Popular actress mercy Johnson has finally called off her planned wedding to Odianosen Okojie. This is coming after an allegation of husband snatching was leveled against the actress by Okojie’s wife, Lovely.

They are often fluent in speech and sleek on screen. The question of whether those qualities will be enough for some of Ghana's top actors when the attempt to dribble their way past and beat some of the nation’s best-known football administrators at their own game is waiting for answers.

The answer will come Sunday, July 31 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi when a select side of actors meet football administrators in a fund-raising fun match organised by Swanzy Essuman’s Koba Consult.

Africa is popular for so many things, but one of the things that has driven Africa’s popularity in the western world in recent times is ‘Anchor Baby’, the movie by Lonzo Nzekwe that was described in the July – September edition of BBC Focus on Africa as ‘A movie with its roots in Africa that points to a bigger debate happening about the levels of immigration to the United States’.

After a successful journey through African cinemas, becoming a hit in every city it touches and with over 8 international awards from 11 International film festivals, ‘Anchor Baby’ is now set to premiere in UK one of the cities touched by the theme of the movie.

Two of the nation’s young and brilliant actors, Eddie Nettey and Foster Owusu-Amponsah, will display how funny they can be on stage when they team up with other members of the Globe Theatre Group to put up a play titled ‘Gallery of Comedies’, at the National Theatre on Saturday, July 23 and Sunday, July 24.
Both young men are graduates of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon.

Eddie has been fairly active on the cinema screens but is also a real gem on stage. Foster is gradually carving a name for himself in the comedy circuit and is a regular on ‘Laugh a Minute’ on Viasat 1 as well as the comedy shows at the Citizen Kofi Entertainment Centre.

Star actress Yvonne Nelson is leaving no stone unturned in her quest to create awareness on glaucoma and its negative impact on society.

She is offering a two-week fully-paid holiday trip to the UK to entice Ghanaian students to join her in the fight against glaucoma. Her glaucoma foundation, which was launched last October to raise awareness and educate people about the ailment, has introduced a Glaucoma Essay Competition among students across the country.

The Ghana Actors’ Guild (GAG) has warned unscrupulous individuals and organisations calling themselves producers or production houses to desist from collecting monies from actors.

A press release signed by Abeiku Sagoe, General Secretary of GAG, said there were some unscrupulous individuals and organisations inviting young and largely naive actors for auditions, and charging them illegal fees with promises for productions that invariably do not materialize.

Star actress Yvonne Nelson is leaving no stone unturned in her quest to create awareness on glaucoma and its negative impact on society.

She is offering a two-week fully-paid holiday trip to the UK to entice Ghanaian students to join her in the fight against glaucoma.

Inspirational gospel musician Bernard Amankwah is set to outdoor two major albums at a mega concert which will open at 5pm at the National Theatre on August 7.

The concert, the second in the Experience His Power Through Worship series, will host a night of an unprecedented music and worship drawing several musical giants and worshipers to God's presence.

Nigeriafilms.com is reporting that Nigerian entertainment personalities, Dapo Oyebanji known in showbiz as Dbanj and his girlfriend actress Genevieve Nnaji have gone their separate ways.

The site is reporting that the two had a quarrel with Genevieve complaining bitterly about growing controversies around the two and their relationship.

Frank Elinam Cobbinah known in showbiz circles as Atumpan has said his much talked about smash hit The Thing which is currently enjoying heavy rotations on radio is a gospel song contrary to perceptions that it is profane.

The artiste speaking in an interview withMyjoyonline.com said as much as he is excited about the huge reception the song has received, there is no profanity attached to the lyrics of the song.

One of Ghana’s leading gospel musical groups, No Tribe, was the biggest winner at the maiden edition of the Ghana Gospel Industry Awards held at the National Theatre in Accra, as the group grabbed the Artiste of the Year, Album of the Year and Popular Video of the Year awards.

The leader of the group, Nacy, also won the Male Vocalist of the year, Gospel Sound Engineer of the year and Gospel Producer of the Year awards.

ALL is set for the 12th edition of the Night of Laughs and Music at the Dome of the Accra International Conference Centre, tonight.

Comedians billed for the night include Godwin Komone, popularly known as Gordons, who has promised to unleash his arsenal of rib-cracking jokes and anecdotes, Funny Face, Emeka Smith, Bash and Elenu.

HM FILMS is supporting a charity project by Awoe Foundation International in Ghana to help improve the living standards of the underprivileged children in Ghana.

Awoe Foundation International is an American Non –Governmental Organization (NGO) headed by Prophetess Wendy Anne Ross of Awoe Ministries International.

A group of stakeholders in the music industry have commended the Virtual Sound Laboratory for its immense contribution towards the building of an energetic music industry in the country.

According to them, since the company was established a couple of years back, it had helped and continues to help improve the music industry by providing stakeholders as well as musicians with music recording studios and good musical equipment for live band performances.

Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker, with annual salaries of $30 million each, are the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, according to a new ranking.

Jolie topped the Forbes.com list thanks to the worldwide success of her action film ‘Salt,’ which brought in $300 million, and ‘The Tourist,’ which also featured Johnny Depp and earned $280 million in global sales.

Bits and pieces of information reaching NEWS-ONE indicates that one of Ghana’s most famous actresses got married to a multibillionaire American-based Ghanaian at a secret ceremony in Accra a fortnight ago.

The actress, a light-skinned lady from a well-respected family, is said to have created uproar in her family because her marriage was so secretly held that her biological father did not even know about it.

Maurice Owusu (Ecow Smith Asante) and Ellen (Nana Ama McBrown) have been married for seven years. Ellen is dedicated to her husband and plays the part of the dutiful wife while Maurice gets lazy in keeping the spark in the marriage burning.

Ellen receives a bouquet of flowers and starts walking on sunshine thinking it was from her husband. She falls from 'cloud nine' when she realises the flowers are not from her husband.

After greatly embarrassing themselves and coming under huge public criticism, operatives of the National Security on Friday released 13,000 CDs of the much talked-about movie, ‘Atta Mortuary Man’ which were seized in a ‘Rambo’ style at Opera Square by the same agents.

The seized CDs were however kept in the custody of the Police Striking Force and the producers were asked to collect them after nearly two weeks in ‘police detention’ and subsequent meetings between the producers and the National Security.

AN ANGRY man holding a loaded gun in public is indeed a dangerous person to be near and NEWS-ONE has received reports that controversial movie producer Socrates Sarfo furiously pulled out a gun while quarrelling  and throwing tantrums in Kumasi last week.

“He was quarrelling with Mercy Asiedu because she said he should not treat her like the actress whose pubic hair was shaved…she really gave it to him and walked off the set while the camera guys and everyone was ready.

AMERICAN SUPERSTAR Arnold Schwarzenegger recently confessed about cheating on his wedded wife but Ghanaian actor Van Vicker has created an impression that Arnold made the most stupid mistake on earth with that honest confession.

The Ghanaian actor has explained that he has never ever cheated on his wife since they got together a decade ago.