Yahoo to compete with Netflix; A$AP Rocky engaged to model; ‘Chef’ trailer: PM … – The Post

Look out, Amazon and Netflix: Yahoo wants to compete with streaming television services and cable TV by creating its own shows. Word is they’re looking at 10-episode series with budgets of up to a few million dollars to air on its new video platform long rumored to be in the works. Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer is expected to unveil the project at a “NewFront” event in New York on April 28, so make sure you’ve finished watching “House of Cards” — because a new binge-watching option could be coming soon.
» Read more at Time.

Lingerie model Chanel Iman is secretly engaged to A$AP Rocky, sources close to the couple tell Page Six. Word is the 23-year-old Victoria’s Secret Angel “happily accepted his proposal” recently, but she hasn’t gone public with an engagement ring or wedding plans yet. She first started dating the 25-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, in early 2013 after he split from Iggy Azalea. The New York-based hip-hop star’s hits include “Wild for the Night” featuring Skrillex and the BET Award-winning single “F—in’ Problems.”
» Read more at Vogue.

Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars in “Chef.” The first trailer shows Favreau starting a food truck business after his restaurant job makes him miserable. The film looks more like a “Swingers”-sized indie comedy than an action blockbuster like “Iron Man,” but the cast still includes big names like Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. “Chef,” which also stars Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo and Dustin Hoffman, opens May 9.

“The Expendables 3″ star Jason Statham makes a cameo in Calvin Harris’ new music video for “Summer.” The actor and Scottish DJ appear in a drag racing scene in the desert, interspersed with footage of Harris posing like a rock star and women in barely-there outfits. According to the Daily Mail, Statham and Harris have become friends in the past year, spotted partying together in Las Vegas and London. “Summer,” to be released April 27, is a single from Harris’ upcoming album.

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» Scarlett Johansson tells Glamour she hates the nickname ‘ScarJo’ (Daily Mail)

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Bob Geldof daughter, Peaches, dies at 25 – Las Vegas Review

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LONDON (AP) — Peaches Geldof, the wild-child second daughter of Irish singer Bob Geldof who filled the pages of British tabloids with her late-night antics as she partied through the world of fashion and celebrity, was found dead Monday at age 25.

There was no immediate word on the cause of her death at her home in Wrotham, Kent, southeast England but police called it “unexplained and sudden.”

Peaches Geldof had admitted using drugs in the past but said in a 2009 interview that she had quit.

The news of her death came as a shock to Britain’s entertainment and fashion circles, where Geldof had been active as a model, television presenter and fashion writer. She was a frequent attendee at fashion shows in London and New York, and was photographed just last week at a London show for the Tesco brand FF.

Geldof was only a girl of 11 when her mother Paula Yates, a popular television presenter, died of a drug overdose in 2000, and those who knew her said it hit her extremely hard.

The last tweet she sent on Twitter came on Sunday, when she posted a photograph of herself as a toddler next to her mother along with the caption: “Me and my mum.”

Her father issued an anguished statement Monday from the family about her death.

“Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us,” he wrote. “Writing ‘was’ destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable? We loved her and will cherish her forever.”

The statement was signed by Bob, Jeanne (his partner), Peaches’ sisters Fifi and Pixie and her half-sister Tiger Geldof.

Kent police declined to name Geldof, but when asked about her death they said in a statement that officers were called to a house near Wrotham following a report of concern for a woman’s welfare Monday afternoon. They said the 25-year-old woman was pronounced dead by emergency officers and that the death was being treated as “unexplained and sudden.”

In an interview with the Guardian newspaper in 2009, Geldof acknowledged that she used drugs as a teenager but said she had stopped.

“‘Yeah, I’ve taken drugs. Yes, I have had experiences, and a few of those experiences were unsavory, not ones I want to repeat, but I was growing up. I wanted the experience,” she told the paper.

“I wasn’t hugely into drugs and I’m sober now,” she added. “I’m not Amy Winehouse. I never have been. I wasn’t a crackhead.”

Geldof was married twice. She leaves behind her second husband, Tom Cohen, lead singer of the defunct London punk band S.C.U.M, and two sons, 23-month-old Astala and 11-month-old Phaedra.

“My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra, and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. We shall love her forever,” Cohen said in a statement.

At age 19 she married Max Drummey, a vocalist with U.S. indie rock band Chester French, at a drive-thru chapel in Las Vegas while the two were on holiday. The marriage lasted six months and ended in 2009.

Reaction from other friends and acquaintances across Britain was disbelief.

“It’s very, very sad. Peaches has overcome a lot in her childhood, seemed to be getting her life together. You hear something like this and words can fail you. It’s just tragic, terrible news,” Ray Levine, Peaches’ former publicist, told Sky News.

“Having to deal with the death of your mother at such a young age would be difficult for any child, let alone someone in the public spotlight,” he added.

It was not easy being the daughter of a famous, wealthy father. In the public eye since her teenage years, Peaches Geldof struggled with a turbulent social life, highlighted at every turn by a British press eager for celebrity news.

Born on Mar. 13, 1989, she left home at 16 and began writing columns for fashion magazines and newspapers, as well as dabbling in television presenting and modeling. She was well-known among London’s young and trendy crowd, frequently snapped wearing cutting-edge outfits on catwalk front rows or on red carpets at movie premieres and exclusive club events.

But more often than not, British tabloids and gossip magazines focused on the more sordid details of her life, including reports that she was caught shoplifting cosmetics and claims that she used heroin.

In 2010 she was dropped from a lingerie modelling contract after photographs showing her topless and allegations that she used drugs surfaced.

Bob Geldof, 62, rose to fame in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish punk band The Boomtown Rats, which still occasionally performs. He became an internationally renowned social activist in the 1980s by marshaling the power of his fellow music celebrities, most notably as co-organizer of the 1984 Band-Aid movement and the following year’s Live Aid concerts that raised millions for famine relief in Ethiopia.

The fundraising song he co-wrote, “Do they Know It’s Christmas?” featuring an ensemble of pop stars remains a radio favorite in Britain and Ireland at Christmastime.

In 2005, he helped organize more celebrity-studded concerts under the banner Live 8 — timed to coincide with a G8 summit taking place in Scotland — that raised funds to fight poverty. For the past decade he has worked alongside fellow Irish rocker Bono at events organized by the U2 singer’s anti-poverty charity One.

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