Singer Ed Sheeran has had a gym and swimming pool installed in his parents' house.
	The 26-year-old singer wants his parents John, 60 and Imogen, 57, to live long and healthy lives so has put them on a new fitness regime, reported Contactmusic.
	"I think any kid at my age starts getting worried about their parents' health. I have bought them a cross-trainer and built them a swimming pool. They are now training and swimming every day. I want them to be able to hang out with their grandkids for a very long time," Sheeran said.
	However, in his own home, the singer has opted to build a pub, where he intends to host parties in the coming years.

Ed Sheeran builds gym for family

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Hollywood star Milla Jovovich has said she didn't want her daughter to be an actress.
	The 42-year-old beauty, who began her career when she was just 11-years-old,  was very proud when nine-year-old Ever featured alongside her in "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter".
	But she said she had initially tried to dissuade the youngster when she first expressed a desire to follow in her mother's footsteps, reported Hello magazine.
	Jovovich, who also has 22-month-old Dashiel with husband Paul WS Anderson, said, "It was the most unforgettable experience as an actress and a mother to be on set with my little girl that's for sure.
	"But when she first talked about acting, she was only five, so my initial instinct was, 'No.

Milla Jovovich wanted daughter to avoid acting

Calling the harassment of a noted Malayalam actress "disgusting", Bollywood actors Varun Dhawan and Arjun Kapoor have condemned the incident.
	The actors took to Twitter to vent their ire, while questioning the abysmal status of women safety in the country.
	"This is so shameful. I'm honestly disgusted. We as a nation and as a society have to answer back," tweeted Varun.
	Whereas, fellow actor, Arjun asked, "How do we make our woman safe??? Does anyone in our government have an answer??? Where does the change lie ?? Through law or through education?"
	The actress was harassed for two hours allegedly by a gang of men, who forced their way into her car before fleeing at a busy area in Kochi on February 17 night.
	The incident drew widespread condemnation.

Varun, Arjun slam harassment incident of Malayalam actress

Bollywood actor Sidharth Malhotra says he is doing only one film as of now and it is not a Salman Khan production, as is being reported.
	There were reports that Karan Johar has put in a word for the "Student of the Year" star to Salman, who is on a hunt for a hero, for his next venture.
	When asked about the same, Sidharth told reporters, "No. The only film I am doing now is 'Ittefaq', which I start tomorrow. Nothing else is official."
	The 32-year-old actor was speaking at "Glamdog" event, organised by Smita Thackeray, Mukti Foundation and Sankalp Sharma.
	During the event, Sidharth narrated an incident of his first dog which was gifted to him by his parents.
	"My parents gifted me a dog. I was around 10 year old and I thought it was a male dog. It was a puppy of barely two-three weeks. I took it to the vet after a month. I had to fill a form so I wrote it's s male dog.
	"But then they told me it's a female. That's how I got my first dog, which was actually a female. I was treating .

Nothing official: Sidharth on doing film with Salman

Short film "Aaba", which has been produced by filmmaker Onir and directed by Amar Kaushik, has won the Special Prize in the Generation Kplus International Jury section at Berlin International Film Festival.
	The movie has been co-produced by director Raj Kumar Gupta.
	"Super proud our film #Aaba wins at @berlinale - the Special Prize of Gen. KPlus Int. Jury for Best Short Film, by @AmarKaushik," Onir posted on Twitter.
	Producer Guneet Monga also congratulated the team of "Aaba" on Facebook.
	"And then, this one makes us specially proud! Congratulations Amar Kaushik on winning the Special Prize for the Best Short Film for #Aaba in the Generation section at #Berlin International Film Festival! Congrats also to #rajkumargupta, Onir for producing this gem... Big big Hug everyone," she wrote.

Onir-produced short film 'Aaba' wins at Berlin Film Fest

Producer Ryan Murphy has said the seventh season of "American Horror Story" will draw inspiration from the 2016 US Presidential elections.
	The next installment will be based on last year's November 8 polls, where current President Donald Trump pulled off a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, reported Variety.
	"Well, I don't have a title, but the season we begin shooting in June is going to be about the election that we just went through. So, I think that will be interesting for a lot of people," Murphy said on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen".
	The producer also hinted a character based on Trump "maybe" included in the show.
	Season seven's shooting will commence in June, laced with Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters' return.
	FX renewed "AHS" through season 9 in January.

