Jody and Simon Blake have spent the past couple of months showing off their twins, Reuben and Floren, to friends – and delighting in the looks of bemusement that greet them. Because while Reuben went back to school yesterday, his sister, Floren, will have to wait until 2017. The children were born five years apart, but technically they are twins because they were born from the same batch of embryos.
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Desperate Scousewives, E4, Monday
Money: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? BBC2, Tuesday
Sunday 04 December 2011
Liverpool's would-be slebs may be dull, but a film on wealth creation exposes a truly odious world
Blake Lively: Everybody's talking about the girl from Manhattan
Friday 27 May 2011
Gossip Girl made Blake Lively a star, and now the actress has made the show's location her home. She tells Kaleem Aftab about her new turn as a big-screen super-villain
Justin Bieber makes TIME's influential list
Thursday 21 April 2011
Justin Bieber has been included on TIME magazine's annual 100 most influential people list.
Blake Lively voted world's most desirable woman
Wednesday 02 February 2011
Blake Lively has been named the world's most desirable woman.
On the agenda: London International Animation Festival; Getty Images Gallery; Gossip Girl; Open House London weekend; Ian Rankin; Un-Convention
Sunday 15 August 2010
We're off to market to see Diana Dors and getting an Edinburgh tour from Ian Rankin
Gossip Girl franchise grows up
Friday 25 June 2010
Once your books have become a cultural phenomenon, what do you do next? If you're Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the Gossip Girl franchise, the answer is – leave high school behind and graduate to college. Nor is that the only thing she's graduating to. Von Ziegesar's newest novel, Cum Laude, is being marketed not to a teen audience, but to adults.
Win 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' on DVD and a copy of the book
Monday 02 November 2009
Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright Penn and Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively head an all-star cast including, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore, in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, available on DVD for the first time from 2 November.
Barbie goes to Hollywood
Friday 25 September 2009
World's best-known doll is coming to the big screen. But who can fill her shoes?
Brüno, Larry Charles, 83 mins, (18)<br>The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller, 98 mins, (15)
Sunday 12 July 2009
This sequel is just so 2006, despite its funny moments – and 'Borat' did it so much better
Blake Lively: 'I felt like I fooled them'
Friday 26 June 2009
Blake Lively has graced the cover of American 'Vogue' and been voted one of America's 'most beautiful people'. In her new film, she acts alongside Keanu Reeves. So why does she still regard herself as shy? Gaynor Flynn meets a low-key star
DVD: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 (12)
Friday 24 April 2009
This curiously named series of books gets its second film make-over, much to the delight of tween girls everywhere.
The Word On... Gossip Girl season 2, ITV2
Friday 13 February 2009
"'Gossip Girl' is the heiress to the Claire Standish fortune. Creator Josh Schwarz makes no secret of his debt to John Hughes; the queen bees buzzing through the show are homages to 'The Breakfast Club' and Molly Ringwald's high-school princess. That type is an American classic, but this show turns the princess into a camp queen." - Troy Patterson,www.slate.com
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