Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

Organisers of Taylor Swift’s Rio exhibits say they may have taken ‘different actions’

Organisers of the Brazilian leg of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” acknowledged on Thursday they may have taken extra measures to assist followers address the acute warmth they confronted final week in Rio de Janeiro. T4F’s assertion follows a last-minute postponement of Swift’s efficiency final Saturday in Rio resulting from document breaking warmth after a fan died within the sweltering situations a day earlier.

A century after debut, UK music retailer HMV makes Oxford Street return

British music retailer HMV on Black Friday returned to its former flagship retailer on London’s Oxford Street after a four-year absence, providing vinyl, clothes and merchandise in a vote of confidence for bodily shops in an more and more on-line age. The 363 Oxford Street tackle hosted the very first HMV retailer in 1921, opened by composer Edward Elgar, and was central to the event of British well-liked music and tradition. Pop band Madness reopened the shop on Friday.

Chinese court docket rejects Canadian pop star Kris Wu’s enchantment

A court docket in China’s capital Beijing on Friday denied the enchantment of Chinese-born Canadian pop star Kris Wu, who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for crimes together with rape. The former member of Okay-pop group EXO returned to China in 2014, the place he constructed a profitable profession. In 2017 Wu made his Hollywood debut within the movie “XXX: Return of Xander Cage”.

BRIT Awards double nominees for gender-neutral classes, add R&B prize

Britain’s pop music honours, the BRITs, has doubled the variety of nominees for its gender-neutral classes, organisers stated on Friday, after an outcry over an-all male checklist of greatest artist contenders at this yr’s awards. Both artist of the yr and worldwide artist of the yr will rely 10 nominees from subsequent yr, up from 5.

Rio police examine Taylor Swift live performance organizers after fan’s demise

Rio de Janeiro’s police stated on Friday they’ve opened an investigation into the organizers of the Brazilian leg of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” for the demise of a 23-year-old fan who fell in poor health on the present final week. The police will examine whether or not leisure agency Time for Fun (T4F) dedicated the crime of endangering human life or well being. Fans and concert-goers stated they’d been banned from getting into the venue with bottles of water regardless of the acute warmth within the metropolis which hit 59.3 levels Celsius (138.7 levels Fahrenheit) on the day of the occasion.

Actor Jamie Foxx accused of sexual abuse in New York lawsuit

Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York City on Wednesday that alleges he groped a lady at a rooftop bar and restaurant in Manhattan in August 2015. The plaintiff, recognized within the criticism solely as Jane Doe, stated the assault occurred in a secluded nook of the Catch NYC rooftop lounge after she and a buddy had approached the movie star and had their photos taken with him.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of 1991 sexual assault in second swimsuit

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a college scholar in 1991 in a lawsuit filed in a New York court docket on Thursday, the second swimsuit of its variety filed in opposition to the hip hop mogul prior to now week. The criticism in opposition to Combs was amongst a flurry of lawsuits filed this week in opposition to public figures underneath New York state’s Adult Survivors Act, forward of the expiry of a particular one-year window for such complaints. The regulation permits such lawsuits to be filed in court docket even when the statute of limitations have run out.

(With inputs from companies.)