US Presidential elections to inspire 'American Horror Story'

Playback singer Arijit Singh considers himself very lucky to get good songs and gives credit to the team of composers for coming up with amazing tracks.
	The "Channa Mereya" hitmaker is glad his songs are reaching a lot of people who are appreciating it.
	"I am very fortunate that I get good songs. But more importantly, the songs are reaching people and they are liking it. The credit goes to the music directors, music producers and others. I am just delivering the best I can," the singer told reporters.
	Arijit was speaking at the Mirchi Music awards last evening.
	The singer said his favourite song of the year is "Kaun Tujhe" from the film "MS Dhoni", which has been sung by Palak Muchhal.
	When asked about his journey in Bollywood and if he encountered tough people along the way, the singer said, "There were not tough people but tough way yes. Ups and downs were always there and they will remain in the future too.

Arijit feels lucky to get good songs

With "new Bollywood songs" being written and composed solely for "dance and entertainment", popular lyricist Prasoon Joshi believes the quality of lyrics has deteriorated over the years.
	"With the new kind of music coming in, the major purpose of any song is to entertain and dance. They are mostly made to promote a movie and that is why the inherent poetry is lost," he said.
	The lyricist who has penned songs like 'Sasuraal Genda Phool' (Delhi-6) and 'Maa'(Taare Zameen Par), said he had declined several offers to write songs that only served the purpose of marketing a film.
	Joshi said that he wrote only when there was something "worthy" for him to say, and that his contribution towards any song was of a "conductor" who refrained from resisting the thoughts that came to his mind.
	"Mostly when I am approached to write lyrics for such songs, I decline. I only write when I feel there is something worthy for me to say.
	"My contribution in any song is of a worthy conductor. I always try 

New B'wood music composed only for entertainment:Prasoon Joshi

Actor Shia LeBeouf has announced that he plans to relaunch his anti-Trump art project, a week after New York's Museum of the Moving Image brought its shutters down.
	The 30-year-old star said the "He Will Not Divide Us" campaign is all set to return, reported ET Online.
	"From the outset, the museum failed to address our concerns about the misleading framing of our piece as a political rally, rather than as a participatory performance artwork resisting the normalisation of division," read a collective statement by LeBeouf and other collaborators Nastja Sade Ronkko and Luke Turner.
	The actor disclosed the project will continue as of February 18, while relocating to the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	The Museum announced the termination of the programme after it faced disruptive protests since its opening.
	Later, LeBeouf's actress wife Mia Goth had come out in his support, saying she was proud of him.
	The "Transformers" star was also arrested after allegedly attacking a .

Shia LeBeouf announces return of anti-Trump art project

Singer Justin Timberlake has joked that he must show the film "The Graduate" to his 22-month-old son, Silas in future.
	The 36-year-old musician has lent his voice to a song in the film "Trolls", which has used the Simon & Garfunkel song "The Sound of Silence" from the 1967 film, reported Variety.
	Timberlake quipped he will have to show the Dustin Hoffman-Anne Bancroft starrer to avoid any confusions about the two songs.
	"At some point I have a very specific responsibility to show him 'The Graduate'. Because he's going to hear 'The Sound of Silence' and he's going to be like 'That's from my daddy's movie'," Timberlake joked.
	Timberlake married actress Jessica Biel in 2012 and welcomed their little one in April 2015.

Justin Timberlake plans to show 'The Graduate' to his son

Film fraternity in Kerala today came out in support of a noted Malayalam actress, who was harassed by a gang and demanded stringent action against the culprits.
	Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) President Innocent in a Facebook post described the incident as an "heinous crime".
	"We have only one thing to say to those who committed this cruel act to our daughter.. Sister ---defeat is yours'. She will stand undefeated... Always", he said.
	Innocent, also a Lok Sabha MP, said he had contacted Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and DGP Loknath Behera the moment he came to know about the incident yesterday.
	"Both of them have assured us that the guilty will be punished", he said, adding, AMMA was closely watching the action by police.
	Actor Prithviraj said, "All that can be said about the security of women in our matriarchal/matrilineal' God's own country has already been said. And yes... As a man who has to share the responsibility of a society that bears this shame I hang my 

