Taika Waititi says he and partner Rita Ora are “combining our strengths” by co-hosting the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) together.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi will star as Blackbeard in pirate comedy series Our Flag Means Death, HBO said. Waititi, an actor, writer and director, will appear opposite his fellow New Zealander Rhys Darby.

Taika Waititi has showed the reality of quarantining with his two young daughters as he joked they were “a couple of regular Led Zeppelins”.