Kerry Katona and Katie Price to host Strictly #exclusive
Julia Llewellyn Smith
@julsmith.bsky.social
Writes for the Times, the Telegraph, and many many others. Former Smash Hits young writer of the year, it was all downhill from there
“Someone told me recently I always play depressed and put-upon people. I think it’s just the structure of my eyes.” @julsmith.bsky.social
For Matthew Rhys, the Professional Is Personal
The Welsh actor talks meeting his wife, Keri Russell, on "The Americans," and starring in the new Agatha Christie adaptation, "Towards Zero."
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I met the still-got-it Pierce Brosnan - he didn't want to talk about Bond (I don't entirely blame him). Nonetheless, I asked. He's keener on Harry Potter. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c6e17f0...
Pierce Brosnan: ‘Playing M in Bond? That’s nuts! But I do want to play Dumbledore’
The 007 star on the Harry Potter role he covets and being reunited with Helen Mirren for Guy Ritchie’s MobLand
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Honour as someone who came of age in the 90s to speak to the woman who was first to reflect the joys and anxieties of my generation of women. The new Bridget Jones film Mad About the Boy is v funny and also - as she enters middle age - v moving. Strongly recommend www.thetimes.com/article/8d89...
Helen Fielding: ‘I want Bridget Jones to smash the idea of a sexual sell-by date’
The straight-talking creator of the hit rom-com and best-selling books opens up on dating age-gaps, coping with grief and her friendship with Renée Zellweger
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Just stick your stupid mail "follow-up" suggestion down your smug tech bro throats @Apple
Hard recommend to #thedoubleact by brilliant @markjagasia.bskyb.social @arcolatheatre.bsykyb.social . Dark, poignant, very funny, thought provoking and full of references to Keith Chegwin and Bobby Ball for the cognoscenti- go!
1,000 academic jobs gone in a week. And that's just the start. Britain - the stupid country.
Please @tfl start fining people who watch TikTok on public transport without headphones. Or at least stick up some posters explaining why it's horrible. Seriously. It's ruining tubes and buses for everyone
Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t
Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...
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Do antidepressants work? My interview was Professor Joanna Moncrief in today’s ST mag. Fascinating to learn how ADs have become part of the culture wars. Whether they work or not, we should certainly be aware of the science. www.thetimes.com/article/1a4d...
Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t
Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...
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I met Debbie Harry for @thetimes. Normally I avoid meeting my heroes but at 79 she was even more awesome than I could ever have dreamt www.thetimes.com/article/d67c...
Debbie Harry: ‘I’m pretty clean now. But I still have a dirty mind’
From selling 40 million records to dealing with drug addiction and financial wipeout, the Blondie singer has seen it all. She opens up about fame, fashion — and dating at 79
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I did a task! I did well! And I chatted to the lovely Taskmaster's "little" Alex Horne, who feels guilty about everything... but shouldn't www.thetimes.com/article/f9a4...
Taskmaster’s Alex Horne: ‘Am I rich? Crudely, I suppose that’s true’
His silly game show for stand-up comedians is broadcast in 120 countries and has made him millions. So why does Alex Horne feel so guilty? He sets Julia Llewellyn Smith a challenge
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I met Cate Blanchett who told me how her lust-crazed, ineffective German chancellor she plays in Rumours is NOT Angela Merkel. For the Telegraph
RIP Barbara Taylor Bradford I interviewed her years ago at her Connecticut mansion. It was December, freezing and she'd centrally heated her lake so her swans could still swim www.thetimes.com/article/77ce...
Barbara Taylor Bradford obituary: a woman of substance
Yorkshire-born-and-bred author of some 40 international bestselling novels died aged 91 after a short illness
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Love when you interview someone & the response even from Times readers isn't the usual - "what is this nonsense doing in the paper of record?" but I LOVE so and so. And so it rarely proved with Danny Mays. www.thetimes.com/article/ef8b...
Daniel Mays: ‘I’m the British Kevin Bacon? Yeah, I’ll take that’
From EastEnders to Moonflower Murders, via Vera Drake, Star Wars and Line of Duty, Daniel Mays is the actors’ favourite character actor. He tells Julia Llewellyn Smith about becoming a dad at 25 and s...
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found it very hard to keep it together when I was talking to beautiful and gracious Annabel Croft about the sudden, shocking death of her husband of 39 yrs, the cruelty of some medics and the joy she found from Strictly ❤️ www.thetimes.com/article/4485...
Annabel Croft: ‘Dating again? I wouldn’t mind if it was never’
Eighteen months on from the death of her husband, the grief is still raw for the former tennis star and Strictly favourite. Croft, a judge for the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year, speaks to Julia...
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What a modest, funny and inspirational woman Becky Adlington is. We all fell in love with her commentary at the Olympics most didn’t know she’d recently been through the most terrible time having lost her baby Harper. By me @TheTimesSports www.thetimes.com/article/ecb3...
Rebecca Adlington: My stillbirth and returning to work at the Olympics
The swimmer and judge for Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year talks about pulling herself ‘out of the darkness’ after losing her daughter Harper
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I adore Ian McKellen, he's clever, fun + cool - plus a gay rights' hero. A huge honour to be the 1st journalist to interview him about his fall from the W End stage, to find how his fat suit saved him from worse & how desperate he is to get working (and missing his pub quiz). Get well soon Ian
Fascinating one to write - victim blaming at its finest blhttps://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/chloe-ayling-i-was-kidnapped-but-people-didnt-believe-me-5x7z53ddr
Chloe Ayling: I was kidnapped — but people didn’t believe me
The model was vilified on social media and in the press, her experience dismissed as a publicity stunt. Now, with a new drama setting the record straight, she tells Julia Llewellyn Smith about her ord...
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Annie Nightingale was the coolest woman I’ve ever interviewed. Dozens of blond pigtails, fishnets, green dog, glasses, aged 76. Extract
I watched #Ferrari so you don’t have to. A dislikable millionaire, his dull affair, car races that are about as exciting as darts to watch, people being killed nastily but that’s apparently ok because the Ferrari name survives. And US actors with bad Italian accents. Awful
Please go if you can. It only takes about an hour. I went this week and there was hardly anyone there. They're desperate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NHS calls for Londoners to give blood this Christmas
Some 4,000 slots are available at the capital's donor centres over the next two weeks, the NHS says.
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Pains me as a Gen-Xer but having seen Madonna live twice and Taylor’s Eras film - TS EASILY wins. Unlike Madge TS doesn’t constantly tell the audience she’s a legend just demonstrates it. Not ageist, Jagger does the same. Madge promised celebrations but only celebrates herself not her audience.
Like finding a tenner in an old raincoat pocket SO EXCITED to read Nina Stibbe’s #wenttolondontookthedog - all the lolz you’d hope for in 21-century London PLUS the importance of dog-friendly cafes/pubs. Bliss
I spoke to the charming Today prog’s Justin Webb about his fire childhood, the importance of a stiff upper lip, and why we mustn’t be frightened of discussing trans issues www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Justin Webb: Everyone’s scared of debating trans issues, but we have to speak freely
He’s a BBC lifer, but Justin Webb – who tells Julia Llewellyn Smith his own childhood was ‘absolutely bloody miserable’ – isn’t afraid of being outspoken about the way adults confuse and ...
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Saw the much-hyped Saltburn. It’s very funny, looks gorgeous, fabulous acting – then when you analyse it, it totally falls apart, but still… bravo!