Film fraternity in Kerala rallies behind actor

Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore said that Urdu has "become static" and has been restricted to minority communities.
	The 72-year-old actress, who was speaking at the "Jab Filmein Urdu Bolti Thi" session at the ongoing Jashn-e-Rekhta, said the language today is being spoken by "perhaps Muslims" alone.
	"Traditions are vital to understand our history and to visualise a well-informed and balanced future. But Urdu, which has been an integral part of Indian history, has somehow become static. It has become a minority language, spoken by only the Muslims perhaps," Tagore said.
	The language, which was once widely spoken in Delhi, bore the brunt of the Partition, which she said, "broke the literary tradition of the country".
	While it became Pakistan's official language, in India it was left limited to mere corners of the country.
	She went on to say that the language did not belong to any particular religion.
	"It is not a language of Muslims only, or Pakistan's language. It is our ...

Urdu has become a minority language: Sharmila Tagore

Actress Shabana Azmi has raised her voice for immunisation of children for diarrhea by the administration of rotavirus vaccine.
	The 66-year-old actress took to Twitter to spread awareness to tackle the water-borne disease.
	"India loses one child every seven minutes due to #rotavirus #diarrhea. #RotavirusVaccine helps prevents this disease n save lives #GetImmunised," wrote Azmi.
	She continued by saying that the disease claims more lives of children than its deadly counterparts like AIDS.
	"Diarrhea alone kills more children across the world than HIV malaria and measles put together. Let's #immunise and save every child #Rotavirus," tweeted Azmi.

Let's immunise, save every child from diarrhea: Shabana Azmi

Media and entertainment industry veteran Ashish Kaul has been appointed as the CEO (Television & Digital business) for Prakash Jha Productions.
	Kaul was earlier in Hinduja Group, where he was Business Head for IN Entertainment India Limited and has over 23 years of experience in leadership roles across business re-structuring and managing businesses across Entertainment, News, Telecom, Retail and global FMCG businesses.
	"It has always been my belief that co-creation and collaborative efforts between advertisers, platforms and content creators is the need of the hour.
	"I would like to bring in a collaborative effort to content creation that delivers reach, popularity and ultimately value to the advertiser," he said in a statement.
	Kaul said, "The approach to content production & management for television and digital space is not fully understood by the industry. Prakash Jha Productions will bring in that maturity, understanding and differential experience to the advantage ...

Ashish Kaul appointed CEO of Prakash Jha Productions

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan said walking is a great form of full body exercise and urged people to adopt it as a fitness routine.
	The 46-year-old actor considers walking to be a great stress reliever and said he heads out of his home for a walk whenever he is pressed for time.
	"Walking is a great form of full body exercise and it's an indispensable part of my fitness routine. I feel walking is not only physically rewarding but also a great stress reliever. When I am pressed for time, plugging in some good music, putting on my walking shoes and heading out for a walk is the easiest thing to do," Saif said in a statement.
	The 46-year-old actor was in the city to flag off the 5th edition of Max Bupa Walk for Health event along with his "Rangoon" co-star Kangana Ranaut.
	"It makes me happy to see thousands of Delhiites of all age groups participating in Max Bupa Walk for Health. Walking is a great habit we all must adopt. I urge everyone gathered here today to make walking a part of .

Everyone must adopt walking as a form of exercise: Saif

Singer-actress Lisa Marie Presley's eight-year-old twin daughters have been taken into child custody after "disturbing" photos and videos were found on their father Michael Lockwood's computer.
	The 49-year-old daughter of legendary singer Elvis Presley had filed for divorce from the guitarist last June, after ten years of marriage, reported The Telegraph.
	Daughters, Harper and Finley Lisa Marie Presley, had been living with Lisa Marie but have now been placed in the custody of California's child services.
	In the documents presented in the court, Lisa Marie wrote, "When I discovered the photos on (Lockwood's) computer, and viewed the videos, I was shocked and horrified and sick to my stomach."
	Following up on the matter, Beverly Hills Police has confirmed in a statement that Lockwood is being investigated on the charge of child abuse.
	Sergeant Max Subin stated that the department "was notified of alleged child abuse involving the Presley family" in June 2016.
	The statement ...

