The Traitors creator on why celebrities want to take part in game show

17 octobre 2025 à 14:37

The Traitors creator has shared one of the main reason celebrities and contestants want to take part in the popular game show.

Keith Urban forced to cancel concert over health issue amid Nicole Kidman divorce

The Independent

Par :Amber Raiken

17 octobre 2025 à 14:36

Urban is expected to continue his tour Friday in Nashville

Brigitte Bardot, 91, reportedly in hospital with ‘serious illness’

The Independent

Par :Greg Evans

17 octobre 2025 à 14:34

French film star has reportedly been in hospital for the past three weeks

Cook This: 3 southern Italian recipes from La Cucina di Terroni, including fried pizza pockets

National Post

Par :Laura Brehaut

17 octobre 2025 à 14:00

Our cookbook of the week is La Cucina di Terroni by Toronto restaurateur Cosimo Mammoliti with Milan-based Canadian food and travel writer Meredith Erickson. Read More

Tummy-flipping kisses and a chlamydia love story: TV’s best ever romcoms

The Guardian

Par :Lucy Mangan · Russell T Davies · Rebecca Nicholson · Jack Rooke · Stuart Heritage · Adjani Salmon · Kate Abbott · Mhairi McFarlane · Juno Dawson · Hollie Richardson · Alex Lawther · Harriet Kemsley · Stefan Golaszewski · Rachel Aroesti · Jack Seale · Alexi Duggins and Hannah J Davies

17 octobre 2025 à 14:00

To celebrate the return of charming hit Nobody Wants This, romcom superfans like Russell T Davies and Jack Rooke pick their favourite shows. Prepare to be swept off your feet!

It’s perfect, that’s all. It’s got the perfect meet-cute (boob, crashed car, injured dog); the perfect combination of realism and romance (especially for non-romantics like me); the perfect heroine (neither the hot mess nor the manic pixie dream girl we are so often forced to accept); the perfect hero (laid-back but not lazy, older but not creepy, patient, not a pillock) and perfect writing.

Baek Se Hee: Author of ‘I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki’, dies aged 35

The Independent

Par :Shahana Yasmin

17 octobre 2025 à 13:46

Writer’s memoirs about living with depression became an international success and helped open public discussion on mental health

Little Simz review – hip-hop visionary radiates joy and Gallagher-level swagger

The Guardian

Par :Amelia Fearon

17 octobre 2025 à 13:43

Co-Op Live, Manchester
Switching from full-arena singalongs to horn-blaring funk to sweaty Detroit techno club vibes, the rapper is at the very top of her game

Pop stars often stumble along the fine line between confidence and arrogance (see Taylor Swift’s latest opus), but north London’s rap visionary Little Simz appears to be in perfect balance. Should anyone decide to challenge the songwriter’s self belief – or as she names it in the hit single Selfish, “heritage ego” – this week’s back-to-back arena gigs prove her hard-earned place at the forefront of Black British music is warranted.

Before she walks on to the stage, 90s baby pictures of an even littler Simz flash on the drop down screens, before we flick through the years to an awkward yet adorable teenager with her first guitar. It all leads to the present, where tonight she is an honorary Manc in a khaki overcoat, swinging her arms behind her lower back with plentiful Gallagher swagger: “Missed you!” She radiates joy and gratitude, but the live show does not shy away from her life’s trials, and she confronts the fallout of a messy public financial dispute with menacing metaphors and a slick vengeance that slips readily from her tongue.

Jennifer Lawrence recalls ‘humiliating’ nude dance scene with Robert Pattinson in new film

The Independent

Par :Greg Evans

17 octobre 2025 à 13:42

Actors were challenged to do interpretative dance lessons by director Lynne Ramsay

Kate Garraway shares her view on Celebrity Traitors’ tactics

The Independent

Par :Hannah Roberts

17 octobre 2025 à 13:18

Add to playlist: Conna Haraway’s deeply detailed dub techno and the week’s best new tracks

The Guardian

Par :Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

17 octobre 2025 à 13:00

Listening to Shifted, a new EP from the Glasgow producer, is like running your hand over cool, subtly textured slate tiling

From Bath, now based in Glasgow
Recommended if you like Porter Ricks, Basic Channel, Robert Hood
Up next Manchester and Glasgow DJ sets this weekend, a China and Japan tour in November, and new collaborative project Department releasing an album in November

As autumn paints the British air, skies and seas grey-white, it’s time to colour-match your soundtrack accordingly. Dub techno is something I always reach for at this time of year, cold but with a crackle of heat at its heart. Pioneered in the early 90s and blending stern techno with kindlier ambient and the sagely nodding offbeat of dub, it has been a deep, slow current in dance culture ever since and still has excellent new proponents such as Purelink, Cousin and the Glasgow producer Conna Haraway (who also heads up the labels co:clear and Index:Records).

