53 h. ago Melania Trump humiliated as fake Vanity Fair cover dubs her 'American Queen'

A fake Vanity Fair cover featuring Melania Trump as the cover star has been circulating online, with the First Lady being dubbed "The American Queen" - and it appears even Governor Newsom has been keen to get in on the joke

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64 h. ago At Work review – photographer ditches career for gig economy and writing in poverty drama

Venice film festivalThough the film is eventful enough, there is a bland placidity with which Bastien Bouillon plays a man following his dreams in this quaintly naive storyValérie Donzelli has given us a strange mixture of realism and quaint naivety in this film, based on an autobiographical novel by French photographer turned novelist Franck Courtès. There are some interesting insights into the gig economy but some very cliched and implausible representations of what happens when you become a literary author.With a kind of unvarying bland placidity, Bastien Bouillon plays someone who (like Courtès) abandoned a very successful career in photography in pursuit of his financially perilous dream of being a serious writer. We get a single shot early on of all his cameras on a shelf: he presumably does not sell any to alleviate his financial difficulties but we never see or hear about these valuable objects ever again. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago French film star is 'duped out of €7million' by 'fake Irish aristocrat' in alleged luxury yacht scam

One of France's top film stars is suing an allegedly fake Irish aristocrat who he claims scammed him out of millions. 

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5 d. ago The French film star, the fake Irish aristocrat and the missing €7m

Trial to open in Nice of Thierry Fialek-Birles, accused of an ‘elaborate fraud’ against the actor and director Dany BoonOne of France’s most popular actors will have a starring role in court when a fake Irish aristocrat goes on trial accused of cheating him out of millions of euros.Dany Boon, director and star of Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (Welcome to the Sticks), France’s biggest box office hit, says an alleged conman, who claimed to be an Oxford-educated maritime lawyer, stole nearly €7m from him as part of an elaborate scam. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Big Brother star issues fake weight loss job warning after she 'almost died' from counterfeit

Former Big Brother star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace issued a warning to those looking to buy Ozempic online after she 'almost died' from taking a counterfeit jab

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1 week ago Big Brother star thought she was going to die after using ‘fake’ weight loss jab

A former Big Brother star has revealed how she thought she was going to to die after suffering an adverse reaction to a suspected fake weight loss jab she bought online.

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3 w. ago Police emergency call centre boss lied Ronan Keating was his cousin before sending fake messages 'from' the star to a married female colleague

Wayne O'Sullivan, 46, (left), harassed his married colleague Samantha Davis (right) by sending unwanted gifts and fake messages purporting to be from pop singer Ronan Keating (inset).

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3 w. ago Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

Locarno film festivalBlue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflementSo here it is – the third but, incredibly, perhaps not the final episode in the most bizarre arthouse franchise in film history, and which, for its sheer melodramatic ker-aziness it commands attention. So, as it were, previously on Mektoub My Love The first film in the series from Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, who had won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour (for which he was famously required to share the award with his two acting leads Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux), arrived in 2017. This first MML (called Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno) turned out to be an epic erotic summer romance set in the early 90s about a guy called Amin (Shaïn Boumedine) who comes back from Paris to his hometown of Sète, having abandoned his medical studies to follow his dream of being a screenwriter, and finds ...

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3 w. ago Fiona Bruce forced to pull out of The One Show last minute as host shares health update

Fiona Bruce was meant to appear on Thursday's The One Show, alongside her Fake or Fortune co-star Philip Mould

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