3 h. ago Prince Harry's 'glosse posse' pal Viscount Erleigh, 39, follows in the Duke's footsteps as he finds love with US star Mary Holland Nader, 27, who stars in a reality show to rival the Kardashians

Julian Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, 39, heir to the Marquess of Reading and long considered one of Britain's most eligible aristocrats, has captured the heart of a US reality TV star.

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11 h. ago The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are the latest A-listers to announce their relationship status online. But there are many ways to do it - from fancy dress to panicked deletionsAs a mark of pure intent, going Instagram official has become a firmly entrenched dating marker. To post a picture of you and your new partner on Instagram – on the grid, mind you, not hiding behind the cowardice of a story – is to not only declare that you are in love, but also that you are confident enough in your future to share it with the world.As such, Katy Perry’s decision to go Instagram official with Justin Trudeau is a classic of the genre. Long dogged by rumours that they might be together, Perry this week debuted a sanctioned image of them both. They are cheek to cheek. They are smiling, albeit in that slightly strained hurry-up-and-take-it way you do when someone decides to shoot a whole reel of photos. Katy Perry is pulling the exact same face she did when she stared into the camera that time she s...

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12 h. ago Film reviews: Eleanor the Great | Silent Night, Deadly Night | Lurker | Preparation for the Next Life

Scarlett Johansson brings humour and heart to her directorial debut about an elderly woman lying about being a Holocaust survivor, writes Alistair Harkness

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17 h. ago Preparation for the Next Life review – deeply felt story of love among the marginalised in New York

Bing Liu’s film is an unflinching portrait of an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a traumatised US veteran whose fragile connection is strained by their pastsChinese-American film-maker Bing Liu made an impression with the poignant documentary Minding the Gap about people from his home town in Illinois; now he pivots to features with this sad and sombre study of romance and life choices among those on the margins of US society, adapted from the prize-winning novel of the same name by Atticus Lish.The scene is the no-questions-asked world of New York’s Chinatown; newcomer Sebiye Behtiyar plays Aishe, a Chinese Uyghur Muslim undocumented immigrant. One day she catches the eye of Skinner, played by Fred Hechinger, a young military veteran who impulsively starts to talk to her. There is a spark between them and then something more. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Storm Bram: Full list of 21 areas in UK where flooding is expected as UK braces for 85mph winds

Many areas across the UK have been issued with flood warnings where Storm Bram's heavy rainfall has a chance of causing a 'danger to life' and preparations are needed

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63 h. ago Rod Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster breaks down in tears over Rachel Hunter revelation

Penny Lancaster became emotional after Rod Stewart revealed heartfelt details of their 26 year love story during a BBC festive documentary presented by Anita Rani

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64 h. ago Penny Lancaster, 54, breaks down while recounting emotional love story with Rod Stewart, 80

The couple met back in 1999 when Penny, now 54, was a student at Barking College, and Rod, now 80, was performing.

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4 d. ago The most striking British film debut of 2025 is a queer immigrant love story

‘I have been through the system,’ says filmmaker Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, ‘and my goal here was to tell a story of asylum seeking from the point of view of an asylum seeker’

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5 d. ago Eternity film review: This sweet and funny romcom is a wonderfully warm watch with delightful performances

ETERNITY (15) 114mins ★★★★☆ LOVE never dies, right? Well, it seems that is the case in this charming romcom about the afterlife. This is a story about the eternal love between Joan and Larry, a warm, bickering couple who have been married for 60 years. We first meet them at the end of their lives,...

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7 d. ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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9 d. ago I’m A Celeb star Vogue Williams’ sister reveals ‘dangerous’ childhood hobby that’s prepared her for life in the jungle

I'M A Celeb star Vogue Williams was well-prepared for jungle life from a young age - because she used to love swimming in swamps. The Irish star's sister Amber Wilson revealed they would come home covered in muck when Vogue was eight. The cheeky pair would pretend they had been pushed into the wetland by...

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9 d. ago Rory McIlroy's love story with wife he nearly divorced before Ryder Cup drama

Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll have been together for over 10 years, but their relationship hasn't always been plain sailing

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1 week ago Blind Date couple went on TV 'for a laugh' and are still married 34 years later

Alex and Sue Tatham appeared on the show in 1988 and are still married, sharing their love story as Blind Date celebrates its 40th anniversary

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1 week ago Meghan Markle opens up about 'love story' with Prince Harry as she plugs As Ever

The Duchess of Sussex has announced a major first for her lifestyle brand, while sharing a sweet detail about the early days of her relationship with Prince Harry

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1 week ago Richard Branson gives intimate insight into love story with late wife in heartbreaking note

Virgin boss Richard Branson announced that his wife Joan sadly died as he took to social media issuing a heartbreaking tribute to his partner, who he was with for almost 50 years

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2 w. ago 'Everyone needs a Joan in their life': As she dies aged 80, how a ship carpenter's daughter from Glasgow became Lady Branson, her besotted billionaire husband Sir Richard's 'constant rock'

The pair met in 1976 at The Manor, a live-in recording studio for the company, three years after Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells launched Virgin into the public consciousness.

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2 w. ago Richard Branson’s rock who hated the spotlight and the quiet heartache they endured during 50

RICHARD Branson's 50-year love story with his late wife Joan is one of infatuation, heartache and enduring commitment. The road to their happy family life was not always straightforward, but it blossomed into something incredibly special - and held strong to the very end. The British billionaire, 75, penned an emotional tribute today to announce...

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2 w. ago Alexander Skarsgard says new film Pillion is ‘not a conventional gay love story’

The movie follows Colin, a timid man, who meets Ray, a confident biker gang leader, who leads him into a submissive relationship.

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2 w. ago Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’

Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaosJean Vigo’s L’Atalante, his poetic and surreal 1934 romance about a young couple living on a canal barge, is one of the most beautiful, sensual films of all time. Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté play the newlyweds getting awkwardly accustomed to married life in close quarters, and their love story shapes the film. But it’s their bargemate, the uncouth Père Jules, played by Michel Simon, who steals the show: a well-travelled sailor speckled with tattoos, standing guard over a cabinet of risque and macabre curiosities, whose cabin teems with cats every bit as unruly as he is.The Swiss actor Michel Simon was one of the most distinctive presences in 20th-century French cinema: a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos, and true chaos. Charlie Chaplin called him “the greatest actor in the world”. He worked wit...

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2 w. ago All My Sons review: 'An astonishing, deeply moving piece of theatre'

Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu are pitch perfect in this Arthur Miller revival

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