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Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and actor Ana de Armas have reportedly ended their relationship after less than nine months together. According to reports, the pair, who were first romantically linked in February, decided to part ways amicably after realising “the spark had gone.”
A source close to the couple told The Sun, “Tom and Ana had a good time together, but their time as a couple has run its course. They are going to remain good friends, but they aren’t dating anymore. They just realised they weren’t going to go the distance and that they are better off as mates.”
The news comes as a surprise to fans, especially since rumours of a possible wedding had been making the rounds. The two were also reportedly preparing to star in a film together. However, despite the breakup, both stars are said to be handling things maturely. “She’s already been cast in his next film, so they will continue to work together,” the insider added.
Cruise and de Armas were set to co-star in the upcoming supernatural thriller “Deeper,” which is currently on hold, and were also expected to reunite for another project titled ‘Pressure.’

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actor best known for her performances in ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather’, died at the age of 79 on October 11, and her family has announced that the cause of death was pneumonia. Keaton’s family shared the news in a statement to People, adding that they are grateful for the widespread messages of support they have received in recent days.
Her family said, “The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11.”
Keaton was born in Los Angeles in 1946 and became known for her honesty and originality on screen. She was celebrated for her roles in films like ‘The First Wives Club’, ‘Something’s Gotta Give’, and ‘Baby Boom’. Many admired her independence and authenticity, qualities that inspired audiences over the years.
Remembering her compassion, Keaton’s family noted her dedication to animal welfare and to supporting the unhoused community. They said, “She loved her animals and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her.”

Actor Keira Knightley has admitted that she is unaware of the heated discourse surrounding the Harry Potter franchise, despite many Hollywood stars having openly spoken out against it. The actor, who has been busy promoting her Netflix release The Woman in Cabin 10, told Deadline that she was not ‘aware’ that many have called for a boycott of the Harry Potter franchise in recent times over J.K.Rowling’s anti-trans statements.
Upon asking about the boycott, Keira said, “I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry. You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”
Keira has been cast as Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions. The new audiobook series also features a star-studded cast, including Hugh Laurie as Albus Dumbledore, Matthew Macfadyen as Lord Voldemort, Riz Ahmed as Professor Snape, and Michelle Gomez as Professor McGonagall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is set to be the first title to be released on November 4 on Audible.
Meanwhile, the main controversy surrounding JK Rowling relates to her views on the transgender community. She has been accused of being transphobic for her views on gender identity from several fans and actors, including Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe.
Emma’s recent comments on the podcast with Jay Shetty reignited the debate. She said that she could disagree with Rowling’s views on the trans community while cherishing the memories of working with the Harry Potter writer. JK Rowling went on to criticise Emma as someone who lives a privileged life and is not qualified to speak on sensitive matters like the debate on trans identity.
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actor best known for her performances in ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather’, died at the age of 79 on October 11, and her family has announced that the cause of death was pneumonia.
Keaton’s family shared the news in a statement to People, adding that they are grateful for the widespread messages of support they have received in recent days.
Her family said, “The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11.”
Keaton was born in Los Angeles in 1946 and became known for her honesty and originality on screen. She was celebrated for her roles in films like ‘The First Wives Club’, ‘Something’s Gotta Give’, and ‘Baby Boom’. Many admired her independence and authenticity, qualities that inspired audiences over the years.
Remembering her compassion, Keaton’s family noted her dedication to animal welfare and to supporting the unhoused community. They said, “She loved her animals and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her.”

