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Marianne Faithfull was far more than that infamous story

Marianne Faithfull was far more than that infamous story

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Marianne Faithfull is watching an old interview, in which Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham is asked about “discovering” her. “Is it literally possible that you can go to a party and pick up someone with no evident talent and make a star of her?” Oldham chortles. “Er, yes.” “Maybe it was good for me,” Faithfull says, of her reaction upon first seeing that interview. “Because maybe I thought… ‘I’ll show you, you c***.’” Faithfull, who died in January 2025 at the age of 78, certainly did show Oldham, and the rest of the world. Her extraordinary life, much of which was lived out under the relentless glare of the media, was one of rebellion and resilience. Now, it’s the subject of a milestone docu-drama, Broken English, that sets out to “recalibrate” a legacy that has, too often, been overshadowed by Faithfull’s association …

The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski review – a delicious comfort read | Fiction

The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski review – a delicious comfort read | Fiction

Published by Sam Flores

Angela Tomaski’s debut novel is a delicious comfort read about loyalty and despair, and a gentle questioning of the nature of progress. Crumbling stately home Thornwalk is on the verge of becoming a luxury hotel. The ancestral owners are all dead – with the exception of a pair of rapacious cousins, naturally – and the only person left to mourn is the loyal valet (and maybe more?) of the old master. Maximus, last guardian of the house, guides the reader on a final tour through Thornwalk, and the lost lives, loves and brass buttons of the titular Gilberts: Lydia, the eldest girl, desperate to fall in love; Hugo, the stubborn eldest son; “poor little Annabel”, dreaming of writing; quiet runaway Jeremy; and unstable actor Rosalind. He takes us, room by room, trinket by trinket, stain by stain (blackcurrant to blood) through 100 years of family life before it is all lost for ever. Inspired by the National Trust’s 2002 purchase of Tyntesfield, a sprawling gothic mansion outside Bristol acquired just weeks after the death of the reclusive resident baron, Tomaski’s debut is a …

Stephen Colbert gives a breakdown of McDonald CEO’s infamous burger launch

Stephen Colbert gives a breakdown of McDonald CEO’s infamous burger launch

Published by skeptic

What should have been a simple product launch video went a bit wrong for McDonald’s recently, with CEO Chris Kempczinski receiving a fair bit of attention for the tentative bite he took of a new burger on the menu. In the Late Show clip above, Stephen Colbert breaks down the launch video bit by bit — starting with Kempczinski referring to the burger as a “product”. “OK, weird to refer to food as ‘product’. Kids, you eat your product! If you don’t I swear to God I will send you to bed with no content!” says Colbert, before pausing to acknowledge the impressive job done by food influencers: “I just want to take this moment to apologise to influencers. It turns out what you do is incredibly difficult.” Finally, Colbert plays a clip of the bite itself, and Kempczinski’s “that is so good” comment. “Really? Because it looks like you took the smallest possible bite in the history of human chewing,” says Colbert. “That’s the bite you take when your three-year-old say, ‘Try the cookie …

More Importantly, What Was the Weather Like During JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Infamous Park Fight?

More Importantly, What Was the Weather Like During JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Infamous Park Fight?

Published by Jenni Sidey

I’m having a lot of fun watching Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, but as someone who is not obsessed, fascinated by, or even particularly interested in the Kennedy family or John Jr. and Carolyn, I’m not watching with a keen eye for lore and doing the Leo-in-Once Upon a Time-point meme the way the rest of you are every time the show faithfully recreates a paparazzi photo or references something iconic. Of course I’ve seen the infamous photos of John and Carolyn barking on each other in the street, because I have a pulse and an Instagram account, but it wasn’t until I noted the title of this week’s episode, “Battery Park,” that I realized that this particular recorded argument was A Thing. As dramatized by writer Kim Rosenstock and director Crystle Roberson Dorsey, it’s a great sequence in its own right, occasionally moving, even (the way Sarah Pidgeon casually says she doesn’t believe in marriage but is down to do it with John only to tearfully exclaim “Oh my God” as she …

Margot Robbie reveals she was once kicked out of ‘infamous’ Infernos nightclub in Clapham

Margot Robbie reveals she was once kicked out of ‘infamous’ Infernos nightclub in Clapham

Published by Daniella Wilson

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 Hollywood star Margot Robbie has revealed she was “kicked out of Infernos and most of the clubs in Clapham” during her time living in London. The 35-year-old Australian actor, speaking on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware, did not disclose why she and her friends had been ejected and even banned from various venues in the south London area. The actor, who stars in the new Wuthering Heights film, explained: “We were doing a job in Belgium where I met them (her roommates in Clapham), and they would tell me about the infamous Infernos, ‘this place is so fun, you can’t get kicked out of there, you can do anything in Infernos, and you can’t get kicked out’. “And I was like, ‘wow, that sounds like paradise’, and so we all had a weekend in London when the …

