In a recent BBC Radio 1 interview that went viral this week, the British star shared that she just discovered a brand new “ick” — or a turnoff — thanks to her fiancé, model Jake Bongiovi.
“This morning I was on a flight with my fiancé, and he got a nosebleed,” she said. “And I got the ick.”
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While explaining why she found this so unappealing, she cleverly referred to her famous Stranger Things character, Eleven, who gets nosebleeds when she uses her telekinetic and telepathic abilities.
“Do you know why? One, because he just got a nosebleed at the most inconvenient time,” she said. “We just landed. The seat belt sign was still on. ’He’s doing an Eleven’. I’m like, ‘Calm down.’
“Two, he’s acting as if it’s painful, and I’m like, ‘It’s not painful’.”
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This is not the first time that Millie has discussed her personal icks — and there seem to be quite a few things that she finds unsavoury.
Earlier in the BBC Radio 1 interview, she said that men holding umbrellas give her the ick.
“There’s something about it that just feels really pathetic,” she explained. “I tried to get on board with it. I did try.”
“I do not take pictures of my meals. That is where I draw the line,” she told the magazine at the time.
“My camera does not eat first. I think it’s just ridiculous. Put your phone down, eat your meal. … Never have I ever taken a picture of my food or drink. Cringe!”
Baby Reindeer has quickly become the biggest word-of-mouth TV hit of the year so far, and it’s not hard to see why.
The Netflix miniseries depicts the complicated true story of creator Richard Gadd’s years-long ordeal with a female stalker.
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He wrote and stars in the series as Donny alongside Jessica Gunning, who has won huge acclaim for her nuanced performance as stalker Martha.
Fans of the show have been shocked to discover just how much of the series is steeped in truth, but there are plenty more behind-the-scenes facts that make Baby Reindeer an even more incredible watch…
First of all, yes, Baby Reindeer is all based on a true story
Undoubtedly one of the most shocking things about Baby Reindeer is that it’s all based on a real life stalking ordeal creator Richard Gadd endured for around four-and-a-half years of his life.
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Everything from Donny and Martha’s first meeting in the pub, her relentless texts and emails, and the darker chapters – including his sexual assault – are based on truth.
Among the most disturbing details about the show is that all the emails Donny receives in the show are verbatim copies of the real correspondence.
Richard received a total of 40,000 emails, 740 social media posts and 350 hours’ worth of voicemails from his real stalker, and each email in the show is chillingly depicted word for word.
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However, it’s important to note that not everything depicted in Baby Reindeer is a ‘carbon copy’ of real life
While many details of the show are true to Richard Gadd’s own experiences, the writer has insisted that the show is not an exact recreation of people and events exactly as they happened.
“A lot of it is very true, and all of it is emotionally true,” he told Gay Times. “Obviously, we can’t carbon copy people and identities, for various artistic and legal reasons. But, it is certainly based in emotional truth and lots of the action you see in it happened for real.”
In particular, Richard Gadd wanted to ensure the identity of his real stalker was protected
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The subject of Richard’s real life stalker has inevitably intrigued fans after watching the show – to the point where he’s even pleaded with viewers not to speculate online.
He previously insisted that measures were taken to ensure her identity remained unknown.
“I honestly couldn’t speak as to whether she would watch it,” he told GQ. “Her reactions to things varied so much that I almost couldn’t predict how she’d react to anything. She was quite an idiosyncratic person.
“We’ve gone to such great lengths to disguise her to the point that I don’t think she would recognise herself. What’s been borrowed is an emotional truth, not a fact-by-fact profile of someone.”
Baby Reindeer started life as a one-man stage play
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Before viewers were binge-watching Baby Reindeer on Netflix, Richard was performing a stage version of his story in a one-man Edinburgh Festival Fringe show in 2019.
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In that version, Martha was represented by an empty bar stool.
“It was me and a stool — Martha was a stool and I carried the stool around stage and I’d move her into different positions,” Richard told Variety.
“So to bring it from a 70-minute monologue into seven episodes, multiple characters, different strands and plot lines, it was a massive undertaking and a load of pressure.”
It later transferred to the West End and even won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement In Affiliate Theatre.
