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Diana in her OWN searing words: 25 years after her death, the Princess's shattering account of suicide bids, bulimia and a marriage in crisis - shared in a taped interview with ANDREW MORTON that she wanted the world to hear - still has the power to shock

• Author Andrew Morton describes 'tale of woe' Diana poured onto tapes 'in a rapid stream of consciousness'
• Writer says he gained the princess's trust through their mutual friend and her confidant, Dr James Colthurst
• Diana 'raged' about Prince Charles's infidelity but hid her own affairs during their rocky marriage, Morton says
• In the tapes Diana discusses life in the palace, her experiences with Prince Charles and battles with her health
• 'Her words, drawn from tapes' transcripts, are so raw and powerful that as you read, you can hear her speak' 

By Andrew Morton For The Daily Mail

Published: 22:00 BST, 26 August 2022 | Updated: 00:24 BST, 27 August 2022

Turning on my tape recorder, I listened with mounting astonishment to the unmistakable voice of Princess Diana, pouring out a tale of woe in a rapid stream of consciousness.

She was talking about her unhappiness, her sense of betrayal, her suicide attempts — and two things I’d never previously heard of: an eating disorder called bulimia nervosa and a woman called Camilla.

It was 1991. Diana was approaching 30, and the very idea that her ten-year marriage was in dire trouble seemed unthinkable. To most people, Charles and Diana were still a fairytale story.

Why did she trust me with the true story of her marriage? The key was Dr James Colthurst, whom I’d met in 1986 when the princess opened a new CT scanner in his X-ray department at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Afterwards, over tea and biscuits, I questioned him about Diana’s visit and soon realised he had known her for years.

Gradually, James and I became friendly, enjoying games of squash followed by large lunches and talking about everything but the princess.

As her friend, of course, James was well aware that her marriage had failed and that her husband was having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Diana had a nagging fear that, at any moment, her enemies in the Palace would have her classified as mentally ill and locked away. Where to turn?

It had dawned on her that unless the full story of her life was told, the public would never understand the reasons behind anything she decided to do.

She knew I was researching a book about her and she had been reasonably pleased with an earlier work of mine, mainly because it irritated Prince Charles with its detailed description of the interior of Highgrove.

One day, she asked Colthurst: ‘Does Andrew want an interview?’ I was keen to talk to her directly but this was out of the question. So I interviewed her by proxy, giving my questions to Colthurst, who then conducted six taped interviews with her at Kensington Palace.

Anxious to be believed, she passed him several letters and postcards from Camilla to Prince Charles to show me. Passionate, loving and full of suppressed longing, they left absolutely no doubt that Diana’s suspicions were correct.

While she raged about her husband’s infidelity, however, she hid the fact that she’d enjoyed a long love affair with Major James Hewitt from 1986 to 1991, as well as a brief dalliance in 1989 with her old friend James Gilbey (later exposed as the male voice on the notorious Squidgygate tapes).

Nor did Colthurst and I have the faintest notion that the married art dealer Oliver Hoare had recently become the object of her love and devotion.

Looking back, Diana’s audacity was breathtaking. One is left wondering if she wanted to get her side of the story published first, so she would escape blame for the failure of the marriage.

She read my book in chunks as I wrote it, and on one occasion was so moved by the poignancy of her own story that she confessed to weeping tears of sorrow.

On June 7, 1992, the first extract from my book appeared in a newspaper — under the banner headline ‘Diana driven to five suicide bids by “uncaring” Charles’. I’d used a few quotes from the secret tapes but the vast majority of what she had said was disguised.

It is hard now to convey the shock, disgust and astonishment that greeted the first instalment. The Archbishop of Canterbury condemned it and the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Lord McGregor, accused the media of ‘dabbling their fingers in the stuff of other people’s souls’.

The book was banned by numerous bookstores and supermarkets. Ironically, a biography written and produced with Diana’s enthusiastic co-operation was being piously boycotted on the suspicion that it was a pack of lies.

But it soon became apparent that the book really was Diana’s true story — and the princess quickly began to receive the kind of support that always meant so much to her. Letters came flooding in, many from people who had suffered with eating disorders themselves.

She never regretted the taping sessions. And in the last five years of her life, the world witnessed the flowering of her humanitarian spirit.

The public’s verdict can be gauged by the outpouring of grief that convulsed the country when she died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.

Thankfully, Diana left her own searing testimony of what life was really like for her as Princess of Wales. Her words, drawn from transcripts of those tapes, are so raw and so powerful that as you read, you can hear her speak...

Once, William and I were in the swimming pool at Highgrove and I was telling him off, and he turned around to me and said: ‘You’re the most selfish woman I’ve ever met. All you do is think of yourself.’

And I was so stunned. I mean, this is seven years ago [in 1985, when William was three].

I said: ‘Where did you hear that?’

‘Oh, I’ve often heard Papa saying it.’

The one thing I’ve always prided myself on — if I may be so bold — is that I’ve never been a selfish person. But Charles was always telling me I was being selfish, and I sort of believed it.

During the first few years of our marriage, people were saying I gave my husband a hard time, that I was acting like a spoiled child.

But I knew I just needed rest and patience and time to adapt to all the roles that were required of me overnight.

I did take criticism hard because I tried so hard to show the Royal Family that I wasn’t going to let them down, but obviously that didn’t come across strongly enough at that point.

The public side was very different from the private side. The public side, they wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything will turn into gold and all their worries would be forgotten.

Little did they realise that the individual was crucifying herself inside because she didn’t think she was good enough.

Inside the system, I was treated very differently, as though I was an oddball — and I felt I was an oddball, and so I thought I wasn’t good enough.

But now I think it’s good to be the oddball — thank God, thank God, thank God!

I was just so desperate. I knew what was wrong with me but nobody else around me understood me.