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Guardian

Par :Laura Wilson

17 octobre 2025 à 13:00

Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan; The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves; The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer; Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet; The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek

Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan (Zaffre, £20)
Dismissed from his role as a back-room boffin in the British secret service, Major Boothroyd, AKA Q, returns to his market-town roots in Khan’s excellent James Bond spin-off. This Q is currently in his 50s; his backstory includes a fling with Miss Moneypenny, and emotional baggage in the form of his retired history don father. What’s drawn him home is the mysterious drowning of his old friend, quantum scientist Peter Napier, who has left him an encrypted note; although the coroner has ruled the death to be accidental and Q’s old flame, DCI Kathy Burnham, is not minded to reopen the case. The stakes here are worthy of the Fleming canon – Napier’s revolutionary work may have terrible consequences – and even if you’re not a Bond fan, you can’t fail to enjoy this solidly plotted and unexpectedly funny blend of nostalgia and new technology.

The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves (Macmillan, £22)
Bestseller Cleeves’s latest novel is billed as the return of Jimmy Perez, as Perez and his life partner DI Willow Reeves, now living on the Orkney Islands with their young son, team up to solve a murder. It’s nearly Christmas when Jimmy’s old friend Archie Stout is found dead at the site of an archeological dig, felled by a Neolithic stone purloined from the local heritage centre. Suspects soon proliferate: the artist with whom roving-eyed Archie may have been having an affair; teacher and local history enthusiast George Riley; mediagenic archeology professor Tony Johnson, and even the deceased’s wife. With an evocation of place that is second to none, Cleeves keeps the narrative plates spinning beautifully to create a complex plot that takes in both the thorny issue of who controls heritage and the pernicious effects of online misogyny.

Britain’s colonial botany, tiny landscapes and great bohemian outlaws – the week in art

The Guardian

Par :Jonathan Jones

17 octobre 2025 à 13:00

Small worlds go under the microscope, botanical art is investigated, and renegades come in for a reckoning – all in your weekly dispatch

The Singh Twins and Flora Indica
A look at the colonial history behind British botany, plus a survey of Indian botanical art in the age of the East India Company.
• Kew Gardens, London, until 12 April

Pentagon sparks criticism after dismissing Netflix’s gay military drama Boots as ‘woke garbage’

The Independent

Par :Tom Murray

17 octobre 2025 à 12:55

‘Boots’ follows a closeted gay teenager who enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps

Vicky Pattison says Strictly wardrobe malfunction left her ‘stressed out and angry’

The Independent

Par :Greg Evans

17 octobre 2025 à 12:43

Pattison says that last ‘Saturday was a disaster from start to finish’

Des fans de Kaamelott ont fait une sacrée découverte avant la sortie du film Volet 2 Partie 1

Numerama

Par :Julien Lausson

17 octobre 2025 à 12:23

Arthur Kaamelott

Ces derniers jours, des internautes ont résolu une énigme que l'on pouvait voir dans le trailer du film Kaamelott Volet 2 Partie 1. Ils ont saisi le sens d'une étrange inscription sur un mur. On ne spoilera pas sa signification, mais la piste suivie est la bonne.

Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35

The Guardian

Par :Ella Creamer

17 octobre 2025 à 12:04

The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a million copies worldwide

Baek Se-hee, the author of the hit self-help memoir I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, has died at the age of 35.

According to the Korean organ donation agency, Baek saved five lives through the donation of her heart, lungs, liver and both kidneys.

