16 h. ago Heated Rivalry: this queer Canadian hockey romp is so hot it threatens to scorch the ice it skates on

Ravishing actors, charged glances, buttocks like pneumatic hams this is one steamy love story. But it’s far more than just a porny sport-based bodice-ripperI was surprised to learn that ice hockey romance is a genre, a popular one. Surprising, but it makes sense. Love in a cold setting has a fairytale quality. It’s why the great Russian romances endure, though they aren’t relatable. Most of us don’t sit by windows, waiting for a horse to bring word that our cousin has survived the winter in Smolensk. Perhaps it’s time for a modern Doctor Zhivago? Enter Heated Rivalry (Saturday 10 January, 9pm, Sky Atlantic), a Canadian queer romp so hot it threatens to scorch the ice it skates upon.Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are star players from Montreal and Moscow respectively, mysteriously drawn to each other on the rink, in the full glare of the media. Well, not that mysteriously. The co-leads get down to business almost immediately, with a not-quite meet cute in a shower room. Every episo...

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4 d. ago Dancing On Ice star Alex Murphy is medically allergic to TikTok husband

Dancing On Ice star pro skater Alex Murphy reveals a rare genetic predisposition that makes her allergic to husband Paul Klein's DNA. The couple only discovered after failed rounds of IVF treatment to help conceive and had to go to Greece to find out.

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7 d. ago Dancing On Ice star Vanessa Bauer is engaged! Skater reveals she is set to marry Reading FC footballer James Rowe after romantic proposal

The professional figure skater, 29, went public with her romance with James in December 2024 as she shared a series of loved-up Instagram snaps from their trip to Lapland.

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1 week ago Idris Elba knighted in new year honours list also featuring Torvill and Dean

Meera Syal also made dame while England women’s football and rugby winners feature prominentlyThe actors Idris Elba and Meera Syal have been made a knight and a dame in the new year honours list, with top awards also going to the ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.The former head of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, was also made a dame and there were knighthoods for Patrick McCabe, a former UN official responsible for clearing unexploded bombs in Gaza; Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now director of the V&A, for services to museums; and Roy Clarke, creator of the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Torvill & Dean: The Last Dance viewers say the same thing minutes into ITV show

Olympic champion ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are seen embarking on the final tour of their 50-year career in an ITV documentary

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2 w. ago ‘Heated Rivalry’ series mixes hockey and queer romance and is scoring big audiences

The television adaptation of Rachel Reid’s novel “Heated Rivalry” is making waves with hockey romance fans

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4 w. ago ‘Giorgia Meloni’s own Woodstock’: Italy’s far right debates at Atreju festival

Week-long event organised by Brothers of Italy party looks like winter wonderland but is chance for PM to flaunt powerWhen, out of curiosity, Leila Cader and her friends entered the gardens surrounding Castel Sant’Angelo, a prominent Rome monument that once served as a refuge for popes during times of war, they thought they’d chanced upon an enchanting winter wonderland.With the scent of mulled wine wafting through the air, Santa’s elves wandering around, stalls selling nativity-scene figurines and skaters merrily gliding on an ice-rink, it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Continue reading...

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