Paramount+ was the one who finally to be that “somebody”, with the first two instalments of the result, the succinctly-named Dating Naked, now available to stream.
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Fronted by Rylan Clark, the show sees a group of singletons moving into a Love Island-esque summer paradise, and exploring the possibility of romance while completely starkers the whole time.
So far, critics have widely panned Dating Naked, with one-star reviews in a number of outlets, and words like “tedious”, “attention-seeking” and “banal” all being thrown around.
Here’s a selection of what critics have had to say (including a smattering of positive reviews, too)…
“[The only] vaguely entertaining thing about Dating Naked is that it’s hosted by Rylan Clark, who remains clothed and only says ‘I feel a bit overdressed’ once. Otherwise, it’s one heavily constructed reality show ding-dong after another, as partnerships are thrown together and discarded quicker than a cardigan at the door… [This] is a load of bollocks.”
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“There are no redeeming features here, not even host Rylan, whose perma-grin seems stapled to his face as he repeats the same few phrases on autopilot […] Save yourself the bother; even if there’s no actual underwear in sight, this show is still pants.”
“Far from injecting a new lease of life into the weary reality TV format, the nudity renders the whole thing strangely banal and mundane. It’s not really shocking, it’s just a bit tedious and attention-seeking. It’s not sexy, either – it’s too anatomical for that. It’s hard to have any sort of allure when it’s all openly displayed on a platter. If less is more, this is definitely too much.”
“Dating Naked UK isn’t necessarily awful because the contestants are naked. It’s awful and the contestants are naked. Once the novelty has worn off, it’s a dire, derivative reality contest with absolutely nothing to offer.”
“The alarming truth is that after around ten minutes of the first episode the nakedness becomes, for the viewer at least, utterly unremarkable. Honestly, by the end of episode two I’d even stopped making mental notes to not forget the pigs in blankets this Christmas.”
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“Dating Naked is bonkers but extremely watchable. It’s hard to think where reality TV might take us next in the pursuit of something we haven’t seen.”
“Reality TV formats work best when they turn the volume up on real life. If I wanted to watch normal people dating, I can do that down the Slug and Lettuce any night of the week. It’s why programmes such as Dating Naked are essential.
“I have seen two early episodes of the Paramount+ show and it is fascinating what the dynamic of being nude brings to conversation.”
The first two episodes of Dating Naked are available to watch now on Paramount+.
The BBC has confirmed that Jermaine Jenas has left the broadcaster with immediate effect.
On Thursday afternoon, The Sun was the first to report that the former England midfielder had been dropped from his usual spots on the flagship shows Match Of The Day and The One Show.
The tabloid cited an undisclosed “source” who claimed that the BBC made the decision to fire Jermaine after “complaints were raised” about his behaviour behind the scenes.
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A spokesperson has since confirmed: “We can confirm that he is no longer part of our presenting line-up.”
HuffPost UK has also contacted Jermaine Jenas’ team for comment.
Jermaine retired from the world of professional football in 2016, following a knee injury that affected his inability to play the sport, having previously played for Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspurs and England’s national team.
Following this, he made the move into football punditry, and joined the Match Of The Day team, before becoming a permanent part of the One Show’s rotating group of presenters in 2020.
The Sun’s article pointed out that Jermaine was absent when Match Of The Day returned for a new season over the weekend.
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His other TV credits include the reality show Time Crashers, in which famous faces tried out living in different periods from history, Michael McIntyre’s game show The Wheel and the award-winning Apple TV+ sitcom Ted Lasso, in which he made a cameo appearance as himself.
He also fronted a documentary for BBC Three, Teenage Knife Wars, about the prevalence of knife culture among young people, particularly in his home town of Nottingham.
But there’s another movie mystery at the other end of your favourite films, too.
If you look closely after the credits have rolled, you’ll see that the copyright credit is often written in Roman numerals, rather than the regular Arabic numerals we’re all used to.
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That’s not a copyright thing ― books, for instance, usually use regular numbers.
So, why does that change once a story gets on screen?
Amy Glover/ Asako Yuzuki / 4th Estate / 20th Century Fox
Well, part of it has to do with mystery
The “deception theory” of Roman numeral credits suggests that TV and movie studios simply don’t want you to know when their piece of media was first released.
The BBC, for instance, uses the technique. “The convention is not to spell out what year something was made,” the broadcaster wrote on their online news site.
Using Roman numerals means you have to spend a lot of time working out what the date is (or, in the adorable case of this grandmother, Google searching the letters as politely as possible).
