Tiffany Thornton Breaks Her Silence After Husband Chris Carney's Death as Demi Lovato Offers Her Condolences

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Tiffany Thornton still can't believe Chris Carney is gone.

Twenty-four hours after the former Disney Channel star's spouse died in a tragic car accident in Arkansas, Tiffany shared a picture of her late husband holding their two sons, Kenneth James "KJ" Carney, 3, and Bentley Cash Carney, 21 months. "My life. My love. My angel," she wrote in the Instagram photo caption. Hundreds of her fans commented on the picture within minutes, encouraging the So Random!star to "stay strong" and letting her know she is in their prayers. The post marks the first time Tiffany, 29, has publicly commented on her husband's untimely death.

Chris, a former member of rock band The Prom Kings, married Tiffany in 2011.

Tiffany's husband and his friend, Ezekiel Blanton, were both killed in a single car accident Friday at approximately 1:40 a.m. Per The Arkansas Times, which first reported the news, the vehicle reportedly slammed into a tree going around a bend. Ezekial, 37, is listed as the driver of the car; Chris, 35, was his only passenger.

Demi Lovato, who co-starred with Tiffany on Disney Channel's Sonny With a Chancefor two years, offered her condolences via Instagram Friday night. Sharing a picture from the couple's wedding (in which she served as a bridesmaid), Demi wrote, "Been trying to figure out what to say all day... This morning I woke up to terrible news. My good friend Chris Carney has passed away. This picture is a perfect example of the love he shared with Tiff and how much fun he was to be around. I've been to many weddings but this is by far the most memorable because the way they looked into each other's eyes and the love they had for one another. There were tons of laughs and tons of tears and I'll never forget the way he looked at her.""It doesn't seem real and I'm still in shock.. Still speechless. I don't know how to put into words how heartbroken I am for Tiffany and their two baby boys," Demi added. "You're already missed Chris.. And Tiffany I love you so much.. I'm so unbelievably sorry... There are still no words." The pop star also shared a link to aGoFundMe page to help alleviate living expenses for Tiffany and her two sons.

Similarly, actress Cassie Scerbo, who along with Demi's boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama is a godparent to KJ, expressed her grief in an Instagram post Friday. "I've re-written this a million times, as I just don't know where to begin. This morning we lost an incredible soul, someone I looked at as a big brother, who along with my beautiful friend @tiffthornton gave me the priveledge of being a Godmother to my precious KJ. @chrisgcarney, WE LOVE YOU," Scerbo wrote. "Your one-of-a-kind personality and heart will be greatly missed.. RIP, fam."

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Aamir Khan releases a statement on the 'intolerance' controversy

Superstar Aamir Khan's recent statement on the growing intolerance in India had sparked up a controversy, creating outrage on social media. He had apparently stated that his wife Kiran Rao is afraid of his child Azad's future in the country considering the growing issues over religion and communalism. His statement however met with hateful reaction from the masses as they posted several loathing comments and memes on social networking sites. While some of his own colleagues came out to raise their voice against his statements, some others decided to stand in support of their colleague. And now, after the outrage continued over a couple of days, Aamir Khan recently posted a letter on the social networking platform. It reads:

"Firstly let me state categorically that neither I, nor my wife Kiran, have any intentions of leaving the country. We never did, and nor would we like to in the future. Anyone implying the opposite has either not seen my interview or is deliberately trying to distort what I have said. India is my country, I love it, I feel fortunate for being born here, and this is where I am staying. 

Secondly, I stand by everything that I have said in my interview. 

To all those people who are calling me anti-national, I would like to say that I am proud to be Indian, and I do not need anyone's permission nor endorsement for that. 

To all the people shouting obscenities at me for speaking my heart out, it saddens me to say you are only proving my point. 

To all the people who have stood by me, thank you. We have to protect what this beautiful and unique country of ours really stands for. We have to protect its integrity, diversity, inclusiveness, its many languages, its culture, its history, its tolerance, it's concept of anekantavada, it's love, sensitivity and its emotional strength. 

