4 h. ago Freddie Mercury love child breaks silence in bombshell book on Queen icon's life

A new book on the rock legend's life has revealed for the first time he had a secret love child, who has now come forward to tell her story

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38 h. ago Paul Mescal’s gay love story The History of Sound is severely anticlimactic

Despite the buzz surrounding the Irish actor’s romantic team-up with Josh O’Connor, this is a slight, sentimental misfire from ‘Living’ director Oliver Hermanus

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47 h. ago The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full

Cannes film festival A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadnessOliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound has admirers in Cannes; but I couldn’t help finding it an anaemic, laborious, achingly tasteful film, originally a short story by Ben Shattuck which has become a quasi-Brokeback Mountain film whose tone is one of persistent mournful awe at its own sadness.Hermanus has made great movies in the past including Beauty and Living but this is a film that is almost petrified by its own upmarket values, paralysed under the varnish of classiness. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Meghan Markle gives wedding anniversary thanks to those who supported ‘our love story’

Meghan posted an image on Instagram of a notice board featuring a collection of snapshots of the couple from their private photo album, with the message: "Seven years of marriage. A lifetime of stories.

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4 d. ago Meghan Markle's subtle Royal dig as she thanks 'all who supported our love story'

Meghan Markle has taken to Instagram to mark her and Prince Harry's seventh wedding anniversary, but some considered her caption to be a subtle swipe at the royal family

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4 d. ago Meghan gives wedding anniversary thanks to those who supported ‘our love story’

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are celebrating their seventh anniversary after marrying in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in 2018.

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4 d. ago Meghan Markle shares unseen pics from her and Harry's 'love story' as she marks 7th wedding anniversary

Meghan Markle has shared a series of never-before-seen family photos as she and Prince Harry celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary, as she thanked those “who have loved and supported us throughout our love story”

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5 d. ago Pillion review – 50 shades of BDSM Wallace and Gromit in brilliant Bromley biker romance

Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling play unlikely lovers in this sweet and extremely revealing first time drama from Harry Lighton, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ Box HillHere to prove there’s nothing gentle about true love is an intensely English story of romance, devotion and loss from first-time feature director Harry Lighton, who has created something funny and touching and alarming – like a cross between Alan Bennett and Tom of Finland with perhaps a tiny smidgen of what could be called a BDSM Wallace and Gromit. It’s basically what Fifty Shades of Grey should have been. Pillion is adapted from the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones: a shy traffic enforcement officer falls for the ultimate dominant alpha male – an impossibly handsome, strong, emotionally impassive biker who casually demands complete domestic obedience in exchange for the privilege of being reamed with athletic vigour and thrilling lack of sensitivity, often in a specially modified wrestling outfit. Harry M...

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6 d. ago Blind date: ‘I was hoping to meet the love of my life – or to get a good story out of it’

William, 24, a business development manager, meets Lucy, 25, a doctorWhat were you hoping for? An evening with someone fun, full of character and full of conversations. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rob Rinder addresses 'love story' with Rylan Clark after 'cancelled or Bafta' prediction

It comes after emotional scenes for the pair at the weekend as they were revealed to have won a Bafta Television Award at the 2025 ceremony

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1 week ago Want to swim but find it too much of a hassle? Me too – but here’s how I cracked it

What is the equivalent of a Couch to 5k or parkrun for swimmers? Do I need loads of expensive gear? And should I join a club? Here’s how I learned to love the pool Mine is a familiar story: I used to hate even the idea of running. But, in 2020, when gyms closed their doors, I downloaded the Couch to 5k app, and ran approximately three times a week for the next four years, culminating in a half marathon in 2024 – and, predictably, an injury.Physios treating my persistent hip pain didn’t tell me to stop running – but they did suggest I might want to explore other, lower impact options, such as swimming. But where to start? What’s the aquatic version of Couch to 5k or parkrun? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Long lost letters tell adorable World War II love story of US airman and his British sweetheart

A mum from the US discovered her parents long lost love letters as she posed for a selfie outside the former family home during a trip down memory lane

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2 w. ago Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant

The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there’s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: we might simply become obsolete. This wouldn’t require any hidden plots – if AI and robotics keep improving, it’s what happens by default.How so? Well, AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers and decision-makers, but culturally as artists and creators, and even socially as friends and romantic companions. What place will humans have when AI can do everything we do, only better? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pretty Woman fakery! The ugliest bits from this classic 90s rom

Even the prettiest films have an ugly side and it turns out this love story is no different, featuring fakery which clearly went unnoticed by the whopping 42 million people who bought tickets to see it.

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2 w. ago Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love storyIn early 2020, I made up my mind that I wanted to write a love story. Separated from my family and friends during the height of the pandemic and emotionally raw from living alone, I wanted to write something where I already knew the ending from the beginning: the characters would win. How they got there would be the most difficult part. I was inspired by the oeuvres of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, and I wanted my fourth book to be vast in scope, rich in history and intertwined with familial lineages. But the work would demand plot development as well as historical research and I needed someone to help me.I began interviewing assistants and came across a fellow Black female Harlemite from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Immediately, we clicked over a video chat and soon after, she emailed me a document she said I just had to see. The attachm...

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3 w. ago Tom Hanks posts topless selfie with wife Rita Wilson to mark 37th wedding anniversary

Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have marked their 37th wedding anniversary with heartfelt Instagram tributes, offering fans a glimpse into their enduring love story

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3 w. ago Netflix's Forever release date, cast and all you need to know about iconic story

The new series is inspired by Judy Blume's ground-breaking novel of the same name and follows an epic love story.

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3 w. ago Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade review – reverential reminiscence takes its time

There’s potentially too many run-of-the-mill I-met-Lennon anecdotes from talking heads and fans, but enough wheat among the chaff to keep things interestingWe have recently seen a slew of intriguing movies about John Lennon’s post-Beatles existence: The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, about Lennon’s brief relationship with his assistant May Pang, and Kevin Macdonald’s excellent archive-clip-collage study One to One: John & Yoko. Now here is a lengthy and self-consciously reverential film, which is sadly the weakest of the group. It doesn’t quite get to grips with the implications of its own title (was Lennon on “borrowed time”, exactly, in the 1970s?) and there’s an awful lot of hot air from an awful lot of talking heads in its lengthy running time, some of whom are regaling us with less-than-premium-quality anecdotes – often just beamingly recalling the pinch-me moment they actually met John Lennon and, wow, he said hi and they couldn’t believe it.The film covers the whole period f...

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3 w. ago Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley review – a delightfully grounded romance

This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an officeThere are not many romantic novels that include Brexit, Boris Johnson’s ICU stay and the “Edstone”. Then again, not many political novels begin with a classic meet-cute. Jessica Stanley’s UK debut, Consider Yourself Kissed, is – to misquote Dorothy L Sayers – either a political story with romantic interludes, or a romance novel with political interludes. It is also the kind of book that, for a certain kind of reader, will immediately become a treasure.That meet-cute, then: Coralie, a young Australian copywriter, and Adam, a single dad, swap homes for a single night. Adam looks like a shorter, younger Colin Firth; Coralie waits in vain for him to tell her that she looks “like Lizzy Bennet, a known fact at school”. Coralie considers Adam’s neat bookcase of political biographies, including – to her joy – those of Australian politicians. Adam cons...

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3 w. ago JoJo Siwa 'likes' series of flirty posts about 'kissing' Chris Hughes and their 'love story'

After the duo sent tongues wagging with their house antics, JoJo then sent the rumour mill into overdrive when she dumped her partner Kath, 27, at the CBB wrap party.

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