2 h. ago Netflix star named 'sexiest man alive' and streamer shares brilliant response

A Bridgerton star has been named the 'sexiest man alive' by People Magazine, but he has called the title "completely absurd"

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2 h. ago Netflix star Jonathan Bailey named 'sexiest man alive' and streamer shares brilliant response

Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey has been named the 'sexiest man alive' by People Magazine, but he has called the title "completely absurd"

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3 h. ago Jonathan Bailey's rise to the top as he is named People's Sexiest Man Alive: His huge roles in Bridgerton and Wicked have even sparked Bond rumours

Jonathan Bailey had a fairly sudden rise to fame when he starred as the dreamy Lord Anthony in Regency drama Bridgerton in 2020. 

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6 h. ago Jonathan Bailey named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025

The ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Wicked’ star made history as the first openly gay winner

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8 h. ago Wicked star Jonathan Bailey becomes first ever openly gay man to be named People's Sexiest Man Alive

The 37-year-old English actor is having a massive year as he recently starred alongside Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World Rebirth and later this year can be seen in Wicked: For Good.

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9 h. ago Jonathan Bailey named People magazine’s 2025 Sexiest Man Alive

“Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey is People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025

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12 h. ago Wicked and Jurassic World Rebirth actor Jonathan Bailey named People's Sexiest Man Alive

The 37-year-old English actor is having a massive year as he recently starred alongside Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World Rebirth and later this year can be seen in Wicked: For Good.

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6 d. ago Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety

From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assuredAccepting a literary prize in Ohio last year, the novelist Zadie Smith described “feeling somewhat alienated from myself, experiencing myself as a posthumous entity”. Smith is only 50, but there is indeed something of the afterlife about the material gathered in her new book, which bundles various odds and ends from the past nine years: speeches, opinion pieces, criticism and eulogies for departed literary heroes – Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel.In Some Notes on Mediated Time – one of three completely new essays in the collection – Smith recalls how the “dreamy, slo-mo world” of her 1980s childhood gave way, within a generation, to the “anxious, permanent now” of social media. If you lived through that transition, you don’t have to be very old to feel ancient. When this estrangement is compounded by the ordinary anxieties of ageing, cultur...

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4 w. ago ‘I sometimes have the feeling that things are alive’: the sinister, silicone

The German artist’s first UK solo show is full of thick lengths of sealant and knotty foam pipes that look like a DIY gone wrong. But look closer and these beguiling works evoke societal as much as material collapseIf you’re considering bathroom renovations, I would perhaps advise against hiring Lisa Herfeldt to do the work.Yes, it’s true, she’s something of a whiz with a silicone gun – creating compelling sculptures from this unlikely art material. But the more you look at her creations the more you realise that something is a little off. The thick lengths of sealant she produces stretch beyond the shelves on which they sit, sagging off the edges towards the floor. The knotty foam pipes bulge until they split. Some creations escape their acrylic glass box homes entirely, becoming a magnet for dust and hair. Let’s just say the Checkatrade reviews would not be pretty.Lisa Herfeldt: Alice, Laurie & Ripley is at Roland Ross, Margate, until 22 November Continue reading...

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