Star 2022-01-06

Debashine Thangevelo debashine.thangevelo@inl.co.za The eighth instalment of Endeavour dropped on BritBox recently with Roger Allam (Detective Chief Inspector Fred Thursday) once again joining co-stars Shaun Evans (Detective Sergeant Endeavour Morse), Anton Lesser (Police Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright), James Bradshaw (Dr Max DeBryn), Abigail Thaw (Dorothea Frazil, editor of the Oxford Mail) and Caroline O’Neill (Fred’s wife Winifred “Win” Thursday). Set in 1971, this season comprises three episodes. As before, Morse looks into several intriguing cases from a Northern Irish footballer targeted by paramilitaries to a cab driver murdered close to a naturist resort while he also revisits a new turn of events spurred on by a murder spree at a hotel some eight years ago. Personally, Morse’s dependence on alcohol has become a serious problem as it starts to affect…

Bryan Pietsch Ukraine’s culture minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, was among the millions of Netflix viewers around the world who watched the first season of Emily in Paris. But the depiction of a Ukrainian character in the TV show’s second season has offended him, he said, leading him to complain to the streaming service. When main character Emily Cooper – played as a slightly clueless American by Lily Collins – walks into a French class, she at first tries to sit with a British man, clean-cut and dressed in a suit, who rebuffs her. She instead hesitantly takes a seat next to an eager Ukrainian woman with heavy blue eye make-up, who introduces herself with a toothy grin as Petra from Kyiv. The two go shopping, and Petra (Daria Panchenko) pulls Emily…

Oluthando Keteyi Local DJ Prince Kaybee has shared the first glimpse of the child he welcomed late last year. In October, the award-winning producer and his partner radio presenter Zola Mhlongo had a baby. Prince Kaybee shared a snap of his bundle of joy being held by his mother. The Charlotte hitmaker simply captioned his post with a red heart emoji. Mhlongo also shared another picture from their family Christmas celebration. The picture has Zola and their bundle surrounded by Prince Kaybee’s mother and other family members. The DJ has always kept a low-profile around his relationship, especially after last year’s cheating scandal. He did not even post any snaps of his partner’s maternity shoot. Mhlongo is the one who broke the news on social media, with a picture that…

Bang Showbiz Cher lives “a very strange life”. The 75-year-old singer – who is one of the best-selling artists of all time – has revealed that she communicates with people from “every walk of life” in an effort to stay grounded. The I Got You Babe hitmaker explained: “I have to keep in touch with people because I live a very strange life and if I don’t communicate with people who come from every walk of life, I will have no idea what’s going on. “I’m usually on the road, travelling, in a group that’s always together, unless I go out of my way, or if I see people on the street and talk to them.” Recalling a recent encounter with some fans, Cher said: “I was coming out of…

ZELDA VENTER zelda.venter@inl.co.za WHILE it has been about eight months since judgment was reserved in the application by “Please Call Me” inventor Nkosana Makate to get what he claimed was owed to him, Makate said he was still waiting patiently for the verdict. Speaking to The Star’s sister paper, the Pretoria News this week, Makate said he understood the delay by Judge Wendy Hughes to deliver the judgment, as she had meanwhile been appointed to the Supreme Court of Appeal and was thus obviously extremely busy. “I have been patient and will continue to be so. I understand that Judge Hughes, after hearing my matter, was also promoted to the SCA and that this might impact on the delay in the judgment. But I am patient and will continue to…

Itumeleng Mafisa The spokesperson of the Jacob Zuma Foundation, Mzwanele Manyi, has hit back at media personality Eusebius McKaiser, who described him as a “pliable buffoon”. McKaiser described Manyi as a “pliable buffoon” after he, Manyi, was implicated in the State Capture report in which he is accused of channelling funds into the now-defunct newspaper The New Age. McKaiser took to Twitter comparing Themba Maseko, who was also a director-general at the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), to Manyi, saying: “By contrast, an honest person like Themba Maseko was hounded out of his job for resisting the Guptas, only to be replaced by the pliable buffoon, Mzwanele Manyi.” Manyi said the McKaiser was a “colonial clerk” who did not know what he was talking about. He said he was…