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  Love Island used to be what some planned their summer’s around. Making sure they were free at 9pm Sunday to Friday, watching in groups, live-tweeting rapidly. But for years, the British reality show has been losing it’s grip on the nation.  It’s seemingly reached it’s peak this year as the American version of the show has become the focus of social media discourse. Even the American bombshell on the British series is the focus of the villa.   Since the seventh season of Love Island USA started in June it has been dominating everyones social feeds as viewers sared clips of sweet but more often questionable actions by the couples. Most of the conversation surrounded the outbursts of islander Huda during her time on the villa as well as a now viral meme with her, revealing to fellow islander Nic that she is a mother. Even people in the UK have been weighing in despite the fact the series isn’t available to watch yet. The Americans continued to be the topic of conversa...

During a conversation with Phoenix Suns employees, NBA commissioner Adam Silver floated the idea of relegation to prevent NBA teams from tanking . Conversations around tanking are heightened this season as 7-foot 4 prospect Victor Wembanyama enters the 2023 draft. French prospect Victor Wembanyama is considered a franchise altering player. Credit: Houston Chronicle The French star has been described as an ‘alien’ by LeBron James and his exhibition game against fellow draft entry Scoot Henderson and the G League Ignite team only increased the hype around the player. In order to secure the best drafting odds to select the Frenchman, many NBA teams are thought to be purposefully losing games. To prevent this commissioner Silver suggested that relegation, a concept from European football, should be implemented in the American basketball league. It would mean the teams that win the least matches at the end of the season would be removed from the NBA and their space would be taken b...

  In Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum chose to wear a Lakers purple and gold armband with the number 24 on it, as an homage to his favourite player Kobe Bryant and to channel the Hall of Famer's skill during the final game of the series. The Celtics went on to win the series and Tatum was awarded with the inaugural Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP award. Tatum has always been open about his love and admiration for the late Laker. This isn’t even the first time he’s worn Bryant’s armband during a game. He also wore it in the NBA bubble during a match against the Philadelphia 76ers. However, since this most recent show of appreciation for the late Bryant, American sports channel ESPN have been consistently and shamelessly made unnecessary connections between the young Celtics stars and the 5-time NBA champion. On the fifth of June, ESPN posted a picture on Twitter of both Bryant and Tatum wearing Boston Celtics practice g...

  ‘Life was like a pop song, and we knew all the words.’ – Julie From late 2016 to early 2018, before he completely went off the rails, I was somewhat obsessed with Logan Paul’s vlogs. I watched every single one of his videos which broadcast his LA antics to millions of viewers daily. I watched him prank his younger more notorious brother Jake Paul, be pecked at by his parrot Maverick, smash a copious amount of plates and vlog his days on the set of Valley Girl,  the remake of the 1983 romcom , in which Logan stars as Mickey  Julie’s boyfriend and  the most popular boy in his high school. I wouldn’t have known this remake had existed if it wasn’t for Paul. The original Valley Girl isn’t a film I’ve ever heard talked about nor do I think it is one that is shown on British screens ever. I’m sure when he was first cast, his social media success and international appeal were selling points for the Sneak Preview Productions and the others involved, but it was this ...

On Monday, I finished watching the second season of I Love a Mama’s Boy and quickly did my routine Google search of the cast to see what they’re up to now. The show follows several couples where the male part of the relationship has an overly close relationship with their mother which constantly threatens their relationship. Surprisingly, I found, barely any articles about what I am calling TLC’s new hit show, so I’m here to give share my opinion on how things ended for each couple. Kim, Matt and Kelly First of all the fact that I have to include three people in each of these relationship sub heading tells you even without watching the show the messed dynamic for most of these couples. My biggest problem with the mama’s boys on the show is not that they are in fact mummy’s boys but the lack of support they give their partners, the women they claim to love and want to marry. They allow their mothers to undermine their girlfriends and expect the women to get on board with it. That b...

‘No wonder you’re always so pleased with yourself‘-Harriet Wilson After Luce writes an essay that takes a disturbing turn, his adoptive parents and his teacher start to question who he really is. From the jump, Luce is the picture prefect student that you literally only see in movies, so I never trusted who he portrayed himself to be. But for everyone else his perfection is nothing to be questioned, because what’s better than an a child who you saved from a war torn country becoming the perfect son. But Ms Wilson’s revelation causes his mother to start to see him differently and wonder who her son truly is. Luce is so skilled at hiding who he is, that it’s difficult to trust anything he says and does. And that’s what makes him truly scary. Ms Wilson thinking that she, unlike everyone else, knows the real flawed Luce, still doesn’t stop her being fearful of him and his mind games. In return he invades her personal life and uses that against her, but Ms Wilson is no stranger to...

‘successful people hate their admirers’ - Katherine Newbury Captivating from the start, the Mindy Kaling written and produced film, Late Night tells a good story while poking fun at many, if not all, of the social problems in the TV industry. Late Night sees Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) attempt to revitalise her late night show, that has been running for two decades, with a fresh writing perspective from inexperienced female writer Molly Patel (Mindy Kaling). Unfamiliar with Mindy Kaling’s work but well aware of her success on TV with her show the Mindy Project I was quite excited for her film writing debut. On Newbury’s redemption journey she is able to shine a light on the prominent issues of diversity in the workplace, the #metoo movement, slut shaming and even poking fun at the idea of a white saviour. The film is rather enjoyable as a story whether you look at it from the perspective of Kaling’s character or that of Thompson’s. This along with the well-...

‘The rules no fucking longer apply’ Starr Carter The other week when I went to watch the BlacKkKlansman the trailer for the up and coming film adaption of the novel ‘The Hate U Give’ was played and it got me riled up and intrigued. I’ve seen the book advertised in my local library for a while but hadn’t picked it up till now mainly because it is categorised as a teen book and I felted I’ve out grown the genre, but I was very wrong. The novel tells the story of a teenage girl named Starr Carter who witnesses the murder of her best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer and how she and the people in her lives react to the situation. From the first page I fell in love with this book. The way it is written sounds very much like the thoughts in my head which makes it so easy to read, so much so that I finished the book in only four days. Angie Thomas merges potentially the two things that mean the most to me and to herself according to her interview with ...