Ora sorry for ‘error of judgment’
British singer Rita Ora apologized Monday for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”
The Sun newspaper ran photos of Ora and others, including models Cara and Poppy Delevingne, arriving Saturday at the Casa Cruz restaurant in London’s Notting Hill area.
Under lockdown rules that end Wednesday, all pubs and restaurants in England must close except for takeout and delivery, and people are barred from meeting indoors with members of other households.
Ora said on Instagram that she had held “a small gathering with some friends to celebrate my 30th birthday.”
“It was a spur of the moment decision made with the misguided view that we were coming out of lockdown and this would be OK,” she wrote.
Ora, whose hits include “Anywhere” and “I Will Never Let You Down,” said she now realized
“how irresponsible these actions were and I take full responsibility.”
Reports of the party attracted widespread criticism.
Asked about the event, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman, Jamie Davies, said it was “important that everybody in society sets an example by following the rules. That is for every member of the public, including celebrities.”
Clooney’s secrets to cutting his hair: George Clooney is just like us, maybe. The star said he does his own haircuts with a device famously touted in infomercials.
In an interview on “CBS Sunday Morning,” the Oscar-winning actor and
filmmaker said he’s been cutting his own hair for more than two decades.
“My hair is really like straw,” Clooney said of his thick, salt-and-pepper thatch. “So it’s easy to cut, can’t really make too many mistakes. So years ago, I bought a thing called a Flowbee.”
“You did not,” said skeptical interviewer Tracy Smith.
“The thing with the vacuum cleaner and clippers, yeah. I still have it,” Clooney replied. “My haircuts take, literally, two minutes.”
Stan Rosenfield, Clooney’s longtime publicist, said Sunday he didn’t know if Clooney tends his own hair. Although the actor is famed for pranking his co-stars, Rosenfield said it seemed unlikely this was one of his practical jokes.
Seinfeld digs into 45 years of jokes: The most valuable things Jerry Seinfeld owns are the thousands of pieces of paper — yellow, scribbled over, sometimes crumpled — that for years he’s been cramming into those brown accordion folders that were once a staple of storage until something better came
along called the laptop computer.
They contain the jokes Seinfeld has been writing and telling since that first day he walked into a New York nightclub as a 21-year-old wannabe comic who accepted free hamburgers in lieu of a paycheck. They continue right up to the present-day musings of a 66-year-old man wondering how the world keeps getting more crowded when he doesn’t see any more cemeteries being built.
He’s compiled them all in a new book, “Is This Anything?,” the title taken from the question every comic asks every other comic when he or she is about to try out new material.
Dec. 1 birthdays: Actor-director Woody Allen is
85. Actor-singer Bette Midler is 75. Actor Treat Williams is 69. Actor Jeremy Northam is 59. Actor Nestor Carbonell is 53. Actor Golden Brooks is 50. Comedian Sarah Silverman is 50. Singer
Bart Millard is 48. Actor David Hornsby is 45. Actor Riz Ahmed is 38. Actor Ilfenesh Hadera is 35. Singer-actor Janelle Monae is 35. Actor Zoe Kravitz is 32.