Actor Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her experience with infertility, her decision not to adopt, and the challenges she has faced in the public eye. In a recent episode of the ‘Armchair Expert’ podcast, Aniston, 56, discussed her thoughts on motherhood and addressed years of speculation regarding her family plans. She spoke candidly about trying various methods to start a family, including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), and responded to public commentary about her choices.
On the podcast, Aniston addressed suggestions about adoption, saying, “When people say, ‘But you can adopt,’ I don’t want to adopt,” ‘The Morning Show’ star told cohosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman, per People. She explained her desire for a biological connection: “I want my own DNA in a little person. That’s the only way, selfish or not, whatever that is, I’ve wanted it.”
Aniston has been open about her efforts to conceive, recalling the lengths she went to during her fertility journey. She said, “All the years and years and years of speculation It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.” She added, “I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.’ You just don’t think [about] it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
When Monica Padman asked about finding peace, Aniston responded, “It’s so peaceful. But I will say there’s a point where it’s, like, out of my control. There’s literally nothing I can do about it.” She acknowledged the process of accepting her circumstances and the sense of calm she now feels.

Ex couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reunited, albeit just for a night, at the New York premiere of ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’, with Affleck showing support for his former wife. The duo, all smiles on the red carpet, chatted intimately and posed for photos, marking their first public appearance together since their divorce was finalised earlier this year. Affleck, 53, who serves as an executive producer of the film alongside Matt Damon’s Artist Equity production company, praised Lopez at the screening. “It’s an honour to be here. This movie is exquisite. Jennifer, you’re incredible. Bill, you did an amazing job. [Tonatiuh], you’re phenomenal. Welcome to a lifelong stardom. Enjoy it. There’s ups and downs, but here you are. It’s really, truly a thrill and honour, and I’m just proud of this movie. Thank you for letting me be part of it,” he said. Lopez, 56, turned heads in a dramatic gown with an exaggerated corset, while Affleck looked dapper in a navy suit and white button-up, wrapping his arm around Lopez as they posed for photographers. Their warm interaction on the red carpet has already sparked fan speculation about a possible reconciliation. The premiere comes nine months after Lopez and Affleck settled their divorce, following two years of marriage. The former couple first dated in the early 2000s and were engaged before separating, only to rekindle their relationship and marry in 2022. Lopez cited April 26, 2025, as their official date of separation, and the divorce was quietly finalised in January this year.

Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts feels Hollywood is a male-dominated environment after all her years in the film industry.

Roberts said that she can relate to her character Alma Imhoff in the new movie After the Hunt, who claims she had to be successful in a “deeply misogynist” world to become a professor at Yale University.

Asked if her experience mirrored Alma’s, Roberts told The Sunday Times newspaper: “Well, it’s still super-male! Make no mistake. But yes. Any woman in any job not populated in the majority by women can say Alma’s speech.”

“We’ve all had that experience. Any woman has. Because I often find myself sitting at a table and, maybe, there’s only one other woman there,” added the 57-year-old actress. Roberts said she has had to be fearless to make herself heard in a male-dominated world, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The “Ticket To Paradise” star said: “In those sort of environments. I am without fear.” The actress said that she decided to accept a role in Luca Guadagnino’s flick After the Hunt despite not being able to decide whether or not she liked the troubled university professor she portrays.

Actress and film producer Michelle Pfeiffer recalled her audition process for Brian De Palma’s directorial crime drama ‘Scarface’, also starring Al Pacino, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She shared the moment when Pacino was convinced she was perfect for the role of Elvira in the 1983 film.

She recently appeared on the SmartLess podcast, hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, and recalled being part of the movie. Michelle said that while the filmmaker wanted her for the part, Pacino didn’t initially feel the same way.

“Al will admit this,” she said, “but he didn’t really want me for the part,” as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.

She recalled meeting De Palma and the casting director and failing her initial audition for the film. However, “over the course of two months, I just got worse and worse and worse, because I’m just afraid. And by the end, I’m bad.”

Pfeiffer admitted she didn’t “blame” Pacino for his initial reaction. “He just was like, ‘She’s bad.’ And Brian finally comes to me and says, ‘You know, doll, it’s just not gonna work out. I’m like, ‘I know, man. I’m sorry.’ Because Brian really wanted me,” she said, as per the outlet.