I needed to be looked after inside my house and for people to understand the torment and anguish going on in my head. I’m not spoiled — I just needed to be allowed to adapt to my new position.

We had a few trying-to-cut-wrists, throwing things out of windows, breaking glass [Diana once threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace]. I gave everybody a fright. It was all a desperate cry for help.

I [threatened to throw] myself downstairs [while staying at Sandringham in early 1982] when I was four months pregnant with William, trying to get my husband’s attention, for him to listen to me.

But he just said: ‘You’re crying wolf.’ And he said: ‘I’m not going to listen. You’re always doing this to me. I’m going riding now.’

So I threw myself down the stairs. The Queen comes out, absolutely horrified, shaking — she was so frightened.

I knew I wasn’t going to lose the baby, though I was quite bruised around the stomach.

Charles had gone out riding and when he came back, you know, it was just dismissal, total dismissal. He just carried on out of the door.

'I fainted but Charles went on around the exhibition' 

 It was at Expo’86 in Canada where I passed out. I’d never fainted before in my life.

We’d been walking round for four hours, we hadn’t had any food and presumably I hadn’t eaten for days beforehand. When I say that, I mean food staying down.

I remember walking round, feeling really ghastly. I didn’t dare tell anyone I felt ghastly because I thought they’d think I was whingeing. 

I put my arm on my husband’s shoulder and said: ‘Darling, I think I’m about to disappear,’ and slid down the side of him. Whereupon David Roycroft and Anne Beckwith-Smith [royal aides], who were with us at the time, took me to a room.

My husband told me off. He said I could have passed out quietly somewhere else, behind a door. It was all very embarrassing. My argument was I didn’t know anything about fainting.

I’d fainted in the American section. While Anne and David were bringing me round, Charles went on around the exhibition. He left me to it. 

I got back to the hotel in Vancouver and blubbed my eyes out. Basically, I was overtired, exhausted and on my knees because I hadn’t got any food inside me.

Everyone was saying: ‘She can’t go out tonight, she must have some sleep.’

Charles said: ‘She must go out tonight, otherwise there’s going to be a sense of terrific drama and they are going to think there’s something really awful wrong with her.’

I couldn’t sleep. I just never slept. I went for three nights without any sleep at all.

I thought my bulimia was secret but quite a few of the people in the house recognised it was going on, though nobody mentioned it. They all thought it was quite amusing that I ate so much but never put any weight on.

I always kept my breakfast down. I swam every day, I never went out at night, I didn’t burn candles at both ends.

I got up very early in the morning, on my own, to be on my own, and at night-time went to bed early, so it wasn’t as though I was being a masochist. I always had terrific energy — I’ve always had that.

It went on and on. I just cried at every opportunity, which thrilled people in a way because when you’re crying in this system you are weak and ‘We can handle her.’

But when you bounce up again, ‘What the hell happened?’ Questions again.

I think an awful lot of people tried to help me because they saw something going wrong, but I never leant on anyone.

For a long time none of my family knew about what was going on. Jane, my sister, after five years of me being married, came to check on me.

I had a V-neck on, and shorts. She said: ‘Duch [Diana’s childhood nickname], what’s that marking on your chest?’

I said: ‘Oh, it’s nothing.’

She said: ‘What is it?’

The night before, I’d wanted to talk to Charles about something. He wouldn’t listen to me — he said I was crying wolf.

So I picked up his penknife off his dressing table and scratched myself heavily down my chest and both thighs.

There was a lot of blood — and he hadn’t made any reaction whatsoever. Jane just went for me. She said: ‘You mustn’t let the side down.’ And I turned on her, and said: ‘Give me some credit that I haven’t troubled any of the family in five years about this.’ Their perception is very different now. They’re annoyed by the lack of support from my husband.

Jane’s wonderfully solid. If you ring up with a drama, she says: ‘Golly, gosh, Duch, how awful, how sad’ and gets angry. But she doesn’t do anything about it.

Whereas my sister Sarah swears about it behind my back and says: ‘Poor Duch, such a s****y thing to happen.’ But she won’t say it to my face.

My father says: ‘Just remember we always love you’ and does nothing. And my mother just writes letters when she feels like it.

I suppose Charles has worked out that I’m unhappy. He talked to my sister about it and said: ‘I’m worried about Di. She’s not sleeping, she’s being sick — can’t you talk to her?’

Inside me, I knew there was something wrong with me but I was too immature to voice it.

A doctor came and saw me. I told him I was making myself sick. He didn’t know what to say because the issue was too big for him to handle.

He just gave me a pill and shut me up. I felt miserable. I shut my friends out because I didn’t want to pull them in on it.

I would be too embarrassed to ask them to come in for lunch. I couldn’t cope with that. I would be apologising the whole way through lunch.

My mother tried to give me Valium. Someone else tried to take me off it. I never actually took it.

But it was all very strange. There were so many forces pulling me and I didn’t have a clue which way to turn.

I didn’t get any choice over the people I met for therapy. I didn’t take to either of the doctors I was seeing.

One of them drove me mad. He seemed to be the one who needed help, not me.

The other would ring me at 6 o’clock and I’d have to explain to him the conversations I’d had with my husband throughout the day. There weren’t many conversations — more tears than anything else.

We went on a six-week tour to Australia and New Zealand. This was the real hard crunch, the hard end of being the Princess of Wales.

There were thousands of Press following us. We were away six weeks and the first day we went to this school in Alice Springs.

It was hot, I was jet-lagged, being sick. I was too thin. The whole world was focusing on me every day. I was on the front of the papers.

I thought that this was just so appalling — I hadn’t done something specific, like climb Everest or done something wonderful like that.

'Balmoral drains me' 

This myth about me hating Balmoral — I love Scotland but just the atmosphere drains me to nothing. 

