Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson on surviving the trolls: ‘People were saying horrific things’

Eight years after she shot to fame on The X Factor, Nelson describes how she navigated the trauma of being relentlessly bullied on social media When Jesy Nelson was 19 and working behind the bar at a pub in Dagenham, Essex, she remembers watching The X Factor on TV, and...
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Bruce Lee’s daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: ‘We righted the wrong’

Shannon Lee has finally made the martial arts saga her father dreamed up. She remembers the inner energy of the kung fu superstar Hollywood and Tarantino made a mockery of The legend that Shannon Lee grew up with goes like this. In 1971, when her father Bruce Lee was at...
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Lily Collins: I want to dig deep, tell the truth and be more brave

The actor is emerging from a long run of hauntingly gothic parts and, despite a starry childhood in LA, she has a few ghost stories of her own. By Jane Mulkerrins The day before we meet, Lily Collins had what felt like a breakthrough encounter. At the end of a...
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Insatiable: how offensive is Netflix’s controversial new comedy?

The story of a lady who reduces weight and retaliates on her bullies has actually currently influenced an online petition for fat-shaming O ne of the repeating images on Netflix’s brand-new program, Insatiable, is that of the program’s heroine, Patty, played by Debby Ryan, stuffing on food. “While my schoolmates...
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Going TV cold turkey what is it like to give up the box for a month?

In this golden era of tv, the pressure to binge-watch is enormous even as proof installs about the health threats. How did one heavy user cope with the huge switch-off? T here are nearly no satisfaction left in life that somebody hasn’t recommended we quit to much better ourselves. Alcohol,...
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Matt Lucas: Losing my hair at the age of six shaped my life

One unforgettable minute specified his early youth being tore down by a cars and truck. Could that describe exactly what took place next? Matt Lucas talks, in an unique extract from his brand-new narrative O ne of my earliest memories is of being three-and-a-half years of ages at nursery, viewing...
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