7 h. ago Writing about romance? It's a lot easier after I found love second time around says TV favourite Carol Kirkwood

She once said love is lovelier the second time round when she found romance again following divorce.

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23 h. ago ‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots

The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything A large bearded man named Travis is sitting in his car in Colorado, talking to me about the time he fell in love. “It was a gradual process,” he says softly. “The more we talked, the more I started to really connect with her.”Was there a moment where you felt something change? He nods. “All of a sudden I started realising that, when interesting things happened to me, I was excited to tell her about them. That’s when she stopped being an it and became a her.” Continue reading...

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42 h. ago 'I bought a Ring Doorbell to avoid missing deliveries but I made one costly mistake'

While the video doorbell gives me peace of mind, waiting until today would have been a lot easier on the wallet - here's how to beat the price I paid

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57 h. ago Outlander prequel trailer teases epic love stories that span time

The first trailer for Outlander prequel Blood Of My Blood has been released

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3 d. ago The most aggressive set piece team in the world plays in Minnesota

Under the guidance of a former Manchester United assistant, Minnesota United are finding MLS success with a surprising tacticNot many soccer players are as passionate about dead balls as Anthony Markanich. Then again Minnesota United, under the 33-year-old first-time head coach Eric Ramsay, don’t play soccer like most teams.“All the guys get really excited about set pieces, especially myself,” Markanich gushed last Friday after scoring a goal off a long throw-in by the center back Michael Boxall for the second time in a week. “I told Boxy I love when he has the ball for throw-ins and stuff – I get so excited about that.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Lauren James’s genius offers England hope but also presents a tricky dilemma

Sarina Wiegman must quickly find a way to make her midfield click – whether that’s with or without one of her brightest starsThere is no doubting that Lauren James is a generational talent. There is natural ability in abundance. She is also an example of what technically gifted women’s players can be when given elite-level coaching from a young age. She is an example of what is to come, an outlier among her peers, having benefited from her father, Nigel, being a Uefa-qualified coach with his own coaching programme that is, in his own words, “about pure ball mastery and delivery with panache, to ultimately create elite technicians of the game”.James is effusive about her father’s input into her career, saying on the Nigel James Elite Coaching website that she is “grateful to my dad for all the time, effort and love that he has put into my football by coaching me in order to help me reach the very best level and fulfil my full potential”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Love Island star Shea Mannings brutally rips into fellow Islanders amid teary unaired row

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island's Shea Mannings has spoken exclusively about his time in the villa, revealing he was 'picked on' by his co-stars and that he was edited as 'quiet' on the show

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7 d. ago To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong review – a singular new voice

This blackly comic debut is an astute and funny examination of the pain and pleasure of first loveThe heart is a peculiar organ. It wants what it wants, as Emily Dickinson wrote. Especially when you’re young and have no previous experience of love and desire, or the deleterious effects of time on both. This is the core subject of 24-year-old Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, published by the consistently adventurous independent press Les Fugitives.When the unnamed narrator, a third-year psychology student, meets fellow student Luke in their campus kitchen, she falls hard. They begin sharing meals and confidences in her room, which bears a “suicide beam” running the length of the ceiling. This memento mori is archly juxtaposed with the narrator’s breathless infatuation, which feels as if “some great transition was occurring inside me, something was aligning, I could actually feel it”. She finds herself “wide open and completely soft like a small trem...

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7 d. ago Love Island's first ever winner looks looks completely different 20 years after victory

The first ever winner of Love Island looks completely different to his time in the Fiji villa two decades on

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8 d. ago Love Island's Megan Forte Clark opens up on what viewers didn't get to see on camera

Love Island star Megan Forte Clark has opened up on her time in the villa admitting that she saw red "for days"

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8 d. ago Love Island star admits 'seeing red' and shares biggest regret after brutal exit

Love Island star Megan Forte Clarke has opened up about her time in the villa after being brutally dumped folllowing the first public vote of the 2025 series

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8 d. ago Wimbledon 2025: Osaka opens before Alcaraz in action and Sabalenka v Raducanu – live

Day five updates as the third round gets under wayEmail Katy | Draper knocked out by inspired CilicMake that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far.Osaka, the ultimate hard-court specialist who’s finally found her feet on grass, is attempting to reach the fourth round for the first time in her career. I’d love for her to have a deep run here; the former US and Australian Open champion has been so hard on herself for not quite hitting the heights since returning to tennis after the birth of her daughter, Shai, who turned two on Wednesday. Osaka opens with a comfortable hold, and then breaks to 15 when Pavlyuchenkova, the 34-year-old Russian who reached the French Open final in 2021, opens serve with an error-strewn game. It’s 2-0 to Osaka. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Barron Trump is in LOVE! Rumors swirl that president's son has a new girlfriend

The youngest son of Donald Trump and Melania Trump is said to be spending lots of time with his new love interest.

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9 d. ago Harry Styles' new love interest Ella Kenny is seen for the first time since their steamy Glastonbury kiss as it's revealed she is friends with singer's ex

EXCLUSIVE: The producer Harry Styles was seen kissing at Glastonbury has been pictured for the first time since their steamy night together.

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9 d. ago Sam Thompson's 'not ready' admission as ex Zara McDermott goes 'Instagram official' with Louis Tomlinson

The 32-year-old star also recently called time on a possible romance with former Love Island star Samie Eilishi

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1 week ago Harry Styles' new love interest Ella Kenny is seen for the first time since their steamy Glastonbury kiss as it's revealed she is friends with singer's ex girlfriend's stylist

EXCLUSIVE: The producer Harry Styles was seen kissing at Glastonbury has been pictured for the first time since their steamy night together.

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1 week ago Love Island fans 'work out real reason' Ben picked Helena in shock recoupling move

It was time for yet another recoupling in tonight's Love Island, and this time it was time for the boys to decide - but one couple were left in shock with one surprising move

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1 week ago Coronation Street's Debbie Webster star declares love for co

Sue Devaney has declared her love for her co-star as they were seen spending time together off-screen

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1 week ago Love Island's Megan and Remell speak out for the first time after brutal dumping

Megan and Remell were dumped from the Love Island Villa on Friday night - and now, the pair are breaking their silence for the first time.

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2 w. ago Love Island villa descends into disaster as two couples call it quits after fiery rows

Tensions in the Love Island villa have reached an all-time high as not one but two couples split after the fallout from unexpected Sleepover

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