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Katie Price has mysteriously deleted her online tribute to new husband Lee Andrews onlineCredit: GettyKatie wed Lee in a surprise Dubai ceremony over the weekendCredit: instagram/@wesleeeandrewsThe former glamour model updated her Instagram bio after tying the knotCredit: InstagramBut 48 hours later, Katie has since removed any mention of her new husbandCredit: Instagram
Following the nuptials, the loved-up newlywed took to her social media to update her new relationship status, proudly writing in her Instagram bio: “married @wesleeeandrews”.
However, 48 hours on, Katie has now ditched the tribute to her new hubby, reverting back to her former bio and deleting any mention of Lee.
While Lee no longer features in her bio, Katie has continued to repost photos of her with her new groom online.
Katie reposted a selfie on her Instagram stories of her and Lee posing in front of a mirror during their stay at the Burj Al Arab in Dubai – the same place they married.
Line of Duty stars recently reunited for a winter drink, sparking speculation that the show’s seventh series is already in production
16:36, 26 Jan 2026Updated 16:43, 26 Jan 2026
Line of Duty stars recently reunited (Image: BBC)
Fans of Line of Duty were delighted after the show’s main stars got together recently for an informal pint.
The hit BBC police drama wrapped up in May 2021, though reports emerged last year suggesting a seventh series was being developed.
Whilst production is due to kick off this spring in Belfast, the recent get-together of actors Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, and Adrian Dunbar has fuelled rumours that the programme could be back sooner than anticipated.
The trio, portraying central figures in the fictional AC-12 anti-corruption squad, enjoyed a cheerful winter beverage together. They captured a snap holding their drinks, with Martin writing: “AC12 in the house (pub).”
This led to fans swamping the comments with optimism that filming for Line of Duty series 7 might be underway. One enthusiastic viewer asked: “Does this mean there will be more seasons of line of duty?”, reports the Express.
Someone else responded: “This is absolutely excellent news!” whilst a third commented: “Can’t wait for you all to come back in line of duty please get started so we can have something to look forward to.”
The forthcoming series, written by Jed Mercurio, opens with Central Police’s anti-corruption division being dissolved and reformed as the Inspectorate of Police Standards.
A fresh villain, sexual predator DI Dominic Gough, is expected to appear, though the performer taking on this role remains unannounced.
Dunbar, 67, who plays Supt Ted Hastings, warmly received the announcement, stating: “As we count down the AC12 days of Christmas, what a joy it is to know that the Three Amigos will be back on set together next year. Delighted with the news and looking forward to those mercurial twists and turns.”
Compston, 41, who plays DS Steven Arnott, said: “Line of Duty has been a job of a lifetime. Not only in terms of the show’s success but the people I’ve had the opportunity to work with I now call some of my closest friends. I can’t wait to pull the waistcoat on again and get the team back together.”
McClure, 42, famous for playing DC Kate Fleming, added: “It goes without saying I’m so excited Line of Duty is back! Can’t wait to work with Jed, Martin and Adrian again. Belfast, we’ll see you soon!”
Series six broadcast in 2021, with its concluding episode becoming the most-watched drama finale, excluding soaps, since contemporary records commenced in 2002. Including catch-up figures, it attracted more than 17 million viewers within 28 days, and the BBC is undoubtedly anticipating comparable viewing figures upon the show’s return.
Line of Duty is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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Ralph Fiennes may have revealed his successor for the iconic role of Voldemort on the Harry Potter TV series as he named a huge name as being a ‘very good choice’
15:19, 26 Jan 2026Updated 15:19, 26 Jan 2026
The next Voldemort actor may have been revealed(Image: WARNER BROS)
An accidental leak appears to have named a legendary actor as Voldemort in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series. The HBO production is set to showcase JK Rowling’s book on the small screen after it had huge success in cinemas.
It will depict a new iteration of Harry’s story at Hogwarts and beyond, with fans of the franchise eager to find out more. And now, it appears as though one star from the movies has revealed who will be taking on his character’s role even though confirmation has largely been kept under wraps.
Ralph Fiennes‘ iconic performances as Voldemort are written in the history books and he opened up on a potential successor for the TV adaptation while on the red carpet for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
The Sun reports that the Hollywood star was asked: “Who do you think should fill your shoes for Voldemort in the upcoming HBO show?” Responding, he said: “I’m told they are already filled, aren’t they? I think Cillian Murphy is very good. A very good choice.”
In a video that was shared on TikTok, Ralph appeared slightly panicked. He added: “I’ve already said, I think Cillian Murphy is very good. I think they’ve cast it, haven’t they? You don’t know?”
Fans were buzzing with the apparent reveal. One user said on social media: “This is amazing news.” And another said: “Oh man this is a good casting actually.”
It’s unclear whether Ralph had just been commenting on speculation. It had previously been reported that the Tommy Shelby star was in line for the role, but the actor himself seemed to distance himself from the role.
He previously told Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I don’t know anything about that,” he said when questioned about his apparent links.
“Also, it’s just really hard to follow anything Ralph Fiennes does,” he added. “The man is an absolute acting legend, so good luck to whoever’s gonna fill those shoes.”
The series is set to feature Dominic McLaughlin as Harry. Arabella Stanton has been cast for the part of Hermoine Grainger, while Alastair Stout will star as Ron Weasley.
Elsewhere, Paul Whitehouse has been revealed for a role in the reboot too, alongside the likes of Bertie Carvel, Johnny Flynn, Bel Powley, Daniel Rigby and Katherine Parkinson.
Only one star will return from the film franchise. Warwick Davis is set to reprise his role as Professor Filius Flitwick.
Fans of supernatural mysteries should add it to their watchlist immediately
Fans of K-dramas and supernatural mysteries have a new show to look forward to(Image: Netflix)
An ‘unnerving’ historical drama is coming soon to Netflix and fans of K-dramas, supernatural mysteries and historical period shows are sure to want to add this upcoming title to their watchlist immediately.
Netflix’s Tudum website has confirmed that The East Palace will be released on the streamer some time this year. While there is no confirmed release date just yet, filming finished last summer and it is expected later in 2026.
There’s no official word on how many episodes it will consist of either but its expected to consist of eight parts. However, we do know that The East Palace follows Gu-cheon, who moves between the realms of the living and the dead, and Saeng-gang, a lady of the court guarding a secret of her own.
When the king calls on them to unravel the mysteries of the palace, they’re drawn into a world where power, hidden histories, and restless spirits are bound together by a dangerous curse.
Fans are also awaiting the first official trailer to be released by Netflix. It is set to be just part of an impressive K-dramas making their debut this year.
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Gu-cheon investigates unnerving incidents at the palace with a blade that can cut down ghosts. While Saeng-gang holds the ability to hear the voices of the dead aids Gu-cheon as they navigate the palace’s long-buried secrets.
Quietly watching their every move from the throne is the king, played, whose motives are complex and hard to ascertain. The show comes from writers Kwon So-ra and Seo Jea-won, who have previous experience of examining Korean occultism in their previous work which includes Bulgasal: Immortal Souls and The Guest.
They are joined on the creative team by director Choi Jung-kyu (The Devil Judge, Children of Nobody) to bring the supernatural drama to life. While Netflix has so far confirmed the stars taking on the three main roles in the cast.
Nam Joo Hyuk plays Gu Cheon. The actor has previously starred in three Netflix K-dramas, Twenty-Five Twenty-One, Start-Up, and The School Nurse Files. In 2023, he also starred in the Disney+ K-drama Vigilante.
Roh Yoon Seo plays Saeng Gang. The actress was recently featured in a guest role on Netflix’s The Frog and Love Next Door. She also starred in supporting roles in Black Knight and a Crash Course in Romance. Her role as Saeng Gang is her second lead role in a K-drama, following her starring role in 2022’s Our Blues.
Cho Seung Woo plays the King. The actor has starred in several Netflix projects such as Divorce Attorney Shin, Sisyphus: The Myth, Stranger, and Life.
The East Palace is streaming on Netflix some time in 2026.
Jesy Nelson showed off her stunning glam makeoverCredit: InstagramIt comes after Jesy recently split from her fiance, Zion FosterCredit: instagram/jesynelsonJesy and Zion’s twins have been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1.Credit: Instagram/Jesynelson
But today the mum-of-two showed off her glam makeover, as she enjoyed some pamper time after a gruelling month.
Jesy looked incredible in the photo, which she posted on her Instagram.
The singer had her trademark curly hair styled to perfection, and her make-up had been expertly applied.
The star completed her sexy look with a lowcut black crop top.
Symptoms of SMA depend on which type of condition, but the most common include floppy or weak arms and legs, as well as swallowing and breathing problems.
If untreated, the life expectancy of a baby with SMA Type 1 is two years.
Early intervention is considered critical in limiting long-term impacts.
If the twins had been tested and treated in time, there is a chance they would have avoided disability.
It is now unlikely they will regain their neck strength after the disease caused nerve cells to die, leading to progressive muscle weakness.
Ocean and Story are under the care of Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London and have received treatment, including a one-off gene-therapy infusion approved by the NHS.