I would like to end my statement with a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, it's a prayer really: 

Where the mind is without fear and the head held high, 
Where knowledge is free, 
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments, 
by narrow domestic walls, 
Where words come out from the depth of truth, 
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection, 
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way, 
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit, 
Where the mind is led forward by thee, 
Into ever-widening though and action, 
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. 

Jai Hind. 

Aamir Khan.

source : bollywood hungama

A R Rahman - Vishal Bhardwaj croon for Jugni

Debutant director Shefali Bhushan has managed to pull off what most filmmakers could only dream of! In a coup of sorts, that's bound to make any filmmaker envious, the newbie has gotten two of the biggest names in the Bollywood music industry - AR Rahman and Vishal Bhardwaj - on board to sing one track each in her directorial debut, Jugni. The film boasts of a 12-track album composed by Clinton Cerejo. Only one prayer song sung by Rahman, 'Lakhon Salaam', has been penned and composed by Kashif.

About Rahman's song, Shefali says, "It comes at a significant, pious moment in the film when the male protagonist goes into a deep emotional space and we could only think of Mr Rahman to give voice for it." And while Rahman's number is a prayer song, Vishal's track is a travel song with a lilting tune,'Duggu Duggu Dug' which is composed by Clinton. "Vishalji has sung every word with so much feeling that it is delightful. We are very lucky to have both Vishalji and Mr Rahman singing for us," shares an elated Shefali. 

Scripted by Shefali, she reveals that her film is about the journey of Vaibhavi, a music director who travels to a village in Punjab looking for Bibi Saroop and meets her folk singer son, Mastana, a talented singer himself who winds his way into her heart. Jugni means firefly in Hindi, and is also a popular folk song in Punjab about a search. And the director says that the name worked well with her theme about a composer in search of soulful music and finding lots more than just that. 

Shefali shares that her leading lady, Sugandha Garg, is a musician herself, but Siddhant Behl, who plays Mastana is neither a musician nor a singer. "However he is completely convincing on screen," she adds. Having been associated with the online project Beat of India, started in 2000 to popularise traditional Indian music, Shefali admits that the story grew out of her communications with folk singers from different parts of the country. 

source:  bollywood hungama

South Africa hippo 'kills three' near Zimbabwe border

Dec 4, 2015- A hippopotamus has killed three adults and critically injured a child in South Africa, a private emergency response service says.
The incident happened late on Wednesday night in a town close to the border-crossing with Zimbabwe.
ER24 says that when its paramedics arrived at the scene they found the adults had "sustained fatal injuries".
The child was taken to the local hospital and is reported to be recovering.
The child was discovered on Thursday morning after its cries for help were heard, and that is when the medics were called, ER24 said.The exact circumstances of the attack are being investigated, but it is thought that a wild hippopotamus may have come from the nearby Limpopo River, ER24's Pieter Rossouw told Eyewitness News.
Mature hippopotamuses can weigh up to 3,200kg (7,000lbs) and are known for their aggression, says the BBC's Earth website.
It adds that they have been named the most dangerous animals in Africa, allegedly responsible for more human deaths than lions.

source: the kathmandu post

Jacqueline Fernandez starrer Definition of Fear to open the Delhi Film Festival

It's been a while since we announced that Jacqueline Fernandez will be making her international debut with the film Definition of Fear for which she had started shooting long ago. And now it has been revealed that the film is in its final stages and will be soon screened at the Delhi Film Festival.

The thriller will be screened on the festival's opening day and the actress will be flying down to the capital to attend its very first public screening. Confirming the news, Jacqueline said, "I think film festivals are great platforms to showcase movies, especially if they are not your usual commercial fare". Revealing about her experience of shooting the film, she also added, "Shooting for the film was a great experience, as it broadens your perspective on movies and film-making as a whole. There is a huge market for horror-thrillers, so I think the film has immense potential." 

