News about Carrie Fisher

Billie Lourd remembered her late mother Carrie Fisher Monday - which would have been the star's 68th birthday - almost eight years after the death of the Star Wars actress at 60 in late 2016. The 32-year-old actress acknowledged her mother's longtime battle with drug addiction in an extended statement on Instagram, accompanied by a photo from a past birthday celebration for Fisher.

Ewan McGregor has emotionally opened up about having his Hollywood Walk of Fame star next to fellow Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher 's plaque. McGregor, 53, who has played Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi for 25 years in films and TV, received his star on Thursday with his children and wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead in attendance.

Mark Hamill got emotional while speaking about his late Star Wars castmate Carrie Fisher Friday at the Fan Expo Chicago at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The 72-year-old actor chat in a Mark Hamill Live panel about his feelings more than seven years after Fisher died at the age of 60 from a sudden cardiac arrest in December of 2016.

Billie Lourd and husband Austen Rydell looked like they did a little fashion coordinating before heading out to lend their support for the new documentary Watershed at AMC The Grove in Los Angeles. Lourd, 31 stepped out in a navy dress with a white floral pattern that helped showcase her cleavage along with white peep-toe heels and matching Chanel purse over her right shoulder. The daughter of late Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher rounded out her look by having her light brown locks styled long and flowing a number of inches down her back with a part in the middle. At time she would lean her head on to the shoulder of her husband, who looked cool and stylish in his own navy ensemble in the form of a pinstripe suit that he wore casually with white sneakers, which was also similar to his wife. In keeping with  casual theme, the actor also wore a white t-shirt with his suit, while styling his dark brown hair long with plenty of natural waves and a center part.

Rob Delaney (pictured left and right with his late son Henry) revealed he worried he wouldn't be able to love his fourth son because his heart was 'destroyed' after losing his two-year-old child Henry to cancer . The comedy star, 47, who is from Massachusetts but lives in north London , opened up about losing his little boy, depression, alcoholism and working alongside Carrie Fisher on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs with host Lauren Laverne . In the candid interview Rob admitted he worried that he wouldn't be able to love Henry's younger brother after his death, saying his heart was 'torn to pieces.'

Film memorabilia worth more than £300,000 went up for auction at Heritage Auctions in Dallas this week.  Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia Star Wars slave outfit from 1983's Return Of The Jedi is up for grabs at a whopping £23,500.  While discussing the raunchy bikini previously, the actress claimed that 'dignity was out of the question,' when wearing it.

Experts have discovered tirzepatide, sold under the brand name Mounjaro, can improve symptoms obstructive sleep apnoea. Currently the only treatment is a lifestyle overhaul or a CPAP machine which helps maintain an open airway at night. But tirzepatide represents a 'significant milestone' in managing the condition, say experts.

As the latest offering, The Acolyte, nears its conclusion, it's time to take a long hard look at what's good about the Star Wars universe and what's not, which shows and movies that you absolutely have to watch and which ones you can quietly brush under the sands of Tatooine and forget about for ever. Below we rank all the main Star Wars content (and before you ask, no, we've not bothered with any of the Lego remakes) now available on Disney + from best to worst. Strap yourself in. We're hitting the hyperspace button…

James Blunt has revealed Carrie Fisher felt so pressured by the Star Wars bosses to be thin at 60 years old that it drove her to abuse drugs again which ultimately led to her death. The You're Beautiful hitmaker was close friends with Fisher, famed for playing Princess Leia in the franchise, and lived at her house in LA during the 2000s when he was recording his debut album. Blunt, 50, told an audience at Hay Literature Festival: 'I just knew that the day before she died when she came back to my house and she'd been really mistreating her body and she'd just got the job again of being Princess Leia in the new Star Wars movies.

More than seven years after her mother's death, Billie Lourd is keeping the Force alive in Carrie Fisher's family. The actress, 31, celebrated Star Wars Day on Saturday, sharing photos of herself with 16-month-old daughter Jackson Joanne at the Disneyland attraction Galaxy's Edge.

More than 1.5 million people in the UK live with sleep apnoea, in which heavy snoring disrupts their breathing. The condition leaves sufferers exhausted due to a lack of sleep as well as increasing their risk of developing high blood pressure and heart disease. But groundbreaking new research has found that weight-loss jab tirzepatide slashed the frequency of apnoea symptoms, boosting the amount of sleep participants got. While people become more at risk of sleep apnoea as they get older, the most common cause of the condition is obesity. The weekly injection works in a similar way to the popular weight-loss medicine Wegovy.

Modern mums and dads, bored youngsters in a rural village or unlikely flatmates in their twenties, there are plenty of quirky characters to get to know in classic TV sitcoms. So our critics have selected some of the best of them to watch On Demand right now - sifting through hundreds of options to save you the bother. Can't decide what to watch tonight? Read on to find out which sitcoms will keep you laughing...