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins

The Guardian

Par :William Dalrymple

17 octobre 2025 à 12:00

The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present

As a ceasefire brings a measure of peace to the Dresden-like hellscape that Gaza has become, it is time to take stock of all that has been lost. The human cost of what the UN commission of inquiry recognises as a genocide is of course incalculable, but fewer are aware of how much rich history and archaeology has also been destroyed in these horrific months. This is bolstered by the widespread assumption that Gaza was little more than a huge refugee camp built on a recently settled portion of desert. That is quite wrong. In reality Gaza it is one of the oldest urban centres on the planet.

Golda Meir famously declared that “there was no such thing as Palestinians”, but the reality is very different. Palestine is actually one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself. Palestine was an established name for the coast between Egypt and Phoenicia since at least the second millennium BCE: the ancient Egyptian texts refer to “Peleset” from about 1450BCE, Assyrians inscriptions to the “Palashtu” c800BCE, and Herodotus c480BCE to “Παλαιστίνη” (Palaistinē). This was all brought home to me as I worked, with my co-presenter Anita Anand, on a 12-part series on Gaza’s history for the Empire podcast.

‘Smell is a language’: Máret Ánne Sara on why Tate’s Turbine Hall whiffs of frightened reindeer

The Guardian

Par :Elizabeth Fullerton

17 octobre 2025 à 11:46

As Sámi culture is threatened by the climate emergency and hostility from Nordic nations, the artist has built a structure of resistance: a labyrinthine artwork of animal pelts and bones based on a reindeer’s nasal passages

Visitors to Tate Modern are used to unusual encounters in its vast Turbine Hall. They’ve sunbathed before an artificial sun, slid down helter skelters and witnessed AI-powered robotic jellyfish floating through the air. But this is the first time they will be taking a deep dive into a reindeer’s nose. The latest artist commission for the cavernous space – by the Indigenous Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara – invites gallerygoers into a labyrinthine structure based on the scaled-up interior of a reindeer’s nasal passages. Once inside they can meander round or chill out on reindeer hides, listening on headphones to Sámi elders telling stories and imparting knowledge.

Why the nose? It might sound whimsical but the installation pays tribute to a little-known natural marvel: scientists have discovered that in under a second, the reindeer’s nose can heat the surrounding air it inhales by 80 degrees celsius, enabling the animal to survive in inhospitable Arctic temperatures. Scaling the nose up to larger than human size, Sara says, “creates a sense of inferiority that you as a human being are not dominant over nature”. The artist is a former journalist, children’s author and land defender, who comes from a reindeer-herding family in northern Norway. “Maybe that creates the potential to shift your perspective or trigger some humbleness,” she adds.

Sam Fender releases new song with Elton John, one day after Mercury prize win

The Guardian

Par :Ben Beaumont-Thomas

17 octobre 2025 à 11:39

John plays twinkling piano part in new song Talk to You, and says he ‘truly loves’ the Geordie singer-songwriter

Sam Fender has released a new song with Elton John entitled Talk to You, the day after winning the 2025 Mercury prize for his album People Watching.

It features a twinkling piano line laid out by John, amid Fender’s full-bodied guitar-led songwriting. Fender sings on the chorus “Just wanna talk to you / Wanna talk with my best friend / Wanna let go of everything that I carry”, and has said the song is about: “the end of a long relationship – about the regret, the mistakes and the lessons that come with it. It’s that feeling of losing your best friend, and coming to terms with that. I was playing around with the riff and thought, ‘What I need is a really good pianist’, and then, ‘Hmmm, I wonder who I can call?’ And of course, who better than Elton John?”

Photographer Graciela Iturbide: ‘Working with my heart is the only rule – nothing else’

The Guardian

Par :Salomé Gómez-Upegui

17 octobre 2025 à 11:02

The revered 83-year-old Mexican photographer talks about her groundbreaking career as she celebrates her first ever retrospective in New York

If you’re at all familiar with contemporary Latin American photography, you’ve probably encountered the unforgettable image of a Zapotec woman crowned with live iguanas, radiating quiet, unshakable dignity. Captured in 1979 by Graciela Iturbide, Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán was neither planned nor staged. It was taken on impulse, guided by the artist’s instinct and deep respect for her subject, and has since become a touchstone of Mexican visual culture and feminist photography.

“What drives my work is surprise, wonder, dreams, and imagination,” Iturbide recently told the Guardian.

