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Dying For Sex delves into the true story of a woman seeking out new sexual experiences after being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer

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3 d. ago Caroline Weir: ‘I am not the loudest but I’d like to think I lead by example’

Midfielder wants to win silverware with Real Madrid and inspire girls and boys in Scotland as the SFA launches Galáctica, a documentary about herIn a Dunfermline back garden, a young girl doing keepy-uppies in her No 5 Zidane Real Madrid kit turns, shoots and scores in the bottom corner of a green, handbuilt, wooden board, painted by her dad to mark the outlines of a goal. Her family’s video footage is a reminder that the one club Caroline Weir always wanted to play for was Real Madrid.Fast forward two decades and that same all-white shirt – this time with Weir on the back – hangs on the walls of an Edinburgh cinema as the 29-year-old greets guests attending the premiere of a documentary the Scottish Football Association have made to honour their 108-times-capped midfielder. It feels fitting the film is being released within a fortnight of Weir scoring two decisive late goals in the women’s team’s first el clásico victory over Barcelona. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Alessia Russo goals inspire Arsenal to magical Champions League comeback on great night against Real Madrid

Arsenal produce a stunning comeback to book place in Women’s Champions League semi-final against Lyon

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2 w. ago Good American Family review – the strange case of Natalia Grace

Ellen Pompeo plays a mother disturbed by her adopted daughter in a mostly entertaining limited series based on the tabloid sagaThere remains unending interest in the bizarre story of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian girl adopted by an American family who then claimed she was actually an adult. The saga starts in 2010 but a similar tale had already been told in 2009’s Orphan, a horror film hinged on a similar twist, itself inspired by the real case of the Estonian impostor Barbora Skrlová. It’s the ghoulish stuff of nightmare, shocking enough to turn Orphan into an unlikely franchise (the second was released in 2022, the third now in the works) and Grace into a tabloid sensation and, easily vilified, hate figure.But the lurid People.com headlines only told half of the story or barely a third as it turns out, an unfolding series of revelations soon starting to show that things were not what they appeared to be. After a popular, and even more revelatory, docuseries, we now have the inevita...

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2 w. ago Adolescence – the hit show is everywhere right now, but is it based on a true story?

The show is inspired by several horrifying real-life events

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3 w. ago Stephen Graham Netflix drama Adolescence was inspired by two real

Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne's harrowing new one-shot Netflix drama Adolescence was inspired by two separate real-life crime stories that the star read about in the news.

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3 w. ago Dove launches inspirational campaign #ShareTheFirst in bid to capture 'real moments'

Dove's latest campaign is encouraging people to #ShareTheFirst on social media, rather than spending ages trying to decide which picture you're going to post on Instagram

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3 w. ago Stephen Graham says two grim true stories that inspired Netflix’s Adolescence ‘hurt my heart’

Adolescence star Stephen Graham has shed more light on the real-life inspiration behind Netflix’s hard-hitting drama

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3 w. ago Is Adolescence based on a true story? Inspiration behind real

Adolescence is streaming on Netflix and it tells some harrowing truths about the pressures faced by young people of today.

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4 w. ago ‘What’s wrong with us? : Novelist Virginia Feito on our morbid obsession with true crime

Her debut Mrs March is being adapted by Elisabeth Moss, and her new novel has already been snapped up for the screen. Virginia Feito reveals the real-life inspiration for her shocking story of a psychopathic Victorian nannyWhatever people make of Virginia Feito’s new book, a scabrous, morbidly funny murder ballad, they can’t say they weren’t warned. Thanks to several instances of real and imagined violence to men, women, children and babies – not to mention a deer, a duck and three whippets – Victorian Psycho lives up to its name, and to the first sentence of its prologue: “Death everywhere.”“It’s not like a surprising twist that builds slowly over the pages,” the 36-year-old Spanish writer says of her second novel. “You know where we’re going from the very start.” Continue reading...

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