Richard’s early stand-up comedy really was as bad as his on-screen counter-part’s
Donny’s comedy routines in Baby Reindeer are… interesting, to say the least. Decked out in elaborate costumes and a suitcase of wacky props, the actor’s struggling comedy career forms the backdrop of the show.
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It turns out that his old stand-up performances really did resemble what we see in the screen. In an interview with the Guardian, he recalled the strange “juxtaposition” of his “tormenting” personal life, with his more mad-cap stage performances.
He added that, while audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe “love weird stuff”, those routines wouldn’t go down so well on the regular comedy circuit.
“I’d perform on the comedy circuit 11 months out of the year, to silence, because people expect more stuff that they see on TV,” he explained.
“Especially if they pay a high ticket price, they want to see dependable, seasoned, veteran comedians, and there’s this guy who’s taping ears to his nose, and they’re thinking: ‘This isn’t what I paid for.’”
Speaking in a video feature for Netflix, he elaborated that “the stand-up in the earlier years was terrible”, adding that he was trying to do “a weird brand” of “anti-comedy”.
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Richard said he always had Jessica in mind for the part of Martha, telling ITV’s Lorraine: “I’d always seen Jess in various different shows and always thought that every role you did, you brought this kind of amazing nuance to it – always elevated everything you were in.”
He added that it was “something about your essence on camera that made me think, ‘this is Martha, we have to get her in.’”
Jessica had an interesting approach when it came to the audition process
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In the lead-up to her audition, Jessica was leaving nothing up to chance.
“Usually I kind of leave it up to the universe – ‘If I’m right for this part, I’m right for this part,’” she told Vanity Fair. “But I had such a strong response [to the script].”
She even went so far as to have a makeup artist friend help age her appearance, so she could convince the show’s creators she could play an older character.
However, the two-decade age gap featured in the original Baby Reindeer play was eventually reduced by Netflix.
Jessica’s performance was so impressive Richard would find himself getting distracted on set
“To see Martha come alive through Jess’ performance, it was something to behold,” Richard shared in a Netflix video feature. “There were times on set when I was acting with her, I’d almost forget to say my line back, because I was too busy going, ‘Fucking hell she’s good’.”
He added that he “almost couldn’t believe how much she was channelling the real life person”.
It wasn’t exactly easy for Jessica to switch Martha off after a day of filming
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Jessica has revealed that bringing Martha to life wasn’t without its challenges..
“I always used to roll my eyes slightly when actors said ‘Oh god, it took me a week to say goodbye,’ but because this is obviously based on a true story, and I know Richard now, I wanted to do the part justice so much I think I was constantly with her all the time in my head,” she told Metro.
“Even when there were days I wasn’t in, I was thinking of Martha and the story, just wanting to do the best I could do,” Jessica added.
“In that aspect, I didn’t really let go of her until we finished filming. I couldn’t really put her to bed.”
Martha’s email address also contains a hidden reference to a classic show
All of Martha’s emails on the show come from an address resembling a spam account, but the seemingly scrambled sequence is not random at all.
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Journalist (and Lost superfan) Jacob Stolworthy pointed out on X that those numbers are in fact the infamous cursed numbers from Lost.
Baby Reindeer: the ‘random series of numbers like spam’ used in the stalker’s email address are, in fact, the cursed numbers from LOST pic.twitter.com/JksoAJwLJs
One scene shares a key filming location with another of Jessica Cunningham’s biggest projects
While Donny initially tries to limit his dates with Teri to a dingy cocktail bar, she eventually coaxes him into a night out with her at London’s iconic LGBTQ+ venue the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
These scenes were filmed at the real RVT, which also served as a filming location in All Of Us Strangers starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal.
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Funnily enough, the bar was previously used as a shooting location in another project Jessica Gunning appeared in – 2014’s Pride, about a group of gay activists who set out to help during the 1984 miners’ strike.
Other projects that have been shot at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in recent history include Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie and Danny Boyle’s miniseries Pistol.
Richard Gadd has an interesting theory about one of the show’s most important scenes
Donny is first introduced to Martha when she enters the pub where he works in tears. As a gesture of kindness, he gives Martha a cup of tea on the house. It’s the catalyst to the whole saga – but it’s never detailed why she was so upset in the first place.
