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EastEnders’ Laura Doddington reveals “hardest ever” challenge as co-stars show support

EastEnders’ Laura Doddington reveals “hardest ever” challenge as co-stars show support

Published by Sam Flores

Eastenders star Laura Doddington has swapped Nicola Mitchell’s high heels for some running shoes, all for an extremely good cause. The actor has shared on Instagram that she will be running in the 2026 London Marathon in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK. Sharing a set of pics in her charity running jersey, Laura explained that she has been balancing training with her work on the soap and is just five weeks out from the challenge. Laura wrote: “Well it seems like it is now time to share the news. I am running the London Marathon 2026 for @alzheimersresearchuk I have 5 weeks left of training to go and it’s safe to say that this feels like the hardest thing I have ever done in my whole life. Related: Best streaming services UK 2026 “Training has been horrendous, especially in the weather we have had, not to mention trying to fit it in around Nicola and her heels! “But the struggle I am facing is nothing compared to those dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia.” Laura signed …

Laura Phipps Named Director of Gochman Family Collection

Laura Phipps Named Director of Gochman Family Collection

Published by Jenni Sidey

Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s five curatorial consultants. Phipps joins the GFC after nearly two decades at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She started there as an intern in 2009, and by the time she left she was an associate curator, having organized shows like “Flatlands” in 2016, which featured work by five then up-and-coming painters, and, more recently, “Sixties Surreal” and  “Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: Memory Maps,” which included several loans from the Gochman collection. Related Articles “Laura understands that contemporary Native art is central to American art history,” said GFC creative director and curator Rachel Martin in a statement about Phipps’s appointment. “Her collaborative, artist-first practice reflects our belief that collections can function as living, responsive ecosystems.” Her role with the GFC will involve much more than …

Laura Kuenssberg Confronts Iranian Ambassador Over Protester Killings

Laura Kuenssberg Confronts Iranian Ambassador Over Protester Killings

Published by Sam Flores

Laura Kuenssberg has confronted a senior Iranian officials over his government’s killing of thousands of protesters. Up to 36,500 civilians are estimated to have been murdered by the regime following by ordinary people an uprising in January. On the BBC this morning, Kuenssberg asked Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, how he could justify his government’s brutality towards its own people. She said: “Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own people in the streets who had the courage to stand up to protest against the suffering that they have been experiencing at the hands of the regime. “Thousands of people were killed. How on earth do you justify that, ambassador?” Ali Mousavi admitted Iran “has our own problems”, which he blamed on western sanctions imposed on the country. And he insisted all Iranians were now united following the military action launched on the country by America and Israel. He said: “Our people are in a very painful and sensitive period of time, but they are supporting the government …

Call the Midwife’s Laura Main and Helen George are this week’s cover stars

Call the Midwife’s Laura Main and Helen George are this week’s cover stars

Published by Daniella Wilson

This week’s RT is a bittersweet issue. Bittersweet because it marks the end of the latest series of Call the Midwife. It’s a drama that has anchored Sunday nights each winter since 2012, and has been lapped up at “Law Towers” from the start. Your letters to RT suggest we are far from alone. Few series inspire such loyalty and such affection. We spoke to showrunner Heidi Thomas about her decision to “pause” the show and what it means to draw breath after 15 years. Thankfully, this is not a full stop. With a Second World War prequel plus a feature film in development, the world of Call the Midwife – or CTM, as we affectionately call it in the office (publishing, like the Army, does love an abbreviation) – looks set to evolve rather than disappear. The timing feels apt: Sunday 8 March is International Women’s Day, and also in this issue we’ve asked brilliant women writers to interview some of the actresses and authors behind this week’s other eagerly awaited dramas, from the …

‘American Classic’ review: Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s theater love letter

‘American Classic’ review: Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s theater love letter

Published by Sam Flores

The lovely, funny “American Classic,” premiering Sunday on MGM+, is a love letter to theater, community and community theater. Kevin Kline plays Richard Bean, a narcissistic stage actor. He’s famous enough to be opening on Broadway in “King Lear,” but he has to be pushed onstage and is forgetting lines. After he drunkenly assails a hostile New York Times critic — caught on video, of course — he’s suspended from the play, and his agent (Tony Shalhoub) advises him to get out of town and lay low until the heat’s off, as they used to say in the gangster movies. Learning that his mother (Jane Alexander, acting royalty, in film clips) has died, Richard heads back to his small Pennsylvania hometown, where his family — all actors, like the Barrymores, but no longer acting — owns a once-celebrated theater. To Richard’s horror, it has, for want of income, become a dinner theater, hosting touring productions of “Nunsense” and “Forever Plaid” instead of the great stage works on which he cut his teeth. Brother Jon (Jon …