Jesy and Zion are committed to co-parenting their twin girlsCredit: Shutterstock
It came following the release of the first trailer for the singer’s new Amazon Prime docu-series; Jesy Nelson: Life After Little Mix, Zion has shared an insight into what went on behind the cameras.
Sharing the trailer, Zion wrote: “It’s finally here, coming to your screens via @primevideouk & @navybee.tv.
“The past year and a half has been a rollercoaster. When @jesynelson and I started this project we couldn’t see the road ahead, but to see how it all played out and having it filmed simply feels like God’s plan. The show is raw, authentic and honest.”
He said: “As a new family we were under immense pressure and stress. Alot of traumatic moments but nonetheless we made it here today. I believe this is only the beginning of our journey.
“Praying for clarity, peace and growth so we can continue to navigate the challenges we face; and give Ocean and Story the best support system possible. God’s in control”.
Jesy is unleashing her new documentary, Jesy Nelson: Life After Little MixCredit: Ruckas
Katie Price’s new mother-in-law Trisha has broken her silence on the star’s marriage to her son Lee AndrewsCredit: Facebook / Trisha MediumThe pair tied the knot in a shock ceremony in DubaiCredit: BackGrid
Now Lee’s mum Trisha has spoken out for the first time and revealed she knew the two were going to be getting hitched.
The clairvoyant from Nottingham told the Mirror: “As long as they are happy I am happy.
“There’s a lot of lies going around about Lee and that’s made me really upset. He’s not been married twice. I just want to defend my son, but I can’t say much more until I know everything.
“He did tell me that the wedding was happening. He spoke to me and if he is happy, I am happy – he’s my son, and that’s all that matters.”
Speaking about her new famous daughter-in-law, Trisha continued: “Of course, I know who Katie is.
“I’ve always been very neutral about her. Everyone deserves a chance, you should never judge anyone in life.”
She joked: “You can ask what it’s like to have a famous daughter-in-law, but she’s got a famous mother-in-law!”
On Friday, the reality star took to her Instagram stories to share a series of engagement pictures, sending fans into a frenzy.
In one photo, the mum-of-five was seen standing beside rose petals that were arranged to read ‘will you marry me’ before she showcased her huge diamond engagement ring.
However, just 48 hours later, she announced the pair had tied the knot in a quickie ceremony in Dubai, a move which has reportedly left her closest family and friends shocked.
In the pictures, the 47-year-old was seen beaming from ear to ear and locking lips with her new husband shortly after the ceremony.
Katie was seen in a cut-out, white bodycon dress while Lee wore white linen trousers and a taupe shirt.
The leggy dress displayed the reality TV legend’s toned abs and tattoos as she showed off her huge diamond ring.
The Sun understands Katie’s family were not aware of the wedding taking place and were not given prior warning it was happening.
An onlooker said: “Katie and Lee had no one with them when they got married. It was just the two of them.
“Katie couldn’t stop smiling, she seemed so taken with Lee. They said their vows and then kissed, it was sweet to watch.”
An officiator was seen in front of the pair reading from a script as they stood together in the sunshine saying their vows.
A family friend added: “Kate’s family are dumbstruck. To see she had got engaged after flying to Dubai – literally just after she had arrived was crazy.
“The fact she has now married him the following day is even more shocking.”
“No one knows who Lee is, they know nothing about him. Kate’s mum, her children, no one knew about the wedding.
“She has a lot of questions to answer when she comes home.”
After last year’s fires, cars were often all that remained on the lots of homes reduced to rubble. Some sat remarkably untouched, but most were damaged beyond repair — crushed by falling beams, burned to a shell, and covered in toxic dust. The steely husks stood sentinel over unfathomable loss for weeks or months until they were towed away and sold as scrap.
More than 6,000 cars were destroyed in the Pacific Palisades alone. Some were used for daily commutes and left in garages as families fled; others were trucks and vans packed with landscaping gear or tools.
Then there were the showpieces: steel-and-glass representations of an owner’s love for the open road and classic automotive design. It was these vehicles that captured the imagination of Ben Tuna, a self-described car guy and stained glass artist, who saw a way to create something beautiful from the rubble.
Pieces of salvaged glass and other tools litter the work table of artist Ben Tuna as he works to create sculptures using vintage Porches that were burned in the L.A. fires.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Beginning in March 2025, Tuna snagged five burned-out Porsches from the L.A. fires, and began turning the shells into cathedral-like creations using salvaged stained glass from old churches.
Armed with a soldering iron and good intentions, Tuna paid tribute to what the fires took.
Tuna said that he was moved by posts on Instagram of cars getting taken away on trailers, and by reading about the loss in news stories. He couldn’t stop thinking about what the collectors were experiencing.
“It was all so sad to imagine losing something that you might have worked 30, 40, 50 years to collect,” Tuna said. “And it kind of broke my heart. A lot of those cars were history. They’re not making new ones.”
Tuna made connections through social media to obtain the Porsche shells, with four coming from a single collector’s garage in the Palisades. As a fan of classic automotive design, Tuna calls the Porsches “icons of design” and “the most recognizable cars in the world,” despite what they looked like after the fires. He wishes he could have collected many more.
“I probably could have gotten 300, but I just didn’t have the space and couldn’t act fast enough,” he said, adding that he also acquired two additional Porches that were not burned in the city’s fires.
One of five vintage Porches burned in the L.A. fires that Ben Tuna reimagined as works of art using salvaged stained glass.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Tuna’s first post-fire project was a 1965 Porsche 356 that he turned into a 700-pound piece of movable sculpture. The artwork took him and two helpers several months to complete at his workshop on the east side of L.A. They wore respirators while they worked to avoid dangerous ash and chemicals, and began by stripping the car down to bare metal.
Next came the meticulous glass work. Tuna used pieces of glass from what he estimates are about 15 different salvaged stained glass windows from decommissioned churches. He thinks they were likely all created in different countries, eras and studios. Much of the illustrated glass in the car was hand-painted in Germany in the late 1800s, a look he grew to love as a kid after hearing how much his father — also a stained glass artist — adored it.
Tuna says he’s not trying to tell a story with the windows. Instead, he’s assembling them by feel: matching pieces of cut glass by size and color on top of a dark table before using lead to solder them together in a perfect arch for the car’s back window. Tuna says he never knows what a window is going to look like before the end, when he lights it up — but by merging the glass and the car he’s aiming to honor the design legacies of both.
Stained glass windows salvaged from churches are key to artist Ben Tuna’s practice. “All these windows were beautiful back in the day but have been forgotten,” he said.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
“All these windows were beautiful back in the day but have been forgotten,” he said.
Though Tuna’s cars are still works in progress, his goal is to eventually display all seven as part of a gallery show. In the meantime, he’s hosting visitors who want to see the work so far — including the owner of the four cars salvaged from the Palisades, who cried.
Tuna says everyone who has come to see the art has left feeling a bit more reverent.
Artist Ben Tuna stands with a piece of art he made from a vintage Porsche that was burned in the L.A. fires. “Because these cars are so big, when you’re standing around them, you really see what fire can do,” he says.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
“Because these cars are so big, when you’re standing around them, you really see what fire can do,” he said. “You can really study it, and you start to think about loss and how hot the fire must have burned and what shape the buildings around the cars must have been in afterwards.”
Each car is an altar of remembrance to the fires, Tuna said, but they’re also a reminder.
”Even when you lose everything, there’s still beauty that can come from that loss,” he said. “You can take all that devastation and still make something good.”
Netflix viewers were stunned watching the historic climb live
Viewers wondered what happened after the climb(Image: Netflix)
The anticlimactic method renowned climber Alex Honnold utilised to get down from one of the tallest buildings in the world after his historic climb has been revealed.
Free solo legend Honnold completed one of his riskiest challenges yet over the weekend. No only did he scale one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers with no ropes or safety equipment, the achievement was streamed live on Netflix across the world.
Taipei 101 stands at a staggering 1,667 ft tall and the brutal climb took just one hour and 35 minutes to complete. Honnold waved to fans who cheered him on from the ground and also inside the building during his feat.
While originally scheduled for 1am Saturday (January 24) morning UK time, the climb was delayed due to safety concerns about the weather. The climb instead took place at 1am on Sunday (January 25) UK time.
Ahead of the climb, Netflix teased: “No ropes. No fear. Free solo legend Alex Honnold risks it all in a high-stakes, live ascent of one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Taipei, Taiwan.”
Reaching the top of the building, the climber was heard simply stating: “Sick”. He then went on to admit that it was “windy” while he took out his own phone to record himself and take some selfies, while enjoying the view.
People watching along at home were amazed with the climb, however a similar question kept popping up. Sharing their reaction on social media, one person posted on X saying: “But how does he get down?”
Another added: “The journey up looks terrifying…thinking about coming back down may be even scarier.” Someone else asked asked : “BUT HOW DOES HE GET BACK DOWN?”
And one person likewise wanted to know: “How did he get down after that?” Another baffled viewer replied: “How did he get down in the end?”
Well now, there is an answer to all those questions and it may be a bit anticlimactic. According to The Sporting News, Honnold put on a harness and rappelled down from the very top of the building.
The report claims he then took a lift to the bottom of the skyscraper. It is somewhat different to some of his other climbs, like his famous free solo of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan. However in that case, there was very little choice other than a rappelling or careful down-climbing that usually follows.
This is all because Taipei 101 is a working skyscraper. It has interior access points near the summit used for maintenance and observation. It means Honnold is able to simply move off the exterior and into a secure interior space.
The Sporting News goes on to claim that Honnold is all about the climb. Once he reaches his goal, he apparently sees no reason to extend the risk beyond it.
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New York — Most of the time, Kiernan Shipka isn’t thinking about how fans are going to react to a scene when she’s reading scripts. And she’s had practice. Shipka got her start when she was just 6 years old on “Mad Men,” a series filled with the kind of jaw-dropping sequences made for water cooler conversation.
But when Shipka read the wild menage a trois her character Haley has in the third episode of Season 4 of “Industry,” which aired Sunday, she knew it was going to explode on the internet. “I looked at that scene and went, yeah, that’s going to get people talking,” she deadpans in the HBO offices one January afternoon, before breaking out into a giggle.
At 26 years old, Shipka has grown up onscreen. On AMC’s “Mad Men” we watched her, as Sally Draper, turn from an adorable little girl to an angsty youth, well aware of her father’s transgressions. Shortly after, Shipka graduated to playing the title teenage witch in Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” But even she admits that her role on the buzzy HBO drama feels like a turning point in her already long career.
“I wasn’t necessarily saying at the beginning of last year I wanted to play something that’s more mature and more adult, but I think I did,” she says. “I think deep down I wanted to do something that felt more in-line with being what 25 at the time felt like to me. I felt like a person who was an adult in the world and I wanted to play one.”
Kiernan Shipka as Haley in Season 4 of “Industry.”
(Simon Ridgway/HBO)
But Haley also isn’t exactly an easy nut to crack, which is what makes Shipka’s performance so intriguing. Three episodes in and we still don’t exactly know what her deal is. She works for Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), the founder of Tender, an app that has aspirations for being a bank in your pocket despite its history as a payment processor for OnlyFans-type porn sites. Haley is a party girl, whose job is seemingly to follow Whitney around, booking his cabs, travel and perhaps more nefarious dealings.
But Haley is also savvy, especially when it comes to sex, and she finds an opening when Yasmin (Marisa Abela) invites her into her bedroom while they are staying at an Austrian castle for some important schmoozing with the fascist owner of a bank. (The castle, for what it’s worth, was actually located in Wales.) Yasmin encourages Haley to get it on with her husband Henry Muck (Kit Harington), the CEO of Tender, before asking Haley to spread her legs. Then she joins in herself. (Yes, this does mean that Sally Draper and Jon Snow are making out onscreen; No, Shipka hadn’t met Harington before when they were on their former long-running TV shows.) As is tradition for “Industry,” the scene is provocative but it’s about more than just titillation: As Haley and Yasmin watch each other, you can see a game of one-upmanship unfolding. It’s just unclear exactly what cards someone like Haley is holding.
“I think she knows how powerful sex is,” Shipka says. “She knows that because of her own experience and going into that situation, whatever the outcome of it ends up being, I think she has in her head: ‘This is probably going to be good for me.’”
Haley is a new type of character for “Industry” co-creators Konrad Kay and Mickey Down. Unlike pretty much everyone else on screen, she’s not spewing a bunch of financial jargon. They knew they wanted to cast an American and the idea of hiring a “Mad Men” alum was incredibly appealing, considering they are huge fans.
In “Industry,” Shipka’s character Haley shares a provocative scene with Yasmin (Marisa Abela) and Henry (Kit Harington). “I think she knows how powerful sex is,” Shipka says.(Justin Jun Lee/For The Times)
“There was a cosmic circularity in having Don Draper’s daughter do all this crazy stuff,” Down says, adding, “It’s exciting to take an actor that you wouldn’t expect to be in a show like this and sort of put them through the wringer.”
When Shipka met with Down and Kay over Zoom, she played Haley, who is introduced during a night out clubbing, very drunk. Her voice was very raspy. Down didn’t know whether she was going Method.
It was actually a twist of fate. The meeting fell during awards season and Shipka had been going out a lot and lost her voice. (Shipka was in last season’s contender “The Last Showgirl” alongside Pamela Anderson.) “This is not my usual way,” she says, breaking out into laughter. “I answered this Zoom call and it sounded like I’d been partying all night.”
It was exactly right for Haley, though. Over the course of the season, just what exactly Haley’s deal is becomes clearer, which allowed Shipka to layer elements of her character into the scenes. Still, her slipperiness was something that attracted the actor. Haley is someone who seemingly doesn’t have a lot of power and yet acts as a “power player.”
“I was really interested in someone who looks at their situation and goes, ‘I’m going to leverage everything,’” Shipka says. “‘I’m going to weaponize what I can. I’m going to scratch my way no matter what. Everything’s a game.’ It’s so opposite to how I think and how I move about life that I was so enticed by the way she moved about the world.”
And how does Shipka herself move about the world? With a sense of joy that’s palpable even in the drab office space where we’re conducting our interview. Wearing a black-and-white ensemble that bares her midriff, she tucks her feet under her and treats our chat like a gab session. The next night when we say hello at the “Industry” premiere party, the celebratory environment is much more suited to her aura.
Haley is a character who leverages everything, Shipka says. “It’s so opposite to how I think and how I move about life that I was so enticed by the way she moved about the world.”
(Justin Jun Lee/For The Times)
While playing Sally in “Mad Men” was like “going to school,” in the years following the show, Shipka started to figure out what worked for her when it came to acting. She started to determine what kind of coaching she liked, and how she wanted to do backstories for her character. The question of whether she wanted to stick with this profession came up from time to time as she was getting older. “But not for longer than like five minutes, honestly,” she says.
She explains she was talking to her mother recently, wondering what she would have done if “Mad Men” hadn’t happened. “I kind of thought about it and got really terrified and a little sad,” she says. “Because I really do feel like this is what I’m meant to be doing and I don’t know how it would have found me if it didn’t happen so early.”
But Shipka is also not nostalgic for the past.
“I think there’s something to be said for frontal lobe development,” she says. “I think my work got more fun the more fun I had in my life, and the more not fun I had in my life, too. My work got better the more that I just lived my life.”
Before the pandemic, she was working all the time on “Sabrina,” which wrapped right before lockdown. Emerging from that, she found a group of friends whom she adores. She went to parties and got heartbroken and had the kind of human experiences that she could funnel into her craft. “I found myself in a lot of really funny situations,” she says. “And also I went on my own ‘Who am I?’ journey, did my therapy, read my self help books.”
Shipka, who began acting on “Mad Men” at 6, says it’s what she’s meant to do. “I don’t know how it would have found me if it didn’t happen so early.”
(Justin Jun Lee/For The Times)
When Shipka was filming “Industry,” which mostly shoots in Wales, she could have gone home multiple times when she wasn’t needed. Instead, she went to London and had herself a “U.K. Girl Summer,” as she says, hitting up Glastonbury where she saw Father John Misty and Charli XCX.
“I felt like I got to live in the U.K., and there was something so fun about that,” she says.
Down describes Shipka as “the nicest person” he’s probably ever met, who was game for just about everything.
“There were a few days where she actually was sort of a glorified extra, right in the background of the shot, working on Whitney’s desk, pretending to type,” he says. “She was background for the whole day and just sat there, not one single complaint.”
She also nailed all of Haley’s nuances, from her naivete to her titillation, including all the character beats in her big sex scene. “It was a very raw, vulnerable scene for an actor to do,” Kay says. “She brought a lot of herself to it in more ways than one. Both me and Mickey are really proud of that scene. I think it’s one of the strongest sex scenes we’ve done in the four seasons of ‘Industry.’”
For Shipka, it was her true indoctrination into this wild world.
“I felt like I was really in the show by that point,” she says. “I was super down.”
Monty, who had to take a leave of absence from Gardeners’ World after suffering from a serious health scare, has revealed how it made him “terribly aware” of his own mortality
Monty Don has opened up about his terrifying health scare(Image: PA)
Monty Don has opened up about the moment when he realised he was “going to die” after suffering a serious health scare. The Gardeners’ World star explained that a health ordeal that occurred in 2008 made him “terribly aware” of his own mortality.
Monty, who recently returned to our screens with Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens, had to take a leave of absence from Gardeners’ World at the time after suffering from a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or a “mini-stroke”.
It seems that the experience led to something of a revelation for Monty, who admitted that “all the clichés are true”. He told The Times: “A stroke makes you terribly aware of your own mortality. I wasn’t well so I couldn’t do much. I couldn’t drive. In a way, it was a good time because I had to stop.”
Monty continued: “It was the first moment I realised that, yes, you are going to die. All the clichés are true — the things that matter are love, family, friends, a nice glass of wine or cup of tea.
“Not fame, not fortune. Nobody on their deathbed is going to say, ‘I wish I had been more famous’.”
What started as a “funny feeling” led to Monty suffering from what the NHS described as a “warning sign” that you’re at an increased risk of stroke, which is a condition that can cause “permanent disability”.
