23 h. ago Eddie Redmayne cosies up to chic wife Hannah Bagshawe as they join a VERY animated Romeo Beckham at the French Open following his shock split from Kim Turnbull

The Oscar winner, 43, cut a stylish figure in a green sweater and jeans which he layered with an alabaster Lacoste sports jacket.

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47 h. ago Van Hunt proposed to Halle Berry, but the Catwoman actor put engagement ‘on hold’

The couple first went public with their romance in 2020

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51 h. ago Original 1984 Hermes Birkin bag belonging to the late Jane Birkin set to go under the hammer in Paris

The bag, famously the brainchild of British-French actress, Jane Birkin, and Hermès, has emerged into what many consider the world's most coveted and iconic fashion accessory.

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3 d. ago Queen Mary of Denmark dons daring ensemble to visit the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen

Queen Mary of Denmark cut a stylish figure during a visit to the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen this morning. The Queen, 53, put her best fashion foot forward as she arrived at DR Concert Hall.

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3 d. ago Disgraced Norwegian royal accused of sexually assaulting multiple women partied it up at Cannes Film Festival

Despite the allegations, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway's son has jetted off to the French Riviera and has been seen living it up at the Cannes Film Festival, reported Se og Hør .

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3 d. ago Disgraced Norwegian royal accused of sexual assaulting multiple women partied it up at Cannes Film Festival

Despite the allegations, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway's son has jetted off to the French Riviera and has been seen living it up at the Cannes Film Festival, reported Se og Hør .

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5 d. ago James Anderson stars for Lancashire in remarkable return to T20 cricket after 11 years

The 42-year-old returned career-best figures of 3-17 from four overs in Lancashire’s dramatic win over Durham

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6 d. ago ‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life ’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher

The novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories that inspired her winning debut, The CoinBuying a Birkin bag is not easy. You can’t just waltz into an Hermès store and pluck one off the shelf, even if you’re prepared to drop the many thousands required to pay for it. “The great majority of people are refused a Birkin, they get told that there aren’t any available in the store, which is a lie, they just don’t want to give it to them,” explains the protagonist of Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel The Coin, which this month won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for authors aged 39 or under.Zaher’s unnamed narrator, a Palestinian woman living in New York, has to get to grips with Hermès’s exclusive and elusive sales policies – which seem to privilege loyal customers – after being drawn into a Birkin reselling operation. Conti...

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7 d. ago Elle Fanning on ice facials, freckles and finding confidence at Cannes

The Great star and soon-to-be new Effie Trinket shares her beauty hacks, pinch-me moments — and the movie that changed her

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1 week ago Violent and lewd! Not Grand Theft Auto, Shakespeare’s Macbeth

If Shakespeare were around today, he’d be making open-world shooters with the same depth and diversion as his playsLast week, the Guardian spoke to the team behind Lili, a video game retelling of Macbeth, shown at the Cannes film festival. The headline quote from the piece was “Shakespeare would be writing for games today”, which I have heard many times, and does make a lot of sense. Shakespeare worked in the Elizabethan theatre, a period in which plays were considered popularist entertainment hardly worthy of analysis or preservation – just like video games today! The authorities were also concerned about the lewd and violent nature of plays and the effect they may have on the impressionable masses – ditto!But if we agree that a 21st-century Shakespeare would be making games, what sort would he be making? If our central thesis is that Shakespeare would be interested in mass, popular entertainment, then – if we’re talking pure revenue – he would be making casual smartphone games: Te...

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1 week ago Fantasy movie set during Highland Clearances stuns audiences at Cannes Film Festival

Scottish director Ian Gordon brought The Gudeman, a fantasy film set during the Highland Clearances, to Cannes.

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1 week ago Film stars, photographers and fans: the other side of Cannes – in pictures

Derek Ridgers attended the Cannes film festival every year from 1984 to 1996, documenting the celebrities, crowds and paparazzi. The results are featured in a limited edition book published by Idea Continue reading...

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1 week ago The adorable reason Chris Evans skipped Cannes film premiere

Evans’s co-stars appeared on the red carpet in his absence

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1 week ago French anarchists claim responsibility for blackouts which have left 160,000 people in darkness in south of nation overnight

Two French anarchist groups have claimed responsibility for a massive power cut that left more than 160,000 in Nice and the Cannes Film Festival in darkness over the weekend.

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1 week ago Love Island star makes red carpet debut with girlfriend at Cannes after disastrous villa stint

2019 Love Island star Marvin Brooks has proven that he is not unlucky in love anymore as he stepped out onto the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival with his new model girlfriend

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1 week ago Chris Evans misses standing ovation at film premiere for heartwarming reason

Captain America actor Chris Evans didn't join Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Charlie Day at Cannes Film Festival this week for the premiere of Ethan Coen's Honey Don't!

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1 week ago French authorities investigate second power blackout in two days

At least 45,000 people affected by ‘malicious act’ in Nice, a day after Cannes film festival disrupted by similar outageFrench authorities have launched an investigation into a power blackout blamed on sabotage that affected at least 45,000 people, just a day after a similar outage disrupted the final day of the Cannes film festival.Authorities in Nice said an electrical transformer had been set on fire in the west of the city in the early hours of Sunday, with power restored later in the day. A day earlier, a separate blaze, believed to have been started by arson, contributed to a power cut that hit Cannes. Continue reading...

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1 week ago French authorities investigate power blackout blamed on sabotage

At least 45,000 people affected after electrical transformer set on fire and pylon pillars cut in ‘malicious act’French authorities have launched an investigation into a power blackout blamed on sabotage that affected at least 45,000 people, just a day after a similar outage disrupted the final day of the Cannes film festival.Authorities in Nice said an electrical transformer had been set on fire in the west of the city in the early hours of Sunday, with power restored later in the day. A day earlier, a separate blaze, believed to have been started by arson, contributed to a power cut that hit Cannes. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The biggest celebrity red carpet meltdowns: From Kelly Rowland scolding words to Tom Cruise's furious reaction to water gun prank

You might think that celebrities would be used to the bright lights, flashing cameras and chaotic red carpets. 

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1 week ago Jafar Panahi’s Cannes victory is a wonderful moment for an amazingly courageous film

Panahi has endured years of harassment from the Iranian authorities but has created a tremendous body of work; his Palme d’Or is richly deservedIranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an AccidentIn the end, the Cannes Palme d’Or went to the most courageous film director in the world. It was a very satisfying grownup decision, favouring a remarkable and utterly individual film-maker: the director and democracy campaigner Jafar Panahi, an artist who unlike any other director in the Cannes competition really has suffered, taken real risks for cinema and spoken truth to power – and endured arrest and imprisonment for his pains.He has created a rich canon of work which has told the world about Iranian society and the Iranian mind with a subtlety and depth that we are never going to get from the TV news. Continue reading...

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