I go up ‘strong Diana’. I come away depleted of everything because they just suck me dry, because I tune in to all their moods — and, boy, are there some undercurrents there! 

Instead of having a holiday, it’s the most stressful time of the year. It’s very close quarters. 

I panic a lot when I go up to Balmoral. It’s my worst time, and I think: ‘How the hell am I going to get out of this?’ 

The first couple of days, I’m frightfully chirpy and everything’s wonderful. 

By the third day, they’re sapping me again. There are so many negative atmospheres. That house sucks one dry. 

But I come back to London to see someone, go back the same day and it will be like an injection, a replenishment coming into my set-up. I say to myself: ‘I amnormal, it’s OK to be me, it’s all right. 

You’re going back to work soon, going to be back in your own home; you go back up there again and try and perform.’ It’s exhausting 

However, I came back from this engagement and I went to my lady-in-waiting, cried my eyes out and said: ‘Anne [Beckwith-Smith], I’ve got to go home, I can’t cope with this.’ So that first week was such a traumatic week for me. I learned to be royal, in inverted commas, in one week.

I was thrown into the deep end. Nobody ever helped me at all. They [the royal Establishment] would be there to criticise me, but never there to say: ‘Well done.’

Everybody always said when we were in the car: ‘Oh, we’re in the wrong side, we want to see her, we don’t want to see him’, and that’s all we could hear when we went down these crowds — and obviously Charles wasn’t used to that and nor was I.

He took it out on me. He was jealous; I understood the jealousy but I couldn’t explain that I didn’t ask for it.

I kept saying you’ve married someone and whoever you’d have married would have been of interest for the clothes, how she handles this, that and the other, and you build the building block for your wife to stand on to make her own building block.

He didn’t see that at all. After that there was immense jealousy because every single day I was on the front of the newspapers.

I had so many dreams as a young girl. I wanted and hoped that my husband would look after me. He would be a father figure and he’d support me, encourage me, say: ‘Well done’, or ‘No, it wasn’t good enough’.

But I didn’t get any of that. I couldn’t believe it. I got none of that. It was role reversal.

He ignores me everywhere. Ignored everywhere, and have been for a long time. But if people choose to see that now, they are a bit late in the day. He just dismisses me.

He told a lot of people the reason why the marriage was so wobbly was because I was being sick the whole time. They never questioned what it was doing to me.

The Queen indicated to me that the reason why our marriage had gone downhill was because Prince Charles was having such a difficult time with my bulimia. She told me that. She hung her coat on the hook, so to speak.

And it made me realise that the Royal Family all saw that as the cause of the marriage problems, and not one of the symptoms.

I admire the Queen. I long to get inside her mind. I’ve always said to her: ‘I’ll never let you down, but I cannot say the same for your son.’ 

Adapted from Diana: Her True Story — In Her Own Words, by Andrew Morton, published by Michael O’Mara Books at £9.99. © Andrew Morton 2017. To order a copy for £8.99 (offer valid until September 10, 2022; UK P&P free on orders over £20), visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

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Run BTS 'Telepathy': J-Hope recalls when he threw a banana at Jungkook in anger, RM ran away - The Indian Express

BTS’ popular variety show, RUN BTS returned after over nine months and was peppered with special moments of nostalgia and the usual dose of comedy that ARMY expects from the band. In the second episode of ‘Telepathy’, the band members had to figure out a location based on a keyword.

While RM, Jin, V and Jimin found each other at their old dorm, Suga, J-Hope and Jungkook ended up at different locations. The next keyword for the challenge was ‘sulking’, where the members had to hunt out their different dorms that they lived in after their debut. During this fun chase, several anecdotes about their fights from trainee days came to light—such as J-Hope hitting Jungkook on the head with a banana, RM and Jin fighting over laundry, and the revelation that RM had run away to his parents when he was upset.

When asked about the time that he was ‘salty’ with members, J-Hope said that he had never been upset with them. Later as he was looking for the members, he revealed that it was ‘the banana incident’ with Jungkook, and the RUN BTS editors explained in the subtitles that Jungkook was upset over the fruits disappearing so J-Hope threw the banana at him saying, “You eat it all!”

📽 RUN BTS

Hobi mencionando que a única vez que ele ficou irritado com os membros foi durante o incidente da banana com Jungkook 😭😭

🐿: a palavra chave, digo “irritado”
🐿: eu nunca fiquei irritado com nenhum dos membros… +@BTS_twt
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— BARMY PRODS⁷ (@BARMYPRODS) August 24, 2022

Here are some of the special moments from the show:

RM enacting his ice-cream incident with V

Jimin and namjoon having a walk around the neighborhood and joon reenacting his ice cream incident with tae to jimin 🥺 pic.twitter.com/S3CnKaf6lz

— lyn⁷ misses 🐥미니모니🐨 (@mmmoonfairy) August 23, 2022

Jin unable to remember why he and RM fought

jin not knowing that he had a squabble with joon after jimin told them to make up is me cause i don’t be taking anything seriously pic.twitter.com/0ervMLqIxF

— jj (@namedillegirl) August 23, 2022

Jimin wanting to do pole dancing and RM supporting him wholeheartedly

joon replying “that suits you” after jimin said he wants to try pole dancing 🫠 pic.twitter.com/aP9ijfn5v6

— ً (@jmnsource) August 23, 2022

Suga’s excitement on seeing J-Hope

yoongi’s excitement when he finally found hobi 😭 he’s so cute pic.twitter.com/pfvmNUfEOZ

— 코레 (@kkukstudio) August 23, 2022

The lunch reunion

Joon and hobi putting meat on Jimin’s plate 🥲 pic.twitter.com/dHvjGwYHUr

— (๑•́ ɞ •̀๑) (@dailyjimn) August 23, 2022

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While withdrawing temporarily from composing music, BTS has been keeping ARMY busy with other numerous projects, including singles with Charlie Puth, Snoop Dogg, and J-Hope’s solo album, V’s In The Soop, as well as recent breath-taking pictorials.  Much to the excitement of ARMY, BTS will host a free concert in Busan for the World Expo.