According to Hello!, Monty opted to ignore the unusual feeling and took a walk around the grounds of his home. Once he sought medical advice, however, it was determined that he’d had a TIA.
In 2009, he told The Guardian: “I was so exhausted I did not know whether I was coming or going. I remember waking up feeling strange and dizzy.
“I said to my wife Sarah, ‘God, something funny is happening; I may be having a stroke.’ We weren’t thinking: this is a disaster. I said, ‘Hang on, I can move my fingers.’
“I remember thinking, ‘Oh, get a grip, you’re fine’. I turned to Sarah and said, ‘Hold me because I think I’m dying and, if I am, I want to die in your arms’.”
Monty reportedly had a blockage to the brain that had impacted the supply of blood. The NHS mirrors this in its description of a TIA, noting that this disruption leads to a lack of oxygen to the brain.
People who experience a transient ischaemic attack may experience stroke-like symptoms, including visual and speech disturbances and numbness in the legs, face and arms.
Could things be looking up for Ser Duncan the Tall?
The second episode of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “Tales of Dunk and Egg” series of novellas, saw the hopeful hedge knight make some progress toward achieving his dreams.
After reaching out to any and all nobles he hopes still remember his late master Ser Arlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb), Dunk (Peter Claffey) finally finds someone to vouch for him: Prince Baelor Targaryen (Bertie Carvel).
The heir to the Iron Throne is the only person who remembers the late hedge knight, which provides Ser Duncan the recognition he needs to enter the tournament. Baelor also kindly reminds Dunk he needs his own personal arms — he’s been carrying Ser Arlan’s.
Episode 2, titled “Hard Salt Beef,” features the arrival of an entourage of Targaryens to Ashford, including Baelor, his brother and his nephew. With the introduction of the current generation of the bloods of the dragon, here is a refresher on how they are related to the Targaryens at the center of “Game of Thrones” and “House of the Dragon.”
Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), left, mistakes Dunk (Peter Claffey) for a stable boy.
(Steffan Hill / HBO)
When does ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ take place again?
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is set around a hundred years before the events of “Game of Thrones.” The tournament of Ashford takes place in 209 AC (short for After the Conquest, when Aegon Targaryen conquered Westeros), while Ned Stark’s execution happens in 298 AC.
The Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war at the center of “House of the Dragon,” lasts from 129 to 131 AC. So “A Knight of the Seven Kingdom” takes place around 78 years after the events of its fellow “Game of Thrones” prequel. It’s also been about 50 years since actual dragons have been seen in the Realm, so the Targaryens are not quite as feared as they once were.
Who currently sits on the Iron Throne?
King Daeron II Targaryen, also known as Daeron the Good, is the current Lord reigning over the Seven Kingdoms. His great-grandparents are “House of the Dragon’s” Queen Rhaenyra and Daemon.
According to the lore established in books, Daeron was considered a just and good-hearted ruler, especially compared with his father, King Aegon IV.
Maekar (Sam Spruell) is both the descendant and ancestor of other well-known Targaryens.
(Steffan Hill / HBO )
Who are the Targaryens in the show?
Prince Baelor Targaryen, King Daeron’s eldest son and heir to the Iron Throne, is among the Targaryens who arrive in Ashford in Episode 2. His son, Prince Valarr, is shown participating at the joust at the end of the episode.
Baelor’s brother Maekar Targaryen (Sam Spruell), the fourth son of King Daeron, is also among the Targaryen entourage that arrives in Ashford. His son Aerion (Finn Bennett) accompanies him, while audiences learn two of his other sons, Daeron and Aegon, are missing.
Not mentioned in the episode is Maekar’s third-born son, Aemon, who was sent to the Citadel as a child to be raised as a scholar. “Game of Thrones” fans know him as the longtime maester of the Night’s Watch who befriends Jon Snow.
Those familiar with the Targaryen family tree will also know Maekar is the great-great-grandfather of “Game of Thrones’” Daenerys Stormborn.
What about the other Great Houses?
Lyonel Baratheon (Daniel Ings) is among those Dunk meets in “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”
(Steffan Hill/HBO)
As “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” seemingly takes place during relative peacetime, most of the Great Houses are likely off in their own corners of Westeros. But the series has so far introduced Storm End’s Ser Lyonel Baratheon (Daniel Ings), the jovial lord also known as the Laughing Storm, who befriends Dunk in the first episode.
Described as “a swaggering giant of a man” and “one of the greatest fighters of his day” in books like “The World of Ice & Fire,” Lyonel is the great-grandfather of King Robert Baratheon, known for overthrowing the Targaryens and claiming the Iron Throne after Robert’s Rebellion.
Lord Leo Tyrell (Steve Wall) of Highgarden is among those Dunk tries to have vouch for him and appears in the second episode. Also mentioned in the episode is Damon Lannister, the Lord of Casterly Rock who is known as the Grey Lion. Damon is the great-great-grandfather of the trio of key Lannisters in “Game of Thrones”: Cersei, Jaime and Tyrion.
The show hasn’t mentioned which Stark is the current Lord of Winterfell. There is a chance that Cregan Stark, who led his House during the events of “House of the Dragon” and comes to be known as “The Old Man of the North,” is still alive. A banner for House Tully can be seen during the joust at the end of Episode 2.
BROOKLYN Beckham and wife Nicola Peltz have been offered a seven-figure deal to write a tell-all book about their wedding fallout.
Penguin Random House, the publisher behind Prince Harry’s Spare, are believed to be in talks with the couple and keen to strike a deal.
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Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz have reportedly been approached with a seven-figure offer to pen a tell-all bookCredit: InstagramBrooklyn recently uploaded a post saying he was humiliated by his mum’s dancing at the 2022 weddingCredit: Splash
An insider said: “Everyone is clamouring to get their hands on this.
“He clearly has a lot on his mind and now is the time to put the truth on paper. The ball is completely in his and Nicola’s court and their literary options are limitless, especially if Brooklyn really feels like he has a 300-page book in him.”
Sources also said Brooklyn, 26, and Nicola, 31, might follow in Harry and Meghan’s footsteps with an Oprah Winfrey-style chat.
It comes after claims emerged this week that the Duke of Sussex, 41, is mentoring the aspiring chef in how to deal with the fallout of publicly burning bridges with his family.
This week The Sun told how a butler at Brooklyn’s wedding said that before Victoria’s infamous dance with her son, the newlyweds did have a first dance and Nicola boogied with her billionaire dad.
He said the bride and groom had a romantic first dance to a version of Elvis Presley classic Can’t Help Falling in Love which was applauded by all the guests.
The latest on Brooklyn’s seismic statement…
Nicola then danced with her father Nelson before Victoria, 51, was invited to dance with Brooklyn.
She wore a dark cap and shades as she was driven from the Beckhams’ London home in an Audi.
This is the latest move in a bitter feud between David and Victoria, left, and Brooklyn and Nicola, rightCredit: SplashPenguin Random House are believed to be in talks with the couple and keen to strike a dealCredit: Instagram‘Everyone is clamouring to get their hands on this’, says an insider, pair pictured Nov 2024Credit: GettyNicola and Victoria pose together before the riftCredit: Instagram
ED Sheeran’s plans to build a Beatles-type recording complex are being held up — by protected newts.
The music superstar, 34, purchased a 19th-century farm with the intention of turning it into his own country version of the Fab Four’s Abbey Road Studios.
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Ed Sheeran’s plans to build a Beatles-type recording complex are being held upCredit: GettyMusic superstar Ed purchased a 19th-century farm with the intention of turning it into his own country version of the Fab Four’s Abbey Road StudiosCredit: Splash
He had plans approved to convert the historic — but dilapidated — piggery and barn, but ecologists have now warned of a potential danger to great crested newts (GCN) living nearby.
The property is close to their ponds and construction could be damaging to wildlife, especially precious amphibians, and a licence has to be obtained before any work begins.
An environmental report by ecologist Liz Lord said: “There is potential for the proposals to result in disturbance or harm to individual GCN in the event of their presence in any of the identified nearby water bodies.”
It is not far from so-called Sheeranville, his 16-acre estate that he has been developing for the past decade.
The Shape of You star had plans approved last year to overhaul the piggery, including creating a large studio in the middle.
However the newts fears arose from a fresh planning application Ed’s team submitted this month to Mid-Suffolk District Council.
The singer now wants to demolish the barn, which is said to be about 400 years old, and replace it with a more energy- efficient design to house a studio, storage, office and kitchenette.
The environmental report demanded a string of other eco-friendly measures should permission be granted.
The works can be carried out only between September and February to avoid the bird nesting season.
There must also be two bat boxes — and a triple house sparrow tower.
Ed, who has two children with wife Cherry Seaborn, has also promised to plant 12 new crab apple or domestic fruit trees and a flowering lawn.
Ms Lord produced a biodiversity net gain assessment because new builds have to leave the natural habitat in at least a tenth better state than it was previously.
She said: “The proposals provide the opportunity to provide small areas of habitat which are not currently present in the immediate surroundings. This exceeds any existing obligations.”
