The popular couple are no strangers to gaining a ridiculous amount of double clicks on practically anything they post on Instagram, and Kim’s younger sister isn’t too far off, either. But, the time has come where Kendall has surpassed her famous family members—she broke Kimye’s record.

Last year, we reported that Kim and Kanye’s gorgeous wedding photo where they kiss as husband and wife became the most-liked photo on Instagram with nearly 2 million likes, and now it turns out that one of the supermodel’s social media pics has gained more attention and thus become the new record on Instagram. Can you guess which pic it is?

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Yes, there are definitely lots of options and potential contenders but it was actually the photo of Kendall lying down in a gorgeous white and sheer gown with her brunette tresses spread out around her face forming little hearts.

It was a close race, though. Kimye’s photo is currently at around 2.47 million and counting, while Kendall’s squeezed by with 2.48 double taps. Nothing like a nice, close social media competition.

After hearing the news of her triumph, the 19-year-old had to take a quick second to taunt her older sis and brother-in-law, because, duh. She went to Twitter to retweet the news that included the two record-breaking pictures and adding a “Take that KimYe!”. LOL, congratulations Kendall!

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“Today is a very special day for two reasons. Firstly, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published in the UK 18 years ago! I’m also very excited to confirm today that a new play called Harry Potter and the #CursedChild will be opening in London next year,” Rowling, 49, tweeted to her 4.8 million followers.

“It will tell a new story, which is the result of a collaboration between writer Jack Thorne, director John Tiffany and myself. #CursedChild,” she continued. “I don’t want to say too much more, because I don’t want to spoil what I know will be a real treat for fans. However, I can say that it is not a prequel!”

And, yes, Rowling was also quick to answer the obvious question: Why won’t it be turned into a novel? “I am confident that when audiences see the play they will agree that it was the only proper medium for the story,” she explained. “I’ve had countless offers to extend Harry’s story over the years, but Jack, John and Sonia Friedman are a dream team!”

She continued: “It has been a huge pleasure to share with them (and soon, with you!) this untold part of Harry’s story.”

This is the first play to be authored by Rowling. It’s set to open next summer. Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics, and more delivered straight to your inbox!

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She wrote on the New York Times Opinion on Saturday, May 30, that she was haunted by a feeling of guilt, because her fame had indirectly made her father a target of kidnappers. She disclosed this in an essay in the newspaper:

“My father was kidnapped in Nigeria on a Saturday morning in early May. My brother called to tell me, and suddenly there was not enough breathable air in the world. My father is 83 years old. A small, calm, contented man, with a quietly mischievous humor and a luminous faith in God, his beautiful dark skin unlined, his hair in sparse silvery tufts, his life shaped by that stoic, dignified responsibility of being an Igbo first son.

“He got his doctoral degree at Berkeley in the 1960s, on a scholarship from the United States Agency for International Development; became Nigeria’s first professor of statistics; raised six children and many relatives; and taught at the University of Nigeria for 50 years. Now he makes fun of himself, at how slowly he climbs the stairs, how he forgets his cell phone. He talks often of his childhood, endearing and rambling stories, his words tender with wisdom.

“Sometimes I record his Igbo proverbs, his turns of phrase. A disciplined diabetic, he takes daily walks and is to be found, after each meal, meticulously recording his carbohydrate grams in a notebook. He spends hours bent over Sudoku. He swallows a handful of pills every day. His is a generation at dusk.

“Kidnappings are not uncommon in southeastern Nigeria and, unlike similar incidents in the Niger Delta, where foreigners are targeted, here it is wealthy or prominent local residents. Still, the number of abductions has declined in the past few years, which perhaps is why my reaction, in the aftermath of my shock, was surprise.

“My close-knit family banded together more tightly and held vigil by our phones. The kidnappers said they would call back, but they did not. We waited. The desire to urge time forward numbed and ate my soul. My mother took her phone with her everywhere, and she heard it ringing when it wasn’t. The waiting was unbearable. I imagined my father in a diabetic coma. I imagined his octogenarian heart collapsing.

“‘How can they do this violence to a man who would not kill an ant?’ my mother lamented. My sister said, ‘Daddy will be fine because he is a righteous man.’ Ordinarily, I would never use ‘righteous’ in a non-pejorative way. But something shifted in my perception of language. The veneer of irony fell away. It felt true. Later, I repeated it to myself. My father would be fine because he was a ‘righteous man.’

“I understood then the hush that surrounds kidnappings in Nigeria, why families often said little even after it was over. We felt paranoid. We did not know if going public would jeopardize my father’s life, if the neighbors were complicit, if another member of the family might be kidnapped as well.

