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• Prince Harry to be guest editor on Today programme

  22-11-2017 23:55
  Royal will tackle issues including mental health, while artificial intelligence modelled on Mishal Husain will interview a guestPrince Harry and artificial intelligence software will help guest edit Radio 4’s Today programme for two special editions between Christmas and New Year. Kensington Palace said Prince Harry would use the opportunity to “shine a spotlight on a number of issues that are close to his heart”, including youth violence, conservation and mental health.Continu
  
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• Prince Harry and AI to be guest editors on Today programme

  22-11-2017 23:55
  Royal will tackle issues including mental health, while artificial intelligence modelled on Mishal Husain will interview a guestPrince Harry and artificial intelligence software will help guest edit Radio 4’s Today programme for two special editions between Christmas and New Year. Kensington Palace said Prince Harry would use the opportunity to “shine a spotlight on a number of issues that are close to his heart”, including youth violence, conservation and mental health.Continu
  
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• Too Many Batmans and Supermans?

  22-11-2017 23:43 via nytimes.com
  DC used to feature one version of a superhero at a time onscreen.
  
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• Watch Chris Pratt Pet Adorable Raptor in New Teaser for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

  22-11-2017 23:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Chris Pratt is showing off his talent for soothing dangerous dinosaurs in a sneak peek of what's to come in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the second installment of the box-office...
  
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• Peaky Blinders recap – series four, episode two: Heathens

  22-11-2017 23:00
  Tommy proves what a great multi-tasker he is, but is it really all going his way? For one, Luca Changretta is causing trouble, as is the truly nasty Aberama GoldSPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching series four of Peaky Blinders. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode two.The move back to Small Heath has definitely done this show the power of good. The plotting and writing feel leaner and the life-and-death stakes are free of grand, overarching conspiracies. It he
  
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• Here’s How Comedian Aparna Nancherla Calms Her Brain Before Shows

  22-11-2017 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before her set at Comedy Central’s Colossal Clusterfest, Aparna Nancherla let us in on what methods she uses to decompress before a show, and told us about the time she had to perform at a sex-trafficking fundraiser....More »
  
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• 25 Movies to See (Or Skip) This Thanksgiving Weekend

  22-11-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  No matter how much you love your family, the holidays can be hard to navigate, especially if you have that family member with those thoughts on “the tyranny of PC culture” coming to Thanksgiving dinner. Fortunately, late November is right in the midst of peak film season, giving you plenty...More »
  
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• 6 Food and Cooking-Themed Podcasts for You to Savor

  22-11-2017 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s this thing I used to do (and still do occasionally, depending on who’s around) that I’ve come to view as the fundamental experience of contemporary popular food culture: While eating lunch, I’d watch old episodes of Chopped, or something from Anthony Bourdain’s extensive documentary oeuvre, or read the “Tables...More »
  
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• Russell Simmons Responds to Sexual-Assault Allegation: ‘I Can Sleep at Night Because I Know Who I Am’

  22-11-2017 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a former model accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault, the Def Jam co-founder has penned a statement for The Hollywood Reporter denying the allegations. Former fashion model Keri Claussen Khalighi told the Los Angeles Times that Simmons and friend Brett Ratner invited her back to an apartment to watch...More »
  
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• Jude Law Will Reportedly Join Captain Marvel

  22-11-2017 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  It looks like Jude Law is getting on a roll with blockbuster assignments. Not long after we got our first looks at him as Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, Variety is now reporting that he’s close to a deal to star opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel. The...More »
  
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• Gossip Girl’s Jessica Szohr Wonders If Ed Westwick’s Accusers Are ‘Stretching the Truth’

  22-11-2017 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since Gossip Girl wrapped in 2012, co-stars Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick have remained fairly good friends — a fact that has Szohr questioning whether Westwick is capable of sexually assaulting women in the aftermath of recent allegations against the actor. In a new interview with Cosmopolitan, Szohr said she...More »
  
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• Happy Death Day Breaks $100 Million As Horror Continues Its Box-Office Dominance

  22-11-2017 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Justice League underwhelmed this past weekend with just $93 million in its domestic opening, the low-budget horror film Happy Death Day continued to overperform by crossing the $100 million mark at the global box office. Yes, it took the latest offering from Blumhouse and Universal six weeks to achieve...More »
  
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• The Man Who Invented Christmas Is a Sweet Story About the Making of a Classic

  22-11-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Throughout The Man Who Invented Christmas, an altogether warm, sharp, and unobjectionable family holiday film, a raven flits in and out of the frame. It is introduced as an inexplicable present to Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) by his father, John (Jonathan Pryce), but it escapes its cage and dashes a...More »
  
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• Call Me by Your Name Book Club Part 3: Can You Ever Say Good-bye?

