Tag: Celebrities

• Jussie Smollett: WTF?

  The actor vs the police. An alleged crime… but of assault or fakery? Even President Trump’s calling it a national embarrassment. Newsbeat’s Imran Rahman-Jones asks What’s The Fuss? It’s the true story you’d struggle to make up – involving celebrities, police, a city mayor and the most powerful man in America. Best known for his…

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  5 Apr 2019

  BBC Newsbeat, Videos

  Celebrities, Chicago, Crime, Empire, Entertainment, Jussie Smollett, Police, TV, USA

• BDE: What is big dick energy and who really has it?

  Welcome to the internet in 2018 – which has already given us people eating laundry detergent, a man asking if a butterfly was a pigeon and an audio version of #TheDress (it said “yanny”, by the way). It’s now given rise to the newest and weirdest and most important question so far: Who has “big dick energy”? By the way, physical endowment has…

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  27 Jun 2018

  BBC Newsbeat, Writing

  America, Celebrities, Internet, Social Media, USA

• Meghan Markle: Suits, her dogs, the ex and Deal or No Deal

  By Gurvinder Gill and Imran Rahman-Jones  It’s official. Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle will be tying the knot next spring. But there are so many more questions about the newest royal-to-be.

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  27 Nov 2017

  BBC Newsbeat, Writing

  Celebrities, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Royal Family, Royals, UK, USA

• Dear Paris Hilton, here’s a brief history of the selfie

  “11 years ago today, Me & Britney invented the selfie!” wrote Paris Hilton on Twitter on Sunday, posting two pictures of the pair from 2006. Unfortunately, as some of her Twitter followers have pointed out, neither Paris nor Britney were anywhere near the invention of the selfie.

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  20 Nov 2017

  BBC Newsbeat, Writing

  Celebrities, Paris Hilton, Photography