Claudia Winkleman is what women want to be
What is it about The Traitors host that makes her a hero to so many?
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The rise of AI Face
Age-defying facelifts are reshaping what is aesthetically acceptable – and biologically possible
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The secret world of joke writers
I can make you funny – but at whose cost?
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Celebrity Traitors is obsessed with the past
The show’s line-up seems to have been selected from a decade ago. But that’s nothing to fret about
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Remembering Terence Stamp
The film legend and celebrated memoirist has died, aged 87.
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How Pamela Anderson broke modern feminism
While women attack female celebrities online, the patriarchy marches on.
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Addison Rae and the art of AgitPop
Her public persona is one of a starlet propped up by a Warholian cabal.
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Why celebrity surrogacy announcements provoke such anger
Lily Collins has become a lightning rod for outrage and dismay in the fraught territory of fertility.
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The problem with “open secrets”
Also this week: Netflix tackles the Corby toxic waste scandal and polyamory admin.
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America’s impotent elite
Gone are the days when Hollywood could decide elections.
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The internet’s superiority complex
We know that being online can make us feel worse about ourselves – but we also do so to inflate…
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The Victoria’s Secret show belongs to a chauvinist past
The lingerie brand’s fashion show has returned after six years away – but, no longer able to sell the priapic…
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Liam Payne was a victim of the pop pin-up machine
The dream that One Direction represented now seems an obvious nightmare.
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Ricky Gervais is turning into David Brent
The comedian is condemned for being a culture warrior. The truth is much sadder.
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2023: the year fandom went feral
“Stan culture” has reached new heights of invasive obsession, delusion and misogyny.
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The death of the celebrity profile
It used to be a major journalistic event, but the glossy magazine interview is now a dull, corporate PR exercise.
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The confessions of Robbie Williams
A new Netflix series can’t explain how the singer’s bombastic, revealing songs made him the self-flagellating poster-boy of a generation.
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The celebrity chef is dead
In the era of the post-heroic kitchen, the restaurant prevails as the brand over the celebrity’s name.
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Matthew Perry was brave to speak about addiction without full recovery
We love a reformed addict story, but admitting to the existence of failure can be a freeing gift to someone…
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The faux-intellectualism of celebrity memoir
Publishers may have attempted to turn this once trashy genre into something more serious, but gossip prevails.
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