“As disappointed as I was,” the ace star continued, “I was so happy to be done with it. So, like, at least a month goes by, and I get a call, they want to bring me in to screen test. So I show up and I don’t even give a shit, ’cause I know I’m not getting this part.”

Pfeiffer recalled that the “restaurant scene where I explode at the end,” ended up being “my best work of the film.”

“I swipe the table of the dishes and glasses break, the dishes break, cut. There’s blood everywhere. They all run over to me, to see where I’ve cut myself. Well, I didn’t cut me. I cut Al,” she recalled, adding that she “cut him in the finger or something,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“I thought, ‘Well, there goes that part.’ But actually, I think that was the day [Pacino] was like, ‘Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, she’s not bad,’” Pfeiffer added.

The 1983 crime classic follows determined, criminal-minded Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Pacino), who becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction. Elvira was Tony’s troubled wife, a drug-addicted socialite, who was the former lover of his boss, Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jennifer Lopez said she considers herself an “underdog,” despite having a decades-long career in acting.
During Sept. 28’s episode of CBS News Sunday Morning, the star spoke to host Lee Cowan about her career and her latest movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman. It’s Lopez’s first-ever movie musical, the showcase that she says she has “been waiting for my whole life.”
In the interview, Lopez, 56, opened up about having to prove herself as an actress when others wanted to box her in as only a dancer or singer.
“People, when they see you first as one thing, it’s hard for them to see you as something else. You just have to show them. You can’t let that discourage you,” explained Lopez.
Cowan asked, “Did you struggle to be taken seriously at first?” Lopez responded with a laugh: “At first? At first — and maybe always.”
“A little bit. Or maybe it’s just me in my own head,” she added. “I don’t know. I’ve always felt a bit of the underdog. Definitely misunderstood. But it comes with the territory of being in the public eye. People are not gonna really know who you are, your heart. And then they see it and go, ‘Oh, that’s who she is,’ then they hear something and they go, ‘Oh, no, that’s not who she is.’ And they get confused. I get it. I understand.”
“But I stay steady,” said Lopez. “And that’s the most important thing, I think. I don’t change. I grow, but I don’t change.” Cowan pointed out that Lopez has starred in movies opposite other A-listers like Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, George Clooney and Robin Williams, so “how could you not be taken seriously?” Lopez said, “I don’t know.”
Lopez has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards: Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for 1997’s Selena and Best Supporting Actress for 2019’s Hustlers. Hustlers also earned Lopez nods at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Kiss of the Spider Woman will be in theaters Oct. 10 after making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Lopez stars alongside Diego Luna and Tonatiuh as a “silver screen diva” named Aurora, a.k.a. Ingrid Luna.
An adaptation of the 1976 novel and its Tony Award–winning Broadway musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman comes from director Bill Condon, who wrote the Chicago movie musical that won six Oscars in 2003, including Best Picture.

The world of Hollywood isn’t just buzzing about Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s split. Rumor has it that Tom Cruise could be ready to take his romance with actor Ana de Armas to the next level, with whispers suggesting the couple is even considering saying their “I dos” while skydiving.
As per a report by RadarOnline, Tom and Ana de want their wedding to be as “mind-blowing as a Mission: Impossible stunt”. Though the pair isn’t yet officially engaged, they are busy making their wedding plans.
“One of the things that really bonds them is how much they both love doing these daring feats, so having a wedding that leans into that really appeals to both of them,” an insider said, adding, “Tom is already thinking on a larger-than-life scale. He’s obsessed with space travel, so the idea of being the first couple to ever marry in outer space excites him. They’ve also talked about some sort of skydiving thing, saying their vows mid-air. Whatever they do they want it to be as far from ordinary as you can get.”
The Top Gun star, 63, has been very guarded about his relationship with the 37-year-old Ana de Armas. They got together earlier this year, and have been getting steady since then.

