Big Brother Verão 2026 contestants in the house living room, in a frame from TVI's broadcast

Entertainment 18 July 2026

Big Brother Verão today — who's out, who leads and what's happening in the house

Rolling coverage of TVI's Big Brother Verão 2026: evictions, leaders, galas and the stories everyone's talking about, updated through the season.

This is our rolling coverage of Big Brother Verão 2026 — who’s been evicted, who runs the house and what everyone’s talking about, updated through the season. Instead of hunting down the day’s recap, the essentials live here, with full episodes and live feeds always available on TVI’s official site.

How does Big Brother Verão 2026 work?

Portugal’s summer edition kicked off on 28 June with 18 anonymous contestants — nine men and nine women — locked into the country’s most-watched house, with Maria Botelho Moniz hosting and a prize that can reach 100,000 euros. Sunday galas settle evictions and leaderships, with special shows through the week; the format, the commentator panel and the prize maths are in our full guide to the season.

Updates

12 July 2026

Sunday’s gala shook everything loose: Mariana Salgueiro became the week’s evictee and Afonso took over as house leader, opening his reign with a direct nomination for Pedro. In between came the courage button — Nuno pressed it, fattening the final prize by three thousand euros at the cost of a direct nomination — and Joana entered the main house carrying a secret mission.

7 July 2026

A surprise mid-week gala caught the house and the audience off guard: João Gomes was the viewers’ choice to leave the show, in the season’s first lightning eviction.

By Lucy Bennett

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Suno promotional image with the slogan 'Make any song you can imagine'

Entertainment 17 July 2026

Suno trained its AI on millions of songs scraped from YouTube — and a hack just proved it

A hacker accessed Suno's source code and revealed how the AI music app scraped over two million songs from YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius to train its models.

Suno, one of the world's most popular AI music apps, has a friendly slogan: "make any song you can imagine". What a data leak has now shown is where that imagination comes from — millions of other people's songs, scraped from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius and stock-music libraries, without a licence. The story starts with a breach: a hacker used an employee's credentials, compromised in a supply-chain attack back in November, to get into the company's…

Entertainment 17 July 2026

Ryan Hurst is no longer Kratos — God of War is reshooting four episodes

Ryan Hurst tore a bicep filming Prime Video's God of War series and Amazon has recast Kratos. Four completed episodes will be reshot with the new lead actor.

He put on 40 pounds of muscle, spent months on a Vancouver set playing the god of war, and now he is off the show. Ryan Hurst will not be Kratos in Prime Video's God of War adaptation, and Amazon has to reshoot everything he filmed. The actor was badly hurt in late June performing a stunt: he tore a bicep. Recovery was estimated at up to six months — far too long for a production schedule already in motion. Amazon weighed waiting it out and decided it…

Entertainment 17 July 2026

Tom Cruise and IShowSpeed join the World Cup closing ceremony — with Jennifer Hudson on the anthem

FIFA has added Tom Cruise, IShowSpeed, Post Malone, Robbie Williams, Laura Pausini and Nicole Scherzinger to the World Cup 2026 closing ceremony, Sunday at MetLife Stadium, 90 minutes before the final. Jennifer Hudson sings the US anthem.

The World Cup 2026 final will have more stars off the pitch than on it — and the pitch has Messi and Yamal. FIFA announced that Tom Cruise is joining Sunday's closing ceremony at MetLife Stadium, alongside a bill that reads like a party playlist: Post Malone, Robbie Williams, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger and YouTube phenomenon IShowSpeed, the loudest fan Ronaldo ever had. The confirmed line-up brings Tom Cruise in a special appearance, performances…

Entertainment 16 July 2026

Kris Jenner's mother has died at 91 — MJ Shannon was the whole Kardashian clan's grandmother

Mary Jo 'MJ' Shannon, mother of Kris Jenner and grandmother of Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, died on July 16 aged 91. Kris Jenner confirmed the news on Instagram.

America's most televised family has lost its original matriarch. Mary Jo Shannon, known to millions of viewers simply as MJ, died on Thursday at 91. She was Kris Jenner's mother and grandmother to Kim, Kourtney, Khloé and Rob Kardashian, and to Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Kris herself confirmed the news in an Instagram post, saying goodbye to her mother with a heart — in her words — broken into a million pieces. No cause of death was announced.

Entertainment 16 July 2026

Netflix says 300 titles used generative AI this year — and that it's just getting started

In its Q2 2026 results, Netflix revealed that around 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, with revenue of 12.56 billion dollars, up 13% year on year.

Netflix has put numbers on the debate Hollywood has been having for two years: around 300 of the platform's titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production. The figure landed in Thursday's second-quarter results, alongside a phrase that says everything about intent — usage is "scaling quickly". Mostly behind the camera: effects, clean-up and image finishing. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos offered a concrete example: the documentary series The American…

Entertainment 16 July 2026

Miguel Vieira has beaten a third cancer, he says — and promises to be back at the atelier 'very soon'

Portuguese fashion designer Miguel Vieira revealed he faced a third cancer, now removed in surgery. He says he is well, focused on recovery, and thanked everyone for their support.

