Dolly Alderton, the year of the break up and Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice

We didn’t think celeb breakups could get bigger than Maya and Stormzy, or Bennifer, but now Molly Mae and Tommy Fury have just proven that this very much is the year of the celeb breakup (and it’s killing us!!). We try to understand why we’re all taking it so personally, and assess the very icky rumours surrounding Tommy’s recent trip to Macedonia as well as the friction between Molly’s boss bitch success and the Fury’s traditional values. We’re also devo to report that our faves Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter may have joined the heartbreak train. Plus, Ellie gives us the verdict on Zoe Kravitz’s buzzy directorial debut Blink Twice, a sinister horror film seemingly inspired by Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘paedo island’. And of course we had to debrief on Dolly Aderton’s interview with the Sunday Times (anyone else have a Dolly Google Alert..?).

Enjoy hunnys! And we're on a one-week break next week but back straight after - dive into our archive while you wait!

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Reccs

• Short N’Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter
• Chicken Shop Date with Sabrina Carpenter, YouTube
• At Home with the Furys, Netflix
• Dolly Alderton on fashion: There’s more fun to be had in heels, The Times (and have a listen to our big Dolly Alderton deepdive from Nov 2023!)
• Blink Twice (in cinemas)
• Blink Twice is guilty of a vile horror trope, Slate
• Promising Young Woman, Amazon Prime Video
• The Lost City, Netflix
• Inside Out 2, Disney +
• Big Boys, Channel 4
• The Conversation We Should Be Having Around It Ends With Us, The Cut

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