62 m. ago My Cultural Awakening: Years & Years helped me accept my bisexual identity

Olly Alexander’s stage presence and his band’s lyrics pulled together the two sides of my nature, and accept my desire for menI first discovered Olly Alexander, of Years & Years, by accident. I was teaching English as a foreign language in South Korea, and I showed a video of a BBC Glastonbury roundup on the projector as part of the lesson. I remember glimpsing an incredibly cute blond guy on stage, and being transfixed. I knew immediately that he was gay because the way he moved was unashamedly fluid and graceful. He was doing a pirouette.The clip was so short there wasn’t even a mention of the name of the band, so I had to do some detective work. I Googled something ridiculous like “bleached hair gay man Glastonbury 2015” and trawled through hundreds of search results until I found him. Continue reading...

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63 m. ago The Summer I Turned Pretty and what happens to Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah

WARNING: SPOILERS The final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty is all anyone can talk about this summer, and fans are desperate to see which Fisher brother Belly chooses in the end

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63 m. ago 'Greatest' BBC period drama All Creatures Great and Small fans will binge watch

The BBC drama has been hailed as "truly one of the greatest BBC dramas" and "incredible viewing" by fans, who have been left "saddened to see an end" to the series

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63 m. ago Manchester United sent Viktor Gyokeres warning amid Arsenal predictions

Man United host Arsenal this weekend and the pundits have had their say on the clash.

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63 m. ago Silent Witness fans will love this Disney Plus hidden gem branded 'best show ever'

A 2015 crime drama, which is available to stream on Disney Plus, is the perfect viewing for Silent Witness fans

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93 m. ago Disney Plus hidden gem with 'addictive' plot hailed as 'best ever' by fans

A hidden gem crime series that's perfect for Silent Witness fans is streaming on Disney Plus

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2 h. ago ‘I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic’: Jade Thirlwall on anorexia, protest in pop and life after Little Mix

As part of the hugely successful girlband, she had to contend with an eating disorder, racism and a hostile tabloid press. Now JADE the solo artist is conquering the charts with her unorthodox pop bangers and unfiltered attitudeIt’s customary for former girlband members to shun their manufactured roots the second they go solo. But now that Jade Thirlwall is no longer a member of Little Mix, she’s become their biggest fan. “I look back and I’m gagged at us!” she tells me, eyes wide with delight. “I still watch our music videos or performances and wonder how we weren’t even bigger, because we were fucking amazing.“Before I released my first solo song, I listened to Little Mix’s entire discography and cried. I was this young lass from South Shields who just wanted to make it as a singer, and I went on to be in the best, coolest girlband ever.” And now? “Now I get to have a bonus round, doing my own songs,” she beams. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Monastic music that survived Henry VIII’s dissolution brought back to life

Buckland Abbey recreates music telling of medieval life in extraordinary discoveryAlmost five centuries ago a community of monks in the West Country of England gathered to sing, imploring their God to help them endure the challenges of medieval life.Thanks to an extraordinary discovery of music that survived Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries in the early 16th century, the songs created by the Buckland Abbey monks were ringing out again across the hills and woods of the Tavy valley in Devon this weekend.The University of Exeter Chapel Choir will perform the music live in Buckland Abbey’s medieval Great Barn on 16 and 17 August. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘I’m the one to beat’: is Taylor Swift’s Showgirl era set to take h to even greater heights?

Just-announced album already looks like it will make singer and partner Travis Kelce hysterically famous at a new level – and that may be precisely their planTaylor Swift’s podcast interview with her American football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this week yielded plenty of tidbits for fans. Across two hours of loose chat on New Heights, the show Kelce helms with his brother Jason – also a football player – Swift revealed she was obsessed with sourdough and lurked on baking blogs. The couple spent the summer with her family, caring for her 73-year-old father, Scott, after he had a quintuple heart bypass. She gave Kelce a lesson on Hamlet and taught him how to avoid internalising speculation about their two-year relationship. You could call them the tentpoles of the 35-year-old pop star’s brand: literary passions and professional self-awareness.One surprising revelation came near the end. Until the record-breaking 149-date Eras tour that Swift mounted from 2023-24, she said she ha...

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2 h. ago Six great reads: swanky manholes, babies in flowerpots and the world’s most divisive shoes

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Check your attic for these items to sell at your local car boot and make £100s

MoneyMagpie Editor and financial expert Vicky Parry shares the best-selling items for car boot sales ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend

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2 h. ago British tourist caught stealing stones from holiday hotspot faces huge fine

The 51-year-old, from Scotland, was reported to Italian authorities after a guide spotted him "picking up pieces of Pompeii pavement" during an evening tour

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2 h. ago Celtic and Rangers handed contrasting Champions League verdicts by Jury who fancy one but not the other

Glasgow's big two plus Aberdeen and Hibs are looking to qualify for the 3 big European club competitions

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2 h. ago Mumbles Raft Race 2025: Start time, how to watch and everything you need to know

The Mumbles Raft Race, one of the most popular events on Swansea's summer calendar, is returning this weekend and here's everything you need to know about today's event

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2 h. ago Dunelm's £29 faux fur rug ‘looks designer’ and is ‘so soft on feet’

Homeware fans have been racing to buy the textured rug which has been hailed 'beautiful' and 'very good quality'

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2 h. ago Disney+ to stream live European football each weekend in major schedule shake

Top Spanish clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona are heading to Disney+ as the streamer lands a three year deal with La Liga.

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3 h. ago Soccer Saturday's iconic stars and where they are now after axe fell on beloved line

Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday has been a huge hit with football fans for decades, but the programme has undergone a number of changes in recent seasons with varying degrees of success

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3 h. ago Michael Barrymore reveals epilepsy journey diagnosed after a series of mini strokes

Michael Barrymore reached out to fans for support in a heartbreaking TikTok video in which the comedian and TV presenter told of his mini strokes and "uncontrollable seizures"

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5 h. ago Gardeners urged to act this weekend in 'race' for free plants

There's no need to splash hundreds at the garden centre - you can ensure your borders are filled with a beautiful display of flowers by following four simple steps

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6 h. ago 'I went hunting for dinosaurs in the surreal Canadian Badlands'

Canada’s Alberta gives dino fan Dan Townend no end of places to explore, including the Badlands – named by explorers centuries ago because of the inhospitable terrain with its surreal mounds of sandstone structures and deep valleys

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