57 m. ago The Basketball Diaries at 30: How Leonardo DiCaprio started – and abandoned – his ‘bad boy’ era

The ascendent star gave his image a shake-up with roles in two mid-90s movies. Louis Chilton looks back at DiCaprio’s decision to break bad – and the reason it didn’t work

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2 h. ago In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami

For most of that year, I didn’t tell anyone. I didn’t want to burden them with my troubles. And, to be honest, I felt ashamedFrom finance to academia, on radio and TV and even in a Kings Cross sex shop, I’ve had a diverse range of jobs, most largely freelance, casual or contract.I loved doing new things, learning new skills and meeting new people. I was so busy for so long, with so many contracts overlapping each other, that I often didn’t have much time for anything else. By August 2023, I was burnt out.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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2 h. ago The Last of Us’s huge twist has exposed the series’ fatal flaw

The second episode of the new season featured what should have been a seismic twist, writes Louis Chilton. But the cracks in HBO’s post-apocalyptic adaptation might be starting to show

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5 h. ago Mystery as dozens of ordinary homes and businesses across Britain are covered in red paint

Take a walk down Chingford Road and you'll find an unremarkable street of terraced family homes and shared flats. Unremarkable, that is, except for one feature.

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8 h. ago Princess Eugenie shares sweet snap of son to celebrate Easter Sunday

Princess Eugenie, a member of the British royal family, has shared a sweet photograph featuring her youngest son to mark Easter Sunday.

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10 h. ago This Nintendo Switch 2 feature borrowed from PC might be one of its best

I tried out the mouse controls on the Nintendo Switch 2 and they completely surprised me.

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13 h. ago Manchester United star Marcus Rashford fires warning ahead of Man City return

Marcus Rashford continues to feature for Aston Villa following his loan move from Man United.

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13 h. ago Mum of Brit, 35, mysteriously found dead in Spain demands answers over murder fears

Sandra Adams, 56, has journeyed to Mojacar on the Costa Almeria in Spain where her son Brett Dryden was found dead last July after appearing to sustain a serious head injury

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17 h. ago A ‘Black Snape’ in the new Harry Potter seems designed to cause controversy – but it could work | Jason Okundaye

Ignore the fuss: Paapa Essiedu is a brilliant actor who can bring his own depth and style to enrich the iconic characterAfter months of speculation, HBO has announced part of the cast of the latest round of Harry Potter IP-mining: the new TV adaptation of the original books will feature John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid – and Paapa Essiedu as Snape. As the Mail and Telegraph’s headlines were quick to inform their readers, yes, this means a “Black actor” in that iconic role.There is a real concern that Essiedu is drinking from a poisoned chalice – that he will be associated with an author who is at the forefront of a gender-critical movement that has succeeded in redefining the rights of trans people to their detriment; that he will have to weather the racist storm of Potterheads enraged at the diversion from “book accuracy” (Snape is described as having “sallow skin”); and deal with opportunists looking to illustrate their next rant about how the world has succumbed t...

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17 h. ago EA FC 25 Serie A TOTS predictions – Inter stars headline TOTS squad

Stars from Inter, Milan, Juventus and Atalanta could all feature in the EA FC 25 Serie A TOTS squad

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18 h. ago Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

The dizzy highs and painful lows of the late writer’s life are laid bare in Sinéad O’Shea’s moving documentaryHer raw, sexually and emotionally frank prose made her a sensation and got the Irish Catholic church hot under the cassock. She was an eloquent wit, a provocateur who could hold her own in literary circles and in the glittering party circuit of 1960s London. It’s now widely acknowledged that she was one of the greats of Irish literature. But the slightly bitter aftertaste left by this otherwise richly enjoyable documentary portrait of the writer Edna O’Brien comes from the decades of bullying and ridicule she had to endure before her talent was fully recognised.Much of it originated uncomfortably close to home: Blue Road, which features interviews with the 93-year-old O’Brien shortly before her death last year, tells of her tumultuous marriage to fellow writer Ernest Gébler, who was not a man able to graciously accept the fact that his wife’s success had eclipsed his own. Je...

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20 h. ago Ordinary family home on sale for £599k mocked for its 'very tacky' feature in back garden

A homeowner has been mocked online after listing their four-bedroom detached Tamworth property on rightmove due to an 'unusual' feature.

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21 h. ago Princess Diaries fans just noticing 'secret blooper' Anne Hathaway made in film

Anne Hathaway starred as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries, 2001 but there is one scene that includes an unplanned moment which ended up featuring in the movie

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22 h. ago James Arthur: ‘I’ve never had to kiss arse – I got here on merit’

The X Factor winner believes his career may have been derailed by a string of controversies back when he was young and reckless, he tells Hannah Ewens. He hopes his new pop-rock album, Pisces, will win him the attention he feels he deserves

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22 h. ago Chelsea star Mykhailo Mudryk breaks his silence with a cryptic post after failed drugs test last year

The 24-year-old - who joined in a £88m deal last in January 2023 - has not featured since a Europa Conference League match on November 28.

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23 h. ago Why do Americans keep doing rubbish impressions of Mancunians on Saturday Night Live?

A Saturday Night Live sketch featuring a cruel impression of Aimee Lou Wood really was ‘mean and unfunny’. But the Manc accent was lame too. And it wasn’t the first time they’d tried it.

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26 h. ago WrestleMania 41 LIVE: WWE results, latest updates and reaction as Paul Heyman betrayal helps Seth Rollins win

Night one of The Show of Shows will featured some of WWE’s biggest Superstars

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27 h. ago WrestleMania 41 LIVE: WWE stream, latest updates and results tonight after Tiffany Stratton retains

Night one of The Show of Shows will feature some of WWE’s biggest Superstars

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28 h. ago WrestleMania 41 LIVE: WWE stream, latest updates and results tonight after Jacob Fatu crowned new champion

Night one of The Show of Shows will feature some of WWE’s biggest Superstars

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29 h. ago WrestleMania 41 LIVE: WWE stream, latest updates and results tonight after Cardi B announcement

Night one of The Show of Shows will feature some of WWE’s biggest Superstars

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