“‘Is my husband alive?’ my mother asked, when the kidnappers finally called back, and her voice broke. ‘Shut up!’ the male voice said. My mother called him ‘my son.’ Sometimes, she said ‘sir.’ Anything not to antagonize him while she begged and pleaded, about my father being ill, about the ransom being too high. ‘How do you bargain for the life of your husband? How do you speak of your life partner in the deadened tone of a business transaction?’

“Kidnapping’s ugly psychological melodrama works because it trades on the most precious of human emotions: love. They put my father on the phone, and his voice was a low shadow of itself. ‘Give them what they want,’ he said. ‘I will not survive if I stay here longer.’ My stoic father. It had been three days but it felt like weeks.

“Friends called to ask for bank-account details so they could donate toward the ransom. It felt surreal. Did it ever feel real to anybody in such a situation, I wondered? The scramble to raise the money in one day. The menacingly heavy bag of cash. My brother dropping it off, through a circuitous route, in a wooded area.

“Late that night, my father was taken to a clearing and set free.

“While his blood sugar and pressure were checked, my father kept reassuring us that he was fine, thanking us over and over for doing all we could. This is what he knows how to be, the protector, the father, and he slipped into his role almost as a defense. But there were cracks in his spirit. A drag in his gait. A bruise on his back.

“‘They asked me to climb into the boot of their car,’ he said. ‘I was going to do so, but one of them picked me up and threw me inside. Threw. The boot was full of things and I hit my head on something. They drove fast. The road was very bumpy.’

“I imagined this grace-filled man crumpled inside the rear of a rusty car. My rage overwhelmed my relief, that he suffered such an indignity to his body and mind.

“And yet he engaged them in conversation. ‘I tried to reach their human side,’ he said. ‘I told them I was worried about my wife.’

“The next day, my parents were on a flight to the United States, away from the tainted blur that Nigeria had become.

“With my father’s release, we all cried, as though it was over. But one thing had ended and another begun. I constantly straddled panic; I was sleepless, unfocused, jumpy, fearful that something else had gone wrong. And there was my own sad guilt: He was targeted because of me. ‘Ask your daughter the writer to bring the money,’ the kidnappers told him, because to appear in newspapers in Nigeria, to be known, is to be assumed wealthy. The image of my father shut away in the rough darkness of a car boot haunted me. Who had done this? I needed to know.

“But ours was a dance of disappointment with the authorities. We had reported the kidnapping immediately, and the first shock soon followed: State security officials asked us to pay for anti-kidnap tracking equipment, a large amount, enough to rent a two-bedroom flat in Lagos for a year. This, despite my being privileged enough to get personal reassurances from officials at the highest levels.

“How, I wondered, did other families in similar situations cope? Federal authorities told us they needed authorization from the capital, Abuja, which was our responsibility to get. We made endless phone calls, helpless and frustrated. It was as though with my father’s ransomed release, the crime itself had disappeared. To encounter that underbelly, to discover the hollowness beneath government proclamations of security, was jarring.

“Now my father smiles and jokes, even of the kidnapping. But he jerks awake from his naps at the sound of a blender or a lawn mower, his eyes darting about. He recounts, in the middle of a meal, apropos of nothing, a detail about the mosquito-filled room where he was kept or the rough feel of the blindfold around his eyes. My greatest sadness is that he will never forget.”

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Mrs. Adeoye has revealed that she is a woman with a different status,. She posted the message on instagram moments ago and further shared an inspiring message of how one needs to go through three trimesters before one eventually goes into labour and pushes out one’s breakthrough.

“The devil doesn’t mess with anyone who hasn’t got something going on. Believe it or not, God choose me bcos something good can still come out of this “Mess”- Age I’ve been thru all 3 trimesters Test Testimony Triumph I moved from God’s Plan, to his purpose, and to my problems, that birth my pains. I’ve come to tell you that the pains you’re feeling is not bcos of your past, but bcos you’re about to birth a Glorious future.

You don’t go into labour pains if you’re not about to birth something It’s not about what u lost but it’s about what u’re about to gain. You’ve been going thru that pain for too long, the affliction seems it’s not going to stop. U are bend over and even close to loosing your mind, it’s about time you PUSH! PUSH a breakthrough Out! The world is waiting for your manifestation.” Sunmbo wrote.

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The minister, who stated this during a familiarisation visit to the board recently in Abuja, recalled her screen roles on the set of the popular TV serial, ‘Village Headmaster’, noting that Nollywood is an important industry.

In a statement signed by Mike Ekunno, Head, Corporate Affairs (Ag), the minister however commended the Board under the leadership of Ms Patricia Bala, for its regulatory activities in the film industry.

Earlier in her welcome remarks, the Director-General of the Board, Ms Patricia Bala, informed the Minister, of the Board’s efforts in carrying out its mandate in the face of dwindling resources.

The Minister and her entourage were later taken round various departments of the Board including the film preview rooms where she acquainted herself with the processes of film censorship and verification.

