Elton John and Olly Alexander performed It s a Sin together at the BRIT Awards. (YouTube)
Elton John teamed up with Years & Years’ Olly Alexander at the BRIT Awards to deliver a searing, gloriously queer rendition of Pet Shop Boys’ 1987 hit “It’s a Sin”.
The song has taken on new meaning since Russell T Davies’ AIDS-era drama of the same name debuted on Channel 4 in January.
Years & Years star Olly Alexander and music legend Elton John used their BRIT Awards performance to remind audiences at home that the fight against HIV is not yet won.
Introducing the pair, John’s husband David Furnish told people watching at home that antiretroviral drugs make HIV undetectable and untrabnsmittable, meaning people with the virus live long, healthy and fulfilled lives.
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Vinson Filyaw was found dead in his cell in a South Carolina prison while serving his 421-year sentence. (McCormick Correctional Institution)
Kidnapper and rapist Vinson Filyaw has died behind bars at the age of 51 while serving his 421-year prison sentence at the McCormick Correctional Institution in northwestern South Carolina. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
Filyaw was found dead in his cell on Monday, 15 years into his sentence for kidnapping, raping and torturing then-14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf. The horrific ordeal went on for 10 days in 2006 as she was kept in an underground bunker in the woods before she was able to escape.
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Infamous ‘Girl in the Bunker’ kidnapper Vinson Filyaw dies in prison David Matthews
A South Carolina man convicted of an infamous kidnapping that was later dramatized in a TV movie has died in prison.
WLTX reports that Vinson Filyaw, a former construction worker, died recently of an unknown cause at McCormick Correctional Institute, about 75 miles west of Columbia, near the state’s border with Georgia.
Filyaw, 51, was sentenced to 421 years in prison after kidnapping and sexually assaulting Elizabeth Shoaf, a 14-year-old girl, in September 2006 in Lugoff, about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, while posing as a police officer. After Shoaf got off a school bus, Filyaw walked her into the woods and to a bunker he had built near his trailer home.