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<p>J Balvin: ‘Latinos can be whatever we want, we don’t just work in construction’ </p>

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J Balvin: ‘In the super macho man reggaeton world, I looked weak’

He is one of the biggest artists on Spotify, with 57 million monthly listeners. Yet his career hasn’t been straightforward. As the Colombian star prepares to play the O2, he tells Annabel Nugent about learning from his mistakes and why his young son is the reason he keeps going

<p>Coup de race: contestants Alfie and Owen celebrate on BBC’s ‘Race Across the World’</p>

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Race Across the World wasn’t lying to us – that’s just how TV works

<p>Pretty, calming and aggressively OK: Dido’s 1999 album ‘No Angel’ </p>

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The pleasure and tedium of Dido’s No Angel at 25

<p>Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill: ‘There was no HR in punk rock. Nobody is here to step in, step up for you’</p>

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Bikini Kill: ‘There is nothing more punk than a menopausal woman’

Features & Reviews

<p>(Clockwise from top right): ‘Carol’, ‘Moonlight’, ‘Bottoms’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’</p>

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21 of the best LGBT+ movies to watch this Pride Month

In Doctor Who: Dot and Bubble, Russell T Davies goes all Black Mirror

<p>Dance ’til you drop: Michael Sarrazin (Robert) and Jane Fonda (Gloria) in ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ </p>

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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? showed Hollywood how to market misery

<p>‘You know when you’re so tired you feel stoned?’ Gaby Hoffmann stars opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Netflix’s ‘Eric’ </p>

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Gaby Hoffmann: ‘I can barely watch somebody get punched’

<p>Former Camden resident and pop star Dua Lipa fronts the programme </p>

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Where are the punks? Dua Lipa’s Camden docuseries misses the point

<p>‘Taskmaster’ host Greg Davies with Alex Horne, the show’s mastermind</p>

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How Taskmaster became a stratospheric, and very silly, success story

<p>You can call me AI: Jennifer Lopez in ‘Atlas’ </p>

Netflix’s Atlas is a film Elon Musk would love – and that’s a problem

<p>Swim and bear it: Daisy Ridley in ‘Young Woman and the Sea’</p>

Daisy Ridley sells the Hollywood fluff of Young Woman and the Sea

<p>Léa Seydoux in Bertrand Bonello’s ‘The Beast’</p>

Léa Seydoux’s The Beast is a mesmeric blend of sci-fi and horror

<p>Barry Sloane as Yosser Hughes in ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’at the National Theatre</p>

Boys from the Blackstuff needs to feel more like a play for today

<p>A SZA album isn’t really a genre piece: it’s a bird floating on a heat column, it’s a writhing existential question mark, it’s the afterglow of a really good kiss</p>

Don’t know Glastonbury headliner SZA? Here’s why you should

<p>Lucian Freud photographed with his children Rose and Ali Boyt</p>

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Rose Boyt on father Lucian Freud: ‘Reading my diary was horrifying’

The Saturday Interview

<p>‘I hate this term “culture war”. Maybe it’s naive of me to say that, but I don’t want to be part of it. I want to bring people together’</p>

The Saturday Interview

Tom Burke: ‘I was more intimidated on Mad Max than I let myself admit’

<p>Spall has two films out next year, ‘Rich Flu’ and action-drama ‘William Tell’ </p>

The Saturday Interview

Rafe Spall: ‘Men’s bodies in film give unreal ideas of masculinity’

Hay Festival 2024

‘Trump’s brain is rotting in front of us,’ says American professor

Academic and writer Sarah Churchwell also said that to claim that Joe Biden is as bad as Trump is ‘appalling’ and ‘dangerous’

<p>Royal insider Robert Hardman was speaking about King Charles III and his relationship with Prince Harry </p>

Royal Family News

How Harry can repair his relationship with King Charles, says insider

The King finds his rift with his youngest son ‘unsettling’, royal biographer Robert Hardman told Hay Festival audiences

