45 h. ago The 'halo effect' that makes young women fall in love with the most dangerous criminals

Research by US journal Deviant Behaviour found a link between hybristophilia - individuals who lust after people that commit criminal acts - and the behaviour of young women who use TikTok

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56 h. ago ‘We wanted nerds to fall in love’: Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan on their new romcom Film Club

The ‘Sex Education and ‘White Lotus’ star has co-written a BBC series that’s warm, funny and full of love. Lydia Spencer-Elliott hears from the cast and creatives about how it was brought to the screen

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3 d. ago Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

The musician and actor gives Bowie some welly at karaoke and is a lapsed G’n’R superfan. But which UK stadium indie-popsters created the first album he ever bought?The first song I fell in love withI was in my living room one fall afternoon, sick from school, aged six, and my mom was like: ‘You’ve never heard the Beatles before?’ She put on Help! the movie, then for the rest of the day, I played Help! over and over again on her iPod.The song I do at karaoke Anything David Bowie is really fun, like Fame or Queen Bitch. No one is ever going to sound like Bowie, but I just love the energy and mood. Recently I did Save Me by Aimee Mann, which I think made everyone really bored, but I had the greatest time. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The most dangerous asylum hotel in the country which has housed violent migrants who attacked victims with a machete, snooker cue and broken bottle... all at the taxpayers' expense

Three migrants among many staying at a public-funded hotel in seaside resort Bournemouth have faced sentencing for separate violent crimes over just 10 days.

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8 d. ago Aimee Lou Wood wants to see 'nerds fall in love' in her new BBC show

The six-part BBC series follows an agoraphobic film enthusiast Evie, played by Wood, who transforms her mother's garage into a weekly cinema for herself and her best friend Noa, portrayed by Nabhaan Rizwan.

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8 d. ago Fans praise Michelle Keegan's 'gorgeous' £55 burgundy dress as a must

Michelle Keegan recently launched her 50-piece Autumn/Winter 2025 collection with Very, and her fans have been quick to fall in love with one of the star pieces

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2 w. ago Fall in love with Jellycat this gifting season, and get snuggly with classic favourites and exciting newcomers

You’ll find it hard to resist these super adorable collectables

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2 w. ago ‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life

The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of sleeping rough. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive showIn the late 1980s, fresh from being kicked out of school, Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson dreamed of becoming an actor. He was looking for a way to escape the narrow-minded confines of his home town, Grantham – and treading the boards seemed like the best possible way.“Essentially I just wanted to be famous,” he says now, “but then I started to fall in love with the process of it all.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The moment I knew: 10 days after we met, I wrote him a marriage proposal

When Daniel Clarke locked eyes with Nick Pelomis, there was an immediate spark. As their time together started to run out, he put pen to paper to express how he was feelingFind more stories from The moment I knew seriesIn 2006 I was working as a theatre producer in the UK, and I was presenting a show at Adelaide Fringe festival called The Bogus Woman starring British actor Sarah Niles. I was standing outside the theatre in Adelaide when I first spotted Nick. He was with a mutual friend, Eliza, who introduced us.We made eye contact and I was immediately drawn to him. I thought Nick was extremely handsome; I remember his beautiful hands and his gorgeous thick hair. It turned out we shared a lot of mutual friends, as Nick was an actor. Eliza later told me she had a premonition that me and Nick were going to fall in love and get married – this was before gay marriage was even legalised in the UK. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Titanic fans in awe after seeing how 'intense' famous scene was really filmed

The 1997 film, directed by James Cameron, told the tale of two teenagers from different social classes who fall in love while aboard the doomed ship, blending an epic romance with a tense, dramatic disaster movie

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2 w. ago Fat jab Brits fall back in love with their reflections in 'Mounjaro mirror effect'

Experts have said the so-called 'Mounjaro mirror effect' is seeing more and more Brits falling back in love with their reflections after losing weight through fat jabs

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3 w. ago ‘It makes you feel like a teenager again!’ Why The Summer I Turned Pretty is 2025’s surprise TV hit

This nostalgic tale of first love is an agonising masterclass in modern romance. No wonder it’s become such a sensation – and that a movie is on the wayIt’s often said that the romcom is dead. Kiss goodbye to the crisp charm of Nora Ephron’s freshly sharpened pencil bouquets in the fall, embrace the era of musings on love as nothing more than a maths equation. Then along comes gripping teen romance The Summer I Turned Pretty and it gets us at the first Taylor Swift track.Across its 26-episode run, the adaptation of Jenny Han’s trilogy of novels has won the hearts of millennials who have been desperately yearning for a nostalgic watch to fill the void of 00s romcoms. Reminiscent of rose-tinted love stories of their youth, before dating apps, catfishing and ghosting entered their vocabulary, the show’s potency has been such that Prime Video even issued a warning asking viewers not to use hate speech towards the cast. It isn’t real, no matter how visceral it feels, and the streamer did...

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3 w. ago 'I felt quite down about myself, then the Cardiff City fans blew me away'

Brian Barry-Murphy told fans they would "fall in love" with the player who he believes could be "elite"

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