Directed by James Simpson, Definition of Fear has Jacqueline Fernandez playing the role of a psychologist. The film will also have an Indian release apart from its overseas one.

source: bollywoodhungama

Putin: Turkey 'will regret' downing Russian bomber in Syria

Dec 4, 2015- Russian President Vladimir Putin has castigated Turkey's leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria.
In a state of the nation speech, broadcast live on Russian television, he said that "if anyone thinks Russia's reaction will be limited to trade sanctions, they are deeply mistaken".
"We'll remind them again what they did - they will regret it."
Russia's fight against "terrorists" came top in his speech to parliament.
At the start he praised the widows of the two Russian servicemen killed in the Su-24 incident in Syria. The widows were sitting in the Kremlin audience for his speech.
There was also a minute's silence for Russian victims of terrorism, including the 224 who died when a bomb blew up a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai desert on 31 October.
Jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) said their "Sinai Province" associates had planted the bomb.

'Punishment from Allah'

In his speech Mr Putin again accused the Turkish government of sheltering and covertly supporting IS militants.
Turkey insists that its F-16 fighters shot down the Su-24 because the bomber had trespassed into its airspace.
Mr Putin scorned them, saying "probably Allah alone knows why they did it.
"And evidently Allah decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey, by depriving it of any reason or logic."
He said he was making a clear distinction between the Turkish leadership and Russia's "many longstanding and reliable friends in Turkey".
Russia has announced wide-ranging sanctions against Turkey - a Nato member - because of the 24 November border clash, including an import ban on Turkish fruit, vegetables and some other foods.
Russians can no longer go on package holidays to Turkey - until this month the top foreign destination for Russian tourists.
In his speech Mr Putin made a direct connection between Russia's annexation of Crimea last year and the current fight against terrorism, saying Russia was showing its "confidence" as a "strong, independent state, with a 1,000-year-old history".
He used the word "reunited" for Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, which was condemned internationally.
Hours earlier he launched a Crimea-Russia undersea electricity link, responding to a power blackout that hit Crimea 10 days ago.

Turkish anger

The Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has dismissed Russian allegations that Turkey was buying oil from IS as "Soviet-style propaganda".
And Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it "slander". Later he said Russia was illegally buying IS oil, through a Syrian dealer with a Russian passport and "a famous Russian chess player".
As the Russia-Turkey war of words continued, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Serbia on Thursday, on the sidelines of an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting.
Russia says its bombers are attacking IS and other jihadist groups in Syria, helping the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
However, Western analysts and Syrian rebel sources say most of the Russian bombing has targeted anti-Assad groups who are not jihadists.
After the Su-24 incident Russia sent advanced S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to protect its planes in Syria.
"We know who in Turkey is stuffing his pockets and letting the terrorists prosper," Mr Putin said.
On Wednesday Russia's defence ministry displayed satellite images it said showed columns of trucks loaded with oil crossing from IS territory in Iraq and Syria into Turkey.
Comparing Russia's campaign with the World War Two struggle against Nazism, Mr Putin said "we are facing a destructive, barbaric ideology… we need a single powerful fist, a united front" against IS.
"Each civilised state should contribute to routing the terrorists," he said.

source: The Kathmandu Post

Salman Khan recommends Randeep Hooda for Sultan

Ever since Randeep Hooda did Kick, with Salman Khan, Hooda has been going around telling the world how fond Salman is of him.

Looks like the effusion has paid off. 

Randeep is now doing a role in the next Salman starrer Sultan. "It's a strong role of a Haryanvi character, though not of Salman's coach, as reported. Randeep has been chosen for the part as he is Haryanvi, and also Salman thought him appropriate for the character," says the source. 

According to sources close to the film, Randeep doesn't play a wrestler in Sultan. Incidentally, Randeep was to play a Haryanvi boxer in film to be directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia.

source : bollywoodhungama