Matilda Battersby
Matilda Battersby is Online Arts Editor for www.independent.co.uk. She writes arts breaking news, features, music and theatre reviews and lifestyle pieces.
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'Some people are gay, get over it!' Actor has the last word in battle with homophobic heckler
02 August 2013 04:01 PM
When an audience-member responded with “disgust” to an unexpected gay kiss at a London theatre this week, one of the play’s actors decided to take a stand against homophobia.
From J Cole to Kanye West: Apologies – and the unapologetic - music industry
02 August 2013 03:07 PM
Today's popstars are more likely to be found saying sorry than singing. But do they mean it?
James Cameron to make three Avatar sequels
02 August 2013 02:43 PM
James Cameron will make three follow-up films to his 2009 3D epic Avatar rather than the two movies he had originally planned.
Jodie Foster rushes to aid of Jamie Lee Curtis who is hospitalised after car crash
02 August 2013 09:44 AM
Trading Places star Jamie Lee Curtis, 54, was reportedly rushed to hospital following a car crash in California yesterday where she was supported by fellow Hollywood actress and friend Jodie Foster.
Jack White's wife Karen Elson granted restraining order against him over 'fears for her safety'
02 August 2013 09:38 AM
The estranged wife of American rocker Jack White has reportedly filed for a restraining order against him amid “fears for her safety and that of their children” over their pending divorce settlement.
First look: Cover for new James Bond novel, Solo
01 August 2013 10:48 AM
You might be forgiven for mistaking the cover of the new James Bond novel, Solo, for something relating to another well-loved long-running franchise in the process of being rebooted: Star Wars (although the novel has nothing to do with Hans Solo, obviously).
The Grimmy effect: Nick Grimshaw grows Radio 1 audience by 100,000 listeners
01 August 2013 09:01 AM
He might still be almost four million listeners behind Radio 2 rival Chris Evans, but DJ Nick Grimshaw has proven he can bring listeners to Radio 1 by growing his audience by 100,000.
JK Rowling wins 'substantial donation' to charity from law firm behind Robert Galbraith confidentiality leak
31 July 2013 04:59 PM
The author has also revealed she is donating three years' worth of royalties from The Cuckoo's Calling to The Soldiers' Charity
Never mind the egg incident: Britain's Got Talent runners-up Richard and Adam storm UK album charts
31 July 2013 03:58 PM
Richard & Adam thought their dreams of becoming recording artists were over when a member of the orchestra stormed the stage during their performance in Britain’s Got Talent’s live final and pelted judge Simon Cowell with a carton of eggs.
Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies' daughter Natalie arrested after gluing herself to boyfriend during fracking protest
31 July 2013 02:14 PM
Natalie Hynde, the daughter of The Pretenders’ singer Chrissie Hynde and The Kinks’ Ray Davies has been arrested after apparently gluing her hands to her boyfriend during a protest against fracking.
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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