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Harry Styles has long been accused of queerbaiting and whilst many have come to his defence, it appears American actor Billy Porter is not impressed. In a recent interview, he criticised Styles for being the first solo man to feature on US Vogue – a cover shoot that was all the more talked about as Harry Styles wore a dress.  

Porter criticised Styles’ historic cover saying “I feel like the fashion industry has accepted me because they have to,” he said. “I created the conversation (about non-binary fashion) and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on their cover for the first time.”

“I was the first one doing it and now everybody is doing it,” he said. “I’m not dragging Harry Styles, but… He doesn’t care, he’s just doing it because it’s the thing to do. This is politics for me. This is my life.”

“I had to fight my entire life to get to the place where I could wear a dress to the Oscars,” Porter continued. “All (Styles) has to do is be white and straight.”

Whist Billy Porter believes he ‘created the conversation about non-binary fashion’ it’s important to acknowledge plenty of musicians have famously worn dresses – David Bowie, Prince, Sir Elton and so on – long before Porter or Styles. 

A report by MPs says the UK’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures. 

The government approach – backed by government scientists – was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity. 

The 150-page report highlights successes too – including the vaccination rollout. 

However, most of the UK’s papers and news sites are reporting on the failures, with some papers asking whether resignations should start rolling in, the heroes and the shocking blunders. 

American comedian Dave Chappelle’s latest Comedy Special on Netflix has come under fire for his comments about trans people. The comedian has since doubled down on his comments, having performed to a sold-out celebrity-packed crowd in LA, he said he ‘loved being cancelled’. 

Netflix has been urged to pull the special from activists and people on social media, as they say Chappelle’s comments are transphobic and homophobic, and damaging, but some are arguing his comments aren’t offence and you shouldn’t police comedy. 

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has found herself caught in a scandal after she branded Tory ministers “a bunch of scum” at a Labour conference event.

Ms Rayner was reported to have made her remarks about Mr Johnson at a reception on Saturday evening. Asked on Sunday morning if she would retract the remarks, she said she believed the prime minister was a “racist, homophobic misogynist”.

“I think he needs to apologise for comments he has made in the past,” Ms Rayner told the BBC, adding: “I will apologise when Boris apologises for saying the comments he has made, I will retract that he is scum.”

The media coverage of Emmys 2021 appears to agree on one thing: the public doesn’t care about celebrity award shows anymore.

British tennis sensation Emma Raducanu accomplished one of the greatest sporting achievements of all time – winning the US Open at just 18 years old.