83 m. ago Freddie Flintoff's life after BBC crash, net worth and wife who 'got the worst of him'

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff has been a regular on our screens for more than a decade, but his life changed forever in 2022 when he was left with life-changing facial injuries after a car crash

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93 m. ago Paddy McGuinness speaks out on Freddie Flintoff after Top Gear crash after his 'feel bad' admission

The former England cricket star was a co-host on the BBC One motoring show alongside Paddy and Chris Harris from 2019 up until the accident in 2022

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1 hour ago The Great Gatsby at the Coliseum: 'a little empty beneath the razzmattaz'

The award-winning Broadway musical version of Fitzgerald’s novel hits London as a lavish spectacle but lacking heart

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2 h. ago Bad Friend by Tiffany Watt Smith review – refreshingly frank portraits of female friendship

A social and personal history that refuses to gloss over the rage, envy and hurt that form part of every close bondFalling out with a friend can feel oddly shameful. Romantic relationships are meant to have passionate highs and lows, but by the time you reach adulthood, you expect your friendships to have reached some kind of equilibrium. I have this image in my head of myself as an affectionate, devoted friend – but sometimes I examine my true feelings towards the women who are closest to me and feel shocked by my own pettiness. It is embarrassing to be a grownup but still capable of such intense flashes of rage, and envy. When my friendships become distant or strained, I wonder why I still struggle to do this basic thing.Bad Friend represents a kind of love letter to female friendship, but doesn’t gloss over how difficult it can be. Tiffany Watt Smith is a historian, and this book is a deeply researched study of 20th-century women’s relationships, but the reason for writing i...

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3 h. ago Kashmir attack: Indian army chief to visit Srinagar as UN urges ‘maximum restraint’

UN calls for tensions between India and Pakistan to be resolved peacefully as relations plunge to lowest level in years following deadly shootingIndia’s army chief was set to lead a high-level security review in Srinagar on Friday, days after militants opened fire on tourists in Indian-held Kashmir, killing 26 civilians in one of the worst such attacks in years.The brazen assault, carried out in a mountain meadow near Pahalgam, has derailed prime minister Narendra Modi’s claims of restored calm in the restive Himalayan territory and sent tensions soaring between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Josh Barrie reviews the bar at Bistrotheque: Life before Eating With Tod

Here is a bar perfect for a peaceful Sunday afternoon wine, writes Josh Barrie

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3 h. ago Freddie Flintoff's face injuries in full, massive net worth, model wife he 'put through hell'

England cricket legend turned TV personality Freddie Flintoff's life was flipped upside down in 2022 after a Top Gear crash - and the 47-year-old will reveal all in a new documentary

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4 h. ago Flintoff review – so traumatised he can’t even speak to his ex

The story of the former cricket prodigy and car crash survivor Freddie Flintoff is fascinating but this documentary shows he has such extreme PTSD that he keeps slamming the shutters downFreddie Flintoff is numb. As the 98-minute Disney+ documentary Flintoff begins, we find its subject sitting in a hospital room. He can’t feel his lip, the one that was torn from his face in a nightmarish car accident on the Top Gear track in 2022. But more than that, he is mentally checked out. As one doctor after another tells him that he is recovering well and looking good, he stares at the ground dejectedly. He just wants everyone to stop sugarcoating everything and tell him the truth, he says. What he wants to hear is that he looks like “a fucking mess”.Flintoff was designed as the big unveiling of the new, post-accident Freddie Flintoff. His days as a cricketing prodigy are over and so, it seems, are his days as a permanent light entertainment fixture. He is older, slower and more reflective. H...

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9 h. ago Gorillas in Our Midst by Alan Toyne: So cute! Until a baby gorilla becomes a toddler, that is .

When, as former zookeeper Alan Toyne learned the hard way, they start ripping things apart (including you). His new book tells what life is like raising gorillas.

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11 h. ago Freddie Flintoff shares shocking and graphic images of his Top Gear crash injuries

WARNING: CONTAINS VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES Former cricket legend Freddie is pictured days after accident covered in blood after horrific facial injuries from car accident

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11 h. ago Freddie Flintoff's huge drop in earnings revealed following his terrifying crash

The former England cricket star, 47, was left with horrific injuries after the open-top car he was testing flipped over and slipped along the track at the Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.

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12 h. ago Review: Flying British Airways Business Class from Los Angeles to London

Review: Flying British Airways Business Class from Los Angeles to London  Business Traveler USA

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13 h. ago Paddy McGuinness declares love for Freddie Flintoff after co

Paddy McGuinness has opened up about his fond memories and laughing every day while working alongside Freddie Flintoff, after the former cricketer opened up about their time on Top Gear in a new documentary

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14 h. ago ZIIP Dot review: Can this gadget heal my hormonal acne breakouts?

The doughnut-shaped device was created to treat and calm blemishes

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14 h. ago Havoc review – Tom Hardy’s gonzo gun mayhem misses the point

Disillusioned cop Hardy must rescue a corrupt politician’s son from triads and police but potential for drama goes down in a hail of bulletsThe title is appropriate. Welsh director Gareth Evans is the action maestro who rocked our world with his superb skull-rattling thrillers The Raid and The Raid 2; this new one for Netflix certainly has its fair share of OTT gonzo mayhem. Shootouts in cramped interiors and in the open air sometimes seem to go on so long that the gunfire feels like an extended drumroll. Dozens of people get riddled with bullets from automatic weaponry; they all go into that shoulder-rolling, arm-waving, blood-spurting choreography. At one stage, a comatose and heavily bandaged person in a hospital bed gets the same machine gun treatment, and even this poor guy has to jitterbug, infinitesimally and horizontally, in his hospital pyjamas as he gets filled full of lead.But frankly the action and the violence is too chaotic and almost meaningless and the CGI-Gotham-typ...

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14 h. ago Paddy McGuinness believes he should have received a pay out from the BBC when Top Gear was canned following his co

The television presenter, who joined the show in 2019, complained to friends that he believed that like Flintoff - who was seriously injured from the incident - he should have been given cash.

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17 h. ago The Accountant 2 teeters on the edge of making autism a punchline

While the 2016 original seemed to respect the neurodivergence of Ben Affleck’s savant superhero, this belated follow-up goes for easy jokes

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17 h. ago 'Monster' no longer seeking parole in victory for Scots mum and teen who suffered abuse

"For the first time our voices were heard in our own words. I've spent years with all of this my head but we speak out and by doing so we show others there’s not alone."

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18 h. ago In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore

In its second season, what happens in the acclaimed Star Wars thriller is hard to separate from what’s happening in Gaza nowIn the new and final season of Andor, an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media, which instead paint the victims as terrorist threats to public safety. Meanwhile, the politicians who have enough backbone to speak out, and use the word “genocide” to describe these aggressions, are met with violent suppression.Andor goes there. And when it does, Star Wars fans will be forced to reckon with how this story isn’t about what happens “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”. It’s about what’s unfolding right now in Gaza. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMultitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic OrchestraThe Southbank Centre’s cross-genre Multitudes festival opened with a double bill of Ravel’s ballets Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, and performed by the Australian company Circa with choreography by their artistic director Yaron Lifschitz. Circa’s style amalgamates circus and acrobatics with contemporary dance, and the combination of athletic beauty, agility and strength suits Ravel uncommonly well.Rather than use the music as accompaniment to display, Lifschitz worked with the score rather than against it, though he dispensed with Daphnis et Chloé’s narrative, replacing it with a sequence of contrasting abstract tableaux, now exhilarating,now erotic, always rooted in the pulse and throb of the music, played with exquisite finesse and detail by the LP...

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