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That way, you couldn’t tell the age of repeats or older content.
ABC’s 33 WYTV says there’s also the “why change?” theory ― in other words, TV shows and movies have used Roman numerals for their copyright credits for so long that it just feels pointless to change it.
They also suggest that it could have something to do with physical film ― back in the day, numbers could fade into unreadable forms on physical tape, but Roman numerals held their shape better over time.
Either way, people don’t love it
Researching the reason for the numerals resulted in my seeing many, many disgruntled forum users who hate the quirk.
One Mumsnet member wrote, “it can be frustrating to wait for the credits to roll, only to find that the date appears as a row of Roman numerals which often flash by too quickly to convert them into Arabic (‘ordinary’) numerals.”
A Guardian reader reckoned the technique is used because “most of the audience (unlike Guardian readers of course) will be unable to read them and so will not realise that the film is so old”.
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“I’d bet my non-existent house that most people in the UK can definitely NOT read Roman numerals,” a Digital Spy forum member opined.
Whatever the reason, though, I sort of agree with another Digital Spy forum user ― “it looks cool,” they commented.
Sabrina Carpenter fans’ imaginations are running wild after the Espresso singer appeared to tease a mysterious new collaboration.
The chart-topping star – who is currently gearing up for the release of her new album Short N’ Sweet on Friday – shared a series of pictures on Instagram on Wednesday morning, alongside the caption: “Taste me!”
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One snap in particular has really captured fans’ attention, showing the singer from behind, standing next to a dark-haired female figure.
It didn’t take long for fans to put two and two together and reach the conclusion that Sabrina will be teasing a new collaboration, or at least an interesting co-star in her next music video.
And speculation is already rife about who it could be.
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Other names in the frame include Grammy nominee Lana Del Rey, Water singer Tyla or woman of the moment Chappell Roan, whose hit Good Luck, Babe! Sabrina previously covered in Radio 1’s Live Lounge…
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Meanwhile, another popular theory has suggested that Sabrina might have recruited Jenna Ortega to appear in her next video, based on a few clues…
I’m ready to clown because this really looks like Jenna 👀 The hair, the way she crosses her arms, her height, her waist, and most importantly the nails. Would be super random if it is her but it’s look too much like Jenna to not be Jenna tbh pic.twitter.com/pcsJ5YwtRp
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I’m ready to clown because this really looks like Jenna 👀 The hair, the way she crosses her arms, her height, her waist, and most importantly the nails. Would be super random if it is her but it’s look too much like Jenna to not be Jenna tbh pic.twitter.com/pcsJ5YwtRp
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My top 3 guesses: 1. They’re both Sabrina 2. Tyla (Maybe surprise Collab? Or could just be a Cameo?) 3. Jenna Ortega (has red nails, she’s 5’1, plus they follow each other) pic.twitter.com/Ejk2l8f7nC
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My top 3 guesses: 1. They’re both Sabrina 2. Tyla (Maybe surprise Collab? Or could just be a Cameo?) 3. Jenna Ortega (has red nails, she’s 5’1, plus they follow each other) pic.twitter.com/Ejk2l8f7nC
What if the black hair person is actually sabrina and the blonde hair person is someone else??? Because that doesnt look like her initial ring pic.twitter.com/oJ79zFbNLQ
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What if the black hair person is actually sabrina and the blonde hair person is someone else??? Because that doesnt look like her initial ring pic.twitter.com/oJ79zFbNLQ
Between Lana Del Rey at Coachella, SZA shutting it down at Glastonbury and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour finally hitting UK shores, we can safely say that 2024 has been a big year for live music.
Yet all of that pales in comparison to what has quickly become our favourite festival set of the past year.
Over the weekend, the family-friendly Gloworm Festival took place in Nottingham, with acts and entertainment to keep people of all ages happy.
And really, what says entertainment like a Mr Blobby acoustic set?
Thankfully, TikTok user Kate Monroe Groves was there to do God’s work, capturing the divisive children’s character on camera during his heartfelt rendition of Oasis’ Wonderwall.
What we particularly enjoy is that, while Blobby is probably best known for creating chaos wherever he goes, dragging people to the floor and smashing anything he can lay his polkadot hands on, his cover of Wonderwall is actually an altogether more serious affair, bringing out a more solemn side of the bow-tied anarchist.
“The best headliner you could ever want at a festival,” Kate captioned her clip – which has already been viewed more than two million times since the weekend – and we can’t say we disagree with her.