James Blunt says Star Wars bosses pressured Carrie Fisher to be thin

<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 28, 2024 in New York City</p>

Trump 2020 win would have made the world better, says political expert

<p>O’Brien speaking at Hay </p>

James O’Brien: I wouldn’t be where I am without private school

<p>Coco Mellors talks to Jack Edwards at Hay Festival</p>

What millennial novelist Coco Mellors learnt from Martin Amis

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Interview

Talk to Me breakout Sophie Wilde: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’

<p>‘Consent isn’t binary, it’s not yes or no’</p>

Interview

How to Have Sex’s Mia McKenna-Bruce: ‘Consent is not yes or no’

<p>‘Everybody tries to do the Derry accent’ </p>

Interview

Jamie-Lee O’Donnell on being skint, Derry Girls, and prison show Screw

<p>Going her own way: Vasan says that ‘like any immigrant parents’, hers were ‘a little bit concerned’ about her choice to go into acting </p>

Interview

Black Mirror’s Anjana Vasan: ‘I’ve been underestimated. I’m small, brown and foreign’

Independent TV

Rita Ora performs new single ‘Ask And You Shall Receive’

<p>Bruce Willis’s daughter Rumer shares rare update on father’s dementia battle.</p>

Bruce Willis’s daughter Rumer shares rare update on father’s dementia

<p>Normal People season two: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal apologise ‘for leading people on’.</p>

Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal issue fan apology

<p>Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith unite at Bad Boys: Ride Or Die premiere in LA.</p>

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith unite at Bad Boys 4 premiere in LA

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<p>Topping worldwide box offices during its theatrical release in 2023, it was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated films of last year</p>

How to watch Ridley Scott’s Napoleon at home this weekend

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‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ stands and delivers

<p>Clockwise from top left: ‘Bad Sisters’, ‘Hijack’, ‘Severance’, ‘Criminal Record'</p>

The best Apple TV+ shows to watch now

<p>The miniseries drops on 26 January </p>

How to watch Masters of the Air in the UK free

What to watch

<p>British-born US actor Elizabeth Taylor, photographed in 1975</p>

Elizabeth Taylor was the Taylor Swift of 20th-century Hollywood

<p>Netflix has a huge catalogue of dramas, sitcoms, cartoons and sci-fi series </p>

The best shows to watch on Netflix

<p>Amazon hits, clockwise from top right: ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’, ‘The Boys’, ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘Invincible’</p>

The 35 best original TV shows to watch on Prime Video

<p>Netflix hits (clockwise from top right): ‘Malcolm & Marie’, ‘The Irishman’, ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘Extraction’</p>

The 50 best original films to watch on Netflix, ranked

Visit the USA

<p>Some of the stars leading the best telly of the year</p>

The 20 best TV shows of 2023 – ranked

Art Me Up: A Gallery Guide to Miami’s Thriving Arts Scene

Sounds of the South: Exploring the Evolving Music Scene of Atlanta

Memphis to Maryville: Urban Adventures in Tennessee

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politics

‘Achingly beautiful’ photo of Barack Obama and mother-in-law resurfaces as Marian Robinson dies aged 86

‘Achingly beautiful’ photo of Barack Obama and mother-in-law resurfaces as Marian Robinson dies aged 86

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Woman in tears after veneers 'ruined her life'

politics

Boris Johnson chimes in on Trump’s guilty verdict with ‘pathetic’ take

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Eminem fans baffled by Pete Davidson cameo in new 'Houdini' music video

politics

Michael Gove promotes new Tory election policies - but there’s one small problem

politics

Michael Gove promotes new Tory election policies - but there’s one small problem

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Mike Tyson v Jake Paul fight postponed following medical advice

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Emmanuel Macron to face 's**t flashmob' after vowing to swim in the Seine ahead of the Olympics

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How the new furlough scheme will help UK firms affected by Covid-19

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