5 h. ago ‘How did this ever get made?’ Gen Z is falling in love (and hate) with Glee

A decade after the finale, new fans are flocking to Glee, causing its songs to shoot up the charts. The internet’s ablaze with TikTok dance homages, Reddit threads – and tonnes of hate watchersThe year is 2009, and Glee has hit like a cultural earthquake. Every week, millions of people around the world tune in to watch a group of American high school misfits belt out musical theatre and pop hits, turning show choir into mainstream entertainment. The cast’s cover of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ becomes an anthem, spending 37 weeks in the UK charts, catapulting its young stars to overnight fame. Glee clubs start in schools across the US and beyond, and Ryan Murphy’s show develops a devoted fanbase – myself included – who proudly call ourselves Gleeks. Online, we dissect every episode on Tumblr, trade theories and wear our fandom, plus the merch we bought to prove it, as a badge of honour.But by the time Glee came to a close in 2015, all its magic had faded. The Guardian reported tha...

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27 h. ago Netflix horror film is 'so scary people can't watch it alone'

The movie has been on the streaming platform for a while now, but it has recently been rediscovered by viewers who are left 'frightened'

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50 h. ago Luxury car drivers 'speeding and performing dangerous stunts' for likes on social media

Dozens of people are gathering to watch car meets which police say are causing problems

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4 d. ago Sexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America. Was #MeToo an epic failure?

The push to end sexual violence has sparked a revenge campaign setting fire to women’s rights and pushing young men to the right. But organizers can learn from the movement’s lossesDressed in his trademark sunglasses and a skintight black T-shirt, Andrew Tate strode into a Las Vegas arena like a returning king. He was there to watch Power Slap, a UFC offshoot where people slap each other in the face with such force that doctors say it could lead to brain damage and death.Days earlier, Tate and his brother Tristan had been in Romania, their assets seized, awaiting trial on human trafficking charges. But following reported conversations between Romanian officials and the Trump administration, the Romanian government lifted a travel ban on the brothers. Now, as a heavily male crowd watched men slap one another so hard they collapsed, the UFC president, Dana White, warmly embraced the Tates. White, a Meta board member who was once caught on camera slapping his own wife, smiled at the Ta...

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5 d. ago Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Partial solar eclipse will be visible to differing degrees depending on where you watch it in the northern hemisphereHow visible today’s partial eclipse will be depends, unsurprisingly, on how clear the sky is where you are.What is surprising, however, is that some of the best visibility across the northern hemisphere will be above Guardian HQ in oft-rainy London, where there is barely a cloud in the sky. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon to block part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Timing differs by location, but in London it will begin at 10.07am, with the moon reach its maximum coverage of the sun at 11.03am before ending at noonThe partial solar eclipse will be visible in parts of the UK between 10am and noon on Saturday – with viewing chances best in the east where skies should be clearest – and in several other parts of the world, including western Europe, Greenland, north-west Africa and north-east North America.“It won’t be total anywhere but there are parts of Canada where it will be about 90%,” said the Royal Observatory’s Jake Foster. “So it’ll be very impressive over there.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday cast video revealed a bleak truth about the future of cinema

On Wednesday, more than 10 million people tuned in to watch footage of motionless chairs for five hours straight. It seems that rumours of the MCU’s near-death have been greatly overestimated, writes Louis Chilton

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8 d. ago Why is The White Lotus generating so much chatter about teeth? | Arwa Mahdawi

Aimee Lou Wood’s natural smile stands out amid Hollwood’s dazzling veneers. But let’s not get carried away Straight, expensive, blindingly white. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump’s vision for America; I’m talking about teeth. Namely the sort of teeth you see on American TV shows – and, since many US politicians seem to love cosmetic surgery – the evening news. Everyone from Z-list influencers to Taylor Swift to Trump himself seems to have perfect teeth.Americans have always been invested in their smiles, but an increasing number of British people are also shelling out for veneers. You need sunglasses to watch the telly these days, everyone’s smile is so bright. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Mariona Caldentey: ‘One day we’ll realise what we achieved, all we did for change to come’

Arsenal’s Spanish forward on fighting to win support for women’s football, leaving a successful Barcelona team and the stress of winning the World CupWhen Mariona Caldentey was a student, reading sports science at university, she could see the Camp Nou scoreboard from her bedroom window on the top floor of 63 Travessera de les Corts. On the nights when she and her flatmates didn’t stroll across to the stadium, they would hear goals before they saw them on TV. They played too, becoming league champions, but never imagined themselves over there. “Our reality was Astroturf pitches with no stands,” she recalls.Yet in April 2022, eight years on, 91,648 people came to watch them, breaking Barcelona’s own world record set a fortnight before. “It all happened so quick; one day we’ll realise what we achieved, all we did for change to come,” she says. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Apple TV+ viewers left in tears by psychological thriller over 'best episode of TV this year'

Apple TV+ show Severance reduced its viewers to tears as they call the season two finale of the psychological thriller the 'best TV episode of the year' and urged people to watch

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2 w. ago The sickening views of wannabe school shooter Nicholas Prosper that were so twisted he was banned from website where people watch others die

Nicholas Prosper trawled the internet for sickening images of mass murder, asked if gunshot wounds to the neck were 'lethal' and if 'sex with a corpse feels good' hours before he slaughtered his family.

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2 w. ago Judge orders triple killer Nicholas Prosper to be dragged to court as wannabe school shooter refuses to leave his cell for sentencing

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb has demanded the teenage loner is hauled back into Courtroom 5 to face justice - as she prepare to sentence him.

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2 w. ago Moment smirking killer bought shotgun from man in car park just hours before he murdered his mother, brother, 16, and sister, 13, in cold blood at the family home

Wannabe school shooter Nicholas Prosper, 19, gunned down Juliana Falcon, 48, his brother Kyle, 16, and sister Giselle, 13, in Luton last September.

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2 w. ago Chilling moment wannabe school shooter Nicholas Prosper menacingly brandishes piece of wood as a gun before murdering three members of his family

Nicholas Prosper, from Luton, Bedfordshire, slaughtered his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, and his siblings Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, in September of last year.

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2 w. ago Teen who shot family plotted to kill 30 school children to become most notorious mass killer

Shooter Nicholas Prosper, then 18, spent a year plotting a school attack which was disrupted by ‘chance and circumstance alone’, Luton Crown Court heard

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2 w. ago St Patrick's Day revellers in Dublin don leprechaun and shamrock outfits as they commemorate Ireland's patron saint in style

Ireland's capital will become a sea of green and orange today as thousands of people fill the city streets to watch the national St Patrick's Day parade.

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2 w. ago Hollywood actress Justine Bateman tears into Harry and Meghan saying public are sick of their 'Victims Olympics'

The actress sister of Hollywood star Jason Bateman has said that the Duchess of Sussex's Netflix show hasn't flown because people do not want to 'watch someone playact'.

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