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Appearing on This Morning, host Cat Deeley asked Richard if he knew what prompted the real “Martha” to come into his pub so upset.
“No, but I questioned it all of the time,” he said, before sharing his own idea. “I wondered if it was the end of her stalking relationship with someone else and the start of it with me.”
Nava Mau actually learned ballet to play Teri
It turns out the cast of Baby Reindeer did not cut any corners with the show.
One brief scene in episode five shows Teri demonstrating her ballet skills to Donny in her apartment. Although it’s a fleeting moment for viewers, this choreography wasn’t just thrown together – Nava actually learned ballet.
Speaking to Gay Times, she shared: “Every single day on set, I was doing something I had never done before, whether that’s technical or emotional. I had to learn ballet!”
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Baby Reindeer made use of an intimacy coordinator in to make sure everything was handled sensitively
The Baby Reindeer crew brought in the expertise of intimacy coordinator Elle McAlpine, who has previously worked on huge productions like the Oscar-winning Poor Things and Netflix’s One Day.
Nava Mau told GQ it was “really helpful to have a third person” brought into the show’s unique dynamic.
“She had some great little tips for some of the intimate scenes on how to perform them in a way that felt true and connected,” she added.
One scene in particular was ‘traumatic’ for everyone involved
There are plenty of moments in Baby Reindeer that make for difficult viewing, but one scene was especially challenging for the whole cast.
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In episode three, Martha catches Donny and Teri on a date, which triggers her to confront and brutally attack Teri. Richard told Gay Times that this scene was “traumatic for everyone”, explaining: “I saw them do that fight scene, rolling around on the floor take after take.”
He added that Nava’s character was required to cry for “10 minutes straight”. It was especially challenging for her because she had “experienced violence like that” before.
She explained: “Even if I didn’t want to relive it, your body inevitably reactivates a certain physical memory. You have to take care of yourself, before, during and after. That’s the only way through it, otherwise it can reopen wounds that you’ll need to deal with.”
“I had physical recall in my muscle memory from when I’ve been attacked like that,” she later revealed to Glamour.
However, Nava did also tell the magazine that co-star Jessica had her “cracking up” between takes while filming their fight sequence.
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“It was such a blessing that I met Jess for the first time when we were doing our stunt training,” she said. “And she was the most lovely person you could ever meet.’
The ending was deliberately ambiguous
Baby Reindeer doesn’t end on the good-triumphs-over-evil kind of climax we’re more used to seeing in other TV series.
Instead, the final scene finds Donny on the receiving end of a familiar act of kindness when a barman offers him a free drink – mirroring the first episode. It’s an ending that’s open to all kinds of interpretations, which was very much deliberate on Richard’s part.
“I quite like the ambiguity of the ending, I sort of don’t want to put a meaning on it. I think it can be interpreted in a lot of different ways,” he told the Radio Times.
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“I know what it is in my head – that ending’s my favourite thing in the whole series, the way it ends.”
Baby Reindeer is available to watch on Netflix now.
The most recent film in the Jurassic Park franchise debuted on Netflix UK just days ago – and quickly leapt to the top of the streaming platform’s list of most-watched films.
While admittedly it didn’t exactly get the warmest reception from critics upon its release, it was still a hit at the box office, which has seemingly now translated into viewers tuning in on Netflix.
And if watching Jurassic World Dominion has got you in the mood to revisit the rest of the adventure saga, here’s where the rest of the series is streaming.
Throwing it right back to the acclaimed original film, you can catch the epic Jurassic Park on Now or Sky Cinema.
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Staying in the 1990s, Steven Spielberg’s follow-up The Lost World was somewhat more coolly received at the time, with the third film in the series, titled simply Jurassic Park III, faring even less well with critics.
However, if you’d still consider them an essential part of your Jurassic rewatch, you can catch both of them on Amazon Prime Video.
The series was rebooted more than a decade later with 2015’s Jurassic World, considered by many to be a return to form for the dinosaur film saga.
