The Real Housewives 'Dirty Mouths, Space Cakes & Boob Envy'
The Housewives Reflect // The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills // Season 5 Follow the Real Housewives YouTube Channel to watch all the latest and exclusive videos In the final part of this glamorous...
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Alfie Boe Makes Trumphant Return to Broadway
Alfie Boe first appeared on Broadway over ten years ago but he wasn't in a musical. As a young opera singer recently graduated from the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio, Alfie...
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London's Art Scene this Autumn: 10 Must-See Events and Exhibitions
I'm often asked what is the one thing that is absolutely necessary to see/do/experience in the visual art world, in a given season. These are my 10 not-to-be missed happenings in the art world in...
View ArticleBoy Meets Girl: The Versatile Actress Rebecca Root Stars in Groundbreaking...
The first thing I notice when I meet Rebecca Root is her smile. Warm, open and friendly, it lights up the room. We meet at Fringe Central 1, in Edinburgh, where she is at the end of her run playing...
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Review: People, Places and Things at National Theatre
What do we look for in great theatre? What is it we see and hear in a show that makes us want to recommend it? A story that grabs us? Acting that impresses? Is resonance important? What about risk?...
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Film Reviews: The Second Mother - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Buttercup...
'The Second Mother' is smart, subtle and witty with Regina Case's performance comic timing to perfection - 'Me And Earl And The Dying Girl', a coming-of-age indie is original, innovative, funny and...
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Six Open Mummy Letters to Some Famous People
These days it seems, a celebrity only has to miss her period and mum bloggers are jostling to be the first to a write an open letter to her foetus. While I am generally not a fan of them, open letters...
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My LA Guide
Los Angeles for Dummies For the past two weeks I have been hosting my family on their first visit to Los Angeles - the city that is fast becoming my new home. What had I learnt and loved in my time so...
View ArticleDon Letts: I Didn't Feel Accepted as Black and British Until Soul II Soul...
Don Letts, culture clash master, a pioneer who coined the culture clash term by introducing reggae to the punk movement from his shop on King's Road Chelsea in the 70s​ at a time where British music...
View ArticleBBC2 Special Forces Ultimate Hell Week: Inside Story
Gasping for air, my body is convulsing with cold, I strain my muscles to work - to warm me but more importantly to keep me out of the eye of the Navy Seals who are looking to single people out for...
View ArticleYou're No Longer 'Unlucky in Love' So We'll Call You Fat Instead
Shame on you Daily Mail. An extremely successful and talented woman is objectified and shamed for 'relaxing her diet on honeymoon' by a paper full of journalists that make numerous spelling and grammar...
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Her Majesty the Queen - As You've Never Seen Her Before...
Whatever your thoughts on the monarchy - staunch royalist or get-rid-of-them republican - the fact remains that the Queen is an iconic part of British culture. She's arguably one of our most famous...
View Article'Beasts of No Nation'
Should a Netflix film have a place in the competition section of a major festival like Venice? Some say yes and some say no. Those, like festival director Alberto Barbera, who put the controversial...
View ArticleThe X Factor 2015 Audition Show Three
Last weekend's opening X Factor weekend was amazing. The bar was raised, very, very high and it is now up to the rest of the acts to jump over it. In the opening two audition shows, Team Midas' Louisa...
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The Seven Inevitable Stages of Box-Set Addiction
STAGE 1: JUST A 'LITTLE TASTE' Life seems a little dull...there's no excitement and absolutely nothing to look forward to. You overhear a colleague at work raving about an 'amazing new tv series' that...
View ArticleBoy Meets Girl (Review)
At the cinema, romantic comedies may not be dead but they are definitely on the ropes. On the small screen, shows such as Mike & Molly show that audiences will turn up if they are done well. Sadly,...
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Nine Reasons Why 'Ex On The Beach' Should Be 'Axed On The Beach'
Watching 'Ex On The Beach' is a stomach churner even for those of us who aren't the faintest of heart, but this series has taken the biscuit of crude, grotesque and morally corrupt. Aimed at 18-24 year...
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I May Be Old But I Got to See All the Cool Bands
Ian Hunter, The Paramount; photo: Gaetana Klem There's a paid advert making the rounds on Facebook for a t-shirt, "I may be old but I got to see all the cool bands." At 57, I can relate. For every...
View Article'Straight Outta Compton' Review
The musical biopic has proved time and again to be an immensely tricky genre of film to tackle. Bound by historical accuracy and the requirement to hit more noted checkpoints (namely, big songs, albums...
View ArticleThe X Factor 2015 Audition Show Four
The search for the next singing sensation is hotting up and, so is my keyboard with all this fast typing...... Cue titles. So who will be off-key and who will smash it......It's time to face the music...
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