As a young, single British guy crossing the Atlantic for a career in the United States, I was extremely curious about the dating life that was in store. After all, I'd watched my fellow countrymen in film and literature charm the hell out of beautiful American women. If a bumbling buffoon like Hugh Grant could steal Julia Roberts' heart in Notting Hill, anything was possible. It was the summer of 2006 when I first landed in New York as a 19-year-old, laden with warnings about American girls: they're high maintenance, my friends told me. Read More...
A 31-stone killer who stabbed his girlfriend to death over a row about messy eating has been released from Italian jail because the prison can not provide the low-calorie diet he needs to slim down.
Dimitri Fricano, from Biella in northern Italy, killed 28-year-old Erika Preti on a Sardinian holiday in June 2017, stabbing her 57 times because she had scolded him for leaving 'too many crumbs' on the hotel bed. Read More...
As a former child star, Chloë Grace Moretz is well acquainted with Hollywood misogyny. At 15, she was fat-shamed by a male co-star; a year later she was encouraged to wear a push-up bra. Moretz’s new movie – the Sundance prize-winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post – is masterminded by the director Desiree Akhavan. Being a queer woman of colour, the film-maker belongs to a demographic that is all but invisible in cinema. Read More...