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‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Animated Series from Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves Axed at HBO Max - Variety

HBO Max has canceled six upcoming animated series, including “Batman: Caped Crusader,” Variety has learned. The project was ordered to series in May 2021 with Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves attached to executive produce.

The other series on the chopping block are “Merry Little Batman,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie,” “Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Tunes Musical,” “Did I Do That to The Holidays: A Steve Urkel Story” and “The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie.” Production on all six series continues, with plans to shop them to platforms besides HBO Max. Warner Bros. Animation is the studio for each, with the exception of “The Amazing Word of Gumball,” which is being produced by H-B Studios Europe.

“Batman: Caped Crusader” was meant to build on “Batman: The Animated Series,” which was co-created by Timm and aired on Fox Kids for 85 episodes from 1992-1995. This is the second project from J.J. Abrams that Warner Bros. Discovery has recently decided not to move forward with — HBO let go of his science fiction drama “Demimonde” in June.

The decision not to release these series on HBO Max is part of a larger trend as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery largely divests from kids and family content. For example, last week, kids programs including “Little Ellen” and several seasons of “Sesame Street” were removed from HBO Max, and earlier this month HBO and HBO Max laid off staffers from the kids and family department. CEO David Zaslav noted this shift in priorities during WBD’s recent earnings call. Additionally, after cancelling “Gordita Chronicles” after one season last month, a spokesperson for HBO Max said, “Live-action kids and family programming will not be part of our programming focus in the immediate future.”

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Cathy Yan To EP & Direct Live-Action Series ‘Paprika’, Based On Yasutaka Tsutsui Novel - Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Cathy Yan (Birds of Prey, Dead Pigs) will executive produce and direct the live-action series Paprika, based on the Yasutaka Tsutsui novel of the same name, for Amazon Studios and Hivemind, Deadline has learned.

Amazon declined comment.

Paprika is a character-driven sci-fi series with a mind-bending narrative centering around a technology that allows us to invade people’s dreams.

Along with Yan, her producing partner Ash Sarohia will also executive produce under their Rewild banner, as well as Masi Oka, and Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown.

Yan recently received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for her episode of Succession, “The Disruption.” The episode marked her first time directing for a series.

Yan made a splash in 2020 as the director of Birds of Prey for Warner Bros and LuckyChap Entertainment centering on the DC Comic character Harley Quinn and the titular superhero team. The film is a spinoff and sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad.

In conversation with Deadline following her Emmy nom, Yan spoke of the impact of being the first Asian woman to direct a superhero film.

“I think it’s helpful to have role models. When I was growing up, there were few Asian Americans directing at all and certainly less that were women like me,” she said. “If [seeing me as a director] is helpful to anyone in any way, or if it shows someone a different perspective on some of these stories, it’s very humbling to be a part of that.”

Up next, Yan will write and direct the feature film The Freshening. She and Sarohia will also produce the film for Rewild alongside Ali Wong and Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries/Gary Sanchez Productions and FilmNation.

Yan and Sarohia are repped by CAA and HJTH.

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China Box Office: ‘New Gods’ Sequel Beats ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ - Variety

Chinese animation film “New Gods: Yang Jian” was the top film at the mainland China box office over the latest weekend. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” opened in third place.

“New Gods: Yang Jian” earned 19.8 million (RMB134 million) on its debut between Friday and Sunday, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. It places ahead of previous winner “Moon Man” which slipped from first to second place with a $17.8 million (RMB121 million) fourth weekend. “Moon Man” now has a $397 million (RMB2.70 billion) cumulative.

“New Gods: Yang Jian” is a continuation of the “New Gods” franchise from Light Chaser Animation, the studio behind 2021 hit “New Gods: Nezha Reborn” and 2019’s “White Snake.” “Nezha Reborn” earned $67.6 million (RMB456 million).

The new film revolves around Yang Jian, a mythological figure from the Ming Dynasty and who was featured in historical novel “The Investiture of the Gods.” (The same book was also mined by Enlight Pictures for its film “Nezha.)

“Minions” earned $11.6 million (RMB78.6 million). That looks unlikely to challenge previous “Minions” and “Despicable Me” franchise records in China.

The first “Despicable Me” film did not have a China release, “Despicable Me 2” earned $52.9 million in 2013 and “Despicable Me 3” enjoyed a huge $158 million in 2017. The first “Minions” film in 2015 earned $68.5 million.

Its soft start may be partly explained by the very late notification of its release confirmation – less than two weeks.

Imax reported that “New Gods: Yang Jian” opened to $1.75m, or 9.2% of the nationwide total, on its screens. It shared the Imax network in China with “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which earned $380,000. Award-winning Japanese anime film “Belle” will further fragment the Imax offering in China from Friday.

Hong Kong sci-fi “Warriors of Future” slipped to fourth in its third weekend, but with a still solid $10.5 million (RMB71.1 million). Its cumulative now advances to $72.2 million (RMB491 million).

In fifth place was “The Fallen Bridge” dropping steeply in its second week of release. It earned $3.3 million (RMB22.2 million) on the weekend, for a 10-day cumulative $30.6 million (RMB208 million).

Artisan Gateway reports that the $65.5 million weekend total lifter China’s year-to-date box office total to $.48 billion. That cut the deficit compared with last year to 27%.

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‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere Recap Season 1 Episode 1 - TVLine

Saddle up your dragon: It’s time to return to Westeros.

