18 h. ago American Canto by Olivia Nuzzi review – insufferable filler that sidesteps the real issues

The reporter’s affair with Robert F Kennedy Jr raised a whole host of questions, few of which get answers in this pretentious memoirDid he take me seriously?” Olivia Nuzzi wonders in the midst of her infamous affair with Robert F Kennedy Jr. Nuzzi, then Washington correspondent for New York magazine, has just learned that she and the Politician, as she calls RFK in her new book, may overlap during a visit to Mar-a-Lago. Nuzzi, worried Donald Trump will catch on to the relationship and start spreading rumours, convenes an emergency meeting with the Politician to strategise. RFK doesn’t see the big deal.So, she agonises “Did he take me seriously?” and reflects that she had “little cause to consider the question before now.” Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Look again at the Nuzzi affair. Because when our politics and media are so debased, the joke’s on us | Nesrine Malik

There is a bread and circuses feel to this scandal. A wise public would see red flags; instead it sees entertainmentOne upside of adversity is art, inspiring cultural output that seeks to process and channel suffering. “I’ll say one thing about Thatcher, some fantastic songs were written during her reign,” said the Irish singer Christy Moore once – before belting out a goosebump-raising rendition of Ordinary Man by Peter Hames, a song about the 1980s recession. That is, so far, the only upside of the publication of Olivia Nuzzi’s book American Canto, an affliction to journalism, politics and publishing: there has been some fantastic writing since it all kicked off.Masterful reviews. Very funny commentary. Scathing analysis. But first, a summary of events for readers of this column, most of whom I assume are well-adjusted, offline people, with better things to do with their time than follow what can only be described as a niche beef. Nuzzi is (or perhaps was, keep reading) a celebrat...

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4 d. ago Writer who had 'affair' with RFK Jr leaves plum new job at Vanity Fair

Olivia Nuzzi lost her job as West Coast editor less than three months after she was appointed to it.

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4 d. ago Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi part ways amid scandal over RFK Jr relationship

‘Mutual’ decision follows controversy over relationship with presidential candidate and claims of ethical breachesVanity Fair is ending its association with Olivia Nuzzi, who had briefly been the magazine’s west coast editor, as the publication distances itself from controversy tied in part to her relationship with the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.“Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year,” publisher Condé Nast said in a statement on Friday shared with the New York Times. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Writer who had 'affair' with RFK Jr leaves plum new job at Vanity Fair in disgrace

Olivia Nuzzi lost her job as West Coast editor less than three months after she was appointed to it.

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4 d. ago Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi ‘mutually’ agree to part ways after new RFK Jr. allegations

The departure comes after Nuzzi’s ex-fiancé published a series of blistering Substack posts accusing her of journalistic ethical violations.

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4 d. ago Digested week: Minor quake hits book lauding bits of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest | Emma Brockes

Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner DickensIt’s publication week for American Canto, the hastily turned around memoir by the former New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who took on the challenge of explaining what it was about Robert F Kennedy Jr she found so alluring, a task for which no upper word limit is adequate. Nuzzi, if you’ve fallen behind, developed romantic feelings for the then presidential candidate, now Trump health minister, while profiling him for the magazine and since I’ve had to read this sentence, you do too: “He was exhausted, and he threw himself onto the bed, his pink shirt unbuttoned, revealing my favorite parts of his chest.” If you have a favourite part of RFK Jr’s chest, or consider chests in general subject to preference by localised area, this may be the book for you. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Is Olivia Nuzzi’s nascent Vanity Fair comeback already over?

