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Chris Hemsworth’s grandfather died of Alzheimer’s, his father is showing early signs — now he’s discovered he’s at high risk. He talks to @JonathanDean_ about anxiety, his new health regime and Mad Max. Read the interview ⬇️
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Coming this Sunday: @Harry_Styles is on our cover with his first ever solo, broadsheet interview
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A Life in the Day of #Youtube star @pewdiepie #richlist
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🗣️“I think that Trump was a horrible president and is a horrible person. I think he actually engaged in criminal behaviour and, certainly, I felt that he was a sociopath who tried to overturn the American democracy"
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OUT TODAY: @JeremyClarkson on how he fell in love with farming — and cooked up a radical plan to save the countryside. Read the interview here:
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THIS SUNDAY: @deccajourno meets @KSIOlajidebt , the Youtuber turned boxer and Britain’s biggest social media star. 📷 @deanchalkley_
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THIS SUNDAY: Prince William’s closest friends on what makes him tick. By @RoyaNikkhah
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Tomorrow: our big interview with Alfie Deyes, @ZozeeBo & their YouTube mates @PointlessBlog http://t.co/y6RjR8xkmh http://t.co/6puNcahXgw
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THIS SUNDAY: Demi Lovato speaks to @deccajourno about the price of her childhood fame
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🗣️"You have to remember that Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by three million votes [in the popular vote] and that Biden beat Trump by seven million votes”
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Jeff T, the shows subtitles writer, used phrases such as “tentacles undulating moistly”, to describe the villain Vecna; “fissure writhing wetly”, to describe a gate opening; and “Nancy bandaging wetly”, as the character Nancy Wheeler attends to a wound
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Jeff T said: 🗣️ “My best friend is hard of hearing in one ear, and he came up to me and he was like, ‘This is one of the first times, if [not] the only time, I’ve just felt fully immersed in a show without having to turn the volume all the way up’ ”
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Curl up on the sofa with a bowl of this easy, cheesy pea risotto 🤗
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How did @JeremyClarkson @RichardHammond and @MrJamesMay all end up in hospital in the space of 6 months? @thegrandtour
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Simon Napier-Bell managed Wham! from 1983 to 1985. Now he’s made a film, George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, about the star — and no one had a bad word to say about him, he says
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THIS SUNDAY: an exclusive look behind the scenes of the BBC's epic adaptation of His @DarkMaterials , plus interviews with #RuthWilson , @Lin_Manuel , @DafneKeen , @PhilipPullman and more
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Nowadays, subtitles are no longer only for the hard of hearing; they are particularly beloved by younger hearing viewers too (often to the frustration of their parents, who prefer a clear screen) with many users sharing Twitter memes captioned “I can’t hear without my subtitles”
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised to the Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather nearly 50 years after she was booed while making a speech at the Oscars
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Exclusive interview: @Harry_Styles on his new album and life after One Direction. @Harry_Styles
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★☆☆☆☆ The first episode of the Duchess of Sussex’s series, focusing on the tennis star Serena Williams, is packed with tinkly music and vapid chat | ✍️ @j_amesmarriott
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HBO Max has said that dimmed lighting in the latest episode of its Game of Thrones spin-off was an “intentional creative decision” despite viewers complaining that the show was “unwatchable”
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The on-screen descriptions in series four of the Netflix drama have become a hit with a younger generation who aren’t hard of hearing. So, how did #StrangerThings4 make subtitles cool?
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Across a six-decade career, Judi Dench has won one Oscar (and been nominated for seven more), ten Baftas, one Tony and seven Oliviers — and at 87, she’s still striving for perfection. @JonathanDean_ meets her
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Will Avatar work a second time? 🗣️“I guess we’ll find out if people show up for Avatar 2,” Cameron says. The third Avatar is already filmed and comes out in 2024, there’s a fourth due in 2026 and another planned after that. A teaser trailer hit 148 million views in 24 hours
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Watch Jeremy Clarkson outline his (slightly controversial) plan for improving road safety @JeremyClarkson
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Starting next spring, Texas State University Honors College (TXSTHonors) will offer a course on the former One Direction singer, called “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture”. A class that will surly have no skips
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Interview: @JeremyClarkson @RichardHammond and @MrJamesMay on overcoming pneumonia, food poisoning and a fireball crash to film @thegrandtour . By Nick Rufford
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Stallone has just emerged from the shortest celebrity split in history. His wife left him in August and returned in September. 🗣️“Let’s just say that it was a very tumultuous time. There was a reawakening of what was more valuable than anything, which is my love for my family"
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Sylvester Stallone is still an action man at 76 in his new show Tulsa King. He talks about beating drugs, reconciling with his wife and making up with his daughters |✍️ @SArmstrong1984
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You’ve probably come across the K-pop bands BTS (105 million album sales), who met President Biden at the White House in May, or Blackpink, crowned the world’s biggest pop band in 2020 by Bloomberg’s Pop Star Power Rankings
