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Cross My Heart I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold

Cross My Heart I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold

Revenge stories usually promise catharsis. Mallory Arnold promises catharsis and then quietly bolts the door behind you. Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold takes a premise you have seen on a hundred paperback covers, the scorned women plotting payback, and hauls it up a frozen mountain until the payback becomes something far nastier than anyone bargained for. It is loud, gory, funny in the wrong places on purpose, and built for readers who like their thrillers with a body count and a wink. If you came to watch a con man squirm, you get your wish. Just do not expect the mountain to let anyone leave clean. One Cabin, Three Exes, and a Man Worth Hating The hook does most of the heavy lifting, and it earns its keep. Nora, Ruby, and Cham are strangers with one humiliating thing in common: the same boyfriend, a charming leech named Jason who has been dating, draining, and lying to all three of them at once. When the women collide and compare notes, the …

Ride or Die star Hannah Waddingham reveals truth behind tense photographer exchange

Ride or Die star Hannah Waddingham reveals truth behind tense photographer exchange

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Hannah Waddingham has revealed the truth behind her decision to rebuke a photographer at a red carpet event, explaining that she had known the man for 20 years. In 2024, the Ted Lasso and Ride or Die star was set to host the Olivier Awards and, upon arriving at the event, posed for photographs outside the Royal Albert Hall But she was left visibly frustrated when a member of the press asked her to “show me leg”, telling him: “Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man, my friend. Don’t be a d***, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show me leg.’ No.” ‘There was an overfamiliarity’: Hannah Waddingham on viral rebuke of photographer at Olivier Awards (Getty Images) Waddingham, 51, has now said that, while the photographer was not “a friend”, she has “known him for 20 years” …

In ‘Ride or Die’ and ‘Lucky,’ women are on the run and in on the action

In ‘Ride or Die’ and ‘Lucky,’ women are on the run and in on the action

Two thrillers, unalike in style and attitude yet with much in common, arrive Wednesday to television. “Ride or Die” on Prime Video stars Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer in a gal-pal road-movie action comedy. “Lucky” on Apple TV features Anya Taylor-Joy as a con artist on the run. In each series, a large sum of money has disappeared, endangering those who know or supposedly know where it is. In each, the protagonist(s) will be sought by both police and gangsters yet will lose their own money and have to get along without any while on the run. A minor character will be tortured over a question they can’t answer; an attacker will be dispatched with a sharp object driven into his ear. Someone will be drugged. Characters will question their path in life. There will be chase scenes, vehicular and pedestrian — but when aren’t there? Each does its particular similar thing very well. In the eventful, rollicking “Ride or Die,” created by Tessa Coates, Judith (Waddingham) and Debbie (Spencer) have been friends for more …

Ride or Die review: An action comedy that’s predictable, but fun

Ride or Die review: An action comedy that’s predictable, but fun

A star rating of 3 out of 5. What happens when you find out that your best friend of 25 years isn’t who they say they are at all? And that, instead of the forensic accountant she’s purported to be, she is in fact an assassin? That’s the premise of this Prime Video comedy starring powerhouses Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer. Judith Burton (Waddingham) and Debbie Claybourne (Spencer) are best friends who spend their evenings shimmying away to Salt-N-Pepa, pretending to finish novels for their book club and enjoying regular shopping sprees. Yet unbeknownst to Debbie, Judith is in fact a contract killer who has managed to keep her international job a secret…until now. But when a figure from the past lures Judith into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game across Europe, she must come clean about her true identity in order to protect Debbie. There’s strong support in the cast from Cathy Tyson (Blue Lights), Savannah Steyn (House of the Dragon), Ed Skrein (Deadpool) and Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049) – and surprising appearances from Bill …

My holiday from hell: I expected a glamorous week on a catamaran – but spent the whole time hoping not to die | Life and style

My holiday from hell: I expected a glamorous week on a catamaran – but spent the whole time hoping not to die | Life and style

It started so well. A catamaran full of loved ones floating into the azure, taking pics, feeling glam, anticipating the sun sinking over the yardarm. I’d been reunited with my sister and family, who live in Australia, for the first time in three years, after Covid. Her husband, a fearless Australian giant, had got into sailing and offered to take me and my then 77-year-old mum, along with their three teens, out in the south of France for my sister’s 50th birthday. I knew sailing could get rough – my dad capsized us at the mouth of the River Dart when I was little – but it’s not every day you get such a generous invitation. How could I resist? It was October. I was manifesting warm, gentle conditions, but instead the wind blew ferociously and stubbornly the wrong way. Before we knew it, we were charging up mountainous waves, then crashing into the void beyond. Our captain calmly steered while I sat below, feeling as if I was in a disaster movie, at which …

Hannah Waddingham, Octavia Spencer tease Bill Nighy’s Ride or Die role

Hannah Waddingham, Octavia Spencer tease Bill Nighy’s Ride or Die role

If the cast of Prime Video’s new action comedy Ride or Die wasn’t starry enough with its two leads being Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer, the series also features Love Actually legend Bill Nighy in a key role. Nighy plays a character known only as The Director in the action-adventure comedy series that follows a secret assassin, Judith (Waddingham), and her relationship with her best friend Debbie (Spencer) after a hit goes wrong. Speaking exclusively with Radio Times, Waddingham and Spencer teased what we can expect from Nighy’s role. “He is the director of my character’s agency,” Waddingham said of Nighy’s character. “He is the lord high executioner of all, and just reigns with a delicate, elegant level of fear. There really wasn’t anyone else who could have played this role. His economy of movement on screen is so compelling, and he just had all of us eating out of the palm of his hand.” “And he was the person that she [creator Tessa Coates] had written the role for,” Spencer added. “And listen, we’ve …

Everything we know after three die and many severely harmed by consultant at London hospital

Everything we know after three die and many severely harmed by consultant at London hospital

A review has found that three people died and others suffered permanent harm while being treated by a consultant at a south London hospital who gave outdated and incorrect medical advice. Dr Veronica Varney, a respiratory consultant at St Helier Hospital in Sutton, south London, withheld proven treatments for patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD), while recommending therapies with no scientific basis. An investigation by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) found she gave patients unsupported medical advice, including recommending they avoid the flu or Covid-19 vaccine and to avoid rapeseed oil. According to an investigation by Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, there were serious and widespread failures. The Trust found that she acted unilaterally and failed to refer 42% of her patients to the specialist ILD multidisciplinary team. Around 30% of Dr Varney’s patients received no treatment at all for their lung disease and 20% of cases were not adequately investigated diagnostically. Here’s everything we know about the investigation: How many people were impacted by Dr Varney’s failures? A total of …

NFL players 4x more likely to die due to neurodegenerative disease

NFL players 4x more likely to die due to neurodegenerative disease

Football has long sold a contradiction: elite strength, elite conditioning, elite survival. But beneath that picture, a much darker pattern has kept surfacing. Former NFL players, despite lower death rates overall, are dying from neurodegenerative diseases far more often than expected. The broad result was unusual and stark at the same time. NFL players had lower mortality than the general population from cancer, cardiovascular disease, injury, suicide, and death overall. Yet their mortality from neurodegenerative disease was nearly four times higher. “This is the clearest population-level evidence we have ever had that NFL players are dying due to neurodegenerative disease at real and measurably higher rates,” said co-senior author Daniel Daneshvar, chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School and director of the HealthSpan Lab. Flowchart of study inclusion. (CREDIT: EClinicalMedicine) He added that across “every official cause of death,” the pattern held: “NFL players are dying of dementia and Parkinson’s disease three to four times more often than they should.” A healthier group, except for brain disease Among …