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The supermodel celebrated her birthday with a star-studded bash at 15-bedroom castle Chateau Saint Jeannet, located just outside of Nice in the South of France. Names like Leonardo DiCaprio, model Gigi Hadid, Mary J. Blige and Kendall Jenner were present.

It has now been revealed that Campbell charged some non-celebrity guests up to $1,800 to enter the event on May 23.

“People paid to get on the guest list… Naomi wanted to capitalise on the prestigious group of people that were at the (Cannes International) Film Festival,” an insider told nydailynews.com.

Although there were several stars in attendance, many who paid to join the party were reportedly underwhelmed by the celebrity turnout and by the fact that Campbell didn’t arrive until after midnight, despite proceedings starting at 9 p.m.

The source added: “A lot of the billionaires were a bit upset because she didn’t show up until midnight. Everyone else started arriving at 9 p.m.”

A representative for the supermodel confirmed that Campbell charged some guests, but has revealed that it was for a donation to her charity Fashion for Relief.

The spokesperson said: “Some guests were invited to make a donation to support her charity, Fashion for Relief, in conjunction with their attendance at the event.”

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The choice of a film that revolves around the lives of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka’s civil war moving to France was seen as sending a political message, but the awards overall left some critics and festivalgoers dumbfounded.(Also Read: Tamil-French Refugee Drama Dheepan Wins Palme d’Or)

“It’s extremely disappointing, nobody seems happy,” Jay Weissberg, European-based critic for trade publication Variety, told Reuters. “It’s an anti-climactic finish to a festival that was middling to begin with.”

Ethan Coen, who along with his brother Joel served as co-president of the jury, defended the jury’s choices, especially the Palme d’Or winner.

“Everybody had an enthusiasm for it, to some degree or another we all thought it was a very beautiful movie,” he told a press conference.

Actor and jury member Jake Gyllenhaal got a laugh when he interjected: “It’s a good prize.”

Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’s debut film Saul Fia (Son of Saul), which made a huge impact at the festival for its portrayal by non-professional actor Geza Rohrig of a Jewish ‘Sonderkommando’ orced labourer in the Auschwitz concentration camp, took the Grand Prix second prize.

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s surreal English-language film The Lobster about guests at a posh singles hotel who are turned into animals if they don’t find a mate took the Jury Prize.

Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-Hsien won best director for Nie Yianniang (The Assassin) and Mexican director Michel Franco got best screenplay for Chronic.

But three Italian entries among 19 films competing for the Palme d’Or went home empty-handed, as did Cate Blanchett whose performance as a wealthy woman who falls in love with a shopgirl in the lesbian romance Carol won high critical praise.

Instead, Rooney Mara, who plays the shopgirl in director Todd Haynes’ film shared the best actress award with France’s Emmanuelle Bercot, who stared in director Maiwenn’s Mon Roi (My King).

Among the Italian films, Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre (My Mother), about a woman director whose life spins out of control while her mother is dying, had been tipped as a possible winner.

France’s Vincent Lindon, who took the best actor prize for his portrayal in Stéphane Brizé’s film La Loi du Marché (The Measure of a Man) of a floorwalker in a supermarket that has a secret plan to get rid of employees to boost the bottom line, was unapologetic about France’s strong showing.

“It’s not because it’s in Cannes that we can’t receive prizes as other people and this year maybe they wanted to celebrate French cinema,” Lindon said.

The Palme d’Or winner tells the story of Tamil refugees trying to make a new life on a violent and drug-infested French housing estate.

“I’m very moved. Winning a prize from the Coen brothers is something that is exceptional,” Mr Audiard, who has won two smaller Cannes awards in the past, told the closing ceremony. “I’m thinking of my father.”

Scott Roxborough, a critic for the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter, said Mr Audiard had been in the running for a Cannes award for a long time.

“I don’t think it’s his best film but it’s a hot topic. It honours the director and sends a political message at the same time,” he said.

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The actress, who is launching her own fashion line this year, talked about how plus-size clothes are often segregated in a different section in stores, or in entirely different stores, which does not exactly make a fun or positive shopping experience for all women. She told More magazine (via the Today Show):

“People don’t stop at size 12. I feel like there’s a big thing missing where you can’t dress to your mood above a certain number. (Malls) segregate plus-size (women). It’s an odd thing that you can’t go shopping with your friends because your store is upstairs hidden by the tire section. ‘We’ll put you gals over there because we don’t want to see you and you probably don’t want to be seen.’”

She added: “There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.” Amen to that.

McCarthy also talked about how she wants to set a good example for her daughters, Vivian, 8, and Georgette, 5, and she wants them to be able to do whatever they want to do in life: “When I told my daughters there had never been a female president, they were like, ‘What! How is that possible?’ I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don’t have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.”

Best mom ever. In fact, McCarthy should just be the role model for all people at this point. That would probably make everything better.

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