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James Cameron only makes blockbusters as a hobby to fund his real passion — deep-sea exploration. He talks about the making of his $1 billion series of sequels | ✍️ @JonathanDean_
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Alicia Vikander’s Oscar for The Danish Girl changed her life — but it wasn’t all first-class flights and five-star hotels. She talks miscarriage, loneliness and juggling childcare with her husband, Michael Fassbender | ✍️ @JonathanDean_
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King has always written about evil in different forms, but that is offset by him also always writing about human decency. “I think that most people are good,” he says. “Most people will give you the shirt off their back”
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Interview: Best-selling author @JohnGreen on his new novel, crippling anxiety and his teenage fanbase
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Juliette Binoche turned to personal experience for her role in Both Sides of the Blade | ✍️ @Peter_Conradi
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One viewer said it was “amazing” that HBO failed to produce better lighting for dark scenes with the show’s production budget of nearly $200m, and added that viewers “might as well drive with sunglasses on at night”
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“I’ve always had a sense of isolation. I’m not a gregarious person. I could spend five days a week alone in my house, no problem. A lot of people avoid hanging out with themselves. Everything is misdirection, distraction, restaurants, clubs. That’s fine for them. But not for me”
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However, some fans defended HBO Max’s decision, with one writing: 🗣️ “If you couldn’t see the full-moon scenes in House of the Dragon then your TV contrast sucks. I loved it, it was beautifully shot”
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Littlefeather, now 75, told the Hollywood Reporter: “I never thought I’d live to see the day I would be hearing this.” She added: 🗣️ “We need to keep our sense of humour about this at all times. It’s our method of survival”
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Fans took to social media to complain about the poor lighting, with some joking that they were better off turning their screen off and listening to the dialogue
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Elizabeth II gets jealous, Prince Charles plots to depose her and Philip finds a young female friend. Series five of the Netflix drama tackles the royals’ nightmare 1990s. Here’s an exclusive preview | ✍️ @benjiwils
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Crash, bang, wallop: @JeremyClarkson on how broken bones and hospitalisation didn’t stop @thegrandtour cameras from rolling
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“I realised I should sing like a Geordie — I am a Geordie. We’ve got a beautiful accent. It’s one of the most melodic accents in the English language. And we should be proud of that, so I am,” @samfendermusic tells @emilyldxn
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Clarkson, Hammond and May are BACK. Read their world exclusive interview in tomorrow's @TheSTMagazine @thegrandtour #clarksontakeover
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The Academy has released the letter and announced that Littlefeather has been invited to speak at its film museum in Los Angeles next month
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The pop-punk sensation on how TikTok killed rock’n’roll, loneliness and why he wants to be the next Mick Jagger
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Her woman-power pop inspired a generation of stars. Now Beyoncé’s back after six years — how will she take on the new world of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter? By @sarahditum
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He points out the sites of his five back operations, neck fusion and repaired shoulders. 🗣️“Don’t do your own stunts, that’s the moral of that. But the special effects became more important than the person. Life is a matter of managing your ass-whipping”
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"Like all great artists, George was prepared to put his most painful experiences into his work. He perhaps did it more directly than any other music artist aside from Leonard Cohen, and like Cohen he had no fear of throwing his pain right in your face"
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★★★★☆ Charles III: The Coronation Year BBC1 This documentary was not just about underlining the role of King Charles and Queen Camilla. It felt like a tacit celebration of those experts who make it all happen | ✍️ @jimmyrajackson
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🗣️“There is a strong right wing, a political right wing in America, and they have a megaphone in some of the media. They’re not fascists but they’re hard right-wingers... But, again, it’s the stuff that’s crazy like QAnon that gets the press"
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A vast wave of South Korean culture has swept the world in the past decade, @joshglancy reports. It’s a wave so pronounced it has a name: hallyu
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THIS SUNDAY: Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon talks to @deccajourno
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King: “There are a lot of writers who can write rings around me. But I’m happy with what I do, and it’s wonderful to win the award. It’s better to win awards than to see your name in an obituary column”
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🤳King on social media: “It’s a poison pill... It’s social media that has magnified the idea that the election was stolen from Donald Trump"
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The subtitler said that he listened to a number of different sounds to work out which words get the strongest reactions. 🗣️ “I’ll grab them and put them in my word bank,” he says, adding: “ ‘Moistly’ pops up a lot”
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It’s Harry Styles’ birthday and we’re reminiscing about our cover interview with him from last year in THAT suit. Happy birthday Harry!
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THIS SUNDAY: @JeremyClarkson shares his no-nonsense guide to home-cooking. What could possibly go wrong?
