20 h. ago ‘How did this ever get made?’ Gen Z is falling in love (and hate) with Glee

A decade after the finale, new fans are flocking to Glee, causing its songs to shoot up the charts. The internet’s ablaze with TikTok dance homages, Reddit threads – and tonnes of hate watchersThe year is 2009, and Glee has hit like a cultural earthquake. Every week, millions of people around the world tune in to watch a group of American high school misfits belt out musical theatre and pop hits, turning show choir into mainstream entertainment. The cast’s cover of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ becomes an anthem, spending 37 weeks in the UK charts, catapulting its young stars to overnight fame. Glee clubs start in schools across the US and beyond, and Ryan Murphy’s show develops a devoted fanbase – myself included – who proudly call ourselves Gleeks. Online, we dissect every episode on Tumblr, trade theories and wear our fandom, plus the merch we bought to prove it, as a badge of honour.But by the time Glee came to a close in 2015, all its magic had faded. The Guardian reported tha...

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38 h. ago Amazon shoppers 'in love' with 'beautiful' Tower kettle that's only £32 in Amazon Prime deal

Homeware enthusiasts will fall in love with this stylish kettle.

Economics

63 h. ago Student reporter Talia Baia speaks out on 'madness' after going viral over love

Talia Baia, a University of Florida student who works for ESPN Gainesville, spoke with Gators star Bennett Andersen after their win over the Terrapin last week - and fans were convinced he 'fell in love'.

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67 h. ago 'Significant increase' in voyeurs taking indecent images of female athletes at swimming competitions, report warns amid rise in mixed

Some 48 incidents of filming women over or under cubicles using mobile phones have been reported at competition events between January 2024 and this February.

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3 d. ago ‘Joni Mitchell’s Blue revolutionised the way I saw music’: Emeli Sandé’s honest playlist

The singer was a young fan of Mariah and pretends she hates one 70s musical classic, but which aquatic power ballad can she genuinely no longer stand?The first song I fell in love with Samson by Regina Spektor, when I was 16 and falling in love for the first time. I got introduced to her music when I was working in Virgin Megastore in Aberdeen. Then I met someone in a club.The first single I bought All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey, from Asda. My dad had played me the Music Box album from when I was about seven, so I loved Mariah. I saw it in the bargain section for £1.99 and thought: “Let’s get it.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Florida Gators star Bennett Andersen goes viral after 'falling in love' with female reporter

After Florida's Sweet 16 victory over the Maryland Terrapins on Thursday, ESPN Gainesville's Talia Baia made her way into the locker room at Chase Center to speak with Andersen.

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4 d. ago ‘I would never be able to sing a song that a robot wrote’: Lucy Dacus on her new album’s themes of artistry and intimacy

As the indie singer-songwriter and Boygenius star releases her latest, highly personal solo record, she talks of her weariness of AI and digital art, the pressures of being in a public relationship, and her anger and fears in Trump’s USIn the shadow of a Hogarth painting, accompanied by guitar and violin, Lucy Dacus is singing about disappointment. The painting depicts Thomas Coram, founder of the Foundling Hospital in London’s Bloomsbury district. A shipbuilder by trade, he is portrayed in full baroque garb, a style usually reserved for the aristocracy. But amid the classical architecture and rich fabrics, he is shown as he was: the thread veins on his face, his feet not quite touching the ground. The setting is apt for Dacus’s disquisitions on life and love, and the ways they can exceed, or fall short of, the expectations we place upon them: the moments that feel exalted, idealised, as well as the times when reality intrudes on the fantasy.The Foundling Museum, the setting of toni...

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5 d. ago Men rave over 'intoxicating' Horace aftershave with hundreds of 5

'Absolutely have fallen in love with this perfume. Love the notes, very masculine and woody but still with a nice sweet sensual smell. Very strong and has lasted me all day. This smell is just intoxicating to me, my fiancée loves it too.'