Game of Thrones’ much-heralded prequel spinoff House of the Dragon premiered Sunday, bringing us right back into King’s Landing like no time had passed. (Well, it takes place a couple of centuries before the events of the original series, but you know what we mean.)

Wanna know what happens? Read on for the highlights of Episode 1 (and be sure to watch our interview with Fabien Frankel).

PREQUEL TO THE PREQUEL | We’re brought into this new — well, old — world during a gathering held at the end of the first century of the Targaryen dynasty. A female narrator informs us that we’re watching a council at Harrenhal, called by King Jaehaerys. Though the family’s rule was strong — with 10 adult dragons, “no power in the world could stand against it,” the narrator says — the king’s health is not. And because both of his sons are dead, he calls the summit to choose a successor.

Though more than a thousand lords attend, and 14 bids are made, only two potential successors are truly considered: Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Nurse Jackie’s Eve Best), the king’s oldest descendant; and Prince Viserys Targaryen (The Insider’s Paddy Considine), the king’s oldest male descendant. Both stand with their spouses by the king’s side as he announces the person who will sit the Iron Throne after his death. “The lords instead chose Viserys, my father,” the narrator explains, outing herself as Rhaenyra Targaryen, whom we’ll formally meet in a moment. Then she goes on to note that the council had been called to prevent a war over who’d be in charge, post-Jaehaerys, because “The only thing that could tear down the house of the Dragon was itself.”

THERE ARE DRAGONS IN THE SKY | A title card then leaps us ahead to the ninth year of King Viserys’ reign, “172 years before the death of the Mad King, Aerys, and the birth of his daughter, Princess Daenerys Targaryen.” Annnnnd, cue dragon! A giant, golden beast soars through the clouds and over King’s Landing, giving us a little aerial tour before landing in a clearing. A teenage Rhaenyra (The Gloaming’s Milly Alcock) hops down and lovingly pets her steed (who’s named Syrax) before bantering with a nearby knight, Ser Harrold Westerling (Outlander’s Graham McTavish), and meeting up with her bestie, Alicent Hightower (Casualty’s Emily Carey).

The teens are driven back to the Red Keep, where they swing by the queen’s room. Rhaenyra’s mom is very pregnant and highly uncomfortable, and Rhaenyra thinks it’s a travesty that everyone’s more focused on the baby than on the woman about to have it. “This discomfort is how we serve the realm,” the queen says, though Rhaenyra would rather be a knight. “The childbed is our battlefield. We must learn to face it with a stiff lip,” her mom says, wearily but lovingly.

Next, the teen runs off to her duties as the king’s cupbearer at his small council meeting. Viserys seems unbothered by the matters up for discussion, which include a potential threat to shipping lanes and the absence of his brother Daemon, who’s commander of the City Watch but apparently isn’t a regular attendee of these gatherings. When Lord Corlys Velaryon (Berlin Station’s Steve Toussaint) presses the shipping lanes issue, he’s quickly shut down by the hand of the king, Otto Hightower (Berlin Station’s Rhys Ifans). The talk turns to a tournament the king is holding to celebrate the imminent birth of his next child, whom he’s sure will be a boy and who will solve the problem of Viserys’ having no male heirs. The maester on hand is like, whoa whoa whoa we can’t guarantee you a dude, but the king is happily adamant that “there’s a boy in the queen’s belly. I know it.”

SOMETHING SQUICKY THIS WAY COMES? | And now it’s time to meet Daemon (played by Doctor Who’s Matt Smith), who is insouciantly draped across the Iron Throne when Ser Harrold leads Rhaenyra to him. They speak High Valyrian to each other, and from their easy back-and-forth, it’s clear they get along; he’s rather assured of his place as Viserys’ heir, and he’s back in town for the tournament. They lapse into English as he gives her a necklace of Valyrian steel, “like Dark Sister,” she notes, name-checking one of the family’s famed swords. “Now you and I both own a small piece of our ancestry,” he says as he puts it on her, but I barely hear it because my internal Targargen Incest Detector (which, admittedly, is on high alert given what I know of the family’s history) starts pinging softly but insistently during the exchange. When the jewelry is fastened, she turns to show him. “Beautiful,” he says softly in High Valyrian. Ping! Ping! Ping!

THE QUEEN TAKES A STAND | Upstairs, maesters are attending to the king, who has a small yet suppurating wound on his back that won’t heal. He says it’s just a small cut from the Iron Throne — which still has quite sharp edges — and thinks it’s no big deal; the maesters, and Otto Hightower, seem to think otherwise. After the wound is cauterized (and thankfully, we don’t have to watch), Viserys visits Queen Aemma while she soaks in a tub and tries to get comfortable. They’re affectionate. Still, he won’t let go of the certainty that their unborn kid is a son, thanks to a dream he had about placing his son on the Iron Throne.

Things get more serious when she tells him this is their last shot; in the past 10 years, she’s had a child die in infancy, two stillbirths and two miscarriages. (Oof.) “I’ve mourned all the dead children I can,” she says gently but firmly.

DEFUND THE CITY WATCH | That night, Daemon addresses the men of the City Watch, amping them up before setting them loose on King’s Landing to carry out “justice” as they see fit. In case any of you were worried that the Game of Thrones prequel wasn’t going to go all-in on the original show’s violence, this sequence features the de-penising of an accused rapist, among other dismemberments. By the end, the brutish police force has separated so many body parts from their owners, a two-horse cart is needed to take the appendages away.

Otto is in the middle of bemoaning Daemon’s violent actions to the king when the two men walk into the small council chambers… and see Daemon sitting there with a smirk on his face. He calmly explains that he was just cleaning up King’s Landing ahead of the influx of visitors for the tournament, and his brother agrees, though cautions him to be a little less heavy-handed. (For the record, Daemon makes no promises.) Then Otto takes a dig at how Daemon is neglecting his wife, who’s at their home in the Vale, and Daemon counters by reminding Hightower that his own wife recently died, and I’m starting to think these two hate each other, guys. Viserys steps in and tells them both to quit it, and Daemon says he understands, then leaves.

