Style Archives - Bonbon News https://bonbonnews.com/category/style/ Caramels, Bonbons et Chocolates - Par moments, je ne te comprends pas. Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:02:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://bonbonnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png Style Archives - Bonbon News https://bonbonnews.com/category/style/ 32 32 Dua Lipa in blue dress https://bonbonnews.com/2024/06/11/dua-lipa-in-blue-dress/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:02:53 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=112 The pop star, 28, waved to fans on the yacht to Italian isle Capri for French brand Jacquemus’ La Casa cruise event. Dua — in a sheer blue gown and with a red bag — was joined at the bash by models including Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. The singer was on a break from her Radical Optimism tour and recently shared her gruelling fitness and diet regime ahead of the shows. The…

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The pop star, 28, waved to fans on the yacht to Italian isle Capri for French brand Jacquemus’ La Casa cruise event.

Dua — in a sheer blue gown and with a red bag — was joined at the bash by models including Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

The singer was on a break from her Radical Optimism tour and recently shared her gruelling fitness and diet regime ahead of the shows.

The seven-time Brit Award winner chatted with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett on the latest episode of their podcast Dish From Waitrose earlier this month.

Nick asked Dua: “What is life like for your now? Are you like ‘I’m an athlete, I’m in the zone’?”

“One thousand per cent,” Dua replied.

“It’s like rehearsals, no drinking, working out, just back-to-back preparing for all the shows to come,” the 28-year-old said.

“Also, I haven’t done a proper tour show for a year so I’ve got to get my stamina back up before I go into festivals.” 

This involves “running, dancing, singing, all at the same time, to make sure I can hack it once the adrenaline hits as well”, the singer explained.

Dua said she belts out her songs during rehearsal to get used to signing and dancing at the same time.

“I’ve got to make sure that while we’re doing new dance moves that a certain move isn’t gonna make my voice shake,” she added.

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Julia Fox takes the low-rise trend to new extremes https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/23/julia-fox-takes-the-low-rise-trend-to-new-extremes/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:01:59 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=76 Since rising to fame in 2021 after a brief but indelible relationship with Kanye West, Julia Fox’s sartorial unpredictability has become an almost constant source of internet chatter. From DIY-ing a bandeau top and matching bottoms out of a single pair of jeans using just a pair of scissors, to her now quintessential finger-painted black eyeliner look, Fox seemingly knows no bounds and is fast becoming the enfant terrible of…

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Since rising to fame in 2021 after a brief but indelible relationship with Kanye West, Julia Fox’s sartorial unpredictability has become an almost constant source of internet chatter. From DIY-ing a bandeau top and matching bottoms out of a single pair of jeans using just a pair of scissors, to her now quintessential finger-painted black eyeliner look, Fox seemingly knows no bounds and is fast becoming the enfant terrible of celebrity fashion.

Last Friday, she was at it again, clad in a black string bikini top and a pair of centaur-inspired leather trousers with a plunging V-crotch. Fox took to Instagram later in the week to offer additional context: “There was one hook,” she said in a video posted to her stories, “and I had to put them on and then shave, like, around it.”

The ensemble, designed by Central Saint Martins graduate Liza Kearne, is the latest in a new genre of extremist fashion. Recent fashion weeks have touted super short hem-lines (a la Miu Miu’s era-defining micro-mini skirt), risque prints (see: the revival of the trompe l’oeil), and cut-out silhouettes. And Fox seems right at home in this space, leaning into trends that certainly won’t be for everyone. From the Alexander Wang “joots” (jean boots) she wore to a well-documented trip to the grocery store, to her bleached brows — regularly replaced with penciled-on, flapper-esque lines — the actor and influencer appears to construct her looks with provocation in mind, often taking cues from the BDSM community.

In a second post on this week’s look — and perhaps in an attempt to ward off critics — Fox sent out a classic sorry-not-sorry message: “I just wanna sincerely apologize,” she said to-camera, “for having figured out that there’s more to life than chasing an impossible beauty standard projected onto me by insecure celebrities for the ultimate goal of pleasing men.”

And while she may want to position herself as someone who defies convention, Fox has certainly enjoyed several moments of conventional fashion-world success, including landing herself a spot on the runway at both New York Fashion Week, where she modeled for LaQuan Smith, and at Patou’s off-schedule show at the recent Paris Haute Couture Week.

Read more by Leah Dolan, CNN

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Take a look back -Young Brooke Shields https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/22/take-a-look-back-young-brooke-shields/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:10:42 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=53 Brooke Shields is front and center in the new two-part Hulu documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which debuts on April 3, 2023. The project — which takes its name from the 1978 film that marked her first big breakthrough — traces her early years in Hollywood and examines how the focus on her appearance impacted her later in life. “The entirety of my life, it was ‘she’s a pretty face’ over and…

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Brooke Shields is front and center in the new two-part Hulu documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke

Shields,” which debuts on April 3, 2023. The project — which takes its name from the 1978 film that marked her first big breakthrough — traces her early years in Hollywood and examines how the focus on her appearance impacted her later in life. “The entirety of my life, it was ‘she’s a pretty face’ over and over and over and over again — and that always just seared me,” says the model-actress in a trailer for the documentary. “I’m amazed that I survived any of it,” she later adds.



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1990s fashion: A brief history of what we wore https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/22/1990s-fashion-a-brief-history-of-what-we-wore/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:13:53 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=47 Nineties fashion was hard to pin down. A clash of trends screamed for our attention while others were so quietly cool they’re still sartorial staples in our collective wardrobes: slip dresses, Doc Martens, chokers, crop tops. While the 1980s were all about volume — padded shoulders, puffed jackets, big hair and an obsession with designer wear — style in the early 1990swas decidedly low maintenance. The slip dress, one of…

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Nineties fashion was hard to pin down. A clash of trends screamed for our attention while others were so quietly cool they’re still sartorial staples in our collective wardrobes: slip dresses, Doc Martens, chokers, crop tops.

While the 1980s were all about volume — padded shoulders, puffed jackets, big hair and an obsession with designer wear — style in the early 1990swas decidedly low maintenance.

The slip dress, one of the decade’s most enduring garments, is perhaps the most glaring example of this. Spaghetti straps held up barely-there silk dresses, swapping the frills of the ’80s for minimalist ease.

Weekends were about biker shorts, turtlenecks, high-waisted jeans and baggy, logo tees. Hair was scraped into scrunchies or left as flouncy, unstyled manes.

The ’90s also gave rise to celebrity supermodels, including Linda Evangelista who summed up the industry’s excesses at the start of the decade by saying she didn’t get out of bed “for less than $10,000 a day.”

Evangelista joined Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington for the finale of Versace’s Fall 1991 collection. They walked arm-in-arm down the runway, lip-syncing the lyrics to George Michael’s hit “Freedom! ’90” — the music video for which they had all starred in.

It was a very early-90s moment.

From glam to grunge

By the middle of the decade, however,glamazons had given way to a more relatable type of beauty. A new waif-like femininity emerged, best personified by Kate Moss.

wards in New York, February 1995. Credit: Shutterstock

Grunge was also taking over and in 1993, then 29-year-old Marc Jacobs put unstructured pieces on the catwalk in a Perry Ellis show that featured granny dresses, Doc Martens and plaid shirts.

He was wildly criticized and, ultimately, fired for it. But the collection became one of the decade’s most important turning points for fashion, not to mention his career.

Chanel’s Spring 1994 range also looked to the street, dressing models in skates and baggy boy-shorts accessorized with rapper’s chains, while Calv in Klein presented lingerie-layered pieces that were, as he told Vogue, about “the personal, about staying in and being alone, and not flaunting what you have on your back.”

