How True Is the Queen's Gambit?
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ARTS November 13 | 2020 How true is The Queen’s Gambit? The UK women’s chess champion on the hit Netflix show Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon 2 1GT Friday November 13 2020 | the times times2 Caitlin 6 4 DOWN UP Moran Demi Lovato Quote of It’s hard being a former Disney child the Weekk star. Eventually you have to grow Celebrity Watch up, despite the whole world loving And in New!! and remembering you as a cute magazine child, and the route to adulthood the Love for many former child stars is Island star paved with peril. All too often the Priscilla way that young female stars show Anyabu they are “all grown up” is by Going revealed her Sexy: a couple of fruity pop videos; preferred breakfast, 10 a photoshoot in PVC or lingerie. which possibly 8 “I have lost the power of qualifies as “the most adorableness, but I have gained the unpleasant breakfast yet invented DOWN UP power of hotness!” is the message. by humankind”. Mary Dougie from Unfortunately, the next stage in “Breakfast is usually a bagel with this trajectory is usually “gaining cheese spread, then an egg with grated Wollstonecraft McFly the power of being in your cheese on top served with ketchup,” This week the long- There are those who say that men mid-thirties and putting on 2st”, she said, madly admitting with that awaited statue of can’t be feminists and that they cannot a power that sadly still goes “usually” that this is something that Mary Wollstonecraft help with the Struggle. This week, unrewarded in showbusiness and she has made, eaten and chosen to eat was unveiled in London, and it has however, I feel that in OK! magazine then ends your career. on more than one occasion. raised many eyebrows — for when Dougie from the pop band McFly Congratulations, then, to Demi However, this week’s winner comes Maggi Hambling’s “tribute” to the innovated a reply to a question usually Lovato, the former Disney child from the Game of Thrones director writer, intellectual and grandmother asked of women that might be of use. star who, having done “Going Mark Mylod, who described what it of feminism was revealed we saw . As readers of glossy magazines will Sexy”, is forging a new path into was like working with the ultra-minx a tiny, super-hot naked bird with be aware, the three most common adulthood: going a bit woo-woo. Diana Rigg. Before his first scene with cracking tits. questions asked of any female “I have dug deep into the her, Mylod outlined his vision for the As controversy and debate broke celebrity are “Which part of your body science of consciousness and scene and Rigg’s character. As befitted out over the sculpture — is feminism do you hate the most?”, “Do you want experienced not only peace and her 60 years in the business, Rigg best represented by naked chicks, to get married?” and “Do you want serenity like I’ve never known, replied with a brisk: “Thank you! Go or were those against the notion to have children?”, thus reducing half but I have also witnessed the away!” Then played the scene exactly essentially uptight prudes, slut- the population to self-loathing, most incredibly profound as she had envisioned it. shaming the statue? — I brought heteronormative breeding machines. sightings in the sky,” Lovato said Later on in filming Rigg had to bear, once again, my most useful In the latest issue of this week as she discussed her a another disagreement with someone tool for working out if something is OK!, unusually, a man latest move: launching a $9.99 on set and “stormed off”. sexist or not. Which is — do men — Dougie — was meditation app that allows you to “She can’t walk fast. She has to be have to worry about this stuff? Does asked the last of these “make contact with aliens”. helped,” her co-star Jessica Henwick this kind of stuff happen to men? three questions. And he Although the jury is still out on revealed. “So we basically just sat In this case, if we imagine replied crisply, “My whether this app will prove to be there and watched as Diana a famous sculptor creating a statue bloodline dies with a success for Lovato, it has got to be Rigg effectively did “in tribute to” Winston Churchill me,” thus ending good news for, eg, Nasa. Having her own version that depicted a tiny, hot, naked the conversation spent six decades burning through of storming off set, young man with proudly shining immediately. trillions of dollars trying to get but it was at 0.1 miles testicles, we would, I think, regard I urge all female to new planets and discover new per hour. She it as a bit weird and demented. celebrities to life forms, it must be relieved to cracked me up. 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It happened Maybe she should moved to mark his adoration for his married his fiancé, Gareth Locke, twice . but he never talk to him through fiancée, Nicola Peltz, by having a very making them Ollie and Gareth came back.” a psychic, deal with realistic tattoo of her eyes inked on Locke-Locke. If they decide to If Simon has had sex their issues, get to the back of his neck. Although I become a throuple with a third with a male ghost, I guess engaged . then she’d appreciate the intention of the gesture, Locke, as they head into their sixties this makes her . be his seance-ée. as a pap shot of Beckham this week this would presumably be the heterospectre-al? Thank you. Thank made apparent, the ultimate effect of ultimate realisation of the “triple- Thank you. Thank you you for listening to the her face seemingly manifesting on the Locke pension” that the coalition for listening to my joke. second of my jokes. back of his head is a bit . 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