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Romantic novelist. Author of LOVE & OTHER SCAMS (2023), WE COULD BE HEROES (June 2024). Sex & Relationships Editor @MensHealthMag . Repped by @florencerees93 .

Birmingham, UK
Joined December 2010
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Philip J. Ellis (he/him)
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Superhero movie star meets small-town drag queen. It's a tale as old as time. My big gay romcom WE COULD BE HEROES is released on June 4 in the US with @PutnamBooks and June 6 in the UK with @HarperNorthUK ! Preorder: 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
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Nobody: The movie detective’s dead wife in a home video:
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The three witches after giving Macbeth the prophecy that will fuck up his entire life
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I have some questions for the Church of England vicar who let me bareback him in 2016.
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Sex is for married heterosexual couples only, says Church of England
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Nobody: Trixie and Katya out of drag:
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“Seal? I haven’t heard that name in years.”
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6 years
When Netflix freezes to ask if you’re still watching and you see yourself reflected in the screen
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Imagine single-handedly fending off a Nazi invasion using witchcraft and that not even being your most iconic or best remembered role. Angela Lansbury had the range.
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Replace all science teachers with drag queens challenge
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I thought this was really funny until a screengrabbed meme made its way over to Facebook and my mum saw it
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what is y’all most liked tweet?
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@FoxNews So you agree? You think Trump is a fascist?
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This is the kind of masculinity I want to see in 2017. Two guys out on a boat, delighted to be rescuing kittens.
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Historians: These men were close friends. Cousins, perhaps, or even brothers. Feudal Japan:
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“I was a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was a beautiful movie star. But here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me. I was 33 and she was 20 but this was her world.” It's gross how Moby thinks he can frame an 18 year old girl (NOT 20) as the one with all the power.
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Being gay isn’t a choice, it’s a deeply mysterious and sacred birthright, like being a wizard or a vampire slayer.
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6 years
When you order something online vs. when it arrives
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As a gay man with no daughters, I find that it is still possible to see women as human beings regardless of their relation to me.
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As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women.
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I wish we could just ignore JK Rowling but every time she says literally anything it endangers vulnerable young people, so I'm sorry gang but here we go again: Comparing transitioning to conversion therapy is transphobic, homophobic, intellectually bankrupt and dangerous.
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When me and my bestie are the two funniest people in the room
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With each new genre of heterosexuality that gets discovered I feel more and more thankful to have been spared
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Yes, next question
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Do you ever find yourself thinking “I may live to regret this tweet”
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RT if you are British and have literally never heard of mince on toast.
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Watch: Mince meat on toast is a quintessential British comfort classic
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@LouisStaples Moments of exquisite charm punctuated by the cringiest shit you’ve ever witnessed, yep sounds right
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That couple on Grindr with the good wine and stunning apartment
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3 years
Saying that Palestine has a poor track record when it comes to LGBTQ rights isn’t the home run you think it is. So does Arizona, but I wouldn’t want to see children getting bombed there either.
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He was a camp gay man who dressed up as a woman on national telly, how much more "on his sleeve" could it have been you fucking lemon
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Paul O' Grady, RIP. Epitomised what I have always said. He felt no need to wear his sexuality on his sleeve, when his act was Lily Savage he was an artist not cavorting around in skin tight shorts like Sam Smith, he entertained adults & kids tastefully.A funny guy a true artist
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Saltburn has been on streaming for less than two days and tiktok is full of people thinking they’ve found “Easter eggs” when they’re actually just… following the plot
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Amber Heard came forward with allegations of domestic abuse and was bullied into dropping the charges. Johnny Depp, meanwhile, is the titular character in the next big Potter blockbuster and on the cover of GQ. Tell me again how these accusations ruin men's careers?
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@_melissamason_ @charliejburness "You're too good for me" = "I'm gonna cheat and then say I warned you"
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I love twitter dot com
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Paul Atreides: I will marry Princess Irulan and rule the known universe as emperor! Princess Irulan:
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The replies on this thread have been cracking me up, you’re all great, je ne regrette fuck all. I have nothing to plug, but please think about donating to @Mermaids_Gender as trans and nonbinary kids are the ones who are perpetually the most vulnerable members of our community x
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The people calling this content “relatable” and “an attack” need to learn to be embarrassed. If an experience like this had happened to me I would take it to my grave.