  22-11-2017 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  It had to end: We’ve reached the fourth and final part of Call Me by Your Name, “Ghost Spots.” Oliver has left Italy for America, and Elio has gone back home. Their romance, as they knew it, is over, but Elio spends the next few days, then years, and finally...More »
  
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• Partisan passions cloud debate on US net neutrality

  22-11-2017 19:55 via ft.com
  Broadband and media markets remain resilient even as FCC moves to scrap 2015 regulations
  
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• Can’t hear the Blue Planet II commentary? Get your ears tested | Brief letters

  22-11-2017 19:42
  Blue Planet II | Charles Manson | Smoking in French films | Theresa May at church | Driverless governmentAs a sufferer of hyperacusis (extreme sensitivity to loud noise) I was anxious about watching Blue Planet II, following complaints about invasively loud music (Letters, 17 November). Having now enjoyed three episodes without issue, might I gently suggest that those struggling should get their hearing tested, as I suspect that, in order to hear the commentary (and not because of the music), th
  
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• 'Sweet, innocent, good at ping pong? Screw that!' The new show savaging Chinese stereotypes

  22-11-2017 19:21
  Tired of being cast as gymnasts or great table tennis players, the women behind new sitcom Chinese Burn shaved their heads and came out fighting‘Chinese girls,” says the voiceover. “Sweet, innocent, submissive Chinese girls. Conservative and virginal – good at maths, ping pong and looking after men.” The voice is accompanied by a sequence of appropriate images: a gymnast, an engineer, a table tennis player. Then we suddenly hear the sound of a needle scratching acro
  
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• Chinese Burn - the new show savaging Chinese stereotypes

  22-11-2017 19:21
  Tired of being cast as gymnasts or great table tennis players, the women behind new sitcom Chinese Burn shaved their heads and came out fighting‘Chinese girls,” says the voiceover. “Sweet, innocent, submissive Chinese girls. Conservative and virginal – good at maths, ping pong and looking after men.” The voice is accompanied by a sequence of appropriate images: a gymnast, an engineer, a table tennis player. Then we suddenly hear the sound of a needle scratching acro
  
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• Ann Wedgeworth, 83, Dies; Tony-Winning Actress Known for ‘Three’s Company’

  22-11-2017 19:19 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Wedgeworth’s characters were often flirtatious, maternal or a combination of both in plays like “Chapter Two” and films like “Steel Magnolias.”
  
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• Rewind: A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece

  22-11-2017 19:05 via nytimes.com
  Carl Theodor Dreyer’s landmark silent film is back on the big screen in a new digital restoration.
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | 'Call Me by Your Name'

  22-11-2017 18:28 via nytimes.com
  Luca Guadagnino narrates a sequence from his film featuring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.
  
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• The Crown, Outlander, and Other Shows to Watch on Thanksgiving Weekend

  22-11-2017 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Thanksgiving, it is our solemn duty as Americans to eat too much food, collapse onto a sofa, then binge-watch television in a tryptophan-induced haze.Obviously the potential viewing choices are as endless as they have ever been. But in the interest of winnowing things down a tad, here’s a guide...More »
  
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• Noel Gallagher on His New Album, Liam’s New Album, and the Difference Between Songwriting and ‘Musical Shopping’

  22-11-2017 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher will release a new solo album this Friday, and you might assume you know what it sounds like. You’d probably be wrong, though, at least a little. Who Built the Moon?, Gallagher’s third and most ambitious record with his band the High Flying Birds, was...More »
  
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• Ex-Model Says Russell Simmons Has Privately Apologized for Alleged Sexual Assault

  22-11-2017 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former model Keri Claussen Khalighi was 17 when she says Brett Ratner watched his friend and mentor Russell Simmons sexually assault her. In an interview on Megyn Kelly Today, Khalighi detailed her encounter with the men: She accompanied them to an apartment to watch a music video when Simmons began...More »
  
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• With a Singing SpongeBob, Nickelodeon Aims for a Broadway Splash

  22-11-2017 17:25 via nytimes.com
  To capture the spirit of its relentlessly cheerful animated hero and his underwater world, a $20 million musical that “explodes off the stage.”
  
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• He Knows Bikini Bottom. Now He Gets to Swim There.

  22-11-2017 17:15 via nytimes.com
  “It’s a little freaky” how much the energetic actor Ethan Slater seems like the title character he plays in “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.”
  
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• G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last.