Ghislaine Maxwell email appears to confirm infamous Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photograph is real

Ghislaine Maxwell email appears to confirm infamous Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photograph is real

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Ghislaine Maxwell appeared to confirm the infamous photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his accuser Virginia Giuffre is real, in newly released documents. Ms Giuffre, writing in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, said she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take the picture of her with the disgraced former prince at Maxwell’s house on the same night she alleged Andrew had sex with her for the first time, while she was aged 17. Andrew has always denied the claim. In 2019, in an interview with BBC Newsnight, he denied meeting Ms Giuffre and questioned the photograph’s authenticity. In the document released as part of the latest tranche of Epstein files, a “G Maxwell” sends an email to Epstein titled “draft statement” in 2015. It reads: “In 2001 I was in London when [redacted] met a number of friends of mine including Prince Andrew. A photograph was taken as …

Jason Biggs showed his son the infamous American Pie scene to ‘get ahead’ of awkward conversations

Jason Biggs showed his son the infamous American Pie scene to ‘get ahead’ of awkward conversations

Published by Daniella Wilson

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 Jason Biggs has revealed that he showed his eldest son his iconic (and highly awkward) American Pie scene before there was any chance his son could find out about it any other way. Biggs, 47, best known for playing Jim Levenstein in the four-film sex-comedy series, recently shared that he and his wife, fellow actor Jenny Mollen, find that their sons, Sid, 11, and Lazlo, eight, are frequently asked about their famous parents. “They kept hearing about American Pie and pie and [asking], ‘Daddy, what do you do with the pie?’ and I had to have a conversation with my oldest,” Biggs recalled on an episode of Radio Andy’s Julia Cunningham Show. “I actually showed him the scene. Jenny and I talked about this, and we were like, ‘We want to get ahead of this.’” In the franchise’s first 1999 film, …

Steve Coogan on how his Irish identity drew him to an infamous bust-up | Ents & Arts News

Steve Coogan on how his Irish identity drew him to an infamous bust-up | Ents & Arts News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Steve Coogan says he doesn’t want to fully be part of the British establishment because you cannot “get rid of the history which weighs heavily on all of us”. The 60-year-old actor is of Irish heritage – his mother was born in Ireland and so were his paternal grandparents. He tells Sky News during an interview for his new film Saipan that his ancestry has shaped his view of the world for the better. Image: Coogan plays Mick McCarthy in Saipan Pic: Aidan Monaghan “I don’t feel fully like I want to be part of the British establishment because I feel like, you know, I’m not a royalist by any amount because I see them as a symbol of a sort of colonial approach to the world of which the Irish were nationally victims, historically, and that stuff matters in the way you view things. “It served me well, I think. I like the feeling of being outside the establishment and having an Irish heritage helps with that. I think it’s good creatively not to …

Brooklyn Beckham told to ‘grab Victoria’s hips’ during infamous wedding dance that had Nicola Peltz ‘in tears’

Brooklyn Beckham told to ‘grab Victoria’s hips’ during infamous wedding dance that had Nicola Peltz ‘in tears’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more DJ Fat Tony has shed light on Victoria Beckham’s “inappropriate dancing” at her son Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding to Nicola Peltz. In an explosive post shared this week, Brooklyn Beckham, 26, shared his side of the story regarding a long-rumoured feud with his family. In it, he alleged that his parents, David and Victoria, “have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship” with actor and heiress Peltz, whom he married in 2022 at a lavish Palm Beach ceremony. Speaking about his mother, the oldest Beckham son claimed that she “hijacked my first dance with my wife” at the wedding, stating the former Spice Girl “danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone”. DJ Fat Tony, real name Tony Manorch, who was in attendance at …

Why is this infamous iceberg turning blue?

Why is this infamous iceberg turning blue?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Iceberg A-23A is looking a little blue these days. In late December 2025, NASA and NOAA’s Terra satellite spotted the massive iceberg covered with blue meltwater. A-23A is one of the largest and longest-lived bergs ever tracked by scientists, but is at risk of completely disintegrating as it drifts through warm Southern Atlantic waters. The satellite image of iceberg A-23A taken on December 26, 2025. Image: NASA. In 1986, the flat-topped iceberg broke away from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf. Back then, it was over 15,000 square miles—almost twice the size of the state of Rhode Island. Today, the United States National Ice Center estimates the iceberg’s area is around 456 square miles. While that is much smaller than its original size, it still makes it bigger than New York City. In July, August, and September of 2025 iceberg A-23A saw some sizable breakups as it moved into the Southern Hemisphere’s relatively warm summer conditions by December. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging …