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Anna Richardson Names The Stars Who Told Her They’d Be Up For Celebrity Naked Attraction

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Naked Attraction presenter Anna Richardson has revealed a number of celebrities have told her they’d be up for appearing on a star-studded version of the outrageous dating show.

“I’ve bumped into a couple of celebs recently who’ve gone ‘I’d do it!’,” Anna told OK! magazine, naming Blue singer Duncan James as one of them.

She continued: “Duncan James was like, ‘I’m up for it!’, and I was like ‘oh my god!’.

“And the lovely Anna Whitehouse, who does the Dirty Mother Pukka podcast, said to me a couple of weeks ago that she’d do it.”

News presenter India Willoughby previously claimed she’d been approached about appearing on a celebrity special of Naked Attraction in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.

Meanwhile, reality star Lauren Harries took part in an episode of Naked Attraction back in 2019.

Anna has also teased that she still has one other “big dream” when it comes to Naked Attraction, which she’s hosted since it launched in 2016.

“I’d like to do it as a theatre show,” she explained. “I just think there’s a few things that we could do now to move it on and Naked Attraction Mark 2. But we’ll see…”

Earlier this week, Channel 4 was forced to set the record straight after reports in the press claimed that the divisive dating show could be facing the axe amid budget cuts at the station.

Naked Attraction will return for a new series in 2024.

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The Love-In Between Kylie Minogue And Hobbycraft Wimbledon Has Officially Made Our Week

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With a Padam-ic still sweeping the nation thanks to Kylie Minogue, there’s one part of it that has really warmed our hearts over the last few weeks.

By now, you’ll probably be aware of the phenomenon that is the Australian singer’s latest single Padam Padam, and the many, many memes and remixes it has spawned on social media.

Among them was an especially brilliant one from the team at Hobbycraft in Wimbledon, London.

Using fabric from the crafting store, the gang fabulously recreated the Padam Padam video on TikTok

The video soon blew up, attracting more than 600k views, and coverage on meme accounts like Hunsnet.

At the time, Kylie commented on the video: “YES Hobbycraft! (Is there anything left in the remnant box??!!).”

They responded: “For you we can always find something. You need to pay us a visit.”

Kylie then name-checked the Hobbycraft team during a radio interview

During an appearance on Kiss FM, Kylie gave a special shout-out to the Hobbycraft crew as she discussed the Padam Padam memes with presenter Harriet Rose.

“There’s an amazing one, which was, big up Hobbycraft Wimbledon massive. I mean, hilarious,” Kylie said.

“They committed to this routine, four staff. This is the first time I’ve like said it, I’ve talked about it with my friends, but when they hear this, you did a great job.”

The Hobbycraft Wimbledon massive were stunned by Kylie’s words

They posted a TikTok duet video showing them reacting to Kylie’s comments about their video, which was adorable.

But that isn’t the best bit…

Kylie paid the Hobbycraft crew the ultimate compliment by filming a duet video of her own with them.

“When Hobbycraft Wimbledon goes Padam Padam they go FULL OUT!” she wrote.

“We are living for this,” the team responded, while Hobbycraft’s parent TikTok account also wrote: “This is the duet we’ve been living for. Can we make it a reality in real life?”

Someone get Kylie to Wimbledon ASAP.

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Luke Evans Says He ‘Wept’ After Reading Script For His First-Ever Gay Role

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Luke Evans’ latest movie role is the first to reflect his queer authentic self.

The Welsh actor stars opposite Billy Porter in Our Son, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Our Son follows Nicky and Gabriel (played by Luke and Billy, respectively), a married couple who are engaged in a bitter custody dispute over their eight-year-old son, as they inch toward divorce.

Though Luke’s résumé includes starring roles in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty And The Beast and other blockbusters, the actor had not portrayed a gay role in a major film until now.

“I’ve been ready to take that step for ages. I just haven’t found the right story [until now],” he told People. “Divorce is as right for a gay couple as marriage, and I hadn’t really seen that, and when I read it, every time I’ve read the script, I wept.”

Billy Porter (left) and Luke Evans star in the new drama "Our Son," which debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.
Billy Porter (left) and Luke Evans star in the new drama “Our Son,” which debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

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He went on to note: “So I just thought, ‘Maybe this is a good time, and this is a good role to pick up and do.’”

These days, Luke is in a relationship with boyfriend Fran Tomas, a graphic designer from Spain. The couple made their red carpet debut at a UNICEF event in December.

Still, the actor has endured criticism in recent years amid claims he’d been reluctant to make a statement about sexuality as his Hollywood career was on the rise.

“My career was public, I was photographed, and all that stuff,” he told Attitude magazine in 2020.

“My personal life just became the last thing that I had. Also, what was strange was that when people did find out that I was gay, there was a lot of articles and stuff written saying that I was hiding it, and I wasn’t.”

Luke Evans (left) and boyfriend Fran Tomas.
Luke Evans (left) and boyfriend Fran Tomas.

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Raised a Jehovah’s Witness, Luke left his home and religion at age 16 in order to pursue an acting career.

