It has been more than a month since Kensington Palace revealed that Kate Middleton had been hospitalized for a planned abdominal surgery.
There have been increasing calls for information about Kate, her health details, and even what kind of surgery she has had from reporters seeing more information.
In what could be considered a significant lack of decorum, royal reporter Amanda Platell took Prince William, Kate’s husband, to task in a column for the Daily Mail, and royal fans are upset about it.
Amanda scolded William about the lack of details surrounding Kate and her recovery from major surgery. As Monsters and Critics reported, Kate asserted her desire for privacy in a Kensington Palace statement.
But Amanda is unhappy and said in her column, “Don’t lecture us all about Gaza, William… just tell us how Kate is,” according to the Daily Mail.
Another royal reporter, Richard Eden, disagrees entirely,...
There have been increasing calls for information about Kate, her health details, and even what kind of surgery she has had from reporters seeing more information.
In what could be considered a significant lack of decorum, royal reporter Amanda Platell took Prince William, Kate’s husband, to task in a column for the Daily Mail, and royal fans are upset about it.
Amanda scolded William about the lack of details surrounding Kate and her recovery from major surgery. As Monsters and Critics reported, Kate asserted her desire for privacy in a Kensington Palace statement.
But Amanda is unhappy and said in her column, “Don’t lecture us all about Gaza, William… just tell us how Kate is,” according to the Daily Mail.
Another royal reporter, Richard Eden, disagrees entirely,...
- 2/24/2024
- by Pamela Roy
- Monsters and Critics
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren’t entirely without family, according to a historian. Despite ongoing tension with the British royal family, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to have a “better” relationship with Princess Diana’s siblings.
Harry ‘clearly does have relations’ with Princess Diana’s Spencer family Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes, Earl Spencer, and Prince Harry | Dominic Lipinski – Wpa Pool/Getty Images
Some of Harry’s family ties, it seems, remain. That is, on his late mother’s side. According to historian Tessa Dunlop, the 38-year-old has “maintained” relationships with his aunts and uncle on Diana’s side.
“That side of the family seems to be better relations,” Dunlop told Express. Diana’s siblings include Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes, and Earl Charles Spencer.
Noting “nobody ever talks about” the relationship Harry has with his maternal aunts and uncle, the historian said they...
Harry ‘clearly does have relations’ with Princess Diana’s Spencer family Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes, Earl Spencer, and Prince Harry | Dominic Lipinski – Wpa Pool/Getty Images
Some of Harry’s family ties, it seems, remain. That is, on his late mother’s side. According to historian Tessa Dunlop, the 38-year-old has “maintained” relationships with his aunts and uncle on Diana’s side.
“That side of the family seems to be better relations,” Dunlop told Express. Diana’s siblings include Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes, and Earl Charles Spencer.
Noting “nobody ever talks about” the relationship Harry has with his maternal aunts and uncle, the historian said they...
- 6/18/2023
- by Mandi Kerr
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Read the star's full written statement to the inquiry detailing alleged press intrusion surrounding the birth of his daughter
The Leveson Inquiry
Witness Statement for Part 1, Module 1
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Supplemental Witness statement of Hugh Grant
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I, Hugh Grant of C/o Collyer Bristow Llp, 4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4Df will say as follows:
Documents referred to
1.
This supplementary statement deals with the recent birth of my daughter, and the way some sections of the press have treated Tinglan Hong (her mother) and myself.
2.
For the purposes of this statement, I refer to a small paginated bundle of documents marked "HG2". Where I refer to page numbers in this statement, I am referring to pages in "HG2".
3.
On April 24th (four months into the pregnancy) the News of the World's front page headline was "Hugh's Secret Girl". The story speculated that Tinglan might be pregnant with my child, and the story was...
The Leveson Inquiry
Witness Statement for Part 1, Module 1
_______________________________________
Supplemental Witness statement of Hugh Grant
_______________________________________
I, Hugh Grant of C/o Collyer Bristow Llp, 4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4Df will say as follows:
Documents referred to
1.
This supplementary statement deals with the recent birth of my daughter, and the way some sections of the press have treated Tinglan Hong (her mother) and myself.
2.
For the purposes of this statement, I refer to a small paginated bundle of documents marked "HG2". Where I refer to page numbers in this statement, I am referring to pages in "HG2".
3.
On April 24th (four months into the pregnancy) the News of the World's front page headline was "Hugh's Secret Girl". The story speculated that Tinglan might be pregnant with my child, and the story was...
- 11/23/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Hugh Grant's appearance at the Leveson inquiry into tabloid intrusion was a bravura performance. Perhaps that is because it came straight from the heart
Hugh Grant's testimony to the Leveson inquiry, his ferocious denunciation of what he sees as the myths of celebrity hypocrisy and publicity addiction, took me back to the first film I ever reviewed for this paper. It was his romantic comedy Notting Hill, from 1999, starring Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, the impossibly beautiful movie star who comes to London and improbably falls in love with what Joan Collins would call a "civilian", a non-celebrity. This is Will Thacker, the divorced and lovably rumpled bookshop owner, played by Grant himself. One day, perhaps, Notting Hill will be a set text in media studies classes and historians of the hacking scandal will scrutinise Richard Curtis's screenplay line by line. Because it turns out to concern...
