The weekend saw fellow US performer Lady Gaga lend her voice to the One America Appeal concert organised by the five living presidents for victims of recent hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. "It was an honour to be invited by [Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama] to perform and speak at this historic event where we put our differences aside, and put humanity first in the face of catastrophe,” Gaga wrote on Instagram alongside a picture of herself and the leaders, which subsequently went viral.
In UK entertainment reports, Doctor Who made headlines, as Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill and Tosin Cole were unveiled as Jodie Whittaker’s co-stars in the next 10-week series slated for autumn 2018. And David Attenborough has defended filming parts of Blue Planet 2 in the studio ahead of the October 29 series start date on BBC1.
New reports of sexual harassment claims against Oscar-nominated writer and director James Toback follow the ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal. Many of the 38 women who made claims against Toback alleged that he approached them in New York with promises of stardom, and that subsequent meetings ended up with inappropriate advances. The 72-year-old denied all allegations to the Los Angeles Times, who published the initial report.
In London, Theresa May is due to give a statement to MPs about Brexit and the EU summit, and, from today, drivers of older, more polluting petrol and diesel vehicles will be liable for a fee on top of the congestion charge. England’s chief medical officer, Professor Sally Davies, is also in the spotlight urging people not to ask doctors for antibiotics as part of a new campaign aimed at tackling growing resistance to the drugs.
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