In his chat with Attitude, he said that decision made speculation he’d deliberately stayed closeted more hurtful: “I just wanted to get online and I wanted to pick up the phone and say, ‘Do you realise I left home at 16 because I was gay?’ I went into the world as a kid, because I had to.”

As for Our Son, Luke described working on the film as “traumatic at times, painful at times, very real, very visceral and very relatable”.

“You don’t have to be gay to enjoy this or understand this story,” he explained to People. “Families break up all the time, but this is the story of hope, and how they get through it, and how a new chapter is started, but a different kind of chapter.”

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Victoria Coren Mitchell Starts Beef With The New York Times Over New Word Game

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On Monday, the US newspaper’s associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu launched a trial version of a new game called Connections, which joins a large number of successful apps, including Wordle, in the NYT stable.

“Very excited to share the game I’ve been working on, Connections! I’ve loved making it, and hope you enjoy playing,” Liu wrote.

The tweet prompted Coren Mitchell to throw shade at the Old Grey Lady (the newspaper’s nickname).

“Do you know this has been a TV show in the UK since 2008?!,” the presenter asked in Liu’s replies. “It’s so similar I guess you must do?”

The newspaper’s game asks quizzers to bring together apparently random words that have been set on a four-by-four grid.

By contrast, the BBC show’s connecting walls round asks quizzers to bring together apparently random words that have been set on a four-by-four grid.

Only Connect has been running since 2008, for a total of 436 episodes across 18 seasons.

In any case, the feud fired up social media. Senior writer for Only Connect, Mike Turner, wrote: “If you need a hand at all, I’ve written over 750 of these for Only Connect.”

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Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer-Winning Author Of The Road, Dies Age 89

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Cormac McCarthy, the novelist known for his Southern Gothic stories, died in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday at 89.

His publisher, Knopf, confirmed his death to Publishers Weekly.

McCarthy was one of the most celebrated novelists of his generation, considered by literary critic Harold Bloom to be as influential as Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth.

Born in 1933 in Rhode Island, McCarthy spent most of his young life in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father, Charles Joseph McCarthy, worked as a lawyer. He attended the University of Tennessee on and off before dropping out for good in 1959. He had a short-lived marriage to Lee Holleman, who divorced him after the couple had a child, Cullen.

In 1965, the author’s debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published. The book featured several tropes that would recur in much of the author’s work: father-son relationships; dark, Southern settings; and biblical allusions.

On a trip abroad, McCarthy met his second wife, Anne Delisle, and wrote his second book, Outer Dark. He and Delisle lived together in Tennessee before separating in 1976, when McCarthy moved to El Paso, Texas. While there, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (aka a “Genius Grant”), and wrote several of his best-known novels, including Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award.

After McCarthy moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his third wife, Jennifer Winkley, and their son, John, he was inspired to write The Road on a visit to El Paso in 2003. He later explained in an interview with Oprah that the novel was inspired by his relationship with his son. Winkley and McCarthy later divorced.

The Road would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and to be adapted into a film. McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men was also adapted into a movie directed by the Coen brothers, whose work the author has explicitly praised.

After a 16-year break, McCarthy published two intertwined novels in late 2022: The Passenger (October) and Stella Maris (December).

McCarthy was deeply private and little else was known about his private life. At the end of his biography page on the Cormac McCarthy Society’s website, the fan club wrote, “Except for a few odds and ends (his favourite novel is Melville’s Moby-Dick; he doesn’t care for the work of Henry James, he doesn’t like to talk about writing, etc.), that’s more or less what we know about Cormac McCarthy”.

Indeed it is, aside from the impressive body of work he’s left behind.

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Jennifer Lawrence Admits She Was An ‘Accidental Bully’ In High School

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Jennifer Lawrence admitted she was an “accidental bully” to someone in school and still keeps track of the person.

“I was an accidental bully because I pantsed this kid named Tyler,” the star said in an interview with E! News last week while promoting her new movie, No Hard Feelings.

“We were, like, pantsing people at a football game and I accidentally grabbed his underwear and he got really embarrassed,” Lawrence explained.

“I feel really bad, I like sometimes Google him,” she continued. “Just to be like, ‘You all right?’”

No hard feelings, Tyler? We’ll have to see.

The Hunger Games actor also said she was bullied herself by one girl, who she named with no remorse.

“This one girl named Meredith handed me a stack of invitations to her birthday party, but I was not invited,” she said, as her co-star Andrew Feldman gasped and exclaimed, “Oh my god!”

“She asked me to hand them out. Isn’t that so mean?” Lawrence said, adding: “It’s fine, I spit on them and threw them in the trash.”

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While Lawrence may or may not be drawing on her past school experiences for her new movie, she told Vogue last year “so many of my films in the past have been about my mother, my childhood”.

And now that she’s a new mom, she told the outlet, she wonders “what will happen now that I’ll be witnessing somebody else’s childhood”.

“And I wonder what he’s going to be talking about with his therapist,” she said. “She wouldn’t put me down. She kisses me on the mouth. She asked me not to go to college.”

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