Rishi Sunak Facing Major Tory Rebellion Over Online Safety Bill

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Rishi Sunak is facing a fresh Tory backbench rebellion over a law aimed at protecting children when they use the internet.

Nearly 40 Conservative MPs – including former cabinet ministers – have signed an amendment to the online safety bill which could see social media bosses jailed if their platforms publish harmful content.

The prime minister has already been forced to perform embarrassing U-turns over housebuilding targets and new onshore wind farms in the face of rebellions by Tory MPs.

Among the 36 Conservatives backing the rebel amendment are former party leader Iain Duncan Smith and Andrea Leadsom.

With Labour also backing it, Sunak is heading for his first parliamentary defeat as PM unless the government changes its position.

Culture secretary Michelle Donelan hinted that the government was preparing for a climbdown.

Speaking to the BBC’s Newscast podcast, she said: “I’m not ruling out any of those amendments because I’ve been working through them and they’ve been coming in today as well, looking at, you know, what colleagues are putting forward.

“I’m somebody that always takes a sensible approach to these things. If people have good ideas, just because I didn’t think of them, doesn’t mean that we’re not going to do them.”

Ian Russell and Ruth Moss, parents of children who killed themselves after viewing harmful content online, are among those campaigning for the government to accept the proposed change.

The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: “Our aim is to hold to account social media platforms for harmful content while also ensuring the UK remains a great place to invest and grow a tech business.

“We are confident we can achieve both of these things.

“We will carefully consider all the proposed amendments to the online safety bill and set out its position when report stage continues.”

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Fans Say Kate Winslet’s Hair Is A ‘Titanic’ Tragedy In New Movie Poster

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Titanic is sailing back into cinemas this year in honour of its 25th anniversary, yet fans can’t seem to wrap their heads around the movie’s new ― and unintentionally confusing ― promotional art.

A fully remastered edition of the 1997 blockbuster, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, hits cinemas on 10 Feb and to mark the occasion, Paramount Pictures unveiled a brand-new poster showing the actors as star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose, who meet aboard the doomed ocean liner in 1912.

The image, however, appears to show Rose with a combination of two hairstyles, seemingly taken from different segments of the film.

On her left side, she looks to have an elaborate updo, as befitting the character’s first-class status. But on her right, her hair appears to be down, as it was worn for Jack’s sketch session and as the ship sank.

On social media this week, reaction to the image has been chilly, at best…

While many assumed the poster to be a failed example of photo editing, others suggested it was a deliberate choice to relay Rose’s character arc over the course of the movie.

“It represents the duality of her having to portray her societal role and the life she wishes to have, free, with Jack,” one person tweeted.

Another added: “It’s to show the two sides of her in the movie. From boarding as an upper class wealthy passenger to then how things change when she meets Jack and the new kind of life he introduces her to.”

It remains to be seen whether Paramount will deflect the hairstyle discourse by revamping the poster. As of Thursday, the image was still included in a press kit distributed to media outlets.

Directed by James Cameron, Titanic was a critical smash and won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

After raking in a reported $2.2 billion at the box office worldwide, it became the highest-grossing film of all-time, a record it held until Cameron’s Avatar claimed the distinction in 2010.

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Andrew Garfield And Interviewer Have Sizzling Red Carpet Flirtation — Twice

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Who knew conversations about armpits and astrology could be so tantalising?

British media personality Amelia Dimoldenberg, best known for her YouTube series Chicken Shop Date, deployed her trademark awkwardness and expert flirting skills while interviewing Andrew Garfield at two separate red carpet events recently — and their chemistry is off the charts.

Chicken Shop Date is a popular YouTube series in which Dimoldenberg takes different celebrities like Jack Harlow, Ed Sheeran and Daniel Kaluuya to notoriously unsexy fried chicken joints for hilariously clumsy “dates.”

In November, Dimoldenberg got a gig interviewing celebrities on the red carpet for GQ’s Men of the Year Awards. It was there that Garfield approached her to tell her he was a fan.

“I think you’re great,” Garfield shyly says to Dimoldenberg in a video that went viral on Twitter.

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After some back-and-forth, Dimoldenberg then tells Garfield that she’s been trying to get a “date” with him “for a while.”

“I’m asking you out right now,” Dimoldenberg said, shooting her shot to get Garfield on her show, but also perhaps insinuating a real date.

“You do date a lot of people,” the The Amazing Spider-Man star said bashfully.

“Yeah, and?” Dimoldenberg shot back.

“Oh no, it’s wonderful,” Garfield said. “It’s just like, I don’t know. I just feel less special, I guess.”

“No way, you are the most special,” Dimoldenberg said.

“Right,” Garfield said nervously laughing. “You say that to every single person.”

“No, I don’t. You’re the first person I’ve called special tonight — especially your armpits,” Dimoldenberg said, referring to a GQ cover story of Garfield in November, which includes photos of the the Under The Banner Of Heaven star shirtless, with his arms raised, and appearing to be sniffing himself.

Dimoldenberg at the 2023 Golden Globes.
Dimoldenberg at the 2023 Golden Globes.

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After Garfield admits that he hated that photo and almost asked the magazine to “kill it,” Dimoldenberg tells him that it was her “favourite image” from the shoot.

“It’s the background on my phone,” she says.

Garfield then asks if she has an armpit fetish, and after some more adorable back-and-forth, Dimoldenberg says: “Look, I’m giving you a compliment, you look really good, just take the compliment.”

“You look lovely as well. You look very beautiful,” Garfield says before leaning to the side to check her out.

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