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Billy Gardell Gives Update on His 150-Pound Weight Loss

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Billy Gardell is feeling a lot healthier these days. In an interview published Monday, the Mike & Molly alum opened up to Entertainment Tonight about losing 150 pounds as he now "floats between 205 and 210." "I think you got to find peace with yourself and at some point, look in the mirror and go you know, it's probably time to take care of you. Then I didn't get that note early on," Read More...

Blackstock Road: the world on my doorstep a photo essay | London

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Ismael with his mother and father at the Arsenal Cafe on Blackstock Road. Photograph: Timothy SpurrPhotographer Timothy Spurr has been a lifelong resident of Finsbury Park, north London. His work Blackstock Road focuses on food and the environments in which it is served, and examines the stories of independent family businesses of the multi-ethnic community in the area, celebrating the fruits of London’s diversity by Timothy SpurrMany years later, while sitting at my parents’ home during the first national lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, I would remember the late afternoons in school uniform, returning to Blackstock Road to find refuge in my mother’s café. Read More...

Claire Foy: Wolf Hall's perfectly complex Anne Boleyn

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Wolf HallWas King Henry VIII’s second wife a sly mistress, ambitious hussy or doomed pawn in Tudor power games? Claire Foy’s magnetic portrayal in Wolf Hall left viewers thinking all of these things For all the praise heaped upon Mark Rylance’s deserving shoulders for his beautifully subdued performance in Wolf Hall, less has been said about Claire Foy, the poised and emotionally complex Anne Boleyn he finally had executed in last night’s superb conclusion. Read More...