Tame Impala: Deadbeat review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week

The Guardian

Par :Alexis Petridis

17 octobre 2025 à 11:01

(Columbia)
Australian indie’s breakout star takes a dancefloor diversion, but amid the four-four fun are fears about fame’s effect on his domestic life

In May, Dua Lipa introduced a special guest at her Sydney gig: Kevin Parker, who duetted with her on a version of The Less I Know the Better, the biggest hit Parker has ever released under the name Tame Impala. The pair have a longstanding creative relationship – Parker co-produced and co-wrote most of Dua Lipa’s last album, Radical Optimism – but nevertheless made for quite the study in contrasts. She was resplendent in a glittering lace catsuit, stiletto-heeled boots, a fake fur stole draped over her shoulder. Lank-haired, clad in a baggy multicoloured cardigan and a string of wooden beads, Parker looked not unlike a man who had arrived onstage direct from a very long night up at Glastonbury’s stone circle.

You could see it as a visual metaphor for Parker’s unlikely journey to pop’s upper echelons which began, improbably enough, while he was listening to the Bee Gees while tripping on magic mushrooms. The experience prompted him to pivot away from the guitar-led psychedelia of Tame Impala’s first two albums and embrace his love of “sugary pop music” on 2015’s Currents. As evidenced by the success of its single The Less I Know the Better – 2bn streams on Spotify and counting – the record vastly outsold Tame Impala’s previous work. Moreover, a succession of mainstream pop stars decided they wanted some of what it had to offer. Parker subsequently worked with Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Travis Scott and the Weeknd among others. Last year, he cropped up on the Australian Financial Review’s list of his homeland’s richest under-40s.

Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’

The Guardian

Par :Joelle Taylor

17 octobre 2025 à 11:01

The poet and playwright on queer classics, cinematic TS Eliot and the comforts of a ghost story

My earliest reading memory
I was around five when my mum first pulled out Clement C Moore’s The Night Before Christmas, a bumper blue book with vivid illustrations. There was such suspense in the poem, such inexorable music, the sonic possibilities matching the mystery.

My favourite book growing up
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. I used to spend every spare moment in Bacup library, Lancashire, bag of sweets to the right and a book open before me. I had read all of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven books, thought Famous Five were all a bit dry, and picked up Weirdstone in a swoon of nine-year-old despair. The darkness was delicious, exciting because many of the landmarks in the story were from my local area.

Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life

The Guardian

Par :Sarah Dempster

17 octobre 2025 à 11:00

Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does feature a Hollywood megastar’s voice

On a well-maintained driveway in an unremarkable suburb of Dublin, a small man in a sleeveless jumper is professing a desire to expand his horizons. “I feel myself getting quieter. More invisible,” says Leonard, blinking up at the night sky. “One thing’s led to another and now I feel like if I don’t do something I’ll just carry on in this …” – he searches for a fitting encapsulation of his life – “… minor, harmless existence.” Hungry Paul – Leonard’s best and, indeed, only friend – considers the implications of this announcement. “Nothing wrong with that, though,” he replies, bathrobe flapping thoughtfully in the breeze. “Better than trying to make a mark on the world only to wind up defacing it.”

For those exhausted by the bluster and rat-tat-tat of today’s TV terrain, here is Leonard and Hungry Paul with a foil blanket and warming mug of Ribena.

Silent Hill f review – fascinating horror game maims the monsters teenage girls face

The Guardian

Par :Keith Stuart

17 octobre 2025 à 11:00

PC, PS5, Xbox; Konami
After an apocalyptic supernatural fog descends, school girl Hinako wakes up in a town populated by psychosexual beasts and gaslighting men in masks

There are some horror games you can finish in a couple of days of intense play; they almost invite that sort of frenzied consumption. But there are others that need to be savoured, and sometimes even suffered. Silent Hill f is in the latter category, which is why our review is somewhat delayed. This slowburn descent into psychological horror is set in 1960s Japan, but it also has pertinent things to say about the modern era and the tendrils of misogyny crawling out of the basement of the culture wars.

Lead character Hinako Shimizu is a school girl in the small conservative town of Ebisugaoka. Her father is a bully who treats his wife like a servant and his daughter like an inconvenience, and her best friend is Shu, a boy who may harbour deeper feelings for her – much to the frustration of another friend Rinko, who has a serious crush on him. It reads like a teen drama, which in a way it is, until an apocalyptic supernatural fog descends on the town and almost everyone goes missing.

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