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Rod Stewart is well-known for his decades-long music career, but he is also the patriarch of a large, blended family.

The rock legend shares eight children with five mothers. He is a father to four daughters — Sarah, 59, Kimberly, 44, Ruby, 36, and Renee, 31 — and four sons — Sean, 43, Liam, 29, Alastair Wallace, 18, and Aiden Patrick, 13.

Stewart welcomed his eldest child, Sarah, with ex-girlfriend Susannah Boffey. He shares daughter Kimberly and son Sean with his ex-wife Alana Stewart, and daughter Ruby with his ex-girlfriend Kelly Emberg. While married to ex-wife Rachel Hunter, Stewart had two more children, Renee and Liam. He welcomed his two youngest kids, sons Alastair and Aiden, with his current wife Penny Lancaster, whom he wed in 2007.

Stewart is also a grandfather to Kimberly’s daughter Delilah and Ruby’s son Otis.

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Sir Rod Stewart won’t be slowing down.

In his 79th year, he continues to lead a busy year at full throttle. Highlights for 2024 include his 200th performance at a Las Vegas residency, an ongoing world tour and a new swing album.

“Swing Fever” is a collaboration with Jools Holland and the talk show host’s rhythm and blues orchestra that explores some timeless tunes from the big band era, such as “Pennies From Heaven,” “Lullaby of Broadway” and “Sentimental Journey.”
Stewart, no newcomer to the American songbook, approached Holland with one request: “I’m not going to do slow songs,” Stewart said. “I want an upbeat fun song, which is what we need in these dark times we’re living in.”

Stewart expressed gratitude by performing songs created at a time when songwriting was a specific job, even before bands wrote their own.Holland , who began his career in the 1980s band Squeeze, joked about how the paradigm has changed.

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Chris Tarrant’s name may have become a household name thanks to his appearance on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” But now the veteran TV host only signs up for shows he’s really interested in.

Chris Tarrant isn’t keen to take on lots of TV work these days and only signs up for shows that he’s really excited about.

At 77, he says work is no longer a priority for him and he’s taking things easy. And that means he’s ruling out another stint on a game show.He told the Daily Star Sunday: “I spent 50 years of my life in studios of one sort or another. I really don’t want to go back and do all that again.

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James, 61, returned to screens alongside his movie colleagues Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson in the latest Grand Tour special on Amazon Prime called Sand Job.

In the full-length episode, the trio travels to Mauritania in West Africa, but James was criticized over a recent joke on the program.

“The Sand Job” is the penultimate episode of the program after the hosts decided to cancel the program.

However, at the very last minute they managed to cause more controversy.

One disgruntled fan was left moaning at James on X – earlier on Twitter – over comments he made on the program about the US state of Florida.

During the episode, James visited the local library, where the tour guide gave some explanations for what the TV host was reading.

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Consumer advocacy organization Tarion has condemned three homes in an apartment complex endorsed by celebrity Mike Holmes. A large excavator tears through a modern home in Meaford, Ontario, a picturesque community on Georgian Bay. The house, only two years old, has seen its once high ceilings, large windows and backyard patio reduced to broken glass and wood.

“It’s traumatizing,” said Fayard Johnson, who lives down the street. “Very surprised to see my neighbor’s house being destroyed.”

Another house owned by Fayard’s neighbor is also slated for demolition.
The demolition is the latest chapter in the saga of TerraceWood, a housing development launched in Meaford in 2015 with much pomp. “Boutique” portions of the homes were built by Third Line Homes, backed by celebrity contractor and popular TV personality Mike Holmes.

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James May is a name that has become synonymous not only with British television, but with car culture in general. Bright, intelligent and with a sense of humor, he easily won the hearts of millions of viewers around the world.

Early Years and Career
James May was born on January 16, 1963 in Bristol, England. His passion for automobiles was evident in his childhood and he always dreamt of a career related to the world of automobiles. After graduating from high school and college, he began his career as a journalist, writing articles about cars for various publications.

However, the real fame came to James May after he joined the team of the TV show “Top Gear” in 1999. With his inimitable style, eccentric jokes and expert knowledge about cars, he became one of the three hosts of this iconic car show.

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The celebrity contractor claims his company did not have access to the homes during construction.
For the first time, Mike Holmes has spoken publicly about a lawsuit that alleges the homes in the Holmes Approved Homes complex in Meaford, Ontario, were built with defects.

The celebrity contractor and popular TV host posted the statement on his Facebook page four days after CBC News reported an update on the lawsuit . The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by Tarion, a consumer advocacy organization for new homes in Ontario.

Holmes said he was “deeply disappointed” by “news reports” about the lawsuit and that “only some” of the statements his company, Holmes Group, provided to the media “were used, and even those were taken out of context.”
Holmes stated that his company did not have access to the homes in the complex during construction, so it was unable to “assist in inspecting or identifying potential problems.”

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Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino will continue their successful collaboration. According to sources, the actor will perform one of the main roles in the last feature film “Film Critic” of the famous Hollywood director. The legal status of the agreement between Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino is not yet specified.

The director is keen to keep the plot of his future film a secret. The action is rumoured to take place in Southern California in the 1970s and centres on a cynical film reviewer. The film project is said to be inspired by the life of Pauline Kael, the now deceased New Yorker columnist who was one of the most influential film critics of her time.

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Inspired by the success of “Barbie,” Warner Bros. has decided to focus on another “women’s project” – a remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror film “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” with Tim Burton attached to direct. Michael De Luca and Pamela Ebdi will oversee development of the project on behalf of the studio. The script is being written by the author of “Vanished” and “Sharp Objects” Gillian Flynn.

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“The Heirs” star Matthew McFayden has found himself a major new television project. The newly minted Emmy Award winner will play a major role in the production project of the creators of “Game of Thrones” David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Bernadette Caulfield “Death by Lightning” (“Death by Lightning” – translation “Film News”). The upcoming Netflix series will partner Matthew McFayden with Michael Shannon (“The Shape of Water”) in the second lead role.

What is the series “Death by Lightning” about?
The series by its creator and showrunner Mike Makowski (“The Riddler”) is based on the book “Destiny of the Republic: A Story of Madness, Medicine, and the Assassination of a President” by Candice Millard and is about the rise to power of U.S. President James Garfield (Michael Shannon) and his subsequent assassination by Charles Guiteau (Matthew McFayden).

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