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The Sun
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Love Island fans disgusted by hunk's ‘gross habit' – but did you spot it?
LOVE Island fans were left disgusted by Ben Holbrough's 'gross habit' during last night's episode. ITV2 viewers struggled to conceal their horror when taxi driver Ben, 23, began to bite his fingernails while chatting with the boys outside. Taking to X, formerly Twitter, to share their dismay, one asked: "Is Ben full on munching his fingernails on tv," alongside crying emojis. Another bluntly said: "Ben is gross." Also in the installment, Shakira and Toni's savage comments behind Ben's back were exposed before an explosive row kicked off. Tensions rose as the girls' critical remarks come to light, triggering a heated argument. Shakira said, 'His presence pi**es me off,' as Toni warned her, 'The ick! He likes to throw this word around, maybe you should. Don't make any rash decisions.' During a Firepit game, Look Who's Talking, Islanders read out quotes and try to guess who said them. Shakira's comment about Ben, 'I don't know if the conversation is stimulating for my brain, I'm quite a smart girl," was confirmed by the group. When confronted, Shakira wanted to discuss it with Ben, who replied, 'Well, it's an open discussion,' but disagreed with her explanation. Ben's quote about Shakira also came up. He had said: 'I don't know where she's at, I don't know if she's a respectful girl, I feel like she's a very flirty girl that didn't know her boundaries.' Love Island USA fans claim couple 'had sex in communal room' in NSFW scene The prompted Shakira to tell him to 'pipe down'. Meanwhile, Toni admitted to saying about Dejon, 'I think it goes back to the fact that we see a different side of you when she's not breathing down your neck,' and stands by the comment. She said: 'It's true, we do, she knows it.' Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX. 3 3
Times
7 hours ago
- Politics
- Times
David Hare: ‘I have been heartily kicked by the BBC'
I am sitting in a tiny podlike meeting room at BBC Broadcasting House with David Hare. Not that being perched on a sofa in the equivalent of a broom cupboard stops Britain's most famously opinionated playwright from expounding his views on everything from Keir Starmer and Israel to the National Theatre and the BBC itself. Just turned 78, he is clearly not running low on verbal gas, social critiques or thunderous denunciations. So having set to rights the worlds of religion, the Labour Party, media, high finance and the justice system in such classic plays as Racing Demon, The Absence of War, Pravda, The Power of Yes and Murmuring Judges, has he thought about writing a drama about the dominating figure of our present age — Donald Trump?
Telegraph
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
See a whole new side of the ‘fascist' Mitford sisters in this Outrageous TV drama
The title says it all: a TV drama about the Mitford sisters – based on Mary Lovell's definitive biography of the 1930s aristocratic brood – Outrageous is exactly that, the ne plus ultra of frothing family sagas that just happens to be true. With a cast including Bessie Carter, Joanna Vanderham, Anna Chancellor and James Purefoy, it's a tale of six siblings who, between them, turned interwar societal rebellion and scandal-mongering into a fine art. To take one example, on set just south of Oxford, deep in Mitford country, Toby Regbo – who plays Tom, the single Mitford brother, killed in Burma late in the war – and Diana (Vanderham) are discussing her forthcoming wedding… to one Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader. It is grim to hear Diana singing the praises and potential of the party her fiancé represents. But it is also grimly fascinating, and reminds me of one of Diana's most famous lines, written in a letter to her sister Deborah in 1985. 'I must admit,' she said, ''The Mitfords' would madden me if I didn't chance to be one. How ghastly [they] all sound…' That's the thing with any Mitford drama – see the word 'Mitford', and all kinds of ghastly preconceptions spring to mind. Yet, all of the sisters led remarkable lives (see right), and their stories keep resurfacing: it was only in January this year that they were in the headlines once again, with the discovery of youngest sibling Unity's diaries that revealed her relationship with Hitler, whom she idolised. But according to the Bafta-nominated The Long Song screenwriter Sarah Williams, who has adapted Lovell's biography for this new series, even what we know is not the half of it. 'I was really blown away by the true story,' she says, as we sit for lunch at The Duke of Monmouth pub, half an hour from Asthall Manor, where the Mitfords grew up. 