Most people who look at Match of the Day host Gary Lineker would have no difficulty recognising that the man is white – and so it’s little surprise that he was mocked after revealing in a podcast interview that he suffered “racist abuse” due to his “darkish skin” throughout childhood and at moments in his professional footballing career. While he immediately qualified his comments with the...
The foreign secretary, Liz Truss, is playing with fire. On Wednesday night she described Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “rogue operator” lacking rationality, and with “no interest in international norms”. As a result, she said: “We will keep going further and faster to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine.” She is clearly revelling in her imagined proxy war on the Russian bear and no one in...
Boris Johnson is a law unto himself. His housemaster at Eton noted his belief that he should be treated as “an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else”. He rarely encounters a rule without feeling the urge to break it. Know this and you are well on the way to understanding why the government engaged in grubby scheming to undermine parliament’s anti...
FANS of Matthew Perry were thrilled for him when he revealed he was getting married. But we are sad to announce that Molly Hurwitz is now the Friends star’s EX fiancée after it was revealed the couple had split. Who is Molly Hurwitz? Molly is a 29-year-old American talent manager and producer. She works for a company called Zero Gravity Management. Molly is based in New York and LA. Why did...
The Kardashians’ crisis management team has desperately attempted to completely remove the snap from the internet – even sending out “legal threats” to take down the bikini shot. However, the picture of the 36-year-old in a leopard-print string bikini from this past weekend has continued to be widely shared on the internet. Now, a source close to the famous family exclusively told The Sun that...
SIENNA Mae Gomez is a TikTok star and part of the Hype House collective. Here is what we know about her and the recent allegations that have surfaced. Who is Sienna Mae? Sienna Mae Gomez is known as a body-positive TikToker who is a member of the content collective the Hype House … She has more than 21 million followers on her two TikTok accounts. The 17-year-old star, who is also a competitive...
IT’S long been thought that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but science believes model, actress and TV presenter Kelly Brook is still the world’s most perfect figure. Researchers at the University of Texas have yet again checked out their data from several years ago, and decided the Kent lass is perfect in almost every way. They conducted another study and found the Rochester born model, now...
The online fashion retailer Asos is the new owner of Topshop and other leading brands from Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire after a £330m deal that puts thousands of jobs at risk. The deal also includes Topman, Miss Selfridge and the activewear brand HIIT, which were put up for sale after Arcadia collapsed into administration last year. Asos, which only operates online, has not agreed to buy any...
There has been such a lot of noise around Sally Rooney’s work, such an amount of fervour and possibly manufactured division. “The cult of Sally Rooney,” says one headline. “Why do so many people hate Sally Rooney?” asks another. The discussion cannot be about the quality of her sentences, which are impeccable, or about her tone, which is thoughtful, often sweet-minded and always rigorous. This is...
Eve Babitz, the Hollywood bard, muse and reveller who with warmth and candour chronicled the excesses of her city in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers, has died. She was 78. Babitz biographer Lili Anolik confirmed that she died of complications from Huntington’s disease on Friday afternoon, at a Los Angeles hospital. Few writers captured a time and place so...