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Dec 25, 2023 at 10:50 AM Update: an hour ago

Jelka van Houten thinks Christmas is absolutely fantastic, but that hasn’t been the case for very long. “We always celebrated more Sinterklaas at home,” says the 45-year-old actress in conversation with the newspaper ANP.

Her partner Henry van Loon, on the other hand, is “very much into Christmas”. “So since then I actually like it a lot more. I love that tree and all those things. And the food. I just really enjoy eating with people. At Christmas it’s more about family and friends.”

Van Houten himself likes to be found in the kitchen. “But I always make it too complicated for myself. I then make four different sauces. I love sauces,” she says.

Sister Carice van Houten makes no secret of the fact that she is not exactly a kitchen princess. Jelka agrees. “She really can’t cook. That’s so funny. She really has very different talents,” says Van Houten, laughing.

While Van Houten is in the kitchen at one Christmas dinner, she does not do so at the other. “So for one family I will cook a lot, for the other family I will help do the dishes. Then I will still do something.”

Image: ANP

2023-12-25 09:50:45


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Dec 22, 2023 at 12:12 Update: an hour ago

Darren Criss and his wife Mia Swier become parents of a second child. The actor announces his wife’s pregnancy on Instagram.

36-year-old Criss edited the film’s poster Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and pasted his own head, that of his wife and their daughter over the actors’ faces. There are also two positive pregnancy tests on the picture. “Coming soon“, Criss writes.

Criss and his wife welcomed daughter Bluesy Bell last April. The two have been married since February 2019.

Criss became known to the general public for his role in the musical series Glee. After that he played major roles in series such as American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace in Hollywood.

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2023-12-22 11:12:14


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Nov 29, 2023 at 9:04 PM Update: 39 minutes ago

Actress Frances Sternhagen has died at the age of 93. Her son confirmed this after media reports. The versatile actress’s career spans more than half a century. Sternhagen played major roles in series such as IS, Sex and the City in Cheers.

In Sex and the City she appeared for two seasons as Bunny MacDougal, the meddling aristocratic mother of Trey, to whom Charlotte York was married for some time. Another major television role that the general public knew her from was the overprotective Esther Clavin in the hit series Cheers. Sternhagen received Emmy nominations for both roles. She also appeared in the hospital series for a number of years IS.

The actress really enjoyed playing insufferable characters, she told the magazine in 2002 Los Angeles Times. “I know a lot of women like that and apparently I can imitate them very well.”

Sternhagen received two Tony Awards for her stage work, in 1974 and 1995. These were for roles in The Good Doctor by Neil Simon and The Heiress. In cinema, Sternhagen has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed Stephen King film adaptations, such as Misery (1990) in The Mist (2007).

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2023-11-29 20:04:33
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