Daemon heads to a brothel, where the thought of losing the Iron Throne to a baby is weighing on him so heavily, he can’t, uh, set the wildfire ablaze? Land the dragon? Valar his morghulis? (Look, it’s been a while, so you’re going to have to give me an episode or so to get my Thronesian double entendres in order.) The woman he’s with, whose name is Mysaria (Dev’s Sonoya Mizuno), seems to be accustomed to stroking the prince’s ego. “The king cannot replace you,” she croons, hugging him to her chest.

HUZZAH! | Time for the tournament, which will be a bloody affair in more ways than one. The crowd cheers when Viserys opens the proceedings by announcing that Queen Aemma is in labor. The first few runs reveal that Ser Criston Cole (The Serpent’s Fabien Frankel), an unknown quantity at court, is quite good at jousting; when Rhaenyra asks, Ser Harrold supplies that the young man is common-born, but that’s about all he knows.

Daemon is up next, and he chooses Otto Hightower’s oldest son as his first opponent. When Hightower gets a good hit on the first pass, an angry Daemon trips Hightower’s horse on the second pass, making the horse throw his rider as he falls. Apparently that’s kosher? Anyway, when Daemon approaches the king’s box in victory, he asks for Alicent’s favor — yet another slap in the face to Otto. She gives it to him, to her father’s great consternation.

As the day goes on, some jousts devolve into horrifying hand-to-hand combat, with the crowd cheering the whole time. Rhaeyns muses to her husband that the young men who are competing have never known war, and therefore fight — as Anita so aptly put it in West Side Story — “like they gotta get rid of something, quick.” Meanwhile, on the grounds before them, a competitor literally has his face bashed in, and a nearby squire vomits as he watches.

Eventually, Daemon goes up against Ser Criston, and the latter bests the former, causing him to fall halfway off his ride and get slung down the rail like a happy hour beer at Cheers. Daemon then calls for the contest to continue, man-to-man, so it does. But Criston is as good off the horse as he is on, and Daemon eventually yields. And the mystery knight then approaches Rhaenyra and asks for her favor, which she tosses to him, wishing him luck.

R.I.P., QUEEN AEMMA | The king is called away by a maester who informs him that the baby is breech — aka feet-down position, which, in a time where anethesia-free caesarian sections rarely end well, is decidedly Not Great. Eventually, the king is called upon to make a decision: Cut Aemma open in order to try and save the baby, or lose them both.

Of COURSE the king gives the order to slice-and-dice, and of COURSE his dazed and delirious wife has zero say in what’s happening. To his (very slight) credit, Viserys looks sad as he tells Aemma he loves her, just moments before she starts crying that she’s scared of what’s happening. When they cut, she starts to scream. CAN’T SOMEONE GET THIS WOMAN A LITTLE MILK OF THE POPPY OR SOMETHING?

There’s so much blood. Let me say that again: There’s SO MUCH BLOOD. The baby — a boy whom Viserys names Baelon — is successfully delivered. But Aemma is dead. Otto brings the news to everyone seated in the royal box.

A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA | The worst part: Aemma and Viserys’ son died not long after his mother; Aemma was sacrificed for nothing. “I wonder, during those few hours my brother lived, my father finally found happiness,” Rhaenyra says bitterly, in High Valyrian, to Daemon at the funeral. Then, choked with tears, she gives the order for her dragon to set the pyres ablaze. The small council soon decides that the succession needs to be set ASAP, so they meet to debate whether Daemon is a fitting leader. Some argue that Daemon might murder Viserys to assume the rule sooner than later. (Daemon, by the way, is eavesdropping on all of this. Did no one in the king’s circle of trusted advisers think about the literal HOLES IN THE WALL?) Then Otto suggests that the king’s firstborn child become the named heir, instead.

The general reaction: A GIRL?! (It’s much the same when Corlys makes a renewed bid for Rhaenys’ sitting the throne.) Finally, a grieving Viserys yells that he won’t deal with the matter now, and that ends that. Otto is in his chambers when his daughter, Alicent, comes home. And their warm interaction makes it look like he’s one of the few good-guy characters we’ve met so far… until he tells her to put on one of her dead mother’s dreses and go to the king’s bedroom to “offer him comfort.”

She does. She brings a history book. She sits with him while he works on a giant model of King’s Landing (?) that he’s carving. She tells him she’s sorry for his loss. Meanwhile, Daemon hangs out at the brothel, where Mysaria toasts his being the king’s sole heir once more, and he winds up giving a speech about how “I’m not so easily replaced” and calling his dead, infant nephew “The Heir For a Day.” Otto reports all of this to Viserys the next morning; even Rhaenyra is taken aback to hear that her uncle celebrated the family’s loss.

Viserys summons his brother before the Iron Throne to ask him directly if he said the heir thing. “We all mourn in our own way, your grace,” Daemon says. (Heh.) Viserys unleashes upon him, saying that he’s made excuses for him forever. Daemon shoots back that he’s never once been asked to be Hand of the King, and that Otto doesn’t protect the king. “From what?,” Viserys asks. “Yourself,” Daemon replies. Then the king sends his brother back to the Vale, because he’s no longer the heir. As Daemon leaves, Viserys cuts his hand on his chair, and it bleeds.

Then the king meets with Rhaenyra to talk about continuing the Targaryen reign. He apologizes for being so focused on having a son, then tells her that he now believes she was made to wear the crown. Then he shares with her the secret that Targaryen rulers have been passing down ever since Aegon I had a very unsettling vision of the end of the world: “It is to begin with a terrible winter, gusting out of the distant north. Aegon saw absolute darkness riding on those winds, and whatever dwells within will destroy the world of the living. When this great winter comes, Rhaenyra, all of Westeros must stand against it. And if the world of man is to survive, a Targaryen must be seated on the Iron Throne. A king or queen, strong enough to unite the realm against the dark. Aegon called his dream the Song of Ice and Fire.” Good luck, kid!

