Gemma Collins shares skin secrets including transformation of her crow’s feet

Clint's alive, but William Smith has left the picture. (Image via Warner Bros.)

Abbott Elementary is a stand-out new release being met with critical acclaim and has been renewed for a second season before its 12-episode first season run has even finished airing. The American mockumentary sitcom follows the dedicated and caring teachers of a Philadelphia public school, where they are severely underfunded with a less-than-stellar school board, but are determined to go above and beyond to give the kids they teach the best education they can offer.Watch it on Hulu.Aidy Bryant both created and starred in this Hulu comedy, which sadly ended last year after a three-season run.

 

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GEMMA Collins has revealed she was rushed for emergency surgery just days before she starts rehearsals for Chicago. The 41-year-old revealed this week that she's landed the role of Mama Morton in the musical and will take to the stage for the first time in May.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) claimed in an interview posted Thursday that fellow lawmakers have invited him to attend an orgy and done bumps of cocaine in front of him.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg slammed Florida’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law, signed this week by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Get people talking about movie theaters, especially old film palaces, and inevitably the conversation becomes nostalgic. Get them talking about the Castro Theatre and the conversation is tinged with more than nostalgia, people remember growth. Their growth.

More than 10,000 miles from his childhood hometown in Ukraine, San Francisco Bay Area gay Ukrainian Leonid "Leo" Volobrynskyy is horrified watching Russia destroy the country where his family and close friends still live."It was a nightmare since the day started," said Volobrynskyy about Russia's invasion of Ukraine that began February 23.Volobrynskyy, 40, was born and raised in a Jewish-Russian-Ukrainian home in Odesa, the country's third largest city, until he was 20 years old, he told the Bay Area Reporter. That was when he and his father joined his mother in the United States as a part of a reunification program in 2002.

Six years ago a summer intern working with the San Francisco Planning Department's historic preservation staff had earmarked seven local properties worthy of being designated city landmarks due to their significance to LGBTQ history. The sites had been highlighted in the citywide LGBTQ historic context statement released in 2015.Yet, to this day, not a single one has been landmarked nor are there any immediate plans to do so.

A court challenge is almost certain for Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill that Republican Governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis signed March 28, although that doesn't mean the law will be thrown out anytime soon. The Parental Rights in Education bill, or House Bill 1557, will not allow classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3, while "age-appropriate" teaching would be allowed in older grades — though it is not clear what is considered "age-appropriate." The bill would also permit parents to sue schools or teachers who violate the legislation; it affects public schools and goes into effect on July 1.Equality Florida, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization in the Sunshine State, noted that DeSantis picked a dubious venue in which to sign the bill.

Across the country transgender youth and their parents are coming under attack by Republican elected officials. Even in California, anti-LGBTQ groups continue to rail against legislative attempts to bolster the rights of such children and their families.Missing from the debates in Sacramento has been the voice of a state legislator whose child is transgender or nonbinary.

Twitter. Foster's account is now deleted.He then doubled-down in an statement sent to the Mississippi Free Press explaining why he was declining an interview request."I said what I said," he told the outlet.

approved by the Arizona House last week and had previously been OK’d by the Senate. Meanwhile, Stitt signed an anti-trans sports bill into law, following its final approval by legislators last week.“Today I signed S.B. 1138 and S.B.

Piers Morgan, who has been campaigning against transgender people competing in women's sport for years, took to Twitter in celebration."Finally, a ray of common sense shines up from the virtue-signalling insanity," he wrote jubilantly in view of almost eight million followers.If she had taken part, 21-year-old Emily would have been up against some formidable competition, including five-times Olympic champion Laura Kenny.However it is believed that those who were assigned male at birth face physical advantages against those who were born female, including levels of the hormone testosterone.Although the hormone is present in both males and females, it is men who have significantly higher amounts of it - and the substance, which promotes the building of muscle, is one of the factors in men having an athletic advantage.The Union Cycliste Internationale requires their contestants to have had testosterone levels that are below five nanomoles per litre for at least a year prior to competing.However the association has confirmed that Emily does not meet the criteria and British Cycling subsequently issued a statement to say so.It read: "We have now been informed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) that under their current guidelines Emily is not eligible to participate in this event."Piers had earlier hit out over the victory of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the 500-yard freestyle swimming contest in the USA's NCAA Championships, deeming it "unfair".World Athletics President Lord Sebastian Coe has taken the same stance as Piers, arguing in his professional capacity that decisions to allow transgender athletes and sportspeople to compete is placing the "integrity" of women's sport under threat.He has insisted that