As the decade progressed, fashion moved from functional to decisively feminine.

In his first show for Gucci, Tom Ford reinvented the Italian brand, flaunting velvet trousers and sexy satin shirts endorsed by Madonna at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards.

In the late 1990s, Alexander McQueen bet on explicit provocation with a series of experimental shows, of which Spring 1997’s La Poupée (The Doll) was perhaps the wildest, featuring models in various metal restraints.

Meanwhile, for a generation of teens raised on MTV and the fictional lives of fellow adolescents — Beverly Hills, 90210 and Bel-Air, to name just a couple — fashion came to be defined as a mix of preppy garments (duster coats, plaid miniskirts, knee-high boots) and slouchy cardigans, ripped jeans and snapback hats.

Keds and Skechers were cool though, if you were into rap, Timberlands had to be your footwear of choice. Reebok Pumps were sneakerheads’ Holy Grail and combat boots the hallmark of Kurt Cobain-enamored kids.

By the mid-1990s, tracksuits started popping up everywhere (and would continue doing so well into the 2000s, in the form of Juicy Couture), attempting athleisure before athleisure was even a thing.

It girls and broody boys

Just like “Friends”‘ reruns, the list of celebrities that defined ’90s style — and its best fashion moments — is seemingly endless.

The sitcom itself providedquintessential examples of mid- and late-90s fashion, with Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel and her famed haircut leading the pack. Sarah Jessica Parker, both on and off HBO’s “Sex and the City,” Alicia Silverstone, as popular rich girl Cher Horowitz in “Clueless,” Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks also helped set our style standards.

The men, meanwhile, were broody — see Jared Leto, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp — and their disheveled looksembodiedcasual dressing, with a penchant for leather jackets, white tees and minimal tailoring.

Throughout the decade, anyone who was anyone made a case for easy elegance by sporting double-breasted blazers and waistcoats, or coordinated head-to-toe looks, which made even more of an impression when touted by couples (Gwyneth and Brad) and girl groups (TLC and Destiny’s Child).

As the decade drew to a close, celebrity fashion took a turn for the daring: hemlines got shorter, outfits flashier (Lil’ Kim owned the trend better than anyone else) and pants became increasingly low-rise. The 2000s were just around the corner, ready to take their stylistic toll on everybody.

’90s back, alright!

Today, the 1990s live on once more. Fashion’s proclivity for looking back has recently turned the decade into one of its more fruitful sources of inspiration, giving us a renewed appreciation for Champion sweatshirts, Birkenstocks and Nirvana tees.

On the runways, brands like Saint Laurent, Off-White, Gucci and Prabal Gurung have rediscovered the era’s biggest trends, from grunge to velvet, silky pastel slips and biker shorts. Vetements’ whole raison d’être revolves around ’90s aesthetics.

But the revival hasn’t stopped at the clothes. Nineties supermodels are again commanding runways, from Naomi closing Saint Laurent spring 2020 last September to Christy Turlington walking Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2019 show.

Last year, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin did a pretty good job of recreating the sexy mood of those iconic Calvin Kleinads. Even “Friends” is planning a reunion.

For some reason, we feel a collective nostalgia that keeps drawing us back.

Maybe it’s because ’90s style was about putting on something fun and easy. Or maybe because there was something for everyone: sheer fabrics and way too much satin, tank tops, cargo shorts, capri pants, tiny sunglasses and double denim.

Right now, the simplicity sounds very appealing.

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Emily Ratajkowski is no longer an actress. https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/22/emily-ratajkowski-is-no-longer-an-actress/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:11:36 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=44 The 31-year-old model and author opened up about her decision to quit acting while speaking to Los Angeles Times for a new interview. Emily made her big screen debut in the 2014 movie Gone Girl and she was also seen in 2015′s We Are Your Friends and 2018′s I Feel Pretty. She shot to fame in 2013 after appearing in the music video for Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Lines.” So, what…

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The 31-year-old model and author opened up about her decision to quit acting while speaking to Los Angeles Times for a new interview.

