1 hour ago ‘Messiness makes you different’: Lukas Gage on meds, trauma, memoir – and filming TV’s most sexually frank scene

The White Lotus and Euphoria star has written a ‘premature celebrity memoir’ that takes in abuse, family dysfunction, personality disorders, shame and heartbreak. He explains why now was the right time to write itThere’s a telling moment in Lukas Gage’s new book where he refers to it as a “premature celebrity memoir”. It’s a self-deprecating joke, of course, but it is also true. Gage is not megawatt famous – at least not yet. Chances are, though, if you have seen him then you won’t have forgotten him. In 2020, he went viral after leaking an audition video in which the director – forgetting that he wasn’t on mute – is caught judging his living arrangements (“These poor people live in these tiny apartments,” he says, before Gage intervenes to let him know he can hear every word). The following year, Gage appeared in the first season of The White Lotus: in one scene, his character Dillon is caught by a hotel guest standing stark naked in the manager’s office, while said manager perform...

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54 h. ago Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl review – lazy big screen cash

The megastar’s underwhelming new album gets a suitably sub-par cinematic accompaniment offering very little for even the most devoted of fansJust as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, fans of Taylor Swift will heed the call for new content. Long before the economy-lifting, paradigm-shifting global domination of her Eras Tour, Swift had cultivated a uniquely intense and personal relationship with her fans, even within the reverential world of pop music. That relationship, sustained through Easter eggs, years long parasocial narratives and arguably her own metaverse, can be real and special and nutritive, a steady raft through life’s storms – I’ve been there. But years into her imperial era, Swift’s cyclical feeding of the fan base has started to seem less like an act of mutual devotion and more nakedly exploitative, the many one-off re-releases and special vinyls and limited-edition Target drops like a billionaire’s tax on her most loyal.The latest of these is the Life o...

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61 h. ago Police may charge Tube passengers after they tackled naked man who dropped his trousers in front of children

Three of the five passengers who helped remove the naked man have been interviewed by British Transport Police (BTP) under caution.

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1 week ago Famous photographer stunned after her controversial photos of naked children are seized from museum by Texas police

Sally Mann's photos were ripped from the walls of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth as part of a police investigation into child pornography.

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1 week ago Man's 'naked and mutilated body' dumped in bin after 'murder in Chelmsford bar'

Cumali Turhan, 45, disappeared last November before his body was eventually discovered this January - Ciprian Ilie, 45, is accused of assisting the victim's alleged murderer

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1 week ago Man 'mutilated love rival's body and dumped his naked corpse in bin'

Cumali Turhan, 45, was fatally stabbed and had his body was mutilated before he was dumped into a commercial bin to be found months later in a landfill site, a court has heard

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1 week ago Rubbish dumped on Glasgow street after 'exploding vape' sparked bin lorry fire

In one incident, which took place on West Princes Street in the west end, a driver was forced to dump a load of rubbish in the middle of the road.

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2 w. ago Woman left 'shaking' after encountering naked man walking down street after night out

The woman said she 'did not know where to look'

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2 w. ago Police called as man walks down busy city road completely naked

Video shows a man driving past and asking the man what he is doing

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2 w. ago Watch naked man stride down busy road in pitch black as woman describes her 'terror'

A naked man was spotted walking down a busy road in the middle of the night as police were called to the scene and a woman said she was 'terrified' by the unexpected encounter

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3 w. ago Brave victim brought Eunuch Maker mutilation monster down after horror ordeal

The courageous man helped to bring infamous body mutilator Marius Theodor Snarum Gustavson to the police - sharing his harrowing story

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