The search to find a permanent leader for the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco is formally underway. It comes as the LGBTQ institution is working with city officials to find it a site to build a new, larger museum and archival research center.After Terry Beswick resigned in September as executive director, the nonprofit named staffers Kelsi Evans and Andrew Shaffer as its interim co-executive directors.

It's Women's History Month and the time of year that state lawmakers choose a woman in their district to honor. On Sunday, March 27, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), right, recognized Jupiter Peraza, left, a transgender woman who is the director of social justice and empowerment initiatives at the Transgender District, as his Senate District 11 Woman of the Year.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed's recent European tour to help promote the city's tourism industry wasn't all meetings with officials. In Paris, she took a bike tour with Mayor of Paris Centre Ariel Weil, left, (he represents Arrondissements 1-4).

After telling the Bay Area Reporter and other outlets that he was going to leave his Castro apartment rather than fight his new landlord over a large rent increase, gay longtime activist Cleve Jones has decided to fight the eviction. Jones, right, addressed a crowd of supporters March 27 at Harvey Milk Plaza.

Last month, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 293, the TGI Inclusive Care Act. This bill will require that California health care providers and staff receive crucial training in transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex (TGI) cultural humility, in order to provide inclusive care to these communities.

Dr. Nasser Mohamed is believed to be the first physician to offer Apretude (injectable PrEP) in San Francisco outside of a clinical trial.Mohamed, a gay man, founded Osra Medical in 2019 "to take back my relationship with my patients and empower myself to be the doctor I set out to be," his website states.The medical center in the city's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood strives to improve health outcomes for the LGBTQ+ community by offering access to comprehensive primary care, a news release states.

Milk plaza can fit with proposed site planIn the Guest Opinion ["Milk plaza plan has broad support," March 24] author Alex Lemberg asserts that I, along with another, are solely responsible for creating a false impression that demolition and replacement of Harvey Milk Plaza are not universally loved. "Neither of these people live in San Francisco, both have ulterior motives, and neither they nor anyone else has presented a viable alternative plan to the one presented by [Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza]," he writes.

As we learned this week, a promo for HBO Max’s new show Minx was temporarily deemed too racy for Instagram.Actor Taylor Zakhar Perez shared the clip to his personal account, but soon had it taken down by the app, which also sent him a message about violating its guidelines.While the promo was later restored — we’re still not sure what the issue was to begin with — the series, which centers around an ambitious, female editor (Ophelia Lovibond) in the 1970s who creates the first-ever erotic magazine for women, features several shots that only a subscription network like HBO can get away with.Included among them are some revealing scenes with Perez, and they seem to have earned him some new diehard fans:All jokes aside Taylor Zakhar Perez’s the new IT BOY!! I want fashion campaigns!!! GLOBAL ONES #minxhbo pic.twitter.com/GUZ4T8xkOy— VogueChild (@VogueChilee) March 25, 2022i have a new favorite himbo and it’s taylor zakhar perez in minx— mars ? (@ma_rs_) March 29, 2022If #Minx were a real magazine I would so totally subscribe! #Retro?? @hbomax @TaylorZakharP #TaylorZakharPerez pic.twitter.com/skrMy5rMvz— Ron Klopfanstein (@RonKlopfanstein) March 26, 2022Fake penis aside, I'm totally IN LOVE with #TaylorZakharPerez, both his 70's persona than his real one.

Pride parades are banned in Moscow, but that hasn’t stopped leaders in the Russian Orthodox Church from blaming them for the invasion of Ukraine.

Republican U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday made a series of bizarre accusations regarding Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, while speaking at disgraced former president Donald Trump’s most recent political rally in Commerce, Georgia.

PFLAG National, the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents, families and allies, announced Wednesday its partnership with Have A Gay Day, a non-profit LGBTQ+ organization based in Dayton, Ohio, on a nationwide digital billboard campaign.

