Ora sorry for ‘error of judgment’
British singer RitaOra apologizedMonday for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying itwas “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”
The Sun newspaper ran photos ofOra and others, including models Cara and PoppyDelevingne, arriving Saturday at the Casa Cruz restaurant in London’s Notting Hill area.
Under lockdown rules that endWednesday, all pubs and restaurants in England must close except for takeout and delivery, and people are barred frommeeting indoors with members of other households.
Ora said on Instagram that she had held “a small gathering with some friends to celebratemy 30th birthday.”
“Itwas a spur of the moment decision made with the misguided view thatwewere coming out of lockdownand thiswould beOK,” she wrote.
Ora, whose hits include “Anywhere” and “IWill Never LetYouDown,” said she nowrealized “howirresponsible these actionswere and I take full responsibility.”
Reports of the party attracted widespread criticism.
Asked about the event, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman, JamieDavies, said itwas “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 ownhaircuts with a device famously touted in infomercials.
In an interview on “CBS SundayMorning,” 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 reallymake toomany mistakes. So years ago, I bought a thing called a Flowbee.”
“You did not,” said skeptical interviewerTracy Smith.
“The thingwith the vacuumcleaner and clippers, yeah. I still have it,” Clooney replied. “My haircuts take, literally, two minutes.”
StanRosenfield, Clooney’s longtime publicist, said Sunday he didn’t knowif 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 into45 years of jokes:
Themost 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 thatwere 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 hewalked into aNewYork nightclub as a 21-year-oldwannabe comicwhoaccepted free hamburgers in lieu of a paycheck. They continue right up to the present-day musings of a 66-year-old manwondering howthe world keeps getting more crowded when he doesn’t see any more cemeteries being built.
He’s compiled themall in anewbook, “Is This Anything?,” the title taken fromthe question every comic asks every other comic when he or she is about to try outnewmaterial.
Dec. 1birthdays:
Actor-directorWoody Allen is 85. Actor-singer Bette Midler is 75. Actor TreatWilliams is 69. Actor JeremyNortham is 59. ActorNestor Carbonell is
53. Actor GoldenBrooks is 50. Comedian Sarah Silverman is 50. Singer Bart Millard is 48. Actor DavidHornsby is 45. Actor RizAhmedis 38. Actor IlfeneshHadera is 35. Singer-actor JanelleMonae is
35. Actor Zoe Kravitz is 32.