43 h. ago Michelle Dockery's love story with Phoebe Waller Bridge's brother after tragic loss

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery is married to Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller Bridge's brother Jasper, after finding love again following the tragic death of her fiancé

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43 h. ago Pregnant Michelle Dockery's love story with Phoebe Waller Bridge's brother after sad loss

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery is married to Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller Bridge's brother Jasper, after finding love again following the tragic death of her fiancé

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1 week ago Hope, joy, absurdity and marvel: there is so much more to our world story than loss

Amid environmental tragedy, a hidden world of curiosity and wonder still exists. And in this, says Natalie Kyriacou, we can find glimmers of hopeThe last great auk, it is said, was strangled unceremoniously in its sleep in 1844. Plump and penguin-like, the great auk had survived for hundreds of thousands of years until humans discovered the utility of its soft down feathers, eggs and meat. Great auks mate for life, and it was on Eldey island in Iceland where the final pair on Earth met their fate at the hands of three fishermen who fell upon them.“I took him by the neck and he flapped his wings. He made no cry. I strangled him,” said the man who killed the last of a species. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Serena Williams built her legacy on defiance. Why lend it to Ozempic culture? | Bryan Armen Graham

From Compton outsider to American nonpareil, she came to embody resistance to toxic norms. But her embrace of GLP-1 drugs feels like capitulation to ideals she once rejectedWhen Serena Williams was featured in a People magazine story on Thursday morning discussing her 31lb weight loss, the rollout had all the hallmarks of an advertisement draped in the thin veil of an all-caps EXCLUSIVE.Vogue’s social channels amplified their own access, NBC’s Today show gave her a one-on-one segment and Elle published a carefully packaged interview in which Williams declared she wanted to break the stigma around weight-loss drugs, each of them in lockstep with what appeared to be a hard 9am press embargo. This vintage Jill Smoller quadrafecta was not a spontaneous confessional; it was a coordinated media blitz pegged to the US Open, the tentpole event of American tennis, which kicks off on Sunday in earnest. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Perrie Edwards teases 'Cameron Diaz' music video amid solo career after tragic baby loss

Former Little Mix star Cameron Diaz has told her fans to 'wake up' as she teased her brand-new solo music after sharing her tragic baby loss story

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2 w. ago Grealish never conformed as Guardiola’s ‘obedient little schoolboy’ but glorious third act beckons | Jonathan Wilson

Midfielder’s time at Man City has been turbulent but there is hope Everton can help him rediscover sense of joy on the pitchA figure toils alone at Bodymoor Heath. The light fades, but against the setting sun his silhouette is distinctive: the floppy hair, the hunched gait, the vast calves. Jack Grealish is working, honing and polishing, inventing, striving at the limits of technical excellence.He has inspired Aston Villa to promotion. He has helped them avoid relegation, establish themselves as a Premier League side. He is enormously popular. Even opposing fans admire his ability, warm to the sense he is still in some way the impish kid in the playground, revelling in his ability, having fun. That summer at the Euros he had become a cause célèbre, the figure behind whom the clamour for Gareth Southgate to release the handbrake rallied, the poster boy for the sort of pundit who wished England would just believe in talent. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ed Sheeran's life from bullying and sweet love story to traumatic loss

Ed Sheeran is one of the UK's biggest stars but his life hasn't always been easy as he's opened up about being bullied, sleeping rough and his battle with drugs.

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