National Entertainment

TORONTO — Olympic rower Silken Laumann and "Never Have I Ever" star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan will host a star-studded special in support of Kids Help Phone this Friday afternoon. "Unsinkable Youth" will air on CTV as well as on Facebook and YouTube.

TORONTO — Olympic rower Silken Laumann and "Never Have I Ever" star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan will host a star-studded special in support of Kids Help Phone this Friday afternoon. "Unsinkable Youth" will air on CTV as well as on Facebook and YouTube.

LOS ANGELES — The body of former World Wrestling Entertainment pro Shad Gaspard was found early Wednesday on Los Angeles' Venice Beach, after he was caught in a rip current last weekend, police said. Patrol officers were flagged down around 1:25 a.m.

TORONTO — As he rises in the ranks of Hollywood, Toronto actor Stephan James has found himself fielding not only more scripts, but also many questions about a certain eating instrument.

PARIS — An Italian woman has been identified as the lucky winner of an oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was offered up in a charity raffle Wednesday. Raffle organizers identified her as Claudia Borgogno.

LOS ANGELES — The Daytime Emmy Awards are skipping a theatre ceremony because of the coronavirus but the honours will be presented on a TV broadcast.

OTTAWA — The Wu-Tang Clan is raising money to help three Ottawa charities "Triumph" over COVID-19.

Steve Earle & the Dukes, "Ghosts of West Virginia” (New West) Contemplating the treacherous political landscape of West Virginia, Steve Earle decided to build a bridge.

Indigo Girls, “Look Long” (Rounder) “Look Long” is the Indigo Girls’ first studio album in five years, a passionate and tuneful collection on which the combined voices of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers sound as instinctive and magical as ever.

“ The Lovebirds ” stars Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are two of the most exciting voices working in film and television today, as actors, writers and creators.