Lisa Marie Presley's daughters taken into child custody

Model Chrissy Teigen has spoken out about diversity and inclusion in the fashion industry and said she would like to see more Asian men and women on runways.
	The 31-year-old mixed-race model, whose mother is Thai, believes that it is "really important to start embracing people" for who they are rather than stereotyping them based on their race or skin colour, reported E! Online.
	"I think its really important to start embracing people... Seeing them in roles that are not necessarily 'That Asian Girl' or 'That Asian Boy.'
	"I want it to be a normal thing to be able to see Asian models, and I think Asian models are really underrepresented in the industry, especially on the runways or in magazines," she said.
	The problem is not limited to the modeling industry, either, Chrissy says. The lack of diversity in film is so drastic that "in movies you're like 'Oh, this Asian girl is dating this white guy'-I want that to be normal."
	Teigen also shared her thoughts on cultural ...

Chrissy Teigen calls out fashion industry on lack of diversity

National award-winning singer Monali Thakur aspires to go international and collaborate with American singer Bruno Mars and American DJ duo The Chainsmokers.
	"I want to jump in the international market. I am trying to figure that out with my team. Its a fantastic time to collaborate with international artists and producers. I always wanted to come up with singles and do something in the West," Monali told PTI.
	Actress Priyanka Chopra has launched her own music career with an international music label. She partnered with international musicians like Pitbull and Will.I.Am.
	Monali had sung the Bengali version of "Tune Maari Entry Yaar" song from Priyanka's film "Gunday".
	Ask her if she would seek any help from the "Quantico" actress Monali says, "I have never met her personally so I don't know what I am going to tell her.
	"When we want to jump into international market we should have our own touch and it shouldn't be like lets do American hip-hop and stuff why can't do something ...

After Priyanka, Monali wants to pursue singing internationally

Tracing back India's connection with jazz music to the 1920s, American guitarist Stanley Jordan says the musical genre "found a welcome home in Bollywood".
	The musician is in the Capital to perform at the Jazz Utsav here today.
	"There is a long history of jazz in India going back to the 1920s. Many African-American jazz musicians toured to India to be free from the racial discrimination in the US at the time. The audiences here identified with the theme of freedom in the music as it validated their own aspirations to be free of colonialism.
	"Jazz also found a welcome home in Bollywood as it did in Hollywood. Besides that, both jazz and Indian classical music feature improvisation, so I think there was a common resonance in the cultural traditions as well," Jordon, an ardent fan of Pandit Ravi Shankar and L Shankar, told PTI in an email interview.
	The musician's tryst with Indian music happened as a teenager when he saw sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan and American jazz musician John ..

Jazz found a welcome home in Bollywood: American guitarist

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has said Hoshangabad and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh were cleaner than Mumbai.
	"Cleanliness visible in Hoshangabad and Bhopal is better than Mumbai," Akshay told reporters here yesterday.
	He lauded setting up of changing rooms for women and garbage collection boxes on the banks of river Narmada.
	"The credit for promoting cleanliness goes to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan," he added.
	Akshay, who was here for the shoot of his upcoming film "Toilet-Ek-Prem Katha", said maintaining1 cleanliness and using toilets were necessary to prevent outbreak and spread of diseases.
	He said open defecation cause diseases and rued 54 per cent the people in the country don't have access to toilets.

Hoshangabad, Bhopal cleaner than Mumbai, says Akshay Kumar

Country singer Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren Akins, are expecting daughter.
	Rhett's wife announced the gender of their baby on Instagram by posting a series of photos and videos.
	Lauren, 27, shared a picture of the cake, complete with a gold crescent moon, gold stars, blue and pink frosting, as well as the first lyrics of the lullaby.
	"...How we wonder what you are... Guess what we're doing tonight ?? @crumbdelacrumb," she wrote.
	Hours later, the couple posted videos, which featured the "Crash and Burn" hitmaker cutting the cake to discover the color pink.
	"Sorry our family is nuts BUT WE'RE HAVING A BABY GIRL," Lauren wrote.
	The couple got married in October 2012.

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