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She's one of the nation's most recognisable stars on our screens and currently leading the cast of a hugely popular Netflix drama, so it's safe to say Michelle Keegan is thriving. The 36-year-old plays Maya in the brand new Harlan Coben thriller, Fool Me Once, which has gone on to become the number-one trending show in more than 60 countries.
But before her success in the 2024 series, Michelle was perhaps best known for starring in other TV classics such as Our Girl, Brassic and, of course, Coronation Street – the show that made her a household name.
The Manchester native was just 21 years old when she landed the part of Tina McIntyre in the iconic ITV soap opera, and over the years Michelle has blossomed thanks to a stunning Hollywood-style glow-up.
Michelle Keegan's stunning looks over the years…
Humble beginnings
Michelle was born in Stockport in 1987. Following her high school education, before landing a big role on TV, she was studying at the Manchester School of Acting while working in retail on the side.
In late 2007, Tina McIntyre hit the cobbles. Michelle was offered the part after just two auditions and she became a staple in the Coronation Street cast. Here, a fresh-faced Michelle looks stunning in a green jumpsuit as her career begins to take off.
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Rolling out the red carpet
With her television came glitzy award shows and red carpet events. Michelle embraced getting all dolled up for these nights out and we love this blue dress on her which complements her signature bronzed look beautifully.
A star is born
The actress made quite the mark in her role in Corrie and picked up a number of awards along the way, including this one from the TV Choice Awards in 2008. A 21-year-old Michelle looks dazzling in this gold and black dress.
Lady in red
A great perk of being a celebrity is that you get access to the best stylists and glam squad – not that the stunning Michelle needs it! But in this photo, you can really see the actress has elevated her fashion game and looks incredible in this floor-length red gown.
A new look
By the time 2012 comes around, Michelle is rocking a more sophisticated look which is shown here in this monochrome ensemble.
Remember disco pants? They were all the rage around this time and the TV star looked fabulous in these shiny trousers paired with platform heels. We are also big fans of her seriously glossy hair.
Love is in the air
In late 2012, Michelle began dating The Only Way is Essex star and her now-husband Mark Wright. It wasn't long before the two became a power couple.
One of their most memorable nights out together in the early days of their romance came in 2013 when they stepped out looking totally 'couple goals' at the British Soap Awards. That night, Michelle won the award for Best Actress.
Michelle's look at the awards showed a real change in her red carpet style. It's clear that Michelle was working with a brilliant fashion and beauty team as her hair and makeup here are on point.
Saying goodbye to the cobbles
Around the same time she and Mark became serious, Michelle decided to walk away from her role as Tina McIntyre after almost six years. Her last episode aired in 2014 when this photo of her and her beau was taken.
The couple were often spotted out together looking glam-as-ever, and this cute snap from the back of a cab shows just how in love the gorgeous couple are.
Fashionista
And it wasn't only acting that Michelle was thriving in, by 2015, the star had put out a number of collections with fashion brands, Lipsy of London.
Today, Michelle still has a passion for fashion and has her own collection with Very which, unsurprisingly, is a hit with her fans.
Glitz and glamour
This photo is from the Global Awards in 2019 and, by this point, Michelle had been in the public eye for more than a decade. And so, like all of us, the actress has of course changed over the years.
Her gorgeous glow-up is evident in this photo where she's rocking slightly fuller brows, more in line with the beauty trends of today, and highlights in her hair to add dimension. Gorgeous!
Hollywood calling
How stunning is this look? Michelle attended the British Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the end of 2023 rubbing shoulders with other famous faces.
Now that Michelle has reached international fame thanks to her Netflix show – could Hollywood be calling? We certainly think so.
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Whether you’re a seasoned gamer or a new fan, you may well be familiar with the friendly face of My Talking Angela 2, the popular mobile game starring the glamorous character with a talent for singing and dancing and a love of fashion.
In the virtual pet game that makes every day more fun, players help Angela stay occupied in her big-city home, with makeovers, dance routines, martial arts and baking. There are also mini games and puzzles to test your skills and reflexes and all-new sticker collections to add to your haul.
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As a beloved main character in the community of Talking Tom and Friends, Talking Angela has just celebrated her two-year anniversary of her second game, and app creator Outfit 7 held a suitably stylish competition to commemorate.
Players were invited to design a new outfit for Angela, with the winner getting the chance to see their look added to her permanent wardrobe collection in the game.
With a brief encouraging self-expression and individuality, the competition received over 2,400 entries from across the world, including hand-drawn sketches and outfits mocked up and sewn together from fabric.
The winning entry, named Flower Power was created by user Sadie, with the judges agreeing that it ‘echoed Talking Angela’s message of staying true to yourself no matter what’ and adhered to the criteria of originality, complexity, adaptability, and ‘the perfect fit’.
Sadie tells HELLO!: “I had a lot of fun creating this winning outfit for My Talking Angela 2. Now to see it become a permanent part of the game and shared with millions of players is simply unbelievable!”.
She shares a $10,000 cash prize with the two runners up, Madison and Neja. All three were applauded for taking the essence of Angela and creating a ‘natural continuation of her fashion line.’
Players can now claim Angela’s brand-new attire of lime green and pink floral cap, T-shirt, skirt, socks, blue trainers and cardigan from the in-game wardrobe, event pop-up or from gift boxes found within the bedroom, bathroom, and glam room in the game.
Whether you’re seeking a new activity for downtime during the colder months or looking to play as a family, try Angela’s new look on for size and set your creativity alight with endless makeover options as you care for the most glamorous creature in town!
The exclusive winning outfit can be claimed within My Talking Angela 2 now. Download the game for free from the App Store or Google Play, and learn more about the game via the My Talking Angela 2 website.
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Chris Pratt just shared the sweetest glimpse into his life as a father to his three kids, Jack, Lyla, and Eloise.
The Guardians of the Galaxy star tends to shy away from sharing his kids on social media, but made an appropriate exception in a heartfelt peek into his family's morning routine.
The Jurassic World actor shares his eldest son Jack, 11, with his ex-wife Anna Faris, who he was married to from 2009 to 2017. In 2019, he married Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter Katherine, and the two share daughters Lyla Maria, three, and Eloise Christina, who is one and a half.
On Wednesday, Chris shared a rare snap on his Instagram Stories of all three of his kids sitting around a table enjoying breakfast together.
In the pic, which captures the back of the three kids' matching blonde locks, Jack looks so grown up wearing a red t-shirt enjoying a bowl of oatmeal, while his little sisters are adorably sharing a chair together, despite a separate placemat being set for each of them.
"Breakfast is served!" Chris proudly captioned the post, adding that as for his own breakfast, he would in turn be fasting until noon.
While both Chris, 44, and his wife Katherine, 34, shy away from posting their kids' faces on social media, they nonetheless share glimpses of their most special family moments.
MORE: Inside Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger's stunning $15.6million family home
MORE: Katherine Schwarzenegger shares adorable insight into daughter Lyla
For Christmas, Katherine – who is the author of various self-help and children's books – shared an adorable photo of her daughters in matching plaid outfits, standing at the bottom of their festively decorated tree surrounded by a gold sequin tree skirt and an assortment of large gift boxes.
Most recently, she shared a slew of photos from the family's latest tropical vacation to ring in 2024, writing in the caption: "2024 coming in hot with lots of love and SPF."
MORE: Look back at Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger's wedding
She included a photo at the beach smiling ear-to-ear while holding up her youngest daughter, who was wearing the cutest pink swimsuit, as well as snaps of a beautiful sunset, a selfie with her mom, one where she's receiving a kiss on the cheek from her hubby, and more family beach photos.
Her fans were quick to take to the comments section under the post and gush about the holiday round up, with one fan writing: "I love the mom and daughter picture!" as others followed suit with: "What a lovely family!! You always put a smile on my face with these beautiful pics," and: "Cuteness overload," as well as: "Beautiful pictures and it looks like everyone is enjoying themselves and having fun!"
Chris and Katherine started dating in 2018, reportedly after Maria set them up. His ex-wife Anna, who married cinematographer Michael Barrett is 2021, threw her support behind the happy couple during an episode of her podcast, revealing that Chris had given her a heads up about their engagement, and said: "Sweet Chris, my ex, got engaged to Katherine today and I'm so happy for them."
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson just made their latest red carpet a famous family night, bringing their two adult sons to the World Premiere Of Apple TV+'s Masters Of The Air at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on January 10.
The Hollywood power couple, both 67, were accompanied by their sons Chet, 33, and Truman, 28, to the premiere, and they all presented quite a dapper form.
Tom opted for a black suit jacket and pants with a matching sweater and button down while Rita went with a black blouse and a midi-length sequined skirt with knee-high boots, a leather jacket, and some chains to accessorize.
The older Chet was the only one to add some color to his wardrobe, wearing a sharp black suit with a bottle green velvet blazer. Truman went with a classic black suit with a white button down.
Tom is an executive producer on the upcoming war drama series with Steven Spielberg, based on the book Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller.
It follows the 100th Bomb Group in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, a unit that incurred heavy losses during combat and was nicknamed "Bloody Hundredth."
The cast is led by Tom's Elvis co-star and Oscar-nominated Austin Butler, joined by fellow Oscar-nominee Barry Keoghan, and also includes Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle in leading roles.
MORE: I'm a TV superfan and these are my absolute must-watches for 2024
The two-time Oscar winner is also father to actors Colin, 46, and Elizabeth, 41, Hanks, both of whom he shared with late first wife Samantha Lewes. Chet is also an actor and rapper, while Truman most notably played a younger version of his father's character in the 2022 film A Man Called Otto.
Rita gushed to Entertainment Tonight at the LA premiere: "It's really fun! It's great," about being able to attend with her sons, and Tom added: "We get in free tonight, so it's pretty great."
MORE: Rita Wilson talks Tom Hanks' first wife – and the huge role their divorce cost him
The My Big Fat Greek Wedding actress recalled her experience with the iconic Californian theater, saying: "I remember standing in line to see Star Wars here, the original Star Wars," while the Forrest Gump actor remembered seeing some of his own movies premiere at the same venue.
"What I like about it is, we're back in the movie theater and not only remembering the nights we were here [for premieres]... but we also remember the [other] times, [like when] I dropped off my son Colin to see Batman by himself here one Saturday afternoon," he added. "So it's our hometown, and this is where we saw the movies."
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The actor also gushed about it feeling like "no time has passed" since he worked with Spielberg on the acclaimed war drama Saving Private Ryan back in 1998.
"I got very lucky in that I was able to work with a boss where, at the time, the tools of cinema matched the scope of what we were trying to do," he said. Masters of the Air premieres on Apple TV+ on January 26.
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The Princess Royal visited a Buddhist temple and watched a landmine clearance on the second day of her official visit to Sri Lanka.
Despite only arriving in the country the day before, Princess Anne, 73, has embarked on a packed schedule during her three-day visit.
The royal and her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, began their day on Thursday at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy.
The tooth is said to be the Buddha's left canine and is kept within seven caskets and paraded through the streets of Kandy every five years during a ten-day spectacle.
Wearing white as a mark of respect and removing her shoes, like all visitors, Princess Anne was given a plate of jasmine flowers by a Buddhist cleric and ushered into an inner sanctum, reserved for the temple's most important guests, to make her offering to the relic in private.
The couple then travelled to Jaffna, a city on the northern tip of Sri Lanka, which is rebuilding its cultural heritage after the civil war.
Upon arrival, the Princess had a garland placed around her head and a pottu or dot placed on her forehead and met Tamil representatives from the arts, education and local politics at the public library.
Her final visit of the day saw Anne watch landmine clearance by workers from the Halo Trust using machines.
The King’s sister put on a heavy protective vest before she was given a private tour from the perimeter of an active minefield.
The conflict between armed separatist Tamil Tiger forces and the Sri Lankan Army ended in May 2009 after 26 years, with the government troops claiming a victory that left an estimated 100,000 dead.
Stephen Hall, Halo Sri Lanka programme manager, gave Anne and husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence a briefing of the charity’s work before they drove to the landmine site.
He told Princess Anne that the area close to their location, Muhamalai near Jaffna, was the forward defence line in the civil war.
"For this, think Western Front, First World War, it's very similar. Ten years we had both sides dug in firing at each other, entrenched. It was brutal, it was bloody and there is a lot of ordnance out there to clear.”
Halo's land mine clearance in Sri Lanka has allowed 280,000 displaced people to return to their homelands, with locally trained staff removing more than one million pieces of ordnance that were left by both sides during the war.
He also said: "We’re very much focused on the humanitarian impact of our work – the resettlement of internally displaced people, restoring livelihoods and reconciliation. So clearing explosive ordinance is a means to an end."
Anne's visit to Sri Lanka will conclude on Friday. See how she was welcomed to the country upon arrival in the clip below...
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If you’re a millennial, you probably spent over a decade squeezing into skinny jeans, but the style these days? Wide-leg, flared or even ultra baggy denim. We’re all about wearing whatever we want, but consider a sweet spot between the two - straight-leg jeans.
A slimmer fit than mom jeans but not as spray-on as skinnies, a good pair will be comfortable, flattering and go with everything in your wardrobe. As with all denim, finding that perfect pair can be a mission to say the least, so we’ve searched online for the best straight-leg jeans, from high-waisted to low-rise, cropped to full-length, and some at seriously low price points.
Princess Kate rarely wears jeans, but she sent the & Other Stories website into a spin when she stepped out in their Slim Cut pair. She since been pictured in the high street straight-leg style multiple times, styling them with everything from Chloé blazers to cosy knits.
Katie Holmes' now iconic Khaite cardigan-bralet two-piece was styled with a pair of perfectly fitting straight-leg jeans. We love them accessorised with some heeled mules for a look that works through all of the transitioning seasons.
Hailey Bieber demonstrates how to effortlessly dress down a pair of straight-leg jeans, pairing her Levi's with an oversized bomber, white tee and adidas Samba trainers.
How we chose the best straight-leg jeans
Brands: Some brands just do really good denim and bestsellers are often so for good reason. We've included a range of the most popular high street and more premium labels, many of which we've tried ourselves, so we know they're comfortable and stand the test of time.
Variety: We've chosen a mix of slimmer and looser leg straight-cut jeans with cropped and longer lengths - there's something to suit all body shapes and style preferences.
Inclusivity: We've found options with sizes ranging from a UK 4 to a UK 30.
& Other Stories Straight-Leg Jeans
& Other Stories Slim Cut Jeans
Sizes available: W24-30, L30-32
Colours available: Black, White, Grey, Dark Grey, Deep Blue, Dark Blue, Bright Blue, Light Blue, Charcoal
Shipping: £4 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £80
Returns: Free within 30 days
& Other Stories' bestselling straight-leg jeans are a favourite of Princess Kate. Formerly the 'Favourite Cut jeans', they're available in nine different washes and waist sizes 24-32. Made from stretchy denim, they have a high waist for ultimate comfort.
M&S Straight-Leg Jeans
Marks & Spencer Sienna Straight Leg Jeans
Sizes available: UK 6-24, Extra Short-Extra Long
Colours available: Black, White, Grey, Dark Indigo, Indigo Mix, Dark Blue
Shipping: £3.99 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £60
Returns: Free within 35 days
At just £25, it's no wonder Marks & Spencer’s affordable Sienna jeans are so popular. They feature a high-waisted straight-leg cut with super stretch fabric and a soft feel. Choose from eight faded washes, sizes 6-22 and extra short to extra long lengths.
Zara Straight-Leg Jeans
Zara Straight-Fit High-Waist Jeans
Sizes available: UK 4-18
Colours available: Black, Light Blue, Mid Blue
Shipping: £3.95 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £50
Returns: £1.95 within 30 days
Zara's straight-leg jeans are so popular thanks to their classic high-waist full-length cut and low price point. Made from rigid, slightly faded denim, they could pass for a much more expensive pair.
Levi's Straight-Leg Jeans
Levi's 501 Straight Leg Jeans
Sizes available: W24-34, L30-32
Colours available: Blue
Shipping: Free Standard Delivery
Returns: Free within 28 days
Loved by the likes of Hailey Beiber, Levi's 501s have been hailed as the perfect straight-leg jeans. Cut with a high-rise waist and made from the brand's signature sturdy denim, they have an authentic '90s vibe.
H&M Straight-Leg Jeans
H&M Straight Regular Jeans
Sizes available: UK 4-30
Colours available: White, Black, Dark Grey, Light Grey, Light Blue
Shipping: £3.99 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £30
Returns: Free within 28 days
Made from sturdy denim, these H&M jeans get five-star reviews for their high quality and flattering fit. Vintage-look with a high waist and long length designed for stacking, they come in an inclusive size range of UK 4-30.
Mango Straight-Leg Jeans
Mango Straight Jeans With Forward Seams
Sizes available: UK 4-18
Colours available: Medium Blue, Dark Vintage Blue, Black
Shipping: £3.95 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £30
Returns: Free within 30 days
Looking for a pair with a mid-rise cut? We love this pair from Mango, which is made from a recycled cotton-blend fabric and has stylish forward seams. They come in three different washes, in UK sizes 4-18.
Agolde Straight-Leg Jeans
Agolde 90s Crop Straight Leg Jeans
Sizes available: 23-32
Colours available: Blue, Dark Denim, Black
Shipping: £7 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £300
Returns: Free within 30 days
Looking to invest a little more? Agolde’s 90s-inspired straight-leg jeans are a popular choice thanks to their organic cotton rigid denim which softens with wear. They have a versatile full-length cut and are slightly faded for a vintage feel.
Reformation’s Cynthia jeans are not only sustainably made, they have a flattering straight cut that’s fitted at the hips and waist and looser on the legs. They’re made from classic rigid denim.
Arket Straight-Leg Jeans
Arket Rose Cropped Straight Stretch Jeans
Sizes available: W25-33
Colours available: Greyish-Black, Blue, Washed Blue
Shipping: £5 Standard Delivery or free for orders over £125
Returns: Free within 30 days
We always head to Scandi brand Arket for effortless wardrobe staples. The straight-leg Rose jeans have a versatile cropped cut. Made from stretch denim, they feature a high-rise waist with five pockets.
Abercrombie & Fitch Straight-Leg Jeans
Abercrombie Curve Love Straight-Leg Jeans
Sizes available: W23-37, Extra Short-Extra Long
Colours available: Dark Blue, Light Blue, Medium Blue, Black
Shipping: £3.95 Standard Delivery
Returns: Free within 60 days
Abercrombie's Curve Love jeans are specially designed with an extra two inches through the hip and thigh to help eliminate a waist-gap. This straight-leg style has a vintage feel with a mid-rise waist in sizes 23-37.
ASOS Straight-Leg Jeans
ASOS DESIGN Straight-Leg Jeans
Sizes available: W24-36, L30-34
Colours available: Blue
Shipping: Free Standard Delivery
Returns: Free within 28 days
Slim on the waist and thigh, falling to a slightly looser leg, these straight-cut jeans have such a flattering fit. They have a mid-rise waist and classic five pocket design.
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The final hurdle to retrieving the full sample of asteroid Bennu collected by OSIRIS-REx – the first asteroid return sample in US history – has at last been overcome. NASA technicians have been able to successfully remove the two fasteners from the sampler head that have been preventing them from opening the canister fully since September. This canister opening has to be conducted under the most pristine conditions to not contaminate the sample, so this was quite the issue. Now, NASA can get to the pristine material from asteroid Bennu.
Since they could just take a circular saw and cut through it, once they realized two of the 35 fasteners couldn't be removed with the available and approved tools, researchers had to develop new tools that would do the job.
“Our engineers and scientists have worked tirelessly behind the scenes for months to not only process the more than 70 grams of material we were able to access previously, but also design, develop, and test new tools that allowed us to move past this hurdle,” Eileen Stansbery, division chief for ARES (Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science) at NASA's Johnson Space Center, said in a statement.
“The innovation and dedication of this team has been remarkable. We are all excited to see the remaining treasure OSIRIS-REx holds.”
The new tools were made of a specific grade of surgical, non-magnetic stainless steel; the hardest metal approved for use in the pristine curation gloveboxes. Before it was used on the precious container it was tested in the rehearsal lab.
“In addition to the design challenge of being limited to curation-approved materials to protect the scientific value of the asteroid sample, these new tools also needed to function within the tightly-confined space of the glovebox, limiting their height, weight, and potential arc movement,” said Dr Nicole Lunning, OSIRIS-REx curator at Johnson.
“The curation team showed impressive resilience and did incredible work to get these stubborn fasteners off the TAGSAM head so we can continue disassembly. We are overjoyed with the success.”
The team was able to remove about 70.3 grams of material (2.48 ounces) from asteroid Bennu before even getting to the bulk of the action, hidden behind the fasteners. The mission's goal has already been surpassed with that sample alone and the bounty waiting for the scientists will deliver so much more. A portion of the sample is already available for the general public to see.
Asteroid Bennu, the most dangerous known asteroid, is a window into the very beginning of the Solar System. A primitive space rock that has remained mostly unaltered for billions of years, studying its physical and chemical properties could give us hints about the building blocks of planets as they were forming 4.5 billion years ago.
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Pierce Brosnan is still a silver fox and it appears that looks run in the Brosnan family as his eldest son, Dylan, 26, was the spitting image of his father back in his James Bond days.
The family unit had headed out for a meal together and in photos obtained by MailOnline, the actor looked so suave in a blazer and jeans while his son almost mirrored his father in his outfit choice, albeit adding a red T-shirt to the ensemble. Even when wearing his hair long, Dylan looked just like his father back in his youth, a possible Bond in the future!
Pierce's wife, Keely Shaye Smith, also looked gorgeous for the outing, in a long blue shirt and jeans. The star also wore a pair of sunglasses against the bright January son.
The family meal came ahead of Pierce heading to court on 23 January to discover his fate after crossing into a restricted area at the Mammoth Terraces section of Yellowstone to get a closer look at the thermal features.
The actor, 70, faces charges for allegedly venturing into restricted and hazardous thermal areas at the park. A judge could issue him a fine of $5,000, however, the offence can also carry a jail-term of six months.
In 2021, a Connecticut woman faced severe consequences for similar actions, receiving a seven-day jail sentence, a $2,000 fine, and a two-year ban from Yellowstone for leaving the designated walkway and approaching the thermals.
The family's trip out also came ahead of Dylan's 27th birthday on 13 January, and it's clear that the father and son have a strong bond. Last year, Dylan produced a short film that looked back on the actor's career in art, while also reflecting on Pierce's early life, which inspired his love for painting.
In an interview with E!, Dylan and younger brother, Paris, opened up about their relationship with their father and how he has helped them forge their own paths in the industry. "I think we need to just be grateful for our blessings," 22-year-old Paris said, speaking about the conversation surrounding 'nepo babies' in Hollywood, with Dylan saying they were trying to "pave our own way".
"It's always gonna be there and we got to recognize it," the 22-year-old added. "At the end of the day, we're just grateful to be here. Dylan's an amazing musician and I'm painting right now, so we're figuring it out. Taking it day by day."
WOW: Pierce Brosnan's buff beach body is reminiscent of his James Bond days - see photo
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He’s starred in hit series Life on Mars, Steeltown Murders and Belgravia, but Philip Glenister is happy to pass on leading roles these days.
The 60-year-old actor stars alongside Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe and Lorraine Ashbourne in ITV’s newest drama After the Flood but speaking exclusively to HELLO!, he admitted that he was far from disappointed when he was told his character Jack Radcliffe wasn’t the main part.
"I'm of an age now where you don't expect to always be offered the lead so I was quite happy just to be able to come in, shoot for a few days and then I'd be able to go home for a week," Philip confesses.
"Let's just say I'm a lazy [expletive], but it was just quite nice to have that pattern of not being away for long," he adds, before expressing how much he enjoyed filming in his "second home" of Manchester.
"I love it there, and to reacquaint with people on the crew and with Lorraine and the people I’ve worked together with before on Clocking Off and Life On Mars, and it was just lovely."
Despite being based in London, Philip remarks that his love of projects set in small communities goes back to his childhood when he’d watch one of the UK’s most iconic soap operas.
"I think that's why when I was about 14, I got really into Coronation Street," he says.
"I got my nan into it and then my nan got my mum into it and now my mum and dad watch it religiously and I don't watch it at all. I've just always quite liked that all these people know your business. Everybody's got something hidden in their closet, so to speak and in this, we sort of see them come out during the course of the series, you know."
Philp became a household name in 2006 when he played no-frills 70s police inspector DCI Gene Hunt in the crime drama Life on Mars. He later reprised the role in the sequel series Ashes to Ashes with Keeley Hawes.
Acting certainly runs in Philip’s family; his brother Robert Glenister has starred in shows including Hustle and Spooks whilst his father John Glenister worked as a director. Philip’s wife Beth Goddard, whom he married in 2006, is also in the entertainment industry and is best known for playing Suze Littlewood on BBC comedy series Gimme Gimme Gimme and Kath Shand in ITV drama Big Bad World.
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Tina Fey has been making the promotional rounds for the upcoming release of the movie musical version of Mean Girls, which comes out in in theaters on January 12.
The beloved actress, comedian, and writer, 53, has been opening up more and more not just about the lore of the classic teen-comedy, but also her own personal journey, including her life at home with her husband and two daughters.
Read on to learn more about Tina's family life, her famous husband, how they met, their two daughters, and how her daughters helped create the basis for the upcoming Mean Girls movie…
Who is Tina Fey's husband?
Since 2001, Tina has been married to composer, producer, and director Jeff Richmond. The 63-year-old has been a staple of the TV, film, and theater scene for nearly three decades.
Jeff and Tina met while working for improv theater troupe Second City in Chicago in 1994 (she was a performer and he was a pianist who later became their musical director), and later both moved to Saturday Night Live, where Jeff was a composer. After seven years of dating, they tied the knot in 2001.
They both left in 2006 to work together on the show 30 Rock, which Tina created and starred in, while Jeff produced and composed, even directing five episodes and appearing as an extra several times.
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The couple have since worked together several times, with Jeff composing and often producing for most of his wife's projects, including the Broadway version of Mean Girls (for which he garnered a Tony Award nomination) and the 2024 movie musical version of Mean Girls.
Their two daughters, Alice and Penelope
Tina and Jeff share two daughters – 18-year-old Alice Zenobia Richmond, and 12-year-old Penelope Athena Richmond, who seem to have picked up their mom's funny bone.
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The Date Night actress has frequently gushed about her elder daughter's insight into her work, with Alice even making an appearance on 30 Rock in 2012 as a younger version of Tina's Liz Lemon. In her 2009 SAG Awards acceptance speech, Tina revealed that her daughter was even responsible for the creation of the show's popular catchphrase "I want to go to there."
In 2021, younger daughter Penelope made her own screen debut in an episode of Girls5eva playing a nine-year-old child influencer, although her mom was initially hesitant to cast her in the role.
"She auditioned, she put herself on tape. I was like, 'I can't let the boss' kid get the first job they ever audition for,'" she shared on the Today Show. However, when the actress they originally cast was unable to take the job, Penelope stepped up and killed it. "And she was super professional…For kind of a grim year of distance learning and all that stuff, it was a little treat for her."
How did Alice and Penelope influence the 2024 Mean Girls movie?
In an interview with USA Today, Tina admitted that she would run things by her kids sometimes, and their opinion came in handy for what we think is one of the movie's most crucial details.
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"Early on, there was conversation of, 'Would the Burn Book still be a physical book or should it be a private Instagram?' I knew what my instinct was, but I ran it by my kids. And my older daughter was like, 'Yeah, no. Don't let those millennials overthink it!'"
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Jessica Simpson's daughter Maxwell is stepping into the spotlight, by recreating one of her mom's most unforgettable reality television moments.
Maxwell, 11, is already growing up to be her mom's total twin, and the two used that to their advantage for their latest commercial, a nod to the "Take My Breath Away' singer's time on MTV's Newlyweds, her reality show with ex-husband Nick Lachey.
The shoe designer shares Maxwell with her husband Eric Johnson, who she married in 2014; the couple also share son Ace Knute, ten, and daughter Birdie Mae, four.
Jessica took to Instagram on Thursday and revealed her latest commercial for none other than tuna brand Chicken of the Sea, starring herself and Maxwell.
The epic partnership is a call back to an infamous moment on the Newlyweds premiere in 2003, when, while eating a bowl of Chicken of the Sea tuna, she innocently asked her then-husband: "Is this chicken what I have or is this fish?" leaving Nick – and audiences – dumbfounded by the hilarious mishap.
Now, in her new ad 20 years later, Jessica and Maxwell appear similarly sitting on a couch, when the tween asks her mom whether the packet in her hands was "chicken or tuna."
Jessica cheekily replies: "That is a great question! It's confusing right?" only for then Maxwell to say she's joking, and that she's aware it's tuna.
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"Still a @chickenoftheseaofficial gal," the mom-of-three wrote in her caption, adding: "Loving their new packets too! You guys need to try the Lemon Garlic one, so good."
Her celebrity friends and fans alike were quick to take to the comments section under the post and praise the move, with her sister Ashlee Simpson Ross writing: "Cuties! Love this," as fellow reality television legend Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi declared it "ICONIC."
Others followed suit with: "Genius! Why did it take so long for this collab!?!?!?" and: "The collaboration we've been waiting almost two decades for," as well as: "SO CUTE! This partnership is SUCH an iconic collaboration and I love this mother daughter duo," plus another one of her followers added: "Full circle moment!!!"
At the end of last year, Jessica opened up about the possibility of ever returning to reality television, and revealed that it just might be her daughters who are most into the idea.
MORE: Jessica Simpson's latest appearance in see-through rhinestone gown leaves fans with questions
Speaking with E! News, she said: "As far as I would go with that would probably be a docu-series – which Newlyweds was supposed to be by the way, but we actually had a lot of fun doing it – or a documentary…" before adding: "I think [my kids] wouldn't mind being on camera."
However, she then noted: "My son maybe not so much, but both daughters definitely are entertainers," adding that "it doesn't make them shy or anything like that," before joking that her son just "probably doesn't think it's anybody's business."
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After growing up in one of the most famous families on Earth, you would be forgiven for thinking that Prince William could get almost anything he asked for. But his landlady at St Andrews University treated him as everyone else with her 'no boys' rule when he applied to live at her Victorian terraced house.
The Prince of Wales was on the hunt for accommodation for his second year of University, alongside his three friends Kate Middleton, Fergus Boyd and Olivia Bleasdale. They had stumbled upon 13A Hope Street, a property with five bedrooms, one bathroom and one shower room that would set them each back by £100 per week (a total rent of £1,600 per month.) However, the owner Charlotte Smith was reluctant to rent it to Prince William and his friends – even when she found out his identity. Little did she know that her home would later become a crucial part of William and Kate's love story, as it is where they admitted their romance "blossomed."
"We’d had an unfortunate experience with some boys in the flat once before and we were determined not to have young men there again. Broken furniture, broken windows – there was a lot of damage, so that put us off really," Charlotte explained to ivillage.co.uk. "I said to this young lady we’d really rather not have more boys and she said, 'What if I were to tell you that it was Prince William?'
"I said, 'I still don’t want to do it, thank you. I’d rather not do that,' because I didn’t know how he was going to behave off the leash, as it were." Despite her reluctance, the landlady changed her mind after discussing it with the neighbours. "I said I’d talk to my husband about it and get back to her. My husband and I discussed it and he talked me round. We were really quite surprised that they should choose my flat, but it was very nice with ample living space in the centre of town and it had the reputation for being one of the best flats for comfort in St Andrews.
"We wanted to talk it over with our neighbours and they were all right with it. So we decided we would go ahead and let the flat to Prince William," she said.
The home offered William and Kate some much-needed privacy to spend time together and let their friendship develop into something more. After dating for eight years, they opened up about their early relationship in their engagement interview in 2010. While Kate said she was "very shy" when she met William, she added that they "become very close friends from quite early." William added: "We moved in together as friends. We lived with a couple of others as well, and it just sort of blossomed from there, really. We just saw more of each other, and you know, hung out a bit more and did stuff."
The Prince and Princess and their friends sought a more private residence in their final year, settling on a four-bedroom cottage called Balgove House on the Strathtyrum Estate.
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Ahead of the one-year anniversary of her mom Lisa Marie Presley's sudden passing, Riley Keough is sharing her plans to further honor her mom's legacy.
The only child of legend Elvis Presley unexpectedly passed away aged 54 on January 12, 2023, after suffering from a cardiac arrest caused by a small bowel obstruction from a previous gastric bypass surgery.
The singer – who is survived by the Daisy Jones & the Six actress, her twins Harper Vivienne and Finley Aaron, and her mother Priscilla Presley – was working on a memoir at the time of her passing, which Riley is planning to complete and release.
In a statement from Random House, Riley, 34, detailed her plans to help complete her mother's memoir, which is yet to be titled, and release it this October with an accompanying audiobook, voiced by herself.
"Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis' daughter," she wrote, adding: "I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one."
Lisa had previously asked her daughter for help with the memoir before her death, and Riley has relied on tapes her mom had recorded – some of which will be released with the book – to complete it.
"I'm so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest," Riley continued in her statement, adding: "In doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did."
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The memoir will cover much of the highs and lows of Lisa Marie's life: growing up in Graceland and her relationship with her father, her difficult relationship with her mother, insight into her marriages to Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Danny Keough, and Michael Lockwood, as well as the heartbreak she experienced after her son Benjamin Keough's suicide in 2020.
President of Random House Group Sanyu Dillon also said in the statement: "We are so honored to publish Lisa Marie’s memoir with Riley's thoughtful collaboration."
The message continued: "Lisa Marie led a truly singular life, and we know this book, brought to publication with the guidance of her daughter, will be a beautiful legacy not only for her children but for the generations of people who have loved her."
