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Star actress Yvonne Nelson has been stocking her YN’s Closet fashion with a lot of designer accessories including unisex clothes for her clienteles ahead of the festive season.  Reports said the actress’s recent trip to Paris, France was not solely to celebrate her birthday; she actually spent huge sums of cash on a wild shopping spree for her shop. Aside buy

Turning Point Pictures, the production house behind Leila Djansi’s ‘ Ties That Bind’, has issued a directive to G.P Limited, organizers of Ghana Movie Awards, to immediately correct what it considers a misrepresentation on the nomination list of this year’s awards. The award’s nominations, which came out last Saturday, had Leila Djansi and one Kevin Huie nominated as directors of ‘ Ties That Bind’ , in the Best Directing (English Language) category. Turning Point Pictures has however stated that it recognizes Leila Djansi as the sole director of ‘Ties That Bind’, hence organizers of the awards should take note and make the appropriate correction.   Kevin Huie, the production said, “was the 1st Assistant Director of ‘Ties that Bind’, a position that is limited to scheduling scenes, handling necessary paperwork on cast and keeping the production on time and schedule. “A 1st assistant director does NOT direct. The Ghana Movie Awards team has been alerted on this error and we ex...

Esther Afu Essel is the proud winner of the first edition of Face of Vienna City pageant organized by the Ghana branch of Vienna City group of companies, in collaboration with Consul limited. The Face of Vienna is an international event held in Vienna, Australia every year by the Vienna City Group. The hospitality giant player brought the pageant to Ghana for the first time to search for a beautiful, intelligent and elegant woman to represent the Vienna City brand. The event took place on November 19 at the Takoradi branch of Vienna City restaurant where beautiful contestants tried to display great acumen to emerge winners. At the end, Esther Afu Essel was crowned winner, with Alexandra Okyere and Beatrice Dossah placing first and second runners-up respectively. Last Friday, Vienna City management held a short presentation ceremony where winners were presented with their prize packages. Esther received a cash prize of GH¢3000, a certificate and other souvenirs from sponsors. Runne...

Actress Lydia Forson returned to Ghana on Friday, after touring the United State of America with an array of Nollywood actors. Among them were Genevieve Nnaji, Ini Edo, Uti Nwachuku and Desmond Elliot. They were in the US for the premiere of ‘ In The Cupboard’, a movie produced by rLG ambassador Desmond Elliot. They visited various cities in the USA where they received rousing welcome. The movie first p remiered at the Center Inc., New Jersey on November 4, followed by a November 12 premiere in   New York at 1744 Nostrand Avenue, Bet Cortelyou & Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY. There was another premiere at Studio Movie Grill in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, November 13. The movie has been described as a family movie which portrays how a family thrives to find perfection even in the midst of its imperfections.    It is a story that revolves around the lives of six siblings born into the rich, aristocratic Desouza family; a name synonymous with wealth and power. Everyth...

‘ Ties That Bind’ , a film directed by Ghanaian director Leila Djansi, has topped this year’s Ghana Movie Awards nomination with a total of 21 nominations including Best Picture, Best Story and Best Editing. Leila Djansi Director Shirley Frimpong Manso’s ‘ Adams Apples’ series came close with 20 nominations while Frank Raja’s ‘ Somewhere in Africa’ followed with 14.  Shirley, as a producer, is ahead of the entire nominations with 23 for her 5 movies- ‘Adams Apples 1, 2, 3, 4’ and ‘ 6 Hours To Christmas’. ‘6Hours To Christmas’ bagged three nominations- Best Actor Leading (Christ Attoh), Best African Movie Collaboration and Best Actress African Collaboration (Damilola Adegbeti). Other movies that got nominations include ‘4play Reloaded’, ‘Masqueraders’, ‘ Single Six’, ‘Bed of Roses’, ‘Why Marry’ and ‘Grave Yard’ .  This year’s nominations were released during a party at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Kumasi which a number of movie stakeholders including actors and actresse...

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Hiplife icon Tinny, born Nii Addo Quaynor, is known for ‘mild’ sex scenes in his music videos but it has become obvious that he is taking the scenes to the next level. It is unclear what level he is targeting but still photos from the set of the video shoot of his new song titled ‘ Anaconda’ , are sizzling. Ghanaian music enthusiasts only have to keep their fingers crossed and watch out for something hot and sexy. The video has some wild bikini scenes that can certainly raise something else other than eyebrows. Most of the scenes captured Tinny and bikini models doing their thing for the cameras.    Already, there is a rising controversy over what he really meant by ‘ Anaconda’. He is yet to make an official statement on it. The new video, which will be on the screens very soon, is directed by one Sony, with Tinny playing an integral role in the making of the video. It featured other artistes as Jupiter and Lansaka.           ...