Ecologists have warned of a potential danger to great crested newtsCredit: Getty
The beloved BBC period drama returned tonight (Sunday 25 January) and followed a difficult case as one woman was saved from abuse.
Starring Bogi Bondor as Agata Balassa, the patient was a victim being held by a cruel couple who were trying to force her into having a baby that they could keep.
Rosalind (played by Natalie Quarry) noticed burns on her arm before Nurse Trixie (Helen George) rushed to her rescue, after discovering she was pregnant.
The domestic case escalated when the residents of Nonnatus House discovered that Agota had been imprisoned, tortured, starved and raped.
Viewers were left horrified, with one writing: “This is harrowing.”
Another said: “Sexual violence and modern day slavery how much more in our society now, compared to then. Yet it has always been here. The worst kind of abhorrent crime.”
“Oh this episode is making my blood boil. That couple are evil,” someone else wrote.
Another added: “Absolutely disgusting vile couple. Need locking up.”
Someone else wrote: “Agatha is so brave, the first step is one of the hardest, and to take it, takes real courage.”
Yet another fan said: “Call the Midwife never, ever shy away from telling difficult stories and complicated health conditions in the most sensitive way. It is so good that watching should be part of the curriculum.”
Someone else wrote: “This is very handmaid’s tale but the scary thing is that it happens, even now.”
“Oh this is horrifying already,” another echoed.
Other viewers were left in tears, with one writing: “Just a wonderful show, I bubble every week.”
Another added: “The best programme ever ever ever, what an episode.”
Actress Bogi previously took to social media to express how honoured she was to portray such a hard-hitting storyline.
She wrote: “So so grateful for the trust that was put in me to bring this vulnerable young woman to life. Echoing voices like hers is what I live for.
“@delytht your guidance, patience and joy made it so much easier to tackle the heaviness of our story.
“A huge-huge thank you to all cast and crew @callthemidwife.official (I really wish I could tag u one by one) – being on set with you was truly one of the best experiences of my life.
“No words to express my gratitude to @jks.management for seeing something in me, taking me on, and always being there with whatever silly question I come up with:)
“And thank you to all my family and friends who will be there in front of the TV watching me do my thing. For your encouraging words, for telling me you’re proud of me, for being excited and telling your people – you know who you are!!!
“I can’t even explain what this opportunity meant for me. My heart is in a little knot but also wanting to burst.”
Ahead of the new series, showrunner Heidi Thomas had shared: “This year, our team are involved with many tough and painful cases, including slavery, poverty, rabies, carbon monoxide poisoning, male breast cancer, child cruelty and lupus.
“But in Poplar, no-one is ever lost, or abandoned, or even allowed to be alone for very long. Love isn’t just the best medicine, it is medicine. And that’s the philosophy that’s kept us going all these years.
“Those legendary red cardigans enfold everyone. They wrap us up in something safe and warm, in a world where the winds can blow very cold indeed – whether it’s 1971, or 2025.”
Call The Midwife airs Sundays at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
BBC The Night Manager finale details as series two prepares to come to an end
Megan Nisbet Content Editor
22:15, 25 Jan 2026
The Night Manager is building towards its highly anticipated second series finale, and if the concluding episode matches the first season’s dramatic ending, the BBC can anticipate substantial viewing figures.
The second series made its comeback on New Year’s Day with Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as MI6 agent Pine, operating under the cover identities of Alex Goodwin and Matthew Ellis, nearly a decade after its gripping finale drew over 10 million viewers across the UK.
The latest season has welcomed back numerous familiar faces from the original cast, including Olivia Colman, Douglas Hodge, Michael Nardone, and Noah Jupe, whilst introducing new stars Diego Calva as Teddy, Camila Morrone playing Roxana, Indira Varma in the part of Mayra, Paul Chahidi as Basil, and Hayley Squires as Sally. A surprising development midway through the new series also witnessed the comeback of Pine’s adversary Richard Roper, portrayed by Hugh Laurie.
Discussing the script, Tom Hiddleston remarked: “David Farr has achieved the impossible. The Night Manager was based on a novel by John le Carré, there was no second novel, no sequel. David has written it with all the sophistication and complexity that le Carré would approve of and admire. Teddy, Roxana, Colombia, Alex Goodwin and Matthew Ellis have all emerged from David’s imagination. This is where he chose to go, and we all followed him there. He’s forensic about detail, and brilliant at the plotting of a complex spy thriller. It feels like a roller-coaster. David’s scripts are exciting, dangerous, edgy, mythic and complex. It’s about shame, guilt, and redemption.”
When does The Night Manager season 2 final air?
Unlike numerous BBC dramas, The Night Manager isn’t accessible for binge-viewing on iPlayer, forcing viewers to await weekly broadcasts.
The debut episode of The Night Manager was transmitted on a Thursday, screening in the coveted primetime position on New Year’s Day. Subsequently, though, the hit drama has moved to the Sunday evening schedule, where it has remained.
The second series has been transmitted weekly throughout January, but the concluding chapter, episode six, will air on Sunday, February 1 at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
The Night Manager season 2 release schedule
The Night Manager’s second run consists of six hour-long episodes altogether, with only the finale remaining to be shown.
The Night Manager season 2 episode 1 – Thursday, January 1 at 9:05pm
The Night Manager season 2 episode 2 – Sunday, January 4 at 9pm
The Night Manager season 2 episode 3 – Sunday, January 11 at 9pm
The Night Manager season 2 episode 4 – Sunday, January 18 at 9pm
The Night Manager season 2 episode 5 – Sunday, January 25 at 9pm
The Night Manager season 2 episode 6 – Sunday February 1 at 9pm
Episodes one to five are available to catch up on BBC iPlayer now, as is series one for those who didn’t watch the original.
KATIE Price’s new husband proposed to another woman four months ago — in exactly the same way.
Lee Andrews gave Katie a ring in an extravagant gesture featuring rose petals and private tub at Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotel.
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Katie Price’s new husband Lee Andrews proposed to another woman four months agoCredit: BackGridLee gave Katie a ring in an extravagant gesture featuring rose petals and private tub at Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotelCredit: UnknownThe real estate worker did the same thing with fitness fan Alana Percival in SeptemberCredit: Unknown
But he did the same with fitness fan Alana Percival in September after they met in May on a Dubai beach.
Brit Alana is understood to have invested in one of Lee’s companies.
But the real estate worker called off the engagement when she grew suspicious of his intentions.
A source said of Katie: “Her friends hope she’s smart enough to question his motives.”
The mother of five got hitched for a fourth time in a quiet ceremony in Dubai with no loved ones present.
It comes hours after Katie, 47, revealed they had got engaged, calling it a “wedding at first sight”.
Tonight she confirmed they had married having recently connected online.
The former glamour model also said they got matching tattoos and bought rings before even meeting.
We connected by checking each other’s socials and quickly realised, ‘Wow this is for me’
Katie Price
She beamed: “How I met Lee was esoteric. We connected by checking each other’s socials and quickly realised, ‘Wow this is for me’,
“In the old-fashioned way, first by words, which captured us both, that evolved deeper as we connected further.
Beaming Katie flashes her ring alongside LeeCredit: UnknownKatie, 47, was seen smiling and locking lips with her new husband Lee shortly after the ceremonyCredit: BackGridThe pair tied the knot in Dubai in a quiet ceremonyCredit: BackGrid
“Within days, matching tattoos, and then both deciding to buy rings for the other — all this without even meeting.
“We let fate, or you could say destiny, decide.”
The Sun understands the couple met in person for the first time just over a week ago.
Katie was invited to Dubai by twice-married Lee, CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027.
Family ‘dumbstruck’
They are then believed to have got engaged on Friday, although Katie’s family is thought to have had no idea she was going through with the wedding so soon.
“To see she had got engaged after flying to Dubai — literally just after she had arrived was crazy.
“The fact she has now married him is even more shocking.
Katie and Lee got matching tattoos just days after meetingCredit: BackGridThe Sun understands Katie’s family knew nothing about the weddingCredit: BackGridThe former glamour model showed off her huge diamond ringCredit: BackGrid
“No one knows who Lee is, they know nothing about him. Kate’s mum, her children, no one knew about the wedding.
“She has a lot of questions to answer when she comes home.”
At the intimate ceremony, an officiator was seen reading from a script as Katie and Lee stood together in the sunshine saying their vows.
The bride chose a white dress with a cut-out in the middle while the groom wore an off-white linen shirt with white trousers.
An onlooker said Katie could not stop smiling throughout.
‘Sweet to watch’
They added: “She seemed so taken with Lee.
“They said their vows and then kissed — it was sweet to watch.”
Speaking afterwards, Katie said: “I’m just so happy with my person, that is just as happy as me.
“What we have they haven’t even invented the words for.
“He has the best version of me which can only grow more knowing we are each other’s.
Katie’s blindsided family were left horrified by the wedding, a source has claimedCredit: BackGridFormer glamour model Katie, 47, has revealed how she and Lee met on social mediaCredit: BackGridKatie revealed they have both had each other’s names tattooed on their handsCredit: Instagram
“On the wedding, all I can say is fate, and this was a wedding at first sight.”