American actress Angelina Jolie said she no longer recognises her country, voicing concern over threats to free expression while presenting her latest film at Spain’s San Sebastin film festival.
Her comments come as worries grow over free speech in the United States, after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on critical media and the recent suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show over comments on the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
“I love my country, but I don’t at this time recognise my country,” Jolie said when asked if she feared for freedom of speech in the United States.
“Anything, anywhere, that divides or, of course, limits personal expressions and freedoms and, from anyone, I think is very dangerous,” she added.
“These are very, very heavy times we’re all living in together.”
Jolie, 50, was in San Sebastian to promote “Couture”, directed by French filmmaker Alice Winocour, which is competing for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Shell.
She plays Maxine Walker, an American film director facing divorce and a serious illness while navigating Paris Fashion Week and embarking on a romance with a colleague, played by French actor Louis Garrel.
The Oscar-winning actress — honoured in 1999 for her role in “Girl, Interrupted” — said she related personally to the struggles of her latest character.
Jolie underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 and later had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to reduce her high genetic risk of cancer, which claimed the lives of her mother and grandmother.
Visibly moved, she said she thought often of her mother while making the film.
“I wish she was able to speak more as openly as I have been, and have people respond as graciously as you have, and not feel as alone,” Jolie said.
“There’s something very particular to women’s cancers, because obviously it affects us, you know, how we feel as women,” she added.

Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.
She starred in more than 100 films and made-for-television productions, but she was best known for embodying youthful purity in Federico Fellini’s “8½,” in which she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni in 1963.
Cardinale also won praise for her role as Angelica Sedara in Luchino Visconti’s award-winning screen adaption of the historical novel “The Leopard” that same year and a reformed prostitute in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western “Once Upon a Time in the West” in 1968.
She died in Nemours, France, surrounded by her children, her agent Laurent Savry told AFP. Savry and his agency did not immediately return emailed requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Cardinale began her movie-career at the age of 17 after winning a beauty contest in Tunisia, where she was born of Sicilian parents who had emigrated to North Africa. The contest brought her to the Venice Film Festival, where she came to the attention of the Italian movie industry.
Before entering the beauty contest she had expected to become a school teacher.
“The fact I’m making movies is just an accident,” Cardinale recalled while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002. “When they asked me ‘do you want to be in the movies?’ I said no and they insisted for six months.” Her success came in the wake of Sophia Loren’s international stardom and she was touted as Italy’s answer to Brigitte Bardot. While never achieving the level of success of the French actor, she nonetheless was considered a star and worked with the leading directors in Europe and Hollywood.
“They gave me everything,” Cardinale said. “It’s marvelous to live so many lives. I’ve been living more than 150 lives, totally different women.” One of her earliest roles was as a black-clad Sicilian girl in the 1958 comedy classic “Big Deal on Madonna Street.” It was produced by Franco Cristaldi, who managed her early career and to whom she was married from 1966 to 1975. The sensuous brunette with enormous eyes was often cast as a hot-blooded woman. As she had a deep voice and spoke Italian with a heavy French accent, her voice was dubbed in her early movies.

The Outer Banks star recently stepped out with Prince Constantine-Alexios, a member of Greece and Denmark’s royal families, at the Lions Bar in New York, looking extremely cozy.
In blurry photos obtained by social media gossip account Deux Moi Sept. 23, the actress, 27, and prince, 26, appeared to be in the own world during the outing, embracing and stealing kisses with each other.
Naturally, fans were quick to show their love for the possible romance.
“Good for her,” several fans wrote beneath the photos, with another quipping, “Queen behavior.”
Hours before the bar outing was captured, Madelyn and Constantine-Alexios walked the streets of New York hand-in-hand, dressed casually and paying no mind to onlookers as they sped down a busy sidewalk. One fan cheekily wrote beneath the video of the occasion, also obtained by Deux Moi, “This is such iconic behavior of her.”
Neither Madelyn, nor Constantine-Alexios, has addressed the romantic speculation. E! News has reached out to reps for both parties but has not yet heard back.