The tip of his marriage — and the court docket circumstances that adopted — are the topic of a serious new e-book, and Johnny Depp would be the star attraction on the opening night time of the Cannes Movie Competition later this month.
However what of Amber Heard? She’s been absent from the highlight for the reason that finish of the defamation trial in Virginia final yr through which she was discovered to have libelled her former husband.
I can reveal that Heard has stop Hollywood and quietly relocated to Spain together with her younger daughter Oonagh. A pal stated: ‘She’s bilingual in Spanish and is joyful there, elevating her daughter away from all of the noise.
‘I don’t suppose she is in any hurry to return to work or to Hollywood, however she is going to in all probability come again when the time is true for the fitting venture.’
The Aquaman actress offered her residence in Yucca Valley, California, in July final yr for $1.1million (practically double what she paid for it).
I can reveal that Amber Heard, pictured with Johnny Depp, has stop Hollywood and quietly relocated to Spain together with her younger daughter Oonagh
Amber Heard has been absent from the highlight for the reason that finish of the defamation trial in Virginia final yr through which she was discovered to have libelled her former husband
Then, in October, she was photographed on a seashore in Majorca together with her girlfriend Eve Barlow. On the time, she was rumoured to be residing in a rented home on the island.
However I’m instructed she has now moved completely to a brand new residence exterior Madrid with Oonagh, who is 2.
Heard hasn’t labored since filming Aquaman And The Misplaced Kingdom in 2021, and a modestly budgeted thriller, In The Hearth, final spring. (The Aquaman movie comes out, lastly, on the finish of this yr.) It’s not recognized whether or not Heard remains to be with Eve Barlow, who has remained in Los Angeles and is working as a author.
At Christmas, Barlow appeared to recommend that they had cut up when she posted an essay on Substack saying that she was ‘looking for optimism on the finish of a life-altering yr’.
She added: ‘At this time I used to be reminded of a phenomenal passage from a Khalil Gibran poem about why energy needs to be renourished and revitalized in ourselves, usually alone.’
In the meantime, Depp not too long ago spent a vacation on his island — Little Parrot Cay — within the Bahamas with Sandra, the widow of his pal Jeff Beck, and her pal Wendy, who’s the mum of singer Joss Stone.
On Could 22 and 23, Depp will play at a Jeff Beck charity profit in help of animal charities on the Royal Albert Corridor in London. Later in the summertime, he’ll return to the films by directing a movie concerning the artist Modigliani — after which go on the highway along with his band, The Hollywood Vampires.
What did they do to Elvis? Austin Butler misplaced his hair and eyebrows to turn into villain Feyd-Rautha (left) in Dune: Half Two which comes out in November. Butler (pictured proper as Elvis) stars with Florence Pugh, Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya. The character was performed by singer Sting within the 1984 David Lynch adaptation.
What did they do to Elvis? Austin Butler misplaced his hair and eyebrows to turn into villain Feyd-Rautha (left) in Dune
Butler’s co-star Dave Bautista stated: ‘I don’t know who this man was, however it’s not Austin Butler. It’s not Elvis. His voice is completely different, his look is completely different. Every part about his manner is terrifying.’
A little bit of Tommy — Similar to hat!
Tommy Cooper’s fez is amongst objects up for public sale in a brand new Channel 4 collection.
The historical past of the long-lasting titfer is that Cooper, who died in 1984, gave it to an clothes shop in Blackpool in change for a go well with. One other Cooper fez is held within the V&A museum
The Best Public sale, fronted by the ever present A.J. Odudu, sees a vendor deliver the fez to sale — and obtain properly above the £3,250 reserve value within the first episode, which will probably be screened subsequent Tuesday.
The historical past of the long-lasting titfer is that Cooper, who died in 1984, gave it to an clothes shop in Blackpool in change for a go well with. One other Cooper fez is held within the V&A museum.
Some stars preserve their Oscars within the bathroom, to point out they don’t take care of the trimmings of fame.
Funnyman Jim Carrey is on the different excessive and has the costumes he’s worn in motion pictures displayed in museum-style glass containers in his residence cinema room
Funnyman Jim Carrey is on the different excessive and has the costumes he’s worn in motion pictures displayed in museum-style glass containers in his residence cinema room — his Riddler, Grinch and Ace Ventura (above) outfits amongst them.
How Jamie chilled out
Jamie Oliver has revealed he was so cocky as a teen that he would often get locked within the freezer on the pub run by his father Trevor.
Jamie Oliver has revealed he was so cocky as a teen that he would often get locked within the freezer on the pub run by his father
Oliver stated that from the age of about 11, he helped out within the kitchen of The Cricketers in Clavering, Essex; and by the point he was 14 he was higher than among the cooks within the kitchen.
‘While you’re 14, you haven’t received a hair in your chin and these 21-year-olds appeared like males. Clearly being younger, I used to be cocky as properly, so I usually ended up within the freezer for about quarter-hour.’ His father didn’t come to his rescue. ‘I believe he felt it was a sort of initiation of some description.’
She has been maybe the final word movie star yo-yo dieter, however everybody at Cinema Con in Las Vegas final weekend was speaking about Oprah Winfrey, who’s in a particularly slim section.