  22-11-2017 16:49 via nytimes.com
  “No extra charge for the cat pee!” said an organizer. But, yes, pricing was a challenge: How to put a monetary value on provenance this rich?
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky Are No More

  22-11-2017 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Farewell, sweet Lawrenofsky. Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky have split after about a year of dating, People confirms. The duo met when Lawrence was cast in Aronofsky’s terror of a film Mother!, during which Lawrence was seemingly seduced by the director’s anti-Harvard behavior and bountiful collection of scarves. Ever since,...More »
  
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• Scotland Yard Investigating Kevin Spacey for 2005 Sexual Assault

  22-11-2017 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin Spacey is now subject of a second criminal investigation by Scotland Yard. According to Variety, investigators are now looking into a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in the London borough of Lambeth during the time Spacey worked as artistic director of the city’s Old Vic theater. “The allegations are...More »
  
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• Peter O'Toole was not the drunken hell-raiser he made out, says author

  22-11-2017 16:45
  Actor’s biographer says personal archive reveals a ‘sensitive, organised man’ who was writing two screenplays just before his death in 2013Peter O’Toole was writing two screenplays just before his death at the age of 81, according to research that also suggests the actor’s hell-raising image was a myth that he cultivated himself.While working on a book about the actor, the biographer Alexander Larman had a glimpse of screen versions of the Seán O’Casey
  
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• Three CBS Employees Now Also Accuse Charlie Rose of Sexual Misconduct

  22-11-2017 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  CBS announced it has uncovered more accusations of sexual misconduct against its former employee Charlie Rose, now from within its own company. On Tuesday, the network fired Rose after eight women associated with PBS accused the TV host of inappropriate behavior. CBS This Morning, which Rose previously co-anchored, reported on...More »
  
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• Why Hari Kondabolu Had to Explain What The Problem With Apu Is to America

  22-11-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you didn’t know Hari Kondabolu last month, you might know him now. The 34-year-old comic from Queens has seemingly been everywhere this fall, anchoring a raft of print, radio, and online coverage of his documentary, The Problem With Apu, which premiered Sunday on TruTV. The Indian-American resentment of Apu...More »
  
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• Blimey! The Great British Bake Off’s New Host Accidentally Revealed the Winner Before the Finale

  22-11-2017 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just like a fine mousse oozing out of the bottom of a black forrest gâteau, terror emerged in late October across the pond, when new Great British Bake Off host Prue Leith accidentally tweeted out the winner of the show 12 hours too early. The situation was apprehended quickly, but...More »
  
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• The Watchmen Sequel Is Off to a Good Start, Whether or Not You Think It Should Exist

  22-11-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To review DC Comics’ Doomsday Clock is to row into the choppy waters where art meets commerce. Do you merely assess the work, or must you also pass judgment on whether the work should exist in the first place? After all, there are those who consider it an abomination. It’s...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein

  22-11-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  After Annabella Sciorra told her story about Harvey Weinstein, I watched her work again — and wondered what might have been.
  
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• She's Gotta Have It review – an exhilarating examination of our attitudes to sex and race

  22-11-2017 15:54
  Spike Lee’s movie about an unashamedly polyamorous woman has been adapted into a Netflix 10-parter, taking in gentrification and everyday sexual harassmentIn She’s Gotta Have It, Nola Darling is a figurative painter, living in Brooklyn; 31 years ago, when Spike Lee created her for the film that splashed his vision, vividly and indelibly, all over Hollywood, she was a graphic artist. So, sure, there have been tweaks to her CV for this Netflix remake, not least because there are now 10
  
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• Learn How to Carve a Turkey by Watching Post Malone Carve Up Tons of People in His ‘Rockstar’ Video

  22-11-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Okay, don’t actually carve a turkey the way Post Malone carves up people in his “Rockstar” video. Your turkey, if you bought it frozen from the grocery store and not, like, from a kill-your-own-poultry farm, will hopefully be a lot less bloody. You also probably shouldn’t slice it with a...More »
  
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• Godless review – Netflix's wonderfully wicked western fires on all cylinders

  22-11-2017 15:47
  The seven-part miniseries, starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery, is visually spellbinding and filled with standout performancesGodless, Netflix’s new seven-part miniseries, opens in 1884, in Creede, Colorado, with a thick cloud of smog shrouding the camera. The haze slowly dissolves to reveal a chilling landscape: parched bodies being tended to by swarms of flies; a man, sedentary, with a gunshot through his head; a train-wreck near which a young boy hangs from a noose; and a woman,
  
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• Clive Barnes Award Winner and Nominees Are Announced

  22-11-2017 15:37 via nytimes.com
  Gemma Bond, the ballet dancer and choreographer, is the winner of this year’s dance award. Theater winners will be announced on Jan. 8.
  