Last night, Lee posted a picture with Katie on Instagram captioned: “Happiest Mr and Mrs.”
It comes after Lee had laid on an extravagant proposal.
She posted a picture of rose petals arranged to read “will you marry me?”, before showing off a huge diamond engagement ring.
Katie — mum to Harvey, 23, Junior, 20, Princess, 18, Jett, 12, and 11-year-old Bunny — wrote: “My Richard Gear [sic] swept off my feet. Manifesting does work.”
It comes just weeks after Katie revealed her relationship with JJ Slater was over.
She said on her podcast: “I don’t wanna waste my time. You know, if I’m not loved-up and it’s not going, these are mistakes I’ve made in the past.”
Katie, previously married to Peter Andre, Alex Reid and Kieran Hayler, added: “You stay, just go along, and then it ends up getting nasty.”
Matching tattoos and a social media connection – Katie Price breaks silence on whirlwind romance
How I met Lee was esoteric; we connected [by] both checking each others’ socials and quickly realised, ‘wow, this is for me’…in the old-fashioned way, first by words which captured us both.
That evolved deeper as we connected further within days [getting] matching tattoos, and then both deciding to buy rings for the other.
All this without even meeting, we let fate, but you could say destiny, decide.
I’m just so happy with my person that is just as happy as I am.
What we have, they haven’t even invented the words.
He has now the best version of me which can only grow more, knowing we are each others’.
On the wedding, all I can say is ‘fatale’, and this was a wedding at First Sight.
Katie’s new husband shared a sweet snap of the newlyweds on social mediaKatie’s new CEO husband posted to social media confirming the marriage moments agoCredit: InstagramKatie Price got engaged to businessman Lee Andrews after a whirlwind romanceCredit: Instagram
Katie Price’s relationship history
We take a look back at the highs and lows of Katie Price’s relationship history.
1996-1998: Katie got engaged to Gladiators star Warren Furman – aka Ace – with a £3,000 ring. But their relationship didn’t make it as far as ‘I do’.
1998-2000: Katie described Dane Bowers as ‘the love of her life’ but she broke up with the singer after he allegedly cheated on her.
2001: Footballer Dwight Yorke is the father of Katie’s eldest child Harvey. He has had very little to do with his son throughout his life.
2002: Rebounding from Dwight, Katie famously had one night of passion with Pop Idol star Gareth Gates, allegedly taking his virginity.
2002-2004: Katie was dating Scott Sullivan when she entered the jungle for I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!. He threatened to “punch Peter’s lights out” when chemistry blossomed between her and Peter Andre.
2004-2009: The jungle romance resulted in Katie marrying Aussie pop star Peter. They had two kids, Junior and Princess, before their bitter split in 2009.
2010-2011: Fresh from her break-up with Peter, Katie enjoyed a whirlwind relationship and marriage with cage fighter Alex Reid. They split 20 months after their Las Vegas wedding.
2011: Katie briefly dated model Danny Cipriani… but it ended as quickly as it begun.
2011-2012: They didn’t speak the same language, but Katie got engaged to Argentinian model Leandro Penna in 2011. He later fled home to South America.
2012-2018: Wedding bells rang once more after Katie met Kieran Hayler in 2013. They had two kids together, Jett and Bunny, before their break-up and divorce.
2018-2019: Katie moved on quickly with Kris Boyson. They had an on-off romance for one year and even got engaged. They split for good in 2019.
2019: Katie was linked to Charles Drury during her on-off relationship with Kris. Charles, who also dated Lauren Goodger, has always denied being in “official relationship” with her.
2020-2023: Car salesman Carl Woods took a shine to Katie in 2020. Their relationship was up and down for three years. They broke up for a final time last year.
2024-2026: After weeks of rumours, Katie confirmed her relationship with Married At First Sight star JJ Slater in February 2024. The pair split in January 2026 after two years together.
2026: Katie shocked fans when she revealed she is engaged to businessman Lee Andrews.
She married Alex Reid in 2010 however her second marriage ended in divorce just two years laterCredit: ITVKatie and Kieran Hayler got married in 2013 and, while they split in 2018, their divorce wasn’t finalised until 2021Credit: Dan Charity – The Sun
PARK CITY, Utah — Welcome to a special Sundance Daily edition of the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.
Good afternoon — Sundance’s third day is behind us and it’s turning out to be a gray Sunday, cooler, with a high of 24 degrees.
As it always has been, year after year, Sundance is proving to be a combustible place where bracing new work collides with real-world anxieties. The violence in Minneapolis isn’t far from mind for most attendees and we’re taking the opportunity to gather as many reactions as we can.
“These are not normal times,” actor Edward Norton told us in an interview Sunday morning. “It’s like we have extrajudicial assaults on Americans and humans going on on a daily basis now. And it’s not OK. Even though all people kind of have to put one foot in front of the other and deal with the demands of the day, we cannot act like this is not happening.”
Meanwhile, Amy Nicholson is live with her first critical dispatch, one that takes in movies as disparate as the killer-unicorn dark comedy “Buddy,” Charli XCX’s “The Moment,” Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex” and her own sense of nostalgia, saying goodbye to Park City like Charli saying goodbye to her brat summer: “I’m not ready to end my own Park City winter era just yet,” Amy writes.
Recapturing a lost summer from the Malibu fires
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Tamra Davis and Alfredo Ortiz in the documentary “The Best Summer.”
(Mike Diamond / Sundance Institute)
Director Tamra Davis debuted her new documentary “The Best Summer,” a charming excavation of raw video interviews she did while on a mid-’90s tour with her then-recently married husband Mike D of Beastie Boys. Mark Olsen spoke to Davis at her house in Malibu, which thankfully survived last year’s fires, though in her rush to flee the scene, she found this box of old videos. It’s a great example of something good coming out of something bad.
Meanwhile, our Vanessa Franko attended last night’s premiere and has this report:
Time-traveling and rocking out at a midnight debut
I expected the live performances of artists like the Beastie Boys, Bikini Kill and Pavement to transport me back to the mid-‘90s in Tamra Davis’ “The Best Summer,” but perhaps the biggest nostalgia hit was watching the audience on the screen react to the performers in those halcyon days of concert going before smartphones.
In the film, we see a young Dave Grohl tell Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna about his fear of speaking to the crowd from the stage; the Beastie Boys mimicking a water aerobics class happening at a tropical resort pool on a day off; and Beck reveal that he bought his underwear at Sears — all on a whirlwind tour of Australia and Southeast Asia in the final days of 1995 and into 1996.
The tidbits of regular life for these artists are just as engaging as the performances, which Davis captured on a Sony camcorder that had amazingly great sound. (She said she had to buy a camera just to be able to watch the tapes after moving them while evacuating the fires.)
The reveals continued after the screening: At the Q&A, Hanna said the bands would use hotel stationery to communicate who was throwing the party that night. And while watching the film, she realized Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear stole her skirt.
On a sweeter note, in the film you see Hanna and Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz, who recently celebrated their 30th anniversary, flirting with each other.
“It’s funny to remember that feeling of falling in love,” Hanna said.
“Sorry you weren’t able to enjoy the ‘90s,” she said as the crowd laughed. — Vanessa Franko
What are we watching today?
“All About the Money” (Library Center Theatre, 3 p.m.)
Fergie Chambers in the documentary “All About the Money.”
(Sundance Institute)
If Communist revolutionary Fergie Chambers had a dollar for every time he said something outrageous, he’d have roughly $250 million dollars — which he does. The heavily-tattooed scion of one of America’s old money families can trace his lineage to a presidential candidate, an ambassador and a NASA scientist.
His current path, however, changes several times over the course of Sinéad O’Shea’s documentary, which unspools like you’re being taken down a maze covered in Lenin stickers. “All About the Money” starts idyllically with Chambers funding an activist commune in Massachusetts.
But when the group vigorously protests the war in Gaza, only the poor residents get charged with criminal mischief. The rich rabble-rouser simply shifts to his next crusade. Isn’t he in moral debt to his disciples?
O’Shea listens more than she prods. Yet, as you might expect from a guy who once tweeted “Hamas >>>> Gandhi,” Chambers doesn’t mince words. He can afford to be disliked. — Amy Nicholson
“Union County” (Eccles Theatre, 3 p.m.)
Will Poulter, left, and Noah Centineo in the movie “Union County.”
(Stefan Weinberger / Sundance Institute)
Premiering as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition is the feature debut from writer-director Adam Meeks. Set in rural Ohio, the film explores the human-scale cost of the opioid crisis by combining elements of fiction and documentary for a film that feels lived-in and authentic.
Working with an actual court-mandated rehab program that seems startlingly empathetic toward those who join it, people attempting to rebuild their lives with a sense of soul-deep struggle, the film’s cast is made up largely of nonprofessional actors.
Add to that Will Poulter and Noah Centino as foster brothers who both find themselves before the court and trying to rebuild their lives. As Poulter’s Cody makes a more genuine effort to get straight, Centino’s Jack struggles to give up his old ways, building to shattering revelations. — Mark Olsen
Will popular movies find deals?