Winfrey has remodeled herself bodily since her Meghan and Harry interview in 2021
Winfrey has remodeled herself bodily since her Meghan and Harry interview in 2021.
She was on the town to advertise a brand new musical movie model of The Colour Purple, which she govt produced. (Winfrey, in fact, was one of many stars of the unique massive display screen adaptation in 1985, which was directed by Steven Spielberg.)
The brand new film, which can be referred to as The Colour Purple, follows a stage musical primarily based on the Alice Walker e-book.
It’s all change on the Academy, after the Andrea Riseborough affair. Followers of her movie To Leslie managed to land her on the Greatest Actress poll this yr following a guerrilla social media marketing campaign.
However any more, all point out of voting intentions on social media will probably be banned; and there’s a hotline for snitches — so people had higher watch their step when enthusing.
As well as, solely 4 hosted screenings will probably be permitted earlier than nominations . . . and none afterwards.
Beforehand there was no restrict on both; and thousands and thousands have been spent by movie studios on ‘getting a dialog going’ about their photos.
Is Aaron bulking up for Bond?
Get able to see much more of Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Footage from the forthcoming Marvel movie Kraven The Hunter screened not too long ago at Cinema Con in Las Vegas reveals the British actor, who performs the title character, spends many of the film topless.
Kraven acquires the pace, energy and senses of a jungle cat after consuming a natural potion within the movie, which goes to be Marvel’s first ‘R’ rated film due to some bloody violence which had Cinema Con delegates wincing. Russell Crowe performs his father.
Taylor-Johnson, 32, from Excessive Wycombe, was notably weedy as Dave Lizewski in Kick Ass again in 2010. However he has clearly been figuring out and bulking up since then.
Taylor-Johnson, 32, from Excessive Wycombe, was notably weedy as Dave Lizewski in Kick Ass again in 2010
Footage from the forthcoming Marvel movie Kraven The Hunter screened not too long ago at Cinema Con in Las Vegas reveals the British actor, who performs the title character, spends many of the film topless
Certainly, so thorough is his bodily transformation from wiry youth to hench hunk that he has been employed because the ‘face’ of Calvin Klein underwear; and shot a buff promoting marketing campaign earlier this yr. This was accompanied by a semi-clad video which reasonably set Instagram alight.
One fan wrote: ‘I received pregnant after watching this video, and I’m a person.’
Taylor-Johnson’s pal Jamie Dornan, who was the face of Calvin Klein pants himself again in 2014, wrote: ‘You actually ought to have gotten your self in higher form for this. Did you overlook about it or one thing?’
If he finally ends up being the subsequent James Bond — and he’s amongst those that have apparently met with Barbara Broccoli — he’ll make his predecessor Daniel Craig appear to be a nine-stone weakling.
The actor is married to director Sam Taylor-Johnson, 56, who has simply completed manufacturing on her controversial Amy Winehouse biopic, Again To Black. They reside largely in Somerset and have two youngsters.
Jack Whitehall is encouraging folks to look at his newest film, sci-fi romcom Robots, on as small a display screen as potential — to spare his blushes.
‘There’s fairly a little bit of nudity and, particularly on an enormous display screen, it’s fairly unforgiving,’ says Jack of the movie, which reaches cinemas subsequent month.
‘I’d usually encourage folks to look at a movie in a cinema, however perhaps they may please view this on a laptop computer — and even their telephone?’
Ioan ‘too poor’ to pay for his household’s residence
Robust instances for actress Alice Evans, who’s shifting out of the $2million residence she shared with actor husband Ioan Gruffudd this weekend.
Evans, 54, is sure for a rented home with their two daughters Elsie and Ella after Gruffudd pleaded with a court docket to permit the house to be offered, saying he didn’t have the cash to maintain up with mortgage funds for his household following their cut up in 2021. The three-bedroom home in La Jolla, San Diego, is the one residence his youngsters have ever recognized.
Gruffudd is now residing in Los Angeles with girlfriend Bianca Wallace, 29. A pal says: ‘Alice is packing up and it’s been a devastating interval. She may be very unhappy that she and the kids have to maneuver out, however there was no choice.’
The Incredible 4 star instructed a court docket in a doc filed final yr that neither he nor Evans may afford the $6,750 a month in mortgage funds, insurance coverage and property tax.
He stated he’d had only one paid job previously yr and was so poor he was counting on handouts from his younger girlfriend. ‘The hire for my condominium is $3,400 per 30 days; I reside there with my girlfriend, who has been paying the vast majority of our residing bills, and all of our hire, since September 2022 on account of my monetary circumstances,’ he stated.
He added: ‘I’ve defined these monetary circumstances to Alice and have requested her quite a few instances since we separated, by counsel, to assist financially and to comply with promote the La Jolla residence . . . however Alice has not agreed to my requests.’
Gruffudd filed for divorce in March 2021 after Evans revealed on social media that her husband of 14 years was strolling out on her and their two daughters.
In September he went public with Bianca, an Australian actress who was an additional on TV drama Harrow — which Gruffudd starred in.
Evans’s Instagram bio reads: ‘I’m so disenchanted in so many individuals now that my life has instantly modified for the worst.’