So Alicent dresses her friend for a very public pledging of loyalty, and Rhaenyra stands before the Iron Throne while all of the lords swear their fealty. Meanwhile, Daemon brings Mysaria to meet a dragon I believe is Caraxes, and they go for a little ride.

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Camila Cabello and Hans Zimmer Join Forces for New ‘Frozen Planet II’ Tune - Variety

Singer-songwriter Camila Cabello and Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer have joined forces to write a new song for “Frozen Planet II.” The new track will be featured in the debut extended trailer for the highly-anticipated David Attenborough-narrated series.

A sequel to the 2011 series, “Frozen Planet II” is a six-episode journey through Earth’s icy regions including the North and South poles, produced by BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit. The collaboration on “Take Me Back Home” marks the first time a new song has been written to support a BBC One natural history show.

BBC Radio 1 will globally debut “Take Me Back Home” on the Greg James Show on Aug. 26 with a little help from Cabello and Zimmer themselves ahead of the “Frozen Planet II” first-look trailer’s debut at 12:00 p.m. UK BST that same day on BBC Earth and BBC Studios Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube accounts. It will also launch on Cabello’s social media accounts, to her millions of followers.

Cabello says, “To be able to combine my passion for the planet we live on and my music is a dream come true – never mind also getting to work with the legend that is Hans Zimmer.” She continues, “Sir David’s narration is deeply powerful as we try to protect these incredible ecosystems from global warming.”

In putting together the orchestration, Zimmer also worked with long-term collaborators — arranger Anže Rozman and producer Russell Emanuel for Bleeding Fingers Music. He says, “It was hugely exciting composing and recording ‘Take Me Back Home’ with Camila and discovering that her musical talents are as powerful as her voice.”

The show’s executive producer Mark Brownlow calls the show “a celebration of wondrous wildlife overcoming the challenges of life in the extremes. Yet today it faces the even greater challenge of climate change. Hans and Camila’s profoundly moving original song captures the fragility of these magical realms at a time when their very future hangs in the balance.”

The song soundtracks an extended trailer that features additional scenes of wolves hunting huge bison across vast snowy plains, killer whales using cunning techniques to stalk their prey and the rarely seen Siberian tigers padding through the crisp white snow.

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HBO teases The Last of Us TV show ahead of its 2023 premiere - The Verge

Along with the occasionally-glitchy premiere of House of the Dragon, HBO presented a teaser trailer of content its new owner hasn’t abruptly shelved that provided the first in-motion look of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey playing Joel and Ellie, respectively, in its upcoming The Last of Us TV show.

Neil Druckmann — the writer and creative director of both The Last of Us games — is an executive producer of the show, and tweeted, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

Other content in the preview came from The Idol, Love and Death, Succession, The White Lotus, And Just Like That, Hacks, The White House Plumbers, Our Flag Means Death, but the Naughty Dog-made PlayStation franchise’s live-action TV debut is the one we’re interested in the most. In the twenty seconds or so that it actually shows, you can get a peek at Neal Offerman’s character, and a scene that seemed to recall the opening sequence of the first game with Joel’s daughter.

The preview confirms HBO chief content officer Casey Bloys’ February comments that we can expect to see the show in 2023, but didn’t offer any narrower of a window than that.

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Right Said Fred star Fred Fairbrass, 68, says he 'used to sell drugs' when working as a cab driver - Daily Mail

'It didn’t cross my mind that it was illegal!' Right Said Fred star Fred Fairbrass, 68, says he used to sell 'speed and cocaine' when working as a cab driver before finding fame in band

• The Right Said Fred star, 68, rose to fame alongside his brother Richard with the 1991 hit song I'm Too Sexy
• The musician confessed that he sold amphetamines and cocaine to 'party goers and hookers' during night shifts in 1982 
• He said: 'I used to sell speed and coke. I was a minicab driver in Fulham in 1982, and I used to work nights'

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Published: 00:29 BST, 21 August 2022 | Updated: 03:36 BST, 21 August 2022

Fred Fairbrass has revealed he used to 'sell speed and coke' when working as a minicab driver before finding fame. 

The Right Said Fred star, 68, who rose to fame alongside his brother Richard with the 1991 hit song I'm Too Sexy, gave a glimpse into his life before the band. 

The musician confessed that he sold amphetamines and cocaine to 'party goers and hookers' during night shifts in 1982 but didn't think of it as being illegal. 

In quotes obtained by The Sun from their autobiography Too Sexy: Surviving Right Said Fred, he said: 'I used to sell speed and coke. I was a minicab driver in Fulham in 1982, and I used to work nights, and a bloke in the house I was living in was an amphetamine cook.'

Fred explained that he first started buying drugs to stay awake during his long night shifts, until he found people who were keen to buy it. 

He continued: 'I worked nights, because the party crowd and hookers were more than happy to buy my drugs. That paid my way very nicely.'

He added: 'Although I was driving around with grams of speed on me, London felt quite anarchic back then, so it didn’t cross my mind that it was illegal.'

Fred and his brother Richard shot to fame in the early Nineties with their smash-hit song I'm Too Sexy, alongside then current member Rob Manzoli. 

They also had two follow-up big hits with Don't Talk Just Kiss and Deeply Dippy, while they toured with the likes of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, and David Bowie.

In August 2017 Taylor Swift used an interpolation from the group Right Said Fred's 1991 hit I'm Too Sexy in the chorus of her upbeat new track Look What You Made Me Do.