Emily made her big screen debut in the 2014 movie Gone Girl and she was also seen in 2015′s We Are Your Friends and 2018′s I Feel Pretty. She shot to fame in 2013 after appearing in the music video for Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Lines.”

So, what happened?

“I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet.’ I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?’” Emily said.

Emily hoped to become a “serious actress” after appearing in Gone Girl, but she eventually fired her agent, commercial rep, and manager by 2020.

“I didn’t trust them. I was like, ‘I can handle receiving phone calls. I’m gonna make these decisions. None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women,’” she said.

Emily told the outlet that her last audition was for the Oscar-nominated movie Triangle of Sadness. She was up for the role that went to late model Charlbi Dean.

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Perfect beach babe https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/22/perfect-beach-babe/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:09:13 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=41 The 32-year-old former Coronation Street star showed off her stunning figure as she hit the beach at the five-star Le Royal Meridien resort. The actress tied her hair up and cooled off with a dip in the water during some brief solo time in the Middle East. Helen returned home this weekend and paid tribute to the two luxury hotels she and her family stayed at on their holiday. She wrote on Instagram:…

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The 32-year-old former Coronation Street star showed off her stunning figure as she hit the beach at the five-star Le Royal Meridien resort.

The actress tied her hair up and cooled off with a dip in the water during some brief solo time in the Middle East.

Helen returned home this weekend and paid tribute to the two luxury hotels she and her family stayed at on their holiday.

She wrote on Instagram: “Lovely Easter stay @leroyalmeridiendubai @grosvenorhouse stayed at this hotel since I’ve been 19 and I have the best memories here x “

“My kids have been here since babies and all know it so well x I’ve had all my baby moon breaks here, my gender reveal with Delilah, New Years etc it really is a home from home for me.

“It’s my favourite hotel in Dubai and my kids just love it and are obsessed with the kids club and making friends with other kids.”

While Helen appeared to be in single parent mode with her brood – Matilda, seven, Delilah, four, and two-year-old Charlie – holidaymakers spotted her and ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair looking close last week.

An onlooker said: “Helen and Scott are both booked into the Grosvenor and while they’re making out they’re not together on social media, in reality they have been spending time together with their children.

“They seem to be close still and appear from the outside to be a really happy family unit.

“A lot of people around the hotel recognise them and think there could be a reconciliation between them but obviously they could also just be there for their children.

“They have another woman with them who is helping out with the children – and that appears to have given Helen and Scott time to talk.

“Scott has been spending quality time with their two daughters and it has clearly been really special for them to have that time as a family – especially as they no longer live under the same roof.

“Helen seems totally relaxed and at ease with Scott and has spent time with him in the evenings.”

The Sun first revealed how Helen and Scott had ended their engagement last October.

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Inside the radical changes being made at Playboy https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/22/inside-the-radical-changes-being-made-at-playboy/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:00:30 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=38 ugh Hefner launched Playboy Magazine 70 years ago this year. The first issue included a nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe, which he had purchased and published without her knowledge or consent. Hefner went on to build the Playboy brand off the backs of the countless women featured in its pages, whose beauty and performance of heightened feminine sexuality have entertained its readers for generations. Approaching its 70th anniversary in December,…

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ugh Hefner launched Playboy Magazine 70 years ago this year. The first issue included a nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe, which he had purchased and published without her knowledge or consent.

Hefner went on to build the Playboy brand off the backs of the countless women featured in its pages, whose beauty and performance of heightened feminine sexuality have entertained its readers for generations.

Approaching its 70th anniversary in December, Playboy has radically shifted. With the magazine no longer in publication, the Playboy Mansion sold to a developer and London’s last remaining Playboy Club closing in 2021, what is the future for Playboy? The brand is changing to keep up with the post-#MeToo world.