Richard Lipez, the author of a series of crime novels centered on an openly gay detective who, unlike the one-dimensional depictions common in the genre in the 1980s and ’90s, is not a tortured soul or a freak but a relatable character who is content with his life, died on March 16 at his home in Becket, Mass. He was 83. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his husband, Joe Wheaton.

Three men were arrested after breaking into the iconic Castro Theatre early March 29 and allegedly causing extensive damage to equipment inside. The cinema's famous organ, while evidently opened up by the suspects, was not damaged.Gary Marx, 38; Nicholas Degrego, 25; and Jason Kilbourne, 32, were apprehended inside the 100-year-old cinema after one of them was spotted inside the building by San Francisco Police Department officers on routine patrol around 6:30 a.m.

provide 70% of the labor involved in global coffee production and run 20-30% of coffee farms. Men in the industry, however, continue to have more access to capital and land, which allows them to reap more economic rewards.20 million coffee farmers live in poverty, many of them women.

Hillbilly Elegy, and Josh Mandel, the former Ohio state treasurer and two-time U.S. Senate candidate who is back for his third run,  blames Democrats and President Biden for NCAA rules that allow transgender females to compete on women’s sports teams in her most recent campaign commercial, reports The Hill..Given Vance and Mandel’s previous appeals to social conservatives by attacking the transgender and two-spirit communities, Timken, the third of three frontrunners in the GOP field — who heretofore was viewed as the more “establishment” figure — is hoping the ad gains traction and allows her to consolidate Republican primary voters behind her campaign.Thomas, who previously competed for UPenn’s men’s swimming team during her first three years in college, has particularly become a favorite target of conservatives, who balk at the idea that she was allowed to compete in women’s swimming after having received hormone therapy for two-and-a-half years (under NCAA rules, trans women are able to compete after finishing a year of hormone therapy).

“I just felt so awful for my friend, Chris. And it was sickening.

Hamlet in a new ballet production at the Edinburgh Festival Ballet.The Guardian reports that McKellen, 82, will step back into the role he originally played in his 20s as part of the experimental staging, which will also see him split the role with dancer Johan Christensen. The new production will run about 75 minutes, and feature scenes performed through Shakespeare’s dialogue, as well as told through dance.Related: Ian McKellen regrets he never told his parents this one thingOh, and did we mention that Hamlet is supposed to be in his 20s? The age-blind casting speaks to McKellen’s abilities as an actor. No wonder he’s scored two Oscar nominations in his career.If McKellen’s recent Hamlet casting doesn’t do enough to announce his perpetual awesomeness, look no further.

Associated Press reports. “The defendant confessed to pulling out a kitchen knife and repeatedly thrusting it into the body of a stranger on the street, killing him,” Dahl said. “Was there anything that would prevent him from simply running away from Mr.

Manalik’i Wilson, 27, was hit by a speeding truck as he tried to cross Hudnall Street outside the Tin Room on Thursday, March 17. He was taken to nearby Parkland where he was pronounced dead.

Steve Atkinson, one of the organizers of the March 19 protest outside the Dallas Arboretum, has announced there will be a second peaceful protest at the same location on Sunday, April 3, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The protests are being held in response to allegations of the Aboretum’s anti-LGBTQ employment policies and practices and alleged mistreatment of minority visitors, and organizers say the protests will continue until the discrimination haa been addressed and rectified.

As Disney faces criticism for not fighting a controversial Florida bill sooner, video footage from an internal call shows executives explaining the company’s supposed atmosphere of tolerance.Animation director Latoya Raveneau, a director on shows including The Proud Family, was depicted in the video. In it, she described feeling concerns when she first worked at Disney because she heard rumors the company played it too safe with content.“But then, my experience was bafflingly the opposite of what I had heard,” she said in footage that has since been posted to Twitter.

Ivanka Trump has turned her attention away from sending oatmeal to people in Ukraine to instead focus on handing out styrofoam containers of food to tornado victims in Arabi, Louisiana. But because she is Ivanka Trump, she couldn’t perform the act of charity without crowing about it on social media.Related: Ivanka would like a medal for donating “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to send oatmeal to Ukraine“On the road with my friends from Mercy Chefs today in New Orleans preparing and serving meals to families whose homes were destroyed by the recent tornadoes,” the former first daughter wrote on Instagram yesterday.