Nuzzi is on a temporary contract that ends this month – but it remains unclear whether she’s staying after former fiance Ryan Lizza’s exposés about herIn September, under the leadership of new top editor Mark Guiducci, a thirtysomething favorite of Condé Nast eminence Anna Wintour, Vanity Fair announced a slate of new hires that included one prominent name that hadn’t been heard from in a while: the political writer Olivia Nuzzi.At seemingly the height of her rapidly ascendant career, Nuzzi was cut loose by New York Magazine last October after the media newsletter Status broke the news that she had maintained a relationship with Robert F Kennedy Jr, whose presidential campaign she had covered for the magazine. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Vanity Fair’s Olivia Nuzzi trashes scorned ex Ryan Lizza for publishing what she calls harmful ‘revenge porn’

Lizza has defended his stories about Nuzzi, telling The Independent that he is ‘telling the truth’

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7 d. ago Olivia Nuzzi’s scorned ex claims she and RFK Jr planned to ‘consummate their relationship’ after Trump rally

Ryan Lizza claimed that he confronted RFK Jr over Nuzzi and Kennedy’s affair, but felt that the future Secretary of Health and Human Services was ‘disturbingly unrattled’

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8 d. ago Olivia Nuzzi’s first job since alleged RFK Jr affair may already be under threat: report

Insider sources at Vanity Fair claimed that the scandal-prone reporter could be let go once again after allegations that she secretly aided Kennedy’s campaign

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8 d. ago Alert issued as 'clever' Captcha scam could give hackers your data and money

A warning has been issued over a new and 'very clever' scam that produces fake Captcha tests on websites - and filling them in could give hackers your data and money

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8 d. ago Vet issues 'kidney disease' warning for cat owners making food mistake

A veterinarian has shared a list of common mistakes he often sees cat owners make that can affect their pet's wellbeing

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1 week ago Xabi Alonso address changing room issues at Real Madrid during 'no so good times'

Xabi Alonso is only months into his Real Madrid tenure but the Spaniard has had to deal with talk of a divided dressing room - something he has been happy to address

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1 week ago Marcus Rashford sees real Barcelona issue now emerge despite transfer green light

EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Rashford is enjoying his season-long loan with Barcelona, while the La Liga giants have the option to buy him next summer - but it has been highlighted there may be a problem afoot

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2 w. ago Kevin Thelwell had different Rangers ideas from me but here is his real biggest issue in the end – Barry Ferguson

The Ibrox icon lifts the lid on his relationship with Thelwell and ex CEO Patrick Stewart after the pair were axed

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2 w. ago What can we learn from RFK's 'erotic poetry'? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal | Marina Hyde

The US health secretary’s ‘digital affair’ with Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t need sombre analysis. Take it from this Brit: sometimes laughter is the only optionLiterally nothing on this earth takes itself as seriously as American journalism. There are rogue-state dictators it’s more permissible to laugh at than the endlessly hilarious pretensions of newsmen and newswomen in the United States. The crucial difference between the British press and US press is that at least we in the British press know we’re in the gutter. The Americans have always imagined – and so loudly – that they are involved in some kind of higher calling. Guys, I love you and stuff, but get over it, because you’re missing one of the great jokes of the century. Yourselves.I don’t deny that everything’s bigger in America. Our former health secretary had a knee-trembler up against his office door in the pandemic; their current one apparently wrote felching poetry, is it – felching poetry? – to a superstar journalist who was...

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2 w. ago Woman whose 'emotional relationship' with RFK Jr was exposed by fiancé 'had relationships with a string of powerful men as she rose to the top of journalism'

Olivia Nuzzi, 32, a former journalist with New York Magazine, is said to have had a scandalous 'online relationship' with Mr Kennedy, 71, which involved them writing explicit poetry.

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2 w. ago RFK Jr's erotic 'poem' allegedly sent to lover revealed by jilted ex: 'You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you'

Ryan Lizza claims RFK JR told Olivia Nuzzi, 32: ‘I mean to subdue and tame you’ during an alleged affair

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2 w. ago RFK Jr sent erotic poetry to journalist Olivia Nuzzi during affair, ex Ryan Lizza claims

Olivia Nuzzi’s ex-boyfriend Ryan Lizza made a series of bombshell claims in posts on his website

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