Hefner passed away one month before allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein surfaced in 2017 giving momentum to the #MeToo movement (which saw survivors of sexual assault and harassment speak out against their abusers). In recent years, many have re-evaluated Hefner’s legacy and relationships with women. The 2022 docuseries “The Secrets of Playboy” (which aired on Channel 4 in the UK) detailed sexual misconduct accusations against Hefner from several ex-girlfriends, including model Sondra Theodore and TV personality Holly Madison.

Hefner and Playboy’s relationship with women has been complicated. Playboy was an early supporter of abortion rights, helped fund the first rape kit and was at times an early proponent of inclusivity (for example featuring transgender model, Caroline “Tula” Cossey, in its June 1981 issue). But most women featured in Playboy have fit within a narrow beauty standard — thin, white, able-bodied and blonde.

Meanwhile Hefner’s personal relationship with his much younger girlfriends reportedly followed patterns of control and emotional abuse. Ex-girlfriend Holly Madison described Hefner as treating her “like a glorified pet” in her 2015 memoir, “Down the Rabbit Hole.”

Hefner’s passing meant he evaded reckoning with the #MeToo movement. Playboy, however, responded, releasing a statement in which it affirmed support for the women featured in “The Secrets of Playboy” and called Hefner’s actions “abhorrent.”

The statement declared that the brand was no longer affiliated with the Hefner family and would be focusing on aspects of the company’s legacy that align with values of sex positivity and free expression.

Today, Playboy is a very different company from the one Hefner launched nearly 70 years ago. Roughly 80% of Playboy staff identify as women, according the company, and its motto has changed from “Entertainment for Men” to “Pleasure for All.” Shares in the company are publicly traded and 40% of its board and management are women.

The company has also moved towards more creator-led content through its app, Playboy Centerfold. Similar to subscription content service OnlyFans, Playboy Centerfold allows subscribers to view content from and interact with its creators, which it call “bunnies.”

On the app, creators — or bunnies — are able portray their own bodies however they wish, putting the power back in their hands. Perhaps Playboy’s future is no longer in serving the male gaze, but instead the very audience Hefner dismissed in his first letter from the editor:

“If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 80 Playboy is meant for you … If you’re somebody’s sister, wife or mother-in-law and picked us up by mistake, please pass us along to the man in your life and get back to your Ladies Home Companion.”

The bunnies next door

The stars of Playboy’s mid-2000s reality series, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, are also enjoying a resurgence among fans.

“The Girls Next Door” launched in 2004. The show focused on the lives of Hefner’s three girlfriends, Madison, Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. It became E’s best performing show and cultivated a new female audience for Playboy.

“The Girls Next Door” was a story of complicated empowerment despite patriarchal interference. Its three female protagonists went from being known solely as some of Hefner’s many blonde girlfriends, to celebrities in their own right.

They each ultimately broke up with Hefner, leaving the Mansion and going on to lead successful careers.

The show’s depiction of Madison, Marquardt and Wilkinson as empowered, fun-loving and complex individuals, who found joy and agency through expressing their sexuality was perhaps what drew so many female fans to the show. However, amid the girls’ fight for agency, Hefner retaliated.

The series shows that he maintained final say in every Playboy photograph of the girls, as well as imposing strict curfews and spending allowances.

In Madison and Wilkinson’s memoirs, “Down the Rabbit Hole,” and “Sliding into Home,” they claim that production consistently undermined them. They refused to pay them for the first season, didn’t credit them until season four and aired their uncensored nude bodies in foreign broadcasts and DVD releases without consent.

Fan interest in “The Girls Next Door” remains strong. In August 2022 Madison and Marquardt launched their podcast “Girls Next Level,” where they interview previous playmates and interact with fans. They also recap episodes from their own points of view, unpacking their experiences of working on the show.

Having reached 10 million downloads as of February 2023, the success of the podcast — 14 years after the last episode of “The Girls Next Door” — speaks to the cultural legacy of the Playboy brand. It also shows that despite Hefner’s original editor’s note, Playboy resonates with some women.