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Like the first Jurassic Park movie, this one is also available to watch on Now and Sky Cinema, while follow-up Fallen Kingdom, which reintroduced Jeff Goldblum to the series, is streaming on Netflix.
Oh… and if you wanted to check out the animated spin-offs Chaos Theory, Camp Cretaceous or the interactive Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure, they’re also on Netflix now, while 2019’s short film Battle At Big Rock is available to watch on YouTube below:
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Courteney Cox recently revealed that she once went to a therapy session with the intention to fix her relationship with her current partner, Johnny McDaid, but was hit with a devastating surprise instead.
During a Wednesday appearance on the podcast Minnie Questions, the Friends star told host Minnie Driver that she was completely caught off guard when Johnny – who was her fiancé at the time – ended their relationship during a therapy session that took place a few years after they began dating.
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“We broke up, and it was really intense. We broke up in therapy, I didn’t know it was coming,” Courteney said.
“Whether I should have or not… we went to this therapist to talk about our boundaries, what we could and couldn’t accept about each other.”
She later continued: “Instead, he just broke up within the first minute.”
Courteney said that she was “so shocked” and in “so much pain” from the breakup.
“I also don’t like surprises,” she said. “And he’s an incredible human being, so he wasn’t trying to surprise me. He was in that much pain in the relationship.
“There was that much that needed to be dealt with, that he had to protect himself around his heart.”
Courteney and Johnny began dating in 2013, and announced their engagement the following year. In 2015, they shared with the public that they called off their engagement, but they later confirmed their reconciliation in 2016.
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Courteney also said in the podcast episode that she worked on herself after her breakup with the Snow Patrol singer, and that she was ultimately “so thankful” for the temporary split.
“When we got back together, it was a different relationship,” she said.
In September, Courteney celebrated on Instagram her 10-year anniversary with a slideshow of photos of them together. She shared that the two were introduced to each other by Ed Sheeran.
“10 years!!!!” she captioned the post.
Courteney celebrated Johnny’s birthday in July last year, by sharing on Instagram an edited photo of the singer that depicted him looking older with grey hair.
“Happy birthday my sweetheart. Good to know that when you’re older… you’ll actually look older than me,” she captioned the post.
Emma Stone would like everyone to finally address her as Emmanuella Gertrude Stonebreaker III, already.
Just kidding! That is by no means her real name — but neither is Emma.
During a joint interview for The Hollywood Reporter with her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder published on Wednesday, Fielder told the outlet he was going to refer to Stone as “Emily” instead of “Emma”.
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Stone has explained in the past that although her birth name is Emily Stone, she had to change it while earning her Screen Actors Guild card because there was already an actor named Emily Stone in the union.
After Fielder declared he’d be using Stone’s real name throughout the interview, the outlet asked if anyone else in the industry calls her by her real name.
“When I get to know them, people that I work with do. It’s just because my name was taken [by another actor in SAG]. Then I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily’,” she said, noting that Fielder also calls her “Em.”
When THR asked whether she’d like it if a fan called her “Emily,” the Poor Things star gave a resounding yes.
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“That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily,” Stone said.
Stone isn’t alone in being somewhat irked by the overuse of their stage name.
Anne Hathaway was born Anne Hathaway, but prefers to be referred to as her nickname, which is Annie.
Janet Jackson has revealed she came close to playing an iconic superhero character on the big screen.
During a new interview on Drew Barrymore’s US talk show, the five-time Grammy winner was asked about long-held rumours that she was “almost in The Matrix”, though she claimed this was not the case.
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However, the That’s The Way Love Goes singer did have another close call with a major film role.
“Ooooh, this is horrible,” Janet began. “I can’t remember the film, but Halle Berry played Storm.”
A stunned Drew then asked whether this meant that her guest was almost cast in the X-Men movies, to which she confirmed: “I couldn’t, because I was just embarking on the Janet. tour, but I think that’s what you’re confusing [The Matrix] with.”
Back in 2021, Gabrielle Union claimed she had an audition of her own for The Matrix, for which she decided to channel Janet Jackson – only for the woman herself to wind up arriving in the audition room, too.
“The same audition and I’m cosplaying as Janet,” Gabrielle joked during an appearance on James Corden’s now-defunct talk show.
