Jennifer Hudson has become the latest star to join the exclusive EGOT club after winning a Tony Awards last Sunday. The EGOT club is a league people who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.

The actress and singer took one of the Broadway honours as a producer of 'A Strange Loop' which won best musical. This made her the 17th person to have scored competitive wins in all four of America's main showbusiness awards.

She is the second black woman to do so, after Whoopi Goldberg. Altogether, Hudson, 40, has won two Grammys,Oscar awards in 2006.

A Strange Loop is about a black queer theatre usher writing a musical. It also won best book of a musical for Michael R Jackson at Sunday's ceremony.

Hudson introduced a performance from the musical by saying: "This brilliant, funny masterpiece exposes the heart and soul of a young artist struggling with his desires, identity and instincts he both loves and hates.'

The Tony awards was hosted by actress Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her role in the new film version of West Side Story.

"I am so proud to be hosting the first Tony Awards since Broadway got its groove back"

"I am so proud that theatre is becoming more reflective of the community that adores it. "

Heard to appear in TV interview since trial verdict

Amber Heard will sit down for her first full-length, televised interview since she lost the multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit brought by ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

“Johnny Depp’s legal team blanketed the media for days after the verdict with numerous statements and interviews on television, and Depp himself did the same on social media,” a media aide to Heard said.“Ms Heard simply intended to respond to what they aggressively did last week; she did so by expressing her thoughts and feelings, much of which she was not allowed to do on the witness stand. This interview will look through her own version of the story.