Ever wondered if you’ve got any famous distant cousins floating around on your family tree?

This week, Ancestry.com revealed two icons of film and fashion, Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour, are actually related. Sixth cousins, in fact, with Today (U.S.) reporting they share fifth great-grandparents. 

It turns out Hollywood is full of surprise distant-relatives, including Brad Pitt and Barack Obama (ninth cousins), Ashley Tisdale and Austin Butler (10th cousins), and George Clooney is Abraham Lincoln’s half-first cousin five times removed (don’t ask me what that means).

More on Streep and Wintour below.

“I'm grateful for the Court’s ruling which allows the heart of my case to be presented to a jury next month, and for the ability to finally tell my story in full at trial”.
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Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour have posed for the latest issue of Vogue, ahead of the upcoming release of The Devil Wears Prada 2. Streep’s Miranda Priestly character has long been thought to be based on Wintour, who was editor-in-chief of American Vogue for 37 years until June 2025. In an accompanying interview with filmmaker Greta Gerwig, Wintour revealed: “It’s such an honour to be played by Meryl, however distant Miranda is from myself. Who wouldn’t think that that wasn’t the most extraordinary gift?”

The world held its breath this week, as the crew onboard NASA’s Artemis II mission travelled deeper into space than humans have ever gone before.

During a 40-minute communications blackout, the four astronauts inside the Orion spacecraft ventured to the far side of the moon.

While Artemis II has achieved plenty of firsts, NASA made sure to honour a decades-old musical tradition with its latest mission: The wake-up song.

Every morning of the 10-day Artemis II mission, the crew has been woken by a different song, rather than an alarm. Songs are chosen by the team at NASA’s Mission Control Centre (MCC) back here on Earth.

The move is in line with a tradition that dates back to the mid-1960s. At the time, NASA was paving the way for its Apollo program through a series of test flights. What started as day trips around earth’s orbit evolved into much longer journeys, with astronauts living and sleeping in space for weeks at a time. 

Without traditional sunrises to wake astronauts up naturally, NASA’s MCC first used music as an alarm clock for the Gemini 6 mission of December 1965.

On their final morning in space, the crew heard the Dean Martin song Houston, a tongue-in-cheek reference to MCC’s Texas headquarters.

During the 1971 Apollo 15 mission, MCC woke up its crew with the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, while Frank Sinatra’s 1964 rendition of Fly Me to the Moon has featured as a wakeup track on four occasions. 

NASA calls the tradition “a fun way to start the day on a good note.”

After a ten-day journey, the historic Artemis II mission will splash down off the coast of California on Saturday morning (AEST).

Here are the songs the crew has woken up to since the mission launched on 1 April:

Day 1: "Sleepyhead" - Young & Sick

Day 2: "Green Light" - John Legend (feat. André 3000)

Day 3: "In a Daydream" - Freddy Jones Band

Day 4: “Pink Pony Club" - Chappell Roan

Day 5: "Working Class Heroes (Work)" - CeeLo Green

Day 6: "Good Morning" - Mandisa and TobyMac

Day 7: "Tokyo Drifting" - Glass Animals and Denzel Curry

Day 8: “Under Pressure” - Queen and David Bowie

NASA has been updating a Spotify playlist with the morning melodies, which you can follow here.

Reporting by Emily Donohoe.

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Wireless Festival has cancelled its 2026 event after the UK Government barred its headliner, Kanye West, from entering the country.

Following the announcement, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the rapper (who now goes by ‘Ye’) should “never have been invited to headline Wireless”.

The ban follows years of antisemitic comments and actions by West.

Here's a timeline of how we got here.

In 2022, West wore a 'White Lives Matter' shirt during Paris Fashion Week, and featured the garment in a runway collection for his brand Yeezy.

Shortly after the event, West began sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media. In a post to X, he wrote he was going “death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE”. His account was temporarily suspended.

He was permanently banned from the platform after sharing an image of a swastika merged with the Star of David.

West also made several comments praising Hitler. During an interview with the right-wing conspiracy theory website InfoWars, he said: “I see good things about Hitler… I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”

By the year's end, several major brands including Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga had ended their partnerships with the rapper. The Adidas split alone cost West an estimated $US1.5 billion.

West continued to make antisemitic comments throughout 2023 and 2024, with his behaviour escalating further in 2025 when he began selling t-shirts featuring swastikas.

The rapper then released a song titled ‘Heil Hitler’, featuring a direct sample from a 1935 Hitler speech. He also announced a new album called Cuck, featuring a song titled ‘Gas Chambers’, but this was never released.

In Australia, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirmed West's visa had been cancelled in response to the release of the song ‘Heil Hitler’, which was ultimately removed from all streaming platforms.

“If you're going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism, we don't need that in Australia,” he said.

West's wife, Bianca Censori, is Australian.

In January, West published a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal titled “To Those I've Hurt”, in which he attributed his behaviour to a brain injury and bipolar disorder.

He wrote: “I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.” The apology coincided with the release of his twelfth album, Bully.

A few months later, London-based rap/hip hop festival Wireless announced West as its sole headliner for 2026.

The rapper was booked to perform to an audience of more than 150,000 people over three nights, in what would have been his first UK performance since Glastonbury in 2015.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemned the festival organisers’ decision to book West, saying it was “not reflective of London's values”. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the situation “deeply concerning“.

Following public backlash, several major sponsors including Pepsi and PayPal withdrew their support for the festival.

On Tuesday, Wireless promoter Festival Republic defended its choice of headliner.

Managing director Melvin Benn condemned West’s past comments, but denied the festival was "giving him a platform to extol opinion of whatever nature”. Benn claimed West was booked “only to perform the songs that are currently played on the radio stations in our country”.

Later that day, West offered to meet with the Jewish community in the UK. The Board of Deputies of British Jews said any meeting would only go ahead if he agreed not to play the festival.

Hours later, the UK's Home Office rejected West's visa application, with officials saying his presence was not considered conducive to the public good. Starmer said the Government “stands firmly with the Jewish community”.

Following the decision, organisers were unable to find a replacement headliner, and the festival was subsequently cancelled.

Organisers said full refunds will be issued to all ticket holders, with Festival Republic saying: “Antisemitism in all its forms is abhorrent.”

Reporting by Elliot Lawry.