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• Stephen Colbert on Charlie Rose Sexual-Harassment Allegations: ‘It’s a Terrible Abuse of Power’

  22-11-2017 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If allegations of harassment were weather,” Stephen Colbert began his monologue last night, “this is hurricane season right now.” Colbert carved out a portion of his introduction to discuss the sexual-harassment allegations against Charlie Rose, who has now been suspended by CBS. While Colbert went in depth with CBS This...More »
  
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• How Will CBS Replace Charlie Rose?

  22-11-2017 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  CBS wasted little time dealing with Charlie Rose, firing the CBS This Morning co-anchor Tuesday less than 24 hours after the Washington Post published its report detailing allegations of sexual harassment and assault by Rose. But the Eye network now has another problem: How to fill the gap left by...More »
  
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• Benefietavond Stichting Vicki Brownhuis in Theater de Speeldoos uitgesteld - BD.nl

  22-11-2017 15:21
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  Benefietavond Stichting Vicki Brownhuis in Theater de Speeldoos uitgesteld
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  VUGHT - De benefietavond van Stichting Vicki Brown in Theater de Speeldoos in Vught van vrijdag 24 november gaat niet door. Vanwege een tegenvallende kaartverkoop heeft de stichting van het inloophuis voor mensen met kanker, hun naasten en nabestaanden ...
  
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• Everything We Definitely Know About The Room’s Tommy Wiseau

  22-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the filmmaker’s spotty origin story, facts are in perilously short supply. Interviews with the man tend to come out incoherent and disjointed, as if Wiseau’s answering questions other than the ones being asked. He’s offered conflicting reports about his background on the record, and The Room star Greg Sestero...More »
  
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• The 21 Most Barbra Streisand Moments in Her Netflix Concert Film

  22-11-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re at all familiar with Barbra Streisand, you know exactly what to expect from her Netflix concert film, Barbra: The Music …The Mem’ries …The Magic!, which debuts November 22. Seemingly built for the express purpose of pleasing parents whose kids teach them how to use Netflix over Thanksgiving, the...More »
  
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• Godless Series Premiere Recap: The One-Armed Man

  22-11-2017 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scott Frank and Steven Soderbergh worked together on the masterful Out of Sight, and they’ve finally reunited to create Netflix’s Godless, a show that filters the clichés of the Western through a modern take on female empowerment. With wonderful performances from top to bottom and cinematic production values, this is...More »
  
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• Luxor Theater werkt aan herstel, staat nog miljoen in de min - BNR Nieuwsradio

  22-11-2017 14:32
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  Luxor Theater werkt aan herstel, staat nog miljoen in de min
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  Wat begon als bioscooptheater, groeide uiteindelijk uit tot het Oude en Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam. Een begrip voor veel bekende cabaretiers en musicalsterren, dat straks honderd jaar bestaat, een grote reorganisatie achter de rug heeft en nog ...en meer »
  
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• Luxor Theater werkt aan herstel, staat nog miljoen in de min | BNR ... - BNR Nieuwsradio

  22-11-2017 14:32
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  Luxor Theater werkt aan herstel, staat nog miljoen in de min | BNR ...
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  Wat begon als bioscooptheater, groeide uiteindelijk uit tot het Oude en Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam. Een begrip voor veel bekende cabaretiers en ...en meer »
  
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• Dancing With the Stars Season Finale Recap: And the Winner Is …

  22-11-2017 14:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nothing lasts forever. Relationships end, mountains crumble, people die. But nothing is harder to accept than a season of Dancing With the Stars coming to a close. It’s not like I didn’t see it coming. First Barbara was voted off, then Debbie, then Derek, then Sasha, then Nick, then Nikki,...More »
  
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• Rodney Bewes: one of TV's great class acts

  22-11-2017 14:03
  The actor unforgettably captured the feverish social-climbing of the 1960s and 70s in two incarnations of The Likely Lads sitcom, but never equalled his success in the part of BobAlthough it is 43 years since Rodney Bewes last played his career-defining role on TV – as the Thatcherite social-climber Bob Ferris in the Geordie sitcom Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads? – fans of the series will feel sharp loss at the news of his death, at the age of 79.Viewers will have particular me
  
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• Prue Leith relives moment of infamous Bake Off spoiler

  22-11-2017 14:00
  Baking show host describes going into ‘panic mode’ after naming winner on Twitter hours before final was broadcastGreat British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has said she felt “awful” after she accidentally revealed the name of this year’s winner ahead of the final.The TV star, who congratulated winner Sophie Faldo on Twitter six hours before the show was broadcast, said it was “the most idiotic thing in the world”. Continue reading...
  
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