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Meanwhile, Drew matched Janet’s story with an anecdote of her own about how she turned a major movie offer in the mid-1990s.
“I have so many of those experiences,” the Charlie’s Angels star said. “Mine was… I’ve never said this out loud… Boogie Nights. There was a moment where we were talking about Boogie Nights.
“I think it’s when I went and did Ever After. I went in a very different direction.”
Watch Janet Jackson being interviewed by Drew Barrymore below:
The UK edition of Rebel Wilson’s new book will feature a censored version of her account of working with Sacha Baron Cohen.
Last month, the Pitch Perfect star made headlines when she posted a cryptic video on Instagram, in which she teased that a chapter of her new memoir Rebel Rising would see her speaking about an undisclosed “asshole” co-star.
At the time, a spokesperson for the Borat creator told HuffPost UK: “While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production…”
The Guardian has now reported that a chapter of Rebel’s book titled Sacha Baron Cohen And Other Assholes reads: “SBC summoned me via a production assistant saying that I was needed to film an additional scene. What followed was the worst experience of my professional life. An incident that left me feeling bullied, humiliated, and compromised.
“It can’t be printed here due to peculiarities of the law in England and Wales.”
According to the news outlet, the rest of the page is “blacked out”, as are select sentences in the remainder of the chapter.
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UK publisher HarperCollins told The Guardian: “We are publishing every page, but for legal reasons, in the UK edition, we are redacting most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note. Those sections are a very small part of a much bigger story.”
Meanwhile, Sacha’s representative said: “[HarperCollins] did not fact check this chapter in the book prior to publication and took the sensible but terribly belated step of deleting Rebel Wilson’s defamatory claims once presented with evidence that they were false.
“Printing falsehoods is against the law in the UK and Australia; this is not a ‘peculiarity’ as Ms Wilson said, but a legal principle that has existed for many hundreds of years.”
They added: “This is a clear victory for Sacha Baron Cohen and confirms what we said from the beginning – that this is demonstrably false, in a shameful and failed effort to sell books.”
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Rebel recently told The Times she felt “disrespected” and “humiliated” on the set of Grimsby due to her appearance, claiming she felt “like I was something to be laughed at and degraded because of my size”, and that her character was “demeaned” in certain scenes.
The Times noted that Sacha had “refuted” his former co-star’s version of events.
Rebel first opened up about her working relationship with Sacha during a 2014 radio interview with KIIS FM.
“Sacha is so outrageous,” she said at the time, as reported by Australia’s Courier Mail outlet.
“Every single day he’s like, ‘Rebel, can you just go naked in this scene?’ And I’m like, ‘No!’.”
She continued: “On the last day I thought I’d obviously won the argument and he got a body double to do the naked scene.
“Then in the last scene … he was like, ‘Rebel can you just stick your finger up my butt?’ And I went, ‘What do you mean Sacha? That’s not in the script.’
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“And he’s like, ‘Look, I’ll just pull down my pants, you just stick your finger up my butt, it’ll be a really funny bit’.”
Rebel concluded: “You don’t wanna be a diva so I [said] I’ll slap you once on the butt and that’s it.”
The elder statesmen of high-octane Hollywood action famously competed throughout the ’80s and ’90s and sat down to dish on the extreme lengths they went to for a joint interview titled TMZ Presents: Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons.
“As soon as I saw him, it was like, ‘Bang, two alphas hitting’,” Sly recalled to moderator and TMZ founder Harvey Levin. “If we walked into a party, we’d be staring at each other for a few seconds, and then, ‘I got to get that guy. He didn’t do anything wrong, but he will’.”
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While Sylvester said Arnie’s rise helped “motivate” him, and the Terminator actor agreed his fellow action star “was very helpful” as someone he could “chase” after, Arnold admitted he “started this whole thing” by “saying stupid things” and “being competitive”.
“It was kind of like, ‘Well, what was your body fat?’” he recalled asking Sylvester. “And I was down to 7%, so I said I was down to 10%. So it became a competition with the body. Then he started using machine guns that were huge machine guns.”
