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  Lizzo accused of sexual harassment and weight-shaming by former dancers Lizzo performs in Sydney, Australia, on 23 July. Photograph: Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images Three former backup dancers allege in lawsuit the singer created a hostile work environment and pressured staff at afterparties Three of Lizzo’s tour dancers have accused the singer of sexual harassment, and of creating a hostile work environment through sexual, racial and religious harassment in several incidents between 2021 and 2023, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The dancers also alleged that Lizzo, known as an advocate for body positivity and self-love, criticized a dancer’s recent weight gain and later berated, then fired, that dancer for recording a meeting. According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles and first reported by  NBC News , Lizzo allegedly pressured one dancer to touch a nude performer at a club in Amsterdam and subjected several dancers to an “excruciating” 12-hour audition after maki...

  Meghan Markle Must 'Make Better Decisions' to 'Reignite Popularity' Meghan Markle has reached a point where she must start making important decisions in order to "reignite" her popularity, an entertainment expert has told  Newsweek . The Duchess of Sussex has faced 12 months of media highs and lows as she has amped up her post-royal transition into the entertainment industry in earnest, seeing the release of her  12-episode podcast series  Archetypes  and six-part  Netflix   docuseries  Harry & Meghan . Both of these were met with record streaming figures but also waves of backlash and criticism. In recent weeks Meghan received a morale boost with hit legal TV show  Suits  (which she worked on for seven seasons from 2011 to 2017)  becoming a streaming sensation  after being added to Netflix's library in June. The show has set a new Nielsen streaming record as the most-viewed acquired title in a single week. With the royal...

  Canada: TikToker hospitalized after drinking too much water for ’75 Hard’ fitness challenge A woman in  Canada  claims she was hospitalized after drinking four liters of water for 12 days as part of the popular “75 Hard” social media challenge, which entails drinking a gallon (about four liters) of water every day for 75 days. Michelle Fairburn described her experience in a  TikTok  video, explaining how drinking too much water made her feel ill. Her mother, a real estate salesperson in Toronto, feared her daughter had “water poisoning.” Water poisoning is a disorder induced by drinking too much water that can be lethal in the most severe cases. Fairburn, who shared the video on TikTok on the 12th day of the viral challenge, said she didn’t feel well when she went to bed the night before and had woken up numerous times during the night to use the restroom. She went on to say that she couldn’t eat, that she was queasy, that she felt weak, and that she had been ...

  China wants to mobilise entire nation in counter-espionage | SaltWire Reuters | Posted: 4 hours ago | Updated: 4 hours ago | 2 Min Read STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS SaltWire Today - Monday, July 31, 2023 | SaltWire BEIJING (Reuters) - China should encourage its citizens to join counter-espionage work, including creating channels for individuals to report suspicious activity as well as commending and rewarding them, the state security ministry said on Tuesday. A system that makes it "normal" for the masses to participate in counter-espionage must be established, wrote the Ministry of State Security, the main agency overlooking foreign intelligence and anti-spying, in its first post on its WeChat account, which went live on Monday. The call to popularise anti-spying work among the masses follows an expansion of China's counter-espionage law that took effect in July. The law, which bans the transfer of information related to national security and interests w...

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