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6 d. ago The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope audiobook review – an understated greatest hits collection

Read and contextualised by the poet herself, these gentle gems have an extra tang of immediacyA greatest hits collection from one of Britain’s best-loved poets, Wendy Cope’s The Orange contains themes of love, friendship, family and mortality. The 1992 title poem – which recently enjoyed a second life on TikTok, with users showing off their fruit-based tattoos – finds the author buying a large orange, sharing it with two friends and concluding: “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” After the Lunch is about falling in love on Waterloo Bridge while “high on the charm and the drink”, while Being Boring hails the virtues of a drama-free life (“No news is good news, and long may it last”).Cope is the reader, her delivery gently understated and frequently deadpan. In Loss, she reflects on the end of a relationship in which the woman “went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem, but the corkscrew had gone as well.” Sometimes she breaks from the narration to share the context of a p...

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9 d. ago Strictly pro taken aback as former partner confesses 'I fell in love with you'

Strictly Come Dancing icon James Jordan was left red-faced as new Channel 5 host Vanessa Feltz confessed she'd 'passionately fallen in love' with him during the hit BBC show

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9 d. ago Violence and sexist harassment against female MPs ‘rife across Asia

Report reveals scale of abuse faced by women in politics from countries including Australia, China, Japan and IndiaSexism, harassment and violence against women are rife in parliaments across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a damning report published on Tuesday that lays bare the scale of abuse faced by women in politics.Based on interviews with 150 female MPs and parliamentary staff across 33 countries across the region – including Australia, Mongolia, India, Indonesia and Micronesia – the study found that 76% of MPs and 63% of staff had experienced psychological gender-based violence, with 60% of MPs saying they had been targeted online by hate speech, disinformation and image-based abuse. An equal number of women were interviewed from each country. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trio of products for thinning hair which ‘truly work’ less than £30 on Amazon

Shoppers have fallen in love with the haircare trio, which they say has 'done wonders'

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1 week ago Arsenal news: Mikel Arteta lines up summer transfer as manager falls ‘in love’ with Gunners star

Mikel Arteta could use his personal connections to help Arsenal land a high-profile free agent in the summer transfer window, but the race for another target is heating up

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1 week ago Thomas Tuchel has ‘fallen in love’ with ‘fearless’ England star after record

Tuchel praised the teenager for his ‘amazing and impressive confidence’ after he scored on his England debut

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2 w. ago Gender row engulfs police force before it admits female wanted suspect is actually a trans woman as report says cops MUST record biological data

Women's rights campaigners have reacted with fury after police referred to a wanted individual as a woman - despite an accompanying photograph appearing to show a man.

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2 w. ago Gender row engulfs police force as it refuses to answer if 'female' wanted suspect is actually male as report says cops MUST record biological data

Women's rights campaigners have reacted with fury after police referred to a wanted individual as a woman - despite an accompanying photograph appearing to show a man.

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2 w. ago Veteran support charity allows pensioner to develop love for new pottery hobby

Jim McGoran was supported by the Erskine organisation after falling in love with the activity while attending the Bishopton-based charity’s activity centre.

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2 w. ago Maura Higgins 'struggling' with 'horrific' backlash after Danny Jones kiss as blame falls one way

Following Maura Higgins and Danny Jones’ Brits kiss, the Love Island star has faced furious backlash and trolling as she falls out of fans' favour, proving how affairs invariably impact women

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2 w. ago Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter review – radical visions of gay 90s London

Memories of love and heartbreak during the Aids epidemic are brought vividly to life in this exhilarating, risk-taking debutHalfway through his debut novel, Charlie Porter has a character ask the question that still haunts generations of British gay men: “What am I to do with this anger?” The book is Porter’s answer. The starting point is simple. Johnny is 19, and on the run from a small-town childhood; arriving in London, he falls in love with Jerry, who is 45 and HIV positive. Their affair coincides exactly with the last four years in which the virus was untreatable; Jerry dies of an Aids-related illness in the summer of 1995, just months before effective combination therapies began to be prescribed.Twenty-six years later, Johnny is still living in Jerry’s flat. This is in the Nova Scotia House of the title, an oasis of public housing in one of the last pockets of unredeveloped land in London’s East End. Inevitably, a tower of flats is now being built right nex...

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2 w. ago B&M brings back 'gorgeous' £10 lamp that 'looks stunning in any room'

B&M shoppers have fallen in love with a simple yet stylish lamp that's brightening up rooms.

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