2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: drunk, alone and lost, a legendary drag queen helped me get home safe

Looking back now, I can see how much of a vulnerable situation I had put myself in – but Nana took me under her wingRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesI grew up in the English countryside, watching Queer as Folk on TV and dreaming about the day I’d move to the city and get to be part of the gay world. At age 18, in the mid-noughties, I packed up and left for Manchester, moving into the university halls of residence. I was thrilled.On my first night out, I went to a popular gay club night and got stupendously drunk. The university halls were only a five-minute walk away, but I was alone. Around 2am, I found myself propped against a wall outside a takeaway, unable to remember how to get back to my bed. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Freaky Friday director addresses criticism of Asian representation in movie

‘I was fully aware that it was over the top,’ says Mark Waters

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3 w. ago Wallabies and Springboks in identity swap for clash amid thin air of Highveld | Daniel Gallan

The frenemies meet in this year’s Rugby Championship opener at Ellis Park where they are expected to rip pages out of the other’s playbookOne team boasts some of the most menacing forwards found anywhere in the world. The other is developing a scintillating backline capable of tearing apart any defence. Business as usual, then, for a Wallabies versus Springboks clash. Except this time, like the characters of Freaky Friday, the two sides have switched identities ahead of the first round of the Rugby Championship.Australia might have lost the British & Irish Lions series but they were one referee’s decision at the breakdown away from causing a seismic upset. That the margin was so small was thanks largely to the thundering cameos of Will Skelton, Rob Valetini, Taniela Tupou and a handful of other meaty men who provided the front-foot grunt that was absent in the first Test in Brisbane. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Iconic Y2K and 90s Easter Eggs you probably missed in Freakier Friday

The Freaky Friday sequel is full of hidden references

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4 w. ago NCIS' Mark Harmon lands new role away from Gibbs as he reunites with co

NCIS star Mark Harmon has been keeping busy since his character's departure from the long-running police procedural as he recently reunited with his Freaky Friday co-stars.

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4 w. ago 'I grew up watching Freaky Friday and critics are so wrong about the sequel'

Forget what you've read, this is the truth about Freakier Friday

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last month Freaky Friday fans are just learning Jamie Lee Curtis almost wasn't in original film

As fans are preparing to watch the new Freaky Friday sequel, some were shocked to learn that Jamie Lee Curtis barely made the cut to star in the now iconic movie with Lindsey Lohan

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