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He also says he "tried to be her boyfriend", which suggests an awareness that she wasn't interested. You don't "try" to date somebody who's into you.
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Some of the replies to this are radioactive. Rather than respond to claims that I’m a “rapist” or an “advert for the fourth reich” I’m going to say CHEERS.
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A friendly note to freelancers everywhere; this is what happened when a record exec refused to pay Nina Simone.
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Paul doesn’t even realise he’s the one in the relationship agreeing to a threeway that will end in him getting kicked out of the house #TheTraitors
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Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind
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No more reboots unless it’s The Fifth Element starring @LilNasX as Ruby Rhod
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@WesleyDolan I sure did!
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3 years
Haaaaaa
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Me when the hot priest dumped Fleabag
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Happy one week anniversary to the guy who said all this on our first and only date: “I don’t like gay bars, I went to my first one last week.” “I just found Black Panther too political, you know?” “I’m newly single and still live with my ex.” “I really like The Big Bang Theory.”
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RT if you're queer and have spent years unlearning the shame you internalised during your school years, I'm trying to prove a point
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Perez Hilton, a gay man, outed another gay man in Brunei and this is all I can think of:
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Queer people's sex lives are so often treated as a public debate that it's easy to forget what we do in bed is nobody else's fucking business. Here's why @troyesivan was right to shut down that reporter.
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The entire sixth season of Buffy:
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Sex is cool but have you ever made peace with the horror of being alive
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Love, Death & Robots on Netflix is a fucking brilliant anthology of animated sci-fi. A really exciting mix of genres and styles with stunning visuals (if a little liberal with the boobs). Some personal faves: Sonnie’s Edge, The Witness, Good Hunting, Fish Night.
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Nobody: Mystique in the 2000 X-Men movie:
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The men sliding into my mentions today:
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If you know you know. Thank you for the perfect gift @Le0Buck !
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The two biggest celebrities of their time producing such a mid human being is straight culture through and through
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Brooklyn’s free trial as a chef has now ended. He’s now a stylist who loves things! Congrats Brooklyn!
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@adamkanzen “I’m gay but I don’t dress like a woman or feel like a woman.” This bitch doesn’t even know what gay means.
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Nobody: France in 1792:
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I have dated no fewer than three men who made plain salmon and boiled new potatoes (unbuttered) as the first meal when I went over to their place. On each occasion, they presented it as if they were competing on Masterchef. What did I do in a past life to deserve that? Tell me!
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I’m going to tell my kids this was Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly.
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Lady Gaga when she’s forced to address that Artpop tweet:
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It has come to my attention that some of my followers are gay.
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Happy Endings and Don't Trust The Bitch In Apartment 23 were very Obama-era sitcoms but you could easily update the storylines. Penny would be a wannabe influencer, Jane would be feuding with Marie Kondo and Chloe would be blackmailing half of the Supreme Court.
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If you could resurrect any currently cancelled TV show (and have it pick up right where it left off), what would it be? #questionoftheday
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Got another rejection email, but it was the kindest, most encouraging one yet. Tweeting this because I think it’s important to share your failures and almost-wins, as well as your successes.
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Nobody: George Bush finding out about 9/11:
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@beau_jf Tayce is the kind of beautiful that I find mildly terrifying and I think that’s an integral part of her appeal.
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Today I matched with a handsome man on Tinder who had the most beautiful Labrador, but upon scrolling 28 weeks back through his Instagram I learned that he is a member of the Brexit party. This is why you do your due diligence. Imaging finding that out on your wedding night.
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For a split second I thought this was those two dude podcasters we’re all currently obsessed with and I lost my shit
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"Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." - The President of the United States and also me on Tinder.
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The future liberals want.
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Why do Kit and Emilia look like that couple who have been together since the first week of uni and let their dog sleep in the bed with them
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Lady Gaga following up the R. Kelly version of Do What U Want with the far superior Christina Aguilera duet felt like a tacit acknowledgment that she'd misstepped but I'm glad she's out-and-out stated it. Now let's all stop focusing on women when a man is accused of a sex crime.