The late Carrie Fisher considered her virginity a 'burden,' so she begged her childhood pal Griffin Dunne to deflower her when they were teenagers in London in the early 1970s. The 68-year-old This Is Us alum was recalled to Page Six on Saturday, 'I was doing her a favor.' She had a boyfriend and didn't want him to know she was a virgin, so she trusted me and gave me the honor.'

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Carrie Fisher had no intention of dying, and one photograph proves it. She's 14, dueting in a ridiculous ball gown with her mother, film actress Debbie Reynolds, at the Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, while her little brother plays guitar.

Carrie Fisher will be the newest celebrity to appear in BBC documentary A Life In Ten Pictures, which will premieres on Thursday. Carrie tragically died in December 2016 after suffering a heart arrest in the original Star Wars films. When it airs on BBC Two, the new BBC documentary about her life through a collection of iconic photographs and personal snaps reveal a new tale about an extraordinary life seen through a different lens.'

If it's whirlwind romance, coming-of-age heartache, or a celebration of love, we have a curated collection of cosy shows to watch this Valentine's Day.

Jodie Foster has worked on a number of projects over her six-decade career in front of the cameras, but one of the most memorable performances was playing Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars : A New Hope. George Lucas considered hundreds of actors for the part of the ostensible Rebel Alliance leader in 1975-1976, but she ended up casting 19-year-old Carrie Fisher on the condition that she shed ten pounds.

On the seventh anniversary of the actor's death, Billie Lourd paid tribute to her late mother Carrie Fisher on Wednesday. 'I miss her every day,' the cliche is also true - she is with me every day - she infuses my joyful moments with even more joy,' the 31-year-old actress posted on Instagram.

A rare snapshot of Warner Bros' prop warehouse in Los Angeles, which is home to some of the studio's most iconic costumes, weapons, and automobiles as seen in some of the company's most popular films of all time. The warehouse, which is the size of an aircraft hangar and home to Superman, Batman, and the Matrix, as well as the Batmobiles, is so obscure that the address is not given anywhere, and the building is heavily guarded against robbers. However, celebrity glasses designer Tom Davies, who has designed frames for Warner Bros' 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections and the 2016 film Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, was given rare access, and was allowed to film his experience.

I believe the BETTER is later than never. Two women were photographed at a pro-Palestinian rally last month sporting photos of gliders pinched to their clothing, apparently as a gesture of solidarity for the terrorists who marched into Israel kidnapping, raping, mutilating, and murdering civilians at a music festival. Heba Alhayey, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, have been charged with supporting Hamas and are set to appear in court. The police are still trying to find others, but in some cases, it is impossible, especially because so many suspects wore traditional Islamic clothing, which often obscures the face. Muslim friends of mine are horrified by the way the veil is portrayed in this manner, as well as myself. To see that a large number of British Muslims are abused by a violent minority is not only deeply distressing, but it also deepens societal divisions and makes life unnecessably difficult for the vast majority of British Muslims, who have no desire to engage in any kind of violent jihad.

On Friday, the Friends actor was laid to rest at the Forest Lawn Church of the Hills in Los Angeles. Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery is located opposite Warner Bros Studios, where Friends was shot for ten seasons and is the final resting place for a galaxy of Hollywood stars, including Carrie Fisher, Bette Davis, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and Anne Heche. Lee Van Cleef, Dick Van Patten, fitness specialist Jack LaLane, and Paul Walker from the Fast and Furious films are among the notable celebrities. The cemetery has more stars per square foot than any zip code in Los Angeles, according to the Smithsonian.

On Friday, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, and Matt LeBlanc were seen outside the LA church where Matthew Perry's funeral was held. All dressed in black suits and somber as they prepared to say their final goodbyes to Perry He was laid to rest after a simple hour-long service at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles. The cemetery is located opposite Warner Bros Studios, where Friends was shot for ten seasons and is the last resting place of a galaxy of Hollywood stars, including Carrie Fisher, Bette Davis, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and Anne Heche. It's unclear if Perry was invited to the church for his final farewell or if the family chose it for him. It is also unknown if there will be a more public celebration of his life scheduled at a later date.

Matthew Perry's private funeral was held on Friday, six days after he was discovered dead inside a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. He was 54 years old at the time. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow, co-stars of his Friends were seen arriving at the cathedral. The cemetery is located opposite Warner Bros Studios, where Friends was shot for ten seasons and is the final resting place for a galaxy of Hollywood stars, including Carrie Fisher, Bette Davis, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and Anne Heche.

In a recent biography by Eddie's ex-wife, Terry Richard, titled Beauty Queen Dreams, the full details of Margaret's fling with Fisher are chronicled. When she appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2016, Eddie's daughter, Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, first confirmed the affair: "My father had sex with Princess Margaret." They made love in a beautiful way.'