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Fatima Whitbread is set to be overcome with emotion in Wednesdays episode of Im A Celebrity...South Africa as she reflects on her tough childhood. The 62-year-old was abandoned when she was a baby and went on to spend years of her life in a variety of childrens homes.

Some Egyptians Are Up in Arms Over the Depiction of Cleopatra VII as a Black Queen, Leading to Charges of ‘Afrocentrism’ and a New, Locally Produced Documentary

The outrage felt by Greeks, primarily from the Diaspora, and Egyptians and Slavitsa from Thomastown who dressed up as Kleopatra for the 1993 Miss Bitola beauty pageant, at Netflix's casting British actor of Adele James to play the iconic queen in Jada Pinkett Smith's docudrama "Queen Cleopatra," is symptomatic of a trend to diminish the achievements of ancient Greek civilisation .

Here is our non-exhaustive list of what films and series to look out for in May on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, as well as in cinemas.

The truth is not served when filmmakers "boldly re-imagine" the past to spread the lies of today.

Egypt has announced its own high-budget documentary about Queen Cleopatra VII, challenging Netflix's controversial documentary about the same subject. The documentary will be produced by newly-launched channel Al-Watha’eqeya (The Documentary), according to an announcement on the channel's Facebook page on April 30. “Al-Watha’eqeya have started preparations for the production of a documentary film about Queen

Authorities in Egypt took issue with Cleopatra being depicted as Black in a new Netflix drama.

Hollywood bosses have been slammed for another remake that nobody asked for following the announcement of a reimagined White Men Cant Jump.

Following the release of the controversial Netflix documentary series, Queen Cleopatra, Egyptian experts and youth were outraged, claiming that the show “falsifies Egyptian history” and “promotes Afrocentrism”. In the documentary, Cleopatra, one of Egypt’s most famous historical figures, is portrayed by Adele James, who is biracial. In the trailer, one of the talking heads says,

Was Queen Cleopatra black or white? Is Adele James a more accurate representation of the Egyptian Queen than Elizabeth Taylor? This is not the first and won't be the last debate over Cleopatra's race but the soon to be released Netflix series has angered the Egyptian authorities who are saying it's