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An unlikely small-screen hero





































                  E MIGHT be just six years old but          Gary creates and shares memes of George           ORLANDO
                  England’s PRINCE GEORGE will soon        “reacting” to British tabloid headlines about his   BLOOM is
                  be a TV star in his own right – well,    family.                                             one of the
                  kind of.                                   The results are hilarious and with nearly a       stars in the
        H Television network HBO has or-                   million Instagram followers, Gary has a solid fan   new ani-
        dered an animated comedy series entitled The       base.                                               mated se-
        Prince, which centres on the British royal family    The show features an impressive cast. Janetti     ries about
        and will be told from the little blueblood’s per-  himself will be voicing Prince George, while Or-    the royal
        spective.                                          lando Bloom will voice Prince Harry, Billions’      family. He’ll
                                                                                                                          e
           The show is based on American writer and        Condola Rashad is the voice of Harry’s wife,        be the voice
        TV producer Gary Janetti’s satirical Instagram     Meghan, and Tom Hollander voices both Princes       of Prince
        account.                                           Philip and Charles.                                  Harry.





                                                                 Robert fights





                                                                        #MeToo claims







                                                                      Acting legend ROBERT DE NIRO’s            But Robert (76) has hit back, stating in
                                                                      former assistant isn’t backing down     court papers that Chase (37) previously
                                                                      from her gender discrimination          threatened to write a memoir exposing his
                                                                      claims – but neither is he.             secrets if her demands weren’t met.
                                                                        CHASE GRAHAM ROBINSON                   The papers, filed in the Manhattan
                                                                      sued Robert last year for $12 mil-      Federal Court in New York, had no further
                                                                      lion (R171m), claiming the actor was    information on what the memoir could con-
                                                                      verbally abusive, made sexually         tain. But Chase alleged Robert had once
                                                                       charged comments and subjected         made unwanted jokes about his Viagra pre-
                                                                       her to unwanted physical contact.      scription during her time working for him.
                                                                                                                In response to Chase’s claims, Robert
                                                                                                              and his company, Canal Productions, filed
                                                                                                              their own $3m (R42,9m) lawsuit against
                                                                                                              her last year. They claim she “loafed
                                                                                                              around, ordered takeout, binge-watched
                                                                                                              Friends while on the clock and stole” from
                                                                                                              him.
                                                                                                                Both cases are still pending.


                                                                                                          C C C
                                                                                                          CHASE GRAHAM ROBINSON is suing actor
                                                                                                          R R
                                                                                                          ROBERT DE NIRO, citing gender discrimina-
                                                                                                         t tio
                                                                                                           on. She alleges Robert made unwelcome
                                                                                                         se
                                                                                                          exual jokes and was verbally abusive.
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