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Channel 4's lateset reality show adventure,presented to the contestants as a popularity contest called the Favourite instead was rigged by it's celebrity panel to ensure the show's underdog Josh, won.  And if Josh wins everyone wins. Across the eight episode series - British reality TV alumni; Love Island's Amber Rose Gil,  I'm a Celeb's Vicky Patterson and TOWIE's Pete Wicks worked with Radio DJ Nick Grimshaw to manipulate the show to ensure Bournemouth wrestler Josh won the series. Unlike the othe contestants on the series Josh was quiet , understated and didn't desire to be centre of attention. Making him the obvious underdog in the show. Poised as a show aiming to change the narrative of what a reality Star is, each day the celeb panel worked to put the game in Josh's favour which meant give him an upper hand in challenges or making ti harder for other contestants. This is a less Truman Show version to Amazon's Jury Duty which too sees a ki...

  The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his college season as well as a lingering injury are massive hurdles that block 7ft NBA prospect Makur Maker from success. These challenges aren’t made any easier by his coach’s constant overestimation of what Makur can bring to a team. Across Apple TV+’s five-episode docu-series, The Long Game: Bigger Than Basketball , director Seth Gordon documents Makur Maker’s path to the 2021 NBA draft , during his one and done season at Howard University. Like many during 2020, Makur Maker wanted to do more after the death of George Floyd and following the global Black Lives Matter protests. For the teenage athlete, that was committing to play basketball for the Historically Black University – Howard, not one of the Big Six conference schools that an ESPN ranked 16 th prospect would be expected to go to. At Howard Makur hoped to take a on leadership role and put increased spotlight on the academic institution. But whatever status Maker had going...

  'This self-worth is the most important thing you can develop for yourself, that any of us can develop. And it can't wait until you reach your goals.’ – Grace Beverley Grace Beverley’s self-help book illustrates how the 25-year-old was able to juggle her Oxford University degree, social media success and two new businesses but the brief self-care section shows that she admittedly hasn’t mastered mindfulness. I first became aware of Grace through watching her University of Oxford vlogs on YouTube. Her channel at the time was named GraceFitUK as the original focus of her channel was to showcase her fitness journey. Her growing platform later expanded to include other content like travel vlogs and clothing hauls.  When watching her videos, I sometimes felt she was overextending herself, trying to meet her university deadlines, working with brands, and travelling the world. With her channel now being renamed and revamped to highlight her growing businesses, Tala and Shreddy, you ...

‘A woman just couldn’t relinquish her control’- Daphne Will Boast’s debut novel, ‘Daphne’ offered me nothing new nor intriguing as a reader despite its enticing concept and stimulus. I chose to read the book based on its tagline; ‘Emotion suffuses everything we do, think, and are. Who would guess it could quite literally paralyse you.’, as I believe as humans we all do both consciously and unconsciously, use our emotions to control our lives and decisions but the idea, and unfortunately some people’s reality that it can paralyse you  and I wanted to better understand this reality. I first started reading the book at the beginning of October but after the first four chapters I had determined that I had no interest in Daphne’s trials and tribulations with her neurological condition, job and personal life, so was deciding upon returning it the book to the library, but after consulting several favourable reviews on Goodreads I gave it another chance, read it all, and sa...