mon Dieu oui!» et révèle qu’alors, elle s’habille en conséquence.

One of the many stars of the box office hit movie “Crazy Rich Asians” said movies and actors should not be nominated for awards solely because of their race, gender, or just to diversify the list of nominees.

While actors and actresses are routinely voicing their support for racial and gender quotas in Hollywood, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh told E!’s Giuliana Rancic that she does not want to see movies and actors nominated for awards just because of their race or gender.

“I think this year there were a few women roles that were really outstanding. And we really need more and more of them,” Yeoh said. “I was just disappointed that there were no women directors nominated. But it’s hard. Because it is so competitive. I think a lot of the time, let’s not nominate because we need to make up the numbers for the gender or the diversity, we have to do it because the movie and all the characters speak for what it is.”

“And I think it is getting more and more diversified because there are more opportunities created,” Yeoh said. “That’s where it begins.”

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Paris Saint-Germain football club is set to buy Brazilian star Neymar for an eye-watering €222 million — and incur the wrath of Europe’s competition enforcers in the process.

That’s if Javier Tebas, the president of Spain’s football league, La Liga, gets his way.

He has long fumed at how foreign owners, in particular from the Gulf states, have poured hundreds of millions of euros into European clubs, luring talent, prestige and the occasional trophy away from the Spanish league.

That anger seems to have come to a head after PSG, which is owned by Qatar, moved to trigger the buyout clause in the contract Neymar has with FC Barcelona, which is fan-owned.

Tebas said he would report PSG to UEFA — European football’s governing body — for breaching its Financial Fair Play rules, which forbid clubs from spending vastly more than they earn over a three-year period — losses of more than €30 million break the rules.

He also threatened to report the entire transfer system to Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s commissioner for competition who in the past year alone has taken on giants such as Google and Apple. According to a person with direct knowledge of the dossier, the Spanish league was discussing the issue long before the Neymar saga erupted, and the legal documents are ready to be filed.

Neymar told Barcelona on Wednesday that he wanted to leave. Paris Saint-German on Thursday moved to complete the transfer, but the payment was refused by Tebas’ La Liga. However, Barcelona said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that “Neymar Jr’s legal representatives visited in person the club’s offices and made the payment of €222 million in the player’s name with regards to the unilateral termination of the contract that united both parties.”

It added that it would “pass on to UEFA the details of the above operation so that they can determine the disciplinary responsibilities that may arise from this case.”

Tebas told Spanish sports publication Diario As earlier this week: “The problem is that Neymar is being taken by a financially-doped team that competes with an advantage. The problem is the state-backed clubs, they need to be stopped.”

He said he was ready to present his objections to UEFA, the courts in Switzerland (where UEFA is based) and the European Commission.

Any complaint to the Commission, which is charged with ensuring companies in Europe compete on a level playing field (pun intended), will likely hone in on UEFA’s power over football on the Continent — especially how it polices its own rules.

La Liga was unhappy with how UEFA settled investigations into spending splurges at Manchester City, which is owned by Sheikh Mansour, a member of the royal family of the United Arab Emirates, and PSG, both in 2014.

Manchester City had to pay £60 million in fines and saw its squad size reduced for European matches, but got £40 million back in 2017 after meeting specific targets such as reining in spending and breaking even. PSG was hit with a €60 million fine and a reduction in the number of players eligible to compete in the prestigious Champions League competition.

The Parisian club had flagrantly violated the rules on losses since 2011 — when a Qatari consortium took over as owner — as it sought to dominate French and European football. Uruguayan forward Edinson Cavani, who arrived in Paris in 2013, cost €63 million alone.

At the same time, UEFA has suspended Turkish football clubs from European competition, including Galatasaray which was suspended for a year in 2016 for breaching spending limits.

Different rules for different clubs

Antoine Duval, a sports law specialist at the Asser Institute in The Hague and a lifelong fan of PSG, said there were questions about whether “there are two rules being applied, one for small clubs and one for big clubs.”

“It’s difficult to say,” he added, citing the lack of transparency over clubs’ finances.

Prompted by questions from MEPs, Vestager said in 2015 she “supported the overall stated objectives of financial fair play” but that its implementation “would have to respect Union law.”

A spokesperson for the Commission on Thursday declined to comment on Tebas’ claims but said Vestager’s statement remained valid.

UEFA’s assessment of PSG’s acquisition of Neymar will prove a crucial test for the governing body.

The Spanish league argues that UEFA, when assessing PSG’s finances, must look at the club’s various sponsorship deals, which it says can be traced back to its super-rich owner.

