In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Holly J. Sinclair is Degrassi: The Next Generation’s “mean girl.” This season, not only is she head cheerleader and class president, she’s high-strung, short-tempered, and in short, the typical “queen bee.” “Pretty much everyone who started last year was a bit of a mystery at first, but Holly J. put herself out there very quickly as being annoying and trying to basically irk everyone at school,” says 19-year-old Charlotte Arnold, who plays Holly J. on Degrassi. Holly J. was a new addition last season, as Heather Sinclair’s little sister, transferring to Degrassi from a rival school. (Heather Sinclair, Arnold explains, was a character who was unseen and always mentioned on the show – “kind of a running joke.”)
This year, though, in Degrassi’s eighth season, Arnold says that Holly J. will be mellowing out, partly as a consequence of some stuff going on at home, but mostly because of a new relationship that doesn’t develop along the expected path. “She’s got a relationship starting this year but it doesn’t really go easily for her, she has to work for it,” Arnold tells andPOP. “This year’s kind of the chance where you get to see her…come back down to earth.” Arnold is excited to see Holly J. go through some changes, “simply because everybody wants to see their character get some other layers…and discover why characters act the way they do.”
Speaking of change, Arnold says that this season of Degrassi represents a change in generation, as well. “This is season eight, and everyone’s talking about [how] a generation is seven years, so this is Degrassi: The Next Next Generation, in a way,” she says. There are eight new characters this year, and the focus has changed from the university kids (the original cast members) to a younger teen set, which Arnold says is a great chance to bring new energy into the show, and a chance to put a new twist to tried-and-true material from previous generations. “The issues that go with younger kids are issues that go with university students…some of the simpler things that everyone has to deal with in high school, like feeling like you don’t fit it. It’s really nice for them to start touching on those issues again.”
So while Holly J. will have her plate full this season, Arnold is no slacker on that front either. It’s mid-fall, and while university students find themselves at this time, laden with projects and midterms, few can explain their hectic schedules the way Arnold can.
“Filming, school, everything kind of started colliding, so I’ve been struggling for a little while now,” says Arnold of the last few weeks. “But I’m expecting things to slow down next week; we’ll be done shooting.”
Arnold is in her second year of Ryerson’s Journalism program. September and October, she says, are the busiest months for her, since those are the months where filming overlaps with school. She says that she’s looking forward to focusing on school a little more, and to any possible projects that might come up once filming is over, like last summer, for example. In August, the Degrassi kids took a two-week trip to Ecuador, their second with Free the Children. The year before, they had traveled to Kenya to build a school, and this time, they built a community kitchen, dining area and water system at the main school site for the kids at San Miguel de Pomachaca. “One thing I really, really like about this particular organization is that they don’t put an emphasis simply on building,” she says. “It’s also about really learning about the culture and the issues and meeting the people so that you can put a face to poverty rather than keep it at arm’s length.”
And the Degrassi kids did indeed become firmly ensconced in the community and culture. Arnold says for the first few days, they spent some time in Quito learning about the city before heading off to the mountains, where they stayed in an old hacienda (an converted plantation that was formerly used for indigenous labour, which Ecaudor no longer employs). One thing that really illustrated the idea of “community” during this trip was a “minga,” a gathering of all the people in the area who come to help whenever a minga is called. “In this particular case, when we were having trouble finishing the school in time, they called a couple of mingas where just the entire community would get together and help us paint and build,” says Arnold. “So literally, we were working side by side with workers from the community, which was nice.”
Arnold says that it doesn’t take an international adventure to change someone’s perspective, but that her trips with Free the Children have made a huge difference. “I know you can read enough about it, you can watch it on TV, and it still doesn’t feel real when you get to a community like Kenya, for me, or whatever your first encounter with real poverty is. And it’s just shocking…. Until you see it, it’s hard to actually picture that it is occurring right now, in 2008, around the world.”
The buzzwords for Arnold this year, both in her on- and off-screen lives, seem to be perspective and change. And while Holly J. is on the brink of making a change, it definitely looks like Arnold is already there.