Riley most recently honored her family's historic legacy during a televised Christmas special hosted in Graceland, the iconic Tennessee home her grandfather bought aged 22 in 1957, and where he along with his parents, Lisa Marie, and Benjamin are buried.
The home, which has been opened to the public since 1982, was part of a tense legal battle between Riley and her grandmother Priscilla over Lisa Marie's estate, which the two settled earlier this year, establishing Riley as sole trustee of her mother's Promenade Trust.
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Hours after Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella revealed she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, her twin sister Sophia has praised the teen, sharing how "proud" she is of the USC student and model. "I’m so lucky to have the most amazing sister and best friend in the world," Sophia posted on social media alongside a carousel of pictures of the two together taken in recent months, including one of Isabella in a hospital bed and Sophia masked up lying next to her.
"The last few months have been so much harder than we could have ever imagined, but it’s made me realize just how strong you are. You inspire me and I’m so proud of you. Us forever."
"Best sister," Isaballe replied in the comments, while friends including Skai Jackson and Bella Garcia left heart emojis.
Sophia's decision to post the pictures comes as Isabella revealed in her first video post for her blog that she had been reluctant to take pictures by herself as the treatment had left her feeling not "like myself".
"I just had a Sephora ad come out, that I shot in May 2023. So it’s super exciting but I remember being so excited to go to the store and take a selfie with it and I can’t do that right now because I don’t really feel like myself or that person in the ad,” she admitted in the video.
“These past two months, it’s been rough. It’s been challenging and it’s been very hard but I know I’ll get through it. I know time will heal and things will get back to being — I can’t really say normal because there’s not really normal now in my life, but things will get back to being calmer."
Isabella, who started college at University of Southern California in Los Angeles last fall, and has also been enjoying a blossoming career as a model, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in late October 2023; it is the most common type of cancerous brain tumor in children, which first stems from the lower back part of the brain, the cerebellum.
"I didn't notice anything was off till probably like October 1," the college freshman told Good Morning America's Robin Robert in an emotional interview with her father on January 11. She began throwing up every morning, and feeling dizzy, until one day she threw up blood and messages Sophia for advice. After her father encouraged her to go to the doctor and have a round of tests, they discovered a fast-growing four-centimeter tumor – larger than a golf ball – in the back of her head.
On October 27, one day before her 19th birthday, she underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai, and the following month saw her face radiation, rehabilitation, and learning to walk again. She has now left California and will be a patient at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center in Durham, North Carolina – her twin sister Sophia attends Duke – to start chemotherapy.
“I just hope anyone who sees this knows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that things will get better because every day is another day closer to getting better and closer to feeling better,” she added in her video.
“Progress takes a lot of time… try to see the positive things.”
Isabella and Sophia are Michael's youngest children, whom he welcomed with second wife Jean Muggli. He is also dad to daughter Tanita, 32, and son Michael Jr., 29, from his first marriage to Wanda Hutchins.
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Princess Rajwa and Prince Hussein have jetted off to Singapore marking a rare joint following their wedding last year.
The royal couple, who married last year, attended the launch of the Jordan-Singapore Tech Alliance Forum, with the event having been organised by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Jordan's embassy in Singapore, the Singapore Business Federation, and SG Tech. During the event, Hussein gave a speech saying his home country "aspires to be a rising force on the global tech scene".
The 29-year-old looked dapper in a suit, while his wife looked absolutely beautiful in a a cream that carried the most mesmerising floral print.
Hussein and Rajwa tied the knot last year, with the pair marrying in front of 140 guests, which included the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
The royal bride looked stunning in a long sleeve silk crepe gown by Lebanese fashion designer, Elie Saab, with draping details across the bodice and enhanced with a long train embellished with cut-out flowers and pearl details.
Following his wedding, Hussein penned the sweetest tribute to his beloved, saying: "God has blessed me with Rajwa, the light of my life and my lifelong companion. May our marriage bring us both peace and warmth. I pray that God continues to bless us.
"Once again, my deepest thanks to everyone who celebrated with us from our beloved Jordan, as well as our family and loved ones from around the world. I could not be more thankful to God for the countless blessings He has granted me today, and to Rajwa for everything she is to me."
READ: Queen Rania shares advice she gave daughter-in-law Princess Rajwa before royal wedding
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Manchester City defender Kyle Walker has hit the headlines after the 33-year-old was left by his wife, Annie Kilner, amid allegations that he has fathered two children with model Lauryn Goodman.
On Sunday, Annie reported that she was splitting from her husband, who she had been with for 13 years, sharing: "Sadly, after many years of marriage and three wonderful children together, I have decided to take some time away from Kyle. I do not wish to comment on the position any further. For now, I ask that the privacy of myself and my 3 young children be respected during this difficult time."
Previous reports said that Kyle and Annie were clashing due to his relationship with model Lauryn Goodman, who he met in 2019 while he and Annie went through a temporary split. During their brief time together, Lauryn fell pregnant and gave birth to the footballer's son, Kairo. Lauren welcomed another child last year, a daughter, and didn't reveal who the father was, only saying he was a footballer.
The Mail has since claimed that Kyle is the father of Lauryn's second child, however, no party has yet officially claimed this.
Inside and Kyle and Annie's 13-year relationship
The couple first met in their home city of Sheffield when they were both teenagers. Kyle and Annie dated for 12 years before they finally tied the knot in 2021 at the five-star Mottram Hall Hotel in Cheshire. Kyle had popped the question to his partner in 2020 with a floral-themed proposal.
Annie is a model, and she met Kyle while she was embarking on her career. Speaking to The Sun about their relationship, Annie shared: "When we started going out it was love at first sight."
During their time together, Kyle and Annie have welcomed three children: Riaan, Roman and Reign. However, despite the longevity of their relationship, it hasn't been easy riding for the couple and she has since removed all traces of her husband from her social media accounts.
In 2019, the couple temporarily separated after his affair with Ex on the Beach star Laura Brown. Laura exposed the affair to Annie after reportedly feeling guilty about the encounters. During their time apart, Kyle began seeing Lauryn, leading to her falling pregnant with his son.
This wasn't the end of his dalliances, and in 2020, the footballer apologised after allegedly hosting a sex party during the COVID lockdowns. In a statement at the time, Kyle said: "I want to take this opportunity to issue a public apology for the choices I made last week. I understand that my position as a professional footballer brings the responsibility of being a role model. As such, I want to apologise to my family, friends, football club, supporters and the public for letting them down."
Everything about Lauryn Goodman
Kyle met model and influencer Lauryn, 32, during his 2019 split from Annie, with the pair welcoming a child together. Lauryn, who is the older sister of Ex on the Beach and Celebrity Big Brother star Chloe Goodman, welcomed a daughter last year.
The fashion designer hasn't named the father, but dropped several clues that Kyle was the father, as she revealed that her daughter's dad is a footballer with a last name beginning with 'W'.
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Lauryn and Annie have also had public spats, with Lauryn accusing the model of being a "wicked stepmother" after she left out Kairo when she referenced Kyle's "three" sons after Manchester City scored a treble, meaning they won three major trophies in one season.
Lauryn has since changed her Instagram account to private.
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Adan Canto's wife Stephanie has honored her late husband with a heartbreaking passage of scripture, calling the actor her "treasure" who she will see "soon". Stephanie quoted from the book of Matthew, chapter six, writing: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
"Forever my treasure Adan, see you soon," she added, including a broken heart emoji alongside a picture of the pair that saw the sun's beam beat down on Adan's face.
Stephanie is a sculptor and painter, and they met in Brooklyn, New York City in 2012 when he was filming Fox drama The Following, and five years later married in June 2017. Together, they welcomed two young children – Roman Alder, three, born in 2020, and one-year-old Eve Josephine, born in 2022.
Adan and Stephanie were also creative collaborators, working on the short film Before Tomorrow in 2014, and The Shot in 2020.
Adan, who originally pursued a career in music in Mexico before transitioning to Hollywood, died after a diagnosis of appendiceal cancer. The news of his illness was kept private until his passing, as confirmed by Deadline.
His representatives at UTA, Entertainment360, and Viewpoint reflected on his profound impact, stating, "Adan had a depth of spirit that few truly knew. Those who glimpsed it were changed forever. He will be greatly missed by so many."
Adan appeared in Designated Survivor alongside Kiefer Sutherland, The Cleaning Lady on Fox with Oliver Hudson, and X-Men: Days of Future Past with Halle Berry, who expressed her profound sadness with a post on social media which read: "I don’t have the words just yet… but my dear sweet friend Adan just gained his wings. Forever, forever in my heart."
"I only knew Adan for 2 years but it was enough to know what an amazing friend, father and man he was," shared Oliver alongside a picture of Adan with Oliver on set.
"Wow did he love his family. We would spend so much time talking about our kids and what kind of people they might become."
Oliver continued: "Getting out of LA to live a simpler existence where nature and vast landscapes set the tone for the day. He would invite me many times to ride motorcycles through the New Mexico mountains but I never did. I regret that. I can now imagine what those rides meant to him. I'm truly devastated. Love you my man."
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I Tried The TikTok Viral Overnight Sheet Mask — Here Is My Honest Review
You can even eat a bagel in this trending ultra-adhesive sheet mask.
As someone who loves sheet masks, I thought I’d tried practically everything in the category. That was until the Derm•All Matrix Facial Dermal-Care Mask started showing up continuously on my TikTok For You page. Countless rave reviews on TikTok are saying that using the mask just once removes dead skin cells, leaves you glowing, gives the appearance of wearing “10 layers of toner and serum,” and even plumps out wrinkles. I was instantly intrigued by the promises of getting Korean glass skin fast, as well as the unusual directive to wear the mask overnight and how it’s meant to change color from white to clear as you wear it.
It’s safe to say that the TikTok effect worked on me and I was convinced to try the viral Derm•All Matrix Facial Dermal-Care Mask. Read on for my honest review.
The TikTok Viral Mask
Fast Facts:
- Price: $29.20 for four masks
- Who this is best for: People with dry skin or anyone in need of a hydration boost
- What I like: The highly adhesive sheets are a game-changer for comfort of wear my skin felt noticeably more radiant after one use.
- What I didn’t like: I didn’t find much evidence that it had removed any dead skin cells or exfoliated my face
- My rating: 4/5
How To Use It:
The Facial Dermal-care Mask is designed to be worn overnight (the instructions say the longer you wear it, the better the results are), but technically it only needs to stay on for a minimum of two hours to work properly. I’m a side sleeper who forgot to put it on before going to bed, so I decided to try it out on a work-from-home day for three hours. The instructions also recommend applying a hydrating toner before use. I cleansed my face in the shower and then used the Laneige Cream Skin toner to prep my skin before opening the mask.
Packaging & First Impressions:
Unlike other sheet masks that feel like soggy pieces of cloth coming out of the packet, this mask has a jelly-like consistency and doesn’t come with any excess liquid in the packaging. The consistency made it easy to apply, although I had to reposition it a few times under my eyes and around my nose to ensure it didn’t overhang. The longer I wore the mask, the more it clung to my face and the more comfortable it became, and as promised, it even started turning transparent after one hour.
The Facial Dermal-Care Mask is meant to stick to your face better than other sheet masks and not slide around as you sleep (or go about you day as usual). Considering I applied the mask right before eating a bagel, I truly put this to the test. While the mask tore a little around the mouth while I was eating, it still stayed put. I was impressed. For the next few hours I worked, took a Zoom call (I did first need to warn colleagues that I looked like Lord Voldemort), and even cleaned up around my apartment. No movement from the mask.
The Results:
After about three hours and once the mask was almost completely clear, I removed it to examine my results. Carefully inspecting the sheets for gunk and debris, I didn’t find much proof that it had removed any dead skin cells from my face. However, my skin did feel noticeably more glowy and hydrated.
While many moisturizing masks just leave my face feeling wet and gooey, taking off the Dermal-Care Mask left me looking like I had just layered on all my favorite products perfectly and was simultaneously having a good skin day. Later that night, I met up with friends without makeup on and got compliments on my skin.
Is The Derm•All Matrix Dermal Care Sheet Mask Worth It?
You can buy a pack of four Derm•All Matrix’s Facial Dermal-Care Masks for $29.20 — if it’s not already sold out thanks to TikTok. It’s a pretty high price point for four masks, especially when the brand recommends masking multiple times a week. While I probably wouldn’t want to spend $30 per week on sheet masks (or would even remember to do it four times a week), I consider myself officially sold on using the mask as a weekly treatment. With such great results after just one use, I’ve been wondering how much better they can get if I leave it on longer, or use them more often.
Final Verdict:
No, the Derm•All Matrix Facial Dermal-Care Mask didn’t give me perfect glass skin but the “10 layers of toner and serum” review felt accurate. By simply sticking a mask on your face, you can bypass the ordeal of an entire skincare routine — at the cost of looking scary for a few hours. I also woke up the next morning to another good skin day. Needless to say, I’ll soon be putting the viral mask to the side-sleeping test and have even decided to pack one with me to wear on a long-haul flight this weekend.
About Me:
I’m a beauty writer with a combination skin type and a tendency toward finding and trying TikTok skin and haircare trends. I’ve covered beauty and wellness for over six years and buy 90% of my sheet masks from Koreatown in New York.
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The Best TV, Movies, & Music From Saturn’s Epic Tour In Pisces
TV, movies, and music that make sense of messiness.
We’re at a collective moment of culture synthesis as Saturn closes out another three-decade revolution of the zodiac. From March 2023 through February 2026, the planet of definition is in Pisces, the final sign, the psychedelic whirlpool where the previous 11 signs are processed, healed, and transformed before the cycle begins anew.
Saturn’s mission is to erect boundaries for the sake of personal dignity. In Pisces, the sign of formless collective consciousness, Saturn helps us contend with forces that threaten to devour us, to come to terms with our shortcomings, and to tap into empathy without losing our footing in reality. The numinous powers of Pisces will prove overwhelming to all of us if we don’t have some ethical grounding.
Naturally, this should be a boom period for interesting art, a culmination of our cultural trajectory since Saturn last left Pisces in 1996. The best art to be found from Saturn’s current run attempts to make sense of messiness and free our perspectives for the next 30-year saga of creative renewal. Here are our favorite picks from Saturn’s journey through Pisces — so far.
TV: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Pisces is the sign of the messiah, the martyr who must sacrifice himself for the good of all. Netflix’s animated return to the Scott Pilgrim universe, which reunites the cast of the 2010 cult classic Scott Pilgrim Saves the World, takes the film’s protagonist out of the equation so that the rest of the cast can grow and move on. In the Saturnian spirit of closure and accountability, the new series eschews cannibalistic nostalgia and provides every character with a dignified send-off, making peace with the genius — and the shortcomings — of the original texts. The animation, by Science SARU, is a Piscean blend of sensibilities, mixing the styles of anime, video games, and comic books to create something luminous and crackling with life.
TV: And Just Like That, Season 2
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis were born during Saturn’s mid-’60s Pisces edition. When Sex and the City premiered in 1998, they had freshly completed their first Saturn return and could now inhabit, with gusto, the exhilaration and uncertainty that greets you on the other side of 30. And Just Like That (AJLT) is the rare chronicle of a second Saturn return, when, at middle age, one must make peace with who they’ve become, recognize how they’ve lost their way, and cultivate a true and purposeful third chapter of life. The first season of AJLT felt clunky and all over the place as it tried to reckon the show’s core elements with a new generation’s sensibilities. Now, the Piscean mishmosh is settled, and the assembled players can have a good time, toasting martinis in the chaos. There’s a spirit of curiosity and alacrity that greets all the women as they enjoy this new era together. Perhaps the most definitive Saturn return entry is the episode “VIVA,” which throws a 50-something Carrie into contact with women in the range of their third Saturn return while she attends a disorienting soirée thrown by Candice Bergen. Apparently, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
TV: Beef
Saturn’s M.O. is to bulldoze your excuses and narratives to make you take responsibility. In Pisces, the sign of victimhood, there’s a lot of bullsh*t to cut through. The tragic heroes of Beef — played by Golden Globe winner Ali Wong and Steven Yeun — are, at once, endearing, funny, pathetic, cruel, violent, and, clearly, dangers to themselves and others. Pisces is the sign of multitudinous interiority, and Saturn’s work here is to help us accept all parts of ourselves — loveable and hideous — so as to deal and move on. Beef doesn’t let its characters off the hook, or reduce them to reductive and manipulative tropes. When surrender and acceptance finally come, they feel impossibly earned.
TV: The Other Two
When Saturn comes to Pisces, we face those forces which feel too powerful for us to defeat. In its third and final season, TV’s darkest Hollywood satire brings its fame-hungry sibling duo to the brink of insanity, as Cary (Drew Tarver) engineers an Oscar campaign for himself and Brooke (Heléne York) faces up to the intoxicating savagery of her job in media. By show’s end, both have been toppled down to humility, awakening from the delusive thrall of celebrity, and ready to begin anew. Saturn doesn’t care if you get famous. It just wants you to grow up.
Film: All of Us Strangers
As the sign of oceanic consciousness, Pisces commands healing journeys that are anything but linear (hence the current boom, with Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, of psychedelic therapies and beyond). All of Us Strangers blasts down the gates between past and present, fantasy and reality, as Adam (Andrew Lincoln) confronts the loss of his parents, the legacy of his homosexuality, and the possibility of new and revivifying love. Sparing us from yet another punishing coming-out story, All of Us Strangers instead embraces the conversations and confrontations that can only happen in the realm of prayer and surrender. The dead are here to help us heal and deal and move on; the dance floor is a crucible of reawakening; and our greatest work is to part with the past and embrace this messy, living incarnation. Make it through this one, and you’ll be ready to begin again.
Film: May December
Our toxic “true crime” obsession continues to pump out exploitative content, making celebrities out of murderers and charlatans, all for the sake of exploring so-called moral complexity. When Saturn returns to Pisces, it reveals the narcissists who have claimed false victimhood and helps heal the poor souls who never knew they deserved redemption. In Todd Haynes’ savage May December, a former tabloid couple (Charles Melton and Julianne Moore) — then a grown woman and her teen lover, now a married couple with children in college — host an actress (Natalie Portman) looking to give their story the highbrow treatment. Her visit reveals how narratives can become prisons, how abusers can make themselves into martyrs, and what happens to those innocents who never stood a chance. Saturn’s reckoning isn’t pretty, but it’s necessary.
Music: Christine and the Queens, Paranoia, Angels, True Love
The French pop visionary descends into the Piscean waters, taking with him the loves he has lost, the family who has passed on, and those previous incarnations that once defined him. This is album-as-baptism, the musician opens himself up to possibility, rebirth, and ambivalence through buoyant, catchy hymns. Of course, this being Christine and the Queens, you can count on the remixes to take the journey to the next level.
Music: Jake Shears, Last Man Dancing
Pisces’ ruling planet is Jupiter, the great mosaic artist who melds influences, stories, and beauty through the work of collage. In his second solo album, Shears — himself a Jupiterian presence on the glam rock stage — voyages through different eras, and through his own musical legacy, in search of creative rediscovery. With guest vocals from Kylie Minogue, Big Freedia, and even Jane Fonda, the album evokes epic fantasy, blissful drug trips and the rapture of romance on the dance floor.
Music: Lana Del Rey, Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
In an Interview piece with Billie Eilish, Del Rey said that Norman F*cking Rockwell was “about world building, whereas this was straight vibing.” Mournful, hopeful, and contemplative, Ocean Blvd answers the Piscean calling of looking back, honoring what has been lost, and making peace with ambiguity. This is a send-off to previous iterations of the singer, a scrapbook of glorious bygone eras, and a chance at synthesis and celebration, as befits the end of a cycle.
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In an evocative display of art imitating life, Jennifer Lopez has unveiled the cover art for her much-anticipated album "This Is Me... Now," which stands as a thematic sequel to her 2002 album "This Is Me... Then."
With an arresting plunging black dress that harks back to her iconic green Versace ensemble from the 2000 Grammy Awards, Jennifer, at 54, continues to captivate with her timeless allure.
Her flowing chocolate brown hair and plum-toned makeup accentuate her golden Gucci necklace, but it's the raw emotion behind her songs that promises to speak volumes.
The album, an ode to her renewed love with husband Ben Affleck, is slated for release on February 16. The lead single "Can't Get Enough" is a testament to Jennifer's multifaceted artistry, as she portrays a bride in various matrimonial scenes, marrying an array of grooms—a whimsical nod to her own matrimonial history.
The music video, dubbed ‘This is Me…Now: The Film,’ is a narrative-rich, intimate journey through Jennifer's publicly scrutinized love life, blending fantasy with her signature humor and sensuality.
As she joked on the Golden Globes red carpet, "I am somewhat of an expert you could say in a real way. Not so much about marriage but on weddings."
Jennifer's narrative in the album not only chronicles her path from heartbreak to love but also shines a light on her journey as a mother to twins Emme and Max, whom she shares with her third husband, Marc Anthony.
With her marriage to Ben in 2022, twenty years after their first engagement, Jennifer and Ben—affectionately known as Bennifer 2.0—have reclaimed their narrative, becoming one of the most celebrated couples in the public eye once again.
Ben, Jennifer’s staunchest advocate, sees the artistry and expression in her work. As Jennifer shares, "He knows that I’m going to express myself. He’s my biggest fan and my biggest supporter, as I am of him."
The album promises to be a candid reflection of Jennifer's resilience and her unwavering commitment to love, art, and family.
As she navigates the complexities of a life lived in the limelight, her work stands as a beacon of her enduring spirit—a celebration of the love that has both challenged and elevated her.
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Simon Cowell has just expanded his family in the most adorable way possible. With a knack for discovering talent on stage, it seems the America's Got Talent: Fantasy League judge’s heart has been stolen by a new off-stage companion, a delightful German Shepherd mix puppy named Pebbles.
Taking to Instagram to announce the arrival of his furry friend, Simon shared heartwarming images that instantly captured the hearts of his followers.
In one snapshot, Pebbles’ puppy eyes gaze into the camera as Simon puckers up for a kiss, and in another, he's seen snuggling into her fluffy ear.
"Our family has had a new arrival ... Her name is Pebbles," Simon shared, and instantly, fans were smitten.
Comments flooded in, with fans cooing over Pebbles' expressive eyes and celebrating the joy that a new pet brings to a home.
"Awww look at those eyes. Nothing better than a four-legged addition to the family," a fan gushed, while another chimed in with a warm greeting, "Oh she's adorable! Hi Pebbles x."
Pebbles joins a growing canine family that already includes the affectionate Daisy, Freddie, and the tiny, spirited Yorkshire Terriers, Squiddly and Diddly.
For those eager to see more of Simon's endearing brood, his official website offers a gallery of touching portraits featuring the "AGT" executive producer with his beloved dogs.
Simon, who has previously shown his softer side through his deep love for dogs, once again displayed this affection publicly in August 2022.
He posted a delightful montage titled "bring a puppy to work day," featuring him cuddling with a Pomsky named Odin on the red carpet, suggesting another possible addition to his pack.
This love for canines isn't new for Simon. In 2015, he spoke passionately to Glamour about the immeasurable happiness his dogs have brought him.
He voiced his staunch opposition to any form of animal cruelty, revealing his support for Cruelty-Free International's efforts to end the use of dogs in laboratory experiments worldwide.
The tender-hearted mogul stated, "I have always loved dogs but had no idea how much happiness they would bring to my life."
The entertainment mogul's compassion isn't limited to his animal friends. During the premiere of America's Got Talent: Fantasy League, Simon made a surprisingly heartfelt confession to his fellow judge Mel B, admitting, “Can I be honest with you? I’ve actually missed you,” eliciting a delighted response from the Spice Girl.
Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel joined the sentiment, with Heidi adding, "It's like getting the family back together," and Mandel humorously noting, "Mel Be back," as the judges enjoyed a warm, familial reunion on set.
Simon is father to 10-year-old son Eric who he shares with fiancée Lauren Silverman.
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Emilia & Nathy Peluso’s Long-Awaited Collab Is The First Baddie Anthem Of 2024
Bullets, samurai swords, and bad b*tch energy galore.
When Emilia dropped her sophomore album, .MP3, last November, the third song from the record was suspiciously missing. Titled “JET_Set.mp3,” it was available to see, but not stream, for months — until now. “It was all about building up that anticipation, you know?” says the 27-year-old Argentinian supernova, who after months of teasing is exclusively premiering “JET_Set.mp3” on NYLON, below. And the verdict is in: it’s undoubtedly one of the first major bangers of 2024.
Emilia's genre-hopping .MP3 pulls inspiration from Kylie Minogue to Argentine girl group Bandana, and is full of girl power on a global scale with features from Brazil's Ludmilla and fellow Argentine superstar Tini. On “JET_Set.mp3,” she’s keeping the theme of female empowerment going with a new feature from 28-year-old Latin Grammy-award winning superstar, Nathy Peluso.
The Zecca-produced tag-team effort exudes cocky, Argentine queen energy, with Emilia proclaiming, “La mejor carne importada de Argentina” (or, “the best meat is imported from Argentina”) and razor-sharp assists from Peluso delivered with deadly precision. “Una gata mala, boca de dulce de leche,” Peluso raps at one point. That energy only continues in its Matrix-influenced accompanying music video, where the Latin music titans full-on transform into femme fatales, blasting bullets and swinging samurai swords… when they weren’t too busy cracking each other up behind-the-scenes.
Ahead of Emilia’s upcoming 2024 tour — which made her the first artist in history to sell out 10 shows at Argentina’s 15,000-person capacity Movistar Arena in just 10 hours — NYLON caught up with the singer about the making of her kick-ass collaboration with Nathy Peluso, her inspirations, and tapping into fierce, self-empowered energy.
NYLON: Emilia, you kept teasing this collaboration with Nathy Peluso for months in interviews and on social media, but you didn't release it as part of your album until right now. How come?
Emilia: My fans knew there was a special collab coming with Nathy Peluso, but they didn't know when it was coming out. It was like a little surprise from me to them! It was all about building up that anticipation, you know? I wanted to give my fans something special, a little surprise to make the album release even more exciting.
The album was heavily inspired by the early-to-mid '00s. This video definitely takes inspiration from a film of that era, The Matrix. Tell us about the creative direction.
We wanted to inspire women to feel empowered, but also make it fun. The ‘00s were my inspiration for this album — think Razr phones, rad fashion, all that good stuff! It’s like reliving the coolest parts of my life growing up in that era. I wanted to bring those vibes back and share the nostalgia with you all.
What was it like to be on set with Nathy?
Filming with Nathy was a dream — I have always admired her. We were vibing off each other, bringing those fierce and fun moments to life. The whole set had this amazing energy, and you can see it in the blooper reel. Just laughter, good times and creating magic together. It was like hanging out with your bestie and making something epic.
Do you have experience in martial arts or firing guns? You looked hot doing it!
I do not have any experience with martial arts, or firing guns, but I do enjoy dancing. It’s another passion of mine. And in each and every one of my videos, you can be sure to see some dance moves!
"JET_Set.mp3” is an anthem. What’s the meaning behind it?
"JET_Set.mp3" is our anthem for fierce female empowerment. Nathy and I want every woman to feel confident, powerful and unapologetically themselves. It's all about breaking free from stereotypes and owning your space. We hope it's a boost of empowerment and self-love for everyone.
Both of you hail from Argentina. There's also Tini from Argentina. Lali is from Argentina, too. This is a huge moment musically for Argentina queens right now!
Argentina’s music scene is buzzing, and sharing this moment with all the talented Argentinian artists feels incredible. We are all part of this movement, and we have supported each other in a way that’s been very genuine. It's inspiring to see each of us bringing our unique styles and Argentine flair to the global stage. Being part of this collective success is a dream.
Can we expect to see you two performing this song live someday?
I would absolutely love to perform this live with Nathy. Imagine the energy of the crowd, mixed with the power of this song — it would be pure magic. Let’s hope this happens in 2024 with my tour.
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Lauren Sanchez, a prominent figure in both media and aviation, is set to receive the prestigious Elling Halvorson Vertical Flight Hall of Fame Award at the 21st Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards, cementing her position as a trailblazer in the industry.
As the founder of Black Ops Aviation, the first female-owned aerial film and production company, the 54-year-old has carved a unique path, combining her passions for storytelling and aviation into a groundbreaking career.
This accolade, which she will receive alongside luminaries such as Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise, is a testament to her contributions as a visionary in vertical flight.
As the event's acting Executive Director, Stacey Elsner, aptly put it, "Lauren is a role model and true inspiration for so many women in aviation."
Jeff Bezos’ fiancee’s influence extends beyond the cockpit as she leverages her platform to inspire and encourage women's involvement in the aviation sector.
Lauren's journey began in the bustling city of Los Angeles, where she pursued a degree at the University of Southern California, thanks to a scholarship.
Her academic achievements led her to notable stints on television shows like "Extra" and "Good Day LA," and film appearances that showcased her on-camera charisma.
However, it was the sky that called to her most profoundly. In 2011, she embraced the challenge of flight training, overcoming dyslexia to earn her pilot's license.
Her tenacity and dedication were the catalysts for the launch of Black Ops Aviation in 2016, a move that allowed her to blend her love for film and flight in an unprecedented way.
Lauren's trailblazing spirit and prowess as a pilot have not gone unnoticed in the industry. Her consultancy on Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" and her role as an aerial producer for "Miss Bala" are just a few examples of her exceptional talent.
Yet, it's her personal narrative—transforming from a news anchor to a pilot with a calling—that resonates with so many.
"Only six per cent of pilots are women, and there's even less in the film industry. So I was like, I want to film movies, that's what I want to do," she shared with The Hollywood Reporter, capturing the essence of her pioneering spirit.
The influence of her father, a commercial pilot and flight instructor, cannot be overstated in shaping her path.
Despite the setback of being deemed too large to be a flight attendant, Lauren's resilience led her back to school, where a diagnosis of dyslexia opened the door to her true potential.
From her days at El Camino College to her tenure at University of Southern California, her academic turnaround is nothing short of inspirational.
Lauren's personal life also took flight in a new direction when she and Jeff, bonded by a mutual love for aviation, found themselves in a whirlwind romance.
Their relationship, which came to light amid personal transitions, has flourished, with Bezos' support for her ventures in philanthropy and film production through Adventure & Fellowship.
In the realm of film, Laurens company produced The Golden Door, marking another milestone in her diverse career.
Her literary pursuits also soared with the release of her children's book "Flynn, The Fly Who Flew," while her ambitions in space travel hint at an all-female mission with Blue Origin, potentially launching in 2024.
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Nicola Peltz-Beckham has dropped the first trailer for her directorial debut Lola, and has received the support from mother-in-law Victoria Beckham. "Thank you so much to this amazing cast and crew," Nicola captioned the Instagram post on January 11, sharing that the film would be released February 9 in limited release.
Victoria, meanwhile, also shared the trailer on her Instagram grid, writing: "We’re so proud of you and all your hard work @NicolaAnnePeltzBeckham!!! Excited to share the trailer for Lola… coming out February 9th!! I can’t wait to see it! Kisses."
Nicola, who married Victoria's eldest son Brooklyn in 2022, directed the film alongside Bria Vinaite, who found fame in 2017's The Florida Project. Nicola also wrote the screenplay which is set in 2002 in middle America and follows 19-year-old Lola as she saves money to help get her little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home and away from their mother, Mona (played by Virginia Madsen).
But as she does what it takes to make money, she spirals into drug addiction and is saved only by Arlo’s bright outlook on life – until one tragic night, when her whole world gets turned upside down.
Husband Brooklyn also posted the trailer to Stories, writing: "Wow, I can;t believe it's finally here. You have worked so hard on this and I could not be more proud of you. What an accomplishment, I can't wait for everyone to see it."
"I love you so much, my baby," he added.
Nicola also reshared several Instagram Stories from the cast and her friends, including Meadow Walker.
Recently, however, the actress admitted that she has a small-circle of friends and spends most of her time with her beloved husband, Brooklyn, or her close-knit family.
"I definitely go to my mom for everything—and [Brooklyn] also," she told during a chat with Selena Gomez for Wondermind at the end of 2023. "I do think it's really important to have people around you that you can lean on. Obviously life has so many down moments and up moments and you just wanna share those with the people that you love so much and that you can lean on."
The trailer comes days after Nicola celebrated her 29th birthday, and Victoria celebrated her daughter-in-law with a hilarious clip showcasing the pair's friendship with one another.
"Happy birthday @NicolaAnnePeltzBeckham… We love you so much!! Your love, kindness, talent and your ability to dance on sand in a major wedge!! The best dance partner and loving daughter in law. We love you, have an amazing day!!!!!" Victoria wrote alongside the video which showed the pair dancing around on the beach as the sun set.
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Princess Eugenie appeared to kick off 2024 with a glorious trip to Jamaica with friends, as she has appeared in new pictures shared by American influencer Hannah Bronfman's husband Brendan Fallis.
In one picture, husband Jack Brookbanks and Eugenie were sitting on the steps that lead from the house to the beach, where they were joined by four other couples and everyone's children.
Ernest sat on Jack's lap, with Eugenie tickling the baby's cheek on the left side of the picture while August, two, stood with children his own age wearing a green tee in the middle of the group -- and the young royal looked like a spitting image of his uncle Prince Harry.
In a second, Eugenie, wearing a cream sarong skirt and loose white shirt, held seven-month-old Ernest as she posed on the beach with Hannah and two other friends, and their babies.
Brendan, a content creator and designer, took to Instagram Stories to post a series of snaps from the vacation, which saw Eugenie joined by her husband Jack and their sons August and Ernest.