Playboy is now in a post-Hefner era, where the imagery of women found within old issues of Playboy can serve as inspiration for others to enjoy their own sexuality. Whatever the future has for the company, the concept of Playboy has become public property — be that in the appearance of Playboy bunny costumes each Halloween, the popularity of cheeky Playboy logo tattoos or branded lingerie and clothing.

In a post-#MeToo era, the women of Playboy are speaking up and taking over. With the mansion gates closed, the bunnies are finally reclaiming the brand as their own.

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Katy and the King https://bonbonnews.com/2023/04/22/katy-and-the-king/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 08:57:37 +0000 https://bonbonnews.com/?p=35 US singer Katy Perry will star in the Coronation concert at Windsor Castle — with the crowd including the new King and Queen. Charles and Camilla will be joined by Kate and William for the celebration, which will feature a spectacular drone display. I Kissed A Girl singer Katy — who lives on the same Montecito estate as Harry and Meghan — was announced yesterday along with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who will duet with Welsh opera star Sir Bryn Terfel. The concert, taking place the day after…

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US singer Katy Perry will star in the Coronation concert at Windsor Castle — with the crowd including the new King and Queen.

Charles and Camilla will be joined by Kate and William for the celebration, which will feature a spectacular drone display.

I Kissed A Girl singer Katy — who lives on the same Montecito estate as Harry and Meghan — was announced yesterday along with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who will duet with Welsh opera star Sir Bryn Terfel.

The concert, taking place the day after the Westminster Abbey service on May 6, will be screened live by the BBC.

It will also include soul pianist Alexis Ffrench and singer-songwriter Freya Ridings.

The Sun has already revealed Lionel Richie had signed up, as well as Take That’s Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen.

The Beeb is promising even more star names will be announced over the next three weeks, despite claims some of the world’s biggest singers had turned them down.

Katy, 38, who has a child with her Brit actor fiancé Orlando Bloom, became an ambassador for Charles’s British Asian Trust three years ago to help child trafficking victims.

Last night, she said she was “excited” to be performing at the Coronation concert and to “help shine a further light on the Trust’s Children’s Protection Fund”.

She and Kent-born Orlando bought their place in Montecito months after the Sussexes bought their £12million mansion there.

British star Freya, 28 — whose debut album was streamed more than a billion times globally — said: “I feel truly overwhelmed and in awe of the opportunity.

“It feels like a ‘pinch me’ once-in-a-lifetime moment and I’m feeling very honoured to have been asked.”

Andrea Bocelli, 64, said: “I have had the great honour of singing for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on several occasions.

It is now another great honour to be asked to perform at the Coronation concert of King Charles III.

“My joy and excitement is multiplied as I have the chance to duet with my dear friend and superb baritone, Sir Bryn Terfel.”

Artists will be backed by musicians including a 70-piece orchestra, and a “house band” comprising the Massed Bands of the Household Division and the Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra.

Viewers will also get to see the 300-strong Coronation Choir, which was formed from amateurs by a BBC reality show Sing For The King.

Celebrity coaches Amanda Holden, Motsi Mabuse and Rose Ayling-Ellis joined choirmaster Gareth Malone to prepare the choir for show.

They are due to perform alongside The Virtual Choir of singers from the Commonwealth.

The drone display follows a similar one at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee — becoming a highlight of the four-day bash after creating pictures of corgis and cups of tea in the sky above Buckingham Palace.

Charlotte Moore, the BBC’s chief content officer, said: “We are bringing the nation together for this once in a generation occasion.

“We have a world class line-up of performers to look forward to for what promises to be a very special night of celebration and entertainment.”

A ballot was launched to reward 5,000 people from across Britain with tickets for the concert. Another 5,000 will go to charities.

The audience will also include volunteers from The King and The Queen Consort’s charity links.

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