5 h. ago Lily Allen apologises to Katy Perry over 'misogynistic' comments after space trip backlash

Allen, 39, was among a wave of critics who slammed the mission, which saw Perry, 40, launch into space

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8 h. ago Lily Allen apologises for 'being mean' to Katy Perry about Blue Origin space flight as she admits it was 'her own internalised misogyny'

The 39-year-old singer joined the chorus criticising the Firework hitmaker and the all-female crew for their brief trip into orbit earlier this month.

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8 h. ago Lily Allen apologises to Katy Perry after slamming her Blue Origin space mission

Lily Allen was among a slew of stars who criticised Katy Perry for taking an 11-minute trip to space on Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket

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28 h. ago Lily Allen apologizes for ‘mean’ comments about Katy Perry’s space mission, blames her internalized misogyny

Allen initially called the 11-minute mission, led by Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company, ‘out of touch’

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3 d. ago How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips

There is a cynical, ‘anti-space’ ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguidedJohn F Kennedy once called space-faring “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked”. We go to space because, he said – like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest – “it is there.”While it is truer to say that the race for space between Washington and Moscow was driven as much by cold war competition as by humanity’s pioneering spirit and the imperatives of scientific exploration, billions of ordinary people around the world recognized as much at the time and still were able to marvel at our species’ accomplishments in the heavens regardless of the flag under which they were achieved, from Sputnik to the moon landing. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago David Harbour breaks silence on ‘hysterical’ Lily Allen marriage speculation

‘You know, it's not that things ending aren't hard, but it's just that I'm choosing to make it a period of growth,’ said the star

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6 d. ago David Harbour says he’s in a period of ‘tremendous change’ after ‘hysterical’ Lily Allen marriage speculation

‘You know, it's not that things ending aren't hard, but it's just that I'm choosing to make it a period of growth,’ said the star

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6 d. ago David Harbour says he ‘won’t engage’ with reports about end of marriage to Lily Allen

The Stranger Things star married the Smile singer after a year of dating in 2020

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6 d. ago David Harbour ‘won’t engage’ with reports about end of marriage to Lily Allen

Harbour, 50, married Allen, 39, in 2020 after a year of being romantically linked.

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6 d. ago David Harbour flashes a huge smile while showing off his thick head of hair amid transplant rumours as he returns to the UK for first time since Lily Allen split for Thunderbolts* premiere

The Stranger Things star, 50, hit the star-studded red carpet and showed off a thick head of hair amid rumours of a transplant as a result of a mid-life crisis.

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9 d. ago Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich | Stewart Lee

The pop star is back on Earth, the tech bros are wrecking everything, and my tour isn’t visiting that fine city of the east. Surely doomsday is nighA group of six women returned to Earth from space on Monday, including Katy Perry, the former wife of the Trump cheerleader Russell Brand; and the former Fox news presenter and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, fiancee of Donald Trump’s media lapdog Jeff Bezos, who bent Washington Post editorial policy to favour the New American Fascism ™ ®. It’s a shame they didn’t fly straight into the heart of the sun.The six compliant women were sent to space as a costly PR exercise for Bezos’s commercial space flight ambitions, although Perry said it was actually about “finding the love for yourself” and “feeling that divine feminine”. Tell that to all the women worldwide whom Bezos’s pal Trump’s policies are penalising. Singing idiot. Katy Perry said she kissed a girl and she liked it. As Trump rolls back on LGBTQ+ rights I’m surprised the Trump-adjac...

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1 week ago Katy Perry fans outraged over singer's 'tone deaf' new business move amid space trip backlash

Katy Perry has launched a limited edition doll, days after she was launched into space.

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1 week ago Katy Perry's 'regret' over space mission revealed after celeb backlash to 'disgusting' trip

The popstar, 40, faced online ridicule for her behaviour and comments during the space mission

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1 week ago Katy Perry in Blue Origin space flight 'regret over making public spectacle'

A source claimed Katy Perry regrets 'making a public spectacle' of her trip to space, following backlash over the Blue Origin mission's environmental impact.

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1 week ago A look at Lily Allen’s fashion evolution as the singer prepares to turn 40

Lily Allen burst onto the music scene in 2006 - but it wasn’t just her music that drew attention

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1 week ago Katy Perry breaks her silence after celeb backlash to her 'disgusting' space trip

The singer, 40, was called out for the ‘disgusting’ 11-minute flight she took through space on Monday

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1 week ago Gayle King hits back at backlash over Blue Origin space trip... and reacts to becoming a viral meme

King addressed her now-viral facial expression before takeoff, and responded to the immense criticism the women have received over the trip.

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2 w. ago What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sally Ride could never.Anyway, if you missed this, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee took an 11-minute trip to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin craft on Monday, alongside some all-female passengers – sorry, “crew” – who included CBS anchor Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry. So yes: the Woman’s World video is no longer the most plastic feminist thing Katy’s done.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sally Ride could never.Anyway, if you missed this, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee took an 11-minute trip to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin craft on Monday, alongside some all-female passengers – sorry, “crew” – who included CBS anchor Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry. So yes: the Woman’s World video is no longer the most plastic feminist thing Katy’s done.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago So Katy Perry went to space. Wasn’t there anyone else we could have sent? | Zoe Williams

No disrespect to the pop star or the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew, but most of them weren’t obvious astronaut materialI am broadly of the view that Katy Perry should do whatever she likes, and wear whatever she likes, and if she wants to be shot into space for no obvious purpose looking like one of Charlie’s Angels, then that falls squarely into those categories. So why am I so bothered by Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which has just made a suborbital flight to the edge of space and back? OK, it’s partly the outfits (see Angels, Charlie’s, above), but it’s mainly the flight manifest: Perry joined Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee; Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist; CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; film producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe. I cannot help but notice that only two of these women had anything to do with astronauting (Nguyen studied astrophysics and interned at Nasa before becoming an activist).Obviously it’s very staid...

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