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She’s everything. He’s just Ben.
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I will be thinking about this poem by @JayHulmePoet for a long time. A god with sore feet and sweat patches and glitter on his face, loving without reserve or condition.
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Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, off.
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@g0_f1sh "Please hand in your badge, gun, and present."
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@MediumSizeMeech The rarest instance of a celeb who understands how weird their fans can be and is in on the joke and the joke is somehow still funny
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Why does Princess Charlotte look like she’s just written a column defending Toby Young
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Cleopatra comin’ ATCHA #MetGala
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William being a big old bottom is the most interesting thing about him but as any queer person will tell you that’s still pretty boring. #PrinceOfPegging
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Me when I heard the word “quarantine” in this week’s #WandaVision
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The BBC have just sent me screeners of the new Killing Eve, apropos of nothing. They literally said “we heard you were gay, have fun!”
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James Corden keeps giving us reasons to hate him but he’s a mediocre white dude in Hollywood so he’ll keep getting second chances I guess.
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Chairman of the Tortured Poets Department
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*Literally anything happens on #DragRaceUK * Baga Chipz in her testimonial:
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Queer Eye but instead of five gay guys it’s ten gay guys and they’re just like fanning me with giant palm leaves and feeding me grapes and telling me they loved my latest story.
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In his memoir ‘Spare,’ Prince Harry reveals that his favourite character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Faith. “Buffy came from a life of affluent privilege, which I related to, but Faith was a working class bad girl. She upended social norms and expectations. She inspired me.”
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Masculinity so toxic you can’t even look at yourself
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wtf
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When someone says “catch!”
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As we head into Pride month I implore every white gay on here to remember that we are standing on the shoulders of black and brown trans women whose righteous fury in a riot similar to the ones we’re seeing on TV right now paved the way for genuine change. They were not “civil.”
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A young Jackson Maine after getting drunk with his dad for the first time
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Ariana Grande is 23 years old and has organised the Live Aid of her generation two weeks after horrific trauma. QUEEN. #OneLoveManchester
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Some pointers for journalists and producers, seeing as how some of you don't know how to behave: - Millennials are old now - LGBT rights aren't a "debate" - The earth is slowly boiling - No, bootcut jeans are not coming back
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A quarter of the UK's homeless youth population are LGBTQ, but they won't be represented in the London Pride march because... *checks notes* their bus isn't pretty enough? If @PrideInLondon isn't inclusive of the most vulnerable members of the community then what is it even for?
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“We don’t have enough money to spray paint the bus in a rainbow” Harry Gay from @LGBTIQoutside wanted to take the homeless shelter’s bus on the Pride parade He says they were told to make it “visibly nice” by organisers #VictoriaLIVE
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I have watched this a dozen times and now I want to write a novel about a group of girls who practice witchcraft together as teens and then reconnect in later life and reform the coven to enact supernatural revenge on their shitty ex-husbands.
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An Ode to Stanley Tucci's Forearms When Stanley's cooking dinner his sleeves get in the way. But when he rolls them up it makes us feel some kind of way. It's not just that they're hairy, or muscular, or tan. It's all these things and more that give us no choice but to stan.
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Never mind Mad Men or Breaking Bad, the real golden age of television was the era when every show was promoted with a photo of the entire cast in a giant bed
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Millennials to millionaires: Stop fucking up our economy and voting in actual Nazis.
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Millionaire to millennials: Stop buying avocado toast if you want to buy a home
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An iconic moment at @BirminghamPride was when the Sugababes dedicated their next song to the audience… then sang “Ugly”
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I've never been so glad that my mother isn't on Twitter.
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This is slut-shaming nonsense. If you want some genuinely useful “rules” for sex, how about: understand the importance of enthusiastic consent, know your status, get tested regularly, and be safe.
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Are young people having too much casual sex? Here are @Amber_Davies7 's new rules on sex. She'll be guest presenting with @therealNihal today 1-4pm.
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Richard Littlejohn is so obsessed with the gays that other newspapers keep a tally of how many times he mentions them.
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Nobody: The final shot of Call Me By Your Name:
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