It’s easy to get swept away by Key West’s charm. Walk down Historic Old Town roads lined with picturesque conch-style houses, and you’ll stumble upon the stomping grounds of Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Leonard Bernstein, just to name a few.Key West has long been known as a place where queer people can enjoy a peaceful vacation as their authentic selves. This is why more than 300,000 LGBTQ visitors flock to the island each year.

Six months after Lil Nas X “gave birth” to his debut album Montero, he’s earning more applause thanks to his “baby registry” fundraising.Established in the weeks leading up to Montero’s release, Nas X’s baby registry — complete with pregnancy photo — has raised close to $500,000 to be distributed to 16 organizations, 14 of which are associated with the COMPASS Initiative, a Gilead Sciences campaign working to address HIV/AIDS in the Southern United States.“Communities all across the South, like my home state of Georgia, are being transformed by the work of COMPASS grantees,” Lil Nas X said in a statement. “The Montero baby registry was created to send resources to grassroots groups serving the most vulnerable.

Boris Johnson allegedly made a joke at the expense of the transgender community hours before the first-ever UK MP came out as trans.

Skullduggery podcast.Greene, a far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican from Georgia, made the remark at a so-called Save America rally held Saturday in her home state. She ridiculed Buttigieg, the U.S.

TOWIE, Celebrity Big Brother and Dancing On Ice meme machine was trending on Twitter all day following the announcement that she’ll play Mama Morton for a select few dates in the UK and Ireland tour of Chicago. Mama Morton is, you’ll remember, the part played by Queen Latifah in the Oscar-winning movie adaptation; the supporting role that gets to sing the absolute belters When You’re Good To Mama and Class. Many actors are outraged by The GC’s appointment, and to quote Mary Sunshine in We Both Reached For The Gun, it’s perfectly understandable.

GEMMA Collins has given fans a cheeky wink while showing off her thick new eyebrows. The former Towie star, 41, visited her local brow bar in Essex on Friday before emerging a short while later with her dramatic new look. Gemma is thought to have had microblading done, which is a tattooing technique using semi-permanent dye.

Gemma Collins has shared a peek inside her date night with boyfriend Rami Hawash including a romantic Simply Red concert at The O2. The Diva Forever star, 41, who recently shared her skin secret including the transformation of her crow’s feet, enjoyed a concert with Rami along with their friends and former Absolutely Ascot stars Alfie Best and his dad Alfie Best Senior along with Henry Simmons Senior. Rami shared a glimpse inside the evening as he shared a collection of photographs and videos to his 12,600 Instagram followers as the group danced in their private box at the London arena.

Gemma Collins looked more loved-up than ever before with her fiancé Rami Hawash as they attended a Simply Red concert on Wednesday. Dancing the night away, the former The Only Way Is Essex star, who recently revealed her glowing skin secrets, beamed for the camera as she snapped a sweet selfie as Rami rested his head on her shoulder. In another image shared to Gemma's 2.2 million Instagram followers, the pair affectionately locked lips as they continued their exciting event.

Gemma Collins has taken to Instagram to share her thoughts on keeping skin looking healthy after she decided to ditch the Botox.The 41-year-old TOWIE icon, who shot to fame on the ITV reality show in 2011, showed her followers pictures of her skin before she began using her personal collagen pillsShe began the video by thanking her 2.2 million Instagram followers for all their “lovely comments” about her skin, telling them that she “takes collagen” and follows the phrase “your face is your fortune”.The former Celebrity Big Brother star continued on and showcased her before and after results due to collagen intake. Looking naturally beautiful and with her skin looking fresh, Gemma told her fans that she took the video because she has been “really using her collagen”.She carried on: “I really wanted to drill down on my skincare this year and literally the effects are incredible, you won’t be disappointed.

GEMMA Collins has left fans open-mouthed after revealing her incredible skin transformation in a series of new snaps. The 41-year-old looked slimmer than ever as she shared the secret to her amazing natural look – her own collagen brand.

GEMMA Collins has shown off her shrinking waist in a holiday throwback clip. The 41-year-old posted a video to celebrate pancake day - showing her dancing around on a boat surrounded by friends.