In recent years, the biggest film deals have happened toward the end of Sundance, if not in the days and weeks afterward. So far, this year seems to be following a similar trajectory.
There’s buzz around several films, including the Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan-led drama “Josephine,” as well as the romantic fantasy “Wicker” starring Olivia Colman, but no big announcements yet.
There’s still time. After all, last year’s first big deal — Neon’s acquisition of the Alison Brie and Dave Franco body-horror rom-com “Together” — was announced during the festival’s final days. Same with Netflix’s purchase of the Oscar-nominated Joel Edgerton drama “Train Dreams.”
Filmmakers are also hopeful about the emergence of new buyers in the industry.
I mentioned Warner Bros.’ new specialty label in the first Sundance edition of The Wide Shot, but there’s also West Hollywood-based Row K Entertainment and indie studio Black Bear, which launched a U.S. distribution arm last year. There’s also curiosity about Paramount’s existing acquisition-only label Republic Pictures, which is now led by producer Lia Buman.
The fact that more buyers have entered the market has given some filmmakers sense of optimism — after all, the thinking goes, why would they push into this space unless they saw an opportunity?
Newer labels in particular might want to get a buzzy title to make a splash and establish their brand, industry insiders say. It’s still early, so it remains to be seen how the deals will shape up this year. — Samantha Masunaga
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Meghan Markle has shared an insight into Princess Lilibet hobbies ahead of the Duchess of Sussex’s new documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend
Meghan Markle has hinted at Princess Lilibet’s future hobbies(Image: Netflix)
Meghan Markle has opened up about her new documentary about the Girl Scouts, revealing that she’s open to Princess Lilibet joining the group when she’s older. The Princess of Sussex and Prince Harry executive produced the documentary Cookie Queens.
The film follows four Girl Scouts as they compete to sell the most cookies, with the royal couple’s Archewell production company backing the documentary. Appearing at Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Meghan spoke about her experience as a Girl Scout.
“It really embeds such great values from the get-go,” she said about the organisation.
She continued, speaking to Deadline: “I was a Girl Scout, my mom was a troupe leader, and I think the value of friendship, of being dedicated to a goal as you can see that in Cookie Queens, it’s so reflective of how these girls stick with something that’s important to them and don’t give up.”
The Duchess went on to reveal that Prince Harry’s favourite cookies are the “shortbread” ones. When asked whether Princess Lilibet will become a Girl Scout herself, Meghan said “I think we’ll continue to explore whatever feels right.”
She added that working on the project was “incredibly special” for her and director Alysa Nahmias as parents. “As mothers to be able to see something our girls will be able to enjoy and watch as well,” she said.
She was beaten in the ranking by Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir: Season 2: Part 2 as well as Downton Abbey, Superstore and Franklin & Bash.
The lifestyle show is unlikely to return for a third series, with a source telling Page Six that it won’t be back.
“There have been conversations about holiday specials, but there’s nothing in the works yet,” they said, adding that Meghan will continue to focus on her As Ever brand instead.
“She would probably give me the impression she’s too attractive to be doing it,” she said. “I don’t know anybody else who’s seen it, but I think it’s because we’re in the industry.
“She’s a lady – she’s not exactly going to get her hands dirty if she has to get into the kitchen with a brigade of chefs. I can’t imagine her doing that, but I might be wrong.”
Former President Obama and Michelle Obama called on Americans to recognize the dangers of the increasingly violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement crack-downs in the wake of the deadly shooting of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis.
“The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy,” the Obamas wrote in a lengthy statement posted on social media. “It should also be a wake up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.”
Pretti, a 37-year-old Department of Veterans Affairs nurse, was seen using his cell phone to record ICE members deploying Saturday morning in a snowy Minneapolis neighborhood. Witness videos show ICE agents shoving a woman and Pretti coming to her assistance. He was then pushed and doused with a chemical spray, then tackled to the ground. He was shot 10 times.
On Sunday, demonstrations occurred across the country to protest the tactics of ICE agents and comments by President Trump and others in his administration. Several administration officials seemed to blame Pretti for his death because he was carrying a weapon during a protest.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara on Sunday almost begged for calm for his city that has witnessed hundreds of ICE agents moving in. O’Hara told CBS News “this is not sustainable,” and that his officers were stretched thin trying to contain “all of this chaos.”
“This has to stop,” the Obamas wrote.
“Federal law enforcement and immigration agents have a tough job,” the Obamas wrote. “But Americans expect them to carry out their duties in a lawful, accountable way, and to work with, rather than against, state and local officials to ensure public safety. “
“That’s not what we’re seeing in Minnesota. In fact, we’re seeing the opposite,” the former first couple wrote.
On Sunday, protests grew as people watched cell phone video captured by bystanders of Pretti’s shooting.
Pretti’s parents, Susan and Michael Pretti, in a statement reported by the Assoc. Press, described their son as “a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.”
His shooting comes less than three weeks after an ICE agent shot an unarmed mother, Renee Nicole Good, in another Minneapolis neighborhood. The agency said she was attempting to harm an ICE agent although video of the incident appears to show her turning the wheel of her SUV away from the agent when he shot her in the face.
“For weeks now, people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that seem designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger the residents of a major American city,” the Obamas wrote, describing such methods as “unprecedented tactics.”
“The President and current administration officials seem eager to escalate the situation, while offering public explanations for the shootings of Mr. Pretti and Renee Good that aren’t informed by any serious investigation – and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence,” the Obamas wrote.
“This has to stop,” the Obamas wrote.
They called on Trump administration officials to “reconsider their approach” and work constructively with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other state and local authorities “to avert more chaos and achieve legitimate law enforcement goals.”
“In the meantime, every American should support and draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other parts of the country,” the Obamas wrote. “They are a timely reminder that ultimately it’s up to each of us as citizens to speak out against injustice, protect our basic freedoms, and hold our government accountable.”
PARK CITY, Utah — Sundance is where I get lost. My first trip to Park City, Utah, I didn’t know anything or anyone, and scored a bunk bed in a room of four women by cold-emailing an acquaintance of an acquaintance and blurting, “I don’t really mind who I sleep next to as long as they don’t mind that my boyfriend says I snore.”
That was 16 years ago and I have visceral memories of circling the town on a two a.m. shuttle hoping to recognize my stop. There was also the afternoon I took a shortcut through some trees and got stuck in snow up to my shins. (That’s also when I learned that cheap boots dissolve under duress.) But just as vividly, I remember getting lost in that year’s movies: breakthrough films by the Safdie brothers, Luca Guadanigno and Taika Waititi, plus Jennifer Lawrence’s star-making performance in “Winter’s Bone.”
It took time to master Park City, to learn the theater locations and make friends, one of whom broke his arm and laptop skidding on a patch of ice while another gave me the fuzzy red mittens I’ve been wearing here for a decade. And I’ve spent the last two Sundances readying to let this town go when the festival decamps for Boulder, Colo., in 2027. (At my second screening this year, I even lost the right mitten.) The Egyptian Theatre on Main Street isn’t showing any new movies this year as the festival is already shutting down limb by limb, but it’s where a colleague dragged a dozen of us critics to “Hereditary’s” fourth not-so-full screening insisting we had to see it, and he as much as anyone put Ari Aster on the map. (He’s also now my editor — hi, Josh Rothkopf!)
God, I’m going to miss this place. By God, let’s go with indie provocateur Gregg Araki’s conception of him: Robert Redford, a titan who hatched an independent film festival from his head like he was Zeus and passed away this September.
“How did he ever come up with that concept?” Araki asked onstage at what he tallied was his 11th Sundance premiere. “Thank you, Robert Redford. You are a god to me, you are immortal.” The 20-something fan seated next to me felt the same way about Araki, hooting so much for his favorite filmmaker that he apologized.
Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde in the movie “I Want Your Sex.”
(Lacey Terrell / Sundance Institute)
Araki is here with the brash and splashy erotic comedy “I Want Your Sex,” which stars Olivia Wilde as a bondage-loving, anti-woke modern artist named Erika whose latest effort to shock is a giant vagina made of chewing gum. “Art needs attention,” she insists. So does Erika, ordering her much younger new assistant, Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), into bed and into a public bathroom stall and into a set of frilly pink lingerie.
Erika’s work isn’t very good. But Wilde is fantastic. Her haughty line deliveries and imperious bone structure cut through the screen like a knife. (And you should see the get-ups that costumers Arianne Phillips and Monica Chamberlain strap her into.) A murder mystery worms into the script that’s too screwy to be taken seriously. But as Erika’s mealy lover, Hoffman gets bossed around and humiliated and mostly digs his kinky misadventure. Me, too.
To be fair, art does need attention. Everyone at Sundance comes here to not just lose themselves giggling as Hoffman gets a spanking, but to find the next Araki, Aster or Safdie — and, if you’re a distributor, snatch them up at a good price. It takes money to launch an indie movie to the masses and one of today’s most daunting hurdles is that no one seems to have enough of it to market a niche sensation to an overwhelmed and distracted audience.
