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Emma Jade, Alyssa Nicole and Noor Dabash have lead roles in the psychosexual thriller Iconic, the feature film debut from writer-director Matthew Freiheit.

The indie, which has just wrapped production in Los Angeles ahead of a planned 2024 release, stars Jade as makeup guru Rose, who faces hate mail from a rival artist played by Roxette Arisa, in addition to dealing with a violent stalker. After falling into a toxic love spiral with Lily (Nicole), Rose slides down a dangerous rabbit hole of drugs, paranoia and jealousy until she hits an unimaginable rock bottom.

The ensemble cast for Iconic includes Davi Stefond, Chris Bourdreaux, Cherish Waters and celebrity fashion photographer Reinhardt Kenneth. Tyler Stone composed the film’s score.

Freiheit and Carisa Arellano are producing under their production company Good Trip/Bad Trip, alongside Gabriel Dos Santos for Respect The Funk, with Connor Haines and Respect the Funk’s Nathan Doherty joining as co-producers.

The phrases “Ed Sheeran” and “hard rock anthem” wouldn’t seem to go together, but the sensitive balladeer has channeled his inner rock god on his new single “Blow.” The song brings him together with Chris Stapleton and Bruno Mars, who themselves are a couple of strange musical bedfellows for a collaboration like this. But the three are actually nowhere to be found in the music video, which was released on July 8. Watch it above.

The hard-charging song includes sexy come-ons like “You make me wanna make a baby” and “Tell me, what’s your fantasy?” but the men themselves yield the floor to a trio of women who stand in for them on the stage of the Viper Room: Cherish Waters as Sheeran, Jordan Kelly DeBarge as Stapleton and Cheyenne Haynes as Mars. The video was also directed by Mars, who previously channeled a different era with his 1990s-inflected “Finesse” video,...

Ed Sheeran has embraced the rock ‘n’ roll vibe of his recent track “Blow,” which features Bruno Mars and Chris Stapleton. The music video for the song, directed by Mars himself, showcases an all-female rock band taking over the stage at Los Angeles venue the Viper Room.

Sheeran, Mars and Stapleton don’t appear in the clip. Instead, former America’s Next Top Model contestant (and fellow redhead) Cherish Waters leads the girl group, performing the song on Sheeran’s behalf while a crowd of fans head bangs and rocks out in the audience.

While most cycles of America’s Next Top Model have its standout moments -- including Tyra Banks yelling at Tiffany (4), everything Jade said (6) and the pendulum runway (14) -- they all have the always epic, always dramatic and always hilarious makeover meltdowns.

Like clockwork, two or three episodes into the cycle, Tyra gathers the aspiring models around to tell them about their Tyovers. And what starts with cheers and excitement, usually ends in bitter tears and resentment. (In the contestants’ defense, who thought beard weave was a good idea?) And cycle 23 is no different when host Rita Ora surprises the girls with their new signature looks.

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But, of course, not everyone is satisfied with their transformation. Et has an exclusive first look at Cherish, who is not ready to let go of her “virgin hair.” But as one of the stylists puts it: “You won’t be a...