“I was running after him,” Arnold continued. “He was not running after me. So I said, when we did Predator — you got to get a machine gun that is normally mounted on a tank or in a helicopter — I said … I got to have a bigger machine gun than he used in Rambo.”
Their competition had started much earlier at the 1977 Golden Globes, however, when Sylvester’s Rocky won Best Film after Arnold claimed the New Actor of the Year award for Stay Hungry. Sylvester said that he “lost it” when Rocky won.
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“I literally went and picked up this entire bouquet of flowers and tossed them straight up in the air, sort of aiming toward [Arnold’s] side of the table,” he said. “And it all comes down, he’s sort of sitting there [thinking] … [he] just threw down the gauntlet.”
The most insidious incident came in the early ’90s, however, when Arnold used certain sources and Hollywood agents to pretend he was circling Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, a mother-son buddy cop movie, only to ensure it landed in Sylvester’s lap.
“I was, of course, absolutely in heaven,” Arnold said. “I felt like the only way that I could catch up with him was if he stumbled. It was psychological. This is a whole thing about Hollywood — when you’re always as good as your last movie.”
The action icons have long patched things up, even carving Halloween pumpkins together in 2022. Arnold said he admires Sylvester for his emotional vulnerability and “dedication and passion,” only for Sly to respond in kind.
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“He’s like a chess player. You don’t know what’s going on, but he gets it done,” he said of the former California governor.
“And he really does have a big heart, he does. I mean, you wouldn’t think it because we’re ‘action guys,’ but we’re more emotional than a lot of more dramatic actors, trust me.”
“I should have a Ph.D. in masturbation,” she told the magazine, where she went into great detail about why her me-time matters so much to her.
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“TMI, but self-pleasure is an enormous, enormous part of my life, and a huge, huge help for me,” the Bad Guy singer shared.
“People should be jerking it, man. I can’t stress it enough, as somebody with extreme body issues and dysmorphia that I’ve had my entire life.”
Billie told Rolling Stone how masturbating in the mirror has helped her tackle those issues, saying that “watching myself feel pleasure has been an extreme help in loving myself and accepting myself, and feeling empowered and comfortable”.
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“Partly because it’s hot, but it also makes me have such a raw, deep connection to myself and my body,” she explained. “And have a love for my body that I have not really ever had.
“I got to say, looking at yourself in the mirror and thinking ‘I look really good right now’ is so helpful.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Billie said talking about sex is “literally [her] favorite topic.”
The two-time Oscar winner told Rolling Stone she finds the subject more empowering than salacious, saying: “People are so uncomfortable talking about it, and weirded out when women are very comfortable in their sexuality and communicative in it.”
“I think it’s such a frowned-upon thing to talk about, and I think that should change,” she added.
For more of Billie’s bedroom philosophy, read the full interview at Rolling Stone.
Kim Kardashian does not have six toes, but she did confirm a few other details about herself on Jimmy Kimmel’s US talk show on Monday night — and a handful are pretty kooky.
Near the end of their chat, Jimmy decided to ask the Skims owner if a few “interesting” rumours about her were true or not.
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The reality TV star was game, and Kim confirmed two pretty banal facts about herself: She knows how to change a tire, and she washes her feet every night before going to bed.
But she also admitted that she blow-dries her jewellery before putting it on.
“Because I hate being freezing,” Kim explained. “And when you put on cold jewellery or like anything with a zipper — I just need it warm.”
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OK, sure, we kind of get that, but nothing can explain the weirdest tidbit Kim confirmed — which is that she makes someone else take the cardboard sleeve off her Starbucks coffee because she hates the sound the cardboard makes.
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“Yes … and I hate the feeling,” Kim admitted.
She said she doesn’t even like watching the sleeve come off.
“The cardboard getting moved off the cup is like nails on a chalkboard to me,” she explained.
Most of the rumours Jimmy mentioned turned out to be accurate — except the myth that she has six toes, which was at least one thing she was able to debunk.
“Were some of these not supposed to be true, but they really are, and you guys didn’t know?” she joked.
Elsewhere on Monday’s edition of Jimmy’s, Kim did admit that she once made a workout video with an extremely cheesy name. Check out the video above!