A spokesperson for UEFA said it “will look into the details of this transfer in due course,” but PSG could sell players to balance its finances over the three-year period covered by the spending rules.

What is certain is that UEFA’s conclusions will not come any time soon.

It is “ludicrous to suggest you could block a transfer with a competition complaint,” said Duval, the lawyer. “Neymar would have been playing for two years before the Commission decides whether to open a case or not.”

The Commission would have to consider its options carefully before opening a case.

It has long accepted that sport cannot be treated like other economic activities. However, EU regulators are not prepared to stand by if they consider the rules are being flouted. After more than a decade of ignoring sports complaints, they launched a case in 2015 against the International Skating Union for allegedly blocking new speed-skating events.

Tebas’ outburst comes as Europe’s football teams and leagues grapple with the future of a game awash with cash.

“Tebas is speaking out in an attempt to protect the commercial competitiveness of his league and Spanish club football with it,” said James Ogilvie, an EU affairs consultant with expertise in global football. “Holding onto the star players in your league, like Neymar for La Liga, is crucial for securing mega broadcast rights deals in international markets … where the greatest revenue growth comes from.”

Tebas, who has relied on competition law in actions against FIFA — world football’s governing body — rules banning investment funds from buying players and against the organization of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar during the European season, is clearly skeptical of arguments that competition regulators should keep out of sport.

“Can you imagine if a state bought [supermarket chain] Carrefour to give out chicken as a gift?” he said to Spanish sports daily Marca — the implication being that other supermarkets would bring unfair competition complaints. “That is what we’re talking about: clubs that gift players to their fans using money received from the states that supply them [with funds].”

Actress and former Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate Lena Dunham decided to “break up” with her bathroom scale this week following a celebration of her all-time weight gain.

“So yeah, this is a break up,” Lena Dunham told her scale in a video posted to her social media.

“I can’t do this anymore. I don’t have feelings for you anymore. I don’t love you anymore. And I’ve tried, tried to do it different ways. You know, I’ve tried to like bring the excitement back, but, we’re done so…bye,” she said while throwing the scale into the trash.

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress has repeatedly posted about her ongoing weight gain online. In February, she posted a photo of herself in lingerie to celebrate weighing the most she ever has.

“I weigh the most I ever have. I love the most I ever have. I read and write and laugh the most I ever have,” she said.

“And I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. Not the frail, precarious happiness of ‘things are going perfectly.” The big, generous, jiggly happiness of “I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of this.’ Not too much… Just enough.”

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Last year, the Girls co-creator shared how happy gaining weight has made her, saying that since gaining 24 pounds, she is “happy joyous & free, complimented only by people that matter for reasons that matter, subsisting on a steady flow of fun/healthy snacks and apps and entrees, strong from lifting dogs and spirits.”

Daniel Ricciardo has praised Mercedes for coming up with a genuinely new technical innovation at the start of 2020 – even as the Renault team considers raising a protest over its legality.

The existence of the Dual Axis Steering (DAS) system was revealed on Thursday by on-board footage of the W11 during live coverage of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas are seen to push and pull at the steering wheel in order to manually adjust the toe angle of the front wheels of the car as it barrels down long straights.

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A provisional ruling by the FISA suggests that DAS does indeed meet this year’s rules and regulations, although it will be banned in 2021 when radical new technical specifications are introduced.

Meanwhile, Ricciardo applauded Mercedes managing to find another new way to stay ahead of the rest of the field this season.

“Hats off to them,” the Australian told F1 TV. “They have been dominant this whole turbo era, yet they are still the ones pushing everyone else.

“It should be us and everyone else pushing them, but they’re not getting complacent,” he added. “I think that’s why they’ve been so dominant.

“They’re setting an example right now, and as a competitor I certainly respect that. It’s good for everyone to see how far they’re willing to go.”

Ricciardo added that the revelation of DAS has caught pretty much everyone in the paddock by complete surprise.

“I don’t think maybe anyone had really thought about it,” he said. “I don’t want to say anyone, but probably not many people talked about that.

I don’t know if it was ever a conversation had, but I’m sure the conversation’s happening in every team right now,” he added. “I’ve never heard of a system that talked about!”

But while DAS might meet this year’s technical rules, it might fall foul of the regulations in another way.

“They will undoubtedly have consulted with Nikolas Tombazis of the FIA,” Renault sporting director Alan Permane said in conversation with Motorsport.com.

“They will have said that they are satisfied with the legality of the system, and I agree with that,” he stated. “But there is also a parc fermé issue.”

He pointed out that according to Article 34.6 of the regulations, a car is under parc fermé conditions from the moment it leaves pit lane until the start of the race. Adjusting the toe angle during that period might therefore fall foul of the rules.

