Melissa Carton

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Senior parenting, lifestyle and beauty editorial writer. Loves a 'tried and tested'.

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  • Friends reunion to start filming next month, says David Schwimmer

    Friends reunion to start filming next month, says David Schwimmer

    Could we be any more excited?! No one told us the last year and a half was gonna be this way, but luckily David Schwimmer has given us something to look forward to. The Friends and American Crime Story actor recently announced the news that we’ve all been waiting for – the Friends reunion is […]

    5 years ago

  • Nicola Coughlan slams podcast host who called her ‘the fat girl from Bridgerton’

    Nicola Coughlan slams podcast host who called her ‘the fat girl from Bridgerton’

    She’s dead right Derry Girls and Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has hit out against a podcast host reporting on the Golden Globes for repeatedly calling her fat. Big Calf podcast host Amanda Roberts not only described Coughlan as “the fat girl from Bridgerton” rather than by her name, but then went on to criticise her […]

    5 years ago

  • Sarah Harding gives new update to fans during cancer battle

    Sarah Harding gives new update to fans during cancer battle

    It has been months since she last posted on social media Last year Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding revealed to fans that she had been diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer. Since the announcement of her diagnosis, Harding has kept relatively quiet on social media, only posting once since August. Yesterday, she posted a new update […]

    5 years ago

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar speaks out against Buffy creator Joss Whedon

    Sarah Michelle Gellar speaks out against Buffy creator Joss Whedon

    It comes amid more allegations of his abuse While Joss Whedon is famous for creating shows such as Buffy, Angel and Firefly (and also working on the recent Marvel movies), he has also become infamous for treating actors badly on set. Last year, Justice League actor Ray Fisher said that Whedon was “was gross, abusive, […]

    5 years ago

  • The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel documentary lands on Netflix today

    The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel documentary lands on Netflix today

    One of America’s strangest cases The Cecil hotel is known for having a dark history, being a spot troubled with murders, suicides and at one time being the home to serial killer Richard Ramirez, AKA the Night Stalker. All that being said, one case involving the Cecil Hotel that sticks out in the minds of […]

    5 years ago

  • Zach Braff to star in Cheaper By The Dozen remake

    Zach Braff to star in Cheaper By The Dozen remake

    The cast just keeps getting better I remember when I first heard that Cheaper By The Dozen was getting a remake that it seemed very soon to do another version. Then it hit me that Hilary Duff was a teenager in Cheaper By The Dozen it and she’s now in her mid thirties and that […]

    5 years ago

  • Siblings or Dating: the weirdest Instagram account on the planet

    Siblings or Dating: the weirdest Instagram account on the planet

    Funny or horrifying, we can’t decide? For this lockdown (I’ve lost count as to which one it is) we’ve been looking for fresh ways to entertain ourselves. During the first lockdown it was all about virtual quizzes, baking banana bread and the millennials discovering TikTok, but that’s not going to suffice this time so we’ve […]

    5 years ago

  • Matthew Perry’s dad was a character on Friends and nobody noticed

    Matthew Perry’s dad was a character on Friends and nobody noticed

    Could they LOOK any more alike? Well, yes There have been several times in recent years that celebrity parents have turned up in the same movies or TV shows as their parents. Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh in The Fog, both of Benedict Cumberbatch’s parents in Sherlock and Demi Moore and Bruce Willis have […]

    5 years ago

  • GTA VI rumoured to feature series’ first ever female protagonist

    GTA VI rumoured to feature series’ first ever female protagonist

    Huge if true. Since the first Grand Theft Auto game was released in the late 1990s, the series has become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially popular in entertainment history. The last iteration of the game, GTA V, was released in 2013 and is the second biggest selling game of all-time. According to Game […]

    5 years ago

  • “No one said a thing:” Bake Off’s Ali Imdad racially abused on bus

    “No one said a thing:” Bake Off’s Ali Imdad racially abused on bus

    “In a packed bus, no one said a thing.” Great British Bake Off contestant Ali Imdad has shared a video of himself being racially abused on a bus in Birmingham. In the video, which Ali shared on Twitter, a female passenger on the bus accused the 33-year-old of being a terrorist. Not only was I […]

    5 years ago

  • Chadwick Boseman honoured by Disney+ in new Black Panther credits

    Chadwick Boseman honoured by Disney+ in new Black Panther credits

    A lovely tribute. The world was shocked and devastated this August when Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman passed away at the age of only 43. Unbeknownst to many, the actor had been severely ill with colon cancer for a long time. Yesterday would have been Boseman’s 44th birthday and to honour the late actor, Disney+ […]

    5 years ago

  • Britney Spears loses court bid to remove father’s control over estate

    Britney Spears loses court bid to remove father’s control over estate

    The judge said she would consider future petitions from the singer For the last few years Britney Spears career has been in the hands of her father Jamie Spears due to a conservatorship of which he has control over. During a recent and unsuccessful hearing regarding the removal of her father from the conservatorship, Britney […]

    5 years ago

  • Chaotic scenes as people flee Paris ahead of second lockdown

    Chaotic scenes as people flee Paris ahead of second lockdown

    Emily might be the only one left in Paris. When lockdown is announced in a country due to coronavirus, there are inevitably a number of people who try and get out of big cities and back home to family in more open, rural areas. Some because they didn’t want to be locked down away from […]

    5 years ago

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