After the song was released overnight, the duo gave their thanks for the recognition - dubbing her song a 'marvellous reinvention'.

The group were approached by Taylor's team before the song's release, and gave their permission for the song to be used.

'We had people on the phone from the US just checking that we were okay for her to use it and that we were cool with it and weren't going to kick up a fuss — which, obviously, we didn't,' band member Richard told People.

'When we recorded 'Sexy' I didn't think it would last more than six months. So to be talking about it 26 years later and a star like Taylor using it and being influenced by it is really flattering. Absolutely flattering.' 

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Andrew Garfield Movies and Series Ranked by Tomatometer - Rotten Tomatoes

We’re ranking the films and shows of Andrew Garfield! We start with his Certified Fresh films, including his strong supporting turn in The Social network, his Amazing stint as Spider-Man, and Best Actor Oscar-nominated films, the musical Tick, Tick…Boom! and World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge. And most recently, he’s drawn acclaim (and an Emmy nominee) for his first starring series, Under the Banner of Heaven. —Alex Vo

#1

Adjusted Score: 108717%

Critics Consensus: Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest.

Synopsis: In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns... [More]

#2

Adjusted Score: 115066%

Critics Consensus: A bigger, bolder Spider-Man sequel, No Way Home expands the franchise's scope and stakes without losing sight of its humor and heart.

Synopsis: For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Super... [More]

#3

Adjusted Score: 98309%

Critics Consensus: Fueled by powerful acting and a taut, patiently constructed narrative, 99 Homes is a modern economic parable whose righteous fury is matched by its intelligence and compassion.

Synopsis: A desperate construction worker (Andrew Garfield) reluctantly accepts a job with the ruthless real-estate broker (Michael Shannon) who evicted him... [More]

#4

Adjusted Score: 89775%

Critics Consensus: Small in scale but large in impact, Boy A's career making performances (particularly that by star Andrew Garfield) and carefully crafted characters defy judgment and aggressively provoke debate.

Synopsis: Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield) finds work as... [More]

#5

Adjusted Score: 98243%

Critics Consensus: tick, tick... BOOM! makes musical magic out of a story focused on the creative process -- an impressive feat for debuting director Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Synopsis: Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick...BOOM!, an adaptation of the... [More]

Adjusted Score: -1%

Critics Consensus: While Under the Banner of Heaven gets bogged down by an overabundance of backstory, its procedural through-line is enriched by a thoughtful introspection on personal faith.

#7

Adjusted Score: 101169%

Critics Consensus: Hacksaw Ridge uses a real-life pacifist's legacy to lay the groundwork for a gripping wartime tribute to faith, valor, and the courage of remaining true to one's convictions.

Synopsis: The true story of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield), who won the Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to... [More]

#8

Adjusted Score: 104229%

Critics Consensus: Silence ends Martin Scorsese's decades-long creative quest with a thoughtful, emotionally resonant look at spirituality and human nature that stands among the director's finest works.

Synopsis: Two 17th-century Portuguese missionaries, Father Sebastian Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Father Francisco Garupe (Adam Driver), embark on a perilous journey... [More]

#9

Adjusted Score: 86500%

Critics Consensus: A well-chosen cast and sure-handed direction allow The Amazing Spider-Man to thrill, despite revisiting many of the same plot points from 2002's Spider-Man.

Synopsis: Abandoned by his parents and raised by an aunt and uncle, teenager Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), AKA Spider-Man, is trying... [More]

#10

Adjusted Score: 58183%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: When a young girl goes missing, Yorkshire Post crime reporter Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) becomes intrigued by a series of... [More]

#11

Adjusted Score: 77408%

Critics Consensus: With Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek has delivered a graceful adaptation that captures the spirit of the Ishiguro novel -- which will be precisely the problem for some viewers.

Synopsis: Friends Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) grow up together at a seemingly idyllic boarding school... [More]

#12

Adjusted Score: 80044%

Critics Consensus: The Eyes of Tammy Faye might have focused more sharply on its subject's story, but Jessica Chastain's starring performance makes it hard to look away.

Synopsis: THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye... [More]

#13

Adjusted Score: 79502%

Critics Consensus: Strong performances from Breathe's well-matched leads help add an edge to a biopic that takes a decidedly heartwarming approach to its real-life story.

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#14

Adjusted Score: 70833%

Critics Consensus: Terry Gilliam remains as indulgent as ever, but The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus represents a return to the intoxicatingly imaginative, darkly beautiful power of his earlier work, with fine performances to match all the visual spectacle.

Synopsis: Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), the leader of a traveling show, has a dark secret. Thousands of years ago he traded... [More]

#15

Adjusted Score: 67324%

Critics Consensus: Under the Silver Lake hits its stride slightly more often than it stumbles, but it's hard not to admire - or be drawn in by - writer-director David Robert Mitchell's ambition.

Synopsis: Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment's swimming pool. When she vanishes,... [More]

#16

Adjusted Score: 64098%

Critics Consensus: While the cast is outstanding and the special effects are top-notch, the latest installment of the Spidey saga suffers from an unfocused narrative and an overabundance of characters.

Synopsis: Confident in his powers as Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as a hero and spends time... [More]

#17

Adjusted Score: 33729%

Critics Consensus: Mainstream makes a vain attempt to satirize viral fame, settling instead for obvious commentary that feels painfully dated.

Synopsis: A young woman finds a path to internet stardom when she starts making videos with a charismatic stranger.... [More]

#18

Adjusted Score: 35202%

Critics Consensus: Despite its powerhouse cast, Lions for Lambs feels like a disjointed series of lectures, rather than a sharp narrative, and ends up falling flat.

Synopsis: Inspired by their idealistic professor, Dr. Mallery (Robert Redford), to do something meaningful with their lives, Arian (Derek Luke) and... [More]

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