"When traditions begin," Brendan captioned the group shot. His wife Hannah is an angel investor and influencer, who welcomed her son in 2020 and daughter in 2023. She is the daughter of actress Sherri Brewer and Edgar Bronfman Jr., former Warner Music Group CEO and heir to one of the wealthiest families in Canada. They were also joined by Tory Gossage, a New York-based businesswoman who is on the board of the Bridge Committee for the River Fund New York, a frontline poverty center.
Eugenie welcomed her second child in May 2023, with the 33-year-old royal releasing a statement on Instagram announcing the birth.
"Jack and I wanted to share the news that we had our little boy, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank on 30th May 2023 at 8.49 weighing 7.1lbs," she shared. "He is named after his great great great Grandfather George, his Grandpa George and my Grandpa Ronald. Augie is loving being a big brother already."
Ernest is the first royal baby born under the rule of King Charles III,and the King will have been one of the first family members to learn of the birth. Eugenie's little boy is Charles' great-nephew and is 13th in line to the throne after his big brother, August.
Eugenie and her sister Beatrice, who is mom to two-year-old daughter Sienna often refrain from sharing details on their young children, however their mother, Sarah Duchess of York is a little more forthcoming and revealed on her podcast Tea Talks With The Duchess and Sarah, that all of her grandchildren are active and "all kicking balls".
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Gisele Bündchen has once again affirmed her reign as a bastion of beauty and elegance. Gracing Frame's Spring 2024 denim campaign, the illustrious Brazilian supermodel, at 43, has effortlessly showcased why she remains a paragon in the world of high fashion.
Gisele's striking campaign, revealed amidst the glitz of New York Fashion Week, finds her baring her sculpted abs with a poise that only a veteran supermodel possesses.
She is attired in a simple yet bold white bralette paired flawlessly with Frame's signature denim, a sartorial nod to the brand's chic and unfussy aesthetic.
This campaign, captured by the deft lens of Frame's co-founder and creative director, Erik Torstensson, unfolds in the very city that has become Gisele's sanctuary since her split from ex-husband Tom Brady.
Each image exudes a relaxed yet polished vibe, whether Gisele is lounging casually in a cozy sweatshirt or commanding attention in a cropped jacket elegantly draped over a leotard.
One particular snapshot, shared with her 22.3 million Instagram admirers, sees Gisele in nothing but her undergarments and a pair of lightly distressed jeans—the Le Jane in Mariner, retailing at $288.
This candid frame from the campaign has enamored fans, with one comment perfectly encapsulating the public sentiment: "Loving seeing you around. The advertising in London just makes the city look great."
In the heartfelt words of Erik, "The FRAME woman is a multi-hyphenate herself, she doesn’t want to think too hard about her look whether she is on or off-duty.
“She is effortless, elegant, and wears her clothes with an enviable air of insouciance. This campaign is a celebration of that attitude and lifestyle."
Indeed, Gisele's essence as the FRAME woman transcends beyond the campaign, as evidenced by the brand's esteemed clientele including Gigi Hadid, Hailey Bieber, and Jennifer Lopez.
The collection, a testament to chic ease, will be accessible to style aficionados across renowned outlets such as Net-a-porter and Harrods.
The return of Gisele to the limelight marks a resurgence of her storied career. She, who gracefully stepped back to devote herself to family life, is now reveling in the creative collaboration with long-time industry partners and friends like Erik.
As she divulged to Elle, "It fuels me... I feel inspired to go and create more beautiful things in the world in different ways, too."
Her narrative extends beyond fashion; Gisele's personal journey of self-discovery and fulfillment has unfolded publicly.
She has candidly shared the treasured moments of motherhood and her aspirations, telling Vanity Fair, "Do you know how grateful I am that I got that time for myself? I breastfed my kids until they were almost two years old."
Today, nestled in her luxurious South Florida residence, Gisele cherishes her independence and explores new romantic vistas, rumored to be in the company of Joaquim Valente.
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It was a big night for Poor Things at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, January 7, as they walked in with seven nominations and came out with two coveted wins.
The Yorgos Lanthimos-led fantasy sci-fi black comedy won Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone, and also took home the big prize – Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
Mark Ruffalo was also nominated in the Supporting category for his turn as debauched lawyer Duncan Wedderburn, and while he didn't win (that prize went to his Avengers co-star Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer), he did have a great night anyway.
The 56-year-old actor spoke exclusively with HELLO! at the National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala in New York City on Thursday, January 11, where he was honored with Best Supporting Actor.
When asked how he and the entire team for the movie celebrated their Globes win, he gushed: "We went out and danced, and danced, and danced, and laughed, and danced some more!"
The actor was joined by lead Emma, director Yorgos, and co-stars Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef, and shared a glimpse of their night of parties on his Instagram page.
"So proud of @poorthingsfilm, this cast, and everyone who's a part of the film," he wrote, and shared a throwback right after of himself with Robert, celebrating his close friend's win. "Congratulations, @robertdowneyjr! Was great to see you be rewarded for an incredible performance, old pal. That was a long time coming."
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While he missed out on a SAG Award nomination, his co-stars Emma and Willem each received one, and he congratulated them on Instagram by sweetly penning: "Congratulations to Emma and Willem for the SAG nominations!! So happy for my Poor Things family. Such a great honor for two of the best performances of the year. I'm biased… but still. I know who I'm rooting for."
The Hulk actor also appeared on the most recent edition of The Hollywood Reporters' actors roundtable with Robert, All of Us Strangers star Andrew Scott, The Holdovers star Paul Giamatti, Rustin star Colman Domingo, and American Fiction star Jeffrey Wright.
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When asked how he responded when he was first approached with the film, he admitted: "I told Yorgos, 'I don't think I'm the right person for this.' I tried to talk him out of it and he just laughed at me."
Mark continued: “In the movie business, it is starting to feel like you're a little bit in a box sometimes. But I had never played anything like that either. And I was scared. I mean, I saw his movies and I was in awe of them. So I was really scared. And he just laughed at me."
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He added: "It was such a great turn! And I get to do so much fun stuff in it, and break all the perceptions of me, what people want from me.
"You start to do something and all of a sudden, it springs up 'a brand'. And I got to bash that."
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Paul Giamatti may have gone viral for celebrating his Golden Globes win for The Holdovers at In-N-Out, but his co-star Da'Vine Joy Randolph went much more traditional with her approach.
The 37-year-old star spoke exclusively with HELLO! at the National Board of Review's Annual Awards Gala and revealed how she actually celebrated her first ever Golden Globe win.
"We made our rounds to the different parties that night, it was a good time," she said.
We also asked what she'd say to a younger version of herself, getting ready to star as psychic Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway version of Ghost back in 2012: "Keep going, it's worth it. It's going to be all worth it in the end."
Da'Vine walked away with the prize for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her stirring turn as cafeteria administrator Mary Lamb, who is grieving the loss of her son Curtis as she remains at a New England prep school over the holiday season instead of heading home.
In her acceptance speech, she thanked the entire team behind the critically acclaimed film. "[Director] Alexander Payne, thank you for giving me the opportunity to play this beautiful and flawed woman."
She continued: "And to my two partners in crime, Paul [Giamatti] and Dominic [Sessa], you have been an absolute dream to work with. And I thank you for making me a better artist because of it."
Da'Vine then specially dedicated a section to the character of Mary Lamb, saying: "To the character, Mary, oh Mary you have changed my life! You have made me feel seen in so many ways that I have never imagined.
"I hope I helped you all find your inner Mary, because there's a little bit of her in all of us."
Last month, she sat down with Fair Play star Alden Ehrenreich for Variety's Actors on Actors to discuss their journeys in the industry, and Da'Vine revealed what her one condition was heading into filming The Holdovers.
When Alden questioned: "You played a chef in The Holdovers. Did you make any of the food?" Da'Vine revealed that not only did she make the food, it was actually one of her non-negotiables.
READ: Emma Stone curses Taylor Swift and I nearly caught pneumonia: inside my evening at the Golden Globes
"That was my deal breaker," she explained. "I had to do the cooking. I need to be working with my hands. Over the course of the entire movie, I make oatmeal, a soup, and I roasted a chicken.
"On days when we're eating in scenes, we didn’t have craft services. We really sat down and had dinner."
The beloved dramedy has been considered a return to form for Alexander, and Da'Vine praised his ability in her Variety conversation. "From the first conversation with Alexander, I understood he was the type of director that wants to dig in."
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She even added: "He shipped me two big boxes of cigarettes with a note that said, 'Get to it!'"
Da'Vine explained: "I asked for swatches of the fabric [for my costumes] because, given that Mary was this matriarch, I needed people to feel like they wanted to cozy up next to her.
"As a woman of color, I always pay homage to my ancestors and elders – in the industry in particular – who have paved the way. It could be a hairstyle or a gesture that I lay in there. I always leave these little subliminal gems."
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New York City's iconic Cipriani 42nd Street was a showcase of sartorial splendor and cinematic celebration during the National Board Of Review 2024 Awards Gala. A constellation of stars descended, but none shone quite as brightly as Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.
Anne Hathaway
Anne, the perennial fashionista, stunned the assembly in her shimmering black gown that masterfully balanced elegance and allure. The 41-year-old’s ensemble was an homage to timeless Hollywood glamour.
Jessica Chastain
Jessica, at 46, radiated in a magenta masterpiece, a sartorial expression of boldness and beauty. The gown, with its bustier top and flowing skirt, was a triumph of design, and her multi-color diamond tennis necklace was the perfect complement, adding just the right amount of sparkle to her look.
Elizabeth Olsen
Elizabeth looked chic in a white cropped blazer and black velvet maxi skirt.
Laura Linney
Laura Linney wore a dramatic black dress with statement sleeves.
Bradley Cooper
Bradley looked dapper in a navy tuxedo, was among the luminaries adding their own unique brand of elegance to the evening.
Mark Ruffalo
Mark, honored as 'Best Supporting Actor' for Poor Things, was accompanied by his wife, Sunrise Coigney, who dazzled in a red silk gown.
Michael J Fox
Michael and his wife Tracy Pollan made a heartfelt appearance, showcasing their enduring partnership both on and off the red carpet.
Zac Efron
Zac Efron brought a pop of color with his blue velvet suit
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In a display of grace and allure, Natalie Portman recently made a stunning appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," captivating audiences with her poise and style.
Dressed in a chic little black dress that effortlessly blended elegance and allure, Natalie turned heads, sparking conversations about her personal life, particularly the 42-year-old "Black Swan" actress’s rumored split from husband Benjamin Millepied.
The dress, a masterful combination of fashion and statement, featured a sheer lace black bra subtly visible beneath a strapless bodice, accentuating Natalie's fit physique.
This ensemble, paired with striking black open-toe heels, marked a significant moment for the star, who has recently been embroiled in personal challenges.
Amidst swirling rumors of a separation from Benjamin, following allegations of infidelity, Natalie's fashion choice spoke volumes.
The Harvard-educated actress styled her lustrous light brown hair in a sleek, straight manner, complemented by soft, flattering makeup that included peach-toned blush and a moisturizing lip stain.
Her nails, painted in a glossy red, matched her pedicured feet, adding a pop of color to her monochrome outfit.
Outside the Los Angeles studio, Natalie graciously interacted with her fans, signing autographs and acknowledging their support.
This warm gesture highlighted her enduring connection with her admirers, who eagerly awaited a glimpse of the star.
The context of Natalie's recent public appearances has been tinged with speculation about her marital status.
In a revealing interview with the Wall Street Journal, Natalie mentioned residing in Paris with her children, Aleph, 12, and Amalia, six, without any reference to Benjamin.
This statement, coupled with her solo appearance at the Golden Globes sans wedding ring, fueled further conjecture about the state of her 11-year marriage.
Since the allegations against Benjamin surfaced, Natalie has been increasingly seen without her wedding ring. The last sighting of the ring was in early June, shortly after the infidelity rumors broke, following a report by Voici claiming Benjamin's involvement with a younger climate activist, Camille Étienne.
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As I sit down to reflect on my journey through perimenopause, I realize how much it resembles a stealthy lion, creeping up unnoticed until it's too close to ignore.
This phase of my life was a quiet transformation that turned my once-balanced, happy existence into a whirlwind of anxiety, depleted energy, and a hot mess of emotions.
The changes were subtle at first – a little more fatigue here, a slight weight gain there, and a mood that felt off-kilter. I brushed these off as the toll of a busy life, juggling work and family. It's what we women do, right? We put ourselves last.
The symptoms of perimenopause were like uninvited guests that overstayed their welcome. It began in my mid-forties, a time when I thought I still had a grip on my youth.
But slowly, the signs became harder to ignore. Was my hair thinning more than usual? Were my joints always this achy? And why did I feel like I was lugging around a heavy emotional weight?
READ: I’m a Beauty Editor in menopause. These 9 daily habits keep my skin glowing
I didn't recognise these changes for what they were. Like many, I trudged on for years, attributing the fatigue and mood swings to the hustle of life. It wasn't until I reached my late forties and missed a period or two that the word 'perimenopause' entered my vocabulary.
Understanding perimenopause was crucial. It's a natural stage, marking the transition to menopause, defined by the cessation of menstruation for 12 months or more.
It's a time when our bodies undergo hormonal upheavals as estrogen and progesterone levels fluctuate wildly.
Perimenopause isn't a brief guest; for some, it can linger for a decade. It usually starts in our 40s, but for some women, it begins earlier.
The journey to menopause is unique for each of us. Some might breeze through it in a year, while others, like me, find themselves in a long, often bumpy ride.
Blood tests aren't reliable in diagnosing perimenopause due to the natural hormone fluctuations.
The Modified Greene Scale is a more accurate measure, assessing symptoms to indicate estrogen insufficiency. I wish I had known this earlier; it would have saved me countless confusing GP visits.
The possibility of pregnancy during this time is reduced but not impossible. Periods become erratic – heavier, lighter, shorter, longer, or sometimes absent for months. It's a rollercoaster that's hard to predict.
READ: Davina McCall reveals which ‘specific workouts’ are key to helping menopause
The 12 most common symptoms of perimenopause:
Brain fog – Misplacing keys, forgetting appointments. It wasn't memory loss but a cognitive haze.
Weight gain – A slower metabolism and hormonal changes contributed to this unwelcome change.
Insomnia – Sleepless nights became the norm, further exacerbating other symptoms.
Night sweats and hot flashes – Waking up drenched in sweat was both uncomfortable and disheartening.
Mood swings – Irritability, anxiety, and depression were frequent, unpredictable visitors.
Lack of energy – Constant fatigue made every day feel like an uphill battle.
Vaginal dryness – This brought discomfort and a host of other issues.
Changes in libido – A fluctuating sex drive added another layer of complexity to my relationships.
Joint pain – Unexplained aches and stiffness became regular occurrences.
Headaches and migraines – These intensified, especially during hormonal fluctuations.
Irregular periods – The unpredictability of my menstrual cycle was frustrating.
Digestive problems – Bloating, stomach issues, and sudden food sensitivities emerged.
Managing these symptoms required a holistic approach. Diet played a crucial role – reducing sugar and alcohol while increasing protein intake.
Hydration was key, not just for reducing hot flashes but for overall well-being. Regular exercise, particularly gentle activities like walking, yoga, and pilates, helped manage stress and improve sleep.
And speaking of sleep, establishing a routine was vital, as was avoiding screen time before bed. Avoiding triggers like spicy food and caffeine also helped.
Some may require hormone therapy, a potential game-changer for many women. It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution, but for some, it can bring back a semblance of their former selves.
As I navigated through perimenopause, I realised that it affects every woman differently.
About 60 per cent of women experience mild symptoms, and 20 per cent might not notice any significant changes. But for the rest of us, it's a profound shift that requires attention, care, and understanding.
Perimenopause is not just a medical condition; it's a life stage that tests our resilience, patience, and ability to adapt. It taught me to listen to my body, prioritize my health, and embrace the support of those around me.
Though challenging, this journey has also been enlightening, revealing strengths I never knew I had and a deeper compassion for other women's experiences.
As I emerge into the post-menopausal phase, I carry with me not just the lessons learned but a sense of empowerment.
Perimenopause, with all its trials and tribulations, is not just an end but a beginning – a new chapter that holds the promise of wisdom, growth, and renewed vitality.
Faye James is an accredited nutritionist, member of the Australian Menopause Society and author of The Menopause Diet
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The King will visit Australia this year as the royals return to a busy schedule of overseas travel.
After a year of transition, with the monarch and his heir the Prince of Wales getting to grips with their new roles, their diary will return to a more regular pace, complete with major spring and autumn tours.
While His Majesty already has three state visits under his belt, he has yet to see any of his 14 overseas realms as monarch.
But a trip to Samoa for October's Commonwealth's Heads of Government Meeting means he and the Queen will be able to stop off in Australia and possibly New Zealand either en route or on the way back.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the visit at the start of the year, with a spokesman saying he "enjoys a warm relationship with the King and looks forward to welcoming His Majesty to Australia later this year".
It will be the first trip Down Under by a reigning monarch since 2011, when Elizabeth II visited for the last time. With the republican movement growing, it will be a key moment for the King to cement his relationship with the Australian people, six years after his last visit. He and the Queen – then the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall – opened the Commonwealth Games in Queensland in 2018.
Ahead of that trip, Their Majesties are also expected to return to Canada in the spring for the first time since the accession. In 2022, they travelled more than 2,000 miles from St John's in Newfoundland and Labrador to the capital Ottawa, then on to Yellowknife and Dettah in the Northwest Territories. This will be His Majesty’s 20th visit to Canada and the sixth for the Queen.
However, the first royal overseas visit of 2024 began this week, with the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence undertaking a three-day visit to Sri Lanka to mark 75 years of diplomatic relations with the UK.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are also preparing for their first official overseas visits – again at the request of the Government – since taking on their new roles.
Talks are under way about Prince William and Kate possibly travelling to Italy in the spring, hot on the heels of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s meeting with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, in Rome last month. This would be the Prince and Princess's first official visit to Italy, although as a student the then Kate Middleton spent three months studying art history in Florence during her gap year, which could mean a return to the Tuscan city.
In the past 12 months, the Prince has made journeys to New York, Singapore, Poland and Kuwait, while Kate joined him for the royal wedding of Crown Prince Al Hussein of Jordan to Saudi architect Rajwa Al Saif last June.
Both travelled separately to France to support England and Wales during their Rugby World Cup ties, too. This will be the first major trip for the couple since their tour of the Caribbean in March 2022, where they encountered scattered anti-monarchy protests. There will also be another glittering Earthshot Prize ceremony, with the continents of Africa and South America lined up as potential hosts. The long-haul trip could tie into a tour for them.
Also this summer, Princess Anne, president of the British Olympic Association and a member of the International Olympic Committee, is likely to attend the Paris Games, while other members of the royal family could also head across the Channel to support Team GB.
Two years after Princess Charlotte joined her parents at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, could she and her brothers Prince George and Prince Louis be in the French capital for more sporting fun?
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Grantchester fans have been eagerly waiting for the return of crime-fighting buddies Will Davenport and Geordie Keating following the end of series seven. After an almost two-year gap between seasons, the beloved ITV show finally returned to our screens on Thursday night – and it's safe to say the detective drama is back with a bang.
Series eight opened with a time jump to 1961, which sees Will [Tom Brittney] a happily married man following his wedding to Bonnie [Charlotte Ritchie] in the series seven finale, while Geordie [Robson Green] finds contentment in his marriage to Cathy [Kacey Ainsworth].
However, life is never simple in Grantchester for long, and things took a devastating turn for Will at the end of the episode, leaving viewers shocked.
Warning! Spoilers ahead.
In the episode, Will clashed with his wife Bonnie over her decision to return to her parents' house after the news that her mother had collapsed following a stroke.
While Will had opposed the idea since Bonnie is seven months pregnant, his wife insisted. "Yes, pregnant," she said. "Not a porcelain doll. Stop vicar-ing me."
After Bonnie left the village in a taxi, Will took his motorbike out for a ride, despite previously deciding to put it away for a while following a minor crash earlier in the episode.
It was a decision Will would soon come to regret, however.
While out on his bike, the vicar turned a corner and crashed into a man who had stepped into the road.
While Will was left unscathed, he rushed to the man to find him unconscious on the ground. As he checked for a pulse, he pleaded with the man to wake up, but no joy.
Speaking about Will's reaction to the accident ahead of series seven, actor Tom said: "Everything he's worked so hard for is gone just like that. It just destroys the way Will thinks of himself, because this action, whether it was an accident or on purpose, in the eyes of God and everyone else, he believes it's unforgivable, and it really sets him down a dark path."
READ: Grantchester: who is new lead Rishi Nair? Everything to know
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Tom went on to explain how the crash leads to a crisis of faith for Will in the coming episodes. "Now that this thing has happened, he's questioning whether God or anyone can ever love him again," he said. "He just shuts them out and it pushes him further and further away from everyone to the point where we don't know if he's ever coming back."
Viewers who tuned into the opening episode were left shocked by the cliffhanger ending and took to social media. One person penned: "Oh my god no!!! What a shock!!! Breathe, breathe!!!!" while another added: "It doesn't look good for Will next week!"
A third person wrote: "You can't leave it like that.. you mean I have to wait a week to find out what happens," while another added: "I AUDIBLY GASPED."
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Gorka Marquez is heading back to his home country this week for a hugely exciting career opportunity. The Strictly Come Dancing professional has joined the judging panel for the Spanish version of the show, titled Bailando con las Estrellas, which will see the dad-of-two make frequent trips to Spain to appear on the programme.
Taking to social media with the exciting announcement, the 33-year-old, who's engaged to actress Gemma Atkinson, penned: "I finally can share the news that I will be one of the Judges in the Spanish version of Strictly 'Bailando con las Estrellas' @bailandoest.
"So excited to [be] back in Spain and doing the show that changed my whole life and excited to be sat on the other side of the floor this time even if I am not sure I will be able to hold myself and not dance," he wrote, adding a laughing emoji. "First show is this Saturday and I can't wait."
Gorka's announcement was met with congratulatory messages from both his fans and Strictly family. Dianne Buswell penned: "Ayeeeee go gorks," while Carlos Gu added: "Woohooooo, congratulations."
His fiancée Gemma, with whom Gorka shares two children, daughter Mia and son Thiago, also shared her excitement: "Woohoo! So proud and so excited to watch (if I can figure out the Spanish tele)."
Gemma, who met Gorka during her stint on Strictly in 2017, also took to her Instagram Stories to share her pride: "So Gorka is flipping sides for a while and is a judge on the Spanish version of Strictly! Their first show is Saturday!
"So proud of him, I know he'll be ace. Firm but fair I've suggested," she added, dropping a string of laughing emojis.
While fans were overjoyed at Gorka's news, some couldn't help but fear for his future on Strictly. One person penned: "Well deserved but please don't leave SCD," while another commented: "Congratulations. Please tell me this doesn’t interfere with Strictly?"
Fans can rest assured that Gorka isn't moving to Spain for good. We imagine the dancer will make frequent trips to and from home during the run of the show's upcoming season – something he's already used to doing for Strictly.
As for his future on the BBC dancing show, the Spanish star has shown no indication that he'll be leaving. The new season of Bailando con las Estrellas is scheduled to air from January to March, which means Gorka's appearance on the show won't clash with his commitments to Strictly, which is likely to return to screens in September later this year. Although, it does mean that the dancer won't be taking part in this year's Strictly tour.
Gorka will join Blanca Li, Julia Gómez Cora, Antonia Dell'Atte y Boris Izaguirre and the judging panel. As for the line-up of contestants, renowned fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada will be taking to the ballroom floor, alongside various Spanish stars, including singers, actors and influencers.
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Upon hearing the words "wellness retreat", you'd be forgiven for thinking it consists of a weekend doing little other than basking in sunshine and lounging by a pool for hours on end. The wellness retreat I took part in, thanks to Pennyhill Park and Oyogo's 'Move, Recover, Restore' programme, did look slightly different, but it was certainly no less enjoyable.
Instead, what I signed up for was a weekend of cold water therapy in the form of taking multiple ice baths. I realise this might not sound like everyone's idea of relaxation. However, engaging in activities that are known to be great for our health and well-being sounded like a weekend I could get on board with. I'd read cold water therapy was great before but wasn't brave enough to try it until now. Here are my honest thoughts and results, as well as some expert commentary on the benefits.
What is cold water therapy?
Cold water therapy consists of, quite simply, exposing your body to (very) cold water, specifically around the 15-degree Celsius mark or less. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be a practical challenge. It's not every day that we can lap up a wellness retreat – simply turning down the heat faucet in your shower is enough. Studies have shown that having a cold shower – immersing your head underneath – can improve mood and productivity and boost our immune system. But more on that later.
If you have a gym membership, see if they have an outside pool and brave it in winter months. There are also many relatively inexpensive inflatable ice baths you can fill with water and ice straight from your freezer. Granted, you'll probably need a garden to do it, but if you have access to outside space, it's a brilliant way of incorporating cold water therapy into your at-home wellness regime.
Be aware, if you have a heart condition, it's a good idea to chat to your GP first.
What do the experts say?
Now for the science. When I went along to the retreat, I was told that I'd in fact be doing hot-and-cold therapy, also known as contrast therapy, where I'd be exposed to the cold and then immediately to heat. Admittedly, I was more looking forward to the warmer end of the bargain and enjoying a few solid minutes in the sauna, but as I learned more about why cold exposure is great for our health, the more determined I was to do it.
David Jackson, a former professional rugby player and sports performance and breathwork coach, was there to guide us on our breathing. David told HELLO!: "Breathing is more than just a great tool for awareness of your nervous system, it also has the power to change and control your nervous system and stress response.
"Stress typically increases our breathing rate, whether it's emotional stress or physical stress from exercise. Learning to control and slow our breathing helps us manage this stress response."
This was especially important to consider when taking the plunge into the ice. Immediately, your body goes into 'cold water shock', and our instinctive reaction is to take shallow breaths through our mouths, but this does nothing for our stress response. Instead, we were encouraged to "keep it nasal", as David's motto goes.
"Nasal breathing also reduces the moisture lost through exhaling," David added. "If you can be more efficient with your breathing, it improves your nervous system and therefore your resilience to stress."
Also taking us through the exercises was retired triple Olympic swimmer and silver medallist Keri-anne Payne, who explained more benefits of contrast therapy. "The benefits are huge on not only your body but also your brain," she told HELLO!. The cold really helps build resilience, while the heat helps your body to detox. [It also has] a great effect on improving circulation."
Keri-anne added: "It helps you mentally because it takes a huge amount of determination to do it. By actively doing something outside your comfort zone you work on your inner resilience that, added to the breathing, is the cure to help reduce anxiety and stress."
In a nutshell, by deliberately exposing your body to stress like ice-cold water, and controlling your breathing to guide you through it, the idea is that when you're exposed to stress, either physically or mentally, in almost any other context, your body is better equipped to cope.
My honest results on trying out cold water therapy
What surprised me the most was that, after completing the first round of ice-bath-sauna routine, I was extremely keen to do it again. I felt like I'd completed a challenge and for that, I gave myself a mental pat on the back.
Keri-anne told us that when your body passes through the shock of the ice and your breathing is under control, you get a "high", and this is your indicator to jump out and really feel the effects of the rush. I felt this in abundance, it really does make you feel incredible.
As well as mentally, I felt great physically. The first plunge instantly took my breath away and I was a little slower than the pros at getting my nasal breathing under control. But by the time I'd hopped out of the ice and gone into the heat, I felt rejuvenated. Not only that, but I could tell it was helping my circulation. I felt less "puffy" and noticed this in my appearance, such as my feet and hands. There's no doubt about it, when you see physical results, you're more inclined to continue. By the time I'd done my third ice bath of the weekend, I was far better at handling the shock and fallen a bit in love with cold water therapy.
I don't have a gym membership and I live in a flat that won't accommodate an ice bath, so my long-term routine of cold water therapy requires me to stick to my humble shower. Nonetheless, incorporating it into my routine knowing it's benefitting my health feels fantastic. But more importantly for me, learning how to control my breathing and use it as a tool, particularly when controlling anxiety, is invaluable.
Why Pennyhill Park Hotel was the perfect choice for my wellness retreat
The 'Move, Recover, Restore' retreat took place at the stunning Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa and it felt like a real treat. The rooms were stunning. I had two, yes two, bathtubs in the bathroom. Necessary? Not really, considering I was flying solo, but it felt totally glamorous, nonetheless.
The grounds of the hotel are situated on 120 acres of parkland in the heart of leafy Surrey and the surroundings – consisting of woodland parks and gorgeous tree-lined hills – was the perfect backdrop for a weekend of putting mind, body and soul first.
And the spa was no less impressive. As the website states: "Our award-winning spa is vast and has the best of the best for you to explore: with over 20 spa experiences, innovative treatments and all the little luxuries perfect for escaping the stresses of normal life."
There's so much on offer and being there will make you feel like you're seriously elevating your wellness and luxury game.
More about wellness retreats
But it's not only Pennyhill Park that offers wellness retreats. South Lodge Country House Spa and Hotel in West Sussex has equally gorgeous surroundings of countryside and nature, making it the perfect place to immerse yourself in a wellness experience.
This spring, they're offering their 'Nature Immersion Spa Experience', a one-day treat which harnesses the power of Shinrin-Yoku, the Japanese awareness meditation of forest bathing, proven to be a profound antidote to anxiety, depression, fear and tension.
"Led by Helena Skoog, who has lived off-grid for five years amongst ancient forestry, guests will embark on a simple nature walk, whereby the forest languages of renewal, growth and change will become experiential second nature. Guests will also experience a wellbeing session of Qigong and breath work, to balance parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, calming the mind and reducing the stress of everyday life." Find out more, here.
Move, Recover, Restore at Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa. From £629 if you're coming along solo, or £979 for two when sharing a room. Includes all expert sessions and Q&A talk, luxury overnight accommodation, breakfast, lunch on both days and full spa access.
Oyogo is heading back to Pennyhill Park later this year. Find out more about dates and information on the wellness retreat, here.
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Fans of Emily Blunt will have been watching her every move as she stepped out for an evening in New York City on Thursday to make an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She wowed in an incredible modern take on a power suit that might look familiar to keen watchers of the Golden Globes. Emily, 40, looked stunning in a black jumpsuit which looked like a boxy cropped blazer attached to a pair of wide-leg pants.
The cropped blazer top featured long sleeves, a plunging neckline, and cut-outs on the waist. The Oppenheimer actress paired the eye-catching jumpsuit with a pair of strappy black open-toe heels, a pair of embellished gold earrings, and a deep red manicure. Her blonde highlighted hair was styled in a loose updo for a casual touch. She flashed a big smile at the cameras as she exited her car to step inside the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Emily's power suit might be ringing bells for those watching the Golden Globes this year. Shotgun Wedding star Lenny Kravitz, 59, stepped onto the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday wearing the exact same suit. The 'TK421' singer styled the piece with a pair of pointed-toe boots, mismatched earrings, a pair of rounded oversized sunglasses, and stacks of silver rings. The lights on the red carpet picked up the satin detailing on the lapel and down the pant leg.
The Devil Wears Prada actress had no qualms about bringing up the copycat moment when she sat down with Stephen Colbert. "Who wore it best?", Emily jokingly asked the crowd, blowing them kisses when they showed their appreciation for her take on the look. "I saw him swaggering across the floor at the Golden Globes, I'd already pre-planned this for your show and I thought, 'Do you know what, I'm still going to wear it'." See the full moment here.
The A Quiet Place star looked gorgeous herself on the Golden Globes red carpet. Emily was seen with her husband and star of The Office John Krasinski in a fabulous custom-made Alexander McQueen gown. The sheer piece featured a gold embellished bodice with spaghetti straps and a V-neckline. The gown also had a dropped waist which fell into a sheer shirt made from white tulle. She teamed the dress with a breathtaking necklace which Neil Dutta of Angelic Diamonds told HELLO! was "a statement Tiffany & Co. gold leaf necklace adorned with diamonds" which she paired with "an impressive cuff bracelet, and a generously sized cocktail ring" with an estimated combined value of $1,000,000 (£785,000)."
Her hair was styled in a high bun with delicate strands pulled out to frame her face and her makeup was natural with an emphasis on the eyes thanks to a shimmery light brown eyeshadow look. Her husband looked so smart in an unusual suit comprised of a red satin double-breasted blazer with a white shirt, a black bow tie, and a pair of deep purple satin suit pants with a deep red stripe down the leg.
Emily also looked so elegant at the 14th Governors Awards held at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Tuesday. She sported a black floor-length Miu Miu number with a plunging neckline featuring silver diamanté embellishments on the chest and around the neck like a choker. She paired the slinky piece with stacked silver diamanté bracelets and coordinating drop earrings. Her hair was worn in a deep side part and loose 30s waves.
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Calling all Chicago Fire fans! The show's bosses have revealed that fan-favorite character Matt Casey, played by Jesse Spencer, will return in the upcoming 12th season, which airs on January 17 and is set to be shorter than usual due to limited production time caused by the Hollywood strikes.
Executive producer, Andrea Newman, who became the sole showrunner this season in light of previous co-showrunner Derek Haas' departure, revealed what's on the cards for Matt and his ex-girlfriend Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) following his surprise proposal at the end of season 11.
Confirming Jesse's return to the show, Andrea told Variety: "Jesse Spencer will be back — our beloved Matt Casey. We can't live without him. He's truly the best."
Jesse originally left the show after season ten but made a comeback during the final installment of the following season, which ended with Matt's proposal to his ex-girlfriend Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) during a brief trip into town.
"I got something about a year and a half ago, and I wanted to give it to you before I go back to Portland," said Matt, before getting down on one knee. "Sylvie Brett, we were meant to be. Will you make me and three kids the luckiest family in the world and marry me?"