“It’s time for a change,” my rideshare driver said as we crept through traffic, explaining why she was running for state senate. She couldn’t fathom why Utah hadn’t put up more of a fight to keep Sundance in town as it seemed to her that it had been a fiscal boon. I replied that I’d heard rumors that Park City calculated there was more money in catering to the posh ski crowd than, say, film critics.
My Sundance has never been glamorous. I rarely have time to go to a party and when I do, it’s standing around on a wet carpet in my socks hoping to eat a scoop of chili. The one exception was the year I was on a short film jury that included the actor Keegan-Michael Key, who I ran into on Friday morning doing interviews for Casper Kelly’s colorful and quirky midnight movie “Buddy,” which is like a very special spree-killer episode of “Barney.” Key plays a giant orange unicorn who hosts a children’s TV show and forces the kids to hug him or die. It’s a tad thin compared to Kelly’s other stunningly bizarro projects (“Too Many Cooks,”“Adult Swim Yule Log”) that always add another destabilizing twist. But you sense subterranean levels of weirdness that hint that he’s already got ideas for a sequel.
Sundance is where starving artists level up. Just nine years ago, the documentary prankster John Wilson was here crashing on a couch and shooting a snarky short called “Escape From Park City” about his discomfort with its star-gazing and schmoozing. That trip tipped over a domino that, in a roundabout way, led to his brilliant HBO TV series, “How to With John Wilson,” and now he’s back to premiere his first full-length feature, “The History of Concrete.” (He said no one from the festival had yet to mention that short to his face.)
Essentially a long episode of his show, “The History of Concrete” follows Wilson’s zig-zagging curiosity about what’s right under our feet, from an analysis of chewing gum patterns on the sidewalk to a pilgrimage to the shortest street in America. Despite concrete’s omnipresence, he finds that it hasn’t been around very long, and yet, to our peril it’s already crumbling around us.
Along the way, Wilson takes Zoom meetings, unsuccessfully pitching this meta-doc to financiers, and, out of sardonic desperation, studying how to write a successful Hallmark movie. The overall idea is that our civic and artistic infrastructure is falling apart. Genius like his is the weeds wiggling through the cracks.
Charli XCX in the movie “The Moment.”
(Sundance Institute)
So many of this year’s films are confronting the relationship between cash and creativity, like video director Aidan Zamiri’s strobe-y and deliberately suffocating “The Moment,” which I’ll be reviewing in full when it comes out next week. The party-hearty British pop star Charli XCX plays an unflattering version of herself struggling to fend off a phalanx of producers, managers and record executives. Structurally, it’s a mockumentary. Tonally, it’s a horror movie about the death of an artist’s soul. Alexander Skarsgård is especially funny as a New Age-spouting concert documentary director who sucks up to the corporate overlords while breaking Charli’s spirit a bit more in every scene. He’s like Jigsaw with a manbun: a villain who preaches self-empowerment while shattering her to pieces.
In real life, Charli sounds certain that her Brat summer is over. She’s moved onto Park City winter, acting in two other films at the fest, including Araki’s “I Want Your Sex.” But now that season is shifting, too. “This movie is about the end of an era — and this is the end of an era,” she said, gesturing toward the Eccles audience.
“The Moment” harmonizes well with Joanna Natasegara’s “The Disciple,” which digs into the fraught backstory of the Wu-Tang Clan’s controversial 7th album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.” Only one copy exists, which was auctioned off in 2015 to the soon-to-be disgraced hedge fund founder and pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, who said he paid $2 million for it so he could impress his other rich friends. RZA and Wu-affiliate Cilvaringz wanted to up the value of art by treating a rap album like the Mona Lisa. Instead, the internet accused them of selling out to the devil.
Natasegara’s archival footage is head-spinning. I’d watch a whole documentary just on the night of the album’s listening party seen in the film, at which the RZA’s mentor, a real-live Shaolin monk, wowed the attendees by hoisting his leg straight over his head. “What a flex,” one of the revelers jokes. The documentary skips over mentioning that in October 2016, Shkreli tweeted that he’d leak the album if Donald Trump was elected president (he didn’t), but does get into how just months later, Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud. The Wu-Tang record was seized by the government, which sold it to an NFT group for double the money.
The album’s new owners hosted a listening party for us the day after the Sundance premiere. With our cellphones locked up in security pouches, we gathered around two expensive and strange-looking speakers that resembled ATMs to hear around 20 minutes of music. The album started with quiet wind and then turned into a tornado of thunder and sirens, swordplay and gunfire over big horns and a funky soul backbeat. I especially dug the title track which felt like the soundtrack to a hero strutting into battle before frantically spiraling into a storm of violins. Somewhere in there, Cher sang vocals (we were told), although I didn’t recognize her distinctive yowl.
Most of us stood very still, as though afraid that if if we bobbed too much, we’d shake the music from our heads. But the folks in the back of the room had heard the record before and continued talking loudly, treating the party like a party. Sacrilegious, yes. But also an act of reclamation for art that just wants to be enjoyed.
People kept partying but I needed to hunt for the lost and found station, which had thoughtfully posted a picture of my mitten online. Ironically, I couldn’t find the office — no one, not even the information desk, knew where it was — but they very kindly walked my mitten over to me. Thank heavens, it was too soon to say goodbye. I’m not ready to end my own Park City winter era just yet.
To be or not to be, that is the question for a solo version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy. This Shakespearean traveling show, now at the Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood through Saturday, is a daredevil feat of memory, theatrical bravado and cardio fitness.
As a spectacle, it’s as exhilarating as it is exhausting. The thrill of seeing a fearless, indefatigable performer single-handedly populate the stage with the myriad figures of this masterwork never lets up. But fatigue can’t help setting in once it becomes clear that this marathon drama will be delivered in the broadest of strokes.
The plot’s the thing for Izzard, who brought a solo version of Charles Dickens’ similarly sprawling “Great Expectations” to the stage. Izzard has won praise as a dramatic actor, excelling in plays by David Mamet and Peter Nichols, but here seems content to stick to story-time mode.
The striking aspect of this “Hamlet,” directed by Selina Cadell on a bare stage, is just how straightforward it is. There are few scenic accouterments other than some fabulously eerie lighting, suspenseful sound effects and heavy-handed underscoring. Izzard’s costume, evening wear built for battle, had me imagining Margaret Thatcher at Studio 54 in the early 1980s.
The adaptation by Mark Izzard (Izzard’s brother who also adapted “Great Expectations”) strives to cram in as much of the play as possible, even if it means that for long stretches Izzard must deliver Shakespeare’s lines at breakneck speed. A structurally remodeled “Hamlet” with a minimalist bent would have made more sense. But that would require an interpretive vision that the cuts, rearrangements and distracting instances of rewording fail to supply.
Greeting theatergoers at the start of the performance, Izzard advises that if anyone has come under the mistaken impression that this is a new comedy act, the time to escape is now. No one seemed to heed the charming warning.
Izzard, who has a background as a street performer, feels a kinship with Elizabethan players, who like stand-up comics, maintained a lively rapport with their audience. This “Hamlet” isn’t a dainty affair but a colorful attack meant to reanimate a cracking good tale.
But a plot, no matter how engrossing, can’t shoulder the burden alone. A well-known story needs a fresh point of view. The novelty here is a performer testing physical, mental and logistical limits. But as “Hamlet” revivals go, there’s not much insight to be gained from this Herculean undertaking.
The comedy bits work best. Izzard treats Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s old buddies sent to spy on him, as sock pockets (minus the socks). The banter between Hamlet and the gravedigger allows for the kind of witty wordplay that is Izzard’s stand-up stock-in-trade.
Claudius comes across as a sinister puffed-up phony. Polonius isn’t so much a pompous old fart as a preeminent courtier anxious not to lose his privileged status. Horatio, who can admittedly get lost in the woodwork, barely registers.
But Izzard has a way of making the movers and shakers at Elsinore seem as familiar as workplace colleagues. The ghost, on the other hand, who speaks in a creepy monotone, is like a relic of a long defunct amateur troupe.
Gender is no barrier for Izzard, who uses she/her pronouns and has added the name Suzy (though for this “Hamlet,” the billing is simply Eddie Izzard). Gertrude never quite comes into focus, but the pathos of Ophelia, maddened by grief, is enhanced by the simple yet forceful way Izzard helplessly pounds her chest.
Hamlet, alone on stage, is what most of us remember from our outings with the tragedy. Izzard is so verbally adept that perhaps I expected too much from the soliloquies. The “To be, or not to be” monologue came across as a rhetorical set piece that Hamlet has been polishing for ages. There’s a little too much hand jive in other speeches. The emotional meaning of Shakespeare doesn’t need to be manually conducted.
But it’s not easy to sustain an inner intensity when acting in isolation. Izzard must surge and replenish her performance on her own. The self-generating powers on display are awesome to witness. Even in a bulky knee brace, Izzard goes all out in the final act duel between Hamlet and Laertes.
By this point audiences might be tapping into their own reserves. Izzard deserves a medal for athletic effort, but what I’ll remember most are a few passing moments in which the dramatic poetry was illuminated with an everyday realism that made the more than 400 years separating our world from Shakespeare’s seem like no distance at all.