“The question is whether it is a steering system or a suspension system. There are different rules for that,” Permane explained.

Renault itself had a subdued first week of testing, completing 373 laps of which Ricciardo contributed 188 despite suffering a brief engine scare on Friday.

He ended the week tenth fastest of the 21 drivers taking part with a best time of 1:17.574s putting him almost half a second behind his new team mate Esteban Ocon. Even so, he was pleased with how it had gone.

“Today was okay for me, I felt good in the car and I’m pleased with the work we completed,” he told the team’s website.

Ricciardo had been sporing a special purple helmet for testing in tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter accident at the end of January.

“I’ve never played basketball and I can’t relate to that but it doesn’t mean I can’t admire someone of that calibre and how he changed the game,” he told the official Formula 1 website. “I would have loved to have seen him play, I would have loved to have met him and been able to know him as a person.

“I was a fan of him and what he represented, what he brought to the sport,” he explained. “I idolise him creating such a legacy, his work ethic, him standing out from the pack. I think anyone trying to be great at something can recognise that and appreciate that.

“There’s quite a lot of significance when someone from the outside shows a bit of care. Obviously I’m not doing it for what the image looks like, but I think it’s nice that it’s touched Formula 1 drivers.”

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The U.K.’s Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox is on a winning streak as Brexit talks move into top gear. It’s unlikely to last.

First, the Sun reported there will be an international trade bill included in Wednesday’s queen’s speech, the British government’s new policy program. That is a victory for Fox over those in the government who would prefer caution and possibly a softer Brexit.

Second, Fox has secured a top negotiator to build the foundations of “Global Britain” — Crawford Falconer, a New Zealander and former WTO ace. That matters because the U.K. recruitment process for trade lawyers has until now been fraught.

When the U.K. voted for Brexit, the central government had no top-flight trade lawyers, having little need for their expertise during four decades of EU membership. Possible hires have slipped through the net since then, with candidates and potential candidates reporting rigid U.K. attitudes and rigid salary offers as stumbling blocks. Some qualified Brits also hate the idea of leaving EU jobs to work for a government that is undercutting their current careers and values.

Third, Fox is in the U.S. maneuvering for a transatlantic free-trade deal, and getting a warm reception. EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström even invited him to keep up the work at a POLITICO event this morning in Brussels.

Malmström described Fox’s efforts as “within the red lines” and said that it is “quite natural” for the U.K. to explore its options with partners such as the U.S.

“Obviously if they were to start to negotiate, that would really be breaking a red line. But I don’t think they will,” Malmström said, adding that Fox had to get ready to renegotiate about 40 trade deals that the EU had completed on the U.K.’s behalf.

Asked if she welcomed competition from Fox and Falconer, the European trade commissioner said: “Absolutely.”

The conciliatory trade outlook from Brussels means that supporters of a soft Brexit will need to look to other tension points for leverage.

One of the most problematic parts of the Brexit negotiations is likely to be the Irish border. If the Republic and Northern Ireland are to keep their border invisible, it is almost certain that Britain would need to remain in the EU’s customs union, at least during some kind of transition period.

And as long as the U.K. remains in the customs union it would be prevented from negotiating separate trade deals.

If Britain is to succeed in its efforts to go global, Liam Fox will need more than a full diary and an antipodean negotiator.

He will need the Irish question to be answered, and in a way that preserves the fragile governing arrangement his Conservative Party is seeking with the Democratic Unionist Party from Northern Ireland.

Nothing is simple when it comes to Brexit.

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President Donald Trump reactivated a feud with singer John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen on Sunday night, as the president watched an NBC special on criminal justice reform.

Trump ripped Legend for taking credit on the issue, despite doing very little to work with Trump to get the First Step Act passed in December.

“Guys like boring musician John Legend and his filthy-mouthed wife, are talking now about how great it is – but I didn’t see them around when we needed help getting it passed,” he wrote.

Teigen has a history of criticizing Trump on Twitter long before he ran for president. She spoke about being a “hater” of Trump in a 2017 interview:

Teigen immediately took the bait after Trump called her “filthy-mouthed.”

“Lol what a pussy ass bitch,” she wrote. “Tagged everyone but me. An honor, mister president.”

As her followers rallied to her defense, Teigen wrote, “No guys no please do not make this trend, for it is my fight with #PresidentPussyAssBitch, not yours!!!!!!”

Trump appeared incredulous the NBC special on criminal justice reform hosted by Lester Holt did not even mention his successful effort signing an important bill on the subject in 2018.