'It seemed to me more dramatic, more exciting than Nancy's novels [both The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate contain fictionalised accounts of the family's lives]. I knew they were semi-autobiographical, but they were all done in a kind of jovial tone.' Williams wanted to remove that blithe spirit and get back to the facts, but when she first went to pitch to TV executives in 2005, she says that she encountered the same problem – people thought they already knew the family's story. 'I would say, 'No, you don't. The real story is so much more gripping.' But six women on a TV show was perhaps a harder nut to crack than it is now. I think everyone was a bit wary of it, saying, 'Hmm, they were all fascists, weren't they?'' Of course, the Mitfords weren't all fascists. 'That's the fascinating thing,' says Williams. 'They offer up such a broad, diverse picture of politics at the time.' It wasn't until Williams came up with the title that she says she started to believe her passion project might get greenlit. 'Outrageous: not a dry historical look at the 1930s, but something about a group of rebellious, transgressive women. And that felt commissionable.' The drama's tone is as punkish as the title demands, but its plot is still linear. It tells the Mitford story by focusing on each of the sisters in turn, giving all of them, their lives and their marriages, due screentime and context. Nancy, played by Bessie Carter (Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton's daughter), is the narrator, but that's because she is the primary writer of the group. 'Nancy wrote under her own name,' says Carter, speaking to me later in London, 'which at that time was pretty revolutionary. And yes, she was the eldest of this brood of six who were all incredibly different and unique. They all took very, very different paths, let's say!' Beginning in September 1931, the series is set in the shadow of the Wall Street Crash and charts the family's fortunes through the interwar period. It is a time of great unrest, old certainties crumbling and new forms emerging. Although it introduces the Mitfords at their country seat, it stresses how their aristocratic parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale, were suffering financially. As the Depression cast a pall over the West and the spectre of fascism grew in its wake, the world was about to shift. And then, as Carter adds: 'On to that scene plunge these six rebellious, headstrong, passionate sisters who were very hungry to change the world in their own ways.' 'It kind of reminded me of Succession,' she continues. 'Although I know it's sacrilege to mention another show when you're talking about your own. It has that thing Succession captured brilliantly about a family dynamic being played out on a global scale. I'm an only child, but I think that sibling rivalry explains some of the Mitfords' thinking – if your sister is going to go that way, you're probably quite likely to head in the opposite direction.' It's a story of ideological divergence that was best told by Mary Lovell, the author of The Mitford Girls on which Outrageous is based. Lovell met four of the Mitfords researching her 2001 book and got to know 'Debo' (The Duchess of Devonshire) particularly well. She joins Williams and me at lunch. What, I ask, made this one family such a hotbed of scandal, like a better-educated, literary Kardashians? 'They just didn't recognise walls,' says Lovell, who points out that the Mitfords found a fierce intellectual independence from their home-schooling. They saw the world differently and acted accordingly. Lovell is 83 and terrific company. She has first-hand experience of the political fault lines that split the Mitford family just as they divided the world. 'I grew up during the war and I felt the fallout of what those sisters were arguing about,' she says. 'I mean, in the 1930s, there was a worldwide depression and so you had two possible solutions... or what they thought were solutions. One was fascism – and, don't forget, they had a very good model that fascism worked in what Hitler had done to Germany. We can forget about Hitler being the big bad wolf, because at the time he wasn't, he was just a politician with an extreme right-wing view.' At the other end of the spectrum, Lovell says: 'You had what Dad, or Favre [as the Mitfords named their father], called 'the Bolshies'. It was only a few years before they had actually murdered the Tsar and his family. I should think the upper-classes in England were shaking in their boots at the thought that communism would come to their country, as it had swept the continent. I think that's the reason why a lot of aristocrats were hoping that Hitler and fascism were the answer.' With that context, no matter how uncomfortable, it's not hard to discern why the arguments of the 1930s are once again replete with relevance. 'Life was just polarised,' says Lovell. 'In the same way that in 2016 we had Brexit. I don't know about you, but I lost friends over that. People were really fired up one way or the other. It's a minor thing, of course, compared with what they were arguing about in the 1930s, but people were forced to take a side.' The irony, and a bizarre coda for Outrageous, is that it is produced by Matthew Mosley. As his name suggests, he is the great-grandson of Oswald Mosley, who married the fourth Mitford sibling, Diana. 