As it turns out, though, this isn’t Mr Blobby’s first time at the Wonderwall rodeo.
Blobby first went viral when covering the Oasis classic on Radio 2 towards the end of last year, and you’ve come this far, so you might as well treat yourself to that in the video below, too:
“The original logo had 24 stars (for each of the two dozen actors under contract in 1916),” TIME writes.
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Though Paramount says “the meaning behind [the stars] has always been a subject of lore in the industry,” they link out to the same TIME article on their site.
Huh. Why has it changed?
Even if we can’t say for sure the actor theory is true, the company themselves has written that their Paramount+ logo’s constellation hides a sneaky Easter egg.
“The number of stars was reduced to 13 — a star for each letter used when spelling ‘Paramount Plus’,” their site reads.
They also had to be made bigger to be visible on a phone screen (handy that there are fewer of them, then).
It’s not clear why the company shifted from 24 to 22 stars, though.
As the company’s content travels online as well as being shown in cinemas, its site says there need to be different considerations for its logo ― especially as it’s increasingly seen on smaller screens.
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That includes not only the stars, but “the detailing on the mountain, or even the spacing between the classic Paramount script” too.
“I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer,” the former Disney star said at the top of the latest episode of her Pod Meets World podcast. “It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero.”
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“I’m going to be fine. I’m having surgery to remove it. I’m going to be on some follow-up treatment,” added Danielle, who played Topanga Lawrence on the popular ’90s sitcom.
DCIS is an early, noninvasive form of breast cancer that affects the cells of the milk ducts in the breast, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. It can show up on a mammogram but typically does not cause symptoms.
Patients who seek timely treatment and diagnosis have excellent prognoses. However, if left untreated, the cancer can become invasive and spread elsewhere in the body.
The 43-year-old told her listeners she had originally wanted to tell only a select few people about her diagnosis. On reflection, though, she realised how much there is to be gained when cancer patients and survivors share their experiences.
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“The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage zero is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment,” she said, noting that as a working mum-of-two, “it would be so easy to say, ‘I don’t have time for that. I went to my mammogram last year. I was fine last year. I don’t need to go’”.
“I want to share this because I hope that it will encourage anyone to get in there if it’s time for your appointment,” she added. “If you’ve never had an appointment before, get in there.”
Danielle said she still has some big decisions to make.
“I still have doctors I need to meet with ― oncologists, radiation specialists, hormone therapists, all kinds of stuff that I have still in front of me to decide,” she said, letting listeners know that she still plans to be a part of every podcast episode if she can.
Her friends and co-hosts, fellow Boy Meets World actors Will Friedle and Rider Strong ― who she said were two of the first to know about the cancer ― said they will support and accommodate Danielle however she needs.
During a new interview with The Times, Craig was asked about the fact that “some have called for it to be cancelled”, a suggestion he branded “ridiculous”.
“It’s a wonderful show that’s in 61 countries,” he insisted, before noting that he “like everyone else” is eager to “know the results of the investigation”.
Craig went on to say he was “shocked” to read reports about certain allegations behind the scenes of Strictly, explaining: “At every rehearsal there is lighting and sound, a crew member, as well as the pro, celeb and a choreographer, so there’s a lot of people in those rooms. And they have windows too.”
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“That’s why I can’t wait for the investigation because it could be all blown out of proportion or it could be… anything,” he added. “But we want the results sooner rather than later.”
The Strictly Come Dancing judging panel as of 2021
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Elsewhere in the interview, Craig said he welcomes new measures being introduced to the show aiming to protect both its celebrity contestants and their professional partners.
“All I can say is that, first, chaperones are a good idea. Second, thank goodness things have changed,” he said, referring to the harshness that has long existed in the world of dance.
Craig claimed last month that he was following the drama “like everybody else, through the press”, and was “just finding out” about the accusations.
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“For us, it’s complete news. Every day that I read about something I think, ‘That can’t be right’, so I’ll wait and see what happens with the investigations, but certainly we have nothing to do with that,” he said.
The drama surrounding “It Ends With Us” seemed to be some of the biggest entertainment news this week, with Blake Lively catching a lot of heat for her conduct during the press run for the film — and some problematic past actions.
The film, which was adapted from the 2016 bestselling novel of the same name, follows Lively’s character, flower shop owner Lily Bloom. She falls in love with Ryle Kincaid, a seemingly charming neurosurgeon played by director and co-lead Justin Baldoni who lives in her building and pursues her. The couple’s love story takes a volatile turn when Kincaid begins to abuse Lily.
