King interviewed Leslie as part of a package for CBS This Morning where they discussed Bryant's basketball legacy and the tragedy of his recent death.

Trying to get a reservation in the coolest new place is often impossible, and now we discover that even celebrities have to stretch the truth a little to land a VIP table.

The musician and actor, who both passed away aged 69, will be honoured with screenings of their iconic films, The Man Who Fell To Earth and Sense And Sensibility at the event, in February.

He left £100,000 to charity when he passed away to cancer in January. 

A study by Zhejiang University, China, found patients in the early stages of the disease have higher levels of two types of bacteria in their mouths, while another two bugs are notably lower.

EDDIE HEARN: The heavyweight world is total carnage right now. Tyson Fury did an incredible job to shake up the division last year but now he has done it again without even stepping inside the ropes.

EDDIE HEARN: I can't remember a fight that had as much anticipation as David Haye vs Tony Bellew this Saturday night. The pre-fight build up has been huge and although distasteful at times.

EDDIE HEARN: Now that the dust has settled after that thrilling night at The O2, we are dealing with the aftermath with a new heavyweight superstar in Tony Bellew.

EDDIE HEARN: How about that, then? It’s one thing filling out Wembley Stadium and breaking box office records, but to do it with one of the best heavyweight fights ever seen was truly special.

EDDIE HEARN: There’s been a lot of fun and games from Joseph Parker’s camp and they are doing a great job in driving up interest in a massive unification fight with Anthony Joshua.

EDDIE HEARN: Deontay Wilder had a very exciting dust-up with Luis Ortiz at the weekend. It was easily the biggest test of Wilder's career and credit to him for coming through it. In the seventh he was gone.

EDDIE HEARN: Over here, we are thinking about what next for Tony Bellew. He has emerged as a real stand-out star of British boxing in the last few years.

EDDIE HEARN: I have had a lot of people asking for an update on Joshua and as ever a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes. We have made offers to the major heavyweight contenders.

Elsa Hosk looked loved up with her man Tom Daley when they were spotted cosied together during in New York on Saturday. Elsa cuddled up to her boyfriend, while her beau gave her a loving kiss.

Channel 9 paid $120,000 to a child recovery agency whose operator was previously arrested in Singapore and who have Facebook posts of 'successful' operations which are not theirs.

Tara Brown was even supposed to board a getaway boat with three TV crew members following the abduction of Sally Faulkner's children in Beirut earlier this month.

It has been confirmed that 60 Minutes presenter Tara Brown will not be attending the event in Melbourne on Sunday night.

Despite high expectations he would be freed on bail on Wednesday Australian-British man Adam Whittington remains in a Beirut prison for his involvement in the 60 Minutes child abduction.

The four remaining prisoners jailed in Beirut over the botched 60 Minutes child abduction case have been refused bail after Ali Elamine refused to drop charges against the men.

An Australian who was drugged and raped in Korea said she has felt trapped in a 'never ending nightmare' since having to start an online campaign to push police to take her case seriously.

Australia's reporter Tara Brown's job was on the line before Nine Network bosses decided to sack 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice over the botched child abduction scandal, it has emerged.

Australian TV journalist Tara Brown is reportedly back at work for 60 Minutes and on assignment in the US only three months after being released from a Lebanon jail.

The man allegedly paid $115,000 by Channel Nine's 60 Minutes to orchestrate the child recovery in Lebanon in April has walked out of jail and says the 'truth will come out soon'.

60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown returned to the show on Sunday night to do a story on the Rozelle fire, but there was no mention of the infamous botched child kidnapping attempt in Beirut.

60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown and her husband of 16 years - television executive John McAvoy - have reportedly split. Brown and McAvoy have two children together, Jack, 7, and Tom, 5.

Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner has revealed the chilling moment she realised her estranged husband Ali Elamine had taken her two children to Lebanon and had no intention of returning them.

Beirut police officers investigating the botched 60 Minutes child abduction were able to track down Tara Brown after googling her name.

Allison Langdon debuted her baby bump on the red carpet at Channel Nine's Upfront event in Sydney on Tuesday, two months after reports surfaced that the 60 Minutes reporter is expecting her first child.

Speaking for the first time outside of the program Australian television presenter Tara Brown has refused to apologise for an abduction bungle that saw a 60 Minutes Crew end up in a Beirut jail.

Benjamin Ferencz, 97, is the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Ferencz spoke out against war, saying 'all wars' make murderers out of 'all decent people'.

Appearing emotional and flushed, South Australian Cassie Sainsbury reveals explosive new details of her alleged crimes from behind bars in Colombia.

Cassie Sainsbury claims there are 'links' between a Sydney brothel where she allegedly worked as a prostitute and a drug syndicate for which she is accused of smuggling cocaine.

Sainsbury, who's awaiting trial over 5.9kg of cocaine allegedly found inside her suitcase at a Colombian airport, sparked a social media firestorm after a tell-all interview aired on Sunday night.

The Team Ineos principal thinks it is time to look at extra measures such as special Kevlar-based clothing to protect riders at the point of impact following Chris Froome's accident.

Chris Froome's team-mate Geraint Thomas believes the injuries the four-time Tour de France champion suffered in a horrific crash last week could have been 'a hell of a lot worse'.

Froome had been treated at the University Hospital of St Etienne, where he underwent a six-hour operation to repair a fractured right femur, broken hip, fractured elbow and fractured ribs.

Some 24 hours before Team INEOS announced that Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal would start the Tour de France as joint leaders, the cycling team offered their defending champion to the media.

Chris Froome admitted he is 'relieved' to be back home and will be following the Tour de France from his bed following the horror crash that left him seriously injured.

Chris Froome is due to compete in the end-of-season Saitama Creiterium, which will be his first race since suffering a horror crash at the Criterium du Dauphine in June.

Holding the Olympics in empty stadiums (Shizuoka velodrome pictured today) could be the best way to avoid calling it off completely, UK Cycling chief Stephen Park has claimed.

The Tour has not been cancelled since 1946 when France was recovering from the War but has now been cancelled is in its 107th year after France's lockdown extension.

On Wednesday, Boris was spotted in a Tesco Express in Islington, close to his former marital home. Rucksack on back, crumpled as ever, he was in a hurry and, according to a witness.

JANE FRYER: The Stroud climate change march started yesterday with just one man who arrived early and waited patiently under the anti-slavery arch in this staunchly liberal Gloucestershire town.

JANE FRYER: Every weekend and holiday, Cameron Newham is out from dawn to dusk, in rain, sun, hail and biting winds, fulfilling his quest to photograph England's rural parish churches.

A.N WILSON: Pays tribute to wine connoisseur Auberon Waugh in time for the republish of the 1980s Waugh On Wine - where Auberon says wine should have 'bizarre side-tastes' including rotting wood.

Prince Albert's cruel notes to Queen Victoria shatter their mythic love story - he called her 'my child' and cut her down - saying 'I feel the dreadful waste of most precious time, and of energies' with her.

Anyone tuning in to the airwaves over the weekend might be forgiven for believing Theresa May lost the election, while Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to a resounding victory.

The similarities between the Grenfell fire and Lakanal House, which caught fire in 2009 (pictured), are frightening - yet it seems lessons were not learned by those who should be protecting us.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This was far more than just a bad and humiliating day for Theresa May and her deal. It was the day Brexit itself was pushed to the very brink.

So this is it. We have arrived at the moment when Parliament can finally end this Brexit purgatory. Alternatively, they could continue to put petty politics before the national interest.