“I got it done with a group of Senators & others who would never have gone for it,” he wrote. “Obama couldn’t come close … I SIGNED IT INTO LAW, no one else did, & Republicans deserve much credit.”

Trump noted activists like Van Jones gave him credit, but that many celebrities were pretending they also had something to do with it.

“But now that it is passed, people that had virtually nothing to do with it are taking the praise,” he said.

He ridiculed Holt for not even mentioning his work pushing on the issue of criminal justice reform.

“‘Anchor Lester Holt doesn’t even bring up the subject of President Trump or the Republicans when talking about the importance or passage of Criminal Justice Reform,” he wrote. “They only talk about the minor players, or people that had nothing to do with it.”

He also appeared angry that Hollywood celebrities only demanded his impeachment, despite his work to sign the criminal justice bill that was important to them.

“The people that so desperately sought my help when everyone else had failed, all they talk about now is Impeaching President Trump!” he wrote.

It was a busy Wednesday at the Berlaymont, where the College of Commissioners discussed the favorable (to the EU) ruling by the European Court of Justice on migration policies, offered input on Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s upcoming State of the Union speech, and was briefed by chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, on the third round of talks.

In the press hall, Dimitris Avramopoulos, the commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, gave the readout of the meeting, which focused almost entirely on the migration ruling by the ECJ, which backed the EU’s emergency migration relocation policy. Avramopoulos hailed the court decision, which dismissed a challenge to the policy by Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He urged the four countries to immediately begin showing “solidarity” with Greece and Italy, which have borne the brunt of the migration crisis, and drop their refusal to accept relocated migrants.

Avramopoulos also said pointedly that if the four continue to defy the migration policy, the EU will go back to court and seek punitive action.

The commission’s chief spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, led an abbreviated midday press briefing while waiting for Avramopoulos, and began by promising a busy Thursday in the press hall with briefings by the security commissioner, Julian King, on reports adopted by the Commission on forming a “security union;” by the trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, on a proposal to block the trade of goods used in torture; and then a press conference by Barnier on new positions papers that the EU’s Brexit negotiators will be issuing. (The main one is expected to deal with Ireland and Northern Ireland.)

In response to questions, Commission spokesman Ricardo Cardoso said officials were still studying a new ECJ ruling that overturned a landmark €1.06 billion antitrust fine against Intel, the U.S.-based computer chipmaker. Cardoso declined to comment on the potential ramifications for other major EU antitrust actions and investigations.

Schinas declined to answer a question about the push by the regional government of Catalonia for an independence referendum, saying that the Commission does not express opinions “on matters which are constitutional issues with member states.”

But Schinas seemed taken aback when he was asked why the Commission had strong views on constitutional issues in Poland, including a long-running fight over the Polish government’s effort to reshape its court system, but refrained from giving a view on the constitutional issues in Catalonia’s dispute with Madrid over self-determination rights.

“With all due respect,” Schinas said. “I don’t think you can draw a comparison between our position [on Catalonia], which has been well known for some time now, right from the Prodi Commission, reiterated through three successive colleges, you can’t draw a comparison between our position there and the whole issue of the rule of law, which is a quite different matter.”

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And with that, he was ready to go find Avramopoulos. “Thank you for your interest,” he said. “Let’s leave it there.”

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore declared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) the “leader” of Democrats during an appearance on MSNBC.

“She is the leader. She’s the leader,” Michael Moore said of Ocasio-Cortez. “Everyone knows it, everyone feels it, she’s the leader of this mass movement.”

Moore also expressed his opinion that the minimum age for president should be lowered so that Ocasio-Cortez could run for president in 2020.

The Bowling for Columbine director also called for Democrats to stop being moderate.

“If you’re moderate, stop being moderate. Take a position, there’s no middle ground any more,” he said. “There’s no halfway point to, should someone be paid a living wage? ‘Well, I’m a moderate, so I think they could be paid half of a living wage.’”

“You know–on the issue of choice. There’s no halfway there. You’re either for it or you’re against it. You know, do you believe in equal rights for women? Do you believe we should have an equal rights amendment? Yes or no? There’s no middle ground. This is no time for moderation.”

The 64-year-old called for the voting age to be lowered to 16-year-old in March following the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

“If there’s one thing we’ve learned since Parkland, it’s that the voting age should be lowered to 16. Other countries do it, we should too,” he said in a social media post.

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More recently, the Fahrenheit 11/9 director celebrated Christmas by putting a doll of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on top of his tree.

“My Christmas Tree Topper this year. Better than an angel or the star over Bethlehem. A nation of millions stand with you…” Moore said.