The episode concluded with a major cliffhanger, with fans having to wait until the upcoming season to find out her answer.
On what viewers can expect from Brett and Casey in the new season, Andrea said: "We will find out pretty quickly what Brett's plans are, but her plans — made with the best of intentions — don't go as she wants them to. So we'll find out a lot quickly and then things will change; there will be a rollercoaster."
Another fan-favorite character fans will be pleased to see back on screens is Kelly Severide, who is played by Taylor Kinney.
In January last year, it was announced that Taylor would be taking a break from his role in the drama to deal with an undisclosed personal matter.
Taylor last appeared in season 11's 14th episode, 'Run Like Hell', with the following installment explaining that Severide had left the Windy City for a prestigious OFI training camp in Alabama.
In a later episode, it was revealed that the firefighter had left the camp in Alabama to investigate a major arson case but had neglected to inform his wife, Stella Kidd [Miranda Rae Mayo], nor his team at Firehouse 51. The news was uncovered by Joe Cruz, who was told by one of the academy's leaders.
So, what's in store for Severide and Kidd upon his return?
"There's a whole new dynamic between them," said Andrea. "The heat and the sexual tension are as high as ever. They can't keep their hands off each other, as usual, and yet, there's this new dynamic that is present between them, something we haven't seen before."
The showrunner went on to tease "an edge in the air between them", with the OFI case that Severide has been working on set to "bring up a lot of tension".
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Loose Women panellist Stacey Solomon is a doting mum-of-five to her children Zachary, Leighton, Rex, Rose and Belle, the younger three whom she shares with her TV presenter husband Joe Swash.
On Thursday, the glamorous mum shocked her Instagram fans by revealing she was feeling broody as her youngest daughter Belle, 11 months, had started walking.
Posting a clip of Belle’s first steps, Stacey, 34, wrote: "Well Done Belle & Rexy. This made my day today… While I’ve been feeling unwell Rex & Joe have been teaching Belle new skills. What happened to my baby? Why am I broody? Hope this makes you smile as much as it did me today."
The video is utterly adorable and shows a very excited and proud big brother Rex telling his mum: "Mummy, look at this, look what I taught Belle."
Stacey then sits with Rex as sweet Belle shows off her new skills and walks towards them, resulting in a huge family hug. Even the dogs join in the celebration.
"Wow Belle, well done Belle!" exclaimed Stacey.
There were plenty of celebratory comments on the celebrity mum's post, with her good friend, cleaning sensation Mrs Hinch writing: "Wow Go Belle Go."
One fan told Stacey: "Oh my goodness! You’ve only just had her, how is she walking already! Clever girlie!" We also loved this comment by one follower: "It's Rex's top-tier brotherly support for me."
Of course, many of Stacey's fans honed in on her "broody" comment.
One wrote: "Is this your way of saying number 6 is incoming…" and another said: "Best get that hand sanitiser out and make number 6."
A third joked: "About time for the annual baby announcement anyway I’d say? Bring on no.6?"
It wasn't long ago that Stacey and Joe welcomed their little Belle in February 2023. In a similar fashion to her elder sister, Belle was delivered at home with Stacey joking about her quick labour.
She announced on her Instagram page: "She's here. Our beautiful daughter born at home with all of your brothers and sister ready to snuggle you forever and ever. You literally flew into our world…
"And none of us can quite believe your thick dark head of hair that we just can't get over. We can't believe you're here. Welcome to the world beautiful girl, thank you for the last few months in my tummy, we can’t wait to love you forever and ever, we are so grateful we get to be your family."
Stacey had previously confessed she wasn't planning on expanding her family following the birth of Rose.
She told the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine: "We have to live within our means. We want to be the best parents we can. And when we were trying to have this baby, it wasn’t the process we thought it would be, so we were just so grateful to even get pregnant. I don’t want to push it any more. This is enough."
Watch this space…
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Jason Momoa made it a family affair on Thursday when he stepped out with his children in the wake of his divorce from their mom, Lisa Bonet.
The actor was all smiles as he posed for photos with Lola, 16, and Nakoa-Wolf, 15, at the screening of the documentary, Common Ground, in Beverly Hills.
Showing no sign of angst following the finalization of his divorce from Lisa, Jason beamed as he wrapped his arm around his teenage children.
The family resemblance was uncanny, with his daughter looking like a mini Lisa, and Nakoa-Wolf is the spitting image of his father.
They all sported long, curly hair with Jason and his daughter wearing theirs pulled back into ponytails and his son chose to leave his down.
Jason and Lisa announced their split two years ago but only filed for divorce on January 8, 2024, and they amicably settled one day later.
As proposed by Lisa, 56, when she'd filed, she and her ex-husband, 44, will share custody of their two children and expenses related to them without any formal child support payouts.
Court documents, obtained by The Blast, read: "Based upon the division of assets and income as agreed by the parties in the (settlement), the parties shall share the living expenses of the minor children, and neither party shall pay child support to the other."
The former couple tied the knot in October 2017 after embarking on a relationship in 2005, amid rumors that they'd secretly wed in 2007.
Documents from the divorce filing listed their initial separation date as October 7, 2020.Their joint statement at the time of their split stated: "We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times… A revolution is unfolding and our family is of no exception… feeling and growing from the seismic shifts occurring.
"We share our Family news that we are parting ways in marriage," they added. "The love between us carries on, evolving in ways it wishes to be known and lived. We free each other to be who we are learning to become."
They concluded: "Our devotion unwavering to this sacred life our children. Teaching our children what’s possible. Living the Prayer. May Love Prevail."
In the wake of their divorce, Jason has confessed he's taken his life on the road and doesn't "have a home".With Jason no longer living in the $3.5 million family abode, he told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday: "I don't even have a home right now. I live on the road."
Jason's nomad lifestyle is by choice, however, as he has been busy filming the docuseries, On the Roam, which sees him travel across the US meeting "extraordinary individuals blazing their own path", including artisans, musicians, and athletes.
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Princess Anne watched her husband, Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence smash a coconut on the floor on the last day of their royal tour to Sri Lanka on Friday.
The couple were visiting Vajira Pillayar Kovi, a Hindu Temple when Timothy hurled the fruit to the ground which is symbolic of getting rid of bad luck and welcoming better fortunes in Hindu culture. As the coconut hit the floor a spray of water covered the nearby press and he threw his hands up in amazement.
The royal duo visited the temple to receive a blessing from the chief priest, Sachithanantha Kurukal and were clad in flower garlands of jasmine and rose flowers and draped in a dazzling red and gold silk scarf. They also were each given a pottu - a coloured dot - in the middle of their forehead.
They had a truly royal welcome as they entered the temple with a performance from a troop of female dancers and vibrant musical instruments which created a lively cacophony from the drums and a Nadaswaram, which is an oboe-like instrument.
After entering the temple, they stood before a shrine to Lord Ganesh and touched an offering of fruit – including pomegranates, mangoes, and bananas – betel leaves and a garland of jasmine flowers for the deity.
It was at the shrine where Chief Priest Sachithanantha Kurukal performed the 'pooja' or blessing. Anne and Timothy then toured the impeccable venue, getting a glimpse at several shrines to various Hindu gods.
As they headed outside, the Princess and Timothy paid a visit to the sacred cows kept onsite and fed them a hearty feast of vegetation. The animals are revered in Hinduism and looked more than happy to oblige when the couple offered them a snack.
This visit overseas was extra special for Anne, as it was the first she made within her new role as president of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Anne was given her new role during Remembrance Day Weekend last year, succeeding the Duke of Kent who had held the position since 1970.
At the CGWC’s Jawatta Cemetery in Colombo, The Princess Royal took part in a short remembrance service to pay respects to service personnel from Sri Lanka and the Commonwealth countries. The majority served in WWII and are buried at the graveyard.
A bugler played the Last Post before a minute’s silence was observed and the princess laid a wreath of poppies with a handwritten card that read: "We will remember them", and signed: "Anne".
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It was a week of milestones for Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton, who celebrated their daughter Minnie's first birthday. Not only that, their little girl was treated to her first pair of cowboy boots – proving she already has a taste for fashion.
In a picture, shared on Stacey's Instagram Stories, the little tot was seen looking very adorable in her winter outfit, which boasted a grey knitted hat and matching leggings along with a pair of trendy boots. "Her boots from South Dakota [American flag]," wrote the doting mum.
Both Stacey and Kevin reflected on the past 12 months since becoming parents. "MY BABY IS ONE TMRO. One?! Minnie, we are FOREVER OBSESSED with you," the TV presenter wrote. "The love of our lives. My best best little pal. Keep shining showstopper……. LOVE U ENDLESSLY." [sic]
She added: "Let's spend your birthday running directly towards every sharp edge in every room. YOUR FAVE PARTY TRICK."
Marking the actual day on Wednesday, Stacey, 36, shared an intimate photo breastfeeding her daughter in her first weeks of life, adding the caption: "My GOD I'm feeling SO sentimental this morning," followed by a flurry of crying emojis.
In the photograph, Stacey cradled her red-haired newborn to her chest as she nursed her. Meanwhile, the former Strictly Come Dancing pro uploaded a sweet video of him having a little jig with birthday girl Minnie. "My baby girl's 1st birthday!!!!" he said. Watch below...
Stacey has been in a relationship with professional dancer Kevin since 2019. While the pair seem happier than ever with their family unit, marriage doesn't appear to be on the cards for the couple.
"Marriage has never been massively important to me," the documentary-maker previously said in an interview with The Sun. "Also, it's well documented that Kev's done it a couple of times before."
She continued: "It's just never been something I've dreamt about. But I couldn't have done this (motherhood) without Kev. It's weird. I've always loved him, but it's a different love I have for Kev now."
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Zara Tindall has taken to Instagram in a brand new video where she takes royal followers on a shopping spree and she has given us a first taste of what her summer wardrobe may look like this year. Princess Anne's daughter, 42, was seen in a video with Magic Millions Polo where she embarked upon a look at what the Pacific Fair shopping centre has to offer in Queensland. Zara dressed for the warm Australian winter wearing a mid-length striped shirt dress with three-quarter-length sleeves rolled to the elbow. The piece featured a flowing skirt, utility pockets on the torso, a crisp collar, and a cinching waist tie.
The royal styled the dress with a pair of casual white trainers, a tan leather crossbody bag, and a pair of black oversized sunglasses. Her blonde bob was styled in loose beachy waves to play into the relaxed daytime aesthetic. Zara spoke directly to fans in the new video saying: "I'm Zara Tindall and I'm here at Pacific Fair, my favourite place to shop on the Gold Coast, getting ready for Magic Millions Carnival."
She was seen browsing the best the sun-soaked outlet had to offer, picking up glamorous pieces in Tory Burch, holding dresses up to herself, and trying on gorgeous leather handbags and designer sunglasses for size. The spree was a resounding success as the King's niece was seen holding an array of shopping bags by the end of the video and was seen treating herself to a sit-down lunch and a glass of pale rosé.
The royal offered fans a first look at the kind of pieces she'll be adding to her summer wardrobe this year. She was seen picking up a yellow floaty dress, a bright green midi-length style and we are one of the styles from the array of sunglasses she was seen perusing will crop up in her collection at some point. We are sure the striped number is also an insight into the kind of pieces she will rock once the weather warms up here.
The event Zara was prepping for, the Magic Millions Carnival, is a two-week equestrian event held on the Gold Coast. The main event, otherwise known as Race Day, will be held at the Gold Coast Turf Club from 9:00 am local time tomorrow and is worth $14.25 million in prize money across 11 races. Zara and her husband and former rugby player Mike Tindall have been seen featuring in promotional material for the event and fans of Zara will know about her passion for equestrianism and her history as an Olympic dressage rider.
Earlier this week Zara was spotted on the Magic Millions Instagram account in a loved-up picture with her husband sporting an amazing race day look. She styled a pale blue patterned mini dress with a peplum skirt and floaty short sleeves. She styled the summery number with a contrasting black belt, a pair of nude suede pumps, and a pale blue fascinator that perched atop her neat updo. Her husband Mike wore a grey two-piece suit with brown suede shoes and a navy tie.
She was also seen on the page in her happy place – on horseback. The post was captioned: "Zara is set to ride eight-year-old retired racehorse Casper in the @magicmillions Queensland Off-The-Track Cup Final as the Celebrity Wildcard!" Zara said: "It's great, the horses have finished their career on the track, and they have got the opportunity to have another career. That's what it's all about, equine welfare and looking after the off the track." She looked happy as can be cuddled up to her supportive husband in her riding gear.
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Strictly Come Dancing has seen one or two dramatic moments over the years since the show began in in 2004. With 30 years of high hopes, stressful training and judges' comments, it's hardly surprising that there have been ups and downs from telly's most sparkling show. From an axed judge, to stars quitting the show early, to the so-called 'Strictly curse', the BBC ballroom competition has seen it all. Check out our roundup of some of the show's biggest surprises and feuds...
Amanda Abbington quitting show
It was rumoured that Giovanni and Amanda weren't getting along in training, which Amanda initially shut down. In an Instagram post, she said: "Just stop it, stop it, grow up. No one gives a [expletive]. Shut up, it's [expletive], so [expletive] off. You know who I'm talking to as well. Come on, jog on, it's nonsense and you know it's nonsense. It's all good."
However, the star eventually quit the show, and is reportedly asking for footage of rehearsals with Giovanni while looking to receiving legal advice. Upon leaving the show, the Sherlock actress left Giovanni out of her list of thanks, writing: "It is with deepest regret that I had to leave Strictly. I did not come to this decision easily or lightly but for personal reasons I am unable to continue.
"It was an absolute joy working with my fellow contestants, they are a beautiful, hardworking and talented group of people who I love and who I will miss seeing every Friday and Saturday and competing alongside."
James Jordan’s exit
James has previously opened up about being offered a reduced role on the show, and opted to leave instead. At the time, Strictly’s official Twitter account wrote: "It’ll be sad not having @artemchigvintse and @The_JamesJordan around. Best of luck. We’ll miss you #scd #sadtimes," to which James replied: "So why sack me?" The dancing pro was on the show from 2006 to 2013.
Brendan Cole and Natasha Kaplinsky
During the first series in 2004, professional Brendan Cole and his celebrity partner Natasha Kaplinsky were said to have grown close while competing for the Glitterball trophy.
After winning the show, Brendan and his then-fiancé and fellow pro dancer Camilla Dallerup called off their engagement. Camilla described being left for Natasha as a "mini-death", however, Brendan and Natasha deny they were ever romantically involved.
Arlene Phillips's axe from the show
Professional dancer and choreographer Arlene Phillips was one of the original judges on the show but was famously axed and replaced with Alesha Dixon back in 2009. The former judge spoke out against the decision, claiming it had to do with her age and it even sparked outrage among viewers who complained to the show.
Eleven years after her departure, she's decided to launch an investigation into the real reason she was dropped. "Nowadays, they could have given me the chance to resign or build a story around it. I didn’t have a contract that automatically rolled on to the next year, but I think it was handled so poorly. You then never forget those moments of turmoil," explained Arlene.
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Sean Walsh and Katya Jones' kiss
In recent years, the kiss between Sean Walsh and Katya Jones was another moment that fuelled the 'Strictly curse' fire. The comedian and pro dancer were paired for the 2018 show and were pictured kissing after a night out, despite both being in relationships. The two then appeared on sister show It Takes Two to apologise for their actions and express their regret.
"Obviously I'm sorry for the hurt I've caused, we were getting on well, we were having fun, had a couple of drinks and we made a huge mistake, and I regret it deeply," began Sean. Katya added: "I can't apologise enough to everyone I've hurt [...] what matters to me the most right now [is] my job and doing it as professionally as I can."
Laura Whitmore
In 2018, presenter Laura Whitmore published a blog on Huff Post in which she detailed how uncomfortable she felt while taking part in the show two years earlier. Laura, who was paired with Giovanni Pernice, said: "I was placed with a dance partner I was extremely uncomfortable with – and in the end I felt broken.
"I cried every day. And I really was broken, both mentally and physically, by the end. To the outside world, I tried to suck it up and smile, and I did that to the best of my ability, but it affected me deeply."
Danny John Jules and Amy Dowden
It seems 2018 was a dramatic year, as Amy Dowden and actor Danny John-Jules were reportedly not getting on behind the scenes. Despite denying bullying allegations, the pair did admit an argument had taken place, while appearing on It Takes Two. The situation was fuelled further when Danny didn't appear next to Amy on It Takes Two after the pair were voted out of the competition.
Anastasia and Brendan Cole
In 2016, the American singer and her pro partner Brendan Cole had a few tough talks while training together for the competition.
The singer told Digital Spy: "We've definitely had some conversations, I won't lie about that." A couple of years later, she then admitted she had kept contact with most people from that year, except for Brendan. She said: "We don't have that kind of connection. It was just for the show."
Brendan Cole leaves the show
At the beginning of 2018, it was announced that Brendan had been axed from the show. Speaking on Lorraine, he said: "It's actually quite hard to talk about," he began. "Well the BBC haven't renewed my contract, the just made an editorial decision to not have me back on the show, so I'm a little bit in shock at the moment, and quite emotional and raw about it."
The pro then alluded that he thought he had been dropped due his reported "confrontations" with head judge Shirley Ballas. "I'm a very strong character on this show I have my strong views, some do [like that] and some don't."
Will Young quits
In 2016, Will Young famously quit the show midway through without much of an explanation. The singer cited "personal reasons" as the reason for leaving but many thought that it was after his clash with Len after his Bollywood routine, who told him to "turn up, keep up and shut up".
After the show, Karen Hauer told Radio Times that the former dancing pair hadn't spoken. "I haven't really been in touch with Will since the show," she said. "I think everybody understands his reasons and we all understand, but it's hard when there's the other half. It's my job and I love my job and it was really hard for me to stay behind and see everybody have an amazing series and not to be a part of it."
Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton
After Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton won the show in 2018, soon after it was announced that she and her boyfriend at the time Sam had split.
The journalist's ex gave an interview in which he explained he saw a text on Stacey's phone from Kevin saying "I love you". However, Stacey then explained that she had seen "utter nonsense" written about the circumstances of their relationship.
Louise Redknapp on Strictly changing her
Eternal singer Louise Redknapp competed on the fourteenth series of Strictly in 2016 and ended up reaching the final alongside pro partner Kevin Clifton. Soon after the show wrapped, Louise announced that she was leaving her footballer husband of nearly 20 years Jamie. After much media speculation that Strictly was the reason behind her split, Louise then admitted that the show "put the fire back in her belly" for her new lease of life, but was not the reason behind the break up.
Ben Cohen and Kristina Rhianoff
Rugby star Ben Cohen appeared on the show in 2013 and was paired with professional dancer Kristina Rihanoff. Shortly after their stint on the show, Ben split from his wife of 11 years and embarked on a relationship with the pro dancer.
The couple assured there was no overlap, but his ex-wife Abby revealed she hit "rock bottom" after being "dumped". Since then, Kristina and Ben have welcomed their own child, daughter Milena in 2016.
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Like so many women, I wasn’t prepared for menopause. I knew lots of the symptoms to expect, but deep down I was not ready to accept those early changes that began materialising in my mid-40s.
Looking back, I can see I was quietly trying to convince myself that I was still too young to be menopausal. The changes were subtle at first. Hot flushes became more frequent and often happened at night, so I could sometimes blame it on a little more wine at dinner maybe, but for the first time in my life I realised that good sleep was not something I could take for granted. My sleep pattern was impacted and unlikely to return to the way it was, and I immediately missed it.
Randomly throughout the day, I would suddenly feel hot and my skin was sweaty for no reason. Thankfully migraines were few and far between, but I realised they were also part of my body’s changes and I had to hope they would not be too frequent.
My biggest concern was the effect these hormonal changes would have on my ability to function with confidence and clarity. For most of the time I was fine, ready to take on the world, but I wasn’t ready for the days when I just lost it. My confidence was low and I felt I had no ability to deal with day-to-day issues.
This wasn’t me, but an imposter who was struggling to deal with basics for no reason. Also why did I have to deal with the menopause? I was excited for my next career chapter, having just launched my ethical porn site Frolicme.com, created to provide a safe place for women and couples to explore and enjoy healthy sexuality and learn the benefits that sex can bring.
At the time my girlfriends were opening up about their own perimenopausal challenges. The majority of us were experiencing headline changes and we all had varied coping mechanisms as our symptoms varied in consequence, frequency and intensity.
I was open-minded about alternative solutions and lifestyle changes. I made sure I kept active with Pilates, the gym, walking when I could, all of which I found good for balancing anxiety and tension.
I became more mindful and started reflexology again. Some find meditation can help and mindful breathing, I also found giving myself more self-care and personal time through pleasure was very positive.
READ: I had the worst perimenopause, here's how I fixed it
Menopause is a hormonal issue, therefore our body’s sexual chemistry can play a huge part in creating natural highs. Engaging positively releases our feel-good hormones and natural chemicals of dopamine and oxytocin as well as endorphins, serotonin, and prolactin to help counter stress, improve sleep and elevate feelings of wellbeing.
Partnered sex or enjoying self-pleasure can help deal with issues of our pelvic floor and ensure good blood flow to our vagina which can ease vaginal dryness.
What I wish I'd known
I looked at HRT, but I soon learnt that it wasn’t a one-size-fits-all all solution. It had to be used to fine-tune and balance your body and that can take time and some adjusting.
It appeared to not work for everyone, but can show incredible results for some. What I was learning more about is the power of our own bodies and indeed how our sexual health is key to our overall wellbeing.
Menopause doesn't mean we have to lose ourselves as sexual beings. Our libidos always ebb and flow through our lives and in menopause still be stimulated.
It is important to realise that so much is reflected in what we might lose during menopause, and our sexual interest and libidos being one aspect. However, it can also be a liberating time on the other side and shouldn’t signify the demise of who we are and can be, we are still capable of enjoying a full and busy life.
Read more inspiring stories of women in their Second Act here.
Anna Richards is a pleasure positivity educator and founder of ethical sex platform Frolicme.com
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Christina Hall's daughter is looking more and more like her famous mom every day and now the resemblance is even more uncanny.
The Christina in the Country host revealed that she and Taylor, 13, had undergone a makeover together and received new piercings.
Taking to her Instagram stories, Christina shared a beautiful black and white photo of her teenager.
In the image, Taylor was turned to the side and showed off two piercings in her right ear. "Matching double piercings for my girl and me," she captioned the photo which was accompanied by a heart emoji.
Christina didn't share a photo of herself but the mother-daughter duo clearly loved the results of their bonding session.
The mom-of-three can't believe how fast her children, Taylor, Brayden, eight, and Hudson, four, are growing up and last year they hit a milestone when Taylor became a teen.
Not only that, but she had her braces removed in time for her birthday too. At the time, the HGTV star penned a heartfelt tribute to her firstborn and afterwards revealed that the birthday girl's day was extra special and showed off her beaming new smile.
"Best birthday present - braces off!" Christina wrote alongside the picture of her daughter. Christina paid a lovely tribute to Taylor on her Instagram feed, alongside a series of family photos taken from over the years.
She wrote: "We have a teenager!! Happy 13 birthday Taylor! Sweet girl - you impress me every day, I absolutely adore you. Thank you for making me a mommy and my only wish is time would slow down so I could enjoy you as a kid as long as possible."
She then gave a glimpse into Taylor's fun-loving personality when she added: "Singing in the car, late night talks, bike rides to the mall, dole whip, hanging with our chickens, soccer Saturdays. Being your mom is the biggest blessing. My beautiful, feisty, funny, smart, creative, old soul. I love you beyond words."
Taylor's dad is Christina's first ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa, and he also wrote a message on social media.
It read: "I could literally cry because my baby girl is no longer a baby…and turned 13 today!…. "Man, time flies and life is short! It feels like yesterday we were at Chuck E. Cheese negotiating over what toys she could get lol. She always got what she wanted though, apparently she’s a better negotiator than dad!
"Also, Taylor and I have a VERY special relationship. This little girl got me through some of the toughest periods of my life. During that time we became best friends, and that never ended. I’m just so proud of the young lady she’s become!
"She’s a beautiful, hard working, honest, loving and athletic teenager. I seriously couldn’t have asked for a better kid. And she’s looking more and more like @thechristinahall every day. She’s just beautiful inside and out and I’m so lucky to call this little girl mine."
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Everyone's favourite intern just proved that a stunning black dress trumps absolutely everything in the fashion sphere.
Just yesterday Anne Hathaway stepped out to attend the 2024 National Board of Review Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, sporting a form-fitting, scoop plunge neck gown adorned with glistening beads and side cutouts.
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The star paired her gorgeous gown with a simple eye-catching drop earring, wrap-around Serpenti bracelet and a mixture of silver-toned rings, all likely from jewellery giant Bulgari as she is the global ambassador after all. Keeping all eyes on the outfit, Anne kept her hairdo simple, letting her soft brunette locks cascade down her back, perfectly nailing the 'au-naturel' tousled look.
This isn't the first time Andy Sachs has opted for an all-black red-carpet ensemble. In fact, I would go as far as to say that the Hollywood heavyweight is the queen of ‘LBD’ dressing.
Last year Anne sported the most coquette core sheer gown to attend the premiere of She Came To Me, the muse’s romantic comedy film which was released early last year. Paired with the bow-adorned dress was a pair of seriously chic over-the-elbow leather gloves and a messy updo.
Wearing possibly my favourite outfit to date, Anne sported a leather crocodile print mini dress with platformed boots to support her friend Donatella Versace at the LA-based Versace show in March last year. The actress leaned into the illustrious world of Versace, signing off an Instagram post with a comical, “Mille Baci, Annatella.”
While attending the Bulgari Hotel Tokyo’s grand opening, the global ambassador of the brand wore the cutest floral embellished strapless black mini-dress, complete with a waist bow black belt.
Proving that the weather should never dampen a fire ‘fit, Anne sported a Versace puffer jacket/dress hybrid to attend last year's Sundance Film Festival. Again, pairing the dress with undone tousled brunette locks, a pair of opaque tights and platform boots.
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If there's one thing that Marks & Spencer knows how to do, it's seriously stylish handbags. From the faux leather crossbody bag that went viral for looking designer to the staple totes, the retailer is spoiling us for choice with its incredible selection of arm candy right now.
M&S has dropped yet another staple handbag that we're expecting to be trending on social media, so I had to check out the Nylon Quilted Shoulder Bag for myself. Retailing at £35, the high street number features popcorn-style quilting, a lined interior with a zip and slip pocket, finished with a flexible round handle.
My first impression of the shoulder bag is just how similar it looks to the popular COS quilted bag that went viral last year. Trending for months on TikTok, the £85 unisex crossbody features an oversized design, with almost identical quilted stitching. It's clearly one of COS's bestselling products, as while the original version is now only available in black and burgundy, the brand has dropped more similar styles in a range of sizes and colours.
Coming in at half the price of the COS piece, M&S's quilted bag is unsurprisingly flying off the shelves, with the black colourway already selling out in-store and online. I tried on the cream and pink shades, and I was seriously impressed by the quality. The soft quilted texture, comfortable strap and secure zipped design made it feel like the perfect everyday bag – and I loved the size. Offering plenty of space for your laptop, charger water bottle and more, I think it would be the ultimate work bag.
The new-in accessory doesn't have many online reviews just yet, although one shopper wrote: "This in pink is very stylish and good value although it was much bigger than expected. Well made and will be useful as a tote bag."
After trying on the bag myself, I would agree that it looks smaller online than it is in person. While an excellent every day or even overnight bag, it's not one you'll be reaching for when getting ready for a night out.
The pink shade is great for adding some colour to your everyday looks, and I'd wear it with a pair of leather trousers and chunky knitwear to elevate an otherwise simple style. However, I think the cream option is the winner when it comes to endless styling options. It would look great teamed with longline coats, leather jackets and even knitted midi dresses, and I'd be wearing it on repeat with a black mini skirt, tights, chunky boots and an oversized jumper.
The COS £85 bag vs The M&S £35 bag
Choosing between the M&S and COS styles? If you're looking for a large bag that will fit anything and everything and can be worn over both shoulders, COS may be worth the investment. But if you're shopping for an everyday bag that's got plenty of space and is affordable, then I think that the M&S version serves just as well on both quality and style.
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Carrie Johnson never fails to dazzle followers, whether it's a heartwarming photo of her beautiful brood or a sizzling bikini photo. On Thursday, the mother-of-three didn't disappoint when she showed off her incredible physique in a fabulously figure-hugging ensemble.
Taking to her Instagram Stories, Carrie shared two photos of herself from inside her lavish £3 million Brightwell-cum-Sotwell home, first donning a black jumpsuit that perfectly hugged her sky-high legs.
The piece featured capped sleeves and a silver zip on her top half which she confessed makes the the number the perfect breastfeeding outfit. "Always love a jumpsuit, particularly at the moment when breastfeeding. These two are both in the sale at Mango at the moment."
The second was a long-sleeve denim piece adorned with buttons on the chest and a matching denim belt - just stunning. She added: "This one is £29 and giving country western vibes".
The photo was taken in the ornate wooden mirror standing in one of the luxe rooms of her fairytale home which she shares with her husband, Boris Johnson and their three children Wilfred, three, Romy, two and baby Frank.
Little Romy has certainly inherited her mother's fabulous fashion sense, and on Wednesday looked adorable in a vibrant pink outfit for her first day of nursery. Romy wore a pink coat adorned with polar bears and a pair of spotty pink trousers as she munched into a cheese toastie following her big milestone.
First day at nursery calls for a celebratory cheese toastie from @nettlebedtree," penned the proud mum. Carrie showed off her eldest, Wilfred's love of tartan last week when he was pictured donning the print in a candid snap from their garden.
Wilfred was pictured wearing a tartan shirt and matching trousers as well as a pair of fabulous blue Wellington boots. Wrapping up for the plummeting winter temperatures, little Wilfred opted for an adorable little bobble hat emblazoned with several fire engines. "Can never have too much tartan," wrote Carrie.
Carrie's incredible taste doesn't just extend to her and her family's fashion choices, but also the interior of their Oxfordshire home, where she has created the perfect storybook paradise for her children.
The most recent addition to the family home was baby Frank's nursery which has been handpainted to look like an English garden.
The masterpiece was created by decorative artist Meg Boscawen, who designed the most intricate garden wall for the five-month-old in a calming verdant colour palette.
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There’s nothing like a cup of hot brown water to start your day. For some it’s the taste, while others seek the energy boost, but does tea or coffee have more caffeine?
The answer changes depending on how you do your brew, so let’s dive into it.
How much caffeine does tea have?
Tea is the warming beverage you get from pouring boiling water over fresh or dry leaves from the Camellia sinensis plant. There are over a thousand types of tea but they mostly fall into the categories of green, black, white, and oolong.
A 2008 study that brewed 20 commercial tea products found that the caffeine content across the varieties ranged from 14 to 61 milligrams per serving. There was no particular association between strength and tea type, but steeping time did have a big influence on caffeine concentration.
How much caffeine does coffee have?
The caffeine content of coffee varies depending on the size and type of your drink. If you’re knocking back double espressos, you can be looking at 60 to 100 milligrams of caffeine, while the average cup ranges from 65 to 120 milligrams, according to the University of Washington.
What even is caffeine?
We get tired as the day goes on because of a molecule called adenosine that our brains produce more and more of from morning through tonight. As a stimulant, caffeine hijacks this natural process by mimicking adenosine in the brain, latching onto its receptors and pushing them out of the way. The resulting symptom is that we feel less tired.
Does tea or coffee have more caffeine?
You may have heard that tea has more caffeine than coffee, but this is rarely the case when it comes to the actual beverages. If you look at the caffeine content of each drinks’ raw ingredients, then tea leaves come out on top, with a caffeine content of 3.5 percent compared to just 1.1–2.2 percent in coffee beans, explains a 2009 study.
Tea is created when particles move from an area of high concentration (the tea bag) to a low concentration (the hot water), and it’s an example of diffusion. The end product is, therefore, a very diluted version of the raw products. This is why despite being stronger than coffee beans, tea typically winds up being a comparatively less caffeinated drink.
The wizardry of baristas is actually a kind of science, because they create just the right size and shape of coffee grinds so that the flow of hot water can extract the sour coffee flavour and balance it out with the bitterness of caffeine. As physicist and nanotechnologist Dr David Hoxley told La Trobe University, too fine equals a strongly caffeinated bitter drink, while too big results in a sour-tasting coffee with a weak caffeine kick.
How that extraction happens is why you get different kinds, like filter vs. espresso – the latter of which is pulled from finely ground coffee beans using pressurized hot water to create that oily energy boost we humans just can’t get enough of.
Starting the day with a morning brew has become a widespread culture, but did you know that the science suggests that you shouldn’t drink coffee first thing in the morning?
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Using a new technique that makes it easier to precisely measure the number of chromosomes in ancient DNA, researchers have identified the earliest known cases of two genetic disorders.
Ancient DNA can provide us with useful insights into our ancestors, but unfortunately, samples can degrade or become contaminated over time, making it more difficult to analyze. One of the problem areas is in detecting differences in the number of chromosomes, such as extra or missing copies – this is known as aneuploidy.
To combat this, the research team developed a new computational method to detect more variation when counting the number of chromosomes, particularly the X and Y (also known as the sex chromosomes) in a human genome. Most human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes, including the sex chromosomes. Females usually have two Xs (XX), whilst males have an X and a Y (XY).
The new method was applied to a dataset from the Thousand Ancient British Genomes project and identified five individuals with sex chromosome aneuploidies, two of whom are the earliest known people to have had a genetic disorder.