Miguel Vieira, one of the most respected names in Portuguese fashion, has revealed he fought — and by all indications won — a third battle with cancer. The designer from São João da Madeira underwent surgery at Porto's IPO cancer hospital, where a tumour was removed from his left lung, and he is already talking like a man on his way back: he says he is well, focused on a full recovery, and promises to return to work "very soon". The essentials come from…

Entertainment 16 July 2026

In the Hand of Dante has Pacino, Gadot and Scorsese — and still missed Netflix's Top 10

Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante stars Oscar Isaac, Al Pacino, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler and Martin Scorsese — and flopped, missing Netflix's weekly Top 10 with a 29% critics' score.

On paper it looked flop-proof: Oscar Isaac in a dual role, Al Pacino, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich — and Martin Scorsese, acting. In practice, In the Hand of Dante has become one of the year's most talked-about streaming failures: it landed on Netflix on 24 June and never even cracked the platform's weekly Top 10. Missing the Top 10 means the film opened with fewer than 2.7 million views — a pittance for a production with this…

Entertainment 15 July 2026

The 2026 World Cup final halftime show runs 20 minutes, and football's own rulebook says it can't

FIFA wants roughly a 20-minute halftime at the 2026 World Cup final to fit the Madonna, Shakira and BTS show. The laws of the game say the interval should not exceed 15 minutes.

Halftime in football lasts 15 minutes. It has done for decades, it is written down, and on Sunday FIFA is going to drive straight past it. The 2026 World Cup final carries the first halftime show in the tournament's history, and a show that size does not fit into a quarter of an hour. The number doing the rounds is closer to 20 minutes — the usual 15 plus whatever the production needs to build and strike a stage in the middle of the pitch. The laws of the…

Entertainment 15 July 2026

Iron Maiden sold half their catalogue, and Eddie went with it

Pophouse, co-founded by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus, has bought 50% of Iron Maiden's publishing and master rights — plus the band's name, image and their mascot Eddie.

Iron Maiden have just done the deal that most bands their age have already done, except with a clause nobody had quite seen before: they sold half the rights, and Eddie went in the box. The buyer is Pophouse Entertainment, the Swedish investment firm co-founded by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus. It has taken 50% of the band's publishing and master recording rights, plus name, image and likeness rights — which, in Maiden's case, includes the skeletal creature that…

Entertainment 15 July 2026

Twelve states are suing to stop Paramount buying Warner Bros., and $110 billion is on the table

Twelve attorneys general, California out front, are trying to block Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — a month after the Justice Department had already waved it through.

Hollywood was about to have one fewer studio. Twelve US states have just said maybe not. A coalition of attorneys general — California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington — filed suit to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Leading it is California's Rob Bonta, which figures: that's where the movies live. That the deal crushes…

Entertainment 14 July 2026

Sam Neill dies at 78: the quiet star of Jurassic Park and The Piano

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and the lead in The Piano, has died aged 78 in Sydney, surrounded by his family.

Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor who gave a face to some of cinema's most memorable characters over four decades, has died aged 78. His family confirmed he passed away on Monday, 13 July, in Sydney, surrounded by loved ones. According to the family's statement, the death was sudden and unexpected, but came at a time when the actor was free of cancer. Neill was diagnosed in 2022 with a rare lymphoma, shortly after filming Jurassic World: Dominion, and…

Entertainment 12 July 2026

Jay-Z marks 30 years of Reasonable Doubt with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy at Yankee Stadium

Jay-Z opened a three-night Yankee Stadium run celebrating 30 years of Reasonable Doubt — with Beyoncé on the very first song, Blue Ivy on piano and Alicia Keys closing.

Thirty years after Reasonable Doubt, Jay-Z went home. The Brooklyn rapper opened the first of three nights at Yankee Stadium in New York on Saturday, revisiting his 1996 debut album with a live band — and turned the anniversary into a family reunion that left the stadium in raptures. The surprise came on the very first song: Beyoncé walked out in a pinstripe suit to sing the hook on Can't Knock the Hustle, the part Mary J. Blige owned on the original…

Entertainment 12 July 2026

Madonna, Shakira and BTS at the World Cup final: the first-ever halftime show lineup

The 2026 World Cup final gets the first halftime show in history, with Madonna, Shakira and Burna Boy, BTS, Justin Bieber and Coldplay, curated by Chris Martin.

For the first time in nearly a century of World Cups, the final will have a halftime show — and the debut is not a modest one. Madonna, Shakira with Burna Boy, BTS, Justin Bieber, conductor Gustavo Dudamel and Coldplay themselves with the PS22 children's choir share the MetLife Stadium stage on 19 July, in a lineup curated by Chris Martin. Even the Muppets are in on it. The bill confirmed by FIFA brings together Madonna, Shakira and Burna Boy, BTS, Justin…

Entertainment 11 July 2026

Madison Square Garden leak exposes secret list tracking 40,000 celebrities

A hack of Madison Square Garden revealed a database of nearly 40,000 public figures, with labels on sexual orientation and risk ratings tied to criticism of owner James Dolan.

Madison Square Garden, New York's most famous arena, was keeping an unflattering secret: an internal database of nearly 40,000 names from entertainment, politics, sport and business, now exposed by a hack. Among the recorded fields were labels on sexual orientation and risk ratings that, with suspicious frequency, lined up with public criticism of the venue's owner, James Dolan. According to the US press investigation that reviewed the files, the talent…