The male gaze: Laura Mulvey ‘very gratified’ her phrase has lasted so long – Perspective

The male gaze: Laura Mulvey ‘very gratified’ her phrase has lasted so long – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 19/02/2026 – 16:03Modified: 19/02/2026 – 16:04 07:24 min From the show Reading time 1 min The woman who first theorised the idea of the male gaze has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her delight that her theories still resonate so much today. British feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey first wrote her essay back in 1975. But she says the phrase captured the popular imagination and has found its place in other areas of the arts. She spoke to us in Perspective about the positive and negative changes her theories have brought about. By: Source link

Hollywood Lawyer Laura Wasser and Reformation Drop Divorce Collection

Hollywood Lawyer Laura Wasser and Reformation Drop Divorce Collection

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. The divorce attorney to the stars (think Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and Ariana Grande, to name just a few) is stepping into a new role as the face of L.A.-based, sustainable fashion brand Reformation’s latest campaign: The Divorce Collection With Laura Wasser. Available to shop online beginning Feb. 17, the clothing and accessories drop features a lineup of empowering wardrobe essentials, including the star of the show: Laura Wasser for Ref’s limited-edition Dump Him Sweatshirt. Laura Wasser x Reformation Dump Him Sweatshirt XS-XL. “100% of the net proceeds of the sweatshirt will go to the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, to support their work in helping people dump him safely, responsibly, and at no cost,” writes Reformation on the product page. “Dump him” is printed in black font on Reformation’s best-selling Emma Classic Crewneck Sweatshirt in heather gray. It features a relaxed fit and crew neckline, and retails for $128. The …

Laura Dern recalls ‘crazy’ fallout after Ellen DeGeneres’ historic coming out episode: ‘There were bomb threats’

Laura Dern recalls ‘crazy’ fallout after Ellen DeGeneres’ historic coming out episode: ‘There were bomb threats’

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 Laura Dern has reflected on the dangerous aftermath of appearing in Ellen DeGeneres’ landmark coming-out episode of her sitcom, Ellen. In April 1997, the Marriage Story actor played DeGeneres’s love interest for a revelatory, two-part episode, in which DeGeneres came out as gay, making her the first lead queer character in U.S. TV history. Speaking to Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers on their Las Culturistas podcast, Dern said it took “years” for the world to see the cultural impact of the TV moment, despite the cast expecting an immediate positive reaction from viewers. When the episodes aired, Dern said that the assumption was, “You’re going to do this thing and thank God people will wake up, love their relatives and their neighbors, see them, …

Laura Kim Toasts to Lunar New Year With Her Monse Partner Fernando García and a Mah-Jong Cake

Laura Kim Toasts to Lunar New Year With Her Monse Partner Fernando García and a Mah-Jong Cake

Published by Sam Flores

On Wednesday night, fashion designer Laura Kim invited her nearest and dearest over to her Lower East Side apartment for her version of a Lunar New Year celebration. There were a few deviations from ancient traditions—Kim’s dinner, which she prepared herself, came with custom cocktails incorporating cognac from Maison Martell and a guest list that combined over 4 million Instagram followers. Kim, wearing a fuzzy pink sweater and studded jeans, was joined by Fernando García, her design partner at Monse and, until recently, Oscar de la Renta, influencer and restaurateur Ezra J. William, Max Mara’s SVP of marketing and communications Judgie Graham, Felicia Quaning, and socialite and model Nicky Hilton Rothschild. They all took off their fashionable shoes and put on slippers that Kim laid out in her entryway as they entered her home. García and Kim with the mah-jong dessert from Empire Cakes. Lauren Cowart Rothschild recently relocated to London with her husband and three children, but she was back in town for a slew of New York Fashion Week commitments. She was traveling …

Laura Loomer must resume payments to Muslim advocacy group, judge says

Laura Loomer must resume payments to Muslim advocacy group, judge says

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — A federal judge ordered far-right influencer Laura Loomer to resume her monthly $1,200 payments to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which Loomer was originally ordered to pay in a settlement reached after her failed lawsuit against the Muslim advocacy group. After multiple appeals, the ruling affirms Loomer’s requirement to pay CAIR and its Florida chapter the remaining balance of a nearly $125,000 settlement from a lawsuit the influencer brought against the organization in August 2019, alleging that CAIR Florida had conspired with the social media company then known as Twitter to ban her from that platform. Loomer had stopped the payments in December 2025 after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egypt-based Islamist organization, as foreign terrorist organizations. The governor had written that providing contract, employment or funds to these organizations would be considered “material support.” On Thursday (Jan. 29), the court denied Loomer’s request to cease payments based on DeSantis’ executive order. Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida, who …