“Through precisely measuring sex chromosomes, we were able to show the first prehistoric evidence of Turner syndrome 2,500 years ago, and the earliest known incidence of Jacob's syndrome around 1,200 years ago,” said Kakia Anastasiadou, first author of the study describing the findings, in a statement.
Turner syndrome is characterized by one X chromosome instead of the usual two, while Jacob’s syndrome is characterized by an extra Y chromosome.
Aneuploidy in sex chromosomes can sometimes affect development; the bones of the individual with Turner syndrome indicated that they had not gone through puberty or menstruation, though they were believed to have been around 18 to 22 years old. However, analysis also revealed that only some of the cells had just one copy of the X chromosome, whilst others had the usual two. This is known as mosaicism.
The study also identified three people with Klinefelter syndrome (an extra X chromosome, XXY) who lived in a range of time periods. An infant from the Iron Age was also revealed to have Down syndrome, the result of an extra copy of chromosome 21 – this is an autosomal aneuploidy, meaning it affects a chromosome that isn’t a sex chromosome.
“It’s hard to see a full picture of how these individuals lived and interacted with their society, as they weren’t found with possessions or in unusual graves, but it can allow some insight into how perceptions of gender identity have evolved over time,” said Anastasiadou.
Pontus Skoglund, fellow author and evolutionary geneticist added: “Our method is also able to classify DNA contamination in many cases, and can help to analyse incomplete ancient DNA, so it could be applied to archaeological remains which have been difficult to analyse.”
“Combining this data with burial context and possessions can allow for a historical perspective of how sex, gender and diversity were perceived in past societies. I hope this type of approach will be applied as the common resource of ancient DNA data continues to grow.”
The study is published in Communications Biology.
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Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than 6 billion bar codes are scanned every single day. They’ve become such an accepted part of our daily lives that it’s hard to imagine how they could look any different.
I’ve researched various technologies throughout my career as a media studies professor, but it wasn’t until I began writing my book about the cultural history of the bar code that I realized how even the most mundane objects in our lives look the way they do because of decisions that are mostly lost to history. When I began combing through the archive of bar code history at Stony Brook University, I realized just how close we came to a world where we scan bull’s-eye or Sun symbols to buy our groceries.
Our story begins in 1949, when Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver submitted a patent for the first bar code. That patent described the basic structure of using pairs of lines to represent numbers that is still used in bar code technology more than 70 years later.
What their patent didn’t include, however, was anything most people today would recognize as a bar code. In fact, the first bar code didn’t include vertical lines at all. Instead, the world’s first bar code used a series of concentric circles in the shape of a bull’s-eye.
Woodland and Silver initially struggled to get companies interested in their invention. But the bar code’s fortunes began to change in 1960, when the engineer and physicist Theodore H. Maiman built the first working laser, which made it possible to quickly decode a bar code’s line patterning.
Not long afterward, in 1967, the railroad industry implemented Kartrak, which was the world’s first official bar code system. Kartrak bar codes were developed to automatically identify rail cars as they moved past scanners, but they used a design of lines of varying colors that looks more like a piece of modern art than the bar codes we use today.
But Kartrak struggled from the start – the system wasn’t as accurate as people had hoped – and it stopped being used in the 1970s. Despite being the first bar code to be officially adopted by an industry, the multicolored design of the Kartrak symbol is now just a footnote in history.
Around the same time Kartrak was launched, the grocery industry set in motion a chain of events that eventually resulted in the bar code we know today. In the late 1960s, various stores began bar code pilot projects that used vastly different types of bar code symbols.
One of the symbols was the original bull’s-eye bar code, which by that point was owned by RCA because it had purchased the patent rights. But other stores used symbols developed by other companies. For example, a company named Carecogn had developed a Sun symbol and the Litton company created a fan symbol that were part of pilot projects. The grocery industry soon realized that this Wild West period of experimentation couldn’t last.
Bar codes could work as a way to automate inventory and checkout only if everyone in the grocery industry agreed to use the same symbol. Otherwise, the system would be overly complex and expensive. So in 1971, the grocery industry formed a committee tasked with developing an industrywide data standard and choosing a symbol that stores would agree to adopt.
The data standard the committee developed – the Universal Product Code – was designed to work with different types of bar code symbols. It’s still in use 50 years later.
The committee then had to choose the symbol. They solicited applications from various companies and narrowed the pool down to seven finalists. That was when the drama really began.
The RCA submission was the early leader among the seven finalists. The bull’s-eye bar code, after all, was the original bar code symbol, and RCA was a powerful company that had invested significant resources in developing the technology. RCA’s main competitor was a latecomer to the battle for bar code dominance: the IBM symbol invented in the early 1970s by George Laurier.
Between March 1971 and March 1973, the committee extensively tested the seven finalists, listened to pitches from each company and met multiple times to discuss the path forward. Throughout the process, RCA and IBM remained the front-runners, and in a somewhat ironic twist, Joseph Woodland – the “father of the bar code” and inventor of the bull’s-eye symbol – advocated for the IBM symbol over his own invention.
Realizing their symbol might not be selected, RCA began to pressure the committee and threatened to pull out of the bar code industry altogether if their bull’s-eye bar code was not chosen as the industry standard.
The committee’s deadline to select a symbol was March 1973, and the decision went down to the wire. In its final meeting, the committee chose the IBM symbol despite concerns that, to quote the historian Stephen Brown, “by opting for the oversquare symbol instead of the bulls-eye, the Committee may have dramatically slowed the pace of implementation” because of RCA’s pressure.
The IBM symbol became the industry standard, and the very first Universal Product Code bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, on June 26, 1974. Rather remarkably, the IBM symbol the committee chose is still going strong almost 50 years later. The bar codes you scan at a grocery store are essentially the same bar codes someone would have scanned in the 1970s.
Based on meeting notes from the symbol selection meetings, the committee members felt they were doing important work. But even in their wildest dreams, they could not have imagined how consequential their decision ended up being.
The bar code design they selected became one of the most iconic images of capitalism and has inspired architects’ building designs, symbolized dystopian conformity in science fiction, become a popular tattoo and even inspired online fan communities.
But the design that changed the world came remarkably close to being a forgotten piece of history. If a few grocery executives had voted a different way, we might be moving through a world filled with bull’s-eyes.
Jordan Frith, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, Clemson University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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A photo of Jupiter that has been claimed to be the "closest ever taken" of Jupiter is doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter.
It's not clear where the claim that it is the closest ever taken comes from. The image of the planet was taken by Junocam during perijove 26, according to the SETI Institute. Perijove means the point in orbit where a spacecraft is closest to Jupiter, and the mission can reach a few thousand kilometers from cloud tops. The Juno spacecraft takes many photos during flybys, with another close approach happening on February 3, 2024, while Cassini also took photos of the planet while on its way to Saturn.
The closest flyby so far took place on August 27, 2016, when Juno flew 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) above the planet's swirling clouds of gas at the gas giant's North pole. Nevertheless, the photo is a reminder of the ridiculous beauty of Jupiter that Juno has been able to capture since it began imaging the planet in 2016.
Other shots of the planet that look too good to be real include a short video made by Kevin M. Gill from Cassini images, taken before that probe went on to photograph and then crash into Saturn. The shot shows Io and Europa orbiting Jupiter.
In the clip, Io (which is closer to Jupiter) appears to be orbiting slower than Europa (which is further away). However, there's a simple explanation for this.
"The motion isn't wholly accurate as I made it to look prettier than it was correct," Gill explained on X (Twitter). "It's meant to portray the motion visible from a spacecraft that's moving at a velocity faster than the moons are orbiting. So, from a stationary perspective, Io would move faster than Europa."
All the photos are real, even if they look too darn good to be so.
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One sneaky bird escaped from Colchester Zoo in the UK last week by hitching a ride on an unsuspecting visitor. The bird in question is a rainbow lorikeet, and is pretty much the least inconspicuous escapee possible as its brightly colored feathers don’t exactly fly under the radar. Despite this obvious disadvantage, it's been on the lam ever since.
The intrepid avian made a break for it on Saturday, January 6, hopping onto a visitor as they left its enclosure. According to the Colchester Gazette, zookeepers were unable to remove the bird before it flew off and it was last seen hiding in the trees opposite the zoo's nature area.
“The bird flew into nearby tall trees and when keepers attempted to clear the area and get some ladders to entice the bird down, it flew off towards the back of the zoo,” a spokesman for Colchester Zoo reportedly said. “Keepers assembled to try and get it to fly back towards the zoo as they could see it, but to no avail.”
Colchester Zoo in Heckfordbridge, Essex, has a walk-in enclosure for rainbow lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus), a colorful parrot commonly found in Australia, which can have a surprising taste for meat. Visitors can purchase a cup of nectar to feed the birds and encourage them to land on them – although they do not usually leave with them.
While the fugitive remains at large, zookeepers are doing their best to tempt it back to its flock, moving the remaining birds to their outdoor enclosure in the hope that it will hear their vocalizations and come back. They also left a crate of nectar out overnight, but the runaway bird didn’t take the bait.
“Staff remain on watch and we will continue to do everything we can to get the lorikeet back safely,” the spokesperson added.
It has been suggested by one expert that the plucky bird may be able to survive in the wild, even despite the current cold weather. “If it survives the winter, it could continue out in the wild,” Nick Moran, training manager at the British Trust for Ornithology, told Southend Echo.
If it does make it, it could join the likes of Flamingo 492, another avian absconder who was last seen living it up in Texas having been on the run since 2005.
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This week the fossilized skin of a reptile that existed 45 million years before the earliest known dinosaur has been discovered, Jupiter has been discovered to have magnetic jets, and giant 10-foot-tall apes once roamed China. Finally, we investigate why 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
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The United States Just Grew By 1 Million Square Kilometers In Size
The United States has grown in size by 1 million square kilometers (more than 386,000 square miles) – that’s almost twice the area of Spain. The unexpected growth spurt was not the result of strange geological forces, nor the invasion of a foreign land, but the States attempting to lay claim to its surrounding ocean-floor territory. Read the full story here
NASA Finally Removes Last Two Fasteners To Access Historic Bennu Asteroid Sample
The final hurdle to retrieving the full sample of asteroid Bennu collected by OSIRIS-REx – the first asteroid return sample in US history – has at last been overcome. NASA technicians have been able to successfully remove the two fasteners from the sampler head that have been preventing them from opening the canister fully since September. Now, NASA can get to the pristine asteroid material inside. Read the full story here
Oldest Known Fossilized Skin Dates Back 45 Million Years Before First Dinosaurs
Fossilized skin from a reptile that lived at least 45 million years before the first dinosaur has been found. Although we know nothing else about the animal it came from, along with seven skin casts of similar age, the record-smashing 288 million-year-old discovery helps reveal the early evolution of skin. Read the full story here
Jupiter Discovered To Have Magnetic Jets - And It's A Big Deal For The Whole Solar System
Magnetosheath jets are fast plasma streams that form in the region between a planet’s magnetic field and the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that come from the Sun. It’s an area of peculiar magnetism where the field lines are weak and irregular, and the jets play an important role. These temporary events have been found around Earth and Mars, and now they've discovered Jupiter has them too. Read the full story here
Giant 10-Foot-Tall Apes Once Roamed China Until Their Mysterious Demise
Standing over 3 meters (10 feet) tall, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest species of primate to ever walk the Earth (that we know of). This elusive beast stomped around what is now modern-day China until it fell into extinction between 295,000 and 215,000 years ago under mysterious circumstances. We may now know why. Read the full story here
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Life, The Universe, And Everything: Why 42 Really Is The Ultimate Answer
Wherever you find big questions, one answer just keeps cropping up. We know the Answer is 42, but what we really need is an answer to the question of what the Question was to get that Answer. Any questions? Read the full story here
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Holly Willoughby has returned to social media after three months of radio silence. Taking to Instagram on Friday, the presenter – who departed This Morning in October – shared a snap of her first show script for Dancing on Ice. "And so it begins…" she penned in the caption.
Shortly after posting, Holly, 42, was inundated with messages of support. "Wonderful news, you've got this Holly" replied a fan. "We've missed you, Holly, so happy that we are seeing you on our screens again," added another. Meanwhile, a third commented: You've got this, supporting you all the way."
Set to air on Sunday 14 January, the opening episode of Dancing on Ice will mark Holly's first TV appearance of 2024, as well as her first presenting gig since quitting This Morning. The ice skating competition will look a little different this year too, with Stephen Mulhern replacing Holly's former co-host, Phillip Schofield.
A match made in heaven, the pair previously worked together on the children's show, Ministry of Mayhem, later known as Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown.
"Holly and Stephen are two of our best loved presenters, so reuniting them 20 years after they first appeared on screen together to host Dancing on Ice marks the start of an exciting year for the show," Katie Rawcliffe, head of entertainment commissioning at ITV, said in December.
Holly's return to Dancing on Ice comes as a welcome surprise, following months of speculation that she was leaving the show. Her future on the series was first called into question after she announced her plans to quit This Morning.
Before her departure in October, Holly had been absent from the ITV breakfast programme, after a plot to kidnap her was unveiled. Police explained the threats against the mum-of-three to producers, and she was subsequently replaced by her co-star, Alison Hammond.
A 36-year-old man, Gavin Plumb, from Harlow, Essex was subsequently arrested days later, following the discovery of text messages in which he threatened to cause "serious harm" to Holly. He was later charged in Chelmsford Magistrates Court.
MORE: Holly Willoughby's family life: From her three adorable kids to lookalike sister
READ: Holly Willoughby confirmed for 'exciting' Dancing on Ice return with brand new co-host
A terrifying experience, Holly subsequently quit the show: "I've let ITV know today that after 14 years, I will not be returning to This Morning," she explained in a statement. "To everyone who has ever worked on the show over the years, thank you so so much. This is such a difficult goodbye, you are incredible and I forever will be proud of what we've done together."
She concluded: It's been an honour to just be part of its story and I know this story has many chapters left to go. Sadly, however, I now feel I have to make this decision for me and my family. I will miss you all so much."
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Michael Strahan thanked everyone for their love and support on Friday when he addressed his daughter Isabella's fight against cancer in a heartfelt message.
One day after the 19-year-old bravely told her story in a joint interview with her dad on Good Morning America, Michael shared an update and invited Isabella's doctor to talk about her prognosis following her brain tumor diagnosis.
Isabella had the mass removed in October and underwent weeks of radiation, with chemotherapy to follow.
Thankfully, they were able to share that the tumor has not spread.Talking via video-link, Dr. David Ashley from Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center said: "The critical thing was that she found herself in the hands of an excellent surgical team. She was able to obtain a complete resection of the tumor without any injury to the back of the brain."
Isabella's rare diagnosis of the cancerous brain tumor called medulloblastoma, was terrifying for the teen and her family. But Dr. David Ashley is confident that she will make a full recovery.
"There are four types of medulloblastoma," he continued. "Isabella has what is known as a WNT type of medulloblastoma . Patients have 90% + survival rate beyond five years and the majority are completely cured."
He concluded: "So with Isabella, I'm very optimistic that her outcome is going to be terrific and she's doing fabulously."
When the cameras returned to the studio, Michael said: "As a parent, you're happy to hear that from the doctor," before talking about how Isabella is feeling after the emotional interview on Thursday's show. "As far as Isabella, I think yesterday, it was something for her to share that publicly. But she's lighter now. It is off her chest. She feels, 'I don't have to hold this in anymore'.
"Thank you to everyone for your love and support. We couldn't be more thankful. I couldn't have a better family around me at work or at home. So thank you."
Isabella had been in tears during the interview conducted by Robin Roberts as she spoke about her journey. Michael held her hand and said they were going to beat this, promising her a happy and healthy future.
Isabella, who started college at University of Southern California in Los Angeles last fall, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in late October.
"I didn't notice anything was off till probably like October 1," the college freshman told Robin, sharing that her first symptoms were simply headaches, though it then evolved into nausea, and she "couldn't walk straight."
Things took a turn for the worse later that month, and she recalled: "I woke up, probably at like, 1 p.m. I dreaded waking up. But I was throwing up blood."
After her father promptly encouraged her to go to the doctor and have a round of tests done, they discovered a fast-growing 4-centimeter tumor – larger than a gold ball – in the back of her head.
Michael then confessed to Robin: "I don't really remember much," adding: "I just remember trying to figure out how to get to L.A. ASAP. And it just doesn't feel real. It just didn't feel real."
Since making the reveal, Michael says they've been inundated with messages and told viewers on Friday's GMA: "We have received so much love and so much support and it's almost overwhelming. But thank you. Thank you for everybody out there."
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Amy Robach has addressed potential pregnancy speculation after revealing she has given up alcohol.
The former GMA3 star and her partner, T.J. Holmes – who she began a relationship with while she was still married to ex-husband, Andrew Shue – revealed on the latest episode of the couple's podcast, Amy & T.J., that they have both temporarily quit drinking.
Amy admitted during the chat that she would typically consume two to three drinks a day, while T.J. confessed, he could sometimes knock back 18 alcoholic beverages a day.
However, to avoid rumors swirling that Amy is off booze because she is expecting her and T.J.'s first child, she quickly clarified that the couple is participating in Dry January.
"Now that I'm participating in Dry January, it is a... part accountability," she said. "Like if I announce it, now you're gonna hold me accountable because you can't see me order a drink and I'm not gonna have a drink."
She continued: "But also I'm explaining. Because normally if you're hanging out with me, I'm not going up to a restaurant or going up to a bar and ordering a club soda.
"So sometimes it's like, 'Hey, here's why I'm ordering a club soda,' not that I owe anyone an explanation, but it sometimes requires an explanation if you know me and you're friends with me."
Hammering home that her alcohol-free month is not because she's expecting, Amy stated: "I'm not pregnant but that's kinda funny anyway because I'm fifty."
T.J. appeared relieved about Amy's statement, telling her: "Thank you for the clarity though that you're not pregnant." He jokingly added: "Some of us appreciate that information more than others."
The couple have been in a relationship since 2022 after developing feelings for each other roughly six months before their romance was made public on November 30 that year.
Addressing their relationship timeline when quizzed by a listener, T.J. explained how they went from colleagues to best friends, to a couple. "Look, when we knew, it was probably summer of [2022] … that things were – something else was evolving," he said on the podcast.
At the time, Amy was still married to her ex-husband of 12 years, Andrew, while T.J. was also in a 12-year marriage to Marilee Fiebig. While many reports claimed Amy and T.J. embarked on an affair, they recently confirmed they were both separated from their partners and in the middle of divorce proceedings when the news of their relationship became public.
Describing how he feared about ruining their friendship, T.J. recalled thinking: "Lord, this has been a best friend… I don't need to screw this up by saying to her that there's something I'm feeling for her beyond the friendship."
Though he said they were reluctant to address their feelings with each other, he added: "As we proceeded through last summer, things definitely changed, and we started to have conversations."
Amy explained it was difficult to pinpoint exactly when things changed, though she said she felt they "started looking at each other differently" at work, recalling how much time they spent together, and not wanting that to end.
The two also got candid about milestones like their first kiss and the first "I love you." T.J. confessed he was the one to say "I love you" first, though he argued Amy was the one to make the first move.
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Will Kirk may be a dab hand at fixing woodwork on The Repair Shop, but even he is not immune to the occasional DIY mishap. The restoration expert took to Instagram to share the funny reality of his latest home project, which left fans telling him: "Don't give up the day job."
"Capable of painting a mahogany wood grain effect... Maybe. Capable of painting mum's kitchen... Not so much!" he captioned a series of snaps that showed him attempting to coat the lavender walls with a fresh white lick of paint. However, the paint wasn't just smeared across the walls – it was also caked onto his hand and dripping down his face. He continued that his mother had the best reaction to his decorating mishap: "Love the fact that when I shouted out, 'Mum, I dropped the tin of paint on my face" her first reaction was, 'I hope you didn't get any paint on my floor.'"
The relatable post was met with plenty of responses from fans, with one writing: "Well mom's always know what their children are up to. No matter how old they are," and another similarly commenting: "Haha priorities … I’m with your mum on this one." Meanwhile, others reassured Will he wasn't alone with his mess, penning messages such as: "I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets more paint on me than the wall."
When Will's not helping out at his mother's house, he lives in Wandsworth with his wife Polly and their baby daughter, whom they welcomed in July 2022, one year after their wedding in August 2021. While he prefers to keep his life off-screen private, Will has shared a few glimpses into his neutral home, which is decorated with white walls with gallery photos, wooden floorboards and large glass doors leading onto a balcony.
Will previously shared a look inside his bedroom transformation, revealing he chose timeless pieces of furniture that he would want to take with him when he moves into a bigger family house. "Now that my daughter has moved into her nursery, we've really tried to turn [the bedroom] into a quiet space," he said, showing off what he described as his calming "sanctuary." With the help of West Elm, Will's bedroom now features an Emmett Bed with a grey quilted headboard, wooden bedside tables, a gold mirror and colourful cushions.
His eye for interior design goes hand in hand with his artistic skills, which he credited his mother for helping him finetune. Speaking about how he got into the furniture restoration industry, Will told Prima: "It was by accident – I went to art school and studied graphic design, but realised it wasn't for me. My mum saw a course on how to restore antique furniture which I signed up to – that was 15 years ago and I haven't looked back! My grandfather also restored furniture – I can remember being about nine and standing in his workshop, I can still remember the smell of wood and polish."
PHOTOS: The Repair Shop experts' homes: Will Kirk, Jay Blades, Suzie Fletcher and more
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Here at HELLO!, we were shocked to read a recent news report which revealed that half of all reported child abuse cases involved accused teenagers below the age of 18.
Police attribute the rise to young people owning mobile phones and watching hardcore, violent or abusive pornography online. They say this is affecting how young men behave sexually with girls, and demands are made for nude videos and pictures.
"It's a crime to take, make, share or distribute an indecent image of a child that is under 18," Ian Critchley, lead of the NPCC told BBC News.
Now, a new independent review has been launched by the Government into online pornography, led by Baroness Gabby Bertin.
The Pornography Review aims to advise the government on ways to tackle the potentially harmful impact of pornography on viewers, and to look at how abuse and exploitation can be better addressed in the modern industry.
On 11 January, the Call for Evidence for the review was launched where pornography creators, law enforcement, parents and the public will be given an opportunity to share their thoughts on the effect pornography is having on society and help shape the future of pornography regulation in the UK.
The questionnaire, which closes on Thursday 7 March, will collect evidence on the impact of pornographic content on relationships, sexual behaviours, mental health and their views of women and girls.
Below, HELLO! talks to Baroness Gabby Bertin about the Pornography Review…
Hello Baroness Bertin, can you tell us about the review and why it's so needed?
It's a huge privilege and honour to have been asked to do this review because I've done a lot of work in the violence against women and girls space.
It's clear to me that we can introduce all kinds of brilliant pieces of legislation to try and help victims, but if you're not looking at why it's happening with such prevalence and trying to tackle it at source, you're not doing the job.
The pornography law as it stands is all geared up for the offline world and nobody's watching porn offline now, it's all online. The checks and balances that are in place with sex DVDs don't exist online and it's quite wrong.
The reason why the Prime Minister was so keen to set this review up is that we've got to find a way to marry up the offline and the online world in this area.
The Online Safety Act has absolutely made progress on child verification and children's access but that can't happen a moment too soon. It's still terrifyingly easy to get access to stuff that nobody under the age of 18 should be seeing.
I think a big bucket of work will be about the enforcement of what is happening online, which we already know is completely illegal, and trying to work with the police and the agencies to make sure that they have all the tools to try and get that kind of access, that kind of content offline.
Another big part of the work is trying to examine the impact of so many young people seeing this kind of content way too early in their lives, and what we do to try and remedy that.
How is viewing pornography affecting our young people?
You can't say 100% if you watch hardcore porn, you're therefore going to enact that in your private life. But the police have released this figure that there's been a huge spike in child crimes, child rapes on the back of watching violent porn. And that is all you need to know really.
That story is horrifying and totally unacceptable. If you're getting a taste for that age 13, you're not suddenly going to grow out of it at age 16 - you're probably going to get more extreme.
We know that, unfortunately, it is a journey. You speak to any police officer in this world, it's always a journey. They don't just wake up one morning and decide they're going to go onto an illegal website. It's a journey into much darker stuff and we have to stop that.
How will parents be able to have their say in the review?
The review was launched about a month ago and there is now a call for evidence. It's an opportunity to hear from everyone who cares, has an interest, understands it, knows what's going on and perhaps knows how to solve it as well.
Pornography is a difficult thing to talk about with your children. It's not necessarily something you want to raise at the breakfast table every day, but it's giving parents those tools that don't shut down the conversation.
Obviously, every family is different and for some families it might not be possible, but I think just being as helpful as we can to give support to parents is something that I don't think is happening in a uniform way now.
Is online pornography talked about in schools with students at the moment?
That's a very good point and it's not, in any sort of regular fashion. I think the Department of Education is currently consulting on what they put into the content of their relationship and sex education, which is now compulsory in schools, or will be.
It's complicated, because obviously, you don't want to signpost pornography to people who haven't spotted it yet. Generally speaking, if you're a 15-year-old boy, you probably will have done. All these considerations have to be thought about, and how do you actually teach it and tackle it?
I would hope the review will work closely with the Department of Education to try and get a proportionate solution to that.
How long is the review going to take?
The ambition is we will report in the summer.
This has been going on for a long time now. People are being affected by it. It's not something that should take years and years, we've got to get cracking with it.
And likewise, the Online Safety Act and all the better checks around age verification that we've got to move as quickly as possible on. I hope this review will support the work that Ofcom's doing on that as well, so speed is of the essence.
Are you looking to implement similar age verification checks for online pornography that are now required within the Online Safety Act?
In a sense, that law has been created. There was a series of discussions during the period of the legislation that has just gone through which delved into much more robust regulation of the pornography industry.
For example, role-play that makes the participants look like children. There are things that you wouldn't be able to get in the old fashioned world, but you are able to access in the online world, so that's the area we'll look at.
Also, exploitation. There's never really been a proper understanding, not least because it's quite new legislation on modern slavery. What are the links to the porn industry with exploitation? [I'm] fairly sure there are links, so it's trying to understand how the industry can better protect the people who appear in their content, and put much more pressure on those in the industry to do the right thing.
We're not trying to say people must never watch porn or somehow trying to regulate people's private lives, but it's clear that there is a sense of a total lack of proportion.
What will the next steps be when the review is finished?
It depends. There will be some things that may well need primary legislation.
Who knows what the political landscape would be like, but I want this review to be very ambitious, for it to be something that whichever government is in power can adopt - and that's why it's got to be independent as well.
I think there is generally a cross-party desire in the area of pornography to really try and change thing
As a parent, there's a conflict between monitoring your teen's phone use and your teen wanting privacy, so we do need restrictions in place on the websites…
It's impossible for parents.
The adult space is more complicated. People will have certain things they want to do, and you've got to be careful as a government that you're not restricting certain things.
But we have to be sure that this law is going to work to protect children. Likewise, if as a child you do get through the age verification barriers, which of course some children will, then what you are able to see [needs] certain barriers as well.
Perhaps we have to look at certain levels, make it as hard as possible to just fall upon really, really extreme content, if it's not made illegal.
The drumbeat for it is really quite loud now. I think five years ago, maybe not so much; people sort of knew it went on but perhaps weren't quite so aware, but a big proportion of the country is suddenly waking up to this.
The more people understand that this is happening, the bigger the support will be to make change.
Have your say:
Contribute your views to the Pornography Review on the government's website here or email pornographyreview@dsit.gov.uk
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Researchers have developed the first organoid model of the human conjunctiva, a 3D culture of cells mimicking the actual tissue, which is involved in tear production. And as if that wasn’t cool enough, it also helped them to discover a cell type never before described in this tissue.
The conjunctiva is an important part of the human eye; it’s a thin membrane that protects and lubricates the inside of the eyelids and the white of the eye. It can also be affected by disease, ranging from the common eye condition conjunctivitis to rare forms of cancer.
Understanding such conditions, and therefore how to treat them, has been hindered by the lack of a good model for the tissue. That’s where the organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute came in, taking cells from a human conjunctiva and growing them into a 3D structure that could function as the real thing – an organoid in a dish.
“Once we had these functioning organoids, we wanted to know how the conjunctiva is involved in the production of tears,” explained lead researcher Marie Bannier-Hélaouët in a statement. “We discovered that the conjunctiva makes antimicrobial components and therefore contributes to tear production in more ways than by simply making mucus.”
The researchers made this discovery when altering the conditions in the dish to mimic allergies; the conjunctiva can become inflamed because of allergens like pollen or dust. “The organoids started to produce completely different tears: there was more mucus but there were also more antimicrobial components,” said Bannier-Hélaouët.
This investigation also led the team to another new finding, at least new when it comes to the human conjunctiva: tuft cells. More commonly thought of as a type of cell found lining the intestines, the researchers found that the number of tuft cells increased when the organoid was subject to allergy-like conditions. This, they suggest, indicates that the cells may play a role in how the eye responds to allergens.
The researchers hope that their model will enable more research into the conjunctiva and the diseases that can affect it. “We can use our model to test drugs for allergies or dry eye disease, for example,” Bannier-Hélaouët explained.
They also hope that one day, they’ll be able to take it even further, by creating replacement conjunctivae for people affected by burns or cancer. “We are now running preclinical studies in rabbits to assess whether this approach is feasible and helpful,” said Bannier-Hélaouët.
The study is published in Cell Stem Cell.
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With 30 years of experience under his belt, The Repair Shop's Richard Talman knows a thing or two about the jewellery industry, from the up-and-coming engagement ring trends to the money-saving proposal hack you'd be "crazy" not to try.
Richard founded RTFJ, which stands for Richard Talman Fine Jewellery, in 2010 and his expertise has seen him help numerous customers on-screen and off-screen. Outside of filming, his co-stars Will Kirk and Jay Blades have turned to him for help creating their engagement and wedding rings. We sat down with Richard to hear all about his family life, his affordable new jewellery brand, and the behind-the-scenes process for Will and Jay's rings...
Inside Emilice
Emilice was sweetly named after Richard's two young daughters, Emily and Alice, whom he said could follow in his footsteps in the future. "I just wanted something that was unique," he said of the name. "And something that potentially one day they could continue. Bearing in mind now that they are seven and five, one day, they might want to get involved."
After developing his interest in rocks, gemstones and precious metals from a young age, he added that they have already begun showing a shared passion for his work. "They absolutely love coming into the shop. I've got all of my original collection of gemstones which I collected from about the age of my youngest actually, which they come in and look at. Who knows! Sometimes people show up, show a massive passion early on and then it fades away, other people don't show a passion immediately and then follow it. I would never, ever lead them into something against their will. But they certainly are very excited about the prospects at the moment."
Even if they choose another career path, he joked that he hoped they would turn to him for help if they ever got engaged. "The boyfriend would be missing a trick if he didn't. I'd be pretty disappointed, yes!" he laughed.
When asked about his motivation to start another jewellery brand, following the success of RTFJ, Richard explained he wanted to address the gap in the market for adorable jewellery, which is more important than ever thanks to the rising costs of the precious metals.
"We are now finding even some of the most basic bespoke pieces are running into the thousands which is totally out of a lot of people's budgets. I know I had become increasingly frustrated that a lot of very, very good clients who had previously used bespoke services, would want a gift for a friend, family or birthday present that doesn't fit the bill of our bespoke service. So in order to meet the needs of our customers, we decided to source some very well-made jewellery that can be made on a more industrial process.
"So they're not unique one-off, but of course, then the price reflects as all of the pieces are currently under £150. And there could be plans to make it a little bit bigger, a little bit smaller in the price range. But it's more about jewellery for everyone's pocket – one up from costume jewellery, but not quite up so high as our bespoke service."
Proposal mistakes to avoid
Speaking of cost-saving, Richard opened up about his bespoke service, which allows customers to melt down precious metals and have them repurposed into a new piece of jewellery – a hack that not many people take advantage of. Not only does that mean that it could have sentimental value – for example, using broken family heirlooms – but it is also a great move financially and environmentally.
"We are currently experiencing the highest gold price that I have ever seen in my life in the trade, which is 30 years. And therefore I say to people, if you've got gold, in any format that you're not using, you'd be crazy to scrap that gold for a scrap price, which is a lot lower than the buying price, and then use that money to buy new, you might just as well reuse it," he explained, adding that several different pieces of jewellery could be melted down together as long as it's the same material.
"People might have chains that are broken, but they don't throw them away, they have an earring that they've lost, but they don't wear them because they're not a pair, they might have an old bracelet that just doesn't fit them anymore. And they would accumulate these items in a jewellery box without any real thought about the quantity they have.
"You need as little as 10g of gold to make an engagement ring (half of that to make a wedding ring), so what a lot of people don't realise is before they start asking a goldsmith for quotes to supply them an item, they might very well have that item sitting at home in their drawer. The cost of the materials is over half of a wedding ring, and about a third of engagement rings, because of course, you have the stone - a diamond or sapphire or ruby."
From an environmental point of view, this is likely to become more and more popular with an increasing focus on sustainability, which Richard stating it is "absolutely" the way forward in 2024. "So rather than buying new mined gold, it's using about as much energy as boiling an egg to take old gold and make a new wedding ring," he said.
The second biggest mishap he sees in the engagement ring industry is getting the size wrong, which Richard reassured "is very fixable." Despite numerous hacks online claiming to ensure you get it right the first time, Richard said things like taking another ring with you don't always work for one crucial reason – it's never been worn on the ring finger.
"It's more common than not most people propose with a surprise, and nine out of 10 will be coming back to you for a finger alteration. That's normal, it's almost impossible to accurately predict your partner's ring size unless they are invited to go into a jeweller to have their finger properly measured and then leave the information conveniently on display for people to find. Occasionally you find people organised like that!" he joked.
He said sneaking into your partner's existing jewellery box and borrowing a ring worn on their right ring finger "is the closest you'll ever get" to nailing the size. "But the ring finger will differ left to right depending on whether people are left or right-handed. If you're right-handed that finger will be ever so slightly bigger and more muscular. You can usually drop a size and that's quite accurate. No one's made the same," explained the TV star.
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Two stars who have taken Richard up on his expertise are Will Kirk and Jay Blades, and he said he was "honoured" they wanted him to have such a crucial role in their love stories. "I was really, really honoured about it. And indeed I'm honoured when anyone asks me to make a piece of jewellery for them because they're entrusting my style," explained Richard.
"When people walk into a shop, they see an item of jewellery they like and they buy it, there's no element of trust. Whereas when someone comes to me they're relying on me to get it right. With the likes of Will and Jay, they could have gone anywhere, any jeweller would have loved their business, but they chose me and I was honoured by that."
Jay had both his wife Lisa's diamond engagement ring and "imperfect" wedding rings with sentimental gems crafted by the Master Goldsmith, while Will asked him to create custom-made wedding rings for himself and his wife Polly for their 2021 wedding.
When asked about his off-screen relationship with his The Repair Shop co-stars, he had nothing but positive things to say about the cast. Richard insisted that the whole team is quick to support one another, and he has no doubt that will extend to his new business. "Everyone is supportive of everyone. I can assure you definitely the friendliness that is portrayed on screen is not acting, everyone is that friendly with each other and everyone is that supportive, and people will come to you for advice," he said.
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The Traitors group of Faithfuls finally had something to celebrate after rooting out the first of the Traitors! Ash was one of the four Traitors that the Faithfuls hoped to discover, and her exit meant that Paul, Harry and Miles were safe for another day - even if it did mean throwing poor Ash under the bus!
Having been eliminated from the Scottish castle, Ash joins our resident Traitor Wilfred Webster and TV editor Emmy to chat all about her time on the show, what mistakes she made, and why she dubbed herself the 'worst traitor ever'. Watch Ash, Wilf and Emmy’s full Traitors Talk chat here, where Ash recounts her days in the castle, and calls her stay in the dungeon "such a dumb move", even though she decided to do it for a very smart reason.
She explained that putting herself in the dungeon was all about staying close to Paul, who she described as the "mastermind" of the Traitors group. Speaking about adding two Traitors in the dungeon, she said: "That was such a dumb move. You don't see any of it. People don't understand that. I was thinking in my mind that Paul is the mastermind behind this and I need to be next to him otherwise."
Speaking about watching the show back, she added: "That was quite tough because, you know, it takes you back to how you were feeling at that time. I think actually episode three was tougher for me, but episode four was I remember how I felt at that time, I remember when I got to that roundtable, my last roundtable, I was almost at peace with it, like, 'I think I know what's going to happen here, but I'm good.'
Chatting about opting not to vote for Paul, Miles or Harry during the roundtable Ash explained how hard it is to think straight in those circumstances. "People don't understand that in that moment, especially when everyone is at you, your mind is just somewhere else. You're just thinking, 'My goodness, what is happening here right now?' So you actually kind of miss everything that's happening on the table."
The star also opened up about what she should have done in hindsight, saying: "I think my feelings for being closer to Paul wherever he overrode me, even thinking about, 'Okay, let's not put any of us there, because actually, it would have worked better if neither of us had gone in, if we had just chosen all Faithfuls.' I feel like Paul was just like, 'I’m just going to risk it.' He's so clever, but at the same time he just doesn't really care."
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ASTANA — Kazakhstan’s flagship airline Air Astana revealed plans on Jan. 12 for an initial public offering (IPO), publishing a statement on its official website.
The airline seeks to list on the Astana International Exchange (AIX) and the London Stock Exchange.
The potential offering would involve the sale of global depositary receipts and shares by BAE Systems (Kazakhstan) Limited and Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund, along with new issuances by Air Astana.
The airline said it expects to raise nearly $120 million. This will support the company’s growth strategy.
The intention to list in London and in Kazakhstan demonstrates the “solid foundation” of Air Astana and the “exciting prospects for increasing air transport on key markets,” said Air Astana CEO Peter Foster.
“We are confident that the IPO of shares will contribute to the next stage of growth for the Air Astana Group, presenting significant opportunities to consolidate existing routes and expand into new geographical regions, considering our plans for further fleet expansion and initiatives to enhance operational flexibility,” said Foster.
Air Astana is the largest airline group in Central Asia and the Caucasus. With its fleet of 49 aircraft, the airline transported approximately six million passengers in the first nine months of 2023 on around 41,000 flights across 99 routes in 21 countries.
“We are one of the fastest-growing airline groups globally, operating a modern, fuel-efficient fleet that transports approximately eight million customers annually, offering an award-winning level of service onboard our aircraft,” said Foster.
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ASTANA – Almaty will host a special screening of five short films shot by Kazakh female directors in the bULt art space on Jan. 14. The movies narrate stories on implications of long-established moral foundations of society.
The cultural event will be organized by the Qyzqaras community. Aimed at promoting women’s talents in the domestic film industry, it hosts monthly screenings of Kazakh movies created by female filmmakers.
“Once upon a time in Korgalzhino”
An 11-year-old boy named Aslan escapes from the children’s camp to dive into the legend about the Shaitankol Lake (Devil’s Lake), which is famous for fulfilling any desires in return for valuables. Aslan wishes to return to his mother.
The audience will go through various obstacles with the child, viewing the picture through their own prism of family relations.
The film about parent-child relationship is a pre-graduate project of its director Arai Karimova.
“Gulmira”
Ainamkoz Emzharova’s film “Gulmira” narrates the story about domestic violence in Kazakhstan.
The main character Gulmira lives with, at first glance, a decent man, Kairat. However, the external attributes conceal both verbal abuse and physical assault. Having been married to an abuser for years, she decides to take life into her own hands, but faces social mores of local mentality.
Emzharova’s work covers not only the details of abusive relationships, but the condemnation of society.
“Something is Wrong”
The film focuses on the everyday life of a middle-aged man who spends time alone in a household routine while his wife and daughter are at work and studying. Only in the evenings does the hero have the opportunity to see his family. However, even at these moments, family members can’t build a closer relationship.
Polina Halenko’s cinematography discloses the consequences of emotional traumas on the example of a seemingly ordinary family.
“Sixty-Four Points Why Did Everything Go Wrong”
Dilnaz Abramova’s documentary also raises the problem of violence.
The film is about the hard luck of a young girl Ainur. As a victim of sexual violence, she had to overcome the trauma.
During the movie, she talks about the recovery process and her experiences through 64 notes describing her path. With her mother’s help, Ainur manages to radiate warmth and comfort even in such a difficult situation.
“Anelya”
The film shot by Almagul Serikbayeva shares insights with the audience about life in a foster family.
While studying at the university, Serikbayeva accidentally met a girl named Anelya, the film’s future heroine. Anelya was born in Kazakhstan and spent several years in an orphanage until she was adopted by a family from the United States.
Now she is trying to find her identity.
By the end of the screening, the audience will have an opportunity to share opinions and discuss the topics raised in the movies.
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ASTANA – This year, the Astana International Exchange (AIX) demonstrated positive results in listings, trading volume, and capital raised despite challenges posed by high market interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties, the AIX’s press service reported on Jan. 12.
As of Dec. 31, 94 different issuers listed 150 securities on the AIX. Debt capital raised since inception reached $4.2 billion, with equity capital standing at $365 million.
AIX CEO Assel Mukazhanova commended the results, citing the listing of a substantial array of debt instruments, attracting over $2 billion.
“Our objective remains clear and steadfast – to facilitate sustainable, long-term growth in the capital market and emerge as a pillar of support during challenging times for both local and foreign companies, aiding them in achieving their business objectives,” she said.
Total trading turnover more than tripled from $173 million in 2022 to $582 million in 2023. Equity trading nearly doubled to $130 million.
The AIX has 37 trading members, including brokers from Kazakhstan, China, and European countries. The AIX Central Securities Depository hosts over 1.5 million investor accounts.
Polymetal International emerged as the most traded equity, capturing 31.1% of the trading share, followed closely by KazMunayGas national oil and gas company’s common shares at 30.7%.
Kazatomprom national atomic company’s common shares and global depository receipts accounted for 18.2% of total trading for the year.
Non-residents contributed 31% to equity trading in 2023, affirming the AIX’s international status.
The AIX Qazaq Index, representing securities of ten companies in Kazakhstan, surged by 28.37%, from 948.36 to 1,217.38 points.
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ASTANA — The vibrant capital of Kazakhstan is gearing up for an exhilarating weekend filled with cultural richness and artistic expression. From mesmerizing opera performances to captivating concerts and thought-provoking lectures, there’s something for everyone to enjoy on Jan. 13-14. Let’s dive into the details of the exciting events awaiting you in Astana.
“La Bohème” opera on Jan. 13
“La Bohème,” Giacomo Puccini’s timeless opera, unfolds a poignant tale inspired by Henri Murger’s French novel. Characterized by a uniquely French style, the opera captures the subtleties of emotion in the lives of young intellectuals in Paris’s Latin Quarter on Christmas Eve. Amidst constant financial struggles, the characters find joy, poetry, friendship and love.
The chance meeting of poet Rodolfo and seamstress Mimi sparks a beautiful but fleeting love, disrupted by Mimi’s illness and Rodolfo’s harsh living conditions. Andrea Bernard’s new stage version promises a fresh perspective with stunning sets by Ezio Frigerio and captivating elements like a train and a Holiday Scene featuring circus artists, adding a unique twist to the classic narrative of youthful creators.
Venue: Astana Opera; 1, Konayev Street. Tickets are available here.
The Korean Wave (Hallyu) lecture on Jan. 13
For those intrigued by the global phenomenon of K-Pop and Korean entertainment, don’t miss the Hallyu lecture. Delve into the Korean Wave, also known as Hallyu and explore its impact on pop culture worldwide. Gain insights into the history, trends and influence of K-pop and its significance in shaping contemporary youth culture.
Address: 5, Kerey Zhanibek and Zhanibek Khans Street. Tickets are available here.
Concert of Song Won Sub on Jan. 13
Song Won Sub, a renowned South Korean artist, singer and musician, has captivated audiences with his unique talent. He is also a popular YouTuber with a channel boasting over 686,000 subscribers. His fame in Kazakhstan has particularly grown due to his cover versions of songs by Kazakhstan’s artists. This not only earned him widespread recognition in Kazakhstan but also contributed to the popularization of Kazakh music in both Korea and Kazakhstan. Song Won Sub’s work has served as a cultural bridge, bringing people together through the universal language of music and art.
Venue: QazExpo Congress Center; 44, Sauran Street. Tickets are available here.
Contemporary Jewelry: Ornaments or Art Objects on Jan. 14
Concept Art presents a captivating lecture and exhibition sale by renowned artist Zhanna Asanova, known for her works exhibited globally. Join us to explore the essence of contemporary jewelry, discussing unconventional materials such as plastic, hair and plants. Discover the conceptual depth behind these pieces, going beyond traditional aesthetics.
The lecture will also touch on selling and exhibiting these unique creations, providing insights into the world of contemporary jewelry. Don’t miss the chance to witness the fusion of art and adornment in Zhanna Asanova’s stunning creations.
Address: 5, Kerey Zhanibek and Zhanibek Khans Street. Tickets are available here.
Pottery art masterclass on Jan. 13-14
Pottery is one of the oldest and most fascinating crafts. While it used to be practiced exclusively by skilled artisans, working with clay is now accessible to everyone. Anyone can create their pieces, deriving a positive energy boost from the process.
At Sal Seri Gallery, you’ll find all the necessary tools and materials to embark on your pottery journey. The welcoming atmosphere, coupled with a glass of your preferred drink (wine or juice), enhances the creative experience. Your skill level doesn’t matter, Sal Seri is a space for creative souls.
Venue: Sal Seri Gallery; 10/1, Heydar Aliyev Street. Tickets are available here.
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ASTANA – Kazakhstan celebrates the 112th anniversary of the birth of a prominent Kazakh politician Dinmukhamed Kunayev on Jan. 12. As the nation stands in a pivotal moment in its political reforms, it offers a chance to honor the life and legacy of the outstanding politician, who led the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) for an impressive 25 years and left a meaningful legacy, approaching his duties with honesty and integrity.
“Unity, solidarity, diligence, cult of knowledge, professionalism, mutual support, entrepreneurship, proactivity, honesty, modesty and frugality” make up the values of true patriots who can form a new quality of the nation, as mentioned by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his recent interview with Egemen Qazaqstan newspaper.
Kunayev embodied a multitude of those virtues, which makes him a figure to stand as a beacon of inspiration for those championing progressive efforts in Kazakhstan.
During his time as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 1964 to 1986, Kunayev had an opportunity to defy Soviet corporate hegemony, shape the views of his fellow citizens, amplify the voices of Kazakhs and play a leading role in building a nation.
Facilitator of social change
Kunayev was anything but a reluctant reformer, making changes in the economy, education and culture.
Between 1955 and 1985, the output volume in the construction industry alone increased eight times, in agriculture by 6.2 times and in industry by 8.9 times. The country was fully electrified and new highways were constructed.
New cities and settlements have emerged. The former capital Almaty, then Alma-Ata, was transformed into an industrial, cultural and scientific center, becoming one of the most beautiful cities of the Soviet Union. The Palace of the Republic (concert hall), Kazakh State University campus (KazGUgrad), Arasan health center, Medeu sports complex, and many other buildings of social and cultural importance were built.
The scientific and intellectual potential of Kazakhstan grew significantly. The five-volume scientific work on Kazakhstan’s history was published in Kazakh and Russian under Kunayev between 1977 and 1982. He also protected Kazakh intelligentsia from arbitrary political persecution, namely the writer Ilyas Esenberlin and poet Olzhas Suleimenov. This protection enabled them to create works that later became widely known and recognized among the readership and earned them state prizes.
Defender of territorial integrity
Kunayev played a critical role in preserving the territorial integrity of Kazakhstan during the 1960s-70s. Despite pressure from the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to transfer cotton-growing areas of south Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan, Kunayev vehemently opposed the move, citing the republic’s expertise in developing virgin lands and expressing concerns about potential complications in inter-republic relations.
Remarkable individual and politician
While effectively managing politics, Kunayev retained his humble personality and showed what hard work, passion, and care for others can achieve. A person of great integrity, he had significant influence among the people of Kazakhstan due to his intelligence and simplicity.
“There is no greater happiness to be a son of a generous and kind people. This is the Kazakh people. And happy is the nation that has a faithful son who honors its past and sincerely works for its bright future. This great son is Dinmukhamed Kunayev,” writes a prominent Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru about Kunayev’s personality.
“He and I have two similar qualities. The first is our simplicity, and the second is that Almaty, in its green outfit, seemed to me to be a twin of our Kashmir. Amazing similarity!” he wrote.
Kunayev possessed a profound understanding of the intricacies and dynamics of power. From living through the Stalinist era and contributing to the development of the country across different phases of socialism to the destruction of the Soviet country and the communist ideology, he bore witness to the emergence of independent Kazakhstan, and he celebrated the successes achieved by the nation he had seen evolve throughout his lifetime.
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ASTANA – KazTransOil national oil transporter supplied 993,000 tons of oil to Germany in 2023, KazMunayGas (KMG) oil and gas company’s press service reported on Jan. 12.
The KMG subsidiary transported oil via Russia’s Transneft system of trunk oil pipelines in the direction of the Adamowo-Zastawa oil delivery point.
Now KazTransOil plans to transport 100,000 tons of Kazakh oil for further delivery to Germany this month. Overall, the company is set to send 1.2 million tons of Kazakh oil in 2024.
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ASTANA – The volume of services in programming, consulting and related fields in Kazakhstan reached 734.5 billion tenge ($1.6 billion) in January-September 2023, marking a 43.5% surge in value terms compared to the same period in 2022, Finprom.kz reported on Jan. 11.
A year earlier, the country witnessed a 46.8% increase. The growth trend extended over seven consecutive years, with an average annual increase of 35.7%. In 2022, the volume of services totaled 772.2 billion tenge ($1.7 billion), which is only 5.1% more than in nine months of 2023.
Over half of these services were provided in the field of software development, reaching 407.3 billion tenge ($893.6 million), 67.1% more than in January-September 2022.
Significant contributions came from consulting and practical IT solutions (53.2 billion tenge or $117.7 million), software support (49.8 billion tenge or $110.2 million), and activities managing information and communication infrastructure for state electronic information resources and systems (47.6 billion tenge or $105.3 million).
In the third quarter of 2023, the average monthly nominal wage in the sector reached 816,400 tenge ($1,807.20), 2.3 times higher than the national average. A year earlier, this difference favored IT workers by 86.4%.
The purchasing power of wages for workers in computer programming, consulting and other related services surged by 29.4% over the year, outpacing the average 3.5% increase for Kazakhstan.
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ASTANA – The Astana Times has picked a selection of articles on Kazakhstan published in international media worldwide. This week’s foreign media digest covers the Middle Corridor, Almaty as a travel destination, Kazakh-Turkish ties, 5G technology development and more.
Kazakhstan emerges as 5G pioneer in Eurasian Economic Union
Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest country, is moving forward with its plans to accelerate the development of 5G services, positioning itself as the leader in 5G introduction among Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states, reported the Caspian News on Jan. 11.
“The 5G rollout is not only on track but ahead of schedule, just 10 months after the frequencies were issued to operators through a competitive auction held from March to December 2023,” according to the report.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s agenda for Kazakhstan’s technological future has been a driving force behind this accelerated 5G rollout. During his speech at the Digital Bridge 2023 forum in October, President Tokayev emphasized the need to expedite the provision of new-generation communication to all regional centers by the end of 2025.
Kazakhstan poised to lead key organizations including SCO in 2024: President Tokayev
The Economic Times published an article on Jan. 9 citing comments President Tokayev made in his recent interview with a national newspaper about the country’s constructive and balanced foreign policy for 2024, focusing on the nation’s national interests. The country will chair several international organizations, including the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
The Kazakh President also reflected on the tragic events of January 2022 and pointed out that as a nation, Kazakhstan’s citizens collectively navigated through this crisis, stood their ground, and emerged even stronger.
Central Asia Emerges as the Hub of a New Era in Global Trade
With Kazakhstan at its epicenter, Central Asia’s transit potential has become increasingly significant for global connectivity, according to an article published by the National Interest on Jan. 9. Central Asia, and particularly Kazakhstan, has become an increasingly vital gateway for China to conduct trade with Europe and the wider world, underscored by the investments made through the Belt and Road Initiative, which was first announced by President Xi Jinping in Kazakhstan and marked its tenth anniversary in 2023.
“For the West, too, Central Asia offers an important alternative route for trade with Asia. As a result, they have embraced the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route seeing it as a way to improve infrastructure and boost regional trade,” the article points out
Middle Corridor – crucial route determining regional geopolitical strategies
The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor) determines regional geopolitical balancing strategies, Matthew Orr, Eurasia analyst at RANE, told Trend News Agency.
“The Middle Corridor is an essential transit route to many states in the Eurasia region. In fact, it is a route so significant that many countries’ geopolitical balancing strategies (multi-vector foreign policies) between regional powers are premised upon its operation,” he said.
The Middle Corridor is a transportation and trade route that connects Asia and Europe, passing through several countries in the region. It is an alternative route to the traditional Northern Corridor and Southern Corridor.
2024 travel destinations: 52 places to go this year – The New York Times
The New York Times published on Jan. 9 its annual list of 52 trend destinations for 2024, featuring Almaty in the 25th spot.
“Kazakhstan’s largest city, with a population of two million, has the feel of a peaceful but active rural town. The underground metro gleams with intricate tile work. The Arasan baths are the apotheosis of bathing pleasures: massages atop marble slabs, cold plunges, unbearably hot saunas. Walk the leafy streets in an attentive mood and you’ll find endless delights — like a mustachioed man playing the accordion in front of the kaleidoscopic Ascension Cathedral,” the report reads.
Strategic alliances: Türkiye’s subtle cooperation with Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has evolved from a stable investment partner to a strategic ally for Türkiye, providing a crucial link in Central Asia, with diplomatic harmony fostering ongoing cooperation, reported the Daily Sabah on Jan. 9.
In 2022, the trade volume between Kazakhstan and Türkiye surged to $6.3 billion, establishing Türkiye as Kazakhstan’s fourth-largest trading partner. This economic collaboration is further underscored by Türkiye’s substantial direct investments in Kazakhstan’s economy, which passed $5 billion and solidified Türkiye’s position among the top 10 investors in the country.
“In January-September 2023, Kazakhstan’s exports to Türkiye decreased by 18.4% to $2.92 billion, while imports from Türkiye surged by 40.4% to $1.51 billion. The overall external trade, influenced by a decline in Türkiye’s imports, showed a more balanced trend with a significant 40.4% increase in Türkiye’s exports, as per the September 2023 data from the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan,” the report reads.
Kazakhstan and Saudi company look into collaborative gold-mining projects
Trend News Agency released an article on Jan. 11 reporting on the willingness of Kazakhstan and the leading company in the field of gold mining and processing, Saudi Gold Refinery, to explore the possibilities of joint projects in the future.
This was stated during a meeting between the Minister of Industry and Construction of Kazakhstan, Kanat Sharlapayev, and the General Director of the Saudi Arabian company, Suliman Al-Othaim.
“It was noted that joint projects will be aimed at strengthening the partnership between Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia. At the end of the meeting, both sides expressed their intention to continue the dialogue. Meanwhile, trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia for 2022 reached $16.5 million, which is 90.5% higher than the previous year ($8.6 million),” the article notes.
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ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s airline Qazaq Air will resume flights from Astana to Novosibirsk on Jan. 15, the airline’s press service announced on its Instagram page.
Flights will be operated twice a week on Mondays and Fridays on Canada’s De-Havilland Dash 8-Q400 aircraft.
Tickets can be booked on the airline’s official website or sales offices.
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ASTANA – The “Zhoshy Khan” historical drama drew a full house at the Kuanyshbaev Kazakh State Academic Musical and Drama Theater on a cold Astana evening on Jan. 11. The event commemorated the establishment of Zhoshy Khan’s rule eight centuries ago.
The play transports audiences to ancient Kazakh history – a medieval multinational state known as the Zhoshy Ulus, Ulug Ulus, or the Kipchak Khanate, which emerged in the 13th century and serves as a historical precursor to the Kazakh Khanate.
Premiering in June last year, the play was praised by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for its significance in shedding light on a crucial period in Kazakh history and the nation’s prominent figures.
“We need to celebrate our history and cultural values among our people. Some say that the Kazakhs did not have their own history and statehood. This is a distortion of our history,” said the President.
Stage director Bolat Uzakov, who has previously presented dramas about Kazakh rulers such as Zhangir Khan, Abylai Khan, Kenesary Kasymuly, and Kerey and Zhanibek sultans, said the play’s significance lies in its depiction of the early stages of Kazakh statehood.
“It can be said that the Golden Horde, the Zhoshy Ulus and Zhoshy Khan stood at the foundations of statehood on our Kazakh steppe, marking the start of the history of the Kazakh people. Zhoshy Khan’s history is where the major historical event starts. At various times, the Zhoshy descendants reigned over Kazakhstan as khans,” explained Uzakov.
The play paints a panorama of 13th-century Kazakh lands, with scenes shifting from the battlefield to Genghis Khan’s council chamber and from loyalty issues to family conflict. As a drama, it tells the story of a son’s journey from youth to maturity, navigating sibling rivalry, thoughts of conscience, and defiance against his father’s ways as Genghis Khan faces a gradual decline.
Zhoshy is portrayed as a warrior who embodies both the glory of military heroism and compassion for the nations he conquered. Played by the talented young artist Kaiyrzhan Sadykov, the character unveils the multifaceted nature of Zhoshy. Sadykov skillfully brings to life Zhoshy’s commanding presence as a just ruler while also delicately portraying the softer dimensions of the character as a compassionate father and leader who genuinely cares for his people.
The play’s first part depicts the confrontation between Shagatai, Genghis Khan’s second son, and Zhoshy during the capture of the Urgenish city that could escalate into a dispute within the khanate. Genghis Khan, displaying foresight and astute political acumen, diffuses the tension by wisely dividing the lands among his four sons.
The subsequent part unfolds with Zhoshy uniting his Turkish progeny under a single banner, contemplating the pursuit of peace and national unity for his country.
Zhoshy’s ultimate decision to loosen absolute authority in favor of a collective jury of bis (bi – noble judge) initially raised doubts among the leaders of various tribes. However, their act of jointly lifting the new ruler, Zhoshy, on the carpet is a momentous tribute to the power of collective action.
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On The List (With Melissa Rich): How To Throw A Hotel-Room Party
What the front desk doesn’t know can’t hurt them.
Welcome to On The List, NYLON’s column with comedian Melissa Rich, here to illuminate the state of nightlife, one party at a time.
There’s a specific art to throwing a hotel-room party. Unlike a house party, you’re working with the limited resources at hand: a tiny refrigerator, little to no counter space, a single ice bucket, and a tight space that could be as small as your bedroom. With hotel parties, the goal might not be to have the craziest party of your life, but simply to have a party that doesn’t get shut down.
I’ve hosted and attended more hotel parties than I can count. I’ve partied at fancy hotels, more, simple hotels, and everything in between. There have been legendary parties in Atlantic City suites where I drank Jack Daniels all night (no chaser like Ke$ha) and overflowed the massive bathtub after encouraging too many people to get in with me. While there’s more than a few hurdles to achieving a fun hotel-room party, anything is possible when you do it right.
Location, Location, Location
Let’s start at the top with choosing a hotel. There will never be a hotel advertising for guests to throw ragers, and some properties will have very strict party policies, including charging you a substantial fee upon check out. A smaller, boutique hotel will likely have less practices in place. They also might have more availability, and therefore, less guests to potentially ruin the night.
In New York City, in particular, there are plenty of downtown hotels with decent rates that are unfazed by noise and traffic coming through the lobby. (One in particular has huge terraces for their suites, a decent sized foyer space with bench seating off of the bedroom, plus a nonchalant staff.) Ultimately, the determining factor for a hotel party is the hotel-room. How many people can fit? Is there space for a bar set-up? Is there seating in addition to the bed?
A balcony can be a game-changer for all of these factors. In addition to providing another space to hang out, and likely a glamorous view, guests can smoke cigarettes without heading back outside through the lobby. If it’s winter, you can keep your booze chilling out there. If it’s any other time you’ve now created an ideal indoor-outdoor experience. A balcony also provides the opportunity for one of my favorite party favors: a bowl of complimentary cigarettes.
If you don’t have a balcony, at least get a room with a view. Without one, you are treading close to just partying in a tiny space. A large room or suite is obviously preferred, but don’t underestimate the potential of a standard room. The fun of a hotel party is often about being there with good company. Speaking of…
The Short List
The invite list should be tight, especially because everyone will want to bring someone. I’m partial to a more intimate crowd, but sometimes you simply have to go for it. Do not invite the loudest person you know. Even if you don’t, noise is obviously your main concern.
During one of my hotel birthday parties, I was sitting on the edge of an unfilled bathtub at a small suite in a famed Meatpacking hotel when a guest opened the door to two security guards. It was just after 5 am and we’d lost our sense of noise discipline hours before. I also suddenly realized there were probably twenty five people there. Oops! To our despair, we were told only two people could be in the room. (I decided I would leave in protest. My friends immediately talked me out of it, so I filled the tub and stayed until morning.)
The lesson? Keep your eye on the guests. Friends will invite friends, who will invite more friends, and some of them will open the door to anyone who knocks. When you lose control of the list, you’ve lost control of the party.
Know Your Enemy
Though the front desk may seem helpful, they are sadly your enemy and will be watching you closely. Don’t waltz through the lobby with a massive group; even a steady stream of guests can draw attention. Anyone arriving should walk in confidently and quietly to avoid suspicion. Minimizing people coming and going is key — and another reason to try to score a room with a balcony.
Secure The Essentials
Always bring a portable bluetooth speaker. Even if a hotel comes equipped with a speaker, no one can ever figure out how to work it. A small yet mighty speaker is truly all you need. I’ve been at hotel parties with full DJ set ups, and unless they’re sanctioned, they end shortly after they begin.
Champagne always feels right in a hotel-room. Though keeping it cold does present a challenge with a small fridge, you don’t have to deal with mixers. That’s crucial when dealing with space, as there may not even be a surface for a bar. As the aforementioned Jack Daniels showed, it’s great to have something to do shots of. Whether it’s tequila, Fireball, or a wildcard like Jägermeister, let it be known that booze is for shots.
The Bathtub Effect
You’ve likely gathered the importance of bathtubs by this point. They simply make things more fun. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve used an unfilled bathtub as extra seating. (A normal conversation is just more memorable when at least one person is hanging out in a bathtub.)
I’ve written about how crucial a gag-worthy moment is to every party — anything that makes partygoers gasp, laugh, “whoo,” or scream (mainly in delight, rarely in fear). And the right bathtub can turn around even the lamest of parties.
Once at a Bowery Hotel party hosted by a very famous musician’s very famous son, the vibe wilted. The music was off, the guys were lame, and we found ourselves, dare I say, bored. The bathtub was right in front of a window with a gorgeous city view, so we filled the tub, grabbed a bottle of whatever was around, kicked our shoes off, and delivered a party-saving gag, proving it’s more important to have a bathtub at the party than a famous person.
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Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan, made an appearance at the National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala in NYC on Thursday – and she made a very glam entrance in an all-black ensemble.
The 63-year-old, who will celebrate 36 years of marriage to the Back to the Future star in July, looked incredibly chic in a tight black top that boasted a halterneck with a mesh bodysuit underneath that exposed her toned arms.
Tracy completed her look with black pants that gently flared at the bottom, a pair of peep-toe black heels, and stud earrings.
She wore her blonde hair tied back in a low bun, with curled pieces pulled out framing her face, which looked glowing with a pop of bright lipstick and a soft smokey eye.
Michael, 62, meanwhile, looked dapper in a navy suit teamed with a light blue shirt and polka dot tie. The couple looked as loved-up as ever as they posed for photos arm-in-arm.
Tracy and Michael have been married since 1988 after first meeting on the set of the popular sitcom, Family Ties in 1985. However, at the time, Michael was romantically involved with actress Nancy McKeon, and Tracy was dating actor Kevin Bacon.
Two years later, they found themselves single and reunited when they were cast in the drama film Bright Lights, Big City. After seven months of dating, they wed on July 16, 1988, at West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont. They now share four children: son Sam, 34, twin daughters, Aquinnah and Schuyler, 28, and Esmé, 22.
Three years into their marriage, Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease aged just 29, but he didn't share his condition with the public until 1998.
Discussing their relationship in an interview with CBS Mornings last November, Michael confessed that neither of them knew what the future would hold for them following his diagnosis. "I had no idea what to expect and neither did she," Michael said.
"She had indicated to me by saying, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, she was able to get me through it and go through it with me. And she has for 35 years."
Michael also admitted that he would have forgiven his wife if she decided to "step out" of their marriage. "At any time, she would have been forgiven to say, 'I just want to step out,' but she didn't do that."
He added: "I love Tracy obviously and she's an amazing person and has gone through a lot. I realize she has a life separate from me having Parkinson's, from me being Alex Keaton or Marty McFly, she's a person. I think that's why it's gone okay."
Michael has raised awareness and over $2 billion for research for Parkinson's, which currently has no cure. Having lived with the disease for decades, he says he is no longer scared of death.
"One day I’ll run out of gas," he told Town & Country. "One day I'll just say, ‘It's not going to happen. I'm not going out today.' If that comes, I'll allow myself that. I'm 62 years old."
He added: "Certainly, if I were to pass away tomorrow, it would be premature, but it wouldn't be unheard of. And so, no, I don't fear [death]."
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On Friday, it was announced that the history-making BBC Radio 1 star Annie Nightingale had died at the age of 83 on Thursday. Annie was the first-ever female presenter for the radio station, starting her career in 1970 and continuing until the end of last year.
A statement released by Annie's family on Friday said the presenter had "passed away yesterday at her home in London after a short illness". Following the news of her death, tributes have started flooding in for the star, including from current presenter Mollie King who announced the news on her radio show. "I think I can say I speak for myself and other women in broadcasting when I say we owe her an immense amount of gratitude for everything she has done," the former Saturdays singer said.
In an emotional post, BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball shared the cover of Annie's memoirs, Hey Hi Hello, and penned: "Heartbroken to hear the news. Annie was an incredible powerhouse. Truly The OG, the original trailblazer for us women in radio, on and off air.
"She loved music like no other, she sought out the tunes & artists that shaped our lives, she interviewed them all, opening doors for musicians, djs and broadcasters alike. she regaled the greatest tales and she could out last any of us at the party. So grateful for all the love & support she offered me over the years. Sending huge love to Alex and her loved ones & fans. What a dame. Rest well Annie. The best of the best."
Desert Island Discs presenter Lauren Laverne shared a photo of herself interviewing Annie and wrote: "Onstage with Queen @annie.nightingale at the V&A in 2016, discussing her extraordinary life and career.
"It was always a such privilege to interview her (whether it was here, for @bbc6music or @bbcradio4 #DesertIslandDiscs - her episode is on @BBCSounds) but an even greater privilege to be supported and encouraged by her through the years. She was the same with all of us who followed her, I think. Thank you, Annie - for opening the door and for showing us all what to do when we got through it. You will be missed so much."
BBC Radio 2 star Jo Whiley called Annie the "coolest woman who ever graced the airwaves" before adding that the presenter had "blazed a trail for us all and never compromised".
Jeremy Vine added: "Rest in peace, Annie Nightingale," while Radio 2 DJ Trevor Nelson commented: "Dear Annie , you were more than just a trailblazer for women on radio, you made me feel like music broadcasting is for life. Rave in peace."
In another tribute, Greg James said: "Annie Nightingale's life and achievements were so extraordinary you couldn't possibly sum them up on here. It was such a treat if you happened to be in the building at the same time as her. She was always so interested in what everyone else was up to. We're going to miss her so much. She was just absolutely amazing."
Outside of the BBC, Glastonbury co-founder Emily Eavis shared: "Goodbye dear Annie, a female trailblazer and true enthusiast. Annie gave me so much support when I was in my twenties, I always felt so grateful to have such a strong woman encouraging me along the way and I'm sure she has doen the same for many like me. She was an inspiration to so many women in music, broadcasting and beyond and just a lovely human being."
Scott Mills also paid tribute on his radio show, saying: "Some sad news we heard earlier this afternoon about the legendary radio presenter Annie Nightingale who’s passed away at the age of 83. And absolute pioneer who paved the way for women, particularly, in broadcasting and someone that I looked up to immensely.
"She was the first ever female presenter on Radio 1 back in the 70s and was on air basically nonstop right up until the end of last year. An incredible career, Annie was, is one of my radio legends and always will be... Growing up in the 80s, I remember avidly listening to the chart show on Radio 1 and then Annie would be on straight afterwards with the request show.
"Now this will immediately transport you back to the 80s - Sunday night doing homework with Annie on the radio... I remember the 'Hi', up to the singing on the song after the chart show so vividly. Annie’s career obviously went on from strength to strength from there and she launched the careers of so many artists and bands, and was always at the forefront of new music and always up to date on what was about to be the next big thing."
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He finished by saying: "She will be dearly missed here at the BBC and I'm so grateful that I managed to get some advice on a long train journey back from an early event in my first days at Radio 1."
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Sometimes it takes a show like ITVX’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office to show the power of what a TV show can do, especially when it reunites it’s viewers following clear injustices. But this is far from the first show that has made real-world changes following its release. True crime podcasts, TV shows and movies have reopened cold cases and led to new evidence being uncovered.
From podcasts that have resulted in arrests to movies that have seen murder charges overturned, here are the true crime shows that truly made a difference…
Mr Bates vs the Post Office
Based on the true story of Alan Bates, a sub-postmaster who led a legal battle after postmasters around the country were accused of committing theft and fraud, with some even convicted, when the money disappearances were down to the post office’s faulty computer program, Horizon.
The show has been watched by 9 million people so far, with over 100 people coming forward for the first time due to their connection with the scandal, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has recently called an "appalling miscarriage of justice". The show has also resulted in ex-Post Office CEO Paula Vennells handing back for CBE.
In a statement, she said: "I am… aware of the calls from sub-postmasters and others to return my CBE. I have listened and I confirm that I return my CBE with immediate effect. I am truly sorry for the devastation caused to the sub-postmasters and their families, whose lives were torn apart by being wrongly accused and wrongly prosecuted as a result of the Horizon system."
Your Own Backyard
In 2019, podcaster Chris Lambert recounted the details surrounding the death of Kristin Smart, a student who went missing in 2002 after going home from a party. A friend, Paul Flores, reportedly helped her get home.
Chris’ podcast led to a new billboard being made to appeal for information about Kirstin’s disappearance. In 2020, it was confirmed that police had obtained search warrants for four locations relating to the case after key witnesses came forward.
After searching the areas, police discovered DNA evidence that Kristin’s body had been buried under Flores’ father’s home before it had been recently moved. Flores was arrested, and sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2023.
Unsolved Mysteries
Netflix’s hit series included the story of Kayla Unbehaun, who had disappeared after being abducted by her mother. The show included an age-progressed photo of Kayla and how she might look now, aged 15.
As a result, a store owner in North Carolina believed to have spotted the teenager, who was indeed the missing girl who disappeared six years earlier. Speaking to ABC News, the unnamed shop owner said: "It was the right thing to do." Her mother, Heather, has been arrested and charged with child abduction.
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
Robert Durst was the subject of the 2015 documentary, which looked at the murders of three women closely linked to the wealthy real estate heir; his first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, his long-time friend Susan Berman, and his neighbour, Morris Black.
While he appeared in the documentary to deny having any involvement in the deaths, he accidentally left his microphone on while in the bathroom, and he is heard saying to himself: "There it is. You're caught! .... You're right, of course. But you can't imagine. ... Arrest him ... I don't know what's in the house ... Oh, I want this ... What a disaster ... He was right. I was wrong. And the burping ... I'm having difficulty with the question ... What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."
He was arrested for first-degree murder two months after the series aired for the first time. While he was previously acquitted of murdering Morris Black, he was arrested for Susan German’s murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. He was later also charged with Kathleen’s disappearance but died of a cardiac arrest in 2022 before the trial began. Kathleen’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Durst’s estate. It was ruled in 2023 that the family’s case could proceed.
The Teacher's Pet
Hosted by Hedley Thomas, this Australian podcast looked into the disappearance of Lynette Dawson, who vanished in 1982. The podcast became a massive success, reaching the number one spot on the podcast charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK – but it did much more than that.
After Hedley uncovered new evidence and examined the police's reactions to the incident, Lynette's husband Chris Dawson was arrested and extradited to Sydney. He pleaded not guilty to the crime but was found guilty in August 2022, with the judge claiming there to be a "most compelling body of evidence" to go against claims that Lynette simply left her family. Dawson was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2022.
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Serial
As the podcast had arguably kick-started a new wave of interest in true crime, Serial was a roaring success, with listeners adamant that the police convicted the wrong man for the murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed, who has been in prison since 2000, was granted a new trial in 2016.
He was cleared of all charges in 2022 after prosecutors discovered new DNA evidence appearing to show that he was not involved in Hae’s murder. However, an appeals court reinstated his conviction in March 2023, resulting in a new hearing to determine whether Adnan would return to prison, or for the case to be thrown out.
Making a Murderer
The Netflix series looks at the conviction of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, for the murder of Theresa Halbach. While convicted in 2007, the reaction from the crime documentary led to a federal judge overturning Brendan's conviction because his confession had been coerced.
However, prosecutors appealed the decision, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit eventually ruled that Brendan's confession was properly obtained in 2018.
Meanwhile, Steven's petition requesting an evidentiary hearing for a new trial was granted by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. His lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, recently tweeted: "If you think Steven Avery has given up on being freed think again!!! He is surrounded by people who love & support him. We work on his case every day & we will prevail...you can count on it!!"
The Thin Blue Line
Released back in 1988, the film looked at the life of Randall Dale Adams, who was convicted and placed on death row for the murder of a police officer, Robert Wood.
His sentence was based on the testimony of David Ray Harris, who was suspected to be the actual perpetrator. The lawyers who represented him during the trial claimed that Randall was only charged as he would be tried as an adult while David was still a minor.
Six months after the film's release, Randall was released from prison after 12 years with his sentence overturned. He never received compensation for his wrongful conviction. David was incidentally executed by lethal injection for another unrelated murder. He died of brain tumour in 2010, aged 61.
The Staircase
Michael Peterson was accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen, and hired a film crew to document the cases, allegedly stating that he didn't believe that he would have a fair trial after claiming that his wife died after falling down the stairs.
Michael was convicted of the murder before he was granted a new trial when a witness (the blood spatter expert) gave a misleading testimony. Michael submitted an Alford plea – where a defendant asserts innocence while admitting that the evidence would find them guilty, and was released due to time already service.
Speaking about whether he believed the documentary had an impact in Michael's case, his lawyer David Rudolf told Metro: "It was really Michael who said, 'You know, I'm not going to get a fair trial here, and I'd like to have a record, if you will, of what happens.' I was reluctant at best, and opposed for the most part… I feel okay about how it came out."
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For Robson Green, it's important to push the pause button every now and then. Back with a new series of Weekend Escapes, the Grantchester star loves nothing more than inviting close friends and family on his adventures across Northern England.
After introducing his famous nephew, Daymon Britton, and beloved uncle, Matheson, in series one, Robson has finally roped his younger brother, David Green, into an appearance on the show. "We relaxed, we recharged and reconnected. Not only with nature but as a family of men who genuinely love one another," Robson penned in a teaser for the show.
Bearing a striking resemblance to Robson, David – a former scaffolder – joined his brother and their uncle, on a two-day break in the Yorkshire Dales. Giving fans a glimpse of their sweet bond throughout the episode, Robson and David couldn't help but wax nostalgic.
As they braved the rain on a canal boat, Robson reflected on their hilarious family holidays as kids. "I can remember all those holidays we used to go on and it would rain and Dad would say 'Right, we're going home. He would just pack up!" recalled Robson.
"Yeah, we did! We went to Scotland," replied David. "The holiday lasted six hours didn't it?" quipped Robson, in a fit of laughter.
Raised in Dudley – a small mining village in North Tyneside – Robson and David grew up with their parents, Anne and Robson (Snr.), and sisters, Dawn and Joanna. "I grew up in Northumberland, a happy child in a loving, hard-working family," Robson previously told The Telegraph.
Over the years, Robson has shared some surprising anecdotes from his childhood in the country, and most of them involve David. Among them, the Grantchster alum once recalled the time he ran his brother over with a tricycle!
Speaking to The Guardian in 2019, Robson shared his earliest childhood memory. "When I was three, I ran over my brother, David. He'd just been born, everybody was paying him attention and being the narcissist that I am, I ran him over with my tricycle," he told the publication.
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Growing up in the countryside, Robson and David spent a great deal of time with their father, whom the actor describes as "the hardest man in the village."
"He had an interesting way of teaching my younger brother David and I to swim. He'd take us down to the Tyne, throw us in and say right, get yourself out," Robson revealed to The Telegraph.
"There was no technical development, but it really does focus the mind, the thought of drowning – so we got ourselves out like torpedoes."
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When you think of pelvic floor exercises, a Kegel most likely springs to mind. The tightening and holding of your pelvic floor muscles will of course help, but there is another way to work out this crucial muscle – and it's way more fun.
We caught up with celebrity personal trainer Monique Eastwood, 57, who is raising awareness of the importance of being open about pelvic floor issues, even having an expert in the subject on hand during her retreats to destigmatise the topic.
"Pelvic floor issues shouldn't be a barrier when it comes to exercise," says Monique, before adding: "But like anything, unless you have issues with it, nobody wants to talk about it.
"It shouldn't be an embarrassing issue, but unfortunately nobody wants to say that they suffer from it because they feel like they've got a dysfunctional body, and women are proud, so it is such a sensitive subject."
Remove the stigma around pelvic floor issues
On how she erases the stigma during her classes and retreats, Monique explains that she brings up the pelvic floor in each session, normalising the discussion. "I tend to generalise when I talk about pelvic floor weakness, knowing that there may be an issue in the group class. I am just making sure they understand how to engage their pelvic floor and exercise it like any other muscle in the body.
"I really drop it into conversation all the time, because it's not only a matter of having a tight pelvic floor, it's a matter of having an elastic pelvic floor that is functional.
"Pelvic floor dysfunction is not something we talk about often, not even with our friends so it's important for me to try and normalise the discussion, interjecting it into my training sessions."
Why does our pelvic floor weaken in menopause?
When our oestrogen drops, we start to lose muscle mass and your pelvic floor is a muscle, Monique explains.
"Your pelvic floor is the floor of your core," she adds. "You've got to keep thinking of exercising it to lift the bladder and the bowel. By strengthening your pelvic floor, all those internal organs are supported."
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How can we support our pelvic floor?
1. Multidirectional moves
Multidirectional moves, such as curtsy lunges and dance-inspired workouts, are key to strengthening your pelvic floor.
"By moving in different directions, you're opening and closing those muscles," Monique explains. "I've always done multi-directional moves and I've seen the benefits now I am 57.
"Without realising it, you're getting a stronger pelvic floor and a stronger core and you will notice a difference. One of my clients recently said to me, 'I just don't need to go to the bathroom as much,' but she didn't understand why. It's because she's strengthened her pelvic floor."
Watch Monique perform multidirectional exercises below...
2. Breathing
How we breathe during exercise is key to managing our pelvic floor, too. "When you're breathing, you are lengthening and contracting your core," Monique explains. "Your exhale is literally your core muscles contracting."
She adds that holding our breath, which we're inclined to do when we're struggling in a workout, can spell trouble for our pelvic floor. "You need to exhale, because if you hold your breath you're putting pressure on your pelvis. When you exhale, your diaphragm moves out of the way and your pelvic floor has somewhere to go."
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Khloe Kardashian's adorable children were put front and center in a new photo shared on Instagram by their famous mom, and Kourtney Kardashian couldn't wait to comment.
In the image, Tatum, one, and True, five, were sitting on a bed and smiling for the camera.
The casual photo captured their adorable sibling connection as True laid a protective hand on her brother's leg as he appeared to attempt to scoot off the bed.
Khloe captioned the post: "Throwback to last summer," and 5'2" actress, Malika Haqq chimed in with: "And they're both taller than me already," which sparked a reaction from Kourtney.
She quipped: "@malika oh same," suggesting the duo are fast creeping up on their famous aunt in the height department.
Fans added crying with laughter emojis and commented on Kourtney's stature, as she stands at the same height as Malika.
It appears Tatum and True are taking after their mom who is head and shoulders above her sibling at 5'10" and towering dad, basketball pro Tristan Thompson, who is 6'9".
Khloe and Tristan are no longer together, but the reality TV star has no problem with being a single parent.
She loves everything about being a mom and shortly after Tatum was born via a surrogate, Khloe opened up about parenthood to Elle.
"I know it's cliché, but I love everything, even the hard parts," she said. "Being able to shape little people into really incredible big people is an honor and a gift."
She confessed she found using a surrogate challenging, unlike her sister, Kim, who she felt handled the situation with ease. "It was just more comfortable for her," she told Kelly Clarkson on her daytime talk show. "I'm such a control freak."
Khloe continued: "You're a stranger, I just have to trust you. I love my surrogate, she was amazing. But I'm still like, 'I need you sitting next to me all the time. What are you doing? What are you eating?'"
While she adores being a mom, Khloe told Kelly that she wasn't planning on having any more children and said the "shop was closed".
She further explained her decision to use a surrogate for her second child when she said: "I did surrogacy the second time, the first time I carried on my own, and it's amazing,"I had reasons why I couldn't carry and it was such a blessing to have this."
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The world's most iconic ‘it’ girl proclaims that she’s “back to work” for 2024 and to celebrate she’s opting for a voluminous hot chocolate blowout.
Posting to her Instagram (and TikTok but she has since deleted it) Emily Ratajkowski shared a video of herself posing in a variety of model-coded poses, sporting what we can only assume is set to be 2024’s most notable hair trends.
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Wearing a longsleeved black crop top with an underwire hem and a pair of high-waisted black trousers complete with a chunky gold hardware belt, Em clearly kept her outfit subtle to emphasise her new do. Emily has forever been a brunette baddie, but she’s deviating away from her signature middle part and trying a swooping side fringe, perfectly solidifying famed London Hairdresser Limoz Logli’s prediction of 2024 being the year of “soft bangs and layered haircuts.”
Over the last few months side parts have been making a comeback, exhibited by the likes of Sofia Richie Grainge, Hailey Bieber, and most recently Kim Kardashian. Limoz Logli went on to explain that, “ever since Chanel showcased the side-part at their Autumn-Winter catwalk in Paris, we have seen it more requested. It is a very classy look that goes well with the quiet luxury trend we have seen in the past year.”
Emily’s new do comes just weeks after her winter-sun girls trip where she spent her holiday period celebrating the new year with BFF Adwoa Aboah. Her holiday hair consisted of beachy waves, likely styled by the ocean’s salty spray.
Her new mane choice is fitting for the time as every year January gets coined the ‘new year, new me’ month and It seems Miss Rata is manifesting her own seasonal switch-up for the year, unintentionally (or intentionally, the jury's out) starting a new wave of must-have hairstyles.
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Sunday will be a historic day for the Danish royal family as Crown Prince Frederik will succeed his mum, Queen Margrethe, as monarch. Frederik will be proclaimed King from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, however, an important will take place before this.
Ahead of the balcony appearance, Margrethe will make her formal abdication at the Council of State. On Friday, it was confirmed who will witness the historic signing over of power, with Crown Princess Mary, who will become Queen Mary, being left off of the list. Instead, it will comprise of Margrethe, Frederik, Prince Christian, who will become Crown Prince Christian, and the other members of the Council of State.
The Council of State is a body of advisers to the monarch, similar to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, and its membership consists of the monarch, their successor and all current members of the Danish cabinet.
Margrethe's abdication is the first in the Danish monarchy's history for nearly 900 years, the last being when Eric III Lam stepped down in 1146. In her New Year's address, Margrethe alluded that one of the reasons for her decision to abdicate was down to health issues.
The 83-year-old said: "In February [2023] I underwent extensive back surgery. It went well, thanks to the skilled healthcare staff who took care of me. Of course, the operation also gave rise to thinking about the future - whether the time had come to leave the responsibility to the next generation.
"I have decided that now is the right time. On 14 January 2024 – 52 years after I succeeded my beloved father – I will step down as Queen of Denmark. I leave the throne to my son Crown Prince Frederik."
The decision came as a surprise and a spokesperson from the royal palace confirmed to Danish newspaper Berlingske that the queen only informed both of her sons, Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim, three days before making the announcement.
Margrethe's abdication will happen at 2pm on 14 January, with Frederik being declared as King Frederik X at 3pm. Half an hour before his official declaration, the royal and his wife will host a reception for specially invited guests at Christiansborg Palace.
After the proclamation, a cannon salute will be fired from the Sixtus Battery at Holmen, Copenhagen. The royal standard will then be lowered at Christian IX's Palace and reraised at Frederik VIII's Palace, Amalienborg.
The day will be finished at 5pm, with the transfer of the royal flags from Christian IX's Palace to Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg, where Frederik and Mary reside.
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Rob Burrow’s wife Lindsey has told HELLO! how the Prince of Wales intervened so the couple's children could see him present their dad with his CBE.
Macey, 12, Maya, eight and five-year-old Jackson were at Headingley Statdium in Leeds to see William hand the honours to former rugby league star Rob and his friend and ex-Leeds Rhinos teammate Kevin Sinfield, who were recognised for their tireless work to raise funds and awareness around Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
Rob was diagnosed with the incurable degenerative condition in 2019 and is confined to a wheelchair and has lost the ability to speak, while England rugby coach Kevin has completed a series of gruelling challenges for the cause, including running seven ultra-marathons in seven days.
"Originally Prince William's visit was an opportunity for him to come and meet Rob and Kevin, but then I had a phone call from the palace saying the Prince would like to know if they would like to receive their investitures at Headingly," says Lindsey, who was also there for the big day.
"And I thought, much as it would have been lovely to go to the palace, you're restricted in terms of the number of people that you can have and we wouldn't be able to take the children. So it was really special for our whole family to be involved too. The kids are so proud of their dad and the girls have been arguing over who gets to take Rob's medal to school first so they can show their friends and teachers. And doing it at Headingly, which is like a second home to Rob and Kevin, meant so much to them. Kev knew he was getting his award that day but Rob didn’t, so it was a lovely surprise.
"The girls were so excited, but Jackson was more interested in playing with my phone. But William was absolutely lovely and really engaged with the kids and asked Jackson which game he was playing. He obviously knows what five-year-old boys are like because he has one of his own. It was the first time Rob had met William and he was so genuine and sincere. He was really invested in hearing about Rob and Kevin's campaign and the story of how they grew up together when they were playing for Leeds Rhinos."
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Prince Harry made headlines this time last year when his memoir Spare was unexpectedly released early in Spain.
A year on, we are looking back at all the things the Duke of Sussex said in the bombshell book about his sister-in-law, Princess Kate.
From the moment they first met to sharing news of his first child, the pair have been through countless life milestones alongside one another. Despite meeting on excellent terms, their relationship became more complex as time went on.
Keep scrolling to read about nine of the biggest things Prince Harry said about his sister-in-law…
Meeting Kate
The Duke of Sussex opened up about the first time he met Princess Kate ahead of the infamous party where he donned the wrong kind of uniform. He even said what a laugh they had at the expense of Prince William's cat-inspired costume.
"I liked his new girlfriend," wrote the Prince. "She was carefree, sweet, kind. She’d done a gap year in Florence, knew about photography, art. And clothes. She loved clothes. Her name was Kate.
"I forget what native or colonial thing she was wearing to the party, but with her help Willy had chosen for himself some kind of…feline outfit. Skintight leotard with (am I remembering this correctly?) a springy, bouncy tail. He tried it on for us and he looked like a cross between Tigger and Baryshnikov.
"Kate and I had a great time pointing our fingers at him and rolling around on the floor. It was ridiculous, especially in a three-way mirror. But ridiculous, they both said, was the point of the upcoming party."
The sister he always wanted
One sweet moment in the book saw Harry recall the bittersweet love he had for Kate during her wedding day, describing her as: "The sister he always wanted," but also that he felt as if he was losing his brother.
"I recall Kate walking down the aisle, looking incredible, and I recall Willy walking her back up the aisle, and as they disappeared through the door, into the carriage that would convey them to Buckingham Palace, into the eternal partnership they’d pledged, I recall thinking: Goodbye.
"I loved my new sister-in-law, I felt she was more sister than in-law, the sister I'd never had and always wanted, and I was pleased that she’d forever be standing by Willy’s side. She was a good match for my older brother. They made each other visibly happy, and therefore I was happy too.
"But in my gut I couldn’t help feeling that this was yet another farewell under this horrid roof. Another sundering. The brother I'd escorted into Westminster Abbey that morning was gone - forever. "
Kate's first reaction to news of Meghan
Harry explained that Princess Kate and Prince William's reaction was much better than he'd hoped as he worried: "Willy and Kate might not welcome Meg into the family." But due to their love of the TV show, Suits, Meghan starred in: "Now I had to worry about them hounding her for an autograph."
He added: "Kate seemed to like her too. We'd had them over for dinner during one of Meg's visits, and Meg cooked, and everything was good. Willy had a cold: he was sneezing and coughing, and Meg ran upstairs to get him some of her homeopathic cure-alls. Oregano oil, turmeric. He seemed charmed, moved, though Kate announced to the table that he’d never take such unconventional remedies."
The Princess' baby joy
When Meghan was pregnant with her first child, Prince Archie, Princess Kate's reaction was everything Harry wanted it to be, he explained.
"We whispered the news, and Willy smiled and said we must tell Kate. She was across the room, talking to Pippa. I said we could do it later, but he insisted. So we went and told Kate and she also gave a big smile and hearty Congratulations. They both reacted exactly as I’d hoped—as I’d wished."
Lipstick gate
One moment in the memoir saw Harry explain a number of the frictious points with his sister-in-law, one of the first being an alleged incident with lipgloss.
"Meg asked to borrow Kate's lip gloss. An American thing. Meg forgot hers, worried she needed some, and turned to Kate for help. Kate, taken aback, went into her handbag and reluctantly pulled out a small tube. Meg squeezed some onto her finger and applied it to her lips. Kate grimaced. Small clash of styles, maybe? Something we should’ve been able to laugh about soon after. But it left a little mark."
Harry also recalled a conversation between Meghan and Kate, following the Duchess' first Trooping the Colour. "Kate asked Meg what she thought of her first Trooping the Color. And Meg joked: Colorful. And a yawning silence threatened to swallow us all whole."
Harry and Meghan's wedding day
Another situation described by the Duke was ahead of their wedding day in 2018 when Princess Charlotte's bridesmaid dress didn't fit. The point of tension came at a difficult time for the Sussexes as Meghan had been dealing with problems with her father, Thomas Markle, Harry said.
"The next day Meg had a text from Kate.There was a problem with the dresses for the bridesmaids, apparently. They needed altering. The dresses were French couture, hand-sewn from measurements only. So it wasn’t a big shock that they might need altering[...]"
"[...]They set up a time to speak that afternoon. Charlotte's dress is too big, too long, too baggy. She cried when she tried it on at home, Kate said. Right, and I told you the tailor has been standing by since eight a.m. Here. At KP. Can you take Charlotte to have it altered, as the other moms are doing?
"No, all the dresses need to be remade. Her own wedding dress designer agreed, Kate added. Meg asked if Kate was aware of what was going on right now. With her father. Kate said she was well aware, but the dresses. And the wedding is in four days!" According to the Duke, Kate also wanted there to be a party for the page boys but as they were from North America, it wasn't possible. Harry said he came home to find "Meg on the floor. Sobbing," but that: "Kate came by with flowers and a card that said she was sorry."
Easter presents
One point of contention described by the Prince was William and Kate's "upset" over the Sussexes not exchanging Easter presents with them.
"Easter presents? Was that a thing?" he wrote. "Willy and I had never exchanged Easter presents. Pa always made a big deal about Easter, sure, but that was Pa. Still, if Willy and Kate were upset, we apologized."
"For our part, we chipped in that we weren’t too pleased when Willy and Kate switched place cards and changed seats at our wedding. We'd followed the American tradition, placing couples next to each other, but Willy and Kate didn’t like that tradition, so their table was the only one where spouses were apart."
Meghan hurting Kate's feelings
Having just given birth to Prince Louis, Harry wrote that Princess Kate was upset when Meghan said she had "baby brain."
"You hurt my feelings, Meghan. When? Please tell me," the Duke recalled.
"I told you I couldn’t remember something and you said it was my hormones. What are you talking about?
"Kate mentioned a phone call in which they'd discussed the timing of wedding rehearsals. Meg said: Oh, yes! I remember: You couldn’t remember something, and I said it’s not a big deal, it’s baby brain. Because you’d just had a baby. It's hormones.
"Kate’s eyes widened: Yes. You talked about my hormones. We're not close enough for you to talk about my hormones! Meg's eyes got wide too. She looked genuinely confused. I'm sorry I talked about your hormones. That's just how I talk with my girlfriends."
Kate apologising
Prince Harry recalled the moment Princess Kate apologised to Meghan following the public's misunderstanding that she made the Princess of Wales cry ahead of her wedding day.
"Kate got things rolling straightaway by acknowledging that these stories in the papers about Meg making her cry were totally false. I know, Meghan, that I was the one who made you cry.
"I sighed. Excellent start, I thought. Meg appreciated the apology, but wanted to know why the papers had said this, and what was being done to correct them?"
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Lauren Sanchrez has paid an emotional tribute to her fiance, Jeff Bezos, as the billionaire celebrates his 60th birthday. "Look who’s turning 60! Happy birthday, baby! Today is another day where your laughter fills our home, and that smile of yours lights up every room," Lauren beautifully captioned her social media post, which featured a carousel of pictures that kicked off with a snap of Jeff as a young baby sitting in a high chair.
"Wishing you an abundance of simple joys and quiet moments of happiness. May this year be filled with everything you love, from peaceful mornings to joyous celebrations," se continued.
"I hope each day brings you countless reasons to smile, just like you give me a reason to smile every single day. Love you, and happy birthday, my love."
In the second picture, the words happy birthday were embroidered into a blue tie dye piece of fabric, while a third snap showed Lauren and Jeff, one of the world' mgazing into each other's eyes. Friends and family were quick to share their love for the Amazon founder, with NFL commentator Charissa Thompson writing: "Happy Birthday Jeff! You have the biggest heart . Thanks for sharing your joy with us & making our gal so loved and happy."
Musician Jewel, who is rumored to be dating Kevin Costner, added: "Happy birthday @jeffbezos! Cute baby pic! And what a future you would build for us all!!"
Lauren, 54, and Jeff's romance began amid a whirlwind of rumored scandal, leading to the end of their respective marriages; Jeff was married to novelist Mackenzie Scott for 25 years and they share four children together.
Jeff later proposed to Lauren in 2023, with a stunning diamond ring estimated to be worth over $2 million, while they were aboard his luxurious $500 million superyacht.
Lauren was formerly a co-host on Fox's Good Day LA from 2011 to 2017, and she also specializes in aerial filming. She earned her helicopter pilot's license in 2016 and subsequently created Black Ops Aviation, an aerial film and production company.
On Friday January 19, Lauren will receive the Elling Halvorson Vertical Flight Hall of Fame Award at the 21st Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards. Prince Harry is also being honored at the same event.
Lauren revealed the news in late 2023, sharing with fans that she could not "believe" the news, and adding that it was "a huge honor to be recognized by the Living Legends of Aviation".
"Flying is my passion and this is truly such an honor. (You also have have no idea how happy you made my dad who has been a pilot since I was a little girl)," she candidly revealed..
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Penny Lancaster had an almost impossible task on Wednesday, as the popular presenter had to find a gift for her husband Rod Stewart, who was celebrating his 79th birthday. But as she put it, what do you get a "man who has everything"?
The star was able to come up with an incredible idea for her beloved and taking to her Instagram Stories on Friday, the mum-of-two revealed the unique gift that she gave to her husband, and you can see it in the clip below. However, if you can't work it out, the present is an incredible bookend that plays on Rod's love for model trains.
As Penny showed off the stunning present, which featured an ornate interior and a quaint English scene on the windows outside, she panned the camera out to reveal several books stacked on top.
In 2019, Rod revealed to Railway Modeller magazine that he was a huge model railway enthuiast even creating an epic one that took up the attic space in his Los Angeles mansion, creating many of the pieces during a tour.
In the magazine, Rod explained that he had a real talent for designing the set pieces for the railway, sharing: "I find beauty in what everyone else sees as ugly - rugged skyscrapers, beaten-up warehouses, things that are very run down. When I take on something creative like this, I have to give it 110%."
The singer then joked: "For me it's addictive. I started, so I just had to finish. I'm lucky I had the room. If I'd have realised at the start it would have taken so long, I'd have probably said, 'No! No! Nah!'"
Speaking to Jeremy Vine on his BBC Radio show, the rock and roll legend explained: "A lot of people laugh at it being a silly hobby, but it's a wonderful hobby."
Rod will no doubt have been joined by his family for his birthday celebrations, including his youngest sons Alastair, 18, and Aiden, 12, who he shares with Penny. Last year, the family marked their first Hogmanay, and Rod's two boys looked all grown-up!
The youngsters nodded to their heritage in traditional red tartan kilts. Meanwhile, Penny, 52, colour-coordinated with her boys in a black sequin dress and a red feathered shawl.
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Alastair and Aiden's Scottish heritage hails from their father's side, with the singer's parents hailing from the country. Rod, 78, recently launched his very own Scottish whisky brand named Wolfie's, and he often heads to Scotland to watch his beloved Celtic too.
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Last year Pinterest's trend report declared baths a thing of the past as we fully embraced the art of the ‘everything shower’ to rejuvenate rather than restore.
This year we want to bring bathing back. There’s something undeniably soul soothing about taking the time to fully submerge yourself in a tub of warm water and soak away the stresses of the day - and trust us, the cold, rainy month of January is the perfect time to hone the habit. Studies show a regular soak can boost your immune system, improve sleep patterns and help to manage emotional wellbeing.
While you may be tempted to run the warm tap, slosh in your favourite bubble bath and call it a day, there is so much more to bathing than simply scrubbing yourself clean. To really transform your bath into the ultimate self care ritual there’s a few things you should consider…
Set the scene
It may seem obvious but creating a calming environment is one of the first steps to being able to relax for the duration of your soak. I like to give my bathroom a good scrub beforehand so I’m not distracted by the sink tap that needs a good polish while I’m trying to switch off. Anyone else?
It’s a given that you’ll be lighting a candle to get you in the mood. I usually opt for a lavender-based scent to help me unwind like the Cowshed Relax Room Candle but Dr Barbara Kubicka, author of The Bath Project, takes it a step further. "The first thing many think of are candles and aromas,” she tells us. “However, I personally love surrounding my bath with plants, transporting me to a distant natural haven. Complementing it with your preferred relaxing tunes or meditation can be the finishing touch.”
How hot is too hot?
Usually I crave a bath when I’m feeling cold which can result in me running water that resembles hot lava instead of a warming embrace - fine for the first five minutes but unbearable for much longer than that.
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For the most part, the temperature of your bath comes down to personal preference but be mindful of the fact that warmer water is better for relaxation, while cooler temperatures help to increase blood flow making you feel more energised.
“Temperature is a great way to optimise your bath according to the sensation you are looking for,” explains bathing expert and brand founder, Susanne Kauffman. “A cold plunge has many proven health benefits, awakens the senses and is good for circulation. Meanwhile, a warm bath is a wonderful way to relax in the evening, taking in the steam and oxygenating the blood, allowing you to breathe deeper and slower, helping you find a deep sense of calm and prepare the body for sleep.”
Bath cocktailing
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing more relaxing than being enveloped by a blanket of rich, foamy bubbles (L'Occitane Shea Bubble Bath is my go-to), but last year my eyes were opened to the benefits of adding natural ingredients into your bath, much like you would if you’re trying to jazz up your drinking water.
“Cypress has been a cherished material for Japanese bathtubs for centuries,” explains Nami Onodera, Japanese skincare brand Tatcha’s Executive Director of Culture. “By adding Hinoki (Cypress) wood balls to the water, you can immerse yourself in the beautiful aroma.” If you can’t get your hands on these little wooden spheres, consider adding slices of lemon, yuzu or apple to your bath for a citrusy fragrance. She even suggests playing a natural soundtrack, such as a waterfall or a trickling river, to help transport yourself to the wild.
