Personally, I find it really hot when men are nice to women
Danny Dyer becoming the sex symbol of 2025 was not on anyone’s bingo card but it proves how radically the female gaze swerves from its male counterpart
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Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
Danny Dyer could play a flautist in wartime Budapest, Percy Bysshe Shelley or Jesus Christ. He’s just that good
Instead he must play a cockney geezer with a penchant for violence but a heart of gold, over and over. He’s good at that, too
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Henpocalypse!: A bash, bawdy chortle-fest with a sliver of ice in its soul
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I’d watch The Wall host in anything, though. Cast him in your prestigious HBO drama, you cowards
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The special episode is a cut-price version of the Titanic movie, with added melodrama
How to turn racists’ genetic arguments against them
Every white supremacist has African ancestry, and every Nazi has Jewish heritage
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David Cameron: ‘I’d hate people to think I don’t worry desperately’
‘I thought we had a winning hand,’ the former British prime minister tells the BBC
Piers Morgan is the lickspittle of the reality TV ecosystem
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‘Love Island’ winners are planning to get married ‘next year’
Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham secured a landslide victory in the ITV dating show
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It's through its glaring faults that ‘Love Island’ has become a true talking point
‘Love Island’ boosts Irish viewers’ affections for 3e
Summer romance for Virgin-owned channel as audience grows by 223% from last year
Kathy Sheridan: Britain, please let Danny Dyer’s ‘straight talking’ be Brexit’s nadir
The coronation of the Leave-voting actor for his tirade about David Cameron is a new low
Chris Froome finds out no rider is bigger than the Tour
Organisers try to blackball the defending champion from this year’s race
NHS working to secure medicines supply in case of ‘no deal’ Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn says he believes transition period after Brexit will have to be extended
Patrick Freyne: If only Love Island had a World Cup team
A simple people, the islanders national costume is as basic as their minds are pure
Love Island: All the depth of a paddling pool
Contestants on the fourth season seem to have forgotten to pack their personalities
On TV this weekend: Jurassic Park meets Graham Norton and Mrs Brown chats up hard man Danny Dyer
Late Late Show referendum exit poll expected on Friday at about 11pm
Alison Spittle: ‘If you’re friends with a mad bastard, that’s your cross to bear’
The comedian on her new TV show 'Nowhere Fast', a sitcom about women, friendship, and where the men are little more than love interests
Charlie Hunnam: The geezer who would be king
The King Arthur actor discusses why he won't be making a claim to be king of the Geordies any time soon, and how his bromance with Guy Ritchie set the pace for the ‘Lads of the Round Table’
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