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Skins star Kaya Scodelario has spoken about gaining the courage to reject sex scenes in the hit 00s show. The Gentlemen star, 32, played Effy Stonem, the sister of Nicholas Hoult’s Tony Stonem, in the Channel 4 teen drama. Kaya was 14 when she was first cast in Skins and remained on the show for three years before being given her own spin-off series Skins: Fire. The show follows Effy as she starts working for a City hedge fund and Kaya said because both she and the character were older, the original script was heavy on sex scenes. However, she…

Grab your popcorn and settle in because BBC’s latest series is a must-watch for any period drama fan, at least according to the ratings. Released on November 10, the show, titled Wolf Hall features performances by Britain’s most loved stars, including Claire Foy and Mark Rylance and has gained so many fans that it’s even surpassed EastEnders and Emmerdale in terms of popularity. Following Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power when King Henry VIII was seeking an annulment from his second wife, Anne Boleyn, to wed Jane Seymour, the six-part series is based on the novels of the same name, written…

Mark Wright has shown off his scar after suffering a brutal head wound during his Las Vegas trip. The 37-year-old reality star turned presenter was in Sin City over the weekend for the Formula One, but had to be rushed to hospital after falling in the bathroom. ‘Another year done, F1 in Vegas, what an experience. I’m coming home with a little scar,’ he revealed in a video in his Instagram Story. Mark lifted his fringe to show the gruesome injury across his forehead as he sat on a plane on his journey back to the UK and filmed himself…

Premier League football club AFC Bournemouth have announced plans to tackle violence against women after teaming up with White Ribbon. The Cherries uploaded a video across their social media channels last week to highlight one in two women feel unsafe walking alone after dark. The clip shows a female Bournemouth supporter uncomfortably walking home after an evening game – and suggests what male fans can do to help – such as crossing the road when walking behind a woman late at night. Bournemouth have been widely praised for the video and the club are now taking further steps to help…

Chelsea may be regretting letting go of Tyler Dibling with the Southampton teenager tipped to be a ‘superstar’ following an impressive start to the season. Dibling, 18, only made his senior debut a year ago but he’s now a key player in Southampton’s side as they bid to remain in the Premier League. The attacking midfielder has appeared in every league game so far and though he’s scored just once, his performances have been catching the eye. This was the case yet again on Sunday, when Liverpool visited St. Mary’s in a clash between top and bottom of the table.…

There has been outrage and condemnation in Spain after a five-year-old boy was forced to take off his beloved club’s shirt before attending Espanyol’s La Liga clash with Girona at the weekend. Hosts Girona ran out comfortable 4-1 winners over Espanyol on Saturday, the side’s third league victory on the bounce, to rise to seventh in the Spanish top flight. But a viral video filmed before kick-off, which shows a young supporter being made to take off his Espanyol jersey by security staff, has somewhat overshadowed Girona’s win. According to the boy’s father, the child had been told he would…

Video footage shows the shocking moment a mother stormed the pitch of an Under-12s football match in Spain to slap the referee in the face. In a match between CF Alhendín and RCD Espanyol Albolote in Granada, the woman is seen entering the field of play moments after the referee had blown his final whistle. The home team, Alhendín, had just sealed a 4-2 victory in their the Andalusian third division match. In the incident recorded by a spectator in the crowd, the woman, believed to be the mother of one of the boys playing for the visiting team Espanyol…

Tim Sherwood has backed Ruben Amorim to turn Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford into a ‘superstar’. Rashford scored the first goal of the Amorim era in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich Town, turning home Amad Diallo’s cross inside two minutes to give the Portuguese boss the perfect start to his tenure. The early goal felt like a turning point for a team sitting in the bottom-half of the Premier League table but United’s flaws were exposed by newly-promoted Ipswich, who secured a well-deserved point through Omari Hutchinson’s deflected strike on the stroke of half-time. Amorim admitted he had a huge…

A little-known, far-right populist has taken the lead in Romania’s presidential election and will likely face leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in a runoff in two weeks, an outcome that has rocked the country’s political landscape. With around 93% of the votes counted, independent candidate Calin Georgescu was in the lead with around 22% of the vote, while Ciolacu of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), trailed at 20%. Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union party (USR) stood at around 18%, and George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), took 14.1%. After polls…

The main US front pages cover various domestic US news ahead of Thanksgiving. Most of the front pages leave space to look ahead to the incoming Donald Trump presidency and what it means – not just for the country – but on local and state levels.