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You would think the focal point of the press run would discuss the effects of abuse and how the cast and crew wanted the film to show how complicated narratives of domestic violence can be.
Instead, Lively promoted her outside endeavours and seemed pretty flippant or downright avoidant when it came to homing in on how her character navigates abuse. She talked about her newly launched hair care line and tried to have lighthearted conversations with interviewers.
In a viral clip, a reporter asked Lively how someone should go about approaching her to get advice about how to deal with issues of domestic violence. Her answer was pretty distasteful. She easily could have recommended some organisations that help survivors of domestic violence if she personally couldn’t offer help. Instead, she decided to be cheeky and responded by flipping the question with a question to the interviewer.
“Like, ask for my phone number, or a location share?” she said before continuing and mentioning Virgo traits.
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Honestly. They can keep this movie. All the drama and the flippant interviews are a turn off. What a missed opportunity to really have a platform about DV. https://t.co/N3HXo6BWgJ
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Honestly. They can keep this movie. All the drama and the flippant interviews are a turn off. What a missed opportunity to really have a platform about DV. https://t.co/N3HXo6BWgJ
People are being like “we shouldn’t approach celebrities with our trauma” yes cool so she could’ve used this moment to literally say that. Like hey I’m not an expert on this but there are people you could reach out to.
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People are being like “we shouldn’t approach celebrities with our trauma” yes cool so she could’ve used this moment to literally say that. Like hey I’m not an expert on this but there are people you could reach out to.
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That moment didn’t sit well with many — with fans digging up past moments where the “Gossip Girl” star made some problematic decisions. In 2012, she and husband Ryan Reynolds got married on a South Carolina plantation. Boone Hall Plantation, located in Mount Pleasant, had nine slave cabins, referred to as “Slave Street.”
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In 2020, the couple apologised after many people called them out for glamourising violence against Black people by holding their wedding at a locale that holds so much traumatising history.
“What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest,” she said. “What we saw after was a place built upon a devastating tragedy.”
After congratulating Lively on her “little bump,” Lively responds by saying the statement back to Flaa, who isn’t pregnant. The first question, where Flaa asked Lively and Parker Posey about the clothes in “Cafe Society,” which is a period piece based in 1930s Hollywood, Lively pivoted and began to have a personal conversation with Posey. Throughout the conversation, Posey and Lively purposely avoid making eye contact or acknowledging the interviewer, who shared she almost quit journalism due to the interaction.
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These moments are not a good look. Kindness goes a long way.
It also seems like common sense to be ready to talk about the themes of a movie you’re starring in. Also, as someone who also went through a domestic violence situation with a former beau, it’s disheartening and gross to see a person with the ability to advocate for change and ways to navigate situations like this be so rude. It’s very mean-girl-coded.
Swifties are reacting to a new wax figure of their pop star idol — and just can’t shake it off.
The Panoptikum in Hamburg, which describes itself as “the oldest and largest wax museum” in Germany, unveiled a statue of Taylor Swift this week, that has left fans more than a little unnerved.
“Wow. I didn’t even recognise her, and also, Taylor always makes that heart gesture with her whole hand. They should’ve learned that while researching. Truly embarrassing,” wrote one fan in German, with another commenting: “What did they do to Taylor.”
Taylor has made a heart gesture with her hands onstage for years now, and while only an eagle-eyed Swiftie would catch the fact that the fingers on her wax figure are unusually stretched out, that’s presumably the exact clientele the Panoptikum intended to win over.
“Darling, it’s a daydream dressed like a nightmare,” one fan commented on the post in a reference to the classic Blank Space, with another stating: “The face looks different somehow, she wears red lipstick and she does the heart with her whole hand.”
Taylor has long made red her lipstick hue of choice, as evident by the slew of coverage on it. While the Panoptikum oddly decided to forego red for bright pink instead, not every Hamburger who loves the Grammy winner has a bad taste in their mouth.
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The wax figure is being criticized on social media for purportedly significant mistakes.
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The singer brought her Eras Tour to town last month for two sold-out shows and marked the stop with a heartfelt Instagram post at the time, writing, “Hamburg!! I loved those crowds so so so much. AND we got a rain show night one, unlocking Fuzzy Hair Me.”
While some fans have claimed that the museum’s other statues of Angelina Jolie, Queen Elizabeth II and Ed Sheeran are far truer to their subjects than Taylor’s, others remain hilariously infuriated over the museum’s newest addition.
“Oh no,” one fan commented on Instagram. “It can’t get any worse than this.”