'I did almost meet Diana once in Paris, but it didn't happen in the end,' says Matthew Mosley, speaking in the production office as the grips busy themselves with the Diana and Tom scene on set. 'It's a very strange inheritance because, obviously, he [Oswald] is such a national hate figure. And rightly so, as he was peddling terrible ideas. For my generation, it's so far away, it's almost like he was someone from a different planet. But for my father's generation and my grandfather, it was a big thing to grapple with.' It may be far away, but today it is, oddly, also very close – just minutes from the production truck, Vanderham, as Diana, soon to be Mosley, is discussing her nuptials. And this being the Mitfords, there is always a drama to come: the wedding is to take place in Joseph Goebbels's home in Berlin – with Hitler as one of the guests. 'Maybe this will be something of a cautionary tale about the allure of the far Right,' says Williams. 'I would like to think that might be the case.'
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
General Hospital Recap: Sidwell Paid Off Michael's Custody Judge
General Hospital Recap: Sidwell Paid Off Michael's Custody Judge originally appeared on Daytime Confidential. On today's General Hospital recap: Jordan tells Anna that Curtis' marriage is in trouble and how she feels about it. She complains about Portia and doesn't have much sympathy for her. Anna asks if Jordan would go back to Curtis if the marriage ended. Isaiah tells Lulu that Lucky asked him to check up on her. Lulu interrupts Anna and Jordan's conversation. She apologizes to Anna for what happened with Charlotte and knows the shooting was an accident. Anna says it's great Charlotte has a parent now who can guide her. Isaiah checks in with Jordan on her job with Sidwell. He says he's sorry for how things ended between them, and she agrees. Jordan says the timing wasn't right for them. Trina updates Josslyn on the results of Kai's surgery and her anger with the documentary filmmaker. Trina says Kai's dreams are destroyed and blames Drew. Trina says Drew is a user and hopes someone will stop him. Trina says she's been keeping quiet about Drew because she doesn't want friction between her and Kai. Josslyn is certain once it's proven Drew set up Tracy, no one will believe him again. She's certain Drew will be taken down by someone and Trina hopes Kai is not around when it happens. Kai explains to Drew about the surgery result and how all the time he put into his football career was for nothing. Kai mentions the documentary, but Drew tells him not to worry about it. Drew apologizes for giving Kai hope when he shouldn't have. Kai says at least he knows he did everything he could to try to play again. Drew offers Kai a paid internship for the summer, which could be a good distraction right now. Kai's not certain but Drew says he's a natural born leader with integrity who he can trust. Drew says Kai's future is not over, it will just be different. Jason checks in on the new family. Michael says Amelia has been asking about Willow and Sasha tells Jason that Willow isn't doing well. Michael's not sure where they'll be living and that right now they're here to spend time with Daisy. Alone with Jason, Michael discusses Sasha asking him to stay out of the baby's life. He says he trusts Sasha to raise the baby and he's ok with her being the sole parent. Jason points out others won't be happy about it but promises to be on Michael's side. Sasha puts the baby down to sleep and we see someone enter the room. When Sasha goes back to check, she finds the mobile playing. Sonny meets with Jenz regarding the piers and why he wants them. Jenz says he wants to end Sonny's influence in the city. He says he wants to expand his business here and doesn't want to get involved with mob shootouts. Sonny says if the referendum passes, the city will take the piers away, but Jenz isn't worried. Jenz says Sonny could live out the rest of his life safe and secure with his family, and he wonders if that's a threat. Jenz says if he wanted violence against Sonny, it would have happened a long time ago. Sonny brings up Michael's accident, but Jenz says family is off limits. Sonny says he will protect his family and the city from everyone including Sidwell. He tells Jenz to take his money and shove it where the sun don't shine. Marco talks to Lucas about his mother getting arrested and how he took her case. He says she was offered a deal by the ADA against Sonny. Marco's worried Natalia is in both Turner and Sonny's crosshairs. Marco talks about his relationship with his father and Lucas worries about being so close to the criminal aspect. The custody judge meets with Jenz and tells him that she granted Michael full custody, like he paid her to do. Keep checking back for the latest General Hospital recaps! This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.
Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Love Island fans hail show 'TV gold' and 'messiest series yet' as villa descends into meltdown - and host Maya Jama admits 'it's madness'
Love Island fans hailed Thursday's episode of the show 'TV gold' as the 'messiest series yet' saw a game send the villa into meltdown. Viewers saw tensions reach boiling point when a challenge, Look Who's Talking, saw things go from bad to worse - with host Maya Jama saying it was 'madness.' The Islanders each took a card and read out the quote then collectively decided which of their fellow Islanders said it. Drama was brewing after Harry and Yasmin headed for a kiss in the hideaway, meaning his partner Helena was already fuming. During the game it was revealed the duo had actually shared three secret smooches when a quote was read out from Harry. As Harry's lies unraveled, Megan exclaimed: 'You owe it to Helena to be f*****g honest, you p***k!' Love Island fans hailed Thursday's episode of the show 'TV gold' as the 'messiest series yet' saw a game send the villa into meltdown Sharing their thoughts on X, fans wrote: 'This game was [fire emoji]'; 'Love Island UK is still superior this season has been great'; 'THIS EPISODE IS SO GOOD please'; 'This might be the best season of Love Island I've ever seen'; '1000/10 RATED EPISODE'; 'This UK season is so good omg it's been mess every episode'; 'THIS IS PEAK TELEVISION WHOEVER HIRED THIS CAST NEEDS A RAISE I ACTUALLY CANT.' Elsewhere in the instalment, Islanders got stuck into a game of Beer Pong which saw them guess who made certain comments pulled out of a box. Despite being coupled up with Shea, Yasmin kissed two other boys during the course of the game - leaving him not best pleased during tonight's instalment. When she pulls him for a chat around the fire pit to check in, he says: 'You made me look like a mug.' Yasmin replies: 'Yeah, that wasn't my intention, it was just a game that I felt everyone else was playing way too safe.' He was also not too happy with the lads - who he heard laughing as he headed over to talk to Yasmin about what happened. Sharing their thoughts on X, fans wrote: 'This game was [fire emoji]'; 'Love Island UK is still superior this season has been great'; 'THIS EPISODE IS SO GOOD please' Despite being coupled up with Shea (right), Yasmin (left) kissed two other boys during the course of the game - leaving him not best pleased As Dejon - who Yasmin kissed during beer pong - admitted he laughed at his expense, Shea said: 'I've been made to look like a bit of a mug and I'm hearing laughing… 'Have some class, I thought we were all boys.' But Dejon wasn't laughing for long as he faced his own tough conversation with Meg, who he has been paired with since the launch show. He told her: 'You blow my mind, I'm so confused… your dare was get in a sex position. You could have picked me and you picked Harrison...' Of her choice to select the new bombshell boy instead, Meg replied: 'I can pick Harrison because it's a joke.' And she later added: 'You told me I'm your number one priority… I don't know where I go from here. I'm taking a big step back.'
