78 m. ago The Great British Bake Off review – What an emotional rollercoaster

‘GBBO’ is back again, and there’s nothing stale about the return of this wonderful show

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2 h. ago Olivia Attwood sets record straight on first same sex couple joining Bad Boyfriends cast

ITV's Olivia Atwood's Bad Boyfriends will return this month with a series two line-up featuring one gay couple and the host said it was a "no brainer" to include them

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2 h. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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2 h. ago Olivia Attwood makes awkward confession about 'not perfect' Bradley Dack marriage

The presenter has opened up about her marriage to footballer Bradley Dack after celebrating their second anniversary back in June

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3 h. ago Four things to watch as Congress takes over Epstein files probe after Trump inaction on sex trafficker’s ‘list’

The House will have a forced vote, Chuck Schumer dusts off a little-known rule and Trump’s response will all characterize the next phase of the Epstein investigation, Eric Garcia writes

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3 h. ago Trump faces new Epstein headache as Congress returns from recess

Lawmakers plan pressure campaign for release of Epstein files as victims meet with speaker and oversight committeeUS politics live – latest updatesCongress returns to session on Tuesday, and with it will come a political headache for Donald Trump in the form of renewed attention on the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeff Epstein and his death, a subject that the president has sought to avoid in recent weeks.While the president got a month-long break from the Epstein issue when lawmakers left town for the annual August recess – with the House of Representatives wrapping up a day early because of the controversy over Epstein – the calm is likely to end quickly. On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from both parties have planned press conferences and legislative maneuvers intended to put pressure on the Trump administration for more transparency over Epstein, whose suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019 has been the subject of conspiracy theories t...

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4 h. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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4 h. ago A House of Dynamite, Venice review – The most entertaining movie about mass destruction since Dr Strangelove

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris and Tracy Letts are among the many recognisable names adding gravitas to this punchy Netflix thriller

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5 h. ago Trisha Paytas claims breast implants are ‘killing’ her in candid confession

Trisha is warning young women about the hidden costs of cosmetic surgery

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5 h. ago Bake Off's Paul Hollywood says 'I tend to shy away' as he confesses to personal 'struggle'

The baking extravaganza returns to our screens tonight, but one of its famous faces, Paul Hollywood, has given a rare glimpse into his personal difficulties once the cameras stop rolling

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5 h. ago 'We're arguing and want to live apart but stay together as a couple'

Coleen Nolan has advice for a couple feeling under pressure with two young children and busy jobs, but are considering living apart and remaining in a relationship

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6 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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6 h. ago Man jailed for murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher to have conviction reviewed

Benjamin Field was jailed in October 2019 after being convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar

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6 h. ago Chrissy Teigen slammed for forgetting her own children's birthdays on Meghan Markle's Netflix show

Chrissy Teigen is getting flamed by fans after she made a candid confession while appearing on the second season of Meghan Markle's Netflix show, With Love, Meghan.

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7 h. ago Nespresso Vertuo Next review: I've tested the Veruto Plus, Pop and Evoluo, here's why this one is my favourite from the brand's pod machine line up

The Nespresso Vertuo Next is a competent pod coffee machine from the brand's Vertuo line. It's compatible with the larger Vertuo pods and is able to make coffee in seven different sizes.

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7 h. ago Kelly Brook shouted at by Loose Women audience member after making cheating confession

Kelly Brook was shouted at by a Loose Women audience member after made a confession about how she used to cheat in previous relationships before she met her husband

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8 h. ago Ben Shephard makes dig at his sex life with wife as This Morning co

Ben Shephard left This Morning co-stars red-faced after joking about his sex life with wife Annie, sparking a mixed reaction from ITV viewers who were shocked by it at home

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8 h. ago GP suspended after rubbing woman’s breasts and nipple with stethoscope during thyroid exam

Dr Manish Tripathi cannot practice medicine for 10 months, pending a review

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8 h. ago Bonking Brits urged to sex their way slimmer and add nookie to daily cardio routines

Personal trainer Fiona Kavanagh, 39, says: 'Anyone I’ve ever worked with will tell you that I firmly believe that cardio comes in many forms - and yes, I am absolutely talking about sex'

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8 h. ago Vote in our Independent Money poll: When are you due to renew your mortgage deal?

Each week, we invite readers to share their views on the financial stories making headlines – and impacting your bank balance

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