READ: What's on a beauty editor's bedside table? The supplements, sleep spray and night creams you need
A few drops of essential oils can also be a welcome addition, just make sure not to add more than three to six drops to avoid irritation. Susanne recommends hydrating essential oils such as arnica, pomegranate or marigold or mountain pine and spruce needle to help ease away stress and promote relaxation.
Winding down
If possible, I like my bath to be the last thing I do before I hop into bed. As with most self-care rituals, what you do after counts. Nami recommends “Drinking cold barley tea, relaxing, sitting in a massage chair, getting some fresh air and wearing comfortable cotton nightwear” to carry the relaxing energy into the rest of your evening. To lock the moisture into my skin I make sure I slather on a layer of moisturiser before slipping between the sheets.
Try Tatcha’s Hinoki Body Oil or the Susanne Kaufmann Body Butter for maximum hydration without any greasy residue.
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Andie MacDowell has been in the public eye for decades and has starred in iconic movies including Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral – but she's not the only famous face in her family.
The 65-year-old is a mother to three children whom she shares with her ex-husband of 13 years, Paul Qualley – a rancher and former model. Two of their kids have followed in Andie's footsteps and made a name for themselves in the entertainment industry.
"My kids were always my priority and being a mother was the most important aspect of my life," she told Interview Magazine in 2021. "But I was competitive, and I did want to work, so I was always balancing both of those aspects of my life." c
Andie is proud of how she raised her children, Margaret, Rainey, and Justin Qualley, who are all successful in their own right. "I've done my job and I've done my job well because my kids are all making their own choices for themselves and developing into the people that they're supposed to be," she told People.
"The most important thing that you will teach your children is to be independent."
Meet Andie's three children below…
Justin Qualley
Eldest child Justin, 37, is the only one of Andie and Paul's kids to carve a career for himself away from the spotlight, although he has accompanied his mom to public events on occasion.
The dad-of-one works as a real estate agent in Montana, where he lives, and enjoys a quiet life with his family. "My son never looks at his phone, he does not live a life online," Andie previously shared.
Justin became a first-time father in 2022 to a daughter, Cozette, whom he shares with his wife, Nicolette. The couple got married in June 2023, with Andie sharing several photos of their special day on Instagram.
She also penned a touching message, which read: "We wept heartfelt tears because we saw deep love standing in front of us. Yes, we played, we laughed we partied, we had fun and so much joy.
"But standing in front of us at that moment were two people taking each other extremely seriously, setting a tone for a life together. A perfect wedding full of love."
Rainey Qualley
Like her mother, Rainey, 34, pursued a career in show business. In 2012, she made her acting debut in the film Mighty Fine, which also starred Andie. She has also appeared in other films such as Oceans 8, Perfect, and the TV show, Mad Men, alongside modeling for brands including Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, and Gucci.
Away from acting and modeling, however, Rainey is best known for her music, which she releases under the name Rainsford. So far, she has released three Eps, 2015's Turn Down the Lights, 2018's Emotional Support Animal and 2023's So that was my Dream.
In 2022, she revealed that she is working on a debut album, telling Spin: "A lot of the music that I have put out so far has been very 'sad girl'. I wrote a lot of songs in heartache and that felt really important — and it was at the time — but I want to write stuff that comes from a more joyful place. I'm also just happier now."
Rainey's happiness may have something to do with her boyfriend, musician Kane Ritchotte. The couple was first spotted together in 2023 and he was her date to her sister, Margaret's wedding. Before Kane, Rainey was in a long-term relationship with Lewis Pullman, the son of actor Bill Pullman and his wife Tamara Hurwitz.
Margaret Qualley
The most famous of the Qualley children must be the youngest, Margaret. The 29-year-old made her acting debut in the film, Palo Alto and received high praise for appearing in HBO's The Leftovers.
More recently, she has starred in big blockbusters such as The Nice Guys and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, before landing a career-defining role in Netflix's Maid. She will next be seen in the Emma Stone-led movie, Poor Things.
For Maid, Margaret was nominated for an Emmy and starred alongside her mom, who she suggested for the role of her on-screen mother in the limited series. "I got to work with somebody that I've grown up admiring since the fricking get-go — my very first idol," Margaret told The Hollywood Reporter.
Before she followed her mother's footsteps into acting, she started training as a ballet dancer and moved to New York City when she was 16 to attend the American Ballet Theatre.
She also worked as a model but quit after four months because she "realized it wasn't good for me." However, she has since appeared in campaigns for luxury brands including Chanel and KENZO.
Like her brother, Margaret is also married and tied the knot with musician and producer, Jack Antonoff, on August 19, 2023, in front of her family and a star-studded guestlist including Taylor Swift.
"I've always dreamt of getting married. There's a girly-girl part of me that's thought about what my wedding would be like," she told Harper's Bazaar in 2021. "And I've dreamt of having kids. I'm a real romantic in that way."
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Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka Marquez dropped a huge career bombshell this week when he announced that he is set to judge on the Spanish version of the show Bailando con las Estrellas.
Of course, this exciting opportunity will require Gorka jetting to his native Spain to film the show, and we imagine that the dad-of-two will be spending time apart from his family who are based in Manchester.
Gorka, 33, is engaged to actress Gemma Atkinson, 39, and the couple share children Mia, four, and baby boy Thiago.
Taking to social media with the exciting announcement, Gorka revealed: "I finally can share the news that I will be one of the Judges in the Spanish version of Strictly 'Bailando con las Estrellas' @bailandoest.
"So excited to [be] back in Spain and doing the show that changed my whole life and excited to be sat on the other side of the floor this time even if I am not sure I will be able to hold myself and not dance," he added. "First show is this Saturday and I can't wait."
Gemma reacted: "Woohoo! So proud and so excited to watch (if I can figure out the Spanish tele)."
Just a few days prior, a fan on Instagram asked Gemma if she would ever consider leaving the city with Gorka and their children.
She explained: "No. I'm too much of a home bird! I've moved house three times since I moved out of my mum's at 17. All within six miles of her house."
"I love being near my family and friends and all my local places I grew up with. We are looking at a property over there so we can fly over more often but Manchester will always be my home."
While Gorka is away, Gemma will undoubtedly miss her fiancé but will likely have plenty of help with her little ones, as her family lives nearby. The celebrity mum is used to Gorka being away with work while filming Strictly and then on the show's tour.
The former Hollyoaks actress recently told HELLO!: "I'm really fortunate that my mum and my stepdad are retired, and they live literally 15-20 minutes away."
Mia is also at school now, meaning that Gemma just has Thiago to care for during the weekdays if Gorka is away then.
Gemma told us about Mia's start at school: "Do you know what, she's loving it. She did pre-school four days a week anyway so if anything, the school hours are a lot shorter. She used to do pre-school from 8.30-5pm. She's practically begging me to put her in the after-school club so she can stay with her friends for longer."
If Gorka is on the judging panel of Bailando con las Estrellas every week, the couple could be apart a fair amount – perhaps they have found that Spanish property Gemma spoke of?
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Ever since Nicola Peltz-Beckham debuted her itty bitty bow committee manicure all I have been able to think about is booking a salon visit of my own, because I for one am feeling left out of the coquette core club.
MORE: 7 ways to add 'Big Bow Energy' into your wardrobe according to a Gen Z Fashion Editor
RELATED: Nicola Peltz just introduced the 'bow manicure' – and we're into it
If you’re like me, here are 10 of my favourite bow-tiful designs that I will be sending to my nail artist ahead of my next visit. You’re welcome.
Perfectly pink
Leaning into the clean girl aesthetic, these nude-based nails accented with teeny tiny diamantes and hand-painted bows and stars are perfect for the everyday.
A metallic moment
For those who like a little sparkle, these weird girl coquette core hybrid nails are a twinkling delight. Metallics are very much on trend right now and this abstract bow and squiggle option is certifiably cool.
A monochrome moment
You can never, ever go wrong with a French tip, especially when they’re with a twist. A dainty bow in your favourite colour will instantly elevate any French girl manicure.
One hot chocolate with marshmallows please
Now this is a colour combo I can get behind. I am obsessed with the almond shape of these nails paired with the alternating chocolate brown and baby pink base layers, adorned with opposite hand-painted bows.
Subtle girlhood
Technically not boasting big bow energy, I couldn't help but include this simple pink design by famed celeb nail artist Benita Goldstein. Perfect for when you want to embrace your girlhood subtly.
A red hot ribbon
Another perfect French tip style with a bright red twist. I am in love with how simple and stunning this design is. If you’re not a red girl (which I find hard to believe) ask your nail artist to swap out the colour of the bow for something more your speed.
Style > Practicality
If you’re wanting something super extra, why not glue on an actual ribbon bow? Rather unpractical but seriously cute.
Go big or bow home
These red, white and silver-hued nails are just the right amount of extra for strangers to comment on.
Perfect for those martini drinkers
I’m calling it now, olive green is set to be one of this year's most coveted colourways. Get ahead of the trend and recreate this look then tell people you did it first.
Baby blue bows
It seems French tips are doing the rounds this season. This particular mani is seamlessly cohesive with the use of a singular blue bow and tiny dots in the same colour.
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Jungle-piercing lasers have revealed the ruins of even more ancient cities hiding in the Amazon. Located in the Upano Valley of Ecuador, this sprawling network of long-lost settlements shows how South America was rich in highly complex human culture long, long before Christopher Columbus arrived on their shores.
The vast urban settlements were recently uncovered thanks to 20 years of interdisciplinary research that included fieldwork and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) mapping. This revolutionary imaging technology allows researchers to scan vast swathes of land and detect the imprints of hidden structures that aren't always visible to the naked eye.
In recent times, archeologists have found a huge number of pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon basin that remained undetected for centuries, if not millennia. However, this new research constitutes the earliest and largest example of urbanism in the Amazon discovered yet.
The recently discovered civilization first emerged around 2,500 years ago with significant construction occurring between 500 BCE and 600 CE. The extensive network of towns and cities consists of at least 15 distinct settlement sites of various sizes, characterized by constructed platforms and plazas that are connected by large, straight roads.
Among the many finds, they also revealed the impressions of some 6,000 rectangular platforms measuring about 20 meters (66 feet) by 10 meters (33 feet) and up to 3 meters (10 feet) high. The Amazon is no place to mine for stone, so these structures were fashioned out of earth and mud.
The researchers describe the settlements as an example of “garden urbanism,” where human-made structures were closely intertwined with agricultural plots, featuring extensive drainage systems and terraces.
It’s said that European colonizers came across giant cities when they first set foot in the Amazon. So the stories go, the settlements have since been consumed by the unrelenting jungle. Inspired by these legends, British explorer Percy Fawcett and his expedition went missing in 1925 while on the hunt for the so-called “Lost City of Z”, an enigmatic civilization that they believed was lying hidden in Brazil.
These stories are often brushed off as tall tales, but recent research like this suggests that they might have been onto something.
“Such a discovery is another vivid example of the underestimation of Amazonia’s twofold heritage: environmental but also cultural, and therefore Indigenous. Like many others, we believe that it is crucial to thoroughly revise our preconceptions of the Amazonian world and, in doing so, to reinterpret contexts and concepts in the necessary light of an inclusive and participatory science,” the study authors write in their conclusion.
The new study is published in the journal Science.
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Fingerprint analysis is considered an invaluable tool in forensic and security settings due to the uniqueness and permanence of the patterns. No two people have been found to share a fingerprint pattern, not even identical twins. Fingerprints are so unique, in fact, that your own fingerprints don’t even match each other. But now, new research using artificial intelligence (AI) is making claims that could change the course of forensic fingerprint identification.
While the uniqueness of fingerprints is what makes them so crucial in crime scene investigations, the inability to match the fingerprints of different fingers from the same person – referred to as intra-person fingerprints – can cause major issues in connecting forensic evidence.
However, researchers from Columbia University are claiming to have created an AI model capable of matching intra-person fingerprints with 99.99 percent confidence, arguing that the fingerprints of the same person are not unique – we’ve just been comparing them the wrong way.
Fingerprint patterns are made up of raised ridges and recessed furrows on the finger pads. Currently, fingerprints are analyzed by comparing friction ridge patterns which fall into three categories – loops, whorls, and arches. An analyst will use ridge characteristics, known as minutiae, to identify and compare the characteristics of the print.
The new AI’s decision-making process, however, is based on analysis of binary patterns, ridge orientation, ridge density, and minutiae. By analyzing the swirls and loops near the center of the fingerprint, known as the singularity, they found that most of the intra-person fingerprint similarities were explained by ridge orientation, concluding that the minutiae maps were the least reliable of the analysis categories.
They argue that while minutiae analysis may be the most accurate for same-finger matching, it focuses on single fingerprint peculiarities that are unlikely to occur across intra-person fingerprints, making it less accurate for cross-finger matching.
The model was trained using a public US government database of roughly 60,000 fingerprints and 525,000 images. They found that the AI’s performance was consistent across different genders and racial groups and that it performed best when trained with samples from all groups. “Just imagine how well this will perform once it’s trained on millions, instead of thousands of fingerprints,” Columbia Engineering senior Aniv Ray, who helped analyze the data, said in a statement.
The team highlighted their hope that this AI model could one day be used to prioritize leads, exonerate innocent suspects, and potentially help create new leads for cold cases.
“This research is an example of how even a fairly simple AI, given a fairly plain dataset that the research community has had lying around for years, can provide insights that have eluded experts for decades,” said Hod Lipson, fellow author and professor at Columbia Engineering.
“Even more exciting is the fact that an undergraduate student, with no background in forensics whatsoever, can use AI to successfully challenge a widely held belief of an entire field. We are about to experience an explosion of AI-led scientific discovery by non-experts, and the expert community, including academia, needs to get ready.”
The research, however, has not come without criticism. The paper was initially rejected by a well-established forensics journal with an anonymous expert reviewer and editor concluding that “it is well known that every fingerprint is unique,” and it would not be possible to detect intra-person similarities.
While the paper acknowledges the need for the model to be trained on a larger and more diverse dataset, it remains to be seen if AI is capable of producing results reliable enough to provide conclusive evidence in criminal convictions.
The study is published in Science Advances.
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A new, noninvasive test to check the quality of embryos could make a huge difference to people undergoing fertility treatment. Right now, one of the big barriers to success in in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is that it’s difficult to know the best embryos to choose, but this new test could make that much easier.
“Unfortunately, IVF success still involves a big element of chance, but that’s something we’re hoping our research can change,” said co-senior author H. Irene Su of UC San Diego in a statement. This optimism will be welcomed by the thousands who seek IVF treatment each year, just a fraction of the estimated one in six people affected by infertility worldwide.
Since the birth of the world’s first IVF baby Louise Brown, back in 1978 in the UK, reproductive medicine has made great strides. But undertaking a course of IVF can be a long and arduous process for families, especially when you consider that the overall live birth rate for females under the age of 40 in the US is only 20-40 percent.
Doctors are under pressure to select the lab-grown embryos that have the best chance of resulting in a healthy pregnancy for each patient, but this is no easy task.
“Right now, the best way we have to predict embryo outcome involves looking at embryos and measuring morphological characteristics or taking some cells from the embryo to look at genetic makeup, both of which have limitations,” Su explained.
The team wanted to look at things a different way. The new method doesn’t examine the embryos themselves, but uses the leftover liquid medium that was used to grow them. It doesn’t involve any extra steps and doesn’t interfere with the IVF process, something that was very important to the researchers.
While cells are growing, they release small molecules of RNA, called exRNAs. These were only discovered within the last couple of decades, and scientists still aren’t sure of their exact function.
“It’s really only in the last decade that we have started to uncover the uses for exRNAs, and there could be countless other applications we haven’t yet discovered,” said co-senior author Sheng Zhong.
The team took samples of growth medium from embryos at five different stages to gather information about the profile of exRNAs they release as they develop. Around 4,000 of these molecules were identified at each stage. By inputting this data into a machine-learning model, it was possible to predict an embryo’s growth trajectory based on the exRNAs it produced.
The model’s predictions were found to match up with the tests that are currently used to check for embryo quality, suggesting this noninvasive method could potentially be used to weed out the embryos with the most likely chances of success.
The authors caution that it will be some time before any new method can be used in a clinical setting. “We have data connecting healthy morphology to positive IVF outcomes, and now we’ve seen that exRNAs can be used to predict good morphology, but we still need to draw that final line before our test will be ready for primetime,” said Su.
But it’s a promising start, and an innovative way of addressing an old problem.
As Su put it, rather than targeting the embryos directly, “What we’ve done is more akin to looking at what’s left behind at an archeological site to help us learn more about who lived there and what they did.”
The study is published in Cell Genomics.
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Compare these two scenarios: meeting your significant other for a romantic dinner, or going for an after-work coffee with that guy you barely know from HR. We’ll bet one of these sounds a lot more appealing than the other, right? Scientists have just cracked the code for why we crave spending time with some people more than others, and they did it with help from some super-cute furry critters.
The prairie vole is one of only a handful of animals that, like humans, form monogamous bonds. That’s made them invaluable to generations of researchers analyzing all aspects of human connection and relationships, and it’s why they were an obvious choice for Zoe Donaldson and colleagues in their study of what happens in the brain when partnerships are made and broken.
“What we have found, essentially, is a biological signature of desire that helps us explain why we want to be with some people more than other people,” Donaldson, an associate professor of behavioral neuroscience at CU Boulder, said in a statement.
“As humans, our entire social world is basically defined by different degrees of selective desire to interact with different people, whether it’s your romantic partner or your close friends. This research suggests that certain people leave a unique chemical imprint on our brain that drives us to maintain these bonds over time.”
The study used state-of-the-art neuroimaging to watch what was happening in the voles’ brains in real time when they were separated from their partners. In one scenario, two paired voles were separated by a door that one had to open with a lever; in another, the female vole was forced to clamber over a fence to reach her beloved.
Using a miniature fiber optic sensor, the team tracked activity in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which we know from human studies is vital in motivating us to seek reward. When an animal engages in behaviors that should lead them to something they desire – like a fuzzy little vole searching for its life partner – the neurotransmitter dopamine floods the brain’s reward system.
The fiber optic sensors used in the study lit up each time they picked up a hit of dopamine. When the voles were finally reunited with their loved ones, first author Anne Pierce said the light show was “like a rave”. By contrast, while they were separated, the lights dimmed.
“This suggests that not only is dopamine really important for motivating us to seek out our partner, but there’s actually more dopamine coursing through our reward center when we are with our partner than when we are with a stranger,” Pierce explained.
Okay, tissues at the ready people. In the next experiment, a vole couple was kept apart for four whole weeks. In the wild, this would be long enough for a vole to seek a new mate, so in many ways it is akin to a bereavement, or at least a very painful breakup, in humans.
When the voles were finally reunited, they hadn’t forgotten each other, but that characteristic flood of dopamine had gone. In other words, they’d lost their strong desire for one another.
“We think of this as sort of a reset within the brain that allows the animal to now go on and potentially form a new bond,” said Donaldson. While this may sound sad, it could actually be good news for humans who have experienced loss or a relationship breakdown – this could be the brain’s way of allowing us to move on.
More research will be needed before we know how well these findings translate from prairie voles to humans, but the authors believe their work could have important implications for humans coping with grief, or those who struggle to form intimate relationships.
“The hope is that by understanding what healthy bonds look like within the brain, we can begin to identify new therapies to help the many people with mental illnesses that affect their social world,” Donaldson said.
The study is published in Current Biology.
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Marine mammals come in all shapes and sizes, from surfboard-stealing sea otters to giant humpback whales making Fibonacci spirals. However while the former is famously cute and fluffy with thick fur, do whales have hair? We take a closer look at the skin of these ocean giants.
Do All Whales Have Hair?
The short answer is yes – however, as always, it's a bit more complicated. There are around 90 species of cetaceans (the group including whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and not all of them have hair, according to Whales.Org.
Whales and other cetaceans are mammals despite their watery lifestyle, and while it may seem unusual, they share certain characteristics unique across all mammals (let's not get into monotremes right now) regardless of habitat. One of those characteristics is hair. Some whales and dolphin species have hair where land mammals have whiskers.
Do baleen whales have hair?
Whales are split into two groups, largely based on what is inside their mouths. One group, the baleen whales, have baleen bristles that help filter and sieve their prey of small krill and plankton from the ocean.
Baleen whales include humpbacks, fin, sei, and bowhead species, and they have been found to have hair follicles – even if they don’t have visible hair. These follicles are found along the jawline, chin, and on top of the head, these whale species may have 30 to 100 hairs, writes the Blue Ocean Society.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) have tubercles, large visible bumps typically on the head, and inside each tubercle is a hair follicle. Some adult humpbacks still have hairs growing from them.
Toothed whales have hair
The other group of whales are the toothed whales, which as the name suggests possess teeth rather than baleen plates. Whale calves in some species of toothed whales are born with hair along their snouts and lose it quickly after birth.
Do dolphins have hair?
One cetacean species – the Amazon river dolphin, also known as the boto (Inia geoffrensis) – has stiff hairs on its beak throughout its life. They are thought to aid the dolphins in finding prey at the bottom of murky rivers.
Why Do Whales Have Hair?
No one knows for sure why whales have hair. Some suggest it could be a leftover trait from when whale ancestors were living on land. Others suggest that the nerves around the hair follicles help the whales in some way, and could be used to sense changes in the water such as pressure, helping whales detect shoals of fish or changes in the currents. There is some research showing that Minke whales have been observed using their chin hairs to detect air and ice interfaces in cold Antarctic waters.
A study in 2015 found that bowhead whales are typically hairless, apart from patches of more than 300 hairs on the tops of their heads and their chins. This makes them the hairiest of all modern cetaceans. The team found that the hairs closer to the whales' blowholes were thicker than the hairs on their chins and rostrums. The placement of these hairs leads the team to believe these hair patches may have specialized functions.
Given that young whales are often born with hairs, these could be used in communication between the calves and their mothers during feeding.
All “explainer” articles are confirmed by fact checkers to be correct at time of publishing. Text, images, and links may be edited, removed, or added to at a later date to keep information current.
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A new study of global shark fishing mortality has revealed the true extent of humanity’s negative impact on the oceans: around 80 million sharks die in fisheries each year, despite fishing regulations and bans on finning.
Between 2012 and 2019 – during which time there was a tenfold increase in finning legislation – global fishing mortality rose from 76 million sharks to more than 80 million in 2017, with an average of 79 million from 2017 to 2019. Improving the analysis could increase the number of shark deaths to 101 million in 2019, the researchers estimate.
Even worse, of those shark deaths, between 22 million and 28 million each year were in threatened species.
“Over the past two decades, sharks have been increasingly recognized among the world’s most threatened wildlife and hence have received heightened scientific and regulatory scrutiny,” the authors of the new study write.
They face threats from overfishing and large numbers are caught incidentally by pelagic tuna fisheries. There is also an increasing demand for their fins, which are a valuable commodity in Asian markets.
Protective regulations, mostly aiming to eliminate the practice of finning, have been introduced, alongside agreements to limit the trade of threatened species, efforts to address bycatch, and numerous public awareness campaigns. However, no studies have investigated the impact of these regulations on global shark fishing mortality.
Using fisheries data, computer modeling, and expert interviews, the team behind the new study have changed that. However, their findings were not as positive as you might hope: overall, fishing-induced mortality has increased in the past 10 years.
“By linking fishing mortality data to the global regulatory landscape, we show that widespread legislation designed to prevent shark finning did not reduce mortality,” they write, although regional bans did have some success, they add.
Shark deaths were particularly concentrated in coastal hotspots, with 50 percent of global mortality from 2017 to 2019 occurring in the territorial waters of just six coastal nations. Four of these – Indonesia, Brazil, Mauritania, and Mexico – also have “insufficient regulatory capacity” and are either major suppliers or consumers of shark meat.
“These findings suggest a shifting global landscape of shark fishing mortality that is moving away from finning of larger pelagic species toward full use of smaller coastal species, presenting new regulatory and conservation challenges,” the authors write as a potential explanation for their findings.
While serving as yet another reminder that we’re a bigger threat to them than they are to us, the study also hammers home just how desperately sharks need protecting.
Measures such as shark fishing bans, catch limits, and protecting key areas could all help to protect sharks, the authors told Live Science.
"It's a solvable problem," lead author Boris Worm added. "But it's a problem that really needs to be tackled now, because sharks have not much time left."
The study is published in the journal Science.
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This article first appeared in Issue 15 of our free digital magazine CURIOUS.
Thousands of seals call Kaikōura, New Zealand, home, but when the winter weather starts to kick in come April, the Ōhau Point Seal Colony’s pups make a unique journey. They swim inland, following a stream to Ōhau Waterfall, which for one to three months of the year acts like a creche for young seals.
The falls are a pups-only party where they can practice swimming, chase each other in the pool, and socialize with other seals as they chill out on the rocks. Ōhau waterfall is what’s known as a horsetail waterfall, meaning its falling water maintains contact with the rockface for the 15-meter (49-foot) plummet.
The colony is made up of fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) and it’s believed to be the only place in the world where their young make this unusual inland journey to use a waterfall as a nursery. Pups will need to travel semi-regularly during their stay here so that they can stock up on mom’s milk before getting back to the fun.
Access to the waterfall for humans has been affected by a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Kaikōura in 2016, sending loose rock and debris cascading across the landscape, including main access roads. The area has since been secured but the risk of rockfall at the Ōhau Stream walkway has made it difficult to decide if tourists should be granted access to the seals’ playground.
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The waterfall itself didn’t escape the quake scot-free. Kaikōura Tourism manager Glenn Ormsby told Stuff that Department of Conservation managers reported there had been some destruction including the addition of a new giant boulder in the middle of the pond. However, that hasn’t stopped the young seals.
According to the New Zealand Herald, the “quake generation” of fur seals born in the aftermath of the seismic event were thriving one year on, despite the initial loss of around 100 seals from rockfall and natural causes. Some had predicted the earthquake and ongoing disruption due to humans’ construction efforts might push the seals to migrate elsewhere, but they’ve proven to be remarkably resilient in the face of the fallout.
New Zealand is prone to earthquakes because it straddles the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates. As they grind together, pressure builds up which can cause the crust to give way, resulting in massive, sudden movement that we recognize as an earthquake. The location means New Zealand experiences earthquakes every day, but only around 250 each year are strong enough to be noticed.
How to get there: The waterfall trail is closed due to earthquake damage, but you can safely soak up the seals from the Ōhau Point Lookout that’s 30 minutes North of Kaikōura.
CURIOUS magazine is a digital magazine from IFLScience featuring interviews, experts, deep dives, fun facts, news, book excerpts, and much more. Issue 18 is out now.
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The cosmological principle states that at a large enough scale, the universe is uniform and isotropic. That means that it’s the same everywhere, no matter which direction you are looking at. You should not be seeing a single enormous structure in a particular direction. So imagine finding two in close proximity.
Two years ago, researchers found the Giant Arc. This is a crescent of galaxies spanning 3.3 billion light-years located 9.2 billion light-years away. Now, the same team reports the discovery of a second giant structure. They are calling it the Big Ring – it has a diameter of 1.3 billion light-years and it is also 9.2 billion light-years away. The two are only 12 degrees apart in the sky.
“We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable universe. Yet, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc are two huge structures and are even cosmological neighbours, which is extraordinarily fascinating,” discoverer Alexia Lopez, a graduate researcher from the University of Central Lancashire, said in a statement.
“Neither of these two ultra-large structures is easy to explain in our current understanding of the universe. And their ultra-large sizes, distinctive shapes, and cosmological proximity must surely be telling us something important – but what exactly?”
An exact explanation for this is yet to be provided. According to the cosmological principle, galaxies should be evenly distributed, and despite the presence of galaxy clusters and the so-called cosmic web, these structures tend to average out. So structures cannot grow beyond a certain limit.
“Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and the Big Ring’s circumference is comparable to the Giant Arc’s length,” Lopez continued.
“From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible. We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable universe. Yet, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc are two huge structures and are even cosmological neighbours, which is extraordinarily fascinating.”
Further observations will be needed to confirm these claims and provide insight that the theory can use to understand what the presence of these structures means for our understanding of the Universe.
Lopez presented her findings on the Big Ring at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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By 2100, the US could be scattered with thousands of ghost towns. That’s according to new research by the University of Illinois that’s suggested almost half of the nearly 30,000 cities in the US will face depopulation by the end of this century.
These impacted cities are estimated to experience depopulation of 12 to 23 percent, a radical demographic change that would likely cause all kinds of disruptions to basic services, including transportation, clean water, electricity, and internet access.
“The projections suggest that, by 2100, all states will have cities facing some type of depopulation, except the District of Columbia and Hawaii,” the study authors write.
However, they added that the situation will vary across the country from region to region. The results show that 43 percent of US cities are losing population, while 40 percent are gaining population and the remaining 17 percent show fluctuating trends.
“The number of depopulating cities in the Northeast and Midwest will be higher than in the South and West regions (although many cities in the North and Midwest will still grow). In California, the southern coast may lose population, while the northern coast may gain population. Although they are growing substantially as of this writing, Texas and Utah will also see a fair share of their cities going through population loss,” they added.
To reach these findings, the team looked at data collected from 2000 to 2020 by the US Census and the American Community Survey. Using five possible future climate scenarios, known as the shared socioeconomic pathways, they used mathematical models to forecast changes in urban populations.
Speaking to Scientific American, lead study author Uttara Sutradhar explained that several different variables will drive the trends they identified, including rising property prices, industrial decline, lower birth rates, different levels of state taxes, and the impacts of climate change.
To face this problem, the researchers believe that the US needs to have a radical paradigm shift away from growth-based planning and, instead, start embracing the principles of adaptability, modularity, and multifunctionality.
More broadly speaking, it’s become well-established that the global population will decline by the end of the 21st century. A study in 2020 concluded that the population of the world will peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion people, before falling to 8.8 billion by 2100. Another (more pessimistic) report argued that the global population will peak at 8.6 billion in 2050 and then decline to just 7 billion by 2100.
The new study is published in the journal Nature Cities.
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Archaeologists have unearthed two more Egyptian mummies with golden tongues at the ancient town of Oxyrhynchus, around 100 miles from Cairo. This brings the total number of specimens to 16, all of which have been recovered from this site.
Oxyrhynchus, otherwise known as the "City of the Sharp-nosed Fish", has been a veritable treasure trove for archaeologists for some time. From late 1896 to 1907, excavation teams discovered thousands of pieces of papyrus buried in ancient rubbish mounds at the site. The surrounding areas have been almost continuously excavated ever since, and have continued to yield various important finds, including papyrus texts from the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305-30 BCE) and Roman Egypt (30 BCE to 641 CE).
But in recent years, archaeologists have recovered even more intriguing artifacts: golden tongues.
During the Roman period, golden tongues were put into the mouths of some mummies in the belief that the precious object would aid the deceased in the afterlife. By having a gold tongue, it was thought the dead would be able to communicate with the god Osiris in the underworld. This was because gold, to the ancient Egyptians, was the “flesh of the gods”.
The tongues were discovered by archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, who were led by Drs Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado.
In 2021, the same team found three other golden tongues at Oxyrhynchus, but the latest finds were not the only discoveries of note.
In addition to these spectacular objects, the team identified three large hypogea, underground burial chambers, that date to the Ptolemaic period. Inside were nine sarcophagi, two of which had not been opened by tomb robbers.
The chamber contained over 30 mummies wrapped in “colorful rolls”, some of which also had “colorful funerary masks”, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. It was within the mouths of some of these mummies that the tongues were found.
The mummies were also accompanied by terracotta figurines of Isis-Aphrodite, a goddess that blended together the Egyptian goddess of healing and magic, with the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who was associated with beauty.
"It is the first time that we have found in Oxyrhynchus terracotta with the image of Isis-Aphrodite and the first time that [these] kind[s] of pieces appear in this area of the middle Egypt," Pons Mellado told Live Science.
At the moment, it is unclear who these mummified individuals were, but they would have been important in their day, given they had been mummified and buried with such valuable possessions.
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Our solar system is not still in space; it moves around the galaxy at 370 kilometers per second (230 miles per second). This means that part of the universe looks like it is coming towards us, while the opposite side moves away from us. This effect is seen, for example, in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the light echo of the Big Bang. Researchers expected to see a similar effect if they were to look in the gamma-ray sky – but they discovered something very different.
The CMB is incredibly uniform, so the difference amounts to measuring about 0.12 percent hotter towards the constellation Leo (more microwaves than average) than on the other side of the Sky. The gamma-ray background comes from unresolved energetic events from across the universe, so it was expected that it would look roughly similar, though the difference enhanced given the fact that gamma rays are a billion times more energetic than regular light.
But this dipole, as it is technically called, looks nothing like that of the CMB; it is in a different place and much more intense than expected. While not matching the CMB dipole signal, it does match what has been observed for the most energetic cosmic rays.
"It is a completely serendipitous discovery," said Alexander Kashlinsky, a cosmologist at the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in a statement. "We found a much stronger signal, and in a different part of the sky, than the one we were looking for."
"We found a gamma-ray dipole, but its peak is located in the southern sky, far from the CMB's, and its magnitude is 10 times greater than what we would expect from our motion," said co-author Chris Shrader, an astrophysicist at the Catholic University of America in Washington and Goddard. "While it is not what we were looking for, we suspect it may be related to a similar feature reported for the highest-energy cosmic rays."
Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays carry even more energy than gamma rays – a billion times more, in fact – and scientists do not know where they come from. However, there is an excess of these particles from the same region where there is an excess of gamma rays, and so researchers think that these two phenomena are related.
The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and was recently presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans.
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