Larry Cohen, director of cult horror films, dies at 77
Spice Girls’ Mel B says she hooked up with Geri Halliwell
Ahead of the Spice Girls’ reunion tour this summer, the group’s Scary Spice, Mel B, revealed in an interview with Piers Morgan that she slept with bandmate Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice.
Mel B made the confession during a taping Friday of Piers Morgan’s new UK show “Life Stories.” Morgan asks Mel B to respond to the longstanding rumor that she and Halliwell hooked up during the band’s heyday in the 1990s.
“You were coming here to be brutally honest,” Morgan said, asking her point-blank, “Did or didn’t you sleep with Geri Halliwell?”
At first, the “America’s Got Talent” judge, 43, insisted that she and her bandmate “slept in a bed together, but not like that,” but then nodded when Morgan asked her whether things escalated with Halliwell.
“She’s going to hate me for this because she’s all posh in her country house with her husband,” Mel B said of Halliwell, who married Formula 1 racing team boss Christian Horner in 2015.
‘Fuller House’ actress gets co-star’s support
Actress Candace Cameron Bure says “family sticks together no matter what,” in what seems a sign of support for “Fuller House” co-star Lori Loughlin, who has been charged in an alleged college admissions scandal.
Bure delivered that message in her acceptance speech Saturday night at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Funny TV Show. She later shared those thoughts on Instagram.
“They stick together through the hard times,” she said.
“They support each other. They encourage one another. They pray for each other, and they stand by their side no matter how tough it gets. And a loving family that sticks together also celebrates the really good times together.”
Larry Cohen, the maverick B-movie director of cult horror films “It’s Alive” and “God Told Me To,” died. He was 77.
Cohen’s friend and spokesman, the actor Shade Rupe, said Cohen died Saturday in Los Angeles surrounded by loved ones.
Cohen’s films were schlocky, lowbudget films that developed cult followings, spawned sequels and gained esteem for their genre reflections of contemporary social issues.
Cohen’s approach – he would often shoot extreme scenes on New York City streets without permits or alerting people in the area – made him, like Roger Corman, revered among subsequent generations of independent genre-movie filmmakers.
—Wire services