4 d. ago Emmerdale newcomer Joe Absolom confirms 'dark' storyline with April Windsor

The actor has revealed what viewers can expect from his new role

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6 d. ago Gillian Anderson admits doing sex scenes are 'never a joy' but is what is 'expected' as an actor as she spills the beans on getting intimate for film roles

Gillian Anderson has admitted that taking part in sex scenes are 'never a joy' but is what is expected in her job as an actor.

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6 d. ago Is Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs' new movie The Salt Path based on a true story?

The Salt Path stars Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson as a couple who embark on a 630-mile walk after suffering a number of life-changing setbacks - but is the new movie based on a true story?

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7 d. ago Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. “These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it’s of interest to me.”There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir of homelessness and hope along the coastline of England’s south-west. Playing W...

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8 d. ago The Salt Path is a tale of homelessness that’s just too neat and tidy

Based on the true story of a couple blighted by a painful diagnosis and the loss of their home, this drama ultimately becomes yet another pat story about how reconnecting with nature is good for the soul

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8 d. ago Sonny Boy by Al Pacino audiobook review – from the South Bronx to Hollywood

The actor warmly narrates this intimate account of his rise to stardom, from the traumas that shaped his childhood to the epiphany that would lead to his glittering careerThe title of Al Pacino’s memoir comes from the nickname given to him by his mother when he was growing up. His parents divorced when he was two, after which he and his mother moved in with his grandparents in the South Bronx, where violence and drugs were rife. One day, six-year-old Pacino was playing outside with his friends when he saw an ambulance pull up outside his grandparents’ tenement. He ran towards the building “and there, coming out of the front doors, carried on a stretcher, was my mother. She had attempted suicide.”Pacino, now 85, is our gravel-voiced narrator and his performance here is wonderful: warm, fitfully jovial and more intimate than you might expect from an actor who has spent much of his life keeping the public at arm’s length. As well as detailing early traumas – Pacino’s mother died when h...

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9 d. ago French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds of children jailed for 20 years

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been at the centre of one of France's largest-ever child sex abuse cases having admitted abusing hundreds of children and he has now been sentenced to 20 years in jail

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9 d. ago The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemptionThis film gives cinema one of the most nail-biting scenes of the year so far: an edge-of-the-seat moment as Gillian Anderson puts her bank card into a cash machine. Is there enough money in the account? Everything is at stake. This impressive, intelligent drama is an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir about walking the South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset, with her husband, Moth. Unlike other hikers, the couple were not walking for pleasure – at least not to begin with. They had nowhere else to go after losing their farm. From theatre director Marianne Elliott, it stars two fancy actors – Anderson and Jason Isaacs – both giving lovely, emotional, low-key performances.In flashback we see the bailiffs banging at the door, evicting the couple, who are in their 50s, from the home in which they raised their kids, now flown the nest to univer...

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1 week ago Gillian Anderson was ‘profoundly affected’ by memoir that inspired The Salt Path

The film follows a couple who complete the 1,000km South West Coast Path after losing their home.

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1 week ago Inside the 10 stunning UK beaches in new Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs film The Salt Path

Set to hit cinemas on May 30, The Salt Path starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs is likely to one of the summer's biggest movies.

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2 w. ago Michelle Keegan looks effortlessly chic as she joins Gillian Anderson, Jane Fonda and Simone Ashley at the L'Oreal Lights on Women Award in Cannes

The English actress, 37, was glowing as she stepped out for the event, which celebrates women in film, on the penultimate day of the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

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2 w. ago Elle Fanning oozes glamour in a plunging blush gown as she joins Gillian Anderson, Simone Ashley and Michelle Keegan at Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Mastermind

The A Complete Unknown star, 27, was among the Hollywood stars who took to the red carpet for the premiere of the film, starring Josh O'Connor and Alana Haim, on Friday.

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2 w. ago Hollywood star Saoirse Ronan 'expecting first child' with Scots actor Jack Lowden

The Brooklyn actress, who married actor Jack Lowden last year, appeared to confirm her baby news on the red carpet.

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2 w. ago We lost everything and became homeless in our 50s just as my husband was diagnosed with an incurable disease

Raynor Winn is the author of The Salt Path, based on her own experience of being made homeless. Now her book has been made into a film starring Gillian Anderson.

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2 w. ago Gillian Anderson channels her Sex Education role as she admits she enjoys getting X

The actress, 56, has become a notable supporter of female sexual empowerment, after her lauded role playing a sex therapist on the hit Netflix show.

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2 w. ago X Files icon Gillian Anderson loves getting frisky in tents and the back of cars

X Files star Gillian Anderson says she loves having sex in a tent or the back of a car.

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2 w. ago Rapper Kid Cudi expected to testify at Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial

Rapper and actor Kid Cudi is expected to testify at the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial

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2 w. ago Elderly rape victim who was brutally attacked by burglar who burst into her bedroom died before seeing him brought to justice

Michael Hanmore, 46, admitted to the sex crime, burglary and stealing a motor vehicle after the attack, which took place on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent in 2022.

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2 w. ago Lorde faces backlash after 'weird' comment about Pamela Anderson's controversial sex tape

Lorde fans are asking 'what was that?' after the singer admitted to watching Pamela Anderson's stolen sex tape, which the former Baywatch actress has previously spoken out against

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2 w. ago 'I knew he was a sex offender... but I wanted a stable life': Prison officer reveals shame of sordid affair with convicted rapist after she was spared jail for behind bars fling

Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, told MailOnline of her 'relief' that she was this week spared jail after admitting a six-month illicit affair with sex attacker Bradley Trengrove.

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