6 h. ago Eighties film icon Greta Scacchi unimpressed by modern day sex scenes

Greta Scacchi did not hold back on her thoughts on bedroom scenes and intimacy coordinators

Culture

4 d. ago Rise in ‘alert fatigue’ risks phone users disabling news notifications, study finds

Publishers could see audiences uninstall apps, as some users receive up to 50 alerts a day, analysis showsIt has become a feature of modern life – millions of phones simultaneously buzz or sound the alarm as users are notified of breaking news deemed too important to miss.Now evidence is mounting that the prevalence of news alerts is giving rise to “alert fatigue”, with some mobile phone users peppered with as many as 50 notifications a day. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Olivia Munn opens up about shooting sex scenes with Jon Hamm after double mastectomy

Munn underwent five surgeries after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023

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6 d. ago Mapped: The Great Fire of London on Top of the Modern Day City

Mapped: The Great Fire of London on Top of the Modern Day City  Time Out

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6 d. ago Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year

In this page-turning romance, teenage sweethearts reunite as thirtysomething womenSex is notoriously difficult to write. Some authors avoid it entirely; even those who have been called great can come a cropper. Which is why I want to start this review by saying that the sex scenes in Ordinary Love are some of the best I have read this year, and that Marie Rutkoski has a facility for writing physical intimacy that can elude even some of our most gifted authors. Her voice has been compared to that of Sally Rooney. I don’t see much of that in this novel beyond a Rooneyesque ability to write sex well, but that is a talent worth noting.Ordinary Love is a queer romance that tells the story of Emily and Gen, teenage sweethearts who break up in college and reunite in their 30s, their paths having diverged dramatically. Emily marries Jack, who is wealthy and emotionally abusive. When she sees Gen again, she is in the process of leaving him for the second time (the novel opens with ...

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1 week ago Rivals author says she’d be ‘embarrassed’ to act in front of sex scene intimacy coordinators

‘I wouldn’t like it myself – but then no one has any fun any more, do they?’ said the author

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1 week ago Expert explains in horrifying detail exactly what happens to your body when you're boiled to death

Despite being a popular medieval torture method -boiling to death can still happen in the modern day. It is one of the most lengthy, horrific and foul deaths with the body slowly collapsing under the pressure of boiling water

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1 week ago Rivals author Jilly Cooper's surprising verdict on intimacy coordinators as Danny Dyer says very raunchy new series has so many sex scenes it 'hired every coach in the UK'

The actor said there is so much bonking in Rivals 2 - which is currently filming - that they have hired every intimacy coach in the UK.

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1 week ago Netflix fans can rediscover Yellowstone creator's 'modern day classic' nominated for multiple Oscars

It gained a near perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

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1 week ago Danny Dyer says new series of Disney+ Rivals has so many sex scenes it 'hired every intimacy coach in the UK'...but admits, 'it's OK if you fancy it'

Danny Dyer, who plays Freddie Jones in Rivals, which also stars David Tennant, Emily Attack and Alex Hassell, said: 'It is brilliant but it is a mad thing to do a sex scene.

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1 week ago Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed?

A quarter of Okinawan civilians died – many after being told to kill themselves, or from starvation. But the hunt for their remains is being complicated by some modern-day inhabitants: tens of thousands of US soldiers Continue reading...

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2 w. ago George Orwell's 1984 slapped with trigger warning in modern day 'thought police' irony

Orwell's dystopian novel featured a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police and coined a number of phrases still used today

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2 w. ago Mel B's farmhouse Hollywood makeover: Spice Girl is giving her £2m Yorkshire idyll some zigazig ah with an indoor pool, cinema, and reiki room

MailOnline can reveal the full details of the singer's ambitious plans to transform the former working farm into a modern day family home.

Economics

2 w. ago Why Tottenham and Ange Postecoglou split was right, even if it feels awfully wrong to most and borderline obscene

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: An incidental detail about that statement is there was no name attached to it. It wasn't signed by Levy, nor was he quoted, but his fingerprints were on each of the 368 words.

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2 w. ago Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews

Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readersA new tool to quickly identify books that are poisonous to humans has been developed by the University of St Andrews.Historically, publishers used arsenic mixed with copper to achieve a vivid emerald green colour for book covers. While the risk to the public is “low”, handling arsenic-containing books regularly can lead to health issues including irritation of the eyes, nose and throat along with more serious side-effects. The toxic pigment in the book bindings can flake off, meaning small pieces can easily be inhaled. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Love Island's Ben teases 'never say never' as ITV spice show up with sex scenes

EXCLUSIVE: Daily Star sat down with Love Island's Ben Holbrough ahead of his time in the Majorcan villa. He teased what he could be getting up to in the bedroom come Monday night

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2 w. ago Love Island 2025 to feature unfiltered sex scenes, ITV confirms

The popular TV show will return to our screens on Monday, June 9

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2 w. ago Fascinating photos reveal Delta’s flight attendant uniforms through the decades

Delta flight attendants made their first appearances in the 1940s. These images show uniforms from that era through to the modern day

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2 w. ago Love Island 2025 will show sex scenes as Islanders divided by new rule

EXCLUSIVE: With the new series approaching, executive producer Mike Spencer has said it will be its most “exciting” year yet and these two new islanders are divided on the new “twists and turns”

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2 w. ago Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone movie everyone forgot about is now on Prime Video

The film has been dubbed 'the modern day Untouchables'

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