Hugh Grant's testimony to the Leveson inquiry, his ferocious denunciation of what he sees as the myths of celebrity hypocrisy and publicity addiction, took me back to the first film I ever reviewed for this paper. It was his romantic comedy Notting Hill, from 1999, starring Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, the impossibly beautiful movie star who comes to London and improbably falls in love with what Joan Collins would call a "civilian", a non-celebrity. This is Will Thacker, the divorced and lovably rumpled bookshop owner, played by Grant himself. One day, perhaps, Notting Hill will be a set text in media studies classes and historians of the hacking scandal will scrutinise Richard Curtis's screenplay line by line. Because it turns out to concern...
- 11/23/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The tawdry coverage of Hugh Grant's love life may not be unconnected to his campaign against phone hacking
Hugh Grant and a neighbour have had a brief affair and a baby. That's news all around the world. Grant is a film star. His publicist handles the announcement. But Grant is also a leading campaigner against phone hacking, which is where complications ensue.
The Sun, which claims to have broken the story, goes on about the house bought for mum and baby by Grant's cousin. The Mirror charts his new liaison with a 21-year-old jazz singer in Berlin. The Mail turns the new girlfriend into a "burlesque" artist – and unleashes Amanda Platell on the "hypocrisy and tawdry self love" of this "lonely and bitter man" (whose other great sin is "a hatred of the media").
It's all much too much. There's a mother involved here, and a kid who will...
Hugh Grant and a neighbour have had a brief affair and a baby. That's news all around the world. Grant is a film star. His publicist handles the announcement. But Grant is also a leading campaigner against phone hacking, which is where complications ensue.
The Sun, which claims to have broken the story, goes on about the house bought for mum and baby by Grant's cousin. The Mirror charts his new liaison with a 21-year-old jazz singer in Berlin. The Mail turns the new girlfriend into a "burlesque" artist – and unleashes Amanda Platell on the "hypocrisy and tawdry self love" of this "lonely and bitter man" (whose other great sin is "a hatred of the media").
It's all much too much. There's a mother involved here, and a kid who will...
- 11/6/2011
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
As 'unreal woman' becomes the new pariah, let's have more honesty and clarity about body image
"Real", says the Oed, means actually existing, genuine. It's often used to signal a contrast with something unreal, fake or conceptual. Thus real fruit content, real diamonds, real life. Where there's no doubt, we don't use it.
So why the craze for "real women"? There's Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail, proclaiming: "Even the original stick insect Victoria Beckham has jumped on the real woman bandwagon and designed her entire range around feminine curves." And then Alice Fisher and Helen Seamons in the Observer discussing Issa designer Daniella Helayel, whose clothes "are for real women who are, like herself, 'full of curves'."
We may not know what the real woman does or thinks, but we do know she's all about appearance. She' s curvy. But curvy like size 12? Size 16? No one's willing to say.
"Real", says the Oed, means actually existing, genuine. It's often used to signal a contrast with something unreal, fake or conceptual. Thus real fruit content, real diamonds, real life. Where there's no doubt, we don't use it.
So why the craze for "real women"? There's Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail, proclaiming: "Even the original stick insect Victoria Beckham has jumped on the real woman bandwagon and designed her entire range around feminine curves." And then Alice Fisher and Helen Seamons in the Observer discussing Issa designer Daniella Helayel, whose clothes "are for real women who are, like herself, 'full of curves'."
We may not know what the real woman does or thinks, but we do know she's all about appearance. She' s curvy. But curvy like size 12? Size 16? No one's willing to say.
- 3/14/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
A roundup of the reviews for the latest outing for Carrie and the girls
Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian
"I once watched Béla Tarr's Sátántangó, the legendary, gloomy black-and-white Hungarian film that lasts for seven-and-a-half hours. Compared with the Abu Dhabi section of Sex and the City 2, Sátántangó zips past like an episode of Spongebob Squarepants."
Polly Hudson, the Mirror
"If you love Satc as much as I do, a word of advice. Whatever you do, Do Not Go And See This Film. Without being overdramatic, it's like watching a dear friend being brutally murdered in front of you. For two-and-a-half loooooooong hours."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
"Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of Sex and the City 2 are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Their defining quality is consuming things. They gobble food, fashion,...
Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian
"I once watched Béla Tarr's Sátántangó, the legendary, gloomy black-and-white Hungarian film that lasts for seven-and-a-half hours. Compared with the Abu Dhabi section of Sex and the City 2, Sátántangó zips past like an episode of Spongebob Squarepants."
Polly Hudson, the Mirror
"If you love Satc as much as I do, a word of advice. Whatever you do, Do Not Go And See This Film. Without being overdramatic, it's like watching a dear friend being brutally murdered in front of you. For two-and-a-half loooooooong hours."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
"Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of Sex and the City 2 are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Their defining quality is consuming things. They gobble food, fashion,...
- 5/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Heather Mills has responded angrily to a newspaper journalist who accused her of using her prosthetic leg for sympathy. The ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney was pictured with her left trouser leg rolled up as she trained for ITV1 skating show Dancing On Ice last week. Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell later commented: "Heather Mills is so desperate to get on to the TV series Dancing On Ice that she has recruited a trainer and is out practising on the local ice rink. "One question: Why does she roll up one trouser leg to show her prosthetic limb, yet leaves the other leg covered? Not still milking the sympathy vote, are we, pet?" Mills has now hit back at the journalist on her Twitter page, accusing Platell of being offensive and ignorant. The former model complained: (more)...
- 11/3/2009
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
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