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A recent study by Stagetext and Sapio Research, which surveyed more than 2,000 people in Britain, found that 80% of 18 to 25-year-olds want to read as well as hear what people are saying on TV
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. @jk_rowling and the child in the cage @lumos
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World exclusive: queen of pop @JanetJackson opens up about the joy of motherhood, her Glastonbury debut and life inside pop’s first family
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@JimsTweetings Meet the YouTube vloggers attracting more views than Downton Abbey http://t.co/KrSEmEfTsX http://t.co/kVHvnlZgtE
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Next month Prince William will celebrate 10 years of being the Duke of Cambridge. His closest friends tell @RoyaNikkhah about the prince they know and what really makes him tick
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Coming this Sunday: The queen of pop @KylieMinogue speaks exclusively to @ElizabDay
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These phrases have become a hit on social media for displaying the sort of verbosity usually found in sixth-form English literature essays 📔
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🗣️ “When, in other people’s eyes, I was at my height of fame, I was the most sad. I kept telling myself, ‘Take it in. It is incredible.’ But I didn’t know what to do. There were all these first-class flights, five-star rooms. But I was always by myself”
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London Bridge attack: read how Malik Ramadhan rushed back to work at the Royal London Hospital, where he treated 12 victims of the terrorist attack. Interview by @sarfrazmanzoor
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🗣️“I have been through the situation of loving two men at the same time and remember it being difficult,” she says with a laugh. “So, I thought to go through that in a film must be something and I felt it was an interesting situation to play”
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Stalone regrets being an absent father. 🗣️ “I didn’t pay enough attention when they were growing up. I was so career oriented and now I go, ‘OK, I don’t have that much runway up ahead and I want to start asking them about their lives’”
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Exclusive interview: Roger Federer on retirement, fatherhood, Serena - and the secret to his marriage with Mirka. By @Ellie_Austin_
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This month Prince William will celebrate 10 years of being the Duke of Cambridge. His closest friends tell @RoyaNikkhah about the prince they know and what really makes him tick
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Bruce “The Boss” @Springsteen opens up about his life in cars and his hair raising-first experience behind the wheel #BruceSpringsteen
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This Sunday: an exclusive interview with Roger Federer By @Ellie_Austin_ @rogerfederer
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Ten years ago Cameron piloted the first solo dive to the Mariana Trench. “I don’t do deep-sea exploration to become a better film-maker,” Cameron says. “I’m a film-maker so I can pay for my expeditions”
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"It wasn’t just his songwriting and performance abilities, it was his awareness of image and confidence in himself. He was the most creatively complete person I ever managed, the only solo artist who could produce his own records better alone than with anyone else"
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“William was ‘reeling’ in the immediate aftermath of the Oprah interview. ‘His head was all over the place.’” What’s going on with the brother Harry left behind? Prince William’s closest friends tell @RoyaNikkhah how he's embracing his destiny
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Tomorrow: Exclusive interview with @CamillaThurlow + the social media stars making a difference @F_of_Daughters @JackHarries @TanyaBurr
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Tomorrow: AA Gill on coming to terms with his mortality @eleanormills
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"George did his utmost to make this the image he would project: being gay was normal, nothing more, nothing less. For someone in that position, to project homosexuality in that way gave young gay people more confidence in themselves than any amount of proselytising could do"
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🗣️“When I sat down with my writers to start Avatar 2, I said we cannot do the next one until we understand why the first one did so well. We must crack the code of what the hell happened”
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Easy, speedy and packed with vitamins 🍏. Make sure you get your five-a-day with this superfruit sundae recipe
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David Rubin's letter of apology, sent in his final term as Academy president, said: 🗣️ “The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified. The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable"
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TOMORROW: @TheGrandTour episode locations are revealed in @TheSTMagazine #clarksontakeover
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On her love triangle: “I’m very good at resisting these questions,” she says cheerfully. “But what I remember was that it was a nightmare for everyone and I was in the middle of it, and I was hurt as well”
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What’s it like to be Youtube’s first family? We met @AnnaSaccone , @JonathanJoly , children Emelia, Eduardo, Alessia and Andrea and their six dogs to find out
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Next month Prince William will celebrate 10 years of being the Duke of Cambridge. His closest friends tell @RoyaNikkhah about the prince they know and what really makes him tick
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K-pop bands are famously hardworking. Cool in Korea doesn’t mean aloof and there’s no tradition of effortless superiority: BTS have been known to rehearse for 15 hours a day
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Does Dench have any plans to slow down, @JonathanDean_ asks? 🗣️ “How dare you, Jonathan. How dare you. I’m slowing down only in that I can’t see to read scripts. But I will find a way”
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The sequel arrives in December and could not be more timely. Cinema is under attack, but on two fresh fronts: 1⃣ The rise of streamers such as Netflix and Amazon allows millions to watch blockbusters at home 2⃣ Thanks to Covid, many people have lost the cinema habit
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"A couple of times, just when I’ve been in maximum doubt, something has come along to validate it, which is what happened in 1983 when I first started working with George. He was the type of artist who made being a manager feel like a worthwhile job"
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Out today: What happens